"I think this year's eighth child is afraid that it will be difficult to fill the desire!" Liu Youren made a calm face, "This group of Australians is not a human being." ”

"Master Liu, you are too worried, what to do about the grain requisition, what to do in the past, what to do now, what's the trouble? Could it be that the eighth child will suddenly change sex? Zhang Youfu comforted.

"Hmph, I don't know this person yet?" Liu Youren said with a cold face, "The most powerful person, now he is on the big tree of Australians, it's amazing." Look, it's going to be over when something happens. With that, he stomped his feet and walked away.

Zhang Youfu didn't keep it, and hurriedly went to report to Wu De again.

Wu De smiled incomprehensibly, and only said: "You have to remember one thing in the future, I am on a business trip and I have to go a long way." So you don't have to come to me again for the time being. ”

"Yes, yes," Zhang Youfu didn't understand what he meant, but just responded.

"But you have to come to my secretary Chu Yu at any time to report something, understand?"

"The little one understands, the little one understands." He knew the first rain, it turned out to be the maid of the Gou family, and now he is a big girl in the house next to Wu De. Zhang Youfu knows that Australians are not afraid of women in charge, and there are also women who are the leaders of the leader.

Wu De had another face-to-face lecture. Zhang Youfu nodded again and again.

Zuihou Wu De asked again: "You joined the Heaven and Earth Society, right?" ”

"Yes, but there are not enough small fields." Zhang Youfu said. Joining the Tiandihui is purely for support, but after joining, the Tiandihui is really dedicated, from time to time someone comes to guide his long-term work and farming, and from time to time he also sends fresh things such as fertilizer, and now the crops of his family's dozens of acres of land are growing very well.

"You clean up a house, and heaven and earth will send someone to live in your house and guide you at any time."

"Yes." Zhang Youfu knew that this was someone who was spying on him, but they had to send people to their own house, and obviously there was a lot to be done in the matter of requisitioning grain. He asked tentatively;

"Every time the little one talks to the grain households, do you want to tell him?"

"He's helping you farm the land, and nothing else. Remember, if you have something, look for the first rain. ”

Chen Minggang himself, hearing the news sent by Zhou Qi, saying that Master Xiong had agreed to this year's tax package, and he was very happy. He has his own abacus, in the past, although he worked up and down, and reaped a lot of benefits, but compared with Qiongshan County, Chengmai, Wenchang and other counties with large populations and fields, this benefit is still slightly inferior. Most of the local landlords are settling up to protect themselves, and the prestige of the imperial court is not very visible here. Levy an autumn grain and remove the profit from your own minions, and the real benefit of ending it is only two or three hundred stones. This income is a little less for Chen Minggang, who has been to Qiongshan Fucheng and Guangzhou, and has seen some of the world.

Now there happens to be an Australian. This group of Australians is hard-headed, usually polite, and does not blink once they kill people and set fire. Whether it is attacking Goujiazhuang or exterminating bandits, killing people and robbing things is really unambiguous, and it scares the local big families. This time, Chen Minggang felt that there was a big kao mountain.

The government, that's a place where you can buy it casually, but Australians don't seem to be able to buy it yet. Chen Minggang is very observant, and he thinks that Australians are polite, honest and trustworthy on the surface, but in essence they are a group of people who put interests first.

As long as the things and people can bring them enough benefits, the Australians will defend them.

This time, he wants to give the Australians enough benefits, and at the same time make full use of their "prestige" to salvage a sum of money in recent years.

Chen Minggang felt that judging from the efficiency of the government and the armament of the Australians, even if the Ming Dynasty could drive the Australians away, it would be at least three or five years later.

Even if the Australians roll up and get out of the way in the future, he Chen Minggang will not lose a cent, the big deal is that the reputation is too bad, and the resignation is to let his apprentice Zhou Qi be a puppet for a while, and then let his son take the throne - as long as there is a Yulin book in hand, whoever will be the emperor is the secretary of the household. Anyway, his family has undergone two dynastic changes since the Song Dynasty, and there may not be any changes after a few more experiences.

Chen Minggang played this wishful thinking, but how to please the Australians, how big their appetite is, and how much they can allow him to do it, we still have to find out.

He took care of Zhou Qi and called several of his apprentices and the county's grain messenger to his own courtyard, that is, Qiu Hong's house. After his wife made a fuss last time, Chen Minggang simply crossed the Ming Road, lived in Qiuhong's house in a grand manner, and greeted the county's fast shift head and asked them to take care of it. Although my wife and my mother's family are angry, they are helpless. Zhang Wu wanted to make trouble several times, but he was suppressed by the team leader, and Zhang Shi was afraid of the discussion of his colleagues, and it was inconvenient to support his brothers and sisters to make trouble. The two sides are in a state of cold war.

After waiting for a few days, the food supply from all over the place arrived. There were originally nearly 30 people in Lingao County, and there were two groups of people, one group was a package household, and they were generally small rural landlords, because they colluded with Chen Mingang or had many children in the countryside who could run rampant in the township, so they got this messenger; The other group is the green skin gangsters in the city and countryside, and there are also exiles who have been sent here, who act as thugs when collecting grain.

This time, half of the people came to the meeting to discuss. It turned out that most of these people had colluded with bandits, and this crackdown on bandits launched a large-scale mass campaign to "dig up the roots of bandits," and several of them were executed and arrested. The task force was also happy to do so, and it just happened to justifiably kill a few local tyrants shili.

Because of these food shortages, one by one they still have lingering fears about the campaigns in the countryside, and they are simply afraid of Australians. Especially a female thief named Du Wen, which simply frightened everyone. It is said that there are a few of her iron legs who have tasted it, and they will basically only be eunuchs in the next life.

I was worried about what the days would be. Now I suddenly received a notice from Chen Shuban's office to come to the meeting to talk about the grain requisition, and I couldn't help but regain my spirits one by one. Baba changed into decent clothes and came to the meeting.

This group of people gathered together, flies and flies gathered, all telling about the changes that have taken place around them in the past year, who has died, who has been captured, and whose whereabouts are still unknown...... This time, I was able to reconvene and heard that I could continue to handle the grain collection again, and I felt like I had seen the light of day.

As soon as Chen Ming saw that everyone was here, he coughed and got to the point.

He was talking about the fact that Australians are going to take care of the food allowance this year. This matter, when they came, there was already a rumor, everyone heard that they were working for the Australians, not only did they not feel ashamed of being "Ming Jian", but they were also very excited - now they can have a relationship with the Australians! Not only can his own errand continue, but he can also take the opportunity to make a big profit.

“…… It's just that we haven't figured out the temper of this Australian, and this time we called everyone to come here to discuss a charter so that we can talk to their leader. ”

Everyone discussed, since this time it was the general contractor of the Australians, the original contractors no longer handled it - although the second layer of subcontracting is not unavoidable, but everyone agreed that it is better to be careful when working for the Australians for the first time. Instead of using your brains on subcontracting and "wearing hats", it is better to go all out and focus on urging. It is a solid levy for Australians to raise a salary.

"But how much?" Someone asked.

"Listening to the meaning of Chief Xiong, it is to put the part of the reasonable burden in it and collect it together. This is the 3,000 'Gong Stones'. Zhou Qi introduced.

"This one is missing." If that's all there is to it, why bother Australians to pay for it? Apparently they have great expectations.

"That's right, we have to double it, so that the Australian master will think that our master is capable."

"This has to increase the amount of rice consumed, and it turns out that one stone plus three buckets is definitely not enough." There are quite a few people who are good at mental arithmetic, and they can calculate the numbers immediately.

One of the food messengers named "Umbrella Shop Xiaohu" said: "Eighth master! I think if this thing is just a business as usual, I'm afraid I won't be able to make a lot of money. ”

A benefit to the county magistrate must come out of it, and the "reasonable burden" of Australians is also a large amount, and their group naturally wants to take the opportunity to make a small fortune. If it is still handled according to the practice of the past, it is nothing more than consuming more rice.

It is not a big deal to add rice, but the small households that have no way to go have been overwhelmed, and no matter how much they are strangled, they can't squeeze out much oil and water, and maybe they will find Australians to complain. Big households can naturally afford it, not to mention that they themselves consume less rice and pay less, and there are many hidden fields that are privately cultivated and fields that help others - it's just that they have already received a lot of benefits on weekdays, and if they add them for no reason, the other party will inevitably be unconvinced, and it will be difficult to get along in the future......

Zhou Qidao: "What are you afraid of? If you refuse to add it, let the Australians go out, you have to end up with Gou Jiazhuang, and see whose neck dares to stalk——"

"You can't do it." Chen Minggang shook his head, "It's not difficult to provoke, but in the future, everyone will have to mix in Lingao, and the Australians are gone, what should you do?" ”

"Umbrella shop Xiaohu" said: "You have to come up with a reason, so that you can open your mouth to the big families and ask them to have nothing to say." In the future, we will also have room to turn around. ”

Chen Minggang nodded, Xiao Hu's understanding is good, much better than his apprentices. It's a pity that this person is a cripple and can't get on the stage. Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhou Qi and couldn't help but feel bored with him