In the mountainous area of Mount Tai, there were many ordinary people. They have lived in the mountains for generations by farming and hunting. However, the people of Taishan Mountain, although diligent, are also outrageous. For a long time, the mountain people in Mount Tai rarely paid taxes and grain to the government.

Of course, the main reason is that their lives are hard, and there is no extra money and food to pay to the government. In this way, a vicious circle is formed. The people in Mount Tai do not pay taxes and grains, if it is the enlightened period of the government, it is good to say, but often, the government will carry out mandatory reminders for the people of Mount Tai to pay taxes and grains. In this way, it is naturally not a matter of the government forcing the people to rebel. Anyway, in the Taishan area, the terrain is dangerous, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, if the government sends people into the mountains to collect tax grain, they will hide in the mountains if it is a big deal, so that the officers and soldiers of the government can not find anyone at all, so how can they get tax grain?

Of course, occasionally the officials and soldiers of the government were caught, and it was easy to say at first, but once the government moved, the mountain people in the mountains did not want to be killed and resisted angrily. In this way, there was a period of time when the people in the Taishan area were in opposition to the government.

Over time, the government had no choice but to classify the people in the Taishan area as bandits.

After that, many people who committed crimes, or were forced to live by the government and local gentry and tyrants, also fled to Mount Tai.

In this way, as long as people can't survive, they will flee to Mount Tai. Of course, the living environment in the Taishan area is also very bad, and ordinary people, after entering the mountain, are faced with a survival problem.

When forced to do so, there will be people who take risks. At the beginning, it may only be done to those people in the mountains. Guns, some money and food. However, the people of Mount Tai. Even the government is not afraid, how can they be afraid of those who flee into the mountains to commit crimes? Such. There was no way, and slowly, they had to attack the vendors who passed through the Taishan area. Over time, it will be natural that some like-minded people, or people who are forced to have no choice, will get together in twos and threes, forming a group of mountain bandits.

These mountain bandits slowly merged with the local people. During some disaster years. When the people in Taishan are also facing an existential crisis, they will also work with those mountain bandits to do some looting to make a living. In this way, let the people of the Taishan area, they are people during the day, and thieves at night.

In this way, I don't know how many years have passed, and the people in the Taishan area have become accustomed to such a way of life.

Then came the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

The Yellow Turban Uprising failed. In order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers, the defeated soldiers took refuge in Mount Tai. It is also because of the call of the leaders of the Taiping Dao, such as Guan Hai, that in a short period of time, people poured into Mount Tai. Having reached a peak, reaching the peak of population in the Taishan region, it is natural to face a critical point of survival.

Then again. The Yellow Turban Rebellion failed, and the Yellow Turban thieves hid in the mountains. They started out. In fact, it is also in an opposing situation with the original mountain bandits of Mount Tai. Because, Mount Tai is the territory of the original people and bandits. The Yellow Turban Thieves are just some outsiders.

In the early days, the two sides fought more fiercely and frequently. In order to fight for a mountain, the two sides fought with weapons, and there were countless casualties.

In fact, no one could help anyone at that time.

Because, originally the mountain bandits of Mount Tai, they were more familiar with Mount Tai, and in the battle with the Yellow Turban thieves, they had a geographical advantage. And the Yellow Turban thieves, they have a large number of people and horses, and in the most peak period, there were hundreds of thousands of horses early, and even, before Cao Cao did not capture the hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Thieves in the Taishan area almost reached 800,000, or even more. Therefore, on the side of the Yellow Turban thieves, they occupy people.

Later, Guan Hai and Zang Ba met and agreed on some conditions with each other, so that the two sides calmed down the struggle a little, and there was no-for-tat confrontation all the time.

Among them, one condition is that the Yellow Turban Bandit Army, they can operate in the mountains, and they can even give up some mountains and some territory to the Yellow Turban Bandits, but the Yellow Turban Bandits, they can't compete with the original mountain bandits for prey in the mountains and forests in Mount Tai, and they are not allowed to rob the people in the mountains. In this way, just to ensure that the original people of Mount Tai can survive, so as not to squeeze the original people of Mount Tai without space to survive because of the hundreds of thousands of more Yellow Turban thieves.

At that time, Guan Hai wanted to have a foothold in Mount Tai and to be able to gain a foothold in Mount Tai. He had no choice but to reach these terms of agreement with Zang Ba.

Because of this, in order to solve the food problem of his hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army, Guan Hai had to launch several major operations, and had to lead the army to leave Mount Tai to plunder outside.

Guan Hai is tragic.

The operation of sending troops to Jinan to plunder money and grain was defeated by Cao Cao, and even hundreds of thousands of horses and horses who went out of the mountains were captured by Cao Cao in one fell swoop. Several subsequent attempts were unsuccessful. In the end, Guan Hai sent troops to attack Beihai, wanting to coerce Kong Rong, the then Taishou of Beihai, to send him grain, and wanted to loot Beihai City. As a result, I happened to meet Liu Beijun who came from the Jizhou Plain to rescue Xuzhou. Guan Hai even lost his life. Hundreds of thousands of horses and horses are also dead, fleeing, and captured.

In this way, the Taishan area has gradually returned to normal. No more because of the thieves.

Of course, among Mount Tai, there are many Yellow Turban thieves. These are naturally the Yellow Turban thieves gathered by Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, Pei Yuanshao and other Yellow Turban generals later. Later, Zhang Ning, the saint of Taiping Dao, went to Mount Tai in person, and finally twisted the Yellow Turban thieves of Mount Tai into a rope.

In fact, if it was the Yellow Turban thieves who entered Mount Tai, after the defeat of Guan Hai, they would probably be unable to stand on Mount Tai, and they would be driven out of Mount Tai by the original mountain bandits of Mount Tai.

Later, Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao learned from the New Han Dynasty according to the experience of the Yellow Turban bandits in the Black Mountain area, especially when they went to the Black Mountain area of Jizhou in person, and met Yang Feng and others who were also the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army, and after asking Yang Feng for advice, they returned to Mount Tai and began to comprehensively rectify the Yellow Turban bandits, and carried out the action of self-reliance and abundant food and clothing.

Naturally, the New Han Dynasty also secretly supported Liao Huacheng Pei Yuanshao, not only secretly provided money and grain assistance, but also sent many people who were proficient in mountain forest planting to Mount Tai. According to the actual situation, guide the Yellow Turban thieves of Mount Tai to carry out self-reliant labor. And there is. Liao became Pei Yuanshao, and they restricted the Yellow Turban bandits' looting of the past Taishan traders. In addition, they reached an agreement with those merchants who had a relatively close relationship with the New Han Dynasty, and exchanged the mountain goods produced by their Taishan in exchange for materials that they did not have in the mountains.

For example, salt, cloth, grain, and rice needed by the people in the mountains. Even, some of the novelty goods produced and manufactured by the New Han Dynasty, and the goods that were convenient for their daily life, all had channels to flow into the Taishan area.

Anywhere, as long as there is a production. If there is trade, then the local economy can be revitalized, and the local living standard can be improved. This is inevitable.

To put it simply, some mountain goods in the Taishan area, in the words of the people in the mountains, those things that are not of any value at all are everywhere in the mountains. Some seasonal wild fruits in the mountains are usually ripe and fall all over the mountain. However, as long as they collected it and exchanged it with those vendors, they could exchange it for the necessities they needed. If they can be more diligent and collect more, then. and in exchange for what they have in exchange, except for what they use in their daily lives. There will be quite a bit left. In this way, they can be self-reliant. It has achieved abundant food and clothing.

And the traders, in exchange for their mountain goods, took them to the outside towns to sell, to the towns, those mountain goods that the mountain people did not look down on, but became the fresh and sought-after goods of the city people, and let the traders make a lot of money from it. For example, those wild fruits that are everywhere in the mountains, and the traders are trafficked to the city, and ordinary people buy them to pay for the freshness, or buy them to make wild fruit wine, etc., there will always be people who need and use them.

In this way, when a virtuous circle is formed, the traders and the people in Mount Tai will interact more closely.

Mountain herbs, mangosteen shoots, mountain mushrooms. The prey of wild animals in the mountains, the fur of animals, and even the wood that is all over the mountain, even if you cut a load of firewood, you can exchange it for money.

Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao began to organize the Yellow Turban thieves in Mount Tai, let those thieves collect mountain goods, and then they contacted the traders outside the mountain. When the work started, it slowly took shape. At the same time, he also started to reclaim wasteland in the mountains and grow some food himself. In this way, soon, the Yellow Turban thieves who fled into the mountains, under the leadership of Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao, embarked on a broad road.

The actions of the Taishan Yellow Turban thieves naturally can't hide the eyes of the Taishan bandits, at first, they don't understand, just wait and see. It's just that when it was done well, it attracted their attention. The Taishan bandits, who were not willing to lag behind, also imitated the practice of the Yellow Turban bandits, but at first they had little effect. Because they don't have that channel.

In the end, Zang Ba was naturally alarmed, and he personally came to get acquainted with Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao, and after getting acquainted with each other, they admired each other, and slowly reached some conditions of intention for cooperation. With the leadership of Zang Ba, the king of Mount Tai, the people in the entire Mount Tai area soon changed their way of life, and those mountain bandits no longer robbed the merchants of Mount Tai in the past at will, and together with the Yellow Turban thieves, they cooperated with those traders for mutual benefit.

All this has made Tai Shi Ci now enter Mount Tai and see a new look of Mount Tai. I saw the people in Mount Tai, and their lives were peaceful and quiet.

After Tai Shici listened to Pei Yuanshao and Liao Hua 1510 talk about the changes in Mount Tai, he couldn't help but appreciate the two generals even more. At the same time, he is also interested in Zang Bada.

Because Tai Shici saw the hope of surrendering Zang Ba and letting Zang Ba return to the New Han Dynasty.

"Very good, I really didn't think that a place like Taishan, which has always been poor and rampant with mountain bandits, can develop so well. What makes me feel most appreciated is that you can actually let the people of Mount Tai no longer make a living by looting, and rely on their hands to live a life no worse than the people outside. This is enough to show your extraordinary and talented. I am too Shi Ci, I asked myself to change a position with you, I'm afraid I can't do this, the situation of Mount Tai, I will truthfully reflect to the lord, I believe, the lord will also praise you, what to say about the marquis and worship the general, but in the future, the court of the new Han Dynasty, there will definitely be a place for you, I Tai Shi Ci dare to vouch with the head. The lord will never ignore your contribution to the Great Han. ”

Tai Shici patted his chest against Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao and reassured.

"Hehe, that, General Taishi, in fact, I don't want to be a thief, I was just forced by life before. We have been waiting for the New Han Dynasty to return to the New Han Dynasty for many years, and we don't really care much about the lord's gifts, but we have always had a wish, that is, I hope that one day, we, the original Yellow Turban thieves, can become upright officers and soldiers, and we also want to follow the lord to fight the world, and we don't want to stay in this mountain anymore. Pei Yuanshao took the opportunity to say some of his wishes: "Now, it seems that Cao Cao is about to be destroyed, once Cao Cao is destroyed, then the world will be peaceful, if we don't have the opportunity to go out of the mountain to help the lord to fight now, then there will be no chance in the future." Therefore, please General Taishi must mention it to the lord for us, we are really afraid that the lord will forget us. ”

"Haha, you guys, you have a good life in Mount Tai, but you really want to fight the world with the lord?" Tai Shi Ci saw that Pei Yuanshao was talking interestingly and sincerely, so he couldn't help but laugh and said: "Don't worry, as long as you are willing, you are willing to leave your comfort zone, and you will still have to fight the battle." So far, General Ben is not afraid to tell you, in fact, even if the Han is unified, there will be many battles in the future, and I am afraid that you will not be willing to go out with the lord when the time comes. ”

"Huh? The world is unified, and you still go out with the lord? Where is this going? Pei Yuanshao naturally couldn't understand the meaning of what Tai Shici said, and he was stunned.

"Hehe, you'll find out later." Tai Shici was also willing to say too much, waved his hand and said, "Now, let's focus on the things in front of us first." I heard you say, that Taishan Zangba is also the number one person, I don't know how to meet him? Our New Han Army is about to attack Mount Tai, if we can say that we can surrender to Zang Ba and let him submit to our New Han Dynasty, then Mount Tai does not need to attack, we can directly attack Cao Cao's Jinan City. ”

When Tai Shici said this, he glanced at Liao Hua and Pei Yuanshao and said, "Don't you want to fight the world for the lord?" If it can be said that Zang Ba is subdued, then my Tai Shi Ci can now assure you that I will ask the lord to give you the establishment of an army of Taishan Yellow Turban thieves, and you Liao Hua will be the commander of the first army, and Pei Yuanshao will be the deputy general, and you will form an army alone and go to war with this general. How is it? ”

"Is that true?" Liao Hua seemed to be more anxious than Pei Yuanshao, and his eyes lit up on the spot.

"General Ben's words count. Let's talk about how to meet Zang Ba first. Tai Shi Ci affirmed. (To be continued.) )