Since Ghost Li left, Zhu Fu and Li Yun were in charge of Yishui County, and Master Song Changping was in charge of government affairs.

Just hide it from the state officials, and nothing happens.

Even if Ghost Li leaked his whereabouts in Tokyo City, others would only think that Ding Enlu County had played some routine tricks of officials who deceived his superiors and subordinates, but they never thought that the entire Yishui County had changed the world.

Everything that required Ding Zhixian to come forward was all done by Master Song, and he said to the outside world that Zhixian was sick.

The gentry of this county have all been killed, who dares to talk so much about this?

In order not to be suspected, even the daily taxation, grain collection and other routine affairs, Yishui County did it correctly.

Herein lies the problem!

They did a great job!

According to the normal situation, the annual taxation and grain collection in various localities are all long-standing difficulties, and they must rely on the strong support of the gentry in order to carry them out in various counties and townships.

And the gentry did not do things in vain, and often used various methods to reduce or reduce their own taxes and grain.

For the sake of the overall situation, the local magistrate turned a blind eye and did not know.

The most obvious result of this is that when it is actually shipped to the state, it will press the set standard line, and there will not be a little more, and sometimes it may not be enough.

Of course, the state knows this kind of thing, so it only needs to be seen if it can meet the minimum standards required by the state.

After the Yushan thieves became the masters, the land was divided, and a large number of displaced people were recruited, the number of acres of registered land increased, and the standard of grain tax also rose.

In the past, farmers had to pay rent and pay grain, and then they couldn't keep a few of them, but now there are no landlords to exploit and no officials to be greedy for ink, and the peasants' lives are good, and they don't care too much about the little things that pay for grain.

Moreover, the management of the Yushan thieves is simple and rude, and those who dare to cheat will be stabbed with a click, and then the land will be distributed to others.

The other officials beat people at most, but the Yushan thief really dared to kill.

Other magistrates don't dare to stir up civil unrest, and the Yushan thieves are really not afraid of this!

So after cutting off a few "smart" heads, each family honestly paid for the grain truthfully.

As for the commercial tax, now Yishui County has no city gate tax, poll tax and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there are no bandits who set up cards everywhere to intercept them, and even the official roads have been rebuilt, and those merchants in the past only need to pay taxes in proportion to the value of the goods.

Those businessmen are all shrewd, as long as they have been to Yishui County once, they will find that now the tax is less and the security is higher.

The local people are rich and willing to spend money on things and earn more, and of course they are willing to come here often.

Today's Yishui County has long been the most prosperous county in Yizhou, and under the armpits, this business tax will naturally increase.

Then Zhu Fu and others found that the taxes and grain collected far exceeded the standard.

In other words, this Yishui County has never really received taxes and grain in full in the past, and now I want to know who evaded taxes, or whose hands those taxes and grains fell into.

Zhu Fu and others paid the grain in full, but they didn't want the court to be suspicious, and they were not really loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, so they withheld a lot of grain taxes and only paid the standards set above.

They thought that this was the end of it, and I hinted that if the task was completed, your court would never come to me for trouble, right?

But they don't know that when all the counties are shirking their grievances and trying in every possible way to reduce or reduce the tax amount, this Yishui County is simply the first to pay all the taxes and grains in full, how eye-catching it is.

Under normal circumstances, Yishui Zhixian should often send people to walk around the state, inquire about news, and make friends and relationships, and they will definitely know this problem when the time comes.

But that Ding Enlu has long been dead, where will he still do these things.

As a result, Yishui County did not get any news.

And then this group of people did this every time they taxed and collected grain, and it attracted the attention of the state.

A careful check of the situation in Yishui County revealed that Yishui County had been calm in the past two years, and no litigation cases had been reported.

What does this mean?

The saint is precious for not litigate!

This shows that Ding Zhi County has the merit of education, so that a group of Diao people are content with their duties, and no one will run to complain!

At first, the state thought that this Ding Zhixian was a cadre and wanted to promote him, but it turned out that Ding Enlu couldn't be a man and never came to visit.

Even during the New Year's holidays, this Ding Enlu never sent a gift list.

This made the officials in the state extremely dissatisfied, so they sent people down to inspect.

This matter in Yishui County was originally only to guard against outsiders and not hide from locals.

The messenger spun around and learned the truth.

When I went back to report to the state, the big people were immediately furious.

Is this worth it?

Not to mention that the Yushan thieves harmed the county, they also impersonated and controlled the affairs of the county.

This is a great perverse crime!

It's tolerable, it's unbearable!

However, the ferocity of the Yushan thieves back then, the people of Yizhou had seen it, and knew that the state could not be cleared, so they had to ask for help.

It just so happened that Ghost Li rebelled and seized Sanzhou, and the imperial court was about to send troops to fight, so by the way, they divided one to take back this Yishui County first.

Ghost Li knew the situation in Yishui County, and without him there, with Zhu Fu and Li Yun, he wouldn't be able to hold there at all.

Today's plan is to defeat this Yanzhou and connect Yunzhou and Yizhou together, so that troops can be sent over to support at any time.

In that case, let's fight!

Ghost Li called Qi and the brothers and began to discuss.

The heroes of Liangshan have also swept away a lot of big Zhuangzi these days, but they are obviously more interested in conquering the city.

Hearing that Brother Li Ghost was finally going to expand outward, he couldn't help but be very excited.

"Brother, since Yanzhou is going to be fought, I will simply occupy a few more states, directly kill Mizhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou, and open up the sea mouth, so that this big ship from Liangshan can go directly into the sea along Jishui."

Ruan's three Xiong didn't know where to get a map, patted Na Denglai Erzhou, and shouted excitedly.

Li Ghost blinked his eyes, and found that this seemed to be the truth, so he slapped his thigh and shouted:

"Good!"

"Then occupy the latter states, and by the way, Qingzhou, Weizhou, and Mizhou will also be occupied, otherwise it will inevitably be attacked in the abdomen and annoyed to death!"

Hearing that he was going to fight Qingzhou, Qin Ming said:

"That Qingzhou's soldiers and horses are in charge of Sanshan Huangxin, who is my apprentice."

"I'll send a letter, when the inside and the outside should be combined, the soldiers will not be bloody, and Qingzhou will be taken."

So everyone claimed their own targets and went to attack different state capitals.

Ma Ling's legs were fast, so he went to Yizhou to meet Zhu Fu and others first, took the initiative to attack, occupied Yizhou first, and then took Qin Ming's letter to solicit Huang Xin.

If Huang Xin didn't obey, he took him directly and took Qingzhou.

That Yizhou has already been cleaned up by Li Gui, and Qingzhou has been recruited by Song Jiang again, and there is no extravagant character for a long time, and no one can stop Ma Ling's gold bricks.

Fan Rui led Xiang Chong and Li Gon to set out from Shanzhou to fight Xuzhou, Huaiyang Army and Haizhou.

Niu Wenzhong led Fang Qiong, An Shirong and his party to fight Yanzhou and Qizhou.

Lin Chong led Lu Zhishen and Shi Jin and his party to fight the Guangji Army and Xingren Mansion.

Li Gui personally went to Puzhou and entered Kaide Mansion.

Wang Jin and Qin Ming were not healed from their injuries, so they stayed in Liangshan, and if there was any information or news, it would be passed on by carrier pigeons, and if it was urgent, let Ma Ling run.

As for Weizhou, Mizhou, Dengzhou, and Laizhou being too far away, you might as well wait until you occupy all these places before thinking about it.

Originally, the outline set that Ding Zhixian, a dead ghost, was promoted, but when I wrote this, I suddenly thought that a "good official" like Ding Zhixian would definitely not be promoted in a corrupt officialdom, so I changed it.

PS: For the relevant locations in each state, you can refer to the "Jingdong Road" map at the top of the book review area, and you can also view the past maps in the writer's statement.

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