Chapter 130: Together Business (16)

Hou Dayong stood at the entrance of the alley in Nancheng District, heard a mess of real voices, and said to everyone behind him: "This time, let's take a walk and take a look. Don't tell me who I am." He said to Shi Hu: "Some time ago, there was no one except the patrolling soldiers in Nancheng District. The streets of Nancheng District were empty and deserted, just like ghost towns. Now when you hear these real voices, you can feel popularity. The Qingshui River Basin is vast and sparsely populated, and people are the most precious wealth. If Tongxin City wants to restore vitality, the first thing is to gather popularity."

Thousands of people moved in the Nancheng District the day before, but the streets were still in a mess, and some children who didn't know how to be sad were chasing and fighting on the streets.

When residents in the yard along the street first arrived in Tongxin City, they were like frightened birds, and were full of hesitation at the outside world. When they saw a group of men with weapons walking into the Nancheng District, the adults greeted their children playing on the street: "Come back quickly, don't run on the street." "You short-lived, get home." "Miss, go home quickly." Most children heard the shouts of their families, and although they were reluctant to leave, they still ran back to the yard. Only a few of the most naughty children refused to go home and were still chasing them on the street. The adults in the yard hurried out, picked up the children, and quickly returned to the yard.

Hou Dayong walked to a house with a faint door, pushed the door open and walked in. A gray-haired old man saw a large group of majestic and handsome soldiers walking to the middle of the yard, and looked forward with panic. He was nervous and didn't know what to say, rubbing his hands repeatedly, feeling uneasy. Two little boys showed two big faces from the corner of the door of the inner room, looking at the people in the yard curiously.

Hou Dayong looked around. The yard was quite large. More than 30 people stood in the yard and seemed not crowded. There were three jujube trees as thick as bowls. There were some green jujube trees hanging on it. There was a gray stone well in the south corner of the yard. There was also a big tree in the yard where Hou Dayong lived. Zhao Pu took his own initiative to cut down this big tree. Zhao Pu made a very good reason. A tree in the yard was trapped and unlucky, so it had to be cut off. Hou Dayong was heartbroken for a long time. Hou Dayong was very interested in these three jujube trees. He stood under the tree for a while and said to Zhao Pu beside him: "The altitude of Tongxin City is more than one thousand meters, and the sunlight is very long. The taste of green jujubes should be very good."

Zhao Pu's face showed a hint of doubt. The meaning of "altitude" mentioned by the Jiedushi was not very clear, but the meaning behind it was very obvious. Zhao Pu said to the old man: "You go and pick a few green dates, and the generals should taste the green dates in the yard."

When the old man heard that the person coming was a general, he was shocked and hurried into the house. He moved a long bench, stood on the bench, and stretched out his hand to pick green dates. Although the jujube tree was not very tall, the old man's face was still unable to reach the apples on the tree. The old man stood on the long bench and shouted to the house: "Liu San, Liu Si, come out, climb on the tree to pick some green dates."

The two petite boys heard the old man's cry and looked out at the door, then ran out quickly, like a monkey climbing up the green date tree in a few strokes. When Liu San and Liu Si were climbing up the tree and picking green dates, the old man walked to the well. He shook a bucket of water and brought it to the middle of the yard. He took Liu San and Liu Si's green dates from Liu Si's hand and washed them in the bucket. While washing, he said to Liu San, Liu Si: "The generals are very precious, and the food must be washed."

Hou Dayong was not polite, and took a big bite of green dates. As expected, the sun shone long. The fruit tasted differently. The unique crispy and sweet reminded Hou Dayong of the high-quality fruits he had eaten in another world.

After the old man moved from Tongxin City to Guyuan, what he never expected was that he had been assigned a pretty good yard, with all kinds of living facilities in the yard. The old man was a professional craftsman who built stoves. In winter in Guyuan, he could freeze to death with deep hair and thick ground old dogs. Most people had to repair heating facilities in the house. The fire wall made by the old man was the first in Guyuan City. When he arrived in Tongxin City, he saw that there were fire dragons in the yard, and it was not as useful as he did, so he felt relieved. As long as the fire dragon was used in the city, he would not starve him to death.

Hou Dayong ate green dates with relish, looked at Liu San, and Liu Si's two children looked at him with eager eyes, and said to the old man: "Give two green dates to the child, I'll treat you today."

The old man hesitated for a moment and said insincerely: "They don't like to eat green dates."

Hou Dayong said to a boy: "Are you Liu San or Liu Si?"

The child said timidly: "I am Liu Si."

"If you want to eat green dates, if you want to eat them, go to the bucket and you and your brother will eat one."

Liu Si swallowed his saliva, carried the water behind him, and turned his head to look at the old man. When the old man heard Hou Dayong say this, he said, "Lu Si, go and get it."

After eating the green dates, Hou Dayong said to Zhao Pu: "We will buy these green dates. We will wait a while and you will pay the boss according to the market price."

The old man didn't expect that these generals were kind enough to speak. After eating green dates, they even had to pay for money. They said in panic: "Eating a few green dates is worthy of us. They can still ask for money there, and I didn't plant these jujube trees."

Hou Dayong waved his hand and said, "Since you have distributed the yard to you, everything in the yard belongs to you, we have to give you money after eating green dates." Seeing that the old man was still trying to refuse, Hou Dayong changed the topic with a smile: "How many people do you have? How much food will be distributed after moving to Tongxin City? Is this winter enough?"

The old man said respectfully: "My surname is Liu. There were originally seven people in the family. My eldest son and eldest grandson, namely Liu San, Liu Si's father and brother, when the Dangxiang people broke through Guyuan City last time, the father and son were conquered by the Uighurs to defend the city and died on the city wall."

Speaking of this, the old man choked with sobs, and a drop of turbid tears flowed silently into the crisscrossing gullies of the old man. After a while, he said: "This time we arrived in Guyuan, we had five people, and we were given eight stones of grain in total, which was enough for one year. It is said that after the beginning of the spring of the year, each family could also be distributed to the outside of the city. The land by Qingshui River was very fertile, and it could be grazed or cultivated. The neighbors were all talking about it. After the beginning of the spring of next year, they would build some simple earth houses outside the city to serve the land well. However, the neighbors used to be in Guyuan City. Some of them did small business, some of them ate by skills, and many of them had never planted land, and there were no seeds and farm tools at home. They were worried that there would be no seeds in the season next year, and the harvest of the year would be delayed."

Hou Dayong listened very seriously. After the old man surnamed Liu finished speaking, Hou Dayong said kindly: "More than 1,000 households moved from Guyuan. Each household is divided into houses, land and grain. These are your private property. Tongxin Yamen is a recorded land. In the future, the population in the city will inevitably increase, and merchants from all over the country will slowly gather. Those with craftsmanship and can do land, and they can rent the land to those who are willing to farm, and concentrate on doing things in the city. In a few years, Tongxin City will become the most prosperous city in Qingshui River."

The old man surnamed Liu said, "We ordinary people are all despicable. They can live there just by putting them in a little bit of soil and water. When we moved this time, we didn't know the situation in Tongxin City. Everyone felt very uncomfortable. Now a stone has finally fallen into the ground. On the way, Jun Ye said that the biggest official in Tongxin City was Hou Jiedu. He gave us food, houses and land. Everyone discussed and when they settled, they would raise some money to build a temple for the Jiedushi."

After hearing the old man surnamed Liu, Hou Dayong couldn't help but sigh in his heart: The Chinese people are so good. In order to build Tongxin City, they have left their hometowns, which has brought great pain to these people to abandon their homes. However, just because Tongxin Yamen provided food, land and houses free of charge, these Guyuan people were moved to build a temple for those who started to make pupa. In their life purpose, they did not think that they were victims. This tradition continued until the twenty-first generation.

Ji, I remember that some ordinary people were wrongly accused and were detained in detention centers. Later, after they were proven innocent, an official gave an instruction. The people were released. The people did not expect their victims. However, their hearts were filled with gratitude to Master Qingtian. This kind of psychology was exactly the same as the gratitude of the people of Guyuan. When the people were unable to control their lives, they could only place their hopes on the conscience of some officials. This was the root cause of the long-standing sense of honest officials.

The Dangxiangfang in Tongxin City was all expelled from the city except for 677 women. Tongxin City can be said to be an empty city in a sense. The light of democracy flashed in Hou Dayong's mind. However, in the three years of Dazhou, Hou Dayong had a deep understanding of the society of Dazhou. He was not stupid enough to establish a city based on democracy in Dazhou. Democracy was based on a certain cultural background. Without corresponding cultural preparations, democracy was simply a castle in the air. It sounded good but was useless, and even had a counterproductive effect. The conversation of the old man named Liu was a living evidence that there was no way to implement democracy.

Hou Dayong pointed to the two children and said to the old man surnamed Liu: "Tongxin City will be funded by the government to build a school, so that these children can understand the text and sentence for free. After the school is started, they will let Liu San and Liu Si go to the school to study. These two children are so smart that they will definitely be cherished after studying."

The old man surnamed Liu was half-believing and half-doubted. After the general walked out of the yard, although the air conditioning outside the yard was constantly inflamed, his back was completely wet with sweat.

Hou Dayong and his group went away several more families, and the situation was similar to that of the old man surnamed Liu. Seeing that the people of Guyuan were in a relatively stable mood, Hou Dayong was relieved to every household according to the amount of food in the land.

At this time, Tongxin City was still managed by the coalition forces, specifically, temporarily managed by Zhao Pu.

After Zhao Pu entered Guyuan City with his army, Hou Dayong ordered him to manage Tongxin City temporarily. After Zhao Pu accepted the task, he asked the soldiers to seal all the houses in Guyuan City, set up blockade lines at the entrances of each street in the city, and sent patrol sergeants. Through these methods, although several troops were in and out of the city, Tongxin City was basically not damaged.

After the people of Guyuan came to Tongxin City, each family allocated houses of corresponding sizes according to their population. Although they could not satisfy every family, they were basically fair and quickly appeased the people of Guyuan who came from afar. As for the land, it still needed to be surveyed before it could be distributed to the people of Guyuan and the newly established families of the Black Eagle Army.

The distribution of grain was due to Bai Shuanghua. She proposed the land distribution plan that "every adult man gets two stones of grain in a year, and adult women and children can get one and a half stones of grain." After Hou Dayong's approval, based on the place list sent by the sergeant quickly, the total amount of grain needed was calculated and fully prepared. However, in this way, the military ration became very tense. Fortunately, Liang Shouheng was in Jingzhou and kept asking for food from the court. The land in Jingzhou was quite sufficient, which allowed Hou Dayong to have the ability to settle down the Guyuan immigrants.

After seeing a few families, Hou Dayong learned about the basic situation, he passed through Nancheng District and returned to Dongcheng District. The Guyuan people who lived in Nancheng District first arrived in Tongxin City. They didn't know Hou Dayong. They peeked at the group through the cracks in the door. Many of them had seen Shi Hu during the march and knew that he was a high-ranking official of the Black Eagle Army. At this time, they saw Shi Hu, the high-ranking official, always walking behind another tall general. The smarter people had already guessed that this tall general was Hou Dayong, the legendary governor of Xiongsheng Army.

Tongxin City in October is completely winter, at the hour of You. The sky has gradually darkened, and heavy clouds cover the sky above Tongxin City, which has the smell of "black clouds pressing against the city and wanting to destroy".

Dabu arrived at Hou Dayong's courtyard on time at the invitation of Hou Dayong. To his surprise, the dinner seemed to be specially prepared for him. Hou Dayong had only a staff member in his thirties, and an interpreter he had met.

After the dinner began, Hou Dayong seemed to have kept toasting to Dabu just to drink with Dabu. Dabu was the leader of the Hunmo tribe. He was also very cunning and calm. He only drank with Hou Dayong. The old wine tasted mellow, but in Dabu's mouth, it was tasteless.

Since Qian Xiangnan took charge of the military intelligence camp, he has been in charge of very little military affairs. He has not participated in any other affairs except for participating in the planning of the distribution of Dangxiang women. However, Qian Xiangnan was not idle either. During the Qingshui River War, the personnel of the military intelligence camp slowly infiltrated Tubo, Uighurs, Dangxiang, Northern Han, Western Shu and other places, and initially established the military intelligence army's own intelligence network, and collected a lot of information from various places one after another, and screened out some valuable intelligence from these basic situations.

The work of the military intelligence camp also encountered many difficulties. Especially when it was soaked in Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Shazhou, and even further away Yizhou, Xizhou, Beiting and other places, it encountered many difficulties. After the Tang army and the Tubo army failed to compete for the Western Regions, the eleven states of Ganliang fell into the hands of the Tubo people, and then experienced the "Golden Mountain Kingdom" era. The Central Plains had lost control of these places for hundreds of years. The people of the Tang Dynasty who had their hometowns had long turned into a pile of soil. The descendants of the Tang people who lived in Ganliang Eleven states now had no sense of identity with the Central Plains regime. The military intelligence camp pretended to be a merchant several times and went deep into Ganliang Eleven states, but could not take root at all.

Qian Xiangnan was still unwilling to accept this. In this Guyuan Battle, Dabu and Dawagong led their troops to assist in the war. When Dabu and Dawagong were thinking of Dabu, Qian Xiangnan suddenly got inspiration. There were many Han ancestry among the Tubo people in the Hunmo tribe, and they were widely distributed in the 111 states of Gan and Liang. If the military camp absorbed some Tubo people in the Hunmo tribe, it would be much easier to penetrate into the 11 states of Gan and Liang. Qian Xiangnan's idea was also approved by Hou Dayong.

After three rounds of drinking, Hou Dayong saw that Dabu was still drinking with him without any haste, and he couldn't help but secretly admire him. He left Dabu in Tongxin City to see how Dabu was trained and used both soft and hard to deal with these Hu people. But in the end, the most important thing is to rely on strong strength to suppress them. When the Black Diao Army's strength is far superior to the Hu people, even if the attitude is bad, the Hu people will find ways to cater to the Black Diao Army. If they do not have the strength, even if they marry their biological daughter to the Hu people, the Hu people will still rob them if they want to kill them. Dabu's calm attitude shows that Dabu is a realistic leader and will not do irrational things because of his emotions. At the same time, it also shows that in Dabu's eyes, Hou Dayong has the ability to adopt this attitude of ignoring his own reason.

After three rounds of drinking, Hou Dayong suddenly said: "In the past two years, Songfan has sold a lot of war horses to Fengzhou. This time you have led your troops to help the coalition forces besiege Guyuan. Dabu is really a keeping his word."

After Dabu raised his head and poured a glass of wine into his mouth, he heard Hou Dayong say this inadvertently. The pouring wine stopped for a moment, but soon returned to normal. Dabu put down the wine glass and waited for Hou Dayong's following.

In order to manage Tongxin City, Hou Dayong has carefully studied the history of Gan, Sha and other states in recent times. He talked freely: "The Hunmo Tubo tribe has a deep relationship with the people of the Central Plains. As far as I know, after Damozanpu's death, Tubo tribes were in chaos, and Lun (Royal tribes) and Shang (Huan tribes) fought for power. Luomenchuan attacked Lunhore many times. After the defeat, the soldiers fled to Gan, Su, Gua, Sha, He, Wei, Min, Die, Dang and other states. This was why the Hunmo tribe formed the Hunmo tribe. The Hunmo tribe lived for seventy years and was under the jurisdiction of Zhang Yichao's grandchildren. During the reign of Emperor Ai of Tang, Zhang Chengfeng established himself as the emperor in white and established the title of Jinshan Kingdom in the Western Han Dynasty. Half of the Han and Tubo people in the Jinshan Kingdom accounted for half. You and Dawa Gongdi ancestors were both generals of Jinshan Kingdom."

Dabu was even more familiar with this history. He kept nodding. When Hou Dayong stopped and said, he responded: "The Kingsoft Kingdom and the Uighurs have fought for more than 20 years. At that time, the Uighurs were in full swing. The Kingsoft Kingdom was surrounded by the Uighurs, without any reinforcements outside and shortage of food and grass inside. Failure is inevitable."

The translator was selected from the military intelligence camp from the independent army. He was proficient in Tubo dialect, so he translated very fluently.

Hou Dayong casually said: "Recently, many Tubo people from Hunmo tribes went south from Gansu and Sha prefectures to Songfan. There are nearly 10,000 Tubo people from Hunmo tribes? I heard that many people in Hunmo tribes have the bloodline of the Tang people?"
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