Looking at the elated villagers in front of him, picking up big fish one by one, and then transporting them back to the village in baskets, Yang Xuan frowned. Yang Xuan was just thirty, but his gloomy temperament made him look like a little old man. After a year of hard work, he is about to polish his sharpness, and now he is alive and well.

The harvest is abundant, but how many people will have to go hungry this winter?

He thought sullenly.

At present, there are 857 households in Qinjia Village, with a population of nearly 5,000 people, of which 900 are young and strong, and there are more than 1,200 strong women. There are more than 1,000 acres of fertile land reclaimed by the monkey nest, and there are 4,000 stones of miscellaneous grains and a season of wheat every year, coupled with Chen Wan'er's vigorous assistance, it stands to reason that it is not a problem to feed the whole village, but now Yang Xuan has encountered a problem.

The first question is demographics. There are nearly 2,000 available laborers in Qinjia Village, but there are more people who eat rice, and the remaining 3,000 people have almost no labor capacity. Among them, there are more than 1,000 children under the age of 13, and the heavy burden of labor will continue to plague Qinjia Village for a long time. If you want to blame Yang Xuan and Aunt Xiu, they were too soft-hearted, and they couldn't bear to be starved to death, frozen to death, or even eaten in previous disasters, so they exchanged a dozen fish or three buckets of grain for a lot.

The second problem is extremely high taxes. In the past few years, the entire Chicheng County has been rotten, and the government has nowhere to collect grain, so it has hit the idea on the head of Qinjia Village, which is no longer mysterious. First ten taxes three, then ten taxes five, and now the terrifying ten taxes nine. No matter how much Qinjia Village produces, it can't afford such a high tax. Of the 4,000 stone grain harvested last year, Yang Xuan coaxed and deceived those tax collectors and bribed them to curry favor with him, so he saved 800 stones, and the rest was all requisitioned by Chicheng County.

What's even more terrifying is that Chen Wan'er's business is also targeted, and the business tax is six out of ten, and no one is missing, and her business has shrunk seriously. Wang Liang and Huang Ling also joined forces to suppress her, and her stores were closed five or six out of ten. If it weren't for Chen Wan'er to protect Qinjia Village this year, Qinjia Village would probably have ceased to exist a long time ago.

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The third problem is that there are not enough places to live in Qinjia Village. With 5,000 people, the small Qinjia Village has long been unable to accommodate it. Houses were built on scattered flat land within a radius of more than ten miles between Qinjia Village and Taihang Mountain Pass, and the 5,000 people were barely housed.

Now Qinjia Village has a full 500 village soldiers, and in the year that Qin Forget left, Qinjia Village, which has become more and more prosperous and prosperous, has been targeted by three or four groups of bandits. Fortunately, Yang Xuan is a veteran soldier, and every time he leads the village soldiers to repel the bandits, Qinjia Village has also turned the danger into a disaster again and again. It was precisely because of this need that Yang Xuan expanded the village soldiers of Qinjia Village to a terrifying five hundred.

Fourth, there is the shortage of weapons. Five hundred village soldiers are easy to recruit, but it is too difficult to get all the weapons. There was no iron ore in the Northland,

Weapons management is unusually strict. As a village soldier established privately, it is even more difficult to get weapons. Now there are only 300 village soldiers in Qinjia Village who are equipped with knives and guns, and the remaining 200 people still use wooden sticks. Once something big happens, I'm afraid it's hard to protect yourself.

"Boss, owner, where are you? Do you know that Qinjia Village was immediately knocked out of the bone and sucked the marrow? I really can't hold on anymore, it turns out that you used to be so difficult. Yang Xuan looked at the bright moon in the sky, as if he saw those bright and energetic eyes again, tears slowly filled his eyes, and at this time, this strong man was fragile like a child.

In the past, under Qin Wang, he felt that everything he did was smooth. But when he was in charge alone, he realized that it was so difficult to be a housekeeper. He has to worry about big and small things, and he has to take care of the food and drink of 5,000 people. He's a rough guy who can only fight, and he really doesn't care about these things. Especially in the face of the hardships of the government and Huang Ling, with his original character, he had already gone out with a white knife and a red knife, but now he has to bend for the whole village, which makes him feel very aggrieved by his military background.

"Big brother, we're the opposite, aren't we? I heard that Dong Zhuang will lead 300 county soldiers to send what auspicious rui, with a few of our brothers and 500 village soldiers, plus 900 young people, it is simply easy to take Chicheng. Ding Chen, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. Ding Chen is stronger now than a year ago, but this recklessness has not decreased at all, and he is actually trying to build a county seat.

"Ding Chen, how many times have I said it, this kind of thing is not allowed to be said again, do you want to kill everyone?" Yang Xuan was furious and scolded Ding Chen in a low voice.

"Kill everyone? If I could kill everyone, I would have killed them one by one, and I would have saved them all from starving to death in the future. Look at them, all stupid, patronizing and happy. How many of those things will belong to them? In the end, there are not even a single fish scale left! Ding Chen pointed to the busy crowd,-for-tat.

"Even if the owner is here, I will say so, no, everyone has no way to live!" Ding Chen turned around and walked away hatefully, and angrily stepped on the ice on the snow.

Yang Xuan looked at Ding Chen's distant back, with a hint of hesitation and madness in his eyes.

"You'd better not take his words to heart." In the shadows next to him, Su Dingnan's figure slowly appeared, and a year later, Su Dingnan was much more stable, a little less feminine, a little more masculine, and at the same time more cold, like an ice blade.

Ever since Qin Forget was taken away by Wei Nian, he ignored the hostile gaze of the Chicheng people and stayed in Qinjia Village with a cheeky face, waiting for Qin Forget to come back wholeheartedly. With a hard mouth, he declared to the outside world that he was going to wait for Qin Forget to come back to take revenge, but no one knew what it was for.

"Our foundation is too thin, even if we can defeat Chicheng County, we will definitely not be able to defeat the state soldiers of Yunzhou City. Once the army is defeated, all these thousands of old and weak will die. "Sue

Dingnan kept his tone cold, as if he was born without emotion.

Yang Xuan didn't speak, the madness in his eyes was slowly subsiding, and a layer of cold sweat quickly appeared on his face. He understood that Su Dingnan was right, but he didn't blame Ding Chen, an old subordinate, everything was forced. Sometimes he thinks about what the owner would do if he was here, he feels that his ability is really limited, and he is not good at dealing with these things.

"Ding Chen handed it over to you, watch him, don't let him do anything." Yang Xuan explained to Su Dingnan, "No matter what, everything will wait for the owner to come back." ”

"Okay." Su Dingnan agreed, and there were no more superfluous words.

Cao Qing came to the two of them with a strange expression, "Big brother, a guest has arrived." ”

"What day is today, the three of you came to my Qinjia Village at the same time?" Yang Xuan sat on the main seat, looked at Huang Chuchu, Banyue and Wang Ping in the guest seat, and asked suspiciously.

"Brother Yang laughed, how can a rough person like me be qualified to walk with the eldest lady of the Huang family, it's just a coincidence." Wang Ping said in a weird manner.

Huang Fatzi's behavior in Chicheng and his repeated pressure on Dong Zhuang Wang Ping has long been fed up, a person who almost killed everyone else's Lao Tzu, naturally will not give his daughter any good face.

In the past year, due to the good relationship between Dongzhuang and Qin Wang, the county soldiers of Dongzhuang and the people of Qinjia Village have had many contacts. When the two parties had something, Wang Ping came forward to contact each time. Because of like-mindedness, Wang Ping and Yang Xuan have a good personal relationship.

Yang Xuan knew that Wang Ping and the Huang family did not deal with each other, and he was outspoken, so he did not expose it.

"Miss Huang may be disappointed, but there is still no news from our host." Looking at Huang Chuchu's emaciated face, Yang Xuan felt a little unbearable in his heart, although this girl was a little rude, after all, she was still kind-hearted.

Over the past year or so, Huang Ling has wanted to attack Qinjia Village several times, but it was Huang Chuchu who sent a message to Qinjia Village to let Qinjia Village escape a few disasters. The most important thing is that Huang Chuchu has a deep affection for Qin Wang, and during this time, she came over more than once to ask for news about Qin Wang.

"I know, it's okay. I'm not leaving, I've been waiting for him in Qinjia Village. Huang Chuchu lowered his head, his voice slow but firm.

……

Everyone was petrified, staring at Huang Chuchu in surprise one by one. In the lobby, there was a long time of silence for half a pillar of incense.

Are you kidding? The dignified county ordered a daughter, and ran to wait for a poor boy without permission to write a story?

"What Miss Huang means is that you want to live in our Qinjia Village and not leave?" Yang Xuan finally came back to his senses and asked uncertainly.

Huang Chuchu didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

Yang Xuan only felt his head "Buzz!" With a loud bang, he fell into the chair.

It's over, it's over.