Success is not a matter of luck. Even if you succeed by luck, it is still a kind of strength. Yun Zheng has always believed this.
The Khmer people can be regarded as a model of having nothing. A family with a shabby house with a steeple and two pieces of linen that can be wrapped around the waist is considered a good family. More people have nothing but the blow darts they carry on their backs.
, just nothing.
Yun Zheng had previously come into contact with the upper echelons of the Khmer people, such as wise men like Ye Sou. When he entered the jungle and started to contact the lower class people of the Khmer people, he realized why Ye Sou desperately wanted to rely on the Song Dynasty army to develop
own living space.
Ye Sou is only thirty-two years old this year, and his appearance looks more like that of a seventy-two-year-old man. He has lived in the jungle for many years with little food and clothing, so few people in his tribe live past the age of twenty-five.
What's even more frightening is that these people know nothing about the outside world. The glorious history of their ancestors is only in the hands of wise men like the wild old man, and the rest of the people are living a difficult life in the jungle.
When Ye Sou told Yun Zheng about the tragic situation during the rainy season, seeing that Yun Zheng didn't believe it, he smiled and said: "You are very welcome to come to Linmang as my guest in three months.
The cruel hell in the jungle is like heaven on earth. The people of the Song Dynasty are the people who are favored by the Buddha. You should be satisfied, my general."
Yun Zheng shook his head and said: "Master Ye Sou, we will enjoy everything we have with peace of mind, because those are the rich inheritance left to us by our ancestors.
Thousands of years ago, my ancestors, like the Khmer people today, lived a life of robbing hair and drinking blood. They also had to fight powerful beasts in the wilderness for a mouthful of food, and diligently guarded the harvest to obtain a little food.
My ancestors survived in a difficult environment. They transformed and expanded their living environment, and finally the prosperous Song Dynasty came into being.
Master, you still need to work hard. Not for yourself, but for your own descendants. You must work harder. We are like children with a strong and wealthy father, and all you have to do is
Try to be a strong and wealthy father."
Ye Sou nodded, shook his cane and said: "After this war, I want to take my tribe to the Central Plains to see if the general can help us make the trip?"
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "Of course you can, you can also become the envoys of the pilgrimage. As long as our emperor is more respectful and brings some gifts, you can get a lot of rewards. It is estimated that these rewards can be converted into food to feed your whole family for half a year.
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The old man looked at Yun Zheng blankly and said, "Is there such a good thing?"
Yun Zheng nodded painfully and said: "It is true. Our emperor is actually very easy to deceive. Countless people have deceived him. He still enjoys it and likes to be deceived. There is no way. Instead of letting those who I don't know
It would be better for you guys to lie to the emperor. At least you and the Song Dynasty are friends."
"I heard that the people in the Great Song Dynasty are the smartest people in the world, just like you, general..."
Yun Zheng waved his hand to stop Ye Sou's flattery and knocked his head and said: "They are indeed very smart, but when it comes to this kind of thing, there is no trace of wisdom at all. Master Ye Sou, you have to be grateful. There is no one else but you and me who can do this kind of thing."
Never told anyone else."
Ye Sou put down the wooden bowl in his hand, clasped his hands together and sincerely thanked Yun Zheng before continuing to eat.
Yunzheng and the monkeys began to patrol his team. Han Niu, who had gone to watch the savages eat, came over and said to Yunzheng: "Master, master, those people are eating bones and bugs."
Yun Zheng frowned and said, "You joined the army and didn't you distribute fried rice to them?"
Han Niu said: "Well, I saw the logistics camp giving them food. They smelled it and put it into a sealed bamboo tube. Then they went to pick up the bones thrown away by the brothers..."
There was nothing we could do about it. Those people probably saved the food. The Khmer and Song soldiers had different ideas. Now that they could fill their stomachs with bones and worms, they probably didn't want to waste those precious food.
Before setting up camp, Yun Zheng noticed that the appearance of this open space was very strange. Logically speaking, there should not be such a large open space in the forest. It looked more like it had been artificially transformed.
I found a spear and dug up the ground, and found lime less than a foot deep. Underneath the lime was a thick layer of carbon. Perhaps these two things isolated the growth of plants, leaving only some thick vines.
Rhizomes emerge from the ground and cover the rocks.
After peeling away the vines, I discovered that the rocks were not naturally formed, but rather stone statues. The stone statues were carved in a very primitive way, with long faces and big eyes, and no special markings could be seen. They were neither Buddhist statues nor Taoist statues in the Song Dynasty. They were completely
It was carved according to the appearance of the local people. I had asked the old man a long time ago, but he didn't know.
This should be a country in the forest. Ordinary tribes do not have such strong strength to carry out such huge projects in the forest. There are still broken city walls on the edge, but countless banyan trees grow out of the gaps between the stones.
This should be a good place to build an advance base. It should be excellent as a transfer station. Those merchants have already started to send people to cut down trees and prepare to build houses and warehouses here. Once they get it from Thang Long Palace, they can quickly transfer the goods.
Come here, and then use the relay method to quickly transfer the goods to the Song Dynasty.
Yun Zheng explored the terrain here not to study archeology, but to see if it could become a qualified military fortress. If the war went unfavorably, he would have a place to fight and retreat.
That's too much.
Seeing all the soldiers lying naked on the rocks basking in the sun, Yun Zheng couldn't blame him. After marching for many days, their feet and bodies had some ulcers, and the sun was undoubtedly the best.
Good healing medicine.
The smell gets stronger when there are more people. Yun Zheng saw some colorful pythons crawling beside the city wall. Gunpowder bombs made a roar from time to time. Wherever there was a noise, there would be tattered pythons that had been blown up by the Khmers.
The meat was cut into pieces and carried back happily. No wonder the Khmer people were reluctant to eat fried rice. These snake meats were enough for them to have a full meal.
Those Khmers eat almost anything, and they will not let go of the bones that the stupid cow said. They will smash them with stones and then swallow them with their necks raised. The wriggling Adam's apple is like a python devouring food.
The medical officer of Jiaziying was walking among the crowd. He looked at Wu Shengjun sunbathing as if he was looking at his own harvest. He asked these people to sunbathe every part of their body, especially the crotch, which was the most vulnerable place.
Infected area.
There are also some medical officers treating the savages. Their skin is not as easy to ulcerate as Wu Shengjun's skin. Most of the injuries they receive are abrasions and lacerations. Many of them need medical officers to sew up the wounds.
They treated their wounds very simply. They chewed some green leaves in their mouths until they became a paste. Then they wrapped the leaves on their wounds. The medical officers had already picked a lot of those leaves and planned to go back.
I started researching because it seemed to be very effective. It would stop bleeding immediately after being applied. Especially after the leaves were chewed by those people’s dirty mouths, there was no inflammation when applied to the wound. In such a sultry weather, there was no inflammation.
Inflammation, this is so rare.
During the meeting, Yun Zheng breathed a sigh of relief after listening to the reports from various departments. The attrition was not serious, and the preparations he had made before departure had played a very good protective role. Thirty percent of the distance had been traveled, and he died.
The seriously injured soldiers had not yet appeared, which gave Yun Zheng great confidence.
After all, the people in Shu are different from the northwest frontier army. Wu Shengjun is stationed in the warm and humid Shuzhong all year round and is quite adaptable to the climate here. Di Qing's army is suffering from serious attrition due to acclimatization. The biggest trouble is still skin ulcers, so
Only Di Qing would choose to fight quickly.
As a suspicious soldier, Yu Jing didn't know how long he could deceive Li Rizun. At this moment, Di Qing must have turned around and prepared to fight Gao Zhisheng's army. What Yun Zheng was most worried about was that as soon as he walked out of Lin Mang, he would face the sniper attack from Li Rizun's army.
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The soldiers are now eager to enter Shenglong Mansion as soon as possible to end their long march. Only by entering Shenglong Mansion will the journey of thousands of miles be meaningful, and this protracted war will be completely ended.
The weather was so good the next day that I was touched. The sun was like a huge red fruit, gushing out across the endless forest. The sky was bright, and the arcs of the mountains and the outline of the forest were eroded by the golden light. There was a light rain last night, and I got up early.
The traces of rain have been easily wiped away by the endless vitality of the tropical rainforest. This huge tribe of life has received the baptism and is even more happy. The lush branches and leaves are covered with overnight raindrops, happily sucking the morning light, and the shades are flowing down.
A waterfall of carefree singing of birds.
The medical officer strongly recommended another day of rest. After another day, the soldiers' ulcerated skin would scab. The human body has a process that is familiar with nature. After this process is over, it will be difficult for the skin to ulcerate again.
Yun Zheng accepted this simplicity. He originally planned to rest for two days. Since God gave him face, he would stay for one more day.
Eat crocodile for breakfast. This is the advice of the old man. The terrifying creature was easily pulled out of the mire by a few Khmers. The Song people borrowed sharp daggers to disembowel it. I heard that they did not have sharp daggers.
When using a knife, we always use a stone knife to start from the crocodile's mouth.
The crocodile meat cut into small pieces was thrown into the big pot and cooked in a short time. Yun Zheng couldn't eat the crocodile eyes that Ye Sou specially dug out and presented to the distinguished guests, so he had to leave.
He ran away to eat his own millet porridge honestly. Because of this incident, Yun Zheng was complained by the old man for several months, thinking it was the greatest disrespect to him.
Even if it was disrespectful, he would not eat the crocodile eyeballs. He was not Liang Ji and Xiao Lin. The two of them swallowed the stuff in one bite and told Yun Zheng that it tasted good.