Wen An didn't understand why Hua Ye did this, it is said that this is a great opportunity to get rid of the Li family, as long as the food is controlled, Alan County will run out of food for two months at most, Li Yang can control tens of thousands of disaster victims because he has food in his hands, if he has no food in his hands, he can't control the tens of thousands of disaster victims, people are forced to a desperate situation, in order to survive, they can do anything, not to mention tens of thousands of people: Hua Ye, I can't understand that you are not helping him

The black shadow behind the door turned his head with a wine glass: Wen Shilang is now doing his job to get rid of a small Li family, he is like a flower to pick it off when he is the best to see, let him feel the feeling of helplessness because of his incompetence, let him watch how his family business was swallowed by us one bite at a time, I like to see the kind of disappointment and heartbreaking look of people, what kind of expression Li Yang will be at that time is really exciting

Wen An: Hua Ye, I understand, when I read a book, I used his power for personal gain, supported the army and oppressed the people, and opened up the land for his own private purposes, and one party dismissed him from his post, investigated and confiscated his family property

Hua Ye: Wen Shilang, that's right, let him plant those fields for us first, and when the grain is harvested, this flower should be picked

Wen An: Hua Ye's subordinates will return to China to start arranging this matter

Hua Ye: Wen Shilang asked our people to be optimistic about the food in their hands, this year's wind in Zhejiang will blow stronger than in previous years, and we have to prepare early

Wen An: The subordinates understood, and Hua Ye's subordinates retired first

I saw the black shadow behind the door waved his hand, Wen An turned around respectfully and left, after Wen An left, a black figure wearing leather armor and a hat came to the door: Hua Ye failed to get rid of Li Yang last time he "punished the murderer" assassination, this time his subordinates selected a group of swordsmen with superb knife skills to mix into Alan County, and this time his subordinates will never miss the head of the house

Hua Ye: Let your people monitor Alan County first, from today onwards, I want to know that he has to make every move, do you know why the last time the faction assassinated him, why he failed

Swordsman: I don't know

Hua Ye: That's because he has a big swordsman by his side protecting him

Swordsman: Looking at the entire Mingsiya Road, there are only 10 people who can be called a great swordsman, who is this Li Yang, there is such a master around him, and his subordinates really can't help but want to meet this great swordsman by the way to see who he is

Hua Ye: Let your people not act rashly, otherwise you will only startle the snake and give away your life in vain, and there will be a chance for you to fight with that great swordsman in the future

Swordsman: Subordinates obey orders

Hua Ye: Okay, you can go

Seeing that the grain in this grain depot is getting less and less day by day, and if it goes on like this, it will be out of grain in Alan County in 10 days at most, Li Yang can be said to be able to use all the connections in order to borrow food, but it backfired, this is not a fire, two big bubbles bulged out on the corners of his mouth, remembering that he had seen people on TV all night with white hair, which was all TM, Li Yang looked in the mirror to see how much gray hair he had, but he didn't see a few for a long time

Just when Li Yang was at a loss, Li Song, who had been away from home for more than a month in business, came back, and he also brought a guest, Li Song led the guest to the main hall for a short rest, asked the maid to bring some desserts and tea, and instructed the family to invite Li Yang over

Li Song bowed to the guest: Shopkeeper Cao, you wait here for a while, and my brother will come in a while

Shopkeeper Cao: Okay, I'll take a break

After a while, Li Yang came to the main hall, and as soon as he saw Li Song, "Second brother, you are back", after speaking, he looked at the guest beside him: Second child, this is

Li Song: Boss, let me introduce you, this is Cao Lin, the president of the Taizhou Chamber of Commerce

Li Yang hurriedly surrendered his hand: Shopkeeper Cao is fortunate to be - fortunate to be happy

Li Song looked at Cao Lin: Shopkeeper Cao is his brother

Cao Lin looked at Li Yang with a smile: The head of the Li family is really a talent, he is already a garrison officer at such an age, but the future of the Li family master is immeasurable, and the placement of tens of thousands of victims by the head of the Li family makes Cao feel even more admired

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Cao, you have won the award, and Alan County will have to rely on Shopkeeper Cao to take more care of you in the future

Cao Lin: It's easy to say—it's easy to say

Li Yang: I don't know what you are doing today

Cao Lin: I heard that the head of the Li family has been borrowing grain from the city in recent days, but I don't know if you have borrowed it

Li Yang sighed lightly: Shopkeeper Cao really doesn't hide that none of the rich families in the city are willing to lend me grain, who makes this year's grain price so happy, and I can earn more by continuing to store grain

Cao Lin smiled slightly: Then how much food do you need from the Li family

Li Yang: 9 million catties

Cao Lin: It's a coincidence, I just happened to have a batch of idle grain in my hands

Li Yang was interested when he heard it: Shopkeeper Cao said this, you are willing to lend me grain

Cao Lin nodded slightly, "Hmm", I just don't know what the head of the Li family wants to use for so much food

Li Yang raised his index finger: 10,000 acres of fertile land

Cao Lin: The head of the Li family pays attention to the equivalent exchange in business, and it is a bit unsatisfactory for you to use 10,000 acres of fertile land to sit on the mortgage, after all, Cao is a businessman, and I ask the head of the Li family to forgive me

Li Yang sat up straight, he thought that 10,000 acres of fertile land was too little: how much land should be used to sit in custody

Cao Lin has two eyes and one meter: at least 15,000 acres

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Cao, this is a bit too much

Cao Lin: The head of the Li family is not much at all, 9 million catties of grain, let's calculate a total of 54,000 taels of silver according to 6 lines of money, and the 15,000 fertile fields per mu are calculated according to 3 taels for a total of 45,000 taels

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Cao will tell you the truth, I only have a total of 12,000 acres of land in this manor, and I really can't take out 15,000 acres to sit on the pledge

Cao Lin took a long breath: Although the head of the Li family uses the field to sit and borrow grain, Cao also has to take a certain risk, is there nothing else to sit on in the Li family?

Li Yang thought for a moment: No

Cao Lin: Master Li, I think your manor is good, it's better to use it to sit in custody

Li Yang: The manor is the inheritance left by the ancestors of the Li family, and I don't plan to use it as a deposit

Cao Lin looked very respectful: The Li family master Cao is really helpless, and the only person who can borrow 9 million catties of grain from the Li family master in Taizhou is Cao, or you will go to the city to find Cao when you think about it and make up your mind

Many times things are like this, you can't choose only to do it or not, what is in front of him is a difficult choice question, the food in this granary is getting less and less day by day, and he can't choose, even though he is a little reluctant in his heart, but he still agrees due to the situation: Okay, that's it

Cao Lin: The head of the Li family couldn't imagine that you were so young, and you had such courage, which really made Cao sigh to himself

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Cao, let's make a note

Cao Lin: The amount of grain and land involved by the head of the Li family this time is huge, and he has to go to the yamen of the state capital to make a guarantee first, so that no one can easily change his hexagram or deny it in the future, so that we don't have to be a villain first and then a gentleman, so as not to be embarrassed in the future

Li Yang: There is one thing I don't understand, shopkeeper Cao, those rich families in the city refuse to borrow grain, they are all waiting for the price of grain to continue to rise, and it is understandable for this businessman to pursue profits, so what can you get if you lend me so much grain?

Cao Lin: The businessman of the Li family is also divided into two kinds, one is dedicated to profit-seeking and the other is a German businessman who cares about his family and country, some money can be earned, but some ill-gotten wealth can not be earned, this time borrowing grain Cao earned a friendship with the Li family, Cao is a foreigner who moved to Taizhou in the past two years, and has accumulated some family business by doing silk business

And those land-sitting households in the city often unite with the government to suppress Cao's silk business, this business does not have one or two friends in the officialdom, it can be said that it is difficult, I lend grain to the head of the Li family just to make friends with you sincerely

Li Yang: Shopkeeper Cao, then I have made up your friend, you are older than me, then I will respect you as a brother from now on

Cao Lin: That's really unbelievable, brother Xian

Li Yang: Brother Cao, you have done me a great favor this time, and if there is anything that needs my brother's help in the future, you can say that as long as I can help my brother, I will never postpone it

Cao Lin: I've thanked you in advance for that brother

Li Yang: Brother Cao, let's talk about it first, we may do this trick and harm people

Cao Lin: Don't worry about this, brother, I'll go back and raise money and food for you, and we'll see you in the yamen of the state capital tomorrow

Li Yang: Okay, Brother Cao, let's make a decision

After sending Cao Lin away, the mood that had been suppressed for many days was all healed, and the breathing was a lot smoother, and the two brothers were bouncing around each other's shoulders in the yard, and many maids and family members also laughed when they saw it

After returning to the house, Li Yang looked at Li Song on the chair: Second brother, how did you know this shopkeeper Cao

Li Song sat on another chair: This time I went to the city to buy goods and accidentally passed by the Taizhou Chamber of Commerce, so I went in to take a look and found that the silk sold here is not only bright in color and luster, but also very fair in price, so I asked the guy if he can get the goods here for a long time at a cheaper price, and the guy is also a warm-hearted person to help call the shopkeeper is the shopkeeper who came to Cao just now

He knew my intention and gave me a discounted price, 5 taels of silver per silk horse, I went first with a hundred horses to try it first to see if it was good to sell, and in the middle of the chat, he asked me where I was, and just went back and forth, boss, you borrow grain

Li Yang: How could he, a silk merchant, have such food?

Li Song: Businessmen are inherently inverted to make money

Li Yang thought about it, Li Song glanced around at the mysterious one: Isn't there still 90 gold bars in the boss's silver vault, if these gold bars are exchanged for silver to buy grain, wouldn't it be possible to deposit less real estate

Li Yang: Even if the second brother exchanges all those gold bars for silver, he can't buy much food, and this salt pan - brick burning workshop - blacksmith workshop - coastal defense battalion and these brothers under his command have to pay every month, if the money is spent, then what will we pay these people

Li Song: "Oh" is also

The scorching sun in July is like a fire, the weather also becomes hot, looking at the green rice fields covered with a layer of golden fruits, a willow and willow grain is just bending the crops, seeing that the grain is getting fuller day by day, if nothing else, this year is another bumper harvest year, the farmers are like children carefully making their own fields

In order to ensure that the crops can be harvested smoothly, each village selected 100 strong people to form a village protection team, and Alan County selected more than 3,000 people collectively called Xiangyong, these people will be distributed with the required equipment for unified training, Xiangyong and officers and soldiers can not wear armor, can only use some conventional weapons such as knives, shields, spears and bows and arrows, Gao Lin and Yuanhong are responsible for training these Xiangyong, teaching them basic fighting techniques and battle formation changes

The formation of the township warriors is a team of 100 people, and the officers have a hundred chiefs, a deputy hundred chiefs and ten chiefs, these officers are veterans who have been cut down by the whole army and have kept up with the battlefield several times, which greatly improves the adaptability and combat effectiveness of the township warriors, and each battalion of the fire trap battalion - trap mountain battalion - shadow wind battalion - forest burning battalion can govern 10 township warrior 100 teams, which makes the defense capability of northern Taizhou have been strengthened

Just when everyone was full of joy and thought that everything was going well this year, an uproar was brewing silently, and in the palace of Yufeng City, the national capital, Wen An, the servant of the Ministry of Justice, Ji Fang, and Miao Wenkang, the secretary of the Taihe Temple, jointly wrote to participate in Li Yang, and this insignificant border official was caught in the whirlpool of the struggle

Wen An lashed out in the court: Li Yang, a garrison in northern Taizhou, privately opened 200,000 mu of land in the name of relocating the disaster victims, and a local garrison commanded a maximum of 1,000 troops, but Li Yang had 3,000 people under his command, and what was even more audacious was that he dared to privately build nearly 20 three-sail warships to force villages in northern Taizhou to resettle the victims

Lang Jifang, the squire of the Criminal Department: Li Yang, a garrison in the north of Taizhou, also opened a salt field privately, and used his position as a garrison to suppress the salt merchants and monopolize the salt industry in Taizhou, so that the salt merchants in Taizhou dared to be angry and did not dare to say that the people could not afford to eat salt

Lei Tai, the king of Zhejiang, leaned sideways on the throne and sneered: A garrison official is only seven grades, he has such courage, and privately recruiting troops and privately building warships are both felonies of rebellion

Wen An: The reason why Li Yang dared to be so bold was because someone was backing him up and he dared to be so lawless

Lei Tai: Wen Shilang, what kind of consciousness do you say clearly?

Wen An: Li Yang's movements, as the prefect of Taizhou, Sun Yuanwu really didn't know about it

Lei Tai: Sun Yuanwu still has some understanding, he has been diligent and diligent in Taizhou over the years, this king has seen it, take this disaster relief as an example, he raised his own food and salary to relieve the victims, and reduced a great burden for the country

Bai Sheng, the head of the household department: The prince opened up the wasteland, and the prefect Sun wrote to the household department, and Taizhou has newly reclaimed 250,000 mu of land this year, of which 200,000 mu have been reclaimed in the north

Wen An: According to the laws of Zhejiang, Bai Shilang needs to pay one tael of tax silver to reclaim one acre of land, and 250,000 taels of tax silver should be paid, I don't know if these taxes and silver have been handed over to the household department

Bai Sheng: At present, but as Governor Sun mentioned in the previous book, most of the newly reclaimed fields are used to resettle the disaster victims, and when the grain is harvested, the field tax and grain tax will be supplemented

Wen An: The whole world is not the king's land, and if they haven't paid the land tax, then these fields do not belong to them but to the official family's land, and the Taizhou government should take back these fields and transfer them to the national capital

Zuo Yushi Yu Tianlu couldn't stand it anymore: Didn't Wen Shilang Sun Governor mention that most of these fields are used to resettle the disaster victims, and the disaster victims have no money, what do you let them use to pay the field tax, I think this method of the Sun Governor's Mansion is very good, so that tens of thousands of people don't have to worry about eating, and they can increase some taxes every year

Bai Sheng: What Lord Yu said is very true, those fields are barren and barren, and instead of being overgrown with weeds, it is better to have a variety of grains so that the people can get some benefits

Wen An: Lord Yu - Bai Shilang should not be deceived by appearances, these fields have been resettled by Li Yang for the name of his private development, and taking back these lands and renting them to them by the official family for cultivation can also solve their food problems and show Wang En's vastness

Lang Jifang of the Criminal Department: The lawless party of the garrison in the northern part of Taizhou should be dismissed from his post and investigated, and if there is a person who harbors him for personal gain, he will be investigated together

Lei Tai: Is it possible that Li Yang did these things without Sun Yuanwu, or that Sun Yuanwu was deceived by him, Qin Xiang Sun Governor is the same countryman as you and you are the same countryman as you are the governor of Taizhou, this king wants to hear your opinion on this matter

Prime Minister Qin Jingyi: In the past few years since Governor Sun arrived in Taizhou, he has had little contact with his ministers, but according to his understanding of Governor Sun, he should not be playing favoritism, and the problem will lie with the garrison in the north of Taizhou

Jifang, the squire of the Criminal Department: The minister thought that Li Yang should be removed from his post as a garrison in the northern part of Taizhou first, and he was convicted of illegally opening up wasteland and building warships and salt pans

Wen An: The minister reconsidered

Miao Wenkang: Minister reconsideration

Yu Tianlu: The size of the garrison is also a seven-grade official, and the minister thinks that he should send someone to Taizhou to investigate, and if his crime is really true, it is not too late to dismiss him and investigate it

Wen An: This matter is categorically impossible, don't look at Li Yang's official position, but his relationship in Taizhou officialdom can be said to be deep-rooted

Lei Tai, the king of Zhejiang, calculated in his heart, renting 200,000 mu of land to farmers for cultivation can increase taxes by more than 100,000 taels a year according to five or five, although it is not much, but the toad skin is also a little more meat, and it is a little more: Wen Shilang first took back his official position to take back 200,000 mu of land, and went to Taizhou from Zuo Yushi to Tianlu to verify these things

A few days later, Wen An and Gao Guoxing, the governor of Zuodu, led 2,000 guards to the north of Taizhou, Gao Guoxing led the guards of the national capital to twist out all the farmers working in the fields, Wen An came to the Li family manor with several guards and read out the will: "Li Yang will be removed from the post of garrison in the north of Taizhou with immediate effect, and the private fields and warships will be handed over to the Taizhou Mansion within 5 days" It is said that Wen An should have informed Sun Yuanwu, the prefect of Taizhou, in advance about such a big matter, but he did not do this, but took direct action

Li Yang is not a good stubble: Wen Shilang, my northern garrison, was appointed by Lord Sun, and if you want to remove my official position, Lord Sun will come

Wen An's "presumptuous" official came with the will of the national capital, why do you dare to disobey the king's order

Li Yang: I don't care who you are, in Taizhou, I only recognize Master Sun

Wen An raised his hand to Li Yang: Okay-you're going to rebel

Li Yang raised his hand and waved: Come on, blast them all out for me

Wen An shouted: I see who dares

As soon as the words fell, the guards who came with Wen An pulled out their steel knives and pointed at us, Li Long and Li Hu rushed up with more than a dozen family soldiers, you punched me and I kicked Wen An and the guards out, Wen An shouted in his mouth: You villager An dare to be so rude, I am not done with you

After driving away Wen'an, Li Yang coughed a few times, seeing that the time for repaying the grain agreed with Cao Lin was getting closer and closer, and now 200,000 acres of land were taken away, if the grain was not paid, then the family business accumulated by the Li family for several generations would change hands in my hands, thinking of this, he felt that his head was a little faint and fell to the ground

Li Long and Li Hu hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up from the ground: Young Master-Young Master

At night, Li Yang lay on the bed and slowly opened his eyes, Song Shiting and Heng Yan sat at the head of the bed and the other sat at the end of the bed with tears in their eyes, Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui They all came

Gao Yuan: Your position as a garrison in the north has been dismissed, and the fields have been taken back, so what should we do now, you have an idea, everyone is up to you

Li Yang sighed: There is no other way to do it, if someone doesn't want us to live, then don't live

Gao Yuankui and the others looked at each other, and they all leaked a hideous smile: You just say what to do