Chapter 1376: Summer Arrives

Summer has arrived, the weather has warmed up, and everything has become lush and green. The wheat fields of Huaxia have all begun to fill with grain, growing tall and upright. As long as no problems arise now, this year will certainly be a Harvest year.

Everything is developing in a positive direction. Ayuduo's belly is getting bigger day by day, looking as if it could burst at any moment, which looks very frightening.

Her movements have already been restricted; she can only go down to the fields for brief activities each day. This is mainly because her expected delivery date is likely within this period, and stability is the most important thing.

Before Ayuduo, Zhi gave birth to another daughter for Yulong. Because he had a child, Yulong received a few days of hard-won leave.

However, Sui's efforts to find a wife for Yulong have not stopped at all. She has already scouted out a new person for him and is now just waiting for Baifeng to nod. Since Yulong has already seen her and the like, he is relatively familiar with her and does not reject her, so as long as Baifeng nods, there will be no problems.

It is just that Baifeng does not have this thought for the time being; his mind is elsewhere. There are too many important matters in Huaxia, so he should just let Yulong make his own decision regarding a wife; there is no need to disturb him further.

Xiao Town has already sent word that everything has stabilized. Various types of livestock have basically all survived and are growing larger and larger; life is getting better and better.

The survival rate of various fruit trees is also very high. Now, every family's home is green, gradually changing the desolate Xiao Town and causing the climate of Xiao Town to gradually improve.

Hospitals and schools have gradually begun to be built, and saltpeter has also had a stable output. Every month, troops escort grain and supplies to Xiao Town, and then return from Xiao Town carrying saltpeter and scorpions as local products.

In the past, Shaoyin thought about going to Xiao Town to make contributions and establish a career, but time and opportunity caused him to lose that chance. However, he now has a better opportunity, which is the Shennong Clan Battlefield. The honors he has obtained on the Shennong Clan Battlefield are far more than what he could have obtained in Xiao Town.

Then there is the construction of the two cities. The city walls have basically been built. The city of the Suiren Clan is being built even better and faster because they are building the city for themselves, so their enthusiasm is very high.

Now, the Huaxia commanders and Huaxia Artisans tell them what to do, and they do it; they are incomparably obedient. In the past, they might have talked back, or even without Baoxi's orders or Huangpin coming to lead the way, they would drag things out as long as they could. Now, it is completely better; they identify most with the words of the Huaxia Artisans and do not refute them at all.

The Huaxia Artisans themselves also came with a mission. Besides guiding them in construction, they are also responsible for finding good talent, finding apprentices, and teaching students.

The entire Suiren Clan has such a large population, which means there is a lot of labor, but this labor is the most basic kind, only capable of doing simple, repetitive physical work.

However, there is simply no way to build schools right now; in the Suiren Clan, there are fundamentally no such opportunities or conditions. Therefore, this master-apprentice, father-son style of teaching model is the best model at present, capable of teaching the selected good talent in the fastest and best way.

In the future, the Suiren Clan must also carry out more large-scale construction, and Artisans are essential. Huaxia's own Artisans are already very scarce; even the construction of their own tribe is a bit insufficient. It is only because Huaxia has opened up career choices now that there are many more freelancers and private Engineering Teams, which is why there is this level of construction today.

The Suiren Clan is directly a wasteland with absolutely no Artisans; they must be trained in advance so that Huaxia's investment can be reduced in the future.

Baifeng also made an investment, which was to find several relatively suitable plots of land in the Suiren Clan for farming. Farming is a thing never heard of in the Suiren Clan, and the land is also relatively fertile.

Baoxi specifically selected a tribe to conduct farming experiments on their land. Huaxia farmers came over to teach, providing them with seeds and farm tools, letting them learn how to farm.

Although the area of the land is very small, this is a brand-new attempt. It is also cultivating farmers for the Suiren Clan. The Suiren Clan of the future must also engage in farming. By starting to teach bit by bit now, the concentrated population can obtain enough food when Suiren City is built.

Besides farming, there is no other way to support a place where the population is so concentrated. No, there is still a way, which is bloodsucking. The surrounding tribes hand over an outrageously high proportion of "taxes" to the center to support the Tribal Chief and a group of Leaders. Such a model is a bit deformed, and it also has no advantages, because even the people of the central tribe have the possibility of starving to death.

The city that does not rely on farming but relies on other models is the Western Development Group. Now, after the meeting at the end of last year, they have shifted their focus to animal husbandry. The development of farmland has slowed down extremely; this year, almost no more farmland has been reclaimed, and they are only continuously building facilities related to animal husbandry.

At the same time, as Baifeng said, the Nobles can choose to graze and raise livestock on their farmland, and now they have also put this into action.

Because the land is too vast and their manpower is not concentrated enough, all the Nobles chose to cooperate together. Each family contributes some people, and then they concentrate on one family's farmland to graze together and share the dividends together.

The developed territory naturally belongs to Yishang, because Yishang has more advantages. He basically went to see his land himself, and he also had a batch of idle, unplaced manpower—people who were recruited from the Suiren Clan last year but were not placed on farmland. Only after raising them for a long time did he say to let them go to his own fief to graze.

The remaining Nobles also took advantage of the convenience of building Suiren City to go to the Suiren Clan again to recruit manpower. Because of the propaganda of those Leaders, their recruitment efforts this year were very easy and very relaxed. The six Nobles recruited and assembled over a thousand people in total and uniformly placed them on Yishang's territory.

Then they hired over a dozen herdsmen at high salaries to teach them how to graze.

They bought over two thousand head of young cattle and sheep at once, and they are prepared to continue buying and stocking them after everything is settled. Because the fief is large enough, it can fully support that many livestock. As long as those livestock grow up, the investment can be recouped instantly.