Water Margin people

"Forget it about the Song Dynasty, those weak people dare not touch my tiger beard in the Liao Dynasty!"

Yelu Zhongde shook his head and said, no matter how weak the Liao Dynasty was, the Song Dynasty could not mess with it.

The prefect also nodded. How could the Liao Kingdom be surrounded by enemies from all sides? The Jurchens in the north rose up strongly and even defeated the three capitals, leaving them breathless.

Liangshan in the south is even more arrogant, attacking from all directions, even attacking the Song Dynasty, Jurchen, Xixia, and Liao, it is also invincible, winning consecutive battles.

Only the Song Dynasty was weaker, but in the past two years, the Song Dynasty had begun to spy on Yanyun again. A large number of troops and horses were stationed along Baigou, but with the character of the cowardly emperor of the Song Dynasty, he was determined not to come to Jizhou to set fire.

"Jurchen, Liangshan!"

Yelu Zhongde's face was gloomy. Neither side was easy to mess with. The Jurchens were good at fighting. Now they had commanded all the tribes outside the pass, and their troops were unstoppable.

"Your Majesty! Liangshan is also restless. A few days ago, the army crossed the Yellow River, and the outpost was set up thirty miles north of the Yellow River. There is a great intention to go north. We have an enmity with Liangshan. Could it be them!"

The prefect opened his mouth again and said that when Liangshan defeated the Song Dynasty and occupied Cangzhou, Yelu Zhongde thought this was a good opportunity to go south, so he sent Baomi Sheng and Tianshan Yong to lead [-] troops southward, but they were completely wiped out by Sun Lei in the north of Cangzhou.

"I don't know what Xiao Qian is thinking. There is no order to send troops yet. If this continues, Liangshan will have troops approaching the city!"

Yelu Zhongde looked very ugly when he heard this. His generals Tianshan Yong and Baomi Sheng and [-] troops were wiped out. This was a defeat that had never happened in the Liao Kingdom's century-old southern expedition.

"You send someone to investigate, secretly! You must find out who set the fire! Nanjing Road must not be messed up!"

Yelu Zhongde looked at the prefect and ordered that the Nanjing Road was the last hope of the Liao Kingdom and the safety here must be guaranteed.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid it's a bit arrogant to send Dutou, Tiha and others to investigate. I have a man under my command, known as Yang Xiong, who is famous for his martial arts. He is now the jailer of the two hospitals under me and also serves as the executioner of the city. This identity If you check it, no one will notice."

The prefect stood up and whispered.

"Okay, let him investigate secretly!"

Yelu Zhongde nodded and said that his four sons had already led troops to conduct a large-scale search. There was not much point in sending more people. It would be good to send a prison officer to secretly investigate.

Outside Jizhou City, Shi Xiu and Ma Ling met, and they headed towards Cangzhou without stopping.

……

News from all over Yanyun continued to converge on Cangzhou.

"It seems that the Liao people are preparing to trap Yanyun!"

Gongsun Sheng looked at a sealed report with a gloomy face. The Jurchen was almost on the verge of destroying the Liao Kingdom, but the Liao Kingdom did not dare to go to the north to fight the Jurchen, and was going to rely on the Yanshan barrier to guard the Yanyun Nanjing Road.

"With hundreds of thousands of troops and dozens of generals, they are all elites. It's really a bit of a problem!"

Zongze frowned when he looked at the intelligence that came from the investigation. Yan Yun and the Liao people did not go north, which made them a little at a loss. The attack was a tough one, and if they didn't do it well, they would lose their teeth.

"Send these back to Liangshan and let my brother decide!"

Gongsun Sheng said to Yang Chun, the white snake beside him.

"Yes!"

Yang Chun accepted the order and left with those secret reports.

……

Liangshan Park, Juyi Hall.

Sun Lei was sitting down with everyone, listening to Jiang Jing's report on the current situation in Liangshan.

"Brother, I now govern twenty states in Liangshanbo, from the north of the Huaihe River to the south of the Yellow River, to Dengzhou in the east and to Jeju in the west. The total population of each place is more than [-] million! There are still people fleeing from all over the place. The population is still increasing!"

Jiang Jing flipped through the thick account book in his hand and reported to Sun Lei. "More than twelve million!"

Not only Sun Lei, but everyone was also stunned. They didn't expect that they could build such a big business in one year, with a population of 200 million. They had probably never seen so many people in their lives.

"The census of the population in the past few years of the Song Dynasty yielded a figure of over 2000 million, and there must be many uncounted and hidden populations. The population should be over [-] million."

Seeing that everyone was full of surprise, Jiang Jing smiled and said, he was also surprised for a long time when he counted this number, and the hand holding the pen was trembling at that time.

"one tenth!"

Sun Lei touched his chin and started thinking. He didn't expect that he already owned one-tenth of the world's population.

“We don’t have a hidden population here!”

Sun Lei looked at Jiang Jing and asked.

"Don't worry, brother, I don't dare to say anything else. The population is absolutely accurate and has been included in the register!"

Jiang Jing immediately waved to the outside of the Juyi Hall, and a group of soldiers walked in carrying dozens of large boxes. When they were opened, there were rosters in the boxes.

"Brother, this is a list of the population from various places. Everyone's names have been included in the list."

"In Song Ting, taxes are collected on a per capita basis, so the people hide their population to avoid taxes. We are different in Liangshan. We allocate fields based on population. When people have a newborn child, they register as soon as possible, just to get a share. Ration fields.”

Jiang Jing pointed to the rosters and said. The name of the state capital was written on the box, and the county, town, township, and village to which it belonged was written on the cover of the roster inside the box.

"Well, yes, remember, this population must be updated in time!"

Sun Lei nodded. Under the rule of Liangshan, land was distributed based on head count and could not be inherited. There were loopholes in this. Birth, old age, illness and death were inevitable. In order to prevent people from continuing to occupy land without retribution, this rule must be implemented first. Stand up.

"Yes, brother!"

Li Yun clasped his fists and said, he followed Jiang Jing to count the population statistics.

"There is also the current grain. This year's grain should exceed 300 billion kilograms. Based on an average of 72 kilograms of grain per person per year, it is 200 billion kilograms. After removing the seeds and the rations left by the people, there should be an additional [-] billion kilograms of grain. "

Jiang Jing flipped through the thick account book in his hand and started talking about grain again. The summer grain had been harvested, and the autumn grain that had been rushed for planting had also been planted. The approximate harvest could already be calculated.

Obviously there is no way to put all the 200 billion kilograms of grain into the granary. As long as there is no internal war, there will be more grain output next year.

"As agreed upon, in addition to making wine, people are also encouraged to raise chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle, sheep, horses and donkeys!"

Sun Lei nodded. He thought it would be great to have 200 billion catties, but he didn't expect to grow 300 billion catties. He still underestimated the hard work of ordinary people. As long as there is no exploitation, they can get the rewards they deserve. They can get up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs.

"Brother, there are also taxes. This year's tax revenue should be 3000 million yuan! Nearly half of it is contributed by business, of which salt and wine contribute a lot..."

"The annual output of silk, silk and cloth is 30 pieces!"

"There are about [-] horses in the racecourse..."

"6000 million catties of iron..."

"Cows and sheep..."

……

Jiang Jing continued to report the situation.

"Salt and wine can be sold in large quantities, but iron and grain are not allowed."

Sun Lei thought for a while and said, the war is about to start, iron and food cannot be given to the enemy. Although salt is also important, it cannot support huge profits. Now that the salt fields along the coast of Hebei and Shandong are in his hands, private salt is simply worthless. Buy and sell as much as you want!