Baosheng, also known as Laojie in later generations, is a very famous place.
This is the junction of South Vietnam and Dali, but there is no way to take advantage of the geographical location to develop the economy. Instead, the place is filled with poverty and abjection.
For no other reason, the northwest is the poorest place in South Vietnam. There is almost no handicrafts, industry and commerce here. Agriculture and livestock are not bad. The people live the most primitive life of men farming and women weaving. What kind of daily necessities do they need? , most of them are traded on the street, and money is rarely used.
Although Dali is to the north, the situation on both sides is similar. What your family has, I also have, and what we don’t have, we all don’t have. Businessmen from the Song Dynasty would not come to such a remote place, so although this place could be regarded as a port, the economy could not develop at all!
In the eyes of the Peng Meng tribe or other Dali people, this is just a village, an ordinary village, with only South Vietnamese living in it.
The Dali people are Buddhists, they are poor and happy, and they don't have much friction with the South Vietnamese. The South Vietnamese will not bother the Dali people, because the forces around them are not few.
There is also Ailao in the west, who have been fighting for hundreds of years, and no one is convinced by each other. There is also Champa and Zhenla in the south. They are almost always feuding, and they will fight whenever they disagree.
On the contrary, the Song Dynasty was one of the more reasonable and polite neighbors of South Vietnam. The most polite one was Dali, because the lands bordering the two countries were almost all plateaus, and South Vietnam was an agricultural country rather than a nomadic country. It’s what they value most! Therefore, they looked down upon the large plateau in the northwest at all. What they got was just for show, and the Dali people would not cause trouble for them. The two families lived in peace with each other.
Treat this as a place for military training, not bad!
Considering several aspects, this place is already very far away from Guangyuan. No one can guess the origin of Liang Chuan and the others. This distance is suitable for tempering the morale of this group of people. If you can bear it down, you will gain something. If you can't bear it down, you will gain something. , then just grind it slowly!
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I happened to hear Nong Da and the others say that Bai Dai and the boys were going home, so I wanted to send them back on the way. They still don't know what Liang Chuan and his gang are doing. This fact is a secret and is related to the safety of the entire Guangyuan. It is not allowed for outsiders to know too much!
If there is a problem with guaranteeing victory, the South Vietnamese will be the first to suspect the Dali people. Dali is currently at war, and it is normal for some rioters to flee!
There are so many bandits and bandits in this place that they shoot and fire and then run to a certain place and no one can be found. Taking a step back, even if there are bandits and robbers, they will rob rich places. A ghost place like Baosheng is so poor that only the top of the mountain is left. If you scrape the ground three feet away, you can't dig out a copper plate. What's the point? Those who are easy to rob will also attract the pursuit of the imperial court. Doesn’t it mean that you will live longer if you are full and have nothing to do?
Such a disgusting place is exactly the right place for Liang Chuan to train his troops!
Wu Yong led more than 3,000 people and built a mountain stronghold with his bare hands in the mountains and forests between Caoping and Ha Giang states!
The Nong people also have their own advantages. Their ability to survive in the wild is really strong!
They can use various natural materials such as caves, boulders and logs to build a cottage in the mountains and forests. This is a skill they have learned by themselves after surviving in the wild all year round!
Survival forces them to pass this skill down from generation to generation and constantly improve it to make the technology more perfect and not have any adverse effects on the body!
They know how to support the wooden piles to prevent them from collapsing and to prevent wild animals from approaching. They can't find the entrance to the huts and form a natural shield from the surroundings, making it difficult for outsiders to discover them. They also open openings in the thatched roof so that fires can be lit inside the house and smoke can be discharged. On rainy days, rainwater will not fall into the thatched house and keep it dry.
If there is no professional guidance, the finished house will make you sick after just two days of sleeping.
But it’s not a problem for Nong people!
After hearing what Liang Chuan said, they were asked to run hundreds of miles to attack the next target, so they left all the money in the village without hesitation, and each of them found a hiding place.
He hid the money somewhere, and he wasn't afraid that if someone discovered it, he would be in trouble. As long as they are still alive, they can get their money back in the future!
Every Nong person, young and old, put on Yue clothes, then wrapped the steel knife in cloth and put it in the bamboo basket behind them. There was only a bow left on the back, which was not easy to hide. In fact, there is no need to hide. Every South Vietnamese who goes out carries either a hatchet or a bow, otherwise they will not be able to walk in the mountains. Stable.
The public security in South Vietnam is far inferior to that in the Song Dynasty. In the Yunnan-Guizhou region of the Song Dynasty, there were also wild thieves like locusts. Compared with South Vietnam, the public security in the Yunnan-Guizhou region can be awarded an award by the imperial court, and it can be called a peaceful world.
But the poorer the place, the less peaceful it is. This is an iron rule.
Everyone brought all the food they had with them. It was useless to bring money, and there was no place for them to buy food. But food was different. Finding a place to light a fire could solve the immediate difficulties and make people feel better. Motivated.
After doing all this, everyone followed Nongda's guidance and prepared to go to win.
According to Nongda’s estimate, it would be almost a hundred miles away! , we have to cross the Mingjiang River. There is no one guarding the Jindu Bridge, but it is a natural danger. If someone breaks the bridge, no one should want to cross this hundred-foot-wide river.
Everyone packed up and walked through the mountains and forests like a gust of wind. There were no roads in the mountains. Most of them could only walk along the foot of the mountains, with a few bright stars above their heads as directions. Fortunately, they were all people of the mountains. , I have long been accustomed to this method of positioning. The Big Dipper and the Taibai Star in the sky just form a guide. Everyone seems to have eyes under their feet. They are marching rather than running!
After passing the Mingjiang River, there is a large forest, but the altitude can already be felt. It is much higher than usual, because the temperature here is lower. After walking for most of the night, everyone's clothes are already wet. In the mountain forest There was also a burst of water mist rising. If it was not bright, it would be okay, as we could rely on the stars in the sky to guide us. Otherwise, we would have to wait for dawn and the sun to rise, and use the sun's position to reorient ourselves.
Elderly people such as Uncle Bi Mao and Lao Mazi are the most proficient in this technique. You can tell the approximate time by putting a stick on the ground and know where to go by looking at the sun.
Overnight, they walked almost 130 miles and finally reached another big river!
Nandingjiang!
This river originates from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, flows from the northwest to the southeast, and flows through Longcheng in South Vietnam.
Dragon City!
Thang Long City is also Hanoi in later generations! This river also has a more famous name, called Red River!
When they arrived at the Red River, Nongda knew the direction. They could go north along the Nanding River and reach Baosheng in the north and south!
Wear the sun and the moon, and then chase the clouds and the sun!
Everyone took out their own dry food and ate while walking. When they were hungry, they drank from the flowing mountain spring water. This kind of mountain spring water must have river sand and moss growing on the sides!
They filled mountain springs with bamboo tubes in the mountains and forests. The Shuiliangchuan outside did not allow them to drink stagnant water casually, which would easily cause diarrhea and even parasites!
They don't even have a doctor in their team. If they get sick, they have to fight hard, otherwise they will die. Liang Chuan doesn't want to cause battle damage because of such a trivial matter!
He found that he didn't need to say it himself. Old Mazi had already warned all the young Nong people. From the moment they left Guangyuan, they kept talking about the taboos in the mountains and forests.
You can't sit on the rotten logs, it's the cave of the mountain god. You can't drink stagnant water, it's the phlegm spit by the mountain god. You can't sleep either. I hold my head up to the sky, because there is a mountain god watching from above. .
This was so mysterious that Liang Chuan was amused when he heard it. He just wanted to scare young people not to act recklessly. The truth behind it was actually very profound.
There are many microorganisms in rotten logs, including many deadly bacteria and heavy moisture. They can easily invade the human body from valleys and other places. As for stagnant water, it is a paradise for bacteria. You will feel refreshed even if you drink it. Sleeping in the open air is too dewy and your whole body will be unbearably sore when you wake up.
These are extremely painful lessons!
They traveled more than a hundred miles a night, almost without stopping during the day, and walked along the river for nearly a hundred miles. Everyone's feet were almost covered in blood, and their bodies were covered with bloody cuts from leeches or branches. There were also many people because of Being injured by a wild animal attack is no big deal!
The Nong people have very good eyesight. They are used to living in the deep mountains here. They can see things at night as if it were daytime. This is also related to their diet. They like to eat animal offal, which contains many vitamins, so that they will not suffer from night blindness. !
The only thing that made everyone tremble was that along the way, they didn't see a single big town. Instead, they saw a few small villages with only a few families in them. The total number of people was probably not even hundreds. !
They had traveled nearly two hundred miles, almost crossing most of South Vietnam, but they could not see a few people. .
What a desolate place this is!
It’s just that the land here is a little poorer and there are more wild animals, otherwise you can really move to these places! The conditions here are so similar to those in Guangyuan!
With a sigh, there are too many wild beasts in mountainous and densely forested places. Their living homes have been robbed by humans, and they will continue to go down the mountain to fight against humans. There will definitely be no shortage of tigers, leopards and wild boars in this mountain. If they hadn’t been there all the way, It has a strong smell and has been targeted by wild beasts for a long time. If we want to turn this place into a home for everyone, I don’t know how many years of development it will take!
After nearly a day and night, Nongda finally took Liang Chuan to Baosheng, the largest town in northwest South Vietnam!
Before the sun went down, Nong Da and Liang Chuan disguised themselves as South Vietnamese and entered the town!
