Soon, several days passed.
The news of the battle at Shijie Village not only spread throughout Jeju, but even the surrounding Yunzhou, Yanzhou, Puzhou and other prefectures knew about it.
The most shocked was Jeju. Juye and Yuncheng, the two cities beside Liangshan Lake, had long spread the news.
How many years had it been since a bandit dared to kill an officer in the Great Song? And the one who died was a regimental training commissioner of a prefecture?
In today's Jeju City and Yuncheng County, whether it was restaurants, tea houses, or casinos, the most talked about topic was the destruction of more than a thousand government troops in Liangshan Lake.
There were even busybodies who described the entire process as if they had seen it with their own eyes.
All in all, ever since the defeat of the government troops at Shijie Village, Liang Shanpo's reputation had risen greatly. As the chief of the stronghold, Xu Fengwu had also become a famous figure.
Now, in the entire Jeju, no one dared to look down on Liangshan Lake, be it the officials or the people.
Previously, the Green Forest and Liangshan in Jingdong were famous, but Qingzhou had Twin Dragon Mountain and Qingfeng Mountain, while Yizhou had Lengyan Mountain and Ape Arm Stronghold. Their reputation was not weaker than Liangshan Lake.
But now that Liang Shanpo had defeated the government army, he naturally stood out among the crowd.
However, what the commoners were most concerned about was the government's reaction. After losing a regimental training envoy and several hundred men, the government could not possibly remain silent.
As expected, it didn't take long for Jeju to issue an official document, ordering the villages around Liangshan Lake to organize their young and strong local soldiers to patrol day and night, not mentioning the matter of another expedition.
This surprised the people of Jeju. Why did the government stop?
Those with connections knew that this was because the military and horses supervisor, Chen Yinglong, was injured. The government could only endure it for the time being and wait for Chen Yinglong to recover before attacking.
Otherwise, would he ask the Zhizhou to personally lead the troops to suppress the bandits?
Naturally, Liang Shanpo also knew about the reaction of the Jeju government. Xu Fengwu laughed after hearing this, and then he no longer paid any attention to it, focusing on the construction of the village.
Putting aside the compensation for the dead and injured minions, Du Qian and Song Wan went to recruit the captives, and more than seventy people surrendered on the spot.
In the next three days, another eighty people surrendered, adding up to a hundred and fifty people. It could be seen that these prefectural soldiers and local soldiers were not tough.
Du Qian and Song Wan also did not say anything else. They gave each of them five strings of money to settle down, and then arranged for a meal of wine and meat, making these prefectural soldiers and local soldiers unable to believe it.
Soon after, this news was spread to the remaining soldiers, and they exclaimed that it was impossible.
However, under the arrangement of Du Qian and Song Wan, some of the surrendered soldiers had to explain themselves, so the rest of the people had no choice but to believe it.
Soon, most of the remaining soldiers surrendered on the spot. There were only twenty or so diehards. They were basically the officers of the prefectural army and belonged to the part that had already gained benefits.
The treatment for the second batch of people who surrendered was naturally worse. Not only did they only receive money, but their faces were also tattooed.
According to the values of the later generations, tattooing a person's face was a living humiliation. However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, it was regarded as a normal thing.
Not only did criminals have to tattoo words on their faces, but even the soldiers in the army had to tattoo words on their faces to prevent them from escaping.
The most famous one was the Great General Di Qing of the Song Renzong era. Because of the tattoos on his face, he was known as the 'General Face Nirvana.'
The second batch of soldiers who surrendered beat their chests and stamped their feet when they received the money. They did not dare to complain about the injustice of Liangshan, but only hated themselves for not surrendering earlier.
Just because they were a step too slow, they lost four strings of money, causing these soldiers to regret endlessly.
One had to know that the Song army, the top four armies of the Imperial Army, only had a monthly salary of five hundred wen. The middle army had a monthly salary of five hundred wen, while the lower army had a monthly salary of three hundred wen. In addition, they had a portion of rations every month.
But now, corruption was prevalent in the Great Song's officialdom. Every month, his salary would be deducted by the higher-ups. It would be good if he could get half of it.
Not to mention the prefectural soldiers who were not treated as well as the Imperial Army. This money was their salary for several months.
Xu Fengwu's first move didn't make these prefectural soldiers and local soldiers die for him, but it made them surrender willingly.
Moreover, Xu Fengwu still had more tricks up his sleeve.
Putting aside these captives, Liang Shanpo also began to set up toll stations in Jishui and Wenshui to collect the toll of merchants.
Liang Shanpo, with the might of his victory, wanted to collect the toll. How could the merchants dare to disobey? It was only two percent of the value of the goods, which was nothing to them.
Even the rich and powerful merchants were all silent and obediently paid up.
Moreover, the Great Song's business tax was also so high. In addition to the bribes along the way, the money spent was far more than this 2%.
Rather than having their goods plundered by Liang Shanpo, the merchants were naturally willing to spend a little money to buy peace.
Xu Fengwu was the one who had personally caught him. Naturally, he was worried that someone would do something dirty and break the rules he had set.
One had to know that among the minions of Liangshan, other than the fishermen and farmers who could not survive, there were also quite a few hoodlums.
On the first day the toll station was set up, Liangshan had earned more than 1,000 strings of money. This was even when many merchants did not have cash and could only use goods to pay the toll.
According to this situation, Liangshan would earn at least 30,000 strings of money a month.
Apart from that, the Liangpo area was considered a rare land of fish and rice in the Northern Region. In addition to Jeju and Yuncheng, there were also Shouzhang, Rencheng, and other counties. There were countless local tyrants and bullies under them, and they all had a lot of oil and water to squeeze out.
Xu Fengwu was not soft-hearted at all when dealing with these evil big families. He did not have the slightest psychological burden.
It could be said that everything in Liang Mountain Lake was developing in a good direction.
Of course, Xu Fengwu was not satisfied. For example, the ships in the village were all small fishing boats. There was an obvious difference between them and the ships of merchants, let alone the warships of the navy.
Now that the village was not short of money, Xu Fengwu directly took a knife in one hand and silver in the other and bought three big ships that could carry thousands of stones from the merchants.
Even though they were forced to buy and sell, the price was very fair. It was the price of a new ship.
Of course, Xu Fengwu felt that this was not enough, but he could only make do with it.
In addition, there was the equipment in the village. Although they had obtained some weapons and armor in this battle, they only had a few dozen sets. Now that there were more than 1,200 Liangshan soldiers, this was completely inadequate.
However, this kind of thing could not be rushed. Xu Fengwu could only take it slowly.
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