I have to say that the spirit of contract and the ability to execute the contract of these foreign arms dealers are still very commendable.

Although the negotiations were delayed for most of the time, it was somewhat difficult. But after the negotiation was completed, as soon as they received the deposit, they immediately took action, not only selling all the money, but also treating Uncle Jiang and others as VIPs, without the arrogance of foreigners here.

Even, more than a dozen Wang family members went shopping, and when they were drinking and eating in the French Concession, they were ridiculed for their dirt buns, fought with each other, used guns, killed people, and were arrested in the patrol room. Before Uncle Jiang could get up and down, these foreigners took the initiative to pick them up in person.

Later, because the number of these arms was too large, warships were used to send the arms out of Shanghai, and they were transferred to ships hundreds of miles away, and they continued to bring people to escort them in person according to the contract, without any deception...... It can be seen that the charm of money is omnipresent and omnipotent.

Wang Shihua smiled when he saw the news in the telegram, but he didn't say anything, but he still had a good impression of these foreigners in his heart.

October 27th

There are still three days left before Uncle Jiang returns.

In the golden autumn of October, the particles are returned to the warehouse! No matter where you go, you can feel the joy of the harvest, and even Wang Shihua's mood is exceptionally good.

Today is a good day for all villages and villages to pay rent with grain every year, Wang Shihua took Zhang Cuiyun and a group of subordinates, and returned to Wangjiaping early, wanting to see with his own eyes the expressions of the people when they handed over the grain...... Since all taxes in the royal family's sphere of influence were halved last year, Wang Shihua has been looking forward to today — the most favorable sentence for his year's efforts.

This is the top priority of the year, as the head of the house, Zhang Cuiyun also put away her temperament, accompanied Wang Shihua, sat by the granary early, and waited.

On the right of them is the granary, and on the left is the lively scene of slaughtering pigs and sheep: Wang Shihua specially explained that those who come to pay taxes today must let them eat and drink well.

At about half past nine in the morning, the first people to pay the grain tax came.

Thirty-four men, each carrying a load with a sack of rice at each end, followed by three wagons.

Seeing this scene from afar, Wang Shihua had a smile on his face, and the more he looked at it, the more he smiled, and when he finally stood up, his face was already smiling, but he felt that he couldn't see enough.

"Ninth Master, why are you here in person?" Waiting for the other party to approach, Wang Shihua led someone to hurry over and said with a smile: "This kind of thing, wouldn't it be good to let Jimin come here." ”

Things like this are generally done by the chief of each village in person, and the ninth master is over seventy years old, and his rank is two generations higher than Wang Shihua, and he has been the village chief for a lifetime, and now he is retired and enjoys Qingfu at home, and he rarely shows up. Their village is only 12 miles away from Wangjiaping, and it is the largest village outside Wangjiaping, with 184 households. The position of the village chief (the village chief automatically becomes the chief of the family) is designated by the head of the family, and it is basically hereditary, and they are all extremely loyal to the royal family. To put it bluntly, it is the people sent by the Wang family to manage the villages.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss you, take this opportunity to come and see you. Shihua, come, you sit down first. After pulling Wang Shihua to the big chair and pressing it, he smiled at Zhang Cuiyun and said, "Master, you are also sitting." ”

The two sat down, watched, and waited, a little confused.

The Ninth Master took two steps back, and then knelt down suddenly.

Wang Shihua was startled, and immediately jumped up from the past, wanting to help the ninth master: "Ninth master, what are you doing?" Isn't this a discount for my life? ”

"Who told that?" Jiu Ye got up, pressed Wang Shihua on the chair and sat down, and said, "Shihua, no!" Listen to me, this kneeling, I represent the gratitude of the 184 families in the village to you, and it cannot be counted according to the children. ”

"But ......"

"No, you can't do it. If you don't let me kneel today, I'll die here. Anyway, I promised the people in the village, if they didn't mean that they would kowtow to you and your mother, I wouldn't have the face to go back. ”

"That'...... All right! ”

"That's right."

The Ninth Master took two steps back, knelt down, and said, "The head of the family, the master mother, on behalf of the one hundred and eighty-four households in the village, thank you for your kindness and grace, let us live a good life!" ”

Waiting for the ninth master to kowtow, Wang Shihua hurriedly got up and helped the ninth master up, but the ninth master was unhappy: "Family master, you sit with peace of mind, I haven't finished kowtowing yet." ”

For such stubborn people, Wang Shihua said that he couldn't make him kowtow anymore.

Fortunately, Zhang Cuiyun on the side helped Wang Shihua, grabbed one of the arms of the ninth master, forcibly helped him up, and sat on the big chair. That's it, the ninth master also knows the rules and only sits on half of his ass.

Zhang Cuiyun personally served him tea, Wang Shihua also raised the teacup to compare with him, took a sip, put down the teacup, and looked at the right: Jiang Shoucheng kept accounts, several old men were overweighed, and the guards were busy carrying scales and grain.

"Ninth Master, didn't I send someone to talk about halving the rent for each village? You didn't receive it? ”

"Got it!"

"Then why do you still pay so much?"

"Not much. The head of the family, blessed by the ancestors, has another great harvest this year, and by your grace, you have reduced the rent from five cents to two cents and a half, so that even the poorest families will not have a break this year...... Everyone was very happy when they heard your words, the rent was halved, if it weren't for the fact that there were really not so many people coming, everyone would want to come and kowtow to you in person......" The more the ninth master spoke, the happier he became, the more excited he became, and he relaxed. As he spoke, he came up with the rumor: "Master, if you are not happy, I was still very dissatisfied with you when I heard the news that the rent had been halved. You want to! In previous years, it was a year of great drought, and everyone came to intercede, and the family would appropriately reduce some rent, but this year is a bumper harvest year, so you have nothing to do with rent reduction? ”

Wang Shihua touched his nose and smiled, but did not make a sound.

"It is a matter of course to farm and pay rent, and whether the harvest is good or not depends on the will of God. To tell you the truth, I happened to have a leg stroke at the time, otherwise I would have run to whip you. Really, don't laugh, don't believe it, if you go back and ask the people, I scolded you for being a loser in front of the whole village. ”

As he spoke, Jiu Ye took out a cigarette pouch from his back and filled it with cigarettes, and Wang Shihua hurriedly lit it for him.

The ninth master, let's take two sips, and said with a smile: "I've always been worried that if you do this, if the family has no money, you won't be able to support so many guards, and without the guards, there will be no one to protect you, and the Wang family will be scattered." But I didn't expect that you were so solid, and you took everyone to fight two battles in succession, all of which were big victories, not only changed the conservatism of the Wang family in the past, but also played the prestige of the Wang family, got Longtang Town, and sent a lot of things to everyone...... Looking at the prosperity of Longtang Town today, we couldn't have imagined it before! Scold! Scold! The head of the family, I'm here to compensate you, don't be like me as an old fool! ”

To be honest, Wang Shihua has always felt that collecting taxes from land is not as good as commercial taxes, so he wanted to do it tentatively, but he didn't expect that there would be such an effect in a year, which strengthened his confidence in this regard.

"Ninth Master, where are you talking about. You are an elder and care about me, so you will scold me, otherwise, you are always full of food and support, and you have nothing to do to make yourself angry. Do you think so? "The old man in his seventies, and he has been loyal all his life, and when he is old, he will scold you a few words when he encounters something he is not used to, and it is your business to listen to it or not, but you must bear it, which is called rules and respect.

"Of course. The old man has been a member of the Wang family all his life, although his brain case is not very easy to use, and he has not received much credit, but this loyalty is nothing to say. The old man took two more puffs of cigarette and said with a smile: "By the way, the head of the house, the housewife, everyone wants to invite you to go to the village to sit when you are free, I don't know when you have time?" ”

Seeing that Wang Shihua didn't understand, the ninth master hurriedly explained: "First, everyone wants to express their gratitude to the head of the family and the housewife; Second, everyone is spreading that the head of the family is the reincarnation of the eight great gods, and he is the hero who leads our Wang family to live a good life, so everyone wants to follow the blessings. ”

"Hah! Ha! Good! When I'm free, I'll go to the village for a few days. ”

"Get, get!" The Ninth Master laughed happily, and after taking a sip of tea, he glanced left and right, and asked in a low voice: "Family master, the old man doesn't know if he should ask a sentence?" ”

"Ninth Master, you speak."

"I'm going to speak, don't you get angry, you don't fool me?"

"Yes!"

"Family Master, if someone dared to tell me that you were the reincarnation of the Eight Great Gods, I would definitely whip him, because I felt that this was disgusting you, and it would be equivalent to slapping everyone in our Wang family in the face. But now, I think there is really such a possibility, otherwise, the old family master, the old family master, and the ancestors do not have your ability and means, so that everyone in our Wang family can have enough to eat. So, I want to ask you clearly: the head of the family, are you the reincarnation of the eight great gods? ”

Wang Shihua never thought that the other party would ask this question, but if he wanted to answer no, it would be detrimental to his image: In private, who doesn't want to be worshiped by others with a divine aura? In terms of kilometers, this will be a huge help to the cohesion of the Wang family. But the other way around is that this is too shameless, especially to brag about yourself.

"This ...... This one...... Ninth Master, to tell the truth, I don't know, and I can't confirm it. ”

"That's right!" The Ninth Master thought about it, nodded, and said, "But the old ancestor is also true, if only this kind of thing could leave some hints in advance." ”

For this kind of cute self-talk, what else can Wang Shihua do except smile bitterly? However, it occurred to him that I would 'brag about it' when I really needed it.

Anyway, it's small talk, what comes to mind. Wang Shihua saw that this rumor couldn't go on, so he changed the topic: "Ninth Master, a few warriors in the village who died fighting for their families, how are their descendants?" ”

"Good! Good! It's all right. They have all gone to the Eight Great Gods to become divine soldiers, and if their descendants don't take care of them, we won't have the shame to see them when we die. Saying that, Jiu Ye quipped: "Now the most domineering people in the village are a few of them, and I don't dare to provoke them." ”

"Hah! Ha! Ha ......"

At this moment, Jiang Shoucheng came over and handed the account book to Wang Shihua, Wang Shihua looked at it and asked, "Ninth Master, why is there an extra hundred and eighty-four catties?" ”

"Huh! Scold! This is discussed by everyone in the village, saying that the head of the family is benevolent, and we can't go without going to the Tao, but the head of the house has everything, and there is no shortage of things. As soon as we discussed, we gave each household an extra pound to express our gratitude to the head of the family. Head of the family, you must not be too little and refuse. ”

It seems that it is true that everyone has something to eat, otherwise, for thousands of years, who has ever heard of everyone voluntarily paying more food? It's not much, but that's what it is—the human heart!

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