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On the morning of November 5, South Bridge. ◇↓ Top ◇ ↓ Point ◇ ↓ Small ◇ ↓ Said, www.

Xiao Zhenlei came to Nanqiao with the guard platoon, spent a morning walking around here, and found a field overgrown with weeds by the lake, about more than 120 acres, this abandoned field is relatively high, it is not good to be a paddy field, it cannot be irrigated, it is good to grow other miscellaneous grain crops or economy on dry land, such as cotton and the like, but this large field is abandoned here, why is this? If this piece of land was owned by the local government, it would have been rented out long ago, or it would have been secretly swallowed up by the local officials in collusion with the landlords and gentry, and it would not have been possible to keep it until now.

Ma Xiaoshuang, orderly Xiaoma, Opiyin and others have been following him, when Xiao Zhenlei has been walking around this wasteland for more than an hour, Ma Xiaoshuang said: "Brother, do you fancy this land?" This place is a good military camp, the terrain is high, and it is backed by the lake, sitting north and facing south, but I am afraid that this land already has an owner, and I don't know if people sell it or not! ”

Xiao Zhenlei stopped and said, "What kind of person do you guess the owner of this land is?" ”

Ma Xiaoshuang and the others looked at each other, shook their heads and said they couldn't guess, and the orderly soldier Pony said, "Regiment leader, can you guess correctly?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei took out a metal cigarette case and lit a cigarette, took a few puffs and said with a smile: "I guess the owner of this land must be a rich and unkind landlord and gentry, do you believe it or not?" ”

Ma Xiaoshuang obviously didn't believe it and asked, "Brother." How do you know? ”

"You think, this is a good land. Although it can't be used as a paddy field, it is still very good to be a dry field. The dry land does not need a lot of water, and this land is close to the lake, so it should be very fertile to irrigate it with lake water occasionally, but it has been abandoned, and there are no tenants now? Could the owner of the land not find a tenant to farm? It's obviously impossible, except that this guy is rich and unkind, which has aroused the extreme disgust and disgust of all the tenants around him, so no one farms for him, and such an inferior gentleman who is rich and unkind. He must be extremely stingy, and he is reluctant to sell this land, so he can only sit idle and let it be wasted! ”

After that, Xiao Zhenlei smiled again: "If you don't believe it, Xiaoshuang, you can send someone to find an old farmer who is working in the field nearby and ask it will be clear!" ”

"Okay, I'll go!"

After about half an hour, Ma Xiaoshuang immediately came over to report to Xiao Zhenlei after figuring out the situation: "Hey, brother." really let you guess it, the owner of this land is called Liu Wancai, who lives in Nanqiao Town, and the villagers who are working in the fields around him say that guy is a master who eats people and does not spit out bones. He was very insidious and treacherous, often colluding with the local government to seize other people's fields, and he rented the land to tenants to plant. The rent collected was ridiculously high, and many tenants were forced to die by him because they couldn't pay the rent. When I asked, the folks were worried that we were in his company. At first, he didn't want to say it, but it took me a lot of effort to convince them that we weren't in the same league as him! ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought about it and beckoned the orderly Pony and Opi Yin over and ordered: "You two change your clothes and go to the town to meet that Liu Wancai, and ask him if he sells this land, how much it will cost, if it is less than 1,200 taels of silver, you can buy it!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei estimated just now, this land is almost exactly one hundred and twenty acres, if there is an error, it will not be too different, according to the calculation of one hundred and twenty acres, the price he gave per mu of land is about ten taels of silver, this price will not suffer from both sides, if it is a high-quality field, of course, the price per mu is more than ten taels of silver, but these lands have been abandoned, and the price will be greatly discounted, because it will cost a lot of money to reclaim it, as long as it is not a fool, No one will buy this abandoned field for the price of a good field.

"Yes, Captain!" Pony said yes and drove away with Opiain.

After two hours, Xiao Ma and Opiyin came back and reported the situation to Xiao Zhenlei, it turned out that Liu Wancai heard that Xiao Ma and the two wanted to buy his wasteland, and immediately wanted to refuse, but saw that Xiao Ma was followed by a foreigner, and foreigners could not afford to provoke him in these years, so Liu Wancai did not dare to refuse, his eyes rolled, and he immediately came up with an outrageous price, five thousand taels of silver, of course Xiao Ma refused to accept this price, and grinded for more than an hour, but the other party refused to reduce the price no matter what, and Xiao Ma and Ao Piyin had to come back first.

Xiao Zhenlei listened to Xiaoma's report after thinking about it or decided to go out in person, he immediately changed out of his military uniform, put on civilian clothes, and came to the town with the guard platoon, in order not to disturb the people, he asked the guard platoon to camp outside the town to rest, and drove to Liu Wancai's mansion with Xiaoma and Opiyin.

When he parked at the door of Liu Wancai's house, Xiao Zhenlei got out of the car and saw that this Liu Mansion was magnificently repaired, the door was quite large, it looked like a big family, and the mansions of ordinary landlords and gentry were not so magnificent, and Liu Wancai was willing to spend money to build a house.

Xiao Zhenlei asked Ran Xiaoma to call the door, he and Opiyin were waiting outside, after the door with copper nails opened, a family member stretched out his head and saw that it would be a pony, and his face changed: "Why are you again?" ”

Pony said, "Isn't that me, your lord is at home?" I'm looking for something to do with him, please report it! ”

The family hurriedly said: "Not here, not here!" ”

Pony was surprised, "Not here? Little brother, you're not fooling me, are you? I didn't go long ago, why wasn't your master here? Hurry up and report it, if you delay it, be careful that your lord is not kind to you! ”

The family was a little impatient, "It's really not here, the master is out of the house, just left!" ”

The pony was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Where did you go?" When will you be back? ”

"I've gone to the capital, as for when I'll come back, it's uncertain, if you don't have anything else, please go back, our lord is not at home, and we are not good at entertaining you!"

The pony didn't know what to do, he looked back at Xiao Zhenlei, and Xiao Zhenlei heard the conversation he had just had with that guy clearly. He waved his head at him and motioned to leave first. The three immediately drove away.

After getting out of the car at the makeshift camp outside town, Pony asked, "Captain." It's not done yet, how did you bring us back? ”

Xiao Zhenlei said as he walked to the tent: "I heard it just now, haven't you seen it yet?" That Liu Wancai didn't go to the capital at all, but hid and deliberately didn't see us, no matter how valuable that piece of land was, it wasn't worth five thousand taels of silver, he didn't plan to sell it to us at all, he just didn't want us to bargain when he avoided us! ”

Pony thought for a moment and said, "That's weird!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei asked, "What's strange?" ”

"Since he doesn't want to sell it, he made it clear, why is he hiding from us?"

Xiao Zhenlei pointed at Opiyin: "Because of him, Liu Wancai is worried that refusing to sell the land will attract retaliation from foreigners. So I just hide from you, but unfortunately, he is smart but is clever and mistaken, if Opiyin, a foreigner, is determined to win this land, even if he hides in the sky, there is still no way to keep this land, there are too many ways to deal with this situation! ”

Pony asked, "Captain, do you have a solution?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei looked at the sky, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, it was only about four o'clock in the afternoon. He said to the pony: "In this way, you can now go into the town and inquire about it, and see what other people in Liu Wancai's family are engaged in." After inquiring clearly, come back and sue me immediately."

"Okay!"

After the pony left, Xiao Zhenlei changed into a military uniform and drove to the town's autonomous office with a few soldiers, which was just like the town government in later generations. Since the Qing court promulgated the regulations on the autonomy of towns and townships, towns and townships throughout the country have been established one after another. The councillors and directors of the government were basically people of prestige, talent, and wealth in the town. Poor people can't be parliamentarians and directors.

Xiao Zhenlei drove in the town and soon knew the location of the autonomous office, immediately drove to it according to the guidance of passers-by, and stopped at the door of the autonomous office after a few minutes.

After getting out of the car, Xiao Zhenlei immediately went to the autonomous office, four soldiers with rifles followed behind, and as soon as he walked into the gate, a young man in short clothes ran out of the gatekeeper next to him and asked in a short suit: "A few soldiers, who are you looking for?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei stopped and turned his head and asked, "Who is your mayor?" ”

The mayor is appointed by the county ordinance, not elected by the town council, and the scope of autonomy of the town board and the town council is mainly for school affairs, health, roads, agriculture, industry and commerce, charity, public business and self-government funds, but they shall not interfere in the administrative affairs of the town, and the administrative affairs shall be the responsibility of the town mayor, and the division of deliberation and administration shall be implemented.

The young man saw that Xiao Zhenlei was wearing a new army uniform, and his weapons were extraordinary, so he immediately didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "It's He Hanlin and Mayor He, I don't know who you are?" Looking for our mayor? ”

"This official is Xiao Zhenlei, the 46th standard commander of the 23rd Mixed Association of the New Army, let He Hanlin come to see this official immediately!"

The young man was so frightened that his legs weakened and he knelt down and said, "It turned out to be Lord Xiao, please wait for a while, and the little one will go to Mayor He to come and see you!" ”

The guy said and ran to the outside of the autonomous office, Xiao Zhenlei didn't care about him, he turned around in the autonomous office, and after turning around, he found that there were quite a lot of rooms in the self-made office, and the open space in the middle was quite large, if you want to live in people, you can squeeze in a battalion is no problem, if you requisition the ancestral halls of some big families in the town, it should be no problem to fit two or three thousand people, and it should be no problem to fit two or three thousand people.

But in a quarter of an hour, a slightly chubby middle-aged man wearing a satin coat and a rich man's hat trotted in breathlessly, and saw Xiao Zhenlei sitting on a chair in the open space in the middle of the office, he hurriedly came over and knelt down: "He Hanlin, the mayor of Nanqiao Town, visited Lord Biaotong, the villain didn't know that Lord Biaotong arrived, and he made the adults wait here for so long, it's really damned, please forgive me, it's getting late now, the villain has prepared a table of banquets at home, and please go to the adults!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei raised his hand: "Get up!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

"You are He Hanlin, the mayor of this town?"

"Yes, yes, what a villain!"

Xiao Zhenlei turned his head and looked at it: "This official was ordered to lead his troops to garrison here, so from now on, this official will stay here in Nanqiao Town for most of the time, but our army has not yet stationed barracks here, this official will first come to an outpost to handle the construction of barracks, and the army will be pulled over in a few days, but there can be no temporary camp, this official sees that the area of your autonomous office is large enough, the house is enough, and it should be barely possible to live five or six hundred people, In addition, lend the ancestral halls of some big families in your town to the soldiers of our official for a period of time, and after the official finishes building the barracks, the soldiers go to the barracks, and the official will naturally return the ancestral halls of this and some other large families to you, Mayor He, you are the parent official of this town, and you are a family with our new army, so you should support the construction of our new army, right? ”

He Hanlin listened to Xiao Zhenlei's words, and the more he listened, the more ugly his face became, and he scolded in his heart, these soldiers are going to occupy the autonomous office, so where are we going to work? Where do the people from other town offices work? It's not enough to occupy here, but also to occupy the ancestral halls of some big families in the town, where is this? Wouldn't letting those soldiers into the ancestral hall disturb the Sects? He didn't agree on the spot, and he didn't dare to agree, if he did, not to mention the other clerks in the town office, even those big families would definitely not do it, at this time his face was blue and white, and this change of face made Xiao Zhenlei see it.

Xiao Zhenlei's face changed, his right hand stretched out to his waist and pretended to be a gun, and said coldly: "What, Mayor He doesn't want to agree?" Don't want to be close to our army? ”

He Hanlin asked Xiao Zhenlei to pull out a gun, and his legs were weak with fright on the spot, and he fell to the ground with a plop, thinking that the hero would not suffer the loss in front of him, and it was not worth losing his life for such a few houses, besides, these people are not occupying and not leaving, but they are just temporarily borrowing for a period of time, and they will naturally leave when their barracks are built, thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Where did Lord Biaotong say, the villain is willing, of course he is willing, Biaotong promised to go here, and the villain is too late, how can he be unwilling?" If you need to use it, if you need the service of our town office, you can send someone to support it! ”

"Well, that's good, you're very interesting, and I like it! Hahaha"

He Hanlin thought crookedly when he heard this, but he felt that the chrysanthemum was tight, and he hurriedly got up and was about to leave, Xiao Zhenlei grabbed him and asked him to prepare a few tables of wine and food to send to the town office, and there were still thirty people outside the town who had not eaten! He Hanlin could only go to the wine and food with a bitter face on his face.

It didn't take long for the pony to come over and report to Xiao Zhenlei what he had heard, and Xiao Zhenlei muttered a few words in his ear, and the pony nodded again and again. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......) R527