Early the next morning, Yu Dana invited the eight officials to have breakfast, and went to a very good restaurant in Lishan County. It turned out that Zhu Qishan secretly instructed them to measure as much as possible and measure more points, not to let them falsely report and fake, but to let them measure the surrounding Daqingshan forest area.

Yu Dana broke the work, and covered up the past by taking advantage of the momentum of drinking tea in a teacup: no wonder the county commander had to re-measure.

The total price of buying land has been said to be 800 taels, Zhu Qishan will not go back on his word (wasteland should not be counted as money, getting 800 taels is already an unexpected harvest), what he wants is to allocate as much wasteland as possible to Yu Dana's master, anyway, no matter whether his master finally reclaims it or not, it is already mountainous land in his county newspaper, and Yu Dana's owner

, what you have to bear more is the extra part of the land tax, but it is calculated according to the lowest mountainous land, and it is not much.

Yu Dana did not take the opportunity to let the officials behave well, but talked about his difficulty, and sighed that it was not easy for the officials, they are all people who do things underneath, let them do what they should do, don't let the county order catch the pigtails. His words made the favorability of several officials rise to the top.

There have been a lot of explosive news in Qingshan Village recently, no, the young master of Yangjiazhuang only appeared in Qingshan Village yesterday, the incident has not cooled down, many girls who have not been out of the cabinet are still thinking about the handsome and extremely handsome noble son, and today the more exciting news is coming, this news is like water ripples from Qingshan Village, and soon Wuli Town and nearby villages are talking about this matter.

Passerby A: "Hey, do you know, the west bank of Qingshan Village was actually sold." ”

Passerby C: "It's impossible, it's a wasteland, where can I buy it, if you really want to fight the idea of going there and open up the wasteland directly: even if you plant it, you can't harvest it, and you will definitely lose all your money." ”

Passerby A: "True thing, today, my sister-in-law from my eighth aunt's family came back from Qingshan Village and said that someone brought eight officials to measure." ”

Passerby C, "The officials have all gone, is it possible that there are really such fools in this world?"

Passerby B: "You said Yu Dana of the Yu family in Peach Blossom Village?"

Passer-by: "Isn't it that he led the servants, he despised himself and sold himself into slavery, and the new master seems to be surnamed Qiao." ”

Passerby B: "Which Joe?"

Passerby: "The devil knows where it came from." There is no Qiao family in Lishan County, it is estimated that they came from somewhere else, and they don't know the past of the West Bank, so they smashed the silver into it. ”

Passerby B, "The master doesn't understand, Yu Dana always knows what's going on, he doesn't persuade him, and he has to take the lead in eating." ”

He also has a lot of ideas about the West Bank, and several expeditions have failed, and finally have to stop the landlord Zhang naturally received the news at the first time, he did not blindly laugh at others, everything can not be seen on the surface, he always feels that the person must have a deep meaning in doing so. Thoughtfulness is the character of Landlord Zhang, which is also one of the reasons why he can save such a large family business.

Although in the past few years, Landlord Zhang has not taken any action against the West Bank, but he is actually not reconciled at all. Farming is to rely on the sky to eat, God appreciates the face, when it should rain, when it should rain, when it should be sun, the tenant and him can have a good year, if God does not appreciate the face, even he has to weigh the silver to live. Water is the lifeblood of farming, and the fields are convenient for water conservancy, so that the harvest can be guaranteed in drought and flood.

In addition to the 2,000 acres of land in Qingshan Village, Landlord Zhang also has fields in other villages, and the total number of fields is not less than that of Qingshan Village, and they are all planted according to the tenancy of 50 percent, but the land rent collected by Qingshan Village every year is always 30 percent more than the others combined, all because Qingshan Village has an extra Yaoshui River, and the year is a little drought, and the farmers are diligent in carrying water from the Yaoshui River to water the land. In the event of a major drought year when even the Yaoshui River is dry, Qingshan Village will lose its harvest, and other places will already be starving. Don't look at the tenants in Qingshan Village, who live a tight life, that is compared with the rich households in Qingshan Village, and compared with other villages, they are still living well.

The land in Qingshan Village was bought by the grandfather of the landlord Zhang in the drought year with the last family fund, and was unanimously opposed by the Zhang family at that time. Landlord Zhang also wanted to follow in his grandfather's footsteps and bless future generations, so he kept his eyes on the west bank, which was only one step away from the east coast.

Landlord Zhang understands the truth, and others also understand. In the eyes of many people, the West Bank is like a huge piece of fat on the table, let you pick it, gather around the table one by one, your eyes are greedy, but what can you do if you can't swallow it, you can only let it do it like this, anyway, no one gets cheap.

Landlord Zhang also considered buying the West Bank first, pinching it in his hand and then slowly drawing it, so as not to be plotted, but he was really reluctant to buy the silver of the land, nor was he willing to give the tax money in vain. The things that have been thinking about for so many years have been pulled away, how can Landlord Zhang sit still, and immediately set off to Qingshan Village.

For the closed Yangjiazhuang, it is a big matter about the land, Yang Bing and others also received the news, and couldn't help but talk a few times, Feng Qixiang also heard a few words, he was bored, let Bao ask Zhou Changle to ask what's going on, Zhou Changle quickly understood a rough idea this time, and returned to Feng Qixiang, in order to make the master more clear, he not only said the past of the West Bank, but also said the water conservancy conditions of the West Bank, and after speaking, he also laughed at the Qiao family fool, but he didn't expect his master to come and say, "This must be a very smart person." ”

After Feng Qixiang finished speaking, there was no follow-up, but Zhou Changle was concerned about this matter, he was really curious, and gave himself a reason to "listen to the news for the master", and took the initiative to go out of Zhuangzi to check the scene.

When Landlord Zhang arrived, many people were on the east bank of the Yaoshui River, stretching their necks to look at the west bank, and Zhou Changle was among them. There really are officials on the West Bank who are striding forward.

If Qiao Lan was here, it would probably be strange that these officials didn't measure the land well, so what were they going to do when they walked around. In ancient times, large-scale fields were measured using the "step ruler method", six steps = six feet, one mile = one hundred and eighty zhang = one thousand eight hundred feet = three hundred steps. As for saying that some people have long legs, some people have short legs, and the steps they take are inevitably biased, hey, such a large piece of land, who will die to pick out the mistake of this step or two, it's almost on the line, if you really want to take a ruler, you have to take ten days and half a month to finish it.

In addition to the officials on the west bank, there are also some men who are cutting wood to make wooden stakes, which Qiao Lan specially sent to drive stakes to make land boundaries. As soon as Yu Dana arrived in Qingshan Village, he was in a hurry to return to Qiao Lan, but he couldn't leave, there were no available people around him, fortunately, Chen Yueya and Xie Jinbao, who received the news, took the initiative to come, in order to avoid misunderstandings, the two of them were very smart next to him and talked about Qiao Lan unintentionally, and then the three of them muttered for a while, Chen Yueya was still in the shock of "that Qiao family fool who spent a lot of money turned out to be her sister" and couldn't extricate herself, Xie Jinbao set off to Wuli Town to find Qiao Lan.

When Qiao Lan heard this, she was overjoyed, since the county magistrate was so generous, and he sent mountains and woodlands, why not do it. She instructed Fang Xiaoyong to find ten coolies and go to Qingshan Village with Xie Jinbao.

In fact, the boundaries of large areas of land in the country are not deliberately defined, and are usually bounded by the terrain that still exists, such as rivers and mountains......

On the east coast, Yu Dana's master's household, and then drive piles to define, is not a snake to add to the foot, this is a big move, horizontal and vertical is not their own business, the officials do not say much, and turn a blind eye to the men who follow them to drive piles.

The people on the west bank were busy, and Landlord Zhang walked across the trembling single-plank bridge connecting the east and west banks, pressed all kinds of ideas in his heart, and walked to Yu Dana with a smile.

Yu Dana also tenanted the landlord's land, and fifty percent of the land rent made him unable to guarantee food and clothing no matter how hard he worked, so he didn't like the landlord very much, and now he no longer asked the landlord to beg for a living, so there was no need to be kind to him, just pretending to be profound. The action this time was too big, and Yu Dana was so mysterious, which made Landlord Zhang mistakenly think that this Qiao family, who was born out of nowhere, was really amazing, or that someone was behind him.

Not to mention the landlord Zhang, even Zhu Lizheng was very hurt, just now he also found Yu Dana, wanted to put Lizheng's score, I thought that the West Bank once belonged to Qingshan Village (when it was classified as wasteland, his father who was then Li Zheng took the opportunity to throw away this hot potato), and now he should be in charge, Yu Dana's master jumped over him, bought the West Bank, and brought people to measure the West Bank without knowing him, he said that he was very angry, but Yu Dana did not buy his account, and the leading official Liu Tu came forward and said that in the future, this Qingshan Village can directly report taxes to the county, that is, it is not under his jurisdiction。 The valley of Daqingshan, Yangjiazhuang is not under his control, and now there is another west bank, more than one-third of the area is not under his jurisdiction, Zhu Lizheng is very sad, Zhu Lizheng is very hurt, but soon he will find that the third he thought is actually nearly one-half.

Zhu Lizheng and Zhao Landlord secretly hated, both poked the villain in their hearts, cursed Yu Dana's master, for the first time, they so strongly hoped that the wild boar on the West Mountain would be more rampant and more ferocious, and they didn't feel much better in their hearts.

Qiao Lan didn't know how much of a wave her stroke had set off, she was also worried now, she thought that three thousand taels was a lot, but she spent it so much, and there was only a little more than one thousand taels left in her hand, and most of it was gone in a few days, how to make her not in a hurry, although she had never planted land or opened up wasteland, but she also knew that it was far from enough to make a difference to the West Bank with this bit of silver alone.

If you want to talk about how Qiao Lan wants to get money at this time, there is no other way than to hit her treasure mountain again. In the evening, Qiao Lan tugged on her treasure mountain for a while, and finally set her eyes on the smaller of the two fluorescent stone balls. She secretly planned in her heart before she got out of the space and fell asleep peacefully.