Li Xuan, Liu Bagou and other people from Huangzhushan did not expect that when they came to attack Shuilong Village, not only did they not catch a grain of food, but they also had more than 400 mouths that would run out of food in half a month.
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So when Huang Xueren said that there was no food in Shuilong Village and instead wanted Huangzhushan to transport food, Li Xuan fell silent.
More than 500 people in Huangzhushan are already short of food. Even if they save more, they can only eat until one month before the autumn harvest.
The people in Shuilong Village are even worse. According to Huang Xueren, they are not short of food. Although there is no space for farming in Shuilong Village, they have carried out several successful "grain collection" operations in the first half of this year.
We grabbed enough food for this year, and even had a surplus.
When there is too much food, the mind becomes wild.
After the last attack on Huangzhu Mountain failed, Huang Xueren and others from Shuilong Village did not give up easily. Instead, they decided to purchase a batch of weapons from outside the mountain and then attack Huangzhu Mountain again.
After all, although their Shuilong Village is a hidden place, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is not much flat land suitable for reclamation, and the food cannot be self-sufficient. The situation is different over Huangzhu Mountain. Although it is not an easy to defend and difficult to attack place, it is still a secret place.
, it is difficult to find without someone to guide you.
What's more important is that at the foot of the southern mountain of Huangzhu Mountain is a small plain with a small river. It is a rare place suitable for farming in this large mountain.
Don't think that bandits don't grow food.
These bandits, who brought a large family of old, weak, women and children, were actually ordinary villagers in the past. They were forced to live outside the mountains by the landlords and the government, and then they fled into the mountains.
If so many people want to survive, robbing alone is not the answer. They also need to grow food. However, there is a lack of cattle and farm tools in the mountains, and there are basically no water conservancy facilities. There is less fertile land, so the output of food is relatively low.
Therefore, Huangzhushan, a good place that can be cultivated and has a high food yield, is wanted by many bandit groups.
In order to attack Huangzhu Mountain again, Shuilongzhai took a large amount of grain to Fengjiazhuang to exchange for iron weapons, especially weapons. However, for some reason, Fengjiazhuang, who had cooperated well with them in the past, suddenly turned against them and came directly to the black.
Eat black food and swallow up the food in Shuilong Village.
What's even more unfortunate is that the heavy rain in half a month destroyed the granary in Shuilong Village, causing most of the remaining grain reserves in Shuilong Village to disappear in the flood.
What does it mean that misfortune never comes alone? This is it!
The food reserves were gone, and they happened to be attacked by people from Huangzhushan. After discussion, the people of Shuilongzhai found that their resistance was meaningless, because even if they blocked Huangzhushan's attack, they would have to fight in half a month.
Starved to death due to lack of food.
So I just gritted my teeth and surrendered.
In their minds, Huangzhu Mountain is a fertile land and must produce a lot of food. Moreover, the bandits led by Fang Dongquan are well-known in this mountain, and they must have a lot of food stored.
But Huang Xueren never imagined that Fang Dongquan, his head was burning, and he and Liu Bagou began to play the dream of supporting the young master and becoming the founding hero of the country.
As a result, the officers and soldiers destroyed his lair on the edge of the mountain, forcing everyone in Huangzhushan to flee back to Huangzhushan in embarrassment, without even bringing much food.
Although the grain output in Huangzhu Mountain is good, the previous planting area was too small and could not satisfy more than 500 people.
As a result, Huang Xueren was dumbfounded!
They have all surrendered, and Huangzhushan has no food to support them. What should they do? How can they survive this autumn and winter?
Not only Huang Xueren was depressed, Li Xuan and Liu Bagou were also frowning.
This time when I came to Huangzhu Mountain, I didn’t catch any food, but instead gained more than 400 mouths. What will I do next?
After everyone was silent for a long time, Li Xuan said: "Go back to Huangzhu Mountain first, and we will find a way to solve the food issue later!"
For a while now, Li Xuan couldn't think of any way to solve the food problem, so he didn't plan to stay in Shuilong Village anymore.
Most of the others didn't have any good solutions, so they could only start to pack their things and prepare to return to Huangzhu Mountain with a sad face.
However, this time, in addition to the more than 100 people from Huangzhushan, the more than 400 people from Shuilong Village who returned to Huangzhushan also packed up all their belongings and returned to Huangzhushan together.
These people from Shuilong Village joined Huangzhu Mountain, which also allowed the number of subjects under the Tang Dynasty to exceed the thousand-person mark.
Although Shuilong Village is secretive and easy to defend but difficult to attack, it does not have any fields or other inaccessible things. Therefore, since the people in Shuilong Village have been recovered, it is naturally impossible to let them stay here and bring them all back to Huangzhu Mountain.
It's better to go to the side.
At least, the small plain on the other side of Huangzhu Mountain can allow them to open up wasteland for farming. After this period of time, they will be able to have a good harvest next year.
The only problem is that there is not enough food this year.
When they first set out from Huangzhu Mountain, many bandits in Huangzhu Mountain could not be said to be happy, but they also had certain hopes for the future.
But when I went back, although more people had changed, most of them didn't have the joy of returning home on their faces.
Three days later, Li Xuan and others successfully returned to Huangzhu Mountain. When Qian Mengjiu saw Li Xuan returning with many people and more than 400 people in Shuilong Village, he was quite happy at first. Later, Li Xuan and others
The harvest was quite fruitful, but when he learned that he had not brought back a grain of grain, but instead brought back more than 400 mouths, he became just like Liu Bagou and the others, looking sad all day long.
It was already two days after we settled down the group of people in Shuilong Village.
At this time, the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty organized manpower to open up wasteland and plant more grains. However, since the sowing time of late rice has passed, if they open up wasteland now, they can only plant winter wheat and some miscellaneous grains, vegetables, etc.
But no matter what you plant, you have to plant it. You can’t wait idle for next spring!
In addition to opening up wasteland for farming, Liu Bagou and the others also thought of many ways to obtain food, such as organizing manpower to hunt, fish and pick wild fruits and vegetables.
Hunting here is not very reliable. Although there are many kinds of wild animals in the mountains, hunting in the wild is a technical job. Except for a few professional hunters, others can only stare at the prey, so there are not many prey.
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Although there are also wild fruits and vegetables, these can only be eaten as vegetables. It is impossible to eat enough every day.
Fishing was quite effective. They fished on the small river several meters wide on the small plain every day. The output was good at first, but no matter how many fish there were in the river, they couldn't fill the stomachs of a thousand people.
So whether it is hunting or fishing, etc., these cannot really solve the food crisis in Huangzhushan.
To solve the food crisis, we can only obtain food from other ways, and it must be a large amount of food.
At this time, Huang Xueren, the former Second Head of Shuilong Village and now General of Zhennan of the Tang Dynasty, who had just surrendered, proposed a plan.
His plan is crude and simple: to rob Fengjiazhuang!