In December, the hall was finally repaired.

Although there are no carved beams and paintings, and there is no splendor, the Juyi Hall, which covers an area of dozens of zhang, has its own majestic momentum.

There is a pitch-black plaque at the head of the door, with three gilded characters on it, and the Juyi Hall.

A large drum is set up at the bottom left of the plaque, which is used to gather the cottage soldiers and horses.

In front of the hall, an apricot yellow banner was also set up, and the words "for the sky" were written.

On the day of the completion of the Juyi Hall, Shi Jin and the leaders of the cottage came to the Juyi Hall to enjoy the fun.

Entering the hall, Chen Da looked at the spacious hall and said, "This Juyi Hall is much bigger than our grass hall in Huashan." ”

Yang Chun smiled: "Which place in Liangshan is not stronger than Shaohua Mountain?" ”

Zhu Wu also said: "My brother is a person with a plan, how can I compare the previous grass village to Liangshan Dazhai." ”

In fact, there is no furnishings in this righteous hall, and there is a platform more than a foot high in the middle, which can not only highlight Shi Jin's status, but also will not appear high.

There is a tiger skin chair on the table, and fifty chairs are placed on each side of the lower side, ten in each row.

Shi Jin didn't know if he would be able to gather one hundred and eight generals, but it would be his goal to gather a hundred soldiers.

After a few laughs, Zhu Wu arched his hand and said, "Brother, please take a seat." ”

"Brother, please take a seat."

Others also spoke, and Shi Jin's position as the owner of the village can be said to be expected.

Shi Jin was not polite, bowed his hand to everyone, walked to the stage and sat down on the tiger skin chair.

The eight people in the audience looked at each other, and Shi Jin only arranged everyone's duties before, and did not arrange the seats.

Ruan Xiaoqi was the first to be impatient, and said with a smile: "There are so many chairs in the hall, let's sit casually, I'll sit first." ”

Yang Chun said: "In the future, there will be more cottage leaders, so we can't sit casually, let's set a seat." ”

Shi Jin also felt that if he didn't decide the seat, there might be disputes in the future, so he was angry, and said with a smile: "What Brother Yang Chun said is that we will discuss this seat today." ”

Sun Erniang smiled: "There are not many people here, so what's the trouble." The military advisor should sit in second place. Brother Chen Da is the third, Brother Yang Chun is the fourth, and the three brothers of the Ruan family are sitting in turn, and we are the eighth and ninth husband and wife. ”

These days, the three Thiong of the Nguyen Thi have also shown some of their own skills, convinced their subordinates, and let everyone know that they live up to their reputation.

Not to mention the ability in the water, it is to fight on land, and the three heroes of the Ruan family are also superior to Zhang Qing and his wife, and Yang Chun is also between them, only Chen Da is slightly better than them.

Ruan's three heroes excused themselves a few words, and in the end, everyone still sat down according to what Sun Erniang said, one on the left and one on the right.

Zhu Wu, Yang Chun, Ruan Xiaowu, and Zhang Qing on the left, and Chen Da, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Sun Erniang on the right.

Everyone sat down, and Chen Da couldn't help but say again: "Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, shouldn't we go down the mountain to do the right thing for the sky?" ”

Ruan Xiaoqi said peacefully: "Exactly, we are also familiar with our brothers, it's time to kill a few big families." ”

Shi Jin said with a smile: "I also have this intention, the banner for Tianxingdao has been erected, and it is time to kill a few big families to sacrifice the flag, and let everyone have a fat year, so as not to lose if there are brothers who have no money." ”

"Haha"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at Ruan Xiaowu with a smile.

Ruan Xiaowu was a good gambler, but he lost nine out of ten bets, and within a few days, the entire Liangshan people knew about it.

Ruan Xiaowu is also the most popular person in the gambling house, as long as he is seen, everyone else will rush to let him join the gambling game.

Ruan Xiaowu glared at Xiao Qi on the other side and said, "You are no better than me, why are you laughing at me?" ”

Shi Jin smiled: "Okay, don't laugh." Let's talk about where to fight? ”

Zhu Wudao: "The place where the little brother thinks he is fighting should not be too close, nor too far. When the big families in the vicinity heard the news of Liangshan, most of them would hide the gold and silver in the prefecture and county, and they were afraid that there would not be much gold and silver when they were defeated. It's far away, and it's hard to carry money and food when you come back. ”

Shi Jin nodded and said: "What the military advisor said is very true, then we will choose a village thirty or fifty miles away." Brother Zhang Qing, if you look at the villages and squares around Shuibo thirty or fifty miles away, are there those big people who have a lot of money and food? ”

Zhang Qing took out a booklet and flipped through it: "Zheng Zhuang Baozheng Zheng Rong, who is more than 40 miles away from Shuibo, is rich and unkind, and he has killed customers in the village in every way, and more than 4,000 acres of land in the village belong to his family, so he must have accumulated a lot of money and grain." ”

In the Song Dynasty, according to whether the people had land or not, the people were divided into main households and customers, and most of the rural customers were tenants.

In fact, the fourth and fifth class households of the main household only have a small amount of land, and in order to make ends meet, they also rent some land, but their household registration is the main household and they need to bear the agricultural tax. Tenants do not have to bear the agricultural tax, and of course they cannot escape the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes other than the agricultural tax.

If you fail to sell the land registered in the household register in time after bankruptcy, you will have to pay the corresponding agricultural tax.

Of course, whether it can be sold in time is not something that the bankrupt people can decide, but it depends on whether the people who buy the land and the officials cooperate or not.

After some landlords who were unkind to the rich seized the land by trickery, they colluded with the officials not to change the records of the land in their household registers, and the tax burden was still on the bankrupt people.

Ruan Xiaoer nodded and said: "I also hear the notoriety of this guy, this guy is not a good person, and he cleverly seized all the land in the village into his family." When he grew up, he did all kinds of evil, and he didn't know how many customers he had. When a client in the village borrowed money from him due to a plague, he had to hold his children hostage and keep them at his house at his beckon. If it's just like this, one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer. But this guy doesn't treat the client's children as people, and he doesn't know how many people have been broken, and they should be killed. ”

Shi Jin nodded and said, "Since we are such a wicked person, we will go down the mountain tonight, kill this Zheng Rong, and eliminate harm for the people." Can Brother Zhang Qing find out how many Ding Zhuang there are in Zhengzhuang? ”

Zhang Qing naturally knew that he couldn't just find out who should be killed, but also know the other party's forces, so as not to collapse his teeth, looked at the numbers recorded in the booklet, and said: "There are more than 230 households in the village, about 400 people in Ding Zhuang, and more than 30 nursing homes in Zheng Rongzhuang. ”

Shi Jin heard that there were only about 400 Ding Zhuang in Zhengzhuang, and said: "In this way, it is easy to beat this Zhuangzi." Which brother will go down with me? ”

"I'll go with my brother."

"I'll go with my brother."

Everyone was held back for a long time, and when they heard the words, they immediately rushed to stand up.

Shi Jin saw that the eight people stood up, and said with a smile: "A little Zheng Zhuang, why do you need all our brothers." In this way, the three brothers Chen Da, Yang Chun, and Ruan Xiaoqi each took their headquarters and accompanied me down the mountain for a walk, and the rest of the brothers guarded the cottage. ”

As soon as the words fell, Sun Erniang shouted: "Brother, let me go too." ”

Shi Jin saw that Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu were about to speak, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'll let you go down the mountain tomorrow night." Zhang Qing, you choose another place to harm a big person, and we will go again tomorrow night. ”

Everyone saw Shi Jin say this, and then sat down.

After discussing the details again, everyone went to drill their soldiers and horses.