??In Yiyang County, Bazhou, on the southeast foot of Qishan, lumberjacks were cutting trees in a forest. The charcoal kilns were emitting thick smoke at the foot of the mountain. The trees cut by lumberjacks were transported to the charcoal kilns to burn charcoal.

The sunlight leaked through the dense forests between the woodlands. This was a large lush forest. The trees were mostly thick and thick. The lumberjacks worked together to cut down the trees.

They waved their axes hard, and the iron axe chopped on the trunks, making a "dou, dumb, dumb" sound. These woodcutting sounds came one after another in the forest, and were entangled with the echoes of the mountains and forests, making the quiet forests that were usually very lively.

The sharp axe cut the tree trunk into pieces and saw the wood chips flying across. The lumberjacks in groups cut out two oblique gaps at the root of the tree. When the depth of the gap reached 80% of the tree diameter, the two stopped cutting down and shouted, "The tree fell."

After everyone around noticed this and prepared to avoid it, one of them pushed hard towards the diagonal intersection of the gap and heard the torso of the big tree tortoise.

Big trees fell down one by one, and then they were cut into pieces of tree segments. Seeing the piles of more and more trees, the foreman asked everyone to rest.

Lu Daogu sat under a big tree. He was a native of Yizhou and had no land. He wanted to be a tenant farmer and no one hired him. He helped other families with short-term work to make a living. He heard that the clan uncle who cut trees in Yiyang County, Bazhou said that there were shortages of people here, so he came over to do lumberjacks.

I can eat hard but I can get half full at least. I am very tired from cutting trees until the end of the month. However, Lu Daogu wanted to save some money even if he could save some money, so he was very satisfied with the current situation. This was much better than having a full meal in his hometown.

He came to the mountains to log wood shortly after he came to log wood, and he didn't understand many "industry rules", especially when he went up the mountain and left after cutting it. Now he had to transport the wood down the mountain. Looking at the wood piled up yesterday and today, Lu Rice was a little confused.

It takes an hour to go up the mountain, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. Lu Daogu was thinking about how to transport these things down the mountain. It was too difficult for one person to carry them, but it was enough for two people to carry them. It was a tough time to go to the mountain next time. What should I do if I have so much wood?

"Uncle, how should these woods be transported down the mountain?" he asked, and a middle-aged man sitting next to Lu rice laughed when he heard this, saying that when he went up the mountain, he saw a long trough on the hillside, which was called a slide, which was used to put wood down the mountain. <>

Lu Daogu said he heard this. He lived on the edge of the mountain in the countryside of Yizhou and had also climbed the mountain to chop firewood, so he was familiar with the forests, but this was the first time he had seen such a large-scale logging.

Middle-aged people continued to explain some knowledge. Some trees are not suitable for burning charcoal, such as pine trees, fir trees, etc. The charcoal burned from these trees is of poor quality and is not durable. Therefore, when logging, you must see the tree species clearly and do not waste your efforts to cut these trees.

"Don't wave your axe when cutting down a tree. Keep your ears up and listen carefully. If something is wrong, look up quickly. Although you will shout in front of the tree, you are afraid that if it happens."

"oh."

"The wild fruits on the mountain cannot be eaten casually, and even if you cannot recognize fruits, you cannot eat them even if you are hungry."

"oh."

"If you go out, don't go far. Be careful to pick up the jackals, tigers and leopards. Take two sticks in places with too many grasses to avoid poisonous snakes."

"oh."

Lu rice climbed the mountain, so at first he was worried about logging. After all, there were poisonous snakes in the mountains, even wild boars, jackals, wolves, tigers, and leopards. If it weren't for the hunters who had been hunting for years, they would easily die without a place to bury themselves.

Even if you don’t meet these things, you will easily get lost when you enter the old forest. The branches are lush and you cannot see the sun and you cannot tell the direction. If you go around and find a way out, you will be trapped in the mountains.

However, after coming to Yiyang County, Lu Daogu was a little relieved. The lumberjacks had dozens of people going up the mountain, and some guards accompanied them with bows and arrows. Such a large-scale logging team was not afraid of killing the beasts.

Eating dry food brought up the mountain and drinking the cold stream water in the bamboo tube, Lu Daogu felt that his strength had recovered a little. He was a man who was used to being a coolie, so logging was nothing. Besides, with the care of his clan uncle, he was not afraid of being bullied. <>

Look at the shoes on his feet, they were already tattered and there were thatchs, shrubs, and thorns everywhere on the mountain. If you were not careful, you would make small holes everywhere. Because his cheeks were not covered, small wounds were cut out from the thatch.

"Uncle, isn't this wage really arrears?" Lu Daogu is concerned about this. Nowadays, the quarry, logging yard, lime kiln and charcoal kiln in Yiyang County are recruiting workers. He thinks that he is working on his own by his strength, so it is better to go to any one company for more money. He always feels a bit unsafe when logging in the mountains.

"Don't think about it, the quarry is even more tiring. Where is the wages for lime kilns and charcoal kilns more than logging? I believe that my uncle has not owed wages in the past few months."

Lu Daogu looked around and found that no one was paying attention to them. After a moment of confusion, he asked carefully: "Uncle, I heard that the mountains in the mountains are not peaceful. Last night I heard people muttering that the village leaders in the mountains often send people to make trouble and prevent the boss from cutting down trees."

"Who did you hear?" the middle-aged man was a little nervous, looked at both sides and asked back. Lu Daogu stammered and said that he heard people talking. He had known who he had just come here for a few days.

"It's no big deal. You're still snatching water between the two villages. Those mountain barbarians are poorer than us on weekdays. When they see their bosses hire people to cut trees and make money, they have no way to burn charcoal or quarry to sell them, they are jealous."

"But" Lu Rice wanted to speak but stopped.

"It's nothing, but have you seen these guards? They are carrying bows and arrows, not only guarding against jackals, tigers and leopards, but also guarding against these mountain barbarians." The middle-aged man persuaded, "Besides, there is not only one village leader in this mountain. Some village leaders are easy to talk to, and those who are messing around are just a very small number."

The uncle and nephew chatted for a while. When the foreman saw that he was about to rest, he shouted to work. The loggers were still in groups, carrying a piece of tree sections and walking out. They came to the slide opened on the hillside, and several people shouted loudly at the foot of the mountain.

The shouting was connected with the echo of the mountains, which was to remind the wood at the foot of the mountain to slide down. A moment later there was a shouting sound. It was the people at the foot of the mountain that everything was ready.

With the foreman's order, the loggers put the tree sections into the slide in turn, and the rumbling sounds were made on the bare slide, and the tree sections slid down the mountain, making the sound of thousands of horses galloping.<>

Lu Daogu was very excited when he saw this spectacular scene for the first time. After all the cut tree sections were put down the mountain, the lumberjacks breathed a sigh of relief. Today's work had been completed and it was finally time to finish work.

"Hey, that's what it's like"

Before the middle-aged man finished speaking, a feather arrow was nailed to his temple. Lu Daogu was sprayed on his face by the blood splashed from his head. He looked at his clan uncle in amazement and then fell to the ground.

"It's the mountain barbarian, it's the mountain barbarian!!" The guards shouted loudly, bent their bows and arrows to shoot at the black shadows deep in the woods, and the arrows that the other party kept shooting also bloomed blood on the lumberjacks.

"Murder!!!" The lumberjacks howled in a mess. Some of them had quick reactions and ran down the mountain. Some of them had slower reactions, just squatted down with their heads, or hid behind the tree and shivered. Lu Daogu, whose face was covered in blood, hugged his clan's body like crazy and howled.

"Go away, run!" The guards shouted loudly. Although they fought back and shot down many ragged mountain barbarians, more figures emerged from the woods. This was no longer the small harassment I had encountered before.

The escorts' duty is to follow the lumberjack up the mountain to watch, there is no problem dealing with wild animals, and there is no problem dealing with the small harassment of the mountain barbarians. However, the number of mountain barbarians is large and they are no longer able to withstand it, but the responsibility lies with them, they must notify the lumberjacks to run away quickly before they retreat.

Many people heard this and came to their senses, and they rolled and climbed down the mountain one by one, but the mountain man rushed very quickly. They lived on the mountain for generations, walked on the mountain road like flat ground, and there were also sudden attacks, so many of the escaped lumberjacks were shot down before they could run away.

Lu Daogu howled and picked up an axe, rushed up against the crowd toward the mountain barbarians. He was deeply excited by the tragic death of his clan uncle, so he wanted to take revenge as if he was crazy.

An arrow hit his shoulder, and the pain in his heart made him stagger and almost couldn't stand it. Seeing a ferocious mountain man rushed to him, he roared and threw the logging axe out, just hitting the man in front of him.

"Go to the death, bastard!" Lu Daogu shouted with a crack of grimus, bent down and picked up a piece of wooden stick to face several mountain barbarians. The other party held a short spear in his hand and rushed towards him with a smile like a hunter surrounding his prey.

Lu Daogu's eyes were red, and he thought about dying with Shanman. Unexpectedly, a guard from the palace behind him held him desperately and rolled down to the wooden slide. While he was sliding down, he saw a Shanman chop off the head of his clan uncle, dancing with his short spear, as if he was celebrating.

"Battle, bastard!!" He howled in pain, tears blinded his eyes...

"Bastard!" Zhang Ning roared at the top of his lungs. He was now in a quarry. The quarry that was supposed to be busy is now full of corpses. Many quarries fell to the ground with arrows, and their heads disappeared without exception.

"Official family!! The guards suffered heavy losses and were unable to stop the mountain barbarians!!" Someone was crying next to him, and the rest were injured, all of them looked silent.

Zhang Ning looked at the burned houses in the quarry and was crying without tears. He was in Yiyang City and received an urgent report that something happened to the quarry. Originally, he was the leader of the mountain village to send someone to make trouble and ask for "loss expenses", but when he arrived, he felt a little disappointed.

The workers suffered heavy casualties, and now they have to suffer heavy bleeding to their families. Only this place in the three quarries was attacked, but the workers in the remaining two were scared away. In this way, the quarry would be completely shut down, and if they wanted to recover, they would not know the year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

"Our house, this quarry is stopped. If the progress of the state yamen is misleading, this is it."

Zhang Ning was confused when he heard this. It was a small matter to stop the work and not make money. It would be a bad idea to violate the contract with the state government. If the person from Xiyang City started to be angry, no one could stop him. Thinking of this, he felt dizzy and was unstable and almost fell to the ground.

The sound of trumpets sounded in Yiyang City not far away, as if the county government was gathering the county soldiers. Hearing this sound, Zhang Ning's pale face had at least some blood color. He staggered towards his mount, but he couldn't get on the horse in a hurry.
Chapter completed!