Chapter 471 471
Wu Qian and the others were resting in a small road, and after they were ready to finish the renovation, they would leave this battlefield, find a place, build a cottage, and go as bandits.
Wu Qian was roasting a hare caught from the side of the road in his hand at this time, and while he was eating, he said, "Everyone, where are we going?" ”
"In my opinion, let's go to this place!" A general said, holding a map.
"Hercy?" When Wu Qian saw it, he was stunned, he didn't expect that this group of generals would recommend them to this place, Haixi, also known as Fujian, where was once the territory of the Yue Kingdom, and it was also the birthplace of the Yue Kingdom.
Later, the Northern Expedition of the Yue Kingdom expanded, and the Yue people immigrated to the north, and later after the Yue Kingdom got Huiji, they stationed the capital in Huiji, and the former homeland, the Yue people in Fujian are getting fewer and fewer.
This is mainly because Fujian is surrounded by mountains, and every place in Fujian is blocked by mountains and forests, because there are mountains everywhere, and there are no merchants anywhere, only the seaside, some merchants, but these merchants are only stationed there, repairing ships, supplying, maritime merchants at that time, rarely enter the core of Fujian.
There were no merchants to settle in, and the local people emigrated to the north, and the population decreased, which made Fujian more and more impoverished.
"This place is a very barren place, where are you sure you are going?" Wu Qian looked at them and said.
Wu Qian thought that this group of people would suggest that he go to the economic core of the Chu State, where to be a bandit, he would definitely earn a lot of money every year, but what he didn't expect was that this group of people would go to Haixi, the land of Fujian.
"General, although this land of Fujian is a poor place, there are many mountains, and although the land is not very good, at least we can cultivate the land collectively, and we can still farm the land from that place, and we will be self-sufficient and self-sufficient, and secondly, even if someone encircles and suppresses us, we can also use the advantages of the mountains and forests to defend and ensure that it will not be destroyed!" The general said to Wu Qian.
The reason why they chose to go to the land of Fujian to be bandits is because there are many mountains and forests, because there are many mountains and forests, and the garrisons there are very scattered, as long as they find a good mountain and build a cottage, as long as the other party does not mobilize an army of tens of thousands to attack and attack, it is basically not a problem.
However, in this world of great contention, where the princes compete for hegemony, who will sacrifice a lot of resources and send tens of thousands of troops to a place where birds don't and fight a cottage? It's a bargain.
A bandit in a poor place, then he must be very poor, if it is a rich place, it can replenish resources, but a place where birds don't, if it is knocked down, there is no benefit.
Of course, these generals just value that although there are many mountains and forests in this place, there are many plants, and they can be self-sufficient or cultivate their own land.
The land of Fujian is not very fertile, otherwise a large number of Yue people would not have moved north, and the environment is very bad, but there are indeed a lot of plants there.
These plants may not taste good, but at least they can satisfy hunger and ensure that the local people will not starve to death, and secondly, there are many wastelands in the land of Fujian, as long as they are willing to reclaim it, over time, they can still get a piece of farmland to replenish themselves.
The Yue people moved north because it was very difficult to reclaim the land there, but this time Wu Qian led 5,000 people, and they went to collective reclamation, and there were still certain results.
At that time, the Yue people had not yet been unified, most of them were a tribe, a tribe, a tribe, and there were not many people in total, so it was difficult to reclaim a large area of land, but then the Yue people moved north, and there was a conflict with the local people, and the Yue people appeared without a clan, and then under his call, the Yue people gradually became a fighting tribe, and after taking away Huiji, later the Wu family took refuge in the emperor and helped the emperor pacify that piece and integrate that land.
Many tribes that were unwilling to surrender to the Wu clan were subjected to bloody suppression, and later, because of their merits, the original patriarch of the Wu clan was given the title of duke, and all those who spoke Yue were Yue people.
In the Huiji generation, the Yue people were the masters of the house, and they did not ask about their poor hometown of Fujian, and with the arrival of more Yue people, the land of Fujian became more and more barren.
Later, maritime merchants needed to go to the southern Fujian region of Fujian to repair ships, and the economy of southern Fujian gradually improved.
However, it is only that the coastal economy is better, and the core location of the land of Fujian is not in southern Fujian.
However, because of maritime merchants, many maritime merchants will also enter the core area of Fujian to sell some materials, although they make very little money, after all, the place is very poor, but pigeon meat is also meat.
"The maritime merchants in southern Fujian, some will choose to enter the core position of Fujian, for trading, in which road we are on, collect some tolls, or have a good income, in addition to our reclamation and farming, self-sufficiency, really short of materials, you can also go to southern Fujian to buy, in addition to the mountains on all sides, there is an absolute defense advantage!" The generals explained to Wu Qian.
Wu Qian listened to the general's explanation, he nodded, this is indeed to escape, this Fujian region is indeed a good choice, can be defended, can be cultivated and farmed, although the land is difficult to reclaim, but there are many people, in addition to the maritime merchants to enter the core area of Fujian, it must be foreseeable that businessmen, when the time comes, they can hijack a small fortune, or collect tolls, even if they encounter the army to suppress bandits, they can use the terrain advantage to defend!
Moreover, there are not many troops stationed in Fujian, whether it is the current Chu State or the Yue State back then, there have not been many garrisons in Fujian, and the garrisons are still very scattered.
At that time, there were few garrisons in the Yue country, because Ba Fujian was their hometown, there could be no problems in this place, leaving some people, it was enough to maintain law and order, in addition to the terrain environment, it was difficult for the barbarians in the south to break in, even if they came in, the terrain surrounded by mountains was enough for them to bear, at that time it must have fallen into a bitter battle, and he Yue Guo could also come back to help.
And the Chu State has few people stationed in the Central Plains, because the energy of the Chu State is in the Central Plains, and it is impossible to send a large number of garrisons in that place, and in addition, it is a poor place, and there is no need to develop it at all, and in that place of Fujian, the defense does not know who to defend.
As for pirates at sea? Southern Fujian has a local maritime alliance, and there are also naval soldiers from the treasure island, these people are enough to defend against pirates.
If it weren't for the fact that the land of Fujian belonged to the state of Chu, the state of Chu might not have stationed troops at all, because the land of Fujian was very barren, and there were very few old Yue nobles there, and in many places, there were no old Yue nobles, and that kind of place had to be controlled by the central government of Chu by sending troops to station, so as to slowly upgrade the generals stationed there to nobles and where they were stationed for generations.
However, many generals are not willing to stay anywhere, after all, the generals sent by the central government of Chu State are from the central location of Chu State, how can they be willing to leave the prosperous place and run to the place where birds don't?