Chu Chao Hui a fire put very quickly, Zheng Yuming in order to South Port of the post-disaster reconstruction and began to leave early and return late. This time Zheng Yuming back to the valley too late, then, in the gap channel and then can not see Chu Chao Hui tall and slender figure.
The barracks in the valley is ready for use, Chu Chao Hui took Wei Qing and fifty slave soldiers based in the western part of the valley to start training, eating, drinking and living in the barracks, there are things to discuss with Zheng Yuming, and he only sends Wei Qing to bring a letter to the villa. Zheng Yuming could see from Wei Qing's dark, thin and tired face that the intensity of the slave soldiers' training was very high.
The villagers whose houses were burned down a total of fifteen, the other five or six are workshops and Yu Kui has closed down the business of the wine shop. Chu Zhaohui affirmed before the fire, is the residence of the housing compensation for the new brick house, in addition to subsidize the moving expenses, is the workshop in the future, such as stores built and then allocated to them, the loss between the closure of the business will always be compensated. Chu Zhaohui compensation program, the village on both sides of the road villagers scrambled to move out of their own house things, vacate the house to the valley of the slaves to light a fire. Some villagers who are not in the burning range look at the fire and sigh, lamenting that the position of their own house falls too far behind, otherwise after a fire, the mud and grass house can be turned into a brick house.
The reconstructed new residence was not built on the original site, but only on the edge of the village to re-designate the land to build. In order to build the house before the fall harvest, the brick kiln in Nambu and the brick kiln in the valley opened day and night to burn bricks and tiles, the wood factory suspended shipbuilding to make beams and wooden crosses, the governor's residence renovation was also suspended, and all the carpenters and masons went to build the residence first. Zheng Yuming offered a high price to attract villagers from Houpo and Qianzhuang to work as small laborers in Nanbu. Chen Meng and Guo Clan Chiefs also sent their care on hearing the news and sent slaves who could build houses to help build houses in Nambu. In this way, the villagers whose houses had been burned down were finally able to move into their new homes before the harvest.
The japonica variety in the villa's kitchen can only be planted as a single-season late rice, with seedlings planted in the fifth month of the lunar calendar and harvested after the cold dew and before the frost, and soybeans are also harvested in the fields at the same time.
When the paddy fields in Nambu and the valley were golden, except for the women workers in the textile factory did not stop working, all factories and workshops in Nambu and the valley stopped working, and all those who could work went down to the ground to seize the crops, and even the children who had learned to write did not let go of, and those who were too young to cut the paddy rice were pulling their baskets and picking up the leftover ears of the harvested paddy fields, making sure that the grains were returned to the barn.
This time and space there is no machine harvesting and threshing, everything has to be done manually, good in the latter part of the convenient agricultural tools are made by Zheng Yuming idea, the village people and slaves have auxiliary tools, harvesting food speed efficiency greatly improved, half a month later, the fields are all harvested empty.
Because of the cultivation of crops irrigation to strengthen, management techniques to improve, Nambu's winter wheat production than in previous years, 30% higher, soybeans also more than levied 20%, Japonica rice acre yield did not have the latter's more than a thousand pounds, but generally reached more than six to seven hundred pounds, some of the cultivation is fine, the soil is particularly fertile up to 8, 9 hundred pounds. The heavy rice made the village people of Nambu and the slaves of the valley smile, such high yield was unheard of, especially when the rice was peeled into rice through the stone mortar, so that they could eat fragrant white rice, the village people and the slaves felt that all the hard work was worth it.
The only crops in the fields of Nambu Village are japonica rice and soybeans, and in the valley, in addition to soybeans, there are seven or eight acres of sweet potatoes, one acre of corn, and more than two acres of potatoes; potatoes can be grown two times a year, and the potatoes that were harvested after the cold dew have been planted for the second time. Only two pumpkins were seeded, and after careful care, more than one hundred pumpkins were harvested. By next year, in addition to Japonica rice and sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and pumpkins will be able to be planted on a large scale in Nambu and the valley.
After the crops were harvested in the fields, the stubble left in the land was taken back, as it harbored many overwintering insect eggs and germs. The fields were cleaned up of root stubble, the ground was turned over with an ox-drawn plow, the fields were mowed, and wheat seed and rapeseed were sprinkled into the soil.
The main crops for the first half of next year in Southport and the Valley will be wheat and oilseed rape.
People in this time and space do not yet know to refine vegetarian oil, eating and eating are animal oil. Rape and soybeans, sunflowers, peanuts, the world's four major oil crops, only soybeans in the local area, rape only primitive types of rapeseed and mustard seed. The original type of rapeseed rapeseed, no latter-day rapeseed oil rate is high, the villa has a few latter-day rapeseed on the vegetable ground, harvested rapeseed seed is too little, that is, next year and then planted a season, to the year after next can not be popularized planting. In order to eat vegetable oil, Zheng Yuming in the white rapeseed and mustard seed harvest, a large number of acquisition of rapeseed first planting, until the rapeseed seed enough to replace.
After the fall harvest, the villagers must pay taxes to the main family, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui this time there is no generosity, even the spring taxes are collected. Because the mu yield of rice is really too high, the villagers in the payment of one-third of the grain, home barn grain is still unprecedented increase. Villagers pay the grain is transported back to the valley, the valley has not yet had time to specialize in the construction of the granary, the grain are temporarily stored in the barracks of the warehouse, wait until the winter construction of a specialized barn, the grain and then moved over. In order to prevent rats, the barn at one time to raise more than a dozen flower cats to catch rats, specially sent an older slave care feeding.
After the frost, the villagers of Nambu had a hectic farming schedule and could finally take a break to catch their breath. The villagers soaked soybeans and ground tofu, Tsubaki rice, ate persimmons and wild chestnuts from the mountains, and enjoyed the fruits of their labor.
There is not much farm work in the fields in winter, but there is a lot of work in the village of Nambu. Stores are to be built on both sides of the middle road of the village, and the ancestral hall in the village is to be remodeled, and after the remodeling it will be used as a schoolhouse except for rituals during the New Year and festivals.
In order to improve the learning interest of the people of Nambu village, in addition to children over the age of six years old is mandatory to enter the school, other villagers if the night to go to night school to learn words, learn a hundred words, the family tax can be paid annually less than a bucket, learn two hundred words less than two buckets, and so on. It is true that the material to promote civilization, this order, the remodeled ancestral temple school in the evening, overcrowded, Nambu village, two teachers who only know a few hundred words shouted can not afford, on half a month, to Zheng Chu two people to ask for help.
Because most of the literate are nobles, it is impossible to invite a slightly learned person to come to Nanbu as a teacher, no nobles are happy to put down their stature to Nanbu to teach for the commoners, Zheng Yumin and Chu Chaohui, for the sake of influence, do not dare to teach the village people in Nanbu themselves, but can only assign Fan Jin to Nanbu at night to train for them, the adult slaves in the valley at night culture class, by the nine year old Huo Sihua to make up for the time, Zheng Yumin has time to go to guide one or two As for Chu Chaohui, the soldiers' cultural and martial arts training are all taken care of by him.
Poor Fan Zin, must teach slave children in the valley during the day, at night to the south port guest tutor, a little free time also have to self-study, really busy to go to the toilet have to count the time. However, Fanjin is very busy and happy, the valley gives him material compensation is also very high, this year before the spring festival, Fanjin will have his own brick building in the valley, he is the third slave in the valley to have their own residence.
Winter time, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui in the south port of the governor's residence was completed. It was said to be a residence, but Zheng Yuming actually built it as an office. On the day of the completion of the residence, Chu Chao Hui stopped training for a day, with Zheng Yuming in the new residence organized a celebration of the new residence banquet.
Duke Guang heard of the news and personally came to congratulate him, and a group of nobles in Dacheng, seeing that the city lord lord had personally gone there, hurriedly followed, and Wu Da, who was in charge of receiving the congratulatory gifts, almost broke a quill pen.
Nambu governor's house is not much, but the courtyard is large enough, Zheng Yuming in learned that Gongziguang will be in person, then ordered people to build a reed shed in the courtyard, the house can not sit to arrange to reed shed.
Nambu's New Residence Banquet was not the most luxurious one in Dacheng, but it was definitely a memorable one. The valley slave cooks, led by Su Woman, cooked the food by mixing, stir-frying, broiling, boiling, steaming, deep-frying, exploding, frying, simmering, braising, plucking, and slipping. As opposed to the nobles who had only eaten simply cooked food, they were dazzled by Su Woman's assortment of cooking methods. Su Woman's cooking skills were taught by Zheng Yuming while eating.
Some of the vegetables from the valley's greenhouses were not on the table today, Zheng Yuming was afraid that the anti-seasonal dishes would cause the nobles to look at him sideways, so he only served some seasonal dishes. Like sweet potatoes were made into plucked, pumpkins were made into pumpkin cakes, soybeans were made into tofu and dried beans, glutinous rice was made into eight treasures rice, and crabs caught in the rice paddies were steamed.
"This sweet potato turns out not only can be boiled, but also can be fried and plucked, the flavor is so much better than boiled." Chen Meng especially likes sweet potatoes, sending people to Nambu twice a day to ask for sweet potatoes, Zheng Yuming was afraid that the seed potatoes were not enough, and warned Chen Meng that if he continued to eat like this, he would have to eat all of Chen's sweet potato seedlings next year. When Chen Meng heard this, he quickly stopped asking for sweet potatoes. Today's banquet, he can eat a lot of food.
"Zheng Qing, what is this? The color is truly beautiful." Gong Ziguang held up a piece of pumpkin cake.
"This is pumpkin, which strengthens the spleen, prevents gastritis, fights night blindness and protects the liver." In fact, pumpkin can also make the skin tender and has the effect of neutralizing carcinogens. Zheng Yuming felt that for men, beauty was very secondary, and as for neutralizing carcinogens, Gong Ziguang wouldn't understand even if he said it.
"Oh, it's actually such a good thing!" After Gong Ziguang took a bite to savor it, he said to Wei Shen, "Sheriff Wei, you have a bad stomach, eat more of this rare thing."
"Aye! Gongzi." Wei Shen's expression moved, Gong Ziguang was very concerned about his body, as long as Wei Shen was a little unwell, Gong Ziguang would sit up and down when he learned about it.
"By next year this item can be planted greatly, and at that time Lord Wei can taste it often."
Wei Shen tasted the pumpkin cake, the flavor was sweet but not greasy, a crunchy and delicious flavor spread from the tip of his tongue, he couldn't help but nod his head twice in a row, if this thing could cure his stomach disease, it was really too much better than herbs, he would be happy to enjoy this kind of golden cake every day.
"Governor Chu, how is the training of the slaves going, are the weapons sent from the arsenal being used while they are still available?" Wei Shen was in a happy mood as he ate the pumpkin cake and asked in passing about Chu Chao Hui's training of the self-defense force.
"The weapons are good, but there is one thing that is not suitable for the slaves to use." Chu Chao Hui stood up and respectfully answered Wei Shen.
"What is inappropriate?" The weapon sent to Nambu was eliminated, but it was also very valuable, this time and space, everything linked to metal is very expensive, expensive things were even said to be inappropriate by Chu Chao Hui, Wei Shen's face was a little bit unsteady when he heard it.
"It's ten pairs of armor." Chu Chaohui acted as if he didn't see Wei Shen's sinking face.
"How does the armor not fit?" Wei Shen's eyes narrowed, and there was a hidden cold light inside again. These ten pairs of armor were the best things sent to Nambu from the arsenal, Wei Shen did not want to send them in his heart, but he was afraid that Gong Ziguang would know that he was not satisfied, so he gritted his teeth and sent them.
"It's not that the armor is bad, it's that the slaves are not fit to wear armor." Chu Chao Hui lowered his head as he spoke, and Zheng Yuming, who was sitting next to him, followed suit with his nose down.
"Slaves are not fit to wear armor?" Wei Shen's eyes glanced at the slaves in charge of guarding in the courtyard, these slaves stood together with the soldiers, not only were they generally half a head shorter, their weight also looked ten to twenty pounds lighter. These slaves were still the same group of skinny ghosts that he had scrutinized at the Nambu fire.
"The slaves can't afford to wear the armor one by one. I would like to equip them with lighter armor."
"But these armors are already the lightest." Wei Shen heard Chu Chao Hui's explanation, the little bit of hesitation in his heart immediately dispersed, it turned out that Chu Chao Hui was not uneducated, it was the slaves who couldn't hold the wall.
"The slaves can't handle the weight, and I'm thinking of replacing the armor with something else."
"Oh, what can replace bronze for armor?" Wei Ren, Gong Ziguang's uncle, came to be interested.
"Woven helmets of rattan, such as will both protect and be bearable for the slaves."
"Ha ha! Haha! Weaving rattan into armor, Governor Chu really wants to come up with it." Wei Ren had never heard that rattan grass could be protected from the slashing of weapons, and as soon as Chu Chao Hui's words were finished, he laughed aloud.
"Zheng Qing, how can you treat rattan as bronze protection." Gong Ziguang frowned, feeling that Chu Chao Hui was too ignorant of armed protection.
"My lord, the slaves are but patrolling the village, it's not like they have to go into battle to kill the enemy, a bit of protection is fine." Zheng Yuming said this as if embarrassed.
"Hehe, not bad, the slaves are merely defending against the bandits, is no need to be equipped as Huben." Wei Shen stroked his beard and nodded. "Governor Chu, your slaves will be equipped with rattan armor." Wei Shen's last bit of defense against the Nambu Slave Guard was gone.
Since then, the south port big purchase mountain old rattan, da city nobles began to hear, but also very fresh as a strange thing to talk about, when the south port has been insisting on buying old rattan from the hands of the mountain people and hunters, a long time, the south port slaves of the armor is rattan this thing, and then did not cause their interest.
Celebrating the end of the new residence banquet, Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui did not return to the valley, the two stayed in the new mansion that night.
"Chu Chao Hui, if you always snub people, I'm afraid that by the end of the day, you'll become a professional snubber." Zheng Yuming had no pressure to snub others, it was only when he snubbed Gong Ziguang that he felt uncomfortable at the bottom of his heart.
"Can I train slaves so squarely without fooling around? Can I make rattan armor?" Chu Chao Hui's face was cold: "Gong Zi Guang treats you even better, but he can't allow you to be powerful, look at Wei Shen's defense against us, you should let go of your softness, whoever is strong is not as strong as ourselves!"
"I understand, to this world, we're aliens." Zheng Yuming's face fell.
"With two deviants, we're not alone, are we?" Chu Chao Hui's voice was soft, and a hard face looked a little softer in the pine-mine torchlight.
Zheng Yuming raised his head and looked at Chu Chao Hui's face softened by the torchlight, he could not help but release a smile, good, he is not alone, there is a kindred spirit to rely on. This marvelous fate, so that a kidnapper and a kidnapper in a different time and space to become mutually dependent on each other, dependent on each other.
Rattan armor is wild rattan as raw material, processed by skilled craftsmen to make rattan armor, and soaked in tung oil, after seventy-seven forty-nine days to be made. This armor is light and firm, good at preventing arrows, knives and guns do not enter, do not sink in the water, in addition to the fear of fire attack, invincible on the battlefield. In the Three Kingdoms period, the rattan armor soldiers had defeated the Shu soldiers, and then was Zhuge Liang design siege in the valley, a fire burned clean.
Chu Chao Hui chose rattan armor to do armor is also a helpless move, using a hundred years of wild rattan made of armor, protection function is comparable to the armor made of metal, and lighter than metal armor. Chu Chao Hui told Wei Shen, deliberately said rattan grass, rattan grass in people's minds is not something more solid, they do not know the years of long wild rattan after soaking, will be very tough, in addition to protection against knives and guns, the most effective protection against arrows. This world does not have Zhu Geliang, as long as the rattan armor soldiers are not surrounded to a place after not being able to move, use fire attack this kind of ploy, the valley trained rattan armor soldiers are invincible.
Slave soldiers wearing metal armor will cause Wei Shen to be jealous, while slaves equipped with rattan armor will not attract Wei Shen's attention. Chu Chao Hui training soldiers will not always train in the valley, he will later pull the team out of the valley, to the place where there are mountain bandits to fight in the field, only the soldiers who have really gone through the bloodbath battle, after seeing blood on their hands, they will really grow up to be a qualified soldier.