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Chapter 100 Four major camps and four small camps, picking sweet potatoes

Huachu camp.

political affairs hall.

Yan Yuanshan, Liu Dachuan, Wang Kesheng, Yu Wanzhi, the steward of the craftsman camp, and Guo Sanhai and Yang Minghe who came from the riverside camp with Liu Sheng were all sitting in the hall.

Liu Sheng asked someone to add a stool to the right seat and asked Li Changwen to sit down.

Then he introduced: "This is Mr. Li Changwen and Mr. Li from Xiaoli Village. He has joined our rebel army."

Probably because they had little experience in similar scenes, Yan Yuanshan and others were a little cautious, so they each bowed their hands to Li Changwen without saying anything.

Li Changwen also returned the gift.

Then Liu Sheng said: "There are many things to do and time is tight, so I will not talk about the situation and go directly to the topic of the meeting.

First of all, before I went to attack Queshan County, I asked the two major camps to step up the construction of a new affiliated camp. How is the construction going?Okawa, you say it first. "

Liu Dachuan said: "The affiliated camp of Huachu Camp is built more than three miles to the north, where there is a small lake during the dry season.

During the driest time before, the water was waist deep and the area was more than 100 acres.

If it is enlarged and deepened before the rainy season, it can be built into a reservoir.

It can not only store water for flood control in the rainy season, but also be used as water for farmland irrigation and people's daily life in the dry season.

However, we were in a hurry to cut down trees and build campsites and lacked manpower, so the reservoir has not yet been excavated.

According to the leader, the rainy season will arrive in October, so once the people who have moved there have settled down, we must rush to repair ditches and reservoirs as soon as possible. "

Liu Dachuan stopped here.

Liu Sheng nodded and said: "The construction of the reservoir should be given priority, but the people's residences cannot be ignored. I went there today and saw that it seems that temporary wooden houses have not been built yet?"

Liu Dachuan was a little nervous and said: "Back to the leader, time is too tight, we can only cut down the trees and clear the site first.

But with the wood there, the newly arrived people would not waste much time building their own wooden houses. "

Liu Sheng nodded, looked at Guo Sanhai, and asked, "Where is the riverside camp? How are the preparations for the affiliated camp?"

Guo Sanhai said: "We set up a camp three miles upstream, because we didn't dare to get too close to the river, so the camp was basically in the woods.

Most of the time in the past few days has been spent logging, and then some ditches were dug, and temporary wooden houses were not built. "

Liu Sheng frowned slightly when he heard this and said, "It seems that you are not active enough in building a new camp."

At this time, Yang Minghe had the courage to speak out: "Chief, when it comes to building temporary wooden houses for new immigrants, firstly, the time is really too tight, and secondly, the people really lack enough motivation.

Although there is a work-point policy, there are many jobs in the two camps and there is a shortage of people in all aspects. People can earn work points by doing other things, and the people are more willing to build their own homes in the future. "

After hearing these words, Liu Sheng pondered for a moment and then said: "What you said does make some sense, but in the final analysis, we still haven't come up with a better strategy."

Immediately, Liu Sheng stopped pursuing it.

Before he left, he only asked to open an auxiliary camp. Because he didn't know what to do, he didn't leave any quantitative tasks.

How far it can be achieved depends entirely on the enthusiasm of the people in the two camps and the level of the management personnel.

It took ten days to basically open up the two auxiliary camps, which was pretty good.

After all, the management of the two major camps are all grass-roots teams, and their level is just that. As the leader, he cannot blame everyone.

In addition, this incident also reminded Liu Sheng.

As more and more people moved to North America, the results of the settlements gradually emerged, and the semi-military model of collective work and eating from a big pot had begun to show its shortcomings.

He should consider changing the management policy of the Chinese Department by the end of this year at the earliest and after the wheat harvest next year at the latest.

Immediately, Liu Sheng discussed various specific matters regarding the resettlement of new immigrants with several people.

For example, how to arrange new immigrants into the four camps respectively.

After discussion, it was decided to increase the number of people in Huachu Camp from more than 2000 to more than 3000, and to increase the number of people in Hebian Camp from more than 6000 to more than [-].

As for the two affiliated camps, one is named Huazuo Camp and the other is named Hexi Camp, each housing more than 5000 people.

The general managers of the two new camps are Wang Kesheng and Yang Minghe.

As for the four vacant clerkships, Liu Sheng will select four teachers who are good at arithmetic, responsible and careful to take up the positions.

After discussing this matter, in order to avoid the gap between the immigrants who had previously moved in and the new immigrants, Liu Sheng decided against all the opinions and decided to arrange more than 1000 old immigrants from Huachu Camp and Hebian Camp to the new camps.

As compensation, each young person will be given additional work points for one month's work.

In this way, it can not only promote the integration and unity of new and old immigrants as soon as possible, but also allow the old immigrants to lead the new immigrants in work and improve the labor efficiency of the new immigrants in the early stage.

Then there is the arrangement of the craftsman camp.

Liu Sheng collected nearly 200 craftsmen from Queshan County this time. Counting their family members, there were nearly 1200 people.

There were originally 100 households of craftsmen in the Craftsman Camp, and including their families, there were nearly 600 people.

Later, Liu Sheng assigned 300 older singles (over 35 years old) to help the craftsmen work in the camp.

So there were nearly 900 people in Craftsman Camp before.

Among the newly collected craftsmen, except for the four categories of craftsmen: blacksmith, bamboo stripper, painter, and papermaker (including their families, there are more than 100 people), the rest of the craftsmen and their families have been filled in the craftsmanship camp.

And another 500 older single young men were assigned.

As a result, the number of people in the craftsmanship camp will increase to more than 2500.

In addition, because there are many prisoners in Huabu now, Liu Sheng officially established a prisoner camp.

And three were set up at once, namely prisoner camp, male prisoner camp, and female prisoner camp.

As the name suggests, the prisoner camp contains previously captured Ming soldiers and Xiangyong. Excluding those who died of serious injuries, there are now 1498 of them.

The male prisoner camp and the female prisoner camp are the prisoners obtained after breaking through the homes of the evil gentry and bullies.

The number of people is not large. There are currently about 500 people in the male prisoner camp and more than 200 people in the female prisoner camp.

The three prisoner camps were not located together.

The prisoner camp will be arranged to the west of Huazuo Camp, the male prisoner camp will be arranged to the west of Hebian Camp, and the female prisoner camp will be arranged on the southern edge of Huachu Camp.

This is done to prevent an accident in one prisoner camp from affecting the other two prisoner camps...

In addition to the resettlement of new immigrants and the personnel allocation of the four major camps and the four small camps, Liu Sheng also learned from several people about the work results of each workshop, field, and kiln in the past ten days.

Today, there are three carpentry workshops, five brick kilns, two pottery kilns, and one porcelain kiln in North America.

In addition, there are [-] acres of saltpeter fields, a leather factory, a paper mill, and two garment factories.

The so-called garment factory is actually a group of tailors, with a group of women helping them, cutting cloth and making clothes according to the requirements of the supervisor in a large shed.

The only industrial equipment in the factory were the two pedal-operated sewing machines that Liu Sheng had stored before crossing over.There happens to be one for each factory, and it is given to the most dexterous tailor in each factory.

Liu Sheng knew that he had too few tools and equipment for future generations, and it would be difficult to significantly increase the productivity of the Hua Department in a short period of time.

Therefore, he did not take out most of the tools and equipment. He planned to imitate these later tools and equipment as much as possible when he had certain industrial manufacturing capabilities in the future.

Only in this way can the value of these later tools and equipment be truly brought into play.

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It was past four o'clock in the afternoon when the meeting at the Political Affairs Hall ended.

After Liu Dachuan and others left.

Liu Sheng smiled and asked, "After listening to the meeting just now, Master Li, do you have any advice?"

Li Changwen said: "The rebel army has just started, and there is a lack of talents. However, although most of these managers started in the rough, they are all very capable in their work."

Liu Sheng was interested in comparing, and asked: "What about resettlement?"

Li Changwen pondered for a while and said: "There are disadvantages and advantages in centralizing the people in this way. In the short term, it can concentrate people to do big things and do quick things; in the long run, I am afraid there will be many disadvantages."

"Hahaha," Liu Sheng laughed happily, "Our rebel army lacks someone with Master Li's unique vision and ability to have an overview of internal affairs.

How about asking Master Li to temporarily serve as counselor of the Political Affairs Hall and assist me in handling the civil affairs of the Chinese Ministry? "

Li Changwen immediately stood up, bowed to Liu Sheng again, and said solemnly: "Li Changwen accepts the order."

Liu Sheng came down immediately, helped Li Changwen up, and said with a smile: "Master Li, there is no need to be so formal... While there is still some time before the sun goes down, why don't we go see the fields cultivated by the two camps."

"My subordinates also have this intention."

After walking out of the political hall, Liu Sheng heard some excitement at the edge of the camp, so he took Li Changwen over to take a look.

But it was Mao Chengguo and dozens of expedition members who came back with some prey, including a black bear.

"It turned out that a black bear was hunted. No wonder the people cheered so much."

In order to lead troops to resist the officers and soldiers and attack the county town, Liu Sheng removed 500 people from the fishing and hunting group, leaving only two fishing teams (100 people in total) in North America.

Therefore, the land hunting was taken care of by the expedition team.

I don’t know where Mao Chengguo and others went, but they actually caught a lot today.

Li Changwen couldn't help but smile and praise: "This is indeed a blessed land. Not only is the land fertile, but there are also abundant wild animals."

"That is."

Then, Liu Sheng took Li Changwen to the fields.

The most cultivated item in the two camps is soybeans.

The growth cycle of this crop only takes about three months. Huachuying first planted it in May, and it has already been harvested.

But more of them were planted in June and July, and now they are ripe, and the captains and captains are leading the people to harvest.

Generally, the roots are lifted up, the soil around the roots is cleaned and bundled, and then they are picked back and placed on the drying ground, where the beans are beaten out like rice.

It's okay for an individual to peel the beans slowly, but it's too slow.

In addition to beans, bean branches and bean shells can also be used as firewood.

Li Changwen is a real scholar who works hard at farming. Seeing that the soybean harvest is good, he smiles like a farmer in the field.

When he saw more than 100 acres of sweet potato fields, Li Changwen was confused.

"Chief, what is in here?"

"Sweet potatoes are also called sweet potatoes in the Ming Dynasty."

"Sweet potato? Sweet potato?"

Li Changwen had obviously never heard of it - although Xu Guangqi wrote "Sweet Potato Shu", not many people knew about it.

Liu Sheng didn't say much, but said to He Guiyou who was following him: "Uncle He, these sweet potatoes should be harvested not far away. Dig some out and let us take a look."

"Okay!"

He Guiyou agreed, and his voice sounded happy and energetic. He no longer wanted to be as worried as before. Most likely, he already knew about the yield of sweet potatoes.

I saw him holding a hoe, carefully digging up a long field, and carefully pulling out the sweet potatoes from under the vines. There were five or six of them, the big ones were bigger than an adult's fist, and the small ones were as big as duck eggs. .

Shaking the dirt, he grinned.

“My boss, I’m afraid this acre of land can harvest eight to nine hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes!”

Li Changwen looked straight at it, and when he came back to his senses, he couldn't help but asked excitedly: "I heard what the leader said before, these sweet potatoes are so fruity and big, but they are not yet fully mature?"

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "I have never planted it before, but I have seen it. It looks like this and it will be enough to grow in about ten days."

At this time, He Guiyou said again: "I didn't believe it before when my boss said that one acre of sweet potatoes could yield a thousand catties, but now I completely believe it!"

“One acre yields a thousand catties?!”

Li Changwen almost trembled with excitement, and then he thought of an important question.

He immediately asked: "How many seeds do you need to grow an acre of sweet potatoes? But do you need high-quality fertile land to grow them?"

What he was thinking was that if one acre of land requires hundreds of kilograms of seeds, then it would not be so surprising to harvest a thousand kilograms.

If the growing fields are too selective, it will not be conducive to large-scale planting, and the joy of people will be at least halved.

When He Guiyou saw Liu Sheng smiling and saying nothing, he replied: "We don't need many seeds. We follow the instructions of our master and cultivate the seedlings first and then transplant them. The seedlings grown from a few acres of seed potatoes have been planted on hundreds of acres of land." !

Although we are planting on good land, our boss said that we can also plant on hillside and barren dry land. The harvest will definitely be less, but not too much. "

"real?!"

"How can I lie to you in front of my boss?"

Although he knew that Liu Sheng and He Guiyou could not lie, Li Changwen still felt unbelievable.

It requires few seeds and can be planted on hillside or barren dry land. The harvest is far greater than that of rice and wheat, and can even produce a thousand kilograms per mu.

The existence of this crop is simply incredible!

After finally calming down, Li Changwen thought of another question and became a little uneasy and nervous for a moment.

"Chief, these sweet potatoes won't taste bad, right?"

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