Chapter 34: Convince the Public
After carefully cleaning the battlefield and covering up all the battle traces, Huo Hai and others led everyone to set off.
With the more than 6,000 young and strong serfs brought by Sun Tao, their entire team reached as many as eight or nine thousand, which seemed a bit majestic.
So, the cattle and horses carried a lot of food. Within a few days, they would not have to worry about food and drink for so many people. At this time, they were less than a hundred miles away from Heishan. Chu Yan led hundreds of people who could ride horses back to Heishan that day to prepare for the next many people to enter Heishan.
The large team also walked slowly. On the third day, they arrived at Heishan Village, and then they continued to implement Huo Hai's plan.
The Sun family soldiers, who were each led fifty cavalry and the wounds were slightly treated, took Sun Tao's seal and Huo Hai's letter copied by Sun Tao in his handwriting to Wangdu County to collect grain.
More than 2,000 serfs with a large number of small people will go with them to help transport food, find reasons to bring their little family to the team, and return to Montenegro together.
More than 6,000 people wanted to fight a protracted battle, but it would not work without mentioning 10,000 or 20,000 shi of grain. Huo Hai directly wrote 20,000 shi in his letter, which made Chu Yan, who had figured out Huo Hai's overall plan in the past two days, was so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth.
In the past, even if the whole village brothers came out, the best situation would be to recover hundreds of stones of food.
Huo Hai spoke for 20,000 s, and the pattern was much bigger than his.
As for whether he could bring back so much food, he was skeptical. Anyway, he and Wang Dang rode all over there, and even if they encountered any accident, they could easily kill them, and they were not afraid.
However, what surprised him was that when the housekeeper who stayed in the county saw the letters and seals they had brought, he directly allocated food to them, and even allocated enough vehicles to help transport them.
"We, this is successful?" Chu Yan looked at Wang Dangdao with a happy face in confusion.
Wang Dang nodded with a look of reverence and said, "Sir, it's a clever idea. He said that if he can do this, he will definitely do it."
"Is there such a magical one?" Chu Yan said disbelief.
Wang Dang nodded very firmly and said, "Yes."
Two or three thousand serfs, with five or six thousand family members, and a total of seven or eight thousand people, drove hundreds of cattle, horse and carriages and hundreds of wheelbarrows to Montenegro. Here, Huo Hai was already organizing the serfs to build village walls and houses.
The houses are simple, and the people of this era are not very picky. Huo Hai directly asked them to dig holes on some soil hillsides in Heishan and use dead grass to pave some large and wide pavements to avoid sleeping in the open.
Later, after the bricks in Luoguang begin to be produced, fire kangs will be built in these caves for military camps.
That's right, the Heishan Village that Huo Hai summoned everyone to build was a military camp that would be used to fight against all military attacks from the outside world, but the serfs did not intend to all be placed here because they had to farm and had a certain source of food. Therefore, near the Basin Lake, dozens of miles east of Heishan, is one of the selected locations by Huo Hai.
The Qingshui River is less than a hundred miles south of here, and the Baiyangdian is east of here, and less than two hundred miles north of here, the border of Youzhou Zhuo County.
In this era, it was not like later generations where there were village farms everywhere, but a piece of them was not well developed and surrounded by deep forests. There were reed marshes and swamps within a radius of dozens of miles. There were few people setting foot on the ground, and wild beasts were the masters here.
Of course, there are actually many better choices around Montenegro than here, but the water and fishery resources there are not enough here. Solving the problem of more people eating is what Huo Hai needs to consider the most.
Therefore, while waiting for Chu Yan and the others to transport the food back for a few days, Huo Hai not only organized everyone to dig caves to make temporary habitats, but also led everyone to build many tents and tools needed to develop wastelands.
"Uh, this is..." Chu Yan, who brought the grain transport team back to Heishan, saw the busy scene in front of him, and said in a daze.
Because the village gate, which was originally built with some wood, disappeared, and above the 100-meter slope, many people were digging pits to pick up soil. Several peaks in the distance were filled with smoke and dust, and people came and went.
"The young master said that the defense of Heishan Village is simply weak, so he wants to build Guancheng and six intersections at all entrances that can enter and exit Heishan Mountain. Even if there are 100,000 troops to attack in the future, he can only sigh at Guanxi."
"A hundred thousand troops are coming to attack, and I can only sigh at Guan Xing?" Chu Yan was confused again. What a tall and strong Guan Cheng it was?
"Uh, my little sister, isn't there only one road to the mountain in Heishan Village? Where can I get six?" Chu Yan saw the huge foundation pit on the hillside and knew that Huo Hai was not talking about playing, so he asked again.
"Brother, you are talking about the main peak of Heishan. The six gates and cities mentioned by the young master are encircling dozens of nearby hills. He said that this will ensure that the people in the defense circle have enough activity venues, sufficient water resources, and...
Anyway, there are so many things that I can't explain clearly for a while.
In short, you know that the young master’s transformation of Montenegro is to accommodate more than one million people to avoid the war.”
OK! After Chu Yu finished speaking, Chu Yan became even more confused.
However, when he saw thousands of busy people on the Black Mountain constantly coming in and out, pushing the soil, cutting down trees, laying the groundwork for places where the terrain is not high enough and the foundation is not solid enough, he could imagine how solid and unbreakable it would be when these places built the walls.
The food was unloaded by everyone, and what was unloaded was everyone's concern. If you have food and can survive, everyone will no longer be afraid.
"What are we going to do next?" Seeing Huo Hai busy commanding everyone to work, Chu Yan didn't know what to say, but like a subordinate, he began to ask him for instructions to start work.
But he didn't know that his old brothers Du Chang and others had already become the tycoons around Huo Hai at this time, because their souls and spirits were collected by Huo Hai on his mobile phone.
"Of course, I'm going to prepare for it and go to Sun's house to pull things. You have to go a few more trips before the snow has come down." Huo Hai smiled and took out a letter that had been prepared in his arms.
"Still pull?"
Chu Yan took the letter in surprise, but he couldn't understand what was written on it at all, so he handed it to a Sun family soldier who recognized some words by his side. He immediately saw the young man's face twitching.
"What? What are we going to do this time?" Chu Yan, who was puzzled, asked the young man.
"There are five hundred swords, spears, swords and halberds, one thousand spearheads, three thousand bows, one hundred thousand arrows, five hundred horses, one thousand leather armor, three thousand armor, two hundred thousand good iron pounds..."
"Uh, can the Sun family take out these things?" Even Wang Dang couldn't stand it and looked at Huo Haidao.
"This is just the basic equipment needed to arm thousands of people. Sun's family has no inventory, so they can ask their housekeeper to buy it everywhere! In short, he must think that his family's head has been on the verge of our Heishan Mountain, and he will not stop the troops unless he wins. As for how much he can get, it depends on his actual situation.
You should know that Sun Tao is a prodigal son and has a domineering style. Therefore, when you are in the Sun family, you should be a little arrogant. If the housekeeper can’t get enough, you should complain and tell him that the head of the family will be angry and ask him to give something. He is also worried that the head of the family will be unhappy and will not focus on doubting you.
When we ask him for food and supplies next time, I will write a letter to the Wangdu County Magistrate in Sun Tao's name and handwriting, asking him to draw some supplies from the treasury." Huo Hai explained to them very easily.
"There's next time?"
Chu Yan and his group of people were absolutely in amazement. Now they were convinced. It seems that Huo Hai is the most important thing for the Sun family to keep cheating! If the great wise and good mentors could do something like Huo Hai, why would they not dare to launch it easily for more than ten years?
What they didn't know was that Huo Hai's thinking was different from the people of their era. Since he had already made up his mind, he would no longer follow the routine. What is the point of cheating some money, grain and weapons? After he had finished cheating, he had already thought about the way to throw the blame out.
"If possible, before the great wise and good teachers started, we would continue to get supplies to Heishan through the Sun family. Moreover, there would be no obstacles. I have asked Xu Chang to send someone to Luoyang to send a letter to Sun Zhang. I believe that it won't take long before Sun Zhang, who wants to make his stepson famous, will definitely write to the prefects of the surrounding counties to support Sun Tao in the suppression of bandits."
OK! Huo Hai's heart was much bigger than they thought. He didn't plan to let go of the Sun family or Wangdu County.
I was convinced, this time I was convinced. Only by following such smart people, those who only have muscles and no brains can live longer.
Soon, the letter that asked Sun's housekeeper to help raise supplies was sent to Wangcheng County by Sun's family soldiers. They stabbed Sun Tao's body and helped the Black Mountain bandits to deceive the Sun family for 20,000 stones of food. It is impossible to turn back now, so there is no need to worry too much about loyalty.
Therefore, according to the agreement, ten days later, Chu Yan and the others would take another two thousand Sun serfs to Wangcheng County to pull things.
Before leaving, Chu Yan needed to arrange accommodation for the serfs who accompanied him to collect grain this time and brought their families back. At the same time, he selected the serfs who would go to Wangdu County to collect grain next time.
It just happened to take this opportunity to count the household registration list of these people and compile them according to the ranks of the ranks, so we can recruit them in the future.
The labor force of more than 10,000 people is very large. Heishanzhai changes at a speed visible to the naked eye every day. After Huo Hai reorganized everyone's household registration list, the occupation and job distribution were also done at the same time.
First of all, the most important army organization. The horses brought by Huo Hai, plus the horses seized by Chu Yan and Chu Yan from the Sun family, were about 600 horses that could be used as war horses.
Huo Hai asked Chu Yan to select three hundred cavalrymen from his own ranger and the young and strong men brought by Wang Dang to come out as a cavalry unit and named it: Jifeng Camp.
These three hundred people are professional soldiers, one person and two horses. They usually need high-intensity training every day. They are only responsible for combat and defense tasks and do not work with ordinary people who are engaged in construction. In addition, they are equipped with 300 young and strong soldiers as auxiliary soldiers. They are responsible for helping these soldiers take care of the horses during their daily work, and male soldiers are responsible for helping them transport logistics during wartime.
In addition, Huo Hai asked Wang Dang to select eight hundred young and strong men from the serfs as infantry troops, of which 300 were spearmen, 300 were swords and shields, and 200 were archers.
They also need to conduct high-intensity training in normal times, and are also responsible for the construction of military supplies such as weapons and armor. They also do not participate in the infrastructure construction of various counterfeit villages. They also have eight hundred young men as auxiliary soldiers for them. They work as required and help with daily affairs. In wartime, they are responsible for the logistics of the war soldiers.
After such distribution, nearly half of the young and strong man went there. However, Huo Hai was not worried about the shortage of labor, because most women could also use labor. As long as they were given food, their strength was no less than that of migrant workers who worked on construction sites in later generations. Women who were more familiar to Huo Hai, such as Jiao Niang and Jiu Niang, were directly appointed by him as logistics supervisors, and assigned women to work, cook, and take care of everyone's food, drink, and defecation. All of them were handed over to them.
The biggest group belongs to the children.
Huo Hai organized all the skilled talents into various professional groups. All the children needed to follow the adults to help them learn at least one or two skills. Moreover, before and after morning and dinner, they took a tree stick and followed Huo Hai to learn to write some simple words on the sand pile.
Chapter completed!