Three Kingdoms in a box

Chapter 52: Aliens among Followers

Qian Shao was indeed an old man. Zhang Jiao didn't agree but thanked him first. If this was a person who wanted to save face, he might have agreed in a daze after being told this.

Four hundred acres of fertile farmland, how big an area this is. If this happens, it will probably rain for a whole day.

Moreover, how much food is grown on these [-] acres of fertile land, even Qian Shao, a local powerful man, cannot afford to lose it!
Therefore, after he heard Qian Wu come back and report that Zhang Jiao could really ask for rain, he didn't care about Qian Wu's beating, but he wanted to ask Zhang Jiao to bring rain to their fields.

God is the fairest. If there is a drought, no matter whether you are powerful or ordinary people in this area, you all have to work for me.

If it doesn't rain in the homes of ordinary people, people will starve to death. If it doesn't rain in the homes of powerful people, they won't starve to death, but at the very least they will suffer heavy losses. If it's normal, that's all.

The losses suffered by the powerful can be made up by annexing the common people's land, but now Zhang Jiao has brought rain to many families in the village. If the food in the common people's fields can be produced normally this year, he will suffer heavy losses.

Don't think that the money of powerful people is like a bottomless pit. Although powerful people earn more, they also spend a lot. It takes money to manage all aspects of the county, to raise a group of servants at home, and to maintain their luxurious life.

More importantly, Qian Shao recently planned to use his connections in the county to find a good background for his son and send him to the county to be a county official.

Don't underestimate this step. There is a huge difference between a powerful family member who is an official and one who is not an official!

For this reason, the Qian family's expenses this year will be greater than in previous years. After all, it costs money to run connections for their son, and if his son wants to get into the family circle, you can't do it without spending money. He must often hold banquets in the county to entertain these people. Only those from aristocratic families can fit into their circle!
The main source of income for the Qian family is agriculture, so the harvest of these four hundred acres of fertile land this year is likely to be related to the future of the Qian family.

Qian Shao looked at Zhang Jue with eager eyes, but Zhang Jue put down his wine glass at this time and said solemnly: "Uncle, this matter is not easy to handle!"

After hearing this, Qian Shao frowned and said, "My dear nephew, my father and I are close friends, and I watched you grow up. Now that my nephew has learned the art of making wind and rain, my uncle just asks you to give me some help." When it rains at my uncle's house, you try to stop me. Are you really ignoring the friendship between our two families for many years?"

Moral kidnapping, Qian Shao, as a local tycoon, played this moral kidnapping in a treacherous way.

Zhang Jiao frowned when he heard this, and the meat in his mouth was no longer fragrant. At this time, he put down his dog legs, looked at Qian Shao and said: "Uncle, my little nephew is just walking on earth for the Immortal Lord. Does it rain under the Immortal Lord? My nephew has no right to interfere."

"Then can you just help me ask for a favor from the Immortal Lord?"

Qian Shao looked at Zhang Jiao and asked. Zhang Jiao shook his head and said: "The Immortal Lord only sends grace to the followers of the Immortal Lord. You are not a follower of my Immortal Lord. How can you send grace to me?"

After hearing this, Qian Shao's eyes narrowed and he said: "I can be a follower of your Immortal Lord. As long as your Immortal Lord can rain down rain on me, I will be your Immortal Lord's follower, the most loyal follower." By!"

Qian Shao said, followed closely by Qian Min who said: "Me too, if you want your Immortal Lord to save a field of seedlings for me and ensure my family has a good harvest this year, and also allow me to be successfully recruited as a county government official, I will He is a follower of your Immortal Lord."

The two of them looked at Zhang Jiao, their eyes full of piety, as if you think we have the potential to become followers of your Immortal Lord!
Moreover, the two of them have very upright ideas, that is, if your Immortal Lord can ensure that our family has a good harvest and wealth, I will trust your Immortal Lord. As long as your Immortal Lord can ensure that I can sit on my high-ranking official position and ride my horse, I will He is the most loyal follower of your Immortal Lord. He will always follow the Immortal Lord and never rebel!
Zhang Jiao looked at the shameless faces of the father and son and didn't know what to say, so he could only call Li Yu.Li Yu was studying the Qian family's courtyard at this time. This courtyard was really beautiful. From Li Yu's bird's eye view, this small courtyard was like a handicraft, very antique.

Li Yu was thinking, and then Zhang Jiao asked the question to Li Yu. Li Yu was also stunned, and then began to consider whether he should also recruit a powerful person. After all, in the Three Kingdoms, apart from common people and aristocratic families, there were not a few powerful people.

Thinking of Li Yudao: "Let them worship me."

Zhang Jiao heard this and spoke to the Qian family and his son. Qian Shao was very straightforward and bowed to the sky with Qian Min.

At this moment, a string of messages popped up in front of Li Yu:
I received an application from follower (rebel) Qian Shao, would you like to accept me as a follower?

(Friendly reminder: Followers with impure minds have rebellious attributes. After rebellion, 100 civilization points will be deducted.)
I am!

Seeing this prompt, Li Yu was shocked. Good guy, there are such followers. He will be rewarded with a civilization point, but he will also face the risk of villains. If he is not careful, his faith will be shaken, and he will have to deduct points. One hundred times the civilization points, this is simply a cancer!

Li Yu looked at Qian Min's application information again and found that they were exactly the same, both with rebellious attributes.

Li Yu understood something at this moment. Does it mean that powerful families in this era all have this terrible rebellious attribute? Or does it mean that these people have greater desires and want more, which will make their beliefs complicated? Thus it has a rebellious attribute.

The more he thought about it, the greater the possibility seemed to Li Yu. In this way, he would have to be careful when facing followers from aristocratic families or powerful families in the future.

Sure enough, it is more reliable to develop civilians like Zhang Jiao and follow the route of surrounding the city from the countryside.

Li Yu rejected Qian Shao's application and sent a message to Zhang Jiao: "Tell them that their thoughts are impure and I don't need such followers. If they want to ask for rain, they can also exchange it for fields. The specific value is between you and me." They can just negotiate.”

As Li Yu spoke, Zhang Jiao was stunned and said, "Xianzun, what do you want the land for?"

Li Yudao: "Of course it will be used as a teaching field for our sect. In the future, our sect's fields can be given to the followers to cultivate and grow food. We only need to take [-]% of it as tax, and the followers can keep the rest by themselves."

After hearing this, Zhang Jiao said: "Oh, then I understand."

Zhang Jiao cupped his hands and said, and Li Yu's idea is also to lay the foundation for the future nationalization of land. Now the fields are privately owned by landlords, and even the country dare not take them back at will. And Li Yu wants to lead Zhang Jiao to rebuild a country, and The first step is to lay a good foundation. The land must be nationalized, so as to prevent land annexation by big powers and big families.

Now Li Yu can only ask Zhang Jiao to do this as Taiping Dao. After all, the head of Comrade Wang Mang, who proposed the nationalization of land, is still on display in the palace museum!

(End of this chapter)