At the same time.

In a mansion in the southern capital.

"Brother Zhou, you and I grew up together since childhood, just like brothers, you are not enough friends if you are like this!"

Originally, in history, we were the champion of Brother Ma in the Qing Dynasty for nine years, and now Cai Qixuan, who is not a member of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, smiled with a teacup.

His father is a former waiter of the Ministry of Rites, but because of Qian Qianyi's involvement in the case, he has already been dismissed, but fortunately, he is not deeply involved, and he is a lot of old people as a Jinshi of the Wanli Dynasty, and in the end he was just dismissed and went home, and was not thrown into Taiwan to open up wasteland. The Deqing Cai family is also a prestigious family, but life has not been good in the past few years, especially Cai Qixuan, who came to speculate in stocks with a large amount of gold and silver, was trapped by the stock market for more than 300,000 yuan. Immediately after that, he had to face Yang Qing's public land law, if this new law passed, then the Cai family would really be finished, the official was gone, the money was gone, and the land was gone, and it was still a fart family!

So......

"Brother Cai, it's not that I don't help, it's just that it's too risky!"

Zhou Chang, the representative of the four people on the other side of the coffee table, said.

He is a representative of businessmen.

Deqing people, but not a noble family, is a small merchant who goes to the countryside to visit households, Hongyun is the head of the lottery to become the representative of the merchants of Deqing County, and then in the permanent representative election, relying on eloquence to be successfully elected.

Immediately after that, the value doubled.

Although he was just a small merchant before, after becoming a permanent representative, what in-laws and old ones came one after another.

Including Cai Qixuan.

The young master of the Cai family in Qingxi actually talked to him about the relationship of growing up together since childhood, saying that they did grow up together since childhood, but it was a pity that Zhou Chang followed the adults to step on the mud at the age of eight while planting seedlings, and at the same time watched with envy Young Master Cai grow up together dressed in silk and surrounded by servants!

Of course, it doesn't matter anymore.

"Risk?"

Cai Qixuan said indifferently.

"The risk is big and the benefit is also big, the Deqing father elected Brother Zhou as the representative of the four people, in order to let Brother Zhou benefit Sangzi, Brother Zhou, you are a Deqing person after all, there is your home, you can't live up to the trust of your hometown fathers. Similarly, if the brother can live up to the trust of the hometown father, then after leaving office, the hometown father will also live up to the brother. Let's not talk about it, 10,000 acres of paddy fields, one penny per mu, the official will report according to the market price, the deed tax landlord out, whoever you want to buy is this price, which is entrusted by each family to convey to my brother. The shop that your family opened before, no matter who you buy from in the future, no matter what goods you buy, no matter how many goods you buy, they will be 20% lower than the market price, and in the other three months, each family will buy a total of 200,000 yuan from your shop. This is a normal business, you don't have to be afraid of Jinyiwei finding out, let's buy and sell fairly, as long as your shop sells it, we want it, regardless of whether it's good or bad! ”

He opened the folding fan and said.

This means that the quality of the goods of 200,000 yuan does not have to be considered, and half of the rice mixed with sand is also polished rice.

But this is not bribery.

We are a fair deal, we are willing to buy whoever we want, they are adulterated and shoddy, we all admit, in short, we just want to make money for his family.

"But ......"

Zhou Chang is still entangled.

"But what? All you have to do is vote no, and as a representative of the four peoples, you have the right to vote what you think you should vote, even if the protector can't do anything to you. The rules were set by him, and the Four People's Congress was run by him, and if he did something against the Four People's Deputies because the Four People's Deputies opposed him, wouldn't he slap himself in the face? ”

Cai Qixuan said.

"But what if he did?"

Zhou Chang said weakly.

"What if? If everything is afraid of what happens, what else can it do? Think about it, as long as you have the courage to vote against this, then you can be on a par with us, with us from these prestigious families, you will have 10,000 acres of paddy fields, a store that makes money every day, and you and your descendants are human beings! You are the representative of the four peoples and hold power in your hands, so why don't you use this power to seek some benefits for yourself? People have to learn to go to a higher place, and compared with the little subsidy you can get after you step down as the representative of the four peoples, what we can give you is the real future. If you don't speak for us this time, do you know what will happen to you when you go back? After all, Deqing is our final say, without land, we are also a wealthy family, you are still that humble little merchant, and even in the future, Deqing will not have a foothold for you, no one will buy your goods, and no one will sell you goods.

Instead, vote against us this time, and you're one of us.

Family.

Distinguished family.

Giants.

Do you want to continue to be a merchant or a family? Would you rather continue to be a humble weed, or would you rather walk through the weeds?

Come on, take a gamble!

How many times can I change my destiny in life? ”

Cai Qixuan said in front of him.

Zhou Chang swallowed with difficulty.

But he still didn't say yes.

"Still think it's a little little? Then add another 10,000 acres, but there is no more, don't forget, Deqing is our final say. ”

Cai Qixuan said.

Half an hour later, Zhou Chang quietly left.

"In the end, it's a nouveau riche, only 20,000 acres of land were won, he didn't know that we had prepared 100,000 acres of land!"

Cai Qixuan stood there and said.

"So, these inferior people are inferior people, what can Yang Qingmu do with the monkey crown, isn't the monkey wearing the official hat not a monkey? 20,000 acres of land for a vote against it, this price is very cost-effective, I really want to see what kind of expression Yang Qing will have on his face when he knows that these guys who are praised by him to represent the people of the world are only worth 20,000 acres of land. ”

His father, who walked out of the inner room, originally in history, our Qing Dynasty prince Taibao, Cai Yichen, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, said with a sneer.

And at this moment, a few hundred meters away in another mansion.

"Xu Si, don't forget what your surname is, don't forget that I'm still your uncle!"

A fellow sage was furious and shouted with his cane and pestle.

"Gong Xu, you dissipate your anger first, I think Brother Xu can't turn this corner for a while."

The former imperial Shi Cao Rong next to him hurriedly persuaded.

He was the imperial history of Chongzhen in the last years, Li Zicheng left after entering Beijing, and he was originally in history when he was later demoted, and he worked very hard to advise Dorgon. However, this time, because Li Zicheng's 800,000 army went down to the south of the Yangtze River, he felt that there was no suspense about breaking into Wang Dingding, so he also participated very hard to participate in the south together to prepare for the return of Yijin Rong to his hometown Xiushui. However, Dolgon copied Beijing, and Li Zicheng hurriedly returned to his teacher, and he was very clever enough to guess that the probability of Dashun Tianzi was very low, so he simply took the opportunity to flee back to his hometown. However, because of this history, he was removed from the ministry and could only live at home, but fortunately, his family had money, and he was happy to be idle, but a stock market crash also made him lose a lot.

Then came the nightmare of the Gongtian Law.

"But Brother Xu, Duke Xu is your uncle after all, and you are the Xu family after all, don't you help your own family but help outsiders?"

He went on to say.

The two of them sang and besieged Xu Si, a permanent representative of the Standing Committee of the Four People's Congress and a peasant representative, bowed his head and smoked.

"Hmph, how can he remember his last name?"

The old countryman said.

"Uncle Tai, this move is also for the good of the villagers, everyone has land to plant, everyone has clothes to wear, even if you want to collect your land, it will also compensate you, not only give you land vouchers, but also the reclamation of wasteland in the north. According to the plan of the Protector of the Kingdom, as many acres of land you hand over, you can go to the north to receive as many acres of wasteland as you want, and you don't have to pay rent to the imperial court for thirty years. In this way, the villagers have land, you have nothing to lose, you have money, just buy some Japanese slaves to open up the wasteland, hire some overseers to watch, you don't have to go, just wait at home for the cashier, what else do you refuse? ”

Xu Si raised his head and said.

Although he was born as a tenant, he must have been able to become a permanent representative through the election, and he must have a good enough mind.

He's not so easy to fool.

"Brother Xu, you think too easily, first of all, the land coupon will be paid in fifty years, how much will Yang Qing's banknotes have to be printed after fifty years? How much can you buy with treasure money in the early years of Hongwu? How much is the treasure money worth in Yongle's later years? Yang Qing set up nothing more than a scam and used the extra banknotes to turn the land vouchers he paid for fifty years into a value that was not worth 10% now. As for the reclamation of barren land in the north, it is even more of a joke, the good land in the north is in the hands of Huangzhuang, and the rest is all those who can only grow sweet potatoes, what are we going to do with such land? Did you go to the north to grow sweet potatoes to make vermicelli? But what Yang Qing took away is all good paddy fields, you won't understand this difference, right? ”

Cao Rong said.

"But what does this have to do with our tenants?"

Xu Si said with a sneer.

"I only know that the law of protecting the country's public land makes it impossible to have tenants in the world!"

He went on to say.

"The tenants of the Huangzhuang are not tenants?"

Cao Rong said.

"There is a tenant in the name but not a tenant, and the name of tenant rent is actually a tax, and the peasants have to pay taxes after all, and they will replace taxes with tenant rents, and no more taxes will be collected except tenant rents, so as to avoid any excuse for corrupt officials to exploit the people under false pretenses.

You see.

I was indeed a tenant in the past.

But I've been a representative of the Four Peoples for five years, and I understand everything I should understand!

You say so much is nothing more than that the Protector wants to take your land, you don't dare to openly resist, you are afraid that the Protector will kill you, so you want to coax us to be gunmen, let us go and block the Protector for you, it's that simple. Uncle Tai, don't pose as an elder, I rent your land and you want me to rent seventy percent, and when you borrow your money and you want me to make a profit, you don't look like an elder! ”

Xu Si said.

"What kind of nonsense are you talking about, believe it or not, the old man went back to gather the clansmen to practice your family law?"

The old countryman said angrily.

"If you dare to practice my family law, the protector will dare to practice your national law, do you want to try?"

Xu Si sneered.

He was indeed a tenant who didn't know anything before.

But he has been in Nanjing for five years.

He can rely on his own ability to fight for the permanent representative, which means that he is smart enough, a smart person has studied silently for five years, and at this time, he is to let him out as a county magistrate, and it is not difficult to manage a county.

"The two of you are a family, don't quarrel over such a trivial matter, since Brother Xu is a cheerful person, then let's just say it, how much land does the protector give to the tenants, this has nothing to do with you, you can get your share at most, two or three acres of land per person. But you have the power in your hands, the Standing Committee of the Four People's Congress has your vote, and the 299 permanent delegates have your share, and national affairs may change because of your vote.

You can get so much more.

You can get tens of thousands of acres of land instead of tens of acres.

Half a year later, the public land law passed and you will go home as a farmer, at most with some subsidies, and you will have to take your family to farm and live. But if you can vote against it and make the public land law unable to pass, then we can give you 10,000 acres of paddy land, and you can be a landlord like us, and even you can be a patriarch. So why not, what vote you want to vote for is your right, you just vote against, and the protector can't do anything to you, so why don't you vote against it? ”

Cao Rong hurriedly said.

"And then?"

Xu Si sneered.

"Then I was arrested by the Jinyi Guard, and you continue to live happily?"

He went on to say.

"You are too worried, since we want to give it to you, of course we will find a way to avoid Jinyiwei, at least we will not give them a handle, for example, Duke Xu is old and not worthy of the responsibility of the patriarch, so he summoned the clan prince in the ancestral hall to recommend you to be the patriarch, and Duke Xu gave the patriarch 10,000 acres of land in the name of the clan apportionment."

Cao Rong said.

This method of operation is also a helpless move.

After all, everyone in the Xu Si family knows that they are just tenants, and it is impossible to have the money to buy 10,000 acres of land, although Zhou Chang is a merchant, but in the past five years, relying on the well-informed information in Nandu, he has actually developed into a valuable businessman. It is reasonable for him to buy land with silver, but Xu Si is exaggerating to buy 10,000 mu of paddy fields, and it is reasonable to elect him as the patriarch and then the clansmen give away the land. After all, he has also been a representative of the four peoples, and he still has the right to supervise the local area after leaving office, so such a person is of course the most suitable to be the patriarch.

"You're so well-intentioned!"

Xu Si said with emotion.

"Brother Xu, you have the right not to use it, but it will be invalid if it expires!"

Cao Rong said with a smile.

Although Lao Xiangxian's face hadn't changed yet, he nodded slightly.

"Yes, the right not to use, it is indeed expired and invalid, as a representative of the four people, I have a lot of power, for example, I can go directly to see Her Majesty the Empress without making an appointment, I don't need to go through the procedures to report directly to the Imperial History, for example, I go directly to see Dali Siqing, no matter what Shi Gong is doing, he must immediately meet me, you see, I really have a lot of power!"

Xu Si suddenly stood up with a smile and said.

Then he laughed and walked out in the stunned gaze of Cao Rong and the others.

"Brother Xu, 100,000 acres!"

Cao Rong rushed at him desperately and screamed.

Xu Si turned around suddenly, raised his foot and kicked him in the chest, and then in Cao Rong's screams, he looked at his uncle who was already stupid with a smile.

"Uncle Tai, am I considered a righteous annihilation?"

He said.

After saying that, he turned around again and walked out the door.

"Quick, stop him!"

Cao Rong on the ground suddenly screamed.