The Du family delivered the last batch of grain before the year, a total of 30,000 dendrobium, and all of it was delivered to Jinmenwu.
The rest will have to wait until next spring.
Luoshui is actually navigable.
In history, when Liu Yu attacked here, he sent people to cut down trees and build ships, and sailed upstream to see how far they could sail.
Therefore, after the spring thaw and the water level rose, it was more convenient to transport supplies by wooden boats and the transport volume was larger.
Shao Xun has just led a group of refugees to Jinmenwu, a total of two hundred households, from Yuzhou.
Xianbei was plundered, and the people were miserable, but Sima Yue was sitting in Xuchang, unable to do anything.
Every time they enter the Central Plains to fight, it is a good opportunity for the Xianbei people to strengthen themselves.
In the Battle of Luoyang the year before last, the Xianbei people looted many goods, including women and craftsmen, but Sima Ying was unable to plunder them.
Inviting him to come to Yuzhou this time will inevitably lead to another disaster.
From the mouths of the first batch of refugees who fled to Luoyang, Shao Xun already had a rough understanding of the situation: Sima Yue rewarded 50,000 pieces of silk in one go, but the Xianbei people were not satisfied and continued to plunder everywhere.
There are also rumors that the Xianbei people will move westward after the new year and prepare to march into Guanzhong. The war will not stop.
"Although life is difficult, we still have to celebrate the festival." Today is the Laba Festival, and Shao Xun personally came to Jinmenwu to take everyone to celebrate the festival and have fun together.
He didn't do this out of nowhere.
Why do people below recognize you and where does your authority come from? This is a complicated question.
According to Shao Xun, sharing joy with them, suffering with them, working with them, training with them, managing their lives together, bringing them wealth and wealth together, and forming a strong common memory are important ways to improve authority.
In this common memory, you'd better not be absent.
A beautiful small courtyard has been built in Jinmenwu, with gardens in front and back, completely imitating Yunzhongwu.
When Shao Xun was inspecting Yunzhongwu, he discovered that the floor of the bedroom in the small courtyard was newly paved with bricks.
He quietly took out a piece, carved the word "Pei" on the back, put it back, and then ordered the sergeant to guard it and not allow anyone to enter.
When he came to Jinmenwu today, he dug out bricks again. The engraved dagger was wandering in the air. One moment it seemed to be writing the word "Yu", the next it seemed to be writing the word "乐", and it was a bit like "Lu". Finally, it finally
"Happiness" is engraved on it.
The reason why I want to engrave Yu is because Yu Liang is here today.
At this moment, he was holding his nose and walking among the large tanks.
After doing the "bad thing", Shao Xun came over and said, "Yuan Gui often eats this when he is sober, but now he dislikes it. Why?"
Yu Liang put down his hand in embarrassment.
In the mid-winter month, people like to pick frosted watercress (predecessor of cabbage), Jingjing (water shield), sunflower (winter amaranth) and other miscellaneous vegetables. After drying them, they put them in a large tank with salt water and use a stone.
Press it tightly and cover it with a lid, and the result is "Xian Ying".
Xianjing is golden yellow, and its rhizomes are called "golden hairpins", which are both sweet and crispy, and sour and delicious. From the princes and ministers to the common people, everyone eats it. Even the army often carries this thing with them when they go on expeditions.
It can be called the national food.
Shao Xun also likes to eat.
He even had a bad idea to ask Concubine Pei and Queen Sheep, who grew up in fine clothes and fine food, to make salted glutinous rice for him.
If you do a good job, you will be rewarded with a fur, and then sit down and peel garlic!
"Lang Jun, there is news from Yingchuan." Yu Liang said when he walked to an uninhabited corner.
The mountain breeze rustled and the pine waves almost drowned out their voices.
The newly arrived refugees from Yuzhou timidly looked at the busy people in the village. After eating the millet porridge, those who picked vegetables and those who chopped firewood merged into the collective labor.
Shao Xun withdrew his gaze and asked: "How?"
"The previous batch of armors should have been made by people from the Xun family in Yingyin, but they may not be the master's family." Yu Liang said.
In fact, their family is not considered the master's family among the Yanling Yu family.
The Pei family in Hedong only lived apart for three generations, but many big families separated within two generations. Yu Liang's family is now a branch.
The Xun family in Yingyin has a larger family business, more people, and many branches are quite powerful, but this time I don’t know which branch is responsible.
"I guess so." Shao Xun nodded: "The closest ones to Yushanwu are the Yingyin Xun family and the Changshe Zhong family."
"There is another matter." Yu Liang said seriously: "Someone in the clan asked, Lang Jun, are you coming to Yingchuan to build a dock? After all, Yushan dock is very close to Yingchuan."
"You have a message for me." Shao Xun said: "I have no interest in Yingchuan. It would be a great kindness if we could help each other with Yushanwu Watch."
"Yes." Yu Liang nodded.
"A member of the Yu family..." Shao Xun hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why do you ask this?"
Yu Liang glanced at him and whispered: "Has Mr. Lang forgotten the Xuchang arsenal case? Some people in the clan speculate that you took at least five thousand pairs of iron armor, and they still want to buy them from you."
"Why are you in such a hurry to buy iron armor? Isn't leather armor good too?"
"Of course I bought them all." Yu Liang sighed and said: "Xianbei raided Yuzhou, and more than two thousand horses rushed into Yanling. Many of my Yu family's villagers who were opening the river were robbed. Now I am very disappointed with Sikong.
The scoldings are endless. Since the imperial court cannot be counted on, we can only rely on ourselves."
"On the other hand -" Yu Liang said again: "Others don't know about Yushanwu, but my Yu family still knows about it. There are more than two thousand households of fort residents and hundreds of elite soldiers. Their strength cannot be underestimated. Lang Jun is here
There are also three manors in Luoyang: Jinguyuan, Panyuan and Shaoyuan. This is a powerful force in Yuzhou. There are many poor families and small surnames who don't have so many private soldiers."
After saying this, Yu Liang glanced at Jinmenwu subconsciously.
He is a smart man. Shao Xun specially took him to Yunzhong, Kinmen, and Tanshan Sanwu. His intention to show his strength was very obvious.
With three large manors and four large forts, it would not be a problem to recruit five to six thousand men, not to mention an unknown number of elite private soldiers.
If he wanted, these thousands of people could wear iron armor and march across Yuzhou - even if they couldn't capture Wubao, it would still be scary enough.
After experiencing the great plunder of Xianbei, the host family has become more pragmatic. If they have the strength, they can cooperate.
Shao Xun nodded slightly.
If there is any noble family in the world who knows his background best, it must be the Pei family and the Yu family.
Yushanwu was originally built by Yu Gun, but later most of them dispersed to other places. Among the hundreds of households who stayed in the fort, there must be some who were closely related to the Yu family.
To a certain extent, these people were spies, but Shao Xun was too lazy to identify them.
Ever since we made the decision to use Guangchengze as our core base, the Yingchuan Family, just around the corner, has become an unavoidable topic.
The traditional trick of pulling together one faction and fighting another will never go out of style.
The Yanling Yu clan may not be like them now, and cooperation may be limited, but as long as their attitude is not hostile, even if it is just neutral, it will be meaningful to Shao Xun.
In the aristocratic family's nest in Yingchuan, he was eager to open a gap to avoid problems in the future.
"How is it over there in Ji County?" Shao Xun asked again, "Have Wenjun and the others come back?"
Yu Liang's heart moved.
Lang Jun didn't ask anyone else, but only asked Wen Jun. What did this mean?
Wenjun is only ten years old after the Chinese New Year...
Yu Liang was a little confused and replied: "We have arrived in Luoyang. The situation in Hebei is too chaotic. My father relied on the thousand old soldiers given by Lang Jun to defend the county with all his life. But there were many traps in other counties.
Countless county and county officials met a miserable end."
There was too much chaos in Hebei, and Yu Chen, the governor of Ji County, was not confident that things would go smoothly. Therefore, when the situation stabilized, he immediately sent his wife and children back to Luoyang.
"Just come back." Shao Xun said with a smile, "I'll pay you a visit during the first month of the year."
"Easy to say, easy to say." Yu Liang said thoughtfully.
There was a call not far away, and the two ended their conversation and walked over.
Lu Heigou, the master of Jinmenwu, was holding a sharp knife, grabbed a whining yellow dog, and stabbed it quickly.
The yellow dog screamed and died on the spot.
After the blood was drained, everyone processed it while it was still hot. After a while, the yellow dog turned into a pile of meat in the basin and was placed in front of the altar.
The black dog kills the yellow dog, neatly!
Shao Xun smiled and patted Lu Heigou on the shoulder and said, "When will we worship the Kitchen God?"
"Almost." Lu Heigou looked anxiously into the distance.
At the foot of the mountain, the screams of the fat pig were earth-shattering, almost shaking the snow off the trees.
It is a tradition to worship the Kitchen God on the twelfth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Some people offer dolphin and wine as sacrifices, and some people kill yellow dogs as sacrifices, which are called yellow sheep.
Jinmenwu's conditions are not good and it should not hold such a festival.
A group of refugees have already experienced enough of the pain of being displaced, and have become extremely humble, as if nothing mattered as long as they could survive.
Shao Xun asked people to kill ten pigs and seven or eight yellow dogs, and held a sacrifice. The purpose was to tell the refugees that you are human beings, not just beasts with the instinct to feed themselves. After arriving at Jinmenwu, you can make a living and work hard.
, life will get better little by little, and you will pick up all the etiquette of being a human being again.
Pork and dog meat were quickly brought out and placed in front of the altar.
Shao Xun did his duty and stood at the front, reciting a congratulatory message loudly in front of a thousand households in Jinmenwu: "In recent years, the people of Fushi have suffered from famine. After receiving the royal rent, they will not have enough food to eat."
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His voice was mellow and full of emotion.
The residents of the fort were not well educated and could not quite understand the congratulations, but in the solemn atmosphere, everyone subconsciously restrained themselves, stood solemnly, and listened silently.
As I listened, a strange feeling gradually arose in my heart.
It turns out that we now have something to rely on, and we no longer have to struggle to survive alone as a family or even as an individual.
This feeling of having a collective and an organization to rely on is difficult to describe, but it is wonderful.
Everyone enjoys this feeling and subconsciously wants to maintain this hard-won collective.
No one wants to experience this feeling of being isolated and helpless, feeling helpless every day, and feeling helpless. No one wants to experience it again, really.
The person standing at the front and reciting the congratulatory message loudly is destined to become the most profound memory of many fort residents for many years to come.
Chapter completed!