Ouyang Xuan is actually very familiar with Hengyuan Town, which in the 21st century is called Huaiyuan Town, Chongzhou City, and is famous for its rattan weaving in the surrounding area of Chengdu. With Yongkang City, Hengyuan Town is located at the junction of high mountains and plains, all of which are backed by mountains and rivers, the difference is that the geographical location of Hengyuan Town is more superior than Yongkang City, especially the waterway transportation is more convenient. Although it is a town, but before the Mongol army invaded Shu, the population was more than 10,000, it was the important town of the ancient tea horse road in western Sichuan, its surroundings were not only rich in grain and oil, but also produced a large number of mountain goods, the business traveler can go down the Wenjing River next to the village through Yongqu Township, and then go straight down to Chongqing Mansion City, flow through a hundred miles to join the Fujiang River at the Xinjin City, and pass through Jiading Mansion, Chongqing Mansion, prosperous than Yongkang City. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Minjiang River was called Fujiang. Hengyuan Town originally did not have a walled wall, after the Mongolian Kouxi River, the villagers of Shangjia built a wooden fence with a height of more than a zhang as a wall, the scale is quite large, only slightly smaller than Yongkang City. According to the official system of the Southern Song Dynasty, the government of the important commercial and trade town would send a low-level civil official named Jian Zhen to manage affairs. However, due to the war, the imperial court did not send officials to Hengyuan Town, and all affairs in the village were managed by the squire. Now the squire in charge of the village is called Du Fu, and Li Shuang Yuzhu is familiar with each other, standing behind the wall of the wall, he saw that the leader was Li Shuang, so he asked people to open the door of the village, and welcomed everyone in.

Because of the long-term war, the population of Hengyuan Village is only more than 500 people, but it seems that the village is empty, and the villagers are planted with wheat, beans and other grains in the open space in front of the house and behind the house. Du Fu was extremely enthusiastic, found a few idle and dilapidated houses for everyone to live in, and sent someone to bring simple drinking water, but when Li Shuang mentioned his intention, he looked embarrassed and refused to speak. The words were asked in a hurry, and his son Du Daquan, who came with him, couldn't help but say: "Ladies and gentlemen, we should have paid the money and grain of the imperial court, but the Tartar soldiers plundered, the bandits were rampant, and the strong people in the village were lost, and there were no cattle and horses to drive, so they all relied on the villagers to plough the land, and the grain obtained was only enough to feed the stomach after removing the seeds. A few days ago, it was attacked by bandits in the mountains, and when the swords and soldiers were strengthened, Yongkang City refused to send officers and soldiers to the rescue. As a result, the bandits broke through the fortress, not only killing and wounding the villagers, but also robbing a large number of food rations. If the grain will be levied again, how will the old and weak women and children in the village live? ”

"The officers and soldiers did not come to the rescue, and the Hengyuan village relied on more than 100 people who were uneven in their swords and guns to defend the country, and they really could not defeat the bandits in the mountains, and the bandits threatened to slaughter the village if they did not pay the grain, and we had to pay the grain to the bandits in order to protect the people in the village." Another squire next to him surnamed Xie added. The doubts in Ouyang Xuan's mind were dispelled, and more than 100 people were relying on the wall, and their combat power was not under the grain collection team. It seems that if the grain conscription team encounters bandits, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky. He now understands why Cao Ergou reported that there were no bandit activities around Hengyuan Village before entering the village.

After Du Fu and the others left, Li Shuang summoned Yu Zhu, Ouyang Xuan and the leaders of the gang to discuss the matter of requisitioning grain, and there was no good plan for a long time. At this time, some gang commanders pointed out that if they did not resort to tough measures, it would be difficult to complete the task of collecting grain, and it would be difficult to escape the punishment of Pan's control, and suggested that they follow the example of other grain collection teams and forcibly collect grain by strong means. In this regard, everyone criticized and echoed it, which made Ouyang Xuan's heart extremely unhappy, and he couldn't help but say in a loud voice: "How is this kind of practice different from bandits? Li Shuang and the others listened, and everyone was silent. After a while, Li Shuang sighed and said, "Hengyuan Village has always been dedicated to the court, the people are simple, Du Fu and his son have always contributed a lot to official affairs, if it weren't for the difficult times, they would definitely not embarrass us, how can such loyal people use strength?" "It turns out that Du Fu and his son are not only big medicine dealers, but also proficient in medical skills, whether they treat poor people or wounded soldiers in the army, they never care about the remuneration, and they have a good reputation around Chongqing Mansion. After that, Li Shuang told everyone to rest early and find a way tomorrow.

There have been too many things in the past three days, where can Ouyang Xuan sleep. Yu Zhu, who was sleeping next to him, also tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so the two talked in a low voice. Ouyang Xuan learned from Yu Zhu's mouth that he and Li Shuang were both personal followers of Lord Yu Jue, and followed Lord Yu to fight in the south and north, just when Yu Jue was about to expel all the Mongolian troops from the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road, he was framed by the traitor Xie Fang Shu and the Yunding City guard Yao Shi'an and others, and not only died unjustly. After Lord Yu's death, the two of them were also implicated and relegated to Chongqing Mansion. Pan Tongzhi was once punished by Yu Jue for greedy ink and delayed military exploits, so he embarrassed them everywhere. When the Mongolian army first invaded the Sichuan Gorge Fourth Road, Cao Youwen and his younger brother Cao Youwan fought with the Mongols in Yangpingguan, when he was the commander of the army, Zhao Yanna, the traitor of the commander, but he did not save him, resulting in the two of them finally being outnumbered and all killed, and Cao Ergou was exiled to Shu with his father. Huang Dagen is also a meritorious minister Wang Weizhong's personal soldier of the former Langzhou Zhizhou, Wang Weizhong was falsely accused of "infiltrating Mongolia" by traitors Yu Hui, Chen Dafang, Ding Daquan and others and was killed, and his subordinate soldiers were also scattered and divided into various armies. "Things gather by like, people by groups", Yu Zhu took special care of the excluded people, and over time, the grain collection team under his command gathered more than a dozen people who were framed and loyal to their subordinates. Before the grain requisition, Yu Zhu's team originally had only more than 30 people, but this time before leaving, he transferred some soldiers who did not like his superiors, and Pan Commander obviously wanted to get rid of them by the hands of the Mongols or bandits.

Yu Zhu's words made Ouyang Xuan shudder, which reminded him of the words "reverse elimination" and "bad money driving out good money". From the historical knowledge, he learned that the ruling class of the Southern Song Dynasty regime was corrupt, and he still lived a drunken life when the two countries frequently plundered the borders of Jin and Mongolia, and when they were suffering from internal and external troubles, the song "Outside the mountain, the outer building of the Qingshan Building, the West Lake singing and dancing for a while, the warm breeze made the tourists drunk, and Hangzhou was regarded as Bianzhou" is a description of the drunken gold fans of the high-level officials in the country's internal and external troubles, but the middle and low-level bureaucrats are also so corrupt, which makes him sigh that this rotten regime can support until now, it is a miracle.

Early the next morning, Li Shuang took Huang Dagen to find Du Fu, one to treat the arrow wound on his body, and the other to see if he could find a way to get some food so that he could go back to pay the errand. After a short time, Huang Dagen came back with a happy face and asked people to bring horse meat and salt, and to carry grain. It turned out that after the repeated persuasion of Du Fu's father and son, the rich households in the village gritted their teeth and agreed to Li Shuang's proposal: exchange 200 catties of pickled horse meat and salt for 2,000 catties of grain. Du Fu and his son also borrowed two wooden boats to send grain to Chongqing Mansion through the Wenjing River outside the village. When the ship was loaded with grain, it was already three poles in the sun, because the ship was small and could not carry everyone. Li Shuang immediately decided that Liu Zhong, the fire commander who was familiar with water warfare, would take the fire soldiers with the ship to protect the food, but because the arrow wound did not heal, he also returned to Chongqing Mansion with the ship, and Yu Zhu took the rest of the soldiers back to Chongqing Mansion by land.

Hengyuan Town is about fifty miles away from Chongqing Mansion City, Ouyang Xuan and the others hurried all the way, and it was already dusk when they arrived at the gate of Chongqing Mansion. Chongqing Mansion in the Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty are called "Shuzhou", in the Southern Song Dynasty called "Chongqing Army", was Gaozong Zhao Gou before the accession to the throne of the hidden domain, after Zhao constituted the emperor, convenient in 1144 AD (the 14th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty) promoted to Chongqing Mansion, jurisdiction Yongkang County, Jinyuan County, Jiangyuan County, Xinjin County. Among these four counties, Yongkang County is in the northwest, Xinjin County is in the south, Jiangyuan County is in the southeast, and Jinyuan County is the seat of Fukuo County, that is, Chongqing Fucheng. It's just that the dilapidated scenery of the mansion in front of him at this moment is so different from the prosperous hometown in Ouyang's memory, only the Wenjing River outside the west gate is still flowing quietly to the east, which seems strange and familiar.