Chapter 80: Blade of Bajiao Fort

May 5, 1591, Octagonal Fort.

"Brother Gu, don't worry. With me here, Laifu's farm is located in the area of ​​Bajiao Fort, there is absolutely no problem."

Next to the rolling river in the county, Huang Laifu's brother-in-law, Xu Xueshi, the garrison of the Octagon Fort, patted his chest and looked at Gu Shibaodao.

At this time, the two were walking by the river, following the followers and some merchants. Now the merchants in Wuzhaibao are like cats that smell the fishy smell. They all looked at Huang Laifu's actions carefully. This time, Huang Laifu developed the octagonal fort, and they naturally rushed to invest in order to become the second Quyuanrui. So this time, Huang Laifu developed the two places of Octagonal fort and Shenchi fort. He invested less money himself, but he naturally made the most profit. This is Huang Laifu's ability to borrow chickens to lay eggs.

Xu Xueshi and Gu Shibao were talking while patrolling the river. Not far from them were fields, and among the fields, there were ants like ants sweating profusely and busy.

Among these residents, there were men and women, old and young. Some of them were the civil servants of Wuzhai Fort. Not long ago, they built a city in Wuzhai Fort, but now they have become residents of various farms of Bajiao Fort. In early April, after the expansion of Wuzhai Fort was completed, thousands of residents who built the city were in danger of unemployment, and when the villagers were worried.

Huang Laifu came out, and Huang Laifu naturally would not let them go, because he needed a large amount of labor to develop the Octagon Fort and the Shenchi Fort. Moreover, these civilians worked in Wuzhai Fort for several months and had some organizational experience, which was even more rare labor.

He came out and told these villagers that he wanted to develop the Octagon Fort and the Shenchi Fort and were willing to go to the second place. He would continue to hire them and would also make them formal workers in various farms or mines.

The life in Wuzhai Fort in the past few months and the treatment of various farms in Wuzhai Fort have long envied these civilians. Anyway, these two forts are not far from Wuzhai Fort, so I didn’t say that, except for a small number of people, most civilians have chosen to go to the two places of Bajiao Fort and Shenchi Fort.

Among the four thousand civil servants, one thousand chose to go to Bajiao Fort to be a garrison. Three thousand chose to go to Shenchi Fort to be a garrison. The reason why most people chose to go to Shenchi Fort to be a garrison is that each person has one tael of monthly silver per month, while the garrison has only five dou of monthly grain. Although it is extremely tiring and dangerous to be a garrison, many people don’t care.

Under the arrangement of Gu Shibao, deputy head of the Wuzhaibao Grain Group, the thousand-dome residents arrived at Bajiao Fort in early April and began to reclaim land. The construction of the farm, of course, the structure of the farm is based on Wuzhaibao, the small-dome managers managed by Wuzhaibao. The big-dome managers were selected from the Wuzhaibao old farm.

In addition, the land in the area of ​​Bajiao Fort alone is less than the population. It also needs to be recruited vigorously and some refugees who fled to the famine to work.

In the terrain of Octaka Fort and its nearby terrain, Octaka Fort has more than 1,000 soldiers built on a hillside, which is a dangerous place to occupy the mountain. If there is an enemy attack, they can only attack from the back. Near Octaka Fort, there are also Qianchaigou. Three small forts of Yezhugou and Changlingou each have one defender and lead dozens of soldiers to guard the land.

In addition to these military forts, most of the near Bajiao Fort are flat land and small hills, suitable for cultivation. The river is the county river river, all the way to the Lianjia bank. The yao skull, Changhuan, Songbawang and other places. They are all riverside plains, and later generations were the main farming areas of Bajiao Town, Shenchi County. The area that can be cultivated in this area is nearly 200,000 mu.

However, compared to Wuzhai Fort, this land is mixed with many low hills and cannot be cultivated like a flat mountain, which is a pity. It also means that the "mechanized" use of Wuzhai Fort cannot be popularized here, which requires more labor.

In addition to attracting Wuzhai Fort or other directions, many laborers can only be recruited locally. After the news of recruiting tutors from various farms in Bajiao Fort, they would take five dou of grain every month and also make food for the first month. The refugees who fled to Bajiao Fort hurried to apply for the recruitment, fearing that they would be a step late and that the opportunity to have enough food would be gone, and the refugees in Bajiao Fort were almost extinct for a while.

In addition, there were villagers living around Bajiao Fort, who also came after hearing the news. Most of them were villagers from Lianjiaojiao, Changwu, Songbawang and other places. However, as the news spread, more villagers from the mountain villages in the deep mountains also came one after another.

However, what disappointed Gu Shibao was that there were few young and strong laborers in the local area. This is a military fort, and the population was not large. Over the past year, with the development of Wuzhai Fort, many young and strong laborers near Bajiao Fort have gone to Wuzhai Fort to work. Those who stayed near Bajiao Fort are all old, weak, sick and disabled. At present, the farms in Bajiao Fort need a large number of laborers, even women and the elderly and weak are also required.

Compared with Wuzhai Fort, the villagers near Bajiao Fort seem to be poorer. Many of them are thin, yellow in appearance, thin and tattered clothes, and generally malnourished. Gu Shibao frowned and thought that he would spend a lot of money to support these people. Bajiao Fort belongs to Bajiao Town, Shenchi County, later generations. This Shenchi Pond has a very smell of loess high slopes. Many villagers live in cave-like houses.

If you look at the terrain map of the Bajiao Fort, you will know that it is separated from Shenchi Fort and Wuzhai Fort. There are mountains and ravines in the middle, and there are only some small mountain roads connected, so the transportation is extremely inconvenient. The inconvenient transportation means that the material cannot be circulated, and even if there are good things to produce, it cannot be exchanged. The locals here, except for the fact that they sometimes go to Bajiao Fort to exchange for some salt and cloth for a year, it is difficult to get out of their own mountain villages, which has always kept them poor.

However, this does not mean that these villagers do not want to live a prosperous life. Most of these people are pure villagers without leaving home. Even these people know that the farm like Wuzhai Fort is set up in the Bajiao Fort area, which can be regarded as the influence of Wuzhai Fort has been profound over the past year.

Even after the elderly, the weak, sick and disabled finally recruited thousands of people, various farms in the Bajiao Fort started construction. The land was only reclaimed in April, and it would take a few months to build the construction period. This year, it is definitely too late to sow. Huang Laifu only plans to plant some cash crops here, such as soybeans, beets, flax (seeds), rapeseed, etc., and then plant wheat crops next year. First, the first is to feed the fields and raise the land. Second, after these cash crops are harvested, they can finally recover the cost of this year. Huang Laifu has never done a business that suffers losses.

Regarding the safety and defense issues of the farms here, the mountains from Bajiao Fort to Wuzhai Fort are stretched out, and the transportation is inconvenient. Huang Laifu cannot often go to Bajiao Fort to inspect, so he can only entrust his brother-in-law Xu Xueshi.

Among the ten farms in Bajiao Fort, in addition to ten chiefs of the headquarters, Gu Shibao, deputy head of the Wuzhai Fort Grain Group, also often visits Bajiao Fort to check. At present, these farms in Bajiao Fort are in the early stage of development, Gu Shibao is even more concerned. As the head of Wuzhai Fort, Huang Laifu has a busy business and cannot come to Bajiao Fort often. As the deputy head of the grain group, Gu Shibao naturally has to shoulder this burden.

These days he was busy, and his originally dark and thin face turned even darker. This time he came to Bajiao Fort again. In addition to urging the staff of various farms to work, he went to Bajiao Fort to discuss the safety affairs of each farm outside the fort. After all, although there were some guards in these farms, they were far away from Wuzhai Fort and could cause sudden dangers. They could never take care of them as soon as possible.

At this time, after hearing Gu Shibao's concerns, my eldest brother-in-law naturally patted her chest and promised Gu Shibao.

The reason why his eldest brother-in-law Xu Xueshi is so concerned is that except that Huang Laifu is his brother-in-law, everyone is a family. The dividends Huang Laifu promised him also made Xu Xueshi excited.

Huang Laifu said that as long as his elder brother-in-law takes care of the safety of farms in various places in the Bajiao Fort and prevents some horse thieves or local gangs from harassing him, he does not need to pay a penny. By the end of the year, Huang Laifu will give him three thousand taels of silver, and more than that. If the Bajiao Fort develops well in the future, Huang Laifu will also plan to set up a large factory in this area. He will build a lot of oil, cement, lime, bricks and tiles, and then he will distribute several thousand taels of silver to his elder brother-in-law.

This naturally made my elder brother-in-law Xu Xueshi very moved. At present, there are more than a thousand officers and soldiers in his Octagon Fort. Most of these officers and soldiers are recruiting soldiers, not military households in the garrison. They do not have their own fields. They take the food and salary of the Ministry of Revenue every month, and each soldier costs one or two taels of money every month. In addition to the deductions from the superiors, only a few thousand taels of silver a year.

Of course, Xu Xueshi still had to deduct some of these food and money after all, but after all, the food and money were limited, and even if the military money was deducted, it would not be deducted much. Besides, these soldiers were poor enough, and most of them were not covered in clothes. If they were deducted, they could not survive. If they were barefoot and those who were barefoot would not be afraid of making trouble in their shoes, Xu Xueshi would not be able to take advantage of them. Now, as long as they guarded their brother-in-law’s farms, they could get a lot of money. Why don’t they do this?

Without saying that Huang Laifu gave a detailed explanation, his wife Huang Zirou went back to the Octagon Fort and asked him to care about her brother's affairs. Even if they didn't say that, for the sake of these money, Xu Xueshi would look carefully at these farms.

Moreover, these farms are not far from Bajiao Fort, and it will not take long to walk. Therefore, these days, my elder brother-in-law Xu Xueshi took some people out to various farms in Bajiao Fort every day. On the one hand, it means guarding, and on the other hand, it is also to see why my brother-in-law is so successful and can study and study.

The soldiers of Bajiao Fort were also happy to go to various farms near Bajiao Fort to guard. Every time they went there, each farm was entertained with good wine and meat. Compared to the bitter days in Bajiao Fort, they were more willing to be guards in various farms. Moreover, these soldiers had long heard of the iron rice bowls of each farm in Wuzhai Fort, and when they saw the lives of the people in various farms in Bajiao Fort, they were envious. However, as professional recruiters, they naturally could not abandon their soldiers and change into the people.

"That's good, thank you brother Xu!"

After hearing Xu Xueshi's promise, Gu Shibao was very happy. Among the many farms in Bajiao Fort, he could be said to be the first place outside the fort to be managed with all his heart after he served as the deputy leader of the grain group. Naturally, he was even more concerned. Gu Shibao understood that if the place was managed well, Huang Laifu would pay more attention to him in the future and hand over more important responsibilities to him. Therefore, the management and safety of this place are very important to him.

After that, both of them were very relaxed and talked about other things. As they talked about Huang Laifu, they both admired Huang Laifu very much. Gu Shibao and Xu Xueshi, one is Huang Laifu's brother-in-law and the other is Huang Laifu's brother-in-law. At this time, they were both working for their brother-in-law. After talking about this, they were both speechless.
Chapter completed!