Chapter 56: The Divide Between the Rich and the Poor, a Good Thing

"This Song Jiang is really developed."

When Lin Chong returned to Jingdong Road with the vanguard, he immediately knew the news that Song Jiang had been canonized as a doctor of the court, and he couldn't help but sigh.

"Speaking of which, the court has made a lot of money! Only one of Song Jiang's court doctors was sealed, and the other leaders of Ganyan Mountain were just pardoned for their crimes, rewarded with a brocade, and sent away the gold and silver medals.

After exterminating Tian Hu, Song Jiang was actually given the dispatch of a governor, and the rest of the generals were added to the rank and title according to the size of the meritorious service.

It's just an empty wish, and he deceived Song Jiang into surrendering 50,000 soldiers and horses to be willing to work for the imperial court, is there anything more profitable than this? ”

Shi Xiu, who came to report to work at night, couldn't help but complain.

At this time, he looked like an ordinary small businessman, a peddler and a pawn, doing some small business in the Daxiangguo Wan surname trading market in Bianjing City, and often running around Beijing and Tokyo on weekdays, who would have thought that this person was the head of the Liangshan Army Special Service Battalion?

Lin Chong smiled when he heard this, in fact, he had already said that the Zhao'an of Liangshan of the Song family was the Zhao'an of an idiot, but he didn't know that in this time and space, Song Jiang was still like this, and he was bought by the imperial court with a word.

At this time, Wu Song, who was on the side, couldn't help but scold when he heard Shi Xiu talk about Song Jiang.

"Thinking about this, Song Jiang thought about it in his heart, and he wanted to be an official, in order to put on this official robe, this guy can be described as a calculating agency and unscrupulous means, and now he finally got what he wanted!

It's just that the imperial court is clearly letting them eat dogs with Tian Hu and consume the strength of both sides, I don't believe that Song Jiang will not be able to see it?

However, for Song Jiang, as long as he can be an official, become famous, and prove that he is better than those bullied turbans, there is nothing else he can't sell.

It's really sad and ridiculous that those leaders and robbers in Ganyan Mountain still miss him after being sold by this guy! I don't know how many of these people will be able to survive after beating Tian Hu? ”

Lin Chong couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, and said in his heart If you hadn't met me, I was afraid that you would now regard Song Jiang as a great hero, a leading brother with affection and righteousness, and be willing to be driven by him and work for him, right?

"Hehe, Erlang is right, Song Jiang's guy has gotten what he wanted, but although this guy is treacherous and insidious, unscrupulous, it's not completely useless......"

Speaking of which, Song Jiang took the initiative to surrender to the imperial court at this time, and then immediately helped the imperial court to fight Tianhu, from a personal point of view, of course, Song Jiang used the lives and blood of everyone in Ganyan Mountain to dye himself an official robe.

However, from the perspective of the country and the nation, Song Jiang is maintaining the basic order of the Chinese land and minimizing the loss of national vitality.

If he also wants to be the emperor like Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, then there will undoubtedly be more chaos in the world, there will undoubtedly be more people's lives, and more cities, villages and towns will be destroyed.

It's not that Zhao Song ruled in darkness, and the common people lived in hardship, so they shouldn't rise up to rebel.

But according to the intelligence collected by the Liangshan Special Service Battalion, Tian Hu and Wang Qing are purely careerists, robbers and thieves.

They didn't want to overthrow the tyranny of the Zhao and Song dynasties and seek benefits for the common people, but they just wanted to take advantage of the chaos in the world to occupy the mountains as kings, conquer cities, and be the king of grass for a few days, and live happily for a while.

For example, according to the information that Shi Xiu had, the military discipline of Tian Hu and Wang Qing's army was extremely poor, and it could be said that they did all kinds of evil acts of burning, killing, looting, and plundering.

After the city was broken, not only the government was robbed, but also the rich merchants, ordinary citizens, and the poor people were also robbed, and murder, arson, rape, silver, and looting were also commonplace.

Isn't this a robber what a bandit is?

However, from the very beginning, Fang La shouted the slogan of "the law is equal, no one is superior" to resist the tyranny of Zhao Ji and Zhu Mianhua Shigang, and the Fang La group really wanted to overthrow the tyranny of Zhao and Song and establish an ideal dynasty of Manichaeism.

However, the Fangla clique could not get rid of the problems of uneven good and bad insurrectionists and poor military discipline in the troops.

For example, in order to strengthen the momentum of the uprising, Fang La unified more than a dozen green forest cottages in the south of the Yangtze River, among which there are many Jiangyang thieves who kill people without blinking, and even like Wang Ying, who specializes in eating people's hearts and likes to rape silver women.

When such a person captures a city, do you want to expect them to do nothing wrong to the people?

And more importantly, Fang La still wants to engage in Manichaeism in China's secular society, which is even more unbearable, and it is also doomed that Fang La must not succeed and must be exterminated!

Therefore, from the perspective of the country and the nation, Song Jiang went to fight Tian Hu, and even later went to fight Wang Qing and Fang La, which should actually be regarded as a good thing.

Lin Chong said these truths, and Wu Song naturally understood them, and immediately nodded yes, but he still sneered at Song Jiang's personal character.

At this time, Shi Xiu said again: "Speaking of which, Song Jiang's guy is really loyal to the court, and he digs out his heart and lungs, my brother doesn't know, according to reliable information, after the court named him a doctor in the court, he actually took the initiative to hand over eight million gold and jewelry shells to the court!" ”

"Eight million times!"

Lin Chong couldn't help but take a breath, Lin Chong is not the kind of person who doesn't see money, this time the Liangshan army conquered the Western Xia but captured more than 40 million pieces of property at one time, plus war horses, countless cattle and sheep, and the best horse breeding land in the Hetao grassland.

What surprised Lin Chong was that Song Jiang was just robbing houses near Ganyan Mountain, and he had accumulated so many belongings.

And since Song Jiang is going to fight Tianhu, he will definitely not be able to do it without military salaries, so he will not dedicate all his savings to the imperial court.

In this way, Song Jiang has robbed at least 10 million yuan of wealth in the past six months!

"Where did he get all this money?"

Shi Xiu said: "It's not like learning from us. At the beginning, instead of taking the banner of doing things for the heavens, we took the landlords and bullies around Shuibo, who did many evils and had great public resentment, as a typical example, but first conducted a public trial, and then publicly pronounced the verdict.

After that, there were fewer and fewer landlords and bullies around Shuibo who dared to continue to do evil, and there were fewer and fewer landlords and bullies who oppressed the tenants and the poor, and we set up a public court outside Shuibo, but there were people who came to sue with grievances, as long as it was verified to be true and indeed did a lot of evil, and the people's grievances were great, even if it was not in Jeju or Yunzhou, as long as it was in Jingdong Road, we would definitely send troops to escape back to justice.

Song Jiang and Wu Yong went to Ganyan Mountain, and they also learned from us, specially robbing these evil landlords and retribution, and then raiding their homes and distributing land and food to the people, so as to buy people's hearts.

It's just that these guys are more ruthless than us, we are only the typical ones who have done the most evil, and the other circumstances are not so bad, as long as we are willing to admit our guilt, stop doing evil, apologize, and take the initiative to reduce the rent, we will just warn.

Song Jiang's gang is just killing people and breaking their homes whenever they seize the opportunity, robbing them of everything, and then taking out a little food to distribute to the people and buying people's hearts, can there be no money in this way? ”

Lin Chong nodded, he understood that if Liang Shanjun started to fight local tyrants and divide the land, he was just killing chickens and monkeys, and the main purpose was to force the landlords and squires on Jingdong Road to reduce the rent, be kind to the tenants and villagers, and stop thinking about harming people and taking away people's land.

Lin Chong did not want to do too much, and became incompatible with the landlord literati class, hoping to get the support of more people (most of whom were from landlords), or even if they did not support it, at least they were not so hostile.

But Song Jiang's guy is single-minded, as long as he fights local tyrants to make money for himself, this guy can't care about the future, he just wants to make Ganyanshan grow stronger as soon as possible, and then recruit an and become an official.

I have to say that he is now successful, but he has also offended the landlords, gentry, and bureaucracy who really ruled the Song Dynasty.

If he had been a bandit, or had simply relied on the common people to build the country, the landlords, squires and bureaucracy would have been fine.

But now he had surrendered to the imperial court, which was controlled by the landlords, gentry, and bureaucratic class......

This guy is still useful to the imperial court now, once his use of the imperial court is not so great, even if Cai Jing's traitorous ministers don't kill him, Song Jiang will never get a good end.

It must be killed by someone, and it must be the kind where there is no place to be buried, and the whole family is dead!

At this time, I heard Shi Xiu continue: "It's funny, I heard that the imperial court has no money now, but I didn't expect that these heroes below are so rich, how long did it take Song Jiang to loot tens of millions of fortunes at once!"

This time, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang Laju all laid down more than 10 or 20 prefectures and counties, but they were afraid that the money they looted would be tens of millions! ”

Lin Chong smiled, of course he wouldn't fail to hear the meaning of Shi Xiu's words.

As early as the Han Dynasty, the central government was often tight, and the local rich were rich enough to rival the country, so that Dong Zhongshu also said to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "The rich have no land, and the poor have no place to stand......."

Obviously, the "people" here certainly do not refer to the small common people, but to the big landlords, the big and powerful, and the rich businessmen. The main reason for this phenomenon is the inevitable annexation of land.

Land, the country's most basic and important productive resource, is monopolized and monopolized by these big landlords, so that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

Even in the late Ming Dynasty, the poor people of the country did not even have any money for Li Zicheng's military salaries and rewards to the soldiers when he came to Beijing, while the big bureaucrats in Beijing were also big landlords, but they were very rich.

After the northern capital was broken by Li Zicheng, these people were tortured by Li Zicheng one by one, and their homes were raided everywhere, and they copied out a huge amount of 70 million taels of silver at once.

You must know that because the court has no money to use, and has to fight the Tartars, Chongzhen has no choice but to levy taxes and levies on the people, and the result is only 20 million taels of silver from the people, but it forces hundreds of people to be ruined and can only rebel.

At that time, the landlords, gentry and bureaucratic class, the Donglin Party were still vigorously advocating that the imperial court should not compete with the people for profit (referring to the fact that the imperial court wanted to collect commercial taxes from them).

In the end, these extremely greedy and short-sighted landlords, squires and bureaucrats finally suffered the consequences of their own evil, not only perished, but also themselves were exiled and killed like dogs by the Tartars, and the huge wealth they amassed was finally cheapened by the Tartars.

Because of the policy of strong cadres and weak branches, coupled with the developed trade, and the fact that the Song Dynasty has always collected commercial taxes, the central finance must be many times better than that of the late Ming Dynasty.

However, at this time in the late Northern Song Dynasty, land was annexed, and the gap between the rich and the poor among the people was just as good as that at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, it is not surprising that these big landlords, big and powerful, and retired bureaucrats, have amassed a huge amount of wealth.

If nothing else, let's just say that when the Liangshan army broke through Zhujiazhuang, in addition to cattle, horses, sheep and other livestock, and not even real estate such as houses and fields, didn't it harvest a wealth of two million yuan at once?

And Shi Xiu's meaning is also very clear - brother, Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La must have robbed at least tens of millions of dollars of wealth from these big landlords, and we can just wipe them out, and then these riches will naturally belong to us.

Lin Chong smiled, in fact, there was no need for Shi Xiu to remind him, as early as when Fang La and the others sent envoys to find him, Lin Chong had said that once they dared to cause chaos in the world and kill the people, the Liangshan army would definitely not sit idly by, and would definitely send troops to exterminate them.

It's just that at that time, Lin Chong didn't expect that there would be such benefits in exterminating them, and he could indirectly snatch the wealth they had accumulated from the big landlords and big tyrants, and then use it for the Liangshan army to fight for the world and benefit the people.

Therefore, I didn't think that these benefits would be fought when I didn't think of them, but now that I have such benefits, I naturally have to fight even more.

It's just that in the past year, the Liangshan army has used troops everywhere, although every time it is a big victory, and it has gained a lot, but in the end, people are not iron, even Lin Chong feels a little tired now, presumably the soldiers below are also tired.

It's time to take a break for a while, the way of civil and martial arts, one piece and one relaxation is the king.

At least wait until Zhang Zhenniang gives birth to a child......

Lin Chong was thinking like this, and he had already made a plan in his heart, and he would send troops to fight Tian Hu in two months, Wang Qing, and Fang La.

At this moment, I heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent, followed by an announcement, and a moment later I saw Mei Jiasheng leading a messenger in.

Lin Chong immediately asked Shi Xiudao to take shelter behind the screen for a while, he, the secret agent who was sitting in the Tiger's Den in Longtan, Bianjing City, was naturally the fewer people who had seen him, the better.

"But what's the urgency? But the water is ......."

Lin Chong asked, he really couldn't think of any urgent matter that could make General Lu and Wen Huanzhang send someone to deliver the letter in a hurry without warning.

Could it be that Zhenniang was born prematurely?

As soon as he thought of this possibility, Lin Chong, who already felt a lot of guilt for his wife, suddenly became anxious.

It was the first time for that person to see Lin Chong so anxious, and he couldn't help but burst out in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Military master, it's not that something happened to the Shuibo base camp, but the Goryeo battlefield, and there are some changes over there, this is a secret letter from Lu Junshi, look at it, military master!" ”

Lin Chong breathed a sigh of relief, and then lifted his heart, he took the secret letter, checked the mud seal with his own hands, and then opened the belief inside, only to take a look, and suddenly turned his worries into joy, and said: "This is a good thing......

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