When the old man, the leader of the village, heard that the food was about to be taken away, he hurriedly asked: "General, what about cabbage?"
Chinese cabbage?
The cabbage has just been transferred and has only seven or eight leaves. I just mentioned cabbage just to calm the old man's mind.
"After a month, you can take people there again!" Han Xi said calmly.
"This!" The leader of the village suddenly became confused and didn't know what to say.
Seeing the old man who was the leader of the village looking like this, Han Xi found it funny, and then said: "Okay, you ask Zai to transport another 130 shi of food from the stronghold, raise enough 200 shi, and then ask fifty people to follow him back. "
"I'll give you twenty carts of cotton and twenty sheep when I come back."
The old man, the leader of the village, was overjoyed when he heard this. Cotton is a very rare thing. One pound is worth two pounds of wool, and there are twenty sheep.
But soon, the old man, the leader of the village, felt uneasy. Twenty loads of cotton must weigh over a thousand kilograms! Add twenty more sheep.
No matter how you listen to it, it doesn’t feel very real.
"Why are you still standing here?" Han Xi was a little surprised. What was wrong with this old man? He had a depressed face all day long.
"Hehe, hehehe, go now, go now," the village owner entered the village with a sad face. He didn't know how to explain this to the people in the village.
Soon, people of all ages from five miles away were brought here.
There were quite a few people in the roaring group, with three to four hundred carts.
Han Xi didn't expect that this group of people were quite wealthy and had so many wheelbarrows.
After the food was shipped out and everyone arrived, Han Xi shouted:
"Set off!"
In this way, a team of thousands of people left Anning Village in a mighty manner.
An hour later, a team of thousands of people returned to Chenjiagou.
Han Xi had people separate the thousands of captives, young and old, and strong laborers, and all the strong laborers were placed in thatched huts at the end of the village.
As for the young and old, they are arranged to stay in vacant houses in the village.
After settling the people, Han Xi took fifty people from Anning Village to the grain depot: "Bring the wheat in and pour it into the grain trough. Put the miscellaneous grains aside. The cotton is in the next room. You can put as much as you can. "
With that said, Han Xi led dozens of people to the place where the cotton was stored.
After unlocking and pushing open the door, you can see that there are piles of cotton inside, and the cotton is all pure cotton after seed removal.
The strong men in Anning Village all smiled when they saw him.
Cotton is a precious commodity in northern Shaanxi. The main places where cotton is grown in the north are Shandong, Hebei, Henan, and Shanxi.
Therefore, cotton in northern Shaanxi is twice as expensive as in these provinces.
In northern Shaanxi, wool is mostly used for heating, and the price of wool is relatively cheap.
After Han Xi arranged everything, he returned to the courtyard and asked the female farmer to boil some water. The blood on his body was so thick that he felt a little uncomfortable, so he prepared to scrub it off.
Han Xi recalled what happened today, and now he knew that what came over was not a pole, but a group of thieves, who seemed to have come from Guanzhong.
This group of people allowed Han Xi to see the strength of the bandits at this time, which was quite overwhelming. No wonder thousands of bandits were chased by hundreds of soldiers.
Han Xi frowned when he thought that he might be driven away like those thieves in the future.
If there are only a few thousand people, it's called a pole.
But if the number of people exceeds 10,000, that is a rebellion. Even if they are hiding in the mountains, there will still be officers and soldiers coming to encircle and suppress them.
Soon, Han Xi frowned. He had a system, so there was nothing to be afraid of.
What Han Xi didn't know was that at this time, Yichuan County had already gathered a group of local warriors, preparing to encircle and suppress him.
Han Xi has been wandering around Yichuan County from time to time these days, which has made people in the city panic.
The county magistrate asked the wealthy gentry and wealthy households to contribute funds to recruit local warriors.
The wealthy gentry and wealthy households were very active. In just a few days, they raised six to seven hundred village warriors.
At this time, these village warriors were holding wooden sticks and excrement forks in a school field, listening to the county magistrate talking nonsense.
What great righteousness and stability within the territory, Xiangyong was confused when he heard it.
A group of local warriors knew that this time they were going to exterminate the extremely vicious horse bandits, and all of them had sad faces.
The county magistrate spoke for half an hour, and his tongue was a little dry, so he said to a young man next to him: "Master Wu, do you have anything to say to everyone?"
Young Master smiled and cupped his hands and said, "I'll just say a few words to everyone and then set off."
Hearing this, the county magistrate also gave up his seat with a smile.
The young master stepped forward and looked at Xiang Yong in the audience with a look of disdain in his eyes, and then said loudly: "If you kill a thief this time, our Wu family will reward you with a dou of grain. If you kill a horse thief, you will get an additional reward of five taels."
When the listless country warriors below heard about the reward, they immediately became energetic and even shouted loudly:
"Master Wu is benevolent and righteous!"
"Wu Jiarenyi!"
Seeing such a scene, the young man's face showed a look of satisfaction unconsciously.
The county magistrate's face was a little dark. The Wu family's prestige in Yichuan was so high that he, the county magistrate, had to give way.
Following the wave of the young master's hand, six to seven hundred people of Xiangyong set off.
He was accompanied by a policeman and more than two hundred government officials.
As for the young master, he was riding a tall horse and was followed by more than twenty sturdy men. He looked as elegant as he wanted.
Both sides of the street were lined with people from the city. Their eyes were full of expectation, hoping that the horse bandits would be wiped out so that they would dare to go out outside the city to plant vegetables and collect firewood for the winter.
The team walked five miles out of the city. A guard approached the young master and said, "Sir, let's find a place to camp first, and then send people to sneak into Chenjiagou to find out the situation of the thieves before making any plans."
Hearing this, the young master pondered for a moment and then nodded and said, "What Mr. Liu said makes sense. Know your enemy and your ally and you will be victorious in every battle. Not far ahead is our Wu family's Zhuangzi. Let's go and station there."
"Young master is wise!" Coach Liu complimented with a smile.
Young Master laughed, obviously the compliment was very useful.
Suddenly, the young master thought that there was a catcher Liu Xu next to him, so he smiled and asked: "Captain Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Captou looked embarrassed. You had already made up your mind and asked me what I was doing. Although he was thinking so in his heart, he smiled and held his hands in his hands: "Young Master Wu has the talent of a general!"
Hearing this, Young Master laughed again.
Five days later.
On a slope in Chenjiagou, the thousands of thieves who were brought in a few days ago were divided into ten groups. Most of these people were assigned to dig ponds and open canals.
The original water channel was too crude and did not cover a large area.
So Han Xi prepared to dig deep and fill the bottom with gravel. The reason why he paid so much attention to these canals was because there had been too many droughts in recent years.
The water must be stored in advance, otherwise the stream outside Chenjiagou will dry up and Han Xi will have to move to another place.
Han Xi was even planning to build a dam to intercept the water in the creek outside.
"If a steward discovers a person who is secretly raping someone, his legs will be broken, and the whole family will be thrown to the top of the mountain. Anyone who escapes will be hanged in the courtyard..." An imperial soldier said the rules loudly.
Either his legs were broken, he was hanged or his head was chopped off.
A group of thieves huddled together in fright, their eyes full of fear.
At this time, at the foot of the mountain, a scout quickly ran up the slope. When he got close to Han Xi, he bowed and reported: "General, there is news from the grain team merchants from Yezhu Gorge."
