After announcing the above-mentioned decree, it was almost noon. Niu Dabao did not delay everyone going back to make a fire and cook, so he announced the end of the meeting.

This is the benefit of immigrant villages.

Because there are too many living things to eat around Gaoling Village, and the village has just harvested them for a season and has not been handed over, it is rare to eat three meals a day. When Niu Dabao was a child, he could only eat two meals a day, and often two meals of porridge with pitiful rice grains.

Gaoling Village can not only eat three meals, but also make meat every meal. Either fish, shrimp or venison in the forest, making many new immigrants who have just arrived think they are coming to heaven.

After leaving the school, it is the only village road in the village that allows two carriages to run parallel. Compared with the official road connecting the county town, the village road is not only covered with wood ash, but also brought a lot of stone slabs. Even on rainy days, walking on it will not splash mud on the soles.

"The village chief is back home?"

"I'll leave first, village chief!"

"You can call someone when you go back to hunt." When leaving the school gate, the villagers greeted Niu Dabao one after another.

Compared with the village chief, Niu Dabao, the new village chief, has not been very arrogant because he has not been long. Most of these villagers are kind and kind. Therefore, the villagers are all close to him.

Since the crops were just harvested a while ago, a lot of wheat grains were sprinkled between the gaps in the stone road. Some chickens and ducks looked around and pecked around on the stone road. Sometimes they pecked wheat, and sometimes they caught insects.

When it is more often, it is the tender grass growing between the gaps.

Such a peaceful life satisfy Niu Dabao, while also sighing.

After all, I retired from the battlefield. After experiencing the sea of ​​corpses and blood, I will always feel a sense of suddenness and unreality when I live the ordinary life of an ordinary person.

He shook his head and his pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

Because the initial construction of Gaoling Village was under the supervision of the government, Gaoling Village was more regular and orderly than the naturally built villages near Liaodong and Shangjing. Blue wooden houses were lined up horizontally and vertically, centered on the school and set up left and right.

Then it is evenly distributed along the mound where Gaoling Village is located.

This is the origin of Gaoling Village!

The terrain is the best surrounding area. To the southwest, it was originally a swamp connected to the river. It not only has a large lake, but also a pond, half a mu or a few square meters in size.

There are also large areas of water plants growing in wetlands. In summer, large areas of water birds often attract the gathering.

I heard from the relatively older immigrants in the village that they had some chance to build a settlement in this Gaoling Village.

At that time, the immigration team was going to the intersection of the two rivers in the lower reaches. Even in the early stage, the place had already made preparations for acceptance. Unfortunately, when the fleet passed through this section of the river, it happened to be flood season.

The swamps covered with water plants and densely distributed lakes and ponds are all connected together, forming a vast swamp with vast waves.

The water flow was particularly turbulent at that time, and their fleet was rushed into the siege and lost its direction all of a sudden.

Gu Lu

Fortunately, I finally found a small island in the Daze, with an unsubmerged forest on the island, and that was the original Gaoling Village.

The group delayed for a long time on the isolated island, and in order to shelter from the rain, they built houses on the island. It was not until the flood season that they retreated, but not everyone evacuated. Due to the damage to the ships and the limited supplies, a few people could only move to the original settlement for help.

When the people who asked for help returned, all the river water had receded. Gaoling Village also revealed its full picture again, and the immigrants who were forced to settle on the island had also reclaimed several acres of wasteland.

The officials who rushed over saw that the location of Gaoling Village was good, and because the immigrants were already supporting themselves in this place, they decided to keep the settlement. But the flood was necessary to solve it!

So unlike the new immigrant villages in other places, the first thing the villagers in Gaoling Village did was not to reclaim wasteland and build houses. Instead, they built embankments not far from the river bank to try to isolate the swamp from the river water.

Under the orderly drainage measures, a lot of water from the water is discharged, becoming paddy fields that can be used by villagers.

During this year's flood season, Gaoling Village successfully survived the test of floods. Although the dams built could not block all the river water, it effectively slowed down the inflow of river water. Some of the cultivated fields also successfully completed the harvest and became the winter food for all villagers.

Those flooded places were not completely abandoned.

With the joint efforts of naturalized people and some villagers who know how to fish, they used small boats to fish on the water to greatly enrich the village's meat inventory. Some fish and shrimp that could not be eaten were stringed together and hung in the sun to dry them, enriching the villagers' dining tables in the future.

In addition to the swamp, the other three sides of the village are vast primeval forests. Even if you climb to the canopy, you will see endless green forests. When the weather is sunny, you can still see the mountains in the northwest and the rivers in the north that wind like jade belts.

Such a primitive style made many Han people who had just come here feel indescribable. In addition, there were often tigers, leopards, and jackals in the forest at that time, which made many new immigrants who had moved here want to move out.

It was not until the later burning of wasteland and large-scale hunting that the frequency of such livestock injuries was minimized.

This wild scene has changed a lot now!

To the north and east of the village, the primitive forest has retreated dozens of miles, replaced by the reclaimed wasteland.

The wasteland closer to the village has planted crops for a season, and there are still a large amount of untreated straw left in the field. Because it is close to the forest, there is no need to worry about the fuel problem in the village. Therefore, these villagers are rarely extravagant, abandoning the remaining straw in the field and directly rotting it in the soil as fertilizer.

Instead of pulling it out of the ground with great effort, drying it, and taking it home to make a fire and cook.

Between these blocky fields, there are dense artificial intervals of birch, poplar and pine trees. They are like the "street trees" that travel in the city of Ming Kingdom, and they become the best dividing line between the ridges and ridges of the fields.

Some free-range pigs, cattle and sheep were searching and eating among these harvested fields, eating a lot of falling wheat into their stomachs. However, in the northwest of the village, the forest was still very lush. This was the remaining forest on the island. Because it allowed the newly arrived immigrants to gain a firm foothold, it was also to keep a small piece of forest.

In addition, there is a small river further north of this forest. According to the government, it is best not to cut down the water, grass and trees near the river, as it seems to be very easy to cause soil erosion. The people in the village don’t understand it very much, but they know that it is correct to listen to the government.

Currently, most houses are built on mounds, but with the increase of population, some of them are now built under mounds. Some of the experiences in building these houses were learned from naturalized people. The materials are logs that have grown for hundreds of years, and then mud and moss are pasted on the exterior walls.

The roof was treated as such, but there was a layer of birch bark on the outermost part.
Chapter completed!