February 3rd was another sunny day, the snow melted even more, the ice under the eaves began to drip, and the roads began to become muddy before noon.

According to the experience of farming in Zhuozhou, the seven items needed for farming are: hoe, pottery jar, ground ruler, boundary bricks, house, mattress, and firewood.

These seven items for farming are the minimum necessities for maintaining a living.

Among the seven objects, the hoe is used for cultivating the land; the pottery urn is both a cooking utensil and a bucket for daily cooking; the land ruler is used to measure acres of land during farming; the role of boundary bricks is to divide the land in the early stage of farming.

After the land is marked, it is marked where it belongs. Otherwise, when you arrive in a strange place, you may have divided the fields yesterday, but one day later you will no longer be able to find your own land.

Houses are the key to long-term stability in the field, especially as winter is about to pass. There is no rain in winter, so living in the wild is barely possible. However, after spring comes, there is a lot of rain. If there is no house, there will be nothing to live in, and it will not be stable.

Mattress is one item, and firewood is another item. The two can be combined. At the lowest cost, the bed can be made of wheat straw, or a pile of wheat straw can be made as a mattress. The wheat straw can also be used as firewood for cooking. Wheat straw can also be used for cooking.

Build a house.

With wheat straw, mattresses, firewood, and materials for building a house, everything is ready, and everything is fine.

However, one winter day passed, and for heating and iron-making, firewood was consumed so much that when they went out to farm, there was not much wheat straw to distribute to the people, only dry firewood was left.

Fortunately, Julu is different from Zhuozhou. Julu has tents that can be used as temporary houses. Moreover, Julu is surrounded by deserted villages, so it is not difficult to build houses.

Throughout the winter that was about to pass, the peasants made a large number of clay embryos and stored them throughout the winter. The clay embryos were left to dry for a whole winter and were very dry. In addition to a large number of hundreds of thousands of clay embryos that had been prepared, pottery kilns had also been built early.

A lot. Now that the field is approaching, everything is already ready.

What does it mean when more than two hundred charcoal kilns are started at the same time?

It means that a lot of firewood is consumed, which means that one kiln can hold three to two hundred pottery urns, which means that one hundred kilns can fire two kilns a day, and 30,000 or 40,000 pottery urns can be produced in one day, which means that ten thousand pottery urns are needed for farming.

Tens of thousands of small urns can be produced in three to five days.

At noon, the pottery kilns were opened one after another. Looking from a distance, the smoke and dust scattered when the kilns were opened were flying high into the air, clusters after clusters. It was obviously a production scene of handicraft industry, but the scale was too large.

It is very similar to the chimney pollution caused by industrial production, which is completely black.

When the first kiln was opened, Li Mengxi went over. When the workers took out all the pottery in the kiln and arranged it on the ground, Li Mengxi walked forward and picked up a piece at random that was still warm.

The pottery looked up.

All the pottery urns in the army have the same shape and are very small. The height of the small urn is no more than two feet, the belly is big and the mouth is small, and the bottom of the urn is more than two feet long.

Such a small pot is only enough to cook for one person, and it will not be able to cook for one more person.

And this is exactly the purpose. A small jar can only feed one person a day, so there is no need to eat from a big pot. Everyone cooks his own food and eats his own food. Then, the most serious problem of unfair distribution of food when working in the field is

It ceases to exist.

A small yellow clay urn looks small and simple, but in fact, it is full of exquisiteness, and every bit is specially designed.

For example, the mouth of a small urn has a relatively protruding rim. The rim is a double rim with a groove in the middle. This is specially designed to make it easier to hang the urn with a hemp rope for cooking. The edge is obvious and can be hung with a rope.

It is easy to put on, and because it has double edges, the hemp rope can be stuck inside to prevent the fire below from burning the rope.

Furthermore, the urn has a shape with a large base and a small opening. It is definitely difficult to clean such an urn. However, the structure of the urn has a large base and a small opening. The large base absorbs more heat, and the small opening reduces heat dissipation. This helps to speed up the heating of food.

Efficiency, that is, it can save a lot of firewood.

Li Mengxi inspected all the pottery urns that came out of the kiln. If there were minor flaws, such as a piece off the edge or a flat shape, it didn't matter. But if they were cracked, they had to be picked out.

Li Mengxi generally counted the pottery in one kiln, and found that there were 209, of which 25 were cracked and defective.

After a rough calculation, the yield is about 90%.

I recall that when we were working in the fields in Zhuozhou, we were short on time and the clay embryos were made and fired directly in the kiln within two days. As a result, the scrap rate reached more than 30%.

It seems that when producing pottery, it is best to dry the clay embryos for a long time before firing, so that the quality will be better.

It makes no sense to think that the wood used to make crossbows requires a long drying process that can last for several years. No matter what is produced, the material processing time is bound to be long, takes up too much space, is too time-consuming, and is not conducive to mass production.

Already.

After the first batch of pottery was produced, the final supplies were added.

Seeing that it was still early, Li Mengxi directly took the pottery that was still warm to the cart and took it away. Then, he chose a rural village near Julu City as the first farming point and planned to go to farming.

Li Mengxi mobilized the twelve zodiac flags. The ten teams of the first battalion, with a total of more than 700 people, were given a wooden gun to each of the more than 700 people. According to the amount of one and a half kilograms of food a day, each person was given four rations.

Fifteen kilograms, each person brings his own bedding, clothes and bowls, and each person is given a small urn. After a set is given out, the measuring rulers for measuring the land are given out to each team. There are more than 30 pieces of Quyuan.

There are five people for one plow, thirty people for one tent, one hand for each hoe, and five carts of firewood. We will allocate them according to the situation when we get to the field.

They were about to go out to work in the fields. They had explained the situation to the people who wanted to work in the fields in advance. After setting off on the road, the peasants carried their bags, pottery jars in their arms, and hoes on their shoulders. They were anxious and full of hope for the new life.

expect.

Halfway through, a farmer suddenly came out and stopped in front of Li Mengxi's horse.

"What's wrong?" Li Mengxi asked with a frown.

The civilian husband said cautiously, "Military advisor, if I can find my wife's family all the way, I also need my uncle, my aunt, my distant cousin, my baby..."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! When Li Mengxi heard this, he suddenly realized that he had overlooked a big thing.

In the military, the lowest level of the organizational structure of the rebels is squads. Similarly, in the field, the smallest unit is actually not an individual, but a family.

However, due to the previous battles, in order to facilitate the management of manpower, the Yellow Turban refugees were separated according to old, weak, women and children, as well as young and strong.

The result is that women, children, the elderly and the weak are treated favorably in the military. Refugees leave their elderly parents and children in the logistics team without any worries. After all, I have seen with my own eyes that women, children, the elderly and the weak are fed better than everyone else and are treated like this.

Whoever has an opinion is worried.

The rebel army inadvertently accomplished an extraordinary thing. The ancients valued their hometown and their kinship. Even if they were fleeing or exiled, the whole family of a village would stay together until death and would not want to be separated under any circumstances.

However, in the rebel army, the Yellow Turban refugees were willing to separate from their families, wives and children because of justice, benevolence, credibility, and various reasons.

When marching and fighting, it is a good thing to accurately divide manpower. It can not only take care of the weak, but also facilitate the overall utilization of manpower.

But when we are going to farm, there are several people in the family, and the husband and wife are divided into two parts. The husband is in the east farm, and the wife is in the west farm. They are separated by hundreds of miles. This is very inappropriate.

The husband who boldly stood up to stop the horse took the initiative to ask his wife and children about their children. Other refugees in the marching team also looked over eagerly, with expectations in their eyes.

There are more than 100,000 refugees, many of them are left alone after all their relatives are dead, but similarly, many people still have their relatives still alive.

For civilians who have just gone through war, there is nothing more reliable than their own relatives. Family reunion is their greatest hope.

Li Mengxi thought seriously for a long time. He looked up at the team of civilians and looked back at the heavy-duty vehicles carrying plows and firewood. He was silent for a moment and said, "Let's go! Go back!" Li Mengxi gave up his idea temporarily and was ready to solve the problem before talking.

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Li Mengxi led his men to farm, and Guan Yu stayed behind in the city. When Li Mengxi left, Guan Yu was worried and chased after him on horseback. Before Guan Yu could catch up, he found that Li Mengxi and his men had turned back.

When they met twice, Guan Yu asked in surprise why he came back. Li Mengxi replied, "There are important matters pending."

After the field team returned to Julu City, all the materials distributed were recovered and the personnel were dispersed to various places.

In the city lord's palace, Li Mengxi and Guan Yu discussed countermeasures.

Li Mengxi felt that the matter was very difficult. He frowned and had difficulty making a decision.

"Someone knows that it is best for families to gather together in the field. However, if hundreds of thousands of people are gathered together in their families, the flow of people will change greatly, and our military establishment will be completely dispersed.

And the establishment is the foundation of our military organization and the foundation of combat power. If the establishment collapses once, and if a war is imminent, it will be difficult to hastily gather 100,000 combatable manpower!"

This is what gives Li Mengxi a headache. No matter how finely divided the various manpower in the army are, they will be scattered as much as possible. Now it is very troublesome to reunite the scattered civilians and soldiers into families.

Guan Yu knew that, as Li Mengxi said, the hundreds of thousands of people in the army now had clear subordinates and well-organized banners. If mobilized and mobilized, they would be close to the army.

However, if the civilians are allowed to gather in their families, there will inevitably be violent personnel unrest. At that time, 90% of the members of a team will have to change. By then, the team flag will be useless, and there will be no subordinates who rely on the team flag to exist.

, when hundreds of thousands of people no longer gather according to the flag, then there is no way to dispatch and drive according to the flag. In an instant, the soldiers dispersed into the people.

The matter was of great importance. After Guan Yu thought for a long time, he finally said, "The family reunion is the most important thing, so let's break up."

Li Mengxi frowned, "Dispersed? But if they disperse, our army will only have 10,000 troops left."

Guan Yu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter."

"It doesn't matter?" Li Mengxi stared at Guan Yu with wide eyes. Guan Yu has such a big heart. Who can he beat with ten thousand? No one can beat him.

Facing Li Mengxi's doubts, Guan Yu smiled and said, "Although it is true, it is true that the one hundred thousand manpower that can be fought will be wiped out in one fell swoop.

But, Xi'er, you might as well think about it, it's only been half a year since we left Zhuozhou. It only took three or two months to gather hundreds of thousands of people under our command, and it only took two months to turn hundreds of thousands of people into a hundred thousand soldiers.

Long.

If the establishment is gone, it will be gone. If we start again, it will only take another two months."

When Guan Yu said this, Li Mengxi thought about it seriously and then smiled.

Yes, I am afraid of birds.

The formation of the rebel army was started from scratch, and it took only two months to complete it. That was still during the war, and the establishment was being built while fighting. There was still no experience, and one had to explore and practice.

Things are different now. We are no longer fighting. We are free and have enough time to divide flags and manpower. Now we have enough experience, but we are just doing it all over again.

After figuring everything out, Li Mengxi relaxed and rebuilt the organization, which only took two months.

In the future, war may come, but the imperial court can only come quickly with 20,000 to 30,000 people. To deal with these 20,000 to 30,000 people, the army has tens of thousands of elite soldiers on guard, which is enough to delay the attack for a long time. After that, other

If the manpower is re-armed, it will be enough to defeat the official army of 20,000 to 30,000 people.

The imperial court is coming quickly, but there cannot be many soldiers and horses. If there are not many soldiers and horses, it will not be enough to defeat the rebel army, and it will be defeated by the rebel army.
To be continued...