Chapter 17 The Farmers Come
Xiao Hao woke up in the evening. On this day, the Xiao family and the Li family were ready to fight at any time. The two families even organized 100 real cavalry, with 50 people in the Li family and the Xiao family, ready to fight at any time.
Once something goes wrong, these cavalry generals - to seize other people's backs! Yes, 50 people are still too few to fight a tough battle; but this is how you can, to seize the backs, and whoever dares to touch will cut off the head of the back of the family! This trick is ruthless!
After Xiao Hao woke up, he pulled out nine people from some of the minions in Haisha Town, Nanguan Town and Xishan Town to treat some seriously injured people; he drove away all the rest and went back to report the message. However, during the treatment, except for Li Yulong, the rest were blindfolded.
After dinner, Xiao Shilong, Li Yulong and Xiao Hao sat together. Before he knew it, Xiao Hao was already qualified to be on an equal footing with his father and uncle.
"Xiao Hao, what do you think we should do? Should we attack the three towns first? Unify Haizhou? Or open the canal and divert water? If it is just to open the canal, can it be possible for a month?" Of course, Xiao Shilong also had his own plan in his mind, but he still had to ask Xiao Hao. This smart son gave him too many surprises.
"Dad, uncle, I think it's better to open the canal first. I have two points:
First, gather the hearts of the people!
Nowadays, civilians care about the land, and food is also the basis of our survival. This is what everyone hopes. Therefore, no matter what, we must first build canals and divert water.
And as long as we do this, the hearts of the people in Haizhou will slowly gather towards us.
And after we had food, we were also not panicked!
Second, there are too many variables in war.
First of all, we cannot be sure that we can unify Haizhou in a short period of time, and there are too many variables; and even if we win, the problems we face in the later stage will be very sharp.
For example, we just ate three towns, which is already our limit.
People need to digest it after dinner, let alone expand. I think we must at least wait until next year to fully impress this new place. At that time, we will be connected to the north and then draw the training of strong men. At this time, it will be easy to unify Haizhou.
Therefore, I think we should focus on opening canals and diverting water, which is related to people's livelihood and food. In today's troubled times, we can't buy food when we want to sell food outside. Now the food is either controlled by the family or by those bureaucrats and nobles. We cannot extend our necks to others' traps!
Moreover, we took this opportunity to appease other towns, including Haisha, Nanguan and Xishan towns, just let us inform them. Just say that the three mayors we think are the affairs of have nothing to do with the rest of the people, but they must cooperate with the construction of the canals.
In this way, our canal construction should not be delayed and will also win the hearts of the people.
As for those three towns, they will probably fall into chaos in the struggle for power and profit! They will also be temporarily used as the defensive position in the south of Haizhou! In this way, they will decline by themselves. By next year, we will unify Haizhou!"
"Okay! More thoughtful than I thought!" Xiao Shilong smiled, unable to see the very spicy and decisive expression during the day, "But what if they make trouble during the canal opening?"
Xiao Hao laughed: "That's great! If they dare to do this, I can immediately incite the civilians to throw them into the Youlong River! I will let them know what the power of the masses is!"
That night, Li Yulong left with an extremely shocked expression. It was beyond imagination to learn that Xiao Hao had such ability. But then he became excited and almost laughed wildly all the way.
After the tone was set, it would be easier to do a lot. The next day, the people from the other six towns were released, and even a few remaining minions from the three towns in the south were released, and they asked them to send a message back.
Similarly, the Xiao family and the Li family took the initiative to make the matter public and even sent people to inform each household. During the digging of the canal, you didn’t have to bring anything from the Xiao family and the Li family. Just come with food and tools. Uh, you have to wear clothes! Hand-woven fabrics are still relatively expensive these days! Of course, the kudzu is relatively affordable, and the farmers have them.
As Xiao Hao said, under the pressure of drought, and the three southern towns fought for power and profit, coupled with the pressure from the Xiao family and the Li family, everyone agreed to open the canal. The exploration personnel sent by the Xiao family also planned out the plan within three days.
During the process of opening the canal, we maximized the use of some original rivers, ditches, etc. Under the influence of some Xiao Hao's ideas, we drew a map that surpassed this era through contour lines.
"I'm responsible for this matter. Xiao Hao, you still need to live in seclusion behind the scenes. Our strength is still too weak now." Xiao Shilong looked at the sand table, looked at the contour map, the general map, and watched Xiao Hao make final thoughts and correct them.
"Of course, Dad. We still need time! I hope there is enough time to develop! This time, things disrupted our plans too much."
"No, child! Since the plan is disrupted, you should not continue to follow the plan! Believe in luck. Now, the luck in Haizhou is already chaotic, so if you follow the original plan, there will inevitably be problems!
Don’t underestimate the luck! Since the spiritual energy begins to dissipate and the luck begins to appear, the impact of luck on the world is becoming stronger and stronger.
Remember, since the past has been disrupted, follow the new rules and make new plans! If the plan cannot be faster than the change, then we will follow the changes."
Xiao Shilong's voice was very calm, but he had great wisdom. This was what Xiao Shilong was able to strengthen the Xiao family over the years, and he relied on such a cautious personality and forward-looking wisdom.
Maybe Xiao Shilong does not have the experience of Xiao Hao, but here he has an advantage that Xiao Hao cannot match.
The plan was quickly confirmed that Haizhou was a small place after all, and the main settlement areas had rivers and earlier ditches, which made the plan relatively brief. The plan adopted was to first dig the internal ditches and finally dig the banks of the Youlongjiang River.
However, on the fourth day, when Xiaojia Town first started digging the ditches, a small group of people came leisurely from Qingzhou in the south, rested in Xishan Town in the south, and easily walked north all the way, passing Shenshan Town, Beishan Town, Shitang Town, and then headed east to Xiaojia Town. This road was almost flat, and it was one of the few channels inside Haizhou to the outside world.
Haizhou was not big. The next day, the fifth day after the Xiao family captured the five northern towns, these people entered Xiao family towns and came to the gate of Xiao family.
The first person, who looked forty years old, handed over a message: "Please inform me, Xu Kaiming, a farmer, came to visit Qingzhou, Dali.
"Wait." Seeing the other party's glorious posture and the name of the farmer, the guards did not dare to neglect them.
Chapter completed!