And since there are mountain springs in the valley, I guess there are other water sources.

If it is found, this place can not only be used as a backup military garrison point along the Great Wall in the future, but also approximately 50,000 acres of new farmland can be developed in the gentle areas between the hills within a radius of ten miles outside the valley.

At that time, 20,000 to 30,000 acres of farmland will be allocated for military garrison, which will be enough to maintain the food and grass expenses of the 10,000 Great Wall defenders."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nodded.

Shi Zhongkui continued with a smile, "After the military garrison is opened, the distinguished officials in the capital will establish farms here. It will be impossible for the army to be garrisoned here in the future."

Everyone knows this. There are actually many water sources and plains in the north of Gyeonggi.

However, because it is close to the outside of the pass, it faces threats from horse thieves and nomadic cavalry from time to time, so the population has never been able to increase.

In addition, if you want to open up wasteland, you can only rely on the squire to provide tools, manpower and material resources. If you can open up ten or twenty acres of land every year, it is considered good.

More importantly, although there is no shortage of water sources, it is more difficult to bring water here than to open up wasteland.

For farmland that depends entirely on the weather, the harvest can be imagined. If it is not done well, you will lose everything.

Since it is not valuable, there will be no honorable people, and officials will miss this place.

And to be blunt, the border troops stationed here are often more hateful than horse thieves and nomadic cavalry.

After appeasing the two large and small officials in the field camp, Shi Zhongkui thought for a while and sent two memorials to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War.

After receiving approval from the two yamen, construction began.

However, it was already late October and there was not much time to actually start construction.

Once the temperature drops below zero and even the ground freezes, you basically have no choice but to hide in your tent.

Shi Zhongkui originally did not plan to dig out the underground water veins this year.

But think about it, if there is no water source enough to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of land, there is no reason for the field soldiers to be stationed here all the time.

There is no reason to start building winter houses.

If you only live in a tent, you will definitely suffer from frostbite or even freeze to death.

And if you don't give the soldiers in the field some confidence, ten days and a half is fine, but if they stay here all winter, it will inevitably lead to unstable military morale.

At night, in the general's tent, Shi Zhongkui summoned the mountain gods and the land.

It didn't take long for a plan to be made.

Having experienced the Wanping Changgou Wetland, Qiu Yougang, the god of Tianshou Mountain, could easily estimate the size of the fountain that would be enough to irrigate 50,000 acres of farmland based on the water output from the fountain at the wetland.

In the next few days, Shi Zhongkui led people in the valley during the day, looking here and there with a compass and other objects in his hand.

At night, the mountain god mobilized the power of the mountains and quietly began to transform the outlet of the underground river.

After gathering more than a dozen natural fountains together, and waiting for Shi Zhongkui to order people to dig up the mountain, spring water will naturally gush out.

And in order to avoid water shortage during the dry season, the water outlet this time was changed into three spring holes, one high and two low.

Using fire again, pouring water, and the principles of thermal expansion and contraction, the first water outlet was opened in just one day.

"The water is out, the water is out."

While thousands of field soldiers and officials were overjoyed, they couldn't help but have full confidence in Shi Zhongkui's ability.

After all, the first time can be said to be a fluke, but the second time is definitely a real skill.

Thousands of people cheered and saluted him again, and huge willpower gathered on his head again.

The Japanese travel god, the private soldier, the earth god and the mountain god were extremely envious.

But what Shi Zhongkui didn't know was that the water level in a deep valley pool more than 30 kilometers away from Chenjiagou was slowly declining because of the cutoff of the water veins.

It would be okay if no one lives in this pool.

But there is actually a snake demon living inside who has been cultivating for two hundred years.

If the snake demon hadn't found the reason, he might have knocked on the door the next night.

But if he really came to the door, he would not be beaten to death by the helpers Shi Zhongkui recruited from heaven.

He will definitely be subdued by Shi Zhongkui using the characteristics of space ranch after being subdued.

Shi Zhongkui once again used the purple, gold and red gourd to collect the huge incense ball on his head.

Then he asked Xue Biao to take the money and take people to buy 60 sheep nearby. A meal of mutton and mutton noodles was prepared, and the enticing fragrance wafted throughout the camp.

But for Shi Zhongkui, this kind of big pot of mutton can only be considered ordinary.

If you want to eat meat, just take out a piece of beef or mutton from the space farm, turn it into mutton skewers and grill it on the charcoal fire. Just add some salt and chili powder and it will be a delicious meal.

And no one said anything, and no one cared about where the meat skewers in his hand came from.

The officials of the Tuntian Division thought it was brought by Xue Biao or a domestic servant, and Xue Biao and others thought it was brought by the Tuntian Division.

After eating the meat skewers and fruits, Shi Zhongkui silently looked at the cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks grazing in the pasture, as well as the more than 4,000 kilograms of meat stored in the warehouse these days.

Three hundred kilograms of meat per day, plus 540 kilograms of wheat per day from the 18 fields on the farm, are enough to support a team of 500 cavalrymen fighting guerrillas on the grasslands.

If we were inside the Great Wall, the number of people would have to be reduced three to five times.

Because there is no grassland, the food and grass consumed by war horses every day is definitely three to five times that of humans.

Moreover, the field soldiers were not even regular soldiers, let alone war horses, they did not even have a few sets of armor, and their weapons only had spears and a few long knives.

In the entire camp, there were only thirty or so horses for all the officials, big and small, combined.

Fortunately, if there is a war, a batch of weapons and armor should be mobilized from the Ministry of War.

But it's difficult for horses.
Chapter completed!