At this moment, in a valley in the Funiu Mountain, dozens of miles away, thousands of people gathered here, cutting down trees in the mountains to build houses, using the mountain springs to grow food, although they lived a hard life, but they were carefree.

Most of these people were poor peasants from Tianshui County and the surrounding villages, and some were deserters from the army, or they fled to the mountains because of poverty or fear of war.

However, the mountains were not suitable for growing food, and only a few valleys could grow crops, and in order to compete for the place where food could be produced, these people had several battles, and many people were killed and wounded, and the victors took the resources of others as rulers.

But five years ago, a young man named Fu Jian appeared, and his abilities were far beyond ordinary people, first co-opting many weak people, and then using stratagems to kill several murderous bandits and submit them to their men.

It took less than a year for all the horse bandits within a radius of a hundred miles to be subdued by him and become Fu Jian's subordinates.

Under the leadership of Fu Jian, these people had a detailed division of labor, women, children and old people planted food and sewed clothes in the valley, men hunted and practiced in the mountains, and some clever young people were sent to nearby cities to buy some supplies, and at the same time inquired about various news, if there were officials of the imperial court passing by, they would unceremoniously send people to block the road and rob, these people were all well-trained to come and go like the wind, even the army of the imperial court could not compare.

As Fu Jian's reputation grew, many people who couldn't survive joined his team, and now there are thousands of people, this force even Liu Yuan feels like a fish in his throat, and he has sent troops many times to destroy them, but the terrain in Funiu Mountain is complicated, and the large-scale cavalry can't reach it at all, and the small-scale infantry has fought several times without getting any bargains, and in the end Liu Yuan has no choice, as long as the other party doesn't come to snatch his supplies, he will turn a blind eye.

Fu Jian was standing on a large rock on the mountainside, in front of him hundreds of young adults were wielding knives and guns, and their mouths were still shouting, even though the weather was cold, there was hot air coming out of their heads, obviously they had been training for a long time.

At this time, a person came up from the bottom of the mountain, came to Fu Jian's side and whispered a few words.

"Oh? That Liu Yuan bought 5,000 green horses, what a big deal, it seems that this old guy can't sit still......... Where did these horses come from? ”

"According to the report from the spies, it was bought from Daqin, and Daqin sent a person named Sima Cuo to lead five thousand elites to transport these war horses."

"Great Qin? Sima is wrong? This man, I know, is one of the most famous debaters today......... Good guys, 5,000 elites, we can't touch this, we can't touch it! However, the Great Qin army can't touch it, but we are not afraid of Liu Yuan's army......... You immediately order the spies to keep an eye on the movements of Tianshui, and we must find out where those war horses are placed, in short, we also have a piece of the pie. ”

"Yes, Chief."

The spy bowed and bowed, and then quickly left.

"Everyone's stopped, that's all for today."

"Yes, Chief!"

They bowed neatly to Fu Jian, and then left one after another in an orderly manner, and they were able to train a group of homeless people to this point, and it was also obvious that Fu Jian's ability was indeed extraordinary.

Fu Jian walked to the top of the mountain alone, and soon stepped on the peak.

The mountain is not too high, the top of the mountain is not too wide, there are two higher peaks on both sides, one of the mountains has a mountain stream flowing down, and then converged in this mountaintop, forming a pool of water tens of zhang square, the water of the stream is crystal clear, there are fish swimming in it, the water of this pool is not stagnant, and after accumulating more and more, it will flow down from the top of the mountain to form a mountain stream again.

Because there are two other higher peaks in the block, the cold wind cannot blow here, so many people live in this mountain, but on the top of the mountain there is only a wooden house made of pine, there is a small courtyard at the door, there are many vegetables, and there are more than a dozen local fruit trees next to it, but now it is a cold winter, the vegetables have long been gone, and the fruit trees are also bare and only waiting to grow in the next year.

"Master, the apprentice is here."

Coming to the door of the hut, Fu Jian respectfully bowed inside.

"Jian'er, come in!"

A vicissitudes of life sound came from inside.

Fu Jian slowly pushed open the door, and saw an old man sitting inside, with several bamboo slips on the wooden table in front of him, the old man saw Fu Jian come in and raised his head to look over, only to see that his hair and eyebrows were all gray, his face was full of wrinkles, and he looked at least more than eighty years old, but his eyes were shining, and his spirit was no less than that of a young man.

Moreover, there are thousands of bamboo slips piled up in every corner of this room, these are all books, in this era, so many books just take a lot of time to transcribe, many people may not have seen so many books in their lives, and the person who can collect so many books must be a great person.

This old man is Fu Jian's master, and Fu Jian's skills are taught by this old man, and the old man not only has the grace of teaching Fu Jian, but also has the feeling of nurturing, so Fu Jian treats the old man's parents better.

Fu Jian was an orphan, his parents died tragically in a great famine when he was five years old, Fu Jian was also hungry and skinny to the point of dying, it happened that the old man passed by and adopted Fu Jian, teaching him skills from an early age.

After more than ten years of work, Fu Jian has learned all his skills, especially the mastery of the art of war, and even the old man praised him again and again.

However, even though the two have been dependent on each other for more than ten years, no one knows the name of the old man, Fu Jian only doesn't know what his master's name is, but he firmly believes that his master must be an earth-shattering man when he is young.

"Jian'er, why did you come to me so early?"

The old man's face showed a smile, he had been alone all his life, and he treated Fu Jian like a child.

"Master, then Liu Yuan sold five thousand green horses from the land of Great Qin, I want to do a vote, even if I take dozens of horses, it will be good."

"Oh? Five thousand green horses are enough to build a powerful cavalry, and it seems that this Liu Yuan is also constantly accumulating strength, and now he can't sit still. ”

"This Liu Yuan's wolf ambition, on the one hand, seems to be loyal to the Great Zhou, but on the other hand, he secretly colludes with the princes of all parties to seek benefits, and he is desperately squeezing the people of Tianshui, I will definitely cut off a piece of his meat this time!"

"Jian'er, Liu Yuan is treacherous, but in today's troubled times, only people like him can survive better......... You are good at everything, but you are too straightforward, there are days and nights, there are four seasons in the year, and in the same way, people also have their own faces, and when they are frank and honest with good people, and when they are hidden from adultery, this is the essence of the law of shutting down. ”

The old man shook his head repeatedly.