Ouyang Shuo wanted to chat with Yingyou about the business department, but the concierge suddenly came to report, "My lord, the Yushui Village sent a messenger to report something important!"
Ouyang Shuo was startled, it seemed that something important happened, so he hurried to the front yard. Go back to the office and ask the concierge to bring the messenger in.
The messenger was a young man wearing coarse linen clothes. When he saw Ouyang Shuo, he immediately saluted and said, "My lord, I have an urgent message from Yushui Village."
Ouyang Shuo took the letter and opened it to see, his expression was cloudy.
The letter was written by Zhao Dexian, the village head of Yushui Village. He wrote in the letter: Yesterday afternoon, the farmers in Yushui Village who were reclaiming farmland at the foot of the mountain found an unidentified person staying around the village, sneaking around and obviously harboring malicious intentions. . While sending people back to the village to report, the farmers wanted to catch these thieves and return to the village to receive rewards. I never thought that these people are all strong and strong, and the farmers are not their opponents at all.
The two sides clashed, causing many farmers to be injured. The strange thing is that these thieves didn't take their lives. Most of the injured farmers were accidentally injured when they resisted.
By the time Zhang Daniu led his team to support, the thief had fled into the mountains and was nowhere to be seen. Considering that it was getting late, the newly formed defense team was not familiar with the jungle environment. Zhang Daniu did not pursue rashly, but arranged for a capable worker to go ahead and follow the footprints left by the enemy.
Early this morning, Zhang Daniu led the defense team, followed the marks left by Xi Zuo, and chased into the mountains. Zhao Dexian felt that the matter was unusual, and while sitting in Yushui Village in person, he sent a messenger to report, hoping to hear the adults' opinions on how to deal with it.
According to the description of the injured farmer, the thief wrapped his head with black homespun cloth, wore a long gown with a large breast, and white waist straight-leg trousers. The weapon in his hand was extremely simple, just a simple spear. Based on these descriptions, Ouyang Shuo can basically conclude that those who spied on Yushui Village this time should be the barbarians living at the junction of Lianzhou Basin and Lingnan.
Before the Qin Dynasty, people in the Central Plains collectively referred to all the tribes south of the Yangtze River as Yue. The Lingnan area is Nanyue, and the Guangxi area is Luoyue. After the Qin Dynasty, the term Luoyue was rarely used, and it was replaced by Nanman. According to historical records, Gaia arranged these barbarians among the mountains and forests.
In the mountains and forests at the junction of Guangxi and Lingnan, there are a large number of mountain barbarians. These mountain barbarians are divided into tribes and scattered throughout the mountains. They are all strong and strong, but they are not good at production. In addition, the living environment is harsh, living in poor mountains and rivers, and there is a shortage of food. The tribe often starves to death. In order to survive, the mountain man often goes out of the mountain to attack nearby villages in order to obtain food.
This time, Zhao Dexian was ordered to establish the swimming village, and within a few days, he had already attracted the attention of these barbarians and sent people down the mountain to investigate the situation.
To these barbarians, Ouyang Shuo decided to adopt a gentle policy. Although Shanman is not good at production, he is an excellent soldier, especially suitable for forming heavy infantry. If they can be persuaded to migrate from the mountains to settle in Shanhai Town, it will definitely be a big help.
Most of the mountain barbarians near the Lianzhou Basin are descendants of Luo Yue. At that time, Qin Shihuang's invasions in Yueyue were very smooth, but the invasion of Luoyue was very difficult. The 300,000 Qin army could not attack the 10,000 to 20,000 Luoyue army for a long time, so there was a record of not disarming for three years. In the end, after Qin Shihuang built the Guilin Xing'an Lingqu, and the food and logistics were guaranteed, Luoyue was captured. It can be seen that the Luoyue people are brave and good at fighting.
In the previous life, Ba Dao, one of the three overlords of Lianzhou, relied on the heavy infantry formed by the mountain barbarians to attack the city and pull out the stronghold, and then dominated the Lianzhou Basin.
In this life, of course Ouyang Shuo is not going to let Ba Dao be more beautiful than before. Maybe, because of his own appearance, he could draw the bottom line, make the heavy infantry of the domineering sword a thing of the past, and cut off an important arm of the competitor in advance. This feeling is of course very cool.
Thinking that Zhang Daniu had led the team into the mountain, Ouyang Shuo was worried that the defense team would clash with the mountain barbarians, which would affect his soft policy, so he planned to go to Yushui Village in person.
He first informed the three directors of his itinerary, so that they don't have to worry. Then he rode the black whirlwind to the barracks. Just in case, this time he planned to take the infantry squadron and the military intelligence department with him to Swimming Village. As for the cavalry squadron, it is impossible to march in the jungle, and it is useless to go there.
A group of people rushed to the pier, took the fleet of chariots and horses, and rushed to the newly built pier on the other side. Along the way, Zhao Sihu looked extremely excited, and asked with a smile: "My lord, are you going to fight?"
Ouyang Shuo shook his head, there was really nothing he could do with these energetic ruffians, "Take you there, the main purpose is to serve as a deterrent, you can't do anything."
"Oh!" Zhao Sihu looked a little disappointed when he heard that he was only acting as a cheerleader.
When he arrived at Shuishui Village, Zhao Dexian had already received the news and led a group of chief officials to meet him at the entrance of the village. This was Ouyang Shuo's first visit to Shuishui Village. He naturally encouraged these pioneers. He talked and laughed happily with the officials, learned about the construction of Swimming Village in detail, listened to their plans and difficulties, and answered them one by one. Seeing that the lord is so calm, the villagers of Swimming Village felt relieved.
After a simple welcome ceremony, Ouyang Shuo led his team to the camp of Yushui Village. Now that the situation is unknown, he is not good at acting rashly. He could only order the infantry squadron to stand by in the barracks, and at the same time ordered the military intelligence department to follow Zhang Daniu's marching route and collect as much information as possible about the mountain barbarian tribe.
Before leaving, he specifically asked the military intelligence department to work carefully, and when they caught up with the garrison, if they hadn't fought the mountain man, they would immediately order the garrison to return the same way. If a conflict has already occurred, then you must also bring your own goodwill, and don't make things big and get out of hand.
After the arrangements were made, Ouyang Shuo was not idle. Taking advantage of this opportunity, under the guidance of Zhao Dexian, he began to visit the swimming village. The current swimming village is already a third-level village. The most important work at present is to cultivate farmland. They want to reclaim 20,000 mu of farmland before the Ching Ming Festival.
The layout of the entire swimming village is almost a replica of the previous Shanhai village. Even the location of the wharf and ferry is symmetrical with Shanhai Village. The two villages and towns are like a pair of twin stars, firmly guarding the entrance of the canyon.
Of course, due to the rapid upgrade of the population that was allocated from Shanhai Town, some young people were encouraged. Compared with the previous Shanhai Village, Shuishui Village has a lack of foundation. Even Beihai Town, which has been upgraded to a first-class township, has the same problem.
The quality of the personnel in Swimming Village, especially the government officials, is not good enough to take on major responsibilities, so they can only get used to it slowly. Fortunately, Zhao Dexian, the village head, was one of the earliest officials in Shanhai Town, and he had a very thorough understanding of Shanhai Town's administrative structure. With him in charge of the overall situation, the entire administrative organization can barely operate.
In the entire structure of the territory, Ouyang Shuo adopted a dual leadership mechanism for the various departments in the subsidiary territories. Specifically, the chief officer of the dependent territory is appointed by the lord to take charge of the overall situation. On the other hand, as the base camp, the departments and offices of Shanhai Town are higher in administrative level than the departments and offices of the subordinate territories, and can supervise and guide the work of the departments and offices of the subordinate territories one-on-one.
Among the two, the opinions of the chief officials of the subordinate territories prevail. In the event of a conflict between the instructions of the two parties, the instructions of the head of the territory shall prevail. Of course, if the departments of Shanhai Town think that there is something wrong with the order of the chief officer of the territory, they can ask the Lord Ouyang Shuo to make a decision.
At the same time, in order to strengthen the control over the subordinate territories, Ouyang Shuo also prepared two major trump cards. The first is the reporting system for major decisions. Major decisions in the subsidiary territories must be reported to the higher level in the form of documents, and can only be implemented after approval. To this end, he must solve the problem of rapid communication between territories and build high-speed and effective post stations.
The second trump card is the right to appoint personnel. Ouyang Shuo stipulated that when it comes to the appointment of heads of departments in the subordinate territories, the heads of the territories only have the right to recommend, and the real right to appoint lies with the higher level. At present, it is in the hands of Ouyang Shuo.
After visiting the swimming village, Ouyang Shuo returned to the barracks. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the news finally came. The news brought back by the Military Intelligence Division surprised and pleased him at the same time.
The investigators of the Military Intelligence Department tracked it all the way until they found the barbarian village, but there was no trace of the garrison. At this time, San Gouzi, who led the team, decisively divided the investigation team into two.
Leng Qian, the deputy director of the department, led the elite staff, from light to darkness, sneaked into the jungle near the cottage, taking the opportunity to collect information about the barbarian cottage. San Gouzi led another team and quietly kidnapped a copycat outpost to forcibly inquire about news.
Through the torture of the outpost personnel, San Gouzi had joys and sorrows. It turned out that when Zhang Daniu and his party tracked down the Shanzhai, because of insufficient investigation work, they broke into the encirclement of the Shanman, and were directly made dumplings and served in a pot. Fortunately, Zhang Daniu was relatively calm, seeing that the strength gap between the enemy and us was too great, he did not resist blindly, but chose to pretend to surrender, waiting for the rescue of the main force of Shanhai Town.
Remembering Ouyang Shuo's instructions before leaving, San Gouzi sent the captured sentry back to the village, and brought Shanhai Town's kind greetings. He expressed his willingness to solve the captive issue peacefully, but what conditions can he raise
In the anxious waiting, the cottage finally sent a reply. He said that the captives could be sent back, but the condition was that the lord of Shanhai Town must come in person.
It turned out that after Zhang Daniu was captured, he deliberately disclosed information about Shanhai Town to the barbarians. Tell the Shanman leader that what they detected yesterday was just a newly established subsidiary village in Shanhai Town. The base camp is on the other side of the river and has a strong regular army.
Immediately afterwards, the captured outpost was sent back to the cottage. The leader of the Shanman finally decided to meet Ouyang Shuo, the lord, after summarizing the news of the two.