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Ji Guo attacked Li Guo and broke the border town of Yaoping. King Li You conscripted 500,000 troops and once counterattacked for 300 miles. The war dragged on for three years, and the main battlefield was Cangnan County in Li State, which affected Linshui County, Qingyun County, and Jianning County in Ji State.

Funnily enough, after the war ended, both sides claimed a great victory, but in reality there was no difference in territory from before the war.

As the war entered its third year, the final decisive battle was fought in Yunxiyuan, at the southern end of Yangwu County, with millions of troops committed by both sides. This battle was personally commanded by Xiaoyao Hou, the younger brother of King You, who defeated the Ji army and established a meritorious service. There are several Hou of Li State, but since then only the Marquis of Li has been honored as Marquis of Li.

The Ji army was defeated and retreated, first retreating into Cangnan, then retreating into Yaoping, and then retreating into Jianning.

Starting from Yangwu County, through Yunxiyuan, tea, iron, silk, porcelain, etc. can be transported to Cangnan, Yaoping, and even farther Ji Guo Jianning, and Ji Guo can also transport jewelry, sea salt, seafood and other things in reverse.

At that time, the straight road from Linshui to Cangnan was not passed, which was the most convenient route. Merchants from the southern district of Yangwu County gathered, and all kinds of materials were piled up.

In the first five years after the end of the war, that is, 12 years ago, the county town of Yangwu, which had been shattered, quickly prospered again, as if it had returned to the light.

Although the official trade between Li and Ji was interrupted, the trade route from Yangwu to Cangnan was not broken. What's more, Li Hou stationed 1,000 soldiers in Yunxi Yuan and imprisoned 3,000 prisoners of war. The daily consumption of 4,000 people alone is incomparable.

Eleven years ago, three incidents broke out, and for Yangwu County, each one was fatal.

In early spring, the snow melts. The prisoners of war rioted, almost all of them died with the soldiers in custody, and Li Hou withdrew the camp.

In midsummer, the straight road from Linshui County to Cangnan County was completed, and people and goods were fast.

In late autumn, the plague broke out in Yunxiyuan. Starting from the surrounding villages of the abandoned camp, it spreads outward with the momentum of a blazing prairie fire. In just half a month, none of the nearly 100 villages survived.

Li Hou sent a large army to blockade Yunxiyuan for a whole month before the situation was calmed down. However, when the army withdrew, the Yunxi Bridge was destroyed, claiming that the plague inside had not been eradicated, and monsters had appeared, and idlers were not allowed to enter.

Yunxi was originally on the edge of the Nanling Mountain Range, and its shape was long and narrow, reaching fifty miles. The widest part is five miles, and the narrowest point is only fifty zhang. Ten miles across Yunxi, Yangwu County set up a tax office in the narrowest place, and the army was also stationed close to Yangwu to imprison prisoners. Further in, it is the boundary of Cangnan County, a township for several miles. However, after this change, all of them disappeared.

The plague not only raged in Yunxiyuan, but also crossed the stream and spread to Yangwu.

The army had just withdrawn, and in the bitter cold winter, the people of the three villages along the stream died overnight.

Yangwu County Ya erected a monument at the mouth of Yunxi and was forbidden to enter.

A large area by the stream became a forbidden land, and the nearby people ran away, and there were many fewer villages and towns in the southern district all of a sudden. In the past, there was less fishing in the northern area and more catching in the southern area, which was formulated according to the actual situation. However, the situation has changed, and Yan Wei and Zhou Bingxun, the county magistrate, still use the old yellow calendar, obviously supporting Zhang Biao to suppress Shi Meng, which is a later story.

The people are gone, the land is deserted and grassy, and the Yunxi Racecourse will open in a few years, and it is said that it has a military background.

The southeast trade route was completely cut off, and it was difficult for Yangwu County to return to its previous situation. In recent years, there has been a little improvement, because Yunmeng Country is facing a catastrophe, and many families are fleeing here with gold and silver, after all, it can't last long.

Man dies for money, and birds die for food.

Even in the face of the destruction of the stone bridge, the plague monsters, and the ban of the government, there are still outlaws who break into Yunxiyuan to smuggle goods. But he saw only people go, but no one returned.

Everyone in Yangwu County talks about the color change, and the curse often does not say "go to the eighteen layers of hell", but "go to Yunxi".

Hu Er came to Yangwu after the plague.

This guy is in his thirties, he is a military man who has left the army, his martial arts are strong, and he is about the second level of the mud embryo realm, and more than a dozen people can't get close to him.

After the war, half of the residents of the county died, and those who fled to many foreign households. In the past, the people in the city were all indigenous, and they were somewhat involved with the villagers outside the city, and they were buried outside the city after they died. However, although these outsiders have taken root in the county, they have no landed relatives outside the city, and there is nowhere to bury the old man after he dies.

At that time, the county commander Li Guangming waved his pen and assigned Yishan, a remote place in the south of the city, to a public cemetery. In fact, no one went to that place, and there were already graves on the mountain.

Hu Er built a simple courtyard at the foot of Yishan Mountain, and when he went to worship his ancestors, he often stuffed some money for him, but privately called him a tomb keeper with contempt.

Just because people live at the foot of the mountain, you can't stand it if you have nothing to do and pee on your ancestral grave, and you will ruin your wealth and eliminate disasters.

Hu Er doesn't seem to lack the little money to guard the tomb, nor does he do small businesses such as paper money and artifacts, and he spends his days in the Qinglou Tavern. Big and small splashes rushed to take refuge, respected as "Hu Ye", as long as he committed a crime, he was invited to come forward, and there was nothing that could not be done.

This guy has nothing to earn, so where does the money come from? Why did the county government bend down and flatter him? It is still a mystery.

Nine years ago, because of a scramble for a fan, he was violently beaten by Dong Wei, the head catcher in the North District, on the street. released wild words, saying that Dong Wei would not live for three days. Sure enough, Dong Wei died at home on the third night, the doors and windows were closed, and there was no movement.

Everyone suspected that Hu Er had used witchcraft and trembled.

Eight years ago, he was accused of kidnapping children. It just so happened that there were several cases of baby theft in the first two years, and the county ordered Li Guangming to put it on his head and prepare to behead him after the autumn.

It's ridiculous that the guy still said wildly in prison, saying, if I die, the whole city will be buried.

It's a pity that he didn't wait for the autumn, and Li Guangming returned to his hometown.

Dong Wei died, Shi Meng was promoted to the head catcher of the Northern District, and personally sent the old county master to the Shili Changting Pavilion to listen to the last teaching.

"If the evil is not removed, there will be no peace in the country. Do not get involved in this matter in the future. ”

As soon as the new county order arrived, he was released on the spot on the grounds that there was no evidence.

Hu Er relented from then on, no longer gathered the crowd to splash and frolic, and disappeared from the county seat every ten days and a half, and he didn't know where he went.

Everyone in the county town was afraid, and even a fierce and domineering person like Zhang Biao didn't dare to trouble him. As long as he stopped in front of any shop, the shopkeeper was allowed to take the best things. But this guy never accepts anything, and he doesn't take credit when he eats and drinks, but he is still unscrupulous.

He died a strange and ridiculous death!

Five years ago, this guy was drunk and shouted: "Our family can make black and white impermanence, who has Qingyun County been afraid of?"

During the banquet, many people had fun and asked, "Master Hu, how do you serve as an envoy?"

Hu Er shouted: "Just light three incense sticks......"

After finishing speaking, Hu Er's throat sounded chaotically, his face was purple, and he fell to the ground and died suddenly, buried on the mountain behind his house.

As soon as he died, it was as if the haze above his head had been removed. The county seat is lit up and lively for three days.

Niu Ding entered the city at that time, and his sister married Zhang Biao as a concubine.

The land of Yishan belongs to the government, but the courtyard of Hu Er is self-built. After waiting for two months, no relatives received the house, and the county government was ready to deal with the matter, but no one dared to accept it.

Zhang Biao hated Niu Ding for being lazy and lazy, so he took Hu Er's house for three taels of silver, which was equivalent to picking it up for nothing, and let Niu Ding stand on his own.

Niu Ding bought a carriage half a year later, but he didn't have a horse, and he lived by cheating.

Actually, he didn't know Hu Er.