Chapter 113: The Situation

Their own people tried several times and failed.

Seeing that he really couldn't catch Li Xiuyuan, he could only go back to recover his life, and there has been no movement since then.

This time, Wang Zhixian saw Li Xiuyuan and Bai Xia for the first time since he left the refugee team.

The two of them have changed a lot, especially Bai Xia, who is completely different from the little girl with a yellow face and thin muscles.

"Where do you want to buy the mountain?" Wang Zhixian withdrew the gaze that fell on Bai Xia and looked at Li Xiuyuan.

is different from before, it was obvious that among the two people, the person in charge was Bai Xia, but now, it can be seen that the person in charge is Li Xiuyuan.

He is only nine years old this year, and he already has the majesty of a superior in his body.

"The one where Liu Yunzhai is located, and the two surrounding mountains"

Li Xiuyuan had already prepared, and the hand-drawn Kanyu map was also brought, spread out in front of Wang Zhixian, and pointed to the location of Liu Yunzhai and the surrounding two mountains.

Wang Zhixian was stunned for a moment, his face was a little ugly.

"How can you have ......"

"My lord, I know that these two mountains are worth a lot in the yamen, and we have brought the silver, please take out the title deed" Li Xiuyuan interrupted him, and Wang Zhixian's face became even more ugly.

Drawing a picture in private, he has bad intentions.

"Go to get the title deed"

He gave an order to the master who was waiting on the side, and the person quickly went down, and after a while, he took the title deed.

It is all recorded in the file, and as long as there is enough silver, it can be bought.

There are no restrictions other than not being allowed to sell to Gentiles.

"Thank you, Lord Wang."

Li Xiuyuan's symbolic order to the king of the county arched his hand, handed over the money, and took the land deed.

200,000 taels of silver for a long time, Wang Zhixian directly invited the shopkeeper of Yinzhuang to take his men to count, and before the money was clear, Li Xiuyuan and Bai Xia could not leave the county office.

Wang Zhixian had already been set aside, and he didn't have anything to do, so he simply waited with them.

Several people have no friendship, and they do their own things.

Bai Xia had long known that when he bought land, he brought several notebooks and sat on the chair to watch with relish.

With Wang Zhixian here, Li Xiuyuan couldn't talk to the two of her, so he simply held his chin in a daze, but he was actually sorting out the current situation in his mind.

The emperor of the court and the central government seemed to have become much wiser, and his reputation among the people had also improved a lot.

However, according to the news he received, although the emperor has become better, he also attaches more importance to power, and the first step is to return the land to the imperial court, and the next step will be to start to pay more business taxes, collect a lot of money, and the grain tax will also be raised by 20%.

After three years of recuperation, the imperial court should have saved a lot of silver.

At the beginning, King Liang privately mined iron ore, and the emperor did not know, but King Liang was too cunning, and the tail sweeping work was too good, and the treasury was empty, so he did not dare to startle the snake.

The refugees rescued from the mine have not been able to leave Ganzhou since then, and the matter of King Liang's private mining of iron ore can only rot in the hearts of the people of Ganzhou.

According to the information he received, the emperor was going to attack King Liang.

The resumption of land is just an introduction, and after three years of calm, the world will soon be in chaos.

His eyes were slightly misty.

Thinking about the future of Liu Yunzhai in his mind.

In the evening, the two asked the restaurant to bring food and invited Wang Zhixian to eat together.

It wasn't until dawn on the second day that the silver coins were counted, and they were locked one by one, and Bai Xia and the two of them also left the county government and returned to Liu Yunzhai.

After leaving for three years, returning here is even more different.

Bai Xia stayed for two days, and then he couldn't stay.

She still likes Douer Village and lives in her own house.

"I'm afraid Jiazhou is going to be chaotic, I don't worry about you going back"

Li Xiuyuan kept it again and again, but Bai Xia didn't want to stay anymore.

"Xuzhou is still far from Jiazhou, and nothing can happen"

It's Jiazhou, not Xuzhou.

"Do you know Lord Xu, Xuzhou Thorn Shi?"

Sending Bai Xia on a trip, Li Xiuyuan talked about that Lord Xu.

Seeing her stop, he said again: "Originally, he was going to be promoted to the capital three years ago, but later because someone in the capital stumbled on him, he had no hope of promotion, so he rebelled."

"It's just that Xuzhou's troops are not as good as those of other states, sandwiched between Jiazhou, Ganzhou and Jizhou, once he has any thoughts, he will attract attacks from three sides"

"According to the information I received, he is a member of the imperial court on the surface, but in fact he secretly defected to King Liang, and if he wants to fully gain the trust of King Liang, he is afraid that he will have to submit his name."

These news are very secret, and it is also because Li Xiuyuan has developed well in the past three years, and he has planted a lot of people in various forces to get the news.

The reason why Bai Xia was brought back was also due to this consideration.

Next, Jiazhou, Xuzhou and Jizhou will be in chaos, and she is still there, and he is not at ease.

It's just that Bai Xia has to leave, and he can't stop her.

"You mean that Xu Tingshi will make a move against the King of Jizhou?"

Bai Xia's complexion changed slightly.

If this is the case, Xuzhou is afraid that there will be a war, and if there is a war, the most uncomfortable life is the people.

They haven't had a few years of peaceful life, and they are going to fight again?

"Nine out of ten," Li Xiuyuan nodded cautiously.

That's why he was in a hurry to buy the land, and after buying the land, no matter what he built, the government couldn't control it, and before he bought it, the construction of the house could not be violated, otherwise it would be regarded as complicity.

"I see"

Bai Xia nodded, her mood was a little heavy, she turned over and rode onto the horse, she looked at him sideways: "Dou'er Village is my home, I have to go back"

After speaking, without waiting for Li Xiuyuan to answer, he galloped out as soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly.

Xuzhou's troops are weak, far inferior to the other three states, especially Jizhou is located in the north, the people are fierce, and the people of Jizhou are brave and good at fighting, and the Xuzhou army will not be the opponent of the Jizhou army.

Bai Xia starry night and rushed back to Dou'er Village.

Yu Dahai is now her person, but his wife and children are still in Liu Yunzhai.

At this time, the autumn harvest has just passed, and there are not a few days before the government collects grain, and when the white summer arrives, it is just the time when the government wants to go down to the village to collect grain taxes.

"Official, are you wrong, two hundred catties of grain per acre? Where can we get it? The face of the village chief of Dou'er Village changed greatly, looking at the official sitting in his yard, he never expected that this year's grain tax would directly double.

In previous years, grain tax was drawn according to the harvest, generally four cents of one acre of land, but this year, one acre of land only produces two or three hundred catties of grain, and two hundred catties are drawn.

"This is the emperor's order, do you want to resist the decree?" The official who came over was about forty years old, and he looked kind, and he didn't look fierce, but just asked lightly.

Where did the village chief dare to object.

This time, more than a dozen officials came and sat in the courtyard of his house, and if he said something wrong, he would inevitably be beaten.

"But two hundred catties of grain per acre of land......"

The official's eyes looked at him, and the village chief couldn't say any more, so he could only nod his head in the end.

When the rice was headed, the county sent people down to calculate the harvest, because in previous years, taxes were levied according to the harvest, and this year it was also calculated, but it was still taxed according to two hundred catties of grain per mu.