I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 211, Little People in Troubled Times

Xu Wei was really happy to hear Zhou Bangguo's words. Not only are the disabled people in Mayi living well now, but they have also developed a farming industry chain that has fed tens of thousands of people. If it continues to expand to the entire Bingzhou, there will be Hundreds of thousands of people can rely on this breeding industry chain to live. Guaranteeing employment is very important for the Tengjia Army.

Unexpectedly, this Zhou Bangguo is a good talent, and if he continues to train, he may not be able to become the head of a county!
Xu Wei looked at the fat pigs in the farm, wondering if it was because of the high protein intake, each pig was fat and strong!He looked at the pig and said with a smile: "You pigs are really good. This year's Harvest Festival in Mayi, I'm going to invite 15 disaster victims to the grassland for dinner. I can't do without your pigs!"

Zhou Bangguo gave a thumbs up and said: "He is still handsome and heroic, and the treats are extraordinary! Naturally, the subordinates will not let Qu Shuai hold you back!"

Then he thought for a while and said: "If 1000 people eat one head, 15 people will need 1500 heads. The pig farm can barely afford it. I'll help Qu Shuai prepare it!"

Xu Wei heard that a pig for 1000 people can eat a few mouthfuls, so he asked: "Can't you provide more? A pig for 1000 people is a bit small, right?"

Zhou Bangguo explained: "It's a lot. This pig weighs 300-400 catties (the weight unit of a big man). On average, each person has less than half a catty of meat. It should be enough to add some other dishes!"

Then Zhou Bangguo said: "And even if you want to increase it, there will not be much more. We have more cattle and sheep in Mayi, but less pork. The pigs here already occupy a small half of the entire Mayi. Even if there are other places, there will not be too many. If there may be more in a few years, Qu Shuai should get more sheep? Or should I get some chickens and ducks?"

Sure enough, there is still a shortage of supplies. If you want to invite someone to eat, you don't even have enough pork!
Xu Wei nodded, and then said with great expectation to Zhou Bangguo: "You must work hard to expand the scale of the farm. Try to let the members of our Tengjia Army live a life of eating meat as soon as possible."

Zhou Bangguo said with a smile: "The next time Qu Shuai wants to invite people to eat pork, the subordinates will guarantee that everyone can eat as much as they want!"

The news that Qu Shuai wanted to work in the army quickly spread among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the entire reclamation camp, and the harvest festival in Mayi was also mentioned by the local people.

"After we came to Mayi, every year after the harvest, we would prepare a sumptuous feast to reward ourselves. At this time, the big fish and meat accumulated in Mayi would be put out for everyone to eat!" said Mayi The people are all looking forward to it.

This year's life is really difficult. After the food stamps are used to set the ration, everyone can't eat very full. Everyone is very uncomfortable, especially in Mayi, which has already adapted to the life of three meals a day. Now many people have changed. After going back twice a day, those who have been full will become very unbearable when they are hungry again.

But in the Tengjia Army, even Qu Shuai couldn't eat enough. With Xu Wei's example, they couldn't complain anymore, but now they can have a big meal, and these old men are very excited!

Not to mention the reclamation camp, they have never had a full meal in their entire lives, and many people have begun to fantasize about the feast of the Harvest Festival. In short, the whole Mayi is now very lively.

Zhao Tian's family is also one of the excited ones.

They are ordinary members of the reclamation camp, but they are also lucky ones, because their whole family is still together, which is very rare in the reclamation camp.

This year, the Yellow River flooded and flooded his family's fields, and the only grain stored was washed away by the flood. The whole family couldn't survive. His father had no choice but to sell his family's fields at a low price. To a landlord surnamed Cao.

They used the land to pay off the landlord Cao's Ziyin money, and gave their family 2 shi of grain, and then took away their family's land.

Then tell them that as long as they cross the Yellow River, they can survive. Both Jizhou and Bingzhou are taking in the victims. They also told them that the people who left the Yellow River flooded last year also survived by crossing the Yellow River. As long as they come to the Yellow River, they will have a way to survive. !
However, Zhao Tian's father didn't believe it at all. After fighting in his hometown for a month, he wanted to find out if he had a chance to become a tenant in his hometown.

But the reality made Zhao Tian's father very disappointed. He found that these tyrants in his hometown would rather spend a lot of money to buy slaves from Xuzhou and Qingzhou than hire them locals!
When I was about to eat up the only food in my hand, I found that I could only starve to death in my hometown, so I had to follow the flow of people across the Yellow River.

Then they followed the crowd all the way north, relying on this little ration, eating leaves and grass roots along the way, the whole family didn't know how long they walked.

Countless people fell down along the way, and every fallen person would soon turn into a pile of bones. This frightened Zhao Tian, ​​and he didn't even dare to lie down for a while.

The whole family didn't know if it was useless to continue walking like this, or if they would just die in a foreign land like this, but they were so hungry that they couldn't think about it, so they could only walk with everyone.

I don't know how long they walked. When their whole family couldn't bear it, someone gave them porridge in a daze. At that time, he drank three big bowls, and his belly was bulging. It was half a year for him. Feeling full for the first time in many years.

He wanted to continue drinking but was stopped, saying that he would die if he drank any more!

Then everything that happened surprised him. The person who gave them the porridge said that they had come to the territory of the Tengjia Army, and said that as long as they got here, they would not have to worry about being starved to death!

What happened later was indeed like this. These people would give them porridge every day, then bathe them, put on clean clothes, and burn their tattered clothes.Help them build a tent for them to live here, and at the same time choose some commanders of tens, centurions, thousands, and tens of thousands from among them to organize them, and tell them to live here for half a month, Make sure they don't have any disease before they can enter the territory of the Rattan Armor Army.

Zhao Tian also saw that sick people were being taken away by the people of the Rattan Armor Army one after another, and they never showed up again. This made everyone terrified, fearing that they would be the next one to be taken away.

And Zhao Tian was very worried, but he was afraid that his parents and younger siblings were sick and could not enter the territory of the Fujijia Army, so that their whole family might be separated. This was not what Zhao Tian wanted, he wanted the whole family to be together.

Fortunately, they were very lucky. They didn't find any disease at all during the half month they were here, and they could continue to enter the territory of the Tengjia Army.

They lived in the tent for half a month. Although they could only drink porridge every day, they finally recovered their family. They didn't seem to be about to collapse like before.

His younger brother and younger sister were also brought to a big house to read and write by a fairy-like gentleman, which made him envious, and even secretly listened to them for a few days.

The old gentleman found him, but he didn't drive him away, but let him in, and told him to read and read. Unfortunately, the time was too short, and Zhao Tian had to leave here before he knew a few words.

But the old man didn't care about it, instead he handed him a book and said: "This is a dictionary. The way to recognize characters is the pinyin method taught by the master. You can spell any words you don't understand. Remember to read You will be successful after you know how to read. In the future, you have to find a way to learn the content here. When you encounter something you don’t understand, ask other people who seem to be knowledgeable. They will teach you, and you will teach you after you learn it. Brother and sister, sir, you must remember that knowledge can change your destiny, you don’t want to be a farmer all your life, you have to work hard to learn the above things!”

Zhao Tian nodded half-understood, holding the book in his hand as if holding his own future destiny.

But such a stable life was soon broken. An official of the Tengjia Army told them that there is no land in Taiyuan County to support them now. If they want to live a good life, they have to go to the grassland for reclamation. If you don't want to, you can cross the Yellow River to control the desert. This job belongs to civil servants. Every month we will distribute enough rations and monthly salary to support ourselves, but it is a bit remote.

Everyone doesn't know where the grasslands and deserts are, but basically no one will choose the desert if they have to choose. Everyone knows that they are supported by the rattan army now, so of course they have to listen to the rattan army. Now that they could choose the grassland, they didn't dare to ask where the grassland was.

And the Goto Kojun gave them a sickle to harvest grain and earn 30 yuan a day, which made everyone very happy. Their whole family could earn 90 yuan a day, so they harvested wheat one by one in each county. There were 2700 yuan, and the money was collected by the mother, who said that she would go to the new home in the future and use it to build a family.

But Zhao Tian can see that his parents are very envious of the members of the Tengjia Army. Their food production is too high, more than double that of his hometown. If they can have a field here, they are willing to die here. .

What envied his parents the most was that in Taiyuan County, he really found many fellow villagers from Yanzhou. They came here last year, and now they have already lived a life like a rich man.

His fellow villagers told Zhao Tian's parents that the Tengjia Army is someone who helps the people, and you can live a good life as long as you listen to them.

Then they continued to go north to a place called Mayi, which used to be very novel, with huge waterwheels and canals built in the sky. Zhao Tian didn't believe that these were canals, but he took a peek and found this There is really water in it!

After learning about the canal, Zhao's father sighed: "If my hometown has such water conservancy facilities, watering will be much easier, and our grain production can be doubled! There is no need to flee famine!"

The wealth of Mayi is unimaginable to them. After traveling thousands of miles, they have not found any place richer than Mayi. They found that every household here has dozens of small sheep. In his eyes, cows and carriages are things owned by rich landlords, and they own them all.

Everyone here is actually a rich man?This simply made Zhao Tian's parents couldn't believe it, the three views were about to be shattered, and they were all very cautious when they came here!
The tribes of Mayi are very busy every day, not only to harvest food, but also to take care of the sheep, and to weave when they have time.Their family helped an old member of the Tengjia Army harvest grain. The master was very happy and gave them an extra 10 yuan a day to see their hard work and told them many ways to make money.

If you have no money, you can find a way to knit sweaters. If you have money, you can find a way to build a textile machine to spin woolen cloth. As long as you are diligent, you can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you have more money, you can buy some lambs to raise. , Now whether it is wool or mutton, the price is very high, and the cost can be recovered within three years at most!

He also confidently told them that as long as they are hardworking people in Mayi, they can set up a family business in at most three years, and told them that as long as they work hard for three years, they can be as rich as him!
When Zhao Tian's parents saw the sight of the Fujika Army coming, they imagined the words of this old tribe, and began to fantasize about the life of the new family business!
There are not many people like Zhao Tian's parents. They found that the farther north they went, the richer the place where the Tengjia Army lived. If they went to the grassland, they should have a good life!

Companion night!

The whole Mayi has become lively, and the Harvest Festival has become a special festival for the whole Mayi. The whole Mayi has started to take action. The tables, chairs and benches in the warehouse are filled with principals, and the grain drying yards are filled. Pigs and sheep are constantly being slaughtered. Afterwards, they were cleaned up by different categories. Thousands of women were packing all kinds of dishes. The giant cauldrons left over from the time of eating big pot rice began to be brought out to cook vegetables. The aroma of the food filled the whole city of Mayi.The other ministries also prepare a table of delicacies in their own homes to reward themselves like a festival.

When the moonlight rises, the whole Mayi has become a gourmet city, and everyone takes positions and waits for the delicious food.

Xu Wei stood on the high platform and said with a tin horn: "Today, this delicious meal is for everyone to practice. I hope everyone will go to the grassland to rebuild their homes and live a life full of food!"

"Good?" Everyone cheered for a while, and then there were sounds of eating and drinking everywhere. Everyone couldn't bear such good food.

Even Xu Wei was a little infected and began to eat and drink!

Old man Wang wiped his brow of sweat and said, "It's a good thing we invited this meal in Mayi. It's really hard to hold a banquet for more than [-] people in other places!"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "As long as the mind doesn't slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties. Don't you forget, old man, how we got here in the first place? The people of Bingzhou gave us a lot of help along the way. They can find a way If we can produce enough food for 20 of us, why can't we produce a banquet for 15 people!"

Old man Wang remembered the old days and said with a smile: "The old man always thought that Qu Shuai was a prodigal son and spent several times the money to buy things, but now it seems that this is Qu Shuai's mind. It may be so easy to escape the pursuit of the Han army! Now our Tengjia army is living as high as possible, but the big man has begun to decline, and this world will definitely be controlled by you in the future!"

(End of this chapter)