Liu Kejun's man in his twenties cried like a child, but Liu Kejun's mother was quite open-minded and said, "Son, stop crying. The government will not give us a way to live, so we can only walk. As the saying goes, people move to live, trees move to die. The western part of Lanzhou is not a real desert. There are many good lands, so let's go and have a look."

"Okay, let's clean up overnight."

The Liu family is poor, and the only valuable ox was confiscated by the county, so there is nothing to be left to nostalgic about. A few pieces of clothes, a few packs of dry food, dozens of kilograms of seeds, and a few farm tools are among the few possessions. As for the bottles, jars, and the rough furniture, they are all given to the neighbors in the front and back yards. They will come back one day when they come back.

Not only Liu Kejun left, but Liu Kejun also brought a friend who was with him to complain. The next afternoon, there were more than a dozen people who set out together, five carriages and four households, and more than twenty people passed Lanzhou and left the pass. What caught his eye was the vast Gobi Desert.

Liu Kejun asked: "Cousin, why are there so many Gobi Deserts here? Will there be land for us to plant? Could it be that I was deceived?"

Others were also a little suspicious, after all, it was too desolate.

My cousin was a little angry and said, "No matter how poor you are, you can't cheat your relatives. You are my cousin. Can you still trust me? I'll give you this knife. If you find that you have been cheated at the place, you will chop me."

I arrived at the destination of this trip at noon on the third day. The villages downstream of Liushilibao were fertile and the rivers were abundant, which was very different from the situation in the Gobi Desert.

"Come on, everyone has worked hard, have dinner." The guest at the temporary resettlement office greeted everyone for dinner, including sorghum rice and pickles, and two fresh vegetables. The pot not far away was still stewed with meat, steaming and emitting an attractive fragrance. There was horse meat, which was an injured horse that fought a war some time ago. It was completely helpless and could only kill and eat meat.

Everyone was hungry and picked up a big black porcelain bowl to eat, eat vegetables and eat meat.

A small number of courtyards have been built in the Immigration Village. My cousin said: "The elderly and children are resting here, and the heads of each family come with me to see the yard."

Liu Kejun and four parents went to see the yard with their cousin. The design of this village is really unspeakable. A village facing north and south, with a horizontal and vertical street. Each yard has three main houses, four matching rooms, and a half acre of vegetable garden behind it. The building with blue bricks and red tiles is very solid.

"Cousin, what is this strange thing?" Liu Kejun asked his cousin at the strange iron tool in the yard.

My cousin said, "This is called hand-pressing well. Come on, I will demonstrate it to you."

As my cousin said, he took a basin of water and poured it into the well, and pressed it up. Not long after, a stream of clear water came out.

"There is a hidden ditch here that can flow to the vegetable field in the backyard. It is more convenient to use in the front yard, such as washing vegetables, cooking, drinking horses, and feeding cattle. This house is a typical farmer's yard, equipped with a stable and a chicken coop, which is very convenient. Of course, the stables must be cleaned frequently," said my cousin.

"Cousin, what is the cow we were given to us? Can you see it?" Liu Kejun said.

My cousin said: "The ration field of five acres of land for each person is free of charge. It can be planted for a lifetime, but it cannot be sold. The cattle and the house are paid in installments. I will take you to see the cattle."

The group left the village. By the river in the south of the village, several and a half-old boys rode horses to herd cattle leisurely. The river beach grew faster and the cows were very happy to eat.

Everyone was covered with fat and strong cows. Liu Kejun kept exclaiming: "No, good, strong, with shallow soil on the slope, and a cow can plow the land. It was indeed a good cow."

"A good cow is a good cow, but he is rather wild and needs to be trained slowly. How about it, my cousin didn't lie to you, right?"

Liu Kejun returned the sword of his cousin hanging around his waist to his cousin and said, "I thought too much and offended my cousin."

"My cousin said, "You have the strength to do it, why bother farming? Let your mother and younger brothers and sisters farm at home. If you come to join the army, if you can get a job with a single official and a half position, you will have a lot more income than farming. It will be easy to get married in a year." said the eldest cousin.

Liu Kejun said: "Okay, settle down first, and then I will discuss with my mother."

Within the sphere of influence of Liushilibao, there are only a population of more than 100,000, and raising 6,000 soldiers is too difficult. The speed of increasing the population by fertilization is slow, so recruiting the population is a shortcut. Where is the largest population? Of course, it was the Song Dynasty. The population of Lanzhou Prefecture is 600,000 to 700,000, poor and unable to eat. 20,000 were recruited one after another. The industry in Liushilibao has not yet started, so the recruited population is farming, and agriculture is the foundation of industry. If you want to develop industry in the future, agriculture must develop. Pang Wan

Chun kept in mind Wu Song's trust, grain and grass are king, and grain. Needless to say, people cannot understand it. In the Song Dynasty, the forage was a bit like oil and was also a strategic material. You should know that horses, camels, cows, mules, etc. all eat grass. Therefore, forage is also very important, and with the promotion of new crops, planting grain and planting forage are carried out simultaneously. For example, sweet potatoes, the roots of sweet potatoes can be eaten and can be used as feed. Sweet potato seedlings are very good and very high-quality forages.

For example, corn is grain, and corn stalks are forage, but the forage is a bit coarse and needs to be processed. In addition, there are oats, buckwheat, soybeans. Things that people and livestock can eat, there is enough land and enough water. The only difference is the hard-working farmers. Now, with the large-scale recruitment of the population, this problem will gradually be solved. After three to five years, there will be a lot of grain and forage reserves here.

It cannot be said that there is no industry at all. Liushilibao has a large water truck factory. The large round-wheeled water truck produced is specially used to carry water from deep rivers, called Tianche. There is also an ironware workshop that specializes in creating pickaxes suitable for reclamation of land. The sharp pickaxes are very durable and suitable for reclamation of wastelands and mountains.

This year, we will first open the land and sow the seeds now. It’s a bit late, but it doesn’t matter. It’s okay to plant it until May and June. The maturity period of corn is very short and you can harvest it in autumn.

Just when Pang Wanchun was developing in the northwest, the diplomatic battle between the Western Xia and the Song Dynasty was in full swing. As Tong Guan expected, the Western Xia did not plan to fight a tough battle, and he asked for peace when the situation was wrong. However, the Western Xia was very tough to seek peace, and even proposed to host Wu Song, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, who entered the territory of Xixia. This condition sounds ridiculous and most people would not agree. However, there were two ordinary people in the Song Dynasty court, and it was difficult to guarantee that they would respond greatly. Wu Song was facing an inevitable trouble.
Chapter completed!