"Bell! Clang! Clang! The housekeeper of the big landlord of Zhou, knocking on Luo in Zhou Village, shouted while knocking: "Collect taxes!" ”

This is the first time that Zhao Yun has collected taxes since he controlled Zhou Village, and the county magistrate has already said that the taxes of Zhou Village and the two surrounding villages are used as the military expenses of his own troops, which means that he has the right to collect taxes, and it is up to him how much he collects.

"Seventy catties of grain per person, each household is counted according to the capitation, and children under the age of ten are not counted." A village guard carrying a big horn rolled in tin sheets repeatedly preached at the entrance of the West Village. These guys from the village protection team were implemented by Zhao Yun with a tax exemption policy, they used to be the objects of acceptance, but now they accept others, and they are happy to grab this job.

Everyone in the village lined up at the entrance of the village to hand over the grain, because it was said before that as long as it was food, whether it was rice or not, so now there are fish, lotus roots, mountain peaches, and apricots on the tax collection table, and rice accounts for only half of the quantity.

The rice was left behind, and the rest was thrown into the newly built mill at the entrance of the village.

Now the arrow tower at the entrance of the village has increased to six, and the place where the soldiers are stationed has also increased greatly, and a wooden wall has been built to enclose the surroundings, leaving only one exit, opposite to the entrance of the village.

The height of the entire arrow tower is 18 meters, which has become the commanding height of the village, and the situation around the village can be seen at a glance.

Regardless of the fact that the villagers are actively paying taxes, Zhao Yun is like an account room, holding a pen and paper to calculate.

Now that he has abundant resources, he has researched all the technologies of the fourth-level camp, and the arrow tower he is building now is the new arrow tower with Machink. With these two arrow towers to guard, Zhao Yun was much more assured of the safety of the village, and some buildings began to be built under the arrow towers at the entrance of the village.

Nearly 2,000 people in three villages received 140,000 catties of food, which seems to be a lot, and after it is converted into tons of units, it is only 700 tons, half of which has become a numerical value, and half has been left. took out some and gave them to the orphans and widows in the village, and won the title of "Zhao Dashan".

The villagers all know that the requirements for collecting taxes this year are much lower than in previous years, and they are also full of doubts about what "Zhao Dashanren" will arrange.

First of all, the first thing was to do the work of the chengguan, push some dilapidated houses in the village, directly build new houses, and demolish the illegal buildings on both sides of the roads in the village. Gravel from the mountains was found to pave the entrance to the village and the road in the village. A three-meter-high wooden stake was erected at the entrance of the village and on the main road in the village, and an iron pot was fixed on it. So several primitive large torches were erected. Of course, there is a windshield on it, and a piece of polished copper that acts as a reflector.

The second thing to do was to dig a trench along the wooden wall of the village outside the village to bring in water from the surrounding lake. Since the farmers did not have the skill of digging the land, Zhao Yun could only find villagers to do it. I thought it would be very troublesome to dig this, but I found that all of them were good at repairing the earth, and one digging was faster than the other, and it was completed in less than ten days, and even the suspension bridge used to enter and exit the village was built.

The last thing is that the collection of timber requires each young man to go up the mountain and cut 300 catties of timber every day for 10 consecutive days. That is, 3,000 catties per person, of course, the material is not limited, and firewood can also be used. So for everyone, it's not difficult.

Collect these timber resources and hand them over to the designated place, and at night, when no one is around, Cui Sangou will take people down the mountain to collect.

Each person contributed 300 points of wood resources plus straw, even if the widows and children were removed, Zhao Yun still collected more than 6,000 points, which is really the strength of many people.

Moreover, Zhao Yun's opponent, Grand Master Pan, is going to Xuancheng for a month's meeting, mainly to talk about the next defensive battle.

The north was defeated, and the surrounding warlords were busy with the autumn harvest in their jurisdiction some time ago, and now the autumn harvest is over, and everyone is returning to the warehouse.

Spring ploughing is still early, and war is about to start during this time. So that old man, Commander-in-Chief Deng, was very anxious for a pistol.

After the tax work was completed, it was only October 2nd, and the next ditching work was handed over to Shao Laoer's command, and the people in the village also knew that this was a protective wall built for their own homes, and they all worked hard, and the project progressed quickly.

After Pan Datou left, Zhao Yun asked Shao Laoer, Cui Sangou and Sigou to secretly go back and pick up all the Cui family's families, which made the Cui family brothers feel a lot more at ease.

Therefore, as soon as Pan Datou left, many things for Zhao Yun could be carried out.

The wind cavalry went to the lake to find Wu Xiaoya again, the defense of the village is not to build a ditch to resist foreign enemies, Shifoshan has the talent to build a big lifting pole and earth cannons, these are also needed for the defense of the village.

It is often used by people who hunt wild ducks in the lake, so there are many people who can use it, but there are not many people who can make it.

The same is true for earth cannons, iron-core wood-shell cannons are also very easy to manufacture, there are abundant timber resources around Tianzi Lake, and in one breath, the whole village mobilized to build more than 40 large poles and eight earthen cannons.

These things were erected on the protective wall of Zhou Village, which immediately made Zhao Yun think of a word, fortress village. However, the current function of this village is indeed somewhat like a fortress village, in Zhao Yun's plan, if the personnel of the other two villages are attacked, they will retreat to Zhou Village for centralized defense. There are nearly 2,000 people in three villages, and small groups of bandits do not dare to approach at all.

Next, Zhao Yun had to apologize, and went to the lake to find Wu Xiaoya, not long after Zhao Yun entered Zhou Village, Wu Xiaoya knew that he was a local, after all, they were all locals, and the news was not slow. So Wu Xiaoya was angry and ignored Zhao Yun and them for more than a month, and it happened that Zhao Yun also went out during that time. Now that he can't go back to modern times, of course Zhao Yun has to apologize.

This time, Wu Xiaoya's fleet brought a large amount of food and reeds.

Zhao Yun found a nest for them by the lake, anyway, Yao Village is now leaderless, and no one will call, so let the people of Shifoshan go ashore to live for a few days. Living on water every day, the humidity is heavy, and the chance of arthritis in the future is also high.

gave Wu Xiaoya two Mauser and asked her to arm herself, there are still people in Shifoshan who disagree with her, if it weren't for the fact that the connection with Zhao Yun and them is Wu Xiaoya's line, it is estimated that the internal contradictions would have broken out long ago.

In fact, the grievances between Shi Foshan and Pan Datou are the grievances of several local clans. The Pan family is now the nominal leader of Yaocun Township, and several other big surnames are not convinced, and Shifoshan is the resistance organization they pushed out, so the people who are not convinced by Wu Xiaoya are also people in these clans, and they think that a woman cannot be allowed to lead these clans. And Wu Xiaoya has a lot of mind but is not the character of a strong woman, and the team she leads is now full of difficulties.

"Do you think it's okay for me to take someone to ambush Pan Datou?" Wu Xiaoya sat on a fishing boat by the lake and asked.

"Didn't he go for a month? Is it too early to come back? Zhao Yun sat on the river beach by the lake.

"What's your news? The bandits in the east are coming, and all the militia leaders have to go back to their respective areas to prepare for war, and this time there are also garrisons from Xuancheng to Langxi! Guangde has captured a town, and another has been besieged, and it is estimated that Pan Datou will return in the next two days. Wu Xiaoya threw out the latest news in a hurry.

Zhao Yun stood up suddenly, he had never paid attention to intelligence since he had a watchtower, anyway, when the enemy hit the watchtower, he would be able to know. When the time comes, there is a choice between fighting and fleeing.

But I don't even know about such a big thing. Look at the people, the news of the noodles in the lake is faster than yourself. The snake is the snake of the land!

"I'm going back, since Pan Datou is back, you guys will go to the lake first! It wouldn't be good if he found an excuse to deal with you. I will do my best to send you your supplies. "When Zhao Yun was just speaking, he received news from the arrow tower in Zhou Village, Wang Yougui was here.

rushed back, and Wang Yougui really brought the same news as Wu Xiaoya. "I'm the last one to know." Zhao Yun was very depressed, people from the information age did not pay attention to the importance of information, what a mistake!

However, compared with Wu Xiaoya's information, Wang Yougui is still a lot more comprehensive. There are probably more than 1,000 bandits in the east, which is not an important issue, but the important thing is that many of the bandits are actually dressed up as a team of warlords from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Therefore, Guangde's team suffered a careless loss, and now a town has been captured, and another has been surrounded, attracting the team from the county town to rescue, and then an ambush. Now Guangde's letters for help have been sent everywhere.

"Commander-in-Chief Deng has ordered that Langxi will be organized by the local militia with 300 people and 300 people to reinforce Taocheng Town, the easternmost part of Langxi, and must not let the bandits cross Langxi again. The task of going out of the city to fight in the field was handed over to the team sent by Xuancheng. Brother, your team is not in the ranks of the conscription, and your main task is to bring all the guns as you can. Today, brother, I brought you another business. ”

After two months of rest, Wang Yougui's militia finally recovered to 150 people, and they had confidence and seemed to be more energetic.

"Two thousand rifles, and two hundred thousand rounds of ammunition. Brother Wang, do you think that I am running an arsenal! "Although I run an arsenal, but I don't have a way like you, what Zhao Yun is afraid of now is that the limelight is too strong, and assassinating a certain big person in these years is like drinking water, not to mention his own small role.

If these guns are to be manufactured, the money will definitely not be enough.

You can only exchange the grain you have just harvested. But that's the resources reserved for future upgrades, Zhao Yun is distressed! At present, no veins have been found, and there is no direct source of money that can provide a large amount of money for yourself. Although the temple can get some money out of the cultural relics put in, the amount is only enough to stuff the teeth.