Chapter 211 Stable Jianghu

After three days of investigating the situation in Luoyang, Guanshan discussed the plan with Shi Feizhe and went to Yuzhou with Wu Ya.

During the days Xiping was in Jingzhou, he just walked from Jicheng to Jiangling, from village to village and town to town.

A few years ago, the big cities in Yangzhou became ghost towns during the chaos of the Sacred Heart Church.

People in the city naturally fled outside. Those who had connections went to relatives in other states, or went to relatives and friends in the countryside. Those who had no other choice followed the official road, or went south, east to the sea, or west to Jingzhou.

Therefore, there were many refugees in Jingzhou in the past few years. Whoever could give them food would work like a cow or a horse.

Fortunately, under the management of Shi Feizhe, Yangzhou gradually recovered its vitality, allowing many people to return to Yangzhou.

Only two or three out of ten people returned. After they returned, after the chaotic control in the early stage, they had land to plant in a confused way.

In Yangzhou, all the land belongs to the Jianghu Reform Committee!

Their land was leased from the Jianghu Reform Committee.

Three years of free rent to encourage land reclamation. After three years, 20% to 80%!

It's not 20% for them, but 80% for them! There are incentives for planting well, compared with other places, it's almost free!

The huge land policy has accelerated the return of population in Yangzhou. It is said that in some places in Yangzhou, there are even monsters asking if they can rent land to plant.

It's outrageous!

Such a policy naturally attracted some people from Jingzhou to come to Yangzhou.

Xiping has been paying attention to Jingzhou, so naturally there are two types of people coming from Jingzhou.

One is the common people, whose ancestors were warriors and had their own few acres of thin land. But after deducting the annual tribute paid to the clan and the sect, there is not much left.

It can't be considered alive, but it can only be considered not starving to death!

Therefore, when they heard that this is how the land is planted in Yangzhou, the brave ones immediately sold their property and ran over.

The other is the escaped slaves.

They may be refugees who cannot make a living, so they sell themselves to farm for clans or sects.

Or they may be ordinary people who borrowed high-interest loans from clans and sects because of the disaster, and turned themselves into slaves to farm.

They originally had no access to information about Yangzhou, but more and more people went to Yangzhou, and they heard the news.

There are brave people who can't make a living everywhere.

These people will also run to Yangzhou.

In addition, Shi Feizhe deliberately let people publicize their deeds, making people in the area near Yangzhou in Jingzhou panic.

Local forces such as clans and sects are keeping a closer eye on their people to prevent them from running away one day.

As for coming to Yangzhou to make trouble for slaves and tenants...

That's just a joke!

The more they keep a closer eye on people, the more it proves that the things in Yangzhou are true, so there are more people who want to escape, and they keep a closer eye on them.

A vicious cycle has formed, and there is what Xiping said to Shi Feizhe before, that the people in Jingzhou are becoming less and less human.

Xiping is now in a fishing village. There are many waters in Jingzhou, so there are naturally many fishing villages.

There is a cold water pond outside the fishing village, and the water surface is as clear as blue waves, so it is named Bibo Village.

Xiping stood beside the cold water pond, watching the faint sunlight sprinkled on the cold water pond, and talked to the fishermen next to him.

He has a deep affection for fishermen because his first adoptive father is a fisherman.

"It's not easy for your village to have such a pond next to it?" Xiping said.

There are no fish in clear water. There are naturally not many fish in the cold water pond, and it occupies such a large area, squeezing the space of normal rivers and lakes.

The fishermen's boats can only go so far every day.

"Indeed. This area of ​​mountains, rivers and lakes all belong to the 'Youwei faction'. We have to give a portion of the fish we sell every day to the master of the Youwei faction." The fisherman who spoke to Xiping was named Liu Ping.

The brown skin was very rough, his face was rugged, and his eyebrows were thick.

He spoke in a low voice, because he was always humble in his daily life.

The shorts he wore were torn and old, and his ribs could be clearly seen through them.

Youwei Sect was a small sect, with only about a dozen people, and their leader was probably only at the level of Qi Hai.

Xiping could beat ten such warriors!

But such warriors could circle a few hills and lakes and establish a sect. In the eyes of fishermen, they were unattainable and invincible strongmen.

Just because they had a backstage.

Their backstage was Nanshan Sword Sect.

Nanshan Sword Sect was a famous sect in this area, managing the mountains, rivers, and fields within a radius of dozens of miles. The leader was a Zhoutian warrior.

Xiping could beat several such warriors!

Of course, Nanshan Sword Sect also had a backstage, and the backstage was the Dajiang Sword Sect in Jiangling.

The Dajiang Sword Sect is a famous and upright sect in Jiangling City. It has real warriors sitting in the sect, and it is famous and manages the area of ​​Jiangling for dozens of miles.

If the sects with names are counted, it can manage hundreds of miles around Jiangling City!

Like a local emperor!

The Jianghu is like this. The background of any small sect is more or less related to real warriors.

Such a Jianghu structure is called "enfeoffment" in their Jicheng!

The big sect enfeoffs land and areas to the small sects, and the small sects seal off the mountains and swamps, reclaim the land and pay benefits to the big sects to show their value and loyalty.

In the Jianghu ruled by the strong, this form is very stable.

After all, it is impossible for a warrior to work by himself. There must be someone to serve him. This is how to live!

"Does the fish still have to be sold to a designated person?" Xiping asked again.

"Yes! It is said that that person is related to the senior leaders of the Youwei Sect." Liu Ping said in a low voice.

"You must be very unwilling, right?" Xiping said.

Liu Ping didn't say anything, so what if he didn't want to.

Only with power or connections can people live better.

People like them can only live in low voices and linger. In the eyes of the promising faction, they are just a tool to sell fish for money.

"How many people are there in the village?" Xiping asked again.

"There used to be more than twenty, but now there are only seven or eight." Liu Ping replied.

Without land to provide stable income, fishing villages will naturally not be large.

Fishing also depends on the weather.

A family in a fishing village usually has three or four people.

He added: "Some fled to Yangzhou, while others were discovered after escaping and were beaten to death by the Youwei faction!"

When he arrived, Xiping had already seen people from the Youwei sect patrolling the mountains and rivers.

If everyone in Bibo Village runs away, who will pay them?

Didn’t they lose their way to make money?

"Your cultivation level is so high, do you want to conquer the Youwei sect?" Liu Ping looked at Xiping and said cautiously.

He had met Xi Ping several times before, so he felt safe to say these words.

Some people say that they have seen Xiping in other fishing villages. Xiping must be an advanced warrior.

"certainly!"

Xiping's words made Liu Ping feel happy.

As there were fewer and fewer people in Bibo Village, the Youwei Sect asked them to catch more fish. If they caught less fish, they would be beaten severely.

With fewer people, the Prospective Faction wants to ensure that the money paid for selling fish will not change.

But in fishing, there are always days when there is more and days when there is less, so it is difficult to be the same every day.

Naturally he received a lot of beatings.

He felt like he couldn't live any longer.

If Xiping hadn't helped him fish today, he wouldn't have had time to chat with Xiping.

This person seems to be easier to talk to. He shouldn't be too harsh then, right?

Just as he was thinking about this, he heard Xi Ping say to him seriously:

"Not only must we conquer the Youwei sect, we must also conquer the Nanshan Sword sect, and then we must wipe out all the sects in this area!"