Chapter 53 The foundation of one's life
Going from the southern foot of Helan Mountain toward Guannai, there is a swamp that stretches for hundreds of miles. The dangerous mountains and swamp together form a natural barrier. It is inaccessible except for birds. Those who have the ability to soar in the sky can settle down here and regard this place as their own paradise, even the beasts on the earth are rare here.
Because those ubiquitous swamps, quicksand, and undercurrents have always opened their mouths of blood, ready to devour anyone who dares to easily step into this forbidden land.
This is a no-man’s land that everyone agrees on.
Unless they are desperate and want to avoid trouble, or they have offended someone they shouldn't and have to flee here to find a way out, basically no one will come here.
Of course, in winter, the danger here will be greatly reduced, and nature will automatically eliminate some traps. They will not be allowed to reappear until next spring when the flowers bloom. But the problem is that in winter, it is extremely difficult to find food to survive here.
At this time, even the birds are few and far between.
In the vast snow-covered world, a group of black dots suddenly appeared. As these black dots got closer and closer, it was finally possible to see clearly that they were a group of knights.
What the world thinks is a place of death, but these knights are familiar with each other, and even chase each other. The laughter resounds in the sky, and is frozen by the cold wind and smashed into lumps on the ground, making this There is life in the dead silence of heaven and earth.
This team did not walk in a straight line in the swamp, but meandered forward in twists and turns.
There is a road in this great swamp.
But this road is obviously not known to outsiders.
Li Dachui raised his hood and looked at his overjoyed men and said loudly: "Wear your hats and protect your eyes. Don't get carried away and get snow blindness. It will be easier for you."
"Got it!" The subordinates laughed loudly: "Master, I have been away from Helanyuan for more than three months. I will be able to go home soon and have a wife and children. How can I not be happy?"
"Lu San, I want to tell your mother-in-law that you went to Yingchun Tower to drink flower wine in Tai'an City and stayed overnight!" someone shouted. "To return the heat to your wife and children, I will keep your mother-in-law driving you outside with a big broom to drink ice and snow."
"Ma Laosi, if you dare to talk nonsense, I will cut off your penis and make you a father-in-law in your next life!" Lu San said angrily.
"Are you threatening me? Very good, I will find the third sister-in-law when I get back!"
"Fourth, fourth, we are brothers, aren't we? You can't look at my wife I'm so angry! Your sister-in-law is a tigress, and you can't mess with her. I'll treat you to Yingchun Tower next time. It's your choice!" Lu San immediately surrendered.
The team burst into laughter: "Third brother, how can we favor one over the other? Isn't it possible that I can't go and talk to Third Sister-in-law?"
Lu San said with a bitter face: " A pack of white-eyed wolves.”
Seeing all his brothers rejoicing, Li Dachui was also very happy. This trip to the mountain was still a great harvest. Not only did he complete the deal with the big shot in the capital and save Zhang Ruo, but he also got closer to Xiao Changche.
Cooperation is just the beginning, and once both parties start to meet each other halfway, the future is promising.
As for Zhang Qingyun, this little girl, apart from being Zhang Ruo’s daughter, she seems to have good talent in intelligence, at least the information she gave Li Dachui on the expansion of the customs The systematic report was well-written and well-founded, with plans, action plans, etc. If she could really put it into practice, even half of her vision would be a surprise to Li Dachui. Harvest.
Although the focus is now on outside the customs, intelligence is all about planning in advance and accumulating it carefully. If you wait until you want to use it, you start collecting it, and the day lily will be cold.
Let Zhang Qingyun try it out. Anyway, it will be a gain for Li Dachui.
There is a way to Daze, but in the past, it was intermittent and full of crises.
When Li Dachui came out of Tai'an City and started wandering around the world with Fang Mao Mao, Xia Zhi and other people, because they were weak, they could only choose a place that was inaccessible and where others could not easily find them.
Ignorance is fearless. These young people who are just starting out and are not afraid of tigers chose this great swamp, and then they started to develop it for many years.
Because of the cheating existence of Li Dachui, this group of people crossed Daze and found their foothold at the southern foot of Helan Mountain.
Helanyuan.
For them, Helanyuan, which is hundreds of miles away, is a paradise-like place.
The steep northern foothills of Helan Mountain make the Hu people regard it as a natural chasm, while the Daze, which is hundreds of miles long and nearly fifty miles wide, makes people in the south regard this area as a daunting road.
Li Dachui's horse bandits used Helanyuan as their base and began their barbaric growth.
For more than ten years, Li Dachui's team has grown rapidly, and the road in the swamp has been reinforced and widened. At the same time, some more sinister traps have been deliberately set by them. , also waiting for uninvited guests. If Tai'an City is Li Dachui's base of advancement and the place that attracts everyone's attention, then Helanyuan is Li Dachui's hometown. Even if he encounters failure outside, he can come back here to lick his wounds and make a comeback.
Of course, today's Helanyuan is no longer as desolate as it was when they first arrived more than ten years ago.
Now, tens of thousands of people are living and producing here, and the population is also increasing rapidly.
Xiao Changche has never been able to find where the more than 30,000 young men, women and children that Li Dachui snatched away from Wutu went?
The answer lies in Helanyuan.
The process of Li Dachui's march is a process of continuous increase in the number of people. From time to time, some people come out of places that don't seem to be half popular. Some people come out of a big snow bag that looks ordinary. Some crawled out of a dead tree with strong branches and thick branches, while others just jumped out of the ground. These people hid in the ground and dug dens in the ground.
They gathered into Li Dachui's team and moved all the way towards Helanyuan.
In the distance there are still the rolling Helan Mountains, but when we look back, what appears in front of everyone is a plain. Even though the snow is covering the entire world, it still cannot stop the strong smell of fireworks here.
Villages dotted the land given to them by God.
It is completely different from the shape of the villages outside the pass, and what is presented here is another pattern.
All designs are by Li Dachui.
In his words, he wanted to build Helanyuan into a new rural area on the land outside the customs.
Houses of the same style, with gray tiles on the adobe houses, and green bamboos growing into bamboo fences. One hundred households gather to form a village, and around the village is fertile land. Each household has fifty mu. Roads extend in all directions. After all roads have been leveled and then compacted with gravel, they will not be muddy and difficult to navigate even on rainy days.
Three years ago, there were only a few dozen such villages in the Helan Plain, but now, the number has reached hundreds. Tens of thousands of young people, women and children came to Helanyuan to settle down.
From the initial panic and fear to the current satisfaction and happiness, these people wish they could live forever like this. Over the past three years, these people have worked hard and worked hard to finally find a comfortable home for themselves.
The chaos, killing, blood, and death outside the customs seem to have nothing to do with this place.
Thinking back to a few years ago, it felt like I was in a dream.
For Li Dachui, three years was a transformation process for these people.
In the beginning, there was no tenderness, only determination to kill, and absolute obedience. For the slightest disobedience, punishment would follow, from the lightest of starvation and beatings to the most serious of direct punishment. In this way, under high pressure, everyone's consensus was formed under the rules and laws.
Li Dachui needs stability, needs more people, and needs these people to be burdened and bound. Therefore, the first thing after coming to the plain is that young women and children must form families one by one.
They have ten days to voluntarily form a group. The families that are formed first can move into a mud house and start their new life. Ten days later, the young men, women and children who had not yet completed the grouping were roughly divided into two sides. Each person was given a number, and then the men and women with the same number were directly forcibly formed into a family.
Of course, the number of men and women is not equal, so there are still a lot of bachelors.
However, this is not important.
It is said that melons that are twisted by force are not sweet, but in Helanyuan, Li Dachui insists that melons that are twisted by force are also sweet.
Three years later, more than 90% of the melons planted that year are still sweet after all. Now, on the Helan Plain, you can see little babies running around and crawling everywhere.
According to statistics, over the past three years, more than 5,000 new settlements have been added to the Helan Plain, which made Li Dachui very happy.
With children, a family becomes stable, which makes these people even more devoted to the leader Li Dachui.
Of course, Li Dachui took great pains to bring these people to Helanyuan, build houses for them, and allocate fields to them, not just to raise them and have babies. Taxes, fees, and corvee would not be less either. What the government outside wants, the same thing here wants.
The only difference is that you can pay here without any additional exploitation. Every year after you pay enough for what you asked for, you will have enough left over to feed and drink the whole family, with a slight surplus.
How much can be collected was precisely calculated by Li Dachui and his people, and it is not a random collection.
If you really want to talk about it, everyone in Helanyuan pays a lot more than outside, but the income here is more.
(End of this chapter)