Chapter 139 Shared Memory
The Du family delivered the last batch of grain before the New Year, totaling 30,000 hu of them, and sent them all to Kinmenwu.
The rest will be waited until after the spring begins next year.
Luoshui is actually navigable.
In history, when Liu Yu attacked this place, he sent people to log and build ships, and walked against the current to see where he could sail the farthest.
Therefore, after the sequential freezing, the water level rises, and it is more convenient to transport resources by wooden ships and the transportation volume is greater.
Shao Xun had just brought a group of refugees to Kinmenwu, with a total of 200 households, from Yuzhou.
The Xianbei plundered and the people were extremely miserable, while Sima Yue was in charge of Xuchang and could not do anything.
Every time he entered the Central Plains, it was a good opportunity for the Xianbei people to strengthen themselves.
During the Battle of Luoyang the previous year, the Xianbei people plundered wealth and goods, and women and craftsmen were unable to control them.
This time, when inviting him to Yuzhou, there will inevitably be another disaster for life.
From the first group of refugees who fled to Luoyang, Shao Xun had a rough understanding of the situation: Sima Yue rewarded 50,000 pieces of silk in one breath, but the Xianbei people were not satisfied and still plundered everywhere.
There was another rumor that Xianbei people would move westward after the New Year and prepare to march into Guanzhong, but the war could not stop.
"Although life is difficult, the festival still needs to be celebrated." Today is Laba Festival. Shao Xun came to Kinmenwu in person and took everyone to celebrate the festival and have fun together.
He is not aimless.
Why do people below recognize you and where does your authority come from? This is a complex question.
In Shao Xun's opinion, having fun, suffering, working together, training together, managing life together, bringing everyone together to be rich and prosperous, and forming a solid common memory is an important way to improve authority.
In this common memory, you'd better not be absent.
A beautiful courtyard has been built in Kinmen Dock, and it has two gardens with gardens in front and back, completely imitating Yunzhong Dock.
While inspecting Yunzhongwu, Shao Xun found a new layer of bricks on the bedroom floor of the yard.
He quietly picked out a piece, engraved the word "Pei" on the back, and then put it back, and then ordered the soldiers to guard it, not allow anyone to enter.
When he came to Kinmen Dock today, he dug out the bricks again. The daggers in the engraved words wandered in the air, sometimes as if they were about to write the word "Yu", sometimes as if they were about to write "Li", and a little like "Lu", and finally "Liu".
The reason I want to carve Yu is because Yu Liang is here today.
At this moment, he was walking between the big tanks with his nose pinched.
After doing the "bad thing", Shao Xun came over and said, "Yuangui often eats this thing when he sobers up, but now he is disgusted with it, why?"
Yu Liang put down his hand embarrassedly.
In the middle of winter, people like to pick frosted vegetables such as glutinous vegetables (predecessor of cabbage), cyanine (water shield), sunflower (winter amaranth), etc. After drying, put them in a large jar with salt water, compact them with a stone, and then cover them with a lid, and make them "salty glutinous rice".
The salted pineapple is golden yellow, and its rhizomes are called "Golden Hairpin". They are both sweet and crisp, and sour and beautiful. From princes and ministers to common people, they eat them. Even when the army goes to war, they often carry this item, which can be called national food.
Shao Xun also likes to eat.
He even had a bad taste, and asked Concubine Pei, who had grown up with wealth and wealth since childhood, to make salty sprouts for him by herself.
If you do it well, give it a fur, and sit down and peel the garlic!
"Mr. Lang, there is news coming back from Yingchuan." Yu Liang said when he walked to an uninhabited corner.
The mountain wind was rustling and the pine waves almost covered the voices of the two.
The newly arrived refugees in Yuzhou looked at the busy people in the village timidly. After eating the millet porridge, they picked vegetables and chopped firewood, and integrated into collective labor.
Shao Xun withdrew his gaze and asked, "How?"
"The previous batch of armor should have been made by people from the Xun family in Yingyin, but it may not be the master's family." Yu Liang said.
In fact, their family is in the Yanling Yu family, even if they cannot be the leader.
The Pei family in Hedong only lived in a different place for three generations, but many large families separated in two generations, and Yu Liang's family is now a branch.
The Xun family in Yingyin has a larger family business, more people, and many branches are quite powerful, but this time I don’t know which one is built.
"I guess so." Shao Xun nodded: "The closest to Yushanwu are the Xun family in Yingyin and Zhong family in Changshe."
"There is another thing." Yu Liang said seriously: "Someone in the clan asked, "My husband, are you going to build a wu in Yingchuan? After all, Yushanwu is very close to Yingchuan."
"Tell me something." Shao Xun said: "I am not interested in Yingchuan. If I can watch over and help each other with Yushanwu, it will be great."
"Ke." Yu Liang nodded.
"People from the Yu family..." Shao Xun hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why do you want to ask this?"
Yu Liang glanced at him and whispered: "Have you forgotten the Xuchang Wuku case? Some people in the clan speculated that you have taken at least 5,000 pairs of iron armor and want to buy it for you."
"Why are you in a hurry to buy iron armor? Isn't leather armor good too?"
"Of course I bought it all." Yu Liang sighed and said, "The Xianbei plundered Yuzhou, and more than 2,000 cavalry rushed into Yanling. Many of my Yu family's farmers who were opening rivers were plundered. Now they are very disappointed with Sikong and are scolding them endlessly. Since the court cannot count on it, they can only rely on themselves."
"Otherwise—" Yu Liang said again: "Others don't know about Yushanwu, but my Yu family still understands it. More than 2,000 households and hundreds of elite soldiers, their strength cannot be underestimated. The husband also has three manors in Luoyang, namely Jinguyuan, Panyuan and Shaoyuan. In Yuzhou, this strength is also a powerful manor. There are many poor families and little families who don't have so many private soldiers."
After saying this, Yu Liang subconsciously glanced at Jinmenwu.
He is a smart man, and Shao Xun specially brought him to Yunzhong, Kinmen, and Sanwu in Tanshan, and his intention to show his strength was very obvious.
The three major manors and four major forts will not be a problem to bring out five or six thousand young men, let alone he has an unknown number of elite private soldiers.
If he wanted, these thousands of people could be covered in iron armor and roaming across Yuzhou - even if they could not capture the fort, it would be scary enough.
After experiencing the great plunder of Xianbei, the master's family became pragmatic. If he had the strength, he could cooperate.
Shao Xun nodded slightly.
If there is any gentry in the world who knows his best knowledge, it must be the Pei family and the Yu family.
Yushanwu was originally established by Yu Gun, and later most of them scattered elsewhere. The hundreds of houses left behind must have close ties with the Yu family.
To a certain extent, these people are spies, but Shao Xun was too lazy to identify them.
Since we made up our mind to use Guangchengze as the core base, the Yingchuan family, which is so close to us, has become an unavoidable topic.
The traditional trick of pulling one school and fighting another school will never go out of date at any time.
The Yanling Yu family may not be liked with them now, and cooperation may be limited, but as long as their attitude is not hostile, even if it is just neutral, it will be meaningful to Shao Xun.
In the nest of the aristocratic family in Yingchuan, he was eager to open a gap to avoid problems in the future.
"How about Ji County?" Shao Xun asked again: "Have Wenjun and the others all returned?"
Yu Liang's heart moved.
The husband didn’t ask others, but only asked Wenjun. What does this mean?
Wenjun is only ten years old...
Yu Liang was a little confused and replied, "It has arrived in Luoyang. The situation in Hebei is too chaotic. My father relied on the thousand old soldiers given to him to defend the county city. However, there are many other counties and counties who have caught thieves. The county officials have ended up miserably."
Hebei is too chaotic, and Yu Chen, the prefect of Ji County, was not confident that he would not make any mistakes. Therefore, when the situation stabilized, he immediately sent his wife and children back to Luoyang.
"Just come back." Shao Xun smiled and said, "I'll visit you in the first month."
"It's easy to talk about, it's easy to talk about." Yu Liang said with great concern.
A call sounded not far away, and the two ended their conversation and walked over.
The owner of Golden Dock, Lu Heigou, was holding a sharp knife, grabbing a whimpering yellow dog and stabbing it quickly.
The yellow dog screamed and died on the spot.
After the blood was completely removed, everyone treated it while it was hot. After a while, the yellow dog became a pile of meat in the basin and placed it in front of the altar.
Black dogs kill yellow dogs, just be quick and neat!
Shao Xun patted Lu Heigou's shoulder with a smile and said, "When will we worship the Kitchen God?"
"It's almost done." Lu Heigou looked anxiously in the distance.
At the foot of the mountain, the screams of the fat pigs were shocking, almost shaking the snow on the trees.
It is a tradition to worship the Kitchen God on La Day.
Some people sacrificed to each other with pigs and wine, and some people killed yellow dogs for sacrifice, which were called yellow sheep.
The conditions for Kinmenwu are not good, and such festivals should not have been held.
The refugees had already experienced the pain of wandering and became extremely humble, as if as long as they could survive, nothing mattered.
Shao Xun killed ten pigs, seven or eight yellow dogs, and held a sacrifice. The purpose was to tell those refugees that you are human beings, not just beasts with instincts left. After coming to Kinmenwu, they would live in peace and work hard, and their lives would get better little by little, and they would pick up all kinds of etiquettes of being human again.
The pork and dog meat were quickly brought up and placed in front of the altar.
Shao Xun stood in front of the front, and recited aloud in front of a thousand households in Kinmenwu: "In recent years, Fujian has suffered from famines. After receiving the king's rent, he will not eat as much as possible..."
His voice was ups and downs and full of emotion.
The people of the fortress have low cultural level and cannot understand the congratulations very much, but in the solemn atmosphere, everyone subconsciously restrained themselves, stood in a quiet manner, and listened silently.
As I listened, a wonderful feeling gradually arose in my heart.
It turns out that we have a support now and we no longer have to struggle alone or even alone to survive.
This feeling of being collective and organised can be relied on is difficult to describe, but it is wonderful.
Everyone enjoys this feeling and subconsciously wants to maintain this hard-earned collective.
Isolation and helplessness are called "everyday and unresponsive" and "the feeling of "the earth and the earth are not working" and no one wants to experience it again, really.
Those who stand in front and recite the congratulations loudly are destined to be the deepest memories of many people in the years to come.
Chapter completed!