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Wen Cheng continued: "So if Liaodong can have today, the first credit will go to Brother Maohua, if it weren't for his planning, "

Zhu Jiudao: "I'm different from Lao Wen, I haven't had any big ambitions since I was a child, it's ridiculous to say, I live to be in my twenties, and I'm still muddy, it's not as good as my sister Zhu Xiang to understand, I don't know what to do when I eat and wait for death all day long." finally gave me an official, but I lost it. Drinking wine during the day, eating meat, gambling money, eating meat at night, drinking, big, although the days are happy, but the heart is not happy, if it is not for Brother Mao to wake up, to Liaodong, I am still a scoundrel in the countryside of Puzhou who plays money and eats wine, no one looks down on me, this life is over. ”

After Zhu Jiu finished speaking, he glanced at Mao Taigong, Mao Taigong regained his dead face, closed his eyes and seemed to enter a state of meditation, Zhu Jiu coughed twice, and after a while, Taigong Fang said a sentence: "I have nothing to say, he is not as good as Xiaowen in terms of farming, and he is not good at fighting, but he still has to be the head of Liaodong, he is ambitious enough, his skin is thick enough, and the road is wide, none of us can compare." ”

Everyone laughed again, and the clerk said: "The snake has no head, there are thousands of people in charge of the family, we came earlier, but there is always no name for making trouble, which proves that our ability is not good, we are fighting the world in Liaodong, not to be a peace officer, on seniority that set of seniority is not used, on talent, Brother Maohua from the county government all the way to the third grade of the big member, worship the knight, the world attention, only a few years, this is the ability."

"In addition, all of you here have been your subordinates, you are the leader, we are happy and convinced, and the brothers below are also happy and convinced, and it is inevitable that others will be suspicious of each other, not to mention that it is difficult to maintain the status quo, and Brother Maohua is also the best choice. This third, if Liaodong wants to succeed, it must also rely on external forces, whether it is Ziqing, Beisha City, Yingzhou or Youzhou, and even the imperial court, only Brother Maohua can speak. This fourth, the king of the mountain only listens to you, we can't call him. ”

Mrs. Mao said in a sullen voice: "There are a lot of ramblings, in fact, in one sentence, you have to be responsible for this, and you have to be appropriate if you are not right." ”

The clerk said: "Taigong's words are concise and accurate, you should be the head of Liaodong, we are happy and convinced." ”

Zhu Jiudao: "Lao Wen used to be in charge, called the owner of the village, I think this name is not good, like a mountain king, but at that time we were small, it doesn't matter what we call it." Now that Brother Mao is here, it's different, Brother Mao is the assassin and envoy of the imperial court, so he simply played the banner out, and also gave us an official, so that everyone can also be happy. Tomorrow people will come to you, you give someone an official, and people will be happy, it's hard to say that he came upside down, you let people be the second king. ”

The crowd laughed again.

Li Mao said: "Although the seal letter of the assassin and the envoy is in my hands, it is not appropriate to use it at this moment, so as not to make a big splash." ”

The clerk shook his head and said: "I don't dare to agree with this, the name is not right, if you want to achieve great things, how can you do it without a name, and it will be difficult to deal with all parties in the future." ”

Mao Taigong said: "The king of the mountain pulls the tiger skin and puts on a big banner, takes the name of bluffing, scares the enemy, and recruits talents." The name of this thing is the most costly and the most affordable, why don't you use it if you are famous, although Liaodong is barbaric, but it is also a hidden dragon and crouching tiger, you are a mountain king, people are too lazy to pay attention to you, if you say that it is a strategic envoy, assassination history, they are not allowed to rush to hug your thighs"

Qin Mo also interjected: "You have to have a name, I have followed you all the way, just waiting for the official." ”

Zhu Jiu stood up excitedly, waved his arms and said, "Shi Xiong, they are the third division, I came earlier than him, I have to be the second division, except for Lao Wen, no one should rob me." ”

Clerical Cheng smiled and waved his hand, "I'm really not interested in fighting and killing at all, I won't rob you." ”

Li Mao saw that it was difficult for everyone to resist, so he said: "Then it is decided, Liaocheng Prefecture was destroyed in the war, and it is difficult to rebuild it for a while, so I put it in Donggao Town, and renovate this house to make it a mansion." ”

Qin Mo said: "Then how can it be done, pull the tiger skin and put a big banner, I don't care about the size of the strength, the key momentum is right, I think this Jingluo Mansion has to build a new one, it doesn't have to be luxurious, but the scale has to be large, and it can bluff people by putting on a look." There are almost all the books I want to read.,It's a lot more stable than the general station.,It's faster than the update.,There's no ads in the whole text.。 ”

The clerk praised: "Okay, there is a vacant land in the south of the Xuanyuan Temple in the north of the city, I don't know what to do, oops, it seems that this is the will of heaven, it is specially reserved for Brother Maohua." ”

The matter was thus decided, regarding the personnel arrangement, after Li Mao fully solicited the opinions of everyone, he said that he would brew again, let the clerk help to think more about it, and let Qin Mo, Zhu Jiu, and Mao Taigong think about it first.

Early in the morning of the second day, Li Mao walked out of the east gate of the town alone, and walked to Donggao Mountain, when he left last night, the clerk handed over two wooden boxes to him, which contained all the household registrations, land and acres of information and the accounts of each year in Donggao Town.

In his personnel layout, Wen Cheng will continue to be in charge of Donggao Town, and he is and will be in the future.

The autumn morning was full of frost, and there was a chill in the air.

Li Mao walked for a while, his brows gradually twisted, Donggao Town seemed to be thriving, but it was actually in danger. There were 2,732 people in the town, plus the 284 people brought by Li Mao, the total was only more than 3,000, more men and fewer women, many young and strong, old and weak, last year 600 acres of land were opened, 1,000 acres of original land were restored, and a total of 1,400 stones of grain were laid throughout the year.

Donggao Town is close to the Liao River, surrounded by forests, rich in fishing and hunting resources, fish and shrimp in the water, animal and plant resources in the forest, plus the supply of Beisha City, barely mixed the first winter.

But Beisha is too far away from Donggao Town, and the transportation costs are too huge, and it must be self-sufficient to gain a foothold.

And the word "self-sufficiency" is easy to say, but how difficult it is to do

When Li Mao climbed a dirt slope and looked at the river to the north, Wen Wen Cheng and Shi Kong Shi Xiong brothers ran over panting, and learned that Li Mao had sent the two wooden boxes back, Wen Cheng felt that it was very inappropriate, and came over early in the morning to talk to him, but he didn't expect to pounce, and Shi Kong and Shi Xiong brothers didn't know where Li Mao went, so the three of them looked around.

Fortunately, although Donggao Town is not a military town, there are guards guarding the four gates all day long, and someone told the clerk Li Mao to go out of the east gate in the morning in the direction of Donggaoshan, and the three of them hurriedly chased out.

Li Mao nodded to the three of them, smiled, said hello, and turned around to continue to look at the river.

The clerk took a breath and said: "When the spring begins next year, we plan to tie up the mouth of the river and raise fish in the water." ”

Li Mao said: "It's good to raise fish, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, and rely on the water to eat the water." Such a large area of water can raise a lot of fish, and the fish fat is fished out and dried in late autumn, and it is kept for the winter to eat slowly. Shi Kong said: "There is a large meadow on the other side of the mountain, I think I can herd horses, but there are no good foals, so I have to find a way to get a few stallions." ”

Shi Xiong said: "There is also a market that can be opened on the flat land near the river in the south of the city, where traders can trade, and Tian Mu will not be allowed to enter the city, so as to prevent spies from entering the city to spy on our intelligence." Moreover, it is close to the river, and when the wharf is repaired, it will be convenient for waterway goods to flow here in the future. ”

The clerk praised: "Good idea, really good idea, why didn't I think of it, look at my foolish brain." ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "The three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, it's not that they are smart, it's that they are new to the city and have poisonous eyes. He pointed to the Jiacheng in the distance: "The acres of land in the Jiacheng have been abandoned for three or four years, they are all authentic and cooked land, although the difficulty of reclamation is greater than that of reclamation, but we can't give up, with this land, our hearts have the bottom, I think this land has been reclaimed almost, why the food crisis still can't be solved." ”

The clerk sighed: "The main thing is that people's hearts are unstable, when they didn't arrive in Liaodong, they thought that they were treasures everywhere, and they could make a living when they went out hunting and fishing. Then there are more men and fewer women here, and now there are 1,669 men playing singles, oh, plus the newcomers, there are even more, here is not more than Ziqing, there is no one within hundreds of miles, and there is no woman in the to make a buffer, they are all talking about the age of marriage, no woman can not become a family, they can't settle down, people's hearts are impetuous, and everything is half the effort. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "There are more than 300 singles this time, how can this be good." ”

Shi Kong muttered: "I should have brought my Turkic sister if I knew it, and I couldn't find a daughter-in-law to carry it." ”

Shi Xiong said: "I see that the people who come to do business in the south of the town often pull a cart of little girls, whether they come to sell, if so, why not buy it." ”

Clerical Cheng lowered his head and thought about it: "They don't understand anything, it's very chaotic, how to educate their children in the future, and the customs are too different, and it's also a lot of trouble." ”

Li Mao nodded and said: "This matter really has to be discussed well, settle down and start a business, if the family can't settle down, how can this industry give people hope." ”

The clerk was silent for a moment, and then said: "There is another troublesome thing, according to this, there is a Khitan tribe at the mouth of the old river a hundred miles away, according to legend, the sixteenth year of Zhenyuan is their blood-washed small ferry, they live by water and grass, in the late summer and early autumn, they moved to a hill sixteen miles away, last year because they couldn't figure out the details and did not dare to act, this spring they sent people to fake traders to the town to investigate, I don't know what the idea is, because this once troublesome people were panicked. ”

"In addition, alas, blame me, I didn't tell them clearly at the beginning, what is the purpose of coming to Liaodong, is it to take refuge, or to make contributions, if there is no goal, it is not a way to encircle people here after all."

The last reason is actually that the clerk has been confused, Li Mao originally suggested immigrating to open up Liaodong, but he felt the threat of Li Shidao to make a temporary intention, and the purpose was not very clear, after which he went to Chang'an, although he has maintained correspondence, but Liaodong to Chang'an Guanshan Road is far away, and many words are inconvenient to say clearly in the letter, which caused a barrier.

In the past year, both of them have encountered a lot of things, and the news has been cut off for a while. Even after Li Mao arrived in Liaodong, he couldn't find where the clerk was.

Li Mao thought for a while and said: "The purpose of coming to Liaodong was not clear to me originally, but now it is very clear: Liaodong is my Tang Dynasty land, and it has been more than 50 years since the Anshi Rebellion. If you and I have a firm foothold here, and cooperate with the imperial court to recover the lost territory in the future, it will be a great merit. In the Central Plains, we are either cornered, or depressed and unable to achieve our aspirations, or from humble backgrounds and unable to climb up, or have committed crimes waiting for the imperial court to pardon. We have traveled thousands of miles, and we have come to Liaodong with nine deaths, and we have this opportunity to make contributions, shouldn't we fight hard?"

The clerk praised: "With this saying, it can determine the hearts of seven people." ”

Li Mao smiled and said, "Not seventy percent, at most fifty percent." It is not everyone's dream to make a contribution, some people don't have such a big mind, they just want to live in peace. Since crossing the sea, the family has been broken, people have nothing to rely on, and the law and discipline have been abolished, so that the fists are hard to speak, and the power is powerful, how can this be done in the bandits' den can not be such a dry method, you have to establish rules, the father and brother are gone, we give them a support, and if you don't let anyone with a hard fist speak, even if you don't let anyone speak, everything has to be reasonable. ”

The clerk said: "In the past two years, I have been busy fighting wars, relying too much on force, and the law and discipline are not as strict as before. ”

Shi Xiong said: "We are in Liaodong, there are few people, and we have to be united, so that we can centrifuge up and down, once we are defeated, this place will die." ”

The clerk wiped his sweat and said in a loud voice: "This is also what I have been worried about, Donggaozhen is like a knife, the handle of this knife is wood, only the blade is iron, although the blade is sharp, it is easy to break, and a section of breaking, the wood can't sharpen the blade, we are finished." What's even more terrifying is that the blade and the blade are separated from morality, and if this problem is not solved, it will be a disaster after all. ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "From now on, I will personally lead the army, so that the iron blade does not dislike the wooden body." He said: "We make a list, all the people in Donggao Town, regardless of men, women, old and young, all of them, from now on are brothers and sisters, sisters-in-law and brothers, in this life and this life, there are blessings and hardships together, there is a bite of food for me, I can't enjoy it exclusively, and your family has surplus wealth to help others." To change customs, I have to be a role model myself, starting with myself. How difficult it is for people to live in this life, to be fed and clothed, to be sick and dependent, to support the elderly, to be supported and cared for when they are alive, and to have three incense sticks before the grave of death, if we can't even do such a simple thing, and talk about any merits, we are not worthy of being this family. ”

Shi Xiong said with a smile: "Our place not only allows people to live and work in peace and contentment, but also allows people to make meritorious contributions, unite as a family, and never give up on life and death, if you can do this, what kind of meritorious deeds can't be achieved."

The clerk said: "Yes, I can really share weal and woe with the public, and whoever does not swear to die will have a promising career." ”

Everyone walked while talking, but they didn't realize that they had reached the foot of the East High Mountain, which was not high from a distance, but it was necessary to look up at it closely. After being silent for a while, Li Mao said again: "If people's hearts can be stabilized, the next step is to solve the security problem, the Khitan people are the wolves of the steppe, stealing is their nature, we have to prepare seriously, if we don't defeat the Khitans, it will be difficult for us to gain a foothold in this land." ”

When asked how many soldiers there were in the town, he replied, "One hundred and eighty-seven." Li Mao shook his head and said: "Too little, too little, all people must be armed here, everyone is a soldier, even women must participate in military training, they can't go into battle to kill the enemy, they also have the ability to defend themselves, they can't defend themselves, and they can't be left behind when they are transferred." What's more important is that after the military training, they have a sense of the enemy, and if there is something, they can just give an order, and they don't have to explain it more. In addition, to deal with the Khitans, it is not enough to rely on our current strength, we must find allies, which nearby tribe has enmity with the Khitans"

Scribe Cheng said: "The Khitan people were originally in the north of the Liao River, and they came here not long ago, and they had enmity with the Yan people and the Muwei people, and they were not even more common with the Xi people, but there were few Xi people in Liaodong, and there were no tribes, and they were scattered everywhere, and they couldn't form a rope." The people of Muwei are alone, and the only people who can fight against the Khitans are the Tatar people. ”

Li Mao said: "The people of the Yan Dynasty are too close to the King of Bohai to help their power, I think they still cooperate with the Murowei people, and they are still loyal to the Tang Dynasty." The clerk said: "The people of Muwei are short of salt and iron, and there are these two things that can impress them, but the problem is that we don't have these two things." ”

Li Mao said: "I'll ask the lord of Sangcheng to borrow this, and there are two things that need to be done urgently: one is to raise food, not only to survive the winter, but also to prepare military rations after the war with the Khitan next year, and this matter falls on Shucheng's shoulders." In addition, it is necessary to spread the news of the king of Shanxi in Donggao Town, camp in Hedong on the other side of the river, gather the Xi people scattered in various places, organize them, and train them. Shi Xiong has to deal with this matter specifically, focusing on the big picture and starting small, and he must be meticulous. ”

Shi Xiong asked: "Is it counted in the establishment of the third division?"

Li Mao nodded, and then instructed: "Mixed formation, don't make a taunting brigade alone." ”

Wen Cheng worried: "If there are too many people, I am afraid that there will not be enough food." ”

Li Mao said with a smile: "You don't know the habits of the Xi people, when they come to vote for their king, they will bring all their wealth, not only do they not need us to provide grain and grass, they also have to contribute grain and grass." ”

After arriving in Liaodong, he was bored with construction, and he refused to deal with barbarians, and he did not know much about the customs of Xi people.

As he spoke, he saw that Li Mao had already climbed to the top of the East High Mountain, and looked eastward, and a round of the morning sun was rising from the horizon.

The vast green earth was plated with a layer of gold, and Shi Xiong said that this was a good sign, and Li Mao thought so.

Three days later, Li Mao, Wen Cheng, Zhu Jiu, Mao Taigong, Xue Luoke, Qin Mo and others held a small meeting at Li Mao's house.

After this meeting, Li Mao officially waved the banner of Liaodong Economic and Strategic Envoy, and hired Luo Wei as the deputy envoy of the Economic Strategy and the Third Division of the Andong Army, and Shi Xiong as the deputy envoy of the Third Division.

The appointment clerk is the deputy envoy of observation and the envoy of the Donggao Town City Bureau, and is in charge of government affairs. Mao Taigong is the capital and chief training envoy, Zhu Jiu is the envoy of the government and the navy, Qin Mo is the envoy of the guards, the guards and the soldiers and horses, and the training envoy of the unity army, and Shi Kong is the deputy envoy of the guards and the guards and the soldiers.

After this meeting, the garrison left the town in batches and was locked up in the barracks for off-duty rotation training, and Li Mao personally served as the chief of education to instill loyalty, bravery, and law and discipline in the officers and men of the three armed forces.

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