Star Wuyao

Chapter 54 One Arrow Gorge
Chapter 54, One Arrow Gorge
The sky was bright, and hundreds of merchant ships moved forward in an orderly and fast manner on the river, with hundreds of speedboats accompanying the fleet.

With the technology of this year, there is no need to worry about collision accidents. In fact, the speed of the fleet is limited only because the speedboats serving as the forwards need to drive the ships upstream.

The first merchant ship in the fleet, Captain Ling Feng, sat on the captain's throne in the captain's room, looking forward with a solemn expression. He had not slept all night, and his spirit was still high.

No way, this action is related to the future of the entire Tangqiao guarded area, and it is also related to the future of hundreds of people in the Ling family. , no sleepiness at all.

I can't help but be excited. As long as the Zhangxia guarding area is established, the Ling family will be able to share a large amount of benefits from it. This benefit is so huge that it only needs to be maintained for a few years, and my village-level family can become a town-level. family!
The division of village-level families, town-level families, and county-level families is actually very simple. It depends on the radiation range of your family's influence.

If your clan's power can't go out of a block, then you can call your clan by so-and-so block at most.

Blocks in big cities have many interests, so they can naturally be seen by others, but in other small places, you are really embarrassed to put the block name in front of the family name.

It is impossible for any family to dominate a place, you have me and I have you.

The reason for this is that one is lack of ability, and the other is the need to avoid suspicion.

After all, even if you are a military and political boss in one place, you still have deputies and political enemies.To monopolize a place is to set up a target for people to attack.

The Ling family is also a hereditary soldier family that has been in the Tangqiao guarded area for hundreds of years. With such a powerful family, there are at least a dozen or more in the entire Tangqiao guarded area.

Slightly lower grades are more than tens of hundreds, and lower grades are definitely hundreds or thousands.

With so many hereditary soldiers and families in existence, the interests of the Tangqiao Guard District were almost completely divided, and there were no new points of interest.

The peak hereditary soldier family like the Ling family is even more anxious to find ways to find ways to break through the bottleneck of village-level families.

All the families in the Tangqiao Guard District that can be called village-level families have already extended their tentacles to the towns and villages outside the Guard District.

Don't be surprised how they dared to leave the guarded area. It is stipulated that outsiders are not allowed to enter the guarded area at will, and people in the guarded area cannot go out at will, but there are many ways to avoid this "can't be free" statement.

After all, the garrison area is such a large village, and it is still such a special village that has stood on a piece of land for hundreds of years. If you say that the people inside have not penetrated outwards, and the people outside have not penetrated inwards, that would be a lie.

No amount of strict rules can stop this from happening.

Therefore, the Ling family, who is a village-level family, will of course extend their tentacles to the outside.

However, because of the special nature of the guarded area, it is difficult for the Ling family to borrow power to maintain and strengthen themselves outside, and they can only rely on money to smash their connections.

After spending many years and a lot of property, it can be regarded as a foothold in the townships outside the guarding area, but it is extremely difficult to go further.

In short, money is not enough!
It is impossible to spend enough money to create a golden road, and it is impossible to spend enough money to create more allies and more backers.

Therefore, the helpless Ling family, like other village-level families from the guarding district, could only work hard silently, looking forward to an opportunity to make their family a town-level family.

What are the benefits of being a town family?

Not to mention the financial aspect, just being able to participate in the military and political activities of the township at that time, it is possible to get a post in the military and political department of the township, and it is not necessary for the younger generation to choose to serve in the guarded area, which is a super rich benefit!

It can be said that no one wants to be trapped in a guarded area for generations, and the caged birds all yearn for freedom!
It doesn't mean that the whole family has left the guarding area because of this, it's just that the younger generations can have more choices, which is enough for the whole family to do their best to fight for it.

Almost all the village-level families in the guarding area are working hard for this goal.

Therefore, when the newly arrived Tangqiao Shou expressed that they wanted to capture the Zhangxia Guarding Area, many soldiers and families who had originally planned to guard Mawei for the new Tangqiao Guard immediately changed their minds and expressed their willingness to obey Tangqiao Shou’s orders and send out People work hard for this goal.

Captain Ling Feng was able to serve as the vanguard commander of this war, but he often gave benefits to Tangqiao Shou and other families in the guarding area.

Of course, these expenses, concessions in various aspects, and debts owed are all worth it.

Because the Ling family can obtain a rich share of benefits by virtue of this battle, and thus step on the status of the town-level family, then they can be condescending and calm, watching those families in the guarding area, for that little point Interests continue to fight with me.

As for failure?Never considered this.

Everyone thought that when the army arrived, the Zhangxia garrison area would surrender obediently, including Ling Feng.

It's not arrogance, but everyone's work has already been done.

It was the soldiers and families who dispatched people to set up a company in Zhangxia Guard District to make money. After knowing that Zhangxia Village was going to be attacked, they naturally asked these people to investigate the situation in Zhangxia Village and bribe the powerful people in Zhangxia Village.

It was also because of the information from the subordinates of these transferred spies, and even some family bosses who changed their faces and came to Zhangxia Village to visit those bosses in person. After obtaining accurate information, they dared to make such a big bet.

So this war can be said to be a sure win.

This is also the reason why Ling Feng is in a relaxed state of mind and is in good spirits even though he is physically exhausted.

"Sir, we have already entered the border of the Zhangxia Guarding Area, and we have to pass through Yijian Gorge in half an hour!" his subordinates suddenly reported.

"Order the speedboat in front to quickly pass through Yijian Gorge, go ten kilometers ahead to stop the counter-current boats, and order the speedboat at the rear to stop the ships following the fleet! The whole fleet starts to slow down!" Ling Feng gave the order swiftly.

"Yes!" The subordinate immediately conveyed the order.

The speed of the fleet began to slow down, and the speedboat that was exploring the way ahead slammed forward with full engine speed.The speedboat at the back of the fleet simply stopped the boat horizontally and stopped the boats following the fleet from continuing to move forward.

For all this, it is natural for the fleet to go up and down, including the stopped ships.

Because it is very simple, Yijian Gorge, which still has a half-hour voyage, is a river canyon with cliffs on both sides, and the width of the river is about 100 meters.

This distance is exactly equal to the range of an arrow of an ancient bow and arrow, so it is also called Yijian Gorge.

In ancient times, the river surface with a width of more than 100 meters was actually very spacious, and it would be no problem for several ships to pass side by side at the same time.

But these days, the standard width of any commercial ship on the river is tens of meters wide. This Yijian Gorge, which is only a hundred meters wide, can only be passed by one boat.

It can be said that from the Tangqiao guarded area to the Zhangxia guarded area on the thousands of miles of river, it is this Arrow Gorge that may have an accident.

People who have sailed back and forth on this river for many years, of course, know that when they come here, they need to slow down and queue up, so Ling Feng's response is a matter of course.

(End of this chapter)