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Chapter fifty-one

New swallows carry mud, tender willows spit green. The spring of the six years (183) of light passes by the hard work of the farmers. The Taihang Mountains in early summer are decorated with lush flowers, plants and trees.

Zhao Yun leaned beneath a pine tree on the top of the mountain and looked out the mountain for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking at this moment.

It has been more than three months since he entered the mountain. When he first received the "Flying Tiger Camp", the two groups of heavy armored spear team and light armored bow and feather team had only about 400 people. This was the scale of Guan Yu's reduction in personnel in the New Year's Eve after Guan Yu repeatedly attacked nearby villages and expanded the scale of nearly 200 talents.

Guan Yu's conditions for selecting "Flying Tiger Camp" team members are very harsh. He can stay with ten moves under Guo Changzi or Hu Cheer, and be the leader with ten moves under Guan Yu.

After Zhao Yun took over, he implemented the principle of preferring nothingness rather than being bad. When he entered the mountain, his senior brother told him that this "Flying Tiger Camp" was a seed. One day in the future, the "Shangdang Five Tigers" will lead thousands of people and horses to scatter on the grassland outside Yanmen Pass, and the "Flying Tiger Camp" is the backbone force built for the future cavalry.

Zhao Yun and Zhao Xing were born in the same year. Zhao Xing was in the year and Zhao Yun was at the end of the year. Although they spent a short time together, Zhao Yun respected his cheap senior brother and his current "third brother".

For nothing else, Zhao Xing spared no effort to accommodate the refugees who came to join Wohu Village, so that the displaced and helpless people could see the hope of living again; for Zhao Xing never put on a high-ranking air, often having a smile on his face with Guan Yu and Xu Huang, and he would not be angry even if he lost; for Zhao Xing could be teased by Xu Wanlin and Zhao Yu and a few little girls without getting angry.

He felt that the third brother was a perseverance but not stubborn person. Getting along with him was like bathing in the early summer sun, warm and not aggressive. Because he kept in mind the instructions of his third brother, Zhao Yun further promoted the bandit suppression cause of the "Flying Tiger Camp" after entering the mountain!

Zhao Yun, who had been learning skills in the mountains with his master, entered the mountains, just like a fish entering the river, happily throwing out waves. Zhao Yun fully adopted tactics such as "shocking the enemy, showing weakness to lure the enemy, dividing and annihilation of the enemy, dividing and killing the enemy, and attacking and destroying the enemy at night", and sorting out the bandits within a radius of 300 miles of Changzi County. Even the horse thieves moving on the plains were not spared.

After three months of clearance, Zhao Yun's team has now exceeded 1,000. These people are by no means just filling in the numbers. They have all gone through tests and practical training. When released, they are tigers that choose people to eat. The "cats and dogs" in this section of Taihang Mountains in Shangdang County have been sorted out. Next, Zhao Yun plans to go north and clear them to Leping County in one breath.

Zhao Yun looked into the distance, but remembered that Zhao Xing would take his family to Luoyang to open the "Zuixianlou" semi-colon. Zhao Yu, who couldn't stay idle, also wanted to follow him. According to the third brother's style of doing things, this time he went to Luoyang to open a shop and sell alcohol was a cover, and "trafficking people" was the real purpose.

Thinking that except for himself, the rest of the people were gathered together by Zhao Xing, and Zhao Yun's mouth showed an unaware smile.

It is said that "the new official takes three fires." Looking at a large group of mobs and the newly appointed county magistrate, General Guan Yu was very angry, so he naturally lit a few more fires.

The first thing to do was to destroy the mediocre people. Shangdang County, which was organized with 5,000 people, had a vacancies and was appointed as a servant of Zhang's family to impersonate the number of people to receive wages, but in fact, less than 3,000 people! A group of elderly, weak, sick and disabled people, either resigned voluntarily or were ordered to be eliminated, and in short, only 1,000 people were left.

The second fire is to replace the general. It is still the old method. Only those who can take ten moves under Guan Yu can be the leader. After a battle, Guan Yu really discovered several available people.

The third fire was to adjust the team. Although there were only one thousand people, Guan Yu still divided the team into five parts, namely the "front, middle, back, left, right" five battalions, with two hundred people per battalion. The front battalion was led by the army Sima Xu Huang and arranged as spear soldiers; the back battalion was led by Zhou Cang and arranged as sword and shield soldiers; the left battalion was led by Pei Yuanshao and arranged as archers; the right battalion was led by the newly elected Wang Lu (name Wenshu), arranged as long halberd soldiers; the middle battalion was led by Guan Yu and arranged as cavalry.

The fourth fire, the devil training. Since last year, Zhao Xing has demonstrated the so-called "Zhao's body-building fist" (actually three sets of military body-building fist) to Guan Yu, which happened to be used to train ordinary soldiers. Under Zhao Xing's suggestion, soldiers must undergo cross-country training every day, and the distance is not far. It takes only 40 or 50 miles to Wohuzhuang from Changzi County to get back and forth (more than 20 kilometers), which takes half a day.

The fifth fire is to recruit soldiers and horses. Although the county soldiers are not Zhao Xing's own team, Zhao Xing does not feel sorry for spending money. Anyway, how much you spend, Jia Xu will return it to Zhao Xing from the county's tax income. As long as you can buy weapons, armor, war horses, Zhao Xing strongly supports it. Anyway, Zhao Xing guards Zuixianlou and Xujiajiufang, the old hen that can only lay golden eggs, for a while, Zhao Xing will not have to abandon his gods for spending money.

There was a sentence in the recruitment notice posted by Guan Yu: "Anyone who passes the assessment and once hired, the future expenses in Zuixianlou can be 20% off, and the promotion to the leader will be 30% off!" Good guy, after seeing this recruitment notice, I don't know how many guys who drooled habitually when they heard the long river bells rushed to the military camp to sign up. In less than a month, Guan Yu recruited two thousand indicators of the first military expansion plan. Looking at the three thousand army with a strict military appearance (in Guan Yu's opinion, 3,000 people are enough to do a lot of things, except to enter Luoyang to grab the palace), Guan Yu's heart finally dropped a little.

Zhang Liao ranked the youngest among the "Five Tigers of Shangdang", which made him very frustrated. There is a way to be frustrated. Who made him the youngest and the weakest martial arts skills? No, it should be the weakest strength. We are not worse than the "third brother" Zhao Xing.

After the first charity, the five brothers fought against each other on the ring. Seeing Guan Yu's strength and Zhao Yun's lightness, Zhang Liao knew that he was not an opponent and consciously challenged Zhao Xing, who he thought he could win.

Unexpectedly, in just a few days, under the guidance of Zhao Yun, Zhao Xing's gunshot skills were both offensive and defensive, and he had a faint overlord power, which made him stand on the left and right, and eventually he was defeated.

Although he was defeated, Zhang Liao's fighting spirit even more aroused. He took a free time and returned to Mayi, telling his father about the Zhang family's original conspiracy to embezzle Wohuzhuang and Lijiazhuang, and found the eldest lady of the Zhang family to confront him. After asking, the eldest lady of the Zhang family was speechless and ashamed. When he told the eldest lady of the Zhang family that her brother was still alive, the people of the Zhang family covered their faces and burst into tears, calling for blessings from heaven.

According to Zhao Xing's suggestion, Zhang Liao asked his father to transfer all the property in Mayi to Zhang Bingkun's descendants for free. At first, Zhang Liao's father refused to do so, but after hearing that Zhao Xing could give Zhang Liao more land and houses in Changzi County, he happily agreed. To be honest, who would like to stay outside Yanmen Pass, which was invaded by the Xianbei people every year?

After the family moved to the country, Zhang Liao plunged into the Wohu Village and spent every day with his brothers from the "Wohu Camp" and had a lot of fun. Zhang Liao even brought Zhao Xing's story to the "Little Tiger Team" from Jia Mu, and learned the "Thirty-six Strategies of Zhao Family". It is said that Zhao Xing has now explained the stories of "guerrilla warfare" and "sparrow warfare" to the children!

Although he was very troubled by the lack of people under his command, Jia Xu's life is obviously getting better now. When Zhao Xing handed him a list, he handed him a thick stack of land deeds. Needless to say, these land deeds were the things that Zhang family treasury disappeared at the time.

Zhao Xing gave Jia Xu 500,000 mu of land and the remaining 200,000 mu of them to accommodate the families of civil and military officials who came to surrender in the future. For example, this time Zhang Liao moved his family and Zhao Xing picked up the land and divided it out 3,000 mu.

Everyone in Shangdang County knows where Zhao Xing’s land comes from, but no one dares to say a word. The people who were bullied by Zhang Bingkun’s family applauded. This really corresponds to the saying “A thief stole it and was beaten by a robber.” It makes sense that he always had a big fist.

After Jia Xu and Sima Zhi discussed, they decided 500,000 acres of fertile land as official land, and the refugees who scattered to Shangdang rented them in different parts according to their families and surnames. The rent was "twice every ten or two", which was not low or very high. When paying the rent, they only collected food.

At that time, Jia Xu asked about Zhao Xing about this matter, and Zhao Xing said, "Those who hand over to the government and leave enough for the village, the more left and the less left are their own!" Jia Xu shouted, "Miscellaneous", and then posted a notice requiring refugees to form a farm with more than 100 households, select the Zhuang Lao, build the farmhouse, and the farmhouse will set the proportion of grain to the farmhouse as a reserve for dealing with famine periods and difficulties.

Seeing this, many readers must have found that the game Jia Xu made is very similar to the "big collective" in later generations? By the way, this is the prototype of a people's commune improved by an unscrupulous boy. How do you say the original words? "If you have enough money to the country, if you have enough collectives, you will be your own land!"

According to Jia Xu's calculations, 500,000 mu of fertile land can support at least 100,000 people. The tenants of the Zhang family have transformed from being tenant farmers and slaves to civilians who directly paid food to the government. Due to population loss and abnormal death, the land desolation caused by land loss was completely governed by Shangdang. "Contracting the household" is a treasure that mobilizes the enthusiasm of farmers. As long as they are willing to endure hardships, sweat more, and harvest more crops are their own, and the enthusiasm of the villagers has been unprecedentedly improved.

While encouraging farming and hoarding grain, Jia Xu also vigorously improved the treatment of merchants according to Zhao Xing's suggestion, encouraged farmers to participate in the production and production of workshops, and encouraged caravans to return from Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Xuzhou and other places in the south, and to return from Xiliang, Xianbei and Qianghu. The governments all sent officers and soldiers to accompany and protect these caravans. The transported grain and horses were purchased at a certain price by the government, while Shangdang exported only two: furniture and soy wine. In the eyes of Zhao Xing and Jia Xu, piles of grain were wealth, and sheep of horses and cattle and sheep were strength.

Zhao Xing’s wish is very simple - there is food to eat, there is someone to come, and there is a horse to ride!

With everyone busy, he was so busy that he could not stand the noise of thousands of ducks in the back of his head, a boy who was not doing his job could not stand the noise of thousands of ducks in the backyard (some people say that a woman could withstand the noise of five hundred ducks). He really wanted to go to the capital to open his horizons. Under the guise of opening the third branch of the "Zuixianlou" in Luoyang, he took Li Jinsi, Myolie Wu, Xu Wanlin, Zhao Yu and followers Li Tiezhu, and others, under the escort of Yibaizhuang Ding, and rushed south to Jiguan.

Jiguan is located south of Shangdang County, looking south at the Yellow River, the Taihang Mountains to the east and Shouyang Mountain to the west. It is the only place for Bingzhou to enter and exit Sili Luoyang, and it plays a very important military role. Although there are Sili Henei County guarding in the north of Luoyang City, the two lines of defense that really block the cavalry of the Xianbei people in the north to the south are the first one, Yanmen Pass, and Ji Pass. Once Ji Pass is not protected, the capital will be in danger!

As he walked along the way, Zhao Xingzi had changed a lot when he lived in a hurry to join Lijiazhuang two years ago. Now he is wearing bright clothes and angry horses, singing and swallowing, urging in front of him and huddling, looking like a beautiful face.

What did Zhao Xing say? "We are going to the capital this time, and we want to make money from dignitaries and nobles, and we should not lose in momentum. We want to set off a trend in Luoyang City, attracting countless literati and poets, and dignitaries will compete to bow their backs!" For this reason, an unscrupulous boy also improvised a poem: "Let Huang Qingcang be crazy, and wash his feet in the new rain and clear spring. If a young man is not at ease, his spirit will come out of Jiguan!"

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