"We are the proprietors of this Zhuangzi, and this is our proprietor! The surname is Su, I am the new steward of the Su family, called Cheng Ming, I don't know what this brother is called? Cheng Ming is familiar with this man in his thirties.

"So it's from the owner?" The man's honest face suddenly showed a happy look, and he greeted everyone very warmly, "I am the tenant of this Phoenix Grange, call me Zhou Jianfei, I have been living here for thirteen years, the previous owner is surnamed Su, and fortunately with the care of the owner, I decided to settle down here, and I have spare money, married a daughter-in-law, and gave birth to two children......"

"No, there are too many of us, so we won't go in, but, brother, in that case, why are you packing up? Look at you, are you leaving here? Cheng Ming asked Su Xinruo according to what he meant.

"Of course we have to leave here, if we don't leave here, we will starve to death," Zhou Jianfei was indignant, Zhou Jianfei's words made everyone present feel very surprised, and everyone felt very strange. I also mentioned just now that because of the care of the owner, he married his daughter-in-law and gave birth to two children, and it seems that he is living a happy life, and he is speaking with a happy tone in his tone. Why do you say it again all of a sudden? Getting out of here? And also assume that if you don't leave here, you're going to starve to death, isn't that a contradiction?

Su Xinruo frowned, could it be that in these three months, this fertile grange was destroyed by the steward sent by Old Madam Liu? I can't imagine that these people's methods are too rubbish, why didn't Mrs. Liu send a good steward to manage it? A good grange, a good harvest and a good grange, ruined in two or three months?

If Su Xinruo gave Cheng Ming a look, Cheng Ming would naturally be able to pay attention. He walked over, patted Zhou Jianfei on the shoulder, and said very friendly, "Brother Zhou, don't worry, you slowly say don't worry, what happened?" How could they starve to death? Cheng Ming deliberately glanced at the field next to him, stretched out his finger and pointed at the field, and continued to say with a puzzled expression:

"If you look at the land on the side, it is more fertile than other places, and as long as you can plant the fields, you will definitely have a harvest, and if you have a harvest, you will not starve to death. And looking at Brother Zhou's appearance, it seems that he is about to leave here with his hometown! But the strange thing to us is, why hasn't the seeds been sown yet? If you don't sow seeds, you will miss the time, in that case you will miss a quarter, not only the loss of your tenants, but also the loss of our bankers! “

"Hey"! Zhou Jianfei sighed, shook his head helplessly and looked at Cheng Ming, with a very depressed look in his eyes, "It's not because of the new steward Liu Pingui recently, Liu Pingui came to our Phoenix Grange two or three months ago, and then the original steward left." Although we don't know why we changed the stewardship......"

"Liu Pingui He gathered all our tenants and told us that he said that Phoenix Grange has changed us to a new owner, and the new owner is no longer surnamed Su, but surnamed Liu, I heard that this Liu Pingui is still a relative of the Liu family, and he has great power and has been reused by the Liu family. When he came here, as soon as he came, he reformed us. “

"He immediately raised taxes on us and paid us all at once, which was not enough. I think that when we were the owner of the surname Su in the past, our rent was handed over at the time of harvest in the field, and the amount handed over each time was four-tenths of the harvest in the land. Occasionally, when there is a special reason, such as a bad harvest that year, the rent will be reduced to 3/10. If the harvest is good, the rent will be increased to 5/10. Basically, it fluctuates between 3 out of 10 and 5 out of 10, never more than 5 out of 10, and there is never any additional charge. Such a good policy has attracted a lot of tenants, all of whom feel that the owner is more generous and are willing to work under the owner's hands. “

"In addition to this accident, the original owner is still a good person, and he is also better for the tenants, and the tenants can borrow money if they have any difficulties, borrow money from the owner, or delay the tax payment for this quarter. There are even cases where no rent is charged. The tenants here feel happy and happy with a good owner, and there are many people who, like me, plan to live here in peace and contentment and live here for the rest of their lives. When Zhou Jianfei said these words, there was still nostalgia in his tone.

"But ......" Zhou Jianfei's topic immediately changed, his tone became angry, and his eyes were red, as if with hatred, "Liu Pingui is here, he will immediately carry out reforms, as long as the tenants who live here, they will collect all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes." It can be said that he has been here for three months, and he collects our money in all sorts of names, and he collects our taxes twenty times in total, what rent tax, hoe tax, seed tax, road tax...... And so on, he also said to us, if we farm here in the future, the owner will account for eight-tenths of the income in the field! We can only make up two-tenths of the tenants. “

"In this case, if such a policy is implemented, what hope do we tenants have? Yesterday he also told us that there should be a poll tax, and that the more the population, the heavier the tax, and we have been discussing it for several days, and we all feel that we can't stay in this place anymore, and we are going to leave this place. Although we are very reluctant to this place, this is the place where we have lived for most of our lives, but we have to leave here, and if we don't leave here, we will be forced to death by Liu Pingui. Either starve to death, or sell children and daughters to ruin the family to pay taxes! “

Zhou Jianfei's words made the people around him suddenly boil with anger, Su Xinruo couldn't wait to find this steward named Liu Pingui immediately, and then beat him hard, naturally, after the beating, he also asked him to spit out the money he ate.

The guards brought by Su Xinruo were all talking at this time, saying that this manager was here to take care of things? He's definitely here to ruin this place. Everyone knows that in order to develop, it is natural to have a win-win situation, and such a vigorous exploitation of tenants can only be exploited once, and they will have no income after they are finished.

Cheng Ming lowered his eyes and thought for a while, he walked in front of Su Xinruo and said secretly, "Master, before I came to this Phoenix Grange, I learned about this place. The tenants here are all living relatively well and relatively wealthy, and if Steward Liu Pingui has blown them up and forced them to leave their hometowns, then Steward Liu must have collected a lot of money. “

"I just don't know if the money he looted was directly handed over to Mrs. Liu? Or into your own pocket? Or is it to fill our pockets, we don't even know! Steward Liu's various taxes, the money from these taxes, what does Mrs. Liu mean? Or did he mean it himself? If it really means Mrs. Liu? What are we going to do? She's your mother-in-law after all. Cheng Ming naturally has his own considerations, although Su Xinruo's surname is Su, this is also her dowry. But she is already married to Liu Kunhao, and she is a member of the Liu family. Then, Mrs. Liu is her mother-in-law, and Mrs. Liu is in charge of everything in the Liu family. Naturally, she is also in charge of her, and if she really deals with Steward Liu, she will definitely have a conflict with Mrs. Liu.

If there is a conflict between his master and Mrs. Liu because of this Phoenix Grange, he will be accused of unfilial piety...... annoyed the Liu family, maybe the Liu family will divorce their master...... At that time, it will be difficult for the master to find a good family again.

Su Xinruo is naturally not afraid of being divorced by Liu Fu, after the previous life, she feels that her life is over. She never planned to leave Liu Kunhao, and she had the luxury of finding a good family to marry. She said to Cheng Ming firmly, "No matter who it means, whether it is Mrs. Liu's meaning, whether it is Liu Pingui or his own meaning, this Liu Pingui can't stay." You go and gather all the tenants, and we'll have a meeting. Tell everyone about our change of stewardship and policy, and let them stay here and farm for us. The benefits are still the same as before, no, we will exempt them from tax this year, and we will collect taxes from next year......"

"And what about Steward Liu's side? Since he didn't even come to greet me, it was clear that he didn't take me seriously, and you regarded me as the master and deliberately embarrassed us, so that we wouldn't be polite to him, and you directly sent someone to solve it by force, and used force to take all the contracts in his hands from me. As for himself? Since he committed these crimes, send him directly to report to the official, after you report to the official, and say hello to my brother at the same time, I don't believe it, Liu Fu will go against my brother for him? When Su Xinruo said this, there was no expression on his face as if he was stating a very ordinary thing, Cheng Ming listened to it, raised his eyes to look at Su Xinruo in front of him, and he suddenly felt that Su Xinruo also had a trace of her brother's demeanor: "Okay, master, we listen to you." “

So Cheng Ming walked in front of Zhou Jianfei and told Zhou Jianfei about the plans and decisions made by Su Xinruo.

After Zhou Jianfei heard this, he was happy at first, but soon, his face was full of sadness, and he said worriedly: "No, this method won't work." Liu Pingui, he has more than a dozen minions! They are all powerful people, who of our tenants would dare to resist him? directly beat the tenants to death, and almost killed people. Now people are still lying in bed and can't get out of bed. “

"There is also the Peng Tie brother at the head of the village, because he couldn't pay the road tolls, Liu Pingui sent his minions to arrest his daughter directly, and said that he would sell her and sell her to the Qinglou. Several of Peng Tie's good brothers were not convinced, so they fought with those people, and in the end they were all injured, and they had no choice but to raise money to redeem his daughter. “