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Chapter 40 Unprecedented Crisis

Frosting made of sugar cane is still a rare product in the north, but there are various maltose and hawthorn sugar, and even sold in summer.

Wang Ju asked the Zhu family to bring a lot of maltose.

However, he boiled the maltose and put it in goat milk. Erniu and Sanniu were still not used to drinking it. Wang Ju had to learn how to make butter tea with Hu Heizi. But Erniu and Sanniu were still not used to drinking it, although Wang Ju changed the butter tea from salt to sugar.

"Drink it, little sister, little brother, you see, I don't like drinking it either, but in order to grow up, I have to drink it. Without a good body, I will get sick."

Some time ago, there was a spring rain. Sanniu got wet and caught a cold, which scared Wang Ju very much.

In this era, medical treatment is very expensive, and the fatal medical technology is still very backward. Even if it costs money, God knows what inexplicable prescriptions have those doctors prescribed?

It's mainly the body.

If you are well and have resistance, even if you get sick, you won’t be so dangerous.

Why does Zhu Qing always wear clean clothes and hygiene whenever he sees Wang Ju brothers and sisters? He is so poor that he is better not to get sick.

After finally persuading his younger brother and sister to drink butter tea, the new day began. Wang Ju opened the sheep pen and drove the sheep to the river beach. There were too many sheep raised in the village, so that before the grass grew, he ate all the food.

A few sheep rushed through the fence greedily to chew the reeds that had only started to bud.

The village is very quiet.

The government immediately took away fifty laborers, and even the second uncle was transferred to pave the road, which caused the village to even make swords.

The rest of the people are working.

Wang Ju still relied on the harvest of heaven to plant grass seeds, occasionally irrigate water, or plant beans and sorghum seeds, and occasionally hoe the weeds. Even though his body began to develop, he was still very young, and he was only a fourteen-year-old boy.

If you lack strength and your mind are not on it, it is impossible to work hard like other villagers.

The weather at the end of February is extremely cute, with low spring clouds and neither cold nor hot.

Wang Ju sat on the stone and read a book.

Suddenly, Zhu Qing rode a donkey and came to the Hunzhou River to find him. Before the donkey could stop, he turned over and rushed towards Wang Ju.

Wang Ju was shocked: "Manager Zhu, what happened?"

"Xiao Lang, it's a bit bad. Dongweng heard a news from the officers and soldiers of Luping Fort in Xixia that the Xixia army on the other side of Great Wall Ridge wanted to attack your village."

"How is that possible?"

The hardest time north of Yanzhou and the Baoan Army was the period after the Jinming Village was captured, and it was transformed into an unprepared area. Even after Zhong Shiheng built Qingjian City, he had to rely on the Qiang tribes to send messages to defend.

However, after a series of forts were built, regardless of whether the fort tactics were good or bad, the situation in Yanzhou began to improve. Just like Wangjia Village, there are Weilin Village on the east and northeast, Ansai Village and Long'an Village on the southeast, Zhao'an Village on the southwest, Bao'an Military City on the southwest, and Shunning Village on the west, these forts formed an effective defense.

Besides, although Wangjiazhai is on the front line, the people of Xixia often come to the border to plunder, but it is not the real front line. There are also Qiang tribes such as Gui Niang tribes in front of it. These Qiang tribes also belong to the Song Dynasty. Although the court dared not collect taxes, they were nominally convinced by the Song Dynasty. Although there were large-scale private businessmen on the border, they were all bribed the officers and soldiers and intentionally let them go.

If you want to break through Wangjia Village, at least it is not easy to get to Wangjia Village now. At least hundreds of officers and soldiers have to be sent over, but how can hundreds of enemies, if you want to pass through these Qiang tribes and patrol officers and soldiers?

And there is no reason.

Yes, the situation in Wangjiazhai has improved, but like him, it is just a trend.

The sword was sold three times and some money was distributed, but the money was sold for swords and ready to defend. The remaining money was sold for household purchases, or lambs, or other use, and all of them were spent.

If you have no wealth, what is the point of attacking a commoner village in Wangjiazhai?

"It is said that they got a lot of money when they heard that your village had made swords." Zhu Qing said the reason.

"Well, that's rich?"

"But they don't think so."

If that were the case, this message might be true.

Although there were officers and soldiers stationed in various forts, these officers and soldiers really worked? They were not attacking them. Maybe Wangjia Village was wiped out by the Xixia people and no one reported to the court.

"And there is also labor..." Wang Ju's eyes finally showed worries.

The people of Xixia did not know that the village had a simple defense system, nor did they know that the village had bought many bows and arrows, built a large number of weapons, and took time to train troops. A small village took away a large number of Ding Zhuang to build roads. Isn’t it a good time to attack?

But there are still a lot of hidden information behind this news, and Wang Ju looked at Zhu Qing steadily.

"Maybe it has something to do with the Zhu family." Zhu Qing did not hide it. This young man was a monster and admitted that he could win his favor.

"Has that person found it?"

"It has not been found, but it's almost done. Everyone is privately in the business, and some grudges are inevitable in normal times, but they won't stay alive. There are not many families who have real mortal hatred. The Zhu family has a mortal hatred, and the Zhao family has a mortal hatred. The two people who are suspicious of these two. But this time, the official suspects that they may be targeting you."

"I?"

"Xiaolang, you are not the one you last year, and because of you, someone's plan to destroy the Zhao and Zhu families failed. I think he would be angry and embarrassed."

"Then you have to attack the entire village..." Wang Ju stopped before he finished speaking. The world was as dark as a crow. If he hadn't been himself, the Zhu family might not have such a kind heart. What's the poor people in a small village? Let's talk about the evidence.

"How many enemy soldiers will come?"

"I don't think there will be too many people, it seems that there will be a group of people who will collide with each other."

The collision of the king is the Han army in the Western Xia Dynasty. They usually cooperate with the Capture Army to burn, kill, plunder, or be headed in front of them as cannon fodder. But don’t blame the Han people, the Song Dynasty itself lost the northwest, Lingzhou, Yanzhou, Nanhengshan, Douling, Shaling, Quwushan, and Tiandushan...

So the group of men beat the Dangxiang army even better than the Dangxiang army when they committed evil.

Maybe like the future Liang family!

"What if I report it to the government?"

"Just just hear, how do you report to the government? Even if you report to the government, what will the officers and soldiers do when the Xixia army comes?"

The closest fortress to Wangjiazhai is Weilinzhai. It is a relatively small fortress among Yanzhou and Baoan Army. There are not many officers and soldiers stationed, but there are less than 500 officers and soldiers in one battalion. If they are abandoned and consumed (the generals have no one to report their names for the sake of embezzlement, it is called vacancy. It is the most prominent in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Often, the first battalion had four or five hundred officers and soldiers to receive military pay, and the actual number may be less than 200), the force would be even smaller.

Even when they saw the Xixia army coming, they would probably have to hide in the forest village first, and then informed the Security Army City and Yanzhou. After the masters made the decision, the Xixia people would have burned and killed them all and retreated.

"Hold it..." Wang Ju couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Why are they all the same? It is obviously a big country, but it is mixed up again and again by a group of small countries and even a group of barbarian tribes.

"Dongweng means…?"

"Dongweng means it's best to prepare for defense early."

"How to defend?" Wang Ju asked.

Although there is a village wall, this one is not a wall that is several feet tall, or six feet tall, so you can climb up without a siege ladder.

Although the combat power of the collision is weak, they are not the black bee thief who hide their traces. After they arrive, they must be fully armed in order to make a quick battle.

What's so bad is that fifty laborers were taken away from the village.

"The official said that he was going to transfer twenty people to help you, and also support a group of bows and arrows. He spent some money to let the people on the other side of the mountain listen to the news..."
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