In late December, in Tongbai Mountain, it has been snowing heavily for days, and the sky and the earth are covered with snow.
The mountains around Xiema Mountain were covered with snow. Xu Huai stood in front of the main hall wearing a short dog fur coat, with his right arm wrapped in a bandage and hung around his neck. At this time, nearly two months had passed since the battle at Huangqiao Village.
This year the cold current moved south earlier than in previous years. Before December, there was ice and snow north of the Huai River. In Tongbai Mountain, where the climate was usually mild, there were several heavy snowfalls after December, and many streams and rivers were frozen.
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Liu Qiong'er was wearing a plain cotton coat, and her face still looked white and tender. She stood beside Xu Huai and looked at the majestic mountains and rivers. Behind her, in the main hall of Chonghuangguan, a new plaque was placed under the eaves of the hall, which read "Zhu Feng"
"The two characters, the head and horns are majestic.
The state soldiers were killed and defeated in Litang Village. More than 20 generals including the governor of the state, the state military and horse supervisor Chen Shi, the state regiment training envoy Yang Wenxiao, the stationed imperial army commanders Zhao Xiao and Xue Hu, the state Xiang army commander Ren Shu and other generals were either dead or
More than 2,500 county swordsmen, archers, Xiang troops and stationed imperial troops were either killed or captured.
Beijing South Road is sandwiched between the Han River, Tongbai Mountain and Funiu Mountain, and is connected to Dabaling and Qinling Mountains in the west. Bandits have been going on for hundreds of years, but there are only a handful of them that are as violent as this one.
In addition to a few officials such as Gu Zhihui, the prefectural magistrate, and Qian Wei, the prime minister of Biyang County, who stayed in Biyang City to organize the transportation of grain and other materials, Biyang County Magistrate Cheng Lunying, under the desperate rescue of County Lieutenant Zhu Tong and others, led the
More than four hundred remaining soldiers fought their way out of the siege.
Although the state soldiers had failed to advance several times before, the bandit rebellion was still contained in Tongbai Mountain.
In addition to the fact that Chen Shi, the governor of the state, tried every means to cover up and evade the important, the more important thing was that Lu Si saw that Chen Shi was also the commander of the army and the governor. At that time, he still had three to four thousand soldiers and horses at his disposal, so he thought that there would be no big trouble.
No one stood up to disrupt or verify the true nature of the banditry.
Three thousand soldiers and horses in Tangzhou were wiped out, and the bandit army may rush out of Tongbai Mountain at any time. Although the Huaiyuan Township Camp also won great victories, it is difficult to continue fighting, and it may not be able to hold back the bandit army. The southwestern road of Beijing passes by
After a little comfort, he was naturally panicked.
At this time, no one dared to hide anything and hide everything. After the strategy and appeasement, Gu Fan personally led 3,000 forbidden troops to Tangzhou for reinforcements and garrisoned Biyang City. At the same time, he also hurriedly reported the truth about the defeat of the bandits in Tangzhou.
Bianjing.
Of course, both the government and the public were shocked. They never expected that the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain would be so ferocious and violent twenty years after the incident.
At this time, no one dared to pick out insignificant details to fool the officials.
He claimed that the world was in a peaceful and prosperous time, but such a banditry occurred in Tongbai Mountain not far from his eyes and nose. Xu Huai heard that the officials' noses were really angry - of course, this was also heard by others.
Although Gu Fan had personally arrived in Tangzhou to take charge, the court obviously had little expectations for Gu Fan's Taiping official; and Chen Shi, who was most responsible for the crime, had already died in the battle, but Cheng Lunying was still able to break through without surrendering to the bandits.
Begging for work can save the face of the officials to some extent, and the court will hold them responsible for their crimes.
At the beginning of December, Dong Cheng, the attendant of Baohe Palace, rushed to Biyang with the decree. He also held the posts of governor of the state, supervisor of soldiers and horses, and training envoy of the state regiment. He took over the command of the Tongbai Mountain bandit suppression operation from Gu Fan.
Dong Cheng did not mention the troops in Biyang City, and the Huaiyuan Township Camp did not continue to fight westward after the victory at Huangqiao Village. In addition to speeding up the time to clean up the remaining bandits east of Huangqiao Village, they finally arrived in mid-December.
Before that, the Huaiyuan City Wall was built with a total length of more than a thousand feet and a height of nearly two feet.
Rural soldiers are usually the most important young and strong labor force of each family. Even if the bandit rebellion is not over, but taking into account injuries and recuperation, new rural soldiers will be recruited at regular intervals to rotate in.
In the Huaiyuan Township camp, the Xu clan's soldiers numbered at most over 500.
Since he realized that his achievements were too dazzling, not only were they useless, but they might also be subject to suspicion, Xu Huai, Xu Wujiang, and Xu Wukun discussed it and took the opportunity to rotate soldiers from the countryside, reducing the number of soldiers from the Xu clan in the countryside camp in three batches.
There were about 120 people; at the same time, with the help of Wang Zhen, they urged Deng Gui to fulfill his military exploits and reward him.
Deng Gui was awarded the title of Deputy Envoy of Tangzhou Tuanlian due to his meritorious service.
The deputy Tuanlian envoy is usually a person with no authority, but the appointment to Deng Gui at this time not only serves as a qualification for promotion in the future, but also makes Deng Gui take charge of the township camp and change his name.
Group training is also called a rural camp.
As rewards for other generals, the imperial court also gave some symbolic gold and silver coins, brocades, silks and other items. The rest were raised by Lu Si and Tangzhou. However, Lu Si lost three or four thousand soldiers and wounded, and had to reorganize the army.
When marching to suppress soldiers and horses, every copper coin has to be tied with a flower, so how can one be willing to give out thirty or forty thousand coins as a reward?
Fortunately, the thieves were in full swing, but the big clans on both sides of the Baijian River did not dare to cheat. After repeated urging from Deng Gui and Xu Wujiang, the reward money was distributed.
Jinshagou New Village needs to be built according to the standards of a military fort. It needs to be built after the carriage and horse roads from Shituoling and Xiema Mountain to Jinshagou are convenient for large-scale transportation of materials such as bricks and stones. There will be no rush for a while.
In the valley between Shituoling and Yuhuangling, a total of eleven rolling water dams were built during the non-stop construction for more than half a year.
The reclamation and construction of Gunshui Dam and the eastern slope of Shituoling were mainly due to the large sums of money and food posted by Shangfang Xu, and these are recorded in the records; no matter how strong Xu Wujiang and Xu Huai were, they could not seize them for nothing.
In the end, nearly two hundred families of Xu clan soldiers were willing to move with their families to Shituoling Xinzhai, Jinshagou and Xiema Mountain.
Tiaohutan and Huangqiaozhai were at the bottom after two major victories. Counting the two hundred tribesmen and Xu Huai, Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an's reward money, the total was more than 18,000 guan.
The extremely pitiful fields and houses in various villages in Lutai were all taken out and compensated to Shang Fangxu. In the end, they were exchanged for the land from the west cliff of Yuhuang Ridge to the east, including Shituoling, Jinshagou, Xiema Mountain, etc.
In addition to Shangfangxu receiving compensation in money and food, more than a quarter of the clan members moved westward, which freed up a number of fields for tenant farming in Yuhuangling, and the hardships of the lower clan Xu clan members in maintaining their livelihoods were also alleviated.
A happy situation for everyone.
Although Shituoling, Jinshagou and Xiema Mountain occupy two or three times the area of Yuhuangling, the land resources available for cultivation are extremely limited.
Over the past six months, even though eleven rolling dams have been built between the two mountains and valleys, there are still rock cliffs and rocky slopes everywhere, and only more than a thousand acres of slope land have been cleared, including the east slope of Shituo Ridge and the valley of Xiema Mountain Lower Court.
As well as Jinsha Gouzhai, the total land is less than 2,000 acres.
There are a total of 300 households in the newly relocated tribesmen and those already accepted by Jinshagouzhai and Xiemashan. Each household can only be allocated six acres of dry land to grow wheat, beans and other crops. The output is very limited.
It's hard to keep a full stomach.
Jinshagou is a deep ravine with steep cliffs. There is almost no beach for people to stand on for seven or eight miles along the stream, but there are more solutions than difficulties.
Mr. Su often led his men to drill holes in the cliff and drive wooden piles to lay pallets to expand the platform for placing chutes and leaching operations; they did not even consider the only open beach below Jinsha Gouzhai.
At low cost, a stable pallet was built with large stone mortar, and two keel water trucks were installed to take in water and filter the water and enlarge the large trough plate.
Although the water in Jinshagou beach is very fast and there is no way for rafting, Su Laochang still led people to build a floating raft and fixed it on the stream with bamboo wire ropes, so that it could be used to dig out the stream mud at the bottom of the ditch with a long-handled wooden spoon.
Although Liu Qiong'er's initial boast that he could mine thirty or fifty guan of gold sand per day did not come true, after asking Su Laochang for two or three months, he found that the six gold mining spots along the Jinsha Valley can mine gold sand every day.
A stable amount of more than twenty guan is quite astonishing.
With this income, not only can the construction of roads and villages be continued, but the families who have moved to the three places can also make up for the lack of farm output through work, so that their lives can be maintained and they will not be unable to even maintain food and clothing.
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The profits generated from mining gold sand and other things in Jinsha Gouzhai belong to Liu Qiong'er's name in theory, and Xu Huai can use it at will. However, in order to prepare for the upcoming disaster in the first year of Jianhe, the reclamation of Shituoling and the rest of the horse
The management of the mountain and the allocation of manpower to more than 300 small households must be integrated with Jinshagou and planned in an all-round way.
Xu Huai is now more and more aware that Da Yue is terminally ill, and the rise of the Red Hu people is unavoidable. He spends his money and most other personal resources without hesitation, and does some things in preparation for a rainy day. In his opinion,
It is extremely necessary.
The problem is that Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Xin'an, Xu Wuliang, Su Laochang and others are doubtful whether the allied attack on Yan will have such serious consequences, and they have no idea about the rise of the Chihu people, let alone Xu Guanshan.
Xu Sihu, Han Qi, Yin Peng, Wu Liangsheng and others don't even know about the alliance to attack Yan...
Xu Huai now wants everyone to gather the reward money they deserve for the bloody battle, the benefits they deserve in Xiema Mountain and Shituoling, and even their lives, blood and loyalty to do something prepared for a rainy day.
There needs to be a reason that makes sense.
Su Laochang proposed to establish a hall number.
Since the Jin Dynasty more than 700 years ago, clans that have lived together for several generations have had the habit of inscribing the name of the clan on the ancestral halls and family temples where they worship their common ancestors. This is also used to distinguish a certain clan from other clans.
, the tribe’s micro-account became increasingly popular.
This is the hall number.
The Xu family moved to Tongbai Mountain to take root, and the ancestral hall was inscribed with the inscription "Lu Ming". This is not only the origin of the clan's Luming Hall, but also the Xu family's descendants who left Tongbai Mountain also called themselves the Xu family of Biyang Luming Hall, unlike those with the Xu surname in other areas.
People make distinctions.
In today's world, partnership business is becoming more and more common, and big and small bosses are better united to rob families, or many rogues collude together to bully and dominate the market. There are also many precedents of establishing halls outside the clan to act together and coordinate interests.
If Shituoling, Xiema Mountain, Jinshagouzhai and so many people want to continue to unite to advance and retreat together, the only feasible way is to integrate them under one hall, and even the rules of the village, such as
The decision-making system of the leader, the distribution of public and private accounts of seizures (revenues), etc., are all directly transplanted to the hall for implementation, which is equivalent to the generalization of the concept of copycat.
Xu Huaidu had to admit that Su Laochang's idea was very creative.
Everyone considered that in addition to the operation of Shituoling, Xiema Mountain, and Jinsha Gouzhai, the hall was currently able to operate external businesses, mainly casting the "bows, arrows, knives, shields, and spears" approved by the imperial court.
, so the hall was named "Zhufeng".
Zhufeng Hall has Xu Wujiang as the head of the house, followed by Su Laochang, who is in charge of the hall affairs; Xu Huai hides his incompetence again, and his reputation for martial arts has shocked the prefectures and counties, so he takes the third place with the name of Mang Hu;
Xu Xin'an's reputation as a cyclone gun has also risen, and he has officially replaced his father Xu Guanshan in the fourth position; Liu Qiong'er, Su Di, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang, as well as Xu Sihu, Yin Peng and others who established their own names in the war against bandits
Sitting in the fifth to eleventh spots respectively...
Xu Wujiang, Xu Xin'an, and Xu Sihu were still serving as generals in the rural camp, while Xu Wukun, Yin Peng and others withdrew from the rural camp along with Xu Huai in the name of recovering from their injuries.
Not to mention that the construction of Jinshagou Xinzhai will take a long time, the upper courtyard of Chonghuang Temple on Xiemashan Mountain is located in a dangerous location, and the building is complete and grand. Of course, the main entrance of Zhufengtang is more suitable to be located on Xiemashan Mountain.
In addition to Su Laochang being responsible for the internal affairs of the Zhufeng Hall, it also set up a martial arts hall, which was responsible for the study of calligraphy and literature, training of martial arts, military formations and other matters for the young and middle-aged.
Xu Wuliang also led Wu Liangsheng and others to build a new five-arms workshop in the lower courtyard of Chonghuang Temple in the Donggu Valley of Xiema Mountain, specializing in the casting of five-armed weapons. At the same time, a pavilion under the city of Huaiyuan was used as a warehouse, specializing in the casting of five weapons.
Wubing Sales is actually responsible for contacting Huaiyuan City and other matters.
In addition to the normal employment of gold mining, forging soldiers, building roads and docks, etc., we also specially selected elites to form a fifty-man Tang Guard, nominally commanded by Yin Peng and Han Qi, who were responsible for Shan Tang mines and commercial goods.
As a security guard for transportation, he is also an anti-bandit warrior in the three villages of Shituoling, Jinshagou and Xiemashan.
Nearly two months have passed since the battle of Huangqiaozhai. Xu Huai retreated to Xiema Mountain in the name of recovering from his injuries. He thought that many things would be complicated, but he did not expect that Su Laochang was still carrying manure and water to irrigate the fields a few months ago.
With his extraordinary ability to manage the world, he led Su Di, Xu Wuliang, and Xu Guanshan to arrange many complicated affairs clearly one by one.
Xu Huai didn't put any thought into it. During this period, he mainly focused on recuperating his injuries and practicing martial arts...
