A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 27: The yamen can do it, but certain people can’t?
Training is expensive!
Very expensive!

Li Gui robbed various nearby cottages to get enough food and meat for himself to train his troops, and relied on the steel knife in his hand to force the bandits to train honestly.

But Liang Wanshen cannot do these things, so he can only use money, much more money than Li Gui, to achieve the same effect.

Of course he refused to pay out of his own pocket, so he reached out to Magistrate Ding to ask for it.

Of course, Magistrate Ding was unwilling to give it, but he had to give it, so he had no choice but to target the people of the county.

This bandit-suppressing king has been captured once, and now it is about to be captured again for the second time!
The reason is very simple. We lost the last time we suppressed the bandits!

Everyone who went there died, shouldn't they be given compensation?
The gold from the last bandit suppression was used up, so of course we have to collect it again!

Suppressing bandits is of great benefit to all merchants and common people, and you don't need to go into battle. Why do you charge a little money?
Didn’t you see that the newly recruited soldiers are training every day?
All this money is spent on these soldiers, it is a special fund!

Once the soldiers are trained and the bandits are exterminated, everyone can naturally sit back and relax without worrying about being harmed by the bandits.

With such an honest and upright reason, whoever dares not to pay the money is clearly an accomplice of the thief and will be punished without mercy!

With the order from the county magistrate, a group of subordinate officials immediately traveled all over the country to collect taxes.

Of course, the gentry and wealthy merchants do not have to pay these kinds of miscellaneous taxes, but ordinary merchants, craftsmen, and farmers are exempted from them. Everyone has a share. Merchants with more money will be charged more, and farmers with less money will be charged less.

Life was already difficult, and now when faced with this kind of apportionment, many people could no longer survive.

Zhu Fu is one of them.

Although he runs a hotel outside Ximen, his income is not much, and he has many friends in the world. From time to time, he comes over to have a good time. We are brothers, loyalty comes first, and he is always embarrassed to ask them for a little food and drink. money.

In the past, it was just a matter of paying off. With some daily savings, I could always get by.

Unexpectedly, this year, Li Gui caused trouble first, and a group of people from above came down to investigate. Even Master Li Yun suffered a disaster, and all the old things in the yamen were changed.

Shouldn't he take care of the newly appointed governor and government officials and make friends?
In order to avoid trouble, he had no choice but to spend money and avoid disaster. He sent out the guy who came to "investigate", and then all the new Bodhisattvas who were supposed to be worshiped were worshiped one by one, and most of his family wealth was immediately spent.

Then Xinzhi County wanted to collect bandit suppression money, and set a heartbreaking standard for him, a "big family".

After finally getting over this hurdle, seeing everything getting better, Master Li Yun became the head of the capital again. As a result, the second round of bandit suppression came again.

He tried to talk to Dutou Li Yun, but Li Yun couldn't get in the middle of the conversation.

If it is a county-level payment, the standard will be based on the first payment!
You were able to give so much last time, but you gave less this time. That means you are dissatisfied with the Yamen and are suspected of collaborating with bandits!
After coming back from Li Yun's house, looking at the bleak business in the hotel, Zhu Fu let out a long sigh, locked the door, hung up a sign saying it was out of business, made two side dishes and a pot of wine, and started drinking by himself.

After drinking a bottle of wine, Zhu Fu became more and more drunk. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

He had worked hard to run the hotel for more than ten years and finally saved a little money. However, because of this bullshit banditry money, he suddenly became a pauper again.

Does he think he doesn't know whose pocket the banditry money ended up in?If [-]% of it could be used by soldiers for training, he would chop off the head and use it as a ball!

And as soon as he thought about the fact that behind Li Gui, it might be Mrs. Liu who supported him, he could guess that this second round of bandit suppression would probably be in vain, and he would definitely collect the money for the third round of bandit suppression.

He can still rely on debt to support himself this time, but what should he do next time?
What about the fourth or fifth time?
What a shitty world!
There really is no way for good people to survive!

Zhu Fu shook the jug, poured some of the remaining wine into his mouth, then slammed it to the ground, smashing the jug into pieces, overturned the table, stood up staggeringly, pointed at the sky and cursed loudly. :

"Straight thief!"

"Since a good man can't continue to be a good man, why don't you go up to the mountains and get grass?"

He did what he said, and with the strength of his drink, Zhu Fu picked up a single knife, left the hotel, locked the door, and staggered towards Yushan.
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Since the villages were wiped out and Yishui was unified, the name of Yushan Village has spread. The most obvious result is that the number of people coming to the village has increased day by day.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Li Gui is now the leader of the underworld in Yishui County. Wherever he goes, others have to give him some face.

With this name, Li Gui is initially qualified to make people bow to him at first sight.

There is plenty of food, grass, pigs, sheep, etc. in the mountains, but if you just sit there and eat nothing, you will run out sooner or later.

Although Li Gui did not intend to use this place as a base for development, the cottage gradually took shape and became what it is today, which made Li Gui quite happy. If he could keep this cottage, he would of course be willing to do so. .

He didn't know anything about business, and he was too lazy to do those things. If he had to work hard to grow the cottage, he would rather kick it away to avoid making himself unhappy.

Now that we have come to the world of Water Margin, of course we have to eat big chunks of meat, drink big bowls of wine, and live a comfortable and happy life to make this life worthwhile!

As for how to make money, he doesn't know any science or engineering methods, nor does he know any business skills, and he is too lazy to do any scientific research himself.

Even if we now want to recruit refugees to farm their own crops, there is no fertile land for farmers to use because they live in villages.

After much thought, Li Gui only came up with one way to generate stable income, and that was to set up a card to collect taxes!
The yamen can do it, but certain people can't?
It is impossible to do business. In the past, so many emperors were able to raise troops to fight by collecting taxes. Why couldn't he, Li Gui?
He will do whatever the government does!
However, the government always imposes various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. He cannot learn from this, so he simply fixes the taxes and does not charge a penny more!
If any of his subordinates dared to charge an extra penny, he would chop him to death and gain some luck.

Anyway, all the surrounding cottages have been leveled by him, and there are no other bandit troubles. If all the caravans that have collected taxes are given a small tax-paid flag, the caravans can travel safely and unimpeded throughout the county.

Just like Chai Daguan, who has many friends in the world, he often sends his own little flag everywhere. When others see his chess pieces, they either give him face or are afraid of his revenge, so they don't dare to rob them and bring them to him. Come to such a great reputation.

For merchants, the [-]% tax paid is a lot, but it is nothing compared to the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes collected everywhere, as well as the bandits and bandits who appear out of nowhere.As long as I make a few more trips, I can make back all my money.

As he said, Li Gui asked the newly joined refugees to start building the cottage, striving to turn the dilapidated cottage into an impregnable fortress. At the same time, he organized manpower to start cutting down trees and building roads in a wide area at the foot of the mountain, preparing to set up roadblocks.

The cut trees were not transported up the mountain. Several guard booths were built next to them specifically for the use of tax collectors. They could not only provide shelter from wind and rain, but also sound a warning when an enemy invaded.

Just when the village was undergoing major construction in full swing, Zhu Fu arrived.

(End of this chapter)