Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 698 Niu Zhuji



Chapter 698 Niu Zhuji

In the early morning of the next day, Fang Jun bid farewell to Li Ke, and the fleet was divided into two. One team sailed down the river to Suzhou and is now repairing at Haiyu Town; the other team, led by Fang Jun, went upstream to Gushu City. , Exploring the local iron ore.

On the pier, Li Ke said worriedly: "Recently, the Xuanzhou area is not peaceful, and the Shanyue people are ready to move. This king always feels that they are going to make trouble. You must be careful and pay attention to safety. Although the Shanyue people are only mountain bureaucrats, they have a fierce folk style. The destructive power of the riots cannot be underestimated.”

Fang Jun's heart shuddered, Shanyue people?
A pretty figure and that mysterious tattoo appeared in my mind involuntarily...

In this era, the orthodox class used to collectively refer to all the mountain people who did not belong to the king as the Liao people, and the Shanyue people were also a branch of the Liao people.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I have already made preparations." Fang Jun looked at Liu Rengui, Xi Junmai, and Liu Renyuan, the three generals beside him, full of confidence.Su Dingfang and Pei Xingjian were sent to Suzhou by him to rectify first.

Li Ke has always admired Fang Jun's ability to handle affairs. Seeing that he is full of confidence, he stopped talking and clasped his fists: "If something happens, just send someone to deliver the letter, and I will do my best to save you. To send you a thousand miles, it will take a long time." Don't! Erlang, take care!"

"Your Highness, take care!" Fang Jun also bowed his hands in salute, turned around and stepped on the springboard, and boarded the five-tooth battleship.

The five-tooth battleship sailed slowly away from the pier. Fang Jun stood at the bow, knowing that Li Ke's figure on the shore was gradually blurring, so he turned around and entered the cabin, and went up the stairs to the uppermost ship building.

The river is vast, and the fleet is mighty, all the way up the river.

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The wind in the river is strong, the river is clear and clear, the water birds are skimming the sky, and the fish are flying underwater.

The bow of the five-tooth battleship plowed through the green river water, releasing white foam to the sides of the ship, riding the wind and breaking the waves like an arrow leaving the string.

Standing at the bow of the boat, Fang Jun looked at the vast and vast river, feeling in his heart that the water of the Yangtze River 500 years ago was so clear. It is considered an exaggerated description in later generations, but when you can really look at the Yangtze River 500 years ago, you will know what magnificence is!
The guide of this trip is a craftsman from Fangfu named Han Ben.

Han Ben was in his forties, thin and short, and he was the master of the Fang family's blacksmiths, second only to Wang Xiaoer.It was he who came to Gushu City to build the Fang family's first iron mine and first iron factory here.

"The front convenience is Niuzhuji. Because there is a Jiangxinzhou in the middle of the river, the river is narrow and the water flow is fast."

Looking far away, Fang Jun saw a large Jiangxin Island appearing in front of him. The river was divided into two by Jiangxin Island.

Led by the five-tooth battleship, the fleet moved closer to the river on the left. Just after rounding the sharp corner of Jiangxinzhou, they saw a cliff rising into the clouds on the wide surface of the Yangtze River. The mountains are continuous and majestic.The vortices overlap among the piles of rocks by the river, the echoes surge, and the snow waves hit the shore.

The mountains are full of beautiful trees, and their shapes are strange, like unpredictable elves.

Liu Rengui came behind Fang Jun and praised: "This is the famous Niuzhuji. In the middle of the abrupt river, with cliffs facing the sky, it occupies the main point of the river. The current is fast and the terrain is dangerous. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times."

"During the reign of Huang Wu, Sun Quan envoy Quan Cong stationed at Niuzhu. In the second year of Jianheng in the Eastern Wu Dynasty, Sun Hao planned to attack the Jin Dynasty, and sent a large number of troops from Niuzhu to the west, and turned back. He Zhi was appointed as the governor of Niuzhu and made Hengjiangwu. In the fifth year of Xianning in the Western Jin Dynasty , Jin defeated Wu and sent Wang Hun to Niuzhu. In the first year of Yongjia, Chen Min took Jianye, and Yangzhou governor Liu Ji and others went out to Liyang to ask for Min. Chen Min made his younger brother Chen Hong according to Niuzhu to reject him. In the 27th year of Song Yuanjia, Tuobatao, Lord of the Wei Dynasty, invaded the bandits and marched in Guabu. In the Song Dynasty, the army was divided into quarries, and the Chen fleet lined up a camp. Zhou Gen River, from the quarries to Jiyang for six or seven hundred miles..."

Fang Jun turned his head and looked at Liu Renyuan, who loved Niu Zhuji so dearly, and was greatly astonished.

I am judging people by their appearance. Looking at Liu Renyuan's strong body like Cheng Wuting, I thought he was just a strong general with well-developed muscles and a smooth brain, but he completely forgot that he was born in a wealthy family in Diaoyin County, and he had read military books since he was a child...

Liu Ren wished to see Fang Jun's surprised eyes, he was a little guilty, he just wanted to show off, did he make the Lord of the Stick dissatisfied?
But Fang Jun turned his head, looked at this ancient scenic spot, and said secretly in his heart: "What you don't know is that 500 years later, there will be a "Song and Jin quarrying battle" where the Han people resisted the nomads. Although we won this game with less and more, but in the end it ruined the country of the Han people and was ruled by a foreign race for the first time. The land of Shenzhou sank and all the people were silent. There will be no China after Yashan!"

Under the command of the guide, the fleet bypassed Niuzhuji and drilled into the waterway on one side.

Niuzhuji is like a big reef standing in the middle of the river, surrounded by waterways, behind Niuzhuji is already a big port.Back then, this was also an ancient battlefield where gold and iron horses fought to the death. However, with the unification of the world, the fortress has become deserted and ruined, surrounded by poor mountains and rivers, and the common people, merchants, and water transport all go to Gushu City not far to the south. This port It is completely abandoned.

On the shore is the Cuiluo Mountain uprooted from the flat ground.

Cuiluo Mountain is adjacent to the Dajiang River in the north and surrounded by the Niuzhu River on three sides. It looks like a huge green snail floating on the water, hence the name of the mountain.The original name of this mountain is Niuzhu Mountain. According to legend, a golden bull came out of Zhuzhu here in ancient times.

The forests in the mountains are lush and green, and the cliffs at the west foot jut out of the river are the famous Niuzhuji; It is a famous place where celebrities gathered in ancient times.

The craftsmen of the Fang family have opened up a clean place on the abandoned pier, and built a few huts for the transportation of goods. The iron mine is not far behind Cuiluo Mountain. Gushu City, the distance is more than twice as far out of thin air.

"The situation in the mountains is much better than here. After all, it is just a simple pier. It has been abandoned for too long, and it is not worth strengthening and rebuilding." Seeing Fang Jun frowning and looking around, Han Ben explained.

Fang Jun raised his head to look at Cuiluo Mountain, which is beautiful in Cuiping, and then at Niu Zhuji behind him, and asked, "Is this place within King Wu's fiefdom?"

"It is under the rule of King Wu."

Fang Jun then ordered: "Return to King Wu to repair a letter, allocating the entire area around the wharf to the 'East Datang Company', and the company will be responsible for paying for the construction of the wharf for the transportation of iron ore."

Just kidding, this is the largest iron mining area in the country. Is there anything more stupid than leaving such a well-located wharf abandoned?
Han Ben is the steward of this iron factory. He naturally knows that his Erlang has a close relationship with His Royal Highness Wu Wang. It only needs Erlang to say a word, and such a dilapidated wharf is naturally nothing to worry about. Is included in the 'East Datang firm' under the name.That is the emperor's property, and the whole world belongs to the emperor, let alone a Niuzhuji Wharf?

The fleet docked properly at the pier, and the nobles disembarked one after another.

In addition to the more than [-] members of the Fang family's family generals, the family generals who "extorted" from major families were organized by Fang Jun according to the Tang army. Ten people make a fire, five fires make a team, and every two teams make a brigade , Every two brigades form a regiment, with fire chief, team leader, brigade commander, and school lieutenant respectively.All the families divided the parts into a group, with a total of more than [-] people.

This time, Fang Jun personally led five regiments with a total of more than [-] people, as well as his own soldiers composed of generals.

More than [-] soldiers and more than [-] craftsmen, watching the chaos on the emperor at the pier made Fang Jun's brain ache, thinking that when he arrived in Huating Town, he would definitely practice this gang of hob meat to death. They were all thugs from the big families. With the existence of villainous slaves, one will be killed and one less will be killed, and those who can't die will become elite soldiers...

The soldiers who don't know that their doomsday is approaching are crooked, but it's not that their quality is too low. Most of them are government soldiers, and they are all fierce soldiers in the army. Otherwise, how could the big families look up to them? ?It's just that he spent most of his life rolling on horseback, and the unexpected boat came directly from Chang'an to Xuanzhou, and the journey was more than a thousand miles?It is not easy for this group of landlubbers to persist here. Many soldiers are seasick and can't eat.

Fang Jun is a general with a stick, how could he think of this?

Seeing these gangsters stealing, raping, and playing tricks, they didn't get angry at all. Holding a whip with a dark face, they wanted to teach them a good lesson. Fortunately, Liu Rengui stopped them...

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