Xu Muhe looked at the farce in front of him coldly and said nothing.

Now, the Qingzhou Festival Envoy of the Earth Emperor is also becoming more and more powerful, he doesn't speak, just looks at the old parents with the eyes like a dead man, and quickly calms down these old men who were still indignant just now.

And soon a cold sweat broke out.

Only then did the old men remember that no matter how Xu Shiyang dug up their roots, at least he had never done anything like smashing cups and killing three hundred axes behind the scenes.

And the one in front of me has really done it!

"What is it that gives you the illusion that you can deceive Ben Shuai?"

Waiting until the quiet needle drop in the hall could be heard, Xu Muhe said faintly:

"What hard work is accumulated, what kind of lending is to save the people."

"You guys are all that dirty tricks, do you really think this handsome doesn't know?"

"If you work hard to accumulate, Ben Shuai doesn't want your land, and hires workers to cultivate it himself! When an agricultural company gets a field, it has to hire workers to do the work! ”

"If you lend money to save the people, then continue to lend! The bank does not prohibit you from lending, as long as the people below are still willing to borrow your usury that is still rolling with a donkey, you can lend at will! ”

"If you can't compete with the bank, you want to cancel these actions for the benefit of the people? Dream! ”

In fact, Xu Muhe personally wanted to negotiate a mutually acceptable charter with these people.

After all, he Xu Muhe had done all these dirty things before, and the degree of oppression was even worse than that of these people in front of him.

Moreover, Xu Muhe is a gentry, and he naturally sympathizes with the squires in front of him rather than those poor bastards who face the loess with their backs to the sky.

Throughout the dynasties, the basis of dynastic rule was also the gentry and gentry, rather than the common people such as peasants, small traders and artisans.

The word "people" also has a scope, but it does not refer to the people of the world!

However, Xu Muhe's son, the so-called "young marshal" Xu Shiyang in these mouths, has a different opinion on this.

Since the last long conversation between father and son, Xu Muhe found that his eldest son paid more attention to the opinions of ordinary people, and did not pay much attention to the squires, gentry, and even scholars—sometimes he even felt that his son was very disgusted with these people.

In this case, let Xu Muhe choose between "supporting the village sages and discussing the policy with the village sages in the face of the opposition of the eldest son" and "supporting the eldest son and discussing the policy with the eldest son in the face of the opposition of the village sages", he will and will only choose the latter.

This is not only a matter of father-son affection (of course, the relationship between Xu Muhe and Xu Shiyang is much closer now than before Xu Shiliu went south), but more importantly, the two have similar goals, and the impact of the current distribution of rights in Qingzhou.

There is no need to say much about the goal, Xu Muhe's goal is to sit in the south, and he is lonely.

Xu Shiyang's ultimate goal is not very clear, but it must also be to establish his own independent regime, in this case, Xu Muhe thinks that he and his eldest son can be regarded as civil and military, and they cooperate with each other very decently.

As for the distribution of rights in Qingzhou......

On the surface, Xu Shiyang is the son of the Jiedu envoy, and at most he is a "young marshal", "prince", or in other words, a successor.

Everything in Qingzhou, before the handover, should be a festival to make a promise.

However, this is not the case, Xu Shiyang holds the military power of the whole Qingzhou, and in addition to the new army, the militia system is actually under his direct control.

In terms of army building, Xu Shiyang was completely true to his word, and Xu Muhe's orders had very little influence in the army.

In terms of political power, since the entire Qingzhou is a large military tun, the rights extended from the military power also give Xu Shiyang a very special status.

For example, fiscal power:

Agricultural companies, salt companies, banks, mining companies, arsenals and steel factories are all actually military-run enterprises, and they are all under the direct control of Xu Shiyang.

The only thing Xu Muhe can control is the traditional field endowment and labor.

In fact, even these two items have to be considered to support the army (the families of the new army have been exempted from land and hard labor) and training (hard labor cannot delay the training of the militia).

A person who holds military power and most of the financial power, how can you use a word like a young marshal that is somewhat ridiculous to the second ancestor?

Even if Xu Shiyang is not the real behind-the-scenes boss in Qingzhou, at least he is a vice king!

What's more, these are troubled times!

Without this son who fought against the Tartars, the bandits, and the other dock castle owners, he Xu Muhe would not be able to become the de facto ruler of a province and have the opportunity to compete in the world, even the little Xu family, he could not be the head of the family!

In this way, it was actually Xu Shiyang who made him his father, not his own support for his son Xu Shiyang.

In such a contrast, Xu Muhe, who is gradually rising in ambition, will naturally expect his son to bring him greater surprises, and will naturally try his best to support Xu Shiyang.

As for these squires in front of them......

Indeed, Xu Muhe's deep-rooted idea is that "the gentleman and the scholar rule the world together", but the scholar is not alone, and the same is true of the squire, and when he really ascends to that throne, some people are waiting in line to become the new squire.

"Ben Shuai invited you to enter the door today, just for the sake of everyone being a fellow villagers, to save some face for you."

Xu Muhe picked up the teacup and said coldly:

"You are all squires, and you are so old, you should know what to do."

"What time is it now? The external enemy is eyeing each other, and if the internal forces cannot be concentrated, how can they survive in this troubled era? Now that the country is in crisis, what is the benefit of the country that you have oppressed the people so much for the benefit of your family? ”

"Let's think about it when we go back."

"Don't make a mistake!"

There was a chill in Xu Muhe's words, which frightened the powerful patriarchs into not daring to speak—at least on the surface, they didn't dare to say anything.

As for whether they will do anything extreme after the request is blocked back.......

Hehe, isn't that just a good reason to kill him?

After serving tea and sending off the guests and driving all the old men away, Xu Muhe sat on the big chair and quietly closed his eyes to recuperate.

It was really cool just now!

A group of powerful family owners who usually speak the same thing in the local area knelt in front of their mansions and wept bitterly, just to say a few words in front of themselves!

Then he was reprimanded by himself, so he could only leave with his head down and embarrassed!

That's right, it's so beautiful and sweet!

"Jie Shuai, where are you resting today?" The butler walked in hunched over and asked in a whisper.

"Go to Frost's room."

Xu Muhe thought for a while, and said gracefully:

"Let her prepare."

Before Qingzhou cut off the canal, Xu Muhe married two wives.

The first is the order of his parents and the words of the matchmaker, Xu Muhe's relationship with her is not very good, and after the woman gave birth to his eldest son Xu Shiyang, he died of illness not long after.

Then he took a second wife, who was very good-looking, and was only 17 years old when she married him, almost ten years younger than him.

The woman gave birth to a son and a daughter for him, that is, Xu Shiliu and Xu Shimei, Xu Muhe has a good relationship with this second wife, and has always been very affectionate, so he loves the house and Wu, Xu Shiliu used to be more favored than Xu Shiyang in his place.

This situation continued until after intercepting the imperial court's convoy of relatives, and the palace maids who were married by the princess were tender and tender one by one, and they were even more beautiful and charming than when the wife had just married her, and the kung fu of serving people was favored.

Xu Muhe recently took in six women in a row, all of them were girls between the ages of 16 and 18, and these women, who originally thought they would fall into the hands of the Tartars, were not only grateful, but also made a small bow to him, which greatly satisfied his desires!

One of them is even pregnant with Xu Muhe's child now!

This is also the sweet harvest of rights!

"It's so beautiful!"

Qingzhou Jiedu envoy sighed.

"That's how a husband should be!"