"In front is the Yijun Ridge, and after the Yijun Ridge is Yuefeng Mountain, where Qinxian's summoning order is. A strong man said to the other three.

The four of them stopped and looked at the Righteous Army Ridge in the distance. One of them said, "I thought it was a lofty mountain, how could it be?"

In the distance, there were mounds of earth, each of which was covered with green vegetation. From a distance, the mound looks like a cactus, and the mound above it is like a cactus' stinging needle.

At this time, someone from behind suddenly shouted: "Are you the brothers of the Xiao family?"

As soon as the four people in front turned around, they saw a person coming behind them, looking familiar, but they couldn't call their names. The man introduced himself: "I am Zhang Baozhu of the Luohan Digong Boxing, and I saw four heroes at the birthday banquet of the old man Qin of the Taiji Dragon Stick last time. ”

It turned out that these four people were the Xiao brothers of the Jiangnan Four Heroes. After the man introduced himself, they remembered that this was the head of the Arhat Digong Fist in Minjiang's "Ten Nothings". Luohan Digong Boxing belongs to the weaker sect in the first echelon of Minjiang martial arts, and it is not as large as the Qiankun Gate, but is similar to the Poke Foot Gate or the Flip Boxing Gate. However, Zhang Baozhu's martial arts are not as good as Cui Shizhuang or Ji Gudan, so they are not revealed in the "Ten Nothings".

The Xiao brothers hurriedly bowed their hands, and the eldest brother, the Golden Sword Dragon, Xiao Tianheng, asked, "Zhang Daxia has received a summoning order from Qin Xian?"

Zhang Baozhu hurriedly smiled: "Exactly." Then he said quite complacently, "Our Luohan Digongmen and Qinshan have been friends for more than ten years, and when Qinxian traveled to Minjiang, he also stayed in our Luohan Digongmen for a while. ”

"Oh" Golden Sword Dragon Xiao Tianheng glanced at his brothers and said, "That Zhang Daxia will come alone this time?"

Zhang Baozhu laughed a few times and said: "Xiao Daxia doesn't know, there are a lot of big things in Minjiang, and I can't get out." But he had a deep friendship with Qin Xian, so he rushed over, and all his disciples stayed in Minjiang. ”

The third strong elephant Xiao Tianqiang hurriedly asked: "Not long after we left Minjiang just now, what happened to Minjiang?"

Zhang Baozhu said: "A few of them left after attending the funeral of the Taiji Dragon Stick Old Man Qin, so I don't know what happened at the Minjiang Martial Arts Heroes Banquet later." But a lot of things happened after that. ”

Xiao Tianqiang saw that he knew the inside story, and hurriedly said: "My brother happened to bring dry food and wine, it is better to find a clean place to sit down, Zhang Daxia told me in detail about the story and listened to the four of my brothers." ”

So the five of them picked up a leeward place here and sat on the ground. The Xiao brothers took out the drinks and food they brought with them and put them in the center. Zhang Baozhu was not polite, eating and drinking, while telling the story of the Qiankun Sect Master Ge Tianbao holding the Minjiang Martial Arts Heroes Banquet, the eight sects at the banquet to catch and kill, Qin Hai obtained the leader of the Minjiang Martial Arts Alliance, Nuwa killed Qin Hai's second brother Qin Yang, Qin Hai accused Ge Tianbao of hiring Nuwa to commit murder, and Zuojiang scholars came forward to resolve the dispute. Because he saw it with his own eyes, he told the story in detail.

After speaking, the Xiao brothers were dumbfounded. Xiao Tiankun, the second tiger, asked: "Zuojiang scholar said that the Shaolin monk arranged for someone to investigate this matter?"

Zhang Baozhu said with a smile: "I was on the side at the time, and I guessed who it was as soon as Zuojiang Scholar said it." ”

Xiao Tiancheng, the old fourth gibbon, also asked, "Who is it?"

Zhang Baozhu said with a smile: "It's the top ten masters from Shaolin, the Golden Palm Stone Buddha." ”

The Xiao brothers took a breath and said again and again: "Yes, only he can investigate clearly." Because Zhong Kunlun of Black Dragon Village was killed, it was the Golden Palm Stone Buddha who found out the truth and arrested the real culprit. ”-

Zhong Kunlun gets up every day on the fifth watch, and opens the door in the conference hall to discuss matters. In the past, in addition to the four village owners, the sub-village owners, commanders, captains, and school captains of each village were also eligible to participate in the deliberations. Therefore, every day, hundreds of people stand or sit in the conference hall, announcing a decision, shouting at the top of their voices, and if they want to discuss a matter, they can't finish speaking at noon, so they can only eat something in the conference hall, and everyone will continue to talk in the afternoon.

Zhong Kunlun saw that this was not good, so he changed the deliberative system, and only summoned four village owners and a few sub-village owners to discuss the matter at a time. Then the four village owners and sub-village owners will convey the content of the meeting. However, in the big cottage of 40,000 or 50,000 people, there are a lot of trivial things every day, and some things can't be solved by just calling these people to a meeting, so Zhong Kunlun reformed the deliberative system again. Implement the four-village main responsibility system. To put it simply, it is to retain the previous collective deliberation mode, but instead of Zhong Kunlun convening and presiding over the deliberations, a deliberative committee composed of four village owners and ten sub-village owners will meet together with hundreds of other people every day. Most of the matters can be resolved at the meeting, and some of the things that cannot be resolved on the spot are studied by this deliberative committee after the meeting. This deliberative committee is chaired by four village owners in turn, and is responsible for the deliberations during this period of time. Only when the deliberative committee can't solve the problem, it will be reported to Zhong Kunlun, and Zhong Kunlun and the four village owners will study it together. In general, this set of management methods is more suitable for Black Dragon Village, and it also greatly reduces the pressure on Zhong Kunlun, whenever he thinks of this, Zhong Kunlun is proud that he can design such a complete system.

But this system is not as perfect as Zhong Kunlun thought, and the problem mainly appears in this deliberative committee. As mentioned earlier, this committee consisted of a total of four village owners and ten sub-village owners. There are four to five sub-owners under each of the four owners of the Black Dragon Village, and there are nearly twenty sub-owners in total. Only half of the people can join the council, and the other half of the sub-owners who are not on the deliberative committee can only participate in collective deliberations with the commanders, captains, and captains below, and when there are important things that need to be determined by the deliberative committee, these sub-owners who are not on the deliberative committee have no right to vote. Therefore, even if he is also in the position of the head of the village, whether he is a member of the council or not, the difference will be very large.

When Zhong Kunlun designed this system, he did not take into account the rotation of the members of the deliberative committee. This is because in addition to the four owners of the Black Dragon Village, there are also many "old people" who have laid down the Black Dragon Village with themselves, and some of these people have become the sub-owners of the village second only to the four village owners, Zhong Kunlun can't ignore these people, so he arranged for them to be a member of the committee. Moreover, the Black Dragon Village did not develop in a day, and there were not so many owners at the beginning, so naturally there was no need to consider the problem of rotation. But now that the Black Dragon Village is getting bigger and bigger, there are more and more owners of the village, and everyone is sitting in rows, and the "fruit" of the deliberative committee is not enough. Later, Zhong Kunlun felt this problem and set a rotation system, but he didn't have more energy to perfect his decision.

Because a more serious problem has arisen than the rotation of the members of the council, and that is the problem of the chairman. Among the fourteen members of the committee, only four of the village owners can be the chairman of the committee, responsible for the work of the committee during this period of time, and also directly responsible to Zhong Kunlun, the head of the village. Therefore, each chairman of the council committee is a powerful person above 10,000 people under one person in the entire Black Dragon Village. Considering that Zhong Kunlun hardly asks about the daily management of Black Dragon Village, so which village owner is the chairman of the council, then he is the most powerful person in Black Dragon Village during this time. This kind of right is as big as the financial distribution of the Black Dragon Village, and as small as determining the salary of a Black Dragon Village soldier. The people, money, and materials of the Black Dragon Village are all decided by the committee, and the most important person who influences the decision of the committee is the chairman of the committee.

A village owner became the chairman of the committee, and he first wanted to ensure his own interests, and secondly, the interests of the cottages under his jurisdiction. Protecting one's own interests does not only mean making a lot of money during one's own chairmanship, but also means that one's own interests cannot be harmed when others are chairmans. Therefore, during the period of serving as the chairman, each owner of the village will exchange interests with other owners in order to maintain his own interests for more time. This kind of balance created by constraints is one of the things that Zhong Kunlun thinks is particularly good about the system he has designed.

Indeed, from the point of view of conception, Zhong Kunlun's deliberative committee can indeed allow the owners of the village to restrain each other and balance their strength, so that the Black Dragon Village can develop in a balanced manner. In practice, however, this idea was quickly shattered because of the inherent inadequacy of the Commission's creation. Tian Zhige, Shi Zhiyong, Wu Weiqi and Xiao Junnan quickly divided the power of the committee asymmetrically because of their different backgrounds and abilities.

When Zhong Kunlun realized this problem, his retirement age had also arrived. Zhong Kunlun never worried that his authority in the Black Dragon Village would be lost with his retirement, but he needed a name to continue to make him rightfully dictate the affairs of the village. After failing to succeed as the head of the village, he became the unprecedented general counsel of the Black Dragon Village. At first, he was quite dissatisfied with Akiko's troubles. But he was a clever man, and he realized that the general adviser was far better than he wanted to be the head of the village: on the one hand, he could maintain his authority, and on the other hand, he would not leave a voice. Moreover, this Mingzi monk is outstanding in martial arts, simple, and fits his dreams, so he may come out to stir up the situation because of God's favor for him. Another person who makes him happy is Wu Weiqi.

Speaking of which, Zhong Kunlun is a relatively fair village owner, and it can be seen from his division of the Black Dragon Village into four that he is very fair to these four village owners. As for the future development, it depends on the ability of these four village owners. Among the four cottages, Tian Zhige, the owner of the big village, and Xiao Junnan, the owner of the four villages, are better at running their own cottages. There is a problem involved in this, that is, the financial problems of Black Dragon Village. A cottage in Nuoda supports 40,000 or 50,000 people, and the daily ration alone consumes 100 stones, which is 36,000 stones a year. And that's just food, and all sorts of other expenses, which add up to a huge amount.

What are the economic sources of Heilongzhai? One is the fertile land that Mingzi and Huniu saw when they went up the mountain, and Heilongzhai farmed and was basically self-sufficient. One is taxation, Taihang Mountain Wuzhi Mountain Black Dragon Pond is the base camp of Black Dragon Village, but the influence of Black Dragon Village radiates almost the entire Taihang Mountain, and Black Dragon Village collects taxes on the people in this area. The so-called taxes and fees charged by Black Dragon Village are actually protection fees. However, unlike the government's collection of taxes and taxes for all the people, Heilongzhai only collects protection fees for wealthy families, and this fee is still within its acceptable range, so it has not attracted much disgust for so many years. Another item is management. Heilongzhai has its own industry, mainly operating inns and trading mountain goods in various places. The inn is not profitable, and the income is only enough to meet daily expenses. This is because the inn does not exist for profit, its role is to probe and pass on news, and it is used as the eyeliner of Black Dragon Village all over the country, but the mountain goods trade is a big source of money for Black Dragon Village to earn money. The Taihang Mountains are very rich in products, and as the most influential organization here, Heilongzhai has made full use of its own advantages to establish a large and complete trade chain of fur and herbs. Every inn in the Black Dragon Village has gathered a lot of people who specialize in the mountain goods trade, and a large number of furs and herbs are sold from here through them.

In addition to these three items, Heilongzhai also has an important economic pillar, that is, the concession of iron ore operations. Salt and iron have been a state monopoly since ancient times. But the situation here is more special, the Taihang Mountains are rich in iron ore, but if the government wants to monopolize it, it must deal with the black dragon village entrenched here. At that time, Zhong Kunlun had not yet established the Black Dragon Village, which was occupied by a group of mountain bandits, and the local government had sent troops to encircle and suppress it many times, in order to eliminate the mountain bandits and avoid their impact on iron mining. However, the mountain bandits are difficult to eliminate with the Taihang barrier. Later, Zhong Kunlun came, although the leader of the mountain bandits was executed, but under the leadership of Zhong Kunlun, the power increased hundreds of times, even if he did not hide with the mountain barrier, set up a position to confront the official army, the government was not an opponent. As a result, the iron ore here became a concession cooperative, which was jointly operated by the Black Dragon Village and the government. In addition to iron ore, there are also coal mines. Because the coal mine is not a franchise, Heilongzhai firmly holds the independent operation right of the coal mine. The above four items are the economic pillars of Heilongzhai. Zhong Kunlun handed over these four items to the four village owners to be responsible. Tian Zhige was in charge of taxation, Shi Zhiyong was in charge of Tuntian, Wu Weiqi was in charge of minerals, and Xiao Junnan was in charge of trade.

The iron ore and coal mines here are mainly open-pit mines, which are not very difficult to mine. However, although the mining area is in the Taihang Mountains, it is far away from the Black Dragon Village, and the miners have to sleep in the wild for a long time. Wu Weiqi had to take care of the work of the deliberative committee on the one hand, and spent a lot of time supervising the work in the mining area on the other hand, and he always felt that he had no skills. It's better to try to change the stall to manage, Wu Weiqi often thinks like this.

There is another very important reason why he wants to change his stall, that is, Xiao Junnan. Xiao Junnan is his junior brother and is in charge of all the trade in the Black Dragon Village. In addition to mountain goods and inns, this is the mineral trade. Iron ore is dug up and can be kept secretly. But if it is sold, it can only be sold to the yamen. Coal can be sold, but Xiao Junnan is in charge, and Wu Weiqi can't get involved. He is responsible for production, but he does not have the right to operate. Wu Weiqi always felt that he was working for Xiao Junnan, which made him very unhappy. But he didn't dare to disobey Zhong Kunlun's order, so he could only wait for an opportunity to take the position. But he also knew that Xiao Junnan had been in control of the business for so long, how could he take it over all at once.

Unexpectedly, the golden basin handwashing banquet gave him a chance to perform. But this opportunity was fleeting. Because of the fifth watch of this day, Zhong Kunlun did not get up.