I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 7, Xanadu

Xu Wei asked Old Man Wang to sell the hundred-refined steel sword to the black market in exchange for food.

Sure enough, in such a time of turmoil, arms are the most popular product. Each of Xu Wei's Hundred Swords can be exchanged for a hundred stones of grain. You must know that the price of grain is not low now. Thousands of dollars, that is to say, one of their hundred swords is worth 10 yuan, which is already the price of a famous sword.

After this product, old man Wang and the others could not bring hundreds of shi of grain every time they came back, so Xu Wei had to build a large granary to hold the grain.

Soon the grain in the granary exceeded 3000 shi, and it became the tallest and largest building in the valley. This granary not only reassured Xu Wei, but also other refugees. Finally, everyone did not have to worry about starving to death due to insufficient food.

In addition to the blacksmith workshop, Xu Wei also created a carpenter workshop, where 10 elderly men were placed. They are also the most skilled carpenters, specializing in the manufacture of various tables, chairs, wooden barrels, and wooden basins for everyone to use. Living standards skyrocketed.

Xu Hao also asked them to manufacture horse-drawn carriages and wheelbarrows. After all, these means of transportation are indispensable for transporting grain and various raw materials into the valley.

At the same time, Xu Wei asked them to use rattan to make various wooden guns, rattan armor, and rattan shields. At any rate, they increased their attack power by 5 points and defense power by 5 points, which was better than carrying knives with their bodies.

Because there are too many things to make, 10 carpenters alone cannot finish these things, so Xu Wei and the others will light a bonfire every night, and everyone will weave rattan armor and rattan shields together.Everyone has no complaints, after all, they know that this is the equipment to protect them.

And the thing that makes Xu Wei most happy is that the construction of the city wall can finally start. He has piled up thousands of bricks, and the foundation of the city wall can be started. Xu Wei arranged for 5 people to build the city wall. One point, Xu Wei's sense of security is one point higher.

But at the same time, there are also things that give Xu Wei a headache. Every time the old man Wang and the others come back, they will definitely bring a few refugees, and sometimes the refugees will find here by themselves. Soon the population of the valley will exceed 200. Fortunately, Xu Wei is here. Large-scale development, blacksmith shops, carpentry shops, transportation teams, and even logging teams are short of manpower, and any number of people can be accommodated.

One month later, the population of the valley exceeded 1, and Xiaogu Yanran became a small handicraft town.

But Xu Wei is under great pressure to feed so many people.

Xu Wei couldn't help asking Old Man Wang, "Didn't you say that this place is very hidden, why did so many people find it here?"

For Xu Wei, what the transport team encountered was fine, but the refugees who came to him couldn't bear it, and the ones that were agreed to be hidden!

Old man Wang said very innocently: "Now there is a turmoil outside the mountain. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to the mountain. No matter how hidden a place, if hundreds of thousands of people wander around, they will find us, not to mention that we burn thousands of catties every day. The firewood is so smoky, who can't see it?"

"But why take them in, we can't feed so many people!"

If the growth rate continues at this rate, the number of people in the valley will soon exceed a thousand. With the appetite of people in this world, the food in the granary may not be enough for winter.

The old man Wang said solemnly: "Captain, there are hundreds of thousands of hungry people in the mountains now, what do you think they will do if they find out that we have food here?"

"If we don't want to live, we have to support them. Now we can only increase our strength so that others don't dare to act rashly. Five hundred people is still a small number. We need at least three thousand people to ensure our safety!"

Xu Wei smiled wryly and said, "Where can we find food that can feed [-] people!"

You must know that in the current period of war, it takes tens of thousands of shi of grain to feed so many people!Even the Zhen family couldn't sell so much food to them.

Old man Wang also knew the difficulty of feeding so many people, but he said: "It's summer now, everyone can find grass roots, bark, wild vegetables, and wild animals can barely survive, but we are most dangerous when we wait until winter, when everyone Hungry like beasts, we can do anything! If we want to survive, we have to rob! As long as we rob a local tyrant’s dock, it’s enough for us to get a year’s ration.”

He has a deep understanding of the feeling of hunger, and eating less than two months of full food is not enough to make him forget. He knows what hungry people will do. It is impossible for hundreds of thousands of hungry people to be enemies with them. Only join them.

Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, Old Man Wang was one of thousands of ordinary people in this world. No matter how hard his life was, he would not dare to do illegal things. However, the few months he joined the Yellow Turban Army, he rarely felt happy , Enemies can be killed, profiteers can be robbed, and the houses of powerful and noble families can be breached.

At the same time, it was the first time that he hated the rich people of the clan and nobles so much. There were tens of thousands of shi of grain in their granaries. Tens of thousands of people will starve to death.

Seeing the houses of the powerful and noble families being burned and all their belongings being robbed, people who were previously unattainable by him cried and grabbed the ground, and then were hacked to death by them like dead dogs.For the first time in his life, he felt that he was living so happily. Although they were quickly defeated by the officers and soldiers, these few months completely changed the three views of old man Wang. If you can't get it, you don't have to think about what to eat tomorrow.

At the same time, Old Man Wang also regards Xu Wei as a Zhangjiao-style character, who is much worse than a great virtuous teacher with no skills in immortal arts, and compared to training soldiers, Old Man Wang also found that they may not be much better than the Yellow Turban Warriors back then, and they are still ahead of schedule. Manufacture rattan armor and rattan shields, which are not as good as the cowhide armor of officers and soldiers, but they are also much better than their original civilian clothes.

As long as you recruit 3000 refugees, raise them for a month, train them, and equip them with rattan armor and spears, you can't take down the big cities, but you can definitely take down the small forts of the powerful and noble families.

If Xu Wei knew that the military training he had done for self-protection, the rattan armor was regarded as a symbol of ambition by the old man Wang, he would cry to death. He just wanted to protect himself. As a person living in a peaceful age, he has a high sense of security Not at all, why should it be regarded as ambition.

Xu Wei could only increase the speed of building the wall, and more and more refugees came to Xu Wei's place at the same time.

Just like the old man Wang said, hundreds of thousands of people have fled to the deep mountains, and it is deceitful to think about hiding. The smoke from Xu Wei and his family is the best guiding light for refugees. Even among the refugees, there is a legend that there is a valley in Fangshan. , the people there can eat three meals a day, without hunger or death, it has become a paradise for refugees, so now there are more than a dozen or even dozens of refugees fleeing to Xu Hao every day, and they live under his hands Explosive growth of people.

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