Song Dynasty Iron Armored Army

Chapter 362 Preparing for Development

The Humpback Whale is convenient, it can sail at night, and it is fast.The group arrived at Dolphin Harbor on Yangma Island early the next morning.

Ruan Xiaoqi was practicing the naval force on the sea, when he saw Chai Lin coming, he came over to greet him.

"Brother, why are you here?" Ruan Xiaoqi said.

Chai Lin said: "I'll let you know, I'll go back in the next few days, and at the same time pick up people, I'll bring over the four blessing boats from the Second Water Military Battalion."

"Come here?" Ruan Xiaoqi didn't understand what Chai Lin meant, they were four newly built lucky boats, which were just launched last year and belonged to the Second Battalion of the Navy.

"Well, I transferred the four blessing boats from the second battalion to your first battalion." Chailin said.

"Can Chai Yong be willing? I'm afraid he will fight me hard." Ruan Xiaoqi laughed.

"I transferred six Galen ships to him, and replenished the first battalion of the water army with 900 people as soon as possible. The task is arduous. From the northeast of Yangma Island, I found a large uninhabited island called Dead Leaf Island. The land is fertile. Recently We need to go there to open up wasteland," Chailin said.

"No problem. There are quite a few seaside fishermen recruits in the military division's new camp. If you choose two hundred, you can replenish nine hundred. Combat in the short term will be a problem, but it is completely possible to transport them by boat." Ruan Xiaoqi said.

"Okay, then you can add it as soon as possible. Tomorrow, two ships will be arranged to send 600 people to Dead Leaf Island. It just so happens that I will use the humpback whale to lead the way here, and you will have to go on your own in the future."

"Yes, I promise to complete the task." Ruan Xiaoqi went to make arrangements.

Chai Lin and the others got on the horses from the pier and walked towards the barracks.

What I can see is the endless potato fields on both sides of the road, and the green potato trees have grown to a height of more than one stick.

Dian Zhengnan was surprised and said: "The potatoes in Chaijiazhuang have just sprouted, why do they grow so well here?"

"The climate is different, Chaijiazhuang is only planted in early February. Here, it has been planted on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and of course it grows fast. You only see that the growth is good, but you don't see investment. It's not labor, it's just transported. There are only [-] mules, and the price of mules in Zengtou City has been raised by [-]%, and now the price of mules in Shandong is all expensive.” Chailin said.

Dian Zhengnan said: "Brother, I want to see my rice fields."

When the land deed was issued last year, he was rewarded with [-] paddy fields in Dianzhengnan. He was very concerned about this, and wanted to go and see it when he came here.

Everyone turned their heads to look at the rice fields in the north, and they were stunned. A few miles away, they saw a piece of golden yellow, and tens of thousands of acres of golden rapeseed flowers were desperately blooming, so beautiful.

Chai Lin said: "Let's go, let's go together, let's go and see together."

We rode horses and arrived in a short while along the road.Yangmadao has [-] mu of rice fields, and only one season of rice was planted. After the autumn harvest, the rice fields were sown with rapeseed.Unexpectedly, the growth is so good, the rapeseeds are already growing on the bottom, and the rapeseed flowers on the top are still blooming. On the edge of the ground, hundreds of bees in wooden barrels are buzzing and thinking non-stop, they are collecting rapeseed honey.

"Look, that piece of land is mine, and the rape blossoms are better than other places." Dian Zhengnan said.

Everyone looked around, and the rapeseed flowers there were exactly the same as elsewhere. This is a typical good mentality of our own children.

Looking at the Daohuaxiang No. [-] Village, which covers an area of ​​[-] mu to the west, the construction has been completed, with red-brick cement bungalows and red-brick yards.Each independent yard is very large.There are five main rooms in a detached courtyard, equipped with a firewood stove, a stable, a chicken coop, and a small vegetable garden.

The construction of Zhuangzi is very good, except that the walls of the village are not so ordinary, the low ones are only two meters high, and they can be passed by with just a jump.

Many children on the edge of the rapeseed field ran around casually to watch the bees gather honey, but none of the children would go to pick rapeseed flowers.

These are children who have experienced suffering. They have been educated by their parents with bamboo strips. After the flowers fall, there is food, and they cannot be picked at will.

Just as he was watching, Liu Zhuang from the personal army came over, knelt down in front of Chai Lin, and said, "Master Chai is truly a heavenly man, and he can grow the land so well. I have been farming for more than ten years, and I have never seen it. The land is planned so neatly."

"Liu Zhuang, what are you doing, get up quickly," Chai Lin said.

Liu Zhuang got up and said, "Your Excellency should pay homage to this. Your Excellency is promoting potatoes in my mountainous area. Such a good thing for the people, there are still people who doubt and don't believe it. I just saw the growth of potatoes, and a good harvest is certain."

"It's right to doubt or not to believe. Everything has a process, which is understandable. Wait until autumn, and the people who haven't planted will regret it." Chailin said.

Other people's families don't grow much. Anyway, Liu Zhuang's family planted ten acres of potatoes, and after the potatoes were harvested, they planted ten acres of corn.

To the east, after walking for more than ten miles, passing the rapeseed field, thousands of strong men are working here.On-demand corn is adopted. The neat land has been plowed and leveled. The strong men sow corn neatly in rows, with about 3000 plants per mu.The sowing should not be too dense, and more than [-] seedlings should be left in the end, so as to ensure that there is a lot of grain and the straw is still strong.

"Didn't your lord say that corn should be planted after the summer wheat harvest?" Liu Zhuang asked.

"Yes, the most common method is to plant wheat after harvest, which can maximize the use of land and produce more food. However, planting in spring is also beneficial. It will mature in midsummer, when the straw is green and can be dried. Raising livestock, horses, cattle and sheep are more like to eat. After the corn is harvested, potatoes can be sown, which is just the seed block of potatoes in the second year." Chailin said.

Liu Zhuang said admiringly, "Your Excellency is really a master of agriculture."

"Your Excellency is not just a master of agriculture, he is proficient in architecture, water conservancy, bridges, poetry and poetry." Tao Zongwang came over and said.

Seeing that Liu Zhuang was puzzled, Tao Zongwang said: "Listen to what the strong men are singing."

From a distance, I heard the young men working hard singing: How can they say that they have no land, sow the same crops with their sons, how can they say that they have no cattle, and plow with their sons.

Chai Lin said, "Zong Wang, why are you here?"

"I built a 35-meter-long concrete bridge at the previous bridge construction site, and it will be completed soon. I have to say that the construction speed of the cement bridge is much faster than that of the stone arch bridge, but I am worried that the service life may not be as long as the stone bridge. " Tao Zongwang said.

"There is no need to worry. As long as the materials are sufficient, the cement bridge can last for a hundred years. After all, the carriage is very light and will not cause much damage to the bridge body. The only worry is the impact of the flood on the bridge." Chailin said .

Chai Lin listened to Tao Zongwang's report, and now the construction project on the island is in full swing.The commercial street next to the port has been built, the industrial park is under construction, Daohuaxiang No. [-] Village is under construction, and nearby bridges and roads are also under construction.

The farmland roads lead to villages and ports. They are made of rammed earth. The requirements are not high, and two horse-drawn carriages can be used in parallel. However, there are horse routes drawn on both sides of the road, and houses cannot be built near the road, because later Extend the road.

The recruit training camp has reached an astonishing 5000 people. The number is too large. They have been relocated from the original barracks a long time ago, and now they all live in tents.

The slogan of one, two, three, four can be heard far away from the barracks. Chai Lin was not in a hurry to go to the new barracks, but went to the Yangma Island garrison camp first, which is Li Kui's infantry battalion, which is now 600 People, the combat troops that mainly use swords, shields and bombs are half-cold and half-hot teams.

(End of this chapter)