I traveled through time, starting with two acres of land and a dog

The guns harvested from the two operations in the Chongqing and Luojiaba areas are enough to expand the armed forces by one third. Therefore, the plan to expand the army after the new year is just to temporarily allow various places to rest and reorganize the army, establish garrisons, and prepare for next year's spring plowing.

On December 12, the guard team returned to Baizhang base from Luojiaba area, brought back some property and guns, rested for a day, and officially set off back to Wuyin on the 16th. Looking at this day, it turned out that he was about to turn one year old and officially approached five years old. At the age when others began to be enlightened, Du Chenyu had already been fighting on the battlefield for four years. In these four years, he had built a foundation from scratch, but in troubled times, this amount of strength was not enough to fill the gaps in his teeth. But in Sichuan, where warlords were as numerous as cattle hairs, he could barely gain a foothold in the mountains.

1915 and 1916 were the most important two years, commonly known as "When a whale falls, all things come to life." As soon as President Yuan Shikai left this world, the Chinese Empire of more than tens of millions of square kilometers fell apart in an instant, giving rise to thousands of warlords, governors, inspectors, marshals, and kings with all kinds of titles. All parties took turns to appear on the stage. It was a historical opportunity but also the darkest period for China.

Second uncle's wedding was held as scheduled. They did not invite leaders from various places to attend. At present, there are many newly developed areas that need to be garrisoned and managed. Only some relatives and friends from Linshui, Wuying and Xiguan areas came back. Second mother is a native of Linshui, from the Zhang family, a farm girl. She has an elder brother who joined the team and is now a squad leader. He is very strong, so he is called Zhang Daniu. Later, when he joined the team, he changed his name to Zhang Hu. He now has Li Long and now there is another Zhang Hu, so the only thing missing is Wang Chao and Ma Han.

Three days after the wedding, after visiting the parents-in-law, on the fourth day, my second uncle continued to lead the engineering team to Ma'anliang to continue repairing the road. The plan was to build a road along the river. This section was also a cliff and was two kilometers long. One hundred people from nearby areas were organized to work together. In order to ensure that it was completed within 10 days, Du Chenyu asked his father to lead the team to participate in the road construction. This was the best way to boost the morale of the people. It was better to repair a section personally than to hold a hundred mobilization meetings. Therefore, he followed his father and mother to Ma'anliang. The road foundation was almost completed, but there were still more than 200 meters of granite cliffs, which made it particularly difficult.

"Father, send someone to Wuying to get 50 grams of dynamite and nearly 100 grams of black powder. It's too difficult to dig it out manually." He looked at more than 30 people hanging on the cliff with hemp ropes, using iron drills to manually hit the stones. Due to the poor quality of pig iron and the extremely hard granite, the effect was very poor when hit with a hammer, and the iron drill bit was easily broken and bent.

"We don't have much yellow explosives in stock, less than 200 kilograms in total. We basically only use the explosives at the last moment of each attack on the blockhouses at the checkpoint. Of course, there is more gunpowder, but the effect of gunpowder is average. If we use manual labor, we can break through in a month," said my father.

"Father, the New Year is coming soon and we will have spring ploughing. It would be good to save some time to build a few reservoirs. Without explosives, they can just not expand outward for the time being. The original plan is to repair it now at least until the end of spring planting, so there is still time to raise some," Du Chenyu said. He really couldn't stand the waste of manpower, so he used the total strategic reserve. Du Chenyu also specially approved dozens of kilograms of explosives for the Jingu Rock of Lianghui Temple to blast several key places, so that it could be basically opened within 1 month.

"Okay, then let's arrange someone to carry it, but let them dig a deeper hole in the rock wall so that the explosion will be more effective," said the father.

They brought food and dry rations and lived in a tent camp next to the construction site. There were more than ten guards who came with them and they also participated in the labor.

When the people present saw Du Chenyu's family working together, all their complaints disappeared. Every day a red flag was planted in front of the construction site, and there was a special drum to help cheer them on.

Three days later, several half-meter-deep holes had been drilled on the rock walls at both ends of the cliff. Gunpowder and explosives were placed in the holes, sealed with mud, and a fuse was tied outside.

"Boom... Boom..." With a few loud noises, dirt and rocks flew into the sky. This was the power of yellow dynamite. Although it was not as good as TNT in later generations, its power was not much different. Black gunpowder was added with sugar, which greatly increased its power. It was estimated that three more explosions would basically open up the road, which would save at least half an hour from Wuying to Linshui.

After staying in the road construction team for 5 days, they went to Xiguan area to check the land reform projects. This was the land protected by the Shi family before. After the whole family was wiped out by the Red Light Cult, they distributed the land to each household. Now they have organized each household to convert the sloping land into terraces. Du Chenyu was very satisfied to see that Shi Zongwei was also leading the team to work personally.

After more than 10 days of inspection, he returned to Wuying and sent guards to various places to secretly inspect and supervise the reclamation, land reform, road construction, and canal construction in various places. Those who failed to advance in all matters would be stopped and punished. When Du Chenyu left Baizhang, he asked all places to put infrastructure construction in the first place, temporarily reduce the level of training, and all personnel except those on guard duty would participate in the agricultural infrastructure transformation campaign for one month until the New Year.

In the nursery garden, in order to increase land returns and find economic crops to replace poppies, Du Chenyu has been encouraging the planting of mulberry trees, tung trees, and eucommia trees, and practicing the planting of tung trees and eucommia on steep slopes. However, eucommia seeds are too scarce. So far, only dozens of them have been found in the entire jurisdiction. Several fields around the Wuying base are used to cultivate mulberry seedlings, with at least one million plants. There is also a eucommia nursery with an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 plants. This is just a small amount of seeds collected from the entire jurisdiction.

This year's tax revenue has reached an all-time high, with 4% to 5% of the land harvest required to be handed over to the government, with Guangyuan County and Jialing Dao directly sending people to supervise the payment. Next year, the entire jurisdiction will have to prepare a minimum of 20 oceans in basic taxes, not including the % to % that will be handed over to the Zuozhi, Bao, and Bao. It's just that they did not pay taxes to the Zuozhi of Baizhang County in the second half of this year.

At present, the areas that the Du family has managed for more than one year also collect 6% to % tax on newly reclaimed land and forests. After all, they still have militia, garrison, and guard military expenses and civil management personnel to support. This is also the reason why they try every means to increase the other economic income of the people. The superiors do not have this part of the income on record, and the tax is for their own use. The overall tax burden of the people in other places has almost reached more than %, and it was even higher during the warlords' melee.

The people are safe because of the stable food supply. Therefore, from around the Chinese New Year to May every year, no large-scale operations or tasks are carried out. Planting food in the fields is the biggest task. Du Chenyu quietly spent his 5th birthday without anyone noticing. His mother made him a longevity noodle. The noodles were made by grinding wheat from the family on a stone mill, and then the bran was filtered through a mesh. In this way, a bowl of white noodles was successful. He was the only one in the family who could eat this fine white noodles. Adults ate it with mixed bran. The steamed buns were dark gray. His mother then rolled the white noodles into a noodle that was almost one meter long, cooked it in a pot, and added two eggs and bacon. This was his birthday meal, and it was also his regular birthday meal every year.