Although Cao Keming did not like Xu Ping's stinky and tough attitude, he did not dare to joke about major events in the court. He did not go to Ruhe County, but replaced the garrisons in the county inspection village. Zhu Zongping changed from a county inspection to a state inspection, and moved to Jincheng Post in the north of Yongzhou City, where he was guarding the main roads from Kunlun Pass, and the task of checking the business trips was heavy. Zhang Rong, who was originally stationed in Jincheng Post, moved to Hexian County and changed it to a state subordinate. He was no longer under the jurisdiction of Ruhe County, and strengthened the military forces around Ruhe County.

Zhang Rong had more than 200 people under him, half of whom was commanded, not from the Xiang Army on the road in Guangxi, but was transferred here from Fujian Road. He had much stronger combat power. Since the Taizu era, the imperial guards had changed their guards every year, allowing the soldiers to work hard on the road and maintain combat power. The southern imperial guards were rare, and many tasks were replaced by the Xiang Army. Therefore, the new guards appeared. The system was not much different from the imperial guards, but the imperial guards were much cheaper to raise, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger. The new guards in Yongzhou were basically from Fujian. The geographical environment and the climate of the two places were similar. The soldiers could adapt here and not lose their combat power if they were not accommodating the land and the land was not suitable for the land and the scale was getting bigger.

Xu Ping and Cao Keming were busy, and Huang Chengxiang from Zhongzhou did not make any noise. After more than a month quietly, the tense sugar-pressing season passed. The harvest was unexpected, and a total of more than 1.6 million kilograms of white sugar and more than 300,000 kilograms of yellow sugar were prepared, which was almost equivalent to one million chunks of goods. Such a large number of goods were put on the market in a concentrated manner. Xu Ping also knew that it would inevitably cause a sharp drop in prices, but that was the future. As long as the output here rose and outperformed the price decline, it would not be a big deal for the state.

.However, the sugar sugar industry in eastern Zhejiang and Sichuan will face a crisis, which is not what he cares about. It is normal for the industry to concentrate in advantageous areas. Sugarcane is a four-carbon crop with strong photosynthesis and is suitable for growing in hot tropical areas. It does not require high land fertility. Ninety percent of the nutrients required during the growth period come from light and water, and one percent of them are related to the barren land of the land, which is suitable for the limestone terrain under Yongzhou where the land is not fertile. The fertile land in Liangzhe and Sichuan is better to grow grain honestly.

One day in mid-November, Huang Laosan was drilling in the forest, holding a small bow to find the small animals he could hunt. The morning dew squirted from the leaves and poured his clothes soaked and tightly on his skin.

Just as Huang Laosan was looking for it, the sound of horse riding suddenly came from the foot of the mountain. Soon after, the messy voices of people came, which seemed particularly abrupt in the empty mountains.

Pushing away the branches, Huang Laosan poked his head out and saw a group of people walking on the road. He was sitting alone on the horse, in his forties, and looked white and fat as rare as those in the mountains. Behind him were more than a dozen knights, all with their swords and bows, and they were strong. There were hundreds of people following behind, some holding long swords and rattan cards, some carrying spears, and shouting and moving forward quickly.

A knight looked around on the horse and saw someone flashing on the mountain on the roadside from a distance. He drew an arrow and shot straight towards Huang Laosan with a whoosh.

Huang Laosan was startled and threw himself on the ground, running away quickly through the dense forest and hiding.

The knight spat: "I don't know what kind of rats, dare to let us on the mountain!"

The fat middle-aged man said, "Maybe it is a mountain citizen who hunts here. There are many deer and deer in the mountain, and there are many hunters. When you go back, you have to set a rule. You cannot enter the mountain without permission from the state. The things in the mountain are given to me by the mountain god. These slaves will not offer sacrifices after being beaten, and they are just for nothing."

While talking, the group continued to move forward.

Huang Laosan ran more than a hundred steps before stopping, and breathed a sigh of relief and said to himself: "Isn't Huang Zhizhou riding a horse in front? He really took people to Ruhe County. Official Xu asked me to guard the road here. Sure enough, he had the foresight, otherwise he might suffer the loss of Huang Zhizhou."

Huang Laosan is a member of Huang Tianbiao's tribe. He has long been integrated into the governance of Ruhe County, separated from his identity as a mountain citizen, and has also escaped from the control of the barbarian chief.

Although Huang Laosan's name is old-fashioned, he is actually in his twenties and is not old at all. It is just a custom of naming in their tribe. Now, in addition to planting sugarcane in the county, he has also been drawn out to be a village soldier. Because he is familiar with the terrain, he was sent by Xu Ping to monitor the movements in Zhongzhou. He was content with Cao Keming's warning, and Xu Ping did not dare to neglect. In addition to organizing training for the township soldiers, he also arranged eyeliners on the way from Zhongzhou to Ruhe County.

To calm down, Huang Laosan carefully took out a bamboo tube from his arms, pulled out the plug, took out the fire break and blew it hard, and put it on the exposed twist line.

When the twisted thread encounters fire, it ignits with a hissing sound.

Huang Laosan had a tense face, stared at the burning twisting thread, and his hands holding the bamboo tube kept trembling. Xu Guanren gave him this task, and when he found out that the Zhongzhou soldiers sent the bamboo tube out, he didn't have to worry about other things, even if he beat the corpse and blood, it had nothing to do with him. Just such a small matter, Huang Laosan firmly took the lead. Xu Guanren promised him that he had always had enough money, so he dared not be negligent.

After the twisting thread was burned, a stream of black smoke suddenly emerged from the bamboo tube, flew out of Huang Laosan's hand, flew straight into the air and could not be seen, and then it exploded. The explosion sounded far away from the valley, with echoes, and a gorgeous flower bloomed in the sky.

Huang Chengxiang, who was moving forward in the valley, stopped his horse and looked up at the sky. The fireworks were gone, only white clouds were floating in the air.

"What's the noise that sounds so loud? Could such a good weather be thunder?"

The knight who had shot the arrow before raised his head and said in confusion.

Huang Chengxiang said, "It must be the hunting mountain citizen who just now shocked the mountain god and made a noise to scare him! When he goes back, he sets rules and no longer allows them to do whatever they want in the mountains!"

After a discussion, several people couldn't tell the truth, so the group continued to move forward.

I couldn't walk very far, but I heard another explosion coming from the front, and then it was endless.

Although this kind of primary rocket is the simplest application of gunpowder, it still goes beyond the times. How have these barbarians who have lived in the mountains for several lifetimes seen it? They are just suspicious and move forward carefully.

It takes more than 20 miles of mountain road from Zhongzhou to Ruhe County. Hundreds of people are walking and stopping, and it takes at least half a day to get out of the mountains. However, the whole country and Ruhe County have already received their news.

In the inspection camp, Zhang Rong was neatly dressed and ordered his subordinates to go to the wall to meet the enemy. He then said to his personal soldiers around him: "One of you goes to the county to inform Punishment Xu Tong, don't take the barbarians' way. The other one rode a fast horse to Guwanzhai and ask Pengzhizhai to send people here to reinforce, so that the barbarians will never return!"

Two personal soldiers took the order.

Zhang Rong stood there and thought, the Zhongzhou barbarians were said to have more than 500 soldiers, and I don’t know how many people they brought out this time. If there were fewer people, they could go out to fight with more than 200 people under his command. If they caught the barbarian chief, it would be a great achievement. I am afraid that there will be many people coming, and it will be bad if they suffer setbacks.

Zhang Rong is different from Zhu Zongping. Although they are both inspectors, Zhu Zongping maintains local public order. His main job is to check the past business trips and prevent people from carrying contrabands. Secondly, it is to shock the place. Although Zhang Rong is also a 800-year-old soldier. He has entered Yizhou many times to suppress the barbarians and cause trouble. He also transferred to Jinghu. Faced with the powerful Fushui Man and Meishan Man, Zhu Zongping only wants to calm down the situation. Zhang Rong's first reaction was to start a war. If he didn't start a war, how could he get his military achievements? If he didn't fight, why would he transfer these people from Fujian? When he came, Cao Zhizhou also explained clearly that there are nearly one million yuan worth of goods in Ruhe County, and no barbarians are allowed to enter the county. Not to mention a small Zhongzhou, even if the Jiaozhi army comes, he must withstand it. In front of money, no one dares to mention the word Fushui.

What is the concept of one million guan? The fiscal gap of the Central Third Department in recent years is basically between 600,000 guan and 800,000 guan. For the sake of these hundreds of thousands of guan, the Sansi envoy borrowed money from the emperor every year, took the other person's soft hand, and was not tough to speak in front of the emperor. If you can fill this gap, the Sansi envoy dares to force all the rulings in the court. Who dares to settle the matter and make peace? Let's turn the money out first.

It is about forty miles from Zhongzhou to the inspector village, all of which are mountain roads, while Ruhe County is only more than twenty miles away, and it is a flat mountain.

Just after noon, Zhang Rong had not seen Huang Chengxiang's shadow yet, Xu Ping and his men had arrived.

Looking at the neat team of nearly a thousand people behind Xu Ping, Zhang Rong, who was in the inspection camp, took a breath. He knew the background of Ruhe County, and the thousand men almost pulled out all the Ding Zhuang. He really couldn't understand how Xu Tong had done this. There were few places in the Song Dynasty that had such mobilization efficiency.

Seeing Xu Ping slowly set up the team in front of the mountain pass, Zhang Rong got off the village building and began to gather the team. He had already seen that Xu Tong was afraid that he would not be prepared to let Huang Chengxiang return to Zhongzhou.

Xu Ping rode on the horse and looked at the steeping mountains in front of him, and the valley where the two mountains confronted each other, and narrowed his eyes. Ruhe County had already made complete preparations. He thought Huang Chengxiang would not come out to cause trouble, but he still underestimated the courage of the barbarian chief. What kind of environment should be what makes him so confident that he dared to come out and blackmail in the face of a county with comprehensive defense.

Over the past six months, Xu Ping has organized all the population of Ruhe County, forming a team like his previous life, forming semi-militarized organization, forming militias, and at this time it is more commonly called village soldiers or local soldiers. All Ding Zhuang has undergone more than two months of military training. Although the time is not concentrated, it also ensures that everyone has the minimum military literacy. Not to mention a small Zhongzhou, no state under Yongzhou has the strength to attack Ruhe County, unless it is a joint state.
Chapter completed!