At the foot of Huangzhu Mountain, rows of brand-new wooden houses have been erected. Although these wooden houses are quite simple and make people doubt whether they can protect themselves from wind and rain, they have finally allowed the hundreds of newly moved people to settle down.
"General Fang has sent someone to reply, saying that they have escaped the pursuit of the officers and soldiers and will be back within three days. After General Fang and others bring their people back, our Huangzhushan defense will be greatly strengthened. By then, Xia Mang and other affairs personnel will be available It can also be more sufficient!" As Liu Bagou spoke, he occasionally raised his head and glanced at Li Xuan who was sitting at the top.
At this moment, Li Xuan is wearing a yellow robe with a nondescript dragon pattern embroidered on it. At this moment, he is sitting on the 'dragon chair' at the top. Well, it is actually an ordinary chair. Wooden Taishi chair.
This is not the first time Liu Bagou has seen Li Xuan dressed like this. In fact, he has been wearing a yellow robe with dragon patterns since Li Xuan ascended the throne many days ago.
It's just that today Liu Bagou felt that Li Xuan was different from usual.
He did not listen casually as usual, but listened very carefully, as if he was still thinking while listening.
Seeing Li Xuan's appearance, Liu Bagou showed a hint of relief. It seemed that his young master finally understood the importance of the country and was willing to shoulder the responsibility on his shoulders: to be a good emperor!
But Liu Bagou didn't know that Li Xuan was actually not listening carefully to what Liu Bagou said, but was thinking about how to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the bandits under his command to resist the invasion of officers and soldiers who might arrive in the near future. .
After so many days of tossing, Li Xuan was a little resigned to his fate. Since Liu Bagou and the others were all crazy and wanted to play the drama of rebellion, Li Xuan, without any other better choice, planned to accompany them to play this drama of monarch and minister. Just keep playing.
Anyway, things are already extremely bad, and they can't get any worse.
With this mentality in mind, Li Xuan began to seriously consider: How to take this path of rebellion?
Is it to learn from Zhu Chongba's strategy of accumulating grain and slowly becoming king, or to learn from Taizu's approach to surrounding cities in the countryside, or to learn from Li Zicheng and other rebels in the late Ming Dynasty who hijacked the people.
However, he knew one thing very well. No matter what strategy he planned in the future, the most important thing at the moment was to improve the combat effectiveness of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain, so that they could at least withstand the attack of the officers and soldiers.
Otherwise, whether it is learning from Zhu Chongba, learning from Taizu, or learning from Li Zi CD, it would be impossible to talk about it.
So in the past few days, he has been thinking about how to improve the bandits' combat effectiveness.
After realizing that Liu Bagou's words had stopped, Li Xuan came back to his senses and said: "Oh, General Fang is coming back soon, as long as he is back!"
Having said that, Li Xuan continued: "The weather has been bad in the past two days. I'm afraid it will rain heavily. Prime Minister, you should pay more attention to the situation below to avoid flooding the fields and leaking houses!"
Liu Bagou said: "Your Majesty is so concerned about the comfort of the people, which is really a wealth for the people of the world. Please put it down, your Majesty. In the past two days, I have begun to arrange people to dredge streams and build flood control dams. Even if the rain is heavier, it will not be affected." It will affect the growth of crops in the fields!”
Speaking of this, he seemed to remember something, and then said: "It's just that even if the harvest is successful this summer, I'm afraid we won't have enough food!"
Li Xuandao: "Oh? Not enough food?"
Liu Bagou said: "Yes, we don't have enough food. When we left, we left in a hurry and only had time to carry a small amount of food. We were unable to bring out the food reserves in the village. This morning, I
The people sent to check the village came back and said that all the food had been taken away by the officers and soldiers!"
"They don't even have enough food here in Huangzhu Mountain. Even if they harvest food in the summer, it won't be enough for all of us to eat until the autumn harvest."
Li Xuan also frowned a little when he heard this.
No matter what era it is, eating is always the biggest problem. Although there is a batch of grain that is about to be harvested in Huangzhushan, the planting area is not large, and it is enough to feed the more than 100 people who originally lived in Huangzhushan.
If there are more than 300 people, it means that one portion of food needs to feed three people. It is obvious that the food is not enough.
"Prime Minister, what can you do?" Li Xuan asked.
Liu Bagou said: "The only way now is to purchase it from outside!"
But after he said this, Butcher Chen, who had been silent for a long time, said: "How can we have so much money to buy food? If you ask me, we might as well rob Shuilong Village. Then didn't Wang Wenhua say that?"
, Shuilong Village not only has a lot of goods accumulated over the past ten years, but also just robbed a farm not long ago and obtained a large amount of grain! If we can snatch this batch of grain, it will be enough to support us until then.
The autumn harvest is here!”
Liu Bagou said: "This is not appropriate. Although Shuilong Village has fewer troops than our Tang Dynasty, Wang Wenhua also said that the cottage in Shuilong Village is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It will be difficult for us to attack. Now our Datang
When your vitality is severely weakened, it is the time when you need to work hard and accumulate strength. It is too risky to start a war rashly at this time!"
At this moment, Li Xuan also remembered that there was another Shuilong Village. He did not clearly agree or oppose the attack on Shuilong Village. He was more concerned about the fact that with the fighting power of bandits like Huang Zhushan, one of them might be a big enemy in a fight.
What a fiasco.
For example, if a few elite soldiers represented by Butcher Chen were killed first when the war started, there would be only one fate for the Huangzhushan bandits, and that would be for the entire army to collapse and then run for their lives.
The people in Shuilong Village had already practiced this kind of thing for Li Xuan.
After witnessing the battles between bandits these days, Li Xuan really couldn't have much confidence in the fighting power of these bandits.
He immediately said: "We will discuss this matter after General Fang comes back!"
You must know that Fang Dongquan is the leader of this group of bandits, and he is the big boss in the mouth of the bandits, while Li Xuan, Liu Bagou and others are just outsiders. Without Fang Dongquan's support, Li Xuan, Liu Bagou and the others said
No matter how many, it actually doesn't work.
Fang Dongquan returned one day later than everyone expected. It was not until the fourth day that Fang Dongquan returned to Huangzhu Mountain with a large group of bandits.
The return of the main bandits led by Fang Dongquan also made many old and weak women and children in Huangzhu Mountain feel relieved. On the one hand, they no longer have to worry about their fathers, husbands, and sons being killed or injured. On the other hand, with nearly a hundred young and strong men,
Bandits, then Huangzhushan's defense force will be greatly strengthened, and things like the Shuilongzhai attack can be avoided.
After Fang Dongquan returned, Liu Bagou, Chen Tufu and others couldn't wait to find him and discuss whether to attack Shuilong Village.
While these people were discussing military and national affairs, Li Xuan also began to try to change this era!