Huang Yi ignored the bow and arrow pointed at him, walked directly to the woman and said to the children:
"We are all Han Chinese, good people, and we are good people who can cook cakes and mutton for you."
As Huang Yi spoke, he handed two steamed buns and two pieces of yellow mutton to a four or five-year-old child who didn't know whether he was a boy or a girl.
This scene was something that the strong man and the young man had never expected. They were dumbfounded and at a loss what to do.
The child's mother felt that Huang Yi had a kind face, but she just looked at him without moving.
Children don't understand anything, but they know they are hungry, they see food and smell the smell of meat, but they can't hold it back.
He immediately took the bun and took a bite.
Huang Yi smiled and said to the other two older children, "You guys eat too!"
The older of the two children is no more than ten years old, and the younger one should be seven or eight years old. I don’t know whether they are a boy or a girl.
Seeing that the youngest was eating deliciously and was so greedy, he immediately took the steamed buns and yellow mutton and munched them. The older children even brought the steamed buns to the woman's mouth and said:
"Mom, it's so delicious. You should eat some too."
The woman looked at Huang Yi pitifully and whispered:
"Master, I have nothing at home, so you are so generous!"
Huang Yi found it funny and couldn't help laughing. He pointed at the strong man and asked loudly:
"You also know that you have nothing, so what are you afraid of?
Catch you as slaves? There is no work to do in this winter, so why should I arrest you to eat food for free? Hahaha……"
Zhang Dong laughed cooperatively and said exaggeratedly: "There are thousands and hundreds of us, why do we come to arrest you?"
The strong man was embarrassed by the laughter and said, "Then what do you want to do?"
Huang Yi went directly into the room, found a stool to sit down on, and said:
"I want to live in harmony with you and all the people in this mountain. If you are willing, let's open up wasteland and farm together next spring.
If Tatars come to attack us, we will take up arms and kill them together. "
The woman's eyes lit up and she said, "Sir, my slaves can clear up wasteland and cultivate land, but they can't open up wasteland without big animals."
"We have hundreds of cattle and horses, so there is no shortage of big animals. If your family wants to open up wasteland for farming, you can join us!"
"Then..., what about the land cultivated by the slave's family?"
"Based on the ratio of labor output, as long as you put in a lot of effort, your family can always get two or three acres of farmland a year."
In order to understand how to open up wasteland, Huang Yi not only checked the information saved on his mobile phone, but also took the initiative to ask Zhang, He Jiye, Liu Shifu, etc.
Know that spring sowing does not necessarily need to be done at the same time, and can be done in several batches.
If seven to eight hundred Han people worked together, and four to five hundred oxen and horses plowed the fields, it would be possible to cultivate more than 3,000 acres of wasteland and complete one batch of sowing in ten days.
If it is to cultivate mature fields, with so many people and so many animals, eight to nine thousand acres can be cultivated in ten days.
Taking ten days as a batch and doing it three times, it is possible to reclaim 10,000 acres of wasteland in one month to complete spring sowing.
Next, we will continue to cultivate, carry out summer sowing, and insert vegetables and fruits.
How to use land smartly and rationally, Zhang, He Jiye, Liu Shifu, etc., including Wang Baishan, are all better than Huang Yi.
With hundreds of people and several hundred large animals, it is not too difficult to cultivate all 30,000 acres of wasteland in six months.
It is not realistic to plant all wheat, because the frost-free period here is only four or five months, but it is still possible to plant half of it.
This family worked for half a year and was able to reclaim dozens of acres of wasteland. It was no problem to allocate three acres of private land to their family as a grain field.
The woman didn't believe it and asked doubtfully: "Will this field be ours from now on?"
"Yes! Your family strives to cultivate more land, and it is best to cultivate thirty acres.
At that time, sufficient rations were kept, half of the surplus was taxed, and the other half was freely used. "
"You still have to pay taxes!"
"This is necessary. Without taxation, there will be no money and food to support the army. Without the protection of powerful soldiers, sooner or later this place will be robbed by Tatars and slaves."
"That's the truth!"
Huang Yi said: "After talking so much, I still don't know your names!"
The strong man said: "The younger one is Bi Zitong, my wife's maiden name is Gu, the younger one is called Bi Daxi, and the younger one is called Bi Shuangxi."
It seems that the four children in this family are two boys and two girls. Huang Yi knows that Bi Daxi is the strong young man, but he doesn't know who Bi Shuangxi is.
Of course Huang Yi would not ask about such trivial matters, but asked: "How many families like yours are there around here?"
"I know there must be dozens of households!"
"You should take the children to visit our place. When you meet other mountain people in the future, tell them that we do not kill, set fires, rob, or harm women, and advise them not to attack our people."
"I obey, little one!"
There was air leakage everywhere in Bi Zitong's house. In the center of the main room was a few stones... well, it should be a stove, but it was too simple, a bit like a wild stove built during camping.
The fuel is actually not wood, but coal.
Huang Yi knew that there were coal mines in many places in the mountainous areas outside the mouth, but he did not know the specific locations. He also knew that coal was called coal in the Ming Dynasty. He pointed to the burning coal and asked Bi Zitong:
"You should be familiar with the mountains nearby. Do you know where there is coal?"
"I know, there are several places. There is a place about ten miles away from here where the carbon is buried very shallowly.
Are you going to arrange for someone to dig some charcoal for heating? "
"yes!"
"Master, you must be careful about carbon gas, it may kill someone."
"I know, your family should also pay attention. It is very dangerous to burn charcoal in the house like this!"
"I know, little one, but I can't survive the winter without a fever. It's too cold."
Huang Yi chatted at Bi Zitong's house for more than an hour. Not only did he find out where the coal was, he also learned about the water volume of the "Unnamed River" and how many horse thieves were haunting the area.
The number of several groups of horse thieves is not very large, and the largest group has less than 100 members. There should be their dens in the mountains, or it may be their old nest.
These horse thieves may be rabbits who don't want to eat the grass beside their nests, or they may think that the mountain people are extremely poor and there is really nothing to rob, so they actually get along with Bi Zitong and other mountain people.
This is a new situation.
This is also good news.
It is enough to show that even outside the Great Wall, a horse thief can survive.
Huang Yi has experienced several fierce battles and has a particularly strong heart.
Jian Nu was one of the strongest cold weapon troops in this era, and he killed five of them with his own hands.
Therefore, Huang Yi proudly believed that if he became a horse thief, he would definitely be able to become the king of horse thieves.
It doesn't matter if there are horse thieves nearby. If they don't escape as soon as possible, Huang Yi will go to Lian Guoduan in a while.
Huang Yi asked a lot of questions, but deliberately did not ask about Bi Zitong's origins.
He guessed in his heart that Bi Zitong was either a runaway slave or a deserter. Judging from his wife's words, this woman should have been a maid in a wealthy family or an official family.
It is possible that Bi Zitong kidnapped a maidservant from a wealthy family and then fled to live in the mountains outside the pass.
