When Gonggong wrote a letter to provoke the Queen Mother of the West, which made the tiger girl furious, the Central Plains had been reorganized. After the mighty army was assembled, they put on armor, and all the grain, grass and ordnance were put on transport trucks.
What kind of oxen and horses, their necks ringing loudly, their hooves facing west, the jolting dog Azai following the three little chickens.
"A Shun, you didn't bring the Xuanyuan Sword, did you?"
"Don't worry, Xuanyuan Sword was put in a box for me. It's in the ironworks, and it's wrapped with two seals."
Yuzai nodded, relieved.
Use the ironworks to threaten Xuanyuan Sword. This thing should not put a curse on them.
At this time, the night was dark and the dawn had not yet risen. The army gathered. Then Yuzai and Chonghua got on the chariot and started to march to the west. In order to get a good luck, Yuzai went to kick down the door of Wu Xian's house in the middle of the night. Under Xian's angry scolding, he successfully obtained a very unlucky verbal divination result.
"This wave is stable, let's get on the road immediately."
Yu Zai said that they marched in a hurry in the middle of the night because they were afraid of a spy. They originally planned to set off in two days, but left early tonight. This is due to the asymmetry of information. In the past few days, the information about the Central Plains army's operations was kept strictly confidential. It was only during the day that they suddenly announced that they would be marching in two days. He left after the day, but marched directly tonight, catching the inner ghost by surprise.
Sure enough, it did not go beyond Azai's expectation. There really was a spy who planned to go out secretly at night to deliver the news. After all, the expedition to Gonggong in the Central Plains was a big event. The army had been training before, and the leaders were preparing to attack the Gonggong clan. It was also a high-level meeting. The middle-level cadres below and the village chiefs at the grassroots level didn't know it. Now that they knew it, they didn't expect that fish would actually explode.
When the mole had just climbed out of Taotang City Wall, he took a leap of faith, and a pile of haystacks was placed below.
The mole decisively chose to jump, but in the center of the haystack, buried in the grass, was a standing steel fork.
The screams were earth-shattering, and the soldiers crouching in the grass nearby immediately rushed over and tied up the inner ghost and pinned him to the ground.
Chonghua: "There are indeed remnants of the Gonggong clan in the country!"
Yu Zai: "What, what did you say? Did you say Guo Dang?"
Behind-the-ear attacks.
Looking at the mole who was still bleeding with a steel fork stuck in his anus, Chonghua praised Ruanzai and said that Ruanzai had predicted this wave in the opponent's heart. Putting a pile of hay outside the city wall can effectively reduce the impact of the fall. , so everyone will jump into the haystack without caring about where the haystack came from, and then place the steel fork in the center of the haystack...
Around Taotang, screams were heard one after another, and a total of three moles were arrested. They were all sentinels placed in Taotang by the Gonggong clan. Some of them lived in Taotang as "Jia", and some as "Shang". " His identity traveled between the Western Wilderness and the Central Plains, which made Yu Zai couldn't help but admire that Gonggong's intelligence methods were extremely powerful.
Ruanzai asked people to bring these three guys to Gaotao. Gaotao has been free recently and is educating flies and mosquitoes. If these three living people are sent over, they will at least start with life imprisonment.
"Master Gaotao, please interrogate them carefully. Maybe there is a spy in our Central Plains."
After dealing with the three moles, Ruan Zai had some newspapers published and distributed with the army. These newspapers had been prepared in the printing factory a long time ago and were brought to Hongzhou from the south. He said that he had not planned to use precious paper for this kind of thing, but now it is not appropriate to shout. The key to marching at night is to "not scare the birds." If I shout here with a loudspeaker, then Don’t you become a businessman?
The things printed on newspapers have very large characters, so Yu Zai calls them big-character posters.
"No matter whether the leader you are really loyal to is Gonggong or Dihong, as long as you follow Azai, Azai's bid will always be three times theirs. Now come to Azai and report. Depending on the importance of the clue, you will be rewarded with shell coins. The starting price is three thousand, and the maximum reward is one hundred thousand shellfish. If you can catch one alive, you will be given three hundred thousand shellfish..."
These papers were distributed to each legion. After the soldiers read it, everyone looked at their comrades around them and felt something wrong.
Everyone looks like a walking three hundred thousand!
Yuzai said to Chonghua:
"This allows them to come over without hesitation. If there are really moles, then for these soldiers, these moles are mobile wealth. Besides, what's wrong with following us? If you work with Gonggong, you might die on the battlefield one day. If you work with us, the death rate will not only be reduced by more than 60%, but you will also receive social subsidies every month. Grassroots cadres will also have pigs and oil to work on their jobs. Even if you accidentally die in the war, your family will receive a large amount of money, and there will also be social unemployment guarantee..."
"In whichever country the people live well, the people in other countries are not fools, and they will naturally migrate there. This is called voting with your feet..."
Chonghua wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I know that these policies of yours are good, but we have no way to implement many of them for the time being. Now we are just using deeds to make verbal promises. You have few people in the south and extremely high per capita productivity. So this method can be used, but we have a large population here, and we are located in a flood area, so we don’t have such high productivity yet..."
Yu Zai: "Yes, aren't we just going to get these benefits now?"
"Go and rob Gonggong! The stolen goods are all stolen money and will be confiscated. Isn't this a benefit? If we go after Gonggong and fight him, if he wants to negotiate a peace, let him pay war reparations and continue confiscation. ..."
“Don’t worry, in a few years the land development will be completed and the construction of water conservancy facilities will be completed, and productivity will qualitatively improve.”
In this era, the Yellow River was not a river hanging above the ground, because there was no such thing as "asking for land from the Yellow River". This gradually emerged after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. People asked for cultivated land from the Yellow River and carried out large-scale construction of Yellow River embankments. The floods of the Yellow River have since been flooded. It is classified as a fixed river channel, but the sediment of the Yellow River also accumulates between the embankments on both sides year after year, and the river bed continues to rise, finally becoming a hanging river.
But now in ancient times, with fewer people and more land, there is no need for that, so the floods can be discharged directly into the Yellow River.
That's why Yu Zai had the confidence to say these words. Now that the population of the entire mountain and sea is added together, including those savages, it is hard to say whether there are five million.
The Huaxia Alliance, Baiyue, Dongyi, Hongzhou, Zhenze, Chengjiushi, Huayang Kingdom, the Kingdom of the Four Wilderness Kings, Gonggong, and Dihong, including the so-called Immortal Kingdom, the First Republic Kingdom, and the Bofu Kingdom in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. The country of gentlemen, the country of adults...these are all tied together, only a million or so, a million or hundreds of thousands, and these are already very large tribal alliances in the mountains and seas.
What a pitiful population!
Even in the time of Yu the Great, the princes gathered in Tushan and those who came to court carrying jade and silk were said to have ten thousand kingdoms. How many people could there be if all the so-called ten thousand kingdoms were tied together? Is there a million? Counting all the people in the world, it is still less than the population of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty.
