Arrived in Zhushan County two days later.

From afar, you can see the city wall that is slightly more majestic than Fang County, and a river with a lot of boats.

Zhushan County has a government population of more than 3,000, and the brick wall of the county seat was built 12 years after Chenghua, which still gives people a sense of security at this time.

There is a dammed river here that flows through the county seat, and finally joins the Han River in Yun County.

Therefore, the materials and transportation to Yun County are very convenient.

If Fang County is convenient to the west side of Xiangyang outside Yunyang, that is, Wudang, Junzhou and Gucheng, then Zhushan is very closely related to Yunyang counties, especially Fuzhi Yun County.

This creates dislocation and complementarity.

The bamboo produced in Zhushan is of high quality, and only raw materials are produced at present, and the profit is limited, but it can be processed and upgraded, so Zhushan will become a center in the south of Yunyang, and it is also one of the places that Wang Hongyu values the most.

Before Zhou Yijie took him into the city, he first took a look at the Qiujiang Academy outside the county, and saw that there were very few students here, and the huge university hall was half empty, and it seemed that he urgently needed to tap the potential again.

"Do you want to go into town? Patrolling and visiting the head of the family's hometown? ”

Zhou Yijie knew that Wang Hongyu would definitely come, although Zhou Dunji's body was still in Yun County, it was very reasonable to visit in advance.

Wang Hongyu thought about it, he was patrolling in plain clothes this time, if he went to visit the eldest brother's family, he would definitely be more formal, and he would have to communicate in detail what happened in Liaodong, and the eldest brother's explanation and will.

The eldest brother's family must also introduce a lot of information to themselves, and the two sides must have something to say for ten days and ten nights.

As soon as the time is delayed, it will not be able to play the role of covert inspection.

So he didn't enter Zhushan County, and carefully explained the situation to his eldest brother friends and family who greeted him, and expressed great respect and apologies.

Everyone praised him for having Dayu's sense of responsibility of "passing through the door three times without entering", and he deserved to be a person similar to Zhou Dunji.

In fact, when Zhou Dunji was recruiting and training soldiers before, he also passed through Zhushan County many times without entering.

That's one of the reasons they came together.

Although he did not visit the city, he still wrote a handwritten letter to show respect for his eldest brother's family.

The Zhou family has more than a dozen family members and more than a dozen friends, among which Zhou Dunji's nephew Zhou Gui is the leader, and he is more familiar with this area.

also decided to follow Wang Hongyu and go farther to Zhuxi together.

The road there is far away, although there are a little fewer homeless people than in Zhushan, but there are Miao and Tujia villages, and it is better to communicate with more locals.

From Zhushan to Zhuxi, there are two ways: water and land.

The waterway is to go upstream for dozens of miles along the blocked river that passes through the county, to the confluence of the Zhuxi water to the place where the water is blocked, and then to the northwest for 40 miles, set off today, rest in the villages along the way for a night, and you can arrive tomorrow.

The land route is 100 miles by mountain road, and you can only get to Zhuxi County the day after tomorrow.

Considering that the waterway is much more convenient, and the number of people is not very large, a few bamboo rafts can carry many people, so the waterway is chosen.

The view of the river is very beautiful.

The peaks and peaks are clustered around the clear and clear river, and the surging river is like a silver-white ribbon, sitting on the bamboo raft and watching many streams flow into the river, forming a scene of various postures.

While looking at the dozens of hills and endless green forests on both sides of the blocked river, I listened to them explain the human geography of Zhuxi County.

As the name suggests, Zhuxi County is also the same as Zhushan County, it is also rich in bamboo, and it is mainly tall bamboo, so there are many bamboo products in the two counties, and dried bamboo shoot slices can be seen everywhere, and there are naturally more mountain goods.

Zhuxi County is located at the southern edge of the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains East Trough Area and the northern slope of the eastern section of the Daba Mountains. River valleys are all over the place, and canyons and mountain basins are interspersed, forming a variety of landforms such as hills, basins, low mountains, middle mountains, and high mountains.

Less than 10% of the cultivated land and 80% of the forest land.

It is covered with forests, and the mist fills the natural circulation system.

There are a large number of mountain springs and waterfalls, and the water of the largest river, Zhuxi, can flow into the Han River through bamboo rafts and boats.

At present, there are only 2,000 registered residents in the county, and less than 4,000 people are homeless. In later generations, Zhuxi County had a population of nearly 400,000 and never experienced a shortage of food.

Zhou Gui took everyone off the boat to rest, pointed to the woods on the hillside and said: "The forest is full of mushrooms, the bark of big trees and the poles of dead trees are full of fungus.

There are a lot of wild meat and mountain treasures, Zhuxi County can't starve people to death at all, that is, there is not much food, and there are no good farm tools, most of the mountain treasures are eaten, and they can't be saved, so the merchants who come and go are not frequent. ”

This is the quintessential self-sufficient mountain village.

It's a treasure but can't be developed.

Zhou Dunji, a friend surnamed Liu from Zhuxi County, said: "In fact, there are no displaced people in Zhuxi County, those people have settled in the mountains and rivers that are easy to cultivate, they are better at farming than the locals, they live better than most urban people, and they are basically self-sufficient, but it is difficult to have more output for trade." ”

"Why?"

"When their crops were about to ripen, they were either eaten by hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of birds, or by wild boars. People in the mountains are poor overnight, and a herd of wild boars can spoil several acres of crops in one night.

"There were a few families who raised a dozen goats, and at night the leopard went into the sheepfold, and all of them were bitten to death, and they were still piled up in a pile to watch. When the family found out, the leopard was still grinning at people, and it was not easy to drive the leopard away, and several strong laborers were injured," Lao Liu added.

Wang Hongyu said: "It seems that individuals cannot live in the mountains without the group, and the problem in Zhuxi County is that there are few people and no one to organize collective action. If there is some food and tools to support, so that the delicacies and specialties can be saved for foreign trade, there will be a chance to develop all of a sudden. ”

"That's right!"

When everyone came to the county seat, they saw that it was indeed a beautiful place, with bamboo forests on the steep hills, and slightly gentle hills developed into terraced fields.

I saw that some of the hillside vegetation had been cut down and made room for vegetables.

But more hills are steep and full of vegetation, and there is not enough manpower to develop them.

Bamboo Creek is a beautiful natural place, rich in bamboo, hardwoods and ores, but it is not easy to transport.

There are not many people in the villages and towns of Miao and Tu, in fact, they often do some business with the Han people in herbal medicine and handicrafts.

These Miao and Tujia villagers all know the name of Zhou Dunji, and they all respect Wang Hongyu and his party, and they are willing to have more opportunities for cooperation.

They gave away some handicrafts such as tying flower sock soles.

In later generations, the famous flower socks in China originated from the hands of the little daughter-in-law of the eldest aunt and the little daughter-in-law of Zhuxi County, which has been passed down for a long time and has long been popular in China.

There are many kinds of embroidered samples in Zhuxi embroidery insole, mainly including traditional hibiscus, peony, peony, chrysanthemum, lotus, orchid and other flowers and plants, which are suitable for public generalization.

After staying in Zhuxi for a day, I had to hurry back to Yunxian.

If you take the land route, it will take you 3 days to get there because it is all left and right in the mountains.

The waterway will be there this morning and tomorrow evening, because it is downstream.

First take the Zhuxi water to join the Dam River, and then block the river until it joins Yun County next to the Han River.