Chapter 149, Cultivation

According to the description, the cannons on the warships were loaded, but the people disappeared into thin air, and there were no corpses or bloodstains left, and they could not understand what was going on. But this is the time when the two sides are fighting, and it is certainly better to have so many weapons in vain.

It's just that the current imperial court is like a sieve, and when the imperial court gets the news, the Oriental spies who infiltrated the capital naturally also get the news and hurriedly send it back to the East.

After analyzing the news from all the spies lurking in the Qing State, the Dongyang Navy, because the Beiyang Fleet had been in Weihai Port during this time, and the other two fleets had not gone north. Because no one in the entire team survived, not even a single corpse was found, so it could only be treated as a supernatural event.

However, because of the loss of more than 25,000 troops, as well as several warships and troop carriers, the war had to be re-planned. However, the Qing army did not seize the opportunity to fight back, giving them enough time to adjust.

Because of the more than 20,000 troops that suddenly disappeared, Dongyang did not use troop carriers to transport troops across the Yellow Sea to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, for fear of another supernatural incident, and directly crossed the Yalu River from Korea.

Although there were 30,000 Qing troops defending the right bank of the Yalu River, many of them ran back from Korea, and most of them had seen the strength of the Oriental army, and most of them did not have the heart to fight to the death. Moreover, the army came from all over the country, and they were not subordinate to each other before, and now it is naturally impossible to pinch them together for a while, and the commanders who accepted the orders of the imperial court could not command, and the generals had no heart to resist the enemy, and no one found out that the Oriental army had erected a pontoon bridge. In the end, the Oriental Army successfully crossed the river, and Nie Shicheng and Ma Jinxu led their troops to resist, but finally they were forced to retreat due to heavy casualties. As soon as Nie Shicheng and Ma Jinxu withdrew, the rest of the generals who had no fighting spirit fled without a fight when they heard the news, and the Dongyang Army occupied Jiulian City and Andong County without a single shot, and had an advance base.

However, without the Liaodong Peninsula landing before and after the attack, the Qing army quickly stabilized its position, although repeated defeats, but the Oriental army wanted to advance is not easy, but also have to pay the price.

Seeing this, the government of the Oriental Kingdom decided to open up another battlefield after some conspiracy, and the fleet circled Weihaiwei from the southern part of the Yellow Sea.

The Beiyang Fleet was not allowed to go to sea, and could only be beaten passively, and the Oriental Army was attacked by sea and land, and the Weihai Weiqing Army fought back desperately, killing the commander of the Oriental Left Wing, Oji Yasumun, but the number of soldiers was outnumbered, and the fleet was blocked in the harbor and trapped in the city. The flagship Dingyuan ran aground in the mine, but still fired back with his life until the ammunition ran out and Liu Buyun committed suicide.

At this time, there were generals who surrendered in the besieged Qing army, coerced Ding Ruchang to surrender, Ding Ruchang refused to surrender and committed suicide, and promoted the Zhenyuan ship to take Yang Yonglin, Yang Yonglin also did not surrender and committed suicide. However, this could not stop the capitulation faction, and Weihaiwei eventually fell.

After the siege of Weihaiwei, the first part of the Oriental Army went south by boat to attack Taiwan Island. The military and civilians on Taiwan resisted one after another, but were finally outnumbered and defeated because of the backwardness of weapons.

Although the war ended in failure, the Oriental Army also lost tens of thousands of troops and several warships, but the imperial court was unwilling to fight again, and sent Li Hongzhang to sue for peace and signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" that humiliated the country.

At this time, Li Shucheng and Jiang Mingyue were recuperating in Jiulong Mountain, Xingyi Prefecture, Guizhou. Jiulong Mountain is a long and narrow primeval forest along the mountain, the environment is quiet, the primeval forest is also a mountain with a mountain, the forest is very often, there are only a few families living in the flat place at the foot of the mountain for several miles.

There is no sun and moon in the mountains, and when the two of them restore and grow the golden pill in the middle dantian to the size of an egg, they went down the mountain and entered the city to know that the Qing Dynasty had been dead for several years at this time.

Twenty years have passed, and we have not returned to the state we were in our heyday, and we will never do it again.

Back in Jiulong Mountain, at this time, the two no longer had to concentrate on restoring Jindan, and decided to build a house to live in.

There is no need to choose a place at all, just where they cultivated before, this is the edge of the primeval forest, there is a flat land of about two hundred acres in size, as long as the trees on it are cut down, they can be planted. At the foot of the mountain is the water source, and a small ditch leads to a small lake of about ten acres in the south.

Everything was simple, first a thatched house was erected, then trees were cut down and roots were cut to level the land, and the ditches were re-planned.

On this day, Yang Laosan went into the old forest to hunt, turned over a small pass, and the sight was no longer familiar before, the woods at the foot of the mountain were gone, and I saw two people working there, one driving oxen to plow the ground, and the other picking up grass roots.

Yang Laosan looked at it and patted his thigh, this place is good! It is flat and watery, much better than the place where they settled down, he didn't expect to settle down here, first, this is already an old forest, there are jackals and leopards, and it is very dangerous, and second, the flat ground is full of big trees, which is not easy to clean. But there are jackals everywhere, and they often have jackals there, and if there are more people living here, they are really not afraid of jackals. The trees were also cut down, and the cleared up could be used for planting, and the cut trees were just right to build a house.

The more I thought about it, the more wonderful it became, and Yang Laosan decided to inquire.

"Master's house!'s master's house!" Yang Laosan shouted as he walked to the ground.

"What's the matter?" Li Shucheng asked Niu to stop, came over and asked, speaking in a dialect. This dialect is not something he learned now, but a lifetime in his previous life.

"Did you just move here?" asked Yang Laosan.

"yes. Li Shucheng said, "As soon as we saw that it was good, we decided to stay here." ”

"If you want to cut down such a big tree, there are a lot of people here, right?" Yang Laosan only remembered at this time that although he hadn't been here for two months, he had to cut down such a big tree and tidy up the ditch, and he couldn't do it with few people.

"No, just our husband and wife. Li Shucheng said, "We have practiced martial arts, and we are still very fast at cutting down trees." ”

"You are still practicing the family!" Yang Laosan was envious, in addition to envy study, the people at the bottom also advocated force, and no one dared to bully powerful people.

After envy, Yang Laosan asked what he wanted to know the most: "This place is so big, it is a large piece of land, and you can't finish planting, can you let our family come over and plant?"

"Yes, it's lively if there are more people?" Li Shucheng said, "Anyway, we can't finish planting." ”

Yang Laosan looked at Li Shuxiang as a scholar, and thought that he would not farm in order to leave a good impression and make it easier to get along in the future, so he talked to Li Shucheng about his farming experience. And came up with an idea: "This kind of land, it is not very cost-effective to grow corn and wheat, and the most cost-effective is to grow foreign tobacco (poppy)." We farm land for thousands of families, and most of the land is planted with foreign tobacco. ”

Although the mountainous area here is backward, there are not many flat places, and the fertile flat land has long been occupied by the landlords. In addition to a little sloping land, the poor people work for the landlord's family, which is the reason why Yang Laosan is not afraid of the attack of wild beasts and wants to move over.

In addition, planting foreign tobacco was very common at this time, not only ordinary small landlords, but also the family of Liu Xianshi, the current Guizhou overseer on the outskirts of the mountain.

"I don't grow foreign cigarettes, and if you want to come, you are not allowed to grow foreign cigarettes. Li Shucheng shook his head and said, "This is a drug, it is a harmful thing, how many people in the city have died because of smoking foreign cigarettes." "Why wouldn't the countryside be? Because they produce and sell their own products.

"Don't plant, don't plant. Yang Laosan said. Although he thinks that growing foreign tobacco is more profitable, he doesn't know how profitable it is. As long as you have your own land, you can grow food to support your family, and you don't have to work for the landlord.

With Li Shucheng's consent, Yang Laosan stopped hunting, and hurriedly went home to call a large family to move over.

There is land, and it is a fertile flat land! The Yang family unanimously agreed to move, not caring at all that it was on the edge of the old forest and would be attacked by jackals.

The Yang family of eleven people, first built a few shacks to live in, and then built a house, planning to build a grass house to live in, and after planting crops, take advantage of the slack to build two more, eleven people live in a three-room grass house is really not able to live.

"Huh, Brother Li, how do you put water in the ground?" asked Boss Yang. After a few days of getting along, it was natural to start calling each other brothers.

"Well, I'm going to plant millet (rice) on this field. Li Shucheng said.

"Planting millet? We're going to be very cold, I'm afraid we can't do it. Boss Yang said.

"It should be possible, but no one has planted it before. And I grow different varieties that are adapted to such a climate. Li Shucheng said. The dam oil below can be planted, and the top is only one or two hundred meters high, and it should also be able to be planted, and Li Shucheng still uses rice seeds in the space, and the temperature in the space is similar to that of spring and autumn outside, and it is not as hot as summer outside.

With some of the grain borrowed by Li Shucheng, plus the savings from his own family, he is looking for some wild vegetables, some wild boars and rabbits, and the Yang family can support it until the autumn harvest. Seeing the crops growing more and more luxuriant, the whole family was very happy, as long as the autumn harvest was harvested, the next year would be better.

After the slack, Li Shucheng saw that the children of the Yang family cut the pig grass and cut the cow grass every day, and then they played crazy, and it was not a matter to go on like this, so he simply taught them to read and write.

Reading and literacy has always been a dream of the people at the bottom. After Boss Yang and Er Yang found out, they specially slapped a muntjac to send thanks.

Li Shucheng said with a smile: "It's not a matter for me to watch them run crazy every day, so I taught them, why do you still send meat." When your children are growing up, take back the meat and give it to them to eat. ”

It's good to say that Li Shucheng won't harvest it, but Yang Lao Er said: "If you don't collect the meat, then we will help you plant your few acres of land in the future." The cow is yours, and we just have to make some effort. "Now the three cows they raise were all bought by Li Shucheng, and their family has no money to buy cattle. And they also had to borrow these three cows, and they could still get cow dung to farm the land, so the old man of the Yang family discussed with Li Shucheng and took over the matter of raising cattle. Similarly, the pig was also bought back by Li Shucheng. It is precisely because the Yang family is not only taking advantage of the advantages and not suffering losses, so they get along harmoniously, and Li Shucheng has the time to teach children to read and write.