Chapter 211

"Lord, someone has come to join our Liang Shan."

Wang Lun, knowing that Zhang Zhang Jie did not like long-winded speeches, reported concisely.

"If someone has come to join, just handle it according to the old rules."

Zhang Zhang Jie subconsciously gave an answer that was not very concerned.

Since Liang Shan broke through the Zhu Family Manor and subdued the Hu Family Manor and Li Family Manor,

although officially, because the County Magistrate of Yuncheng County wanted to protect his official hat,

he chose to cover it up, which did not attract too much attention from the Great Song imperial court,

this news spread widely among the people, especially among the greenwood forces,

which in turn made Liang Shan, which was unremarkable under Wang Lun, famous throughout the Other Shandong greenwood.

One must know that even large mountain strongholds like Mount Erlong and Mount Taohua, with thousands of underlings

and dozens of daring leaders,

did not have the record of breaking through a large manor like the Zhu Family Manor!

In terms of combat record alone, Liang Shan at this time was the undisputed crown of the Other Shandong greenwood!

With combat records and strength came fame;

and with fame, the greenwood heroes coming to join Liang Shan were naturally endless.

Of course, Zhang Zhang Jie, who had a deep understanding of the creature known as the greenwood "hero,"

would not be like the 'Timely Rain' Song Jiang, Song Song Heizi, who, regardless of whether they were fragrant or stinking,

whether they were wanted by the government for murder and arson, or were 'heroes' forced to join Liang Shan, accepted them all.

Because most greenwood heroes, although called heroes,

were actually often thugs and fugitives who committed murder, arson, robbery, and looting,

accustomed to bullying the weak, survival of the fittest, and having no moral bottom line.

Zhang Zhang Jie did not want Liang Shan, which he had just learned to manage like a kind father and had gone through several purges,

and had finally managed to reverse many bad practices, to become foul and filthy again.

So he found a good place for those "heroes" who were full of evil.

Hey, it wasn't directly treating them to peanuts (bullets), that would be too wasteful.

He was currently building steam engines on Liang Shan,

and steam engines, well, they needed a lot of coal as fuel.

And as for the situation of coal mines in the Great Song era,

one could completely refer to the private coal mines in small countries in Africa and Southeast Asia in the 21st century.

No, it should be said that the Great Song's coal mines were not even as good as those small private coal mines and black-hearted small mines,

at least the workers there at least used head-mounted electric lights,

while the coal mines here in the Great Song could only use oil lamps and candles for lighting,

and once they encountered the accumulation of flammable gases like methane, they would directly hit 'gg' in an explosion.

Working in the Great Song's coal mines was not only in a harsh environment, such as narrow spaces where people couldn't even stand straight;

the air was damp, and coal mines were underground, very prone to water accumulation, and working inside for a period of time meant being riddled with diseases;

it was also very dangerous, without high-quality steel or other structurally strong materials for support,

only wood could be used, and cave-ins crushing people to death or blocking passages were common occurrences.

Zhang Zhang Jie couldn't bear to use Liang Shan soldiers, and was not very willing to use ordinary people as consumables for bloody accumulation,

so he could only "invite" the heroes to sacrifice their small selves for the benefit of the masses.

And those 'heroes', under the encouragement of the flintlock guns in the hands of Liang Shan soldiers that would leave a bloody hole with one pull of the trigger,

one by one, with tears in their eyes, expressed their willingness to contribute a little of their strength for Liang Shan

and for the happy life of the people of the world.

For others who must be wiped out in the future, such as the 'hero' Wang Ying, the Short-Statured Tiger,

who liked to use human hearts and livers as side dishes for his wine and was completely devoid of humanity, Zhang Zhang Jie also planned to do the same.

For a guy like Wang Ying who had already lost his humanity, cutting him down with a knife was really letting him off too easily!

However, Zhang Zhang Jie did not indiscriminately wipe out these greenwood heroes:

For some heroes who were truly forced into a dead end and had no choice but to become bandits,

and who did not have too many blood debts on their hands, he also gave them a chance,

those who wanted to leave could leave, and those who wanted to stay would first enter the recruit training camp for training,

to wash away their greenwood habits before officially joining Liang Shan.

Regarding Liang Shan's way of treating those who came to join,

the greenwood forces that still insisted on a slight bottom line remained silent and said nothing,

while some morally corrupt greenwood forces denounced Liang Shan for not talking about greenwood loyalty,

calling it a tumor of the Other Shandong greenwood and calling on other strongholds to unite and wipe out Liang Shan.

However, although they expressed their opinions and made loud statements, they did not take any action.

Regarding such painless accusations, Zhang Zhang Jie still went his own way and implemented this set of rules.

The instructor of the recruit training camp was none other than Lin Chong's father-in-law,

Zhang Zhang Niangzi's father, and the old instructor Zhang, who was a fellow Imperial Guard instructor with Lin Chong.

Although the old instructor Zhang was old and frail and could no longer wear armor and ride a horse to fight,

his family-inherited military training techniques had become more and more mature with the passage of time,

and he learned the military training methods of the "Wu Mu Testament" taught by Zhang Zhang Jie with ease.

Zhang Zhang Jie specially promoted him to be the instructor of the recruit training camp, specializing in training recruits,

which could be considered as giving him a chance to continue to shine and heat up.

Having spent half his life in the Imperial Guard with his great skills having nowhere to be displayed, the old instructor Zhang was like a fish in water in the recruit training camp.

In his own words, he was learning from Cao Mengde's "Though the Tortoise Lives Long," "An old steed in the stable

still aspires to gallop a thousand li," to accomplish a great cause, so as not to waste this life.

However, Zhang Zhang Jie came back to his senses in an instant:

The greenwood hero who could make Wang Lun come to find him in person was probably not an ordinary greenwood hero.

And ordinary greenwood heroes, after knowing Liang Shan's way of handling them, probably wouldn't dare to come and join just like that.

He asked with interest: "Zhengdao, who is it that makes you value them so much?"

"Reporting to the Lord, the person who has come to join our Liang Shan this time is Brother Chao Gai Gai, the 'Heavenly King Who Supports the Pagoda' in the Jianghu."

Wang Lun answered solemnly.

This Brother Chao Gai Gai was no ordinary person; he was originally from Dongxi Village, Yuncheng County, Other Shandong, and served as the village head,

with abundant family assets, no wife, and spent his days practicing spear and staff, making friends with heroes all over the world.

Dongxi Village and Xixi Village were separated by a stream, and legend had it that a ghost was haunting Xixi Village,

so monks built a blue stone pagoda to suppress it, but it drove the ghost to Dongxi Village,

and the villagers were very worried, so they told the village head, Brother Chao Gai Gai.

Brother Chao Gai Gai was furious when he heard this and single-handedly moved the pagoda to Dongxi Village, thus earning the name "Heavenly King Who Supports the Pagoda."

After finishing, Wang Lun saw that there was no one around and whispered:

"Lord, this Brother Chao Gai Gai and others robbed the Birthday Gift for the father-in-law of Liang Liang Zhongshu, the Governor of Great Ming Prefecture,

Cai Jing, which was worth a full one hundred thousand strings of cash!

After being exposed this time, they were wanted by the government, and they specifically came to seek the protection of our Liang Shan,

and are willing to offer the remaining Birthday Gift!"

There was an undisguised joy in Wang Lun's tone: their Liang Shan dispatched hundreds of troops

and used big killers like cannons to take down the Zhu Family Manor, and the proceeds were only a few hundred thousand strings of cash;

and protecting Brother Chao Gai Gai and the others could get one hundred thousand strings of cash, this deal was really too cost-effective.

Even if Brother Chao Gai Gai and the others had squandered a lot during this period, and some had been confiscated by the government,

the remaining Birthday Gift of seventy or eighty thousand, or at worst fifty thousand strings of cash, was still there.

As for whether this would offend the imperial court, offend Liang Liang Zhongshu, the Governor of Great Ming Prefecture,

or even Cai Jing, the powerful Prime Minister who covered the sky with one hand in the Great Song court?

They were already preparing to rebel and completely overthrow the Great Song, who would still care about a Cai Jing!