Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 194

In the early morning of the next day, Sun Xin and Sun Li took Lehe and set off from Shilipai early in the morning, passed through Dengzhou Prefecture and entered the border of Laizhou, walked along the flat road by the sea, passed through the vicinity of Laizhou and turned on the two-week border Entering a small road, we soon saw the location of Peach Blossom Mountain.

Looking from a distance, one can only see mountains and mountains, which are much higher than Dengyun Mountain.

Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou were called Dongsanfu at this time, and they were basically in the same geographical plate. The place Qingzhou refers to is the area north of Mount Tai in the south of the Bohai Sea in Shandong Province in later generations.

Because it is backed by the Mount Tai mountain range, there are so many mountains, and there are also many bandits that can be harbored.

This is also the basis for why there will be Taohua Mountain, Erlong Mountain, Baihu Mountain and three mountains in Qingzhou to attack the state capital.

Taohua Mountain is one of the remaining veins of Mount Tai.

Yesterday Sun Xin came to Lu Zhishen to inquire and learned that after he went to Taohua Mountain, he checked the mountain with Li Zhong, and with his knowledge of the military, he moved the location of the Taohuashan stronghold to a deeper place and it was no longer close to Taohua Village.

And in the current situation, the bandits on Taohua Mountain have probably moved to the surrounding areas of the big cities. After all, Shandong is so chaotic now, maybe the cottages on Taohua Mountain have been abandoned.It was only half an afternoon when we arrived at Taohua Village on a fast horse, and the journey was easier than Sun Xin originally expected.

But when Sun Xin and others entered Taohua Village to take a look, Sun Xin was disappointed.

From a distance, the terrain of Taohua Village is not bad, but when you get closer, you find that the land area of ​​Taohua Village is very small, and it is sandwiched by two mountains. It is difficult to attack and defend, and there is basically no direction for the expansion of cultivated land.

Sun Xin and Le He glanced at each other and knew that Le He also had some opinions on the landscape, but they reluctantly walked into the village without saying anything.

Sun Li called a few dealers to inquire, and soon found the merchant who came back from selling goods in Houjiazhai that day. The man was very enthusiastic when he heard that Sun Xin was a big landlord in Dengzhou, and led Sun Xin to look around. Ask someone to contact the sons and nephews of Mrs. Liu in the village.

As Sun Xin walked and asked all the way, he became more concerned.

He heard that although Mrs. Liu was dead, the land in the village was controlled by the clan, and most of the people in Zhuangzi were all surnamed Liu, and they were all related to each other.

He also asked everyone about the land they owned. He quickly found that although Mrs. Liu had the most land in the village, his land was not contiguous. In his relative's Zhuangtian, most of the tenants under Mr. Liu's family are clansmen with the same Liu surname.

Sun Xin frowned.

This kind of village is the most difficult to manage. If I am an outsider who comes to this village, I might not even be able to collect field lessons.

Unless he ruthlessly brings farmers and soldiers into the village to suppress the entire village, but the village has such a small land area and no development prospects, such a large investment may not be able to make ends meet.

The population structure in the village has been fixed, and it would be very difficult to develop an organization like the Supervisory Council. Even if it develops, the Supervisory Council will be dominated by clan forces.

Not to mention anything else, just say that at this time, after hearing that Sun Xin was a big landlord, the farmers who were questioned had already started to ask the businessman how much property Sun Xin’s family had, whispering, which family’s land would be sold to him, and why? Divide those irrigated resources to benefit yourself the most.

This group of people is even more difficult to manage than the bandits on the Yinma River, not to mention the farmers and soldiers in their own Sunjiazhuang.

"Forget it, brother, let's go back."

"Don't wait for Mr. Liu? He said he'll be here soon."

"No, come back."

Sun Xin's attitude was very obvious, and Lehe on the side also stopped talking. Seeing them like this, Sun Li didn't say much, but said: "I'll go and talk to them when it's like this."

On the way home, Sun Li kept silent. He was a very enthusiastic person, not to mention that Sun Xin was his younger brother. He always wanted to help his younger brother solve the problem, but at this time he couldn't help at all. It's not a big deal for him to work himself out after a trip, but he feels pressured by wasting the time of the two of them.

Sun Xin looked at his brother like this. He knew his brother's personality too well, and said with a smile: "Brother. This is buying a field to expand the land. It's not such an easy thing. You always have to look at it. I used to I have never been to the Peach Blossom Mountain area, but this time I came here to learn more about the geographical structure of Qingzhou, so it is not a waste of time."

Sun Li forced a smile. Although Sun Xin comforted him so much, he couldn't get rid of the burden in his heart for a while.
At this time, Lehe also rode to Sun Xin and said to him: "However, the cost of land expansion in our Sunjiazhuang this year is already a bit high. If we want to expand the field next year, I am afraid that the cost per mu of land will be higher than that of the previous two years." More than one and a half times as much."

Sun Xin nodded. Those flat lands on the ten-mile card that could be reclaimed had already been planted with crops. The rest of the land either had soil problems or the terrain was difficult to irrigate. more troublesome.

My own land area still needs to be expanded, and I must find a new place, but this matter cannot be rushed.

Since Sun Xin couldn't help, Sun Li still had something to do in Houjiazhai, so the two parties broke up in Laizhou Missing, and Sun Xin and Lehe rode back slowly to Shili Pai.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the village, he saw Zou Run anxiously opening his head.

"Master, you are finally back, Taigong Hu asked you to go."

"what's up?"

"The peasants and soldiers who came back from Qingzhou to report the letter before entered Zhuangzi, they first went to the Taigong's courtyard and said something to him, and the Taigong asked me to come here to wait for you. I don't know what it is."

"Understood, I'll go and have a look."

Sun Xin didn't even get off his horse at all, and rode directly to Hu Taigong's small courtyard.

Hu Taiping didn't bother these young people very much when he was young, if he really asked someone to call him, something must have happened to him.

Sun Xin didn't know what the peasants and soldiers in Qingzhou could tell him, so he went and asked first.

The fast horse came to the gate of Hu Taigong's small courtyard, and Sun Xin jumped off the horse before the horse's hooves stopped completely.When he entered the courtyard, he saw Taigong Hu drinking there.Hu Chen's face on the side was full of anxiety.

Sun Xin put the gifts he brought to the two old people on the small coffee table next to him, and asked, "Daddy, what happened?"

Taigong Hu opened his mouth to speak for a long time, but he sighed: "Let the family farmer tell you."

Sun Xin looked at the peasant soldier standing beside him, and the peasant soldier said: "Yesterday, Baoding in Zhaojiazhuang captured a group of bandits, and one of them claimed to be Hu Cai..."

With a swish, both Sun Xin and Zou Run, who walked into the yard behind him, opened their mouths wide in surprise.

"Isn't that right? Didn't the second elder brother say that their Zhuangzi is already safe?"

When hearing this, Hu Chenshi covered his face and burst into tears.

(End of this chapter)