A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 511

carved castle.

Yuandi Temple.

A Sogdian Hu merchant arrived, claiming to be the envoy of the governor of Youzhou, and came to deliver a letter.

After Gao Wei received the letter, he immediately summoned the owners of the eight villages behind the mountain to come to discuss.

"There is an order from the governor of Wudu. You are limited to submit to the imperial court, organize households, collect taxes, and serve in the imperial court within one month. If you violate the order and do not obey it, you will be responsible for the consequences!"

The Sogdian Hu merchant is an old friend of Bazhai. He was originally a merchant in Youzhou. Now that the world is unified and the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, why do you disobey the orders of the king? The military governor is in Youzhou, and now the soldiers are strong and horses are strong, and your arms are twisted more than your thighs."

Gao Yaozi is tall and powerful, with superb martial arts skills and strategy. He wears an iron armor with mountain characters, a tiger-skin robe belly around his waist, a leopard-skin bow and bow, and a bear-skin cloak.

Sitting there without being angry and majestic, he is really like the general under the seat of Emperor Zhenwu in the palace of Emperor Yuan behind him.

"In the past 20 years, the land of Youyan has been fighting and killing non-stop, and the people have suffered from war and famine. We have formed a village outside the mountain to protect ourselves and advance together. It is precisely because we do not participate in the chaos outside. To fight, to hoe with a sword, to shepherd with a bow, to prepare your own weapons, to train your troops to protect yourself, this is how you have lived these years of stability,

Now why does Wu Huaiyu ask me to wait for his orders?
I heard that Wu Huaiyu was very young. When he came to Youzhou, he cleaned up Buddhist temples, measured acres, and drafted soldiers everywhere. It was said that he was preparing to fight the Turks.
Now that he wants us to join him, then my disciples from the Eight Villages behind the mountain may have to follow in the battlefield. "

Sogdi Hu kindly persuaded, "Duke Gao, is it the king's land under the whole world, and the guests who lead the land are the king's ministers? Now it is not the same as before. Now that the world is unified, how can the court allow people outside its territory?"

Gao Wei sneered, "Did the imperial court remember us people behind the mountains in these years? Did they give us a grain of relief? When the Turks, Xiren, and various rogue rebels came to attack, did they rescue us?
But at the beginning Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao and others were attached to the court one after another, but these Tang's chief inspectors and princes came to attack us instead.
Have we been afraid and overwhelmed? "

"Now that Wu Huaiyu is here, why should we be afraid?"

Gao Wei slapped his palm on the table, "Soldiers come to block, water comes and soil floods, come and fight!"

"Send someone to contact the villages of Baihe and Heihe, and let's fight Zhan surnamed Wu together."

Outside the Great Wall, in the northwest of Jundu Mountain and in the southeast of Damaqun Mountains, there are several major tributaries of the Chaobai River system, the Red River, the White River and the Heihe River Basin, where many people live.

For example, the Bazhai at the back of the mountain on the Red River is actually not just Bazhai. The Bazhai is just eight powerful villages, and there are more than [-] small villages. In addition, there are many villages in the Baihe and Heihe river basins.

Most of the people living in these villages are border residents, some were the border guards during the Sui Dynasty, some were migrated later, some were internally attached foreigners, and some were exiled criminals.

During the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, many people in the dark land of the Great Wall escaped due to war and famine, and lived behind the mountains.

There are no government offices here, and each village is self-governing. The leaders of each village will hold regular alliances, and they will watch and help each other when the enemy invades.

In the area of ​​Honghe, among the villages headed by Diaowo Village, Gao Wei only has a higher prestige, but he is only the owner of Diaowo Village. The Gao family has a prosperous population and strong strength in the village.

For a long time, the Eight Villages have also been convinced of Gaowei, and even the Baihe and Heihe villages in the north are more convinced of Gaowei.

Regardless of the Fan Han, the border people here are also used to the freedom of these years.

Like Gao Wei, everyone is unwilling to be under the jurisdiction of the court.

"Brother Kang, you don't need to be a lobbyist for the surname Wu anymore. I also know that you can't help but don't blame you. We haven't seen each other for a long time. Let's kill a sheep and have a drink." Gao Yao really didn't understand Wu Huaiyu's ultimatum was taken seriously.

Luo Yi, Gao Kaidao, Gao Tancheng, and even Xi Ren and Turkic people, how many times have they committed crimes, but who can do anything to them?

There are three thousand soldiers from the eight villages behind the mountain, and thousands of villages in Baihe and Heihe can be used as backup. In recent years of turmoil, the mountain has indeed taken in many refugees and Fanhu. In this vast area behind the mountain, that But there are tens of thousands of free citizens.

Gao Wei did not have any ambition to rule the roost in a separate regime and establish himself as a king, but he did not want to be controlled by the imperial court.

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Youzhou.

Wu Huaiyu assembled troops and horses.

Directly publish a bulletin, announcing the crimes of Gaowei and others at the back of the mountain for refusing to obey Wang Hua, forming a village to resist orders, not paying rent and not serving, and announcing the dispatch of troops to punish them.

Wu Huaiyu classified the villages behind the mountain as bandits.

It is not entirely wrong to say that the bandits are not completely wronged. Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, there has been turmoil. Although the back of the mountain is also farming and grazing in the mountains, the Gao family will also organize people to do business and trade, and occasionally they will come as a horse thief. This kind of thing is very common in troubled times.

"Wu Gong is really going to destroy the villages behind the mountain?"

Seeing the gathering of all kinds of soldiers and horses, Lu Chengye still couldn't help asking.

Is this really head-to-head?

"It was normal for Gao Wei to accept refugees, train local soldiers, and build a stronghold to protect himself in the troubled times of the Sui and Ji Dynasties. But now that the world is unified, he should take advantage of the trend and accept the government's governance instead of thinking about continuing to separate the regime. Self-government, even if the back of the mountain is outside the Great Wall, is not allowed.

The land behind the mountain is originally owned by the Central Plains, if everyone divides it like him, wouldn't it be a mess?

Those who dare to fight against the imperial court must be destroyed by thunder, and there is no room for bargaining. "

Lu Chengye had previously suggested that Gao Wei and the others should be awarded officials and rewards, but Wu Huaiyu directly rejected it. Now it was not the time when Li Yuan had just risen to fight for the world, and now it was the winter of the second year of Zhenguan, how could the court open such an opening again.

The back of the mountain is right under the eyes of Youzhou.

He can't even take down a mountain, so how can he interfere with the Turks and destroy Goguryeo?
How many people in Youzhou were watching this time, and it is estimated that many people still want to see the joke about Wu Huaiyu's bumping into a wall, and want to see his prestige swept away.

If you really can't get down the mountain, there will probably be a lot of troubles in Youzhou by then.

So this time it must be played, and it must be clean.

Wu Huaiyu despised his opponents strategically, but he still attached great importance to them tactically, showing the spirit of a lion fighting a rabbit.

The Shenji Camp, who just came from Chang'an, has arrived with firearms. The leader of the Shenji Camp is an old friend, Cucumber Hou Wei Siren. Before that, his elder brother was demoted for participating in the case of Chai Lun and the others playing Wu Huaiyu, and Wei Siren also suffered a bit. implicated.

Now, as the commander of the Shenji Battalion, he has led a thousand Shenji Battalion here, and also brought a lot of secret firearms.

Shenjifang has been established for more than two years. It has not only produced the first palm mine, but now has many new weapons, such as rockets, gunpowder packs, and even made bamboo muskets.

These are black technologies.

Wu Huaiyu went to meet them outside the city, and after setting up their camp, he couldn't wait to see all kinds of magic weapons that Wei Siren had brought.

"Fireball, fireball, caltrop fireball, thunderbolt fireball, smoke ball, poison smoke ball, iron-mouthed fire harrier, bamboo fire harrier, rocket, swarm of bees, a hundred horses galloping together."

All kinds of firearms, even winged flying firearms,
"This is the Divine Fire Flying Crow, and this is the Flying Air Attack Thief Shocking Thunder,"

These two types of rockets are filled with gunpowder in the crow-shaped and spherical bodies respectively, and the gunpowder line in the gunpowder passes out and is connected in series with the gunpowder in the powder cartridge of the take-off rocket; , and detonate the gunpowder in the body of the crow and the sphere, killing and burning the enemy's troops, it is a sharp weapon for breaking the formation and attacking the city.

"These are all developed and manufactured by Shenjifang in the past two years based on the design drawings left by Duke Wu. After many tests, mass production has been successfully achieved,"

He is not surprised by these strange firearms, such as grenades, mines, rockets, missiles, etc., but he is more curious about the batch of burst guns sent.

It is made of a large bamboo tube, filled with gunpowder and bullets, ignited the fuse, the gunpowder erupts, and shoots out the bullets. According to Wei Siren, the range can reach 150 steps. It is absolutely sharp and a big killer.

Wu Huaiyu picked up a pole and looked left and right. There was a bamboo tube in the front and a wooden handle attached to the back. It was not simple. From his knowledge, he could tell at a glance that this thing might be a sound and light maker. It was powerful and scary. The effect may be good, but the lethality may be very mediocre.

First of all, it is made of bamboo, which means that it may not be able to shoot many rounds. Moreover, from the perspective of loading and firing, this thing is a big sprayer, mainly filled with iron sand, mainly shot, and the effective killing distance is impossible. If you really reach 150 steps, it is estimated that [-] steps will be impossible, maybe [-] or [-] steps, and the accuracy is still not there.

You must know that the three-eyed blunderbuss of the Ming Dynasty were made of copper and iron, and the gunpowder was better, but the killing distance was only twenty or thirty paces, which was far behind the bamboo musket.

"How about this lead?"

"It has been greatly improved than before. Now the combustion is still stable, but it is still not very accurate. The lead wire is fast and slow."

"It's okay to be fast or slow. The key is to ensure that all of them are fully burned, and some of them can't be burned halfway out."

The firearms of Shenjifang are made of bamboo, and the reason is simple. Copper is now equivalent to money, and a firearm weighing a few catties is equivalent to one or two pennies, not including casting costs, etc., while the cost of swords and spears can be Much cheaper.

The same is true for iron. The iron used for swords, guns and spears is only one or two catties, but it takes several catties or even tens of catties to make an iron musket.

The most important thing for war weapons is that they can be produced quickly and installed in large quantities, and they must be low-cost. Otherwise, no matter how good they are, it will be difficult for them to be widely used.

Shenjifang made a bamboo-barreled musket, completely treating this weapon as a low-cost gunpowder injector, and throwing it away after a few uses.

The Huomen gun and the three-eyed blunderbuss that Wu Huaiyu left behind, they never thought of mass production, because the cost is too high and the cost performance is not good.

Shenjifang is more fond of all kinds of explosive bags, anyway, it is gunpowder plus fuses, then packed with cloth or jars, and then filled with something.

They brought a lot of explosives this time, ranging from ten catties to fifty catties.

Wei Siren also proudly introduced a big weapon, a large explosive and incendiary weapon weighing one hundred catties, known as the enemy of thousands of people, and its outer skin is made of mud, which can be used for both defending and siege.

It is transported with a wooden frame box. When this thing is defending the city, it is thrown directly from the upstairs, and it can be fried or burned while rolling.When attacking the city, dig a tunnel and transport it under the city wall, and then build a blasting chamber. After igniting it, the city wall can be blown up.

"There are still 120 catties and [-] catties. The maximum weight can be [-] catties. Even the walls of Chang'an City can be blown."

"We are going to fight the Bazhai at the back of the mountain this time. The main target is the Diaowobao. It is on the top of the mountain. It is so heavy that it cannot be transported up."

"Then we also have Shenhuo Flying Crow, Flying Sky Attacking Thieves and Zhentian Lei, as well as various rockets such as Hundred Horses Galloping, One Honeycomb, and various poisonous smoke balls and fireballs, which can be used to attack cities and villages. People must have never seen such a magical machine before, and they must be broken in one blow."

(End of this chapter)