Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 446 Autumn Fu ([-])

"I think this year's old man is going to have a lot of desires!" Liu Youren said with a serious face, "This group of Australians are entrusted to no one."

"Master Liu, you're worrying too much. What should you do in the past about the food collection? What's the problem now? What's the trouble? Could it be that Lao Ba will suddenly change his temperament?" Zhang Youfu comforted.

"Hmph, I don't know about this old man?" Liu Youren said with a cold face, "He is the most powerful person, and now he is leaning on the big tree of Australians. It's a big deal. Just watch, he's going to make a fuss." It won't be over until something happens." After saying that, he stamped his feet and left.

Zhang Youfu didn't want to stay, and hurriedly went to report to Wu De again.

Wu De smiled inscrutablely, and only said: "In the future, you have to remember one thing. I am on a business trip and I have to travel a long way. So you don't have to come to me for the time being."

"Yes, yes," Zhang Youfu didn't understand what it meant, and just responded.

"But if you have something to do, you have to report to my secretary Chu Yu at any time, understand?"

"Little one understands, little one understands." He knew Chu Yu, she was the maid of Gou's family, now she is the big girl next to Wu De.Zhang Youfu knows that Australians do not shy away from women being in charge, and there are women who show their faces as bosses.

Wu De taught the opportunity face to face again.Zhang Youfu nodded repeatedly.

Finally, Wu De asked again: "Have you joined the Tiandihui?"

"That's right, actually the small fields are not enough." Zhang Youfu said.Joining the Tiandi Association is purely for the sake of flattery, but after joining the Tiandi Association is really dedicated. From time to time, someone will come to teach his long-term workers to plant the land, and send fresh things like fertilizer from time to time. Now the crops on his family's tens of acres of land are growing very well. it is good.

"You tidy up a room, and Tiandi will send someone to live in your house to guide you at any time."

"Yes." Zhang Youfu knew that this was someone monitoring him, but they had to send someone to their home, obviously there was a lot to do in collecting food.He tentatively asked;

"The little one talks to grain households every time, do you want to tell him?"

"He's farming for you, and he doesn't care about other things. Remember, if you need something, you can find Chu Yu."

Chen Minggang himself was very happy when he heard the news from Zhou Qi that Mr. Xiong had agreed to take over the taxes this year.He has his own calculations. Although he has made a lot of benefits in collecting grain in the past, compared with Qiongshan County, Chengmai, and Wenchang, which have more population and farmland, the benefits are still slightly inferior.Most of the local landlords built a stronghold to protect themselves, and the prestige of the imperial court was not well displayed here.Taking autumn grain once, and removing the profit for his minions, the real benefit of closing the hand is only two or three hundred shi.For Chen Minggang, who has been to Qiongshan Fucheng and Guangzhou, and has seen a lot of the world, this income is a bit small.

Now there just happened to be an Australian.This group of Australians are hard-headed, usually polite, and they don't blink once they kill and set fire.Whether it's attacking Goujiazhuang or exterminating bandits, killing people and looting things is really unambiguous, which frightens the local big families.This time, Chen Minggang felt that he had a big backer.

The government is a place where you can buy it at will, but Australians seem to be unable to get it.Chen Minggang is very observant. He feels that the Australians are polite, honest and trustworthy on the surface, but they are essentially a group of people whose interests are paramount.

As long as things and people can bring them enough benefits, Australians will maintain them.

This time he takes over the food and taxes, he wants to give the Australians enough benefits, and at the same time make full use of their "power" to make good money in recent years.

Chen Minggang felt that judging from the efficiency of the government and the Australians' armed forces, even if Daming was able to drive the Australians away, it would take at least three to five years. Even if they live in Lingao forever, it is not known.

Even if the Australians pack up and leave in the future, he Chen Minggang will not lose anything, the worst is that his reputation is too bad, and he will let his apprentice Zhou Qi be a puppet for a while, and then let his son take the position—as long as he has the Yulin Book in hand, Whoever will be the emperor, the errands of the house secretary are all his family's.Anyway, his family has undergone two dynasty changes since the Song Dynasty, and there may not be any changes after going through it a few more times.

Chen Minggang made this wishful thinking, but how to please the Australians, how big their appetite is, and how much they can allow him to do, still needs to be found out.

He told Zhou Qi to call several of his apprentices and the county's grain messengers to his own courtyard—that is, Qiuhong's home.After his wife made a big fuss last time, Chen Minggang simply crossed Ming Road and lived in Qiuhong's house grandiosely. He even greeted the county's fast-moving team leader and asked them to take care of him.Although the wife and natal family were angry, there was nothing they could do.Zhang Wu wanted to make trouble several times, but was suppressed by the team leader. Zhang Shi was scruples about his comrades' comments, so it was inconvenient to support his brothers and sisters to continue the trouble.The two sides are in a state of cold war.

After waiting for a few days, the food shortages everywhere arrived.There used to be nearly [-] people in the food messengers in Lingao County, and there were two groups of people, one group was a group of households, and they were generally small rural landlords. This errand; the other group is the green-skinned gangsters from the urban and rural areas who have settled down in shambles, and there are also exiles who have been sent here to act as thugs when collecting food.

This time, the number of people who came to the meeting to discuss has already been reduced by half.It turned out that most of these people were in collusion with the bandits. This time the bandit suppression campaign launched a large-scale mass "digging out the roots of the bandits". The accumulated public indignation was great, and the masses took the opportunity to wear the hat of colluding with bandits and executed them together.The work team was also so happy, and justifiably killed several local toubob forces.

With these food shortages, everyone still has lingering fears about the movement in the countryside, and they are simply afraid of the Australians.In particular, a girl thief named Du Wen made everyone frightened.It is said that those who have tasted her iron legs will basically only be eunuchs in their next life.

It turned out that I was anxious and uneasy, not knowing what the future would be like.Now that they suddenly received a notice from Chen Shuban to come to a meeting to discuss food collection, they couldn't help but regain their spirits.Baba changed into decent clothes to discuss matters.

This group of people gathered together, and they were all talking about the changes that happened around them in the past year, who died, who was taken away, and their whereabouts are still unknown... This time they can reunite, I heard that they can... Continuing to deal with the food requisition, it feels like seeing the sun behind the clouds.

When Chen Ming saw that everyone was here, he coughed and got to the point.

What he was talking about was the fact that Australians will take over the food tax this year.This matter had already been heard when they came here. When everyone heard that they were working for Australians, not only did they not feel ashamed and indignant about being a "treacherous traitor", but they were all very happy - now they can get in touch with Australians up!Not only can I continue to work on my own errands, but I can also take the opportunity to make a lot of money.

"...It's just that we haven't figured out the temper of the Australians. This time, we've called everyone here to discuss a regulation before we can talk to their leaders."

Everyone discussed, since this time the Australians are in charge, the original households will no longer handle it-although the second-floor subcontracting is not bad, but everyone agrees that it is the first time to work for the Australians. , or be careful.Rather than using their brains on subcontracting "wearing a hat", it is better to go all out and focus on recruitment.It's a matter of solidly collecting a sum of money for the Australians.

"But how much is good?" someone asked.

"I heard from Chief Xiong that the reasonable burden should be collected together. This is three thousand 'public stones'." Zhou Qi introduced.

"This is less." If that's all there is to it, why do Australians bother to take care of food and taxes?Obviously they have great expectations.

"That's right, it has to be doubled, so that the Australian masters will feel that our men are capable."

"This will increase the amount of rice consumed. It turns out that it is definitely not enough to charge three buckets for one stone." There are quite a few people who are good at mental calculations, and they immediately calculated the numbers.

One of the food clerks called "Xiaohu from the Umbrella Shop" said: "Baye! I think if this is just a case of business as usual, I'm afraid we won't get much money."

The benefit to the magistrate must come out of it, and the "reasonable burden" of the Australians is also a large amount. Naturally, this group of people also wants to take the opportunity to make a small fortune.If Xiao Guicao still followed the usual practice, it would be nothing more than consuming more rice.

It is certainly not a big deal to increase the consumption of rice, but the small households with no connections have already been overwhelmed by the increase, and no matter how hard they are, they will not be able to squeeze out much money. Maybe they will find the Australians to complain.Big households can afford it, not to mention that they consume less rice and pay less, and there are many hidden fields cultivated privately and fields shaded by others—it’s just that they have received a lot of benefits from them on weekdays, without any reason. In addition, the other party must be unconvinced, and it will be difficult to get along with each other in the future...

Zhou Qi said: "What are you afraid of? If anyone refuses to join in, let the Australians go out and go to the same end as Goujiazhuang. Let's see who dares to stalk their necks—"

"The matter must be done." Chen Minggang shook his head, "It's not difficult to provoke, but in the future, everyone will hang around in Lingao. The Australians are gone, what should you do?"

"Xuandian Xiaohu" said: "We have to come up with a reason for it, so that we can speak to the big households and make them have nothing to say. In the future, we also have room for change."

Chen Minggang nodded, Xiao Hu has a good understanding, much better than his own apprentices.It's a pity that this person is crippled and can't get on the stage.Thinking of this, he glanced at Zhou Qi, and couldn't help feeling bored with him.

(End of this chapter)