Three days later, the infantry escort barracks sent by Ruan Xiaoqi reported that more than 60 water bandits had been arrested, and that the water bandits on the Liangshan waterway in Shuibo were basically wiped out.

Chao Gai came to the camp of the water guard, Ruan Xiaoqi was in the camp, and the other Ruan Xiaowu, Ruan Xiaoer, Chao Xiong, and Kong Yang all went out to train.

"My brother is here, and in the past few days, he has arrested two more batches of water bandits, and the water bandits on the waterway are basically gone." Ruan Xiaoqi said.

Chao Gai asked: "It's only been three days, and the action is so fast." ”

"This is all Kong Yang's idea, he proposed to ask for news from the captured water bandits, and obtained the action routes of other water bandits, and then Kong Yang pulled a boat full of sand and pretended to be a cargo ship, led out the water bandits, and captured three groups of sixty water bandits, three water bandits resisted fiercely and shot to death with arrows, and the others were all captured alive, our water escort team is also a small actual battle." Ruan Xiaoqi said.

"This Kong Yang still has a good move, not bad. You have done quite well, and in addition, you have set up a patrol system, and you must not be soft on cracking down on water bandits. Now our aquatic products business houses are also open to the purchase of loaches, white fish, etc., as long as they are willing to work hard to catch fish, they will definitely be able to live. Chao Gai said.

Ruan Xiaoqi said with a smile: "Brother, don't worry, now there are people patrolling the water all day long, the speed of the centipede boat is really fast, and the paddler has enough strength to row the boat as if flying on the water." It's just that these 100 or so bandits are imprisoned in the camp, and more than 20 people have to be sent to guard it, and it's not a problem. ”

Chao Gai immediately sent someone to invite Shi Wenbin, the county order, and when he saw Chao Gai, Wenbin didn't dare to hold it up, and respectfully greeted Chao Gai, Chao Gai said about the water bandits, Shi Wenbin said: "I'm doing the trial, leave it to me for trial." ”

Shi Wenbin immediately interrogated the leaders of the bandits separately, and then tried the little minions of the bandits, who had not been collecting money from merchant ships for a long time, and the frequency of committing crimes was not high, and the largest group of bandits had collected more than 20 times, more than 1,000 times.

The trial was completed separately, and in the end, Shi Wenbin gathered all the water bandits together, took a piece of wood as a shocking wood, and slammed it to frighten the water bandits.

Shi Wenbin said: "You and the other four leaders of the water bandits, gathered everyone to rob the passing ships, the amount is huge, according to the law of our dynasty, it should be decided." ”

"Ah, my lord, spare my life. We don't dare anymore. "Four bandits.

Shi Wenbin changed his words and continued: "It is excusable to read that you are also forced by life, and the four bandit leaders will be sentenced to three years in prison, clean the streets in Yuncheng County for three years, and those who perform well can be released home early." ”

As for the minions, most of them followed the soy sauce, and they all pulled off their buttocks and beat twenty leather whips, and after the whips, they sprayed them with high alcohol, and the screams could be heard for two miles.

Shi Wenbin flicked his sleeves and left after the trial, Chao Gai looked at the water bandits with a smile and said, "Do you feel that the sentence is fair?" ”

"Fair, fair, fair." Humane.

Ruan Xiaoqi sneered: "This is the first time, spare you." Each person was given ten packets of decoction to go home to recuperate, and after healing the injury, they went to fish, and Shijie Village collected a large number of fish, and even the small loach was three copper plates a catty. If you feel that you can't feed your family by fishing, you will go to Chaojia Village to train and raise geese, and after the training, you can get 200 small geese on credit and 500 catties of feed. Wait until autumn to return seventy geese. ”

Everyone expressed their willingness to thank them, and it was already good that they hadn't been beheaded.

Someone said: "If we had known that there was a fish harvest, we wouldn't have risked losing our heads to rob it." ”

Li Qingzi recently arranged for the hatchery to hatch more than 30,000 geese, which were raised with millet and other fine grains for a month, and now they can be grazed and raised on the Wheat Ear Lake. Geese are grass-eating waterfowl that do not eat fish, and they have a strong ability to digest grass and grow quickly. Moreover, the price of goose meat is good, basically a goose of seven or eight catties can be sold for 200 yuan, and the price of thirty or forty geese is equivalent to the value of a cow. Therefore, raising geese is a good project, and the farm has launched a business mode of selling geese and feed on credit and returning the geese in autumn, which has attracted a lot of fishermen to raise geese.

Yanma Village, a fishing village on the eastern side of Shuibo Liangshan, recently had his 18-year-old Yantou arrested for participating in a robbery of a merchant ship by bandits, and his parents in their 40s had gray hair.

On this day, I suddenly heard a noisy sound at the gate of the courtyard, and Father Yan said: "Definitely, the yamen has come to raid the house, and the whole family is unlucky for this stinky boy from Yantou to break the law." ”

The rock mother only knows how to cry, cry and cry the heavens and the earth.

"Dad, mother, I'm back." Rock Head slowly walked into the courtyard, obviously embarrassed to be a water bandit.

Yan Mu said: "Why are you back, and why are you walking like this." ”

Rock Head said: "The case is gone, I have been beaten with twenty whips, and my butt hurts a little, but it's not in the way, you guys come out and move things quickly." Father and mother came to the gate together, only to see three carriages parked at the door, two of which were full of geese, and the other was full of grain. There were also four or five people riding tall horses in the back, making people dare not look directly.

"Stone, what's going on, you explain it to your father."

Rock Head said proudly: "This time we committed a big crime, and it was supposed that we would be beheaded, and the county order was gracious, and we were beaten with twenty whips for our first offense." Chao Tuan Lian was afraid that we would not have a way to live after we came back to commit crimes, so we pulled a few clever to the goose factory, learned the goose raising technology, it turned out that raising geese is not difficult, geese eat less food, eat more grass, geese do not eat fish, geese in the pond can also make fish fatter. These are two hundred thirty-day-old goslings, ready for grazing. and five hundred pounds of grain, all of which were sold to me on credit. Seventy geese will be returned in the fall. ”

Father and Mother Yan didn't believe it and asked, "Is this true, you can't lie." ”

Yantou said: "Of course it's true, I don't believe you can ask Chao Tuanlian yourself." "You must know that geese are very expensive, if there are more than a dozen geese in the fisherman's house, it is a small treasury, goose eggs can be sold for money, geese will hatch their own goesling, and the goslings can lay eggs when they are raised. The meat of the goose is very delicious, and most people are reluctant to eat it.

Chao Gai and Wu Yong got off their horses and came to Father Yan and Mother Yan, who also recognized Chao Gai and said, "It turned out to be Chao Baozheng." ”

"Yes, yes, it's me. This is true, the child is still young, only eighteen years old, he studies very seriously, it is not difficult to raise geese, the key is to be diligent. These 200 geese will be sold to you on credit, and remember to pay off the debts with a trading house in the autumn. In addition, I see that your husband and wife also catch fish, although you are a shallow river beach, but there are still loaches, Shijie Village Fish Store collects loaches, live three pennies a pound, catch more to sell. ”

As soon as the rock father pulled the rock mother, he pulled the small stone and bowed together: "You are our great benefactor, how can we thank you." ”

Chao Gai hurriedly pulled them up and said, "You don't have to thank me, these geese will lay eggs in the winter, and they will hatch the geese in the spring next year, and it will not be a problem for your family to hatch a thousand or eight by then." When that time comes, you can give credit to the people nearby, and you will repay me. ”

After unloading the goods, the Chao family firm left, Chao Gai and Wu Yong rode side by side, Wu Yong said: "I can't believe it's you." It turned out that my brother only knew how to help some people in the rivers and lakes, and won a reputation for fighting righteousness and squandering money, and now he will gain priceless hearts and minds by helping the people. Now 30,000 geese are sold on credit, 10,000 geese are recovered in the autumn, and there will be millions of geese in Shuibo Liangshan next year. I think that our firm will do goose business at that time, my brother is now doing business without leakage, interlocking, admirable, but others can't learn. ”

Chao Gai said: "Why can't you learn?" ”

"Others don't have that courage, just take this goose on credit, 30,000 goslings, how much money does this have to be, and there will definitely be no return in the autumn if the goose is sold on credit." Wu Yong said.

"This is called credit, and if you dare to give something on credit and don't pay it back, you will be put on the credit blacklist, and you will no longer sell anything on credit to him. Selling geese on credit is actually very profitable, and the profits are quite high. Geese are easy to raise, have fewer diseases, and do not have as many plagues as chickens. The goose is big and has a lot of meat, and we will be able to eat goose meat in almost the whole Yuncheng County next year. ”

Due to the sale of cattle, horses, donkeys, and geese on credit by the Chao family trading house, the water bandits and bandits were eliminated, showing a new vitality. When the law and order were good, Wenbin didn't have any cases to try, and he didn't sit in a sedan chair every day, but rode a horse and took a few assistants around to take a look. At the same time, others were affected, and five or six fruit tree seedling firms were emerging, some cultivating pepper and jujube, and some cultivating walnut and chestnut.

Chao Gai pinched his fingers, Gao Yu was about to become a lieutenant immediately, and as soon as he became a lieutenant, Wang Jin would be unlucky. Hurriedly asked people to take a few tiger tooth sabers and several Tang knives from Tang Long as gifts to carry with them. Chao Gai, Wu Yong, Li Kui, and Hua Lei prepared weapons and set off. A centipede boat was transferred from the water guard, and Ruan Xiaoer led 40 water guards to row south in turn, and then from Xuzhou to Tokyo.

Six days later, Li Kui came out of the shed and stood on the bow of the boat to look around, and exclaimed: "My mother, why are there so many boats in this river, there are boats everywhere coming and going." ”

Ruan Xiaoer, the bow of the boat, said: "It's also the first time I've seen such a bustling canal, with boats coming and going. ”

Wu Yong said with a smile: "The two of you don't know, Tokyo Kaifeng, as the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, has a very large population, so much that it is surprising, I am afraid that there will be no more than one million people." ”

Li Kui was surprised and said: "There are so many people in one city, how much food do you eat in a day. ”

"That's right, in such a big city, you have to bring in grain, meat, vegetables, charcoal, and firewood for a day. That's why the Bianhe River is so busy. Wu Yong said.

Chao Gai was also secretly surprised, this Tokyo is indeed prosperous, otherwise there would not be such a grand occasion as the Qingming Shanghe Tu, but the hearts of the people of the Great Song Dynasty have not been lost, and it is difficult for them to make a difference in Shandong.