In the early morning of the next day, Liu Fangliang led his troops out of the mountains and surrounded Qinghua Town.
Dozens of garrison soldiers stationed in separate defenses were taken prisoner in their sleep.
The town of Thanh Hoa was suddenly in a state of panic.
Each merchant began to "pay taxes" in fear, paying a total of more than 10,000 yuan.
The Ambassador and Inspector of the Taxation Bureau has more than 1,300 taels of public and private silver and four horses. Let's go!
There are one hundred and twenty taels of public and private silver in the Qinhe River, and five horses, mules and donkeys. Let's go!
There are two women who were kidnapped from the chicken yard. Get away!
The madam dares to let the dog bite people, take the dog away! Take away all the dozen serious chickens he raises! Take away the gold, silver, jewelry and large ingots!
The bully has a clothing store. Although the old clothes are a bit dirty, the cotton cloth can be taken back to store the soles of the shoes; the silk can be used as bulletproof vests, so you can use them!
Pawn shop, salt shop, silk and satin shop...
“Are there enough empty parking spaces?”
"enough!"
The tables, chairs, benches, pots and pans in the restaurant are all gone!
The bully still has a big house, so he rushes in, rummages through the cabinets, and gets rid of everything!
Silk panties? Take them off and go!
...go away!
...go away!
...go away!
There are more than 600 stones of grain and more than 3,000 bunches of grass in the official reserve warehouse. Let's go!
Each county has various warehouses, including temporary warehouses, Changping warehouses, Fengchu warehouses, convenience warehouses, free warehouses, etc.
He kept a warehouse in the city to store grain to pay the officials and the government's daily expenses.
Other warehouses have different functions and are mostly located outside the city. For example, the convenience warehouse is for the convenience of the people to send and receive grain nearby; the reserve warehouse is for disaster preparation and relief.
There are thirty-two warehouses in Thanh Hoa Town, which can store tens of thousands of grains at most. Unfortunately, the revolutionary army arrived at the wrong time.
Before noon, the two dispatched teams returned one after another. All 136 horses and mules from the nearby Wu'an Station and Qinhuai Station were taken away.
The revolutionary army marched northward into the mountains.
The shopkeepers stood at the door of the shop waving triangular red flags to "send off" the King of the Mountain.
This flag is valuable, some cost dozens of taels, some cost thousands of taels. It should be collected properly.
In the words of Mr. Shorthair, "The ax splits the new world, and the sickle cuts the old world!"
Those who hold the ax and sickle flag are good citizens. If other bandits come to harass Thanh Hoa Town in the future, the revolutionary army will definitely come forward.
Shopkeepers, wipe your tears and just believe it.
Liu Tuhao was also relieved. Fortunately, he borrowed the money, otherwise the consequences would be unpredictable.
When he was happy, he gave two taels of "thank you gift" to Xing Xihuai, the head of the nursing home, and warned him not to leak the news.
The status of a caregiver is not lowly. It doesn't mean that just because I care for a home for you, you can look down upon me.
The relationship between the two parties is not an employment relationship in name. Nor can the military personnel who protect the hospital be regarded as slaves. They must treat each other as friends. In this case, the monthly salary must be called a "thank you gift."
If a big family member despises the nursing home, he is likely to turn around and leave due to his military temperament. It would be a courtesy for him not to cause trouble to the big family member.
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Although Changping Town is located in the mountains, it is rare to find large areas of flat land. As we go further, the road conditions deteriorate sharply.
There are eight throat passages between Shanxi, Hebei and Henan provinces.
From south to north they are Zhiguanxing, Taihangxing, Baixing, Fukouxing, Jingxing, Feihuxing, Puyinxing and Junduxing.
Taihangxing is located in the lofty mountains, with silk-like channels and winding mountain roads forty miles below Tianjingguan.
In history, 11 emperors once stopped here, and hundreds of literati chanted this place.
"Warring States Policy": The key to winning the world is to block the danger of the sheep's intestines and block the mouth of Taihang.
Cao Cao: Going north to the Taihang Mountains is so difficult and so majestic. The Yangchangsaka is so difficult that the chariot wheels will destroy it.
Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty: The fire dragon and the bright bird path ride on the sheep's intestines.
Li Bai: In the fifth month of the month, I pray to you to go to Taihang, destroying the wheel but not saying that the sheep's intestines are suffering.
Bai Juyi: I have heard that this is dangerous, so I will go alone now. The horse's hooves are frozen and slippery, and the sheep's intestines cannot be climbed.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin went north to conquer Li Jun's rebellion. Facing the dangerous and steep mountain road, he personally dismounted his horse and carried stones to pave the road, and finally arrived at Zezhou City.
Wokuotai, Emperor Taizong of the Yuan Dynasty...
From the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, wars and wars broke out here for thousands of years, and the smoke never cleared, making it a battleground for military strategists.
During the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Ningshan Guards led people to cut rocks and open up the mountain to make roads flat, so that "chariots and riders could pass through it."
Not far north from Changping Village is Shishili Sheep Intestine.
The commander-in-chief personally wrote the four characters "Guyangchangzaka", which made people carve a stone carving on the cliff as a souvenir.
A few miles ahead is the first pass, Wanzi City, which controls the charge of Huaize. It was first built by Guo Ziyi in the Tang Dynasty and serves as the junction of Shanxi and Henan provinces.
Li Zicheng immediately copied a poem: "The city is as big as a bowl and stands on a high mountain. The Liang and Jin Dynasties called this pass the military corner. Today it is peaceful and the battlements are left. Although the pass is dangerous, it is thrown into the middle."
The city was as big as a bowl, built on a cliff, and was garrisoned by only a dozen or so people. Mr. Ren was captured by an advance team pretending to be a passing merchant, and was waiting on the roadside to be rewarded.
There is no need to worry about the beacon signal on the top of the mountain. With the passage of time, the piers and abutments are more completely abandoned than those in northern Shaanxi.
There was no one on the Panshi Great Wall built during the Jiajing period.
Going forward, the mountain road becomes difficult——
There are sheep intestine slopes, and the road is like a winding sheep intestine.
The twists and turns are insufficient, the steepness is steep and the journey is hesitant.
There are no trees above to help, and there are rocks below.
One step and one sigh, how can one be caught off guard?
Passers-by looked out for each other, and cars often broke axles.
I heard it with my ears when I was young, but now I see it with my eyes.
If you don't take risks, you will know how to live happily.
This road has the best conditions among the roads leading from Shangdang to Henan.
After walking for more than 20 miles, it was almost evening and the revolutionary army set up camp in the town of blocking cars.
"The post tower is elevated with the clouds. When the dawn comes, you won't be lost in your thoughts. The rolling curtain is completely free of the sweltering heat. When you lean on the railing, you will feel that the mountains are low. The idle flowers are falling to the edge, and the wild birds prefer to sing in quiet places. It has been a dream for sixteen years,
Who will be the next generation’s successor?”
Poor Yu Qian, you didn't smoke, drink or perm your hair, but what you did was so big that you were beheaded after seizing the door.
I didn't expect you to leave a poem on the wall here. Commander Li immediately copied the poem to echo it.
When we set off the next day, more than thirty horses and mules at Xingjin Station were taken away; a dozen postmen volunteered to be taken away.
The postmaster was holding twenty taels of silver and bursting into tears.
Ahead is Tianjingguan, and the road behind is easier.
"In the depths of the clouds on the Taihang Mountains, who builds a female wall into the clouds?"
It is said that Confucius wanted to pass Tianjing Pass, but was stopped by two children on the way. 1 Wang Shizhen: There is an ancient temple on the road, with a carved stone cliff saying "the place where Confucius returned to his carriage." According to Zhao, Confucius returned by the river.
This trip is far away from the river, so I will add a few words to it.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, his 19th generation grandson built a Confucius Temple here to commemorate his ancestor's "entering the carriage" experience.
During the Tang Dynasty, his 38th generation grandson was an official in Zezhou. He took the initiative to be demoted and built a residence next to the Confucius Temple. After the old man died, Bai Juyi even cried once. "I am a person who knows Kan, and I burst into tears when I heard about it."
It is indeed a thousand-year-old family.
The Kong family even said arrogantly: "There are only three families in the world. Mine is just like Jiangxi Zhang and Fengyang Zhu. Jiangxi Zhang has Taoist morale; Fengyang Zhu has a bad family spirit."
So arrogant!
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Li Zicheng copied three more sixteen-character poems at Tianjingguan and carved them on stone as a souvenir——
One: Mountain, the horse is riding fast but has not yet dismounted from the saddle. Looking back in shock, it is three feet away from the sky.
Second: Mountains, seas, rivers, and huge waves. The galloping horses are racing, and the battle between thousands of horses is still going on.
The third one: The mountain pierced the blue sky and the eel was still intact. The sky was about to fall, so I relied on it to hold on.
"I have to carve the words for you! I may come back someday."
"Absolutely. General, just don't worry."
Tianjing Guanzi took one hundred taels of silver, and each of the defenders received five taels of silver as a reward to send the revolutionary army off.
"Brothers must come here often!" The defenders' reluctance to leave was beyond words.
Further out of the mountain is Zezhou (Jincheng), where the Ningshan Guards' Yamen is located.
The Ningshan Guard belongs to the Houjun Dudufu in the Zhili area, and its official residence is located in Zezhou, Shanxi. However, most of the guards and soldiers under its command are in Henan and Hebei, distributed in Junxian, Xinxiang, and Huixian.
There are five places in Jia County and Hua County. 1. Hua County and Jun County were affiliated to Daming Prefecture in Hebei Province in the Ming Dynasty.
As for the reason for this arrangement, Jiao Hong said, "It also means to control each other."
Therefore, the Ningshan Guards in front had few soldiers, but it frightened them so much that the revolutionary army turned northwest at the intersection.
Passing Tianshui Ridge, Donglingkou to Shanglichuan, passing through Yedi, Wangtou and Ancun, the revolutionary army entered Yangcheng territory before dark.
It's a pity that Wang Jiayin, a great hero of his generation, was beheaded here.
Rest in peace, Old Wang! The murderer has escaped and the monk cannot escape from the temple. Sooner or later he will return to his hometown. We will kill him in a few years.
The large group of carriages and horses rested for a while, and then Liu Fangliang led them on their way through the night. It was better to stay out of sight and keep a low profile.
Li Zicheng had a good night's sleep and stopped by to visit celebrities in various villages the next day.
Going up the Qin River, we first arrived at Runcheng Town.
This place has been known as "Iron Metallurgical Town" since ancient times.
The annual iron output in Yangcheng County is nearly 8 million jin, and Runcheng is the leader.
The crucible iron-making technology in this area has a long history, and coupled with the high-quality orchid charcoal, the ironware produced is famous all over the world.
In fact, there is a lot of steel produced, but without much distinction, it is sometimes mixed with iron.
The crucible is about the same size as a medicine pot, slightly taller. One pot can produce about six or seven kilograms of iron. There are many pots in one furnace.
The town was filled with fireworks and the streets were crowded with people.
This place only produces iron plows and iron kettles for boiling water, with an annual output of two hundred thousand each. It also produces iron bells, iron lions, iron Buddhas and other large items weighing thousands of kilograms.
Runcheng is not only a distribution center for nearby coal, iron, sulfur, silk, porcelain, and medicine, but also a distribution and transportation center for commodities from Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Henan, and other places.
Every day, cars and horses rustled, and two to three thousand livestock and carts kept coming and going. People in the streets hawked food and burned it until midnight, and it was very prosperous.
Jia Fugui of Duanshi Town received the instruction and rebuilt his own ironware workshop here.
Li Zicheng arrived and the fat man was supervising the work. This chapter has been completed!
