Once the details of the money and food were revealed, Zou Run became more courageous for the next step.
It seems that although Wang Lun is not qualified to be the leader of Green Forest Village, he is quite good at saving money.
It was only after listening to Du Qian and Song Wan's story that Zou Run learned that the life in Liangshan was directly related to the time when Zou Yuan was in charge of Dengyun Mountain. The whole village only had two meals a day, working early and eating late at night, during the holidays. On the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, you can only perform tooth sacrifices to see the smell of meat. Once the leader of the village is captured, he will get the big head, and the minions who go out to fight will be divided into small heads. As for the people on the side, they can only watch.
After hearing this, Zou Run couldn't help but sigh. What has stood out about the Chinese people since ancient times is their ability to endure hardships and stand hard work. Life on the mountain is not much better than life at the foot of the mountain. However, when Zou Run came back to his senses, he thought about how capable Song Huizong and his group of concubines were, forcing groups of kind-hearted people to do this, and no one was willing to go down the mountain.
But sighs are sighs, but Zou Run still has to thank Wang Lun, a senior. With the example he set before, it will be much easier for him to win people's hearts in the future. If Wang Lun is really a polite and virtuous corporal, a good village leader who respects himself and others, then But it was Zou Run's turn to sit on the wax. After all, Liangshan's current financial and food foundation is based on Zou Run's management model at Dengyun Mountain.
There are more than 600 mouths in this mountain, and people eat horse chews, which can probably last more than four months.
It was said that he didn't feel bad about selling his father's land. Wang Lun saved the money bit by bit, but Zou Run spent it lavishly.
That night Liangshan held a grand banquet. The old rule was that cattle were not allowed to be killed, but the pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, and various big fish in Shijie Lake were very exciting. Just let the minions eat well. . The supply of home-brewed wine was even more liberalized. From the Juyi Hall on the top of the mountain, to Sanguan on the mountainside, to the navy barracks on the golden beach, there were more than a hundred tables for large and small banquets.
With such a generous move, who could not be happy with the crowd of minions? Moreover, Zou Run also solemnly announced that from now on, ordinary minions will eat three meals a day, eat meat every ten days and a half, and the rewards of loot will be distributed according to merit. This merit not only refers to military exploits, even if you don't go to the battlefield, even if you just feed horses and cook, as long as you perform well, it can be considered a type of merit.
If you are promoted from an ordinary minion to a combat soldier, your treatment will be doubled and your rewards will be doubled.
As soon as this news came out and was confirmed, the minions all over the mountain were more happy than after a full banquet. This kind of treatment and life were really incomparable to the past when Wang Lun was the leader of the village. People are all emotional animals. With comparisons and distinctions between advantages and disadvantages, most of the people's hearts naturally tend to favor Zou Run. Even if a small part of them can't change their minds for the time being, Zou Run believes that it is only a matter of time.
It's night, Liangshan Dazhai is brightly lit and full of joy, and the festive atmosphere is just like the New Year's Eve. The Liangshan Juyi Hall was packed with leaders, big and small. Eight leaders, together with Yang Zhi as a guest, sat high in the hall.
Looking at the joyful children on the ground, Du Qian and Song Wan clapped each other's shoulders excitedly, almost bursting into laughter. Du Qian had drunk a lot of wine, and he kept sighing, "It's embarrassing to say that I have been beaten to death." Since the establishment of the village, I, Du Qian, have never seen the children so happy. Alas, we did not do well in the past..."
"Yes, but you make the children endure hardships, and you and I have no shame." Song Wan, a tall man, answered, but then changed the topic, "But it's no wonder that my two brothers, Wang Zhai... Wang Lun's fellow is useless in battle, but he is good at seizing power and managing money. Although you and I want to speak, but we have no power and no money, it is in vain. In comparison, although the leader of Zou Run is young, he is still young. His handwriting and demeanor are extraordinary..."
Seeing the two people muttering there, Ruan Xiaoqi, who was having a drink with Zhu Gui and his two brothers, noticed this. His face was red, and although he had already drank more than half of the bottle of wine, he did not appear drunk at all, but became more energetic.
He hugged Du Qian, who was muttering, and put his arm around Song Wan's shoulder, saying loudly: "You two brothers are just talking here and biting your ears! Come on, come on, let's go to my house with Xiao Qi first." Leader of the village, go and take a walk with the brothers in the navy."
"There is so much good wine in Liangshan. Xiaoqi will not give up until he drinks three bottles of it tonight. My two brothers also let go of their drinking. Let's drink him to our heart's content until we get drunk!"
After that, regardless of whether Du Qian and Song Wan wanted to do it or not, they dragged the two of them and stumbled towards Zou Run's side.
Zou Run was chatting with Lin Chong and Yang Zhi over a table of food and wine to get to know each other better. Seeing Ruan Xiaoqi like this, he just smiled fondly, drank another bowl with Du Qian and others, and told a few words not to drink too much, then sat down and continued to be an audience quietly. .
It turned out that although Lin Chong and Yang Zhi had hung out together in Tokyo before, and they were both imperial warriors, they only knew each other by name, but did not know each other.
"It's embarrassing to say that although Lin Chong is the instructor of the 800,000-strong Forbidden Army, this title sounds nice, but in fact it is just a military position without rank. In the huge city of Tokyo, there are more than hundreds or even thousands of warriors like Lin Chong? Although It was my late father who cultivated martial arts, and he was ranked among the best among hundreds of Forbidden Army instructors. He also had some reputation in the world. But in the eyes of those Shangguan, Lin Chong was just a Qiubachi guy without an official status. It sounds ridiculous, but it sounds like me. For such a trivial person, Gao Qiu is worthy of frame me for such a fatal crime as trespassing into the White Tiger Festival Hall, and he is not afraid of making the whole court laugh at him? He is really a little jester!"
As he spoke, Lin Chong picked up the wine bowl again and drank it all in one gulp. After drinking it, he realized that the wine tasted as light as water. Just as he was about to speak out, he heard Zou Run whisper: "Brother traveled all the way from Cangzhou and slept in the open air." , I haven’t had much rest, I’m afraid my body won’t be able to bear it. I’m just drinking today to enjoy myself, and I won’t be too late to drink as much as I can until I can rest up on the mountain.”
Lin Chong was slightly startled when he heard this, and a warm current rose up from his heart and reached his lungs. Lin Chong's words aroused Yang Zhi's sadness, and he fell into deep thought. Taking advantage of the strength of the wine, he murmured to himself, without noticing that Zou Run had replaced the wine in Lin Chong's bowl with white water mixed with honey.
"Instructor Lin's words are wrong. Even if he gets an official position, what will happen to him?"
"The Sa family is the grandson of Yang Linggong, the fifth lord, after three generations of generals. He has learned eighteen kinds of martial arts since he was a child. He has a serious martial arts background. He has never underestimated anyone with his abilities, but in the end, he was only a ninth-grade Chengxinlang (Note) 1) I have a humble official status. My original intention was to go to the border gates and earn a reputation with my swords and guns, but the blind and sinister officials in the Ministry of Civil Affairs sent me to prison just because I didn’t use the money to manage it. Send him to the Palace Commander's Mansion to serve as an envoy."
"Only when I got there did I realize that this Lao Shizi envoy was actually an idle official in name only. He neither led troops nor fought wars. Emperor Daojun built the Wansui Mountain and built it specifically to transport the flowers and stones to the south of the Yangtze River that were causing harm to the country and the people. Send!”
