Chapter 23? If you want to eat, just pick the best
"Master of the village, the recruitment of the entire Shuibo Liangshan has been completed. There are currently 437 people in the village, including 321 young and middle-aged people, and the rest are old, young, women and children."
"At present, there are simple knives, more than 70 spears, more than 200 whistle sticks, 17 ordinary low-quality bows and arrows, and two pairs of damaged armors in the village. They have all been distributed, and there are also six horses.
The total value of the gold, silver, jewelry, copper coins, silks, goods and other items in stock is approximately more than 600 Guanwen. The grain in the warehouse can still be eaten by the brothers in the village for about half a month. There is a batch of chickens and ducks, and there are thirteen animals.
Oxen and thirty-seven sheep.”
"According to the village owner's request, I have arranged for some people to open up some farmland in the back mountain to plant grains and vegetables. Several other brothers who were hunters went to the mountains to lay traps. I also organized some brothers to go to the water to lay traps.
Fishing with nets ensures that the training sergeants can drink fish soup and eat fish every day." Qiao Dao Qinghui reported.
Chen Kui, Qiao Daoqing, Wang Jin and Du Qian met behind closed doors to take stock of their family assets and arrange future development.
The current situation in Shuibo Liangshan can be said to be very shabby. If Shuibo Liangshan is compared to a company, it is a small company that is in poor business and is about to go bankrupt. It can only have more than 600 yuan of money because of working in Chen Kui
Before going up the mountain, Du Qian made a big deal and robbed a caravan, otherwise he might not even have half of it.
Before, it wasn't that Du Qian was unwilling to reorganize the refugees in Shuibo Liangshan and expand his power, but it was because he simply couldn't feed so many people.
"Here you are, the military advisor."
After taking over Shuibo Liangshan, Qiao Daoqing became the general manager of the cottage's logistics. He was completely responsible for the logistics of the entire cottage, including food, drink, and toilet. Because supplies were scarce, management was quite troublesome, but this was not a problem for Qiao Daoqing.
Once you get familiar with it, you will be able to handle it easily. After all, there are less than 500 people in total.
"It's just a matter of responsibility, brother, the village leader. Although hunting and fishing can last a little longer, it is not a long-term solution after all. We must consider expansion, otherwise the situation will get worse as time goes by." Qiao Daoqing said.
"Hmm." Chen Kui focused on Du Qian and asked, "Chief Du, how are you doing with your inquiries over there?"
After taking Liangshan, Chen Kui, as the leader of the village, took charge of the overall situation, Qiao Daoqing, as the military advisor, was responsible for logistics, and Wang Jin, as the instructor, was responsible for training a hundred minions.
Among the young and middle-aged people, more than a hundred relatively healthy and strong people are selected to form an army. These people have the best food and the hardest training. It is not only necessary to train these one hundred people into elites in a short time, but at least they must be able to train them.
Make simple orders and prohibitions, and then you can use them to support the situation.
Because Du Qian was familiar with the area around Liangshanbo, Chen Kui temporarily left the intelligence collection work to him.
"According to the instructions of the village leader, my younger brother personally went down the mountain and conducted a simple survey of the villages and towns near Liangshanbo. The strongest among them is Gejiazhuang in the north of Jeju City." Du Qian placed a simple map on the
He spread it out on the table, pointed to the boundary of Jeju south of Liangshanbo, and said:
"In Gejia Town, more than ten miles north of Jeju City, there is Gejiazhuang. It is a big local family. It uses its power to bully others and uses various means to plunder and plunder. It controls more than 80% of the nearby land. Ge Taigong's son-in-law is Jeju Prefecture Danlian Huang
An, Taigong Ge himself had a close personal relationship with the prefect of Jeju, and they had a very hard relationship with Baidao."
"Secretly, Gejiazhuang also controls more than 30% of Jeju's private salt business and has a close relationship with Zhujiazhuang in Dulonggang."
"Oh, could Zhujiazhuang in Dulonggang still affect this place?" Qiao Daoqing was quite surprised.
"What the military advisor doesn't know is that Zhujiazhuang is one of the top private salt suppliers on the East and West Roads of Beijing. In all likelihood, Gejiazhuang's private salt is obtained from Zhujiazhuang."
"That's it!" Chen Kui nodded. No wonder Zhujiazhuang was so rich. When Song Jiang captured Zhujiazhuang in the future, he seized 50 million dan in grain alone. If converted into copper coins, it would be at least 100 million guan (during the Song Dynasty's Weizong period).
, rice prices ranged from two to four guans), this large amount of grain laid the foundation for the future development of Liangshan.
"Ge Taigong has two sons, the eldest, Ge Zhuo, and the second, Ge Liang. Ge Zhuo is known as the 'Black Evil Lai'. He likes to dance with guns and sticks, ride horses and hunt, and has many helpers in the village. However, Ge Liang is a lecher.
Bullying men and women has harmed many good women. In addition, Gejiazhuang is also extremely harsh on tenants. It charges up to 80% of the grain for small customers, and 65% for cattle customers. At least 30% of the brothers in our village are all affected by Ge
The village was forced to have no other options, so it went up the mountain."
In the Song Dynasty, tenants who rented fields from large farmers were generally divided into two types. One type had their own cattle and was called Niu Ke. The other type had no cattle at home and was called Xiao Ke. The latter paid more grain than the former.
Whether you are an cattle customer or a small customer, as long as you are a tenant, you have to work for the landlord's family unconditionally and be enslaved by others. Even your family members are not immune.
"How strong is this Gejiazhuang?" Chen Kui asked.
If Liangshan wants to get rid of the current development predicament, the best way is to rob. Chen Kui knows this better than anyone, so he immediately arranges for Du Qian to investigate the situation near the villages and towns, but Chen Kui knows better
, If he wants to raise the banner of Liangshan, he must not be ruthless and rob everyone. Therefore, Chen Kui targets the large households around Liangshan who are doing evil.
"The power of Gejiazhuang is not trivial. There are hundreds of strong idle men in the village, and there are hundreds of farmers in Gejia Town. They are all led by Ge Zhuo. With our current strength, we are afraid that we cannot touch it. To be honest, brother
He said that in the past, my younger brother always avoided this place and did not dare to cut trails near here." Du Qian said.
"How is Ge Zhuo?" Chen Kui asked.
"Gezhuo is known as the 'Black Evil' in the Jianghu. He is good at wielding a long halberd. He is very conceited. He claims to be invincible in fighting all over Jeju. He told his brother that before he went up the mountain, he had a fight with his younger brother, but the younger brother didn't know that this was the case.
The three-legged cat skill cannot be put on the stage, so we can only avoid it and not fight." Du Qian said truthfully.
"When evil comes, I just don't know whether he has a dark face or a dark heart?" Qiao Daoqing said with a smile.
"It's all black." Du Qian said: "He often lends grain to farmers in name and signs documents. The farmers are forced by his power and can only sign first. In fact, the grain is empty and nothing is given to the farmers. After a while,
In a short time, Ge Zhuo took documents and came to beg for food, forcing many families to die."
"In this case, then attacking Gejiazhuang can be regarded as justice for heaven." Chen Kui said in a deep voice.
"Brother, please think twice, village leader." After hearing Chen Kui's words, Du Qian said quickly: "Gejiazhuang is so powerful. With the current strength of our village, it's probably an egg against a stone."
"In addition, even if we capture Gejiazhuang, it may lead to an encirclement and suppression by Jeju Prefecture and Zhujiazhuang. We really need to think twice." Qiao Daoqing said.
"Gejiazhuang, we must fight!"
Upon hearing Chen Kui's statement, Wang Jin was expressionless, Du Qian was anxious, and Qiao Daoqing was smiling, as if he had expected it.
Although Gejiazhuang is strong, as Chen Kui said, it has to be fought, even if it may lead to the encirclement and suppression of Zhujiazhuang by the Jeju government and Dulonggang later. Qiao Daoqing also knows this very well. Wang Jin
I probably understand.
Because Liangshan has a more powerful opponent, that is the imperial court, or Gao Qiu. With Gao Qiu's character, it is very likely that he will send troops to encircle Liangshan, so Liangshan must grow stronger in a short time. Although Gejiazhuang is strong
It's strong, but once you defeat it, the rewards will definitely be huge.
Don’t pick the hardest bones, just pick the best ones.
What's more, Gejiazhuang is not as powerful as imagined. After all, it is just a village. As long as the right medicine can be taken, it is not difficult to take down. As for the officers and soldiers of Jeju Prefecture, in the Water Margin, only Chao Gai and a few people defeated the Jeju Prefecture.
The officers and soldiers have taken care of it. Is it possible that I, sitting in Liangshan Po, still can't deal with these miscellaneous things?
Qiao Daoqing asked Chen Kui to "think twice", not to ask Chen Kui to give up, but to warn him.
"From now on, we will do our best to collect relevant information about Gejiazhuang."
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