A dozen or so step guides worked at the same time, and the peasants took the step guides and measured the land on the riverbank step by step.

In the Han Dynasty, two hundred and forty paces were considered an acre.

This step is actually a "square" step.

That is, if the width is two steps and the length is one hundred and twenty steps, the area multiplied by the length is one acre.

In the same way, if it is four steps wide and sixty steps long, it is also one acre.

I just don’t know why, both length and area are measured in steps. Could it be that the area unit in the Han Dynasty was so crude?

Li Mengxi was a little suspicious.

The land was roughly divided, and the farmers in front used step gauges to measure it, while others behind them took hoes and cut some marks.

According to Li Mengxi's idea, lime powder should be used to spread the track and mark the boundaries, just like in sports games. Lime should be used in the same way.

However, the farmers' method is much simpler and less troublesome than spreading lime.

The land has been divided, but before the measurement, I didn’t know how many acres the land counted. After measuring, I still don’t know how many acres the land counted.

Because the peasants were immersed in measuring the land and did not even count it.

After measuring one acre after another, we only know that we measured one acre after another, but we don’t know how much we measured.

On the river beach, the boundaries cut out by the hoe are grid after grid, like a chessboard.

Liu Bei ordered the land to be divided.

Each person was divided according to one acre, starting from the river, and one person was divided into one acre. It didn't take long for the people to be divided, and the land was still there.

This shows that there is more land than people. There are 300 people and more than 300 acres of land.

The work began, and the peasants carried hoes to their respective plots of land and started digging along the boundary line with hoe after hoe.

When it comes to farm work, before mechanization was achieved, the late Han Dynasty was no different from that before the founding of the People's Republic of China. They all used the same hoes and dug their heads.

Liu, Guan, and Zhang walked along the edge to watch the peasants working, and Li Mengxi also walked along.

Looking at a lean old man who was doing farm work neatly, he looked so thin that he could be knocked down by a gust of wind. He picked up the hoe and started digging very quickly. After a while, he dug around along the boundary line and divided the portion.

His acre of deserted beach was surrounded by it.

I have a lot of experience in doing this work. I have to dig out the boundaries first and leave the unplanned parts in the middle, so that it won't be confused with others.

It was at this moment that Li Mengxi suddenly realized a problem.

Now the boundary is still there, and now it's being scratched, and it's all mixed up.

This river beach is vast and open. If you look again tomorrow, you won't be able to find anyone's land anywhere.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi pulled Liu Bei's sleeve and told him the problem he discovered.

After Liu Bei heard this, he looked at Li Mengxi's expression. He was both surprised and seemed to be saying, ah, you have such a little head, you think about a lot every day.

When Guan and Zhang came to see them, Liu Bei pointed at the busy refugees on the beach and said, "Boundary stone! Second brother and third brother, you forgot to set up the boundary stone!"

A boundary stone is a piece of stone or rubble that can be found everywhere. It is buried at the left, right and four corners of your own land as a demarcation certificate from other people's land.

Every year after sowing and harvesting, the boundary stones are dug out and re-aligned.

According to the commonly known rules in the countryside, each country should plant stones along its own boundary and not plant them in other people's fields, nor let others take over a piece of their own land.

There are so many things to think about when it comes to land reclamation. If you don't practice it and imagine it out of thin air, you won't be able to think of these problems.

The boundary stone is missing again.

The villagers began to search for stones on the beach.

Even though there was a boundary stone, Li Mengxi still felt that there was a problem.

First, the identification of stones is still poor. At a glance, there is no difference between two stones of similar size.

Furthermore, if the stones are buried in the ground, the villagers will see no stones at first glance, but only an empty desert beach, and they still cannot know where the land allocated to them is.

Li Mengxi went to pull Zhang Fei's clothes again, "Third General, can you bring bricks over? Use bricks as boundary stones?"

The big green bricks have to be fired in the kiln, and the price is not low. Li Mengxi said that using bricks as boundary stones is not a waste of money.

Zhang Fei immediately wanted to refute.

"Yide!" Liu Bei said, "Shouldn't you have left half of the wall bricks left in building your house unused? Just bring them!"

Zhang Fei couldn't help but go against his elder brother's wishes just for a few bricks, so he walked away to collect the bricks.

After Zhang Fei left, Liu Bei looked at Li Mengxi who was looking at the deserted beach with a half-smile, and asked, "Xi'er, you don't use stones, but use bricks as boundary stones. What do you mean?"

"Well!" Li Mengxi didn't even raise his head, "You can't write on stone."

"Blue bricks can write."

"There is another method that can make one person support a field without causing Si Hao to be confused."

As he spoke, Li Mengxi raised his head and looked at Liu Bei, "Engrave the field number on the green brick, and write another number on the bamboo piece."

"Green bricks are buried in the fields, and bamboo pieces are distributed to the people. In this way, for someone's field, just use the bamboo pieces to match the boundary stones one by one, and there will be no silk havoc."

"Both of them, this can be used as evidence to avoid any attempt to fish in troubled waters such as false claims or embezzlement."

What Li Mengxi thought of was that when he went to the supermarket in his previous life, the parking management office of the supermarket gave two signs, one for the trailer lock, and the other for the person who deposited the car. Then, when picking up the car, he could claim it with the sign.

That's the method.

After hearing what Li Mengxi said, Guan Yu looked sideways.

Indeed, with this method, it is clear at a glance who owns the land and who is in charge of it.

Therefore, we still need blue bricks as boundary stones, bamboo pieces, and of course pen and ink for writing numbers. These are not prepared.

So Guan Yu also went to help run errands and get bamboo pens and ink.

Liu Bei and Li Mengxi are the only ones in charge.

In just a short while, Li Mengxi successively asked him to buy a hoe, measured the boundary of the land, reminded him to bury boundary stones, and said it would be better to use bricks as boundary stones.

Liu Bei was familiar with farming and should have been familiar with the matter of land reclamation. However, at this time, Li Mengxi was the only one who was checking for omissions and filling in the gaps.

Liu Bei still didn't know that Li Mengxi was completely unfamiliar with land reclamation matters and had no experience at all. If he knew this, Liu Bei would be even more surprised.

Li Mengxi is rigorous and meticulous in his work, Liu Bei thought.

In fact, Li Mengxi stared everywhere because he was not familiar with it, so he could detect Liu Bei and others' negligence.

Liu Bei saw Li Mengxi staring intently at the woods to the south.

Liu Bei then smiled curiously and asked, "Xi'er, is there anything else I can add?"

"Mr. Xuande, is it possible to build a house in the forest land to the south?"

Li Mengxi pointed, "If it's farming, the riverbank here will be dumped. The people will cultivate the wasteland during the day and return to the manor to rest at night."

"But if we leave Zhuozhou and cultivate wasteland dozens or hundreds of miles away, if there are no houses, it will be difficult for the people to live in peace. How can they cultivate a place for several months without moving?"

“I don’t know how to build a house or house.

This river bank is the first place for our army to farm. Although there is no need for houses here, why not take advantage of this place and build a large house? But there are shortcomings in it, the things needed, and the difficulties encountered, so it is not appropriate to do a drill first.

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When we leave Zhuozhou and go a hundred miles away, we must be prepared so that we will not be at a loss."

Li Mengxi's meaning was very clear, that is, the river beach was only a few miles away from the manor, and there was no need to build houses for the people on the river beach.

However, you can take the opportunity to first see how to build a house for farming land and accumulate experience.

After you have gained enough experience, you can then go out and look for other farming areas, and then you can follow the example of the gourd and start working in a streamlined manner.
Chapter completed!