Group favorite Fuwa: Little milk bag, she is milky and fierce

Chapter 370 Return to the Eight Wastelands
Yan Ci also said: "It's already very impressive. Being able to feed these people within half a year is already amazing! This is a deserted land. It's already a luxury for these people to live. In the six months since you came, there have been so many men, women, old and young." There were so many people that no one died of starvation, which is already very impressive.

As for the protection issue you mentioned, do you still remember the people you saw when we first came to Dadao Village? They are basically old, weak, women and children. These people don’t have enough to eat. The first thing we must do is to solve the problem of food and drink. Only when the problem of food and drink is solved can we have the strength to develop the following things.

If these manpower are not used to open up wasteland for grazing and breeding, then we will need to go out to buy food in autumn and winter. If this is the case, it will be a greater expense.

If people are used to open up wasteland for grazing and breeding, then it is inevitable that there will be a shortage of protective manpower. "

"No, I mean, if I used the manpower to build these houses to build the city walls in the first place, maybe..."

"If you drag these people who are building houses to build the city wall, just these 1000 people can't build much. Moreover, have you considered where to start building the city wall? Where to get the materials? You know the justice of heaven. How many years did it take to build the longest city wall in the country?”

"How many years?" She unconsciously followed Yan Ci's words and asked.

"The oldest city wall has taken 180 years to build, and we have only been in the desolate land for half a year. During this period, we have to open up wasteland and resist foreign invasion. The time we can really spare is not Not many. Moreover, the total number of people in our tribe is only a thousand. Excluding those who open up wasteland for grazing and planting, excluding the guards, excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, and excluding the logistics personnel, we can only use a few hundred people. But if we build a guard The city wall requires so many things. Do you think it can be done with just a few hundred people? "

Xiao Xi didn't speak. She pursed her lips tightly and looked into the distance, her brows frowning unconsciously.

Yes, the tribe can only use a few hundred people, which is the total number of men and women. If a woman becomes pregnant in the later period, the number of people who can be used will be reduced. Such people have to open up wasteland, hunt, raise livestock, and protect the eight wastelands. There are also matters of education and medical care. The person in charge is either she or Fox. There are so many people. Not to mention that the people in the tribe are too busy to do all the work. Even she herself could only take advantage of the little time squeezed out to relax occasionally when she was in Bahuang. tone.

Yan Ci raised his hand and stroked her brow again, but this time he stroked it several times, as if he was afraid that she would frown again.

"You're too hasty." His voice was as gentle as the breeze blowing over the water.

"Huh?" Xiao Xi frowned, why was she too impatient?

Yan Ci smoothed her frown and said softly, "Stop frowning. Your eyebrows have been furrowed since you came back."

"Really?" She didn't feel it herself.

"Yes. From the first time I saw you, you frowned." Yan Ci smoothed her eyebrows and then gently supported her a few times.

The fox couldn't stand the two of them being like this, so he turned around and left. He wanted to find his little loli Xiyue.

Seeing Xiao Xi's brows relax completely, Yan Cicai continued: "It's not easy for us to build such a team within half a year. The people here are all very ordinary people. There are more than a thousand people, and it's just a day. Eating and drinking consumes a lot of food. We must open up wasteland, and even use many people to open up wasteland, because only in this way can we ensure that these people will not starve to death. Only on the basis of living can we have the ability to do other things. , besides, among the more than a thousand people, almost half are old, weak, sick and disabled. We spend a lot of energy on opening up wasteland and grazing, so it is difficult to be distracted from working hard on protection. Sometimes, even if we don’t admit it, we must We have to admit that our capabilities are limited, with hundreds of people, and our manpower to open up wasteland is limited.

And Xiaobai also said before that the rain here is very unstable in summer and autumn, but in general the precipitation is small. You asked the fox to repair the canals before leaving. We only have a few hundred available manpower in total. Those who open up wasteland will allocate the logistics area, and then allocate some other people, and then use some people to build the canals. The people themselves are not enough. Xi'er, some things have to be done step by step, and there is no need to rush. "

Yan Ci was comforting him. He felt that Xiao Xi was too impatient. Just listening to her words, he could feel the impatience in her heart. She wished she could move mountains and fill seas in an instant to build city walls, canals, land reclamation, grazing, colleges, medical care, etc. Everything is done, but there are only so many people in Bahuang. How can people who have to do their best just to make ends meet have the extra ability to think about other things?

Xiao Xi said nothing, and Yan Ci continued: "You will have everything you want, but everything must come little by little."

"I know." Xiao Xi pursed her lips. She knew that everything had to come little by little, but...

"Now in summer and autumn, we will first solve the problem of food. After the autumn harvest, it will not be too late to consider other things."

Yan Ci patted her shoulder.

Xiao Xi naturally also knows that some things cannot be rushed.

"Aci, do you have a map of this place?"

"I don't know much about the Desolate Land, but I know that the general terrain here is oval."

"Go to the council chamber."

After saying this, Xiao Xi turned around and left. On the way, she met Fufeng and Fuyao, a brother and sister. They hadn't seen each other for a few months. They had grown taller but also lost a lot of weight. The brother and sister said hello to her.

Xiao Xi waved her hands and asked the two of them to inform Xiao Bai, and asked Xiao Bai to bring some old people here.

In the meeting hall, Xiao Xi sat at the head, and Yan Ci sat on her side and drew the map in his mind.

As he painted, he explained to her what he knew.

The wasteland is located directly south of Tianyi Kingdom, but their current location is in the northeast of the entire wasteland.

The desolate land is located in the middle of the Three Kingdoms. The terrain is like an oval egg. To the north is the land and the Tianyi Kingdom. To the northeast are the continuous primitive mountains and rivers. The mountains are rolling and endless. Because they are full of dangers, no one dares to Entering, this mountain forest place is also called the barren forest.

Due east, southeast, due south, southwest, and due west are facing the sea.
Their current location is the northeastern corner of the desolate land, at the foot of the mountain at the edge of the desolate forest.

Xiao Xi looked thoughtfully at the simple map painted by Yan Ci.
"If we can conquer the entire desolate land, we can use the ocean surrounding this country as a moat."

Yan Ci was shocked speechless by her ambition.

Conquering the entire desolate land and using the ocean as a moat is a wild idea! Dare to think!

He didn't want to dampen her ambition and enthusiasm, so he could only hint implicitly: "It won't be too late to think about this after we solve the problem of food for the tribe's population."

Xiao Xi nodded.

When Fufeng Fuyao brought Xiaobai and several others in, the two happened to discuss the construction of the city wall after autumn.

Zhang Xiaobai brought several other leaders to salute Xiao Xi. Some of them were promoted by Fox when she was away. She was a little unfamiliar and couldn't remember their names. Yan Ci silently picked up his long sword, put it on his back, and stood next to Xiao Xi to guard him. Fu Feng and Fuyao also stood on either side of Xiao Xi.

"Sit down somewhere and tell me what happened while I was away."

"Yes." Zhang Xiaobai walked to the seat next to him, and the people behind him also sat down next to him in sequence.

After sitting down, Zhang Xiaobai told everything that happened during her absence.

After she left, everyone in Bahuang followed her previous instructions and separated some people to open up wasteland and graze as usual.

However, due to the real shortage of manpower, Master Military Advisor (as Fox calls himself) made minor modifications to the previous regulations, and established a new child soldier camp and a female soldier camp for the convenience of management.

The child soldiers are boys and girls between the ages of three and thirteen.

Female soldiers over the age of thirteen (excluding thirteen years old) are under the management of the female barracks as normal female soldiers, while men over the age of thirteen are managed by male soldiers under the male barracks.

The child soldiers' daily task is to study liberal arts and practice martial arts. Literary arts in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon.

As for female soldiers and male soldiers, their civil and military time is shortened by half and they can use their time to help build the tribe.

Now Bahuang has set up four military camps, including one for children, one for women, and two for men.

As for the reclaimed wasteland, there are now several thousand acres, but many of them have not yet been planted with food seeds.

The military advisor said that he would let the land rest for a while and then plant corn or sorghum for a while. The harvest of several thousand acres of fields would be enough for them to live for several years. Now the military advisor has reduced the number of people working on land reclamation and transferred some of them to construction. Houses, but the land reclamation has not completely stopped but some personnel have been reduced. The military advisor said that new people will join the tribe in the future.

The military strategist also said that with those captive laborers, as expected, tens of thousands of acres of wasteland could be cleared before the sweet potato harvest in the autumn, and winter wheat could be planted by then.

Xiao Xi listened to the report below, and her understanding of foxes became even higher.

Maybe she should give that guy more rights. After all, he was the one who was educated with her. The fox was far more capable than she thought.

After Zhang Xiaobai finished his report, Xiao Xi asked a few people if they knew the surrounding terrain. Zhang Xiaobai and the others looked at each other a few times, then shook their heads in unison.

"Chief, these people in our village are basically the most marginalized people in the desolate land, and they are also the lowest level people. Our ancestors have lived here for generations, but few of them have actually walked out of the grasslands and mountains. The grasslands and mountains here are... Mountains are full of dangers."

Zhang Xiaobai told everything he knew.

Many people in the tribe are bandits from the village, and most of the predecessors of these bandits were ordinary herders or ordinary farmers who were driven to desperation.

The Youzu's raids left these people homeless. The larger tribes were able to resist, and exchanged the tribe's good-looking women or food, cattle and sheep with the Youzu for the stability of the tribe.

Smaller tribes will basically be crushed by the Youzu. Those who are lucky enough to escape, some go into the mountains to survive, and some start to gather their own teams and become bandits to resist the Youzu.

These people have been living in this area at the foot of the desolate forest all their lives. For them, this is their ancestral land, and few of them have gone too far.

After that, Xiao Xi asked several people about the protective measures. Several people answered that the current protection was much better than before, with clear division of labor and orderly alternation. They never thought that they could live such a good life now. .

When she asked how many people were protecting the city wall, several people shook their heads, saying that they had never heard of the word, and the fox's literature class had not yet taught the concept of protecting the city wall.

Xiao Xi briefly told a few people about it, and they all listened with interest.

After that, they all expressed that they wanted to build a city wall. Although their current city was not perfect and they did not have enough manpower, but just listening to the leader's description of the city wall, they could know that if the tribe had a city wall in the future, the people living inside would How safe it is.

As for the problem of insufficient numbers, several people said that they could allocate some people under their command, and all the people in the Bahuang tribe were soldiers. In addition to men, there were also women available, which also greatly alleviated the problem of lack of population in the tribe.

Seeing how interested they were, Xiao Xi took out the map Yan Ci had drawn before and told them her thoughts.

First of all, the geographical location of the Deserted Land is in the middle of the Three Kingdoms, surrounded by three sides. If it is surrounded by land, then this place is indeed a bad place. However, the Deserted Land is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the vast ocean The virgin forest here has become a natural barrier to the deserted land.

Their current location belongs to the northeast corner of the deserted land. To the north is the Tianyi Kingdom's border defense. Behind the northeast corner is the endless virgin forest. To the east and southeast, as well as due south and west, is the ocean.

These mountains and oceans are not the most natural barriers to the desolate land.

Yan Ci listened carefully. When he heard her talking about the ocean and mountains as the most natural barriers, he felt that she was too ambitious.

In addition to the ambition to take the entire desolate land into her bag, there is also a sense of certainty that she must win it, as if the entire desolate land should be in her bag.

Zhang Xiaobai and the others were all excited when they heard Xiao Xi's description, and they wanted to rush out and conquer the entire desolate land immediately.

Yan Ci looked at Xiao Xi and wondered how he should report Xiao Xi's situation to his master.

The master is from the Tianyi Kingdom. Can he allow Xiao Xi, who is also from the Tianyi Kingdom, to form his own power in other realms?
In other words, when Xiao Xi's power is truly established, will Master think that Xiao Xi is a member of the Tianyi Kingdom, and her power must also belong to the Tianyi Kingdom and even fight for the Tianyi Kingdom in the future?
Although he has not been with his master since he was a child, he still has some understanding of his master's personality. Even the head master once commented that his master prides himself on being righteous, and this has become his inner demon.

Yan Ci was suddenly a little worried. He was not worried about whether Xiao Xi could conquer the Desolate Land, but he was worried that if one day she really conquered the Desolate Land, how would the relationship between Master and Xiao Xi get along?

(End of this chapter)