The Infinite Heavens Run Away

Chapter 269 7.25 Bingzhou Deng’s Liangzhou Rebellion
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.25 Bingzhou Deng clan and Liangzhou rebellion

Now that the military and political affairs have stabilized, Deng Feng's energy will naturally be invested in money and food.

The first was of course the "smuggling caravan". Deng Feng basically monopolized the trade with the grassland in the direction of Bingzhou and drove out both the Zhang family and the Ding family.

It's "once", because the two largest aristocratic families in Bingzhou have unfortunately been attacked by the "Yellow Turban remnants", and all of them were killed.

Originally, Deng Feng was a little worried about whether Ding Yuan, who was currently at the highest position in the Ding family, would be suspicious or even retaliate, but he soon discovered that he was overthinking it.

Not long after the demise of the Ding family, Ding Yuan was driven out of his original position by his political opponents because there was no one behind him, and he would never be able to get up again in his life.

Monopoly business is the most profitable. This is the basic common sense of everyone in real society.

Although the herdsmen on the grassland cannot only do business with Deng Feng, the other caravans are from other states, such as Youzhou, Liangzhou, etc.

Originally, in addition to the Ding family and the Zhang family, there were actually many other small aristocratic families in Bingzhou that were doing business in this area, but Deng Feng simply cleaned them up in the name of "fighting smuggling."

After all, with tens of thousands of elite cavalry under his command, most of the grassland forces are not qualified to make irresponsible remarks, let alone some small aristocratic families.

Not only the smuggling business on the grassland, but also the normal caravan business spread to all parts of the country is also booming, especially the most famous specialties of Bingzhou.

Ironware, leather goods, medicinal materials, plus cattle, sheep and livestock, basically anyone with any brain can guess that Deng Feng has done something illegal in private.

The problem is that these things are basically open secrets. It is not just Deng Feng who is doing it, but all the aristocratic families in the world are doing it. The difference is a matter of size.

Take iron as an example. This era has just entered the complete Iron Age, but bronze has not been eliminated. Even in the army, bronze swords are still used in many places. Bronze agricultural tools and even wooden agricultural tools are everywhere in the countryside. Bronze-made agricultural tools are everywhere. It's already considered good.

Because Deng Feng was able to mass-produce refined iron on a large scale, he took advantage of the situation to mass-produce various iron tools, such as iron plows, iron shovels, iron hoes, iron kitchen knives, etc. These things are sold well all over the country, and there is no such thing as unsold The problem with going out has never been enough to sell.

What's more, Deng Feng didn't really eat alone, and he never lacked the offerings to He Jin and Zhang Rang.

Furthermore, while doing business with the grasslands, Deng Feng also acquired a large number of war horses. The number every year was close to 2000. Don’t underestimate this data. These war horses were enough to arm more than a thousand elite cavalry. This was a very terrifying situation. number!

The acquisition of all these incomes is, on the one hand, Deng Feng’s military guarantee and trade monopoly support. On the other hand, it is also related to a concept that Deng Feng came from in modern society, which is a slogan that once resounded throughout the country, "If you want to Build roads first if you are rich."

Deng Feng gathered all the young prisoners in Bingzhou, and in the name of "strike hard", he concentrated on cleaning up a group of gangs, street bullies, squatters, local snakes and other social garbage.

A huge labor force of more than 1 people, under the management of 600 cavalry and 600 crossbowmen, began to repair the road intensively. The only effort required was to provide everyone with food.

Road construction is not simply about reinforcing the road surface, but using primitive cement, one of the "travel artifacts". This thing is not technically difficult. Whether it is digging coal or cutting rocks, prisoners are also used.

Only the firing part requires professionals, but prisoners are still used for physical work, so the effect of road repair is very good, and the cost is still very low.

The roads that have been built so far include the main road from Jinyang to Shangdang and then to the capital, with a width of 6 feet, and county roads with a width of [-] feet. In three years, all counties in Bingzhou have been connected by cement roads.

As for county roads, there is currently no ability to cover them, and each county can only make arrangements for them.Deng Feng did not keep the cement formula secret and reported it to the court.

After seeing the convenient transportation in Bingzhou, many places imitated it, but they were all built by big businessmen and aristocratic families themselves. At present, no other state except Bingzhou has officially built it.

At present, the main road from Jinyang to Yecheng (which can be roughly considered to be the administrative center of Jizhou) is under construction. Each party is responsible for the cost. Bingzhou is definitely still the old method, while Jizhou has to collect money from the big businessmen and aristocratic families passing by. It is estimated that there will be another It can be repaired in one to two years.

Relying on these nearly huge trade routes, Deng Feng's income in this area has reached more than twice the entire Bingzhou's annual fiscal revenue, which also ensures that he has sufficient resources to support his troops.

In less than two years, the name of the Deng family caravan has officially spread throughout the country - yes, it is the Deng family, or the Bingzhou Deng family!
On August 23, the second year of Zhongping, Deng Feng's eldest son finally came to the world after embarrassing his mother for more than 19 months. Deng Feng named his son Deng Chengye, and he would be the master of this world in the future.

Just when Xiao Longnu entered the delivery room, the sky for three miles around the Governor's Mansion was all red, even covering the sun.

When Xiao Chengye was born, the originally scattered red clouds quickly gathered in the middle, eventually forming a huge fiery red circle with an empty middle. The sun shone down from the hollow, just in time to shine on the baby who had just been carried out by Cheng Lingsu. Xiao Chengye in the delivery room.

The entire force under Deng Feng knelt down to greet him. Even the laziest Guo Jia knelt three times and kowtowed with a serious expression. Because of such a large formation, any fool knew that this little master would definitely be good in the future.

Moreover, although the fact that Xiao Longnu was pregnant for nearly 20 months has been kept secret, most people present knew about it, especially with Deng Feng as a father in front of him. Deng Chengye will definitely be one of the top people in the world in the future!

Of course, under Deng Feng's strict order, these visions were only controlled by his own people, but the effect was better than spreading them out.Even if the people under him had other ideas before, no one felt wronged after seeing such a celestial phenomenon.

With status, power, family, and heirs, Deng Feng was officially accepted as the head of the aristocratic family by all the major forces in the world, and his normal title was "Bingzhou Deng Family".

In the past, the forces who came to visit him often felt that they were superior, but now no one dared to do so. They all followed the procedure and sent greetings in the name of the family head or even the family, and then agreed on a time to visit.

Even General He Jin, who gave up his position to the eunuchs, is now very polite to Deng Feng, calling him "Xiandi Zifeng" when writing letters.

These sound strange, but if you follow the rules of feudal society, they are not complicated.

Deng Feng's original position was achieved entirely through his own hard work. The problem was that although he had four wives, he had no sons. According to the rule of feudal society that "unfilial piety is most important if he has no descendants," his power was a castle in the air and a castle on the beach. .

Once he had an accident, everything would collapse. Except for Chen Gong, who was impressed by him after being transferred, the rest of his subordinates were from lower-level civilians and had no chance of going up, so Deng Feng could recruit them.

But others were obviously not good enough. Deng Feng sent recruitment orders many times, but none of them were successful. All talented people with some reputation rejected his recruitment.

But after the birth of his son, the situation changed drastically immediately. Xu Shu, who was also from the bottom class, even took the initiative to join him, and Liao Hua, who was already a little famous, took the initiative to come to the door.

Guo Jia, who has always been popular because of his talent and arrogance, readily agreed after receiving Deng Feng's call. Although he still had the idea of ​​"seeing it first" at first, he was quickly convinced by Deng Feng's strength and recognized his master.

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai were still very young at this time, but they were also the leaders of the well-known "building strongholds for self-protection" forces in the Jiangdong area. After receiving the recruitment order, after asking around for a while, they happily gave up the forces that they had been running for many years and had no worries. Arrived in Bingzhou.

This is the practice of feudal society. "Family" and "family" are the most basic cells of society, not individuals.It is difficult for an individual with strong abilities to be recognized by other individuals or forces, but if he has his own family, even if it is still small, as long as he has the supporting strength, he can find people to join him.

Not only that, these subordinates all reminded Deng Feng, either explicitly or covertly, that the Deng family had too few descendants, and that a large family should pay attention to having more children and more happiness; Zhao also didn't know how many times he faced similar problems.

As for saying "Mr. Deng's backyard is too thin, Mrs. Yu's reputation is not good, I have a younger sister/cousin/aunt/handkerchief..." There are simply not too many situations.

The major forces took the initiative to ask for marriage, and even though they knew that the main wife was already stable, they did not want too many young ladies from this family and that cousin from the other family, but only had the status of a side wife. This changed Deng Feng's originally wonderful night. It couldn't be this beautiful anymore.

"Hey, isn't this Mr. Deng? There are so many wild flowers and weeds waiting for you to nourish them. Why do you come to my ruined room?" Needless to say, such an arrogant opera accent belongs to Xiao Zhao, a girl who is not afraid of death. .

"Ghost girl, you need to clean up again, don't you?" Deng Feng went up angrily and bullied, "Besides, didn't I agree to none of them?"

"Sir, I'm afraid it won't be easy to handle, because these people are actually representatives of major forces. If we always don't fight, people will think that we don't want to cooperate. It's okay in Bingzhou, but things outside may not be so simple. Cheng Lingsu said with a wry smile.

"Forget it, just take it one step at a time!" Deng Feng waved his hands impatiently, not wanting to continue this topic.

It's not that he really doesn't want to have other women, the problem is that with his current cultivation level at the Golden Core stage, he has already passed the time of being a young man.

These girls have been family members who have shared life and death for many years. Rather than talking about love, it is more appropriate to talk about family ties. In this case, blindly adding other people will only make everyone uncomfortable.

However, this problem has no solution in feudal society, because everyone knows that the most direct manifestation of cooperation is marriage. If you refuse, you look down on others, including many aristocratic families that appear in the original work.

The most famous ones are the Jizhou Zhen family. The first three daughters, the three sisters of the "Luo Shen" Zhen Mi, are willing to choose one of them at will.

The Mi family in Xuzhou has only one eldest daughter, Liu Bei's second wife, Mrs. Mi, whose name is Mi Zhen in the original work. It also means marriage. The problem is that this eldest daughter is only 8 years old now.

Even Queen He once said after having sex with Deng Feng that there is a girl in the He family. According to her seniority, she should be called cousin. She is 15 years old and is willing to accompany her.

And she didn't care about her status. If Deng Feng was willing, she could bring her cousin here first and let everyone try out some activities together.
What's even more annoying is that now some people are starting to have ideas for the little ones in the family, and they all come from high families and want to marry and become the main wife.

The most typical one is Hongnong Yuan, the youngest daughter of the eldest son Yuan Shao—yes, that Yuan Shao—one year younger than Deng Chengye.

The next generation head of the Xun family in Yingchuan was Xun Yu - Xun Yu's youngest daughter, who was one year older than Deng Chengye.

And Zhang Rang found a cousin’s little daughter from somewhere, and she could be her concubine.
The above are just words that convey some meaning, but they are not formally proposed. After all, everyone knows that it is too much, because Deng Feng's son is only two and a half years old now!
Skipping these bullshit things, the Deng family can now be said to have a bright future. However, even if the above-mentioned aristocratic families will not collapse due to various reasons, Bingzhou is not without problems.

Everything else is fine. The only problem that Bingzhou has no possibility of solving now is the problem of food production. This is not because of the aristocratic family, but because of the overall productivity of this era.

Bingzhou is not a prosperous state. According to official statistics organized by Deng Feng, Bingzhou has more than [-]% of its grain deficit that cannot be made up every year, and it can only rely on external inputs. This is still calculated based on the total grain output.

If you include the portion secretly hidden and stored by major aristocratic families, the actual amount of food in circulation is only enough to feed most people [-]% of the time!
In fact, this problem is not difficult to solve. For example, the simplest way is that the Zhen family in Jizhou is a world-famous grain merchant. As long as Deng Feng agrees to take in a sister of Zhen Mi, it will be fine. But as a modern person, Deng Feng really doesn’t want to give up his woman. Benefit!

"So, the young master has now decided to reject the Zhen family?" Cheng Lingsu, who had already given birth to Deng Feng's second son, asked with a smile in August of the fourth year of Zhongping.

This girl took care of her body when Xiao Longnu was still pregnant. When her son was born, she dominated Deng Feng for half a month and didn't let him go until she was sure she was pregnant, which made Xiao Zhao very dissatisfied.

She originally wanted to be the second, but she didn't expect Cheng Lingsu to be so direct. The second son was also pregnant for more than 19 months. He was born on April [-]th in the fourth year of Zhongping. Deng Feng named him Deng Chengyuan.

Xiao Zhao also stepped up her pregnancy preparations during Cheng Lingsu's pregnancy, but she has not been able to get pregnant so far.

Now there are two sons in the Deng family, but Xiao Longnu is very bad at taking care of them. In the end, Cheng Lingsu is responsible for taking care of the little fox, especially the little fox, who is like a head child and has a better relationship with the two sons than their biological mother.

The good news is that after examination, the two little guys have amazing cultivation aptitudes, and they are also born with the ability to connect hundreds of meridians.

Although it is still very early for them to practice normally, Deng Feng has already used magic power to help them warm and nourish their bodies. He plans to practice some health-preserving routines when they are six years old, and officially enters practice at the age of eight.

"Ignore them for now, the main thing is that we finally have a war to fight." At this point, Deng Feng was really a little excited.

Throughout the Zhongping period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the world had nothing to do with "peace". There were basically wars everywhere. But apart from the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, the main problem was the Liangzhou War.

At the end of the Zhongping Yuan Dynasty, Li Wenhou, Han Sui, and Bian Zhang, the leaders of the Qiang people in Liangzhou, rebelled. Originally, there was Beigong Boyu in history. Now the grass on his grave has turned green several times. The power basically collapsed.

However, Emperor Han Ling sent Huangfusong and Zhang Wenping to rebel, but they still failed. According to Deng Feng's information, the root cause of their failure was that there were too many hindrances in the court.

In such a near-fighting situation, the Liangzhou rebellion continues to this day and has never been able to be suppressed. The main reason why the court finally remembered Deng Feng is because the place has now collapsed.

Just last month, Geng Bi, governor of Liangzhou, and Fu Xie, prefect of Hanyang, died in battle. The reason for their deaths was almost ridiculous, because they really couldn’t make it to the stage, so the official simply said "killed in battle".

The actual situation was that there was internal strife among the Qiang rebels. Han Sui killed Bian Zhang and Li Wenhou and became the boss himself, leading more than [-] troops to attack. When they arrived at Hanyang County, Geng Bi and a group of new soldiers were ready to face the enemy.

Gai Xun, the prefect of Hanyang, felt that he would be defeated, so he abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown. Fu Xie, the prefect who took over, advised him, "Let's train troops first and calm people's hearts. Then there will be many rebel leaders. As time goes by, there will definitely be internal strife."

By then our soldiers will be well trained, and it won’t be easy to deal with the chaotic rebels? "

Unfortunately, Geng Bi refused to listen to good advice and insisted on going to war. As a result, his own army had internal strife shortly after the expedition, and he was also killed by his men.

Army Commander Ma Ma Teng defected from Hanyang's local wealthy kingdom and led Geng Bi's army to surrender to the Qiang rebels. The rebels, who had grown in strength, besieged Hanyang County, and the prefect Fu Xie died in the battle.
Many times things are so magical that novels dare not be written like this.

It was in this magical atmosphere that Deng Feng finally received the order to counter the rebellion.

(End of this chapter)