It's not that Weiyuan received money from businessmen to protect businessmen, but Weiyuan has a fixed dart route every day, for example, from Jinan to Jiaoshui County, there will be a team of dart masters every day, and this dart road passes through Liangshan, so businessmen are willing to follow Weiyuan's dart masters.

The current Weiyuan is just that flag, and the mountains and rivers are unimpeded, and those who dare to stop are basically dead, so now many businessmen are following Weiyuan's dart team, which can reduce the risk of being robbed.

Even if you meet a thief in Weiyuan's face, you usually give some money to buy the road and pass, although Weiyuan has no obligation to protect these people, but it is impossible to see death and not save it, so now it is not easy to rob various cottages.

But it's not without benefits, in the past, the bandits were caught one by one, and they were all robbed when they met, but now with Weiyuan, everyone pays the money to buy the road, although the one-time income is less, but there are more businessmen, and the overall income has increased.

Therefore, the thieves of the Great Song Dynasty have now changed to collect taxes, and they collect a sum of money to buy the road and release them to the past at a fixed time and place every day, so now each cottage has changed from the previous robbery to receiving money, which is also the origin of Chao Gai and others to share the spoils.

Du Qian Song Wan, who came down poorly, met Song Jiang who was recruiting, the two gangs hit it off, Song Jiang also took a fancy to the old team of Liangshan in the hands of the two, although Wang Lun was jealous of the virtuous ability, but he still had some talent, after all, he had read books, so in addition to the minions used for fighting, he also raised a group of craftsmen.

In the past, of course, Song Jiang looked down on craftsmen, but since he was determined to be a big robber recruited by the imperial court, Song Jiang began to study how to win the army of the Great Song Dynasty.

Not to mention far away, let's talk about the Ryukyu invasion that shocked the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty lost nearly 500,000 forbidden troops, and did not win, so the victory of the Ryukyus became an example for Song Jiang to imitate.

From the discussion in the newspaper and everyone, Song Jiang found that the victory of the Ryukyus relied on the sailors, and the application of fire oil bombs, the Ryukyu army used fire attacks with great power, and one fire oil bomb was the enemy of the 300,000 army of the Great Song Dynasty.

The sailors also relied on fire and oil bombs to break the sailors of the Great Song Dynasty and dominate the four seas, and the war did not affect the Ryukyus themselves at all, this tactical method of warfare can be called a classic, and Song Jiang seems to be envious.

Therefore, Song Jiang's purpose in wooing the two was to get the craftsmen in the hands of the two, one was to build a ship, and the other was to build a machine that threw fire oil bombs like Ryukyu.

On this day, Song Jiang and the others were having dinner with the two, and Song Jiang suddenly asked Song Wan: "Brother Song Wan, do you have a craftsman in your hand?" ”

Song Wan patted his chest and said, "Brother Song Jiang wants to build a house?" I don't have to say, tomorrow I will let the craftsmen come to your yard, you just have to call it, they are all your own brothers, you must not be polite to me. ”

Song Jiang was just about to explain something, everyone ate and drank again, Song Jiang's words came to his mouth and swallowed again, forget it, there is a way is the ambition of the bird, Song Jiang looked at the people who only cared about eating and drinking, and a sense of superiority instantly rose in his heart.

On the second day, Song Wan really sent all the craftsmen over as agreed, and Song Jiang called all the craftsmen to the courtyard, first entertained them with good wine and food, and then proposed to make the Ryukyu kind of thing that throws fire oil bombs.

The craftsmen had just eaten, and they were about to start taking tools to repair the house, and when they heard that they were doing this, they were all dumbfounded, Song Wan said that this is not the case, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what to do.

Song Jiang saw that everyone was hesitant and said, "Why can't I Song someone summon you?" ”

An older one of the craftsmen said: "Don't blame the three leaders, it's not that we don't want to contribute, it's really that we don't know this, those who know this are all in the water village, we all just know how to repair a knife and gun, build a house or something, we don't know how to build those things." ”

Song Jiang still knew for the first time and hurriedly asked the reason, and the old craftsman said: "In the past, we relied on fishing boats to go out of the cottage, and then Zhang Heng came to the leader and then Tong Meng, and the two of them managed the water village and disliked the fishing boats were too small, so they were with Wang Lun Zhai, oh not ......." ”

The old man only remembered halfway through speaking, isn't this the one in front of him who killed Wang Lun, and hurriedly looked at Song Jiang's face carefully, Song Jiang was listening to the rise and saw that the old man stopped, and when he wanted to know what the old man was thinking, he didn't bother to worry about a craftsman, waved his hand and said, "You go on." ”

The old man continued: "The two leaders suggested building a larger ship, and Wang Lun agreed at that time, not only allocating to them the craftsmen who knew how to build ships on the island, but also letting them go to the vicinity to capture a lot. ”

Song Jiang frowned when he heard this, things are not easy to do, Zhang Heng and Tong Meng are almost self-contained on Liangshan, and everyone is like a separation, when Chao Gai first went up the mountain, he wanted to take a good hand in the water in his hand and arrange Xu Qingjiao to be the leader of the water village.

As a result, this Xu Qingjiao came back in the water village without mixing for a few days, and later heard that Xu Qingjiao was good at water kung fu when he first went to the water village, and wanted to be directly in charge of the water village.

As a result, Zhang Heng and Tong Meng didn't say anything, everyone tried together, and it turned out that Xu Qingjiao not only did not win against Zhang Heng and Tong Meng, but there were more than 40 ordinary soldiers in the water village who were better than him.

Xu Qingjiao had no face to stay in the water village, so he had to go back to Chao Gai's side, Chao Gai saw that the water village was so strong, and he didn't dare to do anything for a while, but after a while, he found that although the water village was more xenophobic, Zhang Heng and Tong Meng were indeed not the kind of people who were domineering.

Not only can I get along with my brothers, but I can get a lot of money every time I rob the water village, either I can grab rare things, or I can send a lot of money, so everyone gradually no longer cares about the water village.

Now Song Jiang heard that those craftsmen were in Shuizhai, and he immediately didn't know what to do, the two of them were said to be from the south, and Song Jiang didn't know if he had such a big face to ask for people.

However, these people don't know how to build ships and build projectile tools, and it's useless to keep them, so Song Jiang returned the people to Song Wan, and Song Wan came to ask when he learned about the situation that night, and Song Jiang was frowning in the yard and sighing.

Seeing Song Wan asking, Song Jiang said: "Brother Song Wan doesn't know, I see that there are more and more people in the cottage, and the consumption of this ration is increasing day by day, and the government seems to be ready to encircle and suppress us. ”

Song Jiang hurriedly brought a few brothers over and said: "Everyone knows that the imperial court was ready to encircle and suppress my Liangshan a while ago, but it was only because of the sudden attack of the Ryukyus, which involved the energy of the imperial court, so the encirclement and suppression were over, but now that the Ryukyus have retreated, then the imperial court will take the opportunity to make a comeback." ”

Everyone feels justified when they hear it, it's not that they can't think of it, they just don't know how to face it, anyway, everyone is holding the idea of one day less than one day, and the government will fight if it comes, and run away if it can't be beaten.