Chapter 979: Westbound

Chapter 979: Westbound

  Chapter 979 Westbound

  The boat sailed on the Longjiang River, piercing the calm river.

  The emerald green water of the Longjiang River and the verdant mountains do not feel like autumn at all.

  Longjiang River originated in Guizhou, named Longjiang River because it flows through Longshui City in Yizhou City, and flows into Liujiang River at Liucheng City in Liuzhou in the east.

  The boat Qin Lang was riding on could not be called a boat, but a bamboo raft, which is made of double-layered bamboo that is common in Guangxi, and can be driven across the river with a single bamboo pole.

Bamboo rafts are used instead of large boats, because although the Longjiang River flows for 700 miles, the river course is changeable. Some river sections may be flat and wide for hundreds of miles, which is easy to navigate, but some river sections are full of cliffs on both sides, and the current is turbulent. There are hidden reefs, and the drop is huge.

   Therefore, this 700-mile Longjiang River cannot be navigated normally. The usual way is to sail in sections, and some sections of the river have to be stretched.

  Although bamboo rafts are crude, they are made from local materials and are easy to make. Moreover, they are comfortable and safe to ride on a calm river section.

  The boss of the punter, with a bamboo hat and a brown coir raincoat, holds a long pole in his hand, and can easily steer the pen raft forward.

   There are two ospreys standing under his feet.

  There is a rope tied to the foot, and a buckle is stuck around the neck.

  These ospreys are very good at fishing. Standing on the bamboo cuttings, they suddenly plunged into the river, and then quickly came up with a big fish in their mouths. Sometimes the fish was even much bigger than this osprey.

  It desperately wanted to swallow the fish into its big mouth, but the clip on its neck was stuck tightly, and the fish kept struggling in its big mouth.

  At this time, the boatman will pick up the osprey with one hand, **** the big fish from its mouth, and throw it into his net bag.

  The osprey screamed unwillingly, Chuanshi fished out a few small fish from a fish basket, and the osprey snatched food like a starving ghost reincarnated.

  Another osprey also wanted to eat, but the boss of the boat jumped into the water directly.

   After catching a big fish and handing it in, you can get a small fish as a reward. If you don’t catch it, you won’t eat it.

  Qin Langhui is very interesting to watch on the raft. Watching this osprey eat will definitely cure anorexia. Originally, Zhang Chao wanted Qin Lang to make the boat. Although the navy's boats couldn't get through, there were boats running this section of the river, so the boat should be stable and safe after all.

  But Qin Lang, who claims to be able to swim in the East China Sea, dare to break waves in the Yellow River, and paddle in the Yangtze River, is willing to sit on a bamboo raft. The river is so calm and there is no danger, not to mention that he is really good at swimming.

  Although there is no direct flight on the Longjiang River, it is actually very lively on the river, which is also due to Qin Lang. Because after Qin Lang arrived in Lingnan, he not only strengthened the Liuyi post road from Guizhou to Yongzhou, but also extended a new post road to the west.

  Starting from Liuzhou in the east, passing through Yizhou to the west, connecting Qianzhong Road, passing through Yingzhou (Sandu) and Bangzhou (Duyun)

   Enter Juzhou, which is Dongning Prefecture (Guiyang).

After connecting to Juzhou, it is equivalent to completely connecting the entire Guizhou Road. After all, Juzhou is the heart of Guizhou, extending in all directions, leading to Kaili and Huaihua in the northeast, Zunyi and Chongqing in the north, and Anshun and Pu'an in the southwest , Straight into Yunnan.

  In the past, due to the remoteness of Liu Yirong area, numerous barbarian tribes, and traffic jams, only caravans walked on the mountain trails. After Qin Lang arrived, he planned a brand new post road.

  It took a few years to allocate money and food, and to recruit soldiers. It took a few years to build the Yizhou-Yingzhou post road connecting Guizhou and Guizhou.

  This post road is not only a land post with one post in twenty miles, but also relies on the Longjiang River, adding a water post line. Many water post stations have been set up along the Longjiang River, and many post boats have been deployed in parallel.

  The reason why I did not choose the Hongshui River, the border river of Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, but chose a smaller tributary as the post road, is also because there used to be a passage here, but the road was not easy to walk. However, Yizhou is close to the important place of Guizhou, and it is between Guizhou and Yongzhou. In addition, there are good river valley passages connecting to central Guizhou in the east, so I finally chose here.

  Although the Hongshui River is wide, it has nine twists and eighteen turns, and the distance is even longer.

Thousands of bamboo rafts travel along the Huanjiang section, where Huanzhou was established during the reign of Wude, and its name comes from the surrounding Huanjiang village. Xizhai and so on.

  In the past, this place was a barbaric place that even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu could not control.

But with the opening of the water and land post road and the widening of the commercial road, this road has gradually become lively, and what followed was that the imperial court set up a town fort here, established Zhechong Mansion, and immigrated here. Juntun Mintun plus Shangtun, and those merchants came to mine.

  The gold rush and the wind of mining made this new business road hot all of a sudden.

  At the beginning, the barbarians here also ran down the mountain to grab a few, robbed passing merchants, and went into towns to steal and rob.

  Later, the Guizhou Governor's Mansion was in charge of this side, and the Jingjiang Army began to settle in. After ruthlessly taking several villages, the situation gradually calmed down a lot.

  However, as soon as Qin Lang entered the court earlier, the chaos here immediately began again.

  Qin Lang likes Longjiang very much.

  The water is particularly green, with green mountains and green waters, and the bamboo rafts are running on it, like a pair of ink.

Sitting on the small raft, the captain of the boat chanted in a slang tune, and the bosses of the other boats also responded. Qin Lang couldn't understand what they were singing, but it seemed to be a traditional boatman's chant, and it sounded good. Quite charming.

  On the half slopes of the green hills on both sides of the strait, you can see Manzhai.

  The wooden houses are well arranged and live in clusters.

   When I saw this huge line of bamboo on the Longjiang River under the mountain, I was obviously surprised.

   It seemed that the buffalo horn and the bronze drum were sounded in the village.

  Qin Lang was not moved.

  This way, I have seen too many such scenes, even several times a day.

  Most Manzhai saw such a large team coming, especially when accompanied by the raft team on the river, it was a huge army on the bank road.

  Flags fluttering, armor bright.

  Guangzhou Township Navy, Rongzhou Ningyuanjiang Army, Guizhou Jingjiang Army, Yongzhou Jianwu Army, and Lingnan Economic Strategy Army, this is the five-way elite.

  Combined with the eight powerful families of Lingnan Feng Xianning, Chen Yang, Li Gao, and the elite soldiers brought by the barbarian kings such as Tan Dian, it can be said that this army does have the confidence to sweep everything.

  In fact, they did sweep all the way, first Rongzhou, then Liuzhou, and then Yizhou.

   I don’t know how many of the ignorant barbarian villages have been destroyed.

   There are quite a few people who are knowledgeable and interesting. They knelt down to Duke Wei and begged for mercy, repented and repented. Almost every village that participated in the rebellion and riots paid the price in blood.

  The difference is that those who are obsessed with obsession, even those who want to resist, have not escaped the end of being attacked and destroyed.

  The village was destroyed and people died, the leader was executed, and the rest were slaves.

   And some of them who are just vassals and rebellious, who can wake up and repent in time, ordered the village to hand over a few dancing Huan Mingzheng models, confiscated their families as slaves, and killed chickens to scare monkeys.

  Qin Lang's team went west, changing more and more.

  Many barbarian chieftains brought their children to serve in the army, in order to atone for their sins, and they also took out a lot of livestock, money and food to comfort the army, which is blood and effort.

  Qin Lang didn't feel sorry for these people at all. He didn't really need their food and livestock. He didn't bring many soldiers with him. He carried some dry food, and there were government offices along the way, so he had already reserved enough for this operation.

  But he still asked them to pay for food and money, just to teach them a lesson.

   If the beating doesn't hurt, I won't remember it next time.

  Letting these people follow the army is also to let them see the mighty combat power of the mighty division of the Tang army. This is an armed epidemic, not a real battle to suppress barbarism and chaos.

   They came all the way, and they basically didn't fight a few decent battles.

  Although some barbarians fled into deep mountains and old forests, or retreated to the top of cliffs, Qin Lang temporarily ignored those who were not easy to fight.

  He came here this time to go through the big comb first.

   Change the whole atmosphere first.

   Some diehards, in fact, can't change anything.

  Most savages are actually still the kind of fools who don’t understand the situation. When others oppose them, they also oppose them, and when others rob them, they also rob them.

  Qin Cunxiao and Yuan Zhulin led the cavalry on the shore road, and Qingqi went to the villages along the way early to deliver orders.

   A Qingqi galloped to Dahuanzhai on the north bank.

  Dahuan Village stands at the mouth of the Dahuan River on the north bank of the Longjiang River, on the Shangsha Mountain on the west bank of the Dahuan River estuary, and on the Xiasha Mountain across the Dahuan River is the Xiaohuan Village.

  The two villages occupy the estuary of the Dahuan River into the Longjiang River, facing each other across the river, and both are built on the mountains of the estuary.

   A group of Man Ding, who had been watching by the riverside, saw Qingqi appear holding the Tang flag, with serious expressions on their faces.

   "The Tang people are coming!"

  A young Manding boy came running on a pony, "Tang Qi, Tang Qi is here."

  The burly and sturdy man rubbed the boy's head, "Go back to the village immediately."

  The boy asked worriedly, "Will the Tang army attack our stockade?"

  The strong man looked at the red flag and got on his horse, "As long as we don't resist, we shouldn't."

  He rode on the horse and ran towards the stockade, blowing the horn on the horse while running.

  The buffalo horn awakened the banks of the Longjiang River.

The villagers who were in the fields put down their work one after another and rushed to the village. Even some of the barbarians scattered around Dazhai dragged their families to the village one after another. The chickens, ducks, pigs and cows also drove the pigs and cows, and ran up the mountain in a panic carrying the chickens and ducks.

   Wangshan ran dead horse.

   Although the Tang flag appeared, it took almost half an hour before finally appearing in front of the village.

  He came to the village with a red flag on a brightly armored flag, and stopped the horses.

   "I am the personal guard of the yamen of the government of Wei Guogong..."

  On the wall of the village, the grey-haired old village owner was wearing a silk robe and leaning on a cane. He listened to Tang Qi's order in front of the village, showing uneasiness.

   Tang Qi told the Duke of Wei to arrive, and asked them to go out to greet them immediately, and prepare food, meat and vegetables for the army.

  The old village hesitated, worried that the consequences of opening the gate would be unpredictable, but he didn't have the guts to refuse.

  The young son who just came back from the outside whispered, "Qin Lang brought more than ten thousand horses, we can't resist."

  The old man was still hesitating, but the strong man couldn't help but turned around and rushed down, saying, "Hurry up and open the gate of the village, and get ready to welcome Master Wang."

  The old man sighed, he still couldn't make up his mind, but his son helped him make up his mind. Although he was still worried, he didn't reject his son's words in the end.

   "We followed suit last time, now Duke Wei is here, what should we do?"

"Admit your mistakes and be soft." The strong man gritted his teeth, "Anyway, it's not our village that caused the chaos, and the law does not blame everyone. I think that as long as the other villages are not stubborn to the end, they admit their mistakes and give up before making an apology. Some blood can still pass. "

  Although the strong man was reluctant in his heart, who would have thought that Qin Lang did not leave forever, not only came back, but also committed suicide himself.

This Duke Wei's reputation is too great. Along the way, those villages that were called noisy and happy before came down one by one, vying to beg for mercy from Duke Wei. He took his children to serve in the army.

  Under this situation, not to mention Dahuan Village, even the entire 700-mile Longjiang River, there are hundreds of villages, large and small, no one dares to fight to the end, unless the brain is really broken.

  He heard that Duke Wei was able to visit their remote village this time, and it seemed that he was just passing by. It seemed that Duke Wei was going to Kunzhou, Dianchi, Yunnan, passing through Longjiang, and passing through central Guizhou.

  Going this way, it is obvious that they want to take care of these barbarians along the way.

  Looking at the Tang flag at this moment, the barbarian is also partly remorseful. How could he be so hotheaded that he listened to some people's instigation and provocation?

  Damn it, don’t let yourself see those **** again next time, or you’ll have to take off his tendons and peel off their skins to make bronze drums!

  (end of this chapter)