Li Yang, who was still asleep at dawn, was woken up by a knock on the door, listening to this voice, it should be Xiaozhou: Young master, it's time to get up, second young master, he is already waiting for you

Li Yang lay on the bed and stretched lazily: I know, you go and get busy first, wait for me to finish getting dressed

As soon as Li Yang went out, he saw Li Song waiting outside, and before he could speak, Li Song took Li Yang's hand and walked out

Li Yang looked Mengdeng: What is so urgent?

Li Songtou didn't look back, just pulled himself forward: Brother, I'll take you to see our fields, and by the way, take a look at our first brother and cousins

Li Yang listened: How many children does our family have, why do we have a younger brother?

Li Song: We have four children in our family, you are the eldest, I am the second child, Xiaohuan is the third sister, the youngest is our fourth brother, since your accident, the fourth brother has been busy in the field

Li Yang felt an indescribable joy when he learned that there were two brothers and a little sister in his family, in my time, I was an only child, and sometimes I felt a little lonely

After walking for about an hour, I finally came to the field, and under the blazing sun, I looked at the endless green rice fields in front of me fluttering with a breeze, which made people feel a trace of coolness and joy in the depths of their hearts, and people worked hard in the fields as if they were full of hope

Li Song raised his hand and kept shaking and shouting: Hey-you guys come quickly

When the people in the field heard the sound, they looked at me and Li Song, and they threw down the tools in their hands and ran over, and a tall and dark fat man ran over with a smile on his face, and his flesh trembled all over his body, and as soon as he came over, he hugged Li Yang tightly in his arms

And Li Yang couldn't help coughing because of this violent strangulation: Ka-Ka-Ka

Li Song: Fourth, you put down the eldest brother, why are you still so light

The fat man let go of Li Yang with a smile and looked at him honestly: I-I-I, aren't I happy

Li Yang just wanted to ask who this person was, why was he so excited when he saw me

Li Song: Brother, he is our fourth brother Li Pingping

Li Yang asked again who they were

Li Song pointed to two thinner men and a boy who was less than 23_4 years old: Brother, this is the big cow and the second cow, and the three brothers have played with us since childhood

Da Niu: I heard that your body is slowly recovering, and we are all very happy, God really has eyes, bless you to come back to life, don't worry about the things on the field, you can take care of your body at home with us

Li Yang clasped his fists at Da Niu and saluted: Thank you Da Niu brothers

Li Song pointed to two swarthy and muscular men again: This is Li Long and Li Hu are our clan cousins

Li Long: After a few days of work, our brothers must get together

A cool breeze blew through Li Yang, and he couldn't help coughing

Li Hu looked at Li Song: Li Song, let's take my brother back quickly, his body should still not fully recover

Li Song nodded and took Li Yang back to the manor, and on the way back, Li Yang couldn't help asking: Why does Li Song look at our fourth brother who seems to be a little different from a normal person

Li Song shook his head helplessly and sighed: Hey-when the fourth brother was young, he was originally the best among us, but when he was 12 years old, he had a serious illness and a high fever that did not go away and almost died

Li Yang nodded: So that's the case

When I returned to the manor, I saw dozens of villagers from Alan Village sitting there in front of the door, very sad

Li Yang asked Li Song: What's wrong with them

Li Song lowered his voice: These villagers want to rent land and cultivate, but they don't have the money to pay rent, it's not a big deal, don't worry about them, let's go in

At this time, a villager suddenly grabbed Li Yang's hand and looked at him with tears in his eyes: "Boss, you are so good, have mercy on us poor villagers!" If we can't rent the land to cultivate it, we, the villagers, will starve to death

Li Yang looked at the villagers: Don't worry, I'll discuss it with my brother

After speaking, he turned around and asked Li Song: Can the second child rent the land to them to cultivate first, and when the grain is collected, we will collect the field rent, if they don't have silver taels, it can be offset with grain when the time comes

Li Song looked at me with some embarrassment when he heard this: This - the boss has never done this before, he always pays the silver before handing over the land to them

Li Yang: In the future, this rule will be changed, as long as the people of Alan Village do not have silver taels to pay the rent, they can let the villagers cultivate the fields first, and when the harvest comes, they will collect silver taels or offset them with grain

Li Song thought about it for a while: Brother actually said that I would go to discuss specific matters with them

Li Yang felt a little tired and went back to the room to rest, and about 1 hour later, Li Song walked in and sat on a chair and got a glass of water

Li Yang asked Li Song: How is the matter of renting land?

Li Song: Brother, don't worry, I have already rented the land to them to cultivate, and according to what you said, I will pay the rent after the grain is collected

Li Yang: How many villagers can there be in this Alan Village?

Li Song pulled out this finger: there are more than 400 households in the village, and about 1,200 villagers

Li Yang: How many imperial copper coins are exchanged for one or two taels of silver in this Minya Continent, and how many copper coins can be sold for a pound of rice

Li Song: 1,000 Imperial Copper Coins for one Imperial Silver Coins, ten Imperial Silver Coins for one Imperial Gold Coins, and one pound of rice can be sold for 3-4 copper coins

Early the next morning, Li Song's panicked voice came from outside: It's not good, it's not good, it's not good

Seeing this, Xiao Zhuang hurriedly got up: Second Young Master, why is he so alarmed, Young Master, he hasn't gotten up yet

Li Song panted: The people of the Zhang family have come to rob us of irrigation fields to get water again, Li Long took our clan relatives in the field, and fought with the people of the Zhang family, and many people have been injured

As soon as Li Yang heard this, he hurriedly rushed out of the room: What kind of Zhang family grabbed what water

Xiao Zhuang: These bad guys of the Zhang family beat the young master to a serious injury in Taizhou Mansion last time and almost died, but fortunately, the young master survived and now came to grab water from us, which is too bullying us

When Li Yang heard Xiaozhuang's words, he thought that if I didn't get it inexplicably, I am afraid that this young master of the Li family should be killed, and the culprit who caused this young master to be seriously injured should be the Zhang family mentioned just now

Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Zhou saw Li Yang come out of the room, and hurriedly stepped forward to support him: Young master, why did you come out, your body has not fully recovered

In the past two days, Li Yang has dark circles under his eyes due to lack of sleep, his eyes are a little straight, and his face looks a little pale, which makes everyone worried

Li Yang: I just heard Li Song say that the people of the Zhang family came to grab the water to irrigate the fields again, and they also injured many of us

Xiaozhou comforted him: Young Master, these are trivial matters, don't worry, Second Young Master and Li Long will solve this matter

Li Yang's eyebrows furrowed: If it was really a trivial matter, Li Song would come to me in a panic early in the morning, second brother, tell me the truth about the situation now

Li Song looked at the brother in front of him, with a hint of murder in his eyes, which made people feel a little scared, thinking that the boss had changed a lot since he was injured that time, and he used to be a weak nerd

Li Song told the truth of the matter: Although our Li Jiazhuang is a big landlord in Taizhou Mansion, there are still many landlords in Taizhou Mansion, and the four largest of them are our Li family, Zhang family, Han family, and Song family

Our Li family has the most land in Taizhou Mansion, with 10,000 acres of fertile land, and seventy percent of the land in the entire Alan Village belongs to our family

The Zhang family was in the private salt business, and they colluded with the government to buy and sell private salt to monopolize the market owned by the state government. The Han family operates nearly seventy percent of the workshops in Taizhou Prefecture, while the Song family occupies more than seventy percent of Taizhou's iron ore and coal mines

When Li Yang heard this, he thought to himself that since these four companies are operating different businesses in different fields, it stands to reason that everyone should be safe and sound in the well water

Li Song: In the past, the relationship between the Li family and these three families was not bad, but in the past few years, the relationship between the Li family and these three families has gradually begun to become tense, and there is only one reason, that is, water

There are three rivers near Taizhou Prefecture, namely the Texia River-Sloe River-Shengyo River, and Alan Village is located in the upper reaches of the Texia River, which is equivalent to occupying the Texia River, and the remaining two rivers are controlled by the other three families, and the Texia River is the main river, and the other two rivers belong to the tributary of the Chart River

In the past, the Texia River was abundant in water, but in recent years, the drought has become more and more serious, and the problem has appeared, and as the water level of the Texia River drops, the water flowing into the other two rivers will naturally be less

As soon as the problem of water is scarce, the Zhangjia-Han-Song family also has a lot of fields, and if the water is not enough, they will naturally not be able to irrigate all the fields, and the grain harvest will be less and less year by year

So the three families were naturally anxious, especially the Zhang family, their land is second only to the Li family, and the Sloe River controlled by the Zhang family has also been affected the most, and there has been a shortage of water since the beginning of spring this year, and the Zhang family's fields began to dry and cracked, and the Zhuang family on the plant was also welded to death because of the inability to irrigate in time

The Zhang family began to have the idea of the Texia River, and the patriarch of the Zhang family, Zhang Dacheng, approached our mother and hoped that our family could let the Zhang family dig a river channel in the lower reaches of the Texia River, and bring more water from the Texia River into the Slo River to irrigate their fields

Although the mother is kind-hearted, she refused the Zhang family's request on the question of water, and the water level of the Xia River is getting lower and lower due to the dry weather, and some places even leak out of the riverbed

If the Texia River is not enough to irrigate the fields of Alan Village, if the Zhang family is asked to dig a canal to divert water to the Siluo River, then our Li family's fields will not be able to be fully irrigated, if the Zhang family digs the river, the Han family and the Song family will come in the future, if they all agree to us, the Li family and the villagers of Alan Village will be afraid that there will be no harvest at that time

Seeing that our mother took a bite of this, Zhang Da went back and asked the clansmen to come to Alan Village every once in a while to make trouble and secretly dig the river, the people of Alan Village naturally couldn't agree, and the two families made a fuss, and there were several large-scale fights, seeing that the crops were about to be harvested in more than two months, and finally we simply sent people to guard the fields and the Texia River all day to prevent the Zhang family from secretly making trouble

The grievances between the two families are also getting bigger and bigger, and the younger brother was originally going to Taizhou Mansion to sell the rice to earn some silver, but on the way, he met Zhang Wenxuan, the young master of the Zhang family, and there was a conflict

Li Yang understood everything when he heard this, it turned out that he had this body at that time

Li Yang shouted: Li Song, let's go, call more of our people

Li Song looked at me in a panic: What did the boss call people to do

Li Yang glared at Li Song: Of course you are preparing to fight

Li Song couldn't believe it when he heard it: what a fight

This time, not only Li Song, but also the two sisters, Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou, were stunned. His eyes stared straight at Li Yang, the young master, who had always been polite and gentle before, actually said angrily that the fight is still our young master

Li Yang saw the three of them looking at him in a daze: What are you looking at me doing, didn't you hear what I just said, Li Song, don't stand stupidly and hurry up to call someone, Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou hurry up to help me get dressed, don't be sluggish

Li Song looked at Li Yang's determined expression, knowing that the boss was not joking, he swallowed his saliva and immediately ran away, feeling that this matter should be discussed with his mother before making a decision

After Li Song left, Xiaozhou and Xiaozhuang sisters followed Li Yang into the house in a panic, Xiaozhuang brought water and towels, Li Yang found that Xiaozhou peeked at himself from time to time when washing his face, as if he was looking at something rare, he saw Xiaozhou's beautiful big eyes constantly looking at himself, and there was an inexplicable blush on his delicate and cute little face, which looked very cute, and Li Yang couldn't help but pull her long hair

Li Yang: Xiao Zhou, why don't you hurry up and bring my clothes

Xiaozhou was a little shy: Oh, young master, you are so annoying, my hair has been helped by my sister for a long time

Xiaozhou gave Li Yang a roll of his eyes dissatisfied, and her cute expression and snow-white skin looked even more cute

In the more than ten days since the mother transferred Xiaozhuang and Xiaozhou to her, the two sisters found that the young master had become different from before, he never beat and scolded his subordinates, especially for the two sisters, he was even more respectful, and the young master did not have a little shelf, and often laughed together, so the two sisters gradually became casual in front of Li Yang

As soon as Li Yang got dressed and walked out of the yard at the door, he saw his mother being helped by Li Song and hurriedly walked towards him

Li Yang: Mother, why are you here?

The mother was out of breath because she was in too much hurry: I heard Li Song say that you are going to take someone to the Texia River to fight with the Zhang family

Li Yang nodded: That's right, the people of the Niang Zhang family are bullying us too much, the Texia River irrigates more than 10,000 acres of fields in our Alan Village, which is our lifeblood, I'm afraid that if we endure it this time, then in the future, the Han family-Song family will bully us on the grounds of taking water, and then the more than 10,000 acres of land will be harvested, and who will care about the life and death of more than 1,000 people in our Alan Village

After hearing Li Yang's words, his mother and Li Song and the people around them all looked at them with stunned eyes, is this still our young master who is full of poetry and books and pays attention to the gentleman's mouth and hands

I saw that the mother took a breath and nodded with relief: In the past, my mother was worried that your temperament was too weak, and if my mother was not there in the future, I was afraid that your brothers would not be able to support our family, but now my mother is relieved that you have finally grown up, you are right, we blindly tolerate it, and it will only make the three families more and more excessive to us

Recently, the Zhang family actually proposed to buy our family's land, this land was rewarded by the ancestors who followed the King of Zhejiang for many years, and it was also exchanged for their lives

Li Yang: Mother, don't worry, I'll take people with Li Song to support Li Long and them, if the people of the Zhang family dare to come hard, we are not afraid, today I will let the people of the Zhang family know that our Li family is not a bully who can be bullied if he wants to

Located in the southwest of Alan Village, the water of the Texia River not only irrigates tens of thousands of acres of fertile land nearby, but also divides into several tributaries to irrigate hundreds of miles of surrounding fields. Today, on the banks of the Texia River, more than 200 members of the Li clan and nearly 200 villagers of Alan Village gathered on the banks of the Texia River, armed with hoes and sticks, and confronted hundreds of members of the Zhang family

In the confrontation crowd, there was a man with a headband, wearing a blue silk blouse, who looked like a man and shouted: Li Long, you all listen, we have dug this canal today, see which of you dares to stop this son

Li Long's eyes widened and shouted angrily: You dare - Zhang Laoer, I respect you as the second son of the Zhang family, so I tolerate you everywhere, but if you really dare to dig a river canal to divert water, then you have to ask the people of Alan Village if they agree

The second son of the Zhang family shouted: Hmph - what can you do if you don't agree, your Alan Village occupies the upper reaches of the Texia River, and it is natural to worry, but have you ever thought about what we villagers who have no water to irrigate the fields and no water to drink in the lower reaches of the Texia River

Half a month ago, the water of the Sloe River has bottomed out, tens of thousands of acres of fertile land have become moribund because of no water irrigation, seeing the fields crack little by little, and the rice will not be harvested, do we want to starve to death, today I want to seek justice for the villagers and the clansmen

A member of the Zhang clan: Folks, we have to live, so we have to dig this channel today

Zhang Ergongzi's words stirred up the emotions of the Zhang clan and hundreds of villagers behind him

Li Long, who is the nurse of Lijiazhuang, will definitely not be afraid if he fights, but if he talks about this trick, he really can't say that he is the second son of the Zhang family, and Li Long also feels a little strange, but he can't say it

Li Long: Zhang-Zhang, you don't want to talk nonsense that this Texia River belongs to our Alan Village

Zhang Lao Er looked at Li Long and stammered, looked up to the sky and laughed proudly, holding a fan in his hand and lightly fanning a few times, pointing at Li Long: Li Long, although you are just a vulgar person who has never read a book, you may not be able to understand the righteous things when you talk to you, but you should be able to distinguish between good and evil in the simplest way, do you have to let tens of thousands of acres of crops die and have no harvest, and see thousands of people starve to death because of this, your Li family's heart is really vicious

Li Long, who was not good at words, was nervous by Zhang Laoer's words, and he couldn't stammer

Zhang Lao Er laughed proudly and waved his hand: Look at him, he has nothing to say, let's dig quickly

The people of the Zhang clan coaxed one after another: What are the villagers waiting for to dig quickly, we have water - there is water

The ragged Zhang clan and the people downstream rushed up with hoes and sticks to dig the canal, and Li Long and the Li clan were indeed a little overwhelmed

Li Hu: Let's do it, if we don't do it, the canal will really be dug up by them

Li Long looked at the Zhang clan who rushed up and clenched the wooden stick in his hand: The brothers of the Li family and the old and young masters of Alan Village, we must not let them dig the canal

Zhang Ergongzi stepped forward to stop Li Long and the others and shouted: Our Zhang family has a title, I see which of you dares to touch me

As soon as these words came out, Li Long and the others reached a stalemate and stopped, and at this moment a resounding voice came: I dare

As soon as the words fell, a person walked out from behind Li Long, and stepped forward quickly, and with a punch, Zhang Lao Er fell to the ground

Zhang Lao Er fell to the ground and covered his face with his hands: You-you dare to hit me

This scene stunned those present

A smile leaked from the faces of Li Long and the Li clan: Young Master, you are finally here