Qu A was originally the leading county in Danyang, and Sun Ce thought it was the imperial base in the late Han Dynasty. After the fall of Wu, he was afraid that the villagers here would be unable to be tamed, so he divided nearly one-third of Qu A to establish a county. After the Yongjia Rebellion, he established a Ding Jiangdong and divided Qu A to merge into the Langya County, which was established.

After splitting, the old rule of Qua is less than half of today. Moreover, because of the riots and civilians hit the capital a few years ago, the court not only arranged a large number of military camps around Qua, but also a large number of officials and households in the county were laid off, making this former county even more bleak.

However, Qu'a is no longer in a state of resentment and has long become famous in the southern part of Danyang. The canal bamboo trash connects all over the fields and eight villages, and the elevated ziplines cover the hills and valleys. The so-called people do not know how to farm, but the households have abundant grain. From the hills in the southern Maoshan surplus to the north, there are many fruits, woods, mulberry, hemp, flowers and oils, but there are no seedlings and wheat ears.

Outside these nurseries, there are warehouses of various sizes, and every day, a large number of ox, carriages, boats and boats shuttle back and forth on the river road, sending the numerous raw materials stocked by the plantations to major workshops near the river. After these raw materials are processed in depth or shallow in each workshop, they are then transported to Jurong in the north, where they become valuable finished products one by one, and then sent to Jiankang along Pogangdu and Yunyang Canals.

The goods produced in the two counties include all-inclusive items, from the most common dried fruits, malt sugar, fine wine, fabrics to daily cargo tools, decorations, and even pottery, casting, paint, paper, etc., which require higher skills. Almost all goods needed for daily life are produced here, and without exception, they are the most excellent in the current world.

Don’t know the goods from Nanyuan, and don’t know the true interest of things. This is a proverb that has been circulating in Duzhong in the past two years. Nanyuan’s goods have brought great changes to the lives of the people, especially the nobles of Duzhong, and at the same time, it has led to the consumption trend of Duzhong and even the entire Jiangdong.

Although the properties here are extremely abundant, they are still difficult to meet the huge consumption of Duzhong market. Any new products are almost immediately snatched away. There are many merchants who purchase large amounts of goods in Duzhong and transport them to other regions, and their profits are often several times or even dozens of times. However, due to the huge market gap, other merchants have the opportunity to counterfeit goods.

But no matter how hard these merchants rack their brains, the quality of goods is still difficult to achieve the quality of Nanyuan production, which undoubtedly promotes the price of Nanyuan products and has gradually formed an unbreakable reputation.

As the main production area of ​​Nanyuan goods, Qu'a and Jurong counties naturally attracted countless merchants to stop here, either wanting to seek cooperation or trying every possible way to find out the secrets of skills. More so, they want to see a glimpse of the popular trends in the future in order to make a reservation in advance to make profits.

The two counties were built into a special economic zone near the Gyeonggi area, which was also part of Shen Zhezi's plan. Such frequent exchanges of goods, raw materials, and personnel can cover up his real arrangements in the two counties to the greatest extent.

The cultivation of a large number of cash crops can not only be directly realized as huge profits, but also weaken the capital, and further highlights the importance of Jiangdong rice and grain in maintaining the stability of the situation. Especially compared with the government's military farms, the more flexible aristocratic manors can adapt to the trend more quickly, which undoubtedly weakens the economic independence of the local tyrants.

At least in the vicinity of the capital, each family is used to visiting Qu'ada for information and soliciting opinions first, so as not to be contrary to the trend of the things they plant. If that happens, although there will be no loss too much, the land income will definitely be greatly reduced.

Of course, this phenomenon is just a trend and has not formed a stable pattern. However, Shen Zhezi believes that as long as he continues to operate over time, the interests of these people can be controlled more closely.

Generally speaking, things that affect the world's style will always affect the whole body. This trend of Danyang has given Taichung's rulings an illusion, that is, the people are pursuing profits and abandoning farming, and merchants are eroding agricultural capital. Therefore, the biggest call in the past two years is to encourage local prefectures and counties to increase their efforts in military farming, and at the same time accelerate the migration and resettlement of refugees migrating south.

Among them, Jiangzhou and Kuaiji are mainly areas that accept refugees. Jiangzhou was the first to develop Guantun, and the former governor of Jiangzhou Ying Zhan began to increase income and stabilize the local area. The current governor Wen Qiao is one of the few famous scholars who dare to be a real person. In addition, Taichung has opened up policies for Jiangzhou, so the results have been remarkable. In just one year alone, tens of thousands of refugees were resettled, and tens of thousands of hectares of official tun were reclaimed!

The superiority of Kuaiji is even more obvious, with great potential and safe. In addition, the good interactive relationship with Jingkou is only a big scale compared to Jiangzhou!

Qu'anan inherits the Maoshan veins. There are many mountains and hills in the territory. In addition to the relatively important smelting and casting industries, it is also a natural training ground. Although it is impossible to maintain a large scale, the regular chord of two or three hundred people will not cause any sarcasm. The chords distributed in the two counties and villages will go here according to the season and month to receive more intense exercises. As for other things that are not available for the time being, we will maintain some basic physical training in their respective manors.

After seeing Han Huang off, Shen Zhezi felt the surging under the situation more and more. Therefore, he did not return to the manor first, but came to Hegang Mountain, located in the south of the county seat with his entourage.

There are many wild jujube trees in Hegang Mountain. This wood is used for many purposes and is expensive, so it is simply a top-notch material that is not expensive. Therefore, many Shen family members cut down here day and night, transported out of the mountainous areas with elevated slings, and piled on flat ground.

This sling is made of tough mulberry and hemp, bark fiber mixed with cowhide deer tendons. Although it is still slightly inferior to later chemical fibers, it can carry extremely strong tensile force, but the wear rate is very high. The cost of using it alone is extremely high, but it is extremely cost-effective compared to the saving of manpower.

After walking through several logging sites outside the mountainous area, Shen Zhezi arrived at a valley entrance. Several mountain springs gathered into a stream, and the terrain was still flat, and the environment was similar to the Liquan Valley of Wukang Mountain.

At this time, there was a wooden and stone camp standing at each end of the valley entrance. The soldiers from both sides were conducting an exercise to attack and defend against each other. Various hooks, ladders and other equipment were abandoned on the ground, as well as two peripheral rattles that slammed and refused to fight horses.

Shen Zhezi had never seen this kind of rifle, nor had any related concepts. It is said that it was built by the owners of the Beidiwu wall to resist the invasion of small cavalry and seize the grain outside the city. The shape is similar to Emperor Wu's tiger shooting cart. There are horizontal shields in the four-sided fence, and the bottom is connected with sharp wooden thorns of varying lengths.

After entering the battle, trenches are usually set up in front, and infantry support on both wings, but movement is very inconvenient. Once a cavalry is really rushing onto a large scale, the lethality can be exerted. Therefore, it only serves to attack small groups of cavalry scouts. After all, there are few dock walls that will withstand attacks by the main team of Jiehu. Once you encounter that situation, without depth, supply and foreign aid, you can only temporarily surrender to save your life.

Seeing such weapons, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but think of the tracked tanks in later generations, but this could only be thought about. Even if he could really create that kind of hard armor, without matching power and firepower, it would be just a can of iron under the iron hooves of the cavalry on the battlefield.

When Shen Zhezi arrived, the two sides of the battle had already entered a white heat, and the valley was filled with chaotic shouts, collisions and drums. This camp was built in proportion to the common dock walls in the north, and of course it reflected more of the military side. Dozens of attackers had climbed up the outer walls of the dock walls, gradually widening the gap in the walls, and people rushed up from behind.

The defender gradually lost his support. As the drum beats changed, he fought and retreated, giving up the first outer wall. After turning into the inner wall, he stabilized the formation due to the decrease in the attack intensity of the front. At the same time, the arrow towers in the camp began to continuously shoot arrows. Although the attacker attacked the outer wall, he fell into a dilemma of front-back attacks. As the casualties increased, he had no choice but to retreat again.

When Shen Zhezi stood on Gaogang, he couldn't help but sigh. From a defensive perspective, the various buildings in the Wubi wall played a full role. Even if it was ten times more powerful, it would be very difficult to attack it. If the Wubi wall chose a good place and had stable water sources and logistics supplies, it could indeed be called an insurmountable fortress.

But being able to be trapped in this small area of ​​defense is a kind of weak energy, so there are extremely high requirements for maintaining morale. Therefore, the Beidiwu wall either takes clans as a unit or everyone recommends a respected leader to enhance cohesion and avoid being disintegrated from the inside.

As the soldiers finished their day's training, they went to the mountain spring to take a bath and stretched their muscles. At this time, a middle-aged man in light armor was guided by his personal soldiers and bowed to Shen Zhezi from afar, saying, "When will the husband come? It's too noisy just now, and he has never been welcomed."

Shen Zhezi smiled and waved his hand: "I just came here to watch for a while when I have nothing to do, why bother to welcome Mr. Guo?"

The middle-aged man was named Guo Song, who was also from a refugee commander from the northern region. He was the nephew and subordinate of the former prefect of Xingyang Li Ju. Although Li Ju was not as famous as Liu Kun, to be honest, the harm caused to the Shi family by resisting Jie Hu during his lifetime was even greater than that of Liu Kun. Liu Kun relied more on his own reputation to win over the people to maintain the situation, while Li Ju's troops won a foothold in one bloody battle.

As an important general under Li Ju's army, Guo Song also defeated Jie Hu several times, but unfortunately, the army was small and the general situation was no longer there. As the situation became more and more corrupt, Li Ju's subordinates wanted to surrender Jie Hu. In helplessness, Li Ju could only lead his descendants to the south, but fell off his horse and died on the way back south. As for Guo Song and other generals who followed the south, they were stranded in Yiyang, Yuzhou, and traveled to various sides. Without the imperial edict of the court, they dared not return to the south.

Shen Zhezi accidentally learned from Tao Hong that Li Ju's subordinates were stranded in Yuzhou, so he spent a lot of money and asked Tao Hong's father Tao Zhan to help send Guo Song and others to Qu. Since there was no imperial edict from the court, these people could only stay in the Shen family manor first and help Shen Zhezi train the department.

It is precisely because of the training of the commander-in-chief of the Northern Territory like Guo Song, who fought with Jie Hu, that the combat effectiveness of the Shen family was soaring. Although the Shen family had many talents in commanding troops, they lived in Jiangdong for generations and were still somewhat unfamiliar with the combat style of militia. With this complementarity, Shen Zhezi was more confident.

Looking at Guo Song, who was full of vicissitudes of life on his face, Shen Zhezi couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the court owed too much to these lonely and loyal generals who were struggling to support in the north! Such a good person should not be used seriously, so how can he be invincible!

Putting aside these thoughts in his heart, Shen Zhezi smiled at Guo Song, "I am here this time, and I want to know about the meeting of Mr. Guo, please prepare, and go to the capital with me later to invite the Lord Li to mourn. If Mr. Guo is willing, I want to ask Mr. Guo to be a guard for Mr. Guo."
Chapter completed!