Wang Hongyu and his party rested for a day, and the next day they recruited 50 people from several villages. Most of them were familiar with the terrain, hardworking and talented.
There are those who are superb in archery, there are those who are good at fighting ferocious beasts, there are those who can climb mountains and trees faster than apes and monkeys, there are also those who can dive into streams and fish and catch shrimps on the rocks as if they were picking things up from a bag.
These are all talents.
Ming Dynasty does not lack talents, but lacks grassroots forces that can keep up with development under changes in the economic situation.
The Hunhe Army and the Construction Army Cantonment, through the organizational capabilities of the New Army, can solve these problems.
Gathering these new recruits, I feel that they are all going to produce, which is a bit of a waste of talent. Of course, they are not qualified to join the Hunhe Army.
If you send it to a guard station or camp, it will be destroyed by soldiers.
It is better to build a military camp, and you can have a soldier who is not out of work, but can take care of the war~
good idea!
At this time, preparations can be made and the war can be carried out.
"You are familiar with the surrounding roads, but do you know if there are any roads to Sichuan?"
"Yes!" Several people who looked like hunters answered loudly.
"How many people can the road carry? Are there villages along the way? Where does it lead to? Have you walked through it yourself?"
Not many people answered this time, because it all involves details and you have to go through it yourself.
"I know, I've been there a few times." A young man thought for a while and replied loudly.
"explain."
"Keep walking along the Duhe River and take a very narrow road to reach a village called Zhenping Village. It used to be under the control of Kuizhou, Sichuan, but now it is developed by the people themselves."
Wang Hongyu and Yunyang Tongjian Lei Ming looked at each other. Both of them felt a little surprised in their eyes, but it was very reasonable.
Shennongjia, Qinling Mountains and Bashan Mountain are all right next to each other.
Although the road is difficult to find, there is certainly no road in the middle of the three mountains.
What the young man said just now is consistent with this situation from the location!
I quickly found a map to compare, and according to what he said, the blocked river would turn upstream and pass through Zhuxi County from east to west, turning into a north-south flow direction from south to north.
Yunyang Tongjian Lei Ming recalled carefully, and suddenly his eyes lit up:
"Zhenping Village! During the Zhengde Period, there was indeed a Zhenping Inspection Department in the northernmost part of Kuizhou, but later because there were not many people in Kuizhou, this inspection department was removed!"
The Inspection Department is equivalent to the one between the police station and the Public Security Bureau. The fact that this position was specially set up before shows that Zhenping Village is indeed a relatively important place.
The young hunter also slapped his head: "That's right! During the Zhengde period, there was an inspection department, but later it was withdrawn due to the lack of people. Now the old house of the inspection department is an inn specially used for business travelers to rest. Zhenping is Shaanxi
East of Hanzhong, west of Yunyang, Huguang, and the middle station on the commercial road to Kuizhou, Sichuan."
"Okay! You will lead the way. Mr. Xiake will record the situation upstream of the blocked river, and we will go to Zhenping."
Wang Hongyu left 30 field troops in the village and along the way, allowing them to conduct a preliminary inspection of the terrain, prepare to develop roads and facilities similar to post stations, and prepare to support the subsequent passage of troops and horses.
Led by a young hunter, Wang Hongyu and his party of several hundred people marched arduously along the trail trampled by business travelers, hunters, and animals on the north side of the river bank.
The roads are very difficult to walk, and most of them can only be walked by two people side by side. In narrow places, there are even cliff paths that can only be walked by one person. I heard from a young hunter that he followed his grandfather on this road when he was a child, and later walked on it himself.
"At that time, there was a post station in Zhenping Village, and there was Niutou Village nearby. The two villages were not far from each other, and each village had a maximum of 70 households. This is the junction of three provinces, and not far to the west and north is the boundary of Shaanxi.
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For decades, there were still small boats, but later there were floods and rocks blocking the river, and no one was cleaning it. There were some places where small boats couldn’t pass, unless they had to carry a small boat around.”
Wang Hongyu asked: "Is no one organizing the cleanup?"
"The mountains are sparsely populated and are at the junction of three provinces. When there was a post station, officials recruited villagers from the surrounding areas to clean it up. Later, most of the people moved away, and the post station was later cancelled, and no one took care of it anymore."
Wang Hongyu led hundreds of people, cleaning up while walking, and finally managed to walk on the raft downstream.
It took him two and a half days to lead his team through a place called Niutou Village, and then to Zhenping Village, a village close to Zhuxi County in Sichuan.
There are now only 50 households left in Niutou Village, north of Zhenping Village. In the early Ming Dynasty, this place was originally under the jurisdiction of Pingli County, Hanzhong Prefecture, Shaanxi Province, and is now under the jurisdiction of no one. Wang Hongyu took advantage of every opportunity and established a plant breeding base, carrier pigeon station, and research station here.
There are only 70 households left in Zhenping Village in the south. Zhengde used to be part of Daning County, Kuizhou, Sichuan, but now there is no one under its jurisdiction.
Wang Hongyu planned to establish mountain goods and medicinal materials processing factories, as well as cargo transfer stations and tourism centers. He would occupy these two villages for a long time and turn them into exclusive bases for the Hunhe Army and an independent kingdom at the junction of the three provinces.
After settling down, we communicated here again.
A young hunter who is familiar with this place told Wang Hongyu that there is a mysterious place deep in Daba Mountain, more than 30 miles west of Zhenping Village. That place is different from the surroundings. Mr. Deng Yuhan and Mr. Xu Xiake must like it there.
What's even more amazing is that farther into the mountains from this place, there is a river flowing out of a lake at the bottom of the mountains. That year, he and his grandfather paddled a raft in the lake in pursuit of a strange big fish, and found a molten cave in the fork of the river.
We rowed into the molten cave, walked for an hour, and finally entered that mysterious place: the mountain is very high and steep, the valley is very wide, there is a big river in the valley, and there is a forest; except for this underground river, there is no way in or out of that place.
, there are all cliffs with a height of 700 to 800 meters.
There is a step every two hundred battles high. The steps are very large and covered with towering trees. The sounds of animals are heard one after another. There are many kinds of fish and otters in the river, and the animals in the woods on the shore are not afraid of people.
He drew a picture: the irregular ring-shaped mountains on the outside are surrounded by irregular ring-shaped valleys, and there are mountains in the middle; the exit is a secret underground cave, which is thirty miles long.
Wang Hongyu took Deng Yuhan, Xu Xiake, Jin Nige, Li Tiezhu and others, as well as several guards. The hunter boy acted as a guide and set off to the northwest of Zhenping Village. It was eighty or ninety miles away in a straight line. Because there was no road, he walked for two days.
It took us half a day to reach the lake.
There was no boat to build a raft. I lit a torch and rowed the raft into the cave. The cave became wider and taller as I walked. After walking about 2 miles, I found a bright light in front of me. After walking another 2 miles, it suddenly became clear, as if I had entered another world.
In the world, there is a huge valley that can't be seen to the end. The width of the valley is about 5 to 8 miles.
Xu Xiake recited: "In the Taiyuan Dynasty of the Jin Dynasty, the people of Wuling were fishing. They walked along the stream and forgot the distance of the road. Suddenly they came across a peach blossom forest, hundreds of steps along the bank. There were no miscellaneous trees in the middle, the grass was delicious, the fallen flowers were colorful, and the fishing