The roads are still muddy and impassable, the snow and ice have not yet been civilized, and the ground is still solid from the ice. Only sporadic early-blooming wildflowers emerge from the snow and ice, signaling that spring is approaching.

Jiang Xingchen sat in the rickety carriage, lifted the curtain and looked outside, and sighed in his heart: "This harsh winter, as rumored, has affected spring ploughing, and this is the end of March......

Although Jiang Xingchen has never farmed land, his uncle has gone to the countryside and intervened in the team! I have also heard such sayings as a cow on 30 acres of land, a hot kang head for wives and children, and a 99-nine ploughing cow walking everywhere. Even if this is another world, the general environment is still familiar to him, and at this time, spring plowing should begin, but now the earth is still covered with ice and snow.

"If the ice and snow melt, it should be too late to dig a ditch for irrigation and flood discharge!" Jiang Xingchen said secretly in his heart. The last time he replied, he told Han Xiaowu that the three thousand soldiers would have to stay a little longer, and if the method of sprinkling grass and wood ashes was reliable, they would dig a ditch immediately.

"10,000 acres of wasteland, even if there are cattle, more than 30 households in Qingshan Village, less than 100 people, can cultivate more than 1,000 acres, and then get 100 acres of paddy fields to plant rice, if it's too late, dig around the land that needs to be planted first, and talk about the rest!"

"Brother!" Jiang Xingchen was thinking about it, when Mei'er suddenly called out to him and asked, "Leaving three thousand soldiers to dig a ditch, it will cost a lot of money, right?"

"It's not much, brother's hands are rich?" Although Jiang Xingchen's tone was calm, he couldn't help but twitch in his heart.

The consumption of food and clothing for 3,000 people is really not a small amount, and in the two months since the opening of the mountain, 500,000 citrine coins have been spent. During the food crisis, the more than 700,000 citrine coins that sold the secret recipe went down to more than 200,000 yuan, and it seemed that it would cost a lot.

And. He also has the idea of building a new village, and he wants to design new farm tools according to his impressions, and the money on hand looks like a lot, which can be used for construction, which is really not enough.

"Brother, in the future, the cultivated land of our Xingchen Territory will be moved to the expanded place, what about the original cultivated land?" Mei'er asked again.

"The land was so barren and not easy to draw water that it was not suitable for planting, so I thought about going back and building a house. Move the whole village over!" Jiang Xingchen patted Mei'er's head and replied with a smile.

"Build a house!" Mei'er's eyes narrowed, and she said with some yearning, "Is it to build that kind of skyscraper?"

"Ahem!" Jiang Xingchen was choked, only to feel that his forehead was black, and he couldn't help coughing twice. Said: "This...... It's a little early! We've got to take it one step at a time. Didn't you keep saying that you would renovate the houses for the villagers, and this time we will do it all at once. Other than that. Our lord's mansion is also a bit small. Han Xiaowu: They can't always squeeze into two rooms......"

"Hmm!" Mei'er nodded her little head vigorously, and smiled, her eyes narrowed like caterpillars. She just said that skyscrapers were originally a joke and didn't take it seriously. However, I heard my brother talk about building a new village. But she couldn't help but be fascinated, and painted a picture in her mind.

"Let's build a new village first, develop it slowly, and expand the territory in the future. to build a skyscraper!" Jiang Xingchen said softly.

"Yes, when our star collar expands again, my brother will definitely not be able to take care of it himself, and Mei'er will be able to help then!" the little girl said happily.

"Where is your help, some people are available, you look at the lords of those small towns, which one has no subordinates......"

Before Jiang Xingchen finished speaking, the old man on the other side spoke: "Boy, you really dare to think! Only the territory above the town is allowed to have an administrative department...... Your territory has already expanded once, and it is whimsical to want to expand again, from a village to a town!"

"Oh?" Jiang Xingchen was stunned, he didn't know there was such a rule. I couldn't help asking, "Is it difficult to expand into a small town?"

"Can't you see the difficulty of this expansion of your territory...... To improve the town, not only must you have enough territory, but you must also be promoted to a viscount!" explained the old man.

"Yes!" Jiang Xingchen nodded, a little helpless, it was so difficult to expand five miles this time. Wouldn't it be more difficult to expand again, at least the aristocratic management department would definitely obstruct it...... Besides, there is a viscount's request.

"Actually, you don't need to be so persistent, you have to develop Qingshan Village, after your title reaches the viscount, there are many ways out, whether it is in Hongyuan City or going to the imperial capital, a good position is not up to you!" the old man pointed out.

Jiang Xingchen shook his head slightly, and didn't say anything, but sighed in his heart: "If you want to develop the territory, you have a long way to go, and now you can't even start......

Seeing that Jiang Xingchen didn't answer, the old man said again: "The population of your territory is too small, even if it really becomes a small town, there are no people available under your command, not a single nobleman, do you still want to recruit people from outside...... A lord doesn't have a few real hardcores under him, and it's easy to get into trouble!"

Jiang Xingchen frowned, and said secretly in his heart: "If you want to manage the territory, you also need nobles......"

After thinking about it for a while, Jiang Xingchen suddenly realized that all along, he only knew that nobles had a higher status than commoners and enjoyed certain privileges, and he had also felt it firsthand...... But after listening to the old man's words, he really understood the root of the status and superiority of the nobility.

The old man's meaning is obviously that only nobles are qualified to be officials, which is unbelievable.

"Isn't this the same as the ancient literati, everything is inferior, only if you are high in reading, show your talents, raise people, enter the scholars, and pass the examination to become an official...... The Qiankun Empire is only when you become a nobleman can you become an official or divide the territory......"

Thinking in his heart, Jiang Xingchen nodded to the old man, and then lowered his head and pondered. It was not difficult for him to make the villagers a low-class nobleman. What really hinders the development of the territory is to continue to expand and become a viscount!

"Forget it, I don't want to think about it, let's make good use of that wasteland and stabilize it for a while...... And there are still two hundred catties of distilled liquor to be made!" Jiang Xingchen shook his head slightly.

"Don't forget, boy, you owe me a meal!" said the old man suddenly.

"I can't forget!" Jiang Xingchen glanced at the old man a little speechlessly, on the way back from the imperial capital, he had mentioned it to himself countless times.

"No! It's not one, it's two! I didn't eat a few bites of egg fried rice last time, it's all cheap Nier's little girl!" the old man immediately added.

"Then can you blame me!" Jiang Xingchen glared and retorted: "Last time, it was because of the Seventh Legion!"

"Then I don't care, I didn't eat it anyway!" the old man played a scoundrel.

"At that time, you dragged me away, why are you still beating me up now!" Jiang Xingchen said with extreme disdain.

"Uh! What do you mean by beating a rake?" The old man was stunned, every time he quarreled with Jiang Xingchen, he could always hear fresh words, and he asked for a long time about the meaning of the joke before he understood, and then after the second brother and Zhao Danqing were overshadowed, he spread the word all over Hongyuan City.

"I can't explain this to you!" Jiang Xingchen waved his hand and said, "Forget it, isn't it just egg fried rice, just go back and make it for you, it's not too much effort!"

"Hey, hey, that's right!" The old man immediately got rid of the entanglement of "beating a rake", and said with a smile: "It's not me saying you, that wild pheasant egg can't hatch, it's all this month......"

After smiling contentedly for a while, the old man left his seat and said, "I'm in a good mood today, I'll go to the back car to find Zhao Xiaozi to kill a game, let him taste my newly researched tricks, stay still!"

Jiang Xingchen and Mei'er glanced at each other, and at the same time involuntarily grinned, the trick that the old man researched last time blocked his veteran with a car, and was easily handled by Mei'er with a slotted horse. I don't know what kind of suicide path will be made this time...... But fortunately, his opponent is Zhao Danqing.

But just when the old man was about to get out of the car, Zhao Danqing's exclamation suddenly came from outside: "Little girl, you are crazy, what are you doing to provoke it?"

"Huh?" a few people in the car immediately lifted the curtain, and saw Catwoman holding a dead branch, playing with a wildflower that broke through the ice in the wasteland by the roadside.

"Buzz~" A black dot shoots out from the flower and goes straight to Catwoman.

"Giggles......" The little cat woman let out a burst of cheerful laughter, threw down the dead branches, turned her head and ran towards Zhao Danqing.

"It's ...... Bees!I'm too big!" Jiang Xingchen almost couldn't help but exclaim when he saw the black dot. A bee the size of a thumb looks amazing.

The old man and Mei'er's eyes were closely followed by the little cat girl, and the muscles on her face kept twitching, is this something that a girl can do, it's too naughty!

The green tendons in Zhao Danqing's temples burst up, if it weren't for the fact that the other party was a little girl, he couldn't help but scold his mother.

"I wiped it, you are too poisonous, didn't you just take advantage of your inattention and drank a sip of wine......" Zhao Danqing said half angrily, then he didn't dare to stay any longer, turned his head and rushed into the carriage.

The little catwoman also rushed in, sealed the curtain of the car, and then laughed loudly: "I'm afraid, I see if you dare to steal my wine and drink ...... in the future."

When the old man saw this, he didn't say a word, and immediately lowered the curtain and sealed the four sides.

Jiang Xingchen asked the old man with some disdain: "You are a great master of the Yuan Qi Realm, you can use ......"

"You know a fart, this kind of bee is a big swarm when it comes out! I'd rather run into a level 30 demon beast than touch this thing, and it hurts to die if it's stung...... Catwoman is also damaging enough, why do you say you messed with them!"

The old man shouted angrily, completely missing his usual laughing expression.

As soon as the old man finished speaking, there was a buzz outside from far to near, and Jiang Xingchen could automatically make up the appearance of small fighters rushing over.

However, his mind did not stop at bee hunting, but thought of a food that made his mouth water: honey! (To be continued......