In August of the first year of the emperor (20 years), the "plug on Guanzhong" in the mouth of the fifth Lun ushered in a bumper harvest.

When the south wind rises at night, the wheat is covered with yellow, and the golden millet and wheat are ripe at the right time. All the people of Tewu County went into battle, all went to the field to harvest, and the strong laborers charged to the front, bending over, bowing their heads, and the sickle flew back and forth at the lower end of the wheat straw like a big saw, each person accounted for three to five cages of wheat, and those who fell behind were not to be outdone.

耄耋 (màodié) The elderly and women take lotus rice and bring pot pulp to the ground to deliver food. The children were not idle, but followed the adults in the scorching sun, bowing their heads and picking up the ears of wheat that had fallen on the ground, and putting them all together on the cart.

When pulling the cart full of ears of wheat to the wheat field, the farmers did not forget to glance at the beacon outside the Han Canal in the south, both worried and happy.

"Thanks to their care, there are no soldiers and bandits from other counties to disturb me."

There was a squad of soldiers of the Fifth Battalion, wrapped in yellow scarves, who had been standing guard for several days.

In the usual way, if there were officials and soldiers so close, even if the autumn harvest was busy and the farmers could not be delayed for a while, the people would definitely have run away long ago, and it was still a trivial matter to be bullied if they escaped slowly, for fear that they would be caught in the army and never return home.

But today is different, those soldiers of the fifth battalion are very honest, with their backs to the farmland, their eyes on the loess hills in the southwest of Tewu County, and from time to time there are horsemen who send messages back and forth between the various beacons.

What they were guarding against was not Ma Qushuai, who had theoretically been "wiped out," but the "remnants" of Lu Fang, who had drilled into Daluo Mountain and fought guerrillas in the hundreds of miles of wasteland west of Zuogu to the middle of the Yellow River.

Lu Fang's kindness, benevolence and righteousness are all aimed at the people of Sanshui County, and as a regional weapon, they treat outsiders with different accents with extreme viciousness. What's more, there are still many Qianghu in his subordinates, and they will come to the plains to plunder when they are very hungry, and several townships in Anding County and Huangjuan County next door have already suffered.

However, Anding County insisted that Lu Fang was dead, so they only sent the county soldiers to drive him away, and by the way, he copied the Li Lu that had been harmed by Lu Fang again, and then planted it on the head of the robbers, why not?

"So it's not just the remnants of Lu Fang that we have to guard against, but also the 'friendly forces' of the neighboring counties."

Zang Nu stood on the beacon with his crossbow in his hand, and he now agreed with what Bo Yu Sima said at the officers' meeting: "Friendly troops are the biggest imaginary enemy of the fifth battalion!" ”

The Fifth Lun often referred to the other armies of Daxin as "soldiers of thieves", while the Fifth Battalion was a "soldier of the people", and the requirements were clear.

He gave power to the hundreds and soldiers who guarded the southern border of Tewu, and if the soldiers of the thieves of Anding County crossed the border and harmed the people, they could be directly attacked as bandits.

Towards the end of the wheat, the elders in the middle of the area were very eye-catching, and asked the women to wipe mud on their faces and hide away, and he led a group of old men with pots to carry pulp, and came to reward the soldiers of the fifth battalion with trepidation.

Zang Nu's thick eyebrows were relaxed, and his smile was very good: "It's all done?" ”

The father and elder hurriedly said: "Thanks to the general's guard for us, we don't have to worry about the bandits coming to disturb us, and we have all collected it." ”

Water and food were acceptable, and Zang Nu did not refuse to let the soldiers eat and drink, but when the fathers and elders offered to divide the food they had beaten into a cart as a reward, Zang Nu waved his hand solemnly.

"I'm not a general, besides, if Boyu Sima knows, he will be severely punished, and my father won't harm me."

The same Fengsui, as well as the "military lawyers" subordinate to Xuan Biao, are all paranoid people, abide by the rules of the Fifth Lunding, and report everything in detail. If you don't take a stitch from the people, you can't do it, but the cart and cart must be stopped immediately.

According to the requirements of the fifth lun "the army and the people should get together", Zang Nu squatted on the ground and chatted with his father: "Uncle, we are also from poor families, I used to be even a field slave, you see the calluses on this hand, they are all held with a sickle, and I know the bitterness in the field." Boyu Sima said that the grain that should be levied is included in the field rent after the autumn, and there is no additional endowment. Thou shalt hand it over to the government, and it will give us food and wages, which is sufficient. ”

The grain given to the fifth battalion, Tewu County did not dare to rub oil.

After the fathers and elders thanked them for their kindness and said goodbye, there were still soldiers who looked at the grain they pulled away and the peasant women swallowed their saliva, and took advantage of the absence of the military judge to ask Zang angrily: "Zang Dangbai, I still don't understand, although Boyu Sima asked us to shout before every meal, 'We take food and clothing from the people, so we must be soldiers to protect the people, and we must not harm the people'." ”

"But although the food and clothes are planted and sewn by the common people, if there is no Boyu Sima in charge of the army, it will not be given to us in vain."

These officials and chiefs were a little resentful, they had been bullied in the past, but they hated and envied those who bullied them.

After becoming the head of the army, they thought that they could learn from other tribes to be masters, but now they have to be aggrieved.

Seeing that you can't take the fabric you want, and seeing that the lovely little woman can't grab it, according to Wu Lun, the army has become a helper for the farmers, why?

So he muttered: "So in the final analysis, what we eat is still Boyu Sima's food, and we still wear the clothes of the Fifth Clan, and it has nothing to do with who farms the land and who spins the cloth." ”

Zang scolded angrily: "If you want Sima or Xuanjun to hear this, you will definitely apply for a meal, and go to the north of the county to plant alfalfa and dry brine salt, which is much harder than in the south of the county." ”

Although Zang Nu will compare his heart to his heart, remembering that he was living a hard life, he agrees with the statement of the fifth Lun, but he can't help but have a very low consciousness of the people below, he is stupid, and he will not be the fifth Lun and Xuan Biao will take the soldiers to remember the bittersweet set, only muttered: "Just keep the military order, anyway, every day before the meal, when Boyu Sima said these words above, you and others applauded vigorously!" ”

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Those soldiers who had a lower consciousness, violated the Fifth Lun military order, learned from other parts on the way back from Sanshui, and grabbed food and cloth, have been disqualified as military officers and regular soldiers, and have only rushed to the Kushui River to do the work of "drying brine salt".

The method is not new, not to mention the salt drying on the seashore in the future, in fact, it was born from the well salt production method seen in Shuzhong when the fifth Lun sent Yangxiong's coffin to Yizhou for burial.

Under the scorching sun, several shallow salt pans were built with loess in the middle reaches of the Kushui River, and the salty bitter water was drawn into it, and the soldiers worked in the meantime. Under the action of sunlight and wind, the concentration of brine has been not small, and it is added to the reed basket filter salt soil containing the filter salt soil, and the filter salt soil is a finished product that has been processed for a long time, and the salt water with a higher salt content is extremely high, and the salt water with a greater concentration is slowly poured into the clay pot.

If the weather is sunny enough, when the wind is good, there is no need to steam, direct exposure, the time is slower can also get salt, if the weather is bad, then use reed straw to boil salt, high heat and low heat repeatedly steamed, after several times of filtration, remove the sediment impurities of the salt such as snow precipitation in the kettle, condensed into a block, take out and put it away after cold.

This is all hard work, and the soldiers who have committed the crime of prohibition and do not die are basically driven to do hard work here, and their future fate will be determined according to the situation of admitting mistakes.

"After all, if you don't eat empty salaries, you have to slowly recruit some poor peasants who really can't survive in the local area to join the army, and you can't learn other parts, and you can blackmail the people to steal grain at every turn, so you have to open up the source."

Fifth Lun tasted a few grains of freshly produced salt, compared to the coarse salt that the people directly scraped the shore to dry naturally in the past, it was indeed a lot finer, but the bitterness was especially there, but there was no way, the price was too high to remove the heavy metals in it. For most people, this is already a rare piece of good salt.

It stands to reason that salt is included in the monopoly of five and six baskets, and private trading is prohibited. But this trick is good in Guanzhong, but in terms of the border plugs of bitter water and salt lakes everywhere, it is an empty word, do you want to prohibit the people from scraping salt on the stones at the water's edge, or prevent the sheep from licking the salt and brine crystals on the mound?

And the border army was transshipment and selling salt locally, and the court and the general had long been tacitly acquiesced and acquiesced. The salt from Huamachi in Yan County, Xuàn in the east, was also transported by the governor of the northern part of Weirong County to sell to local wealthy families using public vehicles and horses.

Therefore, Wu Lun is not worried about violating the ban, but is worried about whether his own salt, which is not of the best quality, can be sold to the special martial arts and powerful people for food.

It turned out that he thought too much, and at a banquet where the Hao You gathered, when Wu Lun asked people to bring out the salt of Baihuahua and vaguely put forward his intentions, Zhang Chun, who had a lot of money, immediately made a decision: "The salt in the neighboring county seems to be good, but it actually makes the old man feel sick." ”

It's really not a good trust to find in advance, Zhang Chun took the initiative to advertise for the fifth Lun: "One side of the water and soil raises one person, as a special martial artist, naturally I have to eat special martial salt, from now on, my family will no longer eat Huamachi salt, only the salt of bitter water!" ”

Under Zhang's leadership, the first batch of salt prepared by the Fifth Battalion Production Brigade was snapped up by the county's powerful men within a day, and it was directly exchanged for hard currency grain and cloth. Xuan Biao was so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, according to this sales volume, the fifth battalion was able to exchange salt for grain for a while.

However, in the interior of Zhang's Mansion, Master Zhang Chun, who still has "one side of the water and soil to raise one person" on the front foot, no matter whether he eats or uses wicker to dip his mouth, he still uses Huamachi salt, and the bitter water salt is only eaten by the family and the clan.

This made his son Zhang Fen very puzzled: "Since adults don't look down on this salt, why do they take the lead in buying it at a high price?" ”

"Did I buy salt?" Zhang Chun said with a smile: "I bought the friendship of Boyu Sima." ”

"I know that Wulun is doing things seriously, and I want the soldiers to open up the industry and don't be idle. But in fact, even if the fifth Lun is served with black mud, I will gladly buy it out! ”

Zhang Chun warned his son: "Since ten years ago, the imperial court sent troops to attack Hu, and the edge of the border was disturbed, and it has been the norm for the tribe to forcibly seize and rob, such as the generation of Ruchen, who is timid, and only dares to rob ordinary people. ”

He sighed and said: "In this world, there are not many people like Fifth Lun who can sit down and talk about the rules, and are willing to trade and exchange with Haoqiang, if they meet, they must cherish it, so that he can be stationed in the special military force to keep one side safe." ”

"What's more, this bitter water and salt is indeed in good condition, so why not exchange it for the grain and cloth that he could have grabbed?"

Even if it is a forced purchase and forced sale, even if the bid is inflated, Zhang Chun also admits it.

Zhang Chun warned his son: "In short, the more frequent the contacts with the Fifth Battalion and the more interests involved, the safer my family will be, and you should go to the Fifth Battalion more often." ”

At the end, Zhang Chun looked at the five-year-old girl playing in the yard and sighed: "It's a pity that my family is not prosperous and there is no daughter of the right age, otherwise, it is really worth marrying the fifth Lun!" ”

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In September, Wu Lun, who had just gained a foothold in Tewu County and was ready to become bigger and stronger for the future, received a call from General Tunhu and came to Shanghe City again.

The battalion was very different from the last time it came, after resting for a few months and replenishing its combat strength, four thousand soldiers were ready to go, half cavalry, half bare. There were also 2,000 soldiers and 3,000 mules and horses, who carried the army to eat for a month.

When he learned that he had not been selected for the Cypriot army, Wu Lun breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that he had made the right bet on the "casualties" of the self-detonation in Songshu.

Left behind together, there were 2,000 people under Liang Qiuci, who were ordered to be stationed in Shanghe City, Lingwu and Lian County, and at any time to receive the return of the army.

Of course, this made General Tunhu, who had changed his opinion of the fifth Lun a lot, dislike him again, and felt that this young man was dull and unenterprising.

On the other hand, Han Wei himself is almost 70 years old, and he is still forging ahead, only seeking to defend Huo and get the position of marquis.

only said with a straight face when he issued the military order: "Fifth Lun, do you know why this general left you to guard the special forces?" ”

"The subordinates know because the remnants of the Sanshui rebels have not been exterminated!"

Fifth Lun approached and issued a military order to the elderly General Tunhu: "Lu Fang has already died twice, if he dares to go out of the mountain to the north to invade the border, the subordinates will be able to cut off his head again!" ”

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