During the six or seven months of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Liuzhuang was busy.

In two months, the villagers cleaned up the village, built warehouses, toilets, cowsheds, pig pens, and chicken houses. They dredged canals outside the village, built water trucks, dug wells, and repaired mills.

The villagers worked together to rush to the farming season and planted 5,000 acres of land in Liuzhuang, which was sorghum, or millet, and finally completed the sowing in time.

Crops like millet have been domesticated for nearly ten thousand years, and their yields are not as good as wheat and rice. However, they have two advantages: one is that their growth cycle is short, and the other is that they are drought-tolerant and barren-tolerant.

Although Gao Huan asked the villagers to repair water conservancy, the water level of Yingshui River continued to drop. The villagers needed to dig a canal from the middle of the river to direct the water to the shore, and then let the water trucks come up, and irrigation was still very inconvenient.

Therefore, the villagers don’t care whether the millet is delicious or not. As long as they plant it, they can grow grains. If they don’t get any grains, they will be Amitabha.

Gao Huan also believed that before Tang Shiye collected all the sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes, these three artifacts that were enough to change the current situation of northern agriculture, Liuzhuang had a variety of drought-tolerant sorghum.

After two months of busyness, Liuzhuang has achieved remarkable results, but it is also consumed quickly.

If it is normal, you can deal with it for a day by cooking some thick porridge. Once you strengthen your training and do farm work, the food consumed in a day can be as good as the average for two or three days.

After Song Xiance went to Xuzhou again. After returning from purchasing supplies, the population of Liuzhuang was close to 2,000 people, and all the 5,000 acres of land in the village were divided. At the same time, refugees came to Liuzhuang one after another because they saw the notice and heard the spread prophecy.

At this time, thousands of refugees had gathered outside the village, and Gao Huan could only set up shanty towns outside to allow refugees to live in.

Because the village has a saturated population and the farming season has passed, the men in the village have nothing to do and are asked to train. Gao Huan gave the refugees, the elderly, weak, women and children two meals a day, while the young and strong among the refugees gave the refugees two meals to train with Chi Bei and Zhuang Ding.

At this time, Gao Huan, Song Xiance and others inspected the results over the past two months, inspected several places in the warehouse, granary, forage farm, and arsenal, and looked at the situation of pig pens and chickens and ducks.

At this time, the pigs were mainly black pigs, with fat and beautiful meat, but the cycle was relatively long and usually had to be raised for two or three years. Because chickens and ducks ate locusts, they grew rapidly and hatched many chicks and collected a lot of eggs every day.

"Young Master, these chickens not only grow fast after eating locusts, but also lay eggs!" Wang Jingde's wife feeds livestock in Gaolaozhuang. Now, with the Yang sister-in-law, she helps Gao Huan manage a group of women, specializing in feeding livestock and poultry.

Nowadays, Chibei in the village basically does not farm. After taking Yongye land, they rent it directly to the refugees. At that time, the refugees will get 70%, they will get 20%, and Gao Huan will get 10%.

This is like the refugees who grow their own land and share their land. The refugees are also willing to farm. Chibei takes military pay and collects rent. The women at home are helping to raise livestock and poultry, and they also have money every month, and their lives are much more comfortable than before.

Liuzhuang only has more than 5,000 acres of land. According to Gao Huan's division, there were 250 strong men in the village, and the fields were allocated. However, because Chi Bei had to train and had no time to farm, he took out the land to collect rent, so the village could accommodate an additional 100 strong men.

Gao Huan looked at the growing chickens, among which many slutty cocks rode the hen without any hesitation. After that, he was still holding a scarlet clue, and crowing comfortably and proudly.

"Cough cough~" Gao Huan coughed lightly and pointed at the roosters and said, "In the past two months, locusts have been consumed greatly. These roosters cannot lay eggs and will not grow any longer. Leave a few as a seed. Kill others as soon as possible to pickle them, or prepare them for improvement in food for red! The roosters should be castrated as soon as possible in the future."

Nowadays, food is short. In addition to eating grass and insects, chickens also eat food. They must be managed scientifically to improve efficiency.

The slutty cock is not castrated, he eats well, sows seeds all day long, does not grow up, and is brave and fierce, has a bad temper, which is not conducive to breeding.

Castile roosters are to remove the rooster's penis by surgical methods. They are commonly known as thread chickens, eunuch chickens, etc. in rural areas. Castile roosters lose their reproductive function, so they become no longer fierce and aggressive, have a very docile personality, grow rapidly, and have a more delicious meat.

Wang Jingde's wife smiled with several women, "Don't worry, my eldest son, I used to be a master who had no chickens. Now, one of the refugees has found a newly hatched chicken. It has been castrated after more than a month of growth."

The middle-aged woman was not embarrassed when she talked about these things. She looked like an old driver. Instead, Gao Huan was a little unnatural, nodded and left.

At this time, on the burger field, there were more than 100 red-made people, more than 200 resident resident and 200 young and strong refugees, and were undergoing training.

After sorghum and soybeans were planted, except for the need to apply water every few days, the farmermen became idle. Gao Huan asked them to train for half a day every day, while Chi Bei trained from morning to night.

"Okay!" At this time, a burst of cheers came from the crowd, but Liu Hui opened his bow and shot the arrow, hitting Hongxin with an arrow.

Two months of super-intensity training have achieved great results. The archers' archery skills have been significantly improved. Liu Hui can already aim his head and legs from shooting at the sky, and other archers can also easily hit fixed targets within fifty steps.

At this time, Gao Huan watched Chi Bei training, and Li Wu suddenly pointed outside the village, "Another refugee is coming!"

Gao Huan turned around and saw a group of figures coming to the village.

"Young Master, there have been thousands of refugees outside the village. It is not enough to raise them in vain. Should they ask them to practice the earthen walls of Taoism for Zhuangzi and strengthen their defenses!" Li Wu suggested.

Gao Huan shook his head. He was also preparing to repair the wall at first, but considering that the wall repair work is very intense, the food consumes too quickly, and as refugees gather, the village becomes safe, so there is no need to repair the wall.

"Now, the wall repair will speed up the consumption of food and affect training. If we wait for people to gather, we should attack. How can we stay in the farm?" Gao Huan said in a deep voice.

Li Zicheng approached Luoyang, Yuan Shizhong occupied eastern Henan. It won’t take long before Luo Rucai and Zuo Ge’s fifth camps will break up with Zhang Xianzhong and go north to join Li Zicheng. Gao Huan happened to be among these forces and must take down Dengfeng County as soon as possible.

As he was talking, the refugees were approaching, but Li Wu suddenly said in surprise: "Hey, why is the Fourth Master?"

Gao Huan looked at him and showed some doubts, but the person who came was his cousin Gao Chengjian and his fourth uncle Gao Yougang.

Gao Huan hurriedly met them, looking at their embarrassed appearance, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "Uncle Fourth, is this?"

Gao Yougang waved his hand and gasped, "Huan'er, don't say so much, save your father quickly!"

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