When Chen Qiuchi was still in the Gu Mansion, the rich people in the county mainly looked at his face, and as soon as he left, of course they had to hold Master Lin again, after all, he was the president of the Chamber of Commerce.

If you play tricks on them in some places, it's really not easy to do business.

Even if you want Gu Zhixian to remember their goodness, then you must first have silver in your hand, if you don't have silver, who will listen to you? You can't take something worthless and give it away, right?

If you want to be rich, you have to buy and sell well, and you have to rely on holding Master Lin.

Don't let him help, at least don't be weird.

Chen Qiuchi only left the day before, and the next day these rich families in the county town gathered and all went to Master Lin's house.

"You don't have anything to do, huh? What are they all doing here? ”

As soon as he heard this, Master Liu patted the back of his hand, "Oh, Master Lin, you can think of a way, now that Chen Qiuchi is making a comeback, if he wasn't there before, how could we lose so much silver?" Now it is obvious that he has colluded with that Gu Zhixian, and this time he has cheated us with so much money, and I can't say how much we will want in the future. ”

"This is not a way to go on for a long time, you can think of an idea, you have a close relationship with Governor Zhang, see if you send a message over there, we pass you on weekdays, and we also honor Governor Zhang, shouldn't it come in handy when something happens?"

Master Lin snorted coldly, "This is the New Year, you just let me use these bad things to annoy the prefect?" The prefect is in a hurry, and he won't help us in the future, so what's the matter? Are you anxious that I am not in a hurry? ”

"If you want to say who the Chen family has the greatest hatred with, of course it is me, their family rented my land at the beginning, and they hate me the most, and now that he is back, isn't that always threatening me? If there was a way, you think I wouldn't care? Okay, I'm messed up enough, don't bother me, I'll think about it. ”

"But as long as there is a way, I can't sit still, anyway, Chen Qiuchi is gone after all now, everything is easy to discuss if he is not here, so what kind of storm can Xiaozhi County alone set off?"

"I asked people to inquire, his family is an ordinary farmer, he has no background, he really has a background, and someone is protecting him, how can he come to our poor place as a champion to be a poor county?"

"We don't have to be too anxious, anyway, the silver has already been taken out, and there is no reason to take it back, there is not much silver, and if you take it, you will take it, now that Chen Qiuchi is no longer here, what can he do? If you want us to take the money, you just don't take it. ”

Everyone clapped their hands and said, "So that's it?" All that silver was wasted, what kind of river should I build? The river has never been repaired, and the people are not living well? There is no water in the field, and I don't know how to go farther to pick it? I still have to repair the river, I think it's all lazy, so many small rivers, all have to be built, how much silver does it cost? I don't know if Gu Zhixian has looted enough this time. ”

Someone else said, "Isn't it stupid that he took out all the money we gave?" I thought he would secretly write it down, but who knew it was all recorded. ”

"Hmph, what's it to take it out? It's just to let the common people see how honest he is, and he can't say that the silver is carried back and put into his pocket? Now that the silver has been given to him, we can't take care of it, just like Master Lin said, he will do this again in the future, we can't give this face, if it really starts, it will be sad in the future. ”

Everyone discussed in the Lin Mansion for a long time, and the result was that the previous loss was forgotten, and it was not a matter of urgency, if the magistrate let them take the money again in the future, it would not be so easy to talk.

After they left, Master Lin and Master Liu discussed, but they still felt angry, and they had to find a way to do this.

Master Liu said, "In the end, he is an official of the imperial court, mixed with bandits, how can this work?" The court hated the bandits, and if those thieves stayed on the mountain obediently, it would be better to say, but they ran down the mountain and colluded with the court officials, if the court knew about this, it might be what would happen. ”

After he said that, Master Lin narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at him, "Brother Liu, what do you mean by this?" ”

Master Liu said, "You are a smart person, do you still need me to say this?" It's also that I don't have a close relationship with Zhang Zhifu, otherwise I would have gone to Zhang Zhifu to invite credit, although Zhang Zhifu said that he didn't care about this small Zhixian County, but after he came, Lu County could be tossed by him to change his appearance, although Zhang Zhifu said that he didn't care, but he didn't have resentment in his heart? ”

"If this Lu County is really getting better, and the imperial court is rewarding, doesn't that mean that Governor Zhang's previous governance was improper? If we can take this opportunity to dismiss the little magistrate and let him go back to his hometown, won't we still be in charge of this place? ”

"That's all I'll say here, brother, you weigh it yourself, see what to do, if it's me, you really have to think of a way out of it, this breath can't be swallowed anyway."

Master Lin thought about it, let him go back, pondered for a while, and called several of his sons to ask to see what they meant.

His sons, both wise and foolish, each had his own opinion.

In the end, the second son said, "If you want me to come on, Liu Laosan is right, we have given so much silver, we can't suffer in vain, right?" He has colluded with the thieves, if this matter is known to the court, he will be dealt with no matter what, Dad, you can go to the prefect's mansion and tell him the news, by the way, you can also sell it in front of the prefect, how to talk depends on Dad. ”

After thinking about it, Old Man Lin nodded, "Okay, just listen to you, I will go to Fucheng tomorrow, I have to let the prefect know about this matter, and I will listen to the prefect what to do." ”

Tiankuo and Siqi can't care about what these rich people are doing in private now, they have already got the money, and the year has passed, so of course they are going to hurry up and get down to business.

The most important thing is to arrange the matter of digging the river first, there are a lot of people in each village, each village can actually dig a small river ditch to the village, in this way, as long as the big river through Lu County is not dry, there will be some water in the small river ditch, no matter what, watering is much easier.