Songs of parting songs rang, and the people bid farewell to their relatives and friends. Then, the Song army smiled, brought their own weapons, followed the crowd into a big river, and proceeded under the banner of Li's Dajun Ling.
It doesn't stop here, but it rises again. The army of Xin Wang mounted their horses one after another, and with countless people retreated back to the Zhongtiao Mountain Walled City. The roaring horse army stepped out of the sky of dust. These soldiers who had gone through the fierce battle became more elite and followed Zhao Zhen to the walled city under the bluestone fortress.
Li Yanxian went back, and Shao Xing, Shao Long, and Shao Yun also returned to Shanzhou City. However, they went back with deep thoughts. This time, Zhao Zhen told them that Zhao Gou might settle their accounts against them this time, which made them start to shake their future camp. In the end, Li Yanxian stated that he did not participate in the grievances between the king and his majesty, and he was only loyal to the Song Dynasty. As long as Xin Wang Jun is anti-gold, he will fully support it. Even if he concealed Emperor Zhao Gou, he would not hesitate. But to help Xin Wang Jun be hostile to Zhao Gou, he absolutely will not do it.
In fact, what Zhao Zhen wanted was his words. As long as I fight against the gold, you will fully support it, but it is this kind of support that will make Zhao Go think that you Li Yanxian belong to our land. No matter what country or ethnicity you love, Zhao Gou is up to you to listen or not to follow him. As long as Li Yanxian supports his fight against gold, Zhao Gou will naturally push Li Yanxian to his side. Zhao Zhen secretly smiled insidiously.
The mountain roads are vast, the mountain trails circle strangely, and the trails circle round and round. The group of horses is moving forward. This team of more than a dozen people marched forward to make peace, and the leader turned around and said: "We haven't reached Gao Pang Castle yet? Are we still far?"
The humanity behind him: "The son... We are about to arrive, but it is still unknown where the Gao Pangcheng Walled City is newly established, and the son does not let us grab and ask. It's fast!"
The black veiled leader nodded and said: "Believing in Wang Jun Gao Pang is not trivial, we can't be a little careless, you remember! This time, we just take spying on the news as our top priority! If it is not necessary, even if they spit on us. We have to be patient, have you heard clearly?" The thirteen knights shouted together: "Oh, yes!"
Everyone keeps moving forward. In that era of war and chaos, it is very dangerous to walk in the distance. During the Huizong period, the people did not have a living, and the golden soldiers invaded. The people were so hungry that they ate the bark of the grass roots. People don’t have to eat, they eat soil!
The people can't live anymore, they can only take risks and rise up. Zhao Zhen led the army to occupy only half of Hedong and Hexi along the Taihang Mountains, and gathered tens of millions of people! This is simply a miracle. How many people were there when the Northern Song Dynasty was the most prosperous? Hundreds of millions are there? Have! At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population was about hundreds of millions.
The reason why there are so many people under Zhao Zhen's rule is nothing else. It is because under his treatment, for the most time, there were also gruels of cabbage, potatoes, radishes and chaff together. Although there is not enough food, at least, everyone will not die from starvation.
However, in the vast Central Plains, there are still many tycoons who are unwilling to go to Zhao Zhen or go south, so they occupy the mountains as the king and lose the grass as the invaders in this mountainous area. In the wilderness at this time, the forests are dense, the mountains are steep, the trails are cluttered, the mountain trails are seemingly insecure, and the way is difficult. One accidentally, was found by the bandits, and died. In the vast mountains, there are only a few official roads, and most of the others are such mountain trails.
The black veil-covered chief seeks his way from the chaotic path, avoiding encountering the bandits and bandits who are rampant, the Song army ruffians, and the golden army who threw the grass valley. They had to ride more than a dozen horses along the way, but afterwards, they had to walk more than two people. Because a few horses broke their hooves in the winding mountain road, and the horses broke their hooves, it meant death. Everyone left their horses and couldn't do anything but let the unimportant people walk.
When everyone was tired from walking, they suddenly saw a loess road in the grass and trees in the distant mountains, and the loess road led to the distance. On both sides of the road, there are densely planted many fruit trees, including pear trees, peach trees, apricot trees, jujube trees, apple trees and so on.
Everyone immediately watched. On the dirt road among the fruit trees, there are many people's footsteps on horses. The leader of the team said: "This road feels like... an official road!" The leader said: "That's the case, let's take this road and see where it leads."
At the moment everyone took their orders and walked along this road together. I don't know, I didn't travel far, and I saw a group of militia soldiers patrolling by the people. All the militia men were riding horses. They were carrying hunting bows that could shoot twenty steps. They were not too powerful, and they were all slanted across the scimitars. Since defeating the Golden Army many times, the Xinwang Army has seized a large number of scimitars. These scimitars were inconvenient for the regular army to use, so they gave them to the militias.
Zhao Zhen now garrisoned Shitiaoshan and issued an order to the hundreds of thousands of people under his control. This is the first time since the people surrendered to him, as a ruler, he issued an order to all the people in the walled city around the bluestone fortress. A command that is good for him and the people.
Zhao Zhen requested that all the people open up wasteland and plant grain and trees, fruit trees or other valuable trees. In addition to planting trees, Zhao Zhen also asked all roadsides and wild fields to open up wasteland and grow grain, no matter what kind of high-yield grain!
Zhao Zhen will give rewards for planting food and trees. This reward was given by Zhao Zhen or exchanged for something. Zhao Zhen had the money and food that he had robbed the Jinjun in his hands, and he believed in Wang Jun to say what he said, so the people were not afraid to believe in Wang Jun not to give it. Besides, Zhao Zhen didn't give it all at once. He gave it in installments and supplies. For example, meat, ironware, and salt, these things may be rare for ordinary people, but it is not difficult for Zhao Zhen to get them.
The fruits on the fruit trees are everyone’s public property, and the people can exchange these fruits for food and wine. Of course the commoners would not make good wine by themselves, so they can only count on Zhao Zhen's. Only he can make a lot of delicious fruit wine. This kind of fruit wine, even the nobles of the Kingdom of Jin did not hesitate to make an exception to secretly trade with Xinwangjun. One can imagine how mellow its taste is.
In addition to high-yield crops such as Chinese cabbage, white radish, potatoes, and sweet potatoes, Zhao Zhen also encourages everyone to grow beans. At that time, the yields of wheat and rice were small, and the yields of sorghum and beans were relatively high. Zhao Zhen can use money, grain, grain, meat or other to pay for the beans that he planted, and of course, the oil is exchanged for the beans. These beans will be made into tofu, soy milk, soy oil, and soy cakes. In Zhao Zhen's view, these soy products are higher than pure grains whether they are edible or nutritious, as well as economic. Moreover, the products made by beans are good foods that can fill the stomach, and soybean oil is a luxury item.
Of course, except for Shitiao Mountain, the Xinwang occupied area also has this policy, but in the Xinwang occupied area, it is more comprehensive.
Since Zhao Zhen gave the order, all the people have moved because this is a major event. People's life is said to be bitter, but there are actually reasons for having to be bitter. It’s because they don’t know what they are going to do. For example, they know how to plant land, but generally speaking, these people don’t have much enthusiasm for planting land, because from loosening the soil to planting, most of the people just wait for the ground to grow stupidly. Out crops. In addition, there are all kinds of harsh taxes and taxes for growing crops, and the food grown is not enough to pay the taxes! However, Zhao Zhen only collects a small part, especially the wasteland. Zhao Zhen does not collect taxes or say anything, but also provides seeds, but the grain that he grows must be traded with King Xinjun.
Under the policy of Xin Wangjun, the respective villages spontaneously assembled several militia horse teams, each with more than 100 people, and each horse team was divided into five teams, dozens of teams patrolled the city. In the surrounding areas, they were afraid that the golden army would raid their cultivated land and fruit trees.
This trip was led by a captain named Peng Xiaoyu. Peng Xiaoyu was also one of the people who reported to Zhao Zhen for their meritorious service, and his father was also the village chief. Because of this, he became the captain of the militia. Peng Xiaoyu is a crazy admirer of the king's army. He likes everything about believing in the king's army. In order to express his reward and affirmation, Zhao Zhen instructed them to give them ten wooden masks and a hundred short knives for the militia guard cavalry. One hundred horse hoods, and twenty felt garments.
As the captain of the third squad of the Wulu Brigade, Peng Xiaoyu also has a good scimitar, which was captured by a Jinjun general by a soldier of the Xinwang Army. Later, the soldier of King Xin's Army used the knife to exchange some money and meat with him. After Peng Xiaoyu exchanged it, he loved this sharp machete like a treasure!
When I see people in groups, even if there are few people, I don't let it go. Peng Xiaoyu came with someone. Twenty horses encircled the team at once. In terms of numbers, Peng Xiaoyu had twenty people, nearly half more than the other side, and the other side was only a dozen people.
Seeing Peng Xiaoyu leading the team, the team also knew each other and did not move. This means that the other party is not malicious. Seeing the cooperation of the other party, Peng Xiaoyu's worries were reduced in half. Said: "Who are you?"
The leader of the black veil that took the lead said: "We are a caravan of smuggled goods, and there is no malice. I heard that there are business opportunities here, so come and see." Peng Xiaoyu's mouth cracked and laughed: "You are talking about us, Qingshicheng. Well, there are countless new gadgets in Wang Jun. There are a lot of merchants who have a strong relationship with the Jin and Song Dynasty bones, but you say that you are a businessman, and there are too few people! Are you rich? Look at each of you dressed up as samurai. It seems to be a pure businessman! It's like a guard protecting the businessman."
The leader of the black gauze said: "There is a little martial arts underneath. In this world, how can there be no samurai without samurai? These people are my employees, and we have a lot of money. We only look at the quality of things! "
Peng Xiaoyu didn't know much about these ways of business. After all, he was born as a country boy, even if he was the son of the village chief's family, he was also a country citizen, who had never seen much of the world. In addition, the black-veiled leader said nothing, and he had nothing to say.
Peng Xiaoyu said: "No matter what else, I will tell you now. We built the road here, and we planted these trees. It doesn’t matter if you don’t take this road, but you are now on our road. You have to pay, 50 copper coins per person, plus the fruits on the tree are almost ripe now, so you have to charge an extra fifty, a total of 100 per person, of course, you leave this road now, each person only Just pay fifty! Of course, if you don’t have copper coins, broken silver is okay, but if it’s too big, I can’t guarantee that you can find it. There is really no small money, you can use something to buy it!" There are a lot of smuggling of Song Jin. Merchants, they came to Shitiaoshan for some private goods that only Xin Wangjun had.
There are good things about Xin Wang Jun, everyone knows. For example, the various transparent colored glazes, the bright mirrors that can be illuminated without any notice, as well as the various bone utensils, and soybean oil, are deeply loved by the nobles of the Golden Kingdom and the Southern aristocrats of the Great Song Dynasty. However, because the northern king's army occupied the area deep within the Jin army's control area, the smugglers of the Kingdom of Jin could get through the joints to trade there, but Song merchants could not get through the joints of the golden soldiers to go there.
However, Shitiao Mountain was within the Song Army's control area, and it was safe for Song merchants to directly come here to conduct private transactions with the Xinwang Army. Therefore, on Shitiao Mountain, many well-known Song Dynasty merchants came. The folks can cover the expenses of these militias by collecting tolls. And Peng Xiaoyu was not afraid that they didn't have it. The swords of these people were good swords, and their horses were not bad. Even if they are not merchants and have no money, they can detain their swords and horses themselves. Here, except for the poor people and the official military of the Song Dynasty, everyone has to pay. Of course, this was allowed by Wang Jun, and even Zhao Zhen personally ordered it.
The black veiled leader hesitated, she was rich, but she was not happy to hand over the money for no reason, although the money was not much. But for the purpose of this trip, she still paid the money.
Peng Xiaoyu left without holding the money, but said, "You are going to our city, are you?" The leader of the black gauze said: "Exactly. Excuse me, we haven't been there. Can you please? Lead the way?"
Peng Xiaoyu laughed loudly and said: "We can show you the way, and help you introduce me by the way, but you have to give us money!"
The head of the black gauze mask was helpless, and counted more than a hundred copper plates from his hands and handed them to Peng Xiaoyu. Peng Xiaoyu often collects money from time to time, and his heart is overjoyed. In the past, he searched for mountains and rivers, hunted for a few days, and got nothing but dozens of copper plates, maybe even less. Isn't it good to be able to make money casually now? It didn't take much effort.
"Okay, merchants are familiar, everyone is convenient! But I can remind you that this is Bluestone City, our leader is a powerful person, so everything can only be done according to the rules. You can't buy or sell, otherwise, you won't have your business! "After speaking, I turned around and said: "Brothers, show the way for the rich..."
It took a long time before everyone arrived. It was a section of wood and stone exterior wall. It looked like the stone wall was going to be repaired, but it didn't work well, so I used a wooden fence to block it first, so it looked a little crude. But the wall surrounds the entire mountain, rivers and creeks, which is almost the size of a medium-sized city. It surprised these dozen people.
Outside, there are still trees planted, plants and flowers everywhere, and bees buzzing in the sky. Outside the wall, there are countless tents, most of which are people who have defected but have not yet settled in the city. However, they will soon enter the city to live, because they are working hard to build their homes in the city.
In addition to the common people, there are also some merchants from the Great Song Dynasty from the south who have their own network of connections. They come here to buy the special products of Wang Jun and sell them to the southern family for big prices. It is because of them that many large southern families use all kinds of beautiful glass products and mirrors.
Apart from the tents, the most eye-catching is the army of Xinwangjun cavalry coming and going in and out of Mercedes-Benz. One of the generals is tall and has loose hair. What can be seen from this is that there is a string of silver chains on his nose connected to a nose ring.
There is such a savage general in the Xinwang army posing as the Li Yanxian army? The headman with a black gauze mask thought in her heart, she looked at the top of the mountain in the distance, and there was a towering strange castle on the top of the mountain. But because the distance is too far, I can't see clearly.
Afterwards, the leader of the black gauze mask looked at Peng Xiaoyu who had brought them. Peng Xiaoyu and a deputy general of Xinwangjun who had left the village were talking.
After a while, a small official came over, holding a wooden sign in his hand, under his hand, it was a woman. The two arrived in front of the leader with black gauze. The little official said: "Peng Xiaoyu said you are Zhao Shang? What's your name?"
The black veiled chieftain respectfully said: "In the next winter, I heard that there are good glass products and mirrors in your place, so..." She spoke purely with the wind, and originally wanted to enter the city, but she didn't think about the letter to the king And the people here are not ordinary, orderly and strict, and they have formed a huge walled city. Want to enter, how easy is it.
The little official shook his head and shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, you people in the south like to talk nonsense, we need efficiency in our work, do you understand it? It was said by Wang Qiansui. I asked you to answer, and you are not allowed to say more. I ask you, you said that if you call Dongyu, you can get it. You want glass and mirrors. How much do you want? How much money did you bring?"
The veiled headman was about to speak, but the little official said: "However, how much money you bring is of secondary importance. We will have a collection in the morning, but the glass and mirrors you want, we will only do everything at a time. I can give you five. This is your brand, you know? You are the 67th, today's 67th businessman. The Golden Army retreated some time ago. This time is a peaceful period, so there are more merchants. , We will call you for a while, call you, and you will come again. Remember, you can only enter by yourself, don’t talk nonsense, don’t be troublesome, have you seen it? You have to settle down under this wall, and you can’t run around! Of course! , If you find it troublesome, you can leave immediately! Do you know?"