Chapter 49: The Tactics of the Village-level Meat Eaters

Zhou Huairen, known as the good man of Zhou, is the first household in Jiming Village, and has a wide range of land, money, houses, and a good reputation, but what he is most proud of is his extraordinary wisdom! Like the Tian family's rough plundering methods, he has never disdained it, his younger brother Zhou Huaiyi, in terms of character and the previous generation of the Zhou family, in terms of intelligence and wisdom he really lost too much, a dead tablet costs more than 30? It's not that he doesn't know how much he can get in this area, but he has been in charge of the ancestral hall for so many years, and he has never put his idea in such a conspicuous place! On the contrary, he paid out of his own pocket to renovate the ancestral hall, and reduced the rent of tenants and the interest of debtors.

It was his own brother Zhou Huaiyi, who also saw that he seemed to spend money to go out and couldn't see through, and asked him for the position of the manager of the ancestral hall that had been done by the eldest son and grandson, which was originally Zhou Huaiyi's unreasonableness, but he didn't say a word, and gave it angrily, and the matter spread out, and the old households in Jiming Village screamed bitterly, and other villages don't do their own things, which one doesn't think he is generous, and thinks that he is really a good man of the tenth generation, a natural fool?

"This steward was made by Zhou Huaiyi, how could he hand it over?" Not only did everyone outside say it, but even his wife said the same, but he smiled and said: "Zhou Huaiyi is my brother, but seeing that I spend money for the village, I don't want to go, do it for me for two years, and pay me back sooner or later." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info", his wife didn't believe it, the first person to believe it turned out to be Zhou Huaiyi a few years later! It's just that he couldn't understand why his brother did the same errand, paying money to make up things for everyone, comprador New Year's pigs and other things, the family road is becoming more and more prosperous, it is his turn to do it, everything is with people, the old expenses are cut as much as possible, the grain that enters the warehouse is carefully counted in person, and he bears countless notoriety, and the result is that when the year is good, he can get by, and when the year is bad, he has to pay back?

Zhou Huairen naturally wouldn't tell him that his wife was the niece of the county grain official, but Zhou Huaiyi's wife was not, which was a big difference.

Like the Xinhu Wang family, the inferior family of Jiming Village, giving birth to a daughter is nothing more than waiting to grow up to six or seven years old to start working, selling to others as a daughter-in-law at the age of twelve or thirteen, the front has to live for six or seven years, and the back has to do half of the work, and when the body has just grown up to be able to do more work, it is time to go out of the cabinet, and the next twenty years of labor will be returned to the husband's family, which is calculated to receive pig food and gifts, plus Xie Media's money or loss of capital, so in the villagers, it is customary to call the daughter "lose money" , often only the firstborn, the next is the daughter, are thrown into the "mourning ditch", the villagers are accustomed to it, do not do this, but also say that his mother-in-law will not plan for her husband's family, is not a virtuous woman.

And a wealthy family like the Zhou family, when they give birth to a daughter, they are all supported, not for anything else, for the word "marriage". His Zhou family has been the first household in the village for generations to take on the task of tax package, and naturally knows the truth of dealing with the yamen, don't look at others in the village, the relationship network has long been densely spread, when he marries a daughter, he does not care about financial gifts, more compensation and dowry, and the meeting gift will be sent to the other party's family, including the key positions of the yamen. When marrying a daughter-in-law, on the other hand, a certain amount of land is counted in the financial gift, and handed over to the daughter-in-law, which is counted as adding makeup, which is nominally cheaper than directly giving silver, but this is a good land, and it is different from dead silver, it is an income every year, which other man is willing to do such things? Naturally, the Yue family is very pleased, but through this, he gently and skillfully changed the land that should have been divided with his brother into a daughter-in-law's dowry. Not only that, but with the care of the Yue family, in those years when he paid taxes, the grain tax in the village was ridiculously light, and the top was reduced by nine points, and he reduced the tenants by three points, so that he won the name of a good man, and the big cheap interest. Zhou Huairen occupies the name of this good man, and has a relationship with the county, and there are people everywhere who ask him to talk about the number, and the harvest in the village is still some red sheep wine, and when he arrives in the county, it is a "burden" of one hundred taels He can swallow ninety, and at the end of the year, the income is better than the family's property.

Although the land that was given out was nominally owned by his daughter-in-law, could it be that the young lady who married in the county and the wife of his first household in Zhou was a person who could go to the land? Or did the child born not have the surname Zhou? The crops in the field could only be repaid by him, and the harvest could only be sold by him, and the money after the sale could only be enjoyed by his wife and children of Zhou Huairen. In this way, he has a good name and real profits, and his good name can also bring real profits! Those villagers all said that he was a kind man who even handed over the ancestral hall to his brothers, who would have thought that the hundred he entrusted him with would be less than zero in the hands of the master?

When Zhou Huaiyi took over the work of the ancestral hall steward and the village tax package, there was no brother-in-law in the county, and he asked him to make up for the famine tax reduction reported in the previous year. He is a well-known person in the village, and naturally no one wants to ask him to talk about the numbers, so he can't get the extra money inside, and he has been doing it for a few years, "his eyes are all in the money", and he can't say that he didn't make any money, but it was really far from his expectations, so he mixed with the Tian family, and wanted to make some extra money by selling slaves.

The position of the ancestral hall steward handed over by Zhou Huairen was indeed returned to him as he expected, but the way he came back was slightly different from what he expected, which was also the source of his troubles tonight.

His original plan was to use his greedy brother to spread the news and instigate the rampant Tian family to pretend to be Yiren to plunder a few villagers, and then he used it to "defend the village" In the name of establishing the Jiming Village Group, not only will the errand of the ancestral hall steward not be able to return to him, but he will also be able to make a fortune in all kinds of procurement of equipment and armaments, and arrange the right person to expose the conspiracy of the Tian family at the right time, not only can teach the Tian family who dares not to take him seriously, but also can even pinch the three tigers in the county in his hands...... Of course, he never thought of establishing a truly combat-effective militia group, what kind of joke - the villagers of Jiming Village have not touched swords for two hundred years, even the Tian family learned to defend the house's boxing stick, and it is okay to beat a few unarmed civilians, and if you really want to fight and train, it will cost a lot of money.

Knowing that when Tian Jinbao died, he was not panicked, the rabbit was anxious and biting, the Zhao family was desperately scared of one, it was not surprising that the Tian family had received a few gambling stalls later, and he only thought that his family was holding a funeral, but he was ready to push the excuse and funeral of the disease, and the Tian family had no one to come to the door to officially report!

After being angry for a long time, the relatives of the Tian family's apprentices came to report that Master Tian took people up the mountain to arrest the murderer Zhao Xiaoliu and others and never returned, and some villagers saw the shadow of the suspected Yi people...... "Is there really a Yi person?"

This time, Zhou Huairen, who has been smart for a lifetime, is completely stupid.

"Certainly, it must be the Tian family who lied to bluff me!" he comforted himself, and thought that during the day, Zhou Huaiyi had told him that the ancestral hall was stolen, some things were lost, and the cabinet where the books were stored was also opened, but there was no dog barking at night: "It must be a good thing done by the Tian family, first pretending to be a Yiren, and then peeking at the ancestral hall books...... Hmph, if someone really comes to commit an offense, the dogs in the whole village will bark, and besides, it's just a matter of stealing anything else, what are you doing looking through the account books? What a Tian family three tigers, I underestimated you before!" and thinking about how to communicate with the county, at the expense of bleeding, it was necessary to lose the errand of the three tigers, and how to expose the illegal things such as gambling in the village, but he didn't feel that the wingtip soup was also cold, and he fell asleep on the table. The maid didn't dare to alarm him, she took the soup bowl down, and as soon as she turned around, a black shadow rushed straight into the center of Zhou Huairen's eyebrows!

Zhou Huairen had a very strange dream.