Coincidentally!My name is Liu Bian

Chapter 56: Asking the two managers of the kiln

Liu Bian originally thought that with just a little more effort, he could visit all the farmland in Nanpi County... As it turned out, he thought too much: he hadn't noticed how much farmland had increased in Nanpi County before, but now He, Liu Bei and others went shopping until noon, but they still hadn't finished shopping!

It can be seen that the number and size of fields are much greater than before.

Is this a good thing?
Anyway, when he saw Liu Bei's expression, Liu Bei was not angry, but faintly happy.

Smiling slightly, he stretched and suddenly felt hungry...

Embarrassing, embarrassing, although everyone currently eats two meals a day, for a few people, especially him, it is an exception: first of all, he is a young man, at the age of growth, and needs to supplement adequate nutrition; secondly, although he He is young, but he has become a social beast... Every day he is either dealing with official duties or on the way to deal with official duties!If you are busy for a long time, you will feel tired easily. You still need to eat more food to stay energetic and strong.

"Grumble-"

The abdomen also did not cooperate, and it made a growling sound at the right time.

Liu Bei asked: "Are you hungry?"

He nodded and asked again: "Uncle Wang, are you hungry?"

Liu Bei replied: "Not bad."

He asked again: "Does Uncle Wang want to eat?"

Liu Bei raised his head to look at the sky, then looked back, with an attitude of "Eating affects the progress of my work, I don't need to eat", shook his head and said: "No."

"Okay, shall I go back first?" He said goodbye to Liu Bei lightly and did not invite Liu Bei to come with him.

"Your Highness." Liu Bei bowed and watched Liu Bian and his guards go away.

Not to mention that Liu Bei joined Guan Yu and Zhang Fei after that, and continued to carry out and command the task of moving wood and stone to build wooden houses. Just talking about Liu Bian, he is destined to have no rest.

After slowly eating the ripe wild fruits picked by the roadside, Liu Bian saw a cavalryman approaching on horseback. All the managers have been invited to the mansion! Yuan Biejia asked His Highness if he would like to return to the mansion?"

"Ahem—" He almost choked on the wild fruit.

After coughing heavily for a long time, he managed to regain his composure with He Xian patting his back lightly.He stared at the cavalry in astonishment and asked:
"Is this serious? - Go back to your home! Of course you have to go back to your home!"

With a burning heart, he immediately got back into the carriage and rushed back to the residence of King Bohai.

As soon as he got off the car, he rushed into the mansion and shouted loudly: "Don't drive Yuan! Don't drive Yuan! Where are you?!"

When Yuan Shao heard this, he ran over quickly, raised his hands to him and said, "Your Highness! Shao is here!! Your Highness, you are back!"

Nodding his head, he didn't talk nonsense, straight to the point: "Where is the person in charge of the kiln?—Order the other party to come see me quickly!"

"Here!" Yuan Shao cupped his fists and accepted the order, and was about to turn around and leave——

"Wait a minute." He stopped Yuan Shao and asked abruptly, "Do you know how many kilns there are in Nanpi County?"

Yuan Shao said: "Reporting to Your Highness, there are four families in total!"

After saying this, Yuan Shao turned around, raised his feet and walked away——

"Can you find out which aristocratic families are behind the kiln?" he asked again.

Yuan Shao's face was full of amazement and he exclaimed: "Your Highness is wise! There are really people behind those four kilns! They are Zhang Yan and Guan Hai, the Shi family, the Yang family and the Zhang family!"

After saying that, Yuan Shao buried his head and left!
but……

"What is the connection between Zhang Yan and the Zhang family?" he asked again.

Yuan Shao turned around again, looked at Liu Bian, and replied: "It doesn't matter! At most, both families have the surname Zhang..."

He lifted his steps and put them down again, and Yuan Shao looked over suspiciously.

Tilting his head, he asked curiously: "Yuan Biejia, why haven't you left yet?"

Yuan Shao twitched the corner of his mouth and whispered: "Your Highness, do you still have any questions?"

"No."

"Really not?"

"Not really."

"—That's good!" Yuan Shao turned around again, "Shao brings the man here."

After a while, Yuan Shao brought two middle-aged men dressed as butlers and brought them to the front hall.

Sitting in the main seat, Liu Bian looked down at the other party with a condescending attitude and said loudly:
"Do you know who I am?!"

The two middle-aged men lowered their heads and said nothing.

Yuan Shao glared and shouted: "This is the governor of Bohai and the king of Bohai! Why don't you kneel down and salute?!"

With a thump, two middle-aged men knelt down and bowed:
"Caomin Dashi has met His Highness!!"

"Caomin Xiaoyang has met His Highness!!"

"You two don't need to be nervous or afraid." He smiled kindly, not hearing the other person's name at all. "I suddenly invited you two here this time because I have something to discuss." After a pause, he said without mincing words. :

"Are you two responsible for all the affairs of the kiln? I heard that you never pay taxes. Is this true?!"

Cold sweat broke out on Dashi's forehead; Xiaoyang's face remained calm and his heart did not beat, wondering: "Your Highness, what are you talking about? Why don't I understand a word?" After listening, Liu Bian looked at Xiaochang calmly. , but saw that Xiaoyang kept his head lowered and did not make eye contact with him.

After waving his hand, Liu Bian didn't bother to ask more times, and said directly:

"I don't care what your kiln did in the past... I only care about the future! In three months, your kiln will have to hand over the interest earned during the three months at a rate of [-]%, regardless of whether it makes a profit or not. Only I can! Otherwise, I will sentence you to deliberately evade taxes, and I will have no choice but to arrest you and put you in jail!"

The two middle-aged men were stunned.

But he asked himself, "Do you have any objections?"

The two middle-aged men looked at each other. Did they expect that the Bohai Governor and King of Bohai was quite reasonable despite his young age?After swallowing his saliva, Xiaoyang asked bravely:
"Your Highness! We are not the only ones with kilns in Nanpi! Dare we ask if other kilns should be treated like this?"

That? ——What’s that like?

What the other party asked was that other kilns also have to pay [-]% interest?
Thinking about this, Liu Bian nodded heavily and said, "Yes."

The two middle-aged men looked at each other, both of them were silent.

"——Huh?" Liu Bian raised his voice, his tone was gentle and long, "What do you say?"

The two middle-aged men remained silent.

Does this mean that we neither object nor agree?

He snorted softly and threatened fiercely: "You must give an answer today, otherwise you will never go back... I advise you two to think carefully! Otherwise, you dare to offend my face, I Not only will they kill you, but they will also demolish your kilns and rebuild them, without giving you any benefits! You can decide for yourself what is more important!"

The two middle-aged men secretly exchanged glances with each other, and finally fell silent... Then Xiao Yang said:

"Your Highness, we are only in charge, can't we be the masters?"

Baring his teeth, he said happily: "Which family are you from?"

Dashi said: "I am from Shifu!"

Xiao Yang said: "I am from the Yang family."

Liu Bian roared silently in his heart: Shifu!Shifu!Shifu! ...What a Shifu!I'll settle the score with you later!

With a smile on his face, Liu Bian said: "Are they from the Shi Mansion and the Yang Mansion? - It's a coincidence that I happen to have some friendship with your Shi Mansion..."

When the conversation changed, Liu Bian turned to look at Dashi.

Dashi opened his mouth wide and looked at Liu Bian in shock.

Liu Bian thought to himself and said: "Shi Yue, the patriarch of the Shi Mansion... you know him after all?"

Dashi hesitated for a moment, nodded, and stammered: "Your Highness really knows Patriarch Shi...?"

"We know each other, we know each other." More than just acquaintance, wasn't Shi Yue hired as a record officer by me? ——Liu Bianfu said, "Didn't your clan leader take the initiative to hand over [-] tenant farmers? Are you saying that he is unwilling to invade the tenant farmers? I think that not long after this, your clan leader will also hand over the kilns that he does not want to occupy to this prefect!"

Dashi: "..."

"Okay! Just one sentence!" he urged, "Do you want to pay taxes or not?"

"Hand it in! It must be handed in!" The two middle-aged men replied in unison.

"That's right!" Liu Bian pawed, "Just wait a moment."

Liu Bian picked up his pen and wrote two...two IOUs.

Two middle-aged men signed their signatures respectively, promising the kiln to pay taxes.

This matter is over.

Two middle-aged men walked out of Bohai King's mansion in a daze, and Liu Bian said to Yuan Shao:

"There are three more, Yuan Biejia, you are going to have a hard time."

Yuan Shao was not worried but happy and said happily: "Shao need not live up to His Highness's expectations!"

Before I knew it, it was dusk.

Yuan Shaozheng was about to invite the manager of the next kiln to come...

Liu Bian personally escorted Yuan Shao to the gate of the mansion, when he suddenly heard someone coming to report:

"Your Highness! Mr. Shi and Director Cao are back! They brought with them about 10 tenant farmers!!"

Liu Bian: "..."

His feet stumbled and he almost fell!
Fortunately, Yuan Shao had quick eyesight and quick hands and helped him in time.

However, he didn't care about losing his composure and said in a voiceless voice: "How much...how much?!"

"10 million people..."

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