Chapter 445 Mrs. Anon
Poor waters and bad waters are easy to make troublesome people, and there are always strong people in the high mountains and dangerous passes.
A ten-mile dangerous pass, with Daqing Mountain in the east and Jinji Mountain in the west, and the high mountain and dangerous pass are located on the main road leading to Jiaozhou. Naturally, such a place will not be a land without an owner.
Jinji Village is the owner of this area, controlling the main traffic routes. In the past, Jinji Village made a lot of money just by collecting tolls and operating caravans to transport goods, which made the other savages envious.
But who would have thought that this place has been occupied for generations, and now someone has come to say that this is his fiefdom.
Anon stood on the stilted building, his face pale.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of armored knights stood in front of the stronghold. Their armors were as bright as bright light, majestic and majestic. In addition to this group of majestic armored knights, there are two other groups.
One group was the subordinates of Zuoxi barbarian king Fusan, five or six people came, and another group was from Yuanshuikou village, three or four came, but they were bound by iron chains and escorted here.
The other party arrives and explains his intention.
Anon reported by Zhai Ding.
Shuikouzhai had contacts with Jinjidong in the past, mainly because Shuikoudong often traded slaves in Cochin. If you pass by him, the relationship between the two is not bad. But now the son of Shuikouzhai was chained and escorted here. The once majestic young master Huang is now in a panic.
The Zuoxi barbarian king Fusan also sent a son to act as a guide and interpreter.
Manhuang has wild rules. Although Fusan is the barbarian king of Zuoxi, according to the unwritten rules, Fusan cannot interfere with the internal affairs of other streams.
And even if there is a conflict in Xidong, it will not reach the level of exterminating the village.
But now the third son of Fu told her that Shuikou Village has become history. Shuikou Village with more than 5,000 people was once the most famous Xidong Village on Zuoxi River, but now it has been destroyed.
It was those armored knights who killed them. They came from the Central Plains, and they were soldiers and horses of the Tang emperor's son-in-law, prime minister, prince Taibao, Xuanfu envoy, and Duke of Wei Qin Lang.
The reason for killing Shuikou is that they robbed, killed and sold Datang officials, etc.
That reason made Anon feel desperate, and suddenly felt a thunderbolt.
Although she is a young widow, she also knows this Qin Lang. There are often caravans passing by Jinji Pass. How could she not know that there is a dragon crossing the river from Lingnan, and that person is Qin Lang. Qin Lang was so good that even Feng An, Tan Dian Fu and the third class bowed their heads one after another.
And the Shuikou Village was wiped out by the Duke of Wei on the grounds that the court officials were robbed and sold. The worst thing is that she knew that those officials and businessmen who were robbed and killed by the Shuikou Village were sent to Jinjidong by the Huang family of the Central Plains. An old example of cooperation with the Huang family.
Sometimes the Huang family would directly sell the plundered population to Jinjizhai, and then sell Jinjizhai to Jiaozhou. In the middle, the Huang family would save trouble, and Anong would also make a fortune. The cooperation has always been very pleasant.
The leader of the armored knight asked Fu San's son to tell Anon that Jinjidong had been assigned to Duke Wei as a fief by the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, and it belonged to Wu'an Prefecture in Annan Province. From now on, Jinjidong was a fief of Duke Wei.
"Open the pass immediately and welcome Duke Wei!"
The knight also made a request, that is, to immediately return all the Central Plains people who were sold to them by the Huang family earlier.
The Duke of Wei is already at the pass.
Ah Nong was vaguely displeased with that strong order.
Seeing the miserable appearance of the young master of the Huang family in iron chains, he couldn't help suppressing his displeasure.
The young Anon frowned.
"Go and invite the elders of Dongzhong to come and discuss!"
Anong married her husband Nong Fuquan at the age of fourteen. Her husband was the young master of Jinji Village, and her father-in-law Nong Gui was the master of Jinji Village. Jinji Village also has a thousand households, and there are more than a dozen small streams, which together make it a large village with a population of more than 10,000.
And Jinji Village can have such power precisely because it occupies the only way from Yongzhou to Lingnan.
Nonggui is a capable person. He vigorously developed the caravan and started transportation. Under his management, the Nong family in Jinjizhai became stronger and stronger. It's just that the father-in-law was attacked and killed by the Jiaoman on the way to Jiaozhou to sell tea together, and the husband was also seriously injured that time and has since been paralyzed.
The young Anong is beautiful and smart. He was also born in a Zuoxi Dazhai Nong family. He has studied and practiced martial arts since he was a child. He is very smart and beautiful.
The father-in-law was killed suddenly, the husband was paralyzed, and the child was still young. In this difficult time, Anong assisted her husband in handling the affairs of the village. In fact, after the husband was injured, his temperament changed drastically, and he had no intention of handling affairs at all. The affairs of the village were handled by Anong with her husband On behalf of the hosting process.
Her husband was paralyzed for three years, and also irritable for three years. He devoted himself to drinking and beat her when he was drunk. She endured it for three years.
Three years later, her husband died of alcoholism, leaving her and a pair of young children.
Fortunately, during these difficult three years, she also honed her skills.
After her husband left, her young son became the owner of the village, and Anong continued to take charge of the affairs of the village on his behalf. Anong saw the popularity of sugar in Lingnan, especially in Jiaozhou, so he started the transportation of tea sugar. While transporting tea from the Central Plains, and then transporting it to Jiaozhou to exchange for Jiaozhou white sugar, and then transporting it back to Yongzhou or even Guizhou for sale, the caravan business in Jinjizhai became more and more popular, and many nearby creeks actively attached themselves to them. , Also joined in this caravan business.
If there are no changes, Anong will concentrate on running the village while raising children. When the son becomes an adult, marry a daughter of the master for him, and then hand over the village to him, so that he can enjoy the peace and happiness.
There were a few other villages who wanted to take the opportunity to loot and plunder, and they all set up a plan to repel their invasion under her personal advice.
Anong's reputation has gradually spread far and wide in Zuoxi. Under Anon's leadership, in fact, Jinxi seldom plunders other streams to **** people. It's just because of some old relationships, and occasionally Also do some slave trade.
Originally, this was just to maintain the old relationship, who knew it would lead to such a disaster?
Shuikou Village has always had a good relationship with Jinjidong, and Nong’s caravan business must pass through Shuikou to and from Yongzhou. The last time Shuikou Village was also visited by Mr. Huang, he said that he had made a new deal and got some slaves, and he was willing to give them They took it to Jiaozhou to sell it, and said that there were not many people, so they didn't bother to go to Jiaozhou themselves.
Originally, this was nothing, and the Nong family was just incidental.
The elders in the village arrived soon.
After hearing the ins and outs of the matter, Anong's younger uncle, Nong Zhong, snorted coldly, "Who is the Duke of Wei? How long has our Nong's family lived in Jinji Mountain? Now the emperor of the Central Plains said to assign this place to that surname Qin's? We will belong to his surname Qin?"
"Those surnamed Qin can pass the customs if they want to. According to the old rules, they just have to pay the toll. As for the others, there is no need to talk about it!"
"That's right, we, Jinjidong, also belong to Zuoxi, but the leader of Zuoxi, Fusan, didn't dare to speak to us like that!"
A group of Dongzhong elders were aggrieved.
The so-called Emperor of the Central Plains, or this Qin Xuanxiang, they feel very far away, and they don't bother to pay attention to the distant ones.
They only know that Jinjidong is more than a dozen Xidongs in size and has a population of tens of thousands. It is also one of the largest forces in this distance. Even Zuoxi barbarian king Fusan usually treats their family very politely. Why should the surname Qin be right now? Come here to be their leader?
Anong supported his forehead and said with a headache, "The Huang family in Shuikou has been destroyed. Not only Huang Tianhu was beheaded, but more than 5,000 people in the entire Shuikou village were either killed or captured. All the prisoners were slaves, including that Mr. Huang. .In addition, I heard from the third son of Fu that the Duke of Wei has ordered the dozen or so Dadong families to jointly exterminate Xiaoxidong who is attached to the Huang family."
"Also, the Nong's family in Jinlongdong, Guangyuan, because they also participated in the robbery and murder of transit officials, are now beheaded by Duke Wei himself, and Fusan and the others are sent to attack Jinlongdong."
The crowd was furious for a while.
"Why?"
Anon frowned, these guys.
"Of course it's based on his strength. Think about it, is the Huang family in Shuikou weak? It's stronger than our Nong's family, but Wei Guogong broke through their stockade overnight. It is said that the casualties are negligible, even more so. What is miraculous is that it is said that they were able to break through the Huang family so easily that day, and they also got the merit of breaking the Huang family's great stronghold and Dongzhu mansion with a thunderbolt from the sky."
"That day Ray..."
"Is there really such a thing?"
"impossible!"
Anong has been in charge of the village for five or six years. Although she is only in her early twenties, her mind is very calm. When things happen, she will not just bluff like those uncles and elders. She will look at problems more rationally and consider gains and losses.
Nong Zhong patted the table and shouted, "Grandfathers have been free for generations, how can we be assigned to slaves by the surname Qin just because of that **** emperor's words?"
"Not as a slave, but as a vassal."
"What kind of **** is enforcing the people, isn't it going to make us listen to him in the future, and even pay him taxes to serve him, what is this not a slave?" Nong Zhong roared.
Most of the elders in the village have the same attitude as Nong Zhong. No one has ever been able to tax them, let alone come and ride on their heads to become their masters.
"Follow him! The Huang family in Shuikou must have been careless. Besides, there is nothing dangerous in Shuikou Village. Our Jinjidong is a gate that cannot be opened by anyone. As long as we don't let them come, don't say that Jinjidong is the gate below. , and the pass, they will not be able to pass.”
"That's right, I'm afraid he's a bird, so what if he is the emperor's son-in-law, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, the prince teacher, what does it have to do with us, can the emperor of the Tang Dynasty send troops from thousands of miles away from the Central Plains?"
"How many villages have had our ideas, sneak attacks and strong attacks, but which one has not been taken back by us?"
Some younger guys who are more impatient, such as Nong Zhong, even have to raise a knife to chop off those iron kings at the bottom of the mountain first, and then throw their heads in front of the surnamed Qin in front of the pass.
It doesn’t matter which piece of land the emperor allocated to the surname Qin as a fief, but it is impossible for them Jinjidong to give the surname Qin a fief!
Anong heard that they were arguing more and more loudly, and knew that this time things might be difficult.
She got up and left her seat with a pale face, went outside the door, leaned on the railing and looked into the distance, calming her rapid breathing. In front of the gate of the village in the distance, the team of armored knights could still be seen standing there.
The eldest son of the Huang family knelt on the ground with his head bowed.
The problem now is not only that the Duke of Wei came to ask for the court officials and businessmen who were sold to them by the Huang family, but also whether Jinjidong should attach himself to the Duke of Wei and be his vassal.
It would be great if those people from the Central Plains were still in the stronghold, handing them over now would at least ease the situation. But unfortunately, a caravan from Tianzhai went to Jiaozhou a few days ago, and took them to Jiaozhou to sell them.
Taking a deep breath, he returned to the house.
Anong ignored the uproar of the crowd, "Go and get three hundred taels of gold, some tea leaves, sugar, and spices from ivory, rhino horn, leopard skin and tiger bone."
(end of this chapter)