The essence of the county rule of the Great Song Dynasty was very weak.

The collection of taxes depends on the strong landlords of the townspeople. In the event of an enemy attack or a thief mutiny, the defense of the county town also mainly relies on the recruitment of the people.

Usually there are only a few dozen officials in the county. Only the upper county or the county with an important position is equipped with a county lieutenant to lead some county soldiers to strengthen the guard.

Huayin County does not belong to Shang County, and its geographical location is not very important, and there are no county soldiers. More than 20 of the most powerful fast arresters in the county were sent to suppress and drive away Li Ji and others, but they were unexpectedly attacked by the people and all died in Shijiazhuang, and the county's defense became empty, and they were raided by Li Ji and Dwargaoka Otsuro and their gang.

Mei Zizi, who was waiting for the magistrate to get rich again, and the lord on duty, the chief officer, the priest, and the official were killed first and robbed clean......

Succeeded again in one fell swoop, Li Ji Dwargaoka Otoro ransacked the county seat, further enriched the weapons and equipment, and their courage became bigger and bigger, although they were sober, but they had committed a capital crime, they could not turn back and be honest and wait to be arrested and killed by the government.

They rode on the horses they had snatched, and they set up the wagons they had snatched to pull the money, grain, and cloth...... The official's wife, who became a popular prostitute/prostitute, took the ruffians who robbed them while they were robbing, and a total of hundreds of people ran to Shaohua Mountain.

went to the cottage that Zhu Wu and Chen Da abandoned but did not burn, and killed the backbone leader of a group of thieves who settled here with the advantage of large numbers and bow and arrow weapons, and forcibly swallowed this group of robbers, and the two became rebellious bandits at large.

At this time, the rule of the Great Song Dynasty was more corrupt, ferocious and greedy than that of Chen Da and the people who occupied the mountain. Huayin is not a rich and developed area in the first place. The people's livelihood is becoming more and more difficult and difficult, and the people are angry. Li Ji's crazy boldness and leap to become rich and powerful touched the local people a lot.

For a time, the people of the county took the opportunity to rob Li Ji frantically, and they did not loot the clean government store assets and goods. Move home for your own use. Nearby people who were bold or too poor to make ends meet jumped in one after another.

Those are singles. A person who feeds the whole family without hunger, and has nothing to worry about is a ruffian or a poor man. In this turmoil, he became more and more crazy, and after murder, arson, rape, and plunder, he ran to Li Ji with the benefits of robbery, and they joined the gang and lived happily together.

The new Shaohua bandits have grown to thousands of people in a few days, and they have become the climate in the blink of an eye, seriously threatening the security of the province.

It's a pity that Li Ji and others don't have great skills, and their minds are only a little grassroots knowledge of Diao Min, and they have neither a clever development strategy nor a goal. There are no organizational principles, discipline, military common sense, and training and means of dealing with war, and they gather together, but they only rely on the large number of people and the geographical advantage to gain a foothold, and every day they only know how to eat nonsense and desperately enjoy the beauty of being the king of the mountain, and they are purely a rabble that is vulnerable.

This kind of thief committed a major case of killing officials and breaking the city, which alarmed the government, and was immediately surrounded and suppressed by the officers and soldiers of the government, and was defeated in the first battle.

Li Ji is slippery, but he can still know how capable he is in the extreme expansion and happiness. I am afraid that the gold and silver treasures that I am lucky enough to get in my hands will not be exterminated by the government, and I am also poor and afraid, and I attach great importance to money, so I don't have the heart to pack the precious money separately and hide it in the secret place in advance on the day of robbery. Just prepare in case the cottage is not kept and run away in time.

Not wanting the day to come so quickly, how wise his preparation seemed to be.

When the two sides were fighting and killing in a red-eyed drow, no one paid attention. and the closest friends who had greeted him in advance, including the closest and most obedient dwargaoka Otoro, a total of twenty or thirty people. Quietly fled the battlefield, absconded with the money and then chose a place to escape.

He thinks beautifully and easily. But he became the first evil of the bandits, and these backbones were wanted by the government, and they couldn't gain a foothold in their hometown, so they had to continue to flee, running around, bumpy all the way, being searched, being blackened, and robbed by robbers and thieves...... The ups and downs were tortured and the blows continued, and the backbone was caught one after another or died in the plot and battle, and the two finally felt cornered, and ran around to avoid the trouble to Chai Jin.

It was also fated to meet thousands of miles away, and Song Jiang had just arrived a few days before he gained a firm foothold in Chai Mansion, and Li Ji and Dwargaoka Otsuro happened to arrive.

Wang Si and they are fellow villagers, and they have no hatred or resentment in this life, and they are the same kind of people.

Yang Shi and Liu Wuji were originally the children of a dilapidated rich family in Tokyo, relying on their parents who were alive at home when they were young, learning some martial arts and knowledge, and becoming a rogue in Tokyo, specializing in pursuing the children of the gentleman as a companion as a follower, and unwilling to live a cheap and lonely life, watching the Taoist priest eat well, the Yanai people like the Taoist priest to follow, and the Taoist priest who is sought after to be a small Taoist priest to learn the Tao, in short, I hope to take a shortcut to climb the official career of the powerful and powerful, and then live the life of a master, but in the Qinglou and people are jealous, accidentally killed people, and also ran to Chai Mansion to avoid trouble.

These people are all unknowns, and they can't mix up the climate with their own skills.

Song Jiang didn't take Li Ji, Dwarf Qiu Yilang, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji, etc., who were not very capable, seriously offended Orion or committed crimes against Jing ruffians, but with his style of action and goals, he naturally would not show his feet, he would be useful, and he would still treat him kindly, coaxing everyone to death.

Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu are different.

They were originally low-level officers in the Shandong Prefecture, but when Zhao Yue led the bandit army to make trouble in Shandong, he inadvertently opened Pandora's box and released all kinds of evil thoughts hidden in people's hearts, causing turmoil in the state capitals and cities that were broken by the robber army, causing the local garrisons whose equipment was confiscated to have evil thoughts collapsed and also took the opportunity to kill, set fire and rob, and the local residents also took the opportunity to take revenge and rob those who wanted money.

Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu were the most ruthless and happier among the officers who took the opportunity to do evil, and they inadvertently made a big splash, and when they realized that it was too late to stop and disappear the traces, they regretted it but could not make up for it, let alone go back and continue to walk the military road as an officer, waiting for the new officer to take office to find out the turmoil and be executed. They could only take the benefits they had grabbed and run away with a few brothers in the army.

These three are all literate and extraordinary, and now they are young and reckless, and they are unbearably unknown and unknown, but they are very famous figures recorded in history. The three of them were all generals of the puppet Qi State established by Liu Yu, the former Song minister, in the north after Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. The fate of this life was instigated by Zhao Yue's little wings to get out of the trajectory and take another path.

But no matter what, potential talents are incomparable to ordinary people, and they will show a different style when they have the opportunity.

Song Jiang is the most knowledgeable and attracts people, sees through the conduct of the three people, knows that it cannot be relied on but can be used greatly, and naturally looks down on the three people.

A table of fallen heroes eating, drinking and having fun. But when the wine was half-drunk, Song Jiang suddenly stopped his glass and cried, sighing.

Kong Hou and Song Jiang have similar career experiences, have similar tempers, are like-minded, go the closest, confidant, have conspiracy, and deliberately ask with tacit understanding: "Brothers gather together, talk about interesting things in the rivers and lakes, discuss literature and martial arts, so happy, why did Brother Gongming suddenly cry?" ”

Song Jiang wiped his tears, smiled embarrassedly, and said, "But it's Song Jiang who is not good, and he disturbed the brothers for personal affairs." ”

Kicking and killing sheep Zhang Baoben is a military ruffian in Jizhou, mixed with society, and is the best at seeing the wind and making rudder drills for profit.

He looked at his eyebrows, knowing that Song Jiang and Kong Hou, the two rich and righteous brothers, were only afraid that they were premeditated, and they had something to say here today, and remembered some of the thoughts that Song Jiang had revealed before, and he became more and more aware of them, and then said jokingly: "Where did Brother Gongming come from?" ”

"All of us are heroes who are in trouble, although we have different surnames, but we have the fate to meet thousands of miles away, and we are fortunate to meet here to share the blessings and hardships, and to drink wine together, and to spend silver together. Brother is righteous, your business is our business. When the elder brother is sad, so will the brothers. Everyone is of the same mind, and my brother has no interest in drinking, so what is there to blame? ”

In the past few months, this guy has followed the knowledgeable Song Jiang and Kong Houming, and his originally slippery eloquence can now be said to be a little more elegant.

In the past six months, Hong Jiaotou has been attracted by Song Jiang's means of righteousness and wealth and generosity, and he has respected Song Jiang as his eldest brother, knowing his aspirations, and has also opened his eyes and ambitions, trapped in Chaijiazhuang can only act as a thug in the courtyard with no future and no goal, and he is greasy, and his eyes are no longer limited to the benefits of Chaifu as before.

He estimated that he was only afraid that the plot would come today, so he also added firewood to help the fire and said: "Brother Zhang Bao is very right. ”

"I want Brother Gongming to be born in a small family, but he has unparalleled righteousness, both civil and military, has the ability to stabilize the country, and has the ambition of protecting the people and bringing the brothers to be rich and noble. The so-called private relationship must have nothing to do with ****, and a certain guess must be sad because it is difficult to stretch ambitions and talents. This is also the sorrow of the brothers. Yes and no? ”

Kong Hou gave Zhang Bao, the head of the Hong Sect, an approving look, and pretended to be serious and said to Song Jiang: "The words of the two brothers are exactly what Kong Mou thinks. Presumably it is also the opinion of other brothers. What does my brother have for the future, why don't you say it and let the brothers conspire to do their best? ”

Seeing this, Li Ji, Otoro, Yang Shi, Liu Wuji and others also agreed: "Yes, yes." Brother Gongming said. ”

Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu had an idea, thoughtfully, nodded slightly in response to support, and all stared at Song Jiang.

Song Jiang's acting today was mainly aimed at Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, and Liu Fu, and seeing that the three of them were also interested, he sighed and said in a low voice: "The brothers are promoting Song Jiang." It's just that I, Song Jiang, do have grievances in my heart. ”

Everyone pricked up their ears, ready to listen to what Song Jiang had to say or what he wanted to say. (To be continued.) )