Doomsday simulator, I prove extraordinary with kendo

Chapter 1214
In the mountains, nearly 20 days have passed, and Zhao Cheng's troops have expanded to more than 2000 people.

For such a long time, on the one hand, Zhao Cheng continued to gather the remnants of Huang Tian who fled into the mountains and forests, on the other hand, he took a full eleven days to take down Lianyun Village among the hundreds of villages in the mountains.

In this era, unless one is a truly uncivilized savage, even though he is in the deep mountains, it is absolutely impossible to completely disconnect from the outside world.

This mountain range is also the junction of Nanhuang and Qingzhou. The mountains are high and the road is dangerous, like a moat, and the road is difficult. Relatively speaking, there are fewer connections with the outside world.

The mountain people of this era are fundamentally different from the modern mountain people.

In the modern world, the so-called mountain people just live in remote areas, have household registration, and are under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. However, the mountain people in this era are people from the bottom of the mountain.

But living in the mountains is difficult, if it is not really impossible to survive, it is impossible for ordinary people to make such a choice.

Under such circumstances, those who can survive in the mountains are naturally the best among ordinary people, and passed down from generation to generation, and the people in the mountains are naturally becoming more and more fierce.

As time goes by, there will always be some new generation of mountain people who have forgotten the reason why their ancestors came to the mountains, and yearn for the colorful world outside. However, the mountain people are rebellious and unruly, and are usually regarded by the court as a factor of instability. Even entering the city is very difficult.

For a long time, it is not that no one has seen the strong basic qualities of the mountain people and wanted to use them as an army, but there are very few who have really succeeded.

On the one hand, the clan concept of the mountain people is too strong. On the other hand, the mountain people are a small closed circle. People outside, in the process of growing up, are always polished by various rituals and are more tame. However, because there is no imperial court, the mountain people grow up more freely. They do not know authority or virtue, but only know themselves.

But in the army, the military order is the earliest, and those who violate it will be executed, which is anti-self.

Wu Qi was able to use the mountain people as the main force to establish his group of tiger and leopard cavalry, which was due to many factors.

On the one hand, the foundation of the Wu family was born in the mountains. Later, because of the achievements of the Wu family ancestors, this changed their identity.

On the other hand, the establishment of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was not the result of Wu Qi’s generation. The Wu family began to subtly assimilate some mountain people several generations ago. On the one hand, it still guaranteed the independence of the mountain people.

After several generations of domestication, the majestic power of tiger and leopard cavalry has been achieved.

Naturally, Zhao Cheng did not have such a long time to domesticate these mountain people. The Wu family formed a strong army from the mountain people and passed it on from generation to generation. It is undoubtedly the kingly way.

As for Zhao Cheng, he took the edge of his sword.

There are hundreds of villages in the mountains, and there are very few external contacts. Except for some villages, which occasionally do some road robbery, there are some bold and powerful businessmen who lead caravans and go deep into the mountains. They come to exchange rare things in the mountains with salt, iron, oil, spices, etc., to exchange the furs of various wild animals with the mountain people, as well as precious medicinal materials.

After a business trip, there can be ten times the profit.

In addition to this external communication, there are more frequent internal exchanges between the village and the village.

Among them, some powerful stockades are the hubs for exchanges between stockades and stockades.

Apart from the exchanges and transactions between various materials, what is more important is the intermarriage between villages.

However, the mountain road is difficult, and the basic quality of the mountain people is indeed better than that of ordinary people, but by no means all the mountain people are strong enough. Those who want to get out of the mountains are also outstanding among the mountain people.

As for the ordinary mountain people, most of them lived in the village all their lives and never left the village for a radius of ten miles.

Many mountain people, even for a lifetime, only get married once, they will go out with the strongmen in the village, and use half their life savings in exchange for a daughter-in-law.

In this case, the importance of the stockade as a hub is naturally beyond doubt.

Lianyunzhai chosen by Zhao Cheng is one of them.

The total population of Lianyunzhai was about a thousand people. With the soldiers and horses in Zhao Cheng's hands, it was not difficult to attack by force, but after the attack, it was useless to go out and damage the soldiers and horses.

If the mountain people could use this method to make them submit, there would be no mountain people in this world long ago. After all, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are not for decoration.

The reason why the imperial court allowed the mountain people to live freely was purely because it was difficult to use soldiers in the mountains. Even if they killed a group of them, as long as the imperial court kept extortionate taxes and miscellaneous taxes, there would never be a shortage of new mountain people. However, the gold and silver consumed in the movement of soldiers and horses far exceeded the harvest.

This is a losing trade.

It was useless to kill, so Zhao Cheng spent eleven days.

After approaching Lianyunzhai, Zhao Cheng began to perform Taoism.

If outside the mountain, under the rule of the imperial court, if Taoism is used on many people at the same time, it will definitely cause the imperial court to suppress it. Under the immortals, if a hundred people are bewitched by Taoism, they may die suddenly.

However, the mountain people are not the people of the imperial court and are independent from the outside world, which gave Zhao Cheng a chance.

The way Zhao Cheng chose was to use Taoism to forge the dream of his ancestors.

Among the mountain people, there is a strong sense of clan. They do not worship false gods and Buddhas, but their ancestors. Even if there are serious mistakes committed by the mountain people, they must be judged publicly under the witness of the ancestors' spirit cards.

Of course, the gap between the void and the earth is difficult to cross. Even the king who ruled the entire earth in his lifetime, lived forever after death, and mastered a larger territory, would not be able to manifest his holiness in the world, let alone the ancestors in the village.

But the mountain people don't know this, or they don't believe it. They only know that the spirits of their ancestors after death have always protected them.

For several days in a row, the young children in the village and the old people dreamed of their ancestors. In the dream, the ancestors told them that the reason why they entered the mountain was that they could not live outside, so they escaped into the mountain. However, there is no way out after living in the mountain for a long time. After a long time, so many villages have quietly disappeared...

In short, it is to talk about the past first, and then talk about the future, so as to create a sense of reality, a sense of crisis, and the most important empathy.

When the sense of crisis appeared, the ancestors said that they saw a group of people adhering to the destiny, wandering around here. If you just want to be safe, don't bother, but if you want to get out of the mountains and win a fortune, don't hesitate.

At the beginning of this matter, only some children were yelling, mainly because they were scared, but the old people used it as a talk, and it spread quickly.

The people in the village were all amazed, some people were skeptical, but some people already believed it.

For the next two days, the matter became more and more fermented, but the ancestor's entrusted dream did not reappear.

(End of this chapter)