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The next day, the Zhou clan opened a vigorous joint military training in the name of preparing for robbery and protecting the clan.

The reserve troops that originally belonged to the reserve team were all turned to regularization, and in the end, a total of five capital guards were obtained, a total of more than 500 people, Zhou Bai led the battalion and Zhou Yuan led the deputy battalion.

Some time ago, the Zhou tribe had just been attacked by bandits, and at this time, there was a conflict between the border wall of Cangbei County and the Jin Kingdom, and the situation was unstable, and all the ethnic groups in Pingcang County also added their own ethnic soldiers to patrol.

The training of five hundred clan soldiers may be a bit eye-catching in a red mud township, but it is nothing for the entire Pingcang County.

However, for the sake of prudence, when Zhou Bai went to the county to sign the lease agreement, he also sought Ji Hongzhe’s consent and added the paperwork for temporarily practicing the township patrol of Hongni Township.

This is a common practice in the countryside of Daxu in the face of emergencies, especially in border prefectures, where the situation is often unstable, and the military strength of the government sometimes does not take into account the countryside, so they will allow the rural tyrants to form township soldiers to defend themselves.

In addition, spending 50,000 taels of silver from the family treasury, Zhou Bai successfully bought 20,000 mu of barren land at the foot of Cangshan Mountain, plus 100,000 mu of Cangshan Mountain Use Rights with a five-year lease.

In fact, to put it bluntly, these 100,000 mu of mountain fields are all incidentals to the purchase of serious fields.

The barren mountain land that others can’t look down on is a treasure land in a few years in Zhou Bai’s eyes, but unfortunately it only has a five-year lease, which makes him have to find a way to really get Cangshan in hand.

Perhaps the conditions of Jin Shi and the first can be used here? Or was he knighted with meritorious service and made Cangshan a fiefdom?

At the foot of Cangshan Mountain, the Zhou family protection team that served as the soldiers of the Red Mud Township had just finished a cross-country training, and they had already shown a strong demeanor after training according to the martial arts guidelines, and no one was left behind in the ten miles of attack, and they could still maintain a complete and orderly queue.

It is a pity that although the quality of soldiers is enough, the real generals are still insufficient.

Except for Zhou Yuan, the rest of the team are all first-class core generals, at most, ordinary red lives, and they are already a little reluctant to lead an army of hundreds of people.

At present, it is not obvious that the importance of generals is large, and when the territory is large, qualified generals are very key talents.

After accompanying Zhou Bai in the parade, Zhou Yuan wanted to share his worries, so he put forward his own suggestion: “Lord, there are not only bandits and bandits in the mountains, but also many people who used to live in the mountains to avoid the war, and many of them have elite soldiers and strong generals. ”

In Zhou Yuan’s telling, Zhou Bai knew the cause and effect, it turned out that they had gone into the mountains to suppress bandits and accidentally killed the mountain people’s settlement, and the quality of the mountain people left a deep impression on Zhou Yuan.

“You said that there are generals among the mountain people, and I need to personally recruit them? Then I want to see what kind of person the general recommended by the first general of my Zhou family is! ”

When Zhou Bai heard the news of the general, he was in a good mood.

Above the mountains, the mountains are densely forested, the roads are difficult to travel, and the various paths are not locals, and it is difficult to find out the direction.

However, Zhou Yuan led his troops to clear the Cangshan group of thieves, and he had already familiarized the terrain around here, and after the thirteen villages of Cangshan were destroyed, what was left was worth remembering, that is, the mountain settlements.

All the way over the mountains, through seven forked mountain roads, through two cave tunnels, and then jumped over a mountain forest full of poisonous snakes and beasts, Zhou Yuan took Zhou Bai to a mountain residence.

This is also a cottage, and unlike the bandits, the mountain people who live here are self-sufficient and do not make a living by looting.

Looking at its luck from afar, it was scattered, mostly rising strands of white qi, much less than the normal villages under the mountain, and the people’s popularity was not attached.

And there is often gray air lingering around this cottage, obviously the mountain people are not living in this mountain steadily, and even survival is a problem worth considering from time to time.

Before the Cangshan group of thieves as the subject of contradiction, the scattered mountain people were ignored by Zhou Bai, but after all, Zhou Bai wanted Cangshan as a foundation to operate, and at this time, he only recalled it slightly, and a steady stream of memories came to mind.

It turns out that the ancestors of these mountain people are not real mountain people, but they entered the mountain life to escape the war and heavy taxes, so that they can communicate normally with outsiders, and their habits are not much different.

“Knock knock~”

The guards guarding the gate of the cottage saw the arrival of Zhou Bai and other strangers, and quickly sounded the gong to call the mountain people in the village.

Soon, hundreds of mountain people rushed out with hoes, wood-chopping knives and other weapons, wearing all kinds of simple fur clothes, looking like a group of rabble.

But if such a large cottage can gain a foothold in the mountains, there must be warriors, and the dozen or so people walking in the front are all armed with swords, and some even hold longbows.

“What kind of people are you, aren’t you the new mountain boss who came here to set up a mountain?!”

A strong mountain man with bare arms, who seemed to be the leader of the lead, did not order a rash attack, but took the initiative to intervene and inquire.

The leader is not stupid, although the number of these dozens of people in front of him is small, but all of them are fully armoured, and their bodies are also strong and burly, obviously the origin is not simple.

“My name is Zhou Bai, I am the patriarch of the Zhou clan, this year’s Dingzhou Xieyuan, I came this time to recruit you on behalf of the Zhou clan.”

Zhou Bai smiled slightly, and went straight to explain his intentions.

“Refreshing, but our village is accustomed to mountain and forest life, and we don’t want to go down the mountain to accept the jurisdiction of the imperial court.”

The leader responded equally cleanly.

“Then if I tell you that the government has approved 100,000 mu of mountain forests for the Zhou family to use, are you willing to cultivate the mountain fields? These fields are tax-free for the first five years, and as long as you join the Zhou clan, you can plant them for free. ”

Zhou Bai continued.

“We…”

Without waiting for the other party to hesitate and refuse, Zhou Bai directly laid out the conditions: “You can still trade with the outside world, salt, grain, clothing, don’t you want to bring a better life to your people?” ”

“You know that the bandits in Cangshan were wiped out by us, so do you know that my Zhou family still has gods to help? The mountain ghosts who seek you for blood food will be exterminated and driven away by the sheltered gods, join us, and you can have a safe home! ”

There were obvious benefits, there were naked threats, and all the mountain people suddenly fell silent.

In the places where these mountain people settled before, they would also be persecuted by mountain ghosts, but the mountain people were not willing to use human sacrifices, so most of the hard-earned prey was sacrificed to mountain ghosts.

In addition, the production of food grown in the mountains is also pitifully low, which makes their lives very difficult, often hungry and full.

The leader of the mountain people glanced at the soldiers waiting for Zhou Bai and said with a long sigh: “Alas, we must remain independent and cannot be annexed by you. ”

It is difficult to violate the power, plus in the past few months of getting along, they found that the Zhou family outside was indeed better to deal with than the imperial court, and now as the patriarch of Yizhou Xieyuan, he personally came to the door, and it was not impossible.

Living in the mountains and forests does not mean that the mountain people do not understand the gold content of Xie Yuan, which means that the Zhou family must have a lot of say in the imperial court.

Zhou Bai promised: “This is natural, you can even continue to live here, I will send someone to station in your cottage to communicate affairs.” ”

“I’ll wait to see the patriarch!”

After the mountain people looked at each other a few times, they all put down their simple weapons and leaned over to greet Zhou Bai.

Suddenly, the originally scattered white qi of the cottage began to gather, and a wisp of the mountain people’s qi tended to Zhou Bai, which was the initial way to gather the crowd.

In the dark, Zhou Bai seemed to hear the sound of carp jumping out of the water, these strange foreign people, very able to nourish the growth of dragon carp.

This gave Zhou Bai a kind of understanding, I am afraid that you can’t just rely on a single clan, and accepting hundreds of rivers is the right way to compete for dragons and gather people.