On the fifth day of June, all the population and supplies arrived and were put into storage in an orderly manner. All the empty warehouses in Tianping Village were piled full, and even some residential areas had to be vacated for storage. There were guards at the entrances of these warehouses.

Guard, no matter who comes in or takes out items, they must register. In terms of management, Hou Fangjing, the financial director, is getting more and more experienced.

After all the people were in place and supplies were put into the warehouse, the final statistics came out: 58,300 taels of gold, 476,400 taels of silver, 1.8 million taels of copper coins, and 2,800 taels of various jewelry and treasures.

More than a hundred boxes, 200,000 pieces of silk and satin, thousands of carts of leather and kudzu, 430,000 dendrobium of grains, rice, beans, tea, wine, salt and various seasonings, and various medicinal stones (including sulfur and saltpeter, the raw materials of gunpowder).

One thousand five hundred and ninety stones; more than 7,300 war horses, more than 84,000 mules, horses, cattle and sheep; the detailed number of various equipment and saddles cannot be calculated yet, but there is no problem in equipping tens of thousands of troops and horses; in addition

There were also nearly 10,000 pieces of armor (including 3,000 pieces of infantry armor, which were the most defensive in the Song Dynasty), more than 200,000 kilograms of fine iron, and 15,800 kilograms of iron (i.e. steel), each of which was

Farming copper, tin, lead, and mercury is useless; the population is more than 35,200, except for a few skilled old craftsmen, almost all of them are strong men and young women (you know, the Jin Army certainly doesn't

The meeting will include the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled), and there will be many members of the royal family, hundreds of officials, scholars, hundreds of craftsmen, doctors, divination, and Buddhism...

When this statistical data was placed on the desk, everyone gasped. Not to mention all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, mules, horses, cattle and sheep, etc., just the 430,000 hu of grain.

Rice and beans are enough to turn a small Tianping Village into the most enviable Tianfu City in the world.

430,000 hu of rice grain. What kind of concept is this? According to one hu of dendrobium, it is equal to 120 kilograms (some sources also believe that it should be 240 jins. This book uses the usual data, that is, one hu of dendrobium - one stone - six

Ten kilograms - one hundred and twenty kilograms) A person can eat two kilograms of rice (plus meat and vegetables) for three normal meals, then one dendrobium of rice can feed one person for two months. By analogy, 430,000 dendrobium can be fed

The more than 35,000 people in Tianping Village had three meals a day and did not have to do anything. They ate and drank for free for two years.

This is so valuable and desirable at the end of the dynasty when the world is in chaos, all lives are in ruins, bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles. It should be noted that at this time, in the Hebei and Gyeonggi area, wherever the Jin army passed, it was like locusts washing over it.

, as clean as if a dog had licked it. Legend has it that an old soldier guarding the city gate in Bianjing, the people of the Song Dynasty who were richer than the monarch of a European country at that time, fell into the miserable situation of cannibalism. It is said that in the Jianghuai area, Dou rice

The price rose to thousands of dollars, and even human flesh was sold, while the corpse of a strong man cost only fifteen thousand dollars... In other words, a human life is less than a bucket of rice worth. And how much is a bucket of rice? Twelve kilograms...

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In troubled times, what can unite people the most? Not gold and silver jewelry, not silk and satin, not slogans of faith, not even great names, those invisible and intangible "spiritual food". But solid

, food that can be eaten in your mouth and taste good when you smack it! Whoever has food in his hands will firmly control the people's hearts.

Just like Di Lie did at this time. Don't those royal family members, officials and scholars not want to leave this "bandit den?" Leaving this place will not let them, the royal family members, important ministers of the court, and the scholars who read the books of sages.

In their eyes, the "down-and-out prince"? Of course not, they not only wanted to, but also wanted to die... But these people were first escorted all the way north by the Jin soldiers, and then rescued by Di Lie, and then all the way south. In just ten days,

They have traveled thousands of miles and been displaced for many months. They have seen with their own eyes the desolate silence along the way and the tragic scene of being lost thousands of miles away. They have also personally experienced hunger, but they still have to walk mechanically, numbly towards the place that seems to last forever.

A long road that will never be finished...

If these people escape Tianping Village empty-handed - not to mention whether they can escape the heavily guarded military village, nor whether they can return to the plains from the deep mountains and old forests. Even if everything goes smoothly, escaping from the village,

We are heading in the right direction, we have not been bitten by wolves or dogs, and we have finally returned to the land of human habitation... There is only one question, how far can you go without food?

To put it bluntly, even if Di Lie drives them away now, these upper-class people who have read the books of sages will come back one by one without hesitation.

As for those ordinary people, their demands are really simple. They will listen to whoever cares about their food and work for whomever. The sky is big and the earth is big, the belly is the biggest, and everything else is empty. For thousands of years, the common people's

The requirements and ideas are that simple. And Di Lie did exactly this.

From this, when everything settled, all the work in Tianping Village finally started running step by step. And everything was thanks to the biggest piece of fat that Di Lie snatched from the Jin Army.

--food!

The place where Di Lie and a group of his subordinates are now is the original military meeting yamen of Chengtian Army Village, which was later changed to the Juyi Hall of Tianping Village, and is now used as the meeting hall. This lobby is also made of local materials

It is a stone building with long strips of blue granite cut very flat. The style is rough and simple, and it does look like a military stronghold. In the middle of the lobby, there is a main desk and a tiger skin chair (Di Liegang saw it).

I was very depressed when I got to this chair, why do all the mountain kings have to buy tiger skins?) Behind it is a row of large stone screens; on both sides of the main case are a row of boxwood chairs, ten on each side, twenty in total.

position.

According to the arrangement of civilians on the right and military on the left, the ten seats on the right are for civilian personnel, and the ten seats on the left are reserved for military personnel.

Now the left side is full, including: Yang Fen, Yang Zhechong, Yang Zaixing, Zhang Rong, Jia Hu, Meng Wei, He Yuanqing, Guan Zhongyong, Gao Liang, Fang Hong, etc. This is Zuo Kai, Zhang Li and Shi Zhihe

He was stationed at each village gate and could not attend the meeting, otherwise two more positions would not be enough.

As for Ah Shu, he is always guarding Di Lie, looking like a loyal dog.

The seat on the right is much empty. So far, there are only Chen Gui, Hou Fangjing, Liu Erping and a few people.

This is not to say that Di Lie has few civil servants at hand. In fact, if he really wants to recruit people, Di Lie can at least pull out hundreds of people who have the ability to govern a county, a state, a government, or even the center of the court. This aspect is as good as

Only experienced people can come. However, Di Lie's trust in these people is far from reaching the same level as military personnel.

Although Empress Zhu persuaded by example and secretly interviewed some important personnel, the minds of these clan members and officials were temporarily stabilized, and they were willing to perform their respective duties. I just wanted them to truly

There is still a long way to go for their return, especially the future development and performance of the force represented by Di Lie, which will directly affect the final destination of these people.

In fact, at this time, Chen Gui had not really returned home. It was just that he was a talent that Di Lie wanted to reuse, but Empress Zhu had given the order to die. With no choice, Chen Gui had to reluctantly bear the responsibility for the overall internal affairs of the village.

Responsibility comes.

After a long while, Chen Gui stroked his beard and sighed: "These are just two of the seven golden armies that plundered my Song Dynasty's savings over the past century. You can imagine how amazing the gains of the other five were... Alas! Hundreds of years!"

Wealth and hundreds of thousands of people have been reduced to dust. What a pity! What a pain!"

Di Lie was also sighing. Later generations often said that if you fall behind, you will be beaten. But between the Song and Jin countries, whether it is system, civilization, wealth, technology or people's livelihood, the Song State is far above the Jin State. In comparison, the Jin State is a

A barbaric and backward country. But how come the civilization is beaten and the barbarian wins in reverse?

In fact, such a paradox was a normal thing in the Middle Ages. In the cold weapon age, the more barbaric, the stronger, and the more backward, the more vicious. If you are backward and poor, you will have the motivation to rob people (countries) who are richer than you.

The Liao were more barbaric than the Song, so the Song gave money and silk to the Liao. The Jin was more barbaric than the Liao, so the Jin destroyed the Liao. The Mongols were more barbaric than the Jin, so the Mongols destroyed the Jin. Throughout world history, the ancient civilizations in history were all compared to

It was backward and wiped out by barbaric peoples.

The final victory of civilization over barbarism had to wait until the era of hot weapons, which was based on powerful industry, backed by highly developed technology, and used gunpowder and guns to finally declare the end of this paradox.

At this moment, Di Lie made up his mind to produce hot weapons. He had enough manpower and material resources on hand to completely turn this place into a primary military industrial base. He had advanced ideas from later generations in his mind. Although he was limited by this

The technological productivity of the era cannot create many powerful weapons. But as long as firearms of the level of the early nineteenth century are produced, it will be enough to sweep away these barbaric peoples like dust.

The group of warriors on the left did not have the emotions and thoughts of Di Lie and Chen Gui. They were just shocked by this huge wealth, and everyone's breathing began to become restless.

Di Lie looked around at everyone, tapped the table with his fingers, and said in a deep voice: "I would like to solemnly remind you that all the materials here are used to develop our power. They belong to our collective, not to

someone."

When Di Lie said this, he stood up from the tiger-skin chair, his eyes swept across everyone's faces like lightning, and said word by word: "I can assure you that I will not take any of these things."

Di Lie's words are important enough. You have to know how he got this huge amount of wealth that is so rich. It was almost Di Lie's hands and feet. He went through life and death, snatched food from the tiger's mouth, and forcibly took advantage of the thousands of troops of the Jin Army.

Picked out. Among the people here, some happened to be here to help out; some were just soy sauce. The credit cannot be said, but the hard work is somewhat, especially Yang Zhechong who was the first to follow Di Lie...

At this time, Yang Zhechong was the first to stand up and support him: "Almost all of these goods, including Dingkou, were obtained by His Highness on his own. These things belong to His Highness. Who dares to touch His Highness's things?

You have to ask me first if I agree."

Zhang Rong tore off his clothes, revealing two large chest muscles, and said loudly: "I follow Your Highness's original intention just for the heads of a hundred Jurchen Tatars, and nothing else. Now, I will collect all the heads."

Now, after paying homage to my sister, my wish has come true. Without His Highness’s help, the dozen of us are not enough to hold a golden dog between our teeth. Now, the dozen of lives of us in Liangshan have been given to

Your Highness, what are those yellow and white things outside of me?"

Ah Shu yelled even more murderously: "If Your Highness says no, who dares to open his mouth?"

Yang Fen usually doesn't talk much, but every word carries a certain weight, and it's the same this time: "Most of us even saved our lives because of His Highness. If Your Highness wants my life, you can do it at any time."

It’s nothing to take away a mere piece of wealth.”

These words are indeed weighty. Among all the people present, except for Liu Erping, Zhang Rong, Jia Hu, Meng Wei and other Liangshan brothers, who was not directly or indirectly saved by Di Lie? Almost all of these people were willing to do anything for the sake of kindness.

The hero of the world, who offered the head of his great hero without complaint, still didn’t know what to do? They all stood up, saluted Di Lie, and said in a loud voice: "Your Highness (the leader of the village) will make your decision, and we will all respect it."

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Di Lie stretched out his hand and gestured for everyone to sit down, and said with satisfaction: "As long as you have this intention. I can assure you here that if you don't take it now, you will definitely get more in the future. If you are willing to give it up, as long as you are willing to give it up,

There will be gains in the future."

Chen Gui twisted his beard and smiled: "Your Highness's words are mysterious and thought-provoking. So how do you plan to use these people and property?"

Di Lie stretched out three fingers and looked around at everyone with bright eyes: "Three things - expand the army, build borders, and develop production."

Chen Gui pondered: "We all know about the expansion of the army and the development of production, but what is the meaning of building the pass? Building the Jingxing Pass?"

Di Lie shook his head: "Jingxing Pass is too far from our base camp, and too close to Zhending City, so it is difficult to attack and defend. The defeat of Zhongshi Min that day is the best example. Before our strength is strong enough, we should not attack

It is better if the force is too strong. What I mean by building a pass is building a Wei Ze pass."

Weize Pass is only twelve or three miles away from Tianping Village. The terrain is dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack. With this pass in hand, Tianping Village will have no worries; if this pass is lost, Tianping Village will not be able to survive alone. In comparison, Jingxing Pass

Although it is also a good defensive location, it is too close to Zhending, Luancheng, Huolu and other state cities. The terrain in front of the pass is open, which is conducive to the deployment and attack of the army. Although it is only 80 miles from Jingxing to Tianpingzhai, it is only 80 miles away.

The mountain roads are rugged and crisscrossed with ravines, making it difficult to march, let alone ride a horse.

In this way, once the base camp is attacked, no matter whether it sends reinforcements or transports supplies, the water from far away cannot save the fire nearby. And the waterway... In autumn and winter, the water level decreases greatly, and the rocks on the riverbed protrude, making it impossible to sail at all.

Rafts won't work either. Everyone knows that those nomadic peoples send troops in autumn when the grass grows and the horses are fat...

Guan Zhongyong first agreed: "The Weize Pass is indeed very important to the security of our village. It is a pity that such a dangerous pass has been in disrepair for many years. Many of the walls have peeled off and collapsed, and the golden dog invaded Chengtian Army Village last time.

At that time, this pass was damaged again. If it is not repaired, it will be difficult to function as a barrier to our Tianping Stronghold."

"Very good. Since everyone has no objections, this general development policy has been decided." Di Lie took out a piece of white paper folded into a square from his pocket, unfolded it with shaking hands, and glanced at the paper.

, then slowly pressed it on the table, smiled at the subordinates, "Now, I would like to announce your official appointment."
To be continued...