"Although they are all powerful people, their origins are very different." Zhang Yanju, as a transferor from Hebei East Road, did not delay government affairs at all, and had a clear understanding of the situation in his jurisdiction. He said one by one to Hu Yangeng.

Chai Jin was the descendant of Hu Yangeng, who was the descendant of the Great Zhou Dynasty. In the second year of Jianyan, Hu Yangeng also used the pressure of refugees to collect summer and autumn taxes from Chai Jin. Chai Jin is now protecting his own fields in Hejian and Cangzhou. He should pay a lot of taxes and a lot of other requirements.

Chai Jin also has the halo of a royal disciple. As early as the Zhenghe period, a large number of landless and small land farmers surrendered to the Chai family as slaves and became slaves. Their own land was included in the Chai family and they could evade taxes. The slaves were not Dingkou, so they did not have to serve labor or military service. Although they were still oppressed and exploited by the gentry and master's family and had to work for the master's family, the two evils were always the same, and the court's labor service was always more harmful to people.

There were more poor and refugees fleeing to farms like Chai Jin, and one was rising and the other was getting worse. The fewer Dingkou under Baojia set up by Hu Yangeng. However, although this harm was huge, it was a hidden worry in the future, not a close concern. Zhang Yanju was not too worried.

"Although Chai Jin's son is a royal family, he did not dare to violate the taboos after all, so as long as we stand by the court's position, Chai Jin dared not take it hard."

"What about the jade Qilin, Zengtou City and Zhujiazhuang?"

"Yu Qilin was originally named Lu Junyi. She was a native of Daming Mansion. Her family's property dominated 20% of Daming's streets. Since the Jin soldiers first besieged Daming, Lu Junyi has moved his property out of Daming City."

"A person like this should hate the Golden Thieves."

"Before the Jin thieves broke through the city, he took his little brother away from Daming Mansion. His clan members were not killed by the Jin thieves and had no mortal hatred with the Jin people."

"What about our army? Is there a mortal revenge?"

"That road may not be gone. Lu Junyi will sell the property in Daming Mansion for silver and buy land in Hedong Mansions. However, due to the chaos of the war, he did not receive land deeds and land deeds from the government, nor did he enter the fish scale book. Since he was pacified and restored to Hebei, he has transferred the land without a home in Baojia, and most of them were bought by Lu Junyi. Cutting off people's wealth and wealth routes is like killing his parents. The resentment in Lu Junyi's heart can be imagined."

"What has Lu Junyi done before?"

"Ready."

"Hui Yi? I only know that Hui Yi is on the border. Is Lu Junyi a trafficking thief?"

"It's hard to say that our army's Baojia implements a three-point system for comforting the department, Baojia, and farmers. Those who have enough comforting the department and keep enough Baojia will be their own. The mutual assistance of the people in Baojia is based on labor service. Some cunning people report the output to the Fujia Department and use the hidden food to exchange for cash."

"Oh, the dual-track food system." Hu Yangeng experienced the era of grain coupons, so he naturally knew that there were some "private grain dealers" who exchanged small daily necessities for the food in the hands of farmers, and then sold it in the city at a high price. Lu Junyi probably did this kind of thing. In the case of insufficient food supply, naturally some people took this risk, waiting for the grain output to be extremely abundant... Forget it, it was impossible in the Song Dynasty.

"For such private grain dealers, one can only kill one to warn a hundred." Hu Yangeng said hatefully.

"It is difficult to punish him," said Zhang Yanju. "On the surface, Lu Junyi had no contact with the Jin people. The court fought with the Jin people. Lu Junyi also helped a lot. Daming city was broken and residents fled. Lu Junyi had many reliefs, otherwise he would not have obtained the title of Yuqilin, Hebei."

"So now, if we want to deal with Lu Junyi, it will be the ones that our army and the 'homes' compete for food and territory?"

"That's true." Zhang Yanju sighed, "If you have the intention to comfort me, you should leave a way out for Lu Junyi and others. Otherwise, you are afraid that the official... the official voice will be hindered." Zhang Yanju finally swallowed the "official force against others" into her stomach.

Way out? Why is there no way out? It’s just that time is not yet available. Hu Yangeng said: “Let Lu Junyi beside him, what’s going on in Zengtou City and Zhujiazhuang?”

"When the former Liao Dynasty, the Song and Liao countries traded with each other. The Zeng family was a Han native in northern China and had some connections in Ji County. They knew some noble people from the Liao Kingdom and operated a tent outside the gate of Ji County. They had a big business. The Zeng family built the tent into a fort and occupied it. This tent became his exclusive business, called Zengtou City. The Jin thieves also sold ginseng marten fur in this Zengtou City in exchange for salt and iron. The Jin Kingdom destroyed Liao and invaded Song Dynasty. The Zengtou City relied on its relationship with the Jin people to open another tent in Daming, and occupied several tents by the Hutuo River."

Hu Yangeng thought, if Lu Junyi was doing business on Hebei East Road, then Zengtou City was doing business in the enemy-occupied area. Such a force is really difficult to deal with. Hu Yangeng asked: "Are the several docks by the Hutuo River on the east bank of the river?"

The controlled area under Hu Yangeng is roughly bounded by the Hutuo River as the boundary, and the actual control of Hu Yangeng to the east.

"There are both on the east and west banks, and it is useless to occupy a few docks on the east banks. Even if the docks along the Hutuo River are destroyed, we will continue to connect between the east and west banks."

"Liehan doesn't have to worry about it. If the enemy can go, I can go. Those who do business between enemy countries like Zengtou City may not necessarily have to be wiped out. You can let it go first. After a long-term plan, what's going on with Zhujiazhuang?"

"Zhujiazhuang is a powerful man in the south. When the Jin thieves occupied Hebei East Road, they occupied Leling with Lijiazhuang, Qiaojiabao and others, claiming to be the city lord. After he was pacified and restored Hebei, especially killing Zhang Yiqian, the Zhu family withdrew from Leling and defended itself according to our village."

"Leling?" Hu Yangeng had a faint impression. The guard of Leling City was called Li Ying, and the marquis of Baojia was Jiao Ting. He was busy fighting with the Jin soldiers at that time, and did not pay attention. Could these two people correspond to the characters in Water Margin? Or was it because they were the ones who left their names in history and were pulled as a supporting role by Shi Nai'an?

"Is Li Ying the owner of Lijiazhuang?"

"It is precisely that during the Xuanhe period, he had rebelled with the Liangshan bandits. After Liangshan was pacified by Zhang Xianggong, Li Ying refused to take office and did not follow the army to fight Fang La in the south. Instead, he returned to his hometown and continued to be his owner."

"Don't worry about anything else. Since there are Zhujiazhuang and Lijiazhuang, can there be Hujiazhuang? Is there a Hu Sanniang in Hujiazhuang?"

Zhang Yanju also heard about Hu Yangeng's not-so-good love. He laughed in his heart and replied: "There was indeed a Hujiazhuang in the past, but it was captured by the Liangshan bandits. Hu Cheng, the eldest son of the Hu family, went to join the Western Army. I don't know where it is now. Hu Sanniang... Judging from the year when Hu Cheng went to the Western Army, Hu Sanniang is not young now, so there is no need to worry about comforting him."

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!