The days when I fished in Daming

Chapter 200 I am familiar with this land boundary

Caoxian County, the first stop of the Yellow River into Shandong (the hometown of Shan Xiongxin, a rebel general in the late Sui Dynasty, and Huang Chao, the rebel general boss in the late Tang Dynasty), is almost a professional household affected by disasters. Whenever there is a major disaster, there will be large-scale famine.

There is a jingle circulating in the local area: "One year's decision, two years of shortage, and three years of four years can't eat."

Frequent breaches have made it impossible for farmers in the Yellow River flooding area to live. They either wandered in other places or ganged up as bandits.

Since Southwest and Northwest Shandong are at the junction of many provinces, the government's control is weak.The Shandong government pursued and suppressed them, and either fled to Henan and Jiangsu, or fled to Hebei.

They came there to suppress, and then fled back to Shandong, so it became a long-term cure disease.

In the 32nd year of Guangxu (1906), an official of the Qing Dynasty concluded that in Shandong, "thieves started in Yunju, flourished in Hecao, harassed Guide in the south, went to Fengfeng in the east, and spread in Yanyi and Tai'an in the northeast."

The thieves on the borders of the provinces also often collude with each other, which is difficult to extinguish, so that Luxido's thieves have become commonplace.

Besides, the magical land of Sulu, Yuwan, and Anhui is also a magical place, which has bred many outstanding figures.

This area consists of Xuzhou in Jiangsu, Suzhou in Anhui, Shangqiu in Henan, and Heze in Shandong.

The Yellow River is the central line of the transfer of the four provinces. In ancient times, this section of the Yellow River was quite dangerous.

Flooding of crevasses is commonplace and has brought great disasters to the people on both sides of the strait. The people living in the yellow flood zone have gradually formed their own unique philosophy of survival during the long-term struggle against floods.

Facing the flood, they became more and more courageous, and developed a tough and tough folk custom. The people at the border of the four provinces have a common quality: they can fight, fight hard, and endure hardships, and they will not admit defeat or be convinced.

It is also especially good for drinking. This area is the area with the most peasant uprisings in the history of our country.

Daze Township where Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted was in Suzhou City, and Liu Bang of Xuzhou also initiated an uprising in Dangshan, Suzhou.

Zhu Wen, who overthrew the rule of the Tang Dynasty, was from Dangshan, Suzhou. There were Huangchao Uprising and Shuibo Liangshan Peasant Uprising in Heze.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the Nian army revolted, the junction of the four provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui happened to be the main battlefield in the center, and the famous Zeng Gelinqin died in Heze.

Such a place with constant floods has never been a safe and reassuring place.

Gunzhou seems to have nothing to do with Cao County, but the relationship is that the lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

Bandits and bandits are rampant in Cao County, and the adjacent areas of the three provinces and eight counties are all behind them. Maybe Cao County will not be able to survive the suppression today, and they will flee to their own territory tomorrow.

This kind of situation has happened from time to time, and the life of my own family is not easy, and there are many bandits in the country, so the life of Gunzhou is so difficult.

After listening to the words of the officials who came and the introduction to Cao County.

Zheng Xiong had a general understanding of the situation in Cao County.

Compared with the information that only stays in the network in later generations.

Cao County, as the center of the universe, is actually not a troublesome existence.

If you can't beat it and run away, what else do you want to fight? There are too many depths, and the three adjacent provinces and eight counties are located in its rear.

Conventional play is useless at all, even if people are blocked.

This put Zheng Xiong into a dilemma, with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Xu Shi saw Zheng Xiong's expression, and the official who came came said it in a considerate manner.

"In fact, these have little to do with our Dungzhou. We are also planning for a rainy day and cannot bear the toss."

"After all, if this group of people from Cao County came here, more people would be implicated if they were not kept together."

"When Lord Hou returns to Beijing, the officials don't dare to ask Lord Hou to do anything. They just ask that Lord Hou's army leave as soon as possible. If Lord Hou thinks that Gunzhou is good, he can visit here again. The officials and Lord Zhizhou welcome Lord Hou's arrival very much."

Well, what I said earlier was too full, and now Zheng Xiong is also somewhat in a dilemma. This attitude clearly does not welcome the army under him, and it is useless to say more.

I can only take one step at a time. It seems that there is no way to lose the money, and it is not so easy to try my luck.

I had to catch some small thieves along the way to see if I could make up for my losses, and I could also explain what I said before.

"In that case, the Marquis won't bother me anymore, and Guizhou doesn't need to send it away. Let me leave."

Although Zheng Xiong's words were a bit displeased, the officials who came saw that Zheng Xiong was relieved, and he was relieved.

These people are plague gods, and the distinction between soldiers and bandits is actually very vague, and no one can guarantee their character.

"Then go down and tell Lord Zhizhou, Lord Zhizhou specifically said that if Lord Hou leaves, he will come to see Lord Hou off."

"No, you are very busy, forget it, you can go back."

I came here for a day or two, and after I left, I wanted to show my presence, but it was too late.

Zheng Xiong's attitude was beyond words, and he issued an order to expel the guests.

Seeing this, the officials left quickly.

The Zhizhou of Dagon Prefecture doesn't want to be troublesome, leaving Zheng Xiong as an unstable factor.

Zheng Xiong had no choice but to leave like this.

To be honest, this trip to Gunzhou was definitely not pleasant, and there was a lot of fire.

Zheng Xiong left, and left the boundary of Gunzhou with some anger.

Following Gunzhou, he went straight to Cao County. Along the way, he discovered that the boundary conditions of Gunzhou were indeed not good.

I haven't seen the situation where there is no chicken crowing in a hundred miles, but I have seen a lot of the plight of lack of food and clothing.

In this cold weather, many people I saw only wore thin linen clothes.

It can be seen that life in Gunzhou is really difficult.

However, bandits are not common, and obviously they can still be maintained, not to such a serious extent.

The [-]-strong army was so vast that even if they knew that there were bandits in the boundary they passed by, they couldn't find any of them when they actually searched.

After all, these bandits are not fools, and they don't know how to do things that touch bones.

Except for some fun for myself, this journey is quite boring.

There was no bandit suppression as expected, and it was even more impossible to subsidize his own losses.

In this way, stop and go, left the boundary of Gunzhou.

On this day, it finally reached the boundary of Cao County.

"Master Hou, the boundary of Cao County is just ahead."

"It's finally here. The Marquis wants to see if Cao County is really that tough."

Zheng Hu followed in the army, and he had an indescribable feeling that this territory made him quite familiar.

After discussing with a few followers around him, he became more sure of his conjecture, came to Zheng Xiong, and said to Zheng Xiong.

"Second brother, I am familiar with this land!"

"You know me well, you mean you were robbed here?"

"That's not true. Going forward, I'm not sure yet."

"it is good."

As Zheng Xiong and his party walked a certain distance again, Zheng Hu seemed to confirm the guess in his heart, and nodded.

"That's right, this is the boundary. The mountain there looks like a Buddha. I'm very impressed. That mountain is just in the past."

"Actually, it's okay to charge tolls, but it's too expensive. We should learn a lesson."

(End of this chapter)