After seeing off Zhen Ping and Guo Yong, Huo Hai also stood up and went to Heishan Village. The number of refugees here has more than doubled to more than 50,000.

"Why did you come here with such a strong wind and snowy weather?" The infantry battalion led by Wang Dang was the main force in maintaining order in the parish. Huo Hai came to parish and he immediately came out.

"Let's see your progress. In addition, let me tell you good news. The Zhen family and the Guo family have basically agreed to cooperate with us. Our three major products, salt, paper and soap, can be increased production." Huo Hai smiled at Wang Dang, who had become stronger.

Although they have been working all day long in the past two months, they can have two full meals every day, which is much better than before.

"That's good. We can calm down more fellow villagers who have no food to eat. You don't know how many people are frozen to death on the road from the Jizhou county to our Heishan. I heard that the people and cities in each county are already overcrowded." Wang Dang said with a relaxed expression on his face.

"Many people have frozen to death on the roadside? Chu Yan doesn't care?" Huo Hai frowned.

Wang Dang shook his head and said, "He has only 300 people. In this snowy day, the range of movement of the war horses can only be covered within fifty miles at most, and they cannot be controlled."

"How did General Di Gong tell these refugees? No one was organized to escort him, please help me?" Huo Hai asked again.

"General Digong just told these people that he would have food and a way to live when he came to Heishan." Wang Dang replied.

"The government has no assistance to these refugees?" Huo Hai said depressedly.

"Perhaps, some officials with not yet had a bad conscience will take a little care of those good families who can pay taxes to the court in their territory on a small scale. However, most dog officials are unwilling to the court to report disasters and defraud the court of relief money and grain, and will not be distributed to the people at all. The more people die, they just prove to the court that the disaster is very great. The great wise and good teachers said that in this world, we poor people have reached the point where they cannot resist." Wang Dang was obviously influenced by this set of words from the Taiping Sect, and went to Huo Haidao.

Although these words are not all true, at least 70% are true. The northern land is so corrupt that the corruption of local officials is on the one hand, and the intentional promotion of the Taiping Cult, and on the other hand, when officials are corruption and accumulating money, they are also trying their best to make money and form a rebellious army.

However, Wang Dang's last sentence was right. In this world, poor people really had no way to survive. Even if Huo Hai's method is good, there is a severe drought in the north, and the entire country's grain output is insufficient, and some people have no food to eat and will starve to death. This is a fact that he cannot change.

Whoever has a big fist and whoever grabs food will survive. This seems to be the fairest choice. He cannot stop others from fighting for his own survival.

"Maybe, it's better to make a fuss." Huo Hai sighed.

"There is good news to tell you that Jiao Niang has found chickens and ducks and hatched the chickens and duck eggs you brought." Speaking of his wife's contribution, Wang Dang stood up proudly and said with a hint of gratitude.

"Is that right? Take me to see it quickly." Huo Hai said in surprise.

You know, it’s winter now, and it’s not that easy for hens and ducks to hatch eggs. Usually, spring is still a good season.

After going to the big cave where the old villagers lived in Wangdang and others, Huo Hai understood why the chickens and ducks that Jiao Niang found could hatch chickens in this weather. The ground heat inside the artificial cave was very high. After the large warm kang was boiled, the indoor temperature was at least ten degrees, which was no different from the temperature in spring.

Seeing more than twenty little chickens and ducks following the hens and ducks in a place specially separated by bamboo strips to keep warm, Huo Hai nodded with satisfaction.

It is already a huge improvement to be able to hatch. Even if these chicks and ducklings can only survive a small number, it can ensure that these good-bred chickens continue to reproduce.

"Very good, Jiao Niang, you must take good care of these chicks and ducks, try to ensure that their food is rich, the nest is clean, and the remaining eggs are also based on the survival rate of these chickens. They hatch in batches. Next year, I will build several large chicken coops and duck coops around the lake center island. At that time, I can point you to manage it." Huo Hai praised Jiao Niang.

When she heard that she could be in charge of Huo Hai, Jiao Niang was immediately delighted. After all, everyone in Heishan slept together in the big bunk bed. Now that there are more people, even the ground is full of people at night. It is difficult for her and Wang Dang to work hard to reproduce the next generation.

"I must feed these chickens and ducks according to the method my husband told me." After gaining weight, the slightly white girl saluted Huo Hai.

Huo Hai waved his hand with a smile and signaled him to continue working. Then, while walking outside the cave with Wang Dang, he said, "How is Uncle Luo Guang's kiln now? There will be more and more people during this period, and their scale must be expanded. It is best to build all the village walls to a height of more than three meters within two months."

"Build the village wall to three meters high within two months? This is probably a bit difficult. We have to build six village gates in total! Each village gate and the urn city requires hundreds of thousands of bricks. If you burn it once in a ten-kiln kiln, you may not be able to burn a brick to build a big village gate, let alone a village wall with a circumference of nearly a hundred miles." Wang Dang frowned.

"If ten kilns are not enough, just use one hundred kilns. If one hundred kilns are not enough, just use two hundred kilns. The more solid the walls are built, the higher the number of people we will die in the future. Three zhang is only a start and five zhang is high, so that we can barely block the enemy's throwing of a stone bow, and ten zhang is high, so that the attack of the catapult cart can be blocked.

So, in the future, we will build the village wall to a height of more than ten feet. This is why I dug the base of the village wall so deep and wide." Huo Hai explained.

The 1 zhang of the Eastern Han Dynasty was not the three meters of later generations, but a little more than two meters, and three meters, but a little more than six meters, which was about the same height as the two-story buildings in later generations. This height could only barely prevent the masters with extremely strong jumping power from jumping directly to the city wall.

After all, in later generations, any wall that is more than two meters high, any soldier who is engaged in physical exercise or military service can easily climb over such a barrier wall. Like the Taoist priests who practice ancient martial arts in Wudang Mountain, they can even kick bottles on the wall that are three or four meters high.

The ancient martial arts of this era are much more powerful than those of later generations. After talking to Huo Hai, Zhang Yan, Wang Dang and others, they realized that many people can jump directly to more than ten feet high, such as themselves, as well as Chu Yu and Baoer and other people who have developed internal energy.

The more powerful ones who are better at running and jumping are those who can jump to about two feet, and the most ruthless person should not exceed three feet.

People like Zhang Bao who have a force of ninety or more will also rely on the power of the rope hook when they reach the city wall of Zhending County, which is three feet high.

In other words, Heishan has the advantage of a hillside. Although the village wall is only three meters high, most of the time, the people standing outside the village wall have a height of more than four meters from the height of the village wall. If you want to be separated by a certain distance, set up catapults and other siege equipment, the height of the height will only be even greater. For the time being, three meters high is barely enough.

"The higher the walls of the village are, the fewer people will die? Could it be that we are going to fight here?" Wang Dang saw Huo Hai's concerns and asked him.

"At least for more than a month, the Taiping Cult may have a conflict with the court. The war will soon affect the entire Jizhou and even all prefectures and counties in the country. We will be the top priority here. Only when we build this village can we protect ourselves and plan for follow-ups. If we don't repair it well, we will be afraid that we will have to suffer a lot and die most of the people." Huo Hai said the conclusion he analyzed after hearing the news from Zhen Ping and Guo Yong.

"However, building so many caves and building such a large project requires a lot of talents to complete. If there are too many people, our food may not be enough." Wang Dang said nervously.

"Don't worry, I will find a way to find a way to the food. At this time, Sun Zhang's letters should have arrived in the surrounding counties. I have already written to the Sun family's housekeeper to raise another batch of grain, weapons and winter clothes. In a few days, you will go to the Sun family to get another trip. There are tens of thousands of stones of grain. In addition, the subsequent grain we obtained from the Zhen family and the Guo family will be able to support tens of thousands of people to survive this winter.

But, next year, hey..."

In the end, Huo Hai had to sigh. Once the war broke out, all the people would not farm and business would not be able to do it. The only way for everyone to survive was to go out and grab it, kill half of the battle, and starve half of them to death. In the end, only one or two percent of them survived.

Faced with this kind of dead end, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness and could only do his best to save more people.

"I heard from Chu Yan that the Sun family's housekeeper has sent several groups of people to our Heishan Mountain to ask about the situation, but Chu Yan asked for an excuse to kill him. It is hard to say that the Sun family's people have doubted us. This time it is probably not that easy for us to transfer food and supplies." Wang Dang said while taking Huo Hai towards the cave.

"Don't worry, Chang'an has begun to clean up the Taiping Cult. Sun Tao organized people to wipe out the Taiping Cult, which is a great achievement. Sun Zhang will definitely support it. Therefore, the food and supplies we went to ask for this time were not actually returned to the Sun family, so he would not feel too distressed. As long as the Sun family's manager saw the letters sent by Sun Zhang to let Sun Tao do his best to wipe out the Taiping Cult, he would definitely believe it and implement it happily." Huo Hai replied.

He had never expected that Ma Yuanyi was reported by Tang Zhou and the Taiping Sect was exposed, which would make his plan to cheat Sun Family Grain and Food Materials more successful.

After a while, he and Wang Dang came to the cave area. This was a big mountain. The trees on the mountain had been cut down by the carpenter team. In front of more than a dozen smoke-filled caves and several caves under construction, Luo Guang was busy with many people.

"Uncle Luo Guang, if I want to expand the scale of the cave ten times, what are the problems?" Huo Hai asked after a little look at the cave where he was working.

"Ten times larger? The place is enough, but the manpower is not enough. In addition, as the current ten kilns are burned, our firewood is still not available. If it is expanded ten times larger, I am afraid that the number of people collecting firewood will increase by more than ten times." Luo Guang replied after thinking about it.
Chapter completed!