That morning, Jiang Tangtang once again gathered the villagers together for a meeting.
The meeting mainly covered two points: first, it announced a new method for constructing defensive outposts.
Secondly, there's the allocation method for the earthen houses.
To prevent this from happening after the repairs were completed, Jiang Tangtang wrote a document in advance and had everyone put their fingerprints on it.
The idea is that the earthen houses are built together by everyone, and then allocated by drawing lots. Whichever house you draw is the house you get, and you can't throw a tantrum or cheat because of a bad location.
Of course, each household has a different number of people, a different number of able-bodied men, and a different amount of labor. In order to distribute the resources more fairly, the size of the houses in the earthen village also varies.
Like Gao Shumei, most families in the village consisted of the elderly, children, and women, who could contribute little physical labor. Naturally, such families were allocated the smallest houses.
As for families like the Jiang family, with many members and strong men who contribute the most labor, they are naturally allocated the most spacious houses.
For families with an average number of members, whose contribution is neither too much nor too little, the house will be allocated through a lottery within the average range.
After compiling the statistics, Jiang Tangtang redesigned the earthen village building. Now she took out the blueprints and announced this decision.
The villagers all agreed with Jiang Tangtang's decision, believing it was fair, ensuring no one was disadvantaged or gained an unfair advantage.
After the agreement was reached, the villagers busily began constructing the earthen fortress. In the past, when they lived in Dawancun, the villagers built houses by piling up earthen walls and helping each other out.
Most villagers know how to build houses.
However, the earthen houses are different from the houses built by the villagers in the past, and they are still made of a combination of red bricks and earthen walls, which makes many villagers feel a bit...
Jiang Tangtang, an engineer who had only been studying architecture in the system for a few days, suddenly took on multiple roles, becoming the engineer, chief commander, and consultant for the construction of the earthen fortress.
Fortunately, although the earthen houses built are quite different from the houses built by the villagers in the past, they still have many things in common.
After several days of chaos, the construction of the earthen fortress quickly got back on track.
Jiang Tangtang, who held multiple positions as the head of the valley, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
Having a rare free time, Jiang Tangtang asked Xiong Zhuang to deliver a letter to Lu Shiyan.
I'm planning to ask him to help me retrieve the food from my spatial storage, and also do some tasks to rack up some points.
I wish I could visit the granary of the Western Rong again.
At the same time, Lu Shiyan was also thinking about Jiang Tangtang. Surprisingly, this time the two of them were thinking in the same direction.
He was also thinking about where to get food.
The large influx of new recruits has already depleted Zhang Kui's private treasury. Not only Zhang Kui's private treasury, but also the official granaries have been used up.
But maintaining an army is really expensive.
Lu Shiyan felt like it was a bottomless pit, no matter how much food was thrown in, there was no end in sight.
The amount of grain in the Puzhou official granary was far from enough to meet demand.
Even more critically, soldiers need more than just food. They also need weapons. Without weapons, how can they go to the battlefield?
He sent people out to contact the Cui family, but there was no response for a long time.
This forced him to start thinking about other things.
While Lu Shiyan was pondering where to start seizing military supplies, Helian Heng decided to launch another attack on Puzhou.
Since the last time the grain supplies mysteriously disappeared and the soldiers in the camp were inexplicably poisoned, he spent a great deal of effort investigating the traitor within the army.
It took a lot of effort, and many soldiers were tortured to death or maimed, but in the end, they found nothing.
Not only did they find nothing, but they also severely impacted morale. Coupled with the loss of so much grain last time, the army camp was also facing a food shortage.
Various factors led Helian Heng to decide to take Puzhou first.
Once Puzhou is captured, not only will morale be boosted, but the food problem will also be solved.
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