ps: Thank you Brother Lei Ting for your rewards, and thank you for your monthly tickets for getting fat during the summer vacation.
How should we take the initiative? According to Liu Shanxi's meaning, we should take the initiative to test, and what we should test is Yingzhou's attitude towards stimulating this small group.
Liu Shanqing once analyzed with everyone that so far, everyone has estimated the situation to be too serious. Although this small group has strong traces of the former "Yane faction" or should be called the "Youzhou faction", it is not unshaven. Anyway, the leaders of the "Youzhou faction" Liu Shouguang and Liu Zhiwen yijing threw Zi Ji and others to Pingzhou, which was ready to abandon Zi Ji Ji. If they deviate from the "Youzhou faction", they would induce the psychological burden of shi Mei... " ".
Zi Ji and others were wandering in various towns in Hebei for many years and did not understand the situation within the Lu Long Army. The so-called "no one knows" is not to blame. The choice of mutiny when his life was in a worrying situation at that time was actually not unauthorized. As long as you explain this in the needed way, Yingzhou should be able to understand it.
Then, it is very important and fortunate that when the mutiny of the night, Liu Shanxi and others led the crowd to attack the Central Army camp, which had nothing to do with the war of Zhou Zhiyu in the rear army. The prisoners of Zhou Zhiyu and Zhao Zaili and other generals of the former Pingzhou system were not the first responsible persons.
Finally, Ziqi also wrote a letter to Jiedu Mansion and was preparing to resign from the so-called Shanbeixing Camp Military Supervisor. Now it seems that this position is simply a joke! Although he was rejected for resignation, it at least showed his own attitude, which is also a good attitude.
To sum up, this small group actually has a certain room for improvement, and it is not absolutely dead. However, having room for improvement does not mean that you can sit and wait. It is a death for people to wait, so you must take the initiative to test. Testing Yingzhou's attitude is not the purpose, the purpose is to establish communication channels with Yingzhou through tests. The other party's aggressive attitude is very firm. Then I won't say anything. Just leave the rolling cover in advance, but not, then... what? Then I can only look at it and take one step. Just calculate one step.
Where to start testing? How to test? In this regard, Liu Shanxiyi carefully set up several official roads!
The official roads from Youzhou all the way west, through Jizhou to Pingzhou are all the three-horse cars in parallel to the avenue, with a solid and flat road surface. They are spacious and easy to walk. Shihou, who was on duty a month ago, walked to such an official road. He was still very moved by the good road conditions and was even more dazzling by the endless convoys on the official road. However, according to the brothers who disguised themselves and returned to the outside of the pass, the road from Yuguan to Liucheng east of Pingzhou was better. Not to mention the four-horse cars in parallel, in terms of flatness and compactness, they were even better than the west, and there were countless carriages on the official road. Almost all the temptations were interrupted.
According to the brothers, there was a road block on the official road about fifty miles away. Passing merchants and travelers had to undergo point inspections, only counting carts, horses, and heads. They each paid according to the number of carts and horses. Because they had no cars or horses, they mainly used to inquire about information. Trafficking was just a cover, and they brought light goods and small amounts. They took a bag and resisted on their shoulders and left. Therefore, they could not see how to collect them, but they thought they were just from other places in the pass. After asking about those merchants and travelers, it seemed that one cart was collected for fifty cents.
Liu Shanxi is actually not qingchu. In the original official road charges, pedestrians also had to pay tolls, but later they found it was not realistic. According to the original plan, a car could take four people, which means that after paying the toll for one car, the fees for four people were waived. Therefore, in fact, it is a tempting point for individual business travelers traveling with the convoy, and the targets of confiscation are mainly individual passengers. However, individual passengers are very flexible in walking. They get off the official road before they encounter the level, and then bypass the level and return to the official road. It is difficult to confiscate.
If you need to strengthen road inspections specifically for this purpose, the cost is too high and it is not cost-effective. Because there are actually not many individual tourists traveling far away. In this era, most people are actually just wandering around in the village and the village for the rest of their lives. Why do anyone travel far away? Therefore, the various levels actually stopped charging for the casual customers.
Therefore, Liu Shanxi planned to find an official road to set up a checkpoint. In addition to obtaining additional military funds, he could also test the attitude of Yingzhou. The charges for setting up a checkpoint in the road were the power of the military and political officials in this era, and it was also one of the main sources of income. Logically speaking, this was of course Liu Shanxi's power, but Liu Shanxi did not recognize whether Yingzhou recognized the stimulus to possess this power, so he never dared to take action.
At this moment, he was ready to fulfill this privilege of stimulation. The stimulation said that it means that the other party has accused the stimulation of being a military envoy of Pingzhou, and that stimulation can continue with the next move, such as collecting taxes from the villages on its own, or serving in Latin. The stimulation does not agree, that's fine. If you don't agree, you have to give an explanation, right? Always listen to our appeal? Isn't this a way to establish a communication channel? It's better than such a so-called waiting.
Liu Shanxi did not dare to set up a checkpoint on the official road east of Pingzhou. He guessed that it should be within the interests of Yuguan Guard and Capture the City. At present, it is impossible to touch easily. Not only the road surface east of Pingzhou cannot be moved, but the road surface within ten miles of Pingzhou City should not be moved either.
The first level is between two hills twenty miles away from Pingzhou City. It stands on the top of the hill beside the road. You can see a long way. If you want to bypass the level, you must walk down the official road at a distance. This behavior is quite thankless. A cart drove down the road from five or six miles away and walked hard on the bumpy wild land. After bypassing the level, you can return to the official road for five or six miles. The time and physical strength you delayed are definitely not comparable to that of paying tolls.
Liu Shanxi carefully chose the number of fifty cents for a car. At the same time, the rider collected ten cents of tolls per horse. He did not want to miss the amount of money based on the head. He planned to charge five cents per person. He felt that the cost was very small and should not anger Yingzhou.
To be cautious, Liu Shanxi, who set up the checkpoint on the first day, came out of the empty camp. A hundred people pulled out the camp and set up the checkpoint directly here. The reason why he dispatched many people was because he wanted to guard against the interference of Zhang Zaiji, the governor of Pingzhou. At the same time, Liu Shanxi was also very afraid of Yuan Xingqin, who was guarding the city of Yuguan.
At the beginning, it was quite unhappy. The brigade's business and travel were congested before the checkpoint. The situation was very tense. Liu Shanxi even ordered his brothers to show off their weapons and bows and crossbows.
Liu Shanxi and others were not obsessed with the fact that these business travelers dared to resist payment, so at the beginning, they were also very excited and angry. The small merchants dared to fight against the government. Who gave them the courage? They dared not pay the fees based on the Shime? It is natural to set up a card to charge fees. These merchants are indeed unruly people!
"Dear bosses, when did you add another level? There are two of them on this road, and some of them have been paid according to the rules!"
"Yes, yes, there are less than a hundred miles of land, but now three roads are needed to be added. How can we continue to do this business?"
"Suddenly, why didn't you know it before?"
"I'm waiting for a small base, the heads will give up their hands and let me go."
A traitor, the crowd resounded and the noise continued.
Liu Shanxi naturally would not listen to these merchants complaining. How could these troublemakers get into his eyes? They just ignore them now. In short, they only recognize one thing and cannot pass without paying the fee!
After complaining for a long time, he was unable to move forward and he would not want to force himself to break through. The merchants finally bowed their heads and prepared to pay the fee with frown. So the calculator in Liu Shanxi's small group came in handy and began to count the prices one by one with the merchants. Coins were put into the bamboo basket one by one, and they quickly filled it up, then moved it onto a big cart and exchanged for another empty basket, which made Liu Shanxi feel warm.
The harvest was quite good that day, and Liu Shanxi collected a total of more than ten guan tolls. According to this efficiency, the annual fee is estimated to exceed 3,000 guan! It is only winter. In spring and summer, when merchants and pedestrians are more suitable for travel, the gains will be even richer. Liu Shanxi couldn't help but have a new estimate of the wealth and prosperity of Pingzhou.
Of course, the confiscation was not smooth. On that day, several teams of cavalry passed by here and wanted to interfere with Liu Shanxi and others' confiscation, but were all expelled by the brothers honestly and unceremoniously. Liu Shanxi estimated that these cavalry belonged to the jurisdiction of Pingzhou Governor's Mansion or Yuguan Guard. Perhaps the right to set up the road before belonged to them, and they snatched the fat from their mouths, so that they would of course not be happy. Coming over to intervene was also the subject. Liu Shanxi even hoped that they would come and intervene earlier, so that they would better have a bigger noise, so that he could find a channel to talk to the other party.
But Liu Shanxi was so excited that he would think that the other party would be very informed!
The next day, just as Liu Shanxi was lenient in charging, the Yu Hou Yuan Xingqin, who had been exposed under the city of Pingzhou, appeared in front of Liu Shanxi again. This time, Yuan Yu Hou brought five hundred people, including two hundred cavalry and three hundred squadrons, each with helmets and armor, and the equipment in his hands was excellent.
Liu Shanxi noticed that the twenty cavalrymen in front were actually equipped with hand crossbows!
This time, Yuan Yuhou's attitude was quite tough. He lured and told Liu Shanxi to Shime, and directly ordered the swords and guns of the brothers of a hundred numbers to be handed over to the prisoners of war, and then strung them with ropes and took them to Pingzhou directly. Liu Shanxi's treatment was even more different. It was not the rope that tied him up, but the cow tendon.
"I am a military envoy in Pingzhou. I am a low-ranking official and low-ranking official. How can I treat someone like this!" Liu Shanxi's veins burst out, and he was so eager to pounce on him and bite the little Yu Hou.
"Last night, twenty-three merchants jointly sued, authorized by the Pingzhou Inspection Office. For violating the "Yingzhou Governor's Office's Public Transportation Safety Regulations", a certain person was ordered to arrest and detain his department. This is the arrest warrant issued by the Pingzhou Inspection Office. You are very careful." Yuan Xingqin unfolded a volume of documents in his hand, shook his eyes to Liu Shanxi, and continued: "Whether the conviction is convicted, it will be tried by the Pingzhou Circuit Court... Of course, in my opinion, the evidence is conclusive, and the conviction is undoubtedly." (To be continued.)