"Most of the social elites have read some books, but you can know that Sage Confucius said that the old have something to support, and the young have something to rely on." Shang Yuan said with a smile to the people in the conference room. This is the meeting room of the insurance regiment's barracks in Fengtai County, and the structure of the room is simple and bright. Wooden pillars, beams and timber structures, straw mats for the walls. In the case of Anhui, the influence of the wind was also considered. There are vents left in many places. The result is excellent ventilation and light transmission. Chen Ke loves working in this spacious, bright room with natural products. Shang Yuan also liked it. Compared with the small yamen, this kind of room with only straw mats as the wall is not a little spacious. It gives a sense of accessibility.

After the flood, most of the landlords in the disaster area still ran to the county seat to avoid the disaster according to the old habits. The richer ones went to Fucheng. Because of the rain in Anhui for 60 consecutive days, the road was interrupted. In addition, most of the landlords in Fengtai County have little money, so the landlords in Fengtai County have not gone further afield. After exterminating Zhang Youliang, Shang Yuan invited the landlords to the barracks of the insurance regiment for a meeting.

"I've read a few sentences below and read this. I don't know what the prefectural commander assigned. Miss Ren Qiying was the first to ask.

Miss Ren Qiying came to the meeting on behalf of the Ren family, and the head of the Ren family recently fell ill and claimed to be infected with a cold. In fact, I want to express my strong dissatisfaction with my daughter's insistence on joining the insurance group and showing up all day long. And Ren Qiying didn't care about the rumors. Since her father was "sick", Ren Qiying, the eldest daughter, took on the family's affairs. You must know that Ren Qiying has a very strong temperament, since she was a child, if her two younger brothers and two younger sisters don't listen to her, Ren Qiying will dare to beat and scold. My sister came forward, my father "complained", and the Ren family is now the only one who is looking forward.

But Ren Qiying knows her father's thoughts, if she joins the insurance group and her father gets involved, it will definitely have endless troubles. Eggs can't be put in one basket, even if the insurance group is bad in the future, as long as Ren Qiying comes out of the top tank, it's a big deal to kill the head and give an explanation, and the Ren family will at least not be too embarrassed. But now at this time, the insurance group is arrogant in Fengtai County, coupled with the big flood, if you can't hold on to this big tree. The Ren family will lose the present, not even the present, let alone the future.

So in order to clear up the relationship, Ren Qiying didn't care about the rumors outside. Outside said that Ren Qiying's "nonsense" made her father sick. If it was someone else, she would have to defend herself in every possible way, and Ren Qiying let go of such rumors. And it is even more "unscrupulous" to do things. For example, this time, Shangyuan County ordered to convene a meeting of the landlords in the county, and Ren Qiying, as a woman, participated in it in a grand manner. This aroused the displeasure of the landlords in the same row, and their eyes were full of disgust and anger.

Shang Yuan smiled: "Miss Ren is indeed heroic enough. It has been almost half a year since the official arrived in Fengtai, and as far as the official knows, there is no food at all in the Yicang in Fengtai County. The clans everywhere have no money or food. This flood is far from being comparable to the past. If it goes on like this, the strong will still be powerless, and the old and weak will naturally be even more dying. It's a human tragedy. The official has read some books and seen records of the disaster year to dismantle the bones and cook, and change the children to eat. Just looking at this text, the official was frightened, since the official is the commander of Fengtai County, if such a thing really happens to our Fengtai County, this official will be unable to redeem it. ”

The dignified righteousness was swinging out, and the landlords knew that Shangyuan County had ordered this to be a condition. Everyone's eyes swam back and forth on Shang Yuan and Chen Ke next to him. Shang Yuan's meaning should be Chen Ke's meaning.

The local landlords all know that the Shangyuan County Order has a deep relationship with the insurance group, and they have seen it more than once, and the Shangyuan County Order has always taken the initiative to come forward to salute Chen Ke, the leader of the insurance group. Although I don't know where Chen Ke is sacred, the rules of officialdom are that the people give salutes to officials, and although Shangyuan County Commander will not deliberately put on a score when facing the landlord, this official authority has always been very sufficient. This let the landlords know that Chen Ke is not something that they landlords can afford to mess with. Of course, it must be explained that during this natural disaster, the insurance group, which controlled nearly a thousand people, was by no means a force that the landlords could offend.

"The county has already moved the victims to live with Yue Zhangji, I think everyone knows about this matter, right?" Shang Yuan asked.

Of course, everyone knows about this. These landlords were able to tolerate the existence of the insurance group before this, and did not risk their lives to run to Fucheng, or Jiangsu, on the one hand, it was difficult to leave their homeland, on the other hand, the road was interrupted, it rained for more than 60 days, flash floods, Huai, Si, Sha, Ru, and other rivers rose at the same time, and the water depth of the flat land was several feet, up and down more than 1,000 miles, and it became a Ze country. In order to save the surrounding people, the insurance group collected all the boats. Without a boat, the landlords couldn't run. More importantly, the security in Fengtai County is much stronger after the disaster than before the disaster.

Since the beginning of the floods, the insurance team has taken care of the victims and displaced people. A place called "People's House" was built. The camp provided food and lodging, and the victims naturally went with them to the "people's house". After the insurance group resettled all these people, they attacked forcefully and swept away the ruffians and hooligans in the county, and these people were all arrested and forced to work. Although it was a disaster year, the order in Fengtai County was much better. What the landlords are most afraid of is that the people of the disaster will rise up to make trouble, and there are only a few people in the landlord's house, and the people will die if they don't make trouble in the disaster year, and they may die later if they make trouble. Tens of thousands of people made a fuss, and the landlords could not resist it at all. Since someone was willing to come forward to manage these things, the landlords were happy.

Of course, the insurance group relied on this "home of the people" to recruit manpower and network minions. In the past, it would have been costly to provide such supplies. The ordinary forces simply could not afford it, and they had to borrow money and grain from the landlords. And the landlords can also take the opportunity to reach various compromises with these forces. Unexpectedly, the insurance group did not do this at all, and since the "People's House" was built, the insurance group completely ignored the landlords' active overtures. On the one hand, they cut off the connection between the inside and outside of the "people's house", and on the other hand, they relied on their own strength to provide food, clothing, money and food for the concentration camps. Never ask the landlords for a single property. The county magistrate Shangyuan also did not take advantage of the natural disaster to blackmail the landlord.

Although the landlords felt strange about such an abnormal situation, since they did not suffer losses themselves, they were extremely fortunate in this year of great disaster. At least that's what most of the landlords in this room think. Except for Ren Qiying's clear attitude to join the insurance group, other landlords all thought that more things were better than less, and chose a silent self-insurance strategy.

"Lord Shang Yuan, what do you command?" It was Zhang Pinggui, the landlord, who spoke. He knew that the best way to do it now was to remain silent. But Zhang Pinggui and Zhang Youliang are still in their own family, and they belong to relatives who can definitely fight with three or four poles. After learning of Zhang Youliang's downfall, he was very panicked. The armed forces under Zhang Youliang are also well-known in Fengtai County, but as a result, these young people in the insurance group turned their faces when they said that they would turn their faces, and they solved Zhang Youliang in half a day. The Zhang family was never heard from again. If the insurance group makes another move, people who have a relationship with Zhang Youliang will naturally suffer the brunt. In order to prevent this fate from befalling him, the landlord Zhang Pinggui had to fight on the basis of reason.

When the insurance group began to transfer a large number of victims to Yuezhangji, the landlords had not yet received the news of Zhang Youliang's downfall. For the transfer of the victims, the landlords privately celebrated with their hands. The insurance group controlled those people very strictly, and the landlords did not know what was going on in the "people's house". However, as a rule of thumb, the farther away you are from the people in a disaster year, the safer you are. The insurance group moved the victims to other places, and the landlords in the county town were naturally much safer.

Within a few days, the news of Zhang Youliang's downfall reached the county seat, and the landlords knew that something was wrong. It's not that the landlords haven't heard of Zhang Youliang's shouting to take action against the insurance group. They also guessed privately who would win if the two sides really fought. Unexpectedly, the group of young people in the insurance group said that they would take action, and they actually killed Zhang Youliang. Zhang Youliang's downfall is still so easy, if the insurance group takes action against other landlords, who can withstand it?

Before they could connect in tandem, the troops of the insurance regiment came to the door with a message from the county commander Shang Yuan. I said I wanted everyone to have a meeting. Those who were poor in the past are now far less polite than before, and after the report, whether the landlords want to or not, they will immediately forcibly take people. The crowd gathered together in the barracks of the Insurance Regiment. This is obviously the "Hongmen Banquet".

Although Shang Yuan obviously wears a pair of pants with the insurance group, Shang Yuan is also an official, so he has to be reasonable. So Zhang Pinggui hurriedly replied, for fear that he would be silent, and Shang Yuan felt that he couldn't talk to the landlords, so he let it go. If Chen Ke came out to speak, the price he offered would definitely be much higher than Shang Yuan's.

"The county decided to move all the victims to Yuezhangji, and they have already begun to rush to plant and harvest. The victims of the disaster had to farm the land, but there was not enough land in Yuezhangji, and in order to feed these tens of thousands of people, the official felt that he had to borrow more land from everyone. Shang Yuan said calmly.

After hearing this, there was silence in the room. One by one, the landlords were extremely shocked. They never thought that Shang Yuan, who was the county magistrate, would be able to say such things. These people have never heard of such a thing as "borrowing land". They didn't understand what Shang Yuan meant, and they didn't dare to talk nonsense.

Shang Yuan naturally had no intention of letting everyone guess. He would have explained it carefully, too. "This official has been in the capital for a long time, up to the prince, down to ordinary officials, and this official also has some friendship. Do you know what the hottest thing is in the capital right now? ”

"Please let the prefectural magistrate know." Ren Qiying asked in a crisp voice. The girl's beautiful voice not only did not make the landlords at the meeting feel good, but attracted angry eyes.

Ren Qiying didn't care, not only didn't she care, but she also sneered, "Elders, I know everyone's thoughts. I just don't dare to speak, for fear of offending people after I say something wrong, and I am afraid of being extorted too many things. But girl, I think, we might as well explain what we said. The insurance group even dares to fight Uncle Zhang, and we are not one. Let us come this time, it is clear that it is the Hongmen banquet. Maybe Mr. Chen Ke took a tea bowl and threw it, and immediately dozens of people rushed in from outside, using knives and guns against us. Rather than get to this point, it's better to explain the words. Let's be clear. It's just that we can't talk about it in the end, and we will die to understand. Elders, you are well-informed, do you think what I said makes sense? ”

The landlords attending the meeting originally had a "delay" mentality, where was they willing to have such a straightforward showdown. After Ren Qiying said this, most of the landlords showed extremely unhappy expressions. Only one of them burst out laughing. When everyone looked at it, it was Chen Ke who laughed.

Miss Ren said this interestingly. Let me give you a position first, this time I invite you to come, and we must talk about the results. If you can't talk about the result, no one should think about going back. Chen Ke said with a smile.

This statement made it clear that the landlords' last hope to bluff through the customs were in vain. Without waiting for them to speak, Chen Ke continued: "Tea bowls are very expensive. I feel distressed when I drop a lot of money. Dozens of people with knives and guns were called in from outside, and I just shouted, and I didn't have to drop the tea bowl. ”

This kind of naked threat really works, and the landlords swallowed the words back into their stomachs.

Chen Ke continued: "Let's listen to Shangyuan County's order first, what's the hurry?" It's been a long time. We have prepared a place for everyone to live in, and when the talk is over, we will naturally let everyone go. Shang prefectural order, please continue. ”

Shang Yuan didn't care about the landlords' faces one by one, he continued: "Beijing's recent limelight is about constitutionalism. To put it bluntly, everyone makes a law together, and everyone has to abide by this law in the future. From the queen mother to the officials, everyone thinks that this should be done. Now is the flood period, and Xia Guan thinks that we have to rescue the disaster first. But this charter for disaster relief, our family said, either the people are not happy, or the landlords are not happy. Therefore, I think we might as well make a constitution according to Beijing's intentions. Let's talk about a law. Whether it is the officials, the insurance group, or the people, they all follow this law. This matter cannot be counted by the official himself, so he has invited you to discuss how to proceed with this constitutional legislation. ”

As soon as these words were finished, the landlords were immediately confused. originally thought that Shang Yuan and Chen Ke were going to seize the landlord's land, but they didn't expect it to become a constitution. The news in Fengtai County is not very closed, and some landlords know the word "constitutional", and it is said that they have also made a big fuss in Beijing. But they don't know exactly what the constitution is all about. This was a major event that the Queen Mother discussed with the princes, and the landlords thought that they were not qualified to participate in such a major event. As soon as Shang Yuan said this, everyone was puzzled.

was confused, but Ren Qiying smiled and said: "Lord County Commander, you mean that if you want to relieve the disaster, you want to borrow the land of our landlords, and you want us to negotiate a charter, so that our landlords can discuss with you how to borrow our land." Is that so? ”

"Exactly." Shang Yuan replied.

The landlords only understood now, and a wave of anger welled up in everyone's chests. This clearly shows that the landlords are sold, and they have to help Shang Yuan count the money. That's too deceitful.

"Lord County Commander, what you say doesn't make sense." Wang Pinggui spoke, "It is unheard of to lend our land to the people to plant. Isn't it a trick for us to ask us to discuss how to divide our possessions among others? At this time, Wang Pinggui threw the "procrastination" out of the clouds. If someone was so openly playing as a monkey, he would never admit it. As soon as these words came out, the other landlords also nodded. Obviously, Wang Pinggui said what was in their hearts.

Shang Yuan faced the landlords who had some consistent attitudes, he frowned slightly, and looked at everyone with a slightly confused look. If Shang Yuan raised his eyebrows and was furious, the landlords might not be afraid. But Shang Yuan was simply with a look of sympathy and pity, which made the landlords inexplicable and uneasy.

After watching all the landlords, Shang Yuan said: "Everyone came to the county seat, and some of them are ready to go to the capital city and the provincial capital." Why? Isn't it just that you are afraid that the victims will make trouble? Why are the victims making trouble? Isn't it because you can't live anymore? This official knows that after every flood, there will be countless lawsuits and many homicides because of land zoning. After every flood, there are people who will grow some food, no matter whose land they have and what they can plant, hoping to have a good harvest and survive the disaster year. And then these things are entangled, and they can't be cleared up for several years. There will be a lot of personal grudges. Rather than this, let's just draw a line now, so as to save a lawsuit later. At that time, everyone was restless because of the lawsuit. When everyone complains, they always have to go up and down. This official does not love money, so naturally he will not accept any bribes. But everyone's money is not blown by the wind, this money is spent in vain, fattening the official errand, don't you feel distressed? ”

As soon as Shang Yuan finished saying this, the landlords also felt that there was some reason. Although they still have some common hatred and hatred, as soon as Shang Yuan mentioned the internal contradictions caused by the division of land among the landlords, many people immediately remembered a lot of old things.

"Mr. Zhang Pinggui, I heard that you and Mr. Lu Youlian's family are still in-laws, but the two families have been in a lawsuit for almost ten years because of a piece of land. The two county commanders have not sorted things out. A good in-law is like an enemy on weekdays. I won't talk about anything else, after this flood, there are no ridges in the fields or anything, are you two ready to reconcile? Or are you going to continue fighting for that piece of land? Before this meeting, Chen Ke and the others learned from the experience of attacking Zhang Youliang, and made a lot of preparations and plans. So that there are no huge loopholes in the plan. In view of the contradictions between the various landlords, the People's Party conducted a detailed investigation.

Sure enough, as expected, as soon as these words came out, Zhang Pinggui's face immediately became extremely ugly. Lu Youlian also participated in the meeting. Because of these old grievances, he sat far away from Zhang Pinggui. After hearing Shang Yuan's words, Lu Youlian just snorted coldly, but did not speak. The atmosphere immediately became a little strange.

"So, guys, let's not make a charter, okay?" Shang Yuan continued to ask with a sympathetic look.