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Xu Guanzhong has been out for a long time, and he has to rush home before dark so as not to worry his mother.

Lin Chong hurriedly brought a good horse to him, and put twenty taels of garlic gold and a bag of broken silver on the horse, insisting on giving him a ride.

Xu Guanzhong saw so much gold and silver, but where was he willing to accept it, Lin Chong said: "I should have gone to see Lingtang in person, but there are many things in the army, please forgive me, this little gift should be regarded as reparation!"

There are also twenty taels of gold, but it's not just for you, this is the rule of Liang Shanjun, and every new talent has a settlement fee of twenty taels of gold.

According to different positions, each person can also be assigned a small villa with a yard or a house, and after my husband goes up the mountain, he can be a neighbor with me......"

Xu Guanzhong was surprised, so he accepted it, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "The military master has such a high salary, and the Liangshan army is not allowed to rob the house, can it be maintained by doing business alone?" ”

Lin Chong regarded Xu Guanzhong as the chief or second military division of the Liangshan Army, so he naturally would not hide it from him, so he introduced the current savings and financial situation of the Liangshan Army: "According to my estimates, the money in Liangshan alone is enough for us to develop for three or four years.

When the various workshops on Liangshan are operating, money will not be a problem, the key is to have a way, to sell these things, and sell them at a high price.

As long as there are enough channels, let alone raising 50,000 troops, I don't think it's a problem to raise 100,000 or 200,000 troops. ”

Xu Guanzhong said: "That's why you value Li Jun, the mixed river dragon who sells illicit salt on the Xunyang River, so much? ”

"This is just one level, the important thing is that this Li Jun is indeed capable, and he is the commander of the Liangshan Army's naval army!"

Lin Chong nodded, thought about it and said to Xu Guanzhong: "Mr. has a matter, when I was on Liangshan, I discussed it with General Lu and Mr. Wen, and I couldn't make up my mind for a while, I want to hear your opinion." ”

Xu Guanzhong said solemnly: "I would like to hear about it." ”

Lin Chong said: "That's the case, the main source of soldiers of the Liangshan Army is mainly poor people, farmers, and river workers, I mean that when the Liangshan Army grows stronger, after the first batch of recruits are trained, it is necessary to set a rule for all the landlords in the four or five states around Liangshanbo." ”

Xu Guanzhong's heart sank, and said, "What rules? ”

"That is, if there are bullies and landlords who do a lot of evil and oppress the villagers, we will lead our troops to borrow food, and if there are a very few heinous crimes, such as forcing many people to die, we will directly kill them.

Then we distributed the grain of these bully landlords to the poor peasant households around us, and carried out propaganda to attract these poor peasants to join the Liangshan army.

Later, we will be stronger, and set a rule for the landlords of all prefectures and counties within a radius of two or three hundred miles from Liangshanbo, and the rent should not exceed thirty and a half.

If there is disobedience, we will lead our troops to fight over, this is our Liangshan army's way of doing the right thing for heaven, making rules, and enforcing our rules by force. ”

Xu Guanzhong's face changed greatly, he frowned and thought for a long time, but finally shook his head and said: "The idea is very good, but it's too radical, too radical!" ”

Is it radical? Lin Chong thinks he is very gentle?

Thirty and a half percent of the rent is already very high in Lin Chong's mind!

However, when Lin Chong personally went to ask the recruits of the Liangshan Army, as well as Sanruan, Xuan, Bian Xiang and others, he learned that at this time in the Great Song Dynasty, whether it was Jingdong, Jingxi Jinghu, or Hebei Province, most of the land rent was fifty or sixty percent.

In other words, the tenant Zhang Xiaomao rented ten acres of land from the landlord, and if Zhang Xiaomao had cattle at home, and then he would have to pay five buckets to the landlord for every stone of grain harvested, which would be fifty percent of the rent.

If Zhang Xiaomao's family is so poor that they don't even have a cow, they can only borrow the landlord's cattle, and then harvest a stone of grain and hand over six buckets to the landlord, which is sixty percent of the rent.

Lin Chong felt that this oppression was about to break through the sky, it was too unfair!

But this is the ordinary land rent in the late Northern Song Dynasty, also called private rent, that is, renting the land of private landlords; In addition to this, there is also an official rent, and the rent rate of the official rent is stipulated by the state to "reduce the rent by two".

That is to say, if Zhang Xiaomao's family rents the public land of the government, if they have cattle, they only need to pay 30% of the rent.

But that's not to say that the official rent is good!

It is because there will be all kinds of additional costs in the process of paying the official rent, such as picking, pinching, storing, and weighing each link is a gate, which will be difficult for the tax collectors to handle, and they need to be checked, and they will have to pay more in the end.

It is precisely because of this that most tenants are more willing to rent the landlord's land, because the landlord still has to talk about the local situation to some extent, and will not make it difficult for the tenants, otherwise they will all rent the land of other landlords, but the officials of the government do not have these scruples, and are often more ruthless.

But no matter what, Lin Chong felt that the oppression of these tenants was too heavy!

If you can really make such a rule for Jingdong Road, if you have cattle and pay a maximum of 30% of the rent, and if you don't have a cow, you can pay 30% and a half at most, then more than 1 million tenants in the vicinity are still grateful to the Liangshan Army and are eager to join the army.

However, Wen Huanzhang expressed his worries, and now Xu Guanzhong also said that he was too radical.

"Military lord, although you do this, although you will get all the poor tenants' users, but it also touches the most fundamental interests of the landlords, how can they not fight with us?"

Xu Guanzhong said a little excitedly: "This world is the world of scholars, and most of the scholars are landlords!"

War Lord, have you ever thought about Fan Wenzhenggong's Qingli New Deal and Wang Jinggong's reforms? This only touched their interests a little, and finally triggered a strong backlash from them!

If you do this, military master, it will be the enemy of the corporal doctor in the world, and the landlords everywhere will also be different from my Liangshan army! ”

Lin Chong smiled, he knew that this road was actually going through, but he couldn't refute it with the following example now, so he said, "But so what? As long as our Liangshan army is strong enough, they can only obey in the end.

Besides, I don't blindly want to harm the interests of these scholars and landlords, I can still bring them a lot of benefits! ”

Xu Guanzhong was puzzled: "What benefits?" ”

Lin Chong said with a smile: "Sir, you may not know, my overseas friend accidentally found a treasure island in the open sea, not only brought many treasures such as glass treasure mirrors, but also brought some seeds of new crops, which can double or even more the grain yield!" ”

Xu Guanzhong's eyes widened, but Lin Chong continued over there: "Besides, my Liangshan Army can also help them exterminate the nearby bandits, take them to do business together, and open various workshops together.

As long as they are willing to cooperate, they will definitely not suffer, but if they must fight, I, Lin Chong, will not be afraid to lead troops over to destroy them......"