Chapter 175 The Forgotten People
More than 20,000 people may not sound like a lot, but now there are many counties under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate, and they still can’t make up this number!
The Anxi Protectorate has more than 600,000 people, and they are basically concentrated in Baoping Prefecture, Tai'an City, Helanyuan and Yuan'an City. Some other places are said to be a county, but in fact Agou is considered a county. Counting Agou, it's only a few thousand mouthfuls.
Most places are in a barbaric state, with more wild animals than people.
Once these 20,000 people return to the rule of the Anxi Protectorate, it is self-evident that they will enhance the strength of the Anxi Protectorate.
These people are not unorganized and undisciplined savages, but a group with considerable cohesion.
Thinking about how they have lived in this large open-air prison for more than twenty years, paying a high price to exchange for their own survival from the Yuan people, and working hard to maintain the purity of their race, it can be seen that these people They are a group of people with faith.
In other words, their leadership group must be a group of people with faith and persistence.
So after Li Dachui met the team, he sincerely and respectfully saluted them.
Cui Hu, fifty-four years old, recorded affairs and joined the army, and is now the true leader of Dragon Flame Valley.
Wangshan, fifty years old, guerrilla general, military leader of Longyan Valley.
Zhao Kui, forty-eight years old, is in charge of Bo,
Zhu Zhong, forty-five years old, joins the army as a Hucao
Huang Yi, forty-three years old, joins the army as a meritorious cao
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Gao Qunshu introduced them one by one, and Li Dachui greeted them one by one, meticulously. These people deserved his respect.
There are only seven or eight people, but they manage the Dragon Flame Valley with as many as 20,000 people. It is an amazing achievement for these people to survive here.
At first glance, these people in front of me are quite good in cultivation.
Wangshan, who is in charge of military affairs, is probably at the seventh level of Xuanyuan and has entered the advanced level of martial arts, while the others are all at the fifth or sixth level of Qi Control.
Probably because when we first fled, those with lower cultivation levels would probably have a hard time surviving. Those who could escape and make it all the way here are basically the strongest ones.
I just don’t know, what is the current level of martial arts practitioners in the Dragon Flames?
Li Dachui doesn't care much about bloodline, but he has a stronger understanding of inheritance than anyone else.
A dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix, and a mouse's baby can make holes. It sounds strongly discriminatory, but you have to admit that because of the existence of genetic factors, these cannot be said on the table. , which is still very reasonable.
At least Li Dachui knew that if both parents were martial arts practitioners, then their children would most likely become more advanced in martial arts training.
Under the leadership of Zhou Zhi, Tai'an City has been working tirelessly to popularize martial arts for decades, but facts have proven that some people just can't get started, and it is very satisfying to keep fit. .
The results shown by the data made Li Dachui have to ignore the inheritance and bloodline of martial arts. Sometimes it is really fucking important.
Dragon Flame Valley might surprise him.
The group of people in front of him alone made Li Dachui feel very hopeful.
You know, even among the officials of the Anxi Protectorate, there are still a large number of people who do not know martial arts. Calculating the ratio, these people in front of me are probably even higher.
“Can we really leave here and go back to our hometown?” Guerrilla General Wangshan seemed to be impatient. As soon as the two parties finished the ceremony, he immediately asked.
Before Li Dachui could speak, Cui Hu already smiled and said: "Wangshan, Mr. Li has traveled hundreds of miles, is dusty and exhausted, are you so impolite? Besides, this is not a place to talk. Let's go back!"
Wangshan said: "Brother Cui, there are no outsiders in this valley, even Qunshu, I think he can be trusted! At least, he won't betray us, right?"
This is true. Not to mention Gao Qunshu, even Li Dachui felt a little embarrassed.
"Master Li, don't listen to this rough guy!" Cui Hu said with a smile: "I have been practicing all day long, and my brain has been full of muscles. Master Li, please, this place is not far from ours. The settlement is still some distance away, why not go back first?”
“Okay, I just want to take a good look at Dragon Flame Valley”
"For outsiders, Dragon Flame Valley is a good place with good scenery, especially after our hard work over the past decades. But for us, this place is just a big prison. Over the past few decades, There is an extra tuft of grass growing in the Dragon Flame Valley, and there is a new tree there, I know it all clearly!"
Cui Hu said it seemed plain, but to Li Dachui's ears, it sounded like something! Hong Zhongda Lu's knock made his head buzz.
The more ordinary they appear, the more extraordinary these people are highlighted. The further you go inside, the road gradually gets better.
When the valley mouth disappeared from their sight, the road became wider and wider. Road ridges, road shoulders, and street trees were all available, and the road was even more broken with broken stones. The stones were laid out and pressed flat. What happened years ago,
"There are four or five months a year where you can't do any work, but you can't be idle. Just practice a little this year, a little next year, and slowly the practice will get longer and longer!" Cui Hu said with a smile: "But That's what happened in the past ten years. In the past, what everyone cared about most was staying alive, especially in winter, because they would get hungry when they worked, and when they were hungry, they had to eat. , There will never be enough food at that time."
"Is there enough food now?"
"At least we will be able to eat after paying the taxes!" Cui Hu said: "We Qin people. Ah, no matter where he goes, farming is his specialty. Among other things, Longyan Valley has one advantage, that is, in this place where water is scarce, he always has water all year round. , as we slowly transform it, the yields on the land that could have been cultivated are getting higher and higher, and the land that could not be cultivated in the past has also been transformed so that we can produce more and more food, and we can raise more livestock. The fatter we get, and we people will never have a future, so we don’t save money or food. Because once we save these things and let the Yuan people know about it, they will increase taxes on us, so it is better to use them up every year. "
Li Dachui nodded to express his understanding.
“However, people like Gao Qunshu and others who have gone out have also helped a lot over the years. With their help, our lives have indeed become much easier, and our supplies have become more and more abundant! Again! Coupled with Princess Changle's reputation, we are basically a forgotten group of people. As long as we can pay our taxes on time and let the Yuan people who are responsible for supervising us do their jobs, it will be fine." Cui Hu said with a smile.
As we go further in, there are more and more houses on both sides of the road, and there are more and more fields.
Many people were working in the fields. When they saw Cui Hu and his group, the people cultivating enthusiastically waved to them and said hello loudly.
Over at the Anxi Protectorate, spring plowing has ended.
But here, spring plowing has just begun.
Dragon Flame Valley was the birthplace of rivers in the past. Countless years ago, this deep valley should have been a bottomless lake. The raging underground river water gushes out from here, fills the valley and then flows along the river. Follow the river all the way down.
Then, I don’t know when, the groundwater dried up, the rivers stopped flowing, and this place, from an underwater world that never saw the light of day, turned into a deep valley sunken underground.
These can be seen from the rugged yet smooth boulders throughout the valley and the occasional bottomless, slightly black pools.
There are no big trees in the valley, and the most are trees with a diameter of more than a foot. At first glance, you can tell that they were planted later, and they should be the masterpieces of the Qin people who immigrated here.
There does not seem to be much land suitable for farming, but the land should be very fertile. Look at the plowed land, which is all black.
There are more and more good farmlands, and there are more and more villages along the way. Compared with the houses one to the east and one to the west before, after riding the horse for half an hour, the villages are finally clustered together. appeared. And the cultivated land also appeared in Li Dachui's eyes in patches.
Walking through villages and households, Li Dachui was surprised that he actually heard the sound of reading in one of the largest villages.
This made him immediately stop his horse and look in the direction where the sound of books was coming from.
In a thatched house with an open window, a gray-haired old man with patched clothes was walking around among a group of children with his hands behind his back. The children sat on rough benches and Beside the table, I imitated the old master and shook his head while reciting.
"Although life is difficult, reading can teach etiquette, enlighten wisdom, and cure stupidity. Although we can't get out, the inheritance cannot be broken." Cui Hu said with emotion.
"Li Duhu, over the years, I have seen many people who are extremely talented in reading, but in the end they can only devote their full talents to their own acres of thin fields, and make black hair into black hair. I have gray hair!" Gao Qunshu said with emotion.
"In the future, they will have a stage to give full play to their talents!" Li Dachui affirmed. "The Anxi Protectorate is very hungry for talents. No matter how many talents there are here, we can place them well."
Cui Hu smiled and did not answer.
Wangshan on the other side smiled and said: "We are both civilized and military, relaxed and relaxed. Mr. Li, speaking of our Dragon Flame Valley, the most famous one now is not these scholars, but our Dragon Flame Army!"
"Dragon Flame Army?"
"Yes, they are still in the West Sea now, but they will be back soon!" Wangshan said with some pride: "Although they only have five hundred people, On the other side of the West Sea, they have made a name for themselves and won the reputation of the Dragon Flame Army. And there are quite a few children in our valley who are talented in training, at least more than those who are good at reading. More useful.”
At this point, he smiled and said: "At least if you practice martial arts, you will be much stronger for farming!"
His words made everyone laugh.
However, Li Dachui heard a hint of sadness in the laughter.
(End of this chapter)