The rising sun jumped out of the sea level, and the waves kept lapping at the beach. Pang Gang was wearing casual clothes and walking slowly on the beach with bare feet. The fine sand kept massaging his toes, making people feel very comfortable. But
This does not make Pang Gang feel better. Now all the affairs in the fort are weighing on him, making our Comrade Pang Gang, who has never been a leader, feel that his shoulders are always heavy.
It is now the eighth day since we arrived at Wanghai Fort. Most of the newly arrived military households, led by Li Xian, Gou Sheng and others, went to the wasteland to clean up water conservancy channels, and dozens of people were digging soil to build two
Preparations are being made for sowing in a month, but now another urgent problem has emerged, that is food. The food in the fort is only enough for half a month, and it is impossible for more than 300 people to support the harvest until the end of the year.
During the season, most of the 60 families he brought had little surplus food rations, so they had to rely on himself, the boss, to provide them.
Now that the work of digging ditches and plowing the ground has begun in the fort, we cannot let the military households drink gruel as they did in the past. That would not be enough to eat, so they can only eat dry food. Pang Gang calculated that if a
If an adult eats dry food while doing high-intensity labor, one person would need at least two and a half kilograms of food for half a year, based on the calculation of one kilogram or even one and a half kilograms of rice a day. For more than 300 people in Wanghaibao, they want to survive until the end of the year.
During the grain harvesting season, at least nearly 700 kilograms of rice are needed. If Pang Gang wants to continue recruiting refugees, this amount will have to increase.
Not to mention this, Li Xian, who was in charge of purchasing yesterday, also reported to Pang Gang that the strong laborers must eat some meat every few days, otherwise people will easily vomit blood due to lack of fat, so they must often buy some lard.
Or add fat meat to the dishes to ensure a person's physical strength. Just buy it. Pang Gang is not a stingy person, but then Li Xian's report made Pang Gang almost vomit blood. The price of a pound of lean meat is ten cents, but fat
But the meat was sold for twenty cents. Fatty meat, which was no one cared about in later generations, was sold much more expensive than lean meat. Considering that each adult ate one or two pieces of fat meat per day, it was just for the military households.
Pork costs at least thirty taels of silver every month. This news really shocked Pang Gang.
If in future generations any pork seller dared to sell fat meat at a higher price than lean meat, he would be spat on. But now things are reversed. Lean meat is no longer popular. As for those in later generations.
The more expensive ribs can almost only be given away as extras. Later, Pang just learned that because the oil extraction technology was backward in ancient times, the cost of vegetable oil was very high and the price was very expensive. People were accustomed to using animal oil from fatty meat instead.
Rapeseed oil, so the fatter the meat, the more popular it is, and the fatter the meat, the more expensive it is. This is also the reason why fat meat, which is worthless in later generations, sells so expensively. Thinking of this, Comrade Pang Gang couldn't help but feel guilty.
Impulsive, Nima’s fat meat is sold at such a high price, how embarrassing are you for future generations of pig dealers who take the risk of being fined and give “clenbuterol” to pigs.
Although the expenses were a bit high, Pang Gang still gritted his teeth and paid for the military households, but as a result, Pang Gang's pocket became more and more deflated. Last time, he plundered two coins from under Wang Mazi's bed.
During this period, nearly a thousand and seven hundred taels of silver have been poured out like running water. The remaining silver makes Pang Gang very worried about whether he can sustain it until the end of the year. Now Wanghai Fort is like a fragile child.
It cannot withstand any wind and waves at all, and will be swept away as long as a slightly larger wave hits.
No, we must speed up the pace of farming and recruiting refugees, and increase food reserves. Otherwise, Wanghai Fort will not be able to grow stronger in the short term. The current situation has become increasingly chaotic. If Wanghai Fort cannot grow stronger in the past few years,
, all that awaits you is death.
However, this period of time is not without good news. After Pang Gang's unremitting research, he finally figured out some of the functions of the book that traveled with him. In this mutated book that can be called a golden finger
It is indeed very convenient and cheap to cash in cold weapons. With only thirty kilograms of iron ore, you can cash in a Damascus scimitar that has been lost to later generations. As for sabers, spears, shields, armor and other items, they are also very cheap.
Pang Gang did some calculations and found that it only takes about 100 to 150 kilograms of iron ore and a little wood to arm a soldier to the butthole. This may be the only thing that makes our huge officials happy during this period.
Right. For this reason, Pang Gang specially sent people everywhere to collect iron ore, but so far there has not been much harvest.
"My lord, my lord!" A voice sounded behind Pang Gang, and Pang Gang knew that it was Da Zhuang who was coming without turning around.
Da Zhuang quickly ran up to Pang Gang and said breathlessly: "Sir, Gou Sheng has returned from Qingzhou Mansion. He asked me to come find you."
Gou Sheng's real name was Wang Zhi, which Pang Gang only found out when he was registering everyone. From then on, Pang Gang asked him to officially change his name back to his real name, but Dazhuang had been with him since childhood.
His friends who grew up still used to call him by his nickname.
Pang Gang scolded: "Dazhuang, don't always call me a fool. Now you are a small flag. How can you call Wang Zhi like that? It's not good!"
"Hehe..." Da Zhuang touched his head and said with a smile: "Sir, haven't I been barking for so many years? I'm used to it. I can't change it even if I want to!"
Pang Gang had no choice but to smile and shake his head, and no longer bothered about it. He had to change his words and asked: "Dazhuang, dog... Well, why did Wang Zhi ask you to see me?"
Da Zhuang said happily, "Such an adult. Not only did Gou Sheng buy back 400 shi of grain, but he also brought back 60 families of refugees from Qingzhou Prefecture. I saw that most of them were young adults. This is
Then we won’t have to worry about being short of manpower!”
Looking at Da Zhuang who was in high spirits, Pang Gang actually sighed secretly in his heart. It was a good thing to recruit such refugees at once, but in this way, his burden on farming was heavy, and the landlords had no surplus food these days!
With joy and worry, Pang Gang quickly ran towards Wanghai Fort with his strength. After more than half a month of construction, Wanghai Fort had begun to take shape. Although more than 300 people had occupied the fort,
Nearly half of the area, some new wooden structure houses are also being built, and now Wanghai Castle looks a little bit lively.
When Pang Gang came to Wanghai Fort, he saw a commotion in front of the fort. Wang Zhizheng was leading more than 20 strong men in the fort to maintain order. Beside them were ten cows, dozens of bags of rice and noodles, and various other items.
Dustpans, shoulder poles, baskets, hoes, plowshares, plow frames, ox yokes, sun mats and other items are also piled all over the ground. Except for the cattle pens outside, the rest of these items are piled into the mound.
Inside the warehouse.
Hundreds of newly arrived refugees were looking uneasily at the newly arrived official who was being supported by everyone. Their faces that had become yellow due to long-term malnutrition and their numb eyes were filled with a trace of hope for the future.
The longings and expectations are mixed with a little bit of uneasiness and fear.
Looking at the figure that was still trembling in the sun, Pang Gang sighed in his heart, loudly called a village woman who had come earlier, and ordered her to bring some people to quickly make a fire and cook some millet porridge for everyone to fill their stomachs first, and also
I specifically ordered her to make it thicker.
This village woman was also a quick person. After agreeing, she and dozens of village women began to set up more than ten stoves in the fort, and soon a fire was lit on the stoves.
In less than half an hour, the hot porridge was ready. When these newly arrived refugees rushed forward and rushed to serve the porridge, they were led by a strong man who had been waiting aside for a long time and led more than a dozen strong men to hold the porridge.
The big wooden stick was knocked down, especially the young men who were ahead of the crowd.
"Line up, everyone!" At this time, Da Zhuang had long lost his honest look in front of Pang Gang. He was holding a big wooden stick and roared in front of him like a ferocious spirit. This was what Pang Gang had repeatedly requested.
Wanghai Fort must abide by the rules. For the future development of Wanghai Fort, necessary rules must be indispensable.
Just when Da Zhuang was holding a big stick to bring out the unruly people, a middle-aged man wearing a green robe with messy hair on his head was standing behind the crowd and staring at everything...
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