Water Margin people

Chapter 352
Nothing happened on the road, and everyone arrived in Jeju within seven days. Sun Lei was not in a hurry to go up the mountain. He was going to eat at his hotel before returning to Liangshan, but when he entered the store, he met Zhu Gui.

"Brother, you are back!"

Zhu Gui, who was flipping through the ledger behind the hotel counter and dialing the abacus, went up to meet Sun Lei as soon as he came back.

"It's been a long time since I saw you, why is this?"

Seeing Zhu Gui's excited and eager look, Sun Lei smiled and said, when did Zhu Gui become like this.

"Brother, something serious happened!"

Zhu Gui pulled Sun Lei and walked out.

"What's the matter? What's the big deal? Did the officers and soldiers come to deliver the head?"

Sun Lei was very puzzled. With the current strength of Liangshanbo, as long as Tokyo does not send troops, the Xiang army in the local state capital is not worth mentioning. If they come, they will give away their heads. Enough to deal with, there is no need to be so panicked.

Zhu Gui didn't say a word, he pulled Sun Lei and walked out of the water pool, his anxious look really seemed like something serious happened.

The rest of the people also followed with their weapons. No matter who it is, if they dare to come to Liangshanbo to make trouble, they are looking for death.

Soon came to the northern periphery of Shuibo, looking around, there were patches of firewood huts, a large number of refugees sitting on the ground in the huts and basking in the sun, men and women with disheveled faces, all of them were sick and listless, with numb eyes, expressionless faces, and children. Hee hee playing in the meantime.

"What's this for? Where did it come from? I didn't let you kidnap people, did I?"

Sun Lei was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Zhu Gui and asked, could it be that people like Zhu Gui were in a hurry to strengthen Liangshan and went directly to the surrounding area to plunder the population?

Everyone behind Sun Lei was stunned, especially Wen Huanzhang, Xu Guanzhong, Xu Ning, Ling Zhen, and Li Shishi. They didn't expect this to be the scene when they came to Liangshan, which was completely different from the imagined Liangshan.

"Brother, how dare we plunder the population? These are the refugees who fled. They are all the people of Jeju and Yunzhou. There are already tens of thousands of people!"

Zhu Gui smiled wryly and said, without Sun Lei's order, they dared to do such things as looting population, besides, how could bandits loot population?

"Victims? Where did the victims come from? There was no flood this year!"

Sun Lei asked, this year's Beijing East and West Road can be said to be in good weather, even if it is not a good year, it is not a problem to keep food and clothing, how could there be tens of thousands of victims.

"Brother, there are man-made disasters without natural disasters! Last month, Xicheng came to Jeju and Yunzhou, and within a month, they turned Jeju and Yunzhou into purgatory on earth. Countless people broke their homes. These people have no way to survive. So I ran to Liangshanbo to seek a way out, and Liangshan Town was overcrowded for a while, my younger brother was afraid that there would be an accident if there were too many people, so I discussed with my brothers and moved the victims to a place far away from Liangshan."

Zhu Gui pointed to the large shack and said with a wry smile.

"West City Office?"

Sun Lei asked with a frown. The name was very strange, and he had no impression of it.

"But the West City where Yang Jian plundered the fertile land and expropriated it?"

Wen Huanzhang asked.

"This is Wen Huanzhang, this is Xu Guanzhong, and they will be Liangshan's military advisors from now on!"

Sun Lei pointed to Wen Huanzhang and Xu Guanzhong next to him and introduced Zhu Gui.

"As Military Master Wen said, it's the West City Office. It was very noisy in Ruzhou last year. I didn't expect it to go to Jeju and Yunzhou this year."

Zhu Gui knew that Sun Lei went to Tokyo this time to invite a big man to come back, but he didn't expect that there would be two of them this time.

"Brother, this Xicheng office is a vicious idea proposed by the subordinate Du Gong to Yang Jian. The purpose is to plunder the people's fertile land and forcibly distribute the wasteland, so as to plunder the people's wealth."

"The method is to legislate to claim the land deeds of the people, but most of the land deeds were issued when the country was founded. After so many years, the land deeds have been circulated among the people seriously, and many of them have been found without evidence. Yang Jian took back those lands by decree and classified them as public land."

"There are also many people who lost their fields in the past and chose to open up wasteland in order to survive. After years of hard work and cultivation, those wastelands have become good fields. These fields also have no title deeds, and they were also occupied by Yang Jian and returned to public land."

"And Yang Jian's greed doesn't stop there. He even locates dangerous places such as Tianhuang, escaped fields, abandoned dikes, abandoned weirs, retreated beaches, silted land, lakes and other dangerous places as public land, forcing the people to take tenants and expropriate public land money. Natural disasters in these places Constantly, it is not suitable for farming at all, apportionment of households is no different from robbery."

Wen Huanzhang said.

"More than that, those corrupt officials are the most capable of cooking oil. Our Jeju and Yunzhou are lands of fish and rice. Many people in the territory rely on fishing for a living. They have no land, so they rent and count boats, counting daily and monthly lessons, and fishing. The profit of the fish is exhaustive, if it is handed over according to the regulations, the fishermen will have no way to survive."

Zhu Gui smiled wryly.

Everyone frowned when they heard this. This was really exploitative to the extreme. They didn't give them a way to survive. No wonder the common people were scrambling to go up the mountain.

"To be honest, these people really have a lot of tricks, but it's a pity that they only use them against their own people. If they only focus on dealing with the Khitan and Xixia people, the Liao Kingdom and Xixia are probably destroyed."

Sun Lei shook his head and said, whether right or wrong, he really admires those dog officials who can come up with all kinds of bad ideas. This brain is not stupid at all, but it's a pity that it's all used in crooked ways.

"These damn dog officers!"

Lu Zhishen was furious, he never thought that those corrupt officials could be so greedy, they just drove people to death.

"elder brother!"

Accompanied by Pang Qiuxia, An Daoquan came out of the shack with the medicine box on his back. It looked like he had just helped someone see a doctor.

"Doctor An, sister Qiuxia."

Sun Lei looked at the two and nodded.

"Brother, these people can't nest together like this, there are too many people, it's easy to get an epidemic!"

An Daoquan cupped his fists at Sun Lei and said, he is a doctor so naturally he only talks about curing diseases and saving lives.

"Brother, many of these people are sick. Dr. An has been treating the victims for the past few days!"

Pang Qiuxia said that she was specially guarded by An Daoquan.

"Doctor An is working hard."

Sun Lei looked at An Daoquan and said.

"Brother is serious, it is the duty of a doctor."

An Daoquan shook his head and said.

"Brother, what about these people? Brothers are still waiting for my brother to make up his mind!"

Zhu Gui looked at Sun Lei with a bitter face and asked, the biggest problem on the mountain now is how to resettle these victims.

"I still need my brother to make up his mind? It's an eyesore, just blow away!"

Li Kui glanced at Zhu Gui and said.

"Tie Niu, if the villagers come to vote, they trust us in Liangshan. As a hero, you should see injustice, draw your sword to help, and drive away directly. What is the difference between that and corrupt officials! What face is there to call yourself a hero!"

Lu Zhishen slapped Li Kui on the shoulder, and he just slapped Li Kui in a circle. His life creed did not allow such a thing.

"elder brother!"

The voices of Lin Chong, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Ruan Xiaoer and others sounded, but they rushed over after getting the news.

(End of this chapter)