Chapter 45: The Contest of the Pillars

After waiting for 3 months in Shanghe Province, 16 people from 5 households in the downstream village finally decided to slowly enter Beijing.

Daddy Hu said: "We are walking along the official road, if there are bad signs in the capital, we should be able to see the big families running south, they have horses, cars, and run the fastest!" "That's how much you run, and you don't have to learn from experience.

Then let's go slowly, before Cuihua came, Old Man Yuan was still the pillar of the family, and after Cuihua came, he gradually handed over the right to speak.

Now, a few people in the Yuan family, he can be the boss again, I really don't miss it at all! It feels so good to have someone in front of you.

Most of the old women are iron roosters, and they spend money to pick and search, and the Ma family is even more exaggerated than the Zhang family, and the prices in the north are much cheaper than their Shu land, and she can't be generous.

also instigated Old Man Yuan: "Look at the big head of the family, you can take everyone to make a fortune along the way, and you can't just go in and out?" ”

This is forcing the men in the family to find money, and these two boys are under their noses every day, doing nothing. There is a kind of person who is lazy himself, and he is lazy when he can't see others.

Seeing this, Zhang's also kept aiming at Daddy Hu and Hu Sanniu, this is also a strong laborer!

The big guys will get together first to see what they will do: Daddy Hu can take a child to hunt, Old Man Yuan's family is a carpenter and blacksmith, and in the other three households, there is a man who is a carpenter, and he usually likes to make up some gadgets for his grandchildren.

Yes, if you want to have a low cost and earn some travel expenses, you can only sell your art.

The downstream village art troupe was officially established: it repaired furniture, sharpened knives, repaired farm tools, and sold children's toys for the neighbors. Sweet mouth, right, then shout at me, lie to my parents at home, and you can't coax me outside! Honestly, just listen to the command, you can always move up and down.

Children are performing on the side, how to play with bamboo dragonflies, kicking bamboo balls, setting bamboo tube hoops, and little girls like to play with mini kitchenware.

Daddy Hu took Hu Sanniu out and from the nearby mountains and forests to find some hard vegetables for the big guys, and more could be sold to the villagers.

The first to become popular was the toy group, children are creatures, the smaller they are, the more disobedient they are, such fun things, no one can stand the temptation.

Made of bamboo, it's not expensive, a few pennies a piece, alas, this is a group of escapees, dragging so many people, forget it, poor and miserable, buy some for the babies.

The sweet mouth duo, idle Yuan Laosan, also beckoned a lot of people to come, mending rotten tables and chairs, sharpening knives, and this group of people also said that if they don't have money, they can exchange rice grains, eggs, and vegetables. Who didn't order these?

A few old women, who are soft when they collect eggs and vegetables, can not only earn some copper plates, but also solve the food, which is a lot of money.

Several companies are also secretly competing in private, looking at the group that makes more money, the group that makes more money, and the one who is proud.

Such a group of people, with gold and silver bumps sewn into the corners of their clothes, walked along the official road from village to village in the sympathetic eyes of the villagers in the north, so pitiful.

The poor art troupe, when they walked out of Shanghe Mansion, they had already divided ten taels of silver per household, and everyone was even more reluctant to go fast. I just don't want to let go of every village on the way to the capital.

Ma also has a lot of experience: "Everyone patches more clothes, the more worn we are, the more miserable we are, the more people pity us, and the more people we make!" ”

Zhang: "The little baby's money is the best to make, you look at these gadgets, maybe they can be sold for money in the city?" When the time comes, we will find a county seat to try! Xiaochuan, Xiaoshan, you guys also have to practice the slogan, and you have to be thicker. ”

Three male babies: We are so thick-skinned, and the male dolls are fiddling with the toys of the female dolls! Adults are so unreasonable!

The other boy is an honest head, only five years old this year, following Xiaoshan, his brother is long and his brother is short, and his mouth is very sweet, which makes Xiaochuan of the same age have a sense of crisis of being robbed of his brother, and he is rushing to earn performance.

In the north, from the beginning of winter, the Tatars fought guerrilla-like raids, looting in the villages on the border, coming and going like the wind. By the time the local garrison received the information and rushed to it, it had already run away.

In the beginning, only a small number of Tatars came to grab grain, poultry. After the temptation, it was found that the Great Xia army was not angry, after all, it had been peaceful for ten years, and it was easy not to say war, right?

What finally made the Great Xia garrison go to war was that on Chinese New Year's Eve, a Tatar cavalry of more than 1,000 people raided a county on the border of Great Xia, not only robbing money and food, but also killing hundreds of people and capturing hundreds of women.

The ancestors of the Xu family were those who fought with Emperor Yuan, and they were all military generals for several generations, and the men in the family took countless concubines and spread out. The men are not divided into descendants, and they have all been thrown into the barracks since they were young, and they are real military families.

The general soldier in the north is Xu Shangshu's most proud second son, Xu Maochun, the forty-two-year-old Xu general soldier, has been stationed in the north for decades, although the last ten years have been peaceful years, but the vigilance has not been let go, this is the foundation of the Xu family's foothold in the court, he does not allow anyone to smash his own job.

After the Tatars entered the county seat, he sent a report to the imperial court, tightened the border defenses, and sent many teams of scouts to the grassland.

From the first encounter, both sides fought without declaring a fight. The villagers on the border were also transferred one after another, and the Great Xia army, which had not been in actual combat for more than ten years, began a war with the Tatars.

The Tartar scimitars and fiery horses were invincible in the encounter, and the infantry of Great Xia lost their combat effectiveness in a few rounds, and the situation eased slightly after the Xu family's horse cutting array came into play.

The Xu family's horse chopping array is a three-dimensional combat method that allows the infantry to use hemp knives and sharp axes, long iron spears and shields to cover, and archers to cooperate. Raza knives and sharp axes were mainly used to chop horses' hooves, and long iron spears and archers were used against the Tatars.

This is a set of methods summed up in the battles with the Tatars after many years of garrisoning the border. In addition, there are also digging traps, scattering iron nails, etc., and the biggest advantage is that the Xia Dynasty has many soldiers and horses. General Xu has 100,000 soldiers under his command, and he has patience to deal with these Tatars.

Without waiting for the summer when the steppes can be grazing, the Tatars will not cease fighting, this is a continuous war for more than half a year!

The little emperor was busy sending food and weapons to the front line, and the king of Shu was also busy, and his father-in-law, Gao Zongbing, was now sent by him to the civilian chaos, and he had to take care of the remnants of the two kings.

The first wave of merchants in Shudi has ended their rush to buy cement consignment rights, and his private treasury has been credited with 1 million taels of silver, how long has it been? And the second cement mill is about to be repaired, Ludi is richer, and when Ludi's cement mill is repaired, then his private treasury will have to enter a large amount of money!