The mountains fall, but everyone runs.

It is impossible to take shortcuts these days. The nobles attach great importance to family background and will not marry ordinary people at all.

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

So he could only rely on his own efforts and find coal and iron mines, which gave Li Yue a glimmer of confidence.

There is always a way out, and when the odds are against you, there will always be a way to survive.

With iron, the army can be expanded on a large scale on the mountain and the war capability can be enhanced. Soldiers no longer need to carry sticks and forks as weapons, and simple armors can also be made.

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

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

Li Yue quickly took people to check, and found it hidden in a ravine, covered by thick leaves.

Among them, the iron ore has been mined, and there is a shallow mine tunnel that slopes downward for more than twenty feet. The stone walls are covered with moss and vines, and there are more than a dozen dead bones on the ground.

Li Yue checked the degree of decay of the bones and found that they were relatively old.

The scale of the iron ore is not large, but it is definitely enough for Heiyun Mountain. It is also accompanied by some other minerals, which are dark yellow in color and appear to be copper or gold.

Although it is not much, it is still a considerable wealth for Black Cloud Mountain.

In this era, there were virgin forests everywhere. Big trees had grown for who knows how many years, and they were as dense as walls. The shrubs and thorns were so thick that it was difficult to walk with bare hands, let alone transport them out.

There is a more difficult problem. This place is close to Xuanyuan Mountain and far from Heiyun Mountain.

There was too much noise. Once Xuanyuan Mountain discovered it, would they remain indifferent?

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

During the confrontation in Jishui 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 true allies. People and wealth die and birds die for food. So what can they do even if they are true allies?

Xuanyuan Shan once walked up to Li Yue.

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

Li Yue looked to the south, where he could faintly see the shadows of green mountains.

Zu Ti led his tribe of more than a hundred troops to the north, and after expanding to 2,000 men, they also faced the same problem. They were blocked by Zhang Ping and Fan Ya in Qiao City, and the army was starved, so they moved to Taiqiu.

However, Zu Ti, who was known as General Fenwei and the governor of Yuzhou, tried to alienate Zhang Ping and persuaded Fan Ya to find a place to stay.

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

I am not afraid of the wild battle in Xuanyuan Mountain, but I am afraid of their continuous harassment.

"Follow the order." Zhang Shengye held his hand.

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 coal in Yuzhou was of high quality and could fully meet the needs of heating.

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

There is a blast furnace left over from the Han Dynasty in Xingyang City. To this day, it is still making a steady stream of weapons and armor for Jie and Zhao.

The nobles of the Wei and Jin Dynasties made a kind of incense coal cake, pounded the coal into powder, sieved it finely, mixed it with spices such as pear, jujube juice, etc., made it into various shapes such as plum blossoms, phoenix birds, etc., and placed 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 pounded.

Coal is exactly coal.

Coal cakes are no longer a strange thing.

Carts of coal are brought back to Heiyun Mountain, and some yellow mud is added to make coal cakes. They are placed in a pit and can burn slowly all night, keeping the whole room warm.

The only hidden danger was poisoning. Li Yue strictly ordered that every room must be ventilated, and also asked the women's camp to patrol day and night. Anyone found to be burning coal behind closed doors would be whipped twenty times in public.

The heating problem in Heiyun Mountain has been solved.

Li Yue was not the only one who used his brains on the mountain. The ingenious women made a kind of straw clothing using dried autumn grass.

Li Yue tried it, and found that there was no need to worry about its appearance. It was suitable for daily travel, kept warm, and protected from rain. However, it was a bit prickly and very uncomfortable to wear.

However, given the conditions on the mountain, there are only a few solutions, and many of the new refugees are still bare buttocks and feet.

After they were given straw clothes and sandals, they immediately beamed with joy.

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

Li Yue was assigned a leopard skin fur and a wolf skin hakama.

The winter in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was far colder than that in later generations. After the autumn harvest, the north wind swept across the earth, making it colder day by day.

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

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

The harsh living environment makes everyone's will stronger.

Even Li Yue felt that he had become tenacious.

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

Work 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 we provide them with a stable environment, they will not be able to overcome any great difficulties.

New refugees are coming south intermittently. Different from the large scale of 20,000 people last time, there are only three to five hundred people coming.

Baiyun Mountain has long formed a set of procedures, including selection, isolation, cleaning, brewing medicine, cooking porridge...

There is no need for Li Yue to take action, the people from the women's camp and the medical camp will handle it properly.

Of the team of more than 500 people, only 300 to 400 people could survive. Many of them had already run out of fuel on the way south. Even if there had not been the plague, they would have died long ago.

Not only Heiyun Mountain was infected, but a large-scale plague also broke out in the neighboring Jingxian County.

The scouts came to report that more than four to five hundred corpses were thrown into the moat every day.

All the people in Gong County in the north who bore the brunt of the attack died.

The Goushi family in the west closed the city gate early and escaped this disaster.

"General, there is a serious epidemic in Beijing County, and the county magistrate Han Xu sent people to ask for help." Xin Can said with cupped hands.

Heiyun Mountain is under the jurisdiction of Jing County, so he naturally knows what is happening on the mountain.

Li Yue had a good impression of Jingxian County, and the "protection fee" he should pay was not missing.

"What's the point of rescue? Why not take advantage of this opportunity to capture Jing County?" Wei Shan's eyes widened.

The population on the mountain has increased dramatically, and the cultivated fields around Sishui Castle are not enough. There are still many fields in the north, but they have been washed away by the Yellow River. In addition, the north is too close to Xingyang City, and Li Yue does not dare to develop there for the time being.

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

Wei Shan sneered and said: "Who said we are gentlemen? We are bandits and refugees! This is what we eat, so why do we need to go through a thankless effort to save Jingxian County? Heiyun Mountain doesn't have that much property!"

Most of the other generals also agreed to capture Jing County.

After all, it is a place to stay.
Chapter completed!