Qin Chuan was very satisfied with the results of this battle.

The chief steward was very angry, and the consequences were indeed serious.

When passing by the Black Dragon Valley, he also asked his subordinates to go in and clean the battlefield again, cut the flesh of dozens of dead horses in the ravine, and took them back to celebrate.

It's just that I'm tired of walking home, the horses are really at the limit, and if I ride it again, I'll be tired to death, Qin Chuan can only dismount and walk with his subordinates.

Fortunately, Gu Dingtian's reckless man didn't dare to chase after him, and it can be said that he didn't have the horsepower to chase him.

It wasn't until dark that Qin Chuan returned to Mengjiazhuang.

The first thing he did was to send someone to Shentai Peak Dazhai to bring Hu Youjin back overnight.

At present, it seems that this old man Hu is just in vain, Hu has gold and Hu has gold, and he was sold by his Hu family's Yin clan in the blink of an eye, and it is worthless at all.

When Hu Youjin was brought, Qin Chuan did not mask his face, but sat there dignifiedly, and ordered someone to serve meat to Master Hu.

"Chief Steward Qin, is Hu dying soon?"

Hu Youjin is calm and very smart, knowing that after seeing the true face of the robbers, he is not far from death.

To his surprise, Qin Chuan shook his head and said, "No, Master Hu, you can still live for a long time, at least until I take the Hu family, you can still live forever." ”

Hu Youjin frowned: "How long was that?" ”

"If it goes well, it will be next year, if it doesn't go well, it may be the year after next, or even longer."

Hu Youjin didn't speak, only muttered for a moment, and then calmly picked up the bowl and took a sip of broth.

Qin Chuan smiled: "Aren't you curious, what happened to the Hu family?" ”

Hu Youjin also smiled: "Hu can guess what happened, the ancient Yin clan controlled the Hu family and wanted to put Hu to death." ”

"Master Hu is like a god, Qin admires, that's right, Gu Dingtian transported a thousand stones of fake grain to fool me, and he wanted to arrest me, but unfortunately, I robbed him with my backhand, by the way, can Master Hu tell me, what happened to your Hu family's Yin clan and that Gu Dingtian?"

Hu Youjin was distracted for a moment, and then sighed: "Alas, my Hu family's Yin clan has been seven generations, and the Hu family has selected some descendants to send them to Luya Mountain to enter the Yin clan, Gu Dingtian was originally my brother's second son, and he was sent to Luya Mountain since he was a child, and he has been angry with my brother since then." ”

"My brother was short-lived, he died at a young age, the Hu family has been taken over by me, Gu Dingtian has also turned to hate me, and once threatened to wait for me after the incident, the Hu family should not be in charge of my descendants, but should be in charge of him, because he is the son of the Hu family."

"Now that I have fallen into the hands of the Grand Steward, how can he let this opportunity go?"

Speaking of this, Hu Youjin took another sip of broth, and then stopped.

Qin Chuan pondered for a moment and said: "Master Hu, from now on, you will live in Mengjiazhuang first, you and Master Meng are also difficult brothers, you can talk to each other, by the way, do you want to marry an aunt and pass on the lineage in Mengjiazhuang?" ”

"Huh...... Hehe, the chief steward of Qin laughed, how dare Hu, a prisoner under a certain order, marry a wife and have children? ”

"Ahem, let's talk about it when you see Master Meng's happy life."

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The grain of the Wu family was delivered at noon the next day, exactly 1,000 stones, millet was the majority, millet accounted for a minority, and there was not a single grain of wheat.

But the Wu family did not dare to give old grain, and all they gave were new grain harvested in summer or autumn this year.

It's just that they are probably afraid that Qin Chuan will swallow their mule carts as well, so there are two hundred and fifty chicken carts transporting grain.

After sending the grain to Jingyou, the people of the Wu family also made any requests, just waiting for Qin Chuan to receive it, and then continued to wait there.

Qin Chuan was also happy, and when he received the food, he sent the fourth prince of Wu to Jingyou and handed it over to the people of the Wu family.

Of course, the two hundred and fifty chicken buses were not sent back, and Qin Chuan wanted this thing to be of great use, and it was useful for repairing reservoirs and transporting ore from mines.

The people of the Wu family didn't mention this thing, and when they received Wu Sigongzi, they left in a hurry, without even saying hello.

In the afternoon, the grain of the Zhang family was also delivered, and it was also more than 200 chicken carts, 1,000 stone millet and millet.

It's just that a large part of the Zhang family's grain is old grain, and many of them are moldy.

Qin Chuan was a little annoyed, and after ordering the moldy grain, he asked the Zhang family to bring another 300 stone of new grain, saying that after the three cliff kings and uncles ate their Zhang family's grain, they were so stretched that they couldn't get out of bed.

The people of the Zhang family were also very annoyed, and they scolded and argued with reason.

Qin Chuan was too lazy to fight with them, so he only left one sentence: "In one day, if you can't see three hundred stones of grain, wait to collect the body of Zhang Shijing and Zhang Dagongzi." ”

The people of the Zhang family were furious and rushed back overnight.

The next morning, he angrily transported 300 stone of new grain to Jingyou.

As a result, the steward of Qin was not bothered, and went to Jingle to go through the purchase and sale procedures of the Du family's land deed.

The people of the Zhang family were helpless, so they had to wait patiently in Jingyou.

Du Yingguang gave up the struggle and sold all the Du family's land to Qin Chuan.

The formalities were handled by Lord He Changbao of the county magistrate, Qin Chuan took a hundred imperial troops and swaggered into the county seat, which frightened the county magistrate, obediently took out the fish scale atlas, and personally went through the formalities for Qin Patrol and Master Du.

As for the prices of those properties......

If it is from the year of Wanli to the year of the Apocalypse, during the peaceful years of the world, the fertile fields on the banks of the Loufu Valley and the Lanfen Delta can be worth ten taels of silver per acre.

However, if today's disasters continue to plague the wars year after year, the fields that used to yield three stones per mu now have only one stone left, and after paying the taxes and salaries, they can't even support themselves, and there is still a danger of being looted by the rogues at any time, so naturally there are not many people farming.

Abandoned land can be seen everywhere, if it is not for the fertile land near the water, those gentry and big families are too lazy to occupy it.

Now that the army is in chaos, it is not possible to be captured by the rogue one day, and it is in vain to have thousands of acres of fertile land, so it is better to hide the silver of the white flowers, and it can be taken out and used in the future.

Under such circumstances, the price of the land naturally plummeted, and the Du family's fertile land may not be bought for two taels of silver.

Qin Chuan gave a conscience price, the Du family's 7,000 acres of fertile land that had been sown with winter wheat, shops in Jingyou Town and the county seat, Zhuangzi that had become ruins, Hongli Mountain Mine, etc., were packaged at a price of 5,000 taels of silver.

That's twice as low as the market price.

This is because Qin Chuan and Du Yingguang calculated which piece of land he bought and sold by force, which piece of land he bought in exchange for usury, and which piece of land he forced to death other people's whole families to occupy.

Counting around, it is really the Du family's field, and there are less than 3,000 acres of land and Hongli Mountain Mine left.

In Qin Chuan's words, compared to you bastards forcibly occupying people's land, Lao Tzu is willing to give you money, which is already very conscientious.

Of course, Du Yingguang didn't want to sell.

But had to sell.

The surname Qin will not let him rebuild Dujiazhuang, let alone let him regain a foothold in Jingyou.

If you don't sell it now, after the power surnamed Qin grows, I'm afraid you won't even get a penny.

Therefore, Du Yingguang broke his teeth and swallowed it in his stomach, five thousand is five thousand, and he sold it.

After He Changbao obediently set up the sales vouchers, changed the title deed and the fish scale atlas, and asked Song Zhiting to look at it carefully a few times and confirm that there was nothing wrong with the various information, Qin Chuan asked people to bring in four boxes, which contained two thousand and fifty taels of silver.

Qin Chuan politely put a silver ingot of fifty taels in front of He Changbao, saying that this was a hard work, and the remaining two thousand taels were moved to Du Yingguang, saying that this was the money to buy land.

As for the remaining three thousand taels, please go to Mengjiazhuang to get it in person.

He also told He Changbao that these fields are taken from the people and used for the people.

After that, the steward of Qin swaggered out of the county government under the unbelievable gaze of Master Du and Lord He, the magistrate of the county.

Du Yingguang caught up, begging bitterly for a while, and scolding for a while, saying that Qin Chuan was a liar, and he didn't give enough money when he took the land deed.

Qin Chuan only threw down one sentence, not that he didn't give money, but that he didn't bring enough silver, so please ask Master Du to go to Mengjiazhuang to get it.

Then, he took a hundred horsemen out of the county and went straight to the south.

In Jingle County, Du Yingguang's scolding first sounded, and then some of the 100 people of the Du family followed suit, and the other part cried.

The whole county town was noisy, and He Changbao was upset when he heard it, and he also heard that the eyelids of the Wu family's old man Wu Yongqian jumped.

The people of the Zhang family in Lan County waited for another day in Jingyou Town, and finally redeemed their eldest son, Zhang Shijing, Qin Chuan returned to Jingyou, and after sending someone to receive the newly sent 300 stone grain, he released Zhang Shijing.

Before leaving, the eldest prince of the Zhang family stared at Qin Chuan coldly, and said word by word: "Qin Da Steward, we have a meeting in the mountains and rivers!" ”

Qin Chuan was happy when he heard it: "Yes, I will accept your Zhang family first next year, and we will meet at that time." ”

Zhang Dagongzi snorted coldly, turned his head and left.

Qin Chuan whistled beautifully, returned to Mengjiazhuang, and began to arrange the defense of Jingyou, and took over the Hongyishan mine.

One thousand Guan Emperor's army was not enough, he had to recruit enough fifteen hundred people, and Jingyou had to garrison at least five hundred people.

Naturally, the source of the soldiers should be taken from the two mines of Black Mountain and Hongli Mountain.

Just when Qin Chuan was preparing to recruit troops and horses to arrange defense, the big families in Jingle Lan County began to exchange letters frequently, preparing to jointly write a letter accusing Lou Chuan of making Qin Chuan wear the official skin of the imperial court to bring disaster to the township, robbing homes and kidnapping tickets, and extorting all kinds of evil, and presented it to the head of the Forbidden City Son of Heaven.

Taiyuan City Jin Palace, after listening to the grief and indignation of Wu Qiding's complaint from the Changshi Division, Zhu Xianxuan, the son of the King of Jin, was furious and scolded several times: "Rebel An dare? ”

Immediately afterwards, His Royal Highness Zhu Xianxuan wrote a letter to complain about the extreme evil deeds of Qin Chuan, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to restore the three guards of Taiyuan in the Jin Palace, so that he could lead his troops to calm Lou Fu, and return the Taiyuan Mansion to the Ming Dynasty, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could calm the world and live and work in peace and contentment.

At the same time, Zhang Jiwen, the head of the Household Department of Qing Officials, quietly visited Wen Tiren, a scholar of Dongge University, with 1,000 taels of silver, knelt in front of Lord Wen and wept bitterly, confiding in Qin Chuan, the envoy of Lou Annoy, how to kidnap his nephew, how to extort ransom, how to beat his nephew, how to harm the people, fish and meat villagers, and so on.

The scholar was indignant when he heard this, and after accepting the 1,000 taels of silver, he immediately wrote a book full of impassioned and righteous indignation.

At this moment, the Qin inspector who was the common people in the township was counting the livestock and grain in Mengjiazhuang.