I want to be emperor

Chapter 26 Funiu Mountain Protecting Township Camp
The mountain people in the area of ​​Funiu Mountain, regardless of whether they lived here before or came to the mountain in the past ten or twenty years, they all have the same characteristics.

That is to escape into the mountains to avoid various disasters.

A drought is enough to create a large-scale famine. In order to survive, people have to flee the famine. Some of them will go to the city to survive, some will passively wait for the porridge, and some will find ways to sneak into the city as beggars and work.

Others simply took the risk and became thieves.

Many others were coerced by the exiles and became part of the exile army.

There are also some who choose to flee to the mountains.

The mountain people living here in Funiu Mountain escaped from famine in this way.

Most of them come from Nanyang Prefecture in the south or Ruzhou in the east.

After escaping into the mountains, although the mountains are barren, it is very difficult to open up wasteland and cultivate. After a year of hard work, the harvest of food is not much.

However, after escaping into the mountains, it is equivalent to becoming a black household, without all kinds of officials, tax collectors, and landlords exploiting them.

Therefore, although it is hard work and life is very simple, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can barely survive.

Of course, the premise is that you don't meet people like Fan Dilong who have sons without assholes. If you really meet a thief like Fan Dilong, you will be directly robbed of all your rations, and it is normal for your family to be ruined overnight.

Before Li Huangzhuang was unlucky enough to meet Fan Dilong and his group, the whole village was turned into ruins after burning, killing and looting.

More than two months ago, when the nearby mountain people knew that another group of bandits had entered the mountain, they went straight to Sanshui Village and killed Fandilong and his group.

The surrounding mountain people are actually very panicked, especially the villagers in Huangjia Village, which is closer to Sanshui Village.

They were worried that the new group of thieves would plunder the nearby villages like Fandilong and the others, and they would suffer the same disaster as the people in Lihuangzhuang.

At the beginning, a few survivors from Lihuangzhuang fled to Huangjiacun. Through their dictation, people in Huangjiacun also knew about Lihuangzhuang’s tragic experience. Some of them went to Lihuangzhuang to see it, and what they saw was only one. There are ruins and corpses all over the ground.

At that time, after Fandilong and the others plundered two villages in a row, there was still a lot of food in stock for a while, so they didn't rush to attack other villages. They wanted to wait until the autumn harvest before looting.

But before the autumn harvest, they were killed by Sun Chengli and Luo Zhixue to Sanshui Village, and Fandilong was directly finished.

But the arrival of Sun Jianli and the others also terrified the surrounding mountain people, and many of them were ready to flee with their only rations at any time.

The Qinling Mountains are big, and the area around Funiu Mountain is just the edge of the Qinling Mountains.

If they couldn't stay in Huangjia Village in Funiu Mountain, they could only continue to move towards the mountains in order to survive.

But it is not easy to survive in the mountains. They have worked hard for so many years in the Huangjia Village area of ​​Funiu Mountain, and they have paid countless Hanshui to reclaim some fields. And not necessarily successful.

In addition, another crucial point is that this year's autumn grains have not been harvested yet, and these autumn grains carry all their rations from autumn and winter until next year's new grain harvest.

These unharvested grains are their lives!

It is also very difficult for you to let them abandon their homes directly, abandon these unharvested grains and flee into the depths of the mountains.

After all, it is not easy to open up wasteland in the mountains, not to mention that even if the land is opened up now, it will take until next year to harvest food to support the family. What do they eat during this time?how to live
Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, they are unwilling to give up their homes, their land, and the unharvested grain to escape.

Therefore, even though they were uneasy at that time, they had to stay here.

But slowly, they found that the new group of thieves seemed to be different from the original Dilong.

The first official contact between them was when Sanshui Village sent people to recruit craftsmen, and finally took Huang Carpenter away.

Although when Carpenter Huang was taken away, coercive means were used. After all, if there is no coercive means, how could he be the pillar of a well-behaved family and leave with you and some thieves for no apparent reason.

However, the rebels in Sanshui Village still left a certain amount of food for Huang Carpenter's family as Luo Zhixue's instructions.

At the same time, he also promised Carpenter Huang that as long as he worked hard, he would be given a certain amount of food every month for him to take back.

For the safety of the whole family, Carpenter Huang was forced to follow him to Sanshui Village.

At that time, everyone in Huang's Village thought that Carpenter Huang might be gone forever.

But unexpectedly, only one month later, Carpenter Huang returned to Huangjia Village with large and small bags, including extremely precious grains.

Carpenter Huang lived at home for two days, during which many people naturally came to ask him about the bandit army in Sanshui Village. Carpenter Huang is also an honest person.

All to be honest.

It is said that after he arrived in Sanshui Village, he went to work, helping the bandits build houses, make furniture, and various other tools.

The work is very hard, but you can also eat, and you can eat a big pot of rice with other thieves.

When the work is light, they eat two meals a day, and when the work is heavy, they will add an extra meal of porridge.

Although most of the time it is also coarse grains, but sometimes there is also good white rice.

At that time, Carpenter Huang sighed to the group of people surrounding him: "I have never tried to eat so much white rice in my life. The rice balls are big, tsk tsk..."

When he was speaking, everyone listening around couldn't help swallowing their saliva.

After Huang Carpenter showed his testimony, it was much easier for Luo Zhixue to send people to Huangjia Village to buy and sell goods. People exchange some salt, cloth, iron pots, hoes and other things that cannot be produced in the mountains.

And these materials in Sanshui Village were also purchased outside the mountains. Although so many of them had food in the mountains, there were still many materials that could not be produced by themselves and needed to be purchased outside, including salt, ironware, and cloth. top priority.

There are too many purchased materials, and they will also exchange some mountain goods with the mountain people in the surrounding villages, and then sell these mountain goods out of the mountains.

After going back and forth in this way for many times, the attitude of the people in the surrounding villages towards the thieves in Sanshui Village has also changed.

Although he was still afraid, he would not just run away when he saw the rebels in Sanshui Village as before... Instead, he dared to make some contact with the rebels in Sanshui Village cautiously.

As it is now, after Sun Jiancheng and Luo Zhixue arrived at Huangjia Village, although Luo Zhixue could still see the panic in the eyes of the local mountain people, he didn't turn around and run away, but an old man appeared and walked away quickly. come out.

After getting close to Sun Chengli and their group, he immediately bowed and made a gesture to kneel down, and at the same time said with a trembling voice: "Little old man welcomes you great kings."

Luo Zhixue looked at this man carefully. He had a beard, his dark face was full of wrinkles from the vicissitudes of life, and he was wearing a short robe with many patches. He looked as if he was 67 years old.

Looking at this person, Luo Zhixue knew that he should be the head of Huangjia Village that Ernst and the others had reported.

It is not appropriate to say that it is the village head. There is actually no village head in this remote place where the mountain people gather. This person just lived here for a long time, coupled with his age and high prestige, so he was pushed out by the people in the Huang family village to be the head of the village. That's all.

Luo Zhixue put away the folding fan, took a step forward and said: "Old Huang, you're welcome, get up, get up quickly, don't break the kid."

However, Huang Laoer still knelt down and stood up again, but instead of standing straight, he still bowed his body like a boiled shrimp, so that people could not see his face.

At the same time, I heard him say: "I don't know if the great kings are here, but what's the matter, the kings just give orders, and the younger ones will do it with all their heart."

While speaking, the whole person's waist bent even lower, as if he was about to kneel and crawl on the ground again at any moment.

Looking at him like this, Luo Zhixue sighed inwardly.

Is this the ordinary people in this era?

Humble... not like a human being!

On the other hand, Sun Jiancheng was accustomed to the expression of the old man Huang in front of him.

This reaction is normal, if it is a neither humble nor overbearing attitude is not normal.

Didn't you see a dozen fully armed cavalrymen standing behind them, leading their horses?

Not to mention ancient peasants, even modern ordinary people, if they are pointed at by a dozen gangsters armed with guns and looking fierce, they will be so frightened that their legs will weaken and they will not even be able to speak.

At this time, Sun Jiancheng saw Luo Zhixue showing a kind expression and said: "Lao Huang, relax a bit, don't worry, it is a good thing for you that we come this time."

"A good thing?" Huang Laoer muttered in his heart: "I have lived for more than 40 years, if I can believe your nonsense casually, I will die a long time ago!"

However, muttering in his heart, Huang Huang still looked terrified: "Your Majesty, no matter what you order, we will try our best to do it."

Luo Zhixue saw that he was still so humble, so he didn't care about it, he just turned slightly sideways, gave up his position, and showed a serious look: "This is my General Sun from the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp."

As soon as this introduction came out, Sun Chengli on the side couldn't respond in time. When did their group become the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp?

How come I, the boss, don't know?
But, this name seems to be quite good, and it sounds very formal, and it immediately stepped on the ground with all kinds of messy names such as Dilong, Chuangwang and so on.

Thinking of this, Sun Chengli couldn't help but straighten his waist, looked ahead, and then nodded slightly like Li Tonglin before, as if I was a boss...

(End of this chapter)