Chapter 713: Qingyun is hard to satisfy his foot (6)

Going south along the Zuojiang River, there are many military camps and a series of towns. Guwan, Taiping, and Yongping are all villages set up on the banks of the Zuojiang River or on the border, Tuoling, Wuli, and Luobai, these are towns rich in business and tourism. They were the most severely damaged during this invasion of Jiaozhi. From the rewards of Hangang's inspection, these military camps and towns almost all turned into white land.

Several military camps are buffer zones in the south of Yongzhou, a line of defense, and a strategic basis for deterring the surrounding Xidong Barbarians. The re-establishment of the fortress is also a restoration of the Song Dynasty's rule on both sides of the Zuojiang River.

Hangang convened the 36 rivers and caves of the Zuojiang River. The main purpose was to first rebuild the forts from the south of Yongzhou to the border, and at the same time prepare the roads and conduct tentative harassment and attack on Jiaozhi to prepare for the army to move south.

Unfortunately, his order did not attract all the masters of Xidong Caves.

When he returned to the prefecture, Han Gang met three masters of Xidong Cave who had come from afar. After saying a few words of encouragement, he asked the officials to take them to settle down and entertain them happily.

In the empty official hall, Li Xin walked in: "The twenty-nine Xidongs have arrived in total. Even if Sicheng Prefecture, Sienzhou and Huedong are added, there are only eleven of them who are personally led by the Lord of the Cave. However, there is no explanation for the two Xidongs, Zuozhou and Zhongzhou that have not arrived.

"Are there sixteen small cave owners?" Han Gang smiled on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes.

Li Xin also had a cold face. These sixteen families are rare and smart people, and they know that it will be rewarded if they are posted at this time. But they cannot be used in practical use: "Those cannot be counted, and they are not as good as one Daxidong in total."

Indeed, although there were only twenty-seven Xidong Barbarians in the city with official titles, Xiaoxidong, which was not summoned, took the initiative to go to the sixteen families, but the cave owners brought more than a dozen people and seven or eight people came to report.

The area of ​​the left and right rivers is said to be thirty-six Xidong, but in fact there are hundreds of Xidongs, all of which are listed on the Yongzhou Library. There are twenty-nine Xidong Cave Masters who have official positions. These cave masters who have official positions in the court either control the strategic path or have many household registrations under their command, all of which are famous and surnamed tribes. And those small towns are small villages with only hundreds of household registrations, or even hundreds of household registrations, which can be almost negligible.

"Most of the people who come from Youjiang are personally picked up by the cave master, but Zuojiang is not like this. They are all asked to collect on their behalf, and the excuses are still the same... they are called sick!" Han Gang sneered repeatedly. What the cave masters of Zuojiang's cave were thinking about was not clear. "He is all afraid of being summoned to fight with Jiaozhi. Jiaozhi is poor and fighting to the death will not make any profit."

The Youjiang River is heading towards Baise Yunnan, and the Zuojiang River is heading towards Jiaozhi and Guangyuan. Hangang needs the full support of Zuojiangdong, so that he can rebuild the destroyed Yongping, Taiping and Guwanzhai.

"This thief and barbarian are all undone! If it is in Jingnan, if a document is issued in the prefecture, which one dares to refuse!" Li Xin said viciously, "Wuling also said it is thirty-six Xidong. In fact, there are forty-five companies, and none of these forty-five companies dare to disobey the government."

"Xidong is different from Xidong! Who has let the government army's knife not cut on them in the past hundred years? I can come to twenty-seven families and eleven cave masters to the scene, it is because I beat Li Changjie!" Han Gang snorted coldly, "If it were the 36 Lidongs in Qiongya, Qiongzhou sent someone to summon the cave masters, I am afraid that the whole family would not be there in person."

Xidong is another name for the southern barbarian tribe. As far as Hangang knows, it is not only Guangxi and Jingnan, but also the Li people on Hainan Island. It is also known as Xidong. It is called Lidong. It also has a number of thirty-six families, which seems to be a common practice.

Several major merchants in Qinzhou, which cooperated with Hangang to establish cotton trading, sent their confidants from home to travel thousands of miles to find the legendary Li people who are good at weaving Jibeibu. They went to Hainan Island. But they went there a dozen times, only half of them came back. However, a few of them were capable and looked at the spinning wheel looms collected by the Li people. However, the machines they built after they came back were far inferior to those of the spinning machines and looms that had been improved several times and had increased their efficiency.

However, the local customs and customs of Qiongya were spread. One of them deceived the daughter of a cave owner and finally opened up the Qiongya sea goods trade route.

In the evening, Hangang ordered a banquet to entertain the arrival of the cave master and the cave master representatives.

"Will you wait for Zhongzhou, Zuozhou?" Han Gang ordered, and Huang Quan asked in surprise. There was no banquet held in a few days before. As soon as the banquet was held today, it meant that the guests were here and the main business was about to be put on the table.

"Will they come again?" Han Lian asked back.

"Why won't Zhongzhou and Zuozhou come?" The newly appointed military judge was very confused. He Shan took a big advantage by rebelling against the battlefield and convincing Huang Jinman's contribution to Huang Jinman.

The two Daxidongs in Zhongzhou and Zuozhou are just by the Zuo River, not too far from Yongzhou. They never can, and they are strange in themselves.

Han Gang defeated nearly 100,000 Jiaozhi invading army and asked Li Changjie to throw away his armor. With this record, he spoke as the Guangxi Transportation Envoy. It is said that the lord of the Thirty-six Caves in the Zuojiang River did not dare to refute Han Gang's face, and at least sent someone to come to Mao, but Zuozhou and Zhongzhou families still did not arrive.

"Will it be related to the attack on Guwanzhai last year? My father suspected that they had heard the news, so he started to do it in advance to save it..." Huang Quan paused, skipped the words behind and continued, "Maybe they are the culprits. Because of guilt, they dare not respond."

Tongzong said: "It may also be that I want to see the scenery before talking about it. But now even the cave owners of Sicheng Prefecture have arrived, so they should be very soon..."

Han Gang raised his hand and interrupted the Tongzong's words: "I don't care what they think, I just know they haven't arrived!"

The eyes hidden in a pair of dark brown eyes were as cold as ice water, which made the Yongzhou Tongzong unable to even sweat.

"Li Xin."

Li Xin clasped his fists: "The last one is here!"

"Just do as you said in advance!" Han Gang had already made arrangements and would not watch the orders he sent were treated as toilet paper.

Of course, Li Xin understood Han Gang's plan, and he was also a participant. Finally, when Han Gang ordered, he shouted coldly: "I will obey the order!"

"Be careful."

"yes!"

Li Xin did not appear at the banquet that night. No one of the cave owners gathered in the state yamen knew what Li Xin would not mean, and he didn't know that one thousand soldiers were missing in the city. They only knew that the wine and food presented by Hangang were extremely delicious, and the young Guangxi Transportation Army was very kind to them, and the atmosphere at the banquet was also very interesting.

Drunk for a night, the next day, it is time to do business.

Once again, I returned to the hall at the banquet last night, and the joyful atmosphere disappeared. Dozens of cave masters or representatives of cave masters were silent, waiting for Han Gang's speech.

Han Gang's speech was straightforward: "Jiu thieves invaded the previous period. Although they were beaten to retreat by throwing away their armor, Guwan, the Taiping villages have been destroyed, and the people in the village have been displaced. I heard that many of them have been taken in by you. For this, I want to thank you on behalf of the court... But now Jiaozhi has retreated, and I think they should return to their homes."

The cave master from Youjiang was not concerned about his own affairs and sat down. The representatives of the cave master from Zuojiang exchanged glances for a while. Finally, the most powerful Anpingzhou stood up and spoke: "The Taiping Village was captured a few days ago, and there were indeed a man who avoided our cave. Now the people of Jiaozhi retreated, and most of them have left. There are only a few families left in the cave. After the villain returned, they persuaded them to return to their hometown."

"Very good!" Han Gang nodded. Regardless of whether what they said now is true or false, it would be good to have this attitude. "The court on Zuojiang was in Guwan Villages in the past, and commercial transactions were also in the villages. I believe that I am looking forward to rebuilding as soon as possible."

"That's it! That's it!" The crowd agreed.

"I will arrange personnel for the reconstruction of the villages, but I only need a group of guards to protect the Ding Zhuang who built the village. This requires the righteous actions of all the cave masters."

It is said that it is to protect the civilians who are Xiuzhai, but in fact it is used to attack Jiaozhi. Everyone knows this. After a while of silence, the representative of Anping Prefecture stood up, "Since it is the order of the lucky husband, I will not be able to ignore it. Although the little man's cave is not big, he can produce a hundred strong men!"

Anpingzhou, which has tens of thousands of household registrations and can easily dispatch two or three thousand soldiers, generously gave 100 people to Hangang.

Leading by the representative of the cave owner in Anping Prefecture, other streams and caves will certainly follow the example, one hundred or fifty. Looking at the painful expressions they squeezed out like cutting their flesh, the strong men sent there, and I don’t know how many elderly, weak, sick and disabled people will be mixed with.

"One hundred and fifty people." This is the number of cave owner Ahan in Xiashi Xizhou. It has the largest number of soldiers in the twenty-seven Daxidong. On the contrary, the sixteen small tribes squeezed out more than one hundred soldiers.

The face of the Yongzhou Tongzong's face became increasingly ugly. This was just a beggar. How could this pitiful force harass Jiaozhi?

But Han Ganglai's face was as normal.

For a long time, the Song Dynasty had very little control over the thirty-six caves of the left and right rivers, and there were banished states everywhere, but they just surrendered in name. Just like Guangyuan Prefecture, it was also the territory of the Song Dynasty in name, but Liu Ji and others paid tribute to Jiaozhi, and the Song Dynasty court did not care about it.

Even though Han Gang defeated Li Changjie, his old impression was still in the hearts of these Xidong barbarians. He probably thought it was just a war between Jiaozhi and the Song Dynasty and had nothing to do with his family. Although he did not dare to disobey Han Gang's orders, he could get things done by just perfunctorily. When fighting with Jiaozhi people, all his children died, so why bother to fight for others?

"It's also a good thing. Now I recruited them from the soldiers and horses that the Lord of the Caves have brought out. In terms of Yongzhou, he still has to pay food and salary for these soldiers and horses." Afterwards, Han Gang said with a smile, "Let's take a look in two days, maybe I can save food and salary."

In the next few days, Hangang kept the cave owners to host banquets and brought wine from Pennsylvania. It was just a promise to exchange, which was to increase the total force from 2,566 to 3,000 people.

On the sixth day, Han Gang once again summoned the cave owners. The same place and the same characters only had a few more decorations.

A row of heads is placed in the center of the hall.
Chapter completed!