Water Margin Survival

After finishing the seating, everyone was very happy.

When Xu Ning and others went up the mountain, they still felt a little strange as guests. It was only after arranging the seats and drinking wine with their good brothers that they felt a strange feeling of being the master.

Perhaps, this is the sense of belonging that everyone often talks about?

After the fourteen leaders were all seated, Lin Chong stood up and said to Wang Lun, "Brother went to Tokyo to pick up the villain's family. In the past two months, the village has dispatched troops eight times. The first few times were relatively smooth. It’s just that later, because of ghosts in their hearts, they all strengthened their defenses, and my cottage began to suffer damage, and a total of 21 brothers were killed several times before and after!”

Wang Lun hurriedly asked, "How did these 21 brothers die? Have all the pensions been sent to their families?"

Lin Chong clasped his hands and replied: "Except for the three who were seriously injured and died on the spot, most of the others died after being injured and returned to the cottage!" After he finished speaking, he glanced at Du Qian beside him. Du Qian added.

Seeing this, Du Qian got up and said: "The pension of one hundred guanwen per person has been sent to the relatives they have named, and the property left by these brothers during their lifetime, all have been counted out and sent away. !"

Hearing the words, Wang Lun was a little heavy, and said: "From now on, brothers will all go down the mountain with armor, and spend a lot of money to hire good doctors, so as to reduce casualties!" Although there is no shortage of medicines in the village, there is a great shortage of doctors, especially doctors with good medical skills. A good doctor will surely reduce the casualties every time you go down the mountain.At this time, he thought of An Daoquan, a genius doctor who was far away in Jiankang Mansion, and Xindao didn't know how many times he had to go down the mountain to gather these heroes together.

At this time Du Qian continued: "Every time I go down the mountain, I still follow my brother's order and distribute ten stones of grain to each household. The villagers all enthusiastically voted for the mountain. When the troops returned to the mountain eight times, they brought back a total of strong men regardless of their family members." 730 three people!"

Wang Lun nodded, thinking that the decision to distribute ten shi of grain to each household seemed correct.Still the same sentence, sending one stone of grain makes people think of you well, sending five stones of grain makes people think of you well, and sending ten stones of grain that can keep seven or eight members of an ordinary farmer's family for a year, Someone will follow you with their head on their waistband!

Hearing this, Xu Ning, Lu Zhishen and other new leaders all looked at each other. Although they didn't speak, they were quite shocked.Unexpectedly, in addition to looting houses, my cottage would distribute food to the villagers, and there were as much as ten stones. They all had eaten military rations. Knowing how difficult this number is, they all re-examined this frail and high-minded cottage in their hearts. Big boss here.

At this time, Zhu Gui continued: "In the past two months, there are 410 strong men who came from my brother's seven hotels to go up the mountain!"

Wang Lun nodded, and said: "The momentum is strong, and there will naturally be people who will follow suit. Brother Zhu Gui quit his hard work and has to do a good job of reception and screening!"

Zhu Gui responded, and at this time the three Ruan brothers also got up, only to hear Ruan Xiaoer say: "My brother is also pulling people in the village these days, I don't want to hear about the good guys from other nearby fishing villages besides the fishermen of this village. The message is here to vote, now my cottage navy has a total of 520 soldiers, not counting the old fishermen who are proficient in water, and they can also drive boats, fish and watch for the cottage on weekdays!"

Hearing the words, Wang Lun praised the three brothers. They are worthy of being bold men who lived in the fishing village for generations. After the news of Chao Gai's birthday was released, it was these three men who raised their arms and led the fishermen who joined them to defeat the pursuers.

Seeing that everyone had finished speaking, Du Qian, who was in charge of the money and grain warehouse, said again: "The gold, silver and jewelry seized in these eight times totaled 22 guan and seven hundred coins. The special reward for those who have made outstanding contributions at that time, 860 guan, was actually put into the warehouse. The medicinal materials bought by the former brother in Tokyo were shipped in, and the balance and other uses of the cottage were deducted, plus the money spent by the brother before he went down the mountain. Inventory, the current warehouse actually has 15 baguanwen! As for the grain, excluding the grain distributed to the villagers, 20 shi has been put into the warehouse in the past two months, plus the original 710 shi in the cottage. Stones (captured in Xixi Village and Lijia Village), after deducting daily consumption, there are still [-] stones left!"

Consumed seven or eight thousand shi of grain in two months?Wang Lun was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, and thought that if one person consumes one stone of grain per month, that is, four catties of staple food plus meat and vegetables per day. After consuming so much staple food in two months, there must be a lot of people going up the mountain, so he asked: "How many brothers are there on the mountain now?"

Song Wanjian got up and replied: "The Shanzhai kitchen now prepares more than [-] people for each meal, and there are about [-] or [-] soldiers in the making!"

Wang Lun was very happy when he heard the words, and joked: "It seems that I am not on the mountain, but the cottage is getting more and more prosperous. I think I will go down the mountain more often in the future!"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and you started to make witty remarks. After everyone laughed for a while, Wang Lun got up and said: "Except for the navy, there should be 300 soldiers in the cottage? That's it! I entrusted the relationship of Teacher Xu from Tokyo, bought 1000 to [-] horses, and took [-] horses for the daily use of the leaders. The rest will be equipped with four cavalry according to the number of each horse, so I asked Teacher Xu Take the position of the leader of the horse army and recruit [-] people to form the horse army!"

Hearing Xu Ning's voice, Wang Lun nodded at him, and then said to Lu Zhishen and Yan Kuan: "Another 1000 people will be transferred to the infantry, and please Lu Tixia and Yan Kuan as the leaders of the infantry! Jiang Zhipeng will be the leader of the infantry!" Get up and take it.

"The navy needs to be strengthened, so I asked the Ruan Brothers to select another 300 people to join the navy and protect my cottage!" Wang Lun said again.

San Ruan got up to answer, and then Ruan Xiaoqi said: "Is the armor my brother brought back from Tokyo for our navy?"

Wang Lun chuckled and said, "I brought back [-] pieces of paper armor, [-] sets of leather armor, and [-] sets of iron armor from Tokyo. Among them, [-] pieces of paper armor were distributed to the navy, and [-] sets of leather armor were distributed to the navy. Ma Jun, another [-] sets of paper armor, [-] sets of leather armor, and [-] sets of iron armor will be distributed to the infantry!"

During this time, Du Qian was in charge of money and food, and he was very sensitive to numbers. After calculating the number that Wang Lun said was somewhat inaccurate, he said, "Brother, do you still have a hundred sets of leather armor and a hundred sets of paper armor?"

"There are only a thousand soldiers left, and they will be organized into the Shanzhai garrison army, under the leadership of Du Qian and Song Wan. Your original duties will not change, so I will distribute the remaining armor to you, and there will be more soldiers in the future. The men and horses in the mountains will be unified into the garrison. In the future, the horse, infantry, and water armies will be expanded, and they will all be selected from the garrison! Instructor Lin will still be the head coach of the Shanzhai army training, and train the troops for the three armies!" Wang Lun said.He knew that Xu Ning's hook and sickle spear skills were good, but at present he was charged with the heavy task of forming a horse army, and there was no threat of heavy cavalry in the cottage for the time being, so he only asked Lin Chong to train troops alone.

Lin Chong, Du Qian, Song Wan and others got up and took orders when they heard the news. Wang Lun nodded to them and said, "Jiao Ting selected 40 people from the garrison to join the street rat Zhang San and the green grass snake Li Siliang. More than a dozen people led by this leader merged into my pro-army! Jiao Ting, you are good at punching and kicking but you don’t like weapons. Three to forty years, just showing your hands casually is enough for you to learn for a few years, it just depends on whether you can invite him to come out of the mountain!"

Jiao Ting looked at Wang Lun with a smirk, and nodded repeatedly to accept the promise. At this moment, Lin Chong stood up and said, "I think Taishan is also willing to compete with Brother Jiao Ting and his followers!"

Seeing that Wang Lun nodded slightly at Lin Chong, he said, "In addition, Tang Long will be appointed as the head of the supervisor, and he will take over the supervisory work from Song Wan. I will give you a hundred places to go to the garrison to select talents for training. If the family members There are people with such talents, and you can choose as you like, there is no limit to the number, and Mo Shisan will be promoted to be the leader, to assist you, and strive to form a cottage workshop as soon as possible!" Tang Long was overjoyed when he heard the words, and immediately got up to accept orders.

But Wang Lun said again: "Brother Tang Long, starting tomorrow, we will build a book house for Mr. Wen in the back mountain for his future lectures. All the family members and soldiers on the mountain can go to listen to the lecture, and you brothers can do it if you have nothing to do." Go and have a sit, it would be nice to have some scent of books!"

Lu Zhishen heard the words and said with a smile: "I don't care if you go or not, but Sa's is going!"

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, Wang Lun lowered his hands and said: "Brothers Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu will continue to take care of the hotel affairs as usual!"

"If you have promising talents, you can apply for a list. Now that there are too many people in the cottage, the original small bosses are no longer enough. When I see it, I will wait for everyone to submit a list and make a unified appointment!"

When everyone heard the words and even claimed it was true, Wang Lun asked everyone if they had anything else to say, and everyone said that my brother's instructions were detailed, and we were all fine.Wang Lun asked which two leaders were on duty at night. Du Qian and Song Wan came forward with smiles.

At this time Zhu Gui walked outside the Juyi Hall but stopped, as if he had something on his mind, Wang Lun came out with Jiao Ting, seeing him like this, he asked him why, only Zhu Gui said: "A few days ago, A few people came to the Lijiadaokou Hotel, crying and complaining that there have been more black men blocking the road and robbing the waterside recently, begging our cottage to take care of it!"

Wang Lun said with a smile: "Why don't the folks go to the county government to ask for help! Has anyone died?"

Zhu Gui said with a smile: "No one was killed, it was just robbery! I think the name of brother's benevolence and righteousness has spread to the people, and the people only think that brother is more reliable than the government!"

Wang Lun waved his hands and said with a smile: "Since the folks have begged to come to you, you can't ignore it! It's just that I don't know which thief has eaten the gall of a leopard and dared to go to the foot of Liangshan to fish for the door! Brother, you should send someone to investigate first. There is news to report!"

Zhu Gui nodded in agreement, and the two talked for a while, but Zhu Gui didn't intend to leave after finishing the matter, but instead looked embarrassed. Seeing this, Wang Lun knew something was wrong, and said: "Brother, if you have something to say, just say it." , why are you hesitating?"

Zhu Gui gritted his teeth and finally told the whole story.