Fame is a good thing.

Even if the scholar of Shilin Qingyi is super good, even if he clearly refers to the deer as a horse, everyone will choose to believe in Wen Zhong instead of being alone.

Xu Shiyang can't envy this, and can only hope that Xu Shiliu can reach a similar level in the future, after all, in the Great Zhou, it is the literati who grasp the guidance of public opinion, not a martial artist like Xu Shiyang.

Not to mention Xu Shiyang, even if Gao Yu is a character who almost stands at the top of the Great Zhou military generals, he still has no right to speak in front of Wen Zhong.

Don't look at the Great Zhou Lord's and Lord's faction (Xu Shiyang told them to surrender to the faction) and the main battle faction are fiercely fighting, but once they face the martial arts, all the civil officials will unite and defeat the military attaché who blew up the assassination first.

"Do as you say, Brother Wen."

Xu Shiyang had to admit that under the current circumstances, he also had to rely on the strong support of the Wen family politically.

This is also the reason why he always wants to send Xu Shiliu to Jiangnan - he needs to have a real spokesperson in Jiangnan's civil official circle.

"I'm not done yet."

Wen Zhong smiled and continued:

"All the people who died today are considered to have died of illness, and half of their family property must be given to officials at all levels in Lin'an Prefecture, which is the price for making them believe our statement."

"I agree." Xu Shiyang nodded in approval.

Half of those tens of thousands of dollars is really heart-wrenching, but it can also be regarded as the price that has to be paid in order to avoid trouble.

"Also, if the human market is under your control, you must come up with 5,000 yuan every year in the future, which is already the smallest number."

Xu Shiyang frowned, extremely unhappy in his heart.

5,000 guan is nothing, he can get 200,000 guan of support from the Li family every year, and 5,000 is only one-fortieth.

But this feeling of being exploited by a bunch of garbage every year is too unpleasant.

Alas, forget it, for the sake of the population, it is not unacceptable to take a few steps back in money.

"Brother Wen, I can take care of Shangguan, but you have to understand that I don't want to do population business, it is purely for the imperial court to appease the homeless, and together with the food and clothing of the homeless, I have to spend at least 20,000 yuan a year, which is not an easy job for me."

"What does Brother Xu want?" Wen Zhong asked with a smile.

"It's very simple, from now on, no matter who donates money to the homeless, I will not give it to the big families."

Xu Shiyang replied seriously:

"I'm going to have to spend all this money on the homeless themselves."

Wen Zhong smiled and reminded, "In that case, the big families won't continue to donate to the homeless." ”

"Their donations would have been returned."

"No, that's not what it meant." Wen Zhong shook his head and explained seriously: "The gentry are a banner, although their donations will be returned, they can drive others to donate. ”

"If the gentry don't support your work, then the common people will misunderstand you and won't donate money to you."

Since crossing into this world, Xu Shiyang has never felt as aggrieved as he is today.

At that moment, Xu Shiyang even had the idea of inciting a riot of displaced people in Lin'an, helping the Jiangnan gentry recall the truth that "the people are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of death".

"Brother Wen, what about you?"

Xu Shiyang held back his anger and asked:

"The Wen family is also a gentry, are you willing to support me?"

"Of course I'm willing to support you." Wen Zhong replied affirmatively: "But is it enough for only our family?" ”

"It's enough for me."

Xu Shiyang said in a cold tone:

"As for the rest of the ......, sooner or later they will know what it means to not be able to keep up with me."

……

Jiangbei, Qi Province.

Before receiving Xu Shiyang's letter, Xu Muhe had already commanded the Xu family to start a round of large-scale expansion.

Moreover, unlike Xu Shiyang, who retains too much modern thought, always wants to be famous and unites everything that can unite forces, Xu Muhe's expansion is more feudal—in other words, more unscrupulous.

After receiving a large amount of material and food support from the Li family, Xu Muhe did not need to be reminded by his son, and immediately proclaimed himself the envoy of the Qingzhou Festival.

Moreover, on this ground, he sent an order to the entire Qingzhou, demanding that all the local heroes within the prefecture obey their orders, arrive at the county seat of Juzhou within ten days, and convene a joint meeting of all forces in the prefecture.

Xu Muhe made it clear in his order that any Dock Fort Lord who did not arrive within ten days would be regarded as a rebel and would be punished mercilessly after the conference!

If it is said that in recent years, in Jiangnan, the reputation of the Xu family is still limited to the level of "I don't know what method was used, I heard that this family once won the Tartars", within the scope of Qi Province, the name of the Xu family in Juzhou is already thunderous!

After all, the rout of the Hailinbao troops happened all around them, and it was completely different from the feeling of just "hearing about it".

Even a few dock forts or bandit cottages in the west of Juzhou caught a few Tartar routs last year.

The lord of the dock fort in Qi Province, whether he is willing to obey Xu Muhe's orders or not, at least has a consensus in his heart - the hard top will definitely not be able to defeat the Xu Jiajun in Juzhou.

Therefore, within ten days, within Qingzhou, in addition to the Rizhaowu Fort Lords who were already in the alliance, Zhucheng, Yishui, Mengyin, Anqiu, Changle, Linqu, Qingzhou Mansion and other places, as well as Feixian County and Yizhou 9 places that actually belong to Yanzhou Prefecture, a total of 51 local Haoqiang, or the head of the family personally dispatched, or sent representatives, to Juzhou.

Xu Muhe did not like to treat these "allies" with a united and equal attitude like Xu Shiyang, and on the first day of the conference, he clearly emphasized his identity as the only Jiedu envoy in Jiangbei, and constantly raised his identity.

And unceremoniously sent food to all the Haoqiang families.

According to Xu Muhe's requirements, except for the Rizhaowu Fort Lord, who needed to send troops to join the new army, the Haoqiang families in the other nine regions should pay public rations according to the standard of 5 buckets of rations per ding and 3 buckets of half-ding grain.

At the same time, all Haoqiang families are required to train all their subordinate dingkou and half-dings as soldiers, and ensure that there is at least one soldier equipped with swords, shields or iron-headed spears for every 5 dingkou or half-dings.

According to Xu Muhe's estimates, the Haoqiang family in the nine regions should have 50,000 to 60,000 strong men under their jurisdiction, and if everything goes well, they can provide the alliance with 12,000 armed soldiers and more than 40,000 militiamen.

Of course, such a force cannot be the opponent of the Tartars, in fact, according to Xu Muhe's experience, in the field battle, as long as the Jurchens come to two full real Jurchen Meng'an, these tens of thousands of troops are not opponents at all.

However, the Xu family is not only a militia!

Before Xu Shiyang went to Jiangnan, he left behind 7 new military camps of 3,000 people, and during this time, he accepted the surrender of the Rizhao Wang family, and used the population of the Rizhao Wang family to prepare a new field camp for the new army.

There are also the Bao family, the Ding family, and the Zhang family in Rizhao, although these three families don't want to invest like the Wang family, but they can be regarded as the families closest to the Xu family in the new alliance.

Therefore, in accordance with the requirements and standards of the new army, they also formed the ninth battalion - the Weiyuan Battalion.

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