"The red sun is scorching like fire, and the fields and rice are half scorched. The farmer's heart is like soup boiling, and the prince and grandson shake the fan. ”

Not a drop of rain fell from the beginning of summer in Hizen Province, but because of its proximity to the sea, there was a lot of water vapor around some places, and most of the forests in this era were not devastated.

But in the vast plains and farmlands, there was not a trace of water in the rice fields that had been tasseled, and the adjacent canals were also baked by the scorching sun to reveal cracked patches of ground.

Zhen Qian walked all the way, saw countless dry rice fields, saw countless livestock carcasses that died on the side of the road, attracted countless black pressure like dark clouds, even if a large group of people walked by, they were unwilling to fly, some of those livestock corpses had burst open their stomachs, revealing the stinking internal organs inside, and they were crawling with chubby maggots.

In some villages, Miao Miao's light smoke rose, the sound of monks chanting prayers for rain in the heavens, and some wizards dancing strange dances to help those helpless villagers exorcise demons, all of which fell into the eyes of Zhen Qian, who went to Saga Town, and looked indifferently and couldn't do anything.

He is not a good person, and he can't be kind enough to help innocent people, but he is definitely not a bad person, and he will not fall into the well to help the people who are already in the midst of fire and water.

When the sun was setting in the west, a long convoy appeared on the road, and at the front were four samurai in leather armor, each holding a weapon with a cold light, and one of the samurai at the head said to the people around him: "Fifty-six, how far is the village you are talking about, we have been walking for almost an hour, why haven't we arrived yet?" ”

The samurai who spoke was burly, while the man named Fifty-Six next to him was short, mainly because the two were put together, and the burly figure of the samurai completely compared the samurai named Fifty-Six.

The warrior called Fifty-Six took out a water bladder from his waist and took a sip, then poured some more water into his neck, and then said comfortably: "Brother Wang, you have asked no less than eight times, the speed of the convoy is too slow, according to the current speed, it would be good to arrive before dark!" ”

This group of people is Zhen Qian's party who rushed from Matsuura Castle to Saga Town, four hundred miles away, three days ago in Matsuura Castle held the first government buying meeting, Fujiwara Shuo took out 20 mines in one breath to buy, just the mining rights of these 20 mines, so that Fujiwara Shuxiong one-time income of nearly 200,000 yuan, but also made Fujiwara Shuxiong suddenly become wealthy, and even began to consider re-strengthening the wall of Matsuura City.

Fujiwara is not a whim, the conflicts between the countries of the Saikaido are constant, although there are usually some very small frictions, but no one knows if it will turn into a war of annihilation.

Just like Fujiwara Shuxiong easily occupied Matsuura Castle of Shaoer Dongshang, one is that Shaoji Dongshang did not expect that the other party would think of directly attacking his lair, and the other is that the defense of Matsuura City is too weak, and the height of the city wall is only more than a zhang, which makes the sneak attack much easier, so Fujiwara Shuxiong is ready to make his old nest Matsuura City into an iron wall.

Zhen Qian agreed with this very much, and helped Fujiwara Shuxiong to make suggestions, proposing to let Fujiwara Shuxiong build an inner city and an outer city, and add a small military city, the original Matsuura City was not rebuilt, but the defense power was increased several times.

Fujiwara Shuxiong has seen the Xiongcheng and the steep passes of the Tang Dynasty, knows the importance of defense, and now has money, Zhen Qian proposed that if the drought continues to worsen, he might as well launch a work-for-relief method to start building Matsuura Castle, and Fujiwara Shuxiong naturally accepted this suggestion without hesitation.

Zhen Qian bought two mines at the mine buying meeting, plus the two mines promised by Fujiwara Shuo, and now he has four mines in his hands at once, all of which are located in the vicinity of Saga Town not too far away.

The reason why the mines were all located in Saga Town was not because of the abundance of minerals, but because of the geography of the area.

More than 100 miles northwest of Saga Town is the Goho Islands, and choosing to be here is very beneficial to his plan, and it is more than 400 miles away from Matsuura Castle, which is also far away from Emperor Yamaga.

Among the four mines, there is only one not a large gold mine, the rest is an iron mine, a quartz mine and a saltpeter mine, most of the mines that can be mined in this era are surface mines, even if large mines are found, they are all deep mines, and under the premise of no air supply and pumping technology, large-scale mining of deep mines is simply impossible, unless it is filled with human lives.

Zhen Qian can not care about the life and death of the Japanese people, but even so, it is impossible to recruit many people to open mines, so he has no strength to mine on a large scale in a short period of time, which is why he has no idea of going to the stone to see Yinshan now.

Many people understand the truth that the meal should be eaten in one bite and that things should be done step by step, but they can't control themselves because of the temptation.

The reason why this team walked slowly was the sudden increase in the number of people, when they set out from Matsuura Castle, the number of people was only a hundred, but only half of the distance was walked, the number of people increased by 1,000, most of them were wandering people who could not eat enough, and they heard that they would have food to eat when they went to Saga Town to open a mine, so they followed the convoy.

When it was almost completely dark, the convoy appeared outside a small village, and when someone in the small village saw the black crowd, there was a scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping over the wall.

When the drought comes, the number of homeless people will increase, and the public security will not be good, along the way, there will be several groups of robbers who stopped this team, and as a result, Wang Tianxing led people to kill them in a charge, as long as you look at these people who blocked the road and robbed, even Wang Tianxing, who likes to take advantage of the fire to rob, has no idea of ending their lair.

Because the weather is too hot, this team gets up very early to hurry, after the sun rises, they find a cooler place to rest, wait until the sun is about to set and then rush for a while, it is good to walk thirty miles in a day.

"Fifty-six! You bring people into the village and tell them that we will not enter the village, just find a vacant place outside the village to rest, so that they do not panic! Wang Tianxing commanded.

After following Zhen Qian from Yamamoto Fifty-six, I felt that I was already one level higher than those Japanese people, and I worked harder.

(End of chapter)