At the end of July, summer harvest and autumn planting began in Hefei, and the city and outside were very busy.

In order to rush for the development of grain harvesting, Long Xiang visited farmers at the beginning of the year and conducted research. Finally, based on Huainan's climate, soil and other conditions, he decided on a plan for continuous rice and wheat planting.

That is, after the rice is harvested, the fields are plowed immediately and composted at intervals of more than a month, and then wheat and corn are sown. In the next spring, wheat is harvested and rice is planted again, a cycle of two seasons a year.

During the busy farming season, all the young people in Hefei are mobilized.

The common people who obtained the identity number went to cut rice and plow the fields outside the city, while the newly arrived refugees were arranged to build official warehouses in the city.

Since it was temporarily unavailable to develop cement, the bonding material between bricks, Long Xiang chose to use traditional and simple yellow mud instead.

What's more, since the kiln was released this year, only bricks were fired without tiles, and the roof was replaced with corn and grass dried in the season, which is equivalent to a suit and leather shoes with cloth shoes.

Long Xiang was not familiar with farming, but he was professional in civil construction.

Hefei's official warehouse is involved in all processes from site selection, drawing design, foundation digging, brick laying, and roofing.

Long Xiang occasionally went to the site to demonstrate construction in person, which made the people working next to him speechless.

The gap between people is so big. Long Sima is not able to lead troops, manage politics, and even lay bricks and build houses better than civilians. He deserves to be able to separatist power at such a young age.

Lu Su followed the tour with great interest and was quite shocked to see Long Xiang's proficiency in architecture.

During his time as Lord Bo, Lu Su had a detailed understanding of Long Xiang.

Eighteen-year-old Long Xiang has a simple resume. He is a cowherd boy from a military family. After his parents died, he was taken care of by Qiao Rui. Later, he inherited Long Yuan's two hundred loyal troops and struggled in the military camp for two years before finally retreating bravely.

Arrive in Hefei.

Long Xiang had no chance to build houses at all, but he did it well, even better than the old masons. What Long Xiang did was simply incredible.

Asking is a dream entrusted by a god, and Long Xiang has tried this reason every time.

Not only did Long Xiang show off his amazing talents in building houses, but what was even more impressive was his ability to control the construction site.

Long Xiang divided more than a thousand civilians into more than a dozen groups, responsible for construction, material processing, material transportation, technical supervision, safety supervision and other tasks according to the group. The busy construction site was in good order.

Most of the civilian workers were unskilled "little workers" and there were no unified standards in the construction process. Long Xiang inspected several construction sites and found new problems every time, and many of them were repeated mistakes.

After several trips, Long Xiang's mouth was dry and he had a headache just standing there.

Seeing this, Lu Su hurriedly handed over the water bag.

While Long Xiang was drinking water, Lu Su persuaded in a low voice: "These people are not craftsmen. They can build official warehouses. Why do you insist on matching the drawings exactly? It is better to build the warehouse as soon as possible. The newly harvested rice can still be harvested."

Waiting to enter the warehouse..."

"We can't be careless in the warehouse, and we must strictly control the quality of the project. Otherwise, if there are strong winds, heavy rains, or even earthquakes, the grain stored inside will be damaged. The newly harvested rice needs to be dried, and there should be plenty of time." Long Xiang looked serious.

Lu Su nodded helplessly: "Yunqi's starting point is good, but the people in Guizhou are illiterate and difficult to tame. It will be difficult to succeed overnight unless there is a team of skilled craftsmen..."

Long Xiang was greatly inspired by what he heard and said that he wanted to engage in civil construction in the Three Kingdoms. He really needed to train a group of full-time bricklayers and carpenters. When Hefei's population increased in the future, he would carry out large-scale "old city reconstruction". These people also

Don't worry about running out of work.

"I plan to train a team of craftsmen, who will be responsible for repairing Hefei in peacetime, and will go up to the city wall to participate in defense during wartime. Anyway, moving bricks, laying bricks, and throwing bricks are all the same. Directly implement military management. What does Zijing think?"

"The idea is very good and should be implemented as soon as possible."

Seeing Lu Su's strong agreement, Long Xiang solemnly told: "I asked Uncle Zhong to organize the craftsman battalion, and asked Zijing to set a standard for the camp's food and salary. It must be paid like regular soldiers. Only when they have income can they be motivated.

..”

Lu Su: "No problem. I think two standards must be set to distinguish between wartime and non-wartime."

"Zijing can discuss the specific situation with Uncle Zhong."

Long Xiang is not obsessed with salary standards. He believes that Lu Su and Feng Zhong can calculate carefully.

After Long Xiang finished speaking, he planned to continue his inspection, but he suddenly remembered the threat from the south, so he called Lu Su again.

"By the way, the summer harvest is currently busy outside the city. Is there any movement from Zheng Bao?"

"Don't worry, Yunqi. This is the harvest season. Zheng Bao's own fields are also busy with summer harvest. He probably won't have time to wander elsewhere. Besides, we still have wandering scouts outside..."

"Da da da..."

Before Lu Su could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the sound of rapid horse hooves.

Long Xiang was also wary and turned around to look, only to see two people and two horses galloping from north to south.

The dust splashed by the horses' hooves slowly fell, creating a salon on the streets of Hefei City.

"There are very few horse races on the streets of Hefei. Could it be that something big is happening in the north?"

Long Xiang frowned and said to himself.

Lu Su stroked his beard and said nothing. When the two horses were approaching, he pointed at the leader and reminded:

"The cloud seems to be General Tang."

Long Xiang took two steps forward, only to feel a strong wind blowing against his face, followed by the shadows of the two horses.

"Xu..."

Tang Wei reined in the reins, turned over and dismounted, pointed at the young man behind him and asked excitedly: "Yunqi, who do you think he is?"

“A bit impressive, but not much...”

Looking at the visitor's unremarkable face, Long Xiang raised his eyes and shook his head slightly.

Tang Wei scratched his head and reminded Long Xiang with a smile: "Last year we entered Qiao County by mistake, and one of the children who came to the cowshed to deliver food to us at night was named Xu Wei. Leader Xu asked him to come and find him.

we."

"A person from Bo'an (Xu Ding)?"

Long Xiang was surprised: "Could it be that Cao Bing is looking for trouble? How are Bo'an and Xu Cun doing now?"

Xu Wei cupped his fists and replied: "Everything is fine with the chief and the village. Not long after you left the village, a group of Cao soldiers did come, but they did not cause trouble for the village, but came to recruit us..."

"Then you..." Long Xiang stopped talking.

Xu Wei shook his head gently: "Although the second leader was interested at the time, he was rejected by the big leader. The big leader was worried that you would not get there smoothly, so he sent me south to confirm."

Long Xiang frowned after hearing this. Xu Chu wanted to vote but Xu Ding didn't agree?

I don’t know if Cao Cao would ask Corporal Li Xian to invite him, but Xu Ding sent people all the way to look for him, maybe not only to confirm his own safety, but also to find a way out for himself?

If the Xu brothers can come, Long Xiang has the intelligence to take on the role of Lu Su and the force to take on the role of Xu Chu, so why should he worry about the thief and commander Zheng Bao?

"Thank you Bo'an for your concern. We are all well. Many brave men have come from thousands of miles away. They must fulfill their friendship as landlords."

Long Xiang clasped his fists and spoke politely for a while, and then told Tang Wei: "Uncle Wei, take Xu Zhuangshi for a walk around the city, and prepare a good meal for the guests at night."

"Okay, I'll take him to Lao Feng's house and let his siblings make some delicious food." Tang Hui chuckled.
Chapter completed!