The people are very interested in traditional grain cultivation, and they basically don’t need to promote or promote it. However, they are very backward in the forestry and fruit industry, especially in mountainous areas such as Teng County, Yishui, Fei County, etc. This mountainous area in southern Shandong has hundreds of miles, which is also the most miserable place for farmers. The flat land is in the hands of powerful gentlemen. The land at home of ordinary people is basically sloped and mountainous. In the era when there is no fertilizer, the people only rely on cattle and sheep manure to farm. In addition, irrigation is inconvenient, the grain output is very low.

Farmers work hard to plant grain for a year and cannot earn 200 to 300 kilograms of grain. After paying the public grain, they can basically live a life. Once they get sick or encounter natural disasters, their families will basically die. However, many fruit trees can overcome these shortcomings. The fruit trees have strong drought resistance and have a stronger root system than grain. Especially pomegranates, which grow very well in the mountainous areas in southern Shandong. As long as they pass through the seedling stage, the root system deepens, the fruit yield is high, and the fruit tastes very sweet, which has an advantage over the plains.

It only takes time to develop the forestry and fruit industry. As the saying goes, ten years of trees and a hundred years of cultivation will not be effective without the forestry and fruit industry for more than ten years. Wu Song focused on long-term development and truly regarded this place as his home, so he would spend huge amounts of money and time developing the forestry and fruit industry.

As for why you choose pomegranates, it is because there are too few agricultural technicians and need to be cultivated slowly. The cultivation of pomegranate seedlings is relatively simple and can be found through cuttings. There are also many seedlings cultivated by the people, which is suitable for large-scale development.

Wu Song sat in the middle of the army and reported to the Mahjong: "The Song Wanmen reduced to about one thousand people, threw away their armor and gave up their morale. They did not stop near Teng County, but instead marched eastward, and now they have entered the mountain."

"Okay, go ahead and pay attention to the trends at all times." Wu Song waved his hand and asked the sling to continue.

The military advisor opened the map, looked at it, and said to Wu Song: "Song Wan is going to Baodukou. The terrain of Baodukou mountain area is narrow, with dense woods and tigers and wolves. It seems that it is not easy to fight."

Wu Song said: "That's true. Mountainous areas are almost easy to defend but difficult to attack, so it is not advisable to fight quickly. Liu Daniu, from now on, you will lead the team to recruit people within a few dozen miles nearby. If there are farmers who cannot survive, you can also take their families with their families. Those who are willing to go will be sent to Danluo Island to farm."

"Yes, I'll do it now." Liu Daniu went down and recruited people. There were many poor people in the mountainous areas of southern Shandong. There were many people who couldn't survive and wait for death everywhere. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people who became bandits. Everyone knew that being bandits would have to behead their heads, but what could they do if they didn't? Are you waiting to starve to death?

Although Min Zhuang, who recruits land reclamation, offers low treatment, as long as one person can work, the family of three will not starve to death. If both husband and wife can work, it will not be a problem to support three or four children. Recruiting farmers in difficulty will cut off the source of the bandits. If the bandits have no source, they can only be eliminated slowly.

The first person to deal with were the two thousand prisoners who were captured. In fact, they were all ordinary people, but they were forced to get helpless. Among them, some of the people who were extremely guilty of killing people, Wu Song selected dozens of people and handed them over to the Xuzhou prefect. The Xuzhou prefect was greedy for military merits, so he naturally beheaded and reported to the court.

Wu Song also notified Cheng Wanli to the prefect Cheng, saying that the remaining bandits fled into the Baodugu Mountains and were not easy to wipe out, so they stayed here for a while and were about to go back.

Cheng Wanli wouldn't let the army go back early because there was information showing that the former military commander of Dongping Prefecture had already fallen into Qingfeng Mountain in Qingzhou, and became the second leader of Qingfeng Mountain by nature. Because of his outstanding martial arts and proficient in military training, he quickly gained real power. Many leaders of Qingfeng Mountain had a grudge against Wu Song of Dongping Prefecture, so they were consistent in attacking Dongping Prefecture.

More than 2,000 prisoners were transported to Qinghe Island in batches and received brainwashing training from Qinghe Island for temporary residence. The recruited Minzhuang arranged to go to Danluo Island to farm and reclaim land, but the prisoners were sent to Chifeng Grassland in batches and phases.

Some strong men said, "Why do we go to Danluo Island when we have good climate and still have money to get it? We don't have money to get it and we have to give it to the bitter and cold grassland land?"

The guards said, "This is called differential treatment. Although you were originally the same farmers and the same people. But they were recruited and naturally they had to pay their wages. But you are prisoners, so the treatment can be the same. But don't worry, you work hard on the grassland and you can start working for three months if you perform well. Of course, if you perform poorly, you will have to work for three years in vain."

Others said, "Be content, just be happy if you are a bandit and don't behead you. Now you are just arranging to work."

Ideological work is the top priority, improving combat effectiveness and generating cohesion.

The Heishi City construction site in the heart of the Great Liao Kingdom grassland has gone from the initial 500 to the current 5000 people. Among them, there are those sent by Wu Song, those recruited by Duan Jingzhu, and those who have nothing to do on the grassland come to work. Military management is implemented, with ten, hundreds, and thousands of people hierarchical management. There are also differences in wages. The recruited wages are the best, and the prisoners are slightly worse. However, the food here is much better than that of the Central Plains, with mixed meat and mixed grains, and a lot of vegetables. Thousands of acres of fertile land were reclaimed near Heishi City, and a large amount of vegetable supply was planted. Even the tribal herders of Wuyunlei often come here to ask for some vegetable seeds to go back to plant, but the grassland is the grassland, and there are still very few farmland.

As the sun sets, the grazing sheep return to the pen in the tent near the tent. The grassland wolf is seriously harmful, especially the sheep. Since the construction site of the Black Stone City, the wolf has not looked at this place and has been hiding far away. The copper ringtone also remembered the construction site: "It's over, it's over."

The people and the people returned to their camps to have dinner according to the organization. On the foundation of Black Stone City, Tao Zhongwang sat there watching the sunset, quietly.

Tao Zhongwang was very happy about the beautiful sunset. His efforts during this period were not in vain. From scratch, craftsmen developed quarries, lime kilns, brick kilns, coal mines, and small iron smelting plants on Black Mountain with their fighting spirit.

The foundation of Black Stone City has been built, and it is made of hundreds of kilograms of huge stones, which is extremely strong. Although Wu Song asked for a low city wall, he could not be careless. Now the foundation is built and it is a wall structure with rammed earth in the middle of a large blue brick, so it is not a waste of time to build it.

At the same time, thousands of people led by Niu Gao and Guanghui were not idle in the Chifeng grassland. They were not idle except training and planting trees and planting willows. One planted hundreds of thousands of trees on the edge of the river.
Chapter completed!