Chapter 391 The thief wants to be an official, the difficult mode of farming
The sea breeze was blowing, and the ship's hull split two long white lines of blue waves. When the ship sailed across the sparkling water, a few crystal waves rippled. Xiao Tang and others stood in front of the ship's side and saw that the water was still extremely clear. There are colorful fish swimming in the water below, which is really beautiful.
Although the sea view was pleasant, Xiao Tang and others were not interested in watching the sea because Shi Taigong was seriously ill. Zhang Shun had sent a ship to carry Shi Jin straight to Dengzhou in Song Dynasty. His brother's father was critically ill, and Xiao Tang Tang, Yan Qing, Xu Guanzhong and others were as unhappy as if a stone had been weighed on their hearts.
Finally, Xiao Tang could gradually see the outline of Pi Island. When the ship slowly sailed into the strait at the southeast entrance, a simple dock had been set up on the shore. Before Xiao Tang and others could get ashore, they saw Five brothers, Ou Peng, Ma Lin, Tao Zongwang, Wen Zhongrong, and Cui Ye, were already waiting for each other on the wooden planks of the dock.
Ou Peng took the lead to greet Xiao Tang. He cupped his hands and laughed loudly: "Brother Xiao Tang, fortunately you have lived up to your fate. Now we can be considered to have laid down a foundation in this island!"
Xiao Tang also smiled and said to the brothers who arrived at Pi Island first: "Thank you so much to Zhang Shun and the brothers! You opened the sea route first, and then you laid the overseas foundation for our brothers who were fighting in the green forest. .”
After Xiao Tang exchanged pleasantries with Wen Zhongrong and Cui Ye, whom he had not seen for a long time, he introduced Gao Zhanling to Ou Peng and others, the three leaders of the Bohai horse thieves. The Yan brothers are here. Seeing that Xiao Tang actually got to know many green forest strongmen in the Song Dynasty, he was also very surprised.
Is this Xiao Tang really going to set up camps in overseas islands? Maybe it is not enough for him to be a high official in the Song Dynasty officialdom, and he also wants to live like the emperor like Gao Yongchang?
Yan Youxin and Yan Youyi looked at each other. They suppressed the doubts in their hearts and did not say anything. This Xiao Tang had a life-saving grace for the eldest master. Since the eldest master also followed him wholeheartedly, of course our brothers could not abandon her. Go. Besides, judging from his character, he is an upright and upright man. It is better to work for Xiao Tang than to work for Gao Yongchang, who is thin and cruel.
Then Ma Lin led the way, and everyone passed the strait and passed a mountain range in front of them. However, their eyes suddenly opened up, and a sudden snowfall fell in front of them. The scenery in front looked like twigs and jade leaves, pink jade bricks, and many houses not far away. The house has begun to show its scale, and there is a log foundation in the valley on the east side, which seems to be a fortress and arrow tower. Xiao Tang also saw some vagrants looking at him curiously. Those people had disheveled hair and shabby clothes. They seemed to be Local residents living on Phi Island.
At this time, Tao Zongwang came forward, he said with a smile to Xiao Tang: "I just follow my brother's instructions. Since our brothers landed on this island, in addition to setting up camps, more than forty houses have been built for our brothers." Take a break from the cold."
Tao Zongwang also told Xiao Tang that he planned to build two city walls that would be horns to each other on the highest Yantai Peak on Pi Island and in the valley near the strait. The main fortress faced the sea on the mountain ridge, and the surrounding terrain was dangerous, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. .Because there are many reefs in the sea area near Pi Island, only the southeastern mouth of the strait is available for landing. Arrow towers and urn walls were set up on the walls of the strait valley, and rolling logs and stones were used. However, some people came by boat and occupied the high point of the city wall. Crossbow rockets, giant logs and rolling rocks will smash down the enemy ships and severely damage the enemy ships stuck at the strait port.
It turns out that when he was in Huangmen Mountain, Tao Zongwang, who was in the fourth position, was dull and honest, and was only responsible for building city walls and defenses. In the minds of the villagers, compared to the tall and powerful Ou Peng, who was praised as the golden wing of the clouds, he was quite different.
For the three heads of the family, Jiang Jing, the white-paper fan who was proficient in calculation and calculation, and Ma Lin, the elegant and free-spirited man, Tao Zongwang, who was born as a farmer and was rich and powerful, had little sense of presence.
However, since joining the Xiao Tang Dynasty, Tao Zongwang worked with Li Zhi in Erlong Mountain to build large and small walled houses around the Baozhu Temple cottage. He increasingly felt the importance of his responsibilities. This time he went overseas with Ou Peng, Ma Lin and others to build the temple.
He had to stand alone in the village, which made this dull and reserved nine-tailed turtle very excited and talked a lot more than usual.
When Tao Zongwang told Xiao Tang that he was preparing to set up a banner and build a festival hall in the main village of Yantai Peak, Ma Lin next to him couldn't help laughing and said: "We used to do business without capital.
He is a strongman and a bandit who relies on the mountains and eats them. Now this is a good thing. Taking advantage of the sky high and the emperor being far away, Brother Xiaotang felt that being an official in Bianjing was not profitable, so he set aside a place for himself to live up to the addiction of the princes!
I wonder what official position my brother allows us brothers to do?"
Ou Peng knew that his sworn brother Ma Lin had a loose and casual temperament, and he was just joking, so he laughed and scolded Ma Lin: "What nonsense are you talking about? In the past, you were used to being an idle man in the market. In the past,
You rarely interfere with the affairs in the village, how can you show the appearance of being an official? Brother Xiaotang is setting up towns overseas to absorb refugees, which is a very important matter, but it is not as good as the livelihood of our green forest thieves, but you only care about it
Just kidding!”
"How come I don't know what my brother said?" Ma Lin chuckled and said, "In the past, when we established the village in Huangmen Mountain, we also said that what we did was robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
The wealth of the bullies and evil gentry is real, but most of them only help the poor of our brothers in the village. Now if we really want to create a foundation here, if we don't farm or weave, won't we be drinking from the northwest wind?"
Ma Lin's words are on point. Even if Xiao Tang could take advantage of the chaotic situation in Nanjing Road, Tokyo Road and other places in the Liao Kingdom, he could use various means to recruit Han, Khitan, Bohai and other ethnic refugees who were affected by the war and banditry.
The common people must also consider whether they can properly accommodate all the people so that they can live and work in peace and contentment under their own rule.
At this stage, the islands along the Yalu River estuary, as well as the Changshan Islands at the intersection of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea (the islands are scattered in the sea, the southernmost point is close to Dengzhou on Jingdong East Road, allowing the Song Dynasty military prisoners to hear
The changed color of the overseas prison camp (Salmen Island), as well as Baozhou, Kaizhou, Dingzhou and other state capitals along the Liaodong coast belong to the vacuum zone where the Liao Kingdom, Goryeo and other ethnic groups in Liaodong are intertwined. The Liao Kingdom will be unable to cope with it.
Gao Yongchang, when the Jurchen Alliance and large-scale rebellions broke out in various places, they would form a layer of protection for these border places.
Now that he has inspected the local situation on the spot, Xiao Tang does not need to worry about external factors for the time being, but how the internal development will develop still requires many considerations and plans.
After coming into contact with the Khitan nomadic leader Yi Cicheng and the Liaodong Han Chinese Guo Yaoshi, Xiao Tang had already planned to start with them and attract them to lead their troops to move to areas under his control such as Pi Island. But even the officials of Song, Liao and Goryeo
It is beyond your reach. When the Liaodong refugees who are forced by life come to this land where they have no business, how can you ensure the safety and survival of these people?
In addition to the Khitan herdsmen who moved their tents and moved their tents, there were Han people who fled Liaodong, including sergeants, workers, peasants, merchants, and people of any profession. In order for them to settle down, they must be able to fill their stomachs while still doing their own business. Otherwise, even if it could be achieved through transplantation, Yaoshi Guo and others deceived a large number of exiled people. When they found that life here still could not make them stable and satisfied, it would not be long before civil strife would still occur here. Is it time to purge and expel, or to suppress by force? If he ends up in that situation, then Xiao Tang will be no different from the ordinary bandits and pirates in the green forest.
Not only that, Xiao Tang, who now has the power to control the military, political and civil affairs of a country, always needs some subordinates with management experience to sort out and plan the order of this sea town, so as to establish a stable social framework to stabilize people's hearts and encourage large-scale relocation. The people up to this point each carry out their own business and live their lives.
Managing the civil, political, and military affairs on the island is no different than gathering in the mountains and establishing a stronghold. The candidate to be considered must not be the leader of the stronghold who is accustomed to doing business without money in the green forest. At this time, the first suitable candidate that Xiao Tang thought of was, It was Wen Huanzhang who was exiled from the army after being framed, but was rescued by his brothers from Xiong'er Mountain and Funiu Mountain in the green forest.
