Chapter 1066

It's not that the land is not wide enough, but that the annual precipitation is so small, and it is quite seasonal. How much water can be stored before planting basically determines how much food can be produced in that year.

After sowing, there is almost no precipitation, and it depends on manual irrigation several times to harvest.

"Did the young master discover a new water source when he went out this time? Ah, you didn't mention it to me when you came back."

In fact, he couldn't figure out why He Da was always laughing alone from ear to ear after he came back, obviously he misunderstood something.

"Well, that's right. You hurry up and organize your staff. One hundred people will dispatch the three of you. It's best to divide it into three big groups. You three will each get a group. I will reward each group that is well completed. A catty of grain for a person."

Ye Chen has his own plan, and of course he will not reveal it to him easily, otherwise the specific party will not support him, and he will go to the old house to file a complaint.

"Hey! I'll do it now, and I promise to complete the task in three days."

The man was overjoyed. Ye Chen's ability to find a new water source meant that he could grow more food, and more food meant that he could feed more people, and his strength would be stronger. The stronger his strength, the better their lives would be. Well, it's good for everyone.

What Ye Chen wanted was his energy.

Ye Chen's face darkened after he walked out quickly.

There he found other sources of water, but there was ready access to deep well ice.

And this is what he discovered when he took over this body for the first time, just below the natural reservoir surrounded by Zhuangzi.

There is a natural depression in the middle of Zhuangzi, which has a slight slope with the surrounding land. The reservoir has been artificially expanded. Until now, the main work after the autumn harvest is dredging and reinforcement. This time is the water level of the reservoir. At the lowest point, it is close to dry state.

When he came here for the first time, he was not used to drinking the boiled water in the pool. The caring nurse said that he wanted to build a deep well next to the pool, just like the old house.

But when the well was being drilled, an accident happened, and no groundwater was found below three feet deep. When it was five feet deep, it finally touched the permafrost layer. The place is full of extremely cold ice, and the inside is frozen. unknown creature.

These guys dared to ask for this well, so they quickly climbed up and filled the well with gravel in a panic, and no one took the initiative to mention it again.

This made Ye Chen think about it.

what is ice The solid form of water.

His predecessor, Young Master Yin, had nothing to do with him, and was terrified of the creatures frozen inside, but he was not.

He just wants to drive everyone out to work, and then go underground to fetch ice, and by the way, see if he can run into a few unlucky creatures for him to beat the tooth.

"Young master, have you really discovered a new water source? Are we going to open a branch village?"

This girl is the youngest and most temperamental among the few, and is usually favored by his master the most. As for the kind of favor, only his predecessor knows.

She asked Ye Chen while delivering hot water, why didn't she want him to prosper, then they would also rise with the tide.

"Yeah. Why are you still here? Everyone in Zhuangzi is busy opening up wasteland, so hurry up and help the nanny, don't stay in the village."

Ye Chen is chasing people, and now is the time for employing people. He is a little bit concerned about going to the battle himself. How can he tolerate people being lazy, especially those who may hinder him.

"yes!"

This girl is quite enlightened. Although she was unhappy, she answered very quickly without showing any emotion.

Just a few girls together is completely different.

"Why did the young master ask us to be the nanny's hands? You wouldn't be lying about the military situation, would you?"

One of them, who thought he was smart, was the first to question it.

"You don't have to go if you don't believe me. Anyway, I'm going."

"Hmph! As long as you go together, I will definitely go too. I'm afraid you will eat alone at home."

The little girls are used to being jealous,

I'm afraid not to suffer from few, but to suffer from inequality.

Ye Chen discovered what was going on here just by scanning his mind. He didn't dare to make too much trouble here. I don't know if that old friend will monitor them all the way. If he finds that he has not completely lost himself, he may Pay attention to him.

So he didn't fully open his mind, and only cautiously released it when necessary to check the surrounding situation. For example, now, he must make sure that everyone in Zhuangzi has gone out to work before taking any action.

The pile of rubble in front of me is left after the well was dug. Since there is no way to stay away from here, the people in Zhuangzi directly regard this place as a garbage dump. Of course, there is no other garbage in this place. The most difficult thing to deal with is the building. Construction waste, especially broken gray tiles, is the most difficult to deal with when building and repairing houses.

Ye Chen transformed into a stream of light and went straight into the ground. Under the rubble, there were still some holes in the wellhead blocked by rubble, which made him very satisfied.

After a while, Ye Chen was exploring carefully with a piece of black ice the size of a bowl.

It is ice, but it is mixed with many unusual impurities, such as resentment, such as deadly dust, such as solidified gray gas.

That's right, here he saw the gray gas that caused the semi-immortal world to change.

"Hey, it turns out that he generally exists in this place."

He clearly felt that these were dead objects, or in a state of being inactive, and would not cause him any harm.

It is right to have this point, so that he can act with confidence.

The next moment, the immortal yuan fluctuated, and a large amount of ice cubes were melted, and the water was led by him to the above reservoir, and the resentment that tried to pounce on him to occupy his body was detained by him, but the gray gas was waved by him. Then nothing remains, let the dust stay in the ground.

He didn't dare to take more, he only needed to fill up the reservoir.

As for how to explain it, does his master really need to explain it to people?

Obviously there is no need for that, just get the token out and fool around.

Next, a small Hailong Temple appeared in Zhuangzi, enshrining a clay sculpture with a head that looks like a keepsake.

People in Zhuangzi said it was Hailong, the dragon who gave them rain.

Of course, these are all ghosts made by Ye Chen's Yin Xiaogong, and he turned into the temple of the sea dragon god. Since then, there has been no lack of rain here.

With sufficient rainwater irrigation, the original oats are growing well, and the newly sown wheat seedlings are also very good. According to the nanny's estimation, the original wheat field can increase the yield by at least 30%, and the newly sown wheat fields can at least be equal to the old seedlings in previous years.

This means that after three months, his Zhuangzi will have at least 23,000 catties of net grain income.

If 10,000 catties could feed one hundred people before, this year he can feed about two hundred and thirty people.

He can start to select the young and strong among the refugees and beggars in the county.

Three months passed in a flash, and Ye Chen was going to drive his carriage to pick people up for the next grain harvest.

"My lord, the weather in the old house is still the same as in previous years."

He Da drove the carriage past not far from the old house with emotion.

"Second brother, there are no outsiders here, why do you still see outsiders like that?"

Cha Xingjia on one side picked up the conversation without waiting for Ye Chen's answer.

"Do you think the weather in the old house is better, or the weather in our Zhuangzi is better?"

Ye Chen didn't want to get entangled with He Da. In fact, this guy didn't call him "big brother" a few times after the marriage. No matter whether there were people or no one, he would continue to be the same, but the Cha Xing family called him more often .

But he obviously felt that the two of them were more concerned about the affairs of the village, and the conflicts between the two were less and less, which showed that he was still effective with them.

From a distance, the old house is a building surrounded by a small lake with gray tiles and black walls. The reason for the black walls is that the houses here are all made of black hard stones, which are more than those used by his Zhuangzi. The adobe is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is much stronger and more durable.

He suspected that this place was originally a small crater or crater. The water level of the small lake was higher than most of the land outside the house, and the lake was mainly supplied by spring water, which was the most beneficial here.

"What's good about the old house is that some old stubborn people control it. There is vitality in our Zhuangzi."

Cha Xing's family understood Ye Chen's thoughts of the young master Yin better than He Da did. When He Da was still holding his short whip and frowning in thought, he had already answered first.

"It's just you who is slippery."

Ye Chen scolded with a smile, such words are undoubtedly too much to hear.

"The eldest son's group is still very powerful. I compared the area of ​​the field outside the old house, but it has expanded a lot compared to the early years."

He Da is more pragmatic, and his focus is also very practical.

"Well, that's right. It's probably equivalent to half of our Zhuangzi's planting area and stronger."

Ye Chen's impression of the Yin Xiaogong changed from vague to clear, and a perverted young man clearly appeared, that is his nominal big brother.

Many unpleasant things came out of his mind like a blowout, such as when he was five or six years old, he was forced to ride on a pony in the ground, for example, when he was ten years old, he raped the girl in his picture , For example, accusing the old man of being black or something out of nothing, in short, he has always suffered.

"Brother, he has his advantages as well as his disadvantages. His side is full of cultivated land, and the yield is certainly higher than ours. The water source mainly relies on spring water, and it is easy to irrigate. These are more convenient than ours. But he also needs to feed those people Old guys. I calculated for him, at most two hundred young and strong can be raised. We will definitely be able to enrich the number to two hundred this time."

Cha Xingjia talked eloquently.

"The two hundred of us are not all young and strong, and we all came here from hunger and cold, so we may not be able to beat each other."

He Da's confidence is obviously insufficient.

"Grow up the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige. The most important thing is to see who is in command. I believe our elder brother is more than a hundred times stronger than that guy."

Arguing and arguing along the way, Ye Chen rarely expressed his opinion, as if he had fallen asleep in the car.

He is feeling whether there is any fairy spirit in the vast area. Unfortunately, he has not found a trace of it until now, which makes him very annoyed. If there is no supplement, it is not a good situation to use a little less.

The county town has finally arrived, it is very gray and ruined, the city wall is still intact, and the materials are neat black stones, which are much better than those used in the old house of the Yin family, and they are also much larger.

The whole city is shrouded in gray mist, occasionally a few towering trees can be seen dotted in it, Ye Chen has an inexplicable urge to go to those spots.

He deliberately ordered not to enter the city, but went around the city to attract ragged vagrants and beggars beside the city gate. He sensed the crisis and felt the deep malice towards him, a stranger. Obviously, entering the city now is not his first choice. Good choice.

With the birth of Cha Xing's family, a sufficient number of refugees and beggars were quickly recruited.

Just when they were about to return from the original road, a sudden change occurred.

"You are the ones who gathered the crowd to make trouble? Why don't you be obedient and get caught!"

The person who came was a man whose face was completely covered by gray gas, and he could only see a rough outline. The pony that stepped down was made of condensed gray gas, and behind him was a pair of twelve soldiers with spears.

Ye Chen instantly understood who it was, the county guard.

"Master Chengwei misunderstood. I am the young master of the Yin family ten miles outside the city. This time I came here specially to gather some homeless refugees and beggars. I definitely have no intention of gathering crowds to make trouble."

He jumped out of the carriage immediately, explained to the other party neither humble nor overbearing, and tried to resolve it.

"Is it the Yin family ten miles outside the city? When did a little young man pop up, dare to deceive me. Come, get me the three leaders."

It's okay if Ye Chen didn't explain, this explanation directly angered the other party.

Soldiers rounded the ponies and rushed towards them.

"Brothers, fight with them if you want to fill your stomach!"

Cha Xing's family yelled at the recruiters who had already formed a team by him.

He personally distributed a catty of cooked food to these people. These people had already stuffed them into their stomachs, and now they had some strength to use.

Ye Chen glanced in the direction of the county seat, letting these people clash with the city guard.

With his keen intuition, he felt not only that someone was watching him closely on the city wall, but also that there were several wisps of cold air lingering here from under the shade of those big trees.

He Da and he grabbed a dog-beating stick and entangled the pony rider, and the others surrounded and beat the soldiers at a ratio of ten to one.

These people were quickly dealt with, and no more city guards were attracted.

"Walk!"

Ye Chen finally uttered a word decisively.

"Hmph, this person is cunning, he doesn't want to enter the city at all. It's not like I waited until I entered the city in a daze and was trapped in it before recovering some of my original memories."

"Shh, don't talk, be careful."

"I don't know when this person entered here, should we try to contact him?"

The voice gradually died down, and the two people on the city wall were already biting their ears behind the battlements.

At the same time, outside Zhuangzi, one group confronted another.

"Eldest son, this is the little son's village. The food is planted by us with hard work. You can't help harvest just by saying that you help harvest."