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Chapter 137 A Mountain

The biggest problem in Jishishan now is the lack of food.

Originally, there was a turmoil in Guanghan, and Guo Huai was taken advantage of.

With [-] regular troops and nearly [-] Xihai slaves, food became a major problem.

Even Chunniang and Ah Lian can only drink porridge, one can imagine their food.

Winter is about to enter, and without food, people cannot be stable.

The nearby counties, Xiping, Longxi, and Jincheng were all abolished.

However, the government government has been abolished, and the local tycoons are gone.

The biggest tycoon in Xiping is undoubtedly the Guo family.

Since Emperor Wen, the Xiping Guo family has been the target of the imperial court.

When Emperor Ming succeeded to the throne, the Guo family was full of honors and favors, and father and son uncles either ruled the court or served as prefects of a county.

In addition, Empress Dowager Guo descended from her elder brother Guo De to inherit the Zhen family, the mother of the Ming emperor, and inherited the Marquis of Pingyuan.

Now that the emperor has succeeded to the throne, the Empress Dowager Guo is in charge of the trial and seizure, and the Guo family has skyrocketed and become one of the most powerful emerging dignitaries.

If others don't have food, the Guo family must have it.

I will be the top leader of Xiping in the future, so it should not be difficult to borrow some food from the Guo family, right?
Besides, the relationship with Guo Dun is here.

Everyone is their own.

On the one hand, Yang Zheng sent people to ask Xiahouba for food, and on the other hand, he asked Chang'an Xiahouxuan for help, and he himself rushed to the western capital with two thousand elite pickets.

After the war, the people returned one after another.

All over the mountains and plains, the scars of war are gradually being smoothed away.

Although winter is approaching, the Han people are still working hard in the fields to prepare for the next year's cultivation.

Yang Zheng couldn't help but be moved by this situation.

The Chinese civilization has been able to continue in the long dark history. The upper limit is the wisdom and martial arts in the court, while the perseverance of the people at the bottom is the bottom limit.

However, after seeing the soldiers, these people all fled into the mountains as if they had seen a ghost.

Yang Zheng couldn't help smiling wryly.

There is no difference between soldiers and thieves these days.

In the early years when Wei Wu started his family, massacres of cities were not uncommon.

In recent years, he has claimed to be orthodox and has restrained himself, but he just dare not be blatant.

The upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked, the Emperor Ming indulged in lewd pleasures, and the gentry and aristocratic families rose together. How clean can the local officials and generals be expected to be?
Hastily rushed to Xidu.

None of the officials, big and small, came out to greet him.

Only Mrs. Guo bought a few ox carts and sent some sheep wine as a reward.

But this thing is a drop in the bucket.

Northwest winter is relatively long.

It didn't reach the point where Hu Tian was snowing in August, but after the autumn harvest, it became colder every day.

Hungry and cold, the hungrier, the colder.

The Guo family was still on the verge of falling, and Yang Zheng became more confident in borrowing food.

Du Yu also came to meet Yang Zheng with several small officials.

"There are [-] hectares of fertile land in the west!"

The Huangshui Valley is surrounded by mountains. The Qilian Mountains shelter the wind and sand in the north, and the Jishi Mountains shelter the plateau from the wind and snow. A Huangshui River runs from west to east to moisten the entire valley. The land has been fertile since ancient times, and what is lacking is development.

Although Cao Wei established the country, although he regained a large area of ​​territory, the population was greatly reduced due to the melee of the Three Kingdoms. What Cao Wei lacked was not land, but population.

Even the middle of Yongliang Pass and the land of Longxing in the Qin and Han Dynasties are deserted, and there are a large number of uninhabited areas, let alone the northwestern border.

From Dunhuang to Xiping, Longxi, and Beidi, every place faced the problem of more barbarians and fewer Han.

This is also the motivation of Cao Wei's continuous relocation of the barbarians.

However, Emperor Ming conferred great feats on the gentry, and tens of thousands of households appeared at every turn, which further exacerbated the decline of Wei State.

The tradition of the Western Han Dynasty that non-military meritorious service should not be granted a title has long been broken.

"The [-] hectares of upstream fertile land are in the hands of Mrs. Guo." Du Yu said with complicated eyes.

"So many?" Half of the fields are in the hands of others.

Du Yu said: "The Guo family in Xiping came from the Guo family in Taiyuan, and they moved to the Western Capital since Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty for more than two hundred years."

Although the Guo family brought sheep wine, there were only a few people in charge to greet them.

Guo Dun has already rushed to Longxi to take up his post.

Guo Jian ran away with a bucket and returned to Luoyang.

I don't know who is in charge in the western capital city.

"Enter the city first." Without the prefect of Xiping, Yang Zheng, the Qiang guard captain, was the top leader. It seemed a little impolite that the master of the Guo family didn't come to greet him.

However, given the power of the Guo family in Cao Wei, there are a large number of people who are appointed as marquises and worship generals.

The Qiang and Hu were in chaos, the western capital was not captured, and there were still many belongings in the city.

On the main street, the Han and Qiang scrambled to wait and see.

The people in the east didn't think much of Yang Zheng's cutting down and destroying Ye Wudai, but the people in Xiping remembered it deeply.

He looked at the soldier with a little respect in his eyes.

With a mass base, things will be easier to handle in the future.

In the past, Guo Jian was the prefect of Xiping, the prefect's mansion was the Guo family, and the Guo family was the prefect's mansion.

Although Guo Jian ran away with a bucket, he still led the prefect of Xiping far away.

It makes sense to occupy the prefect's mansion.

The Guo family had an arrogant reason, and Yang Zheng wanted to borrow food, so he didn't make too much of a fuss and went to the military camp with the soldiers.

But I didn't expect that the barracks had already been occupied.

The prefects in the Han Dynasty only ruled the people, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, the power of the prefects was further enlarged, and they were able to recruit soldiers, especially in the border areas, where the prefects had great power.

The Guo family is both a local snake and a prefect, so it is natural that they belong to the upper and lower parts of the Western Capital City.

Guo Yun, the captain of Xiping County, is naturally also a member of the Guo family.

Most of the long history, county captains, meritorious officials, chief bookkeepers, and postal supervisors are also Guo's family members.

The Qiang Hu attacked the city that day, and they were not seen, but now they all popped out one by one.

Huqiang Xiaowei's Mansion and Taishou's Mansion are two institutions, with Guo's family here, it is not that simple to mobilize them.

"Greetings to Colonel Yang!" Guo Yun cupped his hands at Yang Zheng, his expression neither humble nor overbearing.

But this "Lieutenant Yang" sounded a bit harsh. Yang Zheng is a good captain, but a captain protecting Qiang and a lieutenant lieutenant are two different concepts.

Yang Zheng also got off his horse and cupped his hands, "Guo Duwei is too polite."

"Someone has vacated the barracks for the captain, I hope the captain will not dislike the shabby western capital."

Yang Zheng suppressed his unhappiness, "Where is it, thank you Captain Guo for taking care of it."

Guo Yun's eyes became quite meaningful, "Some small things are nothing to worry about. In the future, we will be together in Xidu, and we should take care of each other."

"you……"

Liu Heng jumped out and was about to scold people on the spot, but Yang Zheng pressed his head and said with a smile: "The subordinates don't know how to be polite. I am tired today, and I will visit tomorrow."

"It's easy to talk about." Guo Yun glanced back and forth, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

With a little sarcasm.

The barracks were in a remote corner of the northwest, neither big nor small.

It's a bit dilapidated, but it's a place to stay.

In order to borrow food, Yang Zheng could only endure it.

Liu Heng yelled, "A mere captain dares to be so arrogant in front of the general!"

Yang Zheng stretched and glanced at him.

Du Yu seemed hesitant to speak, and after Liu Heng left, he said, "The Guo family in Xiping is deeply rooted. Why didn't the general follow the example of Zhao Chongguo in reclaiming Linqiang? To avoid the Guo family?"

Yang Zheng smiled and said, "Would you be able to avoid the Guo family by retreating to Linqiang?"

Some things just can't get around after all.

In the beginning, Yang Zheng still had some fluke mentality, and hoped that Mrs. Guo would understand righteousness and everyone would cooperate happily.

But after entering the Western capital, I found that it was just a fantasy.

If he wants to do something here, the Guo family is a hurdle that cannot be avoided!
The most fertile land in Xiping is in Xidu, and the largest population is in Xidu.

After leaving Xidu, what will Yang Zheng do to compete with Midang?
And Linqiang is also in the hands of the Guo family.

"I'm afraid not." Du Yu smiled wryly.

"Winter is coming soon, and food is the biggest problem. Let's go to the Guo family tomorrow."

One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, unless one male and one female.

Whether the Guo family is willing to lie down or not will be known tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)