Chapter 109 Planning for a rainy day
(Thanks to the 52nd new leader Xiao Ke9...)
"...This matter is simple, and I, Zheng Tu, knows it clearly. After all, Xu Wufu is greedy for Di Niang's beauty. If he fails to take a concubine, he will hold a grudge against Xu Jiewei. You don't know how Xu Wufu looks like. I have seen him in a butcher shop. He stared at Di Niang's waist and buttocks from behind, and he used his sleeves to smear. I knew at that time that Xu Wufu must have harmed Xu Jiewei. Unfortunately, someone falsely accused Xu Jiewei of having an affair with the bandits in Hutou Village. You guys say that Deng Langjun was just a first-timer and had a love for Tongbai Mountain.
They are not familiar with each other and believe what the traitor says. It is right, but Xu Wufu and Xu Heng are really a bad guy. When they know this, they not only did not help Xu Jiewei excuse him, but instead put in the wrong and offered a plan to ask Xu Jiewei to take people to guard Qingxi Village. Hutou Village is powerful and everyone has seen it. If Xu Jiewei surrenders to Hutou Village, they happened to be accused of being a bandit. If they don't surrender and are killed by Hutou Village, this doggyman will just snatch Di Niang over and be a little girl. Do you think Xu Wufu's mind is poisonous, are they cruel?"
"...At least, there are experts behind Xu Jie's level who are instructed. They are unwilling to do the bandits and cannot sit and wait for death. So they play a divine escape and sneak into Jinshagou to hide. This master, you will know that he is the one who secretly protects Mr. Wang. Think about it, Mr. Wang was harmed by a traitor and was demoted to Tangzhou. There are many loyal and righteous men in the world. There are a few masters who secretly protect him. What's so strange about it? It is the masters around Mr. Wang who see through the sinister intentions of the traitor and Xu Wufu, and who secretly helps him..."
"... Xu Jiejie ran to Jinshagou to hide, and he had no choice but to secretly protect his family. However, Xu Wufu was guilty of being a thief and secretly encouraged Pan Chenghu to drive him away, but he didn't want to backfire, causing Pan Chenghu to lead the thieves to attack Lutai Village, which was considered a cocoon. Xu Jiejie ignored the past and helped Xu Huai defend the Dazhai, and took advantage of the situation to seize Xiema Mountain, completely solving the problems of your Xu clan..."
"... Now that the big thief is in front of you, Deng Langjun finally knows that Xu Jie is wronged, and Xu Jie is also a person who is very wise and will not plot against Xu Wufu and the others at this time, but everyone has a clear idea. Don't go to Xu Wufu again. Xu Heng's father is fooling around..."
Xu Heng walked out of the conference hall and saw Xu Huai who had disappeared for a while, moving a stone pier and sitting in the schoolyard. He squinted his eyes and smiled at Zheng Tu being surrounded by generals. Zheng Tu was spitting out the grudges between the father and son and Xu Wujiang.
Three large iron pots were set up in the schoolyard, and the juice was boiling. Zheng Tu was talking nonsense while not forgetting to take care of his roasted mutton.
Xu Heng's skin couldn't help but twitch.
"The mutton happened to be cooked, and they happened to talk about something good, it was a coincidence!" Xu Huai stretched his waist and stood up, without looking at Xu Heng, drew his sword to pick a piece of lamb chop from the iron pot, and stolen the hot lamb chop into his stomach, making it delicious, and then asked the generals to gather around and get the mutton and lamb chops.
Although Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and his son, Xu Bosong, Xu Zhongyu and others were forced to bow their heads in the face of reality, in order to further gather people's hearts, the grudges behind them still have to be explained clearly in the truth and falsehood.
Only by constantly exposing the faces of Xu Wufu, Xu Heng and his son, and inspiring more lower-level soldiers to stand opposite them, can we not be afraid that they will be able to turn the chessboard in the future.
Zheng Tu was very slutty and deliberately or unintentionally mixed with some erotic and elegant guesses, supplemented with the delicious mutton, which made the soldiers swallow their saliva. Xu Heng walked out, Zheng Tu, who usually looked down on these young men, looked like silver spear and wax heads, didn't stop talking.
However, it was Deng Gui, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wufu and others who pretended to be kind and walked out. Zheng Tu stopped his mouth, picked the most fat roasted mutton with a plate, and took it over as if he offered treasures.
"What do you think about attacking the enemy camp in Juhutan?" Deng Gui also sat on a stone pier and asked Xu Huai.
"Where did Deng Langjun hit him, and what nonsense I have to say?" Xu Huai said.
Now, under the leadership of Cheng Yi, Huaiyuan is actively preparing for combat equipment to attack the camp.
The camps built by Pan Chenghu, Guo Junzong, Zhou Tian and other thieves built by thieves on the east bank of Baijian River are relatively simple.
If the bandit army dispatched five or six thousand main troops to advance eastward and fight to the death, the Xu clan soldiers and the inspectors' military soldiers combined with less than a thousand people would fight against him, Xu Huai would still have to be very energetic. However, as long as the main force of the bandit army did not enter Baijian River to reinforce after three days, they would choose a bandit camp to defeat them one by one, which would be much simpler.
Now, in addition to Deng Gui personally taking charge of the Beiqiao Village, Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others are directly responsible for the combat preparations, there are also a group of rising stars such as Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Yin Peng, Xu Sihu, and Tang Qing. Xu Huaicai doesn't want to worry about the details.
Deng Gui and Xu Wujiang grabbed Xu Wufu and others, and they simply wanted to squeeze more money and food from Xu to support subsequent combat consumption, and Xu Huai ignored such matters.
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Xu Wujiang and others were in charge of Beiqiao Village, while the bandits on the east bank of Baijian River were weak and they didn't even dare to go out of the camp easily. The connection between Beiqiao Village and Huaiyuan became smoother.
Xu Huai didn't have to worry about anything, so he took Yin Peng, Zheng Tu and others to Jinshagou Village.
Yin Peng's family had moved to Jinshagou Village long ago; after seizing the troops, Liu Qiong'er did not follow Xu Huai and the others to Huaiyuan, but stayed with Su Di, Xu Wuliang and the others, and once withdrew all the family members to Jinshagou Village-
Xu Huai arrived at Jinshagou Village. The sun was tilted down. Su Di, Xu Guanshan and others were taking their people to get some luggage and preparing to take their families back to Xinzhai, Dongpo, Shituling.
In the past month, almost all young and strong people from Jinshagou Village have been drawn out to train and prepare for the war, and the construction of the village has stopped. Su Di and Xu Guanshan brought more than 100 people from Xinzhai, Dongpo Shituoling. After squeezing here for four days, everything inevitably seems a bit disgraceful.
Many things in Jinshagou Village were forced to stop, but the method of chute mining does not require the use of young and strong people. Women and children can mine sand and silt the bottom of the stream and bleed. However, it has been a matter that has not been interrupted in Jinshagou Village for more than a month.
The world is turbulent and food is extremely precious, but gold is still much stronger than copper and silver, calligraphy and paintings and other treasures, and is a hard currency.
Unfortunately, the Jinsha Gully extends seven or eight miles too steep and dangerous, especially in the season when the rain is abundant and the water level rises, the riverside beaches on the riverside where people can stand are very limited.
In addition to Zhou Jianxiong, Yin Peng and others moved here. In the past month, they selected some relatives from refugees who escaped from bandits and fled to Yuhuangling for asylum. Now there are more than 130 residents in Jinshagou Village. Every day, they can produce 70 to 80 silos of gold sand.
It doesn't seem to be much, but after a year, it's enough to earn four or five thousand dry lands. It's more than enough to support two or three hundred people, but that's it.
"What are you doing here for stupidity?" Liu Qiong'er walked over with her skirt. Seeing Xu Huai squatting on the cliff, staring at the simple village below, she asked, lifting her feet and kicking him.
Seeing Liu Qiong'er's tender ankles were very attractive, but her ankles were still wearing thin silk pants under her skirt, which was not visible at all. Xu Huai looked up at her charming and beautiful face and said, "Go and tell Aunt Shiqi that people cannot withdraw from Shituling New Village, and everyone must settle down in Jinshagou Village..."
"Didn't it mean that Xu Wufu has accepted the reality and no longer has to worry about it, and he still needs to be on guard against him?" Liu Qiong'er said in confusion.
"It's not to be on guard against Xu Wufu. Cai Ying was in charge of the Privy Council and wanted to join forces with the Chihu people to attack Beiyan to restore Yanyun's hometown. However, the Chihu people rose in Mobei for 30 or 40 years. Wang Bing's grandfather thought that Dayue's internal worries had not been eliminated and his military preparations were not clear. At this time, he adopted a strategy of driving tigers and swallowing wolves, worried that the evil tiger would eventually retaliate, so he strongly opposed the coalition forces in the court. This is also the direct reason why Wang Tan's grandfather was demoted to Tangzhou," said Xu Huai. "Now the power of the main war faction in the court is extremely strong, and the coalition forces are unlikely to be stopped. Once the plan to drive tigers and swallow wolves is not successful, Dayue will be retaliated by the Chihu people, and the Central Plains will then fall into a scattered war. Tongbai Mountain cannot be left out. So we cannot think of using this place as a gold mining land just because Uncle Seventeen and others have already grasped the overall situation of the Xu family, so we will not think of using this place as a gold mining land instead of large-scale development..."
"Where are you talking about this?" Liu Qiong'er was stunned for a while, couldn't help but squat down, held Xu Huai's face, stared at him and asked, "Are you sure you are serious, aren't you worrying about it?"
The Great Yue Dynasty was more than 150. The Khitans and Dangxiang people rose to the west and the north at about the same time. They have always been a major concern in the Central Plains. I don’t know how many border chasms, big and small, have occurred.
The Great Vietnamese Imperial Army also suffered many extremely serious defeats, but the imperial court was able to actively organize defense and counterattack every time, and eventually successfully blocked the Khitans and Dangxiang people's troops from the periphery of the heart of the Central Plains and the clans.
The rise of Chihu people was to arouse enough vigilance, but if Xu Huai had not trampled on her heart without recognizing her, Liu Qiong'er would have scolded him for talking nonsense.
"Shouldn't you believe whatever I say now?" Xu Huai asked in surprise.
Liu Qiong'er pinched Xu Huai's cheek with force.
"Ah," Xu Huai raised his hand to beg for mercy and said, "There is a little turbulent in Tongbai Mountain, and there will be a storm in just over a month. These all show that the hidden worries hidden in the peaceful world are far beyond ordinary people's imagination. If the tigers and wolfs are not allowed to swallow them, will it be immediately severely backlash? I have no way to say anything with great certainty, but it will never be wrong to prepare for the future..."
"What is this reason? What's the difference between worrying about nothing?" Liu Qiong'er glanced at Xu Huai and said, "Even if I don't have any brains and are dizzy, I will obey you. How can you convince others of this reason? There are built houses in Shitu Ridge, and new fields that have just been reclaimed, which is convenient to enter and exit. Who can stay in the closed for these reasons? Even if you can't reclaim Jinshagou Village, which can't cultivate much arable land for you?"
"It's hard, isn't you talking so hard?" Xu Huai smiled. "In short, more people should be left in Jinshagou Village. However, at all costs, they should choose the risk to build a dock fort on the terrain and build a road with Yuhuangling and Xiema Mountain to open to traffic. There is no way to squeeze out too many grain fields in the mountains, and iron ore should be found on the left and right for mining..."
The bandit crisis broke out violently, Huaiyuan was besieged for more than a month, and the importance of grain and iron as the most basic materials was extremely fully reflected in Huaiyuan's organization of defense.
Needless to say, even if there is a lack of arable land in the mountains and the grain output is limited, after this catastrophe of Tongbai Mountain, the major clans of the surnames should try their best to buy grain from the outside world and increase the reserves in the mountains.
Speaking of iron materials, if Huaiyuan was not the goods and trade center of Tongbai Mountain, it had intercepted a large amount of materials, including tens of thousands of kilograms of iron materials before being besieged, and more than a hundred craftsmen in the street market were stranded, and the township camp could not even have enough knife and spear, how could it be to resist the thief army that was several times more than one?
In order to deal with the upcoming tragic disaster in the first year of Jianhe, Jinshagouzhai wants to enhance its future military mobilization potential, and only these aspects can be done at present...
Chapter completed!