With the fall of the rich man Wu, the bridgehead has been in chaos.

The four long-term workers who were originally standing next to the rich man Wu surrounded Ning Jue.

"Leave him alone...... Grunt...... Catch me first...... Grunt...... I don't know how to water, sir!

"Don't let this guy run away!"

“……”

The long worker, who came back to his senses, jumped into the water with two "poofs" and "poofs" and fished out the rich man Wu from the shoulder-deep ditch.

After a while, the rich man Wu, who was lying on the bluestone by the river and panting, pointed at Ning Jue with a slightly trembling hand and said loudly: "Where is the first chief?!" Give him to me! Each person who does it will be rewarded with 20 catties of millet! ”

As soon as he said this, the eyes of the people around him who looked at Ning Jue and Gu Qinglang suddenly became strange.

Gu Qinglang casually touched into the baggage.

"Chao Wat, yes, Chao Wat."

The only thing in Gu Qing's hand that can prove Ning Jue's identity is Chao Wat.

Gu Qing, who was forced by the villagers to retreat towards the bridge, pulled out Ning Jue's Zhaohu from his baggage.

"Don't lean any further......"

Without waiting for Gu Qing to finish speaking, he felt that his hands were empty, and Chao Wat was taken away.

Looking back, Ning Jue had already walked towards the rich man Wu with Chao Wat and scolding.

Don't wait for the two long-term workers beside Rich Master Wu to see clearly what Ning Jue was holding in his hand.

The ivory-shelled Chao Wat "snapped" and slapped on the face of the rich man Wu.

Then the face of the rich man Wu appeared with a clear three words: "Inspector Yuan".

This was definitely the most terrifying night that Rich Wu had ever experienced in his life.

He didn't know how to swim in the river, and looked at a snow-white board with a frightened face and slapped it on his big face again and again, wanting to hide and afraid of being washed away by the river, so he could only hold the bluestone on the shore against Chao Wat deadly.

And the young man with the whiteboard was like impermanence, questioning over and over again.

"What the hell is going on with food prices this year?!"

The rich man Wu, who was about the same age as Jiajing, cried out with a "wow".

"I, I don't know!"

"Originally, the Zou family told us that it was five coins of silver and one stone, but who would have thought that it would become four coins of silver and one stone in just a few days."

"It's so easy to earn so much silver!"

Before the words fell, the "pop" fell again.

"Are you still wronged?! You divide 300 catties of one acre of land, and you are still wronged?! I'm going to go there. ”

Ning Jue slapped the board on the left hand of the rich man Wu.

Rich Wu's left hand was painful, but he didn't dare to let go.

"Are you blind?! Hurry up and save me! ”

The moonlight is extraordinarily bright.

The rich man Wu who was soaked in the water begged for help, but the surrounding long-term workers all stopped.

Because they saw that the unknown thing that Ning Jue was carrying in his hand in the moonlight was exactly the same as the Dragon King and the God of Wealth in the temple.

Lianyue's father pulled his daughter's sleeve and asked repeatedly: "Nannan, what kind of fairy is this son you brought back!" ”

"Dad, this is Ning Baixian, who was sent by the imperial court to inspect Yingtian, and this is the one who wanted to behead Zou a few days ago."

"Oh......" Father Liyue came back to his senses and hurriedly said: "This Wu Dashan is the sage of our village, don't you dare to drown like this!" ”

"Yes, a few years ago, we suffered a disaster, but it was the rich man Wu who lent us food to live to this day, and we can't be without conscience."

Before Lianyue could speak, someone couldn't sit still.

"Master, the rich man Wu is a good man in our village, what a crime!"

Ning Jue, who was holding the Chao Wat, was stunned.

"What's that?"

"Is this old beast still a good man?"

An old man walked in front of Ning Jue on crutches.

"In the disaster year, the Wu family has nothing to say about borrowing grain, not to mention this matter, a stone of grain in the neighboring village is only three dollars and nine cents of silver, and the fire consumes three dollars for every two pieces of silver."

Ning Jue said loudly: "That grain is all the rent you paid!" What about him lending it to you? ”

"But the land belongs to someone else!"

Ning Jue opened his mouth to speak, but only through the moonlight could he see the old man's complicated expression clearly.

Is there anyone in the world who knows better where the food comes from than the rent-payers?

It's not that they don't know that the grain lent to them by the Wu family was all grown by them with hard work.

But so what?

killed the rich man Wu, as well as Liu Yuanwai.

The land will eventually be bought, but not by them.

At least the rich man Wu is a little more anthropomorphic than other masters!

Ning Jue glanced at the rich man Wu in the river with some disgust.

"Get out of here."

The rich man Wu, who had been soaking in the water for a long time, had to go ashore.

"You're Ning Baixian, aren't you? I've heard your name in the county. ”

One of the shoes of the rich man Wu who was soaked in the water was washed off, and he climbed ashore with difficulty and vomited several large salivas.

Ning Jue lowered his head and panted as he looked at the rich man Wu who was sitting on the ground like a dead dog.

"What's going on with the price of grain in Xishan this fall?"

"The grass people really don't know what you're talking about!"

Ning Jue's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and whispered: "It's not hard to keep your mouth up, tie it up, and go back to the county government and behead it!" ”

Rich Lord Wu hurriedly said: "Don't do it!" I say it all, I say it all! ”

"Go to my house, I have an account book at home, and I will understand it when I see it."

Ning Jue casually inserted Chao Wat back into his waist.

He followed the rich man Wu and walked towards the largest mansion in the village.

The house is also in order, there are some melons, fruits, herbs drying in the yard, and a few granaries are also at home.

In the slightly wild study and dining room of the rich man Wu, Ning Jue took over the account book from the hand of the rich man Wu who was still dripping with water.

"You eat tenant silver every year?!"

Rich Man Wu said with a wry smile: "You Xian Mingjian, it was in previous years, but this year I didn't think about taking more money!" ”

The rich man Wu bowed his head and said: "I don't know, in previous years, the villagers in the village generally did not sell grain, and even if they did, they did not sell much. ”

"There are only us who have surplus food to sell at home, so I can't help them in vain."

Many tenant farmers and yeoman farmers may not know how much silver they can sell for their own food.

Because they have so little food in their hands, even grain merchants will not directly do their small business.

Before the whipping method, even the silver was not used to hand over the fields, and the grain was directly handed over.

When their families were anxious to use the money, they could only take their own grain to the nearby landlords, sell the grain to the landlords at a low price, and then the landlords handed it over to the grain merchants for sale.

The difference in the middle was naturally earned by the landlord.

"Every year when the autumn harvest comes, the price of grain falls, and this year Zou Yuan has shipped so much rice, so the price of rice in Xishan has risen a little, this is all for the new policy of the imperial court!"

Listening to Rich Master Wu's words, Ning Jue's brows gradually frowned.

"The court should still thank you?!"

"Then you don't need to ......" Finding that Ning Jue was glaring at him, the rich man Wu also closed his mouth knowingly.

"In previous years, there were seven coins of silver for one stone during the autumn harvest of grain, but this year, why did it fall directly to four coins? What have you hidden? ”

The rich man Wu fell to his knees with a "poof".

"O Xian Mingjian! We didn't expect food prices to fall so quickly! ”

"We discussed that it may have something to do with the flood in the first half of this year, and the imperial grain was paid by Zou Donghu, but the fields in the first half of the year were not completely flooded, and after the water receded, many villages only reduced their yields and grabbed a lot of wheat."

"As soon as the whip law came out, the people didn't know what to do, and when they heard that the price of grain had fallen, they all followed it and sold it, for fear that it would be cheaper if it was sold late.

Ning Jue frowned and said, "Won't the people save it and wait for the price of grain to rise before selling?" ”

The rich man Wu smiled bitterly: "Save ...... Where to store? It's almost the limit when you save it. ”

"At the moment, the sun is still high, and the grain can still be sun-dried, and when it is winter, the south of the Yangtze River is not as good as the north, and when the humidity comes, all these grains will rot into their own hands."

Ning Jue bowed his head and was silent, but the rich man Wu was still on the side and said: "You Xian, the conscience of heaven and earth, we are really wholeheartedly loyal to the court this time!" ”

"Loyalty?"

"Taking advantage of the fact that Beppu did not enforce the whipping law, forcibly raised the price of grain in Xishan, this is called loyalty to the imperial court?!"

The rich man Wu was speechless for a while.

Zou Wang may really be here to show loyalty to the imperial court.

But while showing loyalty, he also did not forget to earn silver at all, but this silver was not earned in Xishan.

"Let's just say that the pilot in Xishan is not successful!"

"We're all here for you and the court!"

"Then what else is the TM Imperial Court trying to do?!" Ning Jue shouted angrily, and the rich man Wu was speechless.

"Grain merchant, grain ...... Grain. Ning Jue's words stopped abruptly, and then he raised his head and stared at the rich man Wu.

"Master Wu really has a sharp mouth."

A trace of fine sweat oozed from the forehead of the rich man Wu.

"Woo...... What do you mean by this? ”

"Open and close our mouths, the words are all about the grain merchants, and every word can't get around the grain merchants, and I still think that Master Wu is the grain merchant of this Xishan."

"Why didn't Master Wu mention this rent, you added it to the people?"

"The grass people are stupid...... I don't understand what I mean. ”

Ning Jue casually threw away the ledger in his hand.

"The grain merchant is not clean, but Master Wu, are you clean, is the rent to be added to the tenants by the imperial court?!"

"It was you who passed on your own envy, color, and land endowment to the tenants with rent!"

"Without so many rents to force, will the people be in such a hurry to sell grain?!"

After all, the rich man Wu was just a landlord.

He was still almost instinctively resistant to whipping.

In a few words, the problem was pushed onto the grain merchant.

A trace of sweat oozed from the forehead of the rich man Wu: "But there are many people and few places!" Even if I raise the rent, they don't plant, and some people rent it! ”

As the people thought, if this rich man Wu is killed, there will be Li Yuanwai.

They are just symptoms, not the root of them.

The real root of the disease is in the whipping method.

It was the whipping method that gave these landlords the opportunity to take advantage of the loophole and transfer the land that had been spread on them back to the tenant farmers.

And the patch that can fill this loophole is called paving into acres.

Ning Jue, who was standing in front of the rich man Wu, was silent for a long time, and then he applauded and smiled: "The rich man Wu has a high opinion! ”

Ning Jue's smiling rich man Wu was furious.

"You Xian, if you have something to say, you better say it directly."

"To put it bluntly, this year, Xishan will not only have to carry out the whipping method, but also spread it into acres."

(End of chapter)