Chapter 12 Harvest loyalty

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Chunlan suggested these refugees to march northwest and to get a small supply in Stone's home village, Liujiaying, and then go to the southwest to take refuge in Xia kingdom.

The reason was: If the war was not very smooth to Liao kingdom, the Jurchen would capture  Zhongjing, Liao kingdom might be attacked also by the Song kingdom, knowing that the Song kingdom always believed that the south part of Liao should belong to Song, who called this area their Sixteen cities of Yanyun region. 

Chunlan also suggested the villagers organize some members travel to Xia kingdom to prepare for moving of the whole village. 

The Patriarch invited the elders in the neighboring villages to discuss, and they finally decided to accept Chunlan's suggestion.

However, for coordinating the villagers and those in refugee group, it was necessary to elect a suitable person to be the leader, it was difficult to choose among them. They said that General Fu Fugui was the most ideal candidate.

Xiao Fugui must go to work for the government of Liao kingdom, it was no bout that he couldn't lead people to go to Xia kingdom.

At this time, Chunlan said that she could go. XiaoFugui and the old patriarchs nodded. The refugee leader looked at this girl, hesitated, didn't know what to speak.

Stone felt that this was a good opportunity to escape the intervention of Fang Ruolan. Chunlan did not seem to be so overbearing, she could be a good peer as well. So he proposed to elect Chunlan to lead people to Xia kingdom.

Yan Fugui also felt that this was a good idea. Because he had already promised to let Fang Ruolan take care of the education of Stone, he asked Fang Ruolan to participate in the deliberation.

Knowing that her eldest daughter, Chunlan, was going to leave her to lead to the refugees to Xia Kingdom to find for everyone a standing stop. Fang Ruolan happily agreed. However, when she knew that Stone also needed to go, Fang Ruolan's face was not good-looking, and she was so disappointed that she would be angry with his husband, Xiao Fugui.

Chunlan took his mother's hand and said, "Let Stone go together, I will control the whole situation, everything will be fine. "

Fang Ruolan slowly relaxed.

The refugee leader finally accepted Chunlan as the leader of everyone, although this was only a 15-year-old girl.

In the next few days, the refugees worked with the people in the village to make high-baffle carriages, to build observatories, and to make weapons...

When they left, the refugees accepted Chunlan's suggestion to temporarily leave some people who were sick and injured to stay in the village for this winter, and the rest were mixed with the villagers who would go with them.

After a delay of ten days here, Stone and Chunlan took the caravan of the refugee to the direction of Liujiaying. Xiao Fugui took his wife and two daughters, drove the carriage slowly to Nanjing, the capital city of Liao kingdom.

The villagers gave a few courtyards for the newly joined villagers, built several cottages, dug a few holes in the cave, and settled them.

Three meals a day were guaranteed, the newcomers could sleep, the injured ones began to recover, their faces were becoming rosy, and some people began to help their neighbors to work in the field and at home.

Stone and Chunlan led these thirty people to Xia kingdom. They hurried during the day. At night, the carriages surrounded the camp and arranged some people to guard.  

Chunlan also used this opportunity to teach the stone a set of techniques called "Thirteen Spears".

 Chunlan also tried to teach Stone some basic techniques for management, for example, the double entry accounting. Stone did not well listened to his stepsister but also learned something. At the same time, she also tried to teach the army techniques to him, for example, how to organize a battle in different weather and geography conditions. Stone was not interested in it, but did not refuse, and learned something about the war.  

What surprised Stone was: Chunlan said that the pear flower spear gun squad was actually designed and trained by Xiao Fugui and Chunlan, so she had all the know-how about this array...

What surprised Chunlan was that this boy was almost not interested in the military tactics. This guy did not like accounting, and he did not like the military business either. The reason why he was willing to practice the thirteen spear-gun techniques is that it was fun and easy to learn. When Chunlan tried to make him a warrior and asked him to train a driving horse, to lift the heavy stone lock, to practice the basic skills of martial arts such as sumo wrestling, he directly refused.

Although bot being satisfied, Chunlan decided not to make trouble to Stone. The chaos had come, and the times of the pastoral, the era of carefree pastoral had become the past, "Stone, you are a good iron, I must build something great with you!"

Chunlan observed that Stone did not have any special hobby, and he did not have something as a masterful skill. However, he had some decision-making ability and patience. Chunlan still believed that she can build some strengths of this guy.

This boy, how was he so different from his biological father? General Xiao Fugui was so a talented person, he is so talented in both civil and military matters, knew how to do business. Xiao Fugui knew also farming and animal husbandry. "My dear, why can't you share your talent a little to this little?"

The stone was still kept his own way of solitary. In a few days, Chunlan had almost harvested the loyalty of all, but Stone seemed completely transcendent.

These hundred people, almost all walked. Ten days later, people finally arrived at Liujiaying, located in the suburbs of Datong, a western city of Liao Kingdom.

The atmosphere in the village was a little weird. Suddenly there appeared so many strangers, no one was coming out to watch, some yards were even empty, where were people going?

Liu Hutou's family was still there, Auntie Zhao was still so cheerful, Liang Zi was still so timid, Zhao Di was still so embarrassed, Black Egg was still so arrogant. Aunt Zhao said that there had been two groups of refugee passed here, and Liu Jiaying's people were beginning to be afraid. Some of the families who had relatives in the Song kingdom or Xiakingdom had already moved there. The Liu family decided to stay, Auntie Zhao said that the Jurchens were not so terrible as those refugees said. "Doesn't the Jurchen's emperor need people to feed them? In the Datong area, after hundreds of years, after the Tang, the emperors changed so many. Later, here came the foreign ethnic group of Qidan, and the Han people were still living here, nobody came to kill them. Jurchens, were they as barbaric as the refugees said? Were they really more terrible than the Khitan people?

As a nobleman of the Liao kingdom, Hou Ye was more reluctant to flee to other places when the country needed him.

The refugees had a rest for three days in the abandoned courtyard of Liujiaying, found some food, and took some clean well water, were ready to move forward in the southwest.

When the refugees just left the village, Liang Zi ran in a panic and said that uncle Liu was crazy, and Auntie Zhao passed out.

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