Lu Ming

Chapter 402: Meeting in the Lake

Hearing that his proposal was rejected by Luo Shizhi, Fang Yuegong was really speechless.He can't even walk now, because he doesn't know why Xiong Dao paid such a high price.

Regarding this matter, Xiong Dao naturally would not tell the natives the truth - the people who traveled through the land now regard the people "under the rule" with the mentality of a shadow government.

Projects such as building roads and bridges are the basic responsibility of the government. If they don’t do it now, they will still do it in the future. Early investment and early profit will be made.Like education, the biggest beneficiary of any public project is always the government, not to mention the combination of the government and the super capitalists.

After seeing Fang Fuzun confused, Luo Shizhi finally told him another reason Xiong Dao told him, to reassure him.

"Relocate?" Fang Yuegong finally heard this request.

"Yes, resettlement!" Luo Shizhi explained with a smile: "To build the seawall requires a large number of peasants. The fourth elder brother might as well postpone the corvee service and gather those refugees and beggars on the spot and use them as relief. This will relieve the poverty of the people. The danger of change is the same merit for living people."

At this point, Luo Shizhi finally showed his fox tail: "As for after the seawall is built, it will be a disaster to keep it in this life. Mud legs are used to causing trouble, so you might as well hand them over to Master Xiong and send them to Yizhou to open up wasteland. "

"How courageous!" Fang Yuegong said the price again after a big stone fell from his heart at this time: "Wrapping all the people under the government of this government to the land outside the land, what crime should the surname Xiong deserve!?"

"This...Xiong, as the governor, sent hundreds of thousands of hungry people to Yizhou last year. There are countless people alive. He is probably guilty."

"emmmmm", after Fang Yuegong heard this slap in the face of pretending to be stupid, he was a little stuck for a while, not knowing what to say.

"Fourth elder brother, Mr. Xiong gave you money like seawater to help you build sea ponds and leave a legacy. Helping this kind of rare good deed is nothing more than to move some refugees to the border. Xiong Wencan knows that public and private are both convenient, You are a government official as big as a sesame seed, why do you fill yourself with big cloves of garlic?"

"Uh..." Fang Yuegong was a little embarrassed at this moment.Cannibal's mouth is soft, and his hands are short. In fact, compared to the political costs he imagined, the effort of sending some refugees to settle down in the real world afterwards is too small for Fang Yuegong.

In fact, there has been a saying in all dynasties that "relocate people to real borders".Criminals, refugees and even son-in-law are the main occupations sent to the frontier.

Now that Mr. Cao has surrendered to the imperial court and has become a military general with a full set of official titles, the Yizhou he opened up by himself is also counted as the frontier of the imperial court to a certain extent.

Based on this theory, at least in terms of policy, the operator has a legal basis for sending some refugees who cannot survive to the frontier military guards.

So after Fang Yuegong was reminded by Luo Shizhi just now, he immediately realized the operation idea of ​​​​this matter: "Remove people and strengthen borders."

After reminiscing in his mind about Xiong Wencan's solution to the drought and hunger in the mansion newspaper last year, Fang Yuegong already had some calculations in his heart, and by the way, his words softened a lot: "Oh, as a parent in one place, I can't bear to see The people were displaced, and the flesh and blood were separated."

"Joke, those people who went to Yizhou, life is better than waiting to die here." Luo Shizhi looked contemptuous at this moment: "There are tens of thousands of people in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong working and farming in Yizhou. If life is difficult, wouldn't those muddy legs come back sooner?"

"Maybe it was detained and not allowed to go."

"Brother Si, you've got it wrong. People in Yizhou have never been allowed to come and go, but after those people arrive at the port, they will call for friends and friends when they come back, dragging their families and families. Once they go, they will never look back. Brother, if you don't believe me, wait for you." When my relatives come back, the truth will come to light.”

"Since that's the case, I can keep my words in mind." Fang Yuegong has now agreed with his mind, but his body is still resisting: "The 5 taels of silver will be used to help you support Mr. Xiong, don't look for me afterwards , I will not return it even after looking for it.”

"It's easy to say, the port is collecting money recently, and the money is really too much to let go." Luo Shiyi smiled with a prepared face: "Is [-] enough, if it is not enough, I will send another [-] tomorrow!"

"Is this true!?"

"Plenty of real gold."

"Why is that?"

"Master Xiong said that if the fourth elder brother is interested, it will not be a problem to send another 2 silver. After the elder brother receives the silver, he can start to manipulate the 'real side' matter. He only needs to send it to Yizhou [-] people, the money will be counted, and the rest will belong to the fourth elder brother."

"Bastard! In this way, isn't this official the magistrate of adult traffickers?"

"Isn't it better than begging for help from the magistrate? Seeing how poor you were yesterday, why do you still want to build the seawall?"

"Stay here, stay here, let me think about it again."

"What are you thinking about, such a good thing, there is nowhere to look for it with a lantern."

At the same time that Xiongdao's silver bullet offensive hit Songjiang Mansion, the Land Deed Alliance also made adjustments according to the situation.

Regarding the Songjiang government office, the Land Deed Alliance immediately rejected Fang Yuegong's lion mouth.

The joke was just to send tolerance to harass Xiong Dao for a few days, so that he had no time to send people to burn the mulberry garden.For such a little work, Fang Yuegong dared to propose the condition of adding [-]% of silver per mu as a "sea pond donation", which is really out of his mind!
After scolding Fang Yuegong, the nine-headed guy from Hubei, for being cunning and lowly, for not being a human being, the Land Deed Alliance unanimously decided to give up the way of the Songjiang Mansion, rely on themselves, and tide over the difficulties.

The so-called self-reliance is actually very simple: From now on, the tenants of the manor must organize themselves to take care of their mulberry fields and fish ponds all night, so as not to be harmed by people sent by Xiongdao again.

This kind of action similar to patrol team also needs to pay resources.A large number of tenants guard and patrol day and night, whether it is fuel or grain, the owner always subsidizes the consumption.

Of course, these costs are nothing compared to the taxes paid by the Hubei guys.After all, this kind of high-intensity confrontation does not need to last for a long time, and everyone can afford it even if they grit their teeth.In addition, after the newly joined hawkish gentry Mr. Huang said that he had half a warehouse of old rotten rice to support everyone, the morale of the alliance suddenly rose again.

While doing a good job of defense, another envoy from the alliance also came to Sanshan Island.

Eight hundred miles away, Taihu Lake is adjacent to Wuxi in the north and Suzhou in the east, straddling the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Sanshan Island is located in Taihu Lake in the southwest of Suzhou. It is a large and two small mountain islands.

There are [-] to [-] islands in Taihu Lake, and Sanshan Island is located at the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. It has always been the throat of the Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou waterways.

Since it is such an important place, the residents of Sanshan Island are naturally inseparable from the bandits.In the Ariake area, there are 600 households with a population of more than 3000 permanent residents on Sanshan Island. Apart from fishing and planting tangerines, these people also join gangs and go out to make votes.

Historically, in Sanshan Island, there was one temple every 0.18 square kilometers on average.On the small island, there are more than ten temples, temples, and nunneries squeezed out. It can be seen how fierce the belief dispute is in the land of Gaoliang in Sanwu.

Today, in an abandoned nunnery on the main island of Sanshan, there is a meeting going on.

Dozens of Jianghu men in short brown clothes with short knives on their waists are standing in a circle around the Buddhist altar in the temple. Among the participants, there are three biggest gangsters in Taihu Lake, and the shopkeepers of three or five small gangs. and their cronies.

The conveners of this meeting were two literati in green robes and square scarves.

The leader of the two was a scholar named Mao Yi.This person was different from ordinary scholars, he was born with a big shoulder and a round waist, and his face was fleshy. He really didn't look like a scholar.

At this moment, Mao Xiucai was standing on the statue of Bodhisattva with one foot on the ground, raised his body, and talked to the bosses around him: "There are no more than 40. [-] taels of silver! As the old man said, this vote will not be split, and you will take it all yourself!"

When Mao Xiucai said this, he glanced around triumphantly: "Masters also said that after this incident is completed, all shopkeepers who have worked hard will increase the price of "shipping" by half in the future! Ha ha, why? So, is it generous enough?"

Sure enough, as soon as Mao Xiucai finished speaking, most of the people around him had smiles mixed with excitement and cruelty.

The next moment, a stocky, black-faced man asked everyone's aspirations: "How is that private port prepared?"

This man's name is Niu Jinluo, and he is the leader of the Chaohu gang who is currently the most powerful among the three groups of lake bandits.

Chaohu is in Jiangbei, so the members of the Chaohu Gang are naturally from Jiangbei.Most of these people are bankrupt and unemployed schooners on the canal, Cao Ding, and by the way, refugees and bandits who came to Jiangbei to make a living. The Chaohu Gang has always been one of the large forces in Taihu Lake.

Hearing the question from the boss of the Chaohu Gang, Mao Yi nodded, then took out a roll of maps from his sleeve, spread them out on the dusty Buddhist altar, and introduced the defense of Shanghai Port to the group of robbers in detail: "Now all warehouses They are all empty, and there are not many people left in the shops in the Outer Harbor, so you only need to go straight to Huanglong when the time comes."

"The Port Office is just next to the pier. It is a unique two-story stone building. It is very conspicuous and can be seen from a long distance. There is only a low wall around the compound, which is less than five feet (1 meters) high. It's the children who have turned over."

"There are 50 servants in Xiongdao, all of them are holding bird guns. Everyone here needs to be careful, the bird gun can fire a shot of medicine within ten breaths, and the range is three to four hundred steps. It is very powerful. !"

"Be careful with poisonous smoke and firecrackers. I don't know what kind of herbs are mixed in it. It's very overbearing. Those who suffer from runny nose can't see. You need to cover your face with wet wipes to relieve it."

"Besides that, there are about 50 copywriter tents, and they rest in these low courtyards at night."

"There are about 500 civilians who spend the night in a warehouse in the distance. This generation does not need to care about it."

"There is only one thing you need to keep in mind: that Xiong Dao's life must not be changed. This man has a bun, which is different from the short hair under his hands, so he is very recognizable."

"After you catch him, please return to Taihu Lake respectfully, and wait for me to discuss important matters with him."

(End of this chapter)