On this day, after dinner, Liu Lianqing left Tang Xidong to speak, and Deng Dahu was also found.

Tang Xidong knew that the other party must have something to discuss with him.

"In the past two days, there has been no situation at the foot of the mountain, but I have also seen a lot of people coming and going, I think the Kang family found that the caravan did not come back, and they must know that there was something wrong on the road, and sent more people to look for traces." Liu Lianqing's face was a little solemn.

When Tang Xidong heard this, he also paid attention to it in his heart.

"At noon, I sent someone down the mountain to Pingyang Mansion to inquire about the news, I heard that the matter of the Kang family was spreading in the city, it seems that someone saw the scene of the group of masked people robbing the caravan, and now the Kang family's wealth and goods plus a big young master are gone, the Kang family is anxious like ants on a hot pot, I heard that a reward notice has been posted in the city to find an insider." Deng Dahu also continued.

Tang Xidong can also guess this.

"Some people in the city said that we robbed us, but some people refuted it for us, so no one knows what is going on now? However, in the past two days, the people who came and went down the mountain also stopped to peep at the situation of the cottage, but it seems that the Kang family or the government sent them, maybe they still suspect us. Deng Dahu was a little worried.

"Tell everyone to tighten their mouths, no one should talk about that matter anymore, and send people to disperse patrols under the mountain every day, working in two shifts day and night, and the guard team will guard the gate of the village, and report back as soon as possible if they find abnormalities." After Tang Xidong finished speaking, he thought about it and then continued: "The work that should be done can't be stopped just because of the other party's prying eyes, in case the officers and soldiers really call, they will fight against the enemy again." ”

"By the way, the passage between the trenches is for everyone to remember, and be careful not to fall into it when you go out to work or return at night." Tang Xidong once again asked, and his heart became more and more urgent for the creation of the repeater gun.

I really can't do it, so I use the wooden ones I made before.

"Also, there's another piece of news, I don't know if it's good or bad?" Liu Lianqing said hesitantly.

Tang Xidong looked at her suspiciously, and Liu Lianqing said: "I heard that the king who rebelled over there in Shaanxi is called the king of Hengtian Yizi who led his men and horses to break through Zhaocheng County some time ago, and it is estimated that it is not far from us. ”

The rebel army in Shaanxi broke through Zhaocheng? Tang Xidong's brows furrowed suddenly.

This news is really not good or bad, as soon as the rebels came, they helped them involve the government, but the rebels are not fuel-efficient lamps, and may even be more dangerous than the government.

None of the three spoke, each frowning and thinking about his own thoughts.

The more Tang Xidong thought about it, the more urgent he felt in his heart, the plan must be advanced, otherwise when the tide of the uprising came, he would inevitably be spared, and if he didn't do it well, he would be forced to rebel.

So he once again stressed the need to seize the time to increase the population.

Tang Xidong's plans are interlocking, huge plans require a lot of manpower, spend a lot of time, if time waits for people, then you can take your time, but now the crisis is chasing behind the ass, and if you want to hurry, you must increase the population.

There are hundreds of large and small cottages around Luoliang Mountain, and there are many people who have become displaced people under the mountain, as long as they want to recruit people, there must be a large number of people who are like-minded.

So after discussing, Liu Lianqing prepared to send people down the mountain tomorrow to urge Liu Dagou to hurry up and recruit people.

In the era when there is food to eat, clothes to wear, and human life is cheap, it is easy to find people.

Tang Xidong also said before that as long as you recruit people honestly, you are not afraid of dragging your family with you, and you are not afraid of not having work to do when you come, but you must not let people with bad intentions mix in, these people will be disrupted when they enter the cottage, and they will be supervised by the old people in the original cottage.

The more people there are, the better, and there is no shortage of food for the time being.

In fact, Tang Xidong also thought of a deeper crisis,

He found that the cottage he wanted to build was now in a very embarrassing stage, just touched the interests of the original old people in the cottage, and faced the situation that he might have to fight and die, and the interests were taken over by himself to the public, and he could not see the results of the cottage construction for the time being, which would inevitably reduce the sense of belonging of the bandits to the cottage.

Then, a group of bandits who are not driven by interests have no subjective initiative, and can only passively accept the situation faced by the cottage, and at the same time, the lack of initiative means that they have retreated, because the interests of the cottage no longer belong to them.

Although it is more winding, in fact, in the final analysis, it is that the cottage has money and food, but it is not theirs now, since it does not belong to them, then why do they have to fight desperately for the cottage.

This also made Tang Xidong realize how urgent it is to let this group of people have a sense of belonging and be willing to protect their own fruits.

Now that the government is likely to call, everyone is a mountain bandit, and if they don't resist, they may die, they are absolutely hostile sides, and they don't have to worry about the mountain bandits fleeing in a hurry. If there is a rebel army to attack in the future, it will be a big deal to rebel with the rebel army at that time, maybe life will be better?

The only way to give these bandits a sense of belonging is to make the cottage better, better than the world outside the cottage, so that they will be reluctant to leave the cottage life.

But to make the cottage better, in Tang Xidong's vision, it is also necessary to make great strides in the cottage construction movement.

This is where the inconsistencies come in, he is creating a sense of belonging to the bandits, but the sense of belonging of the bandits has not yet appeared in crisis.

Increasing the number of displaced people will not only speed up the pace of construction, but also have one advantage, that is, in the expectations of the displaced people, they hope for a life like the current mountain bandits in the cottages, rather than seeing the large amount of money and food in the cottages, and their expectations are low, so it will be easier for them to be appeased and satisfied.

Just when Tang Xidong was nervous and anxious, but only one day later, the situation took a new turn.

A day later, the inspection team under the mountain came with information that the rebel army began to besiege Hongdong County yesterday, and Hongdong County was only 100 miles away from Pingyang City.

As soon as the pressure brought by the officers and soldiers was gone, the situation of the cottage was temporarily stabilized, and it also returned to the track of advancement, but the young and strong guards of the garrison team and the patrol team were suddenly reduced by half, and the human resources became strained.

Fortunately, after this situation lasted for a day, it was solved by Liu Dagou.

The mighty crowd pulled a long line up the mountain, and this increase was 500 people, although there were men, women and children, but it greatly solved the situation of the shortage of labor in the cottage.

The new population is the propeller of cottage construction.

These villagers, who couldn't even eat enough, saw that everything was a novel cottage, and instantly felt that they had come to a paradise.

Cherish it and be motivated.

As the population increases, Tang Xidong can do some other things, such as digging wells in the middle of the mountain.

After all, it's still a bit far to carry water at the foot of the mountain.

So he sent another team of men and horses and began to dig a well halfway up the mountain.

At the same time, Tang Xidong also found Huang Laosan, the leader of the carpenter, and sent him an additional team of people to take out the track he designed, so that Huang Laosan could start to try it.

Once the track is made, then the draft problem plus coal mining can be much easier.