Chapter 37: The Righteous Elm Bandit

Ghost Li set up a banner for the way of heaven, and at first no one believed it, thinking that it was just a routine that worked for bandits.

But when Li Gui repeatedly went down the mountain to do errands, he only killed the gentry and did not hurt the civilians, and this reputation spread little by little.

Although the old peasant has not read, he is not a fool and is cunning.

As long as you praise the elm thief a few words, without spending money or effort, you can make yourself a little safer, and of course you don't mind praising him hard.

Dead friends don't die poor Dao, dead gentry don't die poor ghosts, they secretly don't know how much fun they steal!

When the autumn harvest came, the dogs who had come to collect rent in previous years were gone, which made the peasants even more excited, and secretly hid the grain they had beaten down, even if they waited for the old men to come back again, they would not want to find anything to eat from their homes.

A small number of gentry who did not believe in evil sent domestic slaves over with a heavy reward, but they were also secretly reported by the peasants, and they were cut off by the heroes who went down the mountain within two days.

If it is said that people are killed, of course, those peasants do not dare, but they have no burden of reporting the news.

As for the cottage, since the words of the lord of the village came out of the righteous hall, no one dared to risk losing their heads to oppress the people.

It's all a group of poor ghosts, not to mention the benefits, the risks are still big, no one is a fool, and they can't go against a killing god.

The owner of his own village is not a good person, he is extremely murderous, whether it is to lead the army to fight, or to exterminate the gentry, he is ruthless, and he will definitely kill someone.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being a heavenly killer, and there has never been a crime other than killing his head in his eyes, once he commits it in his hands, it must be a dead end.

Now some people in the cottage make mistakes, if they can't escape, they all take the initiative to surrender to Zhu Fu and others, for fear of falling into the big village owner, and the head will not be guaranteed.

This is also deliberately done by Ghost Li, he only cares about heavy punishment cases, and he only doesn't know about ordinary cases, and hands them over to a few other people to deal with.

Most of the people in this world are afraid of power and not virtue, he only needs to be feared, not respected.

However, things in the world are so strange, and the more he is like this, the more others respect him.

Li Gui hated the gentry, but he also didn't like the grassy peasants on the walls.

In his opinion, this group of people who only live for the sake of living, who are obedient and have no sense of resistance, deserve to be treated in any way.

As for educating the people and making them awaken, that is something that only heroes do, but he, a thief, has no such awareness.

If you are poor, you will be alone, and if you are good, you will have a group of wives and concubines, and you will help the world, and whoever wants to do it will do it, and he will not do it anyway.

The reason why he ordered that he was not allowed to oppress the good was entirely because he felt too low, and a group of poor ghosts couldn't squeeze oil at all.

If the peasant is rich, do you think he will tax seventy years from now?

But in the eyes of the copycats, they don't think so.

Everyone thinks that the owner of Dazhai is a hero who loves the people like a son, but he is a little arrogant.

Guanyu Cottage has acted in the past few months, and it deserves its name for Tianxingdao.

The name is right.

Although the local farmers are still a little alienated from the bandits, they no longer avoid snakes and scorpions, that is, they hit their heads on the country road, and the farmers have to praise a few good men, laugh and get out of the way, and no longer everyone shouts and beats, and wants to take them to the yamen in exchange for rewards.

How could the bandits have ever been treated like this?

At first, I only felt a little flattered, but slowly I got used to it.

They are not stupid, of course they know why this happens, and because of this, they are even more embarrassed to hurt the poor.

And so a kind of virtuous circle is created.

The bandits did not harm the poor, the poor were polite to the bandits, the thieves were more willing to live in peace with the peasants, and the poor were more and more supportive of the bandits.

Under this virtuous circle, the rules set by Li Gui at the beginning are easier to implement.

Now the bandits walk in the countryside, they all hold their heads high, and they are quite proud of Yushan.

The cohesion among the cottages is getting stronger and stronger, and there are more and more people who come to vote.

Most of these people are people who have been forced to become displaced people in the surrounding counties for various reasons, and they have no choice but to fight between the mountains and forests and become bandits, or cultivate a piece of land in the forest and become a wild man.

Now the surrounding bandits have been suppressed by Ghost Li, they have nowhere to go, and they heard about the benevolence and righteousness of the Yushan thieves, so they came to vote.

Ghost Li drove away those sturdy men who were willing to be thieves, and other honest people who still wanted to farm.

The land in the mountains and forests is barren, and the food grown is only enough for their own rations, which is not helpful to the cottage at all, and they have to worry about their food, clothing, housing and transportation safety.

Those who enter the cottage as thieves are his subordinates, and those who do not enter the cottage are all outsiders, and they are all out.

Whoever cares about it will take care of it, and he doesn't care anyway!

Who knew that this group of peasants was cunning, not far behind the cottage, cutting down trees to build houses, reclaiming land, and living there.

Due to Ghost Li's previous ban, the people in the cottage did not dare to drive them away.

After Ghost Li knew about this, he scolded a few words, then ignored them and went with them.

After the autumn harvest, there are already thousands of people on Yushan, in addition to more than 1,000 men, including their current families, they also live in the cottage.

In line with the idea that those who have constant birth have perseverance, Ghost Li has given all the thieves who have made meritorious contributions a mother-in-law.

Although Yishui County has had a bumper harvest this year because of the Yushan Village, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, there are still a lot of poor farmers around Yishui County who can't survive.

Although the name of the Yushan thief is ugly, the name of benevolence and righteousness spreads far and wide, and those poor people who can't survive, marrying their daughters to the Yushan thieves is also a good thing.

There is no need for a matchmaker to introduce them, as long as the poor family takes their daughter to the cottage and leaves their daughter at the tax customs, they can naturally go back with a rich "dowry". said to the outside world that her daughter was robbed by Yushan thieves, and the government couldn't go to trouble the bitter master.

But what the truth is, everyone knows each other, but they just don't say it.

As long as Yushanzhai gets the mother-in-law, it doesn't care about these false names.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of this "marriage road", Li Gui led people to repeatedly sweep near the official roads in the county, and cleaned up all jackals, tigers, leopards, poisonous insects and beasts, and by the way, the road was repaired, the bushes and the like were cleaned up, and the mud pits were filled in, making it more convenient for pedestrians to walk.

As for the large number of caravans that have been attracted because of this, it is a surprise.

The customs finally played its due role, collecting taxes in a fixed amount, giving away a tax-paid flag, and you can walk freely in the prefecture without worrying about being robbed.

If anyone dares not to give face to Yushanzhai, it is just right to let Ghost Li's big axe make a fortune in the city.

Although everything is on the right track, Yishui County is not a big place in the first place, and the commercial taxes that can be collected are still pitiful, and it is really unbearable to maintain the use of cottages.

There was no way, Ghost Li had to find another way to rob the rich and help the poor.

The rich gentry who can be cleared have already passed the way for the sky, and those who fled into the county town have also been copied from their homes, which is really hairless.

After carefully considering the "100 Rich List" produced by Zhu Fu for a long time, Ghost Li's eyes finally fell on the names of the snakes at the end of the list.