The Xu family's fortress master can be simply divided into three factions: long house, second house and three house.

The Changfang School has the head of the family Xu Mujiang (1 town), the eldest son of the Changfang (4 towns), the concubine's son Xu Shibai (11 towns), Wang Yong (13 towns), Zhang Jian (5 towns), Zhang Qiang (7 towns) and Liang Jun (12 towns).

The three-bedroom school is Xu Muhai (3 towns), Zhang Ye (6 towns), and Huineng (10 towns).

The second houses are Xu Muhe (2 towns), Luan Tingyu (8 towns), Sun Li (9 towns), Dong Chao (14 towns), and his eldest son of the second house, Xu Shiyang himself (15 towns).

It sounds very simple, right? In fact, your relationship is more than that.

As the eldest son of the eldest son, Xu Shisong considered himself the unscrupulous head of the Xu family in the future. His identity and his irritable personality made him look down on the concubines of the Shi generation very much.

Therefore, Xu Shisong, his pioneering mentors Liang Jun, plus Xu Shiyang and Zhang Ye, were considered to be the legitimate sons of the three masters.

Xu Shiyang didn't want to interfere with such a shameless camp division, but others didn't think so. They forced the label of the legitimate son sect based on his identity, and Xu Shiyang couldn't take it off. Anyway, the people of the Prince Sect were a little hostile to him.

There is a legitimate son sect and a concubine. At present, the Xu family has only Xu Shibai, who has his own fortress, but the concubine's younger brothers are not completely without their own power.

This involves the so-called "brother-in-law".

Except for Xu Muhai, who has never been an official, the wife of the two masters of the Xu family are both from local wealthy families and they don’t have to make a living in the Xu family. This has led to the fact that most of the brother-in-law in the Xu family are actually related by their concubines or remarriages.

Theoretically, they have no blood relationship with legitimate sons like Xu Shisong and Xu Shiyang, so most brother-in-laws are actually on the side of the concubine's sons.

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The Xu family has 15 forts, with a total population of less than 20,000 forts, and the party struggles are so exciting that they can see the big ones from the small, so the officials can probably understand why the great Zhou Dynasty could not defeat the various Tartars outside the customs, and in the end they had to pay tribute and settle down in Jiangnan.

‘I’m so tired.’ Xu Shiyang looked at these shameless guys in the lobby and had nothing to say.

"This year's harvest is coming."

No one knows what Xu Shiyang is thinking, everyone is concerned about the next issue.

The head of the family, Xu Mujiang, sat on a chair and said loudly:

"According to the past rules, I don't care how much you each have collected, and I have to pay a dou of grain to the public treasury for each acre of land. It will be solved within one month. Don't forget it!"

As soon as these words were said, the lords of the long house quickly agreed, but the lords of the second and third houses all had depressed expressions on their faces.

The grain handed over was said to be returned to the public treasury in the family for emergency response, but the public treasury was under the jurisdiction of the Changfang people, and almost became a small treasury of the Changfang faction.

They couldn't check the accounts. Over the years, almost no one in the second and third rooms had received subsidies from the public warehouse, and no one knew how much food there was. The fortress owners naturally complained about this.

Fortunately, a dou of grain per mu of land is not too much, and everyone still has the ability to bear it.

Xu Shiyang didn't say a word about this, and he didn't want to hand over the food, but he still needed to wait for an opportunity to ask.

The time comes soon.

Xu Mujiang continued:

"The Tartars have retired. According to the practice of previous years, each of our villages will give Luo Dao Ren from Fulaishan 5 stones of food and 10 coats, and each family will prepare it."

This is indeed a common practice. The bandit leader on Fulai Mountain was originally a Taoist priest. After the Great Zhou court crossed the south, he gathered a group of green-pi who liked to use martial arts guns and sticks, and set up a mountain village on Fulai Mountain, and fell into the grass.

Later, he relied on the territorial advantage to absorb several small bandits, and it is said that there was even a former official army, which quickly developed into a well-known bandit leader.

Dahuwu Fort near Juzhou was disgusted with Luo Daoren, but he had to tolerate the existence of the other party. The bandits in Fulai Mountain were not able to capture a big family like the Xu family, but the Xu family was not able to capture the bandits on Fulai Mountain.

Moreover, for the Xu family, bandits went down the mountain to rob, and there were always some households who had no time to hide from being plundered or killed. Not only did they lose the population, they also delayed the farm work.

So, the master of the Xu family and Luo Daoren made a "gentleman agreement". Each fort in the Xu family gave Luo Daoren 5 stones of food and 10 new clothes every year. Luo Daoren restrained his subordinates from robbing the Xu family's village at will.

To be honest, this is simply a collusion with bandits, but in today's Jiangbei, being able to collude with large bandit groups or bandits who can collude with large bandit groups is itself a proof of its strength.

"The things given to Dao Ren Luo are transported together with the food sent to the public treasury. I will send someone to contact Dao Ren Luo. If you are not familiar with him, it is easy to have misunderstandings..."

"I won't give it to you." Xu Shiyang said loudly.

"What?" Xu Mujiang thought he had heard it wrong.

"I have no problem with the food given to the public treasury." Xu Shiyang repeated loudly: "But the bandits..., I don't give them a grain of food or a piece of cloth!"

The lords of the castle were all looking at him in surprise.

Xu Shiyang took a sip of tea leisurely in front of everyone's eyes - this was a good tea bought from the south by the head of the family's boat, and he couldn't drink it in his own village.

"Shi Yang, don't make a child's temper!" Xu Muhe said, "If you don't give it now, you will lose more in the future!"

Unlike Xu Shiyang's view, other fortress owners of the Xu family wanted to bargain on the issue of public treasury grain, which would be delayed for one day.

But they didn't have much thought about the agreement with the bandits.

Many people even think that when they are small refugees again, they can cooperate with Daoren Luo to divide up some population.

"I'll say it again."

Xu Shiyang did not look at his cheap father in this life, but said word by word:

"I will definitely not give anything to the bandits!"

"Well, it's not right, I can give them something else."

Xu Shiyang said:

"I cut down 40 Tartar heads, and I was worried that there was no place to throw them away. My uncle will help me give these heads to Dao Ren Luo."

"It's worth 200 pieces of silk."

Threat, a bare-hearted threat.

"Third brother, Luo Daoren has more than 2,000 bandits under his command, and more than 200 of them are elderly bandits."

The eldest son Xu Shibai sneered and said:

"You are alone in a village, with a height of 500 ding litres. Who can you scare?"
Chapter completed!