There are four things that a farm must have: a hoe, a pottery urn or pot for cooking, a house, and a bed for sleeping.

To support more than 10,000 refugees from Zhuozhou to work in the fields, Liu Bei's foundation was weak after all, and all his money and food depended on his sworn brother Zhang Fei.

Unless Li Mengxi, the most valuable food and fodder, defrauded a lot of powerful people, the most terrible trouble was solved. Otherwise, even if the Yellow Turbans had successfully recruited 20,000 people, they would not be able to support so many people, and it would be a waste of effort.

There are not enough hoes. If there is one hoe for every ten thousand people in the camp, ten thousand hoes are needed.

During the Yellow Turban Uprising, the people rebelled with farm tools. The refugees brought a lot of hoes, but they could only satisfy about one-third of the quantity.

Zhang Fei has sent people around to buy hoes, hoping to make up for the shortage as soon as possible.

Hoes are iron tools, and salt and iron were privately owned in the Han Dynasty. Buying a hoe was another huge expense for Zhang Fei.

The most basic and most economical way to build a house is to build a thatched house, and even better is to build a mud house.

Li Mengxi chose an adobe house a few days ago.

It’s easy to get loess and wheat straw for Dajian’s earthen house. You can get as much as you want.

The raw materials for building a clay house are not a problem, but the molds for making clay houses are not enough.

Fortunately, the structure of the clay mold is simple, and only four wooden strips can be inserted into it.

If you go out to build a farming base, you will need to build a base of 100 people and build at least 30 small houses.

Well, it takes an average of three people to build a house, which is already slow enough. If there are not enough molds, it will be even slower, which will only delay things.

To be efficient, it would cost at least several thousand to make a clay mold.

Among the supplies of the rebels, the inventory of molds is obviously not that large.

While manpower was sent out to buy hoes, the carpenters among the refugees also looked for wood everywhere and began to make brick molds.

It's really good to make a mold, but there are still some things missing.

There is a shortage of many saws, a lot of chisels, and planes.

Zhang Fei searched for woodworking tools for a long time and finally found thirty or twenty saws.

The tools are limited, so the speed of making molds cannot be too fast, and the output of molds cannot be increased. The construction speed of the farmland and houses that are about to be launched cannot be fast, so the establishment of the farmland base will be very slow.

When it comes to practical matters, there are numerous problems everywhere.

When he found that everything was extremely lacking, Li Mengxi truly understood what the low productivity in ancient times meant.

Soil embryos, dig yellow mud and add a little wheat straw, it's simple enough, and the technical content is low enough, right?

But for such a primitive thing, if you want to mass-produce it, you need a lot of molds; if you want to make a lot of molds in a short time, you need a lot of carpenters. Not to mention how skilled the carpenters are, they must at least be able to plan a flat board. The carpenters can solve the problem.

For wood, you also need a plane, saw, chisel, etc.

In the end, Li Mengxi reluctantly discovered that even his adobe bricks came from a whole technological line.

If there is a problem with one link of the entire technical line, the whole will be affected.

The carpentry tools are stuck.

Hoes are an indispensable tool among the people. They are abundant and easy to buy.

In comparison, woodworking tools are just special tools and difficult to buy.

Among the refugees, at least two to three hundred skilled carpenters can be found in an instant, but there are only thirty sets of carpentry tools. It takes a long time to make them, which is the production efficiency of thirty or twenty carpenters.

Li Mengxi previously thought that the thatched houses built casually were too primitive and crude. If there were a bunch of thatched houses in the farm base, Li Mengxi would feel shabby. Therefore, he thought that the lowest level would be an adobe house, right?

Liu Bei also recognized Li Mengxi's idea and fully supported it.

Li Mengxi retreated on his own. If he could not build 3,000 adobe houses for 10,000 homeless people, his project would be about the same as building a small town.

too difficult.

As a last resort, Li Mengxi lowered the standard of housing again. He built thatched houses first and then built the farmhouses. He could also let each farmhouse build the adobe houses slowly.

There are only two materials needed to build a thatched house, some wooden poles and a lot of wheat straw.

You don't even need a rope. Wheat straw can be used as a shelter material to prevent rain and cold. The wheat straw itself can also be braided into a rope.

In this era, thatched houses are the only ones that can be built on a large scale in a short time, and other more difficult ones cannot be built.

People's livelihood needs, food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The refugees in the field do not need to travel. What they need is food, nearby water sources, shelter, living tools, and production tools, just these five things.

The residence has been settled.

There are only tools, a hoe and nothing else. Zhang Fei has sent someone to buy them.

Life tools are another issue that needs to be solved urgently.

There are only two tools in life that can meet basic needs, one is a pottery urn or earthen pot for cooking porridge, and the other is a bowl for serving porridge.

You don’t even need to make a spoon. When eating, you can just pour it directly into the jar.

According to Li Mengxi's previous conception, for the refugees, conflicts such as having no place to live, or someone being overbearing and taking over a good place to live, are all considered minor conflicts.

There is only one core stake in the stability and instability of the farming station - whether the food distribution is fair or not.

In order to ensure fairness, Li Mengxi thought after careful consideration that each refugee should have a pottery urn capable of cooking, and they should live alone and not share meals with others. This was particularly important to ensure fairness.

Today is June 25th.

In order to solve the problem of pottery urns, Liu Bei took Li Mengxi to visit a family that made pottery utensils.

There is a small village on the outskirts of Zhuozhou City.

Enter the village and walk along the village path.

The year was bad, and even the big yellow dog at the entrance of the village was as skinny and dry as a skeleton. When people came, the yellow dog lay on the stone millstone under the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, swayed feebly, and whimpered in a low voice towards Liu Bei and Li Mengxi.

Roar.

When Li Mengxi passed by, he couldn't help but take another look at the yellow dog. He was surprised that the dog could lose weight and look like a skeleton.

The potter Liu Bei is looking for is at the east end of the village.

When we arrived, we saw several huts with no yards. There was a big pit in front of the huts, and there were many ready-made tiles piled in piles of gray-black tiles on the edge of the pit.

When Liu Bei and Li Mengxi came, they saw no adults. There was only a clay doll with mud on its hands and face squatting by the mud pit, using a few broken tiles as tools to hold mud, and playing with it.

When the people came, the child was not afraid of strangers and did not speak. He raised his head and glanced at Liu Bei and the others, then lowered his head and squeezed the mud.

Li Mengxi prefers children because his younger brother is also a child.

"Brother, where are the adults in your family?" Li Mengxi asked kindly in the past.

The child didn't say anything. He picked up the mud in his hand, flicked his arm, and with a pop, the yellow mud ball in his hand got stuck in the mud puddle.

Then the child, whose hands and face were covered with mud, climbed up and ran towards the west door of the huts.

"Grandpa, someone is looking for us."

The tender voice of a child sounded in the room.

Then, Liu Bei and Li Mengxi saw an old man pushing open the door and walking out.

Li Mengxi was surprised when he saw the old man who came out of the door. This old man was an acquaintance. He was the old man Zhang Fei had hired to help him make the wine steamer.

"Hi, uncle!" Li Mengxi waved his hand and greeted the old man warmly.

When the old man saw Li Mengxi, he also had a smile on his face.

"Brother, how did you two find this place?" The old man came over enthusiastically and invited Liu Bei and Li Mengxi to go inside to chat.

"Old man, I have something to do to trouble you!" Liu Bei followed the old man away and said something polite.
Chapter completed!