Seventy-Two of the Hundred and Eight
Yuncheng county says that seventy-two of the hundred and eight outlaws of Liangshan came from its villages, and it has made the claim into a place to visit.
Yuncheng
Yuncheng is a county in the southwest of Shandong, under Heze, with Liangshan county along its eastern edge. It runs 44 kilometres from north to south and 36 from east to west, and its seat stands 150 kilometres southwest of Jinan. The Yellow River crosses it for 28 kilometres, and the county can draw 280 million cubic metres of river water a year, which is why its fields grow grain and cotton and raise Luxi cattle and two kinds of sheep. The town was walled in 587 BC, and in 598, under the Sui, Wan'an county was renamed Yuncheng. The census of 2020 counted 1,120,854 residents.