Shi Jin took a step forward, looked around the minions from left to right, and said, "The purpose of my trip to Shandong, everyone must know something." That's right, I also want to occupy the mountains as kings, rob homes and houses, and resist enemy officers and soldiers, but what I want to fight is corrupt officials and inferior gentry, and I will never include ordinary people. ”

"What we want to do is a good man who does the right thing for heaven and the people, not for the bandits who harm the township and the people are afraid. In order to reduce the casualties of the officers and soldiers who resisted the enemy, all the people in the cottage had to practice for more than 20 days a month, for three hours a day. We will establish military discipline and severely punish those who harm our brothers and good people. ”

Just now in the grass hall, Shi Jin had already told Zhu Wu and the three of them what he thought.

Zhu Wu recognized Shi Jin's plan very much, and Chen Da and Yang Chun had no opinion on killing corrupt officials and inferior gentry, but they felt that the training time was a little too much, but for the sake of righteousness, they did not object.

Hearing Shi Jin say so harshly, many minions hesitated.

In the past, they used to plunder the passing merchants on the roads below the mountains, or go to nearby villages and towns to borrow grain, and rarely attacked villages and towns.

Generally speaking, as long as the soldiers and horses are deployed, the villages and towns are afraid that they will destroy the farmland outside, harass and kidnap the villagers outside the village, and can get food without using force.

Although there will not be many of them, there are no casualties in the cottage, and the water flows for a long time, so you can borrow food every once in a while.

Breaking the village can grab more, but it forces the villagers to be anxious, and the men of a village can also cause them a lot of casualties if they fight hard, so the cottage will not easily attack the village.

But if you want to kill corrupt officials and inferior gentry, you must attack the village, even if Ding Zhuang in the village does not help those inferior gentry, it is not so easy to deal with the Zhuang Ding and the guardian courtyard in the high-walled compound.

Moreover, it is necessary to establish military discipline so that ordinary people must not be harmed.

Although they used to be ordinary people, but after falling into the grass, there was no royal law, and it was really common to bully ordinary people.

There are some people who have become real bandits, and they are really reluctant to get them to change their ways.

Zhu Wu was also a little anxious when he saw that Shi Jin only said these harsh things. If you continue to talk about it, I'm afraid most people will be told by Shi Jin not to go to Shandong.

Shi Jin looked at the minions with different expressions below, and said, "Maybe there are many people who won't go with me, everyone has their own ambitions, and I won't be reluctant." But I advise you that a good man must not forget his roots, no one is born a thief, and everyone is a good person before going up the mountain. Otherwise, if he meets in the rivers and lakes every day, he can't say that Shi Jin will be offended. Let's think about it, those who are willing to follow me stand on the left, and those who don't want to follow me stand on the right. ”

After Shi Jin finished speaking, some of the minions below didn't think about it, and stood directly to the left, all admiring Shi Jin's righteousness, but more people were discussing with each other.

Zhu Wu also asked some copycat minions today, knowing that most people decided to follow Shi Jin last night, but seeing that many people who were now shaken by Shi Jin's words, he couldn't help but be a little anxious, stepped forward, and whispered to Shi Jin: "Brother also talk about the benefits of cottages in the future?" ”

Shi Jin shook his head and said: "We want to do the way for the heavens, and the brothers should be like-minded, if it is tempting with gold and silver, it will not be long before someone will do something bad about righteousness." Military law is not merciful, but it is inevitable to kill a brother who went to Shandong with us to create a foundation. So it's better to bring fewer people than to mix the team with dragons and snakes. ”

After a few people who were determined to rob their homes and did not want to be restrained walked to the right, everyone hastened to choose the queue.

In less than a stick of incense, the people of Shaohuashan were divided into two teams, and it seemed that there were still more people who were willing to follow Shi Jin, but not much.

Shi Jin saw that no one was moving around anymore, and said to the minion on the left: "Thank you brothers for your love, and I also ask the brothers to keep in mind that from today on, you will no longer be a strongman who robs homes and houses, but a hero who does the right thing for heaven." If the military law is violated, the heroes are good at doing things, and they don't blame the brothers for not being righteous. If I had violated military law, I would never be an exception.

Brotherly righteousness is small righteousness, punishing evil and promoting good is great righteousness, if it violates the great righteousness, it should be righteous and destroy relatives.

Today is the time for us to gather righteousness, and we should have eaten wine in a big bowl and meat in a large piece to celebrate. It's a pity that last night's feast ate all the wine and meat in the cottage, and Shi Jin didn't respect it, so he gave each person ten yuan as a meeting gift, and when he set up camp one day, he invited the brothers to eat and drink. If there is a family member who is willing to go with him, the brothers can also take them on the road together, and everyone should take care of their own family.

Without further ado, brothers, wait a minute. ”

Some of the minions below inevitably regretted it in their hearts when they heard Shi Jin's repeated stern admonitions, but they were relieved to hear that Shi Jin gave each person ten yuan as a meeting gift.

With such a generous and righteous hero, you can't go wrong.

Shi Jin said to Shi Zhu, the little servant on the side: "You bring a few people to bring some gold and silver, and give ten yuan to each of the brothers who go with you." ”

Shi Zhu saw that Shi Jin was about to scatter three or four thousand times this time, and his flesh suddenly hurt.

However, Shi Jin had just finished talking loudly, and he didn't dare to talk too much here, so he could only grit his teeth and go to the side to ask for money from the father who was in charge of the accounts.

On the other side, Zhu Wu was also very painful, they had not been camped in Shaohua Mountain for a long time, and there was little money and scarce food, so they wanted to go to Huayin County just a few days ago. As a result, Chen Da was caught by Shi Jin, a big worm, and later, although he befriended Shi Jin with righteousness, the attack on Huayin County was also yellow.

Shi Jin is Lizheng, if he lets the soldiers and horses of Shaohua Mountain pass, he will be questioned by Huayin County in the future.

This is also the reason why Shi Jin refused to borrow from Chen Da at the beginning.

Unable to defeat Huayin County, the people of Shaohua Mountain could only go to Pucheng County, which was sparsely populated, and they were unable to attack the city, but they plundered the villages outside the city, so the situation of cottage money and food was not greatly improved.

He inquired before, and learned that most of the people were ready to follow Shi Jin, so he set a ten-yuan money for each person.

Unexpectedly, Shi Jin's words actually made nearly half of them not go with them. In this case, after the minions are scattered, the money in the cottage may not be enough for everyone to go to Shandong.

But the words have been spoken, and he can't go back, so he can only grit his teeth and let the little boss in charge of the accounts start to send money.

When Shi Zhu led people to distribute money, Shi Jin also asked people to count the number of people.

There are 372 Shaohua Mountain minions who are willing to go to Shandong, plus 23 people on Shi Jinzhuang, a total of 395 people.

Shi Jin didn't have time to integrate, but roughly divided the people into four teams, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun each brought a hundred people, Shi Jin brought ninety-five people, and every ten people had a small leader to manage, Shi Jin didn't have much to do, except for letting two powerful Zhuangke be small leaders to manage more than 20 of their own Zhuangke, the rest of the small leaders were still played by the original Shaohuashan small leaders.

The coins of the Song Dynasty were mainly copper and iron coins, each with 1,000 wen.

(When the copper coin is insufficient, there are times when there are always 770, 800, and 850, and the Water Margin world constructed in this book is based on 1,000 texts)

During the Daguan period, the imperial court printed money to circulate in various ways, but the earliest paper money before the money was different, and it could not be exchanged for cash, and the imperial court issued additional money at will, resulting in a sharp depreciation of money, and many people were reluctant to use money.

However, copper and iron coins were too bulky, and gold and silver were also circulated in the market as precious metals.

When the taxes of various places are handed over to the imperial court, they are exchanged for gold and silver, cast into gold and silver ingots for transshipment, and the imperial court often allocates gold and silver when appropriating large sums of money such as military salaries, and then converts them into copper coins when they arrive at the place.

Because gold and silver are easy to collect, large private households also exchange their wealth for gold and silver collection.

When Lin Chong bought the treasure sword, he used the money converted into silver to pay for it.

The Song Dynasty was founded more than 100 years ago, and most of the time it was a period of resting and recuperation.

By the time the current emperor ascended the throne, the world was already rich in trade and trade, and the copper coins were not enough. In order to solve the problem of insufficient copper coins, the imperial court minted two coins and three coins, and Cai Jing even came up with ten coins, but the people did not recognize them as ten coins.

At present, the money circulating in the market is mainly a penny of small flat money, two coins, three coins and broken silver.

Because of the large number of copper coins minted, when the appearance of two coins and three coins, the output of silver could not keep up, and the price of silver has been rising since the time of Song Zhenzong.

There are slight differences in different places, but the difference is not large, roughly one tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver for twenty yuan.

(Gold and silver money is never fixed, especially between the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, gold and silver money fluctuates greater)

Shi Jinjia's accumulation over the years has also been exchanged for gold and silver, but these gold and silver are of different weights, gold and silver are soft in texture and easy to divide, but it is also a cumbersome thing to use a scale to weigh out the corresponding gold and silver.

Roughly dividing everyone into four teams, Shi Jin entered the grass hall with Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun.

The four of them sat down, and Shi Jin said: "The people are selected, and the rest is how to go to Shandong." What's the matter with the three brothers? ”

Chen Dadao: "The officers and soldiers in the world are generally afraid of death, so we will gather together in the past, if there is one who is not open-eyed, the guys in the hands of the brothers are not vegetarians." ”

Zhu Wu nodded and said, "Brother Chen Da said the same, we have a lot of people, even if we are divided into several teams, we can only pretend to be caravans." There are not many people on the small road, and I don't know how many tax cards there are on the main road. Even the brothers can endure the noise of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and we don't know how much tax they will extort from the horses and soft horses we bring.

As long as there is no delay on the road, we should be able to cross the line before the soldiers and horses of the state capital react, and ordinary generals will never dare to cross the line to pursue. Along the way, the state government does not know our target, and will not notify the state capital in front of us to intercept it. This may seem dangerous, but it's actually safe.

However, there are many troops stationed in the Gyeonggi area, so it is best for us to cross the Yellow River and go to Shandong via Hedong and Hebei. ”

Yang Chun, the white flower snake, nodded and said: "The younger brother is from Puzhou, and he used to walk around the neighboring state capitals in the old days, and he is also familiar with the road in Hedong. ”