Gao Wu Da Xia: The fox demon lady at the beginning

Chapter 29

As for the villagers and refugees who were not admitted, they can only wait for the next opportunity.

"Alas, dad is incompetent and failed to join Ping'an Castle. We can only continue to wander." The thin homeless man picked up his child and prepared to leave.

"Let's go and look around to see if there is any other way to survive. It would be nice to have some food."

These refugees fleeing from famine are in a miserable state. Every family is carrying a baggage with very little food. Some of them have been hungry for several days.

The refugees who joined Ping'an Fort were secretly happy that they would soon have their own houses and fields.

Han Chufan shook his head helplessly. His current financial resources could only support more than 500 military households. No matter how many people there were, there was nothing he could do.

He can only try his best to save some people, but he cannot save everyone.

"Fat man, Sun Da, go get some rice porridge for the refugees."

"Yes, my lord."

"There's nothing we can do about it since none of you can join Ping'an Fort. Now I can't afford to support so many people. I'll make rice porridge for everyone later. We'll leave when everyone is full." Han Chufan shouted loudly.

The refugees who were preparing to leave became excited when they heard that there was rice porridge to drink. Most of them had not had rice porridge for a long time and relied on the dry food brought out to satisfy their hunger.

"Thank you Mr. Han, Mr. Han is so kind and righteous."

"Thank you, Master Han."

The refugees knelt on the ground and thanked each other.

"Everyone, please get up. I can only help you so much. When Ping'an Fort develops and grows, you will still have the opportunity to join Ping'an Fort." Han Chufan waved his hand and asked them to stand up.

Soon, large basins of fragrant rice porridge were served.

The refugees who had recently joined Ping'an Fort and those who had not joined Ping'an Fort drank rice porridge with big mouthfuls.

"Mom, this porridge is so delicious."

"Yes, this porridge is really fragrant and thick."

"Drink quickly, Mr. Han is such a good person."

"If Master Han recruits military households in the future, I will have to come over no matter how far away he is."

The refugees were grateful to Han Chufan.

The lives of the nearby villagers who joined Ping'an Fort were much better.Although he is poorer, at least he is not too hungry and he drinks less porridge than the refugees.

The refugees who were not admitted, after drinking enough, left one after another to find new ways out.

The refugees who stayed behind were very happy.

After everyone had eaten, a new round of land reclamation began.

This time Han Chufan directly asked Fatty to find a large trading house in Zhoucheng and bought hundreds of cattle and a large number of farm tools and seeds.

As for food, I seized a lot from the bandits last time, so I can eat it for a while.

It cost more than 3000 taels of silver.

However, the investment will pay off. When the food is harvested next year, the military households will be self-sufficient.

A new round of land reclamation has begun. This time, the newly joined military households will reclaim a total of [-] acres of land.

There is a large amount of wasteland near Ping'an Fort, enough for them to cultivate.

The land of Daxia is very large, and most of it is wasteland with no one cultivating it.

Building houses is also going on at the same time. This time, more than 500 brick and tile houses were built, all using the best materials.

Han Chufan carefully planned the layout of the house on the original basis and built it neatly and orderly.Four roads were also planned and paved with bluestone slabs to facilitate everyone's travel.

After paving, sprinkle lime on the roadside so that it won't get muddy even if it rains.

Han Chufan named this area Ping'an New Village.

There are five to six hundred military households with families and nearly 2000 people living there. The size of Ping'an Fort is comparable to that of some small counties, which only have [-] residents.

With the expansion of Ping'an New Village and the progress of land reclamation.In Han Chufan's mental space, the virtual world became larger and larger, projecting the entire Ping An New Village and Ping An Fort.

There are more and more characters with light balls inside.

The sacred tree is rooted in the virtual world, absorbing more and more luck, and one-tenth of the black bark on the trunk has faded.

It's just that the sacred tree has not been dripping green liquid recently, and Han Chufan's body has not been further nourished.

"Uncle Shenshu, you are just eating and not working." Han Chufan complained in his heart.

It may also be that the sacred tree deliberately gave him some benefits and gave him a few drops of green energy liquid in order to help him get good luck.

Han Chufan has been practicing the secret technique of "Da Xia Holy Body" recently, but his progress is slow, his body strength is growing very slowly, and there is still a long way to go before he can truly enter the body refining realm.

The new military households are responsible for opening up wasteland and building Ping'an New Village, while the old military households continue to train.

In addition to queue, physical fitness and spear training, a new training has been added, that is, musket training.

Liu San improved the original fire stick and created the first qualified matchlock gun.

The power has also been improved, and it can break armor in sixty steps.

This kind of power has surpassed that of bows and arrows. Most bows and arrows can only break armor in thirty steps.Of course, those large crossbows can break armor with a hundred steps.

However, the production of large crossbows is troublesome and costly.

The matchlock gun can completely replace the crossbow, and with the improvement of stability and range, it can definitely crush the crossbow.

Han Chufan was very excited when he saw the first qualified matchlock gun. This was a landmark weapon that would change the entire pattern of war.

Liu San was rewarded heavily with 50 taels of silver.

"Sir, 50 taels of silver? This is too much." Liu San said in shock at that time.

As a craftsman, his status is very low, even lower than that of a military household, but he has never seen so much money.

"Fifty taels of silver is not much. This weapon of yours will be remembered in history." Han Chufan said with a smile.

Han Chufan asked Liu San to recruit dozens of craftsmen to concentrate on making matchlock guns, and left the task of making spears to his apprentices.

Making matchlock guns now relies entirely on manual labor and requires a lot of time. It takes one person more than ten days and a half to make one.

Now Han Chufan only has five muskets in hand, which are used by fifty veterans in turn.

"The next step is to build iron armor, which requires a lot of iron. This is another big expense." Han Baihu began to worry about money again.

After beating the bandits, more than 500 taels of silver were seized, which was almost bottomed out again.

"It's better to make money faster by fighting bandits. Let Liu Tianfei and Geng Chunping go find out if there are any other bandits nearby." Han Chufan thought in his mind.

Bandits rob homes and homes, and get money quickly. Especially those bandits who have survived for a long time have a lot of money and food.

Han Baihu is ready to embark on the road of fighting bandits and getting rich. No, it should be the road of fighting bandits and eliminating harm for the people.

A month later, all the houses and roads in Ping'an Fort were built. Han Chufan built a large archway in front of the village with the four characters "Ping'an New Village" written on it.

(End of this chapter)