Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 96: Food shortages begin again
At Li Yuanji's command, the soldiers immediately started to act, finding dry grass and firewood and throwing them directly next to the wooden house.

"Why stop? Throw some more and expand it out. Aren't they just some dry firewood and grass? Why are you reluctant to give them up? There are plenty. Just keep going."

Li Yuanji saw that these people were about to stop after losing some of their weapons, but suddenly he got angry. Comparing the traces, he knew that the python must be quite large. If he found some more firewood, he could even barbecue the python.

After a while, when the ground was covered with dry firewood and dead grass, Li Yuanji immediately ordered everyone to retreat again.

"Everyone, step back. The heavy shield soldiers are in the front. All the crossbows and bows are strung. If the python appears, fire immediately!"

Everyone began to retreat, and after taking ten steps back, the crossbows and archers stopped. The heavy shield soldiers were in front, the spearmen were in the back, and some of the archers even went to the roofs of other houses.

Xie Shufang looked at Li Yuanji, waiting for Li Yuanji's order.

"ignition!"

As soon as Li Yuanji finished speaking, some archers shot rockets. The dry grass in the wooden house was ignited first, followed by the dry firewood. The wooden house also gradually caught fire, and everyone stared at the wooden house closely.

Li Yuanji stared at it intently. He had never seen such a big python before. He really wanted to see how big it was.

After a while, there was a noise in the wooden house. A python more than ten meters long jumped out and hissed in the fire. Li Yuanji was shocked when he saw it. The body of the python was thicker than his thigh.

Xie Shufang didn't care about these things. The moment he saw the python, he immediately gave the order.

"Fire arrows!"

The arrows flew out immediately. The crossbows did little damage to the python. Except for a few arrows shot by powerful crossbows that pierced the snake's body, the rest either missed or fell off the snake.

After the chariot crossbow took aim, the unique arrow shot out and instantly penetrated the body of the python, knocking the python down and smashing it to the ground. Then the chariot crossbow began to string the string again, and the other crossbows fired at the python.

The python shot by the crossbow was still moving slowly. It was obviously not dead, but the raging fire around it seemed to be roasting it.

Li Yuanji looked at the still struggling python and sighed. If an ordinary person encountered this thing, he would be killed in minutes.

After the crossbow was fired again and penetrated the python, it finally stopped moving for a moment, and the fire was still burning.

The python was finally dealt with, but Li Yuanji's expression was very serious. Such a big python had come in and had not been discovered. This was a big problem.

Li Yuanji looked at Ning Chun.

"Dahe, what does the appearance of this python mean? Even though the city wall hasn't been built yet, no one knew about this huge python and let it in. What if it hurts someone?
Next, we will start building the city wall, and organize yamen runners to patrol the streets, and then inform the people of this news, so that they can pay more attention to it in their daily lives."

Ning Chun's face also looked extremely bad. Fortunately, only some livestock were lost. Fortunately, there were not many people around during the day because everyone went to work. If it was at night, Ning Chun didn't dare to think about the consequences.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will go down to make arrangements later. The construction of the city wall will be accelerated, and the patrol personnel will be formed before tomorrow." Li Yuanji then looked at Xie Shufang again.

"Have someone clean up this place. As for this python, make it into snake soup after we go down, so that everyone can have some to eat. I'm going to go check out the cowshed first."

Li Yuanji did not forget the small ox he exchanged for. After all, it was worth twenty contribution points, and he felt very sorry for it.

Ning Chun brought Li Yuanji to the cowshed.

"Your Majesty, these two calves looked listless earlier, as if they were sick. We have already asked a veterinarian to take a look at them. The manual you gave me before was indeed very useful. After the veterinarian treated them according to the instructions, the calves are much better now."

Li Yuanji looked at the two relatively healthy calves, then looked at the not very big cowshed, and immediately had an idea.

"We will build a bigger cowshed later. In addition, the cowshed should be well ventilated. There should be enough water in the water hole at all times. Also, take more cattle out. Don't just cut grass for feeding. Take the cattle out and let them graze on their own and bring them back later.

This time we did a very good job, we found out in time and provided timely diagnosis and treatment. That's what we should do. In addition, we should send more people to learn veterinary knowledge. In the future, the farm will only get bigger and bigger. In addition to cattle, there will also be many chickens, ducks, and pigs.

More veterinarians will be needed at that time, and fewer people may not be able to handle the work. After you go down, you can encourage people to raise some chickens, ducks, pigs, and geese. After raising them, at least when you want to eat meat, you can kill them and eat, or sell them, and your quality of life will also be improved.

And it doesn’t cost much to raise these, it just takes a little more effort. If someone wants to set up a farm, we can provide them with methods and veterinarians, and we should encourage people to do it.”

Li Yuanji heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the calf was fine. Manpower was tight now, and wasteland reclamation was being carried out on a large scale. These cows were fed in the cowshed to save manpower. Now it seemed that they really had to be taken out for a walk to avoid any problems.

Ning Chun listened to Li Yuanji's words and agreed. The people were not good at doing business, but they were good at raising chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, which mainly allowed them to be self-sufficient.

Before, eating meat was a luxury, and even getting wild vegetables depended on luck. Now everything is getting better. If we continue like this, every household will be able to eat meat in the future.

After handling the matter, Ning Chun went down. Li Yuanji did not go back, but found Yang Shu. Now Yang Shu was contacting people around and moving them in.

"Yangshu, how many people have moved in now? How many are unwilling?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Shu immediately said, "Your Majesty, thirteen more chiefs have moved in, totaling 3,852 people. Eight other chiefs are still unwilling, but they are not causing trouble. I am still trying to persuade them."

Li Yuanji sighed when he heard this. The situation here was not as fast as that in Lianzhou. Lianzhou had been painstakingly managed by Ning Chun before, and it was much better than here. The trust of the people was also well established. The development of Lianzhou was also in full swing now, and there were already tens of thousands of people willing to register as residents. However, the progress here was a bit slow.

Of course, the fastest growing area is Tan Dian's territory. Due to Tan Dian's influence, more than 50,000 people have been registered as residents in Nanfuzhou, Longzhou, Rongzhou and other places.

Li Yuanji shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

"Forget about those who don't want to, as long as they don't cause trouble. For now, stop contacting them. We are running low on food now. After the crops are harvested, we will contact them again. If anyone comes on their own initiative, we will allow them to come."

(End of this chapter)