Walking in the countryside, there are still many adults, children, and old people busy in the fields, although they are sweating, no one says that they are hard.

Liu Xiu suddenly stopped walking and closed his eyes. Between sensibility and reason, he was once again torn between emotion and reason. Emotionally told him: "How innocent are the common people. Reason also told him: "If we don't stir up the resentment of the people, how can we overturn the big tree of the new dynasty." ”

After struggling, Liu Xiu opened his eyes, and his eyes became more and more resolute.

The next day, several luxurious carriages made their way out of the valley, aiming for the grain-producing land in the seven counties of Jingzhou.

With the endorsement of the big names in the national capital, plus the money and the magnanimity, many officials in the seven major counties like to deal with Pang Meng and his party, especially the things that can secretly pump water such as buying fields and courtyards, and the officials are even more happy, but they have also wondered why Pang Meng and these people are disdainful of the courtyards in the city, but they are very keen on the suburbs.

There are only a few children and slaves bought in the huge courtyard, and the way of plowing the field is even more contrary to common sense, many people have kindly reminded that this way of plowing the field is not good, Pang Meng and his party always smiled slightly, and replied: "It doesn't matter if the harvest is good or not, they just want to do something different." ”

The children of rich families are rich and capricious!

If you want to launch a locust plague, you must learn to use people's hearts, ploughing the field is just an auxiliary step, and the locusts it produces indirectly affect the production of the surrounding farmland, so that the victims come to the official residence and come to the courtyard to complain, and the officials took the benefits of Pang Meng and his party, at first they were violently suppressed, but there were more and more victims, and even their own doors were blocked in just half a month.

In desperation, the officials could only take the people to find Pang Meng and his party to ask for an explanation.

According to common sense, there are seven places where this kind of thing occurs at the same time, and you can guess with your toes that there must be a demon when things go wrong, but who is an official will not deceive this trick, if the God of Wealth is blown away, the officials will only cry!

Compensation, all compensation. Money is called money when it's used happily, and paper is used when it's not used happily.

Line up and register the details one by one. Accounting for losses is naturally handed over to the following to deal with, and the adults and masters are naturally drinking tea and chatting in the other courtyard, judging from the spring breeze on the faces of the adults, he has reaped a lot of benefits. Luckily, the owner of this house is notoriously generous, so each of his minions can also get a half-brimming bounty.

The county soldiers' monthly salary, in addition to food, is only twenty or thirty yuan, and half a salary is a huge amount of money for them.

"Stand up for me one by one, if anyone dares to shout and scare the people of Master Pang's house, I will break his legs." The county soldiers all opened their throats and roared like chicken blood, hoping that they would receive some rewards for their hard work.

Human nature is greedy and ignorant, and many people see that they can reap a quick sum of money in this way, and some people actually catch locusts privately and throw them into their fields at night, and come to cry out under the pretense of being damaged. The county soldiers are not dry, and a large number of people have been arrested in a short time, but Master Pang is kind-hearted, and still gave some money to these liars to prevent them from living.

Of course, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's very troublesome to be famous, and many ruffians and opportunistic people think that Pang Meng is so good at talking because he is new to driving and needs a good reputation, and this kind of good thing that is not earned for nothing will be gone in another year or two, so those who did not dare to act a few days ago have followed suit.

"Master Pang, we have already found out, these are all liars, but why do you want to give them money." The county soldiers were puzzled, and Pang Meng still looked calm and said: "The people of Jingzhou have really had a hard time in the past few years, if these small money can make them live a little better, I will spend it happily and it will be worth it." ”

Doing bad things can also be a good person in the mouths of the people, and Pang Meng and his party, who acted according to the plan, admired the lord Liu Xiu more and more in their hearts.

Ruffians, opportunists are one system, businessmen are another.

Businessmen make profits, and if they have 50 percent of the profits, they dare to take risks; If you have 100% profits, you dare to trample on all the laws of the world; If you have a profit of 300 percent, you dare to commit any crime, even at the risk of being killed.

Although the disaster in Jingzhou's farmland has not hurt the muscles and bones, the rise in grain prices is certain, and many wealthy families have seen business opportunities, secretly stockpiled grain, and planned to make a lot of money.

In the past few years, Liu Xiu has traveled south and north, and the money he has accumulated cannot be said to be rich and rivals the country, but he can definitely suppress the wealthy families in a state.

The officials are all happy, if every wealthy family can be as empathetic as Pang Meng and his party, their promotion and fortune are just around the corner.

The big girls who slept were bright and bright, dreaming of prosperous official fortune and rolling wealth, but these officials did not know that the sickle of death was already on their necks.

One night in the seventeenth year of A.D., Pang Meng and his party left quietly, and before they left, they released all the locusts carefully cultivated in the courtyard, these locusts have long been accustomed to living in groups, and the head worms are flying in search of food, and other natural people will follow it.

It was like the sound of a spiral plane passing through the world, and adults and children were still guessing what kind of sound it was after being awakened, and they heard the old people shouting loudly: "There is a locust plague, such a big locust plague, every household hurries to the field to protect and grab grain!" ”

The people flocked out but encountered locusts that wanted to rain down, and for a while the women and children were so frightened that they screamed one after another, how difficult it was to protect and grab food.

The next morning, the dawn lit up the whole land, and the scene before me was quite frightening, the locusts were like clouds covering the sky, no matter how good the crops were, after they passed, there was not a trace of green, all the farmland was gnawed away, and there was nothing left.

"Why are there so many locusts? Why are there so many locusts? The officials were also frightened, and kept repeating the phrase in their mouths. The current situation is not a regional disaster some time ago, it is devastating damage, and it is going to kill the head.

"Your Excellency, you have to call the shots for us." Many people knelt on the ground and cried out for grievances, and some of the bold ones shouted: "The source of locusts must be in Master Pang's house, he likes to toss some strange things, you must call the shots for us." ”。

"Shut up! Before the matter is clarified, you can't wronged Master Pang at will. The officials habitually stand on Pang Meng's side, but they can't go against the will of the people, so they can only take them to the other courtyard to find Pang Meng.

The result was doomed, the courtyard had long been empty, and even the shops that sold grain in the city and township were empty.