The grange is not large, but the sanitary state is extremely poor, the roads are potholed, piles of household garbage are thrown aside, dense flies swarm to and fro with it, and domestic waste water flows all over the ground, emitting a foul smell.

"Guest, what to buy? Just take a look. ”

"Sell vegetables, fresh greens, just picked this morning."

“....。”

The familiar shouts echoed in the streets and alleys, and Yang Qi felt the strong atmosphere of life at the same time, as well as the people's difficulties in their future life.

"Uncle, how is your business?" Yang Qi walked over to a vegetable vendor's stall and asked.

"Alas, it's hard to do business." The vegetable seller said: "It's noon, and I can't sell more than 500 lines." ”

"Come, borrow, borrow." At this time, a group of people came from the street, shouting and shouting.

Yang Qi couldn't help frowning when he looked at them, this group of people didn't look like good people at first glance, they quickly dispersed, and walked straight to the stall owners, and they didn't say anything, just stretched out their hands, and the stall owners took out copper coins one after another.

"Oh, Boss Wang, Wishing you prosperity." Sure enough, a green skin soon came to the vegetable seller, stretched out his hand and said.

"Alas, business is not satisfactory today, can you..." The vegetable seller pleaded.

"What? What do you say? What's the matter with this money? Is it out on the first day? The green skin said viciously.

"This, alas!" The old man trembled his hands and handed over a hundred lines.

"Hurry up next time." After Qingpi finished speaking, he picked up the copper coin in his hand and walked to the next stall, and was stunned for a moment by Yang Qi.

"You..." Yang Qi instantly stopped Gao Chengzhen, who was about to make a move, and shook his head slightly.

"Hmph, it's still this son's general knowledge!" Qingpi glared at Gao Chengzhen and left.

"My lord, why did you stop me?" Gao Chengzhen asked in a low voice.

"I might be able to borrow their power." Yang Qi whispered.

"Huh?" Gao Chengzhen was puzzled.

"Uncle, why did you give him money?" Yang Qi inquired.

"Young man, you look like a foreigner, right?" Seeing Yang Qi, the old man nodded and said, "If you want to set up a stall in the grange, you have to pay money, a hundred tattoos a day, and these money are said to be handed over to the elders." ”

"Whew!" Gao Chengzhen was a little angry: ".... "I wanted to say something, but I was stopped by Yang Qi.

"Oh, thank you, old man." Yang Qi saluted and left.

"Alas, it looks like I'm going to go back later today." The vegetable seller shook his head and said.

Yang Qi spent an afternoon to turn the entire grange around, generally not much different from Anding County, the people are miserable, there is no yearning for a better life on their faces, in the final analysis, the people are still running around for how to fill their stomachs, the old saying goes: "Cang Liao is solid and knows etiquette, food and clothing are enough to know honor and disgrace!" "To cure this stubborn disease, we must grasp both hands, one hand to grasp food, the other hand to grasp business, fill the stomach, with money, in order to do greater things, Yang Qi decided to be down-to-earth, step by step to achieve the ideal in his mind.

At dinner, Wei Dayong, Shang Jingshi and others gathered around the dinner table.

"You said, I used to eat with my brothers, and everyone was still a big soldier at that time." Yang Qi put a green vegetable in his mouth and chewed while eating: "Now the worst ones are all small flag officials." ”

"Hahaha!"

"That is, since following the adults, our brothers are not only sharpshooters, but also promoted, and now even Wang Gouzi has ten soldiers under his hands, I still remember when this kid was young, he had a big snot and played behind us." Li Tianfu laughed and finished speaking, which caused everyone to laugh again.

"Therefore, we must cherish this hard-won achievement, and we must continue to forge ahead unremittingly, as men, we must be valuable in this world, and we must be a good son who is beneficial to the society and the court!" Yang Qi said impassionedly.

"Your Excellency." Li Tianfu said: "Today, I took my brothers to inspect the city defenses, and found that there were Zhuang soldiers guarding the city who were collecting additional poll tax from passing vendors. ”

"Oh?" Yang Qi asked, "Then how did you deal with it?" ”

"The subordinates didn't do anything without your order." Li Tianfu said.

"You're doing the right thing." Yang Qi nodded and said, "You all remember, let's do an investigation now, and after we find out, we are making calculations." ”

"Got it." Several of the flags nodded yes.

"Old merchant!" Yang Qi shouted, in fact, Shang Jingshi was only in his early twenties, but Shang Jingshi liked Yang Qi to call him so.

"Yes." Shang Jingshi said.

"How are you today? Is it still going well? Yang Qi said with concern.

"Well, relying on Muzhuang's face, they are quite deferential." Shang Jingshi said.

"Your task is more important, there will definitely be a lot of resistance, any acres of land that are concealed and not reported, all of them will be recorded, and we will discuss countermeasures when we go back." Yang Qi instructed.

"Yes!"

"Cui Jiaquan, how are you over there?" Yang Qi asked.

"It didn't go well." Cui Jiaquan said with some frustration: "There are some merchants who are not very cooperative. ”

"It's easy to do." Yang Qi said: "Tomorrow, you will take people, and arrest the person who took the lead in making trouble first, and then say, there are not enough people, find Gao Chengzhen and ask for someone." ”

"Yes!"

"Dayong, what about you?" Yang Qi finally asked.

"Hehe, I'm much simpler, I can hide the land and money, where can I hide this extra dingkou?" Wei Dayong's mouth was stuffed with a slurred voice.

"Well, it seems that I'm tired enough today, let's eat more." After Yang Qi finished speaking, he sandwiched a large piece of vegetables and filled Wei Dayong into the bowl.

"Hey, hey." Wei Dayong smirked.

"Brothers, don't underestimate these political affairs, whether we can succeed or not, success or failure is in one fell swoop, although this is not a battlefield, but this invisible enemy is the most dangerous, I would rather fight in front of the battle with real swords and guns, rather than our brothers to fold on this soft knife." Yang Qi admonished again.

Shi Caiqi in the study of his mansion.

"Old Shi, it seems that that kid is real." Ma Tingyin hurried to his house as soon as he was busy today, and he didn't even bother to eat dinner.

"What's the panic?" Shi Caiqi shouted: "Hmph, where is there no Ding Kou who conceals the report?" No concealed land? What kind of place can be played without money? If we hadn't worked hard to manage the Grange, would it have survived to this day? ”

"Old Shi, what you said is right, but this Ming law is there, we can not mention anything else, but this tax has been concealed a lot, if this is discovered..... Ma Tingyin was really panicked.

"Well, that's a real hard one." Shi Caiqi also understands the threshold of this.