Chapter 256 Spring Ploughing
At this moment, the figure who crushed the leopard-like beast's head with one foot was Qiansui.
Maybe it was because of his age, but the small piece of land in the grassland village was no longer enough for him, so Qiansui became keen on expanding and patrolling his territory in the grasslands beyond.
This is also the reason why it has been nowhere to be seen all day long except at meal times.
Looking at the soldiers who saluted him, Qiansui raised his head with satisfaction, then ignored them and lowered his head to eat his lunch.
There was no way around it. The grassland village only provided it with breakfast and dinner, so since he started patrolling the territory, Chitose would give himself extra meals whenever he got the chance.
Li Ce, who arrived later, saw the situation and did not bother to disturb them. He waved his hand and left with the new recruits.
After they walked away, many recruits following behind breathed a sigh of relief.
"Oh my god, I was so scared. Just now, with a 'click' sound, I crushed the beast's head!"
"What are you afraid of? Master Chitose won't attack us."
"That's true, but every time I see you, I still can't help but get nervous, and you were obviously trembling at that time!"
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It was impossible for Li Ce not to hear the discussions of the soldiers behind him, but he didn't say anything.
Because in fact, even he would get nervous when he saw Chitose sometimes.
As he continued to grow, Qiansui's power became more and more astonishing, as well as his strength.
However, thanks to this power, they have been able to prevent some threats from approaching to a large extent. At least since the death of the saber-toothed tiger, they have not encountered any extraordinary creatures in the area.
The leopard-like creature just now was at most a relatively ferocious beast, and it definitely had not reached the level of an extraordinary creature, otherwise it would not have been chased by this group of recruits, and then pressed into the ground by Qiansui's claw and had its head crushed.
In addition, whenever a battle broke out on the grassland, Qiansui would rush over immediately after hearing the noise.
Invisibly, it has become a talisman for them.
This is another reason why Li Ce could be so relaxed and parade around the grassland with a group of new recruits.
Li Ce raised his head to take a look at the sky and listened to the murmurs of discussion behind him. He said loudly...
"Alright, let's go back to the village! Because of the previous tactical mistakes, everyone will have to do another round of physical training after we return!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the recruits behind him suddenly wailed.
Until Li Ce spoke again.
“Two rounds!”
In an instant, all sounds stopped.
After a period of time, they knew this officer's temper too well. If he made any more noise, the number would have to go up even more.
And you can’t even think about having dinner until you finish it.
At the same time, riding a fast horse, Zhou Xu set out from the post station at the foot of Huangshan Village and rushed back to Black Moon Village at the fastest speed.
Upon receiving the news, Zhang Xiaoshan, now the village chief of Black Moon Village, hurried out to greet them.
"Zhang Xiaoshan greets the leader!"
"No need to be polite!"
As Zhou Xu dismounted from his horse, he directly signaled the other party to excuse himself.
"These batches of prisoners should have arrived, right?"
Before leaving Huangshan Village, he asked Shi Lei, and except for those who stayed there to do hard labor for the construction of the new village and the relocation of Huangshan Village, all the other captives had been sent out.
Judging from the time, it should be time.
“We are all here.”
Zhang Xiaoshan quickly responded after hearing this.
"I mainly assigned the prisoners sent over this time to the logging team, construction team, and farming group."
Because of the damage to the buildings during the winter, the construction team and the logging team had already been overwhelmed with workload before the spring.
When forced labor was delivered to them, these two groups of people naturally rushed to grab it.
It has been completely divided up by now.
After listening to Zhang Xiaoshan's brief report, Zhou Xu nodded.
This time, because it was just winter, the old, weak, sick and disabled in each tribe died in the cold winter. Those who survived were the young and strong people with better physical fitness.
Invisibly, Zhou Xu had already screened the population. Together with those killed in the brief conflict, the total number of people recruited in this wave with clear labor force was 173.
Including all these hard labors, the total number of people under his command has now reached 379.
This is because each of the villages under his command lost a portion of manpower this winter, otherwise the population would definitely be able to easily break through the 400 mark.
In this primitive era, this is an incredible scale.
But for Zhou Xu, it is far from enough.
Right now he needs to cultivate a lot of land, collect resources, build villages, and train soldiers.
Judging from the current situation, as long as there are enough food resources, he can digest as many people as possible and there will be no situation where there is no work to do.
Of course, with a steady and cautious mentality, Zhou Xu, who had already recruited nearly two hundred hard laborers at the beginning of spring, obviously planned to keep a low profile for a while. During the spring plowing period, the main focus should still be on farming.
After saying goodbye to Zhang Xiaoshan, he turned around and went to find Zhuang Mengdie.
"Mengdie, we are going to build the waterwheel I told you about before. Have you built the tools on the blueprint I asked the messenger to send to you some time ago?"
This wave of actions basically doubled the population under his command, and the food pressure naturally increased as well.
Especially in the area of crops, it is obvious that they cannot keep up at the moment.
Fortunately, there is a large lake in Black Moon Village for him to fish. At the same time, the number of broiler chickens and rabbits is also increasing day by day. To a certain extent, the food pressure is alleviated, so that he does not completely collapse because of the food problem.
But Zhou Xu certainly couldn't continue like this. It had become an urgent task to cultivate more land and increase crop yields.
Under this premise, using water wheels to draw water into canals can greatly improve farmers' efficiency in irrigating their fields. In addition, another tool is used to help them improve their efficiency in farming.
"Zhao Geng, come here!"
The spring ploughing work is in full swing now, and because there is a shortage of manpower, he, as the Minister of Agriculture, has to go to the fields to plough the fields every day and has no time to rest.
Hearing the call, Zhao Geng, sweating profusely, hurried over and subconsciously glanced at the ox cart next to their leader.
It is called an ox cart, but the 'cart' towed behind it is different from the usual ones.
Looking at the novel object, a thoughtful look flashed across Zhao Geng's eyes, as if he had guessed something.
"Chief, what is this?"
"This thing is called a plow. It's used to help you plow the fields!"
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(End of this chapter)
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