Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren returned with a great victory and brought a lot of food with them, which helped Huang Zhushan get rid of the food shortage dilemma.
Therefore, in the past few days, Huangzhu Mountain has been full of laughter and laughter. In the past, many people who were almost out of food and could only drink some porridge at each meal to survive were still able to eat enough.
Even some families who do not have young men to go to war can still get food from the government, and their lives can become easier.
After the frost, everyone in Huangzhushan became busy again. They had to harvest the mature late rice before the weather got cooler, and then dried and stored the harvested rice.
The tense late rice harvest lasted for many days. After the late rice was harvested, everyone did not lie down and sleep to prepare for the winter. Instead, they continued to work in the fields. They wanted to reclaim wasteland and build water conservancy facilities in order to strive for the harvest before next spring.
Cultivate fields that are double or even more than the existing fields.
Only in this way will they be able to plant more food next spring, and then harvest enough food to eat next summer.
Although they are bandits, if they can be self-sufficient in food, no one is willing to give up easily.
What's more, what Liu Bagou and the others pursue is not just to feed the existing thousand people.
As an ideal and ambitious prime minister, Liu Bagou proposed to Li Xuan just after the autumn harvest that he recruit mountain people from some nearby small villages to farm in Huangzhu Mountain, so as to increase the number of people under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
The population increased the strength of the Tang Dynasty and laid the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
Coincidentally, when Liu Bagou proposed to take in some of the surrounding small villages, Huang Xueren also suggested that taking advantage of the fact that the autumn harvest had passed and Huangzhu Mountain had sufficient food, he could organize manpower to take in several surrounding bandit dens.
Huang Xueren had just robbed Fengjiazhuang and gained a huge reputation in Huangzhu Mountain. Now he had the idea of attacking other bandits' nests.
Huang Xueren even proposed to establish a regular army on a permanent basis, strengthen training and preparations for war, and also use it as the main force to attack other bandit nests.
Before Li Xuan could figure out why Huang Xueren was so impatient, Fang Dongquan on the side couldn't sit still and quickly wrote a letter, saying that the Ming army outside the mountains seemed to have made some changes recently and had recently sent many spies into the mountains.
In addition, autumn and winter have always been the seasons when the government launches various wars. It is not difficult to imagine that officers and soldiers are very likely to enter the mountains on a large scale to encircle Huangzhu Mountain in the near future.
Although the place in Huangzhushan is secretive enough, people will still find it even if it is secretive. It is just a matter of time.
In this regard, Fang Dongquan said that the defenses up and down Huangzhu Mountain are now lax, and there are almost no fortifications. Please build village walls, checkpoints and other fortifications. In order to allow young people to be more skilled in relying on fortifications to resist officers and soldiers, Fang Dongquan also requested the establishment of a standing army.
, to guard against attacks by officers and soldiers.
Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan successively submitted letters to establish a standing army, which naturally attracted Li Xuan's attention and made him smell something unusual.
It is normal to attack other villages and recruit them to expand the population. Even if Huang Xueren did not say so, Li Xuan planned to do so and was ready to implement it.
As for repairing the fortifications to prepare for the attack by officers and soldiers, it is also a planned matter.
After all, developing Huangzhu Mountain, enhancing his own strength while guarding against attacks by officers and soldiers, has always been the main issue that Li Xuan considered.
But the establishment of a standing army was beyond Li Xuan's expectations.
Although the Tang Dynasty said that it had civil servants and military generals, and it looked like a serious regime on the surface, in fact, the Tang Dynasty was just a facade, well, it could even be said that it was not even a facade.
After all, no dynasty is more bizarre than the Tang Dynasty: the prime ministers were all the same in civilian officials, and the generals were all the same in military officials.
As for the standing army, there is naturally no standing army.
Although when we attacked Shuilong Village earlier, we produced a left, right, middle and third army, but these names were only used at that time and were thrown aside after the attack on Shuilong Village.
As for the Guards, although it has a name and sounds like a regular army, it is actually not a regular army that is free from work. The teenagers in it usually only come for half a day to train, and most of the time they have to work on the farm at home.
, at best they can be considered militiamen.
Whether they are young bandits or young guardsmen, they are all the kind of people who act as civilians when they enter and bandits when they leave. And whether you think of them as bandits or mountain people, they are definitely not soldiers!
However, now, Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan have successively proposed the establishment of a fully independent regular army. This seems abnormal no matter how you look at it.
Intuition told Li Xuan that someone did not want to live a stable life and wanted to cause trouble!
Just when everyone in Huangzhushan did not want to live a stable life,
In Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang frowned and put down the letter in his hand, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes!
The dogleg next to him hurriedly stepped forward, fanned him with a folding fan, and complimented him: "Is there anyone who can't get along with you, sir? As long as you say something, I, Luo Mazi, can do it even if I have to go through the mountain of swords and the sea of fire."
Catch that person to vent your anger, sir!"
Su Jiakang tilted his head slightly and looked at the long attendant, showing a hint of anger: "You are so outrageous, how can you slander Mr. Fu Zun!"
However, Luo Mazi didn't seem to see the slight anger on Su Jiakang's face, but continued: "I, Luo Mazi, only have you, Mr. Su, in my eyes. That person named Shi is not even a fart in my eyes."
"Come on, if it hadn't been for this guy surnamed Shi last year, you would have been promoted to a higher level. If..."
Su Jiakang waved his hand and interrupted him: "If you still don't shut up, go and call Master Sun in!"
Luo Mazi immediately nodded and bowed: "Young man, go right now!"
Not long after, Luo Mazi led a middle-aged man in a robe with a white face and no beard into the signing room. The man straightened himself after entering, and then said: "Master!"
Su Jiakang was not polite to him, he immediately picked up the letter he was sitting on and handed it to him: "Master Sun, take a look first!"
After hearing this, Master Sun took the letter and read it. While reading the letter, he had no unnecessary expression on his face, calm and calm.
After a while, I saw him put down the letter and said, "Sir, what do you think?"
Su Jiakang said: "The Puppet Tang Dynasty must be beaten, and the rebels such as Li Xuan and Liu Bagou must also be arrested. But now these people are hiding in the mountains. Until they find their hiding place,
, our large-scale march into the mountains will only be a waste of time!"
Master Sun said: "I heard from the people at Fengjiazhuang that the place where they are hiding is called Huangzhu Mountain. The specific details are very secret. It is probably impossible to find out in a short time. But since the Palace Master has come forward, we can
We have to do it, after all, it is the Feng family."
When I hear about the Feng family, Su Jiakang is Zhou Enmei!
At this time, Master Sun took a step forward, and then lowered his voice in Su Jiakang's ear: "But it's not impossible, as long as we..."
Luo Mazi on the side pricked up his ears to hear what Master Sun said, but he didn't hear anything.
After Master Sun finished speaking, Su Jiakang's face was already full of confidence!