On November 17, the second snow fell in Thuan Khanh Province.

The Liu family's fleet set off from the Liujiacun wharf and went north along the Jialing River, sending Liu Ximing and the personal guard regiment and nearly 1,300 people from the second battalion, the first regiment and the second regiment to Lizhou in Boryeong Province before returning.

This time to Shaanxi, the Liu family is indeed a little excited, and the team of more than 1,000 people is marching on the road, which is so mighty that people are eye-catching.

If it weren't for the fact that the Han Yuan firm now has some hands and eyes, the matter of Lu Yin alone would have bankrupted Liu Ximing's plan.

He and his fellow travelers Dou Yuquan, Du Liangji and others have the identity of showmen, and they don't need a guide anywhere, but others can't.

Fortunately, with Liu Xi's life, all the equipment and equipment of the Longxiang Brigade can be stored in the space, and the group declared according to the name of the business traveler, and finally walked out of the mansion smoothly.

Lizhou is the Guangyuan of the later generations, from here along the Jinniu Road to the north can go directly to Hanzhong, and then go north through the Chencang Road or Bao Chuan Road and other passages to enter Guanzhong.

Originally, Liu Ximing could also choose to go out of Sichuan from Micang Road in Kuizhou, but recently there was news that Zhang Xianzhong had retreated to Shaanxi through Micang Road under Hou Liangzhu's repeated pursuit and killing.

Thinking about his small body of a thousand people, and comparing Zhang Xianzhong's army of tens of thousands of thieves, Liu Ximing felt a cold sweat in his heart, which prompted him to choose to come out of Lizhou.

Lizhou is only a small state at the moment, and the circumference of the state city is only about four miles.

When it comes to people and customs, there is nothing to see except for the big children in tattered clothes and the dirty men and women.

Liu Ximing, Dou Yuquan and others only stopped in Lizhou for a short time, and then directly embarked on the road across the Qinling Mountains.

"You are 48,000 years old, and if you don't communicate with Qinsai, the difficulty of Shu Road is really the same."

Du Liangji was out of Sichuan for the first time, and not long after he entered the Qinling Mountains, he sighed.

Hearing his words, everyone in the carriage couldn't help but look out through the window.

I saw the mountains Cui Wei, the cliffs are lined up, and the trees are towering, just looking at it makes me feel dizzy.

Although Liu Ximing is not like their buns, in modern times, he takes the high-speed train directly, and he has arrived in Xi'an in one morning.

It was the first time he had staggered to the carriage like today.

Fortunately, the carriage in Liujia Village has been installed with brake devices, otherwise he would not dare to take a group of brothers to make waves like this.

In addition to Chen Yiding making up his mind to study hard at home and take charge of the family by the way, Liu Ximing brought Su Jin, Dou Yuquan, Du Liangji and others with him.

In addition, Lei Hong, Tao Wenshi and other scholars in the Datong Society have already thrown themselves to Liu Ximing's admiration because of the Ding Sijuan case, and this time I heard that he was going out to study, and there were many guards, and several people also moved their minds to keep up.

You must know that in this event, Liu Ximing is certainly famous as the president of Datong, and Lei Hong and others can also benefit a lot.

Now who in the entire Shunqing Mansion does not know that there is such a group of talented people who ask for the lives of the people of the Datong Society, and now the scholars of the Datong Society are holding their heads high and unhappy wherever they go.

After this incident, the number of people who applied to join the Datong Society skyrocketed to more than 200, which made Dou Yuquan, who was in charge of the preliminary approval, a little anxious.

However, Liu Ximing still demanded that rather than indiscriminate, it must be a scholar who agrees with the Datong theory and can only apply to join after talking, assessment and other procedures.

He always remembered what happened after being crowded with opportunists and gang members of the Alliance, and he couldn't spend his own money, but the benefits were taken by others.

In this way, among the people who went to Shaanxi in Liu Ximing's party, there were nearly 20 Xiucai alone.

At this time, hearing the exclamations on the carriage in front and behind, all the scholars chattered and discussed, and many people even wanted to recite poems on the spot, so unhappy.

Liu Ximing looked out the window while laughing, but saw that there was a small market town-like gathering place on the other side of the mountain stream, with smoke rising from the cooking, which had a unique scene.

"Li Biao, what is that place in front, why are there still people in this deep mountain and old forest?"

Li Biao lowered his horse's head and followed the side of the carriage, and when he saw Liu Ximing asking, he hurriedly waved his hand to the front, "Please come over to that guide." ”

After a while, a thin and plainly dressed man trotted over, and this person was Shi Erwa, the guide that the team was looking for in Lizhou.

"Hui Ye's words", Shi Erwa replied with a humble face and a fist: "These are the wood quarries in the Qinling Mountains, they see them along the stream, if someone buys it, they will float the wood down the water, otherwise such a big tree will not be able to be transported." ”

Liu Ximing's heart moved slightly, and he asked with a smile: "Is there a lot of woodquarry in Qinling like this?" What is the yield? ”

Shi Erwa grinned, revealing two rows of yellow teeth, "It's a lot, why not much, now it's so much bitterness haha, where else can I find food besides going into the mountains to cut wood, but now business is not good, and everyone is having a hard time." ”

Liu Ximing nodded a little approvingly and sighed: "Yes, now that there are wars everywhere, where do ordinary people still use big wood, it is that the palace may not have been rebuilt for a long time." ”

Shi Erwa's face was bitter, and she whispered to Liu Ximing: "The master is wrong, if the palace wants to come to buy, it is not enough for us people to put their lives here, those gangs of dead castrations are really too ruthless, and they don't treat the wood pickers as human beings at all." ”

"Have you forgotten what we just did?" said Lei Hong, poking his head out of the carriage behind him.

"Wood service, wood service, doesn't refer to this wood harvesting battle, we don't have many old forests in the deep mountains of Shunqing, so this wood service is not too heavy, but if it is in this Baoning, Kuizhou and other major wood production areas, it is really a life-threatening thing."

Seeing Lei Hong, he was also shocked

moved, Liu Ximing simply proposed to the car: "It's still a long way to go, I might as well go to this lumber quarry first to see how it is, it can be regarded as wind collection." ”

"It's a good idea"

"After sitting for so long, it's time to go out for a walk"

The crowd agreed, and the convoy walked forward for a while before turning straight onto the road leading to the lumberyard.

As soon as he walked to the quarry, Liu Ximing suddenly found that all the woodpickers who had been scattered all over the place had gathered on the road in front of the quarry, and it seemed that they had been waiting for him and others for a long time.

Standing first was an elderly man in a brown shirt with a wrinkled face, and behind him was a group of middle-aged men who were also wearing short shirts and rolling up their sleeves.

"I don't know what your nobles do?"

When the old man saw Liu Ximing and the others getting out of the carriage, and seeing that more than a dozen of them were all dressed in jade-colored shirts, he was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

Xie Wenle, Lei Hong and others felt quite new here, and they just got out of the car and looked around, and no one paid attention to the middle-aged man at all.

Liu Ximing hurriedly tightened the big puff on his body, walked forward in front of the old man, and said with a smile on his face.

"Don't panic, I just passed by here, saw this camp, and came to ask curiously, but I didn't have any bad intentions, dare to ask what to call it?"

The old man's orange-skinned face showed a hint of embarrassment, "This old man, the little Wu Niu, is only thirty-five this year, and he deserves this title." ”

What the? Liu Ximing was stunned for a moment, and then looked at the wrinkles on his face, you look too anxious.

Xu saw Liu Ximing's surprise, and Wu Niu smiled bitterly: "Logging all year round and overwork, so the villain looks old." ”

"I'm just a pickled place here, that is, there is no surplus wealth and no food, even the thieves can't look down on it, Xianggong and others are nobles, of course they won't embarrass us."

Liu Ximing looked back at Xie Wenle and the others, who were originally smiling, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

Who would have thought that this hardship of wood picking would even be like this.

"Are you here to collect wood for the imperial court or sell it yourself?"

Liu Ximing was speechless for more than a minute, and then continued to ask.

Wu Niu hesitated for a moment and said, "The little ones and others are here to pick wood and sell it to passing merchants. ”

"Hey, doesn't it mean that now that the wood harvesting has been changed to a commercial office, why don't you see those big businessmen to open?" , Xie Wenle had heard a little about this, so he came up and asked.

Wu Niu's waist bent even more, "This Xianggong, businessmen pick wood mostly in the deep mountains where big trees gather, near such official roads, only ordinary trees have been mined, so that small people have a chance to live." ”

Liu Ximing glanced at it, and saw that the surrounding woodpickers all looked like they respected Wu Niu, and said in his heart that this Wu Niu spoke clearly, no wonder he was recommended as the leader by the people here.