0439 Wujiazhuang

Wujiazhuang, built by the mountains and water. In this very strong fortress, there are several Wu clansmen who live with the patriarch Wu Liuye and their five close relatives. There are more than 8,000 men and women of the ethnic group, either rich or noble, poor or cheap, all of whom have the same surname and ancestors. Men are old or young, nine out of ten surnamed Wu, and foreigners with different surnames. There are very few, even these different surnames, and most of them have relatives of seven aunts and eight aunts, so it is difficult for outsiders to gain a foothold here.

As for now, there are no less than 10,000 men, women and young people living in Wujiazhuang, and several farms in seven miles and eight townships nearby are accompanied by tens of thousands of relatives and old Wu clan. It turns out that Wujiazhuang's people have knives, guns, bows, sleeves, arrows, javelers and other weapons in the hands of Wujiazhuang. In addition, General Gu Xilou With the charter of the army, he always has large crossbow machines and earth cannons to protect himself. Master Wu, the patriarch, did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to search for artillery, firearms and other firearms, make a number of large and small earth cannons, and often gathered a group of people to practice martial arts, which can be heard in ten miles and eight townships.

Speaking of which, Wujiazhuang, which has relatively sufficient food and salaries, has more combat effectiveness than many regular papal guard and teaching soldiers guarding the land. Under the banner of "protecting the family", the bronze bell and drum of Wu's ancestral temple sounded, and the responders gathered. The slightly smaller number of people did not dare to touch it. Don't go near Wujiazhuang. The castle eats and fights local tycoons, so as not to be disgraced and damage the soldiers. What's more, the people's strong townships near Wujiazhuang bravely implemented the joint protection of various townships, often communicating with each other with their banners. Some policemen unite to support each other, and their strength must not be underestimated.

Today is the day when the heads of the civil regiment coalition meet. Wu Liuye, the head of the Wu clan, began to be busy in the morning. When the sun was about to set, he was still in the Wu's ancestral temple. He was worried about the food and salaries of the various surnames in the civil regiment coalition. The heads of each family quarreled with each other, and Wu Liuye had to coordinate and mediate.

For the maintenance of this civil regiment coalition, money and grain are indispensable. Each family also has its own corresponding share of money and grain, but each family has all kinds of difficulties. This month or next month, there is always a situation where some money should be paid, and the payment is insufficient, so that who should make up for the money and grain owed in the previous month? Who should Pay more this month, and wait until next month to pay less. Such things as mutual adjustment can only be finalized after quarrels, and then everyone can discuss the training, mutual cooperation, and deployment of ordnance of the civilian coalition forces.

"Ruizhou" has been searched by Prince Rui Wang Lei and the four father-in-law Ma for many years. Not to mention how many ways ordinary people have to live, even large households can't afford more money and food. How much profit can they make by digging food in the soil alone? That is to say, I learned to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes from Kanto, and I can also grow and survive in a poor and bitter cold saline and alkaline land. This year, I collected a lot of sweet potatoes and potatoes. When they are hidden in the cellar, the food is not so nervous and a little enough to eat, but it is also quite difficult to raise such a large civil regiment coalition, although it is a joint protection of each surname.

At dinner, Wujiazhuang's servant brought a large bowl of smoked fish, bacon and stewed radish, a large pot of sorghum rice, a large pot of small rice, and a large bucket of fish soup. The leaders of the council were not polite at present, just like a farmer who picked up rice and devoured it. It was completely gone. The grand family spirit of Zhongming Dingshi.

Ruidi is now a real people who are out of money. Rice noodles are as expensive as gold beads, that is, these gentry known as the big family. The family background is extremely thick, and there are some power in the official surface, so that they can survive the double crazy search of Prince Rui and the four father-in-law Ma, and still can't stand it. On the other hand, if it were another rich and rich family or only middle-class, it would have long been bankrupt and become poor. Wu Liuye and Ma's four father-in-law and General Gu Xilou had more or less personal relations, which could survive until now. However, together with the civil chaos, the money and grain in his hand could not withstand the amazing consumption of raising soldiers and self-insurance, and it has begun to become embarrassed day by day. Forced, there are not many good things at the bottom of the box.

Although he is a rich man, now in order to cope with the more difficult situation in the future, he can only use miscellaneous grains as the staple food. Don't think about pasta. If you can have fish, meat and radishes, you can eat miscellaneous grains. Life has been very luxurious. Although the following Minzhuang Xiangyong has sufficient food and salaries, in fact, if you eat sweet potatoes three times a day, you can eat pickled cabbage and salted soybeans. If you boil potatoes with sweet potato leaves, or occasionally make a few radish stewed sweet potato noodles, it is a big dish to improve your diet.

Sixth Master Wu has never figured out how the millions of soldiers of the Kanto Empire were raised? Even if the empire has started agriculture and commerce in the past two years, it is completely incredible in the eyes of Wu Liuye. After all, he doesn't know how expensive firewood and rice are. How much food he spent to pull up this combative civil regiment coalition. Where did the An Dynasty come from?

While eating, Master Wu suddenly saw his nephew Wu Shaozu flashing in from outside the ancestral temple and wondered, "Why did you come back from 'Galo' at this time?

"Is Shaozu back?" Several heads of other clans, who were taller than Wu Shaozu, greeted them with a smile while eating and drinking.

"Uncle Zhao, Uncle Yuwen, Brother Tianjiu-" Wu Shaozu saluted one by one, and then came to the sixth master Wu and said, "Uncle Six."

"Well, didn't you help under General Gu? Why did you come back?" Sixth Master Wu handed over the bowls and chopsticks.

"Yes. Sixth uncle, nephew received the news - the Yuan brothers, Li Gan's nephew and Cai Jingzhong had already captured the four levels----" He did not deliberately lower his voice, so the leaders of the civil regiment in the Wu ancestral temple heard that they were frightened and looked at each other.

Although Wu Shaozu is the youngest in his family, he is usually fine and flexible. Wu Liuye has been putting him in the Galo army in order to grasp the movements of all parties in the city in time. He is also very reassuring about his youngest nephew.

Sixth Master Wu never thought that it took Wu Shaozu a day to get home from morning to night on a military horse only 60 miles from "Galo City" to Wujiazhuang, and he didn't notice that there were two more faces in his nephew's entourage.

It is said that Prince Rui and the Ma Jianjun intend to transfer most of the civil regiment's coalition into Chang'an, search for traitors and internals, and assist in guarding the city. The order of the Prince's mansion and the military order documents of the supervising military government may be delivered in the evening. Wu Shaozu said again.

"How does that make it? How can we defend the city for their own money? The heads of other civil regiments and coalition forces quit. They want them to defend the city for Prince Rui without food and salary. Who would like it? If the civil regiment is transferred to Fucheng, who will guard the women and children of this fortress farm? In case the civilian army flows here in two or three days, won't it be left to the rebels?

"Uncles and brothers, listen to the younger generation first!" Wu Shaozu looked at Uncle Six, and then looked at the heads of these local rich clans in the ancestral temple, and said, "It is not feasible to obey the order. According to Shaozu's opinion, we must agree to the order of the Prince's Mansion, and we can take the initiative as to transfer how many people. First, transfer 2,000 people in the village, don't be more strong, as long as you can run away, and prepare more torch flags. We will send a suspicious plan for Fucheng, and only deduce that we will be transferred and gathered from the villages and forts along the way. Then all the way to Fucheng, and some men were transferred to the villages and fortresses along the way. They also made a lot of fanfare. If you raise more torches, you can hide them from the sea. Anyway, at night, the special appointment from Fucheng is unknown, so 51 million is always allowed to let us say, and it can definitely cover up the past. As for Fucheng, Shaozu can also say that there are still people who have been transferred one after another, and there is no problem to fool them for three or five days. By that time, the situation was clear, and the uncles and brothers could decide where to go.