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Xu Huai made a big fuss in Huolutang, and there was no movement in Beizhai after half a month.

In the past twenty days, in addition to transporting two or three thousand kilograms of grain into Jinsha Grotto as supplies through shoulder and back, Su Di, her father Su Laochang and Xu Xin'an's father Xu Guanshan, took the lead and cleared all the fields planted by Zhu Wu Zu's family outside Nanzhai.

However, there are more than a hundred people in Zhuwu Zu family, so many people cannot be idle there.

First, if you can’t stay idle, second, if you have more troubles, you will have more troubles.

Nanzhai is located in the Zhongfeng Basin of Yuhuangling. The terrain is fifty or sixty feet higher than the banks of Qingliu Creek, and there is no stream flowing through it. For hundreds of years, the ancestors of the Xu family have built dozens of ponds of various sizes in the mountains to accumulate rainwater, and irrigated one or two thousand acres of arable land in the basin.

In fact, the population of Nanzhai has more than 400 people, and the land resources that can be reclaimed are too limited. Even without Xu Zhongyu and others interfering, Su Di and Zhu Wu Zu's family were young and could not rent and buy land near Nanzhai to cultivate.

The terrain of the south slope of Yuhuangling is too steep and rugged, and there are stone cliffs and stone lands everywhere. It is difficult to reclaim slope fields according to local conditions.

Only the east and north slopes are flat, but the animal husbandry grassland controlled by the Xu family in Shangfang is impossible to easily allow the Wu Zu family to reclaim the land.

If you want to obtain enough land to accommodate Zhu Wu Zu's family, Su Laochang, Xu Guanshan and others can only make the idea of ​​fighting the mountainous land west of Yuhuangling.

This slope, called Shituling, has an overall terrain that is steeper and rugged than the northeast slope of Yuhuangling, and is better than the southwest slope of Yuhuangling. Unfortunately, there is no ready-made streams surrounding it, and it is far from the water source. The dry land can only be reclaimed by rainwater.

In the early years, some scattered families lived in Shituo Ridge and cultivated dry land. However, in addition to the conflicts between Lutaizhai and Lutaizhai, the scattered families could not gather forces and were eventually forced to move away.

Shituling became a mountain forest controlled by the Xu family and the Xu family members collected herbs and hunted.

If Shitu Ridge really wants to be reclaimed, it can still excavate some arable land resources. However, after the Xu family established itself in Yuhuang Ridge for four or five generations, the resources such as arable land and grassland were concentrated in the hands of Xu and the others in Shangfang, and there is no longer the motivation to pick up the land from the deep mountains and forests.

Shangfang Xu has rich resources and is more willing to expand his business in Huaiyuan Town and Qinyang City.

As a whole forest, Shitu Ridge is more conducive to their control, rather than reclaiming mountain fields and scattering them into the hands of each household; even if they organize people to cultivate and then plant them, the harvest will be very limited.

In addition, there are also disadvantages of unfavorable control after the tribe members scattered out.

The Wu Zuzhe family was forced to work together, and they had the conditions to develop the Yamada in large areas.

At first, Xu Wufu also sent someone to say that Shitu Ridge was a tribe, but how to reclaim the wild land of the tribe, how to pay money and grain to the clan after the tribe, and how to buy tribe fields. Xu's family established a foothold in Tongbai Mountain for 150 or 60 years, and it was not something that Xu Wufu could only cover the sky with his hands.

Xu Wufu, Xu Zhongyu and others must not allow it. Su Laochang and Su Guanshan can also request a meeting of the ancestral hall to convene the head of the Xu family to come out to speak.

The Xu family first established a foothold in Lutai Village, and the East Village, Xi Village and Nan Village were also established step by step.

In the past 20 or 30 years, the population of the Xu family has long exceeded the carrying limit of Yuhuangling. A large number of Dingkou were forced to go out to find a livelihood. Xu has long since heard the house and reclaimed Shituo Ridge.

Shangfang Xu has never dared to object explicitly over the years, but without Shangfang Xu's money and food support, Shangfang Xu was led by the nose and could not gather strength. No one could have done this before.

Zhuwu Zuzhu's family had more than a hundred young people, and they borrowed more than 500 stags of money from Liu Qiong'er to purchase oxen, mules and horses, farm tools, and grain seeds. They entered the Shitu Ridge to cut down forests, level the land, and build water storage ponds and roads.

They even hired more than a hundred young and strong men from the four villages to help build the village house. Xu Wufu, Xu Zhongyu and others could not object directly, so they could only watch the foundation of a small village quickly emerge on the east slope of Shituling.

Of course, the root of all this is that Xu Wujiang and the others are determined to gain a foothold in Jinshagou.

Shitu Ridge is the gateway to the east of Jinsha Gate, and it is separated by a hill. It takes only an hour to walk back and forth with strong feet. The Wu Zu family can move to Shitu Ridge, and even openly use the manpower of Lutaizhai to build a besieged village. At that time, it will be like the inside and outside of Jinsha Gate, and will help each other, and you will have the resources to gain a foothold.

This was also the day after Xu Huai made a big fuss to win Lutang, Xu Wujiang personally sneaked back to Nanzhai to discuss and decide with Su Laochang, Xu Guanshan and others; Xu Wujiang also met with the head of the Xiaoli family of Zhuwu Zu, further gathering people's hearts.

Whether it is fleeing troops or surrendering to bandits, it is a serious crime that the court cannot tolerate.

As long as the hearts of the people are not distracted at the beginning, where will they go? The heads of each family and the soldiers of the Wushu have no other choice except to walk the same path as Xu Wujiang until they die.

The road is ragged to open the mountains and forests.

The initial conditions were of course difficult, but fortunately, the soldiers of the Wushu were almost all extremely poor and had no hardship. After more than ten days, forty or fifty shacks were built in a valley on the east slope of Shituo Ridge, and everyone moved out of Nanzhai one after another.

Xu Wukun naturally parted ways with Xu Wuji, Xu Wufu and others, and followed their family to Shitu Ridge. He and Xu Wuliang were not concerned about the miscellaneous matters of reclaiming the fields and building village walls and houses, mainly patrolling the mountains and forests with Xu Huai. After the busy family of Zhuwu Zu, they would also organize young and strong people to train at night.

After driving Tang Tiande away, Xu Wuliang, Xu Wukun and others were worried that Deng Gui would report to the county and county, and the county would directly send officials from Biyang City to capture Zhu Wu Zu's family and interrogate him.

In fact, more than half a month has passed, not only is Huaiyuan Town calm, but Deng Gui seemed to have never happened, and the prefectures and counties have not directly sent officials to Yuhuangling.

A few days ago, I just heard from the Beizhai people that an official sent a visit to Qingxi Village to see the situation, so I went back to Biyang City directly. There was no accurate statement about whether Xu Wujiang and others had surrendered to bandits or were annihilated by Hutou Village thieves.

However, there was news from Hutou Village that Xu Wujiang had brought people to surrender, but this kind of news was only circulating secretly, and no one would put the news on the table - after all, no one would admit that there was such a source of information.

Xu Huai also had expectations for the current situation.

Deng Gui expressed his feelings in a secret letter to Chen Tong.

Deng Gui arranged for Xu Wujiang and others to die, just waiting to be transferred from Huaiyuan, and Cai Ying sent his direct subordinates to take over as the inspector. At that time, whether Wang Bing was alive or dead had nothing to do with him.

Xu Wujiang and others disappeared from Qingxi Village. Whether they were robbers, annihilated by Hutou Village, or hiding in the deep mountains and forests, there was actually no big difference for Deng Gui.

Deng Gui is waiting to leave now, what else does it need to be created outside the festival?

As for the prefect Chen Shi and the county magistrate Cheng Lunying, even if they did not collude directly with the assassin, they would obviously not easily get involved in this vortex.

The calm at this time is not difficult to imagine, but Xu Huai can't guess what kind of storm is brewing under the calm...

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One day in mid-May, Xu Huai sat on a cliff on the east slope of Shituling. In front of him was a wide valley formed by the east slope of Shituling and the west slope of Yuhuangling.

This mountain valley covers a very wide area, about seven miles long from north to south and nearly three miles wide from east to west.

The valley is sandwiched between two mountains, with a steep terrain on the edge. When the rain falls, it goes to Qingliu Creek in the north and Baijian River directly leaks away, forming an instable stream.

There are many rocks in the valley, which is difficult to cultivate; and there are sometimes mountain torrents in summer. In the eyes, there are stone ditches washed by mountain torrents distributed in the valley like leaf veins.

Such natural conditions, except for the dense trees and bushes and occasionally roe deer breaks in, no one lives in them.

Xu Huai often flashed some pictures related to the valley terrain in his mind these days, which made him unable to help but think about it.

"What are you thinking?" Liu Qiong'er saw Xu Wuliang, and Xu Wukun stood aside and spoke, but Xu Huai was stunned when he sat down on the cliff every day, and sat over and asked.

"Su Laochang and his friends are now bringing people to build ponds in the mountains to store rainwater. I just thought that this valley can also build ponds. If you store enough rainwater, the three or four thousand acres of valleys below can be improved and cultivated." Xu Huai said.

"How is it as simple as you said? You have to build a steep pond in this valley, and you are afraid of thousands of acres. How high aquatic dam you have to build below to store water. And how solid this dam must be built, and only in the valley below dare to live in people? You have grown in this Tongbai Mountain for more than ten years. How fierce the mountain torrents are in summer? You have seen how fierce the summer torrents are - you were stupid before, but are you still stupid now?" Liu Qiong'er is now the biggest "creditor" of Zhuwu Zu family. She stayed in Yuhuangling without having to work. She wandered around every day with Ge and Xiaohuan.

Su Di is very tired and haggard these days, and Liu Qiong'er is still as charming as a flower.

On the one hand, Liu Qiong'er is knowledgeable in Yuehonglou. On the other hand, she likes to read miscellaneous books when she is free and builds ponds. She thinks she has a little understanding of the things that are better than the craftsmen in the village, and she also helps Su Di, Su Laochang, Xu Guanshan and others to come up with some ideas.

She had to ensure that the "debt" she released would be recovered in the future, unlike Xu Huai who was idle these days and ignored these chores.

Of course, although Xu Wujiang adopted her suggestion and secretly encouraged the Wushus for Wang Bing's comeback, Xu Wujiang did not even send anyone to Huaiyuan Town to inquire about the news, let alone contact Wang Bing.

This is what Liu Qiong'er suspects that Xu Wujiang uses this statement to sway everyone's spirit, and in fact he does not care about Wang Bing's life and death.

To put it bluntly, Liu Qiong'er suspected that Xu Wujiang was waiting for the assassin to withdraw after Wang Bing's death, and the situation in Tongbai Mountain became simpler, so I would like to think about other things.

To a certain extent, Xu Wujiang's approach is not essentially different from Xu Wufu.

This is not what Liu Qiong'er wants to see.

However, for more than half a month, Xu Huai had no other statements in addition to practicing martial arts, even if he had patroled the mountains and forests with Xu Wuliang and Xu Wukun to prevent someone from infiltrating and spying.

Liu Qiong'er didn't know what Xu Huai was thinking, so she would inevitably hold her breath.

Now that Xu Huaiyi was thinking about it, he actually wanted to build a pond between the two mountains. He didn't consider the difficulty of reality at all, and couldn't help but laugh at him for a few words.

"Am I stupid?"

Xu Huai smiled, picked up a piece of Chu Hong Chi Dan Stone, and simply drew the pictures that flashed in his mind over the past few days on the white cliff, and said to Liu Qiong'er,

"If we think about building a dam that is more than a hundred feet long and several feet high, and keeping rainwater in the mountains, it is undoubtedly a dream. Even if it is caused at all costs, every time a mountain torrent breaks out, the downstream will be extremely dangerous. The dam will collapse at any time. Who dares to build a house under the dam and reclaim the fields? However, if we follow the terrain, we will build shallow dams and store rainwater in grades according to the terrain? Look, each dam does not need to be too high, and it is enough. Even if there is heavy rain in the mountains, the rainwater overflows the dam, which will not only not pose a threat to the downstream, but will actually greatly weaken the summer mountain torrent. Do you think this is the case?"

Liu Qiong'er was stunned, wanting to ask Xu Huai how he thought of these things, but when he thought of the strange words he often said, "I know it by birth", he held back and didn't ask, and didn't give him a chance to show off.

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