Xiao Jiu's militia plan received a positive response from all villages and towns in Lingshui County, and basically each village and town organized militia squads ranging from 10 to 30 people according to their different sizes.

And Xiao Jiu didn't need them to follow him to do anything, but just asked them to defend their village and the caravan of merchants from outside Lingshui County after training, and he would distribute a small amount of food to these militiamen every month.

Of course, if you go out to serve as a guard with the Lingshui caravan, you will pay an additional commission.

When this group of poor people who couldn't even open the pot at home heard that they didn't have to go out to fight as soldiers, they all enthusiastically signed up, eager to bring all the old and young with them, but Xiao Jiu also had a limit on the number of people who formed a militia, and rejected their unreasonable requests.

At the same time, all the proletarian guilds in the village were formed, and they began to regularly allocate food to help the poor who could not eat.

Of course, these poor people will not enjoy the food provided by Xiao Jiu in vain, Li Gui's Lingshui caravan will regularly recruit these people to serve as porters, except for the real old, weak, sick and disabled, all of them must provide paid services for the caravan.

If someone else formed this guild, they would still be suspicious, but Xiao Jiu's reputation for helping the rich and the poor had already spread throughout Lingshui County, and then all these people joined in without thinking about it.

Xiao Jiu will not gain much from forming this proletarian guild, and will even incur losses, but once the policy is implemented, these destitute people will become dependent on themselves, so that they can get out of the control of those big landlords.

People can carry boats, but they can also capsize boats.

When these people no longer have a vassal relationship with the landlord's land, they can really have a sufficient sense of belonging to Xiao Jiu's forces.

When these people can no longer rely on the landlords for food, then the landlords can only raise the cost of employing the people, and the people will no longer be the dough they can handle.

At first, when Xiao Jiu formed the militia squad, these landlords still had a fluke attitude, feeling that they no longer needed to pay money and grain to organize the people to resist the mountain bandits as usual.

But with the establishment of the proletarian guild, these landlords and old fortunes found that the usually well-behaved and humble people would no longer be afraid of their threatening eyes, and even their own long-term farmers and laborers also protested en masse, clamoring for rent reduction.

In the past, when they encountered this situation, most of them liked to ignore it, you don't want to plant because the land rent is expensive, and there are still many poor peasants who can't eat and rush to rent.

But now, even if these people don't cultivate their own land, they won't starve to death if they join the guild, and they can't handle these already destitute farmers at all, and in the end they can only obediently comply.

In this regard, these landlords all hated Xiao Jiu so much, and felt that Xiao Jiu was disgusted and retaliated against them because he lost money, but many people in Lingshui County got a lot of benefits from it.

Now in Lingshui County, any child dares to say that Xiao Jiu is a mountain bandit, and his ass will have to be smashed by his parents.

Listening to the report of his subordinates, Xiao Jiu also felt a little relieved in his heart, the people of this era are like mustard, and no one goes back to care about their life and death.

But when they can't survive in the cracks, this Great Xia Empire will not be far from being rebuilt, and Xiao Jiu has won the hearts of the people, and he has really gained the foundation of his existence in this world.

There are five days to go before the New Year, and the people in Lingshui County are also busy with the year's work at this time, putting down their tired bodies and enjoying the few comfortable times.

The streets of Lingshui County are also lively, all kinds of vendors shuttle through the streets and alleys, the whole world is a thriving scene, and Xiao Jiu is also the first time to set foot in Lingshui County since he came to this world.

When he was a mountain bandit before, he naturally didn't dare to come to the county town to send people's heads, and later killed the landlord himself, and the county government was dissatisfied with collecting grain, and he also did not dare to set foot in this prosperous land.

But now it is different from the past, with the continuous growth of Xiao Jiu's strength, the Lingshui caravan has also become a commercial organization that has begun to take shape, and the profits in it can even be coveted by the county guard.

Not counting the militia, just to say that there are more than 100 soldiers who eat with him on Hare Mountain, Xiao Jiu has become the largest armed force in the entire Lingshui County.

And he, Xiao Jiu, is no longer the mountain bandit that everyone shouted and beat before, and now there are tens of thousands of people in Lingshui County standing behind him.

Even if the county shou Wenjie wants to get rid of Xiao Jiu at this time, he has to weigh whether he can easily pull out this group of "bandits" who are not bad in equipment and quality.

Along with Xiao Jiu into the city, there were also a group of veteran mountain bandits on Hare Mountain, who never thought that they would one day wait for the bright light to enter the county, and they couldn't help but sigh.

At this time, dozens of Hare Mountain members saw the lively street and wet their eyes.

Xiao Jiu and his entourage first went to the Wanzhen Restaurant in the county seat this time, and now the restaurant has been bought by Li Gui, and after learning that Xiao Jiu was coming, he directly chartered the second floor to entertain the crowd of people who entered the city.

Now Li Gui is no longer the rich man in the countryside half a year ago, he controls the wine and ironware business in Lingshui County, and has become one of the richest people in Lingshui County.

Regarding Li Gui's career, others only have envy and no jealousy in their eyes, and they all know that Li Gui's family was once arrested and tortured in the county government prison because of Xiao Jiu.

Therefore, Xiao Jiu asked Li Gui to run the caravan instead of himself, and no one would have any objections, but he felt that Xiao Jiu had clear rewards and punishments, and he knew how to repay his kindness.

And Li Gui did not disappoint Xiao Jiu, he ran the wine and iron business in an orderly manner, and never greedy for the income of the ink business, and even as the scale of the caravan became bigger and bigger, he was afraid that Xiao Jiu would not be at ease with himself, and took the initiative to let his youngest son go to Hare Mountain and be Xiao Jiu's follower.

Although Xiao Jiu didn't have the idea of taking Li Gui's son as a hostage, he still kept Li Hao by his side as a guard.

After Xiao Jiu and the others were full of wine and food, they arranged for several of their subordinates to buy a lot of gifts, food, gold and silver jewelry for the festival in the shops along the street, and went to the county government together to prepare to visit the county order.

The county commander's mansion was in the back hall of the yamen, and when the county magistrate Liu Hong heard the report of the official that Xiao Jiu of Hare Mountain was coming to visit him, he suddenly shivered a little, and the mustache on his lips flew up.

Although Xiao Jiu accepted Zhao'an, he was always a mountain bandit in Liu Hong's heart, and he had sent troops to suppress him before, and now Xiao Jiu gave himself a New Year's greeting, isn't this a weasel?

Although thinking like this, he still got up and prepared to go to the front hall to greet Xiao Jiu.

The official who came to report looked at the nervous appearance of the county order, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the world had changed, not only the mountain bandits came to pay New Year's greetings to the official master, but the official master had to tremble when he saw the mountain bandits.

Liu Hong, the county commander, couldn't stop being shocked after seeing Xiao Jiu, he didn't expect that this mountain bandit leader who swept the entire Lingshui County within half a year would be so young.

And Xiao Jiu saw the corner of the county order's twitching mouth, and he was also puzzled in his heart: "Could it be that this Liu county order has epilepsy?" ”