The day after Zong Ze and his son met Lu Qian, they followed Lu Qian to Liangshanpo. The spoils of the large army and ships were still there and needed to be transported back to the waterpo.

As a prisoner, Zong Ze's family was treated well, and the food and drink cost was not bad at all. They were just restricted from their conduct.

But even so, Zong Ze witnessed the steepness of Liangshan. He was located in the water, with reed marshes surrounding him, and the waterways and ports were intertwined, and the mountain villages were also full of heroic soldiers, which were completely beyond the reach of soldiers from one state and one government.

He had been an official in Quzhou, Jiangnan, but occasionally heard about the name of Liangshanbo. "Perform the way for heaven, eliminate violence and safeguard good deeds." The people among the wild bandits could think of such a banner, which was extraordinary. But they never thought that Liangshanbo was so majestic.

In the back mountain, the Zong family was independent and had no neighbors around him. Zong Ze had no intention of dying. After all, his wife, children, and young people were captured. Even if Zong Ze did not care about his life, he would have to think about his children and grandchildren. Besides, Liangshanbo did not force him too much? He would be able to live a life of all. He also thought that the court would wipe out bandits in the future and rescue his Zong family from the water and fire.

With such peace of mind, Zong Ze began to observe the Green Forest Village, which has suddenly become famous in recent years. First of all, Zong Ze was shocked by the prisoners of war in the back mountain. The number of people surprised him. After asking, all of them were captured in the battle formation. Those who had been working in the village for a long time had been working for half a year.

Liangshan is very large in area. The water-pooled horse army in the original work can be thousands of. With such a vast land for raising horses, it can be seen that its area is vast.

Now all the prisoners of war turned into coolies. In addition to resting and recuperating fortresses and camps, they also leveled out patches of land in the back mountain. During this period, some were prepared for warehouses and barracks in the future, while others were planted with various fruits and vegetables, including ginger, green onions, scallions, leeks, garlic, etc.

Not far from where Zongze and his family live, there is a large area of ​​newly renovated flat land that has been planted with alfalfa. This thing is good feed for horses, and it was not introduced to China in later generations. It has been available for a long time. Mei Yaochen has a poem "Ode to Alfalfa":

When alfalfa comes to the west, prunes and grapes will also follow.

The Hu people did not regret it at first, but the Han envoys could only hold on.

Wanma should seek the sun, and the old seeds of the palace are left.

The yellow flowers are spontaneous now, flirting with the chaotic cattle pond.

Although I have never heard of people planting them on a large scale, Lu Qian asked someone to collect them, but it is not difficult.

This will be one of the sources of livestock and forage such as horses, horses, cattle and mules in Liangshanpo in the future. At first glance, hundreds of prisoners of war were working on the open space, under the supervision of several auxiliary soldiers with swords and guns.

A hilly land not far from this vast land was also reclaimed by Liangshanpo. Although the hills were rising one after another, Zong Ze could see that the area of ​​this terraced field was about thirty or forty acres. This is a vegetable field with a large number of vegetables planted. The vegetables in the Northern Song Dynasty were no less bad than those in later generations. Carrots, turnips, burdocks, cabbage, dwarf yellow (baby cabbage), pineapple (small cabbage), mustard, rapeseed, and Poling (spinach),

Lettuce, celery, Chinese cabbage, shepherd's purse, coriander, amaranth), lettuce, perilla, onion, scallion, leek, yellow bud (leek yellow), garlic, small garlic, melon, cucumber, winter melon, gourd, gourd, gourd, melon, loofah, taro, yam, ginger, rockery, lotus root, bitter coix, water chestnut, water shield, seaweed, lily, bamboo shoots, wolfberry, rosary mushroom, pine mushroom, bamboo mushroom, wheat mushroom, jade mushroom, yellow mushroom, purple mushroom, four-season mushroom, amanita mushroom, etc., were widely cultivated in the Song Dynasty.

They were also prisoners of war, or the most stubborn and unwilling to surrender among the prisoners of war, and they were doing the hardest and most tiring work. One of the people was to carry wooden barrels filled with river water and water the vegetables. Even though Liangshanpo had already started digging wells around to get water, this was not an easy job.

In addition to these things, Zong Ze could see two places with high vigilance, that is, the place where refined salt and sugar are extracted. Another is the increasingly rigorous and growing military weapon surveillance.

Now, one or two hundred formal craftsmen from Tokyo Craftsman Camp have been gathered in the military weapon prison, and the land they brought out and the craftsmen found by Liangshan from the surrounding area, blacksmiths, carpenters, copper smiths, cobblers and other types of people in the military weapon prison have been collected. Under Lu Qian's prompt, Liangshanbo's weights and measures have been unified, and even each craftsman in charge has his own number and must be engraved on the weapons.

It is very difficult to restore the mode of the Qin Dynasty in one step; but we cannot avoid making any moves because of the difficulties. At least the current Liangshanbo military weapon surveillance is on the road to recovery.

Although it is trapped in geographical location and it is difficult to use water conservancy during the production of counterfeit military weapons, the animal power is OK, and the next step is possible to borrow wind power. This depends on whether Tang Long and others can successfully make the windmill. The wind in the water is still quite abundant.

Moreover, the military weapon supervisor is slowly dividing the labor. This is not to separate the sword and gun and armor workshops, but also the bow and crossbow workshops. It is a more refined distinction, which distinguishes production and logistics, logistics and procurement, and systems.

What Zong Ze remembered most during this period was the food in Liangshanpo. Whether it was a bandit soldier or a craftsman, whether it was a prisoner of war or his family, they all had enough food. There were meat every now and then, and his family's food was better.

The period after Zong Ze "up the mountain" was just around the corner, Liangshanpo was facing a new great development. Not to mention anything else, the arrival of Huangmen Mountain was first brought to the army. Moyun Golden-winged Ou Peng and Iron Die Xian Ma Lin was originally incorporated into the army by Lu Qian. With the increase of personnel, Liangshanpo clearly had dozens of leaders, but Lu Qian still felt that he was not enough; while the magician Jiang Jing and the Jiu-tailed Turtle Tao Zongwang were also of great use. The role of the Zhidu Department and the Engineering Department did not need to be expressed much.

Then the Manichi sent a group of people, and it was no longer all shipmakers, some of which were down and out scholars and destitute accounts. The Huashigang turmoil in Jiangnan for so long that I don’t know how many families with a healthy family have become extremely poor. Those scholars who used to enjoy family care and study have now become forced to run around for their own and their families’ livelihoods, and some of them have joined the Manichi.

Now, Manichaeism is to thank Lu Qian.

Compared with the "true Dharma" taught by Lu Qian, the slogans they came up with were a bunch of low-key men. This is a huge favor, and Manichaeism must express it.

Another thing is that Manichaeism also hopes to take this opportunity to exaggerate its own teachings to Liangshanpo.

Among the many senior Manichaeists, there were those who were unwilling to give up on Liangshanpo. Such as Fang La's uncle Fang Wu, Wang Yin, Bao Daoyi, etc., all of them were among them.

There were hundreds of characters who could read and write and calculate the words in Liangshanbo at once, which could be said to have greatly filled the emptiness of each person. Although there were some ideological differences, Lu Qian believed that as long as he enjoyed the treatment of Liangshanbo, it would take no time to make them return home.

With the addition of these "cultural people", not to mention anything else, the only one of the ministry departments, Jiang Jing, who had just taken office, organized the Lijin Bureau and officially included all the water and land taxation.

The person who is specifically responsible for the matter of the Lijin Bureau was actually a down-and-out scholar who had just been sent to Liangshan by the Manichi religion.

This man's surname is Xue Shao, and he is from Yongjia, Wenzhou. He also comes from a large clan. Even his brother had just passed the Jinshi exam for a few years, but the disaster fell on him, but it was not something that the Xue clan could protect.

Xue Shao's parents died, and his family property was lost. His brother and sister were entrusted to his uncle's house and went to Hangzhou alone to survive. But this was just an excuse, but in fact he joined the Manichi religion by pseudonym. Because he was born into a big family and was able to write and calculate, Xue Shao was still very popular. Otherwise, why would he be selected to Liangshanpo this time?

But they had never expected that they had just lived in the village for a few days, and there was an opportunity to change their destiny waiting for them.

take an exam!

A test paper that is mixed with Chinese and mathematics, a percentage test question, and a very novel model. Even the test paper is written on a large black wooden board, rather than engraved into the test paper. But Xue Shao seized that opportunity tightly in this opportunity. His score was 73 points, ranking first among all the twelve people who took the exam.

So he took the position of second-in-command in the Lijin Bureau.

Just when Zong Ze and his son Zong Ying were observing the waters of Liangshan with a cautious attitude.

Xue Shao, who sat in the position of the bureau and had a house that belonged to him alone, was eagerly absorbing all the information and information about Liangshan that he could find.

In just a few days, he had completely figured out the power structure level and the divisions of various departments of Liangshanbo. As a person sent by Manichaeism, he was innately involved with Manichaeism. Exploring the reality of Liangshan's strength is also one of the tasks that these people bear. In other words, this is also their most important task.

Compared with the current Manichaeism, it is more important to fully understand the strength of Liangshanbo.

It is also because of this that Xue Shao has become more and more aware of what kind of position the Lijin Bureau is in. It is really a position sitting on a gold mountain. As long as there is no war, the gold, silver and wealth that can be transferred to the Lijin Bureau by water and land every day will be no less than a thousand guan. Such a number will be something that Fang Wu will be envious of it when he sees it.

Fang Ha was Fang La's uncle and the steward of Manichaeism.

Xue Shao also knew that the things he received in Lijin Bureau were just one of the sources of wealth in Liangshanbo.

The powerful Manichaeism is not as powerful as Liangshanpo in terms of money. Although the overall income of Manichaeism is quite considerable, their expenses are also great. How can Liangshanpo be rich? There are natural dangers here and strong soldiers can rely on. It is really not prosperous!

Just looking at the rewards he could get in a month, Xue Shao felt that he was unwilling to leave Jiangnan at the beginning, that was really a fool, a big fool.

...

Cargo ships were continuously loaded with money, grain and materials, and kept circulating from the Jishui River into the water ponds.

Shi Wenbin could see clearly on the shore, but he really didn't dare to stop him by his subordinate Tu Yong. He just watched the cargo ships filled with money and grain disappear into his eyes.

As an official, his news did not stagnate due to the "crisis" in Yuncheng County. On the contrary, Shi Wenbin had long sent the chief to Dongping to watch the changes in the war situation at all times, and his eyes and ears were very well-informed.

Liangshanbo defeated the imperial guards of Daming Prefecture, occupied Gaotang Prefecture, and even opened Dongping Prefecture. Although this made a hole in the sky, it greatly increased Liangshanbo's majesty and strength. You can tell from the expressions of the people around him. However, the eyes of Tokyo were also staring at them.

Now the court has launched elite troops to sway the waters, this is evidence.

"Don't panic when you wait. Don't watch Liangshanpo show its might. In fact, it's a way to die."

"As soon as Gaotang Prefecture is broken, everyone in the world knows it. How can the court not be angry? The waters and pools are important places in Jingdong, the water and land hub, and the river operation are maintained. How can a nest of bandits occupy a long time and be like separatist?"

"I heard that this has been launched by Tokyo for 50,000 armored soldiers, and there are 5,000 iron cavalry inside. How might it be so powerful? How can a nest of bandits be able to fight? Although Liangshanpo can show off for a while, they must not show off for a lifetime. When the elites of the court send out, boiling water will pour snow on them, they will be like a bamboo shoot to suppress the bandits. You all have to work hard, and do not mislead yourself or others."

After hearing what Shi Wenbin said, the people around him were really shocked, and the atmosphere was different from before.
Chapter completed!