The day after Zong Ze and his son met Lu Qian, they followed Lu Qian to Liangshanbo first. The large army and the shipwows of the booty were still behind and had to be slowly transported back to the water.

As a captive, Zong Ze's family was treated well, and there was no disadvantage in eating and drinking. It's just that the track is restricted.

But even so, Zong Ze also witnessed the precipitousness of Liangshanbo. Located in the water, the surrounding reeds are swinging day after day, the waterways and ports are intertwined, and the cottage is also full of male soldiers, which is not at all a state and a government can peep.

He was previously an official in Quzhou, Jiangnan, and only occasionally heard of the name of Liangshanbo. "Do the right thing for heaven, eliminate violence and peace", the reckless bandits can think of such a banner, which is already extraordinary. But I never thought that this Liangshanbo was majestic.

In the back mountain, the clan is independent, and there are no close neighbors around. Zong Ze has no intention of dying, after all, his wife and children have been taken captive, even if Zong Ze doesn't care about his own life, he has to think about his children and grandchildren. Besides, Liang Shanbo didn't force him too much? That's it. He also thought that in the future, the imperial court would be able to exterminate the bandits and save his clan from fire and water.

With such peace of mind living in the back mountains, Zong Ze also began to silently observe this green forest village that has suddenly become famous in recent years. First of all, what frightened Zong Ze was the prisoners of war in the back mountain, and he was surprised by the number of them. When inquired, all the soldiers and horses were captured in the battle array. The long-term one has been a copycat laborer for half a year.

The area of Liangshan is very large, and there are thousands of Shuibo horse troops in the original book, and there is such a vast place to raise horses, which shows that its area is vast.

Now those prisoners of war have all turned into coolies, except for resting and repairing fortresses and camps, that is, leveling out patches of land in the back mountains. During this period, some were prepared for future warehouses and barracks, and some were planted with all kinds of fruits and vegetables, including ginger, green onions, shallots, leeks, garlic, etc.

Not far from where Zong Ze's family lives, there is a large area of newly cultivated flat land that has been planted with alfalfa. This thing is good feed for horses, and it was not introduced to China in later generations. It's been around for a long time. Mei Yaochen has a song "Alfalfa":

Alfalfa comes to the west or, and the grape also follows.

The Hu people did not regret it at the beginning, and the Han envoys were able to hold it.

Wanma when the day is begging, when leaving the palace of the old species.

The yellow flower is now spontaneous, stirring up the cattle herd.

Although I have never heard of someone planting a large area, it is not difficult for Lu Qian to ask people to collect it.

This will be one of the sources of forage for livestock such as war horses, horses, cattle and mules in the future. As far as the eye can see, there are 200 acres of open space, and hundreds of prisoners of war are working in the open space under the supervision of several auxiliary soldiers with swords and guns.

In a hilly area not far from this large open land, it was also reclaimed by Liangshanbo. Although the hills rise and fall one after another, Zong Ze can see that the area of this terraced field is about thirty or forty acres in size. It is a vegetable field with a large number of vegetables. The vegetables in the Northern Song Dynasty were not much worse than those in later generations. Carrots, turnips, burdock, cabbage, dwarf yellow (baby cabbage), woad (Chinese cabbage), mustard greens, rape, spinach, lettuce, celery, chrysanthemum, camellia, coriander, amaranth), lettuce, perilla, green onion, shallot, leek, yellow sprout (leek), garlic, garlic, gourd, cucumber, winter melon, gourd, gourd, melon, loofah, taro, yam, ginger, lingling, lotus root, bitter barley, cocoon, lettuce, seaweed, lily, bamboo shoot, wolfberry, mushroom, pine mushroom, bamboo mushroom, Wheat mushroom, jade mushroom, yellow mushroom, purple mushroom, four seasons mushroom, Amanita mushroom, etc., have been widely cultivated in the Song Dynasty.

They are also prisoners of war, and they are the most stubborn and unwilling to surrender among the prisoners of war, and they do the hardest and most tiring work. One of the teams carried a wooden bucket full of water from the river and watered a tuft of vegetables. Even though Liang Shanbo has already started digging wells in the surrounding area to get water, this is not an easy job.

In addition to these things, Zong Ze could also see two heavily guarded places, that is, the place where refined salt and sugar were extracted. The other is the increasingly rigorous and strong Ordnance Superintendent.

At present, the Ordnance Prison has successively gathered 1,200 full-time craftsmen from the Tokyo Craftsman Camp, plus the land they brought out and the craftsmen they have found from the surrounding areas of Liangshan, and there are more than 500 blacksmiths, carpenters, coppersmiths, leathermen, and other people in the Ordnance Prison. Under Lu Qian's prompting, the weights and measures of Liangshanbo have been unified, and even each craftsman has his own number, which must be engraved on the weapon.

It is difficult to return to the pattern of the Great Qin period in one step; But we can't stop taking action because of difficulties, at least the current Liangshanbo Ordnance Supervisor is already on the road to recovery.

Although trapped in the geographical terrain, it is difficult to use the water conservancy in the process of the production of the cottage ordnance supervision, but the animal power is possible, and the next step is to borrow the wind power. And it depends on whether Tang Long can succeed in building the windmill. The wind in the water pool is still quite abundant.

And the ordnance supervisor is also slowly dividing the labor, this is not a separate knife and gun and armor workshop, but also a bow and crossbow workshop. Rather, it is a more refined distinction between production and logistics, logistics and procurement, systematically.

During this period, what Zong Ze remembered the most was Liang Shanbo's food, whether it was a thief or a craftsman, whether it was a prisoner of war or their family, they were all full of food and drink. There is still meat every once in a while, and his family's food is even better.

In the days after Zong Ze's 'going up the mountain', he was catching up with a new big development ushered in by Liangshanbo. Not to mention anything else, first of all, the arrival of Huangmen Mountain, Moyun Golden Winged Ou Peng, Iron Flute Immortal Ma Lin were incorporated into the army by Lu Qian, with the increase of people and horses, Liang Shanbo is obviously dozens of leaders, but Lu Qian still has a sense of insufficiency; And the god operator Jiang Jing and the nine-tailed turtle Tao Zongwang are also of great use. The roles of the Branch Division and the Engineering Division need not be elaborated.

Then the Manichaeans sent a group of men, and it was no longer all shipwrights, but some of them were fallen scholars and fallen account houses. Huashigang has been in trouble in Jiangnan for so long, I don't know how many families with healthy families have been reduced to abject poverty, and those scholars who can enjoy the peace of mind of their families in the past have now become forced to run for themselves and their families' livelihoods, and some of them have entered Manichaeism.

Now, Manichaeism is to thank Lu Qian.

Compared with the 'true law' taught by Lu Qian, the slogans they came up with by themselves were just a bunch of coercion. This is a great favor, and Manichaeism must show something.

Another is that Manichaeism also hopes to take this opportunity to render its own teachings to Liangshanbo.

Among the many high-ranking Manichaeans, there are also those who are not dead in Liangshanbo. For example, Fang La's uncle Fang Yuan, Wang Yin, Bao Daoyi, etc., are all among them.

Liang Shanbo suddenly had hundreds of characters who could read and hyphenate and write and calculate, which can be said to have greatly filled the emptiness of each department. Although there are still some differences in ideology, Lu Qian believes that as long as they enjoy the treatment of Liang Shanbo, it will not take long to make them return to their hearts.

And with the addition of these 'cultural people', not to mention anything else, only the branch of the Division, Jiang Jing, a god operator who had just taken office, ran the Lijin Bureau, and officially included all water and land taxes into it.

And the person who was specifically responsible for the affairs of the Lijin Bureau turned out to be a down-and-out scholar who had just been sent to Liangshan by the Manichaeism.

This person's surname is Xue Mingshao, a native of Yongjia, Wenzhou. He is also from the big clan, and even his clan brother has just been admitted to the Jinshi for a few years, but the disaster that fell on his head is not something that the Xue clan can shelter.

Xue Shao's parents died, the family property was lost, a brother and a sister were placed in his uncle's house, and he went to Hangzhou alone to survive. But this is just an excuse, and in fact he threw himself into Manichaeism under a pseudonym. Because he was born in a big family and can write and calculate, Xue Shao is still quite favored. Otherwise, how could he have been selected to come to Liangshanbo this time?

But they didn't expect that they had just lived in the cottage for a few days, and there was an opportunity to change their fate waiting for them.

Examination!

A test paper with mixed language and numbers, 100-point test questions, and a very novel model. Even the test papers were written on a large wooden board with a black background, rather than being engraved into the test papers. But Xue Shao seized that opportunity tightly in this opportunity, and his score was 73 points, ranking first among all the twelve people who took the exam.

So he sat in the second-in-command position of the Lijin Bureau.

Just when Zong Ze and his son Zong Ying were carefully observing Shuibo Liangshan with a cautious attitude.

Xue Shao, who sat in the position of the bureau and had a house of his own, was hungry for all the information and intelligence about Liangshan that he could find.

In just a few days, he had thoroughly figured out the power structure of Liangshanbo and the division of various departments. As a character sent by Manichaeism, he was born with Manichaeism. Finding out the truth of Liang Shan's strength is also one of the tasks that these people are tucked on. Or rather, it is their most important task.

Compared with the current Manichaeism, it is more important to thoroughly understand the strength of Liang Shanbo than to proselytize.

It is also because of this that Xue Shao has become more and more aware of what kind of position he holds for the promotion of the gold bureau. It was really a position sitting on the mountain of gold, and as long as there was no war, the gold and silver goods that were remitted to the gold bureau by water and land every day would be no less than a thousand. Such a number is that Fang Yuan will be envious when he sees it.

Fang Yuan was Fang La's own uncle and the great steward of Manichaean goods.

And Xue Shao also knew that the things he received were only one of the sources of Liangshanbo's wealth.

The powerful Manichaeism is inferior to Liangshanbo in terms of money. Although the overall income of Manichaeism was also very considerable, but their expenses were also large, and Anengbi Liangshanbo was rich? There are natural dangers to be confronted here, and the heroes can rely on. It's really not popular!

Just looking at the remuneration he could get in January, Xue Shao felt that he was unwilling to leave Jiangnan at the beginning, that was really a fool, a big fool.

……

A steady stream of cargo ships, loaded with money, grain and materials, kept flowing into the water from the Jishui River.

Shi Wenbin saw it clearly on the shore, but he really didn't dare to stop his subordinate Tuyong. I watched cargo ships full of money and food disappear into my eyes.

As an official, his news has not been stagnant because of the 'crisis' in Yuncheng County. On the contrary, Shi Wenbin had already sent his chief to Dongping to keep an eye on the changes in the battle situation, and his ears and eyes were very well-informed.

Liangshanbo defeated the forbidden army of the Daimyo Mansion, occupied Gaotang Prefecture, and even opened the Dongping Mansion, although this poked a hole in the heavenly capital, and greatly increased the prestige and strength of Liangshanbo. Just look at the looks of the people around you. But it also made Tokyo's eyes stare at them.

Now the imperial court has sent elites to calm the water, this is the evidence.

"Don't panic. Hugh saw that Liang Shanbo showed his majesty, but he was actually seeking his own death. ”

"As soon as Gaotang Prefecture is broken, the world knows it. Can the court not be angry? Shuibogai is an important place in the east of the world, a hub of water and land, and a place for river operation and maintenance. How can a nest of bandits be entrenched for a long time, like a separation? ”

"This official has heard that there are 10,000 soldiers in Tokyo, and there are 5,000 iron horsemen in it, how majestic is it? Is it a nest of grass that can be beaten? Although Liangshan can be strong for a while, it must not be strong for a lifetime. When the elite of the imperial court comes, boiling water and snow will be poured on it, and it will be like a bamboo, and the thieves will be quelled. You must work hard, and don't mistake yourself and others. ”

Hearing Shi Wenbin say this, the surrounding cadres and others were really shocked, and the atmosphere was different from before.

Song Jiang and Chao Gai even exchanged a faint look. But when he turned around, Song Jiang's heart jumped suddenly, and he saw the ridicule in Chao Gai's eyes very clearly. Could it be ......