After Zuo Hongtang picked up the deed on the table and looked at it fixedly, this time he was really angry: "Master Yu, this ink has not dried yet, you must do too much!" ”

The content on the paper is simple: Zuo 17 agrees to an intentional agreement with the lease of land for land, with handprints.

Yu Bende asked with a smile at this time: "Master, this white paper and black letters, the handprints are all pressed, how can you not count?" ”

Zuo Hongtang slapped the page on the table fiercely: "This bullshit thing is not a title deed, there is no public discussion within the clan, and the land is bought and sold privately, so naturally it can't be counted." Sooner or later, the seventeenth will go to the family law to kill Yu Ye in the ancestral hall, and you have crossed the line! ”

From this moment on, the clan power and the imperial power were on the same page.

Traditional Chinese society is a social structure in which the three powers of "imperial power, religious power, and clan power" coexist.

The imperial power is the political power at the national level, and the clan power is the power of local self-government. The imperial power only reaches the county level, and the so-called "imperial power does not go down to the county" is said to be this.

Townships and villages below the county level are all clan and folk self-government, and only when the law and state public affairs are implicated, can the imperial power be extended to the towns and villages.

Then, because people follow traditional culture, the indoctrination, right and wrong, and moral judgment of the whole society can be formed by mastering the clergy of culture.

So today, the moment this yellow, thin contract was thrown on the table, Yu Bende, who represented the imperial power, was equivalent to Zuo Hongtang, who represented the clan power, officially clashed.

Theoretically, this contract represents an ambiguous area: both sides have a point.

For the Ming Dynasty clan of "the imperial power is not under the county", everything in Zuo Seventeen, including his property and that life, the clan has the right to privately settle it for thousands of years.

This is the reason why Zuo Hongtang attacked Yu Bende for "crossing the line": Yu Shuban broke the traditional tacit understanding between the two sides.

And the reason why Zuo Seventeen was not ruthless at the beginning was because the Zuo family's council of elders underestimated the seriousness of this matter: handing over Zuo Seventeen's title deed to Lao Cheng's brother and sister-in-law for safekeeping seemed to them to be enough, and there was no need to kill it again.

After all, if you really want to kill someone, then you also need a reason, people are just trying to sell land, and they don't sleep with their sister-in-law and kill someone.

But that's where the bad stuff goes. The Zuo family did not have sufficient sources, so they did not know the purpose and background of Yu Bende's group, they did not expect that the opponent's appetite was actually bigger than the sky, and it was for the Zuo family.

Zuo Seventeen's sale of land just gave Yu Bende an excuse and opportunity to intervene, in fact, if he had asked the patriarchal law to bury Zuo Seventeen privately yesterday, Yu Bende would not have been able to exert his strength today.

For Yu Bende, since Zuo Seventeen is still alive, then this matter is easy to do: he came to the door in person today, and it was easy to explain Zuo Seventeen, who was lying on the bed and full of resentment, and asked him to press his handprint on the paper.

Note that this deed is actually just a "letter of intent", which states that Zuo 17 agrees to sell his land to the tenant. As for the most critical title deed itself, it is still in the hands of Zuo Seventeen's brother and sister-in-law, and Yu Bende needs to handle it himself.

However, this is enough, Yu Bende just needs a chance to intervene publicly. Now Zuo 17's land sale has evolved into "official affairs" under the witness of his "official errand", and official affairs mean that this dispute can be "reasoned" in the county government hall.

Therefore, Yu Bende now wishes that the Zuo family will kill Zuo Seventeen again, so that he can completely make this matter bigger, and the premise of "the people do not raise officials and do not hold them accountable" is that there is a tacit understanding between the two parties, and once the government breaks the tacit agreement, if a certain case is pursued, it is necessary for the parties to go to court for a while.

These truths are long to say, but in fact, here on both sides of the confrontation, they can be understood in an instant.

After listening to Zuo Hongtang's statement, Yu Bende smiled and pointed at the piece of paper on the table with his finger, and then he asked a murderous word: "Whether Zuo Seventeen is sinking in the pond or alive, the villain can't care about that much." However, this person sued his brother and sister-in-law for plotting to seize the family property and forcibly claim the land deed, it seems that there is really such a thing? ”

Of course, Zuo Hongtang understood what this old dog meant: the surname Yu wanted to make a big deal and let the public intervene. In the words of later generations, Yu Bende wanted to pull his opponent into his familiar environment, and then defeat him with rich experience.

"Nothing happens!" Zuo Hongtang instinctively opened his mouth to deny.

"Hehehe" is dressed in official skin, and Yu Bende, who is a fox and a fake tiger, obviously has the upper hand at this moment, although he is just an old man who came to Zuo's house alone: "Since there is no such thing, who is in the hands of Zuo Seventeen's land deed?" ”

"This" Zuo Hongtang now fell into the trap himself.

No matter what answer he says now, his opponent can use Zuo XVII's confession and deed to lead the matter to the judicial process. For example, the "hook ticket" detained Zuo 17's brother and sister-in-law to the county government to explain the situation.

And where can a rural family like the Zuo family fight with others in the county office?

In fact, it's not that simple at all. In the case of the county government's household secretary personally as a witness, the referee and a team member, not to mention that the brother and sister-in-law did take the title deed in front of everyone, even if they didn't take it, they would be carried into countless black pots when they entered it. If you don't get it, you can connect it to the rest of the left family.

The previous checkpoint was already bad: the witnesses summoned in this era were all to be detained in the "detention hall" set up privately by the arrest first, if you really want to get you, before the day the county magistrate makes a report, the brother and sister-in-law will already be finished.

This is the reason why small people and small households are afraid of the government: no matter whether they succeed or lose, they must shed a layer of skin if they do not die.

It was originally a simple clan trifle, but now it is being caught by the opponent. After realizing that he couldn't avoid the other party's use of the public advantage to entangle this point no matter what, Zuo Hongtang no longer followed Yu Bende's train of thought.

He first thought quietly for a while, then picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, and then asked in a gentle tone: "Master Yu, holding on to a trivial matter, you won't really buy the Zuo family's land, right?" ”

"Yes, yes." Yu Bende went around for a long time, and finally led the opponent's train of thought to the right track, seeing that his face was grim, he stared at Zuo Hongtang coldly and said: "You don't really think that I came to Zuo's house for Zuo Seventeen's forty acres of land, right?" ”

"Master Yu, there are so many people in Zuojiazhuang, where can I go to make a living after selling my land?" Zuo Hongtang still doesn't believe that Yu Bende came to swallow the land of the whole village, so he still doesn't believe it at this time.

"Hehe, don't hide it from Master Zuo, this place will be a large workshop in the future." Yu Bende put on a smile again at this time, and began to describe the company's vision to someone: "The villagers have changed their land, but they can go to the south to continue farming." Those who do not want to farm can also work in the workshop, and there is always enough to eat. ”

Zuo Hongtang stood up from his chair abruptly. Someone finally understood now, people didn't come to play with him, but really had a plan to uproot the Zuo family: "The surname Yu, do you really want to force thousands of people in my Zuo family to a dead end?" ”

Yu Bende also slowly stood up at this time: "Master Zuo, this land is bound to be requisitioned." Compared to the one behind me, your Zuo family is really not enough to see. Please also listen to my advice: Those who know the times are junjie, maybe after everyone sells their land, life is better? ”

How could Zuo Hongtang pin the fate of the clan on the words of this old thing? The serious thing is that he already thinks that he has seen through Yu Bende's trick: "Fart! My Zuo family lives here, how can I just leave? Hmph, surnamed Yu, I don't care who the master behind you is, if you want to seek land, first step over the corpses of thousands of people in my left family! ”

After scolding for two sentences, Zuo Hongtang flicked his sleeves, turned his back, and said angrily: "It's good to go, don't send it!" ”

Yu Bende, who was standing there, couldn't help sighing: he had finally come to this point. So he hastily clenched his fists, and then turned around and took his leave.

The moment Yu Bende came out of the door of Zuo's house, the scene entered the stage of the main drama. Both sides have already understood the opponent's purpose and thoughts at this moment, and all that remains is a cold strength competition.

The first act of the main play came quickly: after Zuo Seventeen lay on the bed for a day, he was soon happily helped to the land acquisition office and slapped his title deed on the table.

And Yu Bende, who was sitting behind the table, couldn't help but sneer a few times when he saw Zuo Seventeen take out the title deed: "Okay, very good, come on, go through the formalities for Brother Zuo." ”

From Zuo Seventeen's mouth, he learned that the Zuo family urgently convened a meeting of the Senate, at which he returned the title deed of Zuo Seventeen and removed him from the Zuo family

So Zuo Seventeen is a pure loner. Determined to be a gambling god, he now plans to completely let himself go and quickly leave Zuojia Village, a place where bad guys are entrenched.

So Yu Bende finally became a good man again: he bought the rooms of Zuo 17 with silver.

After sending away the God of Gamblers, he noticed that the Zuo family had begun to shrink the defensive land requisition office, so he waited for a few days without hurrying. After all the retail investors who were willing to sell their land were settled, another piece of news was announced in the village: those who are selling land now will add two taels of silver per mu to the original standard.

After this news came out, even a fool would settle the score: as long as he sold his family's land, even if he went to a neighboring village and neighboring township to buy another piece of land of the same size, he could still settle a large sum of money afterwards. No one has a good life these days, and with this money, the overwhelming debts and harsh taxes can be solved!

So another wave of land sales appeared, this time including almost all the remaining retail investors in the village.

The most important thing is that another Zuo family came to the door with the title deed. 11