After the drawbridge was lowered, Wei Gu immediately ordered his subordinates to divide in half, and carefully guard the fort dock with spears and bows and arrows, in case these ghost-faced thieves suddenly attacked. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The iron-faced man swaggered into the fort with more than 500 ghost-faced thieves, ignoring the carefully guarded troops in the fort, but was quite interested in the other arrangements in the fort, looked left and right, and said to Wei Gu Urn, who had descended from the gatehouse: "Master Wei, your yard is good, let's build one another day." ”

Wei Gu smiled, but a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes, his eyes rolled, but he suddenly said: "It's easy for the second master to want the dock wall, Fan's dock was broken a few days ago, and now it's empty." ”

When the iron-faced man heard this, he stared at Wei Gu and laughed: "Yes, yes, people say that the head of the Wei family is treacherous and deceitful, and when I saw it today, it was really right." ”

Wei Gu's face was a little embarrassed, and he snorted: "Why did the second master say this. ”

The iron-masked man snorted: "We're not stupid, or how is the grain and rice prepared?" Give 1,000 stone first, and not a stone less! ”

"Let's go and prepare." Wei Gu ordered his subordinates to prepare, his eyes flickered, and he asked the iron-faced man: "But I don't know how many people are waiting for you, and they use so much grain and rice?" ”

The iron-faced man said in a loud voice: "We have five thousand brothers in Nanshan Branch, Lishan General Rudder, and 20,000, we have always been active in Taihang, and those who came today are some new brothers, and the weapons are not ready yet, why don't you send me and wait for some." ”

Although Wei Gu didn't know much about the general rudder and the rudder, he only listened to the number, and suddenly gasped, 25,000 thieves, no wonder these people dared to swagger in, they were not afraid at all, and they heard the iron-faced man asking for weapons, and he hurriedly shook his head: "It's really that there are not many weapons in the fort." ”

The iron-faced big man said in a bad tone, and said loudly: "Who doesn't know that the Wei family is the largest clan in Hedong, but some weapons, pushing and procrastinating, it is not refreshing, and we don't want much, five hundred is it, seeing that these brothers still use broken wooden sticks, it is really shabby." ”

Looking at the arrogant and arrogant posture of the iron-masked man, Wei Gu learned what a bandit is, five hundred? Does he think it's broken wood?

Wei Gu immediately shook his head and said, "Too much, too much!" One hundred ......"

Unexpectedly, the iron-masked man suddenly made a move, kicked away the five or six guards around Wei Gu, picked up Wei Gu, and said angrily: "Don't you dare to give it!" ”

Wei Gu didn't expect the iron-masked man to suddenly make a move, and a few guards around him were completely useless, and when he reacted, he had been caught by the iron-masked man, and he was shocked and angry, and shouted: "Presumptuous!" You can be so treacherous! ”

At the same time, Wei Gu's subordinates were stunned, and they raised their weapons one after another, pulled their bowstrings, and aimed at the iron-masked man and the ghost-faced thieves.

The iron-faced man looked at Wei Gu and said angrily: "We want five hundred weapons, but you don't give them, it's so insincere, and we want to give you all your life to attack Taishou, it's really unreasonable!" Stab in the back! ”

Wei Gu was so angry that his nose was crooked, who is this reason! He struggled angrily, trying to break free, but he didn't expect that this big man's strength was too great, and he couldn't break it at all.

The iron-masked man suddenly twisted his arm behind his back, faced the subordinates under him, and said sharply: "Whoever dares to do it, Naigong will chop him first!" ”

When those tribes saw that the head of the family was arrested, they couldn't help but look at each other, and at the same time, the other clans and guests in the castle also saw it, and they couldn't help but exclaim.

One of the tribal leaders shouted: "Hurry up and release the head of the family, otherwise you won't want to get out of this fort alive!" ”

The iron-masked man sneered: "If we want to die, Wei Gu will die first, if I die here, my family will definitely bring 20,000 horses and slaughter this broken dock!" ”

Wei Gu gritted his teeth and said: "Put down the head of the family, and give you five hundred weapons." ”

The iron-masked man snorted: "The master of the Wei family gives the order first!" ”

Wei Gu trembled with hatred, looked at a clansman in the distance and roared, "Why don't you hurry up and get five hundred spears!" ”

Unexpectedly, the iron-masked man changed his mind again, pointed to those parts, and said, "Give us five hundred of their weapons first, and let them take them again." ”

Wei Gu couldn't help but change color, and said: "No, if you are treacherous......

The iron-faced man interrupted him and said impatiently: "My family is handsome and has an order, how dare I disobey it!" It's just a matter of asking for some weapons. Hurry up, or I'll shave you in both ears first. ”

Wei Gu's face turned red all of a sudden, if he was really slapped by this thief in front of his family, how could he still hold his head up in front of them in the future, and the prestige of the head of the family would inevitably fall, but he was afraid that he would answer this thief, and these thieves would not let go, or take the opportunity to attack his own subordinates.

His expression changed and changed, and he watched the big man raise his big hand, gritted his teeth, looked at those subordinates, and shouted, "Give them five hundred weapons." ”

Those subordinates hesitated, but they didn't dare to disobey Wei Gu's order, and immediately you pushed me to let go, and threw five hundred weapons to these ghost-faced thieves.

The iron-faced man laughed: "The master of the Wei family is really cool, brothers, don't lose the broken wooden stick in your hand, take a good weapon, see if you can take advantage of it." ”

More than 500 ghost-faced thieves immediately rushed up, grabbed their weapons, and carefully stroked them one by one, and couldn't put them down.

Wei Gu's face sank like water: "Don't let go of the head of the family yet!" ”

The iron-masked man laughed and said, "Let's go, this one will be released naturally!" However, these brothers of ours do not have clothes and armor, so why don't you think you are not refreshing? ”

Wei Guden was so angry that he almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and hissed: "Dog thief, how dare you say such a word without trust!" ”

I didn't want the iron-masked man to turn his face quickly, and said angrily: "You don't give it, right?" Brothers, don't do it yet! ”

"Wait!" Wei Gu roared when he saw this, but it was too late, those ghost-faced thieves suddenly rushed towards those parts under him, one by one fierce as a tiger, most of those tribes had just lost their weapons, how could they resist, they were cut down and killed, and the ghost cried wolf when he landed.

"Stop!" Wei Gu shouted.

The iron-masked man didn't seem to hear him, he carried him in one hand, grabbed a halberd in the other, and swept towards the nearly a hundred archers who were hesitating.

Those archers were originally from the county soldiers or hunters, although they usually have a lot of training, but they have never experienced the battlefield, and when they saw the hideous iron-faced man carrying the head of the family in front of them, the halberd swept towards them again.

They threw rat traps and did not dare to release arrows, and in a blink of an eye, more than a dozen people were swept over by the halberd, and the others couldn't help but retreat when they saw this, but they were surrounded by a group of ghost-faced thieves, stabbing and slashing, and snatching bows and arrows.

When the parts on the gatehouse of the fort came over, the eight or nine hundred parts below had already been defeated.

Wei Gu's heart sank, he finally realized that the situation was wrong, there was something wrong with these ghost-faced thieves, he looked at the iron-masked man who was catching him, and suddenly found something, his body shook, and he shouted in shock and anger: "You are the ...... of the pawn"

Before he could say anything, a head flew up, dead and dead.

Fan Shiwu was completely chaotic, and hundreds of people rushed in outside.

……

Early the next morning, a piece of news spread throughout Hedong County.

The famous Hedong Weishi Fort was breached, and it was the Nanshan ghost-faced thief who did it, and the ghost-faced thief also left a banner and hung it on the gatehouse of Wei's Fort Dock.

There are a few lines of crooked characters written on it from blood: Weigu dog thief, and those Haoqiang gave out 5 million money and 10,000 stone grain and grass, and invited us to attack and kill Zhang Liao, the Taishou of Hedong, but we were reluctant to give money and food, regretted not giving it, treacherous, we were angry, took his head, and then took money and food for ourselves, no more, no less, never more, and then warned the Zhao family and the Liu family...... The Wang family, the Li family, etc., hurry up and deliver the money and food according to the agreement, otherwise they will not be spared!

A ghost face was drawn in the back, and a mountain was drawn.

The words on this banner shook Hedong completely!

Wei Gu colluded with the ghost face thief of Nanshan to attack and kill Zhang Zhijun?

The people were a little stunned, some doubted in their hearts, but most people believed in their hearts.

In particular, the words on the cloth are crooked, and there are a few mistakes, and the language is vulgar, which is clearly written by people who do not understand pen and ink, which is in line with the identity of those thieves.

What's more, not long after, many guests in Wei's dock also admitted that Wei Gu invited the ghost-faced thief and sent grain, grass and weapons, because he refused to ask for clothes and armor, the thief turned his face and killed Wei Gu. Moreover, those ghost-faced thieves were trustworthy, and after killing Wei Gu, they only took away some of the money and grain, but did not kill them all.

At this moment, even those who had some doubts in their hearts had to believe it, and then everyone was shocked in their hearts, Wei Gu was so bold, colluding with thieves and murdering Taishou!

Immediately, some people said that since this Wei Gu colluded with thieves, he didn't know how many evil things he had done secretly in the past, so he was like Fan Xian, and the accumulation of mountains of grain and money in Wei's dock also showed that he was no different from Fan Xian.

All of a sudden, Wei Gu's reputation was so bad that even those clan guests didn't dare to stand up for him.

And everyone quickly turned their target to the other side, and the Zhao family, the Zhang family, and the Wang family were also written on the banner...... I'm afraid that there are a lot of heroes who participated in the murder of Zhang Taishou, and they can't help but think of the Dutian decree that Zhang Taishou just implemented, and I am afraid that it is this that has caused these powerful and evil thoughts.

However, the cloth only named the surname, and did not specifically name which county or township, which family, everyone's eyes looked at some surrounding families, and they couldn't help but be suspicious.

And Haoqiang, who conformed to the surname on the cloth, was all panicked, and Haoqiang, who did not conform, was also a little uneasy, after all, there was a wait and so on behind the cloth......

As for those heroes who really participated in the conspiracy of Wei Gu, they were even more afraid.

It is rumored that Zhang Taishou was deeply furious when he heard that Wei Gu had colluded with thieves to plot to attack him, and Taishou Mansion posted a notice on the same day, strongly condemning the ghost-faced thief, and pointing out Wei Gu's various evil deeds, and sent troops to raid Wei's Dock, and ordered those who participated in the plot to quickly go to Taishou Mansion to defend themselves, and they could open the net.

On that day, although the heroes were frightened, they remained silent.

That night, the ghost-faced thief broke eight powerful families in a row, all of whom were close to Wei Gu on weekdays.

Early the next morning, there were several powerful family owners ran to the Taishou Mansion, wept bitterly, confessed their guilt and subdued the law, Taishou Zhang Liao immediately sent troops to protect, and asked these Haoqiang to respond to Dutian and the household, all the Haoqiang were frightened, how dare they object, and they all agreed.

The next night, several lucky participants were once again defeated by the Ghostface Thieves.

On the third day, more Haoqiang ran to Taishou Mansion.

And the ghost-faced thieves were rampant for days, and Zhang Liao, the Taishou of Hedong, was also deeply angry at the evil deeds of the ghost-faced thieves, and immediately sent troops to attack the ghost-faced thieves' lair in Nanshan.

After a great battle, the ghost-faced thieves were defeated and suffered heavy losses, and the remnants fled to the west of Lishan.

The people of Hedong were at ease and praised Zhang Taishou.

There are suspicions that the Nanshan thieves have something to do with Zhang Taishou, and they were immediately reprimanded and refuted by everyone, you must know that the Nanshan thieves were rampant on the ancient salt road long before Zhang Taishou came, which has long been known to passers-by.

Moreover, it is true that Wei Gu colluded with the heroes and the powerful to form a ghost-faced thief, and the people also respected those heroes.

As soon as Wei Gu died, the heroes collapsed, the obstacles were gone, and in the next month or so, the matter of Dutian began to be carried out vigorously, and Zhang Liao appointed Han Hao as the pawn farmer Sima, and dealt with the matter of Dutian together with Hu Cao and Cangcao.

He also sent the newly appointed five superintendents to inspect the counties and townships, and the counties and townships did not dare to slack off, and Zhang Liao's vigorous and resolute actions had already penetrated their ears like thunder, and now the heroes and heroes have been convinced, and how dare the ordinary people in the township stop them.

On the one hand, he divided all the fields occupied by the common people and gave them back, and each household had 100 acres of land for two laborers and 50 acres for one laborer, so as to ensure that they had land to cultivate and not waste it.

However, for the fields that were given to the people, the rent collected within three years was increased by 20%, and after three years it was their own land, and the rent was the same.

Although there is a requirement for a three-year rent increase, it is already ecstatic for the people, after all, their supplementary land is also obtained for free, and if it is cultivated properly, it is much more cost-effective to add two percent for three years than to buy.

And for those Haoqiang, Zhang Liao is also very measured in the field, he set an upper limit on the fields owned by Haoqiang, strictly prohibiting the number of their fields from exceeding this limit, but this upper limit is still very generous, and it is also beyond Haoqiang's expectations, and the land that exceeds the limit, Zhang Liao also took it away at eighty percent of the price.

The main purpose of Zhang Liaodutian is to find out the number of fields in the county, so that Haoqiang and the people can accept the ancestors according to the mu. He only has two requirements, one is that he cannot buy and sell land without permission, and it must be notarized and approved by the county government and the county government, and violators will be punished severely, which can avoid the deterioration of land annexation. Second, the land cannot be wasted, otherwise it will be recovered without compensation.

After he had completed the fields, he consolidated all the barren fields, and organized the captives and soldiers to organize and cultivate the fields before the weather froze, so that they could be used for the spring of the next year.

However, Zhang Liao's strict approach and then leniency in Dutian greatly weakened the resistance of the county tyrants, and he also reciprocated the favor by handing over the hidden tenant farmers and guests one after another to make up households.

The household is the second decree issued by Zhang Liao after he took office as the Taishou of Hedong, stipulating that the people under the rule of the county, whether they are farmers and businessmen or poor people, must be registered in the state household register, written by the living and cut by the dead, and the name, age, place of origin, identity, appearance, land, family property, etc.

In particular, Zhang Liao divided the household registration into four types, the main household, the tun household, the customer and the military household.

The main households are those who have land and houses, mainly including the rich and powerful and the common people with land.

Tunhu are the people who are willing to participate in the tuntian.

The customers are those tenant farmers who have no land and are dependent on the powerful, that is, those who have tenants' fields, who live in people's land, who receive people's land, and who work for servants.

And the military household is naturally the household registration of someone in the family who is a soldier.

The main household and the tun household pay the tax in accordance with their respective tax regulations, and the customer pays the rent to the dependent Haoqiang, and then the dependent Haoqiang pays the tax on his behalf.

It has always been the most difficult thing to do to organize the households, not only because the strong are not happy, but also because the people are resistant.

However, Zhang Liao naturally has his means. (To be continued.) )