Chapter 447: Vicious Folk Customs
A colorful army drove up, the Huns on both sides guarded the infantry in the middle like a tide, the infantry surrounded the carriage in the middle, mighty, Xiaochuan had a worry in his heart, looking at the box of things behind the car, that was naturally a good thing to resist drought and flooding, it turned out that the poor people of the older generation ate potatoes every day, although they would starve, but they would not die of hunger. Some people in the older generation eat potatoes every day, and some are even about to become staple foods.
The deserted villages on both sides, among which you can see that the abandoned villages have been rejuvenated, one by one, the wood, or earthen houses are piled up, and the houses made of mud and weeds look very simple and fast, and one of them is a yellow-skinned hungry man looking at this army with a different kind of eyes.
They are no longer afraid of the people in iron armor, they understand that the people under the banner of the Qingzhou Army will bring them stability and hope, just like their current life, so, the village is full of children or young people, they form an array of hot training, especially children, they train particularly hard, and do not leak any fear of the armies on both sides, and even simply run away for refuge.
Standing on the side may be their mother, but she is holding a rattan to watch her child train, the slightest carelessness is beaten, the child cried in pain, people who have experienced the natural disaster of thieves, they were persecuted by strong thieves homeless, humiliated, naturally full of yearning for force.
Those who have been baptized by the fire of war will stand better than other groups of people, and they will be more eager for force, just like the Beifu soldiers, who are composed of the hungry people in the north of the Jin Dynasty, they are more belligerent than the comfortable southern soldiers, because they clearly understand what will happen to those who do not have force and what humiliation they will suffer.
"This place will inevitably produce elite soldiers in the future" Xiao Chuan nodded and said, where the people are strong, there are often elite soldiers, but often the infantry is produced, because soldiers like archers and cavalry need money to afford to play, so they can build a horse farm here, and places like bows and arrows can't waste this martial atmosphere.
For example, riding archery, which in ancient times was a rich man to practice things, a good war horse ordinary people do not say to buy it, even if he gave him a horse he has no money to support, the strongest type of archer cavalry in ancient times only the landlord can afford to train, in the Han and Tang Dynasty military dukes system under the urging of the landlord to practice riding and archery, to later the landlords are to educate their children and grandchildren to read, so the knights of the six counties are not there, the knights of the three rivers are not there, and they have become a scholarly family of literati.
The sound of training can be heard in every village, or the picture of parents beating and scolding children, and other places are beating and scolding children because they are not good at studying, but here they are not good at practicing martial arts, but in the distance is a group of teenage children who are childish and continue to practice riding, riding a pony seems to be the appearance of a Sichuan horse.
"What are these children?" Xiao Chuan asked strangely, looking at their appearance, they were extremely serious and dignified in training, but they were not supervised by their parents.
"It's an orphan!" Bai He on the side clenched his fists and said, "Their parents were killed by thieves, or died by Tukou horse thieves, Mr. Wang Heng set up such a horse farm between several villages, so that these children can practice riding and archery, equestrian skills." They trained especially hard because they watched their parents die from the sword soldiers, and the bones of many of the soldiers who died in battle were also sent here. ”
Oh! Xiao Chuan nodded, looked at their fierce appearance, and said, "Ten years later, it must be a strong army, but it is too expensive" grassland horse breeding and inland horse breeding is not a cost at all, grassland horse breeding can be free-range, the Central Plains Dynasty is relying on the mainland to spend more money, such a horse farm is simply a small gold-swallowing beast, you must know, a horse as a food for six people in the family and die of a man, a war horse will eat fifteen kilograms of things a day, there are only weeds and the farmer of the village can not be stocked.
Fortunately, with the support of ecological farms, if potatoes are planted more stable, they will be a daunting soldier in ten years.
"There are 300,000 households and 1.12 million people in the three northern provinces of Henan, and there will be 100,000 elite cavalry here in ten years," Bai He said.
"It's been ten years." Xiao Chuan shook his head and smiled bitterly, but he didn't want to wait another ten years. In half a year, the Battle of Songshan will be.
"Childe! The governor of Henan sent by the imperial court has arrived," a man in black walked over with a letter on the side, and several people were stunned.
When I opened it, I saw the word Zhou Yun on it, and the words written on it were the clansmen of Zhou Tingru. As in history, Zhou Tingru still rose and also extended his hand to Henan, in history, he colluded with Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong, and now Liu Zeqing was destroyed by himself, but he controlled Henan through his own people.
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"Is this Henan Guide Mansion?" A middle-aged man in a red official robe rode on a horse with a kind of contempt, but he didn't expect that he would come to this kind of poor country, Zhou Tingru asked him to come to this kind of poor country with a provincial official, to fight with the general soldiers of another province, and said, "Alas, since Zhou Tingru entered the cabinet, he has become less and less concerned about my second uncle, and let me do this kind of hard work."
A housekeeper-like person on the side said to the soldiers at the city gate: "The governor of Henan is here, why is no one to greet him!" Zhou Yun also looked forward angrily, the governor is a very big official, the governor is the military and political power of a province, but he didn't expect to come here but no one paid attention to him at all, and the people around looked at this person in a big red official robe with unfamiliar eyes.
After a while, a group of soldiers wearing iron armor and holding Changge, bows and arrows appeared on the city gate. They saw the crowd below and said coldly, "What people! "A sharp bow and arrow were aimed at this group of people.
"I'm blind, this is the Governor of Henan, Lord Zhou Yunzhou, quickly call me the person in charge of your affairs here," the butler said in a cold voice, "Be careful if you are late, your dog's head is not protected." ”
"Kill them" An officer above immediately gave an order, and one by one the archers immediately pulled their bows and arrows, aimed at this group of officials, ready to release arrows at any time to kill them. There are also crossbowmen who pull the bowstring with their feet to quickly wind it.
"No, my lord, they're going to shoot arrows!" The butler said in horror, he could clearly see a group of Beifu soldiers on the city wall.
Arrows? Zhou Yunru was struck by lightning, looked at the people on the city wall in disbelief, and hurriedly wanted to retreat, are they crazy? I actually wanted to kill myself, and said, "I am the governor of Henan, the governor of Henan"
"Huh, Governor? It's not a stabbing history, it's not a county guard, and the three dukes and nine kings don't have this position, so they shouldn't be some big officials" The little colonel snorted, and after thinking about it, he was going to kill this group of people who were disrespectful.
After the pure mobile phone is played, I feel confused The scholar is confused, today to attend my distant sister's wedding, I also have to give her an umbrella to help unload the car, in the middle of the groom kneeling to sing the conquest when I was looking for a washboard, I didn't find it I found two bricks, the groom still seems to be very grateful to me. Tomorrow's formal wedding, make a big table to eat, and in the afternoon I went to help move the table a lot of things, and only coded a chapter in the evening, just rushed the phone bill, and used the mobile phone to open a hot spot for the computer, alas.