Hearing that Xu Huai wanted to build the blacksmith furnace in Jinshagou, Liu Qiong'er asked doubtfully:
"Why?"
Now we are going all out to build a new village on the east slope of Shituoling. Manpower and materials are very tight. The east slope of Shituoling is also close to the Lutai villages. We only need to walk two or three miles of rugged mountain roads to transport materials from Lutai North Village.
Send it to Xinzhai, but there is not even a decent trail on the Jinshagou side.
Previously, Xu Wujiang and others were forced to hide in Jinsha Valley and carry one to two hundred kilograms of grain every three to five days. There was no big problem. However, Xu Huai now said that he would build the blacksmith furnace in Jinsha Valley.
Materials, the house where the craftsmen live, and the raw and cooked iron materials must be transported regularly, and a cellar must be built nearby to burn charcoal. It is definitely not possible to carry 200 to 300 kilograms of grain every three to five days to solve the problem of supply.
If we want to find a place near Jinshagou to build a defensive stronghold, the cost will be even greater.
"I said that the cunning rabbit should have three burrows, do you believe it?" Xu Huai asked with a smile.
"I don't believe it." Liu Qiong'er said.
"I want to say that if you don't start a new problem in Jinshagou, you, the leader of the third village, will be empty. Do you believe it or not?" Xu Huai asked.
"As if I am willing to be the leader of this third village?" Liu Qiong'er glanced at Xu Huai with her beautiful eyes and asked, "You are worried that the reason why Xu Wufu is so generous is because you are sure that he will be able to control Xu Wujiang in the future, and
You, Xu Wufu and the others will inevitably have differences..."
Xu Huai nodded and said: "Well, I have this concern, but mainly we can decide for ourselves what we do in Jinshagou, right? If we are in Shituoling or Xiema Mountain, whenever we have differences with others, we will always
There are a lot of inconveniences.”
"The key is there is no reason to convince them." Liu Qiong'er said.
"Women can be more willful, not to mention you are a beautiful woman who calls herself the 'Chushan Yaksha Fox'." Xu Huai said with a smile.
"I can find an excuse to insist on going to Jinshagou to establish a foothold, but what about the money and food?" Liu Qiong'er said, "I spent more than 500 yuan to build Shituoling New Village before, but now I can't get it back. I just have this in my hand."
With a hundred dollars left, Xu Wufu and the others just need to tighten their purse strings and refuse to give me money or food. If I continue to be willful, what can I accomplish?"
"There is gold sand at the bottom of the Jinsha Valley creek," Xu Huai said.
"Ha," Liu Qiong'er couldn't help but sarcastically said, "Can a strong laborer stand in the stream panning for gold and get two kilograms of grain in one day? The soft stream at the bottom of Jinshagou can be used to pan for gold sand, which has influenced the village clan for hundreds of years.
There are a few people here who don’t know, but except for those who really can’t find a way to survive these years, who would go there to dig for gold?”
"..." Xu Huai smiled and said nothing.
"Do you have any idea how to use one person as several people?" Liu Qiong'er couldn't help but asked curiously.
"Didn't Seventeenth Uncle and the others recruit fifty or sixty remnant bandits? Since these people were regarded as abandoned by Pan Chenghu and attacked in the east and west, most of them should be old, weak, sick and disabled. If they all stay in Xiema Mountain, they will be of no use. You pick a dozen or twenty
The most unusable ones will be collected into Jinshagou as the foundation. These manpower will be enough in the early stage!" Xu Huai said, "As for the method of extracting gold, I will naturally teach you so that you can be called Yaksha Fox.
Louder!”
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Xu Huai and Liu Qiong'er walked back to the rear village where only a dozen simple shacks had been built. Xu Wuqi and Zhou Jing were responsible for commanding the tribe's soldiers and village warriors. They needed to patrol the remaining bandits who fled into the mountains and forests to intrude on Yuhuang Ridge.
I'm leaving,
Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and Xu Wufu are still here, discussing matters with Xu Wujiang, Su Laochang and Xu Guanshan.
Xu Wufu and the others didn't care much about Liu Qiong'er leaving just now and coming back with Xu Huai at this time, and they had no intention of asking them to make any decisions.
From this, Liu Qiong'er could also see that they actually didn't care about him, the so-called leader of the third village.
Liu Qiong'er felt somewhat resentful, and she firmly decided to listen to Xu Huai's idea and start a new matter in Jinshagou. She immediately sat with Xu Huai and listened to their discussion.
In addition to discussing many details such as the construction of new villages, the reclamation of Shituoling, and the opening of remote mountain roads, Yuhuangling has become less land and more populated in recent years. Hundreds of young Zhuang people have been forced to go out to make a living. Previously, Xu Wufu would just follow him.
The clan is in Biyang, and clan members related to Huaiyuan business have gathered back.
There were more clan members scattered outside to make a living, but Xu Wufu had no reason or authority to order them all to return to Yuhuang Ridge.
However, when the situation is critical, these tribesmen are one of the indispensable backbones of the Xu family.
How to recall these tribesmen to Yuhuangling gave Xu Wufu a headache.
Liu Qiong'er listened to them discussing several reasons, but none of them were feasible. She laughed and said: "Looking at how worried you are about this matter, do you want me, a female prostitute, to give you some advice?"
"Miss Liu, if you have any ideas, please don't hesitate to give me some advice." Xu Wufu had a forbearing temper. At this time, he could bow his head to Xu Wujiang, so naturally he was not afraid to ask Liu Qiong'er for advice.
"The Xu family spent money and food to expand the scale of the Shituo Ridge reclamation. Wouldn't it be an excuse to call the young people who are looking for a living back to Lutai Village?" Liu Qiong'er said, "To the east of Shituo Ridge, wouldn't it be an excuse?"
The reclamation of Po Xinzhai and nearby mountain fields is currently only arranged on a small scale of more than a hundred households, which does not require much manpower and material resources. However, if a new village is also built in Jinshagou at the same time, and between Yuhuang Ridge and Shituo Ridge,
, the large-scale water storage pond is used to reclaim and irrigate three to four thousand acres of mountain fields in the mountains. Does the Xu family have enough reasons to call back all the young people who are making a living outside, and can they justifiably purchase a large amount of water from outside?
Food, iron and other supplies are coming back for storage?"
"The valleys between Yuhuang Ridge and Shituo Ridge are steep and rocky. In summer, there are torrents pouring down. How can we build large water storage ponds and cultivate fields? Miss Liu is taking it for granted.
?" Although everyone finally accepted Liu Qiong'er's words, Liu Qiong'er directly encouraged Xu Huai to assassinate Guo Caoling regardless of the consequences without saying a word in advance. Su Laochang still felt a knot in his heart, and his tone of voice was also disturbing.
Still stiff.
Xu Wufu, Xu Bosong, and Xu Zhongyu looked at each other and shook their heads. They just wanted to express that Liu Qiong'er claimed to be good at making plans, but he was more or less just talking on paper, and his knowledge of the art of managing the world was limited.
Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others heard Xu Huai talk about the rolling dam. When Liu Qiong'er brought it up at this time, they just looked at each other and did not reveal the mystery behind it.
"……snort!"
Liu Qiong'er snorted coldly, took the paper and ink on the desk, and drew the terrain of the valley between Yuhuang Ridge and Shituo Ridge, and added rolling water dams where the terrain was easy.
Liu Qiong'er is good at playing chess, calligraphy and painting. She can paint a simple topography very accurately with just a few strokes.
Liu Qiong'er threw the pen and said proudly: "You follow my method and build a rolling dam..."
"Can this rolling dam really be built like this?" Su Laochang asked hesitantly.
"Why not? Each rolling dam is only three or four feet high. With the Xu family's financial resources, it is easy to build. The water stored in the stream is more than three or four feet high, and then it is discharged to the next pond, one level at a time.
level, hence the name "boiling water". In this way, the scale of water storage in each level of Pitang will be controlled, and there is no need to worry that the low rolling water dam will be crushed. There are more than ten or twenty rolling water dams from top to bottom, which can store water.
The amount of water is considerable enough. More importantly, there are occasional heavy rains in summer, but after the rolling dam intercepts the water layer by layer and slows down the water flow, it will be difficult to form a flash flood that harms the fields and houses in the valley..." Liu Qiong'er said.
Several generations of the Xu family have reclaimed Yuhuangling and surrounding mountains, especially the reclamation of mountains, and accumulated a lot of experience in the construction of Pitang. This is also called Xu Wufu, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and Su Laochang. It is not difficult for them to understand what Liu Qiong'er said.
The beauty of law.
Seeing that Xu Wufu and others were indeed interested, Liu Qiong'er even said proudly:
"If this thing fails, all the money and food wasted will be on me, Liu Qiong'er. And except for the excuse in the early stage to summon the young people back to Yuhuangling, these rolling dams have been built, and each Xu family can get three or four more
Thousands of acres of fertile land, the two villages of Lutai and Shituoling can form a closer whole without the risk of foreign enemies peeking. This plan is a free gift from me to the Xu family, so that you will not underestimate the female stream again!"
The rolling water shallow dams built in the mountains and valleys can not only store rainwater in stages for irrigation and daily needs, but also when the weather is fine and rainless, there is no stream flowing down the upper reaches of these shallow dams, which is a link between jade and jade.
The roads between Huangling and Shituoling.
Even if Xu Guanshan, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and others didn't know much about the defense of the city, they could still see the benefits.
Otherwise, before a powerful enemy approaches Yuhuang Ridge, they can easily cut off the connection between Xinzhai and Lutai Village on the east slope of Shituoling Ridge by just focusing on the mouth of Qingliu River.
"Xu is indeed negligent, please don't blame Miss Liu." Xu Wufu said humbly.
"Master Xu, please don't say such cheap things. Only by helping me build a new village in Jinshagou can you be sincere." Liu Qiong'er said, taking advantage of Xu Wufu.
"Isn't Jinshagou a little more remote?" Xu Wufu said.
"Jinshagou is one of the gateways to Xiema Mountain. No matter how difficult it is, a stronghold should be built to prevent strong enemies from infiltrating from here in the future," Liu Qiong'er said. "Another one, I, the leader of the three strongholds, are alone.
If you go to govern a village, you won’t be looked down upon by you again. I’m going to put my words here today, and if you don’t allow it, don’t expect me to help you with any ideas in the future!”
"Miss Liu, what you said is that everyone should work together now. Miss Liu, you want to manage a separate village in Jinshagou and also prevent leaks and fill the gaps for my Xu family. How can we not allow it?" Xu Wufu said slickly,
"But if you think about building so many rolling dams between Yuhuangling and Shituoling, the money and food consumed are already countless days, not to mention there are too many things that need to be taken care of one by one, and there is no time to take care of the Jinshagou area in a short time.
Ah, Miss Liu, don't worry, as long as the Xu family is a little rich, Miss Liu, whether you want people, money or food, it's just a matter of words."
"I don't need money and food from the Xu family. Yesterday, Xu Wujiang gathered some remnants and gave me the ten or twenty old, weak, sick and disabled who are most attractive to me. Or if the Xu family returns to their hometown in youth, you allow me to hire them.
Just do the work," Liu Qiong'er stared at Xu Wufu with a pretty face, and asked with a somewhat unkind tone, "After I say this, the Xu family master won't insist on not allowing it, right?"
"Look at what Miss Liu said, how could I insist on not allowing it?" Liu Qiong'er forced her to have no way out, and he really couldn't see her true identity. Xu Wufu had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree...
