Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 205 Shanyue of Jing County

This Jing County is called "when Wu and Yue meet, it is the throat of Shechi" in ancient records, and it has been an important place where Wu, Yue, and Chu competed since ancient times.

But in fact, Jing County is a poor county in the east of the Yangtze River, because Jing County is located in the northern part of the southern Anhui mountainous area, with many mountains and little land in the territory. flow through the county.

It can be said that the government of Jingxian County can only control some places around the county seat. Most of the other mountainous areas are controlled by Shanyue in the mountains.

Therefore, Jing County became a dangerous place where mountain bandits gathered. There was not enough land to cultivate, and not many merchants dared to break into such a den of thieves.

Zu Lang, as the commander-in-chief of Shanyue in Jing County, is actually the toubob who controls the real power in Jing County, controlling the population of more than [-] Shanyue hidden in the mountains and villages in Jing County.

The population of more than [-] Shanyue people was also slowly condensed. At first, the Shanyue people in the mountains of Jing County were composed of people from various parts of Danyang County to avoid exorbitant taxes and corvee, and then hid in the mountains of Jing County. In fact, some of them were bandits. Element.

But later, as the number of Shanyue in Jingxian County increased, the Shanyue in Jingxian County had to go out to plunder in order to make a living, so he took many people outside and returned to the mountains in Jingxian County just like Zulang came out of the mountain this time.

In this way, the number of Shanyue in the mountains of Jing County has increased, and now it has become tens of thousands of people. Although there may be many old and weak women and children among them, young and middle-aged people also account for a large proportion.

This is also why the last time Zu Lang Shuai Jingxian Shanyue attacked Lingyang, he could easily create a scale of 6 to [-] people.

Now that Zu Lang has become the commander-in-chief of Shanyue in Jing County, he is naturally the boss of the more than [-] Shanyue people. It can be said that the Shanyue villages in Jing County, including the surrounding counties and other mountains connected to the mountains of Jing County, are all in name. It is under the control of Zu Lang.

Therefore, when Zu Lang returned to the mountains of Jing County, it was as if he had returned to his own home.

Along the way, Zu Lang was able to find various villages in the mountains to spend the night. Of course, after Zu Lang returned to the mountains of Jing County, he also ordered all the villages in the mountains in the name of Shanyue Zongshuai to let the leaders of each village go to Zu Lang's. Dazhai went to a meeting to discuss matters.

And this time, on the way back to his Dazhai, Zu Lang deliberately made a detour, showing the strength of the [-] Shanyue soldiers he brought back to many Shanyue villages in the mountains of Jing County.

Let the Shanyue mountain people in these villages can clearly see the whole set of Han army equipment and weapons under his Shanyue soldiers, and also see how elite the eight thousand Shanyue soldiers are after training.

So not long after Zu Lang entered the mountains of Jing County, the news of Zu Lang's return quickly spread to all the villages in the mountain, and the people Zu Lang brought back were all wearing official military equipment, all wearing leather armor, holding Words about swords and shields and strong bows on their backs also spread throughout the cottages, big and small.

This news inevitably set off a stormy sea in the mountains of Jing County.

Many people still don't know what Zu Lang is going to do when he comes back this time. They just feel that Zu Lang will definitely cause something big when he comes back this time. Therefore, many people can't help but pass news to each other in secret, preparing to form an alliance to deal with what Zu Lang may bring. Something unexpected happened.

Zhu Wei had already prepared for all this.

At the same time, after Zhu Wei really saw the so-called Shanyue cottage in the mountains of Jing County, he also had some confidence in the strategy of relocating the Shanyue people of Jing County to Yuzhang.

This real Shanyue cottage is not a village that is dressed up as a film and television base in many TVs. In fact, many places say it is a cottage, but it actually looks like a settlement of mountain people in the mountains.

The so-called cottage is like a refugee camp surrounded by a wooden fence to prevent wild animals from coming in. Inside the wooden fence, many villagers just built a shack or thatched house as their own place to live. There is no plan, and garbage and sewage are flowing across the village, making it almost impossible for anyone to set foot in the village.

There are also quite a few people who live in caves. In fact, those who can live in caves are already leaders of some status in the cottage.

This shows that the life of the Shanyue mountain people living in the mountains of Jing County is really not very good.

In addition, although Zhu Wei found terraced fields and the like outside some cottages, the number of these terraced fields was not very large, and the scale was not large. There were small pieces in the east and one in the west, and the growth of the crops in the fields was average.

With such a field harvest, I am afraid that even the rations of the mountain people in the village may not be guaranteed.

There are only a few cottages that seem to be of some scale. Just like the Black Bear Village in Zhongling Mountain, houses such as bamboo and wooden hanging towers were erected, and open valleys can also be found outside the villages. , some fields can be cultivated.

But most of these cottages are the main villages of some Shanyue forces in the mountains, and even so, they can barely feed the people in the villages.

Therefore, Shanyue hiding in the mountains has to be like a foreign race in the northwest. Every year at a certain time, he has to go out of the mountain to plunder and get back some food and money, so that Shanyue can spend the year safely.

Otherwise, the food grown in the mountains would not be able to meet the living ration needs of 10,000+ people.

After listening to Zu Lang's introduction and seeing the living conditions of Shanyue with his own eyes, Zhu Wei felt that if these Shanyue people could get a stable environment to live in, they would be willing to live in the mountains.

The only difficulty now is how to win the trust of these Shanyue mountain people, how to make some Shanyue mountain people who enjoy vested interests agree to let the Shanyue mountain people under their control move outside to live.

Fortunately, Zhu Wei now has the help of Zulang, the original Shanyue Zongshuai of Jing County. Otherwise, even if Zhu Wei entered the mountains of Jing County, he would only be blinded by blind eyes. To forcibly relocate the people out of the mountains.

Probably on the 14th day after Zhu Wei left Yuzhang, Zhu Wei finally came to Zu Lang's so-called Dazhai in the mountains of Jingxian County.

This Dazhai, the residence of Shanyue Zongshuai in Jing County, is equivalent to the status of the imperial palace of an outside emperor. Dazhai is built on a cliff with a height of 400 to [-] meters, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

There are also many checkpoints built on the mountain road leading to Dazhai, which can resist the invasion of foreign enemies layer by layer.

On the top of the cliff where Dazhai is located, there is another cliff that divides Dazhai into two entrances, the front and the back. There are iron chain wooden bridges connecting the cliffs. If foreign enemies really enter the village, Zu Lang can cut off the iron chain wooden bridge , protecting the remaining family members and hiding in the back village isolated from the outside world.

In addition, Zu Lang also told Zhu Wei privately that in fact, there are secret passages in his back village that can lead to the bottom of the cliff, so that he is not afraid of being trapped in the back village and has no way to escape, and is trapped to death in the mountain village. .

However, although Zu Lang's Dazhai focused on defense and safety, there was no place to grow food, and all food had to be transported from other villages.

Even the water source can only be obtained from a pool on the cliff, so this Dazhai can only accommodate two to 3000 people at ordinary times...

(End of this chapter)