?On the outskirts of Yiyang City, a ritual is underway. Bazhou governor Yuwen Wen, Yiyang County governor Wang Zhi, and officials of all kinds of various colors, all looked solemn, watching several solemn monks chanting scriptures.≯

In front of them, several people were digging holes with masks, and next to the big pit were piles of heads and remains.

A month ago, the county magistrate Wang Zhi led his troops into the mountains to clear out the mountain barbarians. At the beginning, he won all the battles, but he accidentally encountered a retreat later. Most of the officers and soldiers died in battle. Their ranks were cut off by the mountain barbarians and their bodies were abandoned in the valley.

Now the official army that entered the mountain again advanced step by step. It took more than half a month to come to the old place. On the hillside where they must pass, I saw a Jingguan made of heads. After several twists and turns, the county magistrate Wang Zhi was escorted to the city and transported the rank and remains back to the city.

Jingguan is a high tomb built by various teams to show off their martial arts and gather enemy corpses to cover earth to build them. Sometimes it is purely accumulated with grades. It was a common cruel "landscape" in ancient times.

During the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty, the royal family member Liu Dan rebelled in Guangling. The Emperor of Song sent troops to suppress the city and massacred the city, gathering the victims on the south bank of Shitou to serve as Jingguan. The so-called promotion of the imperial military power and shocking the slut.

About seventeen years ago, the Xinzhou barbarians on the territory of the Xinzhou General Administration of Zhou Guoguo occupied the mouth of the Yangtze River Gorge to block traffic. Zhou Generals 6 Teng, Wang Liang, Sima Yi and others led troops to quell the rebellion, fighting from summer to autumn, and finally defeating the main force of Xinzhou barbarians.

The Zhou army piled up the bones of the barbarian army on the side of Shuiluo City and built them into Jingguan to show their military power. The rest of the barbarians burst into tears when they saw Jingguan. From then on, the wolves and evil spirits disappeared and they dared not fight against the government.?

This time Yuwen Wen did not lead his troops into the mountain, so he did not see the so-called "Jingguan" with his own eyes. However, now when he looked at the remains in front of him, he could still empathize and experience the involuntary anger in his heart.

‘When the Tang army marched east to Goguryeo, when he saw the Jingguan built with the remains of Sui soldiers, he must have been inexplicably angry.’ He thought so.

The remains of the officers and soldiers were already highly decayed. Although they had been roughly treated, they still emitted foul odor. Yuwen Wen and Wang Zhi were the leaders of the army. It doesn’t matter this kind of scene. Those officials were not so calm when they saw this situation.

Some dare not look directly, some looked unhappy, as if they wanted to vomit but didn't dare to vomit, and some were pale, standing there swaying, listening to the whispering of the monks, many people lived like the years.

Because the corpse was separated and more than a month later, the survivors could no longer distinguish the identity of the dead, so the county government was the leader to bury the soldiers of the soldiers who died in the battle, so as not to be scattered and buried with the survivors in the future.

After the ritual was over, the remains were buried. Yuwen Wen took the lead in shoveling the loess and covered them. The others, together with the young and strong, shoveled the soil to bury the burial pit. After the tombstone was erected, the monks would "finish it".

Wen asked Wang Zhi where these monks were invited, because there were only a dilapidated temple in the Xiyang County area but no monks. In order to meet the general public's needs to burn incense and worship Buddha for peace of mind, he considered introducing several monks to "conduct business" under control.

A small temple, a few acres of thin fields, and a little monk is enough. As for the "child delivery" business, or the unspoken rules of accepting pilgrims donating land, he firmly refused. The land he had accumulated with great effort was to increase rent, but he didn't want to turn it into a Buddhist industry.

The carriage entered the city and came to the county yamen. Yuwen Wen and Wang Zhi entered the conference hall. There were already many people waiting in the hall. The clothes of both sides were clearly divided, one was a rough style of the village style, and the other was a well-dressed merchant style.

Seeing the master coming in, everyone saluted respectfully. Yuwen Wen was under the seat and looked around everyone present and said, "Everyone present is the arm of the government. I sent troops into the mountain to chase Tian Yunshan. It has been more than half a month now. As the net is tighter and tighter, it is time to have a result."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhang Ning and others nodded and said yes. The news next to him turned the content into local dialect and said it. Several village leaders were also excited and said that they wanted to have a happy time.

Their parcel is located on the edge of Osaki Mountain and has a lot of dealings with the government. This time, Yuwen Wen summoned such parcel owners to go down the mountain to discuss matters before his troops. Now everyone who came is standing here, and there will be no one who has not come.

After breaking the mountain and burning the village, half of the household registration moved out was recruited by the government as official servants, and the remaining half was divided into two, half was digested by the owners of each village, and the other half was picked out for their bosses.

Quarries, logging farms, lime kilns, and charcoal kilns. The industries of these owners suffered heavy losses more than a month ago, which just made these "new" young and strong men make up for the labor gap. There is no need to think about their wages. As for food, clothing, and housing benefits, Yuwen Wen doesn't care.

"Thanks to the assistance of the village leaders, the official army is progressing smoothly in the mountains. According to the prior agreement, the provincial government has transferred some cloth, rice, noodles and salt. The village leaders will collect it according to the list."

"When I get the heads of Tian Yunshan and others, the rest will be settled. Of course, this is a matter of time. This is a matter of time. This time, I will call on all the leaders and bosses to come here to discuss what to do next..."

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Deep in the mountains, the Shihu Village Conference Hall, the Heiwu Village Master Tian Yunshan and the Shihu Village Master Ran Song were chatting. There were several people present. They gathered around the fire pit and ate roasted deer meat, and occasionally shouted and cursed in local dialect.

"Those bastards are helping outsiders bully their own people!!" Tian Yunshan cursed, "I used to say that while being a good person, being a villain, and dealing with those bad guys in the government together, now they all have their backs!"

"Who said no? He also sent someone to be a guide. Dozens of good men sent out from our village died at their hands!" Someone also cursed.

"These bastards will settle the score in the future. Now that the Zhou army is step by step, what are you good ways?" Ran Song asked. He strongly supported Tian Yunshan's fight with the government outside the mountain. Last time he sent troops to ambush Yiyang County troops with Tian Yunshan.

"This time, the Zhou army has been fighting steadily. The soldiers sent by our villages to harass the losses were heavy. It seems that it is not enough to just hide. It is better to find a place to block the guards and see how many days they can take." Someone suggested, and others nodded in agreement.

These are all allies of Tian Yunshan. They gathered together with Ran Song to keep warm. They did not dare to take any attempts from the government officials outside the mountain. They basically believed that if you don’t enter the mountain, everyone will not violate the rivers. If you enter the mountain, you will meet each other with weapons.

"The Zhou army has burned the Black Mist Village and is moving towards Shihu Village. Now Hushan Chong can catch the road. Why don't we lead the village troops there to defend it. Anyway, there are ready-made camps and they can't attack."

"It's good to rush over Tiger Mountain, but I remember there is a small path to go around. If Zhou Jun came alone, they wouldn't be afraid. They definitely don't know that path. They just have a black heart leading the way. I think they can really walk."

"What's that? We sent people to guard the path. The road was very narrow. No matter how many soldiers Zhou had to line up. With dozens of people guarding there, they couldn't even get through even tens of thousands of people!"

"Okay, just fight against the enemy in Hushan!" Everyone agreed with this idea, but someone asked a new question: "Who will guard this small path? If you are an insider, then everyone will be finished!"

"What did you say!! Insider? Who did you say is the insider!"

"Who knows? People's hearts are separated from their stomachs. The government outside the mountain can buy those unscrupulous ones. It may be possible that some of us will be bribed!!" The man sneered.

Seeing a few people shouting loudly and someone was about to draw their swords, Ran Song and Tian Yunshan quickly stepped forward to persuade him. This statement was really unpleasant, but it was very realistic: if the "open the door and bow to the thieves" guarding the small road, it would be a big burn.

"Everyone, everyone! Tian believes that no one will do this, don't hurt the harmony..." Tian Yunshan kept persuading, and everyone here was his strong backing. Now he led the villagers to retreat and live in Shihu Village. It is precisely because several village leaders need to work together to the outside world.

"The Master Tianzhai said it is right, but you must also consider the candidate carefully. It's not that I'm too careful, it's just to reassure everyone!" Ran Song said loudly, "We must guard the Hushan rush, and we must be careful of someone taking advantage of the way back. Therefore, those who guard the small path must be relieved, so that everyone will not be suspicious of dark ghosts. If the enemy is not doing well, we will be in chaos first."

Everyone calmed down. After all, this said something that they were hard to say. Everyone was afraid that the people who were guarding the path would betray them. It was boring to blame each other, so they had to make a choice to quickly set up defenses.

The right way is to guard the important road and let the Zhou army retreat when they see the difficulties. In fact, when things get to this point, they don’t have to fight against the government outside the mountain, and they really can’t sit idly by.

People outside the mountain were digging mountains to quarry and logging wood. Tian Yunshan and other village leaders decided to take action to stop them. They believed that opening mountains would anger the mountain gods and bringing disaster to the mountain village was only one of the reasons, and there was another more important reason.

They felt that the government outside the mountain used the excuse to expand its power into the mountains, and wanted to use the mountain to open some sweet things to buy the village owners, and gradually put the mountains in the control range. At the beginning, they just bought some mountain goods, but it would be different in the future.

Hundreds of years of experience have shown that the government will find ways to instigate people to come out of the mountains, move all the people in the villages out to be farmers who farm, and be coolies in the government. For all kinds of unscrupulous ambitions, they also have to be soldiers who fight.

Those who are governors, governors, and generals are all trying to find ways to get people out of the mountains to drive them, but after the bloody battle, not many chiefs from the mountain barbarians received fair rewards.

The blood of the tribes exchanged for military merits, and the court rewarded an official position, basically, it was just a foreign official in the prefectures and counties. It was difficult to advance to become an official in the court on weekdays, but when you fight, you had to take the lead first. If you win, you would get some rewards. If you lose, you would behead your head because no one would plead for you.

After hundreds of years of war, the Jiangbei area has been changing its masters. After repeated struggles, few camp leaders who wanted to do things for the government had a good harvest.

Ten years ago, the prefectures in Jiangbei were not the borders of Chen State. Tian Longsheng, the governor of Dingzhou, who was the chief leader, took the prefectures in Jiangbei to join Chen State. Seeing that there was no future, he defected to Qi State a few years later.

As a result, General Chen State, Zhou Jing, was recruited. Tian Longsheng was defeated and killed after not lasting a few months. Not only did the Qi army who came to help the battle, but also suffered a crushing defeat, with 100,000 chiefs from all walks of life, and the coalition forces of the camp leader were also lost.

The Jiangbei prefectures were once again surnamed Chen, but a few years later, the Zhou army came over, and some camp leaders sent troops to help Chen's army. As a result, Chen's army was beaten to pieces and they also lost their lives.

Life in the mountains is hard, and if there is a choice, everyone is willing to move to the plains outside the mountains to live, but the bloody lessons will make the village leaders in the mountains no longer have any ideas.

They lived in the mountains for generations and lived their own lives. Now they don’t want to participate in the outside world. They just want to guard the village where they lived for generations. There are still constant wars outside the mountains. Now they have the surname Zhou. Who knows whether they will change their surname Chen again in a few years, or the distant Sui Kingdom has come to occupy the territory.

The flags on the city outside the mountain changed, making the village leaders in the mountain at a loss and had no intention of dealing with the government outside the mountain, and did not want the government to instigate their own people to come out of the mountain, so they were very sensitive to any actions of the government to get involved in the mountains.
Chapter completed!