Chapter 5 People, Money, and Food

Is this the owner of the village?

Zou Runwu was still confused, but Zou Yuan, who was sitting in the first place, didn't care about this, he was a rough man with an open heart and didn't care much, and he had long been impatient to take care of these birds, so he touched his head and greeted his nephew:

"Okay, it's all my own brothers, and I'm still kneeling on the ground to do something, so get up quickly."

"Those who have ministry on their bodies will stay, and the rest will be scattered, and those who should do things will do things, and later the owner of the village will arrange for you to reward you with wine and food."

When all the minions heard this, they all got up, thanked them in unison, and then they all couldn't wait to get up and walk out. There is a fast-talking person, and before the front foot stepped out of the justice hall, the back foot exchanged heads with the people around him and said, "What did I say?" Second Leader...... cough, the owner of the village is born with a noble image, this time he does not sit in the position of the owner of the village, how can we live more happily in the future? ”

"Brother is talking about miles, I went to the rivers and lakes earlier, I don't know how many people's faces I have seen, and which of the tens of millions of people can compare to our village owner and his old man......"

"Oh? Brother, do you still look at faces? ”

"Huh? Ahem...... That, I only know a little bit about that, a little bit about it...... Hehe......"

"In that case, brother help me take a look, and calculate when I will be able to make a fortune!"

"Help me take a look!"

"Count me in! Don't squeeze, don't squeeze! Later queues to go ......"

The noisy sound outside woke up the contemplative Zou Run, and as soon as he came back to his senses, he saw his uncle Zou Yuan raising Erlang's legs high, comfortably holding his arms in front of his chest, letting out a long sigh of relief, and instructing the few people left in the hall in a comfortable and comfortable tone.

"In the future, the eating, drinking, and Lazar of hundreds of people in the village will not bother me, you and others will hand over the matters in charge to the owner of the village to understand, and also teach the owner of the village to know how difficult it is to know how difficult it is to really start a family."

Zou Yuan, who got rid of his burden and was relaxed, said and showed a sincere smile to Zou Run, who was on the top.

"I follow the instructions of the two leaders, the villain Chen Xuan has seen the owner of the village, the villain is the minion who is in charge of the cottage Ding's ration and food ministry, I have 92 people in Dingkou in Dengyun Mountain, including 56 young and strong men who can carry knives into battle, 30 old and weak men, and 6 family members and women......"

"There are still more than 2,000 copper and iron coins, more than 500 taels of gold and silver, about 200 stones of wheat, rice, millet and other colored rice, and more than 80 pieces of cloth of various colors such as silk, linen, silk and cotton...... According to the food level under the new orders of the owner of the village, I have roughly estimated that only this grain and rice will cost no less than two stones per day for people and animals in the cottage, and the rest of the miscellaneous expenses will not be ......"

In the hall, Chen Xuan didn't look through any account books in his hand, but in the face of Zou Run, who was watching him closely, he didn't mess up the money and food data in the cottage at all, obviously a pragmatic person.

That eloquent posture made Zou Run, who was the owner of the village for the first time, shout in his heart, "What is a talent?" That's talent! ”

Zou Run suppressed the excitement in his heart, and he didn't pay much attention to the numbers that came out of Chen Xuan's mouth, because he knew that the little money on Dengyun Mountain's account was very tight.

Zou Run has his own plans for the lack of money and food in the cottage, but he is really lacking in the lack of people in the cottage, especially the lack of all kinds of talents, after all, there is no Internet in the Song Dynasty, and online recruitment cannot be implemented.

If you want to recruit the right people, in terms of the particularity of the thief industry, basically only the big fame and others take refuge and take the initiative to attack the pit and deceive, you don't see the Song Jiangwu duo in the original work of the Water Margin, in order to recruit security, all kinds of means are used to the extreme, just to desperately recruit all kinds of talents to expand their team, so that the capital of Zhao'an is thick, and they plan to sell it at a good price at that time.

"What's most important in the 21st century? Talent is the most important, and in the same way, talent in the twelfth century is also the most important! Zou Run secretly warned himself that not only should he firmly envelop the little-known Chen Xuan in front of him, but also plan in advance for those heroes of Liangshan in his memory.

“…… What the villain wants to talk about has been finished, and the owner of the cottage is still asked to make plans in advance. ”

The matter of money and food was quickly explained, Chen Xuan gave a salute, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

This new owner of the village gave him a very peculiar feeling, and he was almost like two people before. Because he can write and calculate, he has been receiving the money and food of the cottage since he went up the mountain, and he has been in contact with Zou Run before, and in his memory, the original second leader has a very strange temper and personality, and he doesn't talk much on weekdays, and he always looks like a living person is not allowed to enter.

"How can I be a different person after a serious illness......"

Just as Chen Xuan was muttering to himself, Zou Run also picked up the memories of Chen Xuan in his mind.

Chen Xuan is the son of the salt household in Dengzhou, from his ancestors for several generations have lived in the salt field, the ancestral accounting skills, the salt households in the Song Dynasty are also called pavilion households, whether they are in the coastal or inland, life can be described as dire and miserable.

For the salt produced by salt households, the imperial court levied extremely high taxes, increased layer by layer, apportionment was extremely heavy, and it was uniformly compulsory to collect money, and it was not allowed to sell it privately. This money is called "salt capital", but in practice, officials often collect the salt first, put it there in a blank slip, and then allocate this fee after a year or more.

However, during this period, salt farmers still had to produce salt and hand it over to the yamen, and they had to pay taxes with money, and they were not allowed to cultivate land and sell illegal salt without permission.

This situation has become more and more rampant since Emperor Huizong ascended the throne and enabled Cai Jing to carry out salt reforms, and the local officials of Dengzhou have intensified their exploitation of salt households in the territory, coupled with the fact that the old lady suddenly became seriously ill and urgently needed money, Chen Xuan sold all the valuable things in the family and it was not enough, so he had no choice but to borrow usury from large households.

Stained with loan sharks from nine out of thirteen, where can Chen Xuan fall well, within half a month was forcibly sold a few acres of thin land left by his ancestors, and within half a month was forcibly handed over the deed, the big family directly drove Chen Xuan and the sick old lady out of the house, it happened to be a heavy rain that night, the old lady was seriously ill, and she was angry, and she let go that night, poor Chen Xuan didn't even have the money to buy a straw mat.

Even so, the big family still refused to let go of Chen Xuan, stopped the villagers who wanted to help handle the funeral, and will issue a deed of sale, stating that only Chen Xuan signed the contract to find a piece of wasteland for his mother to settle down, Chen Xuan immediately rioted, grabbed a kitchen knife, killed the big family's dog legs, and carried the old lady's body overnight to Dengyun Mountain, so far it has been more than a year.

Thinking of this, Zou Run looked at the other minions in the hall who were in charge of the construction, the team, and the Fulu, all of whom were from ordinary hard backgrounds.

Well...... It seems that the composition of the backbone members of the cottage is very good, and they are bitter and bitter against the court and the world, and they think that a little guidance will stimulate strong motivation and combat effectiveness.

Dengyun Mountain is already sparsely populated, and his family background is meager, after learning about money and food, Zou Run didn't want to hear about other matters, so he turned to everyone in the hall:

"I took over the village from my uncle, I know a lot about the situation in the village, I am familiar with the details of you, and I don't have to give other matters, I have made up my mind, and all the ministries of the cottage are as usual, and no changes will be made!"

Hearing Zou Run say this, several other stewards in the hall who had not yet spoken were relieved, originally afraid that if they changed their bosses, the new village owners would arrange for their own people to take their positions, and after this promise, the atmosphere in the hall was much more lively.

There is an old-aged, talkative minion who said: "We have served the two leaders for a long time, and we are all loyal old men, how do we not know how to share the worries of the old people, this time we will teach the cottage children to know the good of the leaders." ”

"It's a mile, the owner of the village has something to order, we come and go in the wind and in the fire, where do we dare to have two words!"

Zou Run and Zou Yuan laughed when they heard this, and they all told each other that they were still such considerate old people, and Zou Run saw that the atmosphere here was very good, so he announced another happy event.

"You and others are all old people, I have become the owner of the village, I can't be without a lot of gratitude, and I can't make the brothers on the mountain laugh. Later, the word was passed down, and all the original stewards of the cottage were promoted to the boss! At night, the cottage slaughters sheep and pigs, fat chickens and tender geese are directly on the tube, and the rice tube is full! Enough wine pipes! ”

As soon as Zou Run's words came out, the minions on duty in the front hall and behind the hall, and the stewards including Chen Xuan were all overjoyed, and they knelt down and said, "I am willing to die for the brother of the owner of the village!" ”