The owner of the village will return in a few days, and Li Mengkong, Zhang Wanli and Zhao Bo will step up their deliberations to reach a consensus on some matters, so as not to make a fool of themselves when the owner asks.

The walls of Qingfeng Village have all been reinforced with solid wood, and a one-person-high corridor has been made on one side of the interior to facilitate the defense of someone attacking the village. The hill was littered with horse moats, roasted wooden thorns, and several sentry posts on the nearby hills.

The owner of the village secretly explored Qingfeng Village and was very satisfied with the fortifications of Qingfeng Village. In fact, before Liu Chengdong left, he had basically completed the renovation of Qingfeng Village, and Li Xiang was tantamount to picking up a bargain.

Li Xiang secretly made an appointment with the protégé who defended Qingfeng Village, patted the head of the sign and the shoulders of a few elders to encourage a few words, and several young people in armor were excited.

When leaving Qingfeng Village, Li Xiang thought proudly: "That kid Liu Xiadu, I think that if I make a noise, I can replace Lao Tzu." Fool, Lao Tzu is not only the owner of the village who protects the villagers and leads them to make a fortune, but also the mountain chief of Mengxue and the master of hundreds of young people! ”

When Li Mengkong and the three of them talked about Wang San and Mingyueji, Li Xiang had already rushed to the Black Tiger Village to meet with Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang, who had rushed here.

Liu Decheng and the two heard some rumors and noticed that something was wrong, so they contacted the village to inquire, and sure enough, they got the news from Uncle Zhao that the owner of the village had returned.

Li Xiang was on the hill near the Black Tiger Village, looking at the Black Tiger Village that controlled the mountain pass, listening to the whining wind coming from the mountain pass, and was very satisfied with the dangerous mountain situation at the north gate of Mingyuezhuang.

To the south of the Black Tiger Village, there is only one path connecting Mingyuezhuang. The north of the Black Tiger Village is full of cliffs, and the mountains are so steep that the mountain people who collect medicine do not dare to go deeper, and it has become a de facto forbidden area. The west and east sides of the Black Tiger Village are also steep slopes and dense forests.

From a higher place, the terrain around the Black Tiger Village is like a turtle, and the Black Tiger Village is located on the central armor of the "turtle", leaving only a small tail in the south, holding it in the hands of Mingyuezhuang.

What's more, as long as Mingyuezhuang is still there, the path south of Black Tiger Village will be difficult to be cut off. In other words, if Mingyuezhuang does not fall for a day, Black Tiger Village can hold on for a day.

Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang ran up the hill panting.

The cold wind at the southeast foot of the Qinling Mountains was howling, but the two of them were sweating profusely. Li Xiang was afraid that these two goods would get into the cold, so he walked down the hill and talked to them at the shelter.

It's just a few months since I saw each other, and Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang have mustaches. The growth of young people is fast, Li Xiang sighed in his heart, but he forgot that he was only twenty years old, and he was still at the age of school in the original time and space.

The two of them wore iron armor on the outside, and customized leather armor from Tang Guohao's leather armor workshop, and when they wore it inside, they looked majestic and mighty.

Li Xiang patted the shoulders of the two protégés, "The food is good, they all say that Qinling is difficult, and you two are actually a lot stronger." ”

Liu Decheng scratched his head, embarrassed, but Ding Shihang patted his chest, "More than two years ago, the owner of the village could let the poor and white villagers eat meat. As the Master's protégés, we naturally cannot go hungry. ”

Then, Ding Shihang's tone turned low, "Marching in the Qinling Mountains is really difficult. A lot of things are poisonous, and it's hard for my brother to heal when healed. Seventy-three brothers have been lost, and more than a dozen of them have been learned. There are more than a hundred brothers, who can no longer hold a knife. ”

Liu Decheng was silent.

Li Xiang's side, the guards recruited in Bianjing, originally didn't look down on Liu Decheng and the two, but now they are in awe.

Li Xiang sighed, didn't speak, and entered the tent with the two of them, and began to barbecue the prey they had just gotten. There are also three new-style tents for guards to rotate.

"The eastern Qinling Mountains have been explored, and there is more than one Qinling trade road to Shangnan and Song County." Ding Shihang, who could speak, watched the owner of the village barbecue, collected his saliva, and continued: "The master's expectation is really good, some villages are really fierce!" ”

"Ding Shihang and I talked to them and asked them to surrender, but they just refused. With the help of the Gongzhong, the people of the surrendered villages cultivated fields, sold medicines, mined, hunted, and engaged in business, and they were always better off than before. We told them these things as the Master commanded, but it was useless! ”

Liu Decheng broke free from his low mood and took over the conversation, "Yes, Master." Many people's clothes have become strips of rotten cloth, and the colorful skins are joined together and worn as blouses. There was not enough food, not enough salt, and they had no strength, but they insisted on fighting us with wooden sticks, bamboo bows, and bone sticks, and most of them would not surrender if they did not die. ”

"There is a village in Luanchuan that fights us with steep mountains. The first time they fought, they lost, let them surrender, refused. The next day, I came again, I was killed and injured by a straight bow, and I came back on the third day! When we entered the stockade, there were few intact men......"

Recalling the "Luanchuan tragedy", Liu Decheng shuddered, as if he was shocked by something.

Li Xiangche gave the two protégés a few pieces of barbecue, and he also inserted a piece to eat, and said with emotion: "Some villages have a history of hundreds of years, and there are even those who went up the mountain in the troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty, they don't have any trust in people from the outside world, and it is not surprising that they resist desperately." ”

"Let you suspend the offensive and return to the troops, on the one hand, to deal with the internal and external conditions of Mingyuezhuang, and on the other hand, to complete the training, some of the problems I saw in the letter should also be solved. But the most important thing is the people of Qinling. ”

Li Xiang told the two protégés his thoughts in detail.

If Mingyuezhuang wants to continue to develop, it is not good to only pick people from the homeless, and the people recruited are not reliable at all without going through several tests.

The Liu family dared to fight against Li Xiang, and the new Zhuang people who were born as refugees were the biggest help. After Li Xiang fell, Liu Xiadu wanted to win over this part of the people to stabilize Mingyuezhuang, so as to fight against the gentry and protect his interests.

It can't be said how the homeless people are, it's just that they have too little, they just want to live, and they don't hesitate to go with the flow.

The mainstream voice of these people is: Mingyuezhuang gave me a yellow household registration, but I also worked hard. I still have a family, it's not easy to survive, why get involved in the big guys? No matter who is in charge, their own family is the life of the worker, so why bother to follow the foolishness?

It turns out that without the nourishment of interests and collective identity, more Zhuang people will be bad.

Li Xiang left the brigade and returned ahead of schedule, to a large extent, to see how many families in Mingyuezhuang were co-opted by the seven Liu families. How many people are ready to stand by and watch, turning a blind eye to Liu Xiadu's rebellious behavior, and even wanting a piece of the pie.

Qinling villages, or aboriginal mountain people, are very different from homeless people.

In many ways, Qinling Village is very similar to Mingyue Village before Li Xiang became the master, and the commonalities outweigh the differences.

Except for a few villages, the aborigines, like Mingyuezhuang, have weakened the concept of big families and official governments, and struggle to survive with small families, which Li Xiang attaches great importance to. In order to protect their homeland, the people of Mingyue Village did not hesitate to resist the official army desperately, and now the Qinling Village rushes to the elder camp in order to protect their homeland...... Ahem, Li Xiang also attaches great importance to this.

There are many characteristics of the aborigines, most of which are Li Xiang's favorite traits.

It is absolutely not enough to rely on propaganda to induce the surrender of Qinling villages. But if he kills all the way through, will Li Xiang be able to control the Qinling Mountains and gain strategic depth and greater benefits?

At the same time, the number of homeless farmers grew larger, and Li Xiang had to expend much energy to use various means to select reliable villagers over and over again, and at the same time suppress unreliable villagers. As soon as there is interference by external forces, Mingyuezhuang will be in trouble again at home and abroad, how can it develop with peace of mind?

The most terrifying thing is that the elder battalion, the guards and the affiliated villages killed all the way over, killed the people who resisted, and looked quiet. But the people left behind have grievances, does Li Xiang dare to use it? Do you dare to receive it in the elder camp?

Not to mention taking it for his own use, Li Xiang will probably not be able to sleep at that time. The stoic young man running in the mountains lost his father, the woman who didn't let the bearded eyebrows lose her husband, and the old man who would rather die than give in lost his child.

Hearing the master say this, Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang broke out in a cold sweat, and they ran over thousands of ants in their hearts, feeling cold on their backs.

There are some things that Liu Ding and the others have also thought about, but they can't think of an answer.

Now hearing what the owner said, the two recalled the eyes of some aborigines, and their hearts trembled, and then ...... The horse arose the idea of never having to suffer in the future.

Li Xiang saw the thoughts of the two protégés, and thought: It must be rectified, these boys who came out of Mengxue are all wild-hearted, and they have to talk with knives when they encounter problems. In the long run, even if there is a division of power among military law and quartermasters, the force of Mingyuezhuang will be warlordized!

For the sake of the development of Mingyuezhuang and his own safety, Li Xiang decided to rectify the village.

There are enough good things exposed in Mingyuezhuang, none of them are shocking things, and they will not attract a counterattack from the entire gentry class, which is enough.

The hidden things, the deeper points of the hidden. There won't be much new in the next few years, just expand the scale and adjust and optimize, and further keep a low profile and develop obscenely.

The union of the Liu family and Huang Liren, in Li Xiang's view, is really the inevitable result of the unstable situation and the accelerated growth of interests.

Liu Decheng asked Li Xiang, what about the aborigines in the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains, who resisted fiercely? Many people are still suffering in the coolie camps, and many more are working in the mines or cultivating the fields to collect medicine.

Li Xiang thought for a while, "If there is no big grievance, release them all and move them away from the place where they live." ”

"If you have a grudge against Mingyuezhuang, give a certain amount of compensation and give them three ways. If you have relatives and friends, Mingyuezhuang will pay for the journey. Those who want to open a workshop in the Han River borrow money from me, and they don't have to pay interest, so they can only work to survive, and the owner of the village gives them work. If you want to stay in Qinling, give them the eliminated weapons, let them fight to the west and north, and the territory Mingyuezhuang will definitely not grab. ”

Liu Decheng and Ding Shihang were dumbfounded, there is still this kind of operation?

Li Xiang's plan needs to be further refined and adjusted, but the overall idea is very certain, that is, to let those fierce and stoic aborigines have an outlet and a way out.

The aborigines who have resisted Mingyuezhuang, many people will think: The people of Mingyuezhuang are so powerful, and there are iron armor, we can't beat them. People gave compensation, helped us survive, and let us choose, should we respond first? Heck, I'm not saying surrender to them, is there any hope of revenge if you stay here as a coolie? That's right, promise Mingyuezhuang first, and then talk about it......

Even if there is the kind of husband who does not hesitate to take revenge for ten years, after taking Li Xiang's money and accepting Li Xiang's help to move towards a new life, few people insist on revenge.

It is more shameless, but Li Xiang firmly believes in this and insists on his own approach.

It was getting late, and Li Xiang asked the two protégés to rest in the Black Tiger Village.

Li Xiang secretly mobilized a small batch of supplies from the village, including tents, sleeping bags, charcoal stoves, rice, grain, salt, and tea.

He will spend a few days in the cold-winded Qinling Mountains, inspecting new tents, new sleeping bags, and marching charcoal stoves. When it comes to the combat power of his subordinate Zhuang Ding, Li Xiang does not dare to be sloppy in the slightest.

When Li Xiang got into the warm sleeping bag, Liu Xiadu and Huang Liren got the information provided by the inner ghost, thinking of the abnormal movements of Li Xiang's cronies in the past two days, they were sure that Li Xiang had returned!

The wind outside the tent stopped, and the heavy snow stained the Qinling Mountains.