The first is positioning; Meng Jiucheng does not regard himself as a savior, nor does he want to become a figure like a virgin. Rescuing the refugees is already a gesture of grace, and it makes sense to ask them to report the situation.

followed by organization and management; Whether it is eating, drinking, or building residential places and defense facilities, or training in formations, patrolling sentinels, and saving oneself through production, only by pooling wisdom and making concerted efforts and scientific management can we be efficient and orderly.

said that there are two points, but in fact, only the second point needs to be implemented immediately, and the first point is just ideological understanding, which Meng Jiucheng has already had.

After sending Qiao E, Da Chou and Sanming away, Meng Jiucheng discussed with Mu Yi and Chen Daotong, and after eating, he began to implement it.

Although it is freezing and the refugees have not fully recovered, who knows when something unexpected will happen in the midst of war. It doesn't matter how much you do, you have to do it anyway.

Register, group groups, select team leaders, and work in detail...... Meng Jiucheng had already thought of various measures at night, Mu Yi, Chen Daotong, Mu Xiaowei and others helped with all their might, and after being busy for a while, they had become orderly by noon.

The sun's face was white, and the ground was covered with snow. The trees along the mountain road were covered with snow, and a breeze blew it, raising a cloud of snow and dust.

Meng Jiucheng chose the place where the barricade was set up, which was at the narrow place where the mountain road bended, where the Taoist temple could be seen upward, and the road could be looked down when he turned a corner.

The roadblocks are also very rudimentary, with snow piled up on the trail and compacted to make the passage narrower, and large and small branches and grass are tied up and placed on top of the snowdrifts. Then use a large iron pot to boil the snow water and pour it on the branches, which not only freezes with the snowdrifts, but also forms a hard ice skate that sticks out indiscriminately. The reason is not complicated, in ancient times, there were ways to freeze the city and strengthen the defense.

In this way, there is only room for one person and one horse to go up the mountain road, and it has to zigzag forward. There are many enemies, and it is difficult to rush them.

Of course, this is only temporary, and the cultivation is rough, but it is better to save time, and it can also give the refugees in the Taoist temple some sense of security.

This season is really - Meng Jiucheng is also helpless. The ground was frozen hard, and it was very difficult to dig by hand, and digging trenches had to be done later.

Looking back, the Taoist temple in the distance seemed to stand in a strange atmosphere, and the surrounding white expanse was like a lonely boat in the sea. Thinking of the Central Plains again, this Taoist temple, even if it is this mountainous area, is a very small piece.

Despite his hard work and the feeling of walking on thin ice, Meng Jiucheng couldn't show his decadence. Defeating the rebels and rescuing the refugees, he is not very old, but he is already the backbone of this large group of people. Even if those refugees live under low eaves and have to bow their heads, he must infect them with a state of self-confidence and fearlessness, gather their limited strength together, and jointly maintain a lonely boat in this turbulent and turbulent world.

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In the autumn of 1213 AD, Genghis Khan led his army south to attack and plunder on the grounds that the Jin Dynasty had defaulted on moving the capital. The Mongol army's iron cavalry was like a bamboo, and successively captured Jinan, Yidu, Deng, Lai, Yi, and Mi prefectures, and the Shandong region was desolate due to the Mongol plundering tactics.

After the Jin army was dealt a heavy blow by the Mongolian army, the Red Jacket Army, a rebellious force in the Central Plains, took the opportunity to grow even stronger. As early as the eve of the Jin Dynasty's move to the south of the capital, the Red Jacket Army was already quite powerful, and its activity area expanded to almost the entire Jiaodong Peninsula.

This time, the Mongolian army went south, although it attacked the city and pulled out the fortress, but plundered but did not occupy it, and blew like a whirlwind. As a result, many prefectures and counties were in a political vacuum, and the Shandong Red Jacket Army then made a big move, suddenly owning a large territory and forming three major armed forces.

These three armed forces are: Yang An'er, who first took Qing, Wei, Mi, and Ju Zhuzhou as the center of activity, and now occupies Laiyang, Dengzhou and other places; Because his mother and eldest brother were killed by the Mongolian army, they gathered a crowd to revolt and occupied Li Quan, who was in Linqu and Yidu; Liu Erzu who fought in Tai'an, Zizhou, and Yizhou.

The Jin Army, the Mongolian Army, the Red Jacket Army, plus other small armies, you occupy this state, I occupy that county, it is really the city head to change the banner of the king, I don't know what year it is.

The disturbances outside did not affect the refugees of the Taoist temple for the time being, and after five or six days of busy labor, they were finally able to settle down, and their living conditions were greatly improved.

Some of the weaker refugees were resettled in caves at the top of the mountain, and the stronger ones remained at the temple. In the front yard of the Taoist temple, four large sheds were erected against the courtyard wall, using cut trees and seized tents. The mountain gate has been blocked with debris, and the ice has been watered to block the cold wind.

The main hall of worship is also divided into four small rooms, two on each side, and the clay statue in the middle has not been moved, and the space in the hall has become very small.

It's not that Meng Jiucheng doesn't want to make a big transformation, but the refugees worship the gods and persuade Meng Jiucheng not to offend the gods because of An Xuan.

Immortal? Meng Jiucheng didn't believe it, what protection did the refugees who believed in him get? But since this is the opinion of the people, he is not stubborn. Besides, if Master comes back, it will be reasonable.

Two huts were also set up in the backyard for Xiaowei, Qiao E, Chen Mengyao and other women to live. The remaining bricks in the gap were cleaned up, and the wooden branches made a door for people to enter and exit temporarily.

In order to save food, it was changed to two meals a day, plus a few dead horse meat, and the harvest of hunting by Qiao E, Da Chou and others could still last for ten days and a half months.

It is definitely not possible to sit and eat empty, Meng Jiucheng has discussed with everyone many times and determined several methods.

One is to go to Lingyang Town to buy grain and shop, and the letter has been sent by Sanming a few days ago, just waiting for Boss Sun of the shop to send someone to transport it; The second is to organize people to go over the mountains and mountains, walk for three or four hours, and go to the Tianhu Lake in the south to fish.

Horse Hair Mountain, also known as Moqi Mountain, is the boundary mountain of Juzhou Prefecture (now Ju County) and Junan County, the northwest is surrounded by Xunshui on both sides, because the mountain gorge is long and steep, stretches for dozens of miles, it is very much like the neck of a horse galloping with its head high, the local name mountain is called Horse Bun.

And there are four strange things in Maji Mountain, and there are poems and clouds: the reeds grow on the Makou stone, the silverfish ten thousand swim in the heavenly pool, the toad has a green back and a red belly, and the black soil on the top of the mountain is bottomless. This Tianhu (now the Steep Mountain Reservoir) is one of them, and you will know that there are many whitebait in the lake when you listen to the poem.

Sending people to catch fish and then transporting them back is laborious and time-consuming. Meng Jiucheng didn't agree with this, but the big move in the cold and freezing was unbearable for the refugees, and it was not realistic. Therefore, I have to wait for the weather to warm up.

A few of the refugees also came down the mountain to leave, but they were bachelors with no relatives or relatives. Those who dragged their families with them, or those who were worried and afraid, did not know the situation outside, and were afraid of being killed and plundered by the rebels, they all stayed here.

While they were busy building sheds, improving living conditions, and strengthening defenses, Meng Jiucheng and Mu Yi organized more than 20 middle-aged men to take time for training, which can be regarded as having a basic and weak armed force.