Looking at the invitation card signed by Jiangzhou Tu Lian Sun Tu in his hand, after considering and weighing it for a long time, Zhang Endong, a famous man from Jiangzhou who has more than 500 acres of fertile land, finally decided to be invited.

Zhang Endong, a military attache of the imperial court who had just arrived in Jiangzhou and had no foundation, was not too jealous, but after thinking of the fate of Qi Kun's family, he still didn't dare not give Sun Tu this face. Although it was rumored in the city that Qi Kun was weak in heart and set fire to the grain, and he was just blocked by Sun Tu and others before losing his life, in fact, many smart people still saw the problem and knew that all this should be framed by this bold and ruthless young military attaché, and he didn't want to offend Sun Tu because of a trivial matter.

After understanding the meaning of his master, the chief steward of the Zhang family still carefully reminded him: "Master, when I went to the barracks half a month ago to see that Sun Tuanlian, he mentioned to us that he wanted to take back the land we purchased from the township soldiers at the original price, but we rejected it all. This time, he gave the invitation again, I'm afraid it was for the sake of revisiting the old thing, so he ......"

"He hasn't done anything before, and it's reasonable that everyone doesn't put a seven-rank military attache in their eyes. But this time, ......" Zhang Endong said and thought for a while: "How many fields did we buy from the township soldiers?" ”

"It's not much, it's only seventy or eighty acres. There was only so much land in the name of those villagers, and many people in the city wanted a piece of the pie, so that's all we could get. ”

"Then bring me all the land deeds, sometimes it's okay to take a step back." Zhang Endong said, looked at the sky outside that had gradually darkened, and smiled bitterly: "He invited me to have a banquet in Xunyang Tower tonight, but the invitation was sent in the afternoon, so I really don't give a little room for consideration." ”

Although there was a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone, Zhang Endong still stood up and ordered: "Ask someone to prepare the car, it will be a little disrespectful if it is delayed." "Since you have decided to back down, then simply give Sun Tu face.

When the lanterns are on, the city is the largest, and the Xunyang Building, which has the best scenery of the Xunyang River, is already full of cars and horses, and the guests are full. Even if there are many water bandits on the Xunyang River now, the city is shrouded in clouds, but many rich people still live a free life, and they can't be wronged.

However, what makes many guests feel a little unfair is that the third floor, which is the highest restaurant and has the best scenery, was completely packed down early in the morning tonight, and no new guests are accepted, and everyone can only stay on the first and second floors to eat, which feels naturally much worse.

Originally, many people expressed their dissatisfaction with this and wanted to reason with the guests who had chartered an entire floor, but after several guests with invitations arrived and recognized the identities of these people, many drinkers did not dare to make another incident. Because the people who came were all well-known squires and landlords in the city, and all of them were masters of a lot of money, they were not something that ordinary people could provoke at will, so it was inferred that the identity of the people who could invite all these people to the banquet was even higher.

After a while, when the guests had arrived, Sun Tufang, accompanied by Luda and Yang Zhi, brought ten personal soldiers to Xunyang Tower. When the three of them walked up to the third floor, the ten soldiers had already lined up on both sides of the stairs and stood there like door gods.

After more than ten days of training, these village soldiers have long been very different from before, and their javelin-like straight bodies are actually full of leanness

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And the fierce momentum came, and I saw that the drinkers around me were beating drums in their hearts, and they didn't dare to look at it more, even the guys who sent the drinks and food upstairs were trembling when they passed, and their pace slowed down a lot.

The appearance of Sun Tu and the three of them immediately attracted the attention of all the guests who had already sat and waited on the third floor. Most of the more than 20 people present today were a little unhappy in their hearts, and at this time, they looked at Sun Tu with some vigilance and hostility in their eyes.

After all, now that the military attachés of the Great Song Dynasty are in decline, even the gentry who have no official position may not be afraid of a seven-rank group training, and they just don't want to completely tear their faces with them when they come today, and at the same time they want to make things clear.

Only Huang Wenbing, who was sitting in the last few places, quickly got up and said with a smile as soon as he saw Sun Tuan coming over: "Sun Tuanlian's banquet today is really embarrassing, in fact, it should be us who set up a banquet for the group to practice for you to catch the wind." ”

"Hehe, Huang Yuanwai is polite, in fact, whoever invites him to drink is the same, as long as you are willing to make Sun Mou a friend, it already makes me very grateful." Sun Tu nodded at him, and then strode to the main table at the top and sat down calmly.

During this period, many gentry and landlords looked at Huang Wenbing with strange eyes, and I don't know when he actually had a friendship with Sun Tu. But at this time, in front of everyone, this question is difficult to say.

It wasn't until Luda Yang Zhi and the others also sat down at the last two tables, pouring wine and eating by themselves, that Sun Tu raised the wine in his glass and said to those guests who had their own thoughts: "It's really a bit abrupt for the official to suddenly invite you to come today, and I am very pleased that everyone here can give Sun Tu this face." I'm a martial artist, and it's not very good to say politely, so I can only toast you three cups to express my gratitude. As he spoke, he threw his neck up and drank all the wine in his glass. Then, I drank two glasses in a row, and finally lit the bottom of the wine glass in front of everyone, looking full of pride.

Although those gentry couldn't guess his thoughts, the etiquette on the wine table still had to be observed, and they also raised their glasses to drink together, and at the end of the mouth, they didn't dare to take it seriously.

Seeing that everyone had dried up, Sun Tu showed a smile on his face: "Okay, so it seems that you also treat my Sun Tu as a friend." In this case, I won't go around any circles with you, and I invited you to Xunyang Tower today, just to ask you to do me a favor......"

"What Sun Tuanlian wants to say is about the fact that the township soldiers sold our land at the beginning?" Someone couldn't hold it back, so he borrowed some wine and jumped out and asked.

Sun Tu nodded without the slightest embarrassment: "Not bad." This official is now training for the Jiangzhou regiment, and is training his subordinates, in order to let them have no worries, they must think of ways to let their families have land to cultivate. Originally, the imperial court had relevant arrangements, but I know that there have been various changes in the past few years, and their fields have been bought by you, so I plan to pay for them to buy them back, and I hope you can focus on the overall situation of my Jiangzhou. Saying that, Sun Tu also deliberately stood up and made a gesture at everyone hugging his fists, which can be regarded as putting his posture extremely low.

But everyone present didn't react much at this time, and looked at Sun Tu indifferently one by one, with no intention of cooperating at all. For these people, the field is their own foothold in Jiangzhou, branching out

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In order to get more land, they can resort to all kinds of conspiracies and calculations, even if they kill some people, how can they return the fields because of Sun Tu's words at this time?

Huang Wenbing hesitated for a moment, and did not stand up to help Sun Tu say anything. Although he had already returned the land deed for free, he didn't have the courage to completely stand on the opposite side of these gentry to speak for Sun Tu, otherwise he would inevitably become the public enemy of these people and be attacked by a group, and the consequences would be difficult to say.

And Sun Tu didn't have too many surprises after seeing the reactions of these people, but after sitting down, he continued: "Of course, this official will not let you suffer losses in this matter, so I will buy back the land according to the price you bought the land before, I don't know what you think?" ”

A middle-aged gentleman sitting opposite Zhang Endong laughed: "Sun Tuanlian's dedication to my Jiangzhou township soldiers really makes me deeply admired. But the matter you mentioned, I can't wait for it. Yes, we did buy the land from the villagers at a not too high price, but that was because there was a shortage of food in the city at that time, and their whole family could not survive. We also bought the land with a considerable amount of grain.

"But now the price of grain in the city is still stable, and we are not short of those grains or money to buy grain, so the price of this field is naturally not so low. If Sun Tuanlian really had the heart to buy land from us, it would not be impossible, but the price would have to be reset. ”

"Yes, what Brother Fang said is very true, just as the so-called time and time, this field is not impossible to sell, but the price should be set by us. With the current price of Jiangzhou fields, it should be a lot of money per mu, if Sun Tuanlian really wants to buy it, we can still give you some reduction, even if you have eighteen yuan per mu? ”

This is clearly the lion's big mouth, even the price of the fields in the city is only eight to ten per mu, and these people only used the price of only three or four per mu to buy the fields of the villagers, and now they actually come up with such a sky-high price. Obviously, they had no intention of selling these fields at all, they just wanted to use this price to scare Sun Tu away.

Without waiting for Sun Tu to express his position, the other gentry also nodded in agreement: "Yes, if Sun Tuanlian really has the intention to sell the land, he will come at our price, I wonder if you can come up with this nearly 20,000 yuan of money?" There was a little more ridicule in his tone.

Not to mention that Sun Tu can't come up with so much money at this time, even if he can really come up with so much money and buy thousands of acres of land, it is impossible to spend this unjust money, and it is easy to be ginseng. So almost everyone was sure that Sun Tu would not be able to agree to such a price.

Zhang Endong watched Sun Tu's face gradually sink, and his heart was also pang, knowing that everyone had completely offended him now, and he didn't know what this Sun Tuanlian would do.

Sun Tu filled himself with a glass of wine at this time, and then slowly drank it up, and then said slowly: "This official has been benevolent to you and has given you two chances. But I didn't expect you to refuse to accept my kindness, since you don't eat this toast, then don't blame me for pouring you a penalty! As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head, and his eyes shot like lightning on the face of the gentleman surnamed Fang, and he shuddered violently......

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