Chapter 52: Someone Wants to Make Trouble
Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren returned victorious, and they also came back with a lot of food, which allowed Huang Zhushan to get rid of the dilemma of food shortage.
So in the past few days, Huangzhu Mountain is full of laughter, in the past, many people who have been close to running out of food, and can only drink some porridge at every meal, and they can barely survive can also eat enough.
Even some families who do not have young and strong families to fight are all able to get food from the public middle school, and this life can become better.
After the frost fell, the people of Huangzhushan once again entered a busy state, they had to take advantage of the weather to cool up the ripe late rice, and then dry the harvested rice for storage.
After the harvest was completed, the people did not lie down and sleep to prepare for the winter, but continued to work in the fields, reclaiming wasteland and building water conservancy facilities, and striving to reclaim twice or more fields than they already had before the arrival of next spring.
In this way, they will be able to plant more food next spring, and they will not be able to harvest enough food until next summer.
Although they are bandits, no one is willing to give up easily if they can be self-sufficient in food.
What's more, Liu Bagou and their pursuit is not just to feed the existing 1,000 people.
As an idealistic and ambitious prime minister, Liu Bagou proposed to Li Xuan at the end of the autumn harvest to recruit some small mountain people from nearby villages to farm in Huangzhu Mountain, increase the population under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, enhance the strength of the Tang Dynasty, and lay the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
Coincidentally, when Liu Bagou proposed to take care of some small villages around him, Huang Xueren also proposed that while the autumn harvest had passed and Huangzhushan was full of food, he just organized people to collect several bandit dens around him.
This Huang Xueren had just robbed Fengjiazhuang and gained great prestige up and down Huangzhu Mountain, and now he had the idea of attacking other bandits' dens.
Huang Xueren even proposed to establish a regular army that has always been on standby, strengthen training and prepare for war, and also use it as the main force for attacking other bandits' dens.
Before Li Xuan could figure out why Huang Xueren was so impatient, Fang Dongquan on the side couldn't sit still, and hurriedly wrote a book, saying that the Ming army outside the mountains seemed to have moved recently, and recently sent many spies into the mountains.
In addition, autumn and winter have always been the seasons when the government launches various wars, so it is not difficult to imagine that it is very likely that officers and men will enter the mountains on a large scale in the near future to encircle and suppress Huangzhu Mountain.
Although the place of Huangzhu Mountain is secret enough, it will be found when it is secret, and it is nothing more than a matter of time.
In this regard, Fang Dongquan said that now the defense of Huangzhu Mountain is lax, and the fortifications are almost none, please build fortifications such as walled walls and checkpoints, so that young people can rely on the fortifications to resist the officers and soldiers more skillfully, Fang Dongquan also asked for the establishment of a standing army to prevent the attack of officers and soldiers.
Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan's successive letters to establish a standing army naturally attracted Li Xuan's attention and made him smell some unusual smells.
It is normal to attack other villages and co-opt them to expand the population, even if Huang Xueren doesn't say so, Li Xuan intends to do so and is ready to carry it out.
As for repairing the fortifications and guarding against the attack of officers and soldiers, it can be regarded as a planned matter.
After all, developing Huangzhushan and enhancing its own strength while guarding against the attack of officers and soldiers has always been the main issue that Li Xuan has considered.
But the establishment of a standing army was beyond Li Xuan's expectations.
Although the Tang Dynasty said that there were civil officials and military generals, on the surface, it was a serious regime, but in fact, the Tang Dynasty was just a superficial goods, well, it could even be said that it was not even a superficial goods.
After all, there is no dynasty that is more bizarre than the Tang Dynasty: a prime minister with all civil officials and a general with all military attachΓ©s.
As for the standing army, there is naturally no one.
Although when attacking the Water Dragon Village earlier, there was a left and right middle and three armies, but these names were only used at the time, and they were thrown aside after the Water Dragon Village.
As for the Guards, although they have a name, they sound like a regular army, but in fact they are not full-time regular troops, and the teenagers in them usually only come to train for half a day, and most of the time they have to work as farmers at home, at most they are militiamen.
Whether it is a young bandit or a young guard, they are the kind of people who enter for the people and go out for the bandits, and whether you think of them as bandits or mountain people, they are definitely not soldiers!
However, now, Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan have successively proposed to establish a completely off-duty regular army, which feels abnormal no matter how you look at it.
Intuition told Li Xuan that someone didn't want to live a stable life and wanted to make trouble!
Just when the people of Huangzhushan don't want to live a stable life,.
In the county seat of Zhengtai County, Su Jiakang frowned and put down a letter in his hand, and a trace of gloom flashed in his eyes!
The dog leg next to him hurriedly stepped forward, fanned him with a folding fan, and said complimentally: "Is there anyone who can't get along with your adult, as long as you say it, even if my Luo Mazi breaks into the sword mountain and goes down to the sea of fire, I have to arrest that person to give your anger to your adult!" β
Su Jiakang tilted his head slightly to look at this long follower, revealing a hint of anger: "Presumptuous, how can you slander Lord Fuzun!" β
However, Luo Mazi didn't seem to see the slight anger on Su Jiakang's face, but continued: "I Luo Mazi only has you in the eyes of Master Su, and the one surnamed Shi is not even a fart in my Luo Mazi's eyes, if it wasn't for the bad work of this surnamed Shi last year, you would have risen to a higher level, if you ......"
Su Jiakang waved his hand and interrupted him: "Don't shut up yet, go, call Master Sun in!" β
Luo Mazi immediately nodded and said, "The little one will go!" β
Not long after, Luo Mazi walked into the signing room with a middle-aged man wearing a robe and a white beard. β
Su Jiakang didn't be polite to him, and immediately picked up the letter paper on the seat and handed it to him: "Master Sun, you take a look first!" β
When Master Sun heard this, he took the letter and read it, and when he read the letter, there was no superfluous expression throughout the whole process, flat and calm.
After a while, I saw him put down the letter and said, "My lord, what do you think of yourself?" β
Su Jiakang said: "This pseudo-Tang must be beaten, and that Li Xuan and Liu Bagou and other anti-thieves are also to be arrested, but now these people are hiding in the mountains, and before we find their hiding place, we can only waste time by entering the mountains in a big way!" β
Master Sun said: "I heard the people over there in Fengjiazhuang say that the place where they are hiding is called Huangzhu Mountain, and the specific aspects are very secret, and it is probably impossible to find out in a short time, but since the Fuzun has come forward, we can't help but do it, after all, it is the Feng family." β
Hearing the Feng family, Su Jiakang is a cycle of thick eyebrows!
And Master Sun took a step forward at this time, and then lowered his voice in Su Jiakang's ear and said, "But it's not impossible, as long as we ......."
Luo Mazi on the side pricked up his ears and wanted to listen to what Master Sun said, but he didn't hear anything.
After Master Sun finished speaking, he saw that Su Jiakang's face was already full of confidence!