Shi Caiqi's mansion.

"Shi Lao, you have to take care of it, now we can't recruit tenants, who will do the farm work after the autumn?" Gao Lianfa said that he was a well-known landlord in the Grange, and today he united with the rest of the big landlords in the Grange, and brought Ma Tingyin to discuss countermeasures with Shi Caiqi.

"That is, that is, since the founding of the country, our dynasty has been mainly farming, and these hundred adults are young and do not learn well, and they prefer business and agriculture, isn't this putting the cart before the horse?" Another landlord, Li Wuwei, agreed.

"You have a lot of old ways, let's think of a way for everyone." Ma Tingyin said to the side, after all, the annual grain tax still depends on the landlords here, so he had to speak.

"Huh, think of a way?" Shi Caiqi snorted coldly: "How can I have any good way?" ”

"Ma Duchang, it's better for you to let those bitter haha people go to serve as conscripts and treat them." Li Wuwei said.

"Didn't you see the notice from our Grange?" Ma Tingyin said angrily: "That small hundred households have already canceled the conscription of all the people under his rule, and in the future, all the projects of the yamen will rely on the conscription system." How can I have the means to suppress these farmers? ”

"What about taxes? Collect their taxes, and they don't have money, so they have to find us to put the seals, and then they will have to take care of their things. Li Wuwei continued: "We can still make a profit." ”

"Alas!" Ma Tingyin didn't want to explain, sighed, and stopped talking, feeling that he didn't know what was going on outside.

"Those apportionments, liao salaries, border salaries, etc., have also been canceled by the hundred households, and only agricultural taxes and commercial taxes will be levied in the future." Shi Caiqi said lightly.

"Huh?" Gao Lianfa was surprised: "So ruthless? So what does his yamen eat? What to drink? Without money and food, can he have fun? ”

"Do you know how much silver comes in a month for the shopping mall he set up?" Wei Shixue said that he was also a famous local landlord and Wei Deqiang's father, which only he knew, and Wei Deqiang went home to talk to him.

"How many?" Li Wuwei asked, and everyone also looked at him, waiting for the following.

"Tax silver alone, this month I collected 60,000 taels of silver, do you think you can hold him?" Wei Shixue said.

"What?" Shi Caiqi was first surprised: "How can there be so many? He abolished all the stalls in the city, and did not allow the poll tax to be levied at the city gates, so how could the income not decrease, but surge? "I can't understand it in detail with Shi Caiqi's intelligence, let alone these here.

"Oh, I said Shi Lao, you should think of a way, it's already August, and it's going to be the autumn harvest in a flash, and now there are not enough people at hand." Gao Lianfa is in a hurry.

"I don't have any choice but to go out and recruit people." Shi Caiqi sighed and said.

"Yes, the local workers, the ones who clean the city with the least income, also have an income of three taels of silver a month." Wei Shixue said: "Even if we hire people, we won't be able to do it for long, and we will have to go to work as workers for others." ”

These hired laborers have no rice allowance and only monthly silver, and even so, they are two cuts higher than the income of those tenants, and those long-term laborers, although they are in charge of food and housing, only have one tael of silver a month.

"Why don't we find someone to make trouble?" Li Wuwei said.

"That's right! Let's call tenants and dealers, and make him thousands of people strong, and we are not afraid that he will not compromise. Gao Lianfa agreed.

"Trouble? Want to rebel? Ma Tingyin asked rhetorically: "Didn't you see that our own soldiers in the Grange have been disbanded?" Now they have been transferred to various commercial houses as security guards, the salary is not low, and the income is more than what we give, now most of the people in the Grange are enjoying the new deal, and the new deal has also attracted many people to settle in the Grange, and no matter if no one is making trouble with us, even if there is, don't you see the military camp not far from the city? There were 600 officers and soldiers inside, and not to mention that there were not many of them, but I once visited the barracks, and I dare say that with the same number of people, no army could defeat them. ”

"What then? Neither the left nor the right, do we have to wait for it? Gao Lian said angrily.

"Well, that's not necessarily! Instead of raising the soup to stop the boiling, it is better to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle. Shi Caiqi said this, looked around, took a sip of the teacup and said slowly: "As long as you dare to go out." ”

Gao Lianfa glanced at Li Wuwei and Wei Shixue, and then looked around at the other small landlords, seeing that they all nodded in approval, and then said to Shi Caiqi: "Old Shi? If there is any way, just say it. ”

"Each of you will give some silver, and I will ask someone to go to Shaanxi to announce where the political envoy will operate, and transfer him away, and the Grange will still be our Grange at that time." Shi Caiqi said.

"Not bad! That's a good idea. Ma Tingyin nodded in praise at the time, but he thought that this was a shopping mall, and it would naturally fall into the hands of him and Shi Caiqi.

"That's it." Gao Lianfa and the others nodded ruthlessly and said.

Soon, Shi Caiqi's housekeeper took four family members, four horsemen, plus a groom and a carriage, and quietly left the grange and went straight to Xi'an Mansion.

"Butler, there are officers and soldiers ahead." A family member suddenly noticed that there were five cavalry patrolling the official road.

"Bad luck, hurry, diversion." The butler shouted in the car: "Take the path, quickly!" ”

"Little flag, look." Sharp-eyed soldiers spotted them at a glance.

"Huh?" The little flag officer turned his horse's head and turned to look: "It's really suspicious, go!" ”

"Drive~!" Five light horsemen galloped away.

"Stop!" The little flag officer shouted.

"Quick, don't stop! Hurry up! The butler's back was already sweating at this time, and he urged the groom to hurry up.

"There is a situation, everyone be on guard." The little flag officer was very alert, and when he saw the carriage and his group suddenly speeding up, he hurriedly admonished.

"Yes!" The four of them nodded one after another.

"Bang!" The little flag officer unloaded the gun from his back and fired a gun into the sky.

"I'm going to shoot without stopping for inspection." The little flag officer shouted.

"What should I do?" Jia Ding also panicked and asked hurriedly.

"You go and hold them back, I must take out the master's handwritten letters, and they can't fall into their hands." The steward knew the weight of this secret letter in his arms, and he must not fall into the hands of the officials and soldiers.

"Huh?" A few family members were stunned for a moment, and glanced back at the pursuers behind them.

"Hmph, don't forget, you have all signed a death contract with the master, think about your wives and children." The butler's eerie voice came from inside the carriage.

"Alas!" The leader sighed, turned the horse's head and said, "Up!" ”

"Kill!" Several of them drew their swords, raised them above their heads, and rushed over with a howl.

"Look for death!" The little flag officer said angrily: "Shoot! ”

"Bang bang bang!"