Chapter 97 Chaoyang (Chinese

"This is Chaoyang, Chaozhou City,"

Zhou Huaian stood on the wall of Lingzhaoguan on Xiaobei Mountain outside the city and looked out.

"It still looks a bit obstructive..."

This irregular city with an unusually protruding north and south end looks smaller and more compact than Xunzhou Prefecture City, but the city wall is much higher and more than two feet high; and the city itself is built on a mound called Linkun Mountain (also known as Gushan or Gonggushan, now Tongyu, and the southern foot of Xiaobei Mountain at the junction of the two towns of Heping), and it has its own natural advantage bonus of being condescending;

Moreover, the north and northwest of Chaoyang City are large mountainous areas that are difficult to pass and trek, and no city gates are opened; the east and northeast corners are surrounded by the north branch of Longjiang that flows through the Chaoshan Plain, and they can only connect the two sides by several ferries and pontoon bridges near the city gate. Therefore, the ultimate force that can finally allow the rebel army to invest most of its forces in attack is actually the southward direction of the open plain, as well as the southwest and southeast corners where the city extends.

This requires re-creating a sufficient number of long ladders and car lookouts and car rushing, and then cleaning and filling in the obstacles and barriers on the terrain bit by bit, and slowly advancing to Chaoyang City, in order to form a breakthrough with all efforts to concentrate.

Fortunately, since Zhou Huaian has arrived, there is no need to rush to use human lives to pile up according to the past with some simple equipment. As a manager who has overviewed the affairs of the rear, he also has the responsibility to lead people to explore appropriate locations, raise materials on the spot, arrange personnel, and create corresponding siege equipment.

Of course, this is also a disguised relaxation and entertainment for Zhou Huaian temporarily escaped from many complicated matters and took a break from his busy schedule. Most of the time, as long as he explains a general meaning and direction, he can spend his time thinking about problems and seeing the scenery, letting his mood fly, etc.

For example, here you can see that there are many citrus, oily, bayberry, banana and olive trees on the hills and slopes outside the city. It is now approaching the olive harvest season, so many yellow olives are full of fruits on the trees.

In the corners between the hills and orchards, they are planted in a stitch-like manner, such as taro with large leaves, dioxins, coix seedlings, and tares.

In large areas of flat fields opened up by the fire-piercing and water-piercing method in the suburbs, the main plant is the regenerated rice with low local plants; that is, two-thirds of the broken plants are left after the early indica rice is harvested, and the second crop of ears of grain is produced by top dressing and water irrigation.

Moreover, according to the soldiers of local farmers, there is also a species of short rice that was circulated from Chameng by sea, called "cicada rice"; one is "drought-tolerant". The second is strong adaptability and "birth from the ground". The third is short growth period, only more than fifty days from planting to harvest. It is based on the fact that the cicadas can harvest when they are called at the beginning.

However, the yield is not high and the taste is very bad and it is not easy to store for a long time. It is basically only used as a comparison of taro yam. It is a last resort to choose and supplement for emergency treatment.

However, local farmers plant the most so-called salty rice and dry rice, which are salt-alkali and impregnation-resistant rice rice and drought-prone seeds that are resistant to mountainous land; due to many years of land annexation, better fields in the local area, such as those located on flat land that saves time and trouble, or on rivers that are easy to water, are almost all in the hands of those powerful people;

Even if ordinary villagers have worked hard for generations and have opened up a little bit of mature land from remote corners that they look down on, most of them will not be able to be kept for a long time, and they will be robbed by these opponents.

If the means are more tactful or decent, they will use various roundabout lending methods to set up traps, and create opportunities in daily life that force farmers to owe debts, such as illness and injury, fires in their homes and disasters in the fields, and even use gambling and relationships between men and women as temptations. When the debt collectors come to the door to force them, they will come forward to solve the problem as an emergency person, and legitimately take advantage of the villagers to take advantage of the situation and take them into the trap.

Doing this can indeed confuse and deceive most people. However, in the local public opinion, the parties involved are just because they are unlucky, or unfortunately have children and children to make a fortune, and the general perception and atmosphere are not subjective. The men are always eager to be righteous and help the poor and help the poor. Out of helplessness, they take the other party’s land and take the other party as tenants and slaves as compensation.

Many so-called "good people", "big fields masters", "good gentry" and so on who have made a fortune by doing good deeds and doing things over the years are just such a very deceptive and hidden routine that has been slowly created and created for generations.

And if there are not so particular, they will directly collude with clerks sent by the government, and organize various crimes and faults for the victim, and then intimidate them to sell their money to deal with and cover up. If the other party is stubborn, they will be caught in the name of resisting taxes and donations and torture the station shackles until the family takes out the goods to redeem them;

If you encounter a tough and basic family, such as a farmer with more brothers, and spend money to buy the public to come directly, it will obviously be a bit of a loss. At this time, another method will start to come in handy; first of all, those city foxes, rats, broken skin rogues, etc., which will disgust people constantly, and even follow the nearby disturbances and intimidate their families day and night.

Once the victim is in a state of anger, he will naturally fall into the trap and get into a lawsuit, and start to constantly toss and destroy his wealth; but if the victim still doesn't take this trick and becomes tough, it will be the last method.

Wangwang in the family of these wealthy families has a life of despair as their minions, and at the same time, they have some connections and relationships with the bandits, bandits and even the Tuman Village in the deep mountains. Therefore, the ungrateful victim, who is ungrateful and unaware of the time, suddenly disasters arose in the sky overnight; either they or their family members were robbed and killed or kidnapped on the way out, or their whole family was destroyed by the robbery.

In this way, even if there are dead people who survive, they will not be able to compete with the wealthy families who have mastered most social resources, connections and public opinion. Even if they want to sue the official and seek justice, whether they can live out of their hometown without any accidents alone is still a problem.

Therefore, many middle-class families who are still wealthy or can barely survive the disaster are bankrupt and become slaves of others in this kind of merger game where big fish eat small fish. Only after the rebels defeated the entire family of these big families and ensured that they could never turn over again in a short period of time did they dare to stand up and speak out one by one.

Then someone surrendered to the rebel army for the hatred of the family being destroyed. On the one hand, he sought justice for more people who had the same experience, and on the other hand, he was also a way to stay away from this sad place. However, in the eyes of Zhou Huaian, what a desperate and suffocating reality and situation this was.

But it made him feel a sense of dislocation and visual sense that he suddenly realized the next life. Isn’t this the role played by the half-dirty demolition companies and debt collection companies in the demolition projects in the urban-rural fringe areas in later generations under the remote control and captivity of the whitewashed social capital. But after more than a thousand years, he still had similar routines and techniques to change the soup and not change the medicine.

However, under the red flag and signboard of socialism, those capitals have no official means to dare to openly collude with them; so they can only desperately bribe all kinds of unscrupulous literati, public wise men and experts, and advocate the return to the "government of local sages" in rural areas to replace the authority and uses of grassroots party organizations; and then promote the benefits of small governments in the city of "the state retreats and the people advances" to make room and room for "vibrant civil forces" and let them assume more "social responsibilities" and "value orientation".

Therefore, under this desperate and numb social reality, ordinary families basically have no motivation, spare energy and conditions to improve planting methods, or adopt good seeds; even if they cannot fill their stomachs, there is no way to liberate productivity and develop productivity;

Therefore, only those rich people who own large fields have the conditions and room to decide the specific types, diversity and richness of crops they plant at will; and on this basis, maintain a rich and colorful eating habit and daily enjoyment level. However, they are often the dominant and beneficiary of conservative and solidified, and they wish that all this in front of them will continue forever forever forever forever after generations of time.

Apart from the increasingly severe means of pressing, there is naturally not much of the basic motivation and desire to improve the technical level of agricultural production.

Therefore, the fields in the large field outside Chaoyang City were almost concentrated in the name of a small upper class in the city; although they worked hard to clear the wilderness and strengthen the walls, in fact, before Wang Pan's original formation arrived, they only destroyed the crops within more than half of the lower half of the city wall.

Therefore, after the labor service brought by Zhou Huaian joined the brigade, they began to harvest and pick them on a large scale. These half-ripe and under-ripe products outside the city, and cut down all the trees and other firewood materials on the hills with more and better use.

Of course, in front of the city walls of Chaoyang City, the bamboo catapult that was originally used to hit Tuweizi and Muzhai was not very useful. The stress intensity of bamboo is limited after all. Although Zhou Huaian is a metaphysical network theory school in terms of siege methods and technology, he still has extraordinary vision and knowledge, right? With relatively sufficient time and resources at present, he can try one by one.

For example, the Hui cannon (gravity lever stone thrower), cyclone cannon (centrifugal rotary stone thrower), and even the Eastern Roman Empire abroad have used mature torsion catapults and scorpion crossbows. Thanks to the video websites such as A and B stations, where a large number of military enthusiasts and antique enthusiasts gathered, there can be said to be a very detailed description of the restoration methods and processes of various ancient weapons.

If this is the reference, Zhou Huaian only needs to make some main components according to the general shape according to the general shape; for example, steaming and skewing the wood, weaving and collecting some thick hemp ropes that can be used as the best, making large lacquer that is anti-moth and anti-cracking, as a type of high hardness and elasticity of the lever, cast iron parts and sheaths used to fix the base and door frame edges, etc.;
Chapter completed!