Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1327 Du Guangyi

"Boom!" The turbulent waves hit the shore, splashing countless waves.

The headland stands firmly in the middle of the sea, just like the warrior with a shield, blocking the raging tide in front of him.

Behind it, there is an incomparably quiet harbor where ships are ready to leave at any time.

"Dangdang..." The bell rang.

The sailors carefully controlled the ships, one after another sailed out of the anchorage, and headed to the open sea to assemble.

Two sea sharks took the lead, followed by dozens of old ships of all sizes, raised their sails, and headed south with the strong north wind.

There will probably be no more ships coming this year.

An Dongyin and Du Guangyi looked up at the tall towers on the two promontories.

The tower has seven floors, made of blue bricks and large wood, facing each other from a distance, facing each other across the sea, and guarding the narrow entrance of the bay.

On the periphery of the tower is a temple, where monks chant scriptures and practice, and common people pay tribute and incense.Every night at the top, a raging fire will be ignited to guide the ships on the voyage.

Du Guangyi descended the mountain slowly, got on his horse, surrounded by his entourage, and slowly patrolled along the country road.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" A deafening roar came from afar.

Du Guangyi moved closer and stopped to watch.

The autumn harvest is over, and winter is approaching. The soldiers from the ten miles and eight townships in Lushun County brought their equipment and started routine drills.

The quality of the performance is very high, which can be seen from their neat queue and rapid changes.

As soon as the banner changed, the formation immediately followed.As soon as the golden drum sounded, no matter what you were doing before, you immediately moved forward or back, without any hesitation or hesitation.

It's actually quite normal.

The Guide Army, the Longwu Army, and the Qingyi Army are all veterans who have experienced many battles, and they are more regular than the regular army.At least until this generation gets old, the quality of Fubing is top-notch.

This army is so useful!The combat effectiveness may be slightly inferior to that of the Forbidden Army, but they live scattered in various places on weekdays, and they cannot gather without fish charms.

To put it bluntly, it is more difficult for them to rebel in series.

In the barracks, if you yell loudly, hundreds of people may hear it.Make a noise, and the whole army shakes.

In the deserted village, if you roar, you can only fill your mouth with the northwest wind.

The only chance for the government soldiers to join forces on a large scale is to assemble and train.But why bother?
Someone will help you plow the farmland, and the annual output is too much to eat.

You can even choose two smarter teenagers from the trilogy attributed to you by Sanhu, and teach them some superficial skills.When hunting, they help you drive and pick up prey; when practicing martial arts, they help you organize and maintain equipment, and even practice for a short time.

You have 150 acres of land and more than a dozen servants. Your life is so good, is it necessary to rebel?
"The benefits of having a vast land and few people!" Du Guangyi whispered to himself.

He is very clear that before the population surges and the land is not enough, the foundation of the Fubing system is very solid, and the combat effectiveness will not decline.

In the early Tang Dynasty, when the land of the fubing dropped from 140 mu to more than ten mu, it finally became unusable. Obviously, how is the fubing with only ten mu of land different from the Tutuan villager?

"There are other ways to subsidize income..." Du Guangyi turned his attention to another place.

It was an open space near the sea, and many wooden racks were set up, covered with kelp to dry.

Kelp was originally called Lunbu.

"Erya Shicao" says: "Lun is like a lun, and a group is like a group. There are them in the East China Sea."

"Wu Pu Materia Medica" says: Lunbu is called Kelp.

Today I like to eat this food, and I just asked Haizhou County to pay tribute to Beiping. He cooked meat with it and shared it with the soldiers.

Du Guangyi also tasted it, and it was indeed delicious.Not only is kombu delicious, but the meat cooked in it is also delicious, highlighting the word "fresh".

Next to the kelp, there is something else to dry, called "seaweed".

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Moss and seaweed are all like lun, and kelp is also like group, maybe it is."

Lun actually means big.

The ancient kombu actually contained more content.But Daxia distinguished them, and the sage gave Lunbu the name "Swan's Palm Vegetable", and there were also seaweed and staghorn, all of which were ordered to pay tribute to Beijing.

Most of the things that are drying on the wooden shelves in front of me are gooseberries.

It's October, and there's not much work to do in the fields.But the troops of the government soldiers couldn't rest. They ran to the beach one after another to salvage and pick up the gooseberries. After dragging them ashore, they simply cleaned them and hung them up to dry.

This is their own income, and the government soldiers don't care about it, and even the government doesn't tax it, so they are very motivated.

Among the ships that just left the port, many were loaded with gooseberry, seaweed, staghorn and another kind of "wakame" named by the saint.

The transshipment on the Huaihai Road made Song Yao quite emotional. It was the first time in many years that she saw "back money" from An Dong's mansion.

The only thing that makes people regret is that the number of gooseberries is very small.Salvage, cleaning, drying, and transportation are also labor-intensive tasks, which are not easy to do.

Du Guangyi once had an idea: Millet and wheat can be planted, but can kelp be "planted"?
Seems hard because this thing grows on rocks in the sea, what are you planting on?What thing does not rot in the sea for a year?
This year, the Nanhai Prefecture of Bohai State also paid tribute to a lot of kombu.

But their kombu (kelp) seems to be very different from the kombu (swan palm) in the Central Plains.

Tao Hongjing's "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Now only out of Korea, the rope is tied, like hemp, yellow and black, flexible and edible."

This kind of kelp is found in the Bohai Sea, but not in the Central Plains, and the sages seem to love it more.

Why does the sage love the things in the sea so much?Du Guangyi shook his head helplessly, it is not easy to please the Holy Majesty.

"Raise the gun! Go!" There was a shout in the distance, followed by thunderous hoofbeats.

Three hundred government soldiers rode war horses, raised their lances obliquely, and made a swift charge along the flat ground by the sea.

"Kill!" Where the horse passed by, wooden and straw figures were staggering, with wounds criss-crossing.

After a round of rushing, the cavalry gathered in the distance, and then rushed again.

"In the old days, the halls all attacked Yan soldiers. They came and went for more than [-] times, and finally broke the thieves. You have to eat and drink on weekdays, and you must be no worse than the halls. Charge again!" A school captain raised his horse and shouted. road.

"Kill!" The sound of rushing thunder sounded, and there was a burst of smoke and dust on the flat ground, and the sound of killing was like a tide.

Du Guangyi watched mesmerized.

Who said that Mao Zhuizi didn't like military affairs?That's only for scholars from poor families.

Du Guangyi was born in the Jingzhao Du clan, so he could afford to spend a lot of money to hire martial arts masters to teach martial arts. This was an unbearable expense for a scholar from an ordinary family.

He has been engaged in civilian work for so many years, and his martial arts skills have long been abandoned, but he is still very excited to see the scenes of the sergeants training in full swing.

Anton Mansion is the place where he has struggled for several years. He has seen every bit and every drop of progress here, and even participated in it personally.With these powerful soldiers around, he can sleep soundly.

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After Du Guangyi left Lushun, he headed north and then west, and arrived in Yingkou County on October [-].

He declined the company of Li Mo, the commandant of the camp, and asked him to supervise the expansion of Cangcheng and take a look at it himself.

After discussing with the captain of the Zhechong Mansion, Li Mo sent a captain named Kang Fu to accompany him with fifty soldiers who were training to protect his safety.

"How old is Captain Kang?" Du Guangyi asked casually while leading the horse.

"Twenty to three." Kang Fu replied wearing a tattered leather armor.

Du Guangyi glanced at his attire, then at his horse, and said, "The war horse is not bad, but the armor is not good. What's the matter? The family's harvest failed?"

"There will only be one family. The wheat planted this year has also been flooded, and there is no harvest." Kang Fu replied.

Du Guangyi sighed, and ordered his followers: "Send a pair of iron armor to Captain Kang's mansion in two days."

"Yes." The follower replied.

"How does this make..." Kang Fu said shyly, but he didn't refuse.

"You can use it." Du Guangyi said: "Cangcheng in Yingkou has piled up more than [-] dendrobium grains and beans, don't you know?"

"I know." Kang Fu nodded.

"We will probably fight Khitan next year. I'm afraid you'll die if you don't have any self-defense," Du Guangyi said.

Kang Fu deliberately refuted, I was born in the Weizhou Military Academy anyway, how many people have walked back and forth in the field of life and death, can they still be killed by the Khitan people?
But he knew that for good or bad, with the armor on his body, it would be safer to rush forward, and it would be easier to make meritorious deeds, so he did not refuse.

"Do you really want to fight Khitan next year?" Kang Fu asked nervously after thanking him.

"Most likely to fight." Du Guangyi said.

Anton's army has [-] soldiers, but it has not been recruited yet, and they have to be transferred to Fushun, Gaimou and other places.If he becomes a teacher next year, it will support the scale of ten thousand people.Although Wang Yanzhang was a fierce general, Du Guangyi didn't know what would happen with such a small number of troops.

Melodious singing came from the other side of the river.

Du Guangyi and Kang Fu looked together, but saw a group of Khitan people coming south with their cattle and sheep.

That was not an enemy, but the Khitan nobleman Yelufu Guzhi who had just transferred from the Changchun Palace, there were probably thousands of men, women and children, and less than a hundred thousand livestock.

This little capital is really nothing on the grassland.Even if Yingzhou randomly pulls out a Zahu tribe, it can steadily suppress the Guzhi tribe.

"Fu Guzhi is ambitious..." Du Guangyi snorted coldly.

Last month, he met Changping Tang Cheng Yelu Hua in Jili County.

Brother Hua secretly reported to him: "Feng Gu only complained after drinking, and insulted Jin Shang, and he seemed to have the opposite intention."

Du Guangyi didn't say anything.

Brother Hua's one-sided remarks were not enough to affect his judgment.But judging from his long-term experience in dealing with grassland affairs, it is impossible to say that Feng Gu has no ambition at all.

"What's the use of letting him conspire?" Kang Fu said with a smile: "When hundreds of thousands of troops marched northward, Fugu only knew his capital, which was really worthless."

"Captain Kang is quite knowledgeable." Du Guangyi glanced at him in surprise.

Kang Fu didn't seem to notice it, and continued: "The Khitan people are so proud of their riding and shooting skills. This time, I'm afraid they will fail. When Ping Haijun's boat went north along the Daliao River, they knew they were useless. How can we fight if we can't even cut off the grain road? Do we fight head-on? I wouldn't even dare to lend him ten guts."

The order to set up the Anton camp for the second time has come down.

Wang Yanzhang temporarily acted as deputy commander of the battalion. There is no information about who the commander is.

In the seven counties of Andong Prefecture, the current main work is to drill troops, stockpile grain and grass, and expand the wharf.

After the spring of next year, the Ping Navy will also organize large-scale transportation to increase the military rations near Yingkou to 30 hu.Obviously, this was a land and water military operation to uproot the Khitan's power in western Liaoning.

If the goal is achieved, the Diela tribe will suffer heavy losses, because western Liaoning was originally their territory.

The weaker the strength of the Diela tribe, the more helpful it is to the situation. This is a very clear thing.

(End of this chapter)