Chapter 256 Spring Plowing
At this moment, the figure who crushed the head of the leopard-shaped beast with one foot was none other than Chitose.
I don’t know if it’s because of his age, but the three-acre land in Prairie Village can no longer satisfy him. Chitose became keen on expanding and patrolling his territory in the outer grasslands.
This also makes it disappear all day long except for meals.
Looking at the soldiers who saluted him, Chitose raised his head with satisfaction, then stopped paying attention to them and directly lowered his head to eat his lunch.
There was no way, the Prairie Village only provided breakfast and dinner for it, so starting from patrolling the territory, Chitose would give herself extra meals when she got the chance.
Li Ce, who arrived later, saw this and didn't bother much. He waved his hand and left with the recruits.
After walking away, many of the recruits following behind breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh my God, I was scared to death. I just clicked and crushed the beast's head!"
"What are you afraid of? Chitose-sama doesn't know how to do that. Attack us.”
"That's true, but every time I see it, I still can't help but get nervous, and you were obviously trembling too!"
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The soldiers behind you It was impossible for Li Ce not to hear the discussion, but he didn't say anything.
Because in fact, even he sometimes gets nervous when he sees Chitose.
As he continues to grow, Chitose's power becomes more and more amazing, as does his strength.
However, thanks to this power, to a large extent, they have prevented some threats from approaching. At least since the death of the saber-toothed tiger, they have not encountered any extraordinary creatures in the area.
The leopard-shaped creature just now was at best a relatively ferocious beast. It definitely did not reach the level of extraordinary creatures. Otherwise, it would not have been chased by this group of recruits, and then pushed into the ground by Chitose with one claw. inside, and then crush his head.
In addition, whenever there is a fight between them on the grassland, Chitose will rush over immediately when he hears the noise.
Invisibly, it has become a talisman for them.
This is another reason why Li Ce can be so open-minded and directly lead a group of recruits across the grassland.
Looking up at the sky and listening to the rustling chatter behind him, Li Ce said loudly...
"Okay, let's go back to the village! Because of the previous tactical mistakes, after returning, everyone will have to do physical training again. One more round!”
As soon as he said these words, the recruits behind him suddenly started to cry.
Until Li Ce spoke up again.
“Two wheels!”
In an instant, all sounds stopped.
After a while, they got to know the officer’s temperament very well. If he made any more noise, the number would have to be increased.
And it’s the kind of thing where you don’t even think about having dinner until you’re done.
At the same time, Zhou Xu rode a fast horse and set off from the station at the foot of Huangshan Village, and rushed back to Black Moon Village as quickly as possible.
After receiving the news, Zhang Xiaoshan, who is now the head of Black Moon Village, hurried out to greet him.
"Zhang Xiaoshan pays homage to the leader!"
"No courtesy!"
While turning over and dismounting, Zhou Xu directly signaled to the other party to waive the courtesy.
"These batches of prisoners sent over should have arrived, right?"
Before setting off from the Barren Mountain Village, he asked Shi Lei if he should leave them there. Except for the hard labor involved in the construction of the new village and the relocation of the barren mountain village, all other prisoners have been sent out. Calculating the time, it should be about time.
“We’re all here.”
Zhang Xiaoshan answered quickly after hearing this.
“The prisoners sent here this time are mainly assigned to the logging team, construction team and farming team.”
Due to the damage to the buildings in winter, the construction team and As for the logging team, the workload was already overwhelming even before spring began.
When hard laborers were sent over, these two groups of people naturally robbed them diligently.
By now it has been completely divided.
Listening to Zhang Xiaoshan’s simple report, Zhou Xu nodded.
This time the troops were mobilized, because the winter had just passed, the old, weak, sick and disabled in each tribe died in the cold winter. The only ones who survived were the young and middle-aged people with better physical fitness.
Invisibly, the population has been screened for Zhou Xu, plus those killed in the brief conflict, there are a total of 173 people with a clear labor force recruited in this wave. .
Adding all these hard labor, the total number of people under his command has now reached 379.
This is because all the villages under his command have lost part of their manpower this winter. Otherwise, the population would definitely easily exceed the four hundred mark at this time.
In this primitive era, this is already an incredible scale.
But for Zhou Xu, it is not enough.
Right now he needs to cultivate a lot of fields, collect resources, build villages, and train soldiers.
Judging from the current situation alone, as long as the food resources can keep up and he can digest as many people as possible, there will be no shortage of work.
Of course, with a steady and steady mentality, as spring has just begun and nearly two hundred hard laborers have been recruited, Zhou Xu obviously plans to keep a low profile for a while. During the spring plowing period, he still needs to develop by farming. For the Lord.
After saying goodbye to Zhang Xiaoshan, he turned around and approached Zhuang Mengdie.
"Mengdie, we are going to build the waterwheel that I told you before, and have the tools on the drawing that I asked the messenger to send some time ago been built? ”
This wave of actions has basically doubled the population under his command, and the food pressure will naturally increase accordingly.
Especially the crops, it is obvious that they cannot keep up at the moment.
Thanks to the fact that there is a large lake in Heiyue Village for him to fish, and the number of broiler chickens and rabbits is also increasing day by day. To a certain extent, this alleviates the food pressure and prevents him from falling prey to this food. The problem is completely broken.
But Zhou Xu certainly cannot continue like this. It has become a top priority to cultivate more fields and increase crop yields.
Under this premise, water trucks diverting water into canals can greatly improve the efficiency of farmers in irrigating their fields. In addition, another tool is used to allow them to improve the efficiency of farming.
“Zhao Geng, come here!”
The spring plowing work is busy now. Because there are not enough manpower, he, the Minister of Agriculture, is still plowing in the fields every day, so he has no leisure at all.
Hearing the call, Zhao Geng, who was sweating profusely, ran over quickly and subconsciously glanced at the bullock cart next to their leader.
It is said to be an ox cart, but the ‘cart’ towed behind it is different from usual.
Looking at the novel object, a trace of thought flashed in Zhao Geng's eyes, as if he had guessed something.
“Chief, what is this?”
"This thing is called a plow, and it is used to help you plow the fields!"
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(End of this chapter)