The first stop when Li Mengxi led the team to farm was a deserted village on the outskirts of Julu, three miles away from Julu.

It was almost noon when we led the team to the deserted village.

The reason why the deserted village is called a deserted village is that there is no human habitation in the entire village. There are no people, not even a dog. The snow has melted on the road in and out of the village, and withered grass lies on the ground in the middle of the road.

Li Mengxi led the soldiers into the village and looked around. He saw that most of the houses in the village were in ruins. The remaining houses that had not collapsed had either broken roofs or burned roofs.

The walls of the house were all tilted, and they were about to collapse.

I searched the whole village but couldn't find a house that I could live in.

Li Mengxi had anticipated this situation. He had taken into consideration the situation of having nowhere to live, so he brought enough camping tents.

Bringing enough means that according to the usage limit of the marching tents, three rotations a day, an average of fifty people will be equipped with one tent.

Supplies are limited, so this is the only way. Ten people can't afford it per tent.

Li Mengxi was worried about this. It was okay when he was in the army. When he was in the army, he was guarded by soldiers and restrained by military discipline. It was mandatory to change the rotation every four hours. This allowed the limited tents to accommodate all the people.

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However, when the farm came, there were no military regulations and no one to watch over them. Men, women, old and young slept in the same tent, and they had to arrange the order of rotation, and make an appointment about who would sleep during the day and who would sleep at night. In the sky, the emperor was far away.

It is also unknown whether there will be any conflicts or troubles when no one is in charge.

As for the check and balance method of the conflict, Li Mengxi was well prepared and issued weapons to each camper, so that they could prepare according to their own needs, hoping that it would be useful.

Li Mengxi visited the village but could not find any intact houses. The only useful thing he found was that there was a huge stone mill in the village. In an abandoned house, he also found a stone roller. It may be possible in the village

I found a piece of flat, porcelain land at the place where wheat was raised and dried.

After all, it is a village, and it has some basics of survival and life, which is better than in the wild.

When Li Mengxi turned around and came to a stone well, Li Mengxi suddenly realized something, the source of water!

When I wanted to farm in Zhuozhou, I had to go out to open up wasteland, but I was in a hurry and couldn't dig a well. Therefore, I had to choose a place close to a water source when opening wasteland to solve the water source problem.

But now Julu's farming is different. Zhuozhou's farming is based on water, while Julu's farming is based on land. Therefore, it's okay if there are wells and water in the farming site, but if there is no water, you can't lose the land and go elsewhere.

Maybe there are ways to solve the water source problem.

The solution is to dig a well.

Think about it again, if there is no water within a three-mile radius of a farm, the farm supplies are also expensive, and there are no tools to store water, only a small urn, and you can only travel a long way to carry a urn of water for cooking every day.

Then I still have to travel a long distance the next day, which wastes a lot of time and makes me exhausted.

As for water wells, the difficulty of digging wells, the difficulty of finding water, and the manpower, time and material resources required cannot be easily solved by the campers alone, so it is best for the army to pool manpower to solve the problem.

Therefore, Li Mengxi felt that it was necessary to build a new battalion. The [Well Well Team] under the construction team was responsible for the construction of water wells in all places in Julu that lacked well water.

Thinking about this, Li Mengxi walked to the well, climbed onto the well platform and stretched his head to look into the well. As soon as he stretched his head, he was caught from behind.

Looking back, the guarding soldier chuckled and said, "Don't carry it on."

Li Mengxi said, "Then hold on tight, don't let me fall." He let the soldiers grab his clothes.

Li Mengxi looked into the well. It was dark in the middle of winter. It seemed that there was still water, but he didn't know the quality of the water.

Li Mengxi wanted to fetch water, but he got up and looked around and found that there was no water fetching tool.

There was a water puller next to it, but there was no rope on it. Li Mengxi suddenly thought that the people in this village were either in trouble or fleeing the famine. If they fled, they would not leave the straw ropes behind.

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In the end, in desperation, Li Mengxi asked the soldiers to find some random ropes, then tied short ropes together, tied a pottery urn and filled it with half a urn of water.

When the water came up, Li Mengxi frowned and looked at the water in the urn for a long time. He raised his head and asked the soldier, "What do you think of the water quality?"

There were soaked black wheat straw twigs and other debris in the water.

Zhan Bing said casually, "Isn't it very clean?"

As soon as Li Mengxi asked, he understood that hygiene knowledge had not yet been popularized in the army, and neither soldiers nor civilians had the knowledge to drink boiled water.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi felt that he had to explain something about water use.

After the village inspection was completed, Li Mengxi left the village and ordered the farmers to measure the nearby land. After the land was measured, they began to divide it.

Although they knew they were going to farm and divide the land, when it came time to divide the land, the campers got excited. They quickly dropped their belongings, went to the car to get the yardstick and rope, and rushed around the village.

Li Mengxi also went to check the land.

According to early information, the deserted village here should be a place called Liangcun. All the land near this village is wasteland.

When Li Mengxi walked around and took a look, it was true that the land was completely barren.

On the empty land, the ice and snow have half melted, and what is exposed under the melted snow is not green and black wheat seedlings, but muddy soil.

In the fields, there are figures of villagers running around with yard rulers to measure the land. The division of land did not make much sense to Li Mengxi, as he was not a farmer.

However, for the campers, the vast wasteland was allotted to them. The joy of being the masters of their own country made the campers smile from the moment they picked up the land.

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Measuring the land probably took a long time to complete. Li Mengxi wandered around for a long time.

Wandering around, Li Mengxi saw two soldiers standing on the field path ahead, pointing and laughing at the people in the field.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Mengxi was curious, walked over and asked, "What, what are you talking about?"

Seeing Li Mengxi coming over, the soldiers smiled and said, "Just now we were saying that the man in the field was dishonest, and he could only measure two cents more when he measured the land..."

Li Mengxi suddenly raised his eyebrows, and he immediately looked towards the end of the field. There was a two-foot-long thin wooden board stuck on the edge of the field. There was nothing on the wooden board. This wooden board was not only a boundary stone used to distinguish farm acres, but also used to divide and count acres.

When Li Mengxi looked further along the wooden board, he couldn't see the reason.

Li Mengxi knew how to farm, but he didn't know the number of acres and couldn't tell the size at a glance.

But the soldiers said there was a mistake in the plot, so that must be the case.

Li Mengxi immediately understood that someone must have a small idea and wanted to take the opportunity to measure more land for himself.

I kept saying that the person serving the porridge should not get the porridge first, but when the matter came to pass, I still forgot about it.

Li Mengxi stared intently at the figures of the campers walking around in the fields. Li Mengxi cursed in his heart, (Fuck, you are trying to trick people...)

It's not okay to let the farmers measure their own land.

Li Mengxi immediately summoned all the soldiers, then replaced the soldiers who had no interest in the dispute, and went to measure the land again.

The soldiers ended up changing. After a long time, the soldiers came back one after another, carrying ground rulers, bare feet, and feet full of mud.

Li Mengxi asked, "Have you finished counting? How many acres are there in total?"

The leading centurion put down the land ruler and said, "There are one thousand two hundred and eight acres of land."

Li Mengxi silently calculated in his mind that Julu is said to have 20 million acres of farmland, and the manpower for farming has been reduced several times to only 100,000. That is, 20 million acres, divided by 100,000, is 200 per capita.

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There are 1,200 acres of land, that is, for six people, there are still eight acres left.

After silent calculation, Li Mengxi frowned, and the first problem encountered in the field appeared.

Li Mengxi vaguely felt something was wrong. Can one person cultivate two hundred acres of land by himself?

Even if you have a tractor, you can't plant it.

However, there is nothing that can be done about it. The war in Julu has just ended this year, and there must be a huge vacancy in manpower.

If the imperial court came to control Julu, the imperial court could transfer people from other places to fill the gaps in the land with a transfer order, but the rebels did not have additional population.

In order to control all of Julu's land as quickly as possible, the only option is to station a hundred thousand men and swallow up all of Julu's land.

The second question is, it happens to be 1,208 acres, and the average per capita is 200 acres. If divided among six people, there will be exactly eight acres left.

The problem is here. The number of acres of land in each farm is not exactly enough. It must be either too much or too little. For these vacant lands, or they are put together with the vacant land in neighboring villages and divided among people.

That's right, there are still bits and pieces left in the end.

How should we arrange these scraps of land? No matter who we give these scraps to, it will not be fair.

Li Mengxi thought for a long time, and he felt that maybe the extra bits and pieces could be set up as public land. After all, in addition to growing food for survival, we also need to grow something else, such as soybeans, two acres of hemp, and even digging.

Two acres of fish pond for fish farming.

After the problem is solved, in the future, no matter how many acres of land are allocated per person, the remaining fragments can all be divided into common land for the people to grow some public cash crops.

After the land was divided, Li Mengxi and his people divided more than 1,200 acres of land into six huge areas. Then, on the boundary signs between the plots, he used fire to bake numbers on the wooden signs.

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The method of using fire to leave notes comes from the experience of working in the fields in Zhuozhou. If you write with ink, all traces will be gone when it rains.

Boundary signs are important indicators of land. If the boundary signs are gone, there will be many problems.

After the land was divided, Li Mengxi came to the field team. In view of the fact that the land in this village was all wasteland and it was too laborious to plant, Li Mengxi specially selected the six strongest and strongest people from the field, and then planted the land on the six fields.

Someone said, "There are more than 1,200 acres of land here, which can be divided among six of you. The remaining eight acres will be left vacant for other uses in the future."

As he said that, Li Mengxi stretched out his hand, unfolded it, and several small paper balls suddenly appeared, "The land has been divided. You can draw lots. Whichever piece you catch will be the piece."

The six campers had not yet recovered from the shock of having two hundred acres of land per person, and their excited hands were shaking to remove the paper balls.
To be continued...