Survive through the ancient apocalypse

Ye Mingze and the others suffered from scratches, but it was easy for the doctor to deal with them.Disinfection, hemostasis and bandaging, the two sentinels with serious injuries were quickly dealt with, and some minor injuries were left without bandaging.With the doctor's guarantee, the injured were brought back by their families.The No. [-] courtyard where Lang Zhong lived was immediately quiet.

Ye's mother and younger sister looked at Ye Mingze with red eyes, as if hesitating to speak.

"Okay, mother, little sister, I will be more careful in the future."

"And the future?" The two said in unison.

"Mother, you also know that there have been several accidents in the village. Although they were all lucky, the damage was not serious. But there is no guarantee that something will happen when the luck is no longer." Ye Mingze explained carefully, "We live in At the foot of the back mountain, we were the first to be targeted by the wild beasts that came out of the back mountain. The wild beasts are much more powerful than before. If we don’t clean them up, when they develop, they will inevitably kill a few people in the village someday. Dad Mother, you should be more careful when you go out in the future. Especially father and Mingxi Mingjiang, you spend a lot of time running outside, so don't leave alone outside."

In the past, the area around the back mountain was very safe. I haven't heard of anyone being attacked by wild animals for several years. Many children in the village play near the back mountain.Since accidents happened one after another, there are no children in the back mountain, and even adults go up the mountain with many people.

Ye Mingze originally planned to build walls around the newly reclaimed wasteland, but he didn't think about it at the time because he didn't have enough funds.Now I have to put it on the agenda.

Now is the time when the autumn harvest is basically over and people are idle.Ye Mingze didn't have enough money, so he had to send some people to mine rocks on the mountain by himself.He wasn't in a hurry, he didn't force them to dig out as many stones a day, he just let them dig as much as they could with their own ability.

The excavated stones were transported to the northernmost part of the wasteland near the back mountain, where the danger was the greatest, so it was natural to give priority to building walls here.Ye Mingze didn't want to make a tofu project, the foundation of the wall was dug quite deep.He bought these doctors and craftsmen in Yangshan County and nearby counties and towns, and it took him a long time to get some.Now it all comes in handy.

Since these talents are not easy to get, he only got one or two for each business in his hand, so everyone has several apprentices.Because there were few professionals, and Ye Mingze didn't want to make do with it, the wall was not built quickly, and the stones piled up more and more.

The people of Yejia Village were not unaware, but those who had some spare money also began to tear down the walls of their courtyards.Most of the houses in Yejia Village are made of mud tiles, and the courtyard walls are naturally mud walls, so they simply built a stone wall around the outside.Since the houses are all made of mud and tiles, naturally there is not much money left in their hands, of course, except for those who hold on to their money and refuse to let go.These people also learned from Ye Mingze and did it by themselves.Most of them simply help the Ye family, and then exchange their labor for the opened stones.This is also a win-win approach.

Everyone was working in full swing, so the village chief and the Ye clan chief naturally thought more about it.The two also realized something from the various signs of the past two years.There are only two exits in Yejia Village, one is the wharf in the east of the village, and the other is the mountain road leading to Yangshan County in the south of the village, which can be regarded as a canyon among the mountains.

Yejia Village is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and the mountain road near the south entrance of the village has steep mountain walls on both sides. This section of the mountain road is not long.After this section, the slopes of the mountains on both sides become smaller and smaller until they leave the mountains and step into the plains.

After discussing with several respected elders in Yejia Village, the village head and the head of the Ye family decided to build a gatehouse at the south entrance of the village.The south entrance of the village is about ten meters wide, with city walls built on both sides as in Yangshan County, and a gate opened in the middle.

This matter concerns the entire Yejia Village, and it was finally decided that each household would provide a strong labor force, and the whole village would agree.There are naturally a few more people like the Ye family.Ye Mingze simply rounded up the stones used for building the wall, and they would not participate in the building of the wall.

Building the city wall also faced the same problem as Ye Mingze. There were few professional craftsmen, so they could only work slowly and carefully.The gate was even more difficult to make. It took a long time for the two carpenters to find the wood that could make this kind of gate.

The city wall at the south entrance of the village is more conspicuous. Those who came to visit relatives and friends in Yejia Village were very surprised. They slowly advanced layer by layer, and finally spread to the ears of Caozhi County.As a magistrate, he knows more information.In the Daxing Dynasty, many places were severely affected by disasters, and small-scale turmoil occurred.Yangshan County under his jurisdiction is fairly stable.

It's just that Yangshan County has reduced grain production for two consecutive years. Although the foundation of Yangshan County has not been shaken, after all, hidden dangers have been planted.If this continues next year, or even suffers a more serious disaster, the entire Yangshan County will follow suit.Before that, he must ensure the safety of the land under his jurisdiction and eliminate all man-made unstable factors.He informed Ye Zequan first, and then sent his confidant Cao Bing to Yejia Village to find out what was going on.

After Cao Bing came to Yejia Village, he saw the city wall being built, and couldn't help being a little dazed.The city wall was built from both sides to the middle, and each side has been built nearly two meters. These are nothing, what made him pay attention to the height of the city wall, at least not shorter than the city wall of Yangshan County by visual inspection, and the width is similar.

He didn't tell the source, just asked quietly.The people of Yejia Village only regarded him as a relative of a certain family, and they didn't have any precautions against others.After listening to their gossip, Cao Bing knew that they did this just in case, for fear of being robbed of the village.

He walked around the village and found that the behavior of the people in Yejia Village was quite normal, except that every household was reinforcing the courtyard walls.From the conversations of the villagers, it was learned that this was done to prevent wild beasts from descending the mountain and attacking humans.In the past few months, several people in Yejia Village were injured when they entered the mountain.

When turning to the north of the village, the wall built by Ye Mingze's house is particularly conspicuous.He casually asked the surrounding villagers, and he knew that it was to prevent wild animals from going down the mountain.It's just that his family has people and money, so they not only surrounded the courtyard wall, but also enclosed the reclaimed fields.

Cao Bing told the magistrate of Cao County all the information he had found out, and finally attached his own analysis.

After hearing this, Cao Zhixian pondered for a while, and finally felt that Yejia Village was not a threat, so he put it aside for the time being.

Caozhi County sent people to Yejia Village to inquire about the matter, but Yejia Village people didn't notice at all, how to live their lives or how to live.

Soon it was time to harvest winter vegetables, other people were fine, but Ye Mingze's [-] mu of vegetable alfalfa gave him a real headache.He hasn't figured out how to deal with these, so he simply brainstormed with his family.

"Would you like to sell some?" Ye Mu herself doubted her proposal.

The yield per mu of Chinese cabbage is very high, at least much higher than that of grain.Radishes and the like are about the same as potatoes per mu.Excluding pasture such as alfalfa, vegetables alone can harvest hundreds of thousands of catties.These things are not worth much. Chinese cabbage can be sold for a penny or two catties, which is still the retail price.

Except for the county and town residents who buy some vegetables, the farmers here are self-sufficient, and Yangshan County alone obviously cannot digest them.If they are transported to nearby counties and towns, the vegetables take up too much space, and the horse-drawn cart can't carry much weight at all. After doing some calculations, I found that it is not cost-effective to do so.

"Brother, how about drying it into dried vegetables?" Ye Liu rarely expressed her opinion.She has also earned a lot of private property by selling Chinese knots for more than a year.

In this regard, Ye's mother and younger sister have more say in Ye's family.Seeing that no one else had any objections, Ye Mingze decided to adopt the younger sister's method of saving enough fresh vegetables for the winter, and make the rest into dried vegetables, pickles, pickles and the like.Anything that can be preserved for a long time is made one by one.

Drying vegetables in the sun is more troublesome in this season, and the temperature of the sun is not enough, but it can be dried in the shade, and it can't be dried directly on a kang.

During this period of time, Ye Mingze has been recuperating at home from his injuries, and only went to see the wall at the back mountain when he was bored.

Those who build walls are better, those who carry and lift are labor-intensive.When Ye Mingze found out about it, he introduced new regulations, that those who work hard work for half a day and rest for half a day, and the food for half a day of work should also be increased.

The Ye family provided good food for the servants, even if they were doing such a labor-intensive job, everyone looked good, and none of them suffered from exhaustion.

Ye Mingze was quite satisfied after reading it. He didn't want to dry up the lake and fish.That's something a fool who thinks he's smart can do.The wall was indeed built very slowly. It was almost December, and it was still only a few hundred meters long, not even half of the north side.There will be a winter break in a few days, and it seems that it can only continue next year.

After turning around, Ye Mingze went home and looked around.Now the family has a lot of livestock, ten cows, ten horses, one donkey, and many other pigs and sheep.

At first, Ye Mingze was worried that the animals would violently injure others.As a result, after a few days of attention, it was found that as long as they were not intentionally abused, the animals were very obedient, even after their physical strength was strengthened.If you think about it carefully, it can also be explained.Bulldogs such as Tibetan mastiffs can take care of the house and protect the home when they are matured, and so on, and so do other dogs.

When the house was first built, due to insufficient money, deep wells were dug in yards 500 and [-] from yard [-] to yard [-].Other yards send people to fetch water from the river every day.Fortunately, there is a donkey cart at home to carry it, so there is no need to carry water for food, otherwise many people will be assigned to drink water every day.I have neither the time nor the money to dig a well this year, so I can only wait for the next year.Including Jiang's house, there are a total of ten courtyards that house nearly [-] people, which is a bit crowded. It seems that several courtyards will have to be built next year.The people in Jiang's house should also move here as soon as possible, it is safer to live together.

These things almost have to be done next year, so Ye Mingze didn't think about it.

One thing is actually quite funny when I think about it, he bought nearly [-] servants, but in the end he arranged them to do all kinds of work, and the Ye family themselves were useless as a servant girl.Jiang Jingzhi's nanny's family was also assigned to be in charge, and even Jiang Jingzhi had no one to serve him.Forget it this year, next year there will be a few more people, and let his family enjoy the blessing of being served.