Since there was no temporary official letter, a dozen or so retinues had just stepped into the territory of the beacon tower, and 200 defenders surrounded them, and after a fight, the retinues were all disarmed and tied up one by one.

The entourage Yang Tongfu scolded: "Grandma, Lao Tzu is to accompany the appeasement envoy and General Yang Tongwen to comfort you, how dare you be so unreasonable?" ”

A lieutenant came over and slapped Yang Tongfu with a snap: "There is no official letter, what is it called?" I only recognize official letters, not people. ”

"Big brother, this guy slapped me in the face, why didn't you make a sound?" Yang Tongfu shouted anxiously.

"You said Yang Tongwen, I don't know. It is forbidden to crash into the military forbidden place, are you illiterate? Stand up straight for me, and today I'm going to ask you why you trespassed into the beacon tower? The lieutenant raised his whip and saw that it was about to fall.

Yang Tongwen shouted from afar: "Don't be rude, put down the whip!" ”

The clerk of the garrison knew Yang Tongwen, and hurriedly stopped the captain: "I know General Yang, there is no fake, please meet the general." ”

The lieutenant put away the whip: "The last general has seen the general, so he offended, please forgive the general." ”

Yang Tongwen patted the lieutenant on the shoulder and smiled: "Well done, what are you guilty of?" ”

"Thank you, General! Assemble, brothers! The general has come to visit us. After the lieutenant finished speaking, the two hundred soldiers quickly stood in a phalanx, holding weapons in their hands, waiting for Yang Tongwen to review them.

"Brothers, this is the great hero who broke into the 50,000-gold military camp and captured the traitor Zhang Anguo alive and shocked Shandong - Lord Xin of Jinghu South Road to pacify him." Yang Tongwen said loudly.

"Adult Shenwu, Adult Shenwu!"

The soldiers shouted at Xin Qiji, who had sharp eyes, red cheeks and blue eyes, and was as strong as a tiger.

"Good Hammo said that he was brave back then, and the future of the Great Song Dynasty depends on your descendants!" Xin Qiji waved his hand.

"Didn't I equip you with 300 centaurs? And a hundred? Yang Tongwen asked the school captain.

"General Hui, there are still a hundred people farming in the nearby mountains and forests, and they won't be able to come back for a while and a half." The lieutenant said.

"Well done! Raising soldiers with agriculture and protecting farmers with soldiers is worthy of being a model for my Yang family's army. Yang Tongwen praised again and again.

"Lord Xin, please give a lecture to the soldiers!" Yang Tongwen said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the envoy wants to recruit the Flying Tiger Army in Chengbu Village, I wonder if you are willing to join?" Xin Qiji's face was serious.

"Resist gold and kill the enemy, never back down! We are willing to follow the adults! Loyalty to the General! ”……

Subsequently, Xin Qiji and others, accompanied by the captain, climbed the beacon tower to lookout, and he saw a large alpine grassland in the south, with a radius of more than 100 miles, and the mountains were unusually flat and wide, just like the grasslands in the north, and countless horses were leisurely gnawing on the grass.

Looking down, the mountainside is a primeval sub-forest, with abundant vegetation, moss, weeds, shrubs, rhododendrons, etc.

Xin Qijian asked Yang Tongwen as he walked, "What is this place called?" Why are there so many horses? ”

Yang Tongwen replied: "This is ten miles flat, and my Yang family's army has thousands of horses. The scenery here is peculiar, because of the strong wind, most of the plants on it are very short, and some of the trees in the leeward area form a natural bonsai garden. ”

Xin Qiji couldn't help but praise: "I can't imagine that the Yang family army took precautions and raised war horses to hide in this mountain, which made me extremely impressed." ”

Yang Tongwen said: "Anxious about what the world is anxious about, my Yang family will never fight an unprepared battle. ”

Xin Qiji said: "What the general said is extremely true, strategizing and winning a decisive victory thousands of miles away. If Dongshan is used as a horse breeding farm, why should my Song cavalry worry about having no horses? ”

"Hahaha-" The two looked at each other and smiled.

"The matter of Dongshan Racecourse, the envoy will repair the book when he returns to Tanzhou, and he will ask the Holy Lord for approval."

"There's Lord Law." ……

Yang Tongwen distributed the pork, mutton, beef, vegetables, and fruits brought to the soldiers, and the garrison captain insisted on keeping Yang Tongwen and Xin Qijian after eating breakfast and dinner before leaving, Yang Tongwen resolutely refused: "Master Xin and I have to go to other places to inspect, so don't bother!" ”

Xin Qiji was very satisfied with the garrison soldiers of the Erbaoding Beacon Tower, and thought: If all the Song army troops are like this, there is great hope for the Great Song Dynasty to unify the Central Plains.

Although the banditry on Jinghu South Road has subsided, after years of military disasters, the problem of the emptiness of armaments has been exposed. After Xin Qiji inspected Chengbu Village, he spoke highly of the military strength and armaments of the Yang family's armed group, and handed over the important task of forming a local special force to Yang Tongwen. Then he wrote to the imperial court, demanding that the army, which was still being raised, be assigned to his own name, and not be controlled by other officials.

Of course-——, the imperial court will not agree to such an "unreasonable demand", which is a typical self-respect for the army. However, Xin Qiji, who was eager to make contributions, could not understand the meaning of the imperial court, and he thought that the imperial court rejected his suggestion because he did not understand the situation.

"The general is outside, and the king's order is not subject to it", he pressed the order of the court and did not issue it, and personally supervised the army building day and night, intending to cut it first and then play it.

In the process of building the camp, I encountered the embarrassment of lack of tiles. Xin Qiji immediately ordered to go to the residents' homes and take the tiles to build a military camp. With Yang Tongwen's assistance, the people donated tiles one after another.

In less than two days, the tiles were ready. Although Xin Qiji arrived on Jinghu South Road for only a short year, he had already learned the "tyrannical" kung fu of Hunan people. He acted vigorously and resolutely, shrewdly and capablely, and afterwards Xin Qiji was rewarded by Emperor Xiaozong, but in fact, he was offended in many ways and made enemies everywhere.

The local officials were jealous of him for amassing wealth and disturbing the people, cutting off their financial routes, threatening their sphere of influence.

Even the imperial court began to feel at ease with him, in case this kind of "cutting first and then playing" behavior became a common practice in the court, wouldn't the country get out of control? What's more, people's hearts are separated from their bellies, what if some people have heavy troops and have bad intentions?

A hero like Xin Qiji, who is ignorant of the world's affairs, cannot be tolerated by Hunan officials, and many local officials have written to him, and court officials have also taken the opportunity to impeach Xin Qiji. When one cannot blend in with the environment, it is time to leave, especially in officialdom. The tree is a big move, and Xin Qiji, who has quite a lot of political achievements, seems to be unable to stay long in Jinghu South Road.

Just when Xin Qiji was already in the middle of Jinghu South Road, and was preparing to expand the Flying Tiger Army and do a big job, the officials ordered him to be transferred to Jiangxi to serve as the prefect of Longxing (Nanchang) and the pacification envoy of Jiangxi.

Yang Tongwen trained the Flying Tiger Army in Chengbu Village for only one year, and he had tenacious combat power, which was quite effective.

Yang Tongwen was too close to Xin Qiji, and as soon as Xin Qiji left, the pacification envoy of Jinghu South Road immediately relieved Yang Tongwen of his direct command of the Flying Tiger Army.

Yang Tongwen said angrily: "People take tea and cool, it's not like this." The imperial court insisted on not using my Yang family generals, and deliberately suppressed it, and was afraid that my Yang family would rob the Zhao family of the world? My Yang family has already produced two emperors, Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui, is it really so majestic to be an emperor? Is the emperor crazy today? ”

Yang Tongwen was abandoned for no reason, and he was at a loss all of a sudden, and he was completely disappointed in the imperial court. The hope that Yang Tongwen, who was over forty years old, had just kindled was extinguished by a basin of cold water.

Yang Tongwen asked himself again and again: How many 20 years of life are there? The people are suffering, the people are suffering, who doesn't want to live a peaceful life? But can a strong enemy invade and be peaceful? If the war is in exchange for a longer peace, it is worth it! Is there dignity in the humiliating cession of land, peace, and reparations, and stealing a living?

After Xin Qiji was transferred to Jiangxi, his career was not smooth, and in November of that year, due to the impeachment of the traitor, he was dismissed from his official position. The new house with the lake was just completed, and Xin Qiji returned to Shangrao and began his idle life after middle age. He and Yang Tongwen still exchanged letters, always paying attention to the military strength and social and economic development dynamics of Chengbu Village.

If there is a caravan in Chengbu Miaojia Trading House to deliver goods in Jiangxi, Yang Tongwen will always ask someone to send him some local products. Xin Qiji never forgot this old friend, and as long as Yang Tongwen had any new economic measures, he would give him spiritual encouragement. Because in his opinion, Yang Tongwen is not a person on a whim, and his trust ideas are all well thought out, he is steady and old-fashioned, sympathetic to the people, and has won the hearts of the people.

Xin Qiji praised Yang Tongwen and said: "Chengbu Village is self-reliant and self-reliant, politically clear, both civil and military, full of warehouses, and social harmony, which is a rare pure land in the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Yang Tongwen was kicked out of the special forces, and the three-year period of filial piety was also reached, and the military department asked him to return to his original unit and be reinstated. Yang Tongwen was reluctant to return to the Jianghuai front under the pretext that there was no war, and he was not accustomed to seeing the lazy, lifeless, and scattered scenes of the officers and men in the army.

Yang Tongwen is not canonized in Chengbu Village, Miao Wang, to the wind, to the rain, although the Yang family fief is not as good as the Five Dynasties period, but the radius of thousands of miles, the population of 100,000 households, can also show their ambitions.

Yang Tongwen and his brother Yang Tongfu personally went to Tanzhou, Yuezhou, Hengzhou, Shaozhou and Jinguo to inspect the market in the summer and autumn of a certain year, and were pleasantly surprised to find that the seedless tangerine, watermelon, alpine river fish and other local specialties in Chengbu Village are very popular, in short supply, and often out of stock.

The two industries of cash crops and characteristic breeding have great potential for development, so the two brothers have tested the soil quality of Chishuitong, and made a test, the soil quality is very suitable for the development of cash crops in a large area, the watermelon skin is thin and the flesh is thick, a big crisp and sweet, and the improved Nanfeng mandarin is golden in color, thin in skin, less in core, tender and without residue, sweet and sour, and unique in fragrance, which can greatly increase the income of Miao people and improve their lives.

Chengbuzhai River network is dense, criss-crossed, as long as two large reservoirs are built, there is enough water surface, characteristic breeding is also feasible. After discussing with everyone, the "new economic plan" basically took shape in Yang Tongwen's mind.