After a good night's sleep, Huang An woke up on time at 5:30 in the morning the next day.
After finishing dressing and washing, Senior Sister Zhao had already gotten up.
Both of them attached great importance to martial arts training. After a brief greeting, they went straight to the school ground below the village.
After practicing martial arts, having breakfast, and checking the accounts, it was already seven o'clock in the morning.
He re-sent the money that Xiaocao had given him last night to the two stewards, fully expressing his trust in them.
Then, he gave Yang Chengwu a few words and sent him to the residence of Brother Yu to tell him about the escort team.
The two parties agreed to discuss the matter in detail at the evening banquet.
At this time, the sky was already bright.
Since six o'clock in the morning, when the sky lights up, the entire Xialin Village has changed from silence to excitement.
Over there in the cafeteria, there were crowds of people and noisy people.
The atmosphere of big pot rice and collective labor is always fiery, and it is also the most infective and changing people's hearts.
This lively atmosphere is an extremely novel experience for every worker participating in Xialin Village.
They don't know why, but they always feel very happy when working.
Maybe, you can get your wages on time and have enough food to eat, right?
Huang An took Zhao Yan and the manager Yan Long through every construction site.
Whenever he had any questions, Yan Long would always be able to answer his questions immediately.
Yan Long has never left this place since construction began.
Therefore, he is very familiar with the entire construction site and can even name 90% of the workers.
He introduced every issue to Huang An in detail, especially the personnel arrangements.
The entire inspection lasted for nearly an hour. Huang An and Zhao Yan had a very in-depth understanding of the current Xialinzhai construction site, construction progress, follow-up tasks and plans, etc.
I also have a sufficient understanding of the operating mechanisms of stone, timber, earthwork, and transportation fleets.
Taking advantage of Yan Long's brief departure, Zhao Yan whispered in Huang An's ear.
"This Yan Long is a talent! Junior brother, you have many capable people under your command!"
The pretty face is full of smiles.
She used to manage the Zhao Family Martial Arts School, and also arranged many things in the Zhao Mansion in Youzhou City, and her vision and ability were not bad.
She could see that the group of brothers under her junior brother were no weaker than the group of people found in the Zhao family.
When Huang An heard this, he nodded in approval.
He is also very satisfied with Yan Long's current performance.
The changes have been huge. Sure enough, doing things seriously can best train people.
In addition to Senior Brother Yang Chengwu, he has one more person who he can trust and do good things.
He smiled and said: "Working seriously is the best way to train people. After a few more years of practice, I estimate that each of them will be able to stand on their own. If we go to Feng'an City, they will continue to grow!"
After saying that, he laughed first.
Being content with one's ambition is nothing more than this.
Huang An's words made Zhao Yan look at him with admiration. She thought that her junior brother was young and had been ill for a long time, so he was busy looking for doctors and thinking about ways to make money.
She thought Huang An was very unfamiliar with how to manage his subordinates.
Unexpectedly, my junior brother was so smart, he seemed to be a self-taught person, and he was quite clever.
Her ability to manage her subordinates is no worse than hers.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is even more powerful than her methods.
At the very least, she couldn't conclude that "working seriously is the best way to train people."
If you think about it carefully, becoming the city lord of Feng'an City might be a good opportunity to cultivate talents.
When Yan Long came back in a hurry after finishing his work, Huang An patted him on the shoulder, said some words of encouragement, and then ordered:
"Let me prepare the horses. My senior sister and I will go to Dapo to have a look and find the two people in charge of Dapo. Let's go there together!"
Yan Long already knew Huang An's intention to leave today. After all, Huang An mentioned it last night.
He agreed immediately.
"Brother, please wait a moment. I'm going to arrange the manpower now! Last night you said you wanted to go out and look around, so the two brothers in charge of the Dapo side are waiting for you in the village now!"
Yan Long became more and more meticulous in his work, and he acted very competently as a manager.
Huang An's eyes lit up and he urged him to quickly call someone to lead the horse.
Soon, two brothers came over with four horses.
These two people are both warriors in the Six Fu Realm. They serve as commanders of the second and fifth teams, and are temporarily responsible for the affairs of Dapo.
Huang An naturally recognized the two of them, and they were joking and chatting together yesterday.
One is tall and the other is short. The tall one is called Song Yang and the short one is called Chen Qi.
They needed to ride to Dapo, so Song Yang and Chen Qi brought four horses, including Huang An and Zhao Yan's mounts.
Two horses, one red and one black, are particularly eye-catching.
"Walk!"
Huang An got on his horse first, then turned his horse's head and headed straight down the mountain.
The group of people moved very quickly, and the road down the mountain was very smooth and could accommodate three carriages running parallel to each other.
After crossing the main road, the trail to Dapo becomes a little narrow and all are dirt roads.
However, the speed has not decreased much.
Because this road is often used by oxcarts and people transporting swill, pig grass and grain, the difficulty of traveling is now more than three levels lower than before.
The horse's speed is still very fast.
Compared to the hard bluestone road, the horse seems to prefer this loess sand road.
Dapo was less than ten miles away from the main road, and in less than half an hour, they had arrived at Dapo.
Today's Dapo has changed a lot.
Although it has only been developed for more than a month, and Huang An has not been here for more than half a month, the entire Dapo is basically about to become what it was originally planned.
The amount of work here is more than twenty times less than the overhaul of Xialin Village.
In Huang An's plan, the number of people under his command will gradually increase. From here, more people will move here to form a village named Dapo Village.
The current Dapo Village is still in its infancy, but it is now inhabited. Seven households with a total of 25 people have moved here.
There are fields and water here, which can feed hundreds of people, or even more.
In Dapo Village, the front and most eye-catching thing is a row of fifty-two low earth and stone pig pens.
These novel-looking pigsties stand side by side, lined up along both sides of the stream.
These pig pens are all planned in a unified manner.
The pillars and walls are made of earth and stone, the roof is built with wooden beams, and the top is sealed with mud mixed with crushed grass and yellow mud.
Then it was covered with three-foot-thick thatch as a roof, which basically ensures warmth in winter and coolness in summer.
Although the pig pen is not a reinforced concrete structure, it looks pretty decent because the size and specifications are the same and it is in a minimalist style.
Even from Huang An's point of view, these pigsties are more beautiful than most of the houses in his fiefdom outside Feng'an County, Dahuaishuzhuang.
On the upwind side of the pigsty, there are also twelve poorly decorated wooden houses that have not yet been completely completed.
These wooden houses were built not long ago, but they are already habitable.
When Huang An and the others first came over, they could see smoke rising from the courtyards of these houses in the distance, and they could also hear the grunting of pigs from time to time.
These people are the residents of Dapo Village who moved here again from Xialin Village under his order.
Song Yang and Chen Qi explained the results of these days' work and future plans to Huang An from time to time.
After getting along with Huang An for a long time, I know that their boss is not easy to fool.
Although he is much younger than them, he knows a lot.
At the very least, it is much more than these two people who claim to be well-informed and have traveled thousands of miles.
Huang An talked eloquently.
"In pig raising, especially large-scale pig raising, you must keep the pig house ventilated. Even in the coldest month of winter, the windows cannot be sealed."
What he said was clear and logical, making people believe him unconsciously.
Huang An also raises pigs in his own waste treatment plant. He has some experience and is very disciplined in his guidance.
Zhao Yan's beautiful eyes never left Huang An.
This junior brother knows a lot.
He seemed to be more handsome than before, especially when arranging things, it made her dazzled.
Zhao Yan's heart was pounding like a deer, and she suddenly found a different sense of dependence and trust in Huang An than before.
Everyone walked past the pig pen and headed straight for the cultivated farmland.
Here in Dapo, in addition to raising pigs, we also farm.
Of course, farmland has just been cultivated, and some is even still being cultivated.
Not long after the seeds were planted, tender sprouts of vegetable seedlings are now appearing in the first field that was cultivated and planted. It is estimated that it will be at least a month and a half before the first wave of harvest.
Twelve acres of farmland have been cultivated, which is much more than the seven or eight acres that Yu Mao said at the beginning.
Of course, Yu Mao at that time was talking about the area of cultivated farmland.
He didn't expect that Huang An's ambition was so great that he even wanted to use all the available land in the entire slope.
Huang An needs fertile land, but he doesn't mind ordinary, relatively barren farmland.
Backed by the earth's hometown that has been industrialized for hundreds of years, any land in his hands can be turned into prime farmland in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty.
The high-yield seeds cultivated through various means in my hometown are magic tools.
Although the soil does not yet have much fertility, the self-produced fertilizer has been slowly piled up and will be used soon.
Naturally, what is grown in these reclaimed farmlands is not rice or staple foods such as wheat, but vegetables, cash crops such as sweet potatoes.
The earliest green vegetables planted have already sprouted.
Raising pigs is not easy, and the cost of feeding them with staple food is too high. The best is naturally rotten vegetable leaves, and swill brought from outside the canteen of the Xialin Village construction site.
Similarly, when these vegetables mature, they will be transported to the large canteen on the Xialin Village construction site one crop after another.
Or supply the daily vegetables in Dapo Village.
Here in Dapo, we don’t need many manpower.
The seven relocated households, with a total of 25 people, are all adult laborers, which is enough here in Dapo.
Their tasks are no different from those of normal farmers, raising pigs, farming, or doing other farming tasks ordered by their superiors.
There is a lot of land that can be used, but due to manpower issues, opening up fields is not their focus at this stage.
Transforming a wasteland into a farmland capable of growing crops is a very difficult task. The labor and long working hours required can make people who come into contact with it despair for the first time.
This is not an easy task, nor can it be accomplished in a short time.