Liu Pei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Interesting! I thought it was a provocation. Go on! ”

Liu Jiang said: "The head of the family doesn't know. The family itself is a well-to-do family. It is said that the grandparents are still Beijing officials. It's just that both the father and son died of illness, so the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law returned to their hometown with their grandson. It's just that there is no man in their family, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will inevitably be a little spoiled by the child. When I grew up, I developed a lawless temperament. It's just that he doesn't study, and he still socializes with people like lama and loafers all day long. He also thinks he is a righteous hero, and the money is spent like water! Although his family is well-off, his family can still afford it. But no amount of money can resist such a spending. The family couldn't restrain them several times. The loser is a matter of the past few years. ”

Liu Pei asked, "Why was you arrested that day?" Could it be that you can't get used to seeing him loser? ”

Liu Jiang smiled: "How can it, the head of the family said that he was laughing!" It's because he hid the two thugs we arrested who were fighting on the street and caught him in the house, and he caught him by the way when he arrested them. This time, he was caught by us working the construction site every day, and he also received some lessons from time to time. So the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought that it would be good for him to suffer a little, and maybe they could teach the child well. So they were going to go to the yamen to complain, but they didn't complain, and went home directly to wait for news. ”

Liu Pei asked with interest, "What's next?" ”

Liu Jiang said: "Later, that kid did well after suffering a lot. So they put him back. Two days after returning home, the old housekeeper of his family beat the gong and drum to deliver the plaque. I didn't even know what was going on! He also told the brothers to be on guard and prepare to fight. I didn't expect it to be an old butler and a drum team! The old housekeeper told me that when their sons came home, they were no longer as mixed up as before. People are dark and thin, but their temperament has settled down. I also know how to learn how to manage the store and tenants from the housekeeper. Now I don't go out to mess around when I have nothing to do, I flip through books when I have time, and I babble very seriously every day. He also said that the housemother said that if he studied like this for another year or two, the housemother would be ready to let him take the Tongsheng exam! ”

Liu Pei laughed when he heard this, and said: "The prodigal son will not change his money, this is also interesting!" But I think there should be a lot of people like Huang Jintang, right? ”

Liu Jiang nodded and said, "That's right! Head of house. A small half of the people suffered and decided not to mess around in the streets, but to go back to farming. Many people saw that our Yantian had a high income and wanted to work there, and I agreed to them. ”

Liu Pei nodded and said, "That's fine." It can also be regarded as a contribution to the local area. In addition, did the protection money collected by these gangsters stop in the past? ”

Liu Jiang shook his head and said, "It didn't stop." However, during this time, there was not enough manpower, and the collection was intermittent, which was equivalent to confiscation. ”

Liu Pei said seriously: "Don't stop this matter. But you're going to have to get to the bottom of it during this time. Down to the vendors, up to the restaurant, how much their operating income is to figure out. So that it is convenient to collect their taxes later. Otherwise, it would be difficult to raise so many people. ”

Liu Jiang nodded in agreement, and discussed a few more details, and today's deliberations are over. Liu Pei went back and continued to practice the firecracker.

Just when Liu Pei was leading people to practice, Yang Jingfa was on his way to Fushan Village with eleven family members and a team of soldiers from the guard. From a distance, this group of people is very strange. The twelve men in front of them were dressed in angry horses and riding triumphantly on their horses. You can see that they are ruddy and neatly dressed. At first glance, it is a rich life and does not worry about eating and drinking.

The dozens of soldiers behind were different. Worn-out fat jackets, some with patches. Some of them are so dirty that they can't even see their original color. One by one, their faces were pale, and they were weak when they walked. The tip of the spear had lost its metallic luster, and it hadn't been polished for an unknown amount of time. A group of people walked listlessly on the road, and the line was not neatly arranged. If it weren't for walking, I'm afraid these dozens of people would have been crowded into a pile long ago.

Yang Jingfa's team had approached the villages on the outskirts of Fushan Village. This village is already within the radiation range of Liu Pei's strength. While walking through this village, Yang Jingfa suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this village! Then he squinted his eyes and began to look around. Oddly enough, this feeling is not a sense of danger. Rather, it was a feeling that he was unfamiliar with. It just feels like the village has become a little strange.

Yang Jingfa quickly scanned all the surrounding affairs and villagers, and carefully measured in his heart where his feelings came from. He always came to this village once a year, so he was familiar with this village. In his eyes, every plant and tree in the village is familiar, but in his feelings, it is different! He recognized most of the people in the village, but he still felt that they were different! It wasn't until he walked a long way out of the village that he realized how different this village was!

The overall feeling of the village to him is that it is alive. Whether it's the houses, the trees, the villagers, or the livestock, he feels a sense of life! Not the lifeless feeling he'd seen before.

The second feeling is cleanliness. In the past, although this village was not full of excrement and filth, it was definitely not clean. And now the roads in this village are cleaned. The walls and roofs of each house are also cleaned and free of weeds. And the villagers here are as worn-out as before, but they are cleanly washed. The hair is neatly combed, and it is no longer hastily tied in a bun like before, and the sideburns are scattered.

And the last difference is that the chickens and ducks in the village are very loud! Much more than any other village you pass on the way!

In fact, Yang Jingfa's feeling is not wrong at all. Since Liu Pei pulled up the team here, the first thing required was discipline, and the second thing required was hygiene.

You must know that in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, there were many outbreaks of plague. Li Zicheng was able to conquer Beijing so quickly because of the plague outbreak, so Liu Pei had very strict requirements for hygiene! And those young men who were in charge of the house under Liu Pei were accustomed to a clean and tidy life in the army, and when they went home for vacation, they would naturally bring this habit back home. One person may not be able to influence the entire village, but there are more than a dozen villages around Fushan Village, and each village has a large number of young people working as homemakers under Liu Pei. So the change of these people is enough to change the living habits of the whole village.