Chapter 172: Encountering Something

Giving free dividends to the people brick and tile houses, will it be a waste and cause a burden on Zijian's finances, uh, this does not exist, not to mention the cost of a house of about 70 square meters is four or five taels of silver, and Zijian's losses will be transferred to others, as for who it is, it depends on who has money, who has money He is Zijian's free treasure house, and when the time comes, he will bring a group of volunteers to "visit", and any losses will come back.

Zijian will not be stingy with giving the people a little welfare, who will not say that he is a good person if he gives so many benefits to the people, as for the rich people who have been robbed, they are too lazy to care about life and death, and they have enjoyed life for so long, it is time to encounter some setbacks.

Although Maoming County is a small city, compared to Nanjing, Beiping and other big cities, it is simply a rural place, but a city is a city, even if it is a small city, if the wealth of a small city is concentrated, its wealth is also a considerable wealth for Zijian, a thief nouveau riche.

There are other businessmen in the county, who also can't escape the fate of being robbed, and the businessmen who are raided belong to the face of the shopkeeper, if they look white and pure, then it is right to copy his house, and the businessman is born with original sin in Zijian's view.

The two groups of merchants and gentry cooperated to suck the foundation of the Ming Dynasty dry, saying that they were guilty, Zijian did not wronged them, of course, there are many reasons for the fall of a country, but the crimes of merchants and gentry (civil officials) cannot be washed clean.

Zijian rode around the county, followed by a team of volunteers, with Zijian's skills, he was not afraid that someone would plot against him, and the guy who didn't have long eyes dared to come forward to assassinate, and he was given a head.

Just passing by an area, a howl came, the volunteers arrested people, caught the labor with the ability to work, the remaining old and disabled, the disease is not wanted, Zijian saw some old women standing in front of the house and screamed sadly, the volunteers took away her son, daughter-in-law, grandson, shed a sack of food for her, leaving an old woman, in the face of the tiger and wolf volunteers, as well as the accomplices of the volunteers, she could only wail.

Zijian shook his head, and wanted to get off the horse and tell the old woman that the people who were captured by her family would be fine after arriving in Zhangjia Village, and they would be able to come back after a while, but thinking that he had ordered to arrest people, he would tell them that it was okay now, and maybe he would be snorted by the old woman.

Forget it, Zijian sighed secretly, the foundation must be developed, and if you want to improve the foundation of the volunteers, you can only sacrifice the people, and you will compensate them in the future.

Although it seems a little miserable to arrest so many people to Zhangjia Village, Zijian's purpose in arresting them is very clear, that is, to arrest people to work, not to arrest them for anything, Zijian was quickly relieved.

When he returned to Wu's house, the Wu family's belongings had almost been searched, and the Wu family had a lot of grain, a lot, a lot, and when he came to the grain storage place, he saw dozens of big houses, all of which were piles of grain, Zijian couldn't help but shake his head, Maoming County, where the grain is produced in two seasons a year, and the population of Maoming County is three times more than that, so that everyone can be fed.

If the people have normal taxes, it is not a problem to have a full stomach, but the reality is that most of the people can only barely survive because of insufficient food, according to the words of later generations, that is, a large number of resources are concentrated in private hands, and private people will not care about the life and death of the people, in their eyes, making money is the most important.

What Zijian has to do is to redistribute resources, snatch resources from private hands, distribute them to the people who have no other cooperation, and carry out a redistribution of resources.

In the south where there is plenty of food, because of the uneven distribution of resources, there are displaced people, and there is no large-scale riot among the displaced people in the south, because the government in the south still has a little surplus grain to maintain, and in the northern region it is miserable, planting crops such as wheat, one season a year, the food gap is very large, and the population in the northern region is far more than that in the south.

Here's the problem! With a food shortage, a larger population than in the south, and an unfair distribution of resources, if there is some natural or man-made disaster, the scene can be imagined.

Li Xian came over, his eyes were shining, and his expression was as if he had seen some stunning beauty, uh, the target of Li Xian's eyes was a good horse riding under Zijian's crotch, which was found from a horse dealer.

Before, the volunteers wanted to arrest the horse trader, but Zijian happened to pass by, and the horse trader was also a capable person, who relied on his ability to eat, and Zijian would establish a cavalry in the future, let the volunteers release the man, and then bought the horse trader and his horse.

That person finally had a good horse, and he was reluctant to buy it, but the situation was stronger than people, and when he met a group of unreasonable guys like volunteers, plus a bandit leader, he could only obediently obey, but fortunately, Zijian didn't let him suffer, and the people threw a thousand taels over, and that person had nothing to say.

In this way, a good horse was harvested, and the height of the horse's back exceeded one meter six, which is a rare good horse in Maoming County.

Li Xi circled around the horse that Zijian had just gotten a few times, and praised him, "Chief, where did you get the horse, can you bring me one too." ”

Zijian "Hmph, I want to find it myself, Lao Tzu finally found a good horse, by the way, I'm going back to Zhangjia Village, you have shown me the things in the county, if something goes wrong, I will settle accounts with you." ”

Li Xi agreed, and then asked cheekily, "Chief, look at this horse, hehe, can you give me a good time!" ”

Zijian skimmed Li Shi, who stepped forward, "Get out, this is Lao Tzu, go back and ride your mother-in-law." After speaking, he didn't bother to care about Li Shi, and left without looking back.

Li Shi shouted, "Chief, just one day, half a day is fine!" ”

Li Shi touched his head, not understanding what the chief meant by stretching out a hand and raising a middle finger, and when Zijian couldn't see it, Li Shi sat down loudly and watched the volunteers leave with boxes of belongings.

With so much money, after returning to Zhangjia Village, the chief will definitely be rewarded for meritorious deeds, Li Xi has long figured out the chief's doorway, and the chief will never be stingy with money.

Zijian led people to Zhangjia Village, followed by more than 20 volunteers, from time to time more than a large group of tied people, now those people look a little pitiful, but after they have a good life from Zhangjia Village, I believe they will understand today's events, as for whether they will resent Zijian, the bandit leader, uh, whatever, as long as the people do things obediently, no one cares while scolding Zijian.

Not long after Zijian walked out of the county seat, volunteers rode horses to catch up and report to Zijian.

After Zijian entered the county seat, he sent scouts, that is, scouts, to inquire about the news around the county seat, and the volunteers found a group of people rushing towards the county seat, including men, women and children, about 2,000 people.

The volunteers roughly described the crowd they found to Zijian, Zijian touched his chin, it seemed that he was not from the government, and it was impossible for the people from the government to send people by such a coincidence.

Zijian: "Let's go, go back to them!" ”

There are more than 20 people around, even if more than 2,000 people are really elite teachers of the government, Zijian dares to step forward and touch their tiger whiskers.

Following the volunteers who came to report the news, waiting in front of the group of people, Zijian felt out a thing, uh, it was a telescope, this kind of thing gave the volunteers a Zijian didn't have so much gold to buy, but it didn't matter if he used it personally, chief, of course there are different things.

A group of people in a hurry soon appeared in the telescope field of vision, why the people, because those people did not play the flag, the people of the government must have a banner, without a banner, that is the people!

In the crowd, there was a guard team composed of two hundred young and strong people, guarding the front of the crowd, followed by hundreds of ox carts, pulling supplies, those people's clothes looked ordinary, without the appearance of a noble person, Zijian saw this, he had some guesses, but he had to inquire carefully to know.

Zijian: "Let's go!" ”

The sound of hurried horses' hooves came, and the convoy assembled in front of it, as if it were facing a great enemy.

More than twenty horses stopped in front of them, blocking the crowd's path, and the distance between the two sides was no more than fifty meters.

There was a disturbance in the crowd, and from time to time the voices of children and the lady were frightened.

Seeing that the person who came didn't seem to have malicious intent, an old man of half a hundred quickly walked out of the crowd.

The old man's surname was Liu, the name was Shan, and he took his people from other places to prepare to move to a new place to start their lives again, giving up their original life.

The reason is very simple, the land of their clan, under the disregard of the government, was forcibly occupied by a certain gentry, and their arms could not reach their thighs, so they could only take their clansmen to other places. Who would abandon their home and leave if it were possible!

Liu Shan stepped forward and asked politely, "Hero, I don't know what the intention is to block our way!" ”

Zijian: "Who are you, do so many people want to attack the county town and rebel!" ”

These people in front of him, who can really fight, may be five or six hundred, as for attacking the county seat, I don't know if they have the courage to do so.