Chapter three hundred and seventy seventh in the mountains
In Mubu Mountain, southeast of Yueyang, there is an old nunnery hidden in the forest.
Wang Jixiong was buried in a valley not far from the nunnery. Wang Jun stayed in the nunnery to observe mourning and mourning. He spent every day reading, or taking his maids to dismantle the two handlooms he had brought up the mountain to figure out how to print and dye textiles.
I feel carefree and happy, and intuitively feel that I am in a paradise.
Wang Jun and his maid Xiaocui were washing newly dyed Qianyang cloth by the stream. Birds in the forest were chirping, and occasionally forest frogs were singing, so that they could avoid the beginning of summer soon.
A vigorous figure walked through the forest and walked up to Wang Jun. He bowed his head and reported: "King Xin won a great victory in Baohua Mountain. He used Xinchang Hou Li Pu's troops as bait to severely damage the Nanya Imperial Army. Mr. Ziheng is afraid that King Tan asked Han Qian to come out of the mountain.
There is a possibility that the young lady will be detained, and we are specially ordered to leave Yueyang with the escort lady."
"Don't talk about whether Yang Yuanpu will invite Han Qian to come over. Han Qian has not come to Yueyang before, and he will not be in a hurry to come to Yueyang now. Besides, I am a weak woman, why are they detaining me?" Wang Jun picked up a bag full of dyed cloth.
took the wooden basin, ignored the scouts who came to report the news, and walked with the maid towards the nunnery deep in the valley.
The road leading to the nunnery passes Wang Jixiong's tomb.
Wang Jun walked to her grandfather's tomb and saw that the scout who reported the news had disappeared deep into the forest. Of course, she could ignore Mr. Ziheng's opinion, but if her father was worried that Yueyang would detain her, he would write a letter asking people here to take her away.
If she leaves, can she still stay in this landscape?
And His Highness King Xin used Xinchang Hou Li Pu's troops as bait to capture him in Baohua Mountain, and the alliance with King Tan was in name only. How would Han Qian react if he knew about this?
Will he come to Yueyang?
Although Wang Jun knew that most people in Yueyang did not want Han Qian to come, if Han Qian really wanted to come, no one could stop him, but would he come?
Or would he have other choices?
"Xiao Cui, go and inform Uncle Hua that we pack our bags and leave Yueyang." As if to prove something, Wang Jun made up his mind and ordered the maid to inform the servants guarding them outside the valley.
"The young lady won't keep her filial piety to the grandpa? She said she would stay in Yueyang to keep her filial piety, but then left casually. Wouldn't that make the young lady an unfilial person?" the maid murmured in surprise.
"I want to prove that grandpa has misjudged the person. Grandpa's spirit in heaven will forgive Jun'er's unfilial piety." Wang Jun said with a sly smile, urging the maid to inform the servants quickly. She was afraid that if the delay continued, Mr. Ziheng would receive a message from her father.
Secret letter, you must send someone to protect her, then she will not be so free to move.
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Feng Liao had been in Yueyang for more than half a month, and his life was pretty good. In more than ten days, he was summoned four times by Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, to participate in discussions. He almost enjoyed the treatment of a minister. But when Lin Haizheng came over, he would carry out the palace today.
Feng Liao was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat when he was informed of the situation of the meeting.
He suddenly felt that it was no longer possible to sit down peacefully in Yueyang, so he packed his bags urgently and sent someone to Shen Yang's house to inform him. That afternoon, he and his entourage hurriedly left Yueyang by boat and rushed to Xuzhou.
What made Feng Liao uneasy was not just the fact that Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan was so brave and incomparable in inflicting heavy losses on the Nanya Imperial Army.
Although Li Zhigao's transfer to the governor of Ezhou and other matters were not finalized during the Chengyun Hall meeting before noon, at the Chengyun Hall today, Tan King Yang Yuanpu did not say that he would consult Xuzhou about such a big matter, and up to this time there was no sign of Yang Yuanpu's faction.
He was summoned to the palace, which meant that the intention of the Zheng family and the Xinchang Houfu to exclude Han Qian from the core had initially achieved results in such a short period of time.
How could Feng Liao still be able to sit still after noticing such a crucial change?
Unfortunately, at the end of March and the beginning of April, the Yuanjiang River had already swollen, the water was turbulent, and its two wings were blocked by high mountains, so the speed of traveling against the current was even slower. Feng Liao did not arrive at Chenyang until the fifth day of April.
After arriving at Chenyang City, Feng Liao and his entourage disembarked from the boat, changed horses, and headed west along the post road on the south bank of Chenshui River to Longya City.
When Feng passed by Jiming Village on the back, Mrs. Xi, Xi Chang and others were all there.
Feng Liao first went to see Xi Ying and Xi Chang, and then learned that Chenyang County Magistrate Yan Yinliang rushed to Jiming Village with ten followers and asked all the Xi clan members to withdraw from Jiming Village and evacuate Jiming Village and nearby villages.
All the land returned to its old owners.
When it comes to the ownership of Jiming Village, Chenzhou Xishi sheds bitter tears.
Jiming Village is located in the upper reaches of Chenshui River, surrounded by relatively open hilly areas suitable for farming.
Jiming Village was built by the Chenzhou Xi clan. It was also the first village built by the Chenzhou Xi clan on the Chenshui River in Chenzhou after the Chenzhou Xi clan separated from the Xuzhou Xi clan. However, the Xi clan was named Longya City.
(Old Xi Village) was the core, and it once included the land stretching from the banks of the Yuanjiang River in the south to Chenshui in the north, spanning the two prefectures of Chen and Xu.
At that time, the Chenzhou Xi family gave up Jiming Village and moved east to put down roots in Xupu.
After the Xi family was destroyed by Feng Changyu, the Chenzhou Xi family took the opportunity to retake Jiming Village on the pretext that Jiming Village belonged to Chenzhou, and also occupied a large area of land including Laolong Gorge.
At that time, Xiying had already risen to prominence for several years, and Feng Changyu, Yang Zaili, Xiang Jianlong and others had no intention of competing with the Chenzhou Xi family for this land.
After more than ten years of operation, the Xi family believed from the bottom of their hearts that they had completely digested this land. They planned to go south and annex the old Xi Village. They never thought that the Han family and his son would enter Xuzhou.
After the battle at Laoyao, the Chenzhou surname forces directly lost nearly 3,000 elite soldiers, and Jiming Village fell under the control of the Wuling Army at that time.
After Xiying, he chose to join the imperial court, accepted Zheng Hui's control, and led his battalion to participate in the attack on Yuanling, Wuling and other cities. Xiying and his sons Xishesheng, Xishepeng and others were granted the title of Sima of Chenzhou and Xupu.
The county magistrate, Chenzhou Fanying military envoy and other prominent and important positions, but Jiming Village has never returned to the hands of the Xi family.
On the one hand, in the war to reduce the vassal state, whether as an enemy in the early stage or as a staunch participant in supporting the reduction of the vassal state in Jinling in the middle and later stages, Chenzhou's local Jian Yong Zhuang suffered heavy losses. Almost three-thirds of the adult males were
One of them died on the battlefield, and they were among the most courageous and good at fighting.
Even though Xiying, his son and other representatives of the native surnamed forces had their official positions in Chenzhou promoted and strengthened to a certain extent after the vassal reduction war, the native surnamed forces were actually exhausted, and there were not even a dozen of them.
There is no way to recover from ten years of rest.
Even if Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, agreed to use Fan soldiers in Chenzhou state camp after the war, in fact, if he wanted to maintain the regular establishment system of 2,000 Fan soldiers, it would directly affect the farming of each village, not to mention the recruitment of young men to build the walled city and roads.
, more fields were cultivated.
This also caused Xiying and other forces in Chenzhou not to take the initiative to mention the ownership of Jiming Village for a while.
On the other hand, due to the severe damage to the direct subordinate troops, Xiying had to concentrate his limited forces in the Xupu Basin to ensure Xi's control over Xupu County.
Xupu County has the largest valley plain at the western foot of Xuefeng Mountain, which was later called the Xupu Basin. Currently, it has developed nearly one million acres of grain fields and has 50,000 to 60,000 households. It is strong enough to think of a prefecture.
The elite soldiers of the Xi clan in Chenzhou were severely damaged in the previous war, so they can only prioritize consolidating their foundation in Xupu. At this time, even if Jiming Village is brought back, it will only benefit other powerful forces in Chenzhou.
When the matter was delayed until Han Qian officially became the governor of Xuzhou, and Xuzhou actually became the territory of the Han family's leader, Xiying realized that if he did not get Jiming Village back, the time would be prolonged, and Han Qian would continue to surrender from Long.
Once the population from the south of Ashan is filled in, it will be difficult to get Jiming Village back.
At this time, Xiying would rather take advantage of other powerful forces in Chenzhou, but also want to get Jiming Village back to prevent Han Qian from extending Longya City's tentacles into Chenzhou.
Of course, it was impossible for Xiying to use force to seize Jiming Village at this time. He mainly emphasized that Laolong Gorge was the official boundary between the two states and demanded the restoration of Chenzhou's jurisdiction over Jiming Village and the surrounding areas. This was really not feasible.
He took the lawsuit to Hunan Province.
In response to this, Han Qian directly asked Xi Chang to move more than a hundred Xi clan members into Jiming Village, emphasizing that the land near Jiming Village was the Xi clan's old territory.
This is what happened in the past month after Feng Liao followed Cao Qian to Yueyang.
He rushed to Jiming Village today, and the Chenyang County Magistrate, Yan Yinliang, one of the representatives of the Chenzhou surname, also happened to bring the county officials to Jiming Village and demanded that the Xi clan members move out of Jiming Village immediately.
There are other information transmission channels in Xuzhou. They already knew about Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan's heavy damage to the Nanya Imperial Army seven or eight days ago. However, it was only after Feng Liao came back that Xi Rong and Xi Chang found out about Yueyang
The reaction there to this incident led to a subtle change in Yueyang's attitude towards Xuzhou.
Feng Liao's worries were shared by Xi Rong, Xi Chang and others. They immediately drove Chenyang County Magistrate Yan Yinliang out of Jiming Village and rushed to Longya Mountain with Feng Liao to meet Han Qian.
"It's been almost a month since I've been to Yueyang. What changes have happened here in Xuzhou?" On the way, Feng Liao and Xichang rode side by side and asked about what happened in Xuzhou in the past month.
In the past month, there are some things that Feng Liao knows, that is, Han Dong has escorted the first batch of armored war machines and four double-decker warships to Songzi, waiting for the Changxiang Marquis Wang Yong to send troops.
Pick up.
Of course, what was being exchanged for this batch of soldiers, armor, and weapons was also produced in Shu, and bulk goods that were lacking in Xuzhou and the states in central Guizhou were exchanged.
However, the time for Xuzhou to deliver the armor and weapons needed to Sizhou would be earlier.
As for more details of the cooperation with Sizhou, it was not convenient to directly write a letter to Feng Liao who was far away in Yueyang. It was also at this time that Feng Liao learned from Xi Chang's mouth the more specific and detailed implementation of the cooperation between the two parties.
In the early days of the vassal reduction war, the Xuzhou State Camp of 3,000 troops was reorganized into the Wuling Army to participate in the early war. Just to control the entire territory of Xuzhou, they successively wiped out the troops from Tanzhou who had infiltrated into Xuzhou, as well as the Feng family and other powerful forces.
He also sent troops to Chenzhou and captured Jimingzhai, Chenyang, Yuanling and other cities.
With continuous military victories, the number of soldiers and horses of the Wuling Army expanded to tens of thousands at one time. Through casting and capture, the equipment of the Wuling Army generals has always been excellent and complete.
After the vassal reduction war, the Wuling Army was reduced to a local state camp, retaining only 3,000 men and horses, and a large number of excess armor and weapons were collected - the Longque Army captured Yueyang and Tanzhou at that time, and a large number of them were confiscated.
For ordinary soldiers and armor such as swords, spears, spears and halberds, there is no need to recruit them from Xuzhou.
The collected soldiers and armors are all relatively inferior. They were planned to be eliminated in batches by Xuzhou, or they were planned to be recycled as scrap iron and resmelted. However, these soldiers and armors are not suitable for Sizhou soldiers and horses who are currently mainly equipped with rattan armor and rattan shields.
Although they were relatively sophisticated, Han Qian simply gave all three thousand sets of armor to Sizhou at a discounted price.
Sizhou also acted very quickly. The first batch of 800 village slaves who had to work to pay off their debts had already been assembled and sent to Longya City.
Naturally, Han Qian would not let these village slaves stay and work in Xuzhou. Instead, he would send them directly to Xuefeng Mountain to participate in the second phase of the Xuefeng Mountain renovation project.
In addition to participating in the work in designated work sections every day, these 800 village slaves are supervised by people sent by the Sizhou Yang family to establish independent slave camps in irregular work sections. The clothing, food, tools and other materials provided are provided by the Xuzhou workers.
All funds are also allocated directly to the supervisory personnel.
For the second batch of labor slaves in the original plan, Han Qian proposed to build a road between Jiming Village and Hujian Village of the Yang family in Sizhou at the southeastern foot of Wuling Mountain. The Xuzhou Gongcao Association sent six additional slaves.
Hundreds of craftsmen were recruited to participate in road construction.
Hujian Village, also known as Hujian Pass, is located between two dangerous peaks at the southeastern foot of Wuling Mountain.
If the trail at the southern foot of Wuling Mountain can be taken through Hujian Pass, the road will be a little longer, but it will be much easier to walk.
At the same time, it can also ensure that bulk goods starting from the east bank of the Qianjiang River, passing through the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, arriving at Jiming Village, and then transported from Jiming Village to Longya City, will always be under the surveillance of the Yang family.
Even if Han Qian didn't mention it, the Yang family would still hope that Hujian Village would become a must-stop for goods and business travel between Xusi and Xuzhou.
Hujian Pass is extremely dangerous. Only three or four carriages can travel parallel in the front and rear canyons. Only three hundred elite defenders are needed to prevent thousands of troops from attacking.
Even if the passage from Hujian Pass to Jimingzhai were to be built, it would only make the road smoother so that carriages and horses could barely pass through, but it would not reduce the military importance of Hujian Pass.
Therefore, even if Jiming Village, which used to belong to the Xi clan of Chenzhou, was actually still under Xuzhou's control, Sizhou would not worry about Xuzhou's other intentions.
In addition to the transaction with Sizhou and other normal advancement work, in the past month, he has been wrangling with Chenzhou and Chenyang County on the issue of Jiming Village.
At present, they have moved more than a hundred households of the Xi clan to settle in Jiming Village. In a short period of time, they are not afraid that the big surname forces headed by the Xi clan in Chenzhou will dare to resort to force - Jiming Village serves as the Chenshui connection between Sizhou and Wuling Mountain.
The southern footpath, the key points of Hujian Pass and Longya City, especially those that are already under their actual control, will not be surrendered to others.
"But you guys have no time to spare. I am somewhat inactive in Yueyang." Feng Liao said feeling ashamed.
He thought that if he had known this, after accompanying Cao Gan to Yueyang and meeting with Tan King Yang Yuanpu, he should go back to Xuzhou directly to do some practical things, instead of getting carried away because of several summons by Tan King Yang Yuanpu to discuss things.
