Late Tang

Although the hundreds of laborers are still recovering from their injuries and cannot be used for the time being, the 350 town soldiers and servants who landed on the island yesterday, as well as the more than 100 officers who were busy all night, still dug a thousand holes outside the city after dawn. .

It is very simple to build a ground nest. First, dig a square on the ground that is more than one or three feet deep and four feet wide.Then use the excavated soil to build a small earth wall about two feet high around the top of the pit, and then use the bought tent to build it on top of it, drive a few wooden stakes to fasten it, and immediately a standard nest is considered built.Although Salmon Island is surrounded by islands on three sides, the wind is still very strong, and it is difficult to resist it with a tent alone, but it is perfect to cooperate with the nest.The only downside is that it is not very breathable.And it can only be lived temporarily in autumn and winter, and it is not suitable for the rainy season in spring and summer.

On the outskirts of the shack area, Li Jing also asked people to erect a circle of wooden pile fences, and built a simple wooden fence in the middle of the shack fence to divide the shack into two. The garrison soldiers who were demoted to labor and the guards of the business groups, and the family members of the original garrison soldiers on the right.Since hundreds of people are now either broken limbs, or their buttocks are blooming, Li Jing also sent a team of soldiers to guard outside the barracks.

After daybreak, Li Jing personally took the two teams of family members to the pier at the foot of Phoenix Mountain to meet Li's mother and other family members.When the family members passed by Tianjie after disembarking, they were all amazed.Li Huier and the others even clamored to open their quilt workshop on this street.

"Wait for a while, and then you can open as many stores as you want." Li Jing turned his head and glanced at the bustling Tianjie, with a surge of ambition in his heart.For the time being, he is not yet capable of taking action on Tianjie, but he will never allow a situation like a 'concession' to appear in his own territory.Bear with it first, and wait until the foundation is stabilized on Salmonella Island, then the first one will find a way to take back the control of Tianjie.

The guards of the two teams led the way, and the family members of the officers all looked around curiously.The bustling Tianjie seen earlier has already surprised everyone.I thought Shamenshu was such a bitterly cold place, but looking at it now, there are huge sea ships everywhere in the pond bay, and there are such bustling streets on the island, it seems that it is far from what they thought.

However, there are also some people who are more concerned about the land on the island. Before coming here, Li Jing has promised everyone that they will distribute the land to the family members.Blacksmith Wang's son, Xiaoshitou, is now the deputy head of Li Jing's servant team, and he has also suddenly become the father of an official. He used to be a blacksmith for generations, but now he has suddenly become an official's family member, not to mention his pride.Although the family still had [-] mu of land returned and presented by Li Jing, the old blacksmith took the initiative to sign up for the artisan camp, and brought his wife to Salmonella Island with all his belongings.

After passing the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, there are reclaimed Shamen garrison fields. The old blacksmith watched carefully for a long time, and then came back to Li Jing and said: "These lands are not bad. They are not good fields, but they can be considered good. The fields are gone. It’s just a pity that they have been abandoned for a long time, and if they want to plow again, if they want a good harvest, they have to cultivate the land for a year or two. Not only this year, but also next year, I’m afraid there won’t be much grain.”

Li Jing nodded. Zhang Hong had already reported to him last night that the total arable land on Salmonella Island was about [-] mu, all of which belonged to the farmland of Salmonella.There was a drought last year, and the island was short of water and wells. The soldiers such as Feng Ming didn't ask to farm the land to live, so they simply abandoned it.

Guarding a golden island like Salmon Island, Li Jing now has no plans to farm and stockpile food as he had thought at the beginning.Shamen Island is only [-] mu of land for all kinds of grain. One mu of land is calculated based on the average annual output of eight buckets. Remove [-]%, and finally only [-] shi grains.If the cost of seeds, farm tools and cattle is deducted, about [-]% will have to be reduced.In the end, I got [-] shi of grain, and it had to be a good year without drought and waterlogging.But now Li Jing raised [-] soldiers, and was given two liters of food a day, so he needed at least [-] catties of food a year, which was three and a half stones.[-] soldiers are [-] shi, and this is only the food consumption of the soldiers, not counting the food and salaries that will be distributed to them every month.By farming alone, Li Jing planted the whole island with food, and he couldn't afford to support these soldiers.

What's more, Li Jing still owes the Han family a huge amount of [-] yuan.

Li Jing had already made up his mind yesterday that he would not keep any of the [-] mu of land on the island, and would distribute it to all the soldiers' families.However, there are too many people and too few farms, so we have to set up various workshops as soon as possible to consume the labor force of some soldiers' families who have not been allocated farms.

Li Jing smiled at Blacksmith Wang: "Uncle Blacksmith, I will share all the land with you today."

The old blacksmith's eyes lit up immediately, and he said with a smile, "Sanlang, can you give my family a few more mu?"

Although the old blacksmith still has tens of acres of land in his home, and his son Xiao Shitou is Li Jing's servant and deputy team leader, he is now appointed by Li Jing as the owner of the blacksmith workshop, and the family is not short of money.But in his heart, the land is still the most important, no matter how much gold, silver and copper coins there are, they can't be used as food or clothing.Li Jing sighed in his heart and nodded in agreement. There was little land on the island, and Li Jing reckoned that in the end, only the families of those officers could share some land.Although he also wants to be fair, sometimes, rank can better reflect Shangguan's favor.

Liu Shouqian, who came to welcome his family together, whispered in Li Jing's ear: "It's Mr. General who is thoughtful. He has been buying and hoarding food everywhere. Now there are more than 1 shi in several warehouses at our port wharf. What about the food. If you have food in your hands, don’t panic. Otherwise, in two days, thousands of people will come over, and it will be too much for people to eat horse chews every day.” He was also a landlord in the past, and he has the most experience in food. .

Li Jing does have a lot of food now, but he knows that the great civil uprising at the end of Tang Dynasty is coming. At that time, food will be the most precious thing, and no amount of gold and silver can be exchanged.Huang Chao, Qin Zongquan, Sun Ru, when these people arrived, the army led by them was all man-eating demon kings. Why, it was because they couldn't even grab food.

"Those grains can't be stored in other people's warehouses forever. In a few days, you will sail to transport all the grains back to Salmon Island." Food is a real life-saving thing, and Li Jing doesn't worry about putting it in other people's warehouses .Not only did his own food have to be shipped back, but Li Jing still had some money in hand, and he also planned to buy as much food as possible.Food is something that will only rise in the future, and will never fall again.Moreover, even if the price increases at that time, it may not be possible to buy it.If you still have some to buy now, let’s secretly buy more.Anyway, you can't grow much by yourself.

Mother Li and Han Xiaoshi were both sitting in soft sedan chairs, so there was no need to blow the cold wind all the way, and when the soft sedan chairs stopped, the Shamen Fortress had already arrived.Seeing the thousand shacks outside the fort wall, Mrs. Han thought everyone had to live outside.

"Mother, the child has prepared a big house in the castle, and we can all live there."

"What about your sisters, do they have a place to live?" Li Jing's three married sisters also brought their children with them this time, and the three brothers-in-law have also joined the logistics army as a child boss.Doing some technical work in the logistics army, you don't have to train hard every day, and you don't have to worry about killing the enemy on the battlefield. This can be regarded as Li Jing's care for the three brothers-in-law.

"Don't worry, everything has been arranged. The homes of the three sisters are next to ours, and the house of the other four sisters is also nearby."

Zhang Hong and Lin Wei, who were directing the soldiers to start the construction of the second shack camp, ran over and greeted Li's mother and others. "Zhang Bingcao, copy and paste here the housing allocation list that you arranged yesterday, and let a few people read it, so as to help everyone settle down first." Almost all the family members of this group were military officers' family members, and all of them were family members. It belongs to the people assigned to the houses in the castle.

Hearing that there was a ready-made house, many family members were all interested, and immediately surrounded Zhang Hong with three floors inside and outside.Fortunately, the list was drawn up yesterday, Zhang Hong immediately copied a copy and posted it for the soldiers to read.Thinking of a family, the family members came forward to get a wooden sign with the address number on it, and then soldiers took them to the address of the house written on the sign.

Li Huier and Yu Youniang, Li Jing also arranged a beautiful yard for them, and they went there happily.After a while, he ran back again and asked Li Jing to allocate a house for them as a clothing workshop.Li Jing didn't expect these women to be so concerned about the affairs of the workshop recently, but that's good, and it will save a lot of trouble.As for the workshop, Li Jing had already made arrangements.

It turned out that there was a workshop area in the fort. Li Jing kept this area intact, and put a piece of surrounding houses into the workshop area, expanding the workshop area.Yu Youniang's quilt workshop still uses the original tailor and dyeing workshop, and these two workshops and some tools are all directly assigned to them.

With a residence, a bigger workshop and more complete tools than in Wangli Village, Yu Youniang and others have everything in their workshops, but only the female workers who owe those workshops have not arrived yet. "When will they arrive? We are still waiting to start work. We haven't completed the last order of thousands of military uniforms."

Seeing their eagerness, Li Jing smiled and said: "Come soon, I will send the boat to Dengzhou Wharf to wait. As soon as they arrive, I will ask them to give your workshop girls to you first." Pull here."

After sending Li Huier and the others away, Blacksmith Wang also rushed over, but he asked Li Jing to share the land with everyone.Seeing the expectant look on the old blacksmith's face, Li Jing suddenly felt that the more than 1000 mu of land on the island that he despised was actually very precious.After thinking about it, he called Zhang Hong. First, only half of the land was allocated to the families of officers, and it had to be classified according to rank.He will reserve the remaining 750 mu of land for rewards. In the future, only soldiers who have performed particularly well, made meritorious service, and been promoted will be eligible to receive land distribution.

(To be continued)