The mountains fall, but everyone runs.
It is impossible to take shortcuts these days. The nobles attach great importance to family background and will not marry ordinary people at all.
What's more, Li Yue is still a bandit leader.
So he could only rely on his own efforts and find coal and iron mines, which gave Li Yue a glimmer of confidence.
The sky is the limit, and when the odds are against us, there will always be a way to survive.
With iron, troops on the mountain can be expanded on a large scale and their war capabilities enhanced. Soldiers no longer need to carry sticks and forks as weapons, and simple armors can also be made.
With coal, this winter will not be so difficult.
Yuzhou and Bingzhou are both places rich in resources, so it is not surprising to find these two mineral deposits.
Li Yue quickly took people to check it out. It was hidden in a ravine and covered with thick leaves.
Among them, the iron ore has been mined. There is a shallow mine hole that slopes downward for more than 20 feet. The stone wall is covered with moss and vines, and there are more than a dozen dead bones on the ground.
Li Yue checked the degree of decay of the bones and found that they were relatively old.
The scale of the iron ore is not large, but it is definitely enough for Heiyun Mountain. It is also accompanied by some other minerals, dark yellow in color, which seems to be copper or gold.
Although it is not much, it is still a considerable wealth for Black Cloud Mountain.
In this era, there were virgin forests everywhere. Big trees had grown for who knows how many years, and they were as dense as walls. The shrubs and thorns were so thick that it was difficult to walk with bare hands, let alone transport them out.
There is a more difficult problem. This place is close to Xuanyuan Mountain and far from Heiyun Mountain.
There was too much noise. Once Xuanyuan Mountain discovered it, would they remain indifferent?
Black Cloud Mountain is not the only one who is poor and crazy these days.
During the confrontation in Jishui that day, Li Yue felt that Xuanyuan Mountain was even poorer than Heiyun Mountain...
Although there is a tacit understanding of allies on both sides, they are not true allies. People and wealth die and birds die for food. So what can they do even if they are true allies?
Xuanyuan Shan once walked up to Li Yue.
It's like a hurdle. If you cross it, the sky is high and the sea is vast. If you can't cross it, you can only be locked in a hundred miles near Heiyun Mountain.
Li Yue looked to the south, where he could faintly see the shadows of green mountains.
Zu Ti led more than a hundred tribesmen to go north. After expanding to 2,000 men, they also faced the same problem. They were blocked by Zhang Ping and Fan Ya in Qiaocheng. The army was starved and they stationed in Taiqiu.
However, Zu Ti, who was known as General Fenwei and governor of Yuzhou, used a estrangement plan to get rid of Zhang Ping and persuaded Fan Ya to find a place to stay.
"Build a stronghold here first, and the scout battalion will keep an eye on Xuanyuan Mountain during these days." Li Yue decided to test Xuanyuan Mountain's reaction.
We are not afraid of the wild battle in Xuanyuan Mountain, but we are afraid of their continuous harassment.
"Follow the order." Zhang Shengye held his hand.
The coal mine is very close to Heiyun Mountain, so there is no need to worry about the surrounding forces.
Li Yuesui led people to mine, and the coal in Yuzhou was of high quality and could fully meet the needs of heating.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty specialized in salt and iron, which greatly improved smelting technology and coal was used in smelting on a large scale.
There is a blast furnace left over from the Han Dynasty in Xingyang City. To this day, weapons and armor are being continuously made for Jie Zhao.
The nobles of the Wei and Jin Dynasties made a kind of fragrant coal cake. They pounded the coal into powder, sieved it carefully, mixed it with spices such as pear and jujube juice, and made it into various shapes such as plum blossoms and phoenix birds, and placed it in the incense burner. , it can emit bursts of fragrance when burned.
The strange fragrance is divided into fine mist, and the charcoal is lightly pounded.
Coal is exactly coal.
Coal cakes are no longer a strange thing.
Carts of coal are brought back to Heiyun Mountain, and some yellow mud is added to make coal cakes. They are placed in a pit and can burn slowly all night, keeping the whole room warm.
The only hidden danger was poisoning. Li Yue strictly ordered that every room must be ventilated, and also asked the women's camp to patrol day and night. Anyone found to be burning coal behind closed doors would be whipped twenty times in public.
The heating problem in Heiyun Mountain has been solved.
Li Yue was not the only one who used his brains on the mountain. The ingenious women woven a kind of straw clothing out of dried autumn grass.
Li Yue tried it on, and found that there was no need to worry about its appearance. It was suitable for daily travel, kept warm, and protected from rain. However, it was a bit prickly and very uncomfortable to wear.
However, given the conditions on the mountain, there are only so many solutions. Many of the new refugees are still bare buttocks and feet.
After they were given straw clothes and sandals, they immediately beamed with joy.
In addition to straw clothes, there are also leather clothes. Animal skins, bird feathers, chicken, duck and goose feathers are all collected and made into clothes.
Li Yue was assigned a leopard skin fur and a wolf skin hakama.
The winter in the Wei and Jin Dynasties was far colder than that in later generations. After the autumn harvest, the north wind swept across the earth, making it colder day by day.
Children on the mountain can run all over the mountains and plains with bare legs and dragging their noses.
At the age of six or seven, he can chase rabbits and birds, work in the fields, and at the age of eleven or twelve, he can bend a bow and set an arrow, hold a knife and a spear...
The harsh living environment makes everyone's will stronger.
Even Li Yue felt that he had become tenacious.
The entire Heiyun Mountain is like a mountain city, with wooden houses and stone houses stretching from halfway up the mountain to the top of the mountain. Everyone is working as hard as they can.
Work also calms the minds of the refugees.
The wisdom of the people is infinite, and the power of the people is infinite.
As long as we provide them with a stable environment, they will not be able to overcome any great difficulties.
New refugees are coming south intermittently. Different from the large scale of 20,000 people last time, there are only three to five hundred people coming.
Baiyun Mountain has long formed a set of procedures, including selection, isolation, cleaning, brewing medicine, cooking porridge...
There is no need for Li Yue to take action, the people from the women's camp and the medical camp will handle it properly.
Of the team of more than 500 people, only 300 to 400 people could survive. Many people had already run out of gas and energy on the way south. Even if there had not been the plague, they would have died long ago.
Not only Heiyun Mountain was infected, but a large-scale plague also broke out in the neighboring Jingxian County.
The scouts came to report that more than four to five hundred corpses were thrown into the moat every day.
All the people in Gong County who bore the brunt of the attack in the north died.
The Gou family in the west closed the city gate early and escaped this disaster.
"General, there is a serious epidemic in Beijing County. The county magistrate Han Xu sent people to ask for help." Xin Can said with cupped hands.
Heiyun Mountain is under the jurisdiction of Jing County, so he naturally knows what is happening on the mountain.
Li Yue had a good impression of Jingxian County, and he paid no less "protection fee".
"What's the point of rescue? Why not take advantage of this opportunity to capture Jing County?" Wei Shan's eyes widened.
The population on the mountain has increased dramatically, and the cultivated fields around Sishui Castle are not enough. There are still many fields in the north, but they have been washed away by the Yellow River. In addition, the north is too close to Xingyang City, and Li Yue does not dare to develop there for the time being. .
"How can a gentleman take advantage of someone's danger?" Xin Can's mouth was dumbfounded.
Wei Shan sneered and said: "Who said we are gentlemen? We are bandits and refugees! This is what we eat, so why do we need to go through a thankless effort to save Jingxian County? Heiyun Mountain doesn't have that much property!"
Most of the other generals also agreed to capture Jing County.
After all, it's a place to stay.
Xin Can was originally from Jingxian County, so he naturally missed his hometown. He bowed his hands to Li Yue and begged: "General..."
