Chapter 99 Peerless appearance
Then we can only find ways to find ore veins and mine ourselves to solve the problem of insufficient pig iron material. Feng Jian later knew that Pingdu iron ore reserves were not abundant.
Iron ore resources are mainly distributed in the Sanheshan area of Yubu Village and Mingcun Town in later generations. They are located southwest of Huluyan, nearly 100 miles away from Huluyan. Feng Jian is temporarily unavailable to reach this place, so it is not realistic for Huluyan to mine and smelify iron by itself at this stage.
Then, from the analysis of the situation where the captives possess weapons and weapons in Moji Mountain and Sow Ridge. Among the two peak thieves, only a few strong people can possess weapons and weapons. The thieves don’t even think about it if they want a pair of iron armor protective gear!
These situations are almost the same as those in Huluyan. This is still the situation of the relatively powerful bandit forces in Daze Mountain. The remaining peak head weapons and weapons are probably even smaller.
Although cold weapons such as waist knives and long spears are difficult to deal with, after all, the Huluyan Weapon Development Institute can continue to be manufactured. What worried Feng Jian the most was the source of the bird gun used by the bird gun soldiers? It was really scratching his head.
Where is the bird gun? Of course, there is the official arsenal. The arsenal not only has bird guns, waist knives, round shields, long spears, iron armor protective gear, bows and arrows, etc., all the weapons and weapons needed by Zhenshan Camp, but that is the equipment of the imperial government, and it has nothing to do with Zhenshan Camp!
Prosecutor Feng tried every means to improve the view of Miss Chen’s family about herself and Huluyan. The ultimate goal was to establish a connection with Chen Qinglan and Chen Suwen, the prefect of Pingdu, and find ways to find a solution to the shortage of weapons in the Zhenshan Camp in Pingdu City!
Chen Xilan's father Chen Suwen was the new magistrate of Pingdu and the fifth-ranking Pingdu parents. He held the power of life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in Pingdu's territory in his hand.
Feng Jian believes that the bandits, including Huluyan, are just a group of farmers who have no food and clothing. They are desperate to make ends meet on Daze Mountain. Their household registrations are well recorded in the government's yellow book. As long as they have a good relationship with local parents, it is not difficult to restore the identity of ordinary households in the village.
Unfortunately, what Feng Jian didn't know was that the bandits in Shaanxi are now rebelling and rebelling. Because the court was unable to exterminate them, it implemented a policy of pacification across the country.
A bandits like Feng’s scale of tens of thousands of submissions to the court is a great contribution to the officials who are recruiting the court! If Feng Jian showed his submission in front of Chen Zhizhou, Chen Zhizhou would definitely be unsuccessful!
Even if you don’t understand this history, as long as you can see the imperial court’s regular journals, you can understand the court’s policy of treating refugees all over the world.
Unfortunately, Feng Jian was just a bandit. He neither understood this history nor could he see the imperial court's report. Therefore, he could only try his best to contact the Pingdu government and try to find a new way out for Huluyan!
Chen's magistrate Chen's full name is Chen Suwen, and his courtesy name is Shenzhi. It should be said that this is a good official who is dedicated and responsible. Historical records show that in the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebel general Kong Youde personally led the rebel soldiers of Dengzhou to attack Pingdu City, but Pingdu City has been in peace for a long time and there is no regular force to defend.
Chen Suo heard that the elders in the city summoned the city and whispered to persuade the people to flee. He advised the people in the city: "You are innocent and both the city will be destroyed, which is useless. You can leave the city quickly!"
Finally, before the rebels arrived, the people who were willing to leave the city were alienated, saving nearly half of the people from the fate of being slaughtered.
When the Dengzhou sieges the city, Chen Suwen personally snatched the arrows and stones and led the crowd to shoot and kill them. Since Chen and You, they were still unable to resist the strong riots. Pingdu City fell, Chen Suwen fought to the death with a short sword in his hand and was killed several times.
Before the war, the population was more than 167,800. After the war, the population dropped sharply to more than 71,400. The people who survived here should be most grateful to the magistrate Chen Sowen, who advised some of the people in the deceased to stay away from the city and avoid being massacred by Kong Youde's rebels.
Chen Zilong, a minister in the Ministry of War, described the scene of people leaving their hometowns and being displaced:
The car is covered with yellow dust late, and the husband pushes it and the wife wins it.
Where to go out?
The green ones will cure my hunger and I wish to have a happy land and feed my glutinous rice.
The wind blows the yellow artemisia and sees the walls, where there is a master who will feed you.
Knocking at the door, no one's room, no cauldron, and tears in the alleys.
This is a true portrayal of the difficult and miserable scene of the people who are homeless and leave their hometowns after the chaos of the war, making people feel sad!
The most direct thing is that this war caused all the gentry and people left behind in Pingdu City to be killed by the rebels, and all the buildings in Pingdu City were destroyed. It was not until the tenth year of Chongzhen that it was rebuilt under the auspices of the new governor Du Zhipan.
After the reconstruction, Pingdu City had a temple of famous officials and several archways. The temples of famous officials enshrine loyal and righteous people, including officials and gentry who died in order to fight against the rebellious soldiers in Dengzhou. Of course, Chen Sowen was also among the worshipers.
Feng Jian naturally didn't know about Chen Sowen's history, but he knew that Pingdu City would be razed to the ground by Kong Youde's rebellion in the sixth year of Chongzhen. He racked his brains to make preparations in advance, just to deal with the war that was about to happen.
It is November of the third year of Chongzhen, and there are more than two years before Kong Youde can raise troops to cause chaos. It takes two years to prepare. At that time, it may not be able to resist Kong Youde's rebels who invaded Pingdu!
Feng Jian is now thinking about how to make friends with Chen Lilan and his master and servant. Should he send someone to report a letter to Chen Zhizhou and ask Chen Zhizhou to pick up people, or directly send someone to escort Chen Lilan and his two back to Pingdu City? This is quite a bit difficult to think about.
After Feng Jian considered it carefully, Chen Qinglan didn't seem to want to let too many people know that they had been kidnapped by bandits. It would be better to listen to Chen Qinglan's own ideas.
On November 12, the third year of Chongzhen, there was constant noise in the entire Mozhu Mountain Village, and the festive atmosphere was even more lively than during the New Year.
The food in the square was distributed according to the population of each household. In the evening, I saw smoke rising from every household in the village. When I was close, I could still smell the aroma of scallion pancakes in the wind.
Some young children are running and playing wildly on the street while paying attention to their own food and cooking. Once they hear their family’s call, rabbits immediately run home. There are scallion oil pancakes to eat at night, which makes adults at home angry and lose the opportunity to eat scallion oil pancakes. Wouldn’t they be greedy for themselves!
The heads of each family watched their mother boil water and steam pasta under the stove, and thought about whether the food the family had had was enough to support the spring of the next year; they were planning how many fields their family could share, whether they should plant soybeans or grains in the fields, and even plant sweet potatoes transmitted from the south.
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Su Su Xiaozhan worked together to pull out a big cabbage from the vegetable field in the backyard. The small hairpin peeled the cabbage into a cabbage heart and prepared to stir-fry the cabbage in the evening.
Su Su Nong was born in a family, and when she saw her hairpin peeling cabbage, she felt like she wasted. It seemed that the hairpin didn’t have much experience in cooking! Among the three, she became the most skilled person in cooking!
Feng Jian told him that he had made friends with Chen Lilan's master and servant to find a new way out for all the Huluyan farmers. He could not make Chen Lilan's little hairpin unhappy because of his own reasons. Therefore, when Su Su was cooking, Su Su took the initiative to go to the kitchen to prepare meals for the three of them. The little hairpin naturally became Su Su's helper!
In the kitchen, Feng Jian sent Cheng Yousheng to deliver Shishan Mushrooms and bacon. Su Su prepared to make stewed bacon with mushrooms as a meat dish for three people for dinner!
Chen Qinglan stood quietly beside the mountain stream in the backyard, standing silently in the cold wind. Her clear face reflected in the stream water like a flat mirror, naturally exuding this cold and gorgeous posture! She usually covers her face with a thin gauze scarf, so not many people have seen her face.
Suddenly, I remembered that Feng Jian was standing in the courtyard in the morning and said, "Or would you invite your lady to have a meal with your sister Su?" Xiaozhang couldn't help but smiled slightly. It turned out that this person was not too annoying!
The sudden smile, reflected in the stream water like a flat mirror, is like blooming peonies that make the cold weather suddenly full of spring!
If someone saw that Chen Qinglan suddenly changed from the coldness just now to the beautiful beauty, her peerless look would snatch the man's soul away, and she would definitely kneel down on the ground and let her be driven at will!
For some reason, Chen Qinglan suddenly flashed in his mind that Feng Jian grabbed Su Su's hand and the two were intimate. The smiles suddenly stopped and his brows frowned slightly. From time to time, the sound of Su Su's small hairpin chattering from the kitchen came from the ears. Chen Qinglan felt uneasy for no reason.
At first, Chen Qinglan regarded Feng Jian as a thief like a mochi tiger, and was extremely hated and wary of Feng Jian Shen Xiaoshan and Cheng Yousheng's arrival. When he gradually learned about the incident, he did not have any bad ideas about his master and servant, but instead sent Su Su to accompany him, he felt a little guilty and felt wronged Feng Jian. When he let her see Feng Jian's uniqueness in the square, a ripples arise in his heart. He felt that this man was indeed a little different!
Chen Qinglan was even a little shocked and surprised. Is this still the insight that a child of a private household who has no food and clothing should have? Is it true that anyone in the world is born to know? Chen Qinglan dared not think about it anymore.
Chen Qinglan's family background was born. She understood that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also implemented similar land distribution measures. At that time, in order to attract refugees to reclaim wasteland, the court ordered all the fields that refugees reclaimed wasteland and were personally owned, and all kinds of land taxes were exempted within three years. After the implementation of the government order, the amount of cultivated land in the country increased significantly.
However, after more than 240 years of founding the Ming Dynasty, Taizu's good governance has long been thrown aside. Now most of the land is occupied by officials, gentry, royal family and noble family, and there is no such thing as the land in the world to be reclaimed and owned by individuals.
Chen Qinglan stood in the wind and kept thinking about Feng Jian's words and deeds. Suddenly, he thought that he was really bored. He was thinking about what Feng Jian was doing. He had nothing to do with him! It was the right thing to think about leaving this nest earlier!
Chapter completed!