Chapter VI Grain
It was almost noon, Dashan Village finally built two low-level thatched huts, plus one included in the system and the houses of the village affairs center, which were enough to accommodate 20 people! Each thatched hut consumed 5 units of wood, and the two houses consumed a total of 10 units of wood.
While Yang Rui was busy, he was also coordinating the resources and labor situation in his mind.
At present, the first priority of Dashan Village must revolve around grain production and must invest the most energy. The system has only 100 units of grain, which is calculated based on the consumption of 1 unit of grain per person per day. As the number of people increases, the amount of money is not enough for 4 days!
The grain production cycle in the early stage of the game is 4 days! In other words, even if you start planting a batch of crops now, you will only mature after 4 days. There is a possibility that there will be a lack of food in the middle!
If there is a shortage of food, there are two or three ways to remedy it. One is to find wild fruits and supplement food consumption, which is also the most realistic way; secondly, you can buy food in the system city through money; finally, you can consider whether Heilongtan is suitable for fishing. I would like to ask Wang Hai for advice on this.
The second thing Yang Rui needs to consider is housing issues. The minimum number of residential houses must meet the number of refugees refreshed every day, so that no refugees will be lost due to restrictions on living conditions! Correspondingly, each house must consume 5 units of wood. A logging farm must be established as soon as possible to ensure the production of wood, otherwise it can only be purchased through money!
Of course, logging of wood is one of the key points in Yang Rui's early planning, not just to meet the current construction needs. Due to some wealth-making actions of the court, the price of wood has soared in the years before the Yellow Turban Rebellion. These are all familiar to Yang Rui, so of course we must make good use of it!
"Young Master Lieyang, so far, 9 refugees have been refreshed within the Dashan Village and have successfully registered their household registration. The number of villagers in Dashan Village has reached 13. Please give me instructions." Wang Hai brought two newly naturalized villagers to Yang Rui to report.
Wang Hai originally built thatched huts with Yang Rui and other villagers, but his old arms and legs were not very efficient, so Yang Rui arranged for him to receive refreshed refugees and search for nearby wild fruits.
After changing this job, Wang Hai did a good job. Not only were all the refreshed refugees brought back, but he also found a large area of wild fruits. It was enough to subsidize the food for villagers in Dashan Village for two or three days!
"Oh? There are already 13 villagers?" Yang Rui thought for a moment and said, "Now the number of residential houses is basically enough for today's needs. All the villagers will go with me to open up wasteland and prepare to farm!"
Yang Rui had just calculated that the amount of existing timber was enough to build a house in three or four days, and the food was urgent, so he decided to devote all the villagers to grain production.
"My plan is that all the villagers are divided into two groups, one group is responsible for reclamation and sorting the land, and the other group follows the seeds. Every time acre of land is sorted out, they will immediately plant sweet potatoes!
Although this is not the most efficient, it is very important to ensure timely harvest of food! Planting crops earlier will lead to harvesting earlier, which may prevent a grain shortage!
Do you have any opinions? If you don’t have any opinions, let’s start together!”
More than ten villagers gathered together were stunned by Yang Rui’s question! Does the village chief still need to win everyone’s opinions? This is something they have never experienced before, so they responded in panic, “As long as you follow the arrangements of the lord (Lieyang Village Chief)!”
Yang Rui and 11 villagers except Wang Hai came to the north of the village and started a wasteland with everyone. Wang Hai continued to be sent to find wild food resources and to receive the refreshed refugees.
The place north of the Council Office was temporarily planned as farmland by Yang Rui, and all the villages were built on the southeast side of the Council Office. There is a small wood two or three kilometers northwest, which can be used as a site for the initial logging site.
The main reason for the barren land in the inner valley is that there are too many small sand and gravels, so it is not very difficult to sort it out. Soon, a mu of land was sorted out. Yang Rui estimated the speed of his work and immediately divided three people to plant sweet potatoes. The remaining group continued to open up wasteland.
After working like this, the two groups of people spent about the same time. Often, just one acre of land was reclaimed here, and the rice transplanters there were almost the same and quickly followed the progress.
In the middle, Yang Rui took time to go offline and cook lunch. The two teams were led by Chen Ping and Chen Li, the brothers at level 10, so there was no need to worry about any problems.
Xiaohui is still online this time, but the breakfast Yang Rui prepared for her was eaten up. It seems that she has been offline once! Yang Rui knew that Xiaohui must be very obsessed with the game at this moment, so she did not disturb her after preparing lunch for her.
When it was launched again, the wasteland had been developed and sorted out as many as three or four acres, and the transplanting of sweet potatoes was completed in eight or nine out of ten. There were three more people in the working team, and they were arranged to open up land. They were all newly refreshed refugees collected by Wang Hai during Yang Rui's downtime!
"It's noon now. Is there a "breathing" on the first day?" Yang Ruishui said, "If this is the case, it's a good start. But you still have to prepare a thatched hut to avoid "breathing" without having a place to arrange housing and lose refugees in vain."
Thinking of this, Yang Rui still asked Chen Ping and Chen Li to lead a team to open up land and farm, and he transferred two villagers out and then went to repair the house.
The term "explosion swipe" is a very popular buzzword on the forums in previous lives. Generally, the territory refreshes eleven or two refugees every day, and if more than 15 people are called "explosion swipe".
Refugees are productivity for territory, so "explosion swipe" is bound to be very popular. However, the frequency of "explosion swipe" is not high. It is good to have it once a month on average, and sometimes it doesn't appear once every few months!
What Yang Rui didn't expect was that the first day of opening was not only really "flashed" but also a lot of them! After noon, Old Man Wang Hai, who was wandering around, brought one or two refugees back one after another. Until the evening, he actually brought back 10 more people! In addition to the 12 people refreshed in the morning, a total of 22 refugees were refreshed on this day!
The number of villagers reached 25! If Yang Rui had not been experienced and had started to build thatched huts in advance, the refugees who could not live in would definitely be wasted! That's it, 25 people could have been placed in the four thatched huts and the office hall.
After an afternoon of work, the number of wasteland development reached 7 acres, and all the sweet potato transplants were completed, consuming 700 sweet potato seedlings.
The planting progress seemed a little slow, but Yang Rui roughly calculated that with the increase in the number of villagers, all 3,000 sweet potato seedlings could be planted in less than three days, so there was no need to worry about wasting!
The refugees "breaking" once, and Yang Rui's planning progress needs to be improved. Yang Rui's labor force, which has been surplus in the farming area, was considering building a logging farm in advance. With enough timber, he could consider building a dock, fishing boat, and militia battalion that was also extremely timber-consuming.
Thinking of the militia camp, Yang Rui couldn't help feeling a little urgent!
The newly built player village has a half-month protection period. During the protection period, the external system strength will not actively attack the village. However, after the protection period, if the handling is not done in time, monsters may attack the village.
Yang Rui knew that there were generally three or four monster camp refresh points around each newly built territory. These refresh points may be wild beasts such as tigers and wolves, or human-shaped NPC camps. But no matter what it is, the monsters refreshed in these camps will encounter a certain number standard, and there will be a large-scale attack on the village, which is very likely to cause great damage or even complete destruction to the new territory!
"After the food is guaranteed, we must exit the militia quickly!" Yang Rui said to himself.
After the evening, the NPC villagers had a rest, and players could continue to play and upgrade to fight monsters. However, Yang Rui was busy all day long, and he was exhausted when he was running around for almost 24 hours! He immediately explained to Chen Ping, Chen Li and Wang Hai, and Yang Rui chose to go offline.
Chapter completed!