Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 856

"It turns out that you are helping the children. What are you doing?" An old man was holding the lamp, and there was a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy beside him.

There was also a khaki dog beside the boy. The khaki dog stood in front of the boy and looked at the crowd vigilantly without saying a word.

The biting dog doesn't bark, it's a powerful dog, and Zhou Zhi also quietly stood in front of Jiang Shuyi, only to realize that he and the yellow-haired dog had adopted the same strategy.

"We are students of Jiachuan Middle School. After graduation, we came out to play." Fang Wenyu is not only handsome, but also has an upright face. It's easy to show up in this situation.

"What fun is there in the backcountry here?" The old man smiled and said, "I'm in the front team, why don't you go to our team to rest? The water is a bit humid."

"It doesn't matter, I won't be afraid even for one night." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "What do you call the old man? And this brother, your dog is a bit powerful."

Zhou Zhi's focus is on affinity, and the boy who was a bit socially afraid laughed: "It's called soybeans."

"There are no rules." The old man said angrily, "I am the captain of the production team, you can call me Lao Li, this is my grandson Dingding, Dingding calls him!"

Dingding smiled shyly, saying hello to everyone.

"Hi Captain Li, are we too loud and disturbing you?" Zhou Zhi said, "I'm really sorry if that's the case. We will keep our voice down."

"No, no." Captain Li waved his hands: "Who can be bothered by this wilderness? No, it was Yaoniang at the entrance of the village who came out to drive chickens. She said that she saw a group of dolls coming by the stream and built a house. I am worried. Just come and have a look. Are you guys on vacation? What are you going to do with us?"

"We just passed by." Zhou Zhi said, "Tomorrow we will continue to walk up the Xishui River, and finally go to Swan Pond."

"This road is not close." After Captain Li said this, he remembered the big yellow car next to him: "Hey, it's not a problem to have a jeep!"

"Elders, let's sit down and chat for a while?" Zhou Zhi invited the old and the young and a dog to join in: "Come have a drink with us, and we will treat Dingding to some candy."

Jiang Shuyi went back to the car and grabbed a handful of candy for Dingding. Now it is not easy for children in the country to want to eat a toffee. Dingding was excited and nervous: "Thank you sister!"

"You eat, remember to brush your teeth tonight." Captain Li explained to Dingding, and then asked, "Why do you want to come here to play?"

Everyone sat down around the firepit again, and Zhou Zhi poured Captain Li some old cellar tunes from the enamel cup, and while placing the bag of peanuts, melon seeds and sesame candies in front of him, he said, "We are mainly here to escape the summer heat. I don’t know how hot Jiachuan is now, it’s like a steamer. It’s better where you are.”

"Good wine..." The old man looked at the wine bottle and praised, then pulled the thick cloth cadre uniform on his body, and smiled proudly: "We can't do anything here, but it's okay to be comfortable in the hot weather, look , and still wearing such thick clothes."

"But it's not good in winter. The main road has not been repaired before, and sometimes the snow can cover the road and it will take a month or two to get out of the village!"

"The scenery is definitely beautiful!" Liang Hong couldn't believe her ears: "Is there still a place in Jiachuan where the mountains can be covered with snow?"

"It's the entrance to the middle of Guizhou." The old man said with a smile, "That place is called 'Snake Bupan'. It's cool all year round, and reptiles don't like to go there."

"Old man, why is this place called Modaoxi?" Zhou Zhi is very concerned about local chronicles. These place names usually represent history, and he can research wherever he goes.

"The old time, I mean the old time." The old man emphasized it, and then said: "In the old time, the salt gang was divided into two groups. One group traveled by land, so they installed horses in Majie, and the other group Those who take the water route come up along the Xishui River, and it’s a big stop to us.”

"When you get here, you can't take the official boat, so it is divided into two routes. You have to change to a small boat and go to Guandu Town. The first road is the current road. It used to be the tea-horse road, and it was transported by land to Loushanguan."

"Why is it called Modaoxi?" The old man laughed and said, "Because after passing here, it is no longer the Taiping Land boundary. The road from here to Datong is a bandit den, and the salt gang's cavalry fleet must prepare their fellows here. It’s a matter of sharpening the sword and gun, so it’s called Modaoxi.”

"By the way, the Swan Pond you are going to is in Datong, Datong Village, where the Tianzitang entrance on the Sichuan-Guizhou Tea Horse Road is located."

"I know that." Zhou Zhi nodded, "After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the last bandit nest in the Sichuan and Guizhou region was located. It was the narrowest pass in Niuqing Mountain. It used to be Xishui County."

"It was not easy to get there before, and the name of that place was Bandit Rock!" The old man said with a smile, "But this road is not easy to walk, but it saves the road. If you go around Hongshui County in the west and take Tucheng Road, It takes more than 200 miles, and the road is not smooth."

"If you take the main road, you have to go down from Jiachuan to Jiangjin along the river, and enter through the cottage dam on the four sides of Dayuan Cave. The road is still a long detour, and the section of Loushan Pass is also very difficult to walk. Unlike our side, where we passed the robbers Yan is Xishui County, and then Qianzhou is flat if the road is narrow, and you can go to ZY by walking along Renhuai and Yaxi."

"Eh? That's weird." Zhou Zhi keenly noticed a problem: "In other words, the best route for Sichuan Salt to enter Guizhou is the Xishui River route, and the Niuqing Mountain section is a little more difficult. , if a team of officers and soldiers were stationed in Datong to manage this road, wouldn’t it be very convenient for caravans to and from?”

"Hahahaha, you've got the point." The old man laughed: "Where do you think the officers and soldiers of Datong should be sent by Sichuan Province or Qian Province?"

"Hi!" Zhou Zhijing immediately understood as soon as the old man reminded him: "This kind of place has a name, and it's called 'Never mind'!"

"There is another section." The old man said: "The warlords in Qianzhou think that Sichuan Salt enters money to make money for them, and expensive cigarettes go out of the province to make money for them. So how did they ever control the people's affairs?" Life and death, of course, is to vigorously build the road on the other side of Loushan Pass."

"Exactly!" Fang Wenyu has the potential to be a warlord, and he can tell: "Loushanguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. When you come out of the middle of Guizhou, you have to go all the way downhill, but in the middle of Shu, you have to attack all the way. And There is Jiangjin as soon as you come out of the mountain, and Yuzhou is not far down the river, which is a suitable place to dump expensive tobacco."

"If I were a warlord in central Guizhou, I would definitely build that end well. The entire buffer zone here will come out, and I can receive information in time, and I can deploy it calmly."

"This is the small calculation of the local warlords." Zhang Lu said with a smile: "As a result, when the Red Army entered Guizhou and the Central Army followed, the Red Army just slipped out by taking a detour from the southern road that they least managed."

(End of this chapter)