After the bidding meeting.

Within two days, Sun Gui, the county who didn't know where to get the news, came to visit and said that he had something important to discuss.

Xu Yuan had to spare a little time, let his subordinates serve good tea, and entertained him in the living room.

"Sun Xiancheng, I don't know why I visited, it's not time to collect summer taxes yet."

Xu Yuan took a sip of tea and asked.

"I'm not here for the summer tax."

Sun Gui's face was thin, his eyes flashed, and he said: "This year's spring sowing is about to start, but the river embankment is in disrepair, and Lord Huang of Zhixian County is very worried, so he wants to raise some funds to repair the river embankment, so that the people's fields can be better watered, and there will be no hunger worries this year. ”

Silver.

Hearing this word, Xu Yuan understood what the situation was.

It's coming again to fight the autumn wind.

Grasping that the bidding meeting had just ended, he Xu Yuan had the opportunity to have a lot of silver in his hand, so he was going to come over and take a bite.

As for repairing the embankment, it's just an excuse, if Xu Yuan sends the five excavators in the manor, any embankment can be repaired quickly, and the efficiency is equal to thousands of manpower, not to mention the drought and lack of rain in the north in recent years, what is most needed is not to repair the embankment, but to dig a water storage cellar.

The real purpose is obviously to focus on his own silver.

"Oh, how much silver does it take to repair the embankment?"

Putting down the teacup, Xu Yuan looked at the other party and asked.

"Fifty thousand taels!"

Sun Gui stretched out a slap and blurted out a number: "Lord Huang intends to overhaul the river embankment, dredging and widening, it is estimated that it will cost 100,000 taels of silver, Xu Xian's nephew is good at management, not only keeps the farm in order, but also distributes overseas specialties, earns countless gold and silver, and only 50,000 taels, should he take it out, right?" ”

Burst~

Xu Yuan couldn't help but laugh and let out a sneer.

He leaned back in the chair, changed his comfortable position, squinted at the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked county Cheng Sun Gui, and said: "I am a businessman, and I pay attention to equal exchange, 50,000 taels, I can take it, and I can take out 100,000 taels, the question is, I have paid so much silver, what can Lord Huang give me so that I don't feel at a loss?" ”

"Nephew Xu Xian, after the river embankment is repaired, the people will erect a monument for you, Lord Huang will write an article for you, sing praises to virtue, and a good thing that will last through the ages, how can you suffer?"

"Enough! I'm a businessman, and I want real profit rather than fame, so it's useless to tell me about this, change the trading terms. ”

"This ......"

Sun Gui was stunned, he didn't expect this kid to speak so bluntly, so that the set of rhetoric he had prepared in advance suddenly became meaningless in the face of this set of businessman concepts.

What to do?

The task assigned by Lord Huang must still be completed.

As little as 30,000 taels or as much as 50,000 taels, as long as you have this money, plus the excellent tax completion of Xinghua County in the past two years, it is no problem to get a first-class evaluation.

It should be no problem to take the money and operate upwards and promote the governor of a high-class state capital.

At the age of less than 40 years old, it is not impossible for Lord Huang to be promoted to the prefect, governor, and political secretary in the future, and even enter the center of the court, and the future is very bright.

It's just that this cheap businessman doesn't play cards according to the routine, and actually asks him for benefits, what kind of 'equal exchange' is it, how can this be true, a businessman, what qualifications does he have to talk about exchange with Lord Huang? I don't know what to say, the way to death!

He was going to use some threats to make him see who he was.

"Sun Xiancheng, I have a cooperation plan here."

At this time, Xu Yuan said: "My Xujiazhuang has now developed to the extent of saturation, I want to build ten more similar large estates, acquire fields, recruit more villagers, and expand my Xujiazhuang from one to eleven to form a chain of manors." ”

"Of course, in the process of opening up a new manor, there will definitely be a lot of disputes and troubles, and the lawsuit may go to Lord Huang, I hope Lord Huang will help me settle these troubles, as a thank you, each manor, I am willing to give a reward of 3,000 taels, ten manors, that is, 30,000 taels."

"In addition, the annual statutory tax will be paid in full, a lot of money, and it will not embarrass the magistrate."

Xu Yuan said his plan.

The county Cheng Sun Gui was stunned again.

What a chain of estates.

There are a lot of new words that people can't understand, such as mergers and acquisitions, dispute resolution, etc.

But he still understood Xu Yuan's purpose and meaning.

Annex.

This kid wants to carry out a big merger, expand this so-called manor to eleven at once, and wantonly encroach on the land belonging to the people.

Originally, the government would never tolerate this kind of thing, and would resolutely crack down on it.

But the honorarium of 3,000 taels per manor ......

"Nephew Xu Xian, I can't be the master of this matter, wait for me to tell Lord Huang, let him decide, and then inform you of the result."

After thinking about it, Sun Gui arched his hand and left Xujiazhuang.

……

Xinghua County, in the county government room.

County Commander Huang Yi, the word lighting, thirty-eight years old, wearing a double-winged black gauze hat, wearing a seven-grade Zhixian uniform embroidered on the chest with a red background, sitting upright, with thick eyebrows and square face and beautiful beard, looks upright, like a good official who is the master of the people.

The main bookkeeper Wang Shuchang, whose name is Jiating, is thirty-four years old, wearing a robe with green edges on a white background, setting off the elegant literati temperament, and sits aside.

"My lord, that's the way it is, the villain doesn't dare to make the decision, and I hope the adult will decide."

Sun Gui, the county Cheng who was standing below, reported on his conversation in Xujiazhuang today.

"Hmph, little businessman, he is simply greedy and wants to swallow the sky."

The county commander Huang Yi was furious and slapped the back of the chair, hating that he couldn't bring the profiteers to justice on the spot.

You must know that the number of registered fields in Xinghua County is just over a million mu (hidden fields are not registered), and a manor in Xujiazhuang will occupy 10,000 mu of fertile land, and then ten manors of similar scale will not annex 100,000 mu of land?

One-tenth of the fields in Xinghua County are in the hands of a businessman?

How many people will lose their land in this process? How many tragic families will be destroyed?

Greedy!

The sin is terrible!

Seeing Huang Yi so indignant.

"What do you mean, my lord...... Don't agree with the expansion of Xujiazhuang, don't want their donation of silver? Sun Gui asked cautiously.

"No, let him expand Xujiazhuang!"

Huang Yi changed his words and said: "But three thousand taels is too little, for each manor, you have to give me at least five thousand taels!" However, if in the process of annexing the land, Xujiazhuang oppressed the people too much, forcing hundreds of people to sue the official, the official will personally go to the court, and then bring people to level Xujiazhuang to avenge the people! ”

The righteous words on his face are like a blue sky in the world.

"This method is feasible, and your lord is wise!"

Wang Shuchang, the chief bookkeeper, immediately offered his sycophants and marveled again and again, this method is extremely wonderful.

Because after getting 50,000 taels, by this time next year, Lord Huang will have a high probability of being promoted to other places, and even if the people are boiling against Yingtian, it has nothing to do with him.

If the people are going to make trouble this year, then it's even better, just take down that Xu Yuan! convicted and beheaded the family, everything in the rich Xu Jiazhuang will be owned by the government, no matter what, Lord Huang is the winner.

Dirty.

These readers are really dirty.

Sun Gui, who was standing at the bottom, secretly despised it, he felt that in front of the people, he was already very treacherous, and now it seems that the most ruthless person is a scholar like Lord Huang.

……

The next day.

Xujiazhuang.

Sun Gui, the county Cheng who came again, brought a reply from the county commander Huang Yi.

"Five thousand taels for each manor, fifty thousand taels for ten, okay! I will give it to you. ”

Xu Yuan readily agreed, spending an extra 20,000 taels, for him, it was the same as not spending more, it was just a small amount of money.

The important thing is that his goal has been achieved, the number of manors has increased from one to eleven, as long as the government does not interfere and does not look for trouble, it will not be long before most of the economy, population, and resources of the entire Xinghua County will gradually be controlled by him.