Just when Li Guodong returned to Shabeigou with the incorporated military households, a baby girl came to the world thousands of miles away. The baby girl was named Zhu Da and named Princess Kunxing, which is Princess Changping in a hero's novel.

The affairs of the capital seem to have nothing to do with Li Guodong. At present, he wants to develop production and expand recruitment of personnel.

The weather has turned colder, and it has been almost a year since the Jisi Change, which has caused great harm to the Ming Dynasty. More than half a month ago, Yuan Chonghuan was executed. Although his death was caused by his own fault, it completely cut off the alliance between the Ming Dynasty and Lin Dankhan, causing the situation to worsen.

The winter wheat planting has been completed and we are waiting for the harvest of the following summer.

Zhang Jin led his military households to the south bank of the Rabbit Fur River. When he saw a large area of ​​green farmland, everyone was shocked: Unexpectedly, there was a piece of such land between the mountains and rivers outside the border.

"In the future, this is your temporary home! After leaving this mountainous area, there is a prairie outside. If you want to survive in this land, we need to have stronger strength! And you may be threatened by the Mongols and Jiannu at any time! But don't worry, I will take you all to defeat the strong enemies and consolidate our territory." Li Guodong said to Zhang Jin and others.

"I don't know when I will go home when I go out of the frontier." A military household looked melancholy.

"Don't worry! One day, I, Li, will let you return to the Ming Dynasty as a legal identity. By then, you will no longer be rebels, but heroes of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Can we really make contributions to the court?" Zhang Jin asked in disbelief.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Of course! We will have more opportunities to fight with Jiannu in the future! It is estimated that there will be two years left for Jiannu to chase Lin Danhan. At that time, we can cause some trouble for Jiannu."

The food and food that the military households robbed when they killed officials and rebelled was almost consumed during the march this month. After coming to Shabeigou City, they needed to consume Li Guodong's own food.

Li Guodong doesn’t have many fine grains like rice, wheat, and most of them are mixed grains and coarse grains. Everyone’s daily rations are concentrated. Every morning, each person has a bowl of millet porridge and a sorghum noodle steamed bun; lunch is a bowl of porridge mixed with millet and rice, and then a cook cake made of wheat flour, buckwheat flour and sorghum noodles.

The side food is quite rich, including cabbage and eggplant grown by yourself and sheep raised by yourself, but the food is tight. Before the wheat harvest next summer, Li Guodong will wait for Wang Quan's caravan to come back.

After the rebellion of Yulin Guard, Li Guodong's manpower increased by more than 6,000 people. At this time, he had more than 11,000 people, which did not include the population of Wang Quan's caravan who had lived in the pass for a long time. With a large number of people, Li Guodong, on the one hand, had people cut down a large amount of wood, built houses and barracks, and built ships and vehicles.

Shipbuilding is to sail on the Tumao River, Hong River, Daqing River and the Yellow River. There are many rivers between the Mongolian grasslands and the Yinshan Mountains, and these rivers eventually flow into the Yellow River. Although large ships cannot sail on these rivers, even small boats have far exceeded the land transportation capacity.

Shipbuilding is an extremely complex project. The cut down wood cannot be built immediately. It takes several months to several years to soak and dry before it can be used to build a ship. Otherwise, the built ship will disintegrate due to the deformation of the wood. Before the ship can be built, Li Guodong first builds a raft transportation.

On the south bank of the city wall, Li Guodong led the young and strong men to dig the canal and installed water trucks on the river surface. He used the water truck to irrigate the river water into the canal for farmland irrigation.

"A factory building is to be built here, a textile factory is specially designed for weaving cloth and wool." Li Guodong set out a piece of thirty feet long and twenty feet wide in the village to build the factory.

Among the more than 11,000 people, more than one-third of the women's family members account for. These women are also laborers. After building a textile factory, women can be allowed to weave cloth, spin and spin wool. Especially wool textiles can be used to make wool sweaters and wool clothes. I believe that these clothes with excellent warmth will be very popular.

At that time, we collect wool from the Mongolians, weave it into wool sweaters and wool clothes, and sell it to the Mongolians. This will make huge profits by entering and leaving.

Li Guodong didn't know how to make wool textile machines, but he studied the spinning machines and fabric looms brought by military households, and then carried out some transformations to imitate cotton textile machines to make wool textile machines, and imitate cloth fabrics to make wool looms. In fact, whether it is weaving or weaving wool fabrics, the principles are the same, except that the thickness of shuttles, yarns, etc. are different. As long as the size is increased according to the proportion, different looms can be made.

The severe winter is coming soon, and the winter outside the border can be said to be extremely cold. Li Guodong and his own group of old brothers are not worried. They have lived outside the border since childhood and are used to the severe cold. Moreover, they have thick cotton coats on their bodies, so it is not a problem to keep the cold. However, the wintering problems of those new military households and their families have become the problem that Li Guodong is worried about.

These military households do not have warm clothes. Many people have a torn cotton coat that can no longer resist the cold. They wear such clothes outside the border in winter and must freeze to death. Now, it is too late for Li Guodong to make a batch of clothes. When they lived in Yulinwei, they lived at their own homes, and lit charcoal basins or charcoal stoves at home to resist the cold. But when they arrived here, the temperature was lower than in the pass, and it was difficult to spend the winter without warming.

Li Guodong thought of a way: dig a land nest.

This area is an overly mountainous area from the Loess Plateau to the Mongolian Plateau. The soil is as soft as the Loess Plateau, and the ground nests can be dug more easily.

So Li Guodong personally led everyone to dig a nest along the south of the mountain.

The reason why the mountain is excavated in the south is that the mountain can block the northwest wind. The ground nest is excavated on the hillside. On one side, the high terrain is used to build natural walls, and on the other three sides, small walls are built with earthen bricks, doors and windows on the front, and thatched on the roof is covered with wooden beams, making it a simple and warm house.

A kang is set up inside the ground nest, and when winter comes, it will make a fire to keep warm.

In addition to building land nests for military households to live in, Li Guodong also built special thatched cottages, which everyone had to go to. On the one hand, it could reduce pollution and on the other hand, it could also provide fertilizer for farmland.

"Dear brothers, General Li will not hold us accountable for killing officials and rebelling, but will also provide us with food and accommodation. He is the benefactor of our Yulin Guard military households! We must be grateful for our kindness, and we must repay General Li in the future!" Zhang Jin said this to his brothers.
Chapter completed!