May 20 of the fourth year of Longdao.

Today is the birthday of Lord Xu Shiliu Xu on the north road of Jinghu North in the Great Zhou.

Early in the morning, more than a dozen officers of the Jinghu Army at or above the middle level and the head of the cave who had taken refuge in the Great Zhou gathered by the river where Master Jingliu was fishing, waiting quietly.

Xu Shiliu likes to fish, when his official business is not very busy, he goes to the river near the official residence to fish, everyone knows that when fishing, he is always in a good mood, if you want to make some requests to Lord Jinglu, this time is the best - not to mention that today is also Lord Jinglue's birthday.

If you can get to the side of Master Jinglu and wait, then things will be easier to handle.

It's a pity that there are too many people around you who are easy to scare the fish away, and it will only disturb the adult's Yaxing.

Therefore, every time Xu Shiliu came out to fish, there was only one person who could follow him, and today, this place has been occupied.

"Who's that guy?" A wholesale tattooed man with a fierce expression asked his companion with some dissatisfaction, "How did he get to Lord Jingluo?" I was supposed to be serving today! ”

"That person is Lu Wenzhao, a thousand households of the Shunyi Army, who can't stay on Jingnan West Road, so he came to seek refuge with Lord Jinglue."

Another well-known leader replied in a whisper:

"In the early years, when Lord Jinglu formed the Shunyi Army, this person came to take refuge, and he was an old subordinate of Lord Jinglu, who followed Lord Jinglu to fight Fang La, and this time he took the road of the back house, and he followed him when Lord Jinglu came out today, so you can only go to the back row."

"Made, why is it my turn to be such a number one person! I gave fifty taels of gold for this day! Fifty taels! ”

"You're not alone, everyone in the back has to be in the back row, wait."

"But today, Lord Jingluo celebrates his birthday, he must be in a good mood, everything is ......beautiful, I can wait, what about the children in the family? I also want to ask Lord Jinglu to sell me more Qi salt, and if I don't let me go today, I can only buy the high-priced salt of the imperial court, is that what people eat? ”

The salt sold by Qi to the Jinghu generation was directly given to Xu Shiliu, so that he could sell it to the obedient Dongman according to the quota according to his own ideas, or send it to the Jinghu army as part of the military salary.

In Dongman's eyes, salt is both a necessity of life and a general equivalent, a treasure that can be taken out as a dowry and a daughter-in-law.

However, the territory of the cave does not produce salt, not at all.

In the past, the chiefs had to find ways to buy official salt from the Han Chinese or smuggle some illicit salt from salt dealers in the south of the Yangtze River.

The latter is of decent quality, but the price is scary.

The former is not even good at quality.

Xu Shiliu came to open up Jinghu Lake and changed this situation, because the people who came to Jinghu with him also had Qi Guoyan.

Compared with Zhou salt, Qi sea salt is of high quality and low price, but the amount transported to Jinghu has not been enough to meet all the demand.

The cave barbarians have not read any books, they don't know the truth of hunger marketing, they only know that if they want good salt from Qi Kingdom, they must honestly listen to the words of the young Jinglu.

What's more, Xu Shiliu doesn't have sweet dates in his hands, he still has a big stick in his hand, and he has the mentality of using a big stick to knock people unscrupulously.

A few years ago, Xu Shiliu opened up Jinghu Lake, and he slaughtered a large number of cave barbarians who did not obey orders, and Weng Shuping once wrote to impeach Xu Shiliu, saying: "The Nanjiang River has killed too much, floating corpses are blocking the river, and people dare not eat fish for several months." ”

Whether this is true or not is it to be mentioned for the time being, but after this killing, Jinghu Dongman really did not dare to resist Xu Shiliu's head iron baby.

So, hearing the complaints of his companions, the well-informed head man said disdainfully: "So what? Lord Jingluo doesn't want to see you, your baby has to wait even if he goes to drink blood, do you dare to resist? ”

"What do you mean by that? I'm just talking. The head man said stupidly: "Who dares to oppose Lord Jinglue?" Isn't that looking for death! ”

"What's more, as long as you don't oppose Lord Jinglue, he is actually quite good."

"At least it's much better than the Great Zhou court."

……

"Lao Lu."

Xu Shiliu sat on a small stool, staring at the buoy on the river, and asked casually:

"Why did you come to me?"

"My lord......, the lower officials ......, and the lower officials can't get along with the Shunyi Army."

Lu Wenzhao replied in a painful tone:

"Xia Guan wants to transfer to the side of the Jinghu Army, and he doesn't want to be in the Shunyi Army anymore."

"What's going on?" Xu Shiliu asked with a smile: "Weng Shuping is now deeply trusted by the official family, how can you not live with him." ”

"It's because he is a celebrity of the official family that we, the martial artists from Jiangbei, can't survive."

Listening to Lu Wenzhao's tone, he was about to cry:

"Those of us from Jiangbei are worthless in Weng Shuping's eyes, and he doesn't trust us, he took over the Shunyi Army and brought a lot of Jiangnan Jiangmen's children, and those people are celebrities in Weng Shuping's eyes."

"My lord, the lower official said that it was a thousand households, this official looks not small, but those people in the south of the Yangtze River ......, they have money and food, and they only give the lower official 300 soldiers' food and salary, how can this continue?"

"Ahh Xu Shiliu's tone was still not much touched, and he asked calmly: "But we are all righteous soldiers, and the original salary quota is only half of that of the forbidden army, so it's nothing to pay less." Didn't you also divide the Yongye Field? ”

The rebels opened up the Jianghuai area, and each family was divided into 50 acres of Yongye fields, which were enough to feed a family if they were diligent.

It's just that......

"Yongye Tian is also accounted for by the gentry from the south of the Yangtze River."

Lu Wenzhao really began to wipe his tears, he choked up and said:

"The small ones below have worked hard to open up the wasteland for 2 or 3 years, and finally it is a ripe field, and the gentry came over and said that it was their family's land before the imperial court moved south, although it was abandoned, but the title deed was still there, so Weng Shuping asked us to let the field out, and then go to other places to open up the wasteland."

"How many harvests can I get from clearing the wasteland? They also had to pay taxes to the imperial court, and the soldiers couldn't survive or support their families, so many people abandoned Yongye Tian and went to work as tenants for the gentry. ”

"The lower official said that it was a thousand households, but in fact, now he may not even be able to take out three hundred soldiers."

"So miserable?" Xu Shiliu sighed with emotion: "The court is unfair. ”

In fact, he knows all these things.

Because there were also gentry on the Jinghu side who sent people over to try to occupy the sergeant's Yongye Field, but Xu Shiliu agreed very well on the surface, and privately directly sent Dongman to throw all the people into the river - anyway, if he didn't cooperate, the court wouldn't know who killed the gentry's family.

There are many missing people, so naturally everyone dares to come again.

However, there is no need to think about it, Weng Shuping will definitely not offend the Jiangnan gentry for the sake of the sergeant's field like him.