"Homecoming," said the cronie, "the black tiger thief Li Xiong was killed by the ghost-faced thief a month and a half ago. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"A month and a half ago?" Wei Gu asked, and his face receded slightly.

"Exactly." The cronie said: "Now this matter has spread in the county, and many people applauded." ”

"Oh?" Wei Gucai took the letter, opened it and looked at it, closed it, pondered for a moment, looked at the other Haoqiang, and said: "This ghost-faced thief doesn't know where it came from, but he actually sent a letter, saying that he wanted to help me and others to attack and kill Zhang Liao, and they have already found out that Zhang Liao will pay a private visit in these days." ”

Zhong Haoqiang couldn't help but look at each other, and one of them said: "It's such a coincidence, could this be Zhang Liao's plan?" ”

Wei Gu muttered: "I also have suspicions, but the ghost-faced thief occupied Nanshan a month and a half ago, and Zhang Liao has only been in office for a few days, and he was still fighting with the Kwantung princes in Luoyang at that time, so it should not be his doing." ”

Another said: "Yes, a month ago, when my caravan was transporting salt through the ancient salt road of Yuban, it was robbed by ghost-faced thieves, and the black tiger thief Li Xiong was dead, and Nanshan was replaced by bandits." ”

"Humph! My salt truck was also looted twice. ”

"Although the ghost-faced thief doesn't harm people, he robs the salt truck every time, and he doesn't leave a single one!"

"My family has also suffered a lot of losses."

A few more people chimed in, looking angry.

Wei Gu's expression was even more relaxed, and he looked at everyone: "What do you think?" Li Xiong has more than 2,000 bandits, and if the ghost-faced thief can swallow Li Xiong, his strength must be not small, and if he helps, he will increase his chances of victory. ”

One of Haoqiang doubted: "Why does this ghost-faced thief want to help us?" ”

Wei Gu snorted: "He asked me to wait for one million dollars and five thousand stones of grain and grass, but they are just thieves who are greedy for money and profit." ”

Zhong Haoqiang was relieved, but one of them said: "Did they ask for more money and food?" ”

A trace of hideousness and madness flashed on Wei Gu's face: "As long as you can get rid of Zhang Liao, you will not hesitate to spend more money and food!" It is better for us to be able to recover from the tenant farmers in a few years than to hand over the land and the tenant farmers. ”

When the heroes heard this, they immediately nodded.

Wei Gu said: "The ghost-faced thief said in the letter that he would first send someone to take away a thousand stones of grain and grass, and if the cooperation is good, he will also let us and other caravans pass on the Yuban Ancient Salt Road, and only collect some money to buy the road." ”

"This works." Zhong Haoqiang's eyes couldn't help but light up when they heard this, what they were most worried about now was that it was difficult for the salt truck to pass through the Yuban Ancient Salt Road, if the ghost-faced thief could let go in this regard, it would be the best.

"In this way," Wei Gu clapped: "I will reply to the ghost-faced thief, ready to act, after you go back, you will always pay attention to when and where Zhang Liao will pay a private visit, he is seeking death by himself, and we can take the opportunity to act." As long as Zhang Liao is eradicated, Hedong will inevitably be stable. ”

"Exactly." All the heroes are excited.

……

After the news spread that the new Taishou wanted to be in the fields and the households, the repercussions in the counties and townships of Hedong County became bigger and bigger.

The so-called degree of land is to measure the land and compile the households, that is, to check the household registration, and to compile the people into the official household registration.

In fact, the compilation of households began in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Dutian began in the time of Emperor Guangwu, although these two decrees encountered many obstacles, stumbles, and even caused rebellions in the process of implementation, but they were finally implemented until the period of Emperor Huan, and the last time the population was about fifty or sixty million.

In the period of Emperor Ling, natural disasters and people's rebellion occurred on a large scale, especially after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, there were countless displaced people, the land was barren, and it was naturally difficult to implement the fields and households, and the local Haoqiang took the opportunity to seize the land, accept the displaced people, and grow rapidly.

Dutian is undoubtedly the meat of Haoqiang.

However, the household is even less liked by the people.

Just because since the two Han Dynasty, the field endowment is light and the mouth endowment is heavy, the oral endowment is to collect taxes according to the capitation every year, as long as the family adds a mouth, children and adults are collected, so many tenant farmers are willing to hide in the Haoqiang fort, although the field endowment is aggravated, but can avoid the oral endowment and forced labor.

After being assigned to the household, these people who had taken refuge had to pay the oral tax, and served in forced labor every year, and built bridges and paved roads, so the household was not liked by the people, especially those tenant farmers and guests who had taken refuge in the powerful.

Therefore, Zhang Liao is opposed to Haoqiang above Dutian, and against some of the people above the household, for him, Haoqiang is easy to deal with, but the people are tricky.

Guo Jia once reminded him, but he insisted on implementing it, which is also imperative.

As a Taishou, Dutian is the need to balance land annexation, the contradiction between the rich and the poor, and it is also the prerequisite for his next step in Tuntian, and the people who have sheltered the powerful are all organized into households, one is to disintegrate the powerful forces, and the other is the necessary premise for managing the people since ancient times, and it is still being implemented thousands of years later, otherwise there is no household registration, I don't know where it is, I don't know its situation, how to manage, the country will not be a country, and all those families have been fattened.

The key is only how he handles it, how to minimize the impact.

……

In Wei's dock, Wei Gu waited for the ghost-faced thief for two days, and just when he suspected that the ghost-faced thief was no longer fulfilling the contract, on the evening of the third day, the ghost-faced thief finally sent someone to carry the money, grain and grass.

There were about 500 ghost-faced thieves in total, all with a mask on their faces, except for the big man who was the leader with a hideous iron mask, the other ghost-faced thieves were wearing a mask painted on cloth, and a fierce god with a group of ghost faces looked very weird.

Although the five hundred ghost-faced thieves were all strong and strong, they had very little armor, most of them were cloth clothes, and the weapons they carried in their hands were miscellaneous, including spears and knives, and even more than a dozen shovels and wooden spears.

This made Wei Gu, who was checking on the gatehouse of the fort, breathe a sigh of relief, and looking at their weapons, he knew that they were just a group of thieves. And five hundred, the scale is not large, there are two thousand parts in his fort, plus bows and arrows and sophisticated weapons, it is enough to deal with it.

He watched the five hundred ghost-faced thieves stop in front of the trench of the fort, and immediately shouted, "The person who came is a ghost-faced handsome? ”

The iron-faced man in the lead said in a fierce voice: "A certain ghost-faced hero is in charge, don't open the dock door soon!" I'll wait to bring the money and food. ”

"The second master?" Wei Gu pondered the word, and immediately understood, it was not the ghost face shuai himself, but his deputy, he nodded secretly, this is right, the ghost face thief can't trust himself so much, he must be on guard.

Wei Gu said in a deep voice: "Since you are here to transport money and grain, why don't you bring carriages and horses?" ”

The iron-faced man said impatiently: "What's the matter, the carriages and horses still need us to bring our own?" You loaded the car early, and I will pull it away directly, so as not to be seen by those dog officers and cause trouble! ”

Do you want me to prepare a grain truck? I'm afraid I won't be able to come back if I go!

Wei Gu's cheeks twitched, but in this way, he was more convinced that these people were thieves, acting casually, completely disorganized, not what thieves were.

He waved his hand and ordered the guards to lower the drawbridge and let the ghost-faced thieves enter the dock. (To be continued.) )