Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather

"How much military ration do we have?" Zhou Lan asked.

Song Hao replied: "We don't carry much military ration, and we can only use it for two months. The subsequent military ration will probably take one month to transport it!"

“…”

Zhou Lan fell into silence.

Although Beiyuan Town has not been affected by the drought, it has been a good weather for the past year, last year and this year, Beiyuan Town has to maintain tens of thousands of town camps.

In recent years, the people's livelihood and military in Beiyuan Town have been restored a lot, but they are still not rich.

Sometimes Zhou Lan feels that her ability has declined a lot. She used to be able to do anything in Chongshan Town, but after coming to Beiyuan Town, she feels that doing anything is half the result with twice the effort.

Now Beiyuan Town does not have much money and food to support her in destroying the bandits, nor does it have more money and food to help her with the victims.

"Oh, borrow food from Chongshan Town and send someone to ask Marquis Jing'an if he can borrow some food from Chongshan Town!"

Zhou Lan said helplessly.

If you want to wipe out the bandits in Longyuan, the most important thing is not to kill those bandits, but to help the bandits.

Only by letting refugees have a meal and settle down can the number of bandits in Longyuan be reduced, otherwise these bandits will only be more and more suppressed.

"In addition, go and recruit refugees to build camps for us, and take care of our meals!"

Zhou Lan had no choice but to find a way to resettle these refugees first.

She really couldn't do anything to massacre refugees.

"Here!"

Song Hao responded, and after a moment, several cavalrymen ran out of the camp and went to the city to shout.

When the refugees heard that there was food, they did not hesitate and rushed towards the camp without any hesitation.

The soldiers began to maintain order, first let the refugees stay around the camp, and then began to dig ditches and build the camp.

Don’t worry about whether these ditches are useful or not, find something for the refugees first.

Zhou Lan had only 20,000 soldiers under her command, but there were 50,000 or 60,000 refugees gathered there.

With Zhou Lan's food and grass, it should be able to last for a month, and the refugees will definitely not eat as much as the soldiers.

Seeing this, the bandits in the city didn't care about the lives of the refugees. At this time, the bandits were ready to escape.

Bandits will not stick to the city. Since they are bandits, they naturally need to wander around.

But they wanted to leave, but Zhou Lan didn't want them to leave.

At night, just as the bandits were secretly fleeing the city, Zhou Lan's ambushed army suddenly came out and killed tens of bandits to defeat.

A battle with a start and a slash was over soon.

But Zhou Lan's troubles have just begun.

There are still fifty or 60,000 refugees around her, so many refugees must be resettled.

In a loss, Zhou Lan had to resettle refugees on the spot and let her soldiers lead the refugees to dig wells and farm farms.

In the case of severe drought, it is difficult to satisfy the irrigation of the fields by relying solely on well water, but this is also impossible. If you produce a little more food, you can support one more person.

It is better to give refugees a little hope than to let them starve to death in the wilderness.

But in this way, Zhou Lan could not quickly eliminate the bandits. She divided two thousand troops to station the Longyang Prefecture City to resettle refugees, and then captured a city or wiped out a group of bandits to divide the troops to resettle refugees.

It is easy to wipe out bandits, but it is very troublesome to resettle refugees, and to resettle refugees, you also have to continue to transport food and grass.

In just one month, Zhou Lan captured the entire Longyang Prefecture, but the food and grass in her hands were no longer enough to support her in continuing to eliminate the bandits.

In a loss, Zhou Lan had to stop in Longyang Prefecture and ask for money and food from the court.

...

Chongshan Pass, General's Office.

Yang Chengye walked into the lobby of the General's Mansion with great strides. In the hall, Niuzhuang had been waiting for him for a long time.

"The last general is paying homage to the general!" Yang Chengye bowed and bowed.

Niuzhuang quickly replied with a gift, saying, "I have met the Marquis!"

After the two met, Niuzhuang talked about the serious matter, "General Zhou has sent troops to Longyuan to eliminate the bandits, but Longyuan needs to resettle a large number of refugees. Beiyuan Town is not well-funded, so General Zhou borrows grain from our Chongshan Town!"

Yang Chengye frowned slightly, "Didn't the court provide food and grass?"

"Hey, where is the food and grass available in the court?" Niuzhuang said helplessly.

The two looked at each other, both speechless.

They all understand the situation in the court. How can they say that the court now is almost useless.

The six ministries of the cabinet and the five military governor's office cannot do anything or control it. Once there is something, it will be pressed on the local government. But if the local government can solve the problem, what else should the central court do?

Chongqing Town has not received any money and food allocated by the court for several years. At present, Chongqing Town is completely self-reliant, and everything depends on them to find a way to solve it themselves.

Although Chongshan Town is rich, some things cannot be solved by Chongshan Town.

For example, iron ore.

Logically speaking, Chongshan Town has no right to purchase iron ore, and all iron ore is allocated by the court.

There is no iron ore in Chongqing Town, and the Governor's Office and the General Office cannot interfere in iron ore matters in other places, so the iron ore needed by Chongqing Town can be purchased by them.

Since Niuzhuang took over as general, he felt very powerless about this situation.

"How much food and grass do we have?" Yang Chengye asked.

Niu Zhuang thought for a while and said, "It should be able to take out 300,000 stones! If it is more, it may affect ourselves!"

Although Niuzhuang is Zhou Lan's confidant, he cannot ignore Chongshan Town for Zhou Lan.

The food and grass consumption in Chongqing Town is also very large, including 30,000 towns and 40,000 reinforcements. These require money and grain support.

"Then we should first deliver 300,000 shi of grain to General Zhou! With this batch of grain and grass, we should be able to cope with the emergency!" Yang Chengye said.

"Yes!"

Niu Zhuang nodded.

After the two agreed, they immediately arranged for soldiers to deliver grain and grass to Beiyuan Town.

300,000 shi of grain and grass is a lot, enough for a hundred thousand troops to eat for a year, but in Longyuan, this amount of food is simply a drop in the bucket.

How many hungry people are there in Longyuan?

It is estimated to be two to three million!

Although many people have starved to death in Longyuan in the past two years, Longyuan is a province. During the Chengping period, the population of Longyuan has reached more than 8 million.

Now there are only two or three tenths of the population in Longyuan, but it is still a large number.

With the assistance of Chongshan Town, Zhou Lan took over the two prefectures, but she could no longer attack.

Not only was there not enough grain and grass, but also not enough troops under her command, because she needed to divide the troops to settle the refugees in various places.

Compared with her, Suzhou Town and Longbei Town attacked much faster. In just three months, the troops of the two towns surrounded and suppressed hundreds of thousands of bandits, like plowing the house and sweeping the holes, and drove the bandits away everywhere.

As for whether they killed bandits or refugees, no one investigated at this time.

…

Daizhou, Longnan.

Outside the city, more than 200,000 bandits surrounded Daizhou City, and the camp of the bandit army was more than ten miles.

This bandit group should be the largest bandit group in the three provinces of Longyuan. Compared with those mobs, the bandits in front of them not only have a neat camp, but also have many elite soldiers with armor.

And the leader of this bandit group is the famous King of Daliang.

King of Daliang does not refer to the king of Daliang, but because the leader of this bandit group was originally the thief of Daliang Mountain.

When bandits start a rebellion, they will give themselves powerful nicknames, such as Black Tiger King, Nine Heavenly Kings, Daliang King, etc. These nicknames have become famous names.

When they are powerful, as long as they show their names, many green forest bandits will come to join them.

Under normal circumstances, bandits will not use their real names to avoid implicating their families and relatives.

Daliang King is a knowledgeable man. He was born into a military household, and his ancestors were guerrilla generals. However, his family business had long been ruined by his ancestors. In his generation, he was just an ordinary military household.

When he was young, he worked as a horse dealer, selling horses from Longbei Town to Longnan. He traveled around for several years and accumulated some money, but later his money was taken away by his captain.

That day, he happened to be out selling horses. The captain brought several servants to his house, and randomly charged him with a crime and began to search his house.

His mother tried to stop them but was beaten up, and his wife tried to protect her but was also beaten up.

When he returned home, his mother was still dead and his wife was dying.

In a rage, he broke into Qianhu's house and killed all 13 people in Qianhu's family.

Since then, he has become a bandit.

No mistakes, one sentence, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

At first, he was just a small thug, but he traveled around for several years, not only was he smart and knowledgeable, but he also practiced well and became a warrior.

The boss thought he was very good, so he married his daughter to him.

Later, his father-in-law went down the mountain to rob and was beaten to death by the escort, and then he naturally became the mountain king of Daliangshan.

He was entrenched in Daliangshan, worked as a bandit for ten years, trained hundreds of old bandits, and had a great reputation in the Longnan green forest world.

Then the drought came.

When the three provinces of Longyuan were in chaos, he took a group of old brothers down the mountain to rob.

At first, he just wanted to rob some money and food to feed his brothers.

But who knew that more and more people came to him, and in just half a year, his men had grown from a few hundred to more than 20,000.

With more men, there was not enough food.

And he couldn't drive them away, otherwise his prestige would plummet.

There was no way, he could only continue to rob with his men.

In the past, he robbed the gentry and the rich, but now the gentry and the rich can no longer satisfy him, so he can only choose to attack the city.

After the first county was taken, his bandits reached 50,000, and after the first prefecture was taken, his bandits reached 100,000.

Just like a snowball, the bandits under his command kept rolling, and now they have reached more than 200,000.

And he didn't want to enlist a group of refugees like other bandits. He only wanted young and strong people, not the old, weak, women and children. It's not that he is ruthless, but he really can't afford to support so many people.

He had ravaged most of the cities in the western part of Longnan, and now he had come to the city of Daizhou.

Standing in front of the tent, King Daliang looked at the sturdy walls of Daizhou, his rough face full of solemnity.

This was the twentieth day of their siege of Daizhou. The corpses under the city were piled three feet high, but they still had not captured the strong city.

"Report, King, thirty catapults are ready. General Su asked if we should attack the city immediately?"

A bandit came to report.

Although they were bandits, they also had an organization.

It was actually a bit inappropriate to say that they were bandits now, as they had evolved into an army.

King Daliang not only reorganized the bandits under his command, but also trained more than 40,000 elite troops, including generals, armored soldiers, archers, and 3,000 cavalry, and even trained his soldiers in military formations.

Their rebel army might not be as good as the border army, but it was many times stronger than those guards.

They even learned to make catapults, and they were also able to make other siege weapons.

"The army is out of the camp, ready to attack the city!"

At the command of the King of Daliang, horns and drums sounded in the surrounding area of ​​more than ten miles.

More than 100,000 troops gathered towards Daizhou City and surrounded it.

On the city wall, King Dai Chen Zhaoxuan looked at the bandit army gathered outside the city with a dirty face, his eyes filled with undisguised fatigue.

Yes, this Daizhou is Chen Zhaoxuan's fiefdom.

After Chen Zhaojun ascended the throne, he came to this Daizhou City to be a vassal.

The prince of Darong is actually very nonsense, and he has no real power at all.

But Chen Zhaoxuan doesn't care about these. As long as no one disturbs his practice, he can stay in the palace every day without going out.

The affairs in the court have nothing to do with him, and the rebellion of the bandits is not his business.

So he has been practicing peacefully in Daizhou City for the past two years.

But he didn't expect that bandits would attack Daizhou City.

Then he was trapped in Daizhou City.

There were not many soldiers in Daizhou City, only 30,000 civilians and 2,000 useless guards, and hundreds of royal guards.

Facing 200,000 bandits besieging the city, Chen Zhaoxuan could only summon the people in the city to defend the city.

The battle had lasted for 20 days, and the soldiers and civilians in the city had reached the end of their rope.

If it weren't for him, the King of Dai, personally defending the city, Daizhou City might not have held on until now.

"Prince, I'm afraid we can't hold on for a few days!" Liang Zhiman, the co-governor of the state, came to Chen Zhaoxuan and whispered.

The highest official in the city was Liang Zhiman in front of him. As for the governor, haha, the bandits had not arrived in Daizhou City, and the governor received the news and ran away.

When Chen Zhaoxuan received the news, the enemy army was already at the gate of the city.

"Do we have any reinforcements?" Chen Zhaoxuan asked somewhat miserably.

To be honest, he didn't quite understand why it turned out like this.

Although he was over 30 years old now, he had never cared about government affairs, and of course he wouldn't care about people's livelihood. He only cared about his own cultivation.

Do you think he was wrong?

It seemed so, but it also seemed not so.

In Darong, it was a taboo for a prince to interfere in government affairs or local affairs. A prince like him should be the one who could make everyone worry the least.

He was just a martial arts fanatic, a simple martial arts fanatic.

"No!" Liang Zhiman said bitterly.

Where would there be reinforcements in Longnan?

The army of Beiyuan Town was still in Longyuan, and the armies of Suzhou Town and Longbei Town were still in Longxi. There was no army of officers and soldiers in Longnan at all.

Chen Zhaoxuan silently looked at the bandit army outside the city who were preparing to attack the city.

Liang Zhiman lowered his voice and said, "Prince, you have a high level of cultivation, you can break through the north gate!"

"What about you?" Chen Zhaoxuan's voice was a little hoarse.

It shouldn't be difficult for him to break out on his own, as he has already reached the seventh level of acquired cultivation. Although there are warriors among the bandit army, none of them are very strong.