Han Qian was outside Wugang County, met with the county commander Song Ze and Han Chengmeng and others, and refused Song Ze's banquet under the pretext that the three princes strictly forbade disturbing the place, and did not enter Wugang City, but directly led people to Huaxi Village, a grange in the west of the county.

Huaxi Village is located in a valley at the eastern foot of Xuefeng Mountain, because it is located at the east entrance of Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, as Luo's private property, Huaxi Village, which covers an area of only 200 acres, is built according to the mountain wall, but it is also built solid and abnormal, and the stone wall is more than one zhang wide.

When Luo Jia led the rebels to flee south, almost all the materials that could be taken away were taken away, and those that could not be taken away and the wooden buildings and houses were set on fire, and there was only a ruined village and two or three hundred broken houses with only broken walls left in Huaxi Village.

A few zhang wide stream river, flowing in front of the remnant village, post road along the north bank of the river, to the mountain, outside the mountain.

The terraced fields on both sides of the river and the back mountain, totaling more than 3,000 acres, are all the private property of Roche.

Fortunately, the rebels did not have time to destroy the crops in the fields, and the two hundred slaves moved over first, just in time for the crops in the fields to mature, and by the time Han Qian and them rushed over, more than 4,000 stone grains had been collected into the granaries of the remnants.

These two hundred households of slaves were mainly incorporated into the two places of the workers' camp and the medical battalion after the capture of Wuling and Hanshou, and the relatives of the two places, of course, including the new clan of Zhou and Zhao Jicheng.

To tell the truth, these subordinates and relatives are more or less engaged in farming, and they are driven to run the grange, which is far inferior to those slaves and maids who originally farmed for the Ma clan and other Tanzhou clans, and at the same time, their minds are wandering and quite restless, and they may even have the intention of fleeing south to Yongzhou to join Zhao Sheng and Luo Jia's rebels.

However, Han Qian asked them for a reward, mainly because apart from these subordinates, their children were rare educated people in the world, and if they could be disciplined well, their value would be much greater than the same fourteen or five hundred ordinary slaves.

At present, the manager of Huaxi Village is Han Laoshan's nephew Han Dong, who is a robbered man in his thirties, compared with when he went to Tanzhou City to see Han Qian a month ago, Han Dong is much thinner, it can be seen that with only seven or eight people, he has to control two hundred households, 14,500 restless subordinates, and the pressure is much greater than imagined.

Of course, in order to prevent these people from escaping, Han Chengmonti transferred a team of township soldiers from the county and stationed them at the valley mouth east of Huaxi Village.

Regardless of whether Han Qian appreciates it or not, Han Dong wants to report it truthfully.

In addition to harvesting grain fields, planting crops for winter, and repairing houses, Han Dong also organized nearly 300 young people to carry out centralized training according to Han Qian's instructions, and organized the female dependents to spin twine, weave cloth and clothing.

At this time, Huaxi Village has been chaotic and rectified for nearly a month, but at this time, it can be regarded as in good order, and there are no fugitive slaves.

In other words, others will be surprised when they see this scene.

Even for a person like Han Chengmeng, who has a family history and has been well-educated since childhood, and has been involved in taking care of family affairs for many years, it is difficult to keep a village with such complex personnel and such restless people in such a short period of time, but in the eyes of Zhao Qi, Xi Fa'er, and the Du family brothers and sisters and other entourages, it is very sparse and ordinary, and even can pick out a lot of things that Han Dong has not done well enough.

Standing on top of the five-foot-wide wall, Han Qian looked at the crystal clear river in front of the wall.

In late autumn, the water level becomes shallow, and the river can only be rippled by fishing boats, which is difficult for boats carrying goods to pass.

"Although you have all been relegated to slavery and hard labor, you are finally coerced into chaos, and you will have few opportunities to make meritorious contributions in the future,"

Han Qian said to Zhou Chu and Zhao Jicheng behind him,

"In the past two days, you have gone to tell the families that I, Han Qian, have no intention of enslaving and exploiting them, if they can stay in Huaxi Village with peace of mind, the nearby fields and houses will be distributed to them according to the head of the household, and they only need to pay a part of the money and grain according to the land tax imposed by Xuzhou. The female dependents who work in the weaving institute are also paid as usual, so there should be no problem in making ends meet. And this time, His Royal Highness allowed my father and son to recruit 300 family soldiers, and all the young people over the age of 16 were willing to be recruited, and they were all given money and food according to the recruitment, and after making military exploits, they would also recommend promotions to officials, but the number of years of recruitment was a little different from that of ordinary recruitment......

At present, the recruitment system practiced by the Xuzhou Prefecture Battalion is mainly based on the children of Xuzhou, with a five-year period, and after expiration, it will be converted into a five-year reserve army.

During the five-year preparatory period, it is necessary to have four months each year to participate in rotational training and rotational warfare in prefectures and counties, during which military salaries will be paid as usual; Self-employment outside the rotation period, and the military salary will be halved.

After the five-year probationary period, they will be self-employed, and their military pay will be halved until their death.

The family soldiers that Han Qian wants to recruit this time, except for the meritorious officers who have been awarded medals, are for life.

This time, in addition to Xinchang Marquis Li Pu, who had already reorganized his family soldiers and further expanded them to 500 people (including Li Chong and Chai Jian), Han Qian, Shen Yang and a number of other people were qualified to have private soldiers.

And Han Qian and his father Han Daoxun, as the first merit, have the number of family soldiers, and the number of soldiers has also surged from the previous thirty soldiers to three hundred.

The fields and mansions that were rewarded to them were mainly used to support the family soldiers.

This also means that after Han Qian and others became the feudal domain, they became a newly rising powerful force in Tanzhou with the three princes.

For Han Qian, in addition to the Xuzhou Prefecture Battalion headed by Tian Cheng, Yang Qin, Xi Chang, Feng Zhang, and others, as well as Guo Que'er, Lin Zongjing, Guo Nu'er and others who were incorporated into Jinyun Tower with Gao Shao, Zhao Wuji, Xi Fa'er, Kong Xirong, and Zhao Qi were all able to stand in the Ming as subordinates and be responsible for commanding the family soldiers by Han Qian's side.

The young man of the Xi family, who has been training hard for many years, can be officially incorporated into the Han family's family soldiers this time.

Of course, in addition to these, there is still a serious shortage of elite soldiers who can officially go into battle, but in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the state battalion, too many elite veterans cannot be transferred, and an additional group of new people needs to be recruited for training.

The two hundred slaves and maids in Huaxi Village are nominally the private slaves of the Han family, so naturally they give priority to recruiting a group of people from them.

Of course, Han Qian can forcibly compile the strong teenagers and young people Jianyong, but he still hopes that Zhou Chu and Zhao Jicheng will come forward to do ideological work and minimize negative resistance as much as possible.

Zhou was born as a township soldier, and was promoted to the county lieutenant step by step, and he was also over forty years old at this time, but he was capable of assisting in the organization and training and commanding the affairs of the family soldiers.

Of course, Zhou Chu and Zhao Jicheng came forward to do work, and they were also bluffed and frightened.

Han Qianxu with such generous conditions, each family can get an average of fifteen acres of ration fields in Huaxi Field, and they can also enter the weaving institute to work, in addition to the status of slaves and maids is difficult to change, it is equivalent to directly exempting them from the hard labor they have to bear, which is very likely to make them fall into nightmares for the rest of their lives, what other requirements can they have?

And they want to get rid of slavery, the way out is extremely narrow, and they are recruited to serve as family soldiers by Han Daoxun and Han Qian's father and son, and become a close confidant step by step, which is the brightest way out for them.

Three days later, Han Qian set off from Huaxi Village, crossed Xuefeng Mountain and went to Qianyang City, and the team quickly expanded to more than 200 people.

Han Qian left Han Dong and Zhao Jicheng behind to take care of Huaxi Village, and he used Zhao Qi, Zhou Chu, and Kong Xirong as generals to lead these 200 newly recruited soldiers, and followed them to the post road that had been broken for many years, and returned to Qianyang City......

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The Xuefeng Mountain Post Road starts from Wugang County, passes through Huaxi, Jiangkou, Huoma, and Kipzhou Zhuzhai to arrive at the Yuanjiang River on the opposite bank of Wukou Village.

This is a Han Dynasty opened up in order to use troops against Wuling, the beginning of the construction was extremely steep, the contradiction between the Turks and the guest in the middle and late dynasties intensified, and the local secession, this post road was basically abandoned.

Under the deterrence of Tiancheng's troops, Zhulu Fanzhai did not dare to set up a card to block it, but most of the mountain roads, the stone steps collapsed, the mountain collapsed, and many passes could not be ridden through.

Han Qian and the others walked for six days before they walked through this Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, which was only one hundred and thirty miles.

When Han Qian and his party set off from Wugang County, they brought more than 40 horses with them, and they didn't carry any materials by camels, and seven horses accidentally fell into the cliff and lost them along the way.

In addition, walking so slowly and so cautiously, there are three newly recruited soldiers who unfortunately slipped into the deep valley and died, and more than 20 people were injured and injured in falls, which shows the danger of this post road.

The dangerous road was also the fundamental reason why Xuzhou and Shaozhou were very close to each other during the war, but neither could send troops to the other side.

Out of the Snow Peak Mountain, there is a wild persimmon forest, at this time it is the late autumn season when the forest is dyed, the red leaves of the wild persimmon forest are like fire, very magnificent.

Yang Qin waited on the east bank with two sailing ships for two days, waited through the autumn water until Han Qian and them came out of the mountain, and said: "I agreed on the time, I thought that you encountered something in the mountains, if it wasn't for the boss's side to calm down, Tian Cheng would have led his troops into the mountain to pick you up." ”

"Fanzhai in the mountains, if there is really any change, can you lead troops to fight it?" Han Qian said with a smile, "It has rained a few times in the mountains, the road is steeper and more slippery, and we have brought so many people, three days of delay is already considered fast." ”

Han Qian and the others boarded the ship, and arrived in Qianyang City when it was about to get dark.

It was delayed for three days compared to the scheduled time, and Xuzhou was also a little worried, seeing his father standing in front of the city gate tower and staring, Han Qian's heart was also hot.

didn't let any grand banquet be arranged, Han Qian returned to Furong Garden, and asked Han Laoshan's wife Zhou to cook a few small dishes with wine, and let Han Laoshan, Fan Xicheng, Zhao Kuo, Tian Cheng, and Yang Qin accompany them to drink.

Han Qian knew that his father would never be happy to discuss Emperor Tianyou's bloody treatment of many rebels, and most of them didn't talk much about the rewards received by the Han family this time, and only talked about the danger of them walking the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road and the magnificent autumn scenery they saw along the way.

"From Tanzhou along the Xiangjiang River, through Hengyang to Ningxiang, to reach the Lion Ridge where Hengzhou and Yongzhou are separated, it is necessary to take more than 500 miles by water. From Wukou Village, Qianyang County, Xuzhou, to the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road, through Wugang County to Wuzhiling, where Shaozhou and Yongzhou are divided, it is more than 300 miles by land."

Han Daoxun didn't have the opportunity to walk the Xuefeng Mountain Post Road in person, but the importance of its significance had a very deep consideration, and he said in a deep voice,

"No matter how difficult it is, this post road still has to be renovated, as long as it is not a bulk material such as grain, tea and medicine cloth with a small volume and high value, as well as iron, paper, salt, silk and other goods, it is naturally more convenient to cross the Xuefeng Mountain by land, and it is much more convenient to travel to and from Shaozhou and Xuzhou; Personnel flow will be faster. ”