Chapter 377 In the Mountains
In the southeast of Yueyang, there is an old mottled nunnery hidden in the mountain forest.
Wang Jixiong was buried in the valley not far from the nunnery, Wang Jun lived in the nunnery to serve the mourning and filial piety, reading every day, or taking the maid to dismantle the two hand-cranked spinning machines that were brought up the mountain, pondering the method of spinning printing and dyeing, but also happy and happy, and intuitively being in the paradise.
Wang Jun took the maid Xiaocui to wash the newly dyed Qianyang cloth by the stream, the birds in the forest chirped, and the occasional forest frog drummed, so that the summer was about to begin.
A vigorous figure walked through the mountains and forests, walked to Wang Jun, and bowed his head and said: "King Xin won a great victory in Baohua Mountain, and used the headquarters of Xinchang Marquis Li Pu as bait to severely damage the Nanya Forbidden Army. Mr. Ziheng was afraid that King Tan would invite Han Qian out of the mountain, and he might detain the young lady, so he specially ordered me and the other guards to leave Yueyang. ”
"Don't say whether Yang Yuanpu will invite Han Qian over, Han Qian didn't come to Yueyang before, and he won't be in a hurry to come to Yueyang now. Besides, I'm a weak woman, what are they holding me for? Wang Jun picked up the wooden basin full of dyed cloth, ignored the scouts who came to report the news, and led the maid to the nunnery deep in the valley.
The road to the nunnery passes by the tomb of Wang Jixiong.
Wang Jun walked to her grandfather's tomb and saw that the scout who reported the news had disappeared in the depths of the mountains and forests, of course she could ignore Mr. Ziheng's opinion, but if her father was worried that Yue Yang would detain her and wrote a letter to ask the people here to take her away, would she still be able to stay in this landscape?
And His Royal Highness King Xin used the Xinchang Marquis Li Pu's department as bait to capture Baohua Mountain, and the alliance with King Tan existed in name only, how would Han Qian react when he knew about this?
Will he come to Yueyang?
Although Wang Jun knew that the vast majority of people in Yueyang didn't want Han Qian to come over, but if Han Qian really wanted to come over, no one would be able to stop him, but would he come?
Or would he have another choice?
"Xiaocui, you go and inform Uncle Hua and say that we will pack our bags and leave Yueyang." As if to prove something, Wang Jun made up her mind to tell the maid to inform the servants who were guarding outside the valley to protect them.
"Miss doesn't give filial piety to the princess? said that she stayed in Yueyang to keep filial piety, but left casually, wouldn't the young lady become an unfilial person? The maid muttered in surprise.
"I want to prove that grandpa has seen the wrong person, grandpa is in the spirit of heaven, and he will forgive Jun'er for his unfilial piety." Wang Jun said with a sly smile, urging the maid to hurry up and inform the servant, she was afraid that if she delayed, Mr. Ziheng received a secret letter from her father, and he must send someone to protect her, so she would not be so free to move.
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Feng Yu arrived in Yueyang for more than half a month, and his life was quite moist, and in more than ten days, he was summoned by Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, to participate in the deliberations four times, and he almost enjoyed the treatment of the minister, but when Lin Haizheng ran over and told him about the deliberations of today's transport hall, Feng Yu was frightened into a cold sweat.
He suddenly felt that it was no longer difficult to sit down in Yueyang, so he urgently packed his bags, sent someone to Shen Yang's mansion to make an announcement, and left Yueyang by boat with Hu Sui in the afternoon and rushed to Xuzhou.
What made Feng Yi restless was not only the fact that Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, was so brave and inflicted heavy damage on the Nanya Forbidden Army.
Although Li Zhihe's transfer to Ezhou Assassin Shi and other matters were not finalized during the deliberations of the Carrier Hall before noon, but today in the Carrier Palace, Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, did not say that he wanted to consult Xuzhou's opinion on such a big matter, and at this time, Yang Yuanpu did not send someone to summon him to the palace, which means that the Zheng family and the Xinchang Marquis Mansion had the intention of squeezing Han Qian out of the core in such a short period of time.
Feng Yi sensed such a critical change, where could he still sit still?
It is a pity that at the end of March and the beginning of April, the Yuanjiang River has risen in water, the water is turbulent, and the wings are blocked by high mountains, and the speed of going against the current is even slower.
After arriving at Chenyang City, Feng Yi took Hu Sui to get off the boat and change horses, and went west along the post road on the south bank of Chenshui to Longya City.
When Feng passed by Jiming Village, Mrs. Xi, Xi Chang and others were in Jiming Village.
Feng Yi went to see Xi Ying and Xi Chang first, only to learn that Yan Yinliang, the commander of Chenyang County, rushed to Jiming Village with a dozen followers, and asked all the Xi clansmen to withdraw from Jiming Village and return all the land in Jiming Village and the nearby land to the old owner.
When it comes to the belonging of Jiming Village, Chenzhou Xishi is a handful of bitter tears.
Jiming Village is located in the upper reaches of Chenshui, and the surrounding area is relatively open and suitable for farming.
Jiming Village is built by Chenzhou Xishi, and it is also the first village built in Chenzhou in Chenzhou and by Chenshui after Chenzhou Xishi is separated from Xuzhou Xishi, but the Xi family, with Longya City (old Xi Village) as the core, has pocketed this piece of land in the south to the bank of the Yuanjiang River, Chenshui in the north, and across the two states of Chenxu.
At that time, the Chenzhou Xishi also gave up the Jiming Village and moved east to take root in Lipu.
After the Xi clan was destroyed by Feng Changyu, the Chenzhou Xi clan took the opportunity to recapture the Jiming Village under the pretext that it belonged to Chenzhou, and also occupied a large area of land, including Laolongxia.
At that time, Xiying had already made several appearances, and Feng Changyu, Yang Zaili, Xiang Jianlong and others had no intention of competing with Chenzhou Xishi for this land.
After more than ten years of operation, the Xijia family thought that they had thoroughly digested this land, and planned to annex the old Xizhai to the south, but they never thought that the Han family father and son would enter Xuzhou.
After the battle of Lao Ya Ao, the forces of the surname Chenzhou directly lost nearly 3,000 elite soldiers, and Jiming Village also fell into the control of the Wuling Army at that time.
After Xiying, he chose to belong to the imperial court, accept Zheng Hui's moderation, and led the Fan battalion to participate in the attack on Yuanling, Wuling and other cities.
On the one hand, in the war of cutting the domain, whether it was as an enemy in the early stage, or as a firm participant in the middle and late stages of the Jinling cutting domain, the losses of the native warrior Ding Zhuang of Chenzhou were too heavy, and almost one-third of the adult Ding Zhuang died on the battlefield, and he was also the most brave and good at fighting.
Even if Xiying and his son and other representatives of the local surname forces have been promoted and strengthened to a certain extent in Chenzhou after the war to cut the domain, the power of the native surname is actually extremely consumed, and it is impossible to recover without ten or twenty years of recuperation.
Even if Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, agreed to use soldiers in Chenzhou Prefecture after the war, in fact, if he wanted to maintain the permanent formation of 2,000 soldiers, it would directly affect the cultivation of each village, not to mention the requisition of Ding Zhuang to build walled cities and roads, and reclaim more fields.
This also led to Xiying and other forces in Chenzhou not thinking about taking the initiative to mention the ownership of Jiming Village for a while.
On the other hand, due to the severe damage to the direct subordinate soldiers, Xiying had to concentrate his limited forces in the Lipu Basin to ensure Xishi's control of Lipu County.
Lipu County has the largest valley plain at the western foot of Xuefeng Mountain, which is called the Lipu Basin in later generations, and has developed nearly one million acres of grain fields, with 50,000 or 60,000 Dingkou, which is enough to Sizhou and a state.
The elite soldiers of the Chenzhou Xi clan were seriously injured in the previous war, and they can only give priority to consolidating their foundation in Lipu at present, and at this time, even if they ask for Jimingzhai back, it will only cheapen the other big names in Chenzhou.
After this matter was delayed until Han Qian officially became the assassin of Xuzhou, and Xuzhou actually became the territory of the Han family's domain, Xiying realized that if he didn't ask for Jiming Village back, the time would be longer, and when Han Qian continued to move in from the south of Longya Mountain, it would be difficult to get Jimingzhai back.
At this time, Xiying would rather cheapen other Chenzhou surname forces, and also ask for Jiming Village back, so as not to let Han Qian extend the tentacles of Dragon Tooth City into Chenzhou.
Of course, at this time, it was impossible for Xiying to use force to ask for Jimingzhai, mainly to emphasize that Laolongxia was the official boundary between the two states, and asked for the restoration of Chenzhou's jurisdiction over Jimingzhai and the surrounding areas.
In response to this, Han Qian directly asked Xi Chang to move into Jiming Village with more than 100 Xi clansmen, emphasizing that the land near Jiming Village was the old territory of the Xi family.
This is what happened in the past month after Feng Yi went to Yueyang with Cao Gan.
He rushed to Jiming Village today, and Yan Yinliang, the commander of Chenyang County and one of the representatives of the forces with the surname of Chenzhou, also happened to rush to Jiming Village with county officials and demanded that the Xi clan immediately move out of Jiming Village.
There are other information transmission channels on the Xuzhou side, and as early as seven or eight days ago, they already knew about the heavy blow to the Nanya Forbidden Army by the Xinwang Yang Yuan, but it was only after Feng Yi came back that Xi Ying and Xi Chang knew Yueyang's reaction to this matter, which led to a subtle change in Yueyang's attitude towards Xuzhou.
Feng Yi's worries, Xi Ying, and Xi Chang also felt the same way, and immediately drove Yan Yinliang, the commander of Chenyang County, out of Jiming Village, and rushed to Longya Mountain with Feng Yi to see Han Qian.
"It's been almost a month since I went to Yueyang, what's changed here in Xuzhou?" On the way, Feng Yu and Xi Chang Yuma went parallel to ask about what had happened in Xuzhou in the past month.
In the past month, there are some things that Feng Yu knows, that is, Han Dong has escorted the first batch of armor and weapons and four double-decker oared warships to Songzi, waiting for Wang Yong, the Marquis of Changxiang, to send people to pick them up.
Of course, the exchange of this batch of armor and weapons is also produced in Shudi, and the bulk goods that are lacking in Xuzhou and Qianzhong Prefectures are exchanged.
However, the armor and weapons needed by Xuzhou to Sizhou were delivered earlier.
And more details of the cooperation with Sizhou, it is inconvenient to directly write a letter to tell Feng Mi who is far away in Yueyang, and Feng Mi also knew from Xi Chang at this time that the implementation of the cooperation between the two sides was more specific and detailed.
In the early days of the war, the 3,000-strong Xuzhou Prefecture Battalion was reorganized into the Wuling Army to participate in the early war, just to control the entire territory of Xuzhou, before and after the suppression of Tanzhou infiltrated into Xuzhou and Feng and other big surname forces, and then used troops against Chenzhou to conquer Jimingzhai, Chenyang, Yuanling and other cities.
With the continuous military victories, the number of soldiers and horses once expanded to tens of thousands, and through casting and capture, the equipment of the generals of the Wuling army has always been excellent and complete.
After the war of cutting the domain, the Wuling army was reorganized into local state battalions, and only 3,000 men and horses were retained, and a large number of surplus armor and weapons were stored - the Longque Army captured Yueyang and Tanzhou at that time, and there was a large amount of collection, and there was no need to requisition from Xuzhou on ordinary armor such as swords, guns, spears, and halberds.
The stored armor is relatively inferior, and it is planned to be eliminated in batches by Xuzhou, or it is planned to be re-refined as scrap iron, but these armors are quite sophisticated for the Sizhou soldiers and horses that are currently mainly equipped with rattan armor and rattan shields, so Han Qian simply dealt with 3,000 sets of armor to Sizhou at a discount.
Sizhou's actions were also quite fast, and the first batch of 800 village slaves who worked to pay off their debts had been assembled and sent to Longya City.
Han Qian naturally would not let these village slaves stay in Xuzhou to work, but directly sent them to Xuefeng Mountain to participate in the second phase of the renovation project of Xuefeng Mountain.
In addition to participating in the work in the designated section every day, these 800 village slaves were also supervised by the Sizhou Yang family, and an independent village slave camp was established in the uncertain section of the station, and the supplies of clothing, food, tools and other materials were also directly allocated to the supervisors.
Han Qian proposed to build a road between Jiming Village and Sizhou Yang's family at the southeast foot of Wuling Mountain in Hujian Village, and Xuzhou Gongcao would send an additional 600 recruited craftsmen to participate in the road construction.
Hujian Village, also known as Hujian Pass, is located between two dangerous peaks at the southeast foot of Wuling Mountain.
If the trail at the southern foot of Wuling Mountain can take the Hujian Pass, the road is a little farther, but it is much easier to walk.
At the same time, it can also ensure that the bulk goods that start from the east bank of the Qianjiang River and arrive at Jiming Village through the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, and then enter Longya City from Jiming Village, are always under the supervision of the Yang family.
Even if Han Qian didn't mention it, the Yang family would hope that Hujian Village could become a necessary place for goods and business trips between the two states.
Hujian Pass is extremely dangerous, only three or four carriages are needed in parallel in the front and rear canyons, and only three hundred elite defenses need to be arranged, so that thousands of troops and horses can not attack.
Even if the passage from Hujian Pass to Jiming Village is to be repaired, it will only make the road smoother, and the cars and horses can barely pass through, and it will not reduce the degree of danger of Hujian Pass in the military sense.
Therefore, even if the Jiming Village, which formerly belonged to Chenzhou Xishi, is actually still under the control of Xuzhou, Sizhou will not worry that Xuzhou will have other intentions.
In addition to the transaction with Sizhou and the normal progress of the work, in the past month, it has been a dispute with Chenzhou and Chenyang County on the issue of Jiming Village.
At present, they have moved more than 100 Xi clansmen into Jiming Village to settle down, and they are not afraid that the big surname forces led by the Xi clan in Chenzhou will dare to resort to force in a short period of time - Jiming Village is the key point of Chenshui connecting Sizhou, the southern foot of Wuling Mountain, Hujian Pass and Longya City, especially if it is already under their actual control, how can it not be handed over.
"You guys haven't been idle, but I'm a little idle in Yueyang." Feng Yi said with a dark sigh.
He thought that he had known this earlier, and after accompanying Cao Gan to Yueyang, he should have returned to Xuzhou directly to do some practical things after meeting with Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, instead of getting carried away because of Yang Yuanpu, the king of Tan, several summons to discuss things, and felt that it could be more useful in Yueyang.