stubborn thief

Chapter 172 Self-defeating
Liu Chengzong planned to change the name of Jinpen Bay to Lion Bay.

The Heavenly Monkey took a few auxiliary soldiers who could farm the land and wandered along the river for two days.

He dictated a report to Liu Chengzong about the reclamation of wasteland along the Yunyan River.

In general, it is two sentences.

First, it's amazing.

Second, they can raise horses.

Why do you say you can raise horses, because this place is especially suitable for growing pasture and hunting, but not for living people.

Counting on this land to be self-sufficient, Shangtian Monkey said: "It will take five years for 2 people."

Yunyan River originates from Jiulong Spring, [-] miles southwest of Nanniwan. The river flows northeast to the low-lying area of ​​Nanniwan, and is divided into two streams. One flows twenty miles to the northwest, and the other flows in an arc from the northeast. Turn southeast.

Such terrain, from the birthplace through Nanniwan to Jinpenwan, is especially suitable for water storage.

If there is drought in other places in northern Shaanxi, it will also be dry. If there is no drought in other places, it will be flooded.

After flooding, the groundwater level is high, and the salt in the groundwater is brought to the ground. When the water evaporates, the rest is salt.

If there is good irrigation, it can be planted widely and harvested lightly; if the canals are repaired for irrigation and drainage is not done well, the salt in the land cannot be washed away, and the land will not be spared for a long time.

After a year or two of barrenness, the rain will turn into mudflats, and after the waterlogging is over, it will be a large area of ​​hardened saline-alkali land, not to mention that no one will come to open up wasteland.

For the peasants who can reclaim wasteland in northern Shaanxi, there is no shortage of land, but water.

But this piece of land that does not lack water needs too much manpower to open up wasteland, and it cannot be opened up by just one or two families.

At least four to five hundred households must work together and have the ability to build canals to open up wasteland here.

But opening up wasteland has never been an easy task. One household opening up wasteland means that the family has enough grain for one year; five hundred households opening up wasteland requires five hundred households to have enough grain for one year.

After explaining the land situation to Liu Chengzong, Shangtian Monkey pouted and shook his head and said: "The people who live here say that when the ground gets angry in the spring, the ground is white, and the feet step on a mark. General, I'm afraid it won't work."

Liu Chengzong nodded slowly.

As he calculated the environment here, he had to admit that the Lion Camp currently did not have the ability to reclaim this land.

And the most important thing is that his goal is too big, even if this valley sandwiched between Huanglong Mountain and Laoshan Mountain is inaccessible, as long as Du Wenhuan goes south, he will follow the trail to find him.

But the reclamation here will have to be done sooner or later.

Liu Chengzong thought to himself, the prospect here is really good, better than Xingzihe Wangzhuang.

Although Xingzihe has more than [-] mu of land, most of its income comes from renting. The wheat harvested there this year is basically self-sufficient.

Moreover, the entire area as large as the Xingzi River is dedicated to the common people to live in. It is difficult to continue to develop agriculture, but there is still room for further development of minerals and stones.

But the same problem is that when there are more people, the locally produced rations will not be enough.

And this valley he plans to call Lion's Bay, fortunately, there are many places that can be reclaimed and utilized. Once the war came, there was no one in this place, and all the reclaimed land would be theirs.

The prerequisite for reclamation is to prepare [-] shi of grain.

In fact, even if he does not cultivate, he still has to prepare tens of thousands of shi of grain.

Summer has arrived and winter is not far away.

He found that for the Lion Camp, the most feared thing was not the army's conquest, on the contrary, the most feared thing was that the army would forget them.

Even if he was starving, the generals who served the court would do everything possible to give him the few remaining grains and bring him fresh meat supplies.

Relying on these living Bodhisattvas, a big-bellied man who originally had to eat two catties would be full with some jerky and another catty of grain.

Everyone is a living Bodhisattva in Lion Camp, only Du Wenhuan is a big villain.

Liu Chengzong was so angry that he wanted to write a bunch of big-character posters and report to Du Wenhuan. If you wait a little longer, Marshal Du, I will grab enough 1 taels for you.

Write it on the city wall of Yulin!
Liu Chengzong planned to find a way to repair the canals and plow the fields in autumn, so that the earth's atmosphere will rise next spring, and the salt and salt that has hardened on the upper layers of the fields can be scraped.

After scraping and opening the canals, irrigate vigorously for seven or eight days to dilute the salt and grow cotton.

The salt and nitrate scraped out were leached by the firecracker in Liujiazhuang, and both small salt and nitrate could be produced.

But Liu Chengzong actually already knew where there was nitrate.

Erye Guan’s hometown is Xiezhou, Shanxi, where there are salt ponds and salt ponds, but thenardite is grown in the salt ponds, and the nitrate used to make gunpowder has to be obtained from the mountains in Jiezhou.

Liu Chengzong rested in Lion Bay for two days, distributed more than 1 taels of silver to his subordinates, and left [-] taels to Ma Maoguan as promised.

Then let the sentry commanders lead the troops and go to the villages around Yanchuan to spend money.

He and Cao Yao led some cronies to divide the nearly 9 taels obtained by the battalion including Huojiazhuang into four parts.

One was kept at the battalion headquarters, the other was shipped to Zhuantianmao's father, and the other was sent to brother Xingzihe.

The last one, he and Cao Yao buried in a cave in Lion Bay.

This money will be reserved for the re-starting fund of the Lions Camp.

If one day they are broken up and lost, with this money, it doesn't matter who is still alive, it will always be easier to start again.

When burying the silver, Liu Chengzong also said to Cao Yao: "If I die in the future, you come here to dig out the money, use the money to recruit soldiers, and then call the court to avenge me."

"Forget it, you're still alive, if you're gone, I'll quit and take the money back to Black Dragon Mountain to have a baby."

"Give birth to six or seven babies," Cao Yao snorted with a smile: "Name them Cao Chengshu, Cao Jishu, Cao Bingshu, Cao Xishu, Cao Yanshu, Cao Xushu, etc. Then the money will raise him and let them do it, but I won't do it." gone."

Liu Chengzong didn't know what to say about him for a while, and pointed to the box that was about to be buried: "With so much money, you will raise seven?"

"Seven is enough!" Cao Yao said as if he should take it for granted, "If you don't know anything about raising children, ask fourth master, and all rush to look like fourth master raised you, and send them to seven provinces when they grow up. First, let’s toss Daming half of his life.”

Very good plan.

Liu Chengzong shook his head, continued to bury the box and said: "You are right, I should live well, this matter can only depend on our generation."

If they lose, what the next generation will do is to fight against Qing Dynasty and restore Ming Dynasty.

Suide Prefecture in the north.

When he received the message sent by Liu Chengzong, Wang Zuogua was busy asking his master to write a statement of defense. He wanted to vindicate Yang He, the governor of the three sides, and asked the governor to make the decision for him.

In fact, Wang Zuogua was really wronged. It wasn't him who robbed Suide, but his subordinate named Ke Tianhu who was not accompanied by him.

After he was caressed, Ke Tianhu followed the sweeping king Zhang Yichuan, and made endless noises in Suide, even urging them to go elsewhere.

Because it rains in Suide in spring.

At this time last year, the rain was still bad news for most leaders in northern Shaanxi.

But this year, many people are not afraid. Anyway, even if northern Shaanxi is better, Shanxi is still dry. At worst, they turn around and run to Shanxi.

In fact, the sweeping king Zhang Yichuan is in Suide for a very simple reason.

At the beginning of the year, hundreds of anti-kings gathered in Qingjian.

Others went to Qingjian to gather for robbery in Shanxi, while Zhang Yichuan went to Qingjian to find someone to join him.

At that time, he had only a few hundred people under him, and he was not even qualified to enter the house.

But he arrived before anyone else, staring at the third empty chair.

He didn't know who would sit in the third chair, but he had already made up his mind, and he went to the person who sat in the third chair.

Before going there, Zhang Yichuan robbed a village, caught a teacher, and had someone tell him about Water Margin.

Write down all those characters, mainly the ones with the highest ranking.

The one who ranks first must be fierce, but the officers and soldiers also want to see him, so he must die early.

Zhang Yichuan felt unable to follow.

The second place may be the one Song Jiang wants to fight for the boss, and maybe he wants to recruit security, killing all his brothers, so he can't follow.

Third, third best.

Lu Junyi's martial arts is so strong that he can fight to the end, Zhang Yichuan doesn't expect to mess around, he just wants to sweep away the dirty things in the world.

So if you want to vote, you have to go to the third.

Many leaders were arranging seats in the room, and he watched eagerly at the door, watching Liu Shizi and Gao Yingxiang decline each other.

So he asked God to choose a good brother for him.

Just finished praying, paji!
Gao Yingxiang sat down on the third chair.

So Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king, felt that King Gao Chuang was his big brother in life, and God arranged for him to follow.

After Qingjian's meeting, he threw himself behind Gao Yingxiang's ass.

Gao Yingxiang saw that he didn't have many horses, so he asked him to choose whether to follow him into Shanxi, or to develop the township party in Shaanxi, and let him guard the way.

After Zhang Yichuan heard it, he thought that the eldest brother regarded me as a hero, so let's stay behind.

Keeping the back road, the boss sitting in the top position is not dead yet, the second son is fucking recruited.

The third child was also hit by hailstones and lost contact.

All of a sudden, Zhang Yichuan didn't know where to go. He originally planned to grab two games and leave Suide, but who knew that Zhao'an's Wang Zuojia was still panting and dared to command him.

In a fit of anger, Zhang Yichuan refused to leave.

Said that he was crucified in Suide, let's see what this traitor can do!
What can Wang Zuohang do? He can't do anything. Those who can't fight under him fail to keep up on the way to escape, and those who can fight are almost wiped out by the officers and soldiers after they surrender.

The official army scattered his elite soldiers in front, and Zhang Yichuan, the sweeping king, recruited from behind.

Now Zhang Yichuan and Ke Tianhu have four or five thousand men together.

It was good that Liu Chengzong didn't send the letter to Suide, but as soon as the letter was delivered, Wang Zuogua was so wronged that he wanted to cry.

"Liu Shizi is right, but I am not the one who made a fuss in Suide, what's the use of the officers and soldiers killing me!"

After all, Wang Zuogua felt that he really had to find a way to escape.

If it weren't for Liu Chengzong's letter, Wang Zuohang felt that whether he could run or not was actually in between, and he really didn't want to continue making trouble.

Regardless of what official position the imperial court gave him, it didn't matter even if he was sent to Liaodong to fight the Eastern captives, anyway, beating anyone is not beating.

Beating the Eastern captives is nothing more than death. Whoever raised troops in northern Shaanxi was afraid of death.

But Hong Chengchou asked him to fight the rebels, Wang Zuogua thought it was impossible.

Morality is on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can still be a hero after beating Donglu to death. He is the leader of the peasant army. If he is recruited and the leader of the peasant army is dead, what is he?

What's more, with his small force, who can he beat?

Wang Jiayin?That would definitely not be able to fight, the officers and soldiers are strong enough to fight, let alone him.

Gao Yingxiang?That's enough to fight. I heard that Gao Yingxiang ate quite fat in Shanxi.

Liu Chengzong?Forget it, the leader who started from the south of Suide is no better than Liu Shizi.

It's really strange to say that he raised his troops from Yan'an Fucheng, so why did he gather so many multilateral troops under his command.

Hong Chengchou didn't say anything.

Wang Zuogua didn't think about it, but after listening to Liu Chengzong's analysis relayed by the messenger, he realized that he must die in the army.

He finally understood why he explained to the officers and soldiers that he was not the one who caused the chaos now, but Hong Chengchou didn't listen.

The officers and soldiers were going south, so he would have appeal while he was alive, and he would be able to join forces with Ke Tianhu and Zhang Yichuan again.

The officers and soldiers definitely didn't want to see thousands of troops attacking Yulin Town while they were away.

If you have to die, what are you waiting for?
Wang Zuohang was ready to take action, but his action was not to escape, but to send someone to send a letter to Hong Chengchou in Yulin, saying that he had figured it out, and he would follow Governor Hong to suppress the peasant army.

Seek a promotion and make a fortune.

There was no talk in Yulin for two days, until the third day, Li Mingfu, a guerrilla who moved to Suide with Du Wenhuan, came and asked him, "Thinking about it?"

"Think about it."

"Who made you want to go?" Li Mingfu asked, "Who came from Qingjian a few days ago?"

Wang Zuohang was stunned, and almost wanted to draw his sword, he suppressed his worry and said: "My hometown in Qingjian said that I surrendered to the court, and the villagers are very happy, don't blame me."

The guerrilla general Li Mingfu responded with a smirk, and then looked at Wang Zuohang and said: "That's it, you temporarily return to my battalion, reduce the number of troops, and send troops in a few days. The governor will see that you will be effective in killing the thieves. I will give you an official position."

Wang Zuo worried that Hong Chengchou was so ruthless.

According to the effectiveness of killing thieves, official positions are given, that is to say, the more the peasant army is suppressed, the higher the official position given.

He asked: "Who was sent to fight, maybe I know who, and I can help the imperial court to surrender him... Doesn't the imperial court also want to appease him?"

Li Mingfu was about to leave, but he stopped when he heard his words, and laughed mockingly: "Where is there so much food to appease you?"

Talking about what Li Mingfu seemed to think of, he asked, "Do you know Li Laojie who responded to Wang Jiayin? Where are his subordinates?"

Old Jackal Li?

Wang Zuohang shook his head: "Not familiar."

"Liu Chengzong, you should know each other, I heard that you met in Qingjian."

"I have seen."

This time Wang Zuohang nodded his head sharply: "I met once, she is quite young."

The expression on Li Mingfu's face turned cold: "It's the kid you mentioned who killed more than 4000 officers and soldiers."

Wang Zuo worried that this is not nonsense, I don't know what Liu Shizi is capable of?

"It's quite powerful."

He echoed something, shut his mouth abruptly and looked at Li Mingfu, then carefully asked: "General, aren't we going to beat Liu Chengzong?"

"Don't think about it, some people are watching you, and He Zongbing from Ningxia is about to raise troops into Yan'an, you should prepare well, the two Zongbing will depend on your ability."

Wang Zuohang responded with a salute, his heart was as cold as a stone, and his heart throbbed in his chest.

He originally wanted to take this opportunity to let the officers and soldiers relax their vigilance so that he could run away, but he didn't know that the officers and soldiers were about to send troops.

He couldn't beat Liu Chengzong, let alone the two chief soldiers.

This time, it was self-defeating.

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)