At most, that is, at every time you pass the level, the subordinates will give the guard a jar of spirits.

Spirits are naturally in short supply in the cold places of Dongdong, Liao and Western Xia, but here in Cai Dao, a jar of spirits is not worth a lot of money at all.

At the same time, Cai Dao also wrote a letter about his own dream and his speculation, and urgently delivered it to the cottages in the Fuzhou Zhejia, Zhongtiao Mountains and Luliang Mountains.

Hua Xianqi received Cai Dao's letter and didn't take it to heart, and now with the improvement of his status, he gradually lost the original sense of awe for Cai Dao. Therefore, he didn't take this matter to heart at all, and the letter Cai Dao wrote to him was still on the side.

In Hua Xuanyi's view, the most important thing at the moment is the big deal with the Tatars, once the two sides are successful, his own power will definitely be greatly improved.

Fortunately, the old father-in-law is a sensible person. PS: Hua Xuanyi's father-in-law is surnamed Mu, and his Hun family is naturally surnamed Mu.

Hua Xianqi didn't know how to read, and Cai Dao's letter was read to him by the military advisor in the lion village. He didn't quite believe the speculation in the letter, but out of his usual caution, he still told the owner of Mu Laozhai about it.

As soon as the old man heard that the letter was written by the fortune boy, and that his son-in-law did not pay any attention to it, he was furious. Since Cai Dao entered Beijing in the fifth year of Yuanfeng, all kinds of miraculous performances have even been heard of by him, the head of the bandits in the ravine. Why, this son-in-law has been staying by Cai Dao's side, but he doesn't believe the child's words!

So, he personally asked the military advisor to read the contents of Cai Dao's letter to him in detail. After listening, the owner of Mu Laozhai couldn't help but be shocked, no one knew better than him the pain of heavy snow closing the mountain.

The owner of Mu Laozhai himself is actually a Tatar. Many of their tribe died in the snowstorm, and once, he escaped from the snowstorm on the grassland, and then came to the territory of the Great Song Kingdom. After several struggles, he became the owner of the lion village, not to mention the white-haired wind on the prairie. Even the heavy snow in the Luliang Mountains can freeze people to death.

A few days ago, it also snowed in Luliang Mountain, although the scale was not very large at the beginning, but now it is only mid-August!

Originally, when he married his daughter to Hua Xuanyi, he said that he would no longer interfere in the affairs of the Lion Village. However, now that the matter is urgent, for the sake of the case mentioned in Cai Dao's heart, the owner of Mu Laozhai had to make an exception for this, and immediately summoned Hua Qiyi, as well as the large and small leaders in the lion village, to discuss this matter again.

Naturally, there will be differences in the outcome of the negotiations. Since Hua Xianqi became the owner of the big village, with Cai Dao's plan, it has indeed made a qualitative leap in the lion village. Therefore, except for some old brothers of the owner of Mu Laozhai who have always supported him, the other big and small leaders have not taken this matter to heart.

Seeing that he couldn't persuade Hua Qianyi, the master of Mu Laozhai gave up his plan to continue persuading. In a fit of rage, he discussed privately with a few old brothers, and decided to lead this part of the old subordinates who believed in him to set off immediately and go to Zhongtiao Mountain. Prepare to set up camp there for the next heavy snowstorm.

Essentially, the cottages in the three mountain ranges surrounding Hedong Road now belong to the Lion Village. It's just that the influence of Hua Qiyi is limited to the lion village in Luliang Mountain.

Nowadays, Cai Dao's subordinates lack manpower, so after they exterminated all the bandits in the Zhongtiao Mountain Range, most of the cottages were occupied by the original mountain people who were friends with Cai Dao.

The cottages in the Zhongtiao Mountains and the Tongguan Mountains are now not in charge of the family.

And the place where the owner of Mu Laozhai went this time was Xuehua Mountain, where Cai Dao was before.

Seeing that she couldn't persuade the old people, she had no choice but to let these old people from the lion village leave.

Cai Dao soon knew what was happening in the lion village, and he didn't expect that it was because of his letter that there was a conflict between the two people. However, Cai Dao didn't pay much attention to the reaction of Hua Qiyi and the people in the lion village. On the contrary, the owner of Mu Laozhai personally went to Xuehua Mountain, which was exactly what he meant.

Strictly speaking, whether it is the Zhongtiao Mountain Range or the Luliang Mountain Range, Cai Dao actually doesn't care about the attribution of the power above, whether they die or develop rapidly, it will not have any impact on Cai Dao's plan at all.

Taihang Bacheng, the left leads to Yunzhou Yanmen Pass, and the right passes Youyan, which has always been a place where soldiers must fight. Moreover, if Cai Dao wants to transport the people in Hedong Road out of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, he only needs to pass through Taihang Mountain.

As for the two outer mountain ranges out of his control, Cai Dao was not worried at all, the faster Hua Xianqi expanded, the tighter the noose tied to his neck became. As long as Cai Dao ordered someone to cut off their food supply, the power of the Lion Village would immediately collapse. Unless these people took the initiative to take refuge in the Liao State and Western Xia, or raised the banner to rebel.

At that time, Cai Dao didn't want to do it himself, and the Fuzhou family alone could easily take down the Lion Village.

Now, there are only two major things left in Cai Dao's heart.

First, it is the storage of coal in various cottages in Taihang Mountain.

Second, Zhang Long went to contact the whereabouts of the Hebei defenders who had been dispersed by the army, and whether Zhang Long could persuade those people to return to their hometowns.

These two points are the big things that Cai Dao really cares about.

As for the transaction between You Feixiong, the Zhe family and the Tatars, although the situation was a little more dangerous, Cai Dao didn't take it to heart.

His plan is very well formulated, and as long as he executes it carefully according to the plan and does not make any mistakes in the process, the possibility of the two parties completing the deal is very high.

Even if it fails, the lost manpower will be immediately replaced by the refugees displaced by the heavy snowstorm on Hedong Road and Hebei Zhulu.

After all, people are different, and the Zhi family received the same letter from Cai Dao, but they took a different way of dealing with it.

Zhe Kexing also sees this upcoming snowstorm as more important than anything else.

Originally, this deal with the Tatars was very important, and Zhe Kexing originally planned to go to the border to preside over this transaction in person. However, after getting the news halfway, he immediately made a decision to send his younger brother Zhi Kezhong to preside over the transaction on behalf of the Zhi family, and he also sent additional manpower, and sent his eldest son Zhi Kefu to accompany him.

It's not that he doesn't trust Zhe Kezhong, but he wants to let his eldest son take this opportunity to experience it.

There were many people who traded out, and the troops in the hands of the Fuzhou Zhejia were limited after all, so at the same time, Zhe Kexing greatly reduced the number of troops guarding on the Song-Xia border, and according to Cai Dao's suggestion, some small Panbao were simply abandoned, and only a few large stockades were left on the border.

Fuzhou, later known as Fugu County, was an important coal-producing area in China, and although it was not an open-pit coal mine, it was not difficult to find small-scale, easy-to-mine coal mines in this area.

As for the grain that Fuzhou has been lacking, it can only rely on the Cai family's smuggling ships to transport it here.

After all, this is the border, and the ships under Cai Dao's name still have to pay attention to the impact, not to mention, there is Zheng Xia's pit cargo who has been staring at him.

Once the Western Xia State detected the movement of the Zhejia forces, there were two choices, one was to send a large army to encircle and suppress the Tatars, the Zhejia army and the part of the army that traded in the Lion Village, and the other option, taking advantage of the weakest gap in the strength of Fuzhou, simply drove straight in, and took down Fuzhou, a nail that had been nailed to the Song-Xia border, and defeated this old enemy of the Tangut people.

Cai Dao was naturally worried that the second possibility would occur, so he also taught the Zhe family a way to deal with it in the letter. Now, in addition to arranging the matter of accumulating charcoal to prepare for the cold, Zhe Kexing is arranging the defense of Fuzhou City according to the method given to him by Cai Dao.

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After Cai Dao was busy with prospecting and brick making, he himself did not sit idle. For safety reasons, he himself couldn't go to the three big villages in Liaoguo, because no one knew where the Han Tian and Han military divisions who had already led all the horses in Taihang Village had gone. The time he spent in Taihang Village was not too long, but, considering his identity as a spy of the Liao State, Cai Dao had to stay in Taihang Village.

Moreover, the owners of the two cottages in Jundu and Puyin are also the old men of the lion village, Cai Dao has been working hard to promote Wang Kang, a newcomer, and finally put Wang Kang on the same status as them, they have always been dissatisfied with this matter, so some of Cai Dao's orders are naturally disobeyed. For these people who are looking for death by themselves, Cai Dao naturally doesn't bother to care about them.

As the old saying goes, if you don't listen to the old man, you will suffer in front of you, and the owners of the two cottages in the north of Taihang Bacheng ignore their own opinions, and Hua Qianyi even had a very unpleasant quarrel with the old man's pole, and they will soon taste the bitter fruit.