Chapter 416: Cangshan City, the birthplace of mountain warriors
Cangshan County, a county in the northeast of Hongze Province, is adjacent to the pottery, but compared with the trough of Baotao, this Cangshan County is a poor mountain and remote land, and the poor slag is lost.
Eighty percent of the boundaries of Cangshan County are in the hills and mountains, and there are only three counties and seven towns in the whole county, and the total population is only the population of Dingtao City.
The three major legions in Qingzhou, in addition to the Taishan Legion in the northeast of Qingzhou and the Zhunshui Legion in the middle, there is only the Cangyun Legion in the south, and among the 100,000 soldiers of the Cangyun Legion, forty percent of them are mountain counties with a population of less than 400,000, so it can be said that Cangshan County has ten people and one soldier.
Cangshan County is not far from Dingtao, and the fast horse is only half a day's husband, and you can enter the hills and mountains surrounded by Cangshan County.
The mountain road is narrow, rugged and difficult, this kind of road will first seal itself, even if there are special products in the mountain, it can't be carried, it's no wonder if it's not poor!
In the county seat of Linxian County in the east of Cangshan County, Leng Zhuo spent money to hire a medicine farmer and a hunter as guides, and after depositing the horses in the county seat, he had to walk into the mountains.
"Is there only one way into the mountain?" Leng Zhuo is not afraid of climbing the mountain, according to his current strength, this mountain road is still difficult for him, but he is very puzzled, the county seat of a county is actually built on the mountain, isn't this the head kicked by a donkey.
"Hehe, of course not, if you want to hit Cangyun County, in fact, the smoothest road is the one in the south, but you have to bypass this mountain for two more days, and then you can see a river along the foothills to the west, and you can enter Cangyun County along the flat land on both sides of the river!"
"From our Lin County into Cangyun County, there is only this mountain road to go, although it is rugged and difficult, but if the foot is fast, don't enter the valley where Cangyun County is located in one day, this road is ordinary except for us herb pickers, few hunters go here, after all, to find Cangyun County, it is better to go to Dingtao County!"
"Is the Divine Pen Peak far away?"
"It's not far from the north end of Cangyun County, in fact, looking down from the Shenbi Peak, you can say that Cangyun County has a panoramic view, you should have heard about the unearthed of the holy soldier before you came!"
"En, I heard people say that they have noses and eyes, and this holy soldier is a rare thing, so come and take a look!"
"Hehe, you may be disappointed!"
"How do you say that?"
"Not to mention whether the holy soldier is true or false, it's just that the story is full of loopholes, this young master won't be unable to hear it!"
"Oh, that's true, this story looks even more like it was made up and demagoguery!"
"It's really a beginning, but this story is not all made up, Shenbi Zheng does have a mausoleum, there is a legend from the old man's generation As for the great general king, there are also people, but the story that has been handed down is not so expressive, only a few words, as for whether the general king is surnamed Xu, and what earth-shattering things he has done has not been handed down!"
"Oh!
"Well, the imperial court recently issued a rebellion order on our side, and the local government will take the lead, and the local tyrants will contribute money and grain to form a rebellion camp, and those who are in the title can also recruit no more than three times the number of private soldiers!"
"In fact, this is just made up by a down-and-out Xu family kid in Cangshan County, although the Xu family is a nobleman, it is also a big family with a head and a face in Cangshan County, but since the old baron went, the Xu family's kid has lost all his family property, this time, the court issued a rebellion order, he used this to turn over, after all, the court promised a generous reward, and there are honors, but his family has no money and no food, where to recruit soldiers, so he resorted to this method!"
"The old man knows it very well!" Leng Zhuo also looked at the old man with some slander.
"Hehe, although I collect medicine, I also **, often go back and forth to Cangshan County, Dingtao City, and the Xu family kid's little in the Qinglou happened to be seen by me, so I know more! The people in the mountains are simple, this nonsense is really called this Xu family kid recruited thousands of people, with soldiers, it is naturally good to ask the government for money and food!"
"So we're here for nothing?"
"Not necessarily, because there was indeed a vision of the sky changing that day, but the old man didn't know the specific thing!"
After staying in the mountains for one night, at noon the next day, the group arrived in Cangyun County, and Cangshan City was built on the side of this huge valley, Leng Zhuo estimated that half of the population of Cangshan County lived in this valley.
In the imperial capital, a little baron or full of streets are worthless, in Dingtao, the baron is not a big character, but in this Cangshan City, this little baron can only point to the sky, Cangshan City has a total of two nobles, one is the defeated Xu family mentioned before, and the other is the Cangshan Yun family, but the same is the baron, the Yun family is a first-class baron, and the Xu family is a third-class man in this generation after the death of the older generation.
As a poor and remote land, the two nobles are the heaven here, Cangshan City is built by the river, the river divides the city into two, with the river meandering and narrow distribution, like a tea fish, and the Yun family, Xu Jialiang's family is on the head of this fish, like a pair of eyed spiders on both sides of the river.
The Yun family on the left bank, the Xu family on the right bank, the old mansions of the two families are quite large, and they are second to none in this mountain city, but compared with the Yun family, which is still a little magnificent, the Xu family is completely dilapidated.
"This is the Xu family!" Leng Zhuo looked at the gate that was not even covered tightly, and most of the vermilion lacquer on it had fallen off, and in the courtyard, the sound of killing according to the rare drill came.
"That's right, this is the Xu family's mansion, the news of the holy soldiers was released by the Xu family's boy, whether it's true or not, or Young Master Leng will ask by himself, I won't accompany Lao Wang!"
"En!" Leng Zhuo nodded, let the money be given, Li Yuanba and Dian Wei, the two door gods, stepped forward one left and one right, pushed the door in, Leng Zhuo took steps, and took a few women to step on the steps into the Xu Mansion mansion.
This Xu Mansion is really empty enough, several courtyard walls seem to have been knocked down, and they have been leveled into a school field, and in the open space, there are no less than three or five hundred books sorted out 25*8o}0, and the neT people are holding a bright sword and gesturing there, but there is a look.
Leng Zhuo walked into the courtyard and immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the courtyard, and an old man with a gray beard walked in front of Leng Zhuo and the others, and said, "Who are you waiting for, why did you trespass on my Xu Mansion!"
Uh, trespassing? you, your door is almost wide open, do you need to break in?
"Who are you from the Xu Mansion, we are here to find Xu Wei, the descendant of the great general Wang, I don't know if he is here?"
"Oh, you have something to do with my young master?"
"It's nothing, I heard that your young master has a holy soldier in his hand, so come and take a look!" Leng Zhuo said with a smile.
"If you have nothing to do, please leave, my young master is very busy, so I won't send it!"
"Old horseman, you dare to be so presumptuous with my young master, I think your old bones are underhammered!" Li Yuanba glared fiercely and shouted loudly.
“。 Hands, vertical scattering, come on, surround me!" shouted angrily in the old man, and suddenly hundreds of people in the courtyard suddenly surrounded him in a semicircle with swords.
Leng Zhuo sighed, looking at the sturdy men behind the old man, each of whom was more than two meters tall, no wonder forty percent of the soldiers and horses of the Cangyun Legion were selected from this small Cangshan County, these people are simply natural soldiers, but I don't know if it is in vain.
"Good soldiers! Yuanba, evil, Yuanqing, the three of you go up and try these people, if they are useful, maybe it would be good to recruit some soldiers here and bring them back!"
Li Yuanba, Dian Wei, and Pei Yuanqing received the order, and even threw the hammer on the ground, after all, they really wanted to hit it with a hammer, and it is estimated that few of these hundreds of people could get up in the end, and the three of them, like mad tigers, rushed into the crowd with blades.
As for the injury, Li Yuanba has a thunder body, Dian Wei is now also after breaking through the earth spirit, his strength has risen all the way, plus Leng Zhuo has continued to refine the spirit pill, and now he has stepped into the high level of the earth spirit, and although Pei Yuanqing has only been psychic for a long time, the connection to the spirit beast has not been completed, but he is also wearing a spirit armor with good defense.
"Hey, you don't really plan to recruit troops here to go back!" Wei Zhilan pulled Leng Zhuo's arm, this husband of hers has always thought of one out and one out, and completely ignored everything else.
If it weren't for staying in the Weeping Blood Valley for half a year, and she was the eldest lady of the Leng family now, she really didn't know that this guy was hiding so deeply, according to the imperial order, there was a limit to the private soldiers that nobles could have, and the earl could only have three thousand private soldiers, including three hundred cavalry, or it could be replaced by a naval army.
And this guy is good, Qin Liangyu and Sophia have recruited more than 3,000 female barbarians, and more than 5,000 soldiers will be received every six months from Yangzhou Jinfeng Academy and several other local academies, of course, these warrior students are stationed in the name of trials, but she knows that these students are even connected to the Weeping Blood Valley.
At present, the first batch of graduates have begun to serve in the Weeping Blood Valley, and there are as many as 3,000 in the newly built Red Clay City, not counting the nearly 10,000 students, of course, these more than 3,000 people have not been included in the private army.
And the private soldiers who edited the register, in fact, only those soldiers of the Old Weeping Blood Valley, and those psychic, added up to less than two thousand.
And it is said that this guy even has some unclear relationship with the group of water bandits in Yangzhou, just I heard that the strength of the water bandits has no less than 5,000 elites, and there are 5,000 preparations.
If she didn't know that all major families have such and such hidden strengths, and even the Wei family has all kinds of hidden powers, she would have thought that this guy wanted to rebel.
Of course, at the moment, he is a marquis, and he can have a private army establishment of eight thousand, but if he really thinks about it, it is really not enough to use it, and it costs money to raise soldiers, even if there is a golden river and a red clay city, he has to weigh it, not to mention why does the Leng family raise so many soldiers, the surrounding Nanban has almost been killed by the trial, and there is almost no threat within a radius of three hundred miles in the Weeping Blood Valley.
As the eldest lady of the Leng family, she is in charge of the house, so naturally she can't allow Leng Zhuo to come without a plan like this.