"Are there any mines in the mountains?" Wu Yanzhi asked.

"However, there are still people who mine copper and lead smelting, and there is a lead smelting field seven miles northwest of Pulu Village.

Twelve miles to the southeast, there are still people refining copper, but the place where the copper is smelted has very little income, and it is barely enough to make a living! ”

As soon as he heard this, Wu Yanzhi suddenly rejoiced, it's good to have a mine! You can provide them with this mining and smelting technology to help them solve the problem of survival. It stands to reason that there is no large copper and iron ore in this Funiu Mountain, and there must be a lot of small ore resources.

In the end, Wu Yanzhi asked him how he would fall into the grass.

When he heard this, his face instantly became very angry: "Ambassador Wu! This is all blamed for Fangcheng County's Yang Yong five years ago.

In order to be promoted, in a big drought year, the grain harvest was four or five percent, and he still refused to reduce or reduce the rent and taxes, and the villain simply went into the mountains in order to survive. ”

If it is really an official who expropriates and extorts money, it is estimated that there are still a lot of these things in the country, who will ordinary people go to reason? Wu Yanzhi shook his head.

"It turns out that you are not from Dengzhou, but from Tangzhou, what is the matter with you robbing officials?"

"After the grass people and more than a dozen hunters entered the mountain, they felt that life was very difficult, and they felt that they were all harmed by the county order. So someone suggested that while the sheep was leaving, they should rob him of his belongings! That's it, I waited for the first robber. He looked helpless.

"How much money did you rob him? Did you kill anyone? ”

"The people didn't kill, the grass people's archery skills were not bad, and they shot and injured a few guards, and they all ran away in fright.

However, a lot of property was robbed, and in terms of value, there were almost more than 4,000 yuan. However, most of this money was used by us to bribe the officials and officials who came to round up. Sang Hongfei shook his head and sighed.

Wu Yanyi smiled, thinking to himself, no wonder he didn't catch them for so many years, it turned out that those trappers got their money, of course someone reported it.

It seems that the blackest are still those officials who do not obey the law, and it is the common people who suffer in the end.

However, this kind of thing has existed since ancient times, and not any one person can prevent it.

"Then why did you take such a big risk this time to attack the mountain bandits? I think there are twice as many of them as you, and that's dangerous! Do you have a grudge against each other, or are you just here to surrender? Wu Yanzhi asked.

"This time, I waited for the support of the county government marshal to find the opportunity to ambush him! Not only us, but also Xiangcheng and County officials also want to arrest them.

Originally, our two families were far apart, and the well water did not interfere with the river water. Na Gou Chong has been rampant in Funiu Mountain for more than ten years, and he has no principles for robbing money, not only the officials and businessmen who pass by, but also the copper, lead, and iron smelted by the displaced people in the mountains.

So people hate him very much, not long ago, he also robbed Chen Sanlang of more than 100 catties of copper from the copper field next door, which was the income of more than 500 people for more than three months.

Promised to the county lieutenant of Chengxian Xu that as long as I ambushed Na Gou Chong this time and did not rob him in the future, he would let me go! That's why the villain waited to take the risk of ambushing them. ”

"He escaped this time, won't he seek revenge on you?"

"This is the reason why the villain came to find Ambassador Wu, the villain is willing to surrender to Zhao'an, follow the county lieutenant Xu, eradicate the demon Gou Chong, and return Funiu Mountain to clean."

"Very good, that county lieutenant is really courageous!"

"County Lieutenant Xu is very shrewd, he has only been here for less than half a year, and there are a lot fewer thieves in Xiangcheng County!"

Wu Yanzhi nodded, thinking to himself, this county lieutenant Xu is using the strategy of dividing and disintegrating and destroying with raze.

This trick is very clever, maybe let Sang Hongfei come to him to recruit An Toucheng, and it was also the idea of the county lieutenant Xu.

......

The sheep intestine trail is inconvenient to walk, the right side is a deep stream fifty or sixty meters deep, the opposite valley cliff is steep, the strange peak is abrupt, the scenery is excellent!

Two quarters of an hour after leaving the watershed, the group came to a flat hillside.

From Wu Yan's point of view, the area here is about 1,000 square meters.

There are more than 100 houses in the dam, all of which are wooden houses made of wood, and the roofs are covered with the common thatch.

It was nearly noon, and the smoke was already curling.

Following Sang Hongfei to approach the village, someone had already gotten the news, and countless people were watching the excitement in the village.

A number of bare-bottomed children also leaned shyly on the small trees on the side of the road, staring at Wu Yanzhi and their gorgeously dressed "distinguished guests".

"Ambassador Wu, there are six village owners here who are in the vicinity of several big villages, and they all want to hear if Ambassador Wu knows how the Weishe people are going to let them out of the mountain!" Sang Hongfei pointed to several elders in the distance.

"Hmmm! Let me hear what they think! ”

When he arrived at the head of the village, after Wu Yanzhi met with the six village owners and a number of elders, he was led to a large wooden house that was quite spacious.

When he looked up, the wooden house was very neat and clean, and all the walls, tables, and stools were all made of logs, which looked very simple and primitive, and had a great taste.

After everyone sat down, led by Sang Hongfei, the owners of the village introduced the personnel, the industry they were engaged in, and the living conditions.

Wu Yanzhi learned that they were worried that they would be forcibly repatriated by Wei Sili and his army, and if they were forcibly repatriated, most of them would no longer have enough land after returning to their hometowns.

Without land, how can we pay taxes and survive? This is because the main "rent adjustment" is based on "ding", not according to the amount of land divided by each individual.

As long as it is a "ding", you have a full share of 100 acres, which is equal to the "rent and adjustment" paid by only 40 acres!

Only individual taxes such as household tax and land tax will take into account the asset status of each household.

After listening to their story, Wu Yanzhi nodded, and finally thought about it for a while, and answered them in a unified manner:

"Ladies and gentlemen! I am deeply honored that you have placed such trust in me, and I deeply sympathize with your situation.

If a person cannot survive, it is understandable that he will flee from famine. The Holy Lord sent Wei Gong to deal with the affairs of the displaced people, and he also saw that you were living a difficult life in the mountains.

As for what measures he will take, I don't know. However, it is estimated that as long as you do not overreact, it is unlikely that he will take coercive measures.

I have a superficial idea, if you are willing to cooperate, I will report this plan to the court! ”

"Oh? What's the solution? Could you please tell Ambassador Wu to hear about it? ”

"My plan is very simple, that is, you, the displaced people in the mountains, must be registered, included in the household registration management of the nearby county, and the metallurgical supervisor and the county will jointly manage you, with the metallurgical supervisor as the main one.

If you want, you can change all of them to miners! Rent is exempt and land rent is exempted. But the rest of the mediocrity, adjustment, household tax, etc. must be paid! "Wu Yanzhi's slash is categorical.

When everyone heard this, there was not much room for bargaining when he said it. So I began to think about whether to agree or not.

If you don't agree, what can you do?

If you agree, you may not have to worry about the court harassing you in the future, but it will be very troublesome to start paying taxes. But where is there so much to mine?

"Ambassador Wu, there are four or five thousand laborers in this mountain, where can there be so many mines to mine?" A 50-year-old village owner wondered.