Sure enough, hearing Li Mengxi's words caused Liu Bei to think deeply again.

A dignified adult does not think as rigorously as Li Mengxi, a child.

Liu Bei couldn't help but shook his head mockingly.

"The forest land in the south is an unclaimed land, and it is located on a high hill with no accumulation of rainwater. Why can't we build a house?"

Liu Bei answered.

Li Mengxi sighed, "Well, three hundred people, how long will it take to build 300 houses? How many bricks and tiles will be needed?"

Liu Bei glanced sideways at Li Mengxi and couldn't help but cough slightly. He opened his mouth and said, "This... can't three or five people share a room?"

"Then... what if something happens if men and women are mixed in the same room?" Li Mengxi opened his mouth wide and pointed at the men and women working in the desert. Among the men, there were both men and women.

If it is a farm, and the farms are spread all over the place, it is inevitable that there will be places that cannot be managed and beyond the reach of the whip.

If there was persecution and embarrassment for women, let Li Mengxi think about it: someone's wife, someone's mother, someone's daughter was bullied in the Yellow Turbans, joined the rebel army, and was bullied when they were in the field.

Then, not just women, what is the difference between civilian husbands who vote for the Yellow Turbans and those who vote for Liu Bei? Aren’t they all wives and daughters who are persecuted by others?

Another problem was discovered by Li Mengxi inadvertently.

If you want to go out to work in the fields, don't let the woman go.

The old and weak women stayed in the manor, while the young and strong went out to work in the fields. The fields were all filled with men, which prevented women from being bullied.

As for the women, children, old and young, they stay in the manor and are watched over by people. The place is well-disciplined and very safe. Apart from anything else, Li Mengxi has not come across anything like Liu Bei's country hero bullying his wife and daughter.

After careful consideration, Li Mengxi believed that only men, not women and children, should be used for farming.

After Liu Bei thought about it deeply, he was convinced.

At this time, half of the 20,000 refugees were gone, leaving only 10,000 men.

Then talking about building a house, Li Mengxi asked, if a house is built for three or five people, how many bricks, tiles, and beams are needed to build a small house.

"This..." Liu Bei couldn't help scratching his head. Although building a house was not an unfamiliar thing, Li Mengxi asked Liu Bei. Three hundred people, even if there are three people in one house, then at least one hundred houses, right? One hundred houses.

The materials needed for the house are really not a small amount.

"Xi'er, green bricks and terracotta tiles are valuable! Do you think it's possible to build a house with clay?" Liu Bei was obviously the leader, but he wanted to build a house without bricks and to build a inferior house. Liu Bei also cautiously asked Li Mengxi, as if, a house

Liu Bei felt a little embarrassed because he failed.

"A soil-based house?" Li Mengxi's eyes widened a little as he remembered, "That's okay! Do we still have to make a brick-based house?"

"Um."

"How to make brick embryos?" Li Mengxi asked curiously.

"Beat wheat straw with yellow mud, compact it with a mold, and let it dry, and the embryo will be ready." Liu Bei patiently explained to Li Mengxi.

"Oh." Li Mengxi snorted, "Should we also make more molds and wheat straw for making brick embryos? If there are more molds, we can start work in more places and make it faster?"

"Also, you need to add water to the live yellow mud. Where is the bucket? How many people have a bucket that is enough for eating and fetching water?"

"One for ten people, is that enough?" Liu Bei frowned slightly.

"Oh." Li Mengxi said again.

Since the bucket was mentioned, Li Mengxi thought of water and cooking.

In the army, there are ten men per ten, and the civilian men in the fields can also be divided into groups of ten.

In other words, one earthen jar is enough for ten people.

However, it is very likely that the sharing of food among partners will be unfair.

For example, without supervision, strong civilians always eat one more bowl than others by relying on force, or they always take away the thick food and let others eat the thin food.

Fortunately, here, the food is divided among the military cooks, which is generally fair. But when the fields are separated, without the supervision and restraint of the rebels, anything bad can happen.

It has been said since ancient times that food is the most important thing for people.

How could the common people not feel angry because of unfair food? Maybe, in a fit of anger, one of the common people would wipe someone's neck in the middle of the night.

Then, fearing that he would be discovered, he simply set fire to the house and escaped overnight.

You see, just because there were not enough earthen jars, so many people were forced to eat together, which caused conflicts, and then a military base was finally established, but the fire was gone.

The loss of manpower, material resources and time is huge!

Compared with such a huge loss, the clay pot for cooking rice is really not very valuable.

Simply, each person is given a clay pot to cook rice with.

One question leads to more questions.

There is also a shortage of clay pots, many of them!

Take the Yellow Turban refugees as an example. Many of the Yellow Turban refugees were so displaced that they even lost their shoes and even their bowls. Non-necessary items such as clay pots were in short supply.

If, in order to prevent conflicts during meals and the hidden danger of internal strife, each of the peasants in the field must be given a clay pot, then the number of clay pots needed is not just three or four thousand, but several thousand as well.

There is so much, even with the support of Zhang Fei's family's supplies, it is still not enough.

What to do if there are not enough supplies? Of course, ask Liu Bei for them.

So, Li Mengxi told Liu Bei what he thought of.

When he heard that Li Mengxi's ideas had reached as far as farming, if there was unfair distribution of land in each farming land, there would be internal strife, and the foundation would be wiped out even if it was so far away.

Liu Bei's eyes widened and he looked at Li Mengxi in surprise.

Without him, Liu Bei didn't think of this, but Li Mengxi did.

No matter how many times Liu Bei lowered his head and watched Li Mengxi, who was no taller than his chest, solemnly speaking out the strategies for success, Liu Bei was always amazed by Li Mengxi's intelligence.

"Nearly ten thousand cooking utensils are difficult to collect in such a hurry." Liu Bei also felt embarrassed.

"What should we do?" Li Mengxi had no choice but to raise his head and asked.

"Look for a mason to make it now." Liu Bei said calmly.

“Where are the masons?”

Liu Bei smiled, and Zhang Fei came over with a cart. On the cart, there was a cart of blue bricks.

There are more than a dozen bamboos on the car.

Guan Yu also followed.

The car was very heavy and pressed against the soft sand of the river beach, creating deep ruts.

"Xiao Meng, the brick puller is here!" Zhang Fei stopped the car a little unhappy and jumped out.

Zhang Fei was unhappy that Li Mengxi had messed with his good bricks.

When the bricks arrived, so did Guan Yu's pen and ink and bamboo.

The three of them all looked at Li Mengxi, who glanced around in a circle.

"Establish a boundary!" Li Mengxi said.

The boundary is naturally from the edge, the first row and the first inside.

The peasants were hoeing the ground when Liu, Guan, and Zhang came, and Zhang Fei was still driving the cart.

The farmer stopped his hoe and looked at the people.

"Uncle, stop first and set up the boundary stones before you get busy!" Li Mengxi greeted the villagers politely.

Li Mengxi looked around at the end of the field. At this time, a mathematical problem came to his mind.

If there are ten people in a row, starting from the beginning, and there is one stool for every two people, how many stools should be placed?

In the same way, the plots of land are one acre next to one acre.

It is necessary to set up boundary stones for dividing fields. How should the boundary stones be placed?
Chapter completed!