Hengdao Sixteen Kingdoms

Chapter 61 Self-reliance
Relying on the mountains to fall, relying on everyone to run.

It is impossible to cut corners these days. The gentry attaches great importance to family background and will not intermarry with ordinary people at all.

What's more, Li Yue is still a bandit leader.

So he had to rely on his own efforts to find coal mines and iron mines, which brought a little confidence to Li Yue.

There is no such thing as an absolute road, and when the mountains and rivers run out, there will always be a way to survive.

With iron, the mountain can expand its army on a large scale and enhance its combat capabilities. Soldiers no longer need to carry sticks and forks as weapons, and simple armor can also be made.

With coal, this winter won't be so tough.

Both Yuzhou and Bingzhou are places rich in resources, and it is not surprising to find these two mineral deposits.

Li Yue hurriedly took people to check, hidden in the ravine, covered by thick fallen leaves.

Among them, iron ore has been mined by people. There is a shallow mine cave, more than [-] feet slanting down, the stone wall is covered with moss and vines, and more than a dozen dead bones on the ground are covered.

Li Yue checked the degree of decay of the bones, which were relatively old.

The scale of iron ore is not large, which is definitely enough for Heiyun Mountain, and there are also some other minerals associated with it, which are dark yellow in color, like copper or gold.

Although it is not much, it is also a considerable amount of wealth for Heiyun Mountain.

In this era, there are virgin forests everywhere. The big trees have grown for many years. They are densely packed like walls, and the bushes are overgrown with thorns. It is difficult to walk with bare hands, let alone transport them out.

There is another more difficult problem, this place is near to Xuanyuan Mountain, but far from Heiyun Mountain.

The movement is too big, once Xuanyuan Shan finds out, will they remain indifferent?

Heiyun Mountain is not the only one that is poor and crazy these days.

When Weishui confronted each other that day, Li Yue felt that Xuanyuan Mountain was even poorer than Heiyun Mountain...

Although there is a tacit understanding of allies on both sides, they are not real allies. People make money and birds die for food, so what if they are real allies?
Xuanyuan Shan walked up to Li Yue again.

It's like a hurdle, if you pass it, the sky is high and the sea is wide, if you can't pass it, you can only be locked in a hundred miles near Heiyun Mountain.

Li Yue looked to the south, and could faintly see the shadow of green mountains.

Zu Ti led more than 2000 tribes to the north, and after expanding to [-] people, he also faced the same problem. He was blocked by Zhang Ping and Fan Ya in Qiaocheng, and the army was hungry and stationed in Taiqiu.

However, with the title of General Fenwei and Governor of Yuzhou on his head, Zu Ti tried to drive a wedge between him, get rid of Zhang Ping, persuade Fan Ya, and only then did he have a place to live.

"Build a dock here first, and the scout battalion will keep an eye on Xuanyuan Mountain these days." Li Yue decided to try Xuanyuan Mountain's reaction.

I am not afraid of the field battle at Xuanyuan Mountain, but I am afraid of their continuous harassment.

"Follow the order." Zhang Shengye cupped his hands.

The coal mine is very close to Heiyun Mountain, so there is no need to worry about the surrounding forces.

Li Yuesui led people to mine, and the quality of the coal in Yuzhou's boundary was fairly good, which could fully meet the needs of heating.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty monopolized salt and iron, which greatly improved the smelting technology, and coal was used in smelting on a large scale.

In the city of Xingyang, there is a blast furnace left over from the Han Dynasty. Up to now, it is still continuously making weapons and armor for Jie Zhao.

The gentry in the Wei and Jin Dynasties made a kind of fragrant coal cake, pounded the coal into powder, sifted it with a light bowl, mixed with pear, jujube juice and other spices, made it into various shapes such as plum blossoms and phoenix birds, and put it in the incense burner , It can emit bursts of fragrance when burned.

The strange fragrance is divided into fine mist, and the charcoal is lightly smashed.

Coal is coal.

Coal cakes have long been nothing new.

Carloads of coal were pulled back to Heiyun Mountain, some yellow mud was added to make briquettes, and they were placed in the pit, where they could burn slowly all night, and the whole room was warm.

The only hidden danger is poisoning. Li Yue strictly ordered every room to be ventilated, and ordered the women's camp to patrol day and night. If anyone found burning coal behind closed doors, they would be whipped twenty times in public.

The heating problem in Heiyun Mountain has been solved.

Li Yue is not the only one who uses his brains on the mountain. The ingenious women weave a kind of grass clothes with dried autumn grass.

Li Yue tried it out, and he didn't need to think about the beauty. It can meet daily travel, keep warm, and can also prevent rain, but it is a bit sticky and very uncomfortable to wear.

However, there are only such conditions on the mountain, and there are poor ways to solve it. Many new refugees are still bare buttocks and feet.

After they got the straw clothes and sandals, they immediately beamed with joy.

In addition to straw clothing, there are leather clothing, animal skins, bird feathers, chicken, duck and goose feathers are all collected and made into clothes.

Li Yue got a leopard fur and a wolf fur hakama.

The winter in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was far colder than that of later generations. After the autumn harvest, the north wind swept across the land, and it became colder every day.

Children on the mountain can run all over the mountains with bare legs and dragging their noses.

At the age of six or seven, you can chase rabbits and catch birds, and go to work in the fields. At the age of eleven or twelve, you can bend a bow, set an arrow, hold a knife and hold a spear...

The harsh living environment makes everyone's will strong.

Even Li Yue felt like he had become gritty.

The entire Heiyun Mountain is like a mountain city, with wooden houses and stone houses stretching from the mountainside to the top of the mountain, and everyone is working as hard as they can.

Labor also calms the minds of the refugees.

The wisdom of the people is infinite, and the power of the people is infinite.

As long as a stable environment is provided for them, even the greatest difficulties will not be difficult for them.

The new refugees went south intermittently, different from the 2 people last time, all three to 500 people came.

Heiyun Mountain has long formed a set of procedures, selecting, isolating, cleaning, boiling medicine, cooking porridge...

The people in the women's camp and the medical camp will handle it properly without Li Yue's intervention.

A team of more than 500 people can survive three to four hundred people. Many people have already run out of oil and lamps on the way to the south. Even if there is no plague, people will die long ago.

Not only Heiyun Mountain was infected, but a large-scale plague also broke out in Jing County next to it.

The scouts came to report that there were more than 500 corpses thrown into the moat every day.

All the people in Gongxian County, who were the first to bear the brunt in the north, died.

The Gou family in the west closed the city gate early and escaped the catastrophe.

"General, the county magistrate Han Xu sent someone to ask for help." Xin Can clasped his hands.

Heiyun Mountain is under the jurisdiction of Jing County, so they naturally know what happened on the mountain.

Li Yue has a good impression of Jing County, and the "protection fee" that should be paid is not small.

"Why are you still doing rescue work? Why don't you take this opportunity to take down Jing County?" Wei Shan's eyes widened.

The population on the mountain increased sharply, and the cultivated fields around Sishuibao were not enough. There were still many fields in the north, but they were all washed away by the Yellow River. In addition, the north was too close to Xingyang City, so Li Yue did not dare to develop there for the time being. .

"How can a gentleman take advantage of others' danger?" Xin Can was dumbfounded.

Wei Shan sneered and said, "Who says we are gentlemen? We are bandits and refugees! We eat this bowl of rice, so why do you want to save Jing County? Heiyun Mountain doesn't have so many wealth!"

Most of the other generals also agreed to take Xiajing County.

Anyway, it's a place to shelter.

Xin Can was originally from Jing County, so he naturally missed his homeland, so he bowed his hands to Li Yue and begged, "General..."

(End of this chapter)