[Plane] History of the struggle of the lords

Seeing him coming, those standing sporadically straightened their backs. They didn't know what topics they were arguing with each other before. When Wen Le got out of the carriage, he noticed that these expressions were a little unnatural.

Gatherings are generally not allowed at the gate of the mansion, and Wen Le looked at them as if he was looking at them. Before he could speak, a few yamen servants who were standing beside the grievance drum hurried forward and explained: "My lord, they are tax officials from various counties. Maida and Dada hadn't arrived in the morning, so the younger ones didn't dare to invite them in, so they asked them to wait outside."

tax collector?Wen Le frowned slightly, glanced at these people, and found that they all had gold crowns on their heads and jade rings on their waists.People in this era like to match jewelry. There must be some things inlaid on the crown, and there are purses and jade pendants dangling around the waist, and some hands even wear bracelets. After all, it depends on the economic ability.

Fuchun's tax official rank is almost negligible, but the annual salary of five taels of silver and five dendrobium and lumi is quite high.Ordinary people's annual income is sometimes no more than two taels, but no matter how high the salary is, the crowns on the heads of these tax officials are by no means what they can afford with their economic ability.

Look at the fine silk jackets they are wearing, the raccoon fur collars that have been peeled off from a whole raccoon dog around their necks, and the official boots inlaid with large jade accessories on both sides of their feet. 50 taels of silver are more than that.

Wen Le's brows were almost invisibly frowned, the first impression of this group was not good in his heart.

The group of tax officials saw Wen Le coming, but they were not sure who he was. After the servants came to explain, they all widened their eyes. They couldn't imagine that the young man in front of him could be that A fierce first-class lord.

After looking at each other for a while, he pushed the leader out. His skin was rare in Fuchun, and he was very fat. He had a long chin and neck, but he moved very flexibly. First of all, he bowed to Wen Le: " Shen Tugu, the tax official of Xiaguan County, has met Lord Chitose."

Behind him, several well-dressed tax officials followed him and bowed together, and the servants who brought him also knelt together.

After Wen Le started killing, some ideas in his heart seemed to have gradually changed. If it was normal, if he greeted him with a smile if he didn't like it, he probably wouldn't be able to save face.But now, these tax officials made him dislike him, so it was useless to flatter them no matter how humble they were, Wen Le still had a gloomy expression.

He asked in a bad tone: "We blocked the gate of the government office early in the morning, so it's hard to wait for this gift?"

Shen Tugu was taken aback for a moment, he secretly glanced at the unpredictable Wen Le, his courage shrank in an instant, and now he didn't dare to say a word that he had been thinking about for a long time.

He gritted his teeth, remembered the responsibilities on his shoulders, and overcame the uneasiness in his heart, and said in a low voice: "To be honest, I came here to ask to see the lord, because of the agricultural tax that the lord ordered not long ago... "

Wen Le interrupted him: "If you have any questions about this matter, go to Mai Lingtong, he is in charge of this."

The key is to have already found it!Mai Lingtong refused to talk about anything other than Tai Chi!Shen Tugu was very anxious. Seeing that Wen Le was obviously impatient, he wanted to continue speaking, but was blocked by his eyes.

Shen Tugu stood still and looked at the back of Wen Le who walked into the government office, his heart was still beating uncontrollably, the look just now was...

Seeing Wen Le leave, several tax officials from Lizhou and Jianzhou behind him, Shen Tugu didn't have anything useful to say, they were angry and anxious for a while, they came forward and grabbed his sleeves and started arguing again.

Wen Le entered the government office, went around to the backyard, and saw Mai Lingtong peering at him from behind the door.

Seeing that it was Wen Le who came, he was obviously relieved, and came to salute Wen Le with a face of joy: "I have seen the Sir, alas, the Sir is here."

Wen Le frowned: "I heard from the yamen servant that he hasn't come yet, what happened? What happened to the group outside?"

Mai Lingtong patted his chest and pursed his mouth, pointed to the direction outside and said, "My lord, have you met them too? The officials come to work in the yamen at this time every day. Today, these are the people who come to ask for an interview, so the officials thought about it." The excuse is to ask the government officials to stop them. Those are county and local tax officials, anyway, they came to find the lower officials, and they did not do anything good."

Wen Le glanced at him, feeling a little relieved, and said with a light smile: "Knocking on their clothes, they are doing well. Could it be that they fell in love with Meijiao Niang, who is only five years old, and rushed to come here?" Can you recognize your father-in-law?"

Mai Lingtong said with a bitter face: "What kind of joke is the sir! If you have such a group of bold sons-in-law, I am afraid that your hair will be gray in a minute."

Wen Le heard his voice-over, and suppressed his smile: "What do you mean? They talked about the agricultural tax, so what are they looking for?"

"What they mean is that the rent fixed by Xiaguan is too low. If it is rented to tenants at this price, the landlords will not be able to get rid of it... But Xiaguan checked the average price from the survey and didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Unreasonable, in short, they are all sticking to their own opinions, there is no other way, so we can only avoid it."

"This group of dogs," how could Wen Le not know the inside story?He scolded softly, his eyes became more and more unfriendly, "Don't be patient, if you encounter someone who is aggressive, just deal with it."

Mai Lingtong answered in a low voice, then changed the subject and talked about the return date of the merchant ship back to port.

"A few days ago, my subordinates assigned me to calculate the return journey. Based on the last trip to Wenzhou University, the merchant ship should have returned to Hong Kong half a month ago. But until now, there has been no news. The subordinates have seen that the weather on the sea has been good these days. , I thought that the days when Wenda returned to the voyage would be in the next few days.”

Wen Le sighed: "Things at sea are unpredictable, who can be sure?"

Mai Lingtong knew that he had been in a bad mood because the merchant ship hadn't returned to sail for half a month, so he answered cautiously: "The last time I took away was one ship, but this time it's two ships. Slow down. The important thing is for Sir Alex to relax in the end."

Wen Le shook his head, not wanting to talk about it, so he took out Lu Changan's letter from his sleeve and handed it to him: "Just now I asked Liandong to tell me, but I think I'm going to come anyway, so I might as well tell it in person. The mass breeding planned before Has the farm been built? Has the farmer been hired?"

On the middle of the mountain, Wen Le arranged for a breeding base to be built for future generations. The glue used to fix the sand and soil was used as cement, and the construction was particularly solid.After being teased by this farm, Wen Le started to think about building houses and city walls with plastic walls, but there were so many things that he didn't have time to do everything.

Mai Lingtong was overjoyed: "Really? This is a double blessing. At the end of autumn, the rice crops are abundant again, and there are two harvests in a year, and the price of grain will come down soon. If the matter of raising livestock is done well, then In the future, it will not be a problem for the common people to eat meat."

Wen Le rubbed the bridge of his nose, always feeling a little tired these days: "Probably not bad. The weather in Fuchun is quite good, the winter is warm and the summer is cool, the livestock shouldn't be unable to survive."

Mai Lingtong was still a little worried: "My subordinates have recruited farmers who are used to raising livestock. They used to raise one or two heads in a family. Now that there are so many of them suddenly, my subordinates are really worried." Feeling worried, he bowed his head twice, put his palms together and muttered: "Amitabha."

They were talking, Dala hurriedly fled in with a panicked expression.

Looking at it like this, he was bullied by the cleverness outside, and Wen Le didn't know whether to be thankful that he was honest or angry that he was too honest.When Dara saw him, the uneasiness on his face disappeared immediately, and he ran up with a large volume of booklets: "My lord, you arrived so early today? This is the second season's harvest calculated at the end of autumn. The officer brought it for your review."

Wen Le rolled his eyes and saw too many reports on the yield per mu on the news broadcast. He really had no idea about the yield per mu of [-] catties in this brochure, and he didn't know whether it was good or not.But seeing Daladu's joyful eyes jumped up, he probably guessed that this might be a pretty good harvest, so he reached out and patted him on the shoulder: "Well done, thanks for your hard work."

Dala has devoted almost all of his body and mind to farm work this year, and his sun is darker than usual.Probably because he has a good relationship with Wen Le, he is very shy now, and his ears turn black and red when he is praised.He touched his ears, and the sound was as low as a mosquito buzzing: "This officer is only using some brute force. If it weren't for the master's guidance behind him, he would definitely not have such a good result."

Wen Le was used to being flattered, and there was no disturbance in his heart at all, he just sighed, thinking about Dala being a stuffy pot, how could his wife bear it?

Dala was made more and more embarrassed by the quiet atmosphere, raised his head and talked about his experience just now, patted his chest and said happily: "Boss, this group of people are talking about the low price of land, and the officials are really arguing about them. They couldn’t even run away, and the hem of their clothes was grabbed by them, it was really frightening to death.”

As soon as he said this, Wen Le was in a bad mood.For such a small matter, homicide seems to be a big deal, and rectifying and rectifying these things casually will not have a long memory at all, and it is actually very difficult to deal with.

Apart from benefiting the general public, the abolition of the agricultural tax must have harmed the interests of a few. He knew this, but when those dirty private transactions were put on the table by this group of righteous people, he still couldn't help but get angry one place.

It was Mai Lingtong who knew how to read words and expressions. Seeing that the air pressure around Wen Le suddenly dropped, he stretched out his hand and tugged on Dala's sleeve, telling him to shut up quickly.

Seeing the cautious appearance of the two of them, Wen Le couldn't get any more excited, and couldn't stay any longer. She shook her head and said, "Don't forget about picking up the livestock, Lao Mai. I'm not feeling well today, so I'm going back home first. I have something to do Come to the Marquis Mansion to discuss with him, if there is no urgent matter in the past few days, you can stay at home and don't use it to fight."

The two watched him leave, looked at each other, and both saw the lingering worry in each other's eyes.

When he got home, he stayed in the study and stared at the almanac. It was already winter, but Wen Run, who was supposed to be back, still hadn't arrived. What happened?

He thought about the typhoon that affected the shore a lot at the end of October. The local residents did not have the concept of a typhoon, but they knew that they would inevitably be affected by heavy rain and strong winds during the approaching period.It’s just that the typhoon this year was extremely violent. When I communicated with Lu Chang’an some time ago, I heard him say that the coastal area of ​​Fuzhou was severely affected, and a large number of victims’ land was submerged and their houses were destroyed. I heard that the imperial court was extremely devastated by this matter.

Because of its terrain, Fuchun has been hit by typhoons every year since ancient times, but in the most serious cases, it was just flooded some land, and places that are slightly inland generally have no impact.But Wen Le didn't know where the islands Wen Run and the others were looking for were, maybe they had to go north?Then this typhoon is bound to happen.

After thinking about it, Wen Le tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, but still didn't have a better idea, so he could only close his eyes resignedly, and take a look at his mall in the spare time he finally got.

Since he was busy with the construction of Fuchun City, he has rarely had such a lot of time to be busy with the mall. Now he mainly has fixed three partners. One is Zhao Daniu, whom he met for the first time and has been quite hit-to-face with until now. Some time ago, he had to temporarily stop trading because the alcohol he sold was found to be of unknown origin. It is said that he has fled from the Federation Star to another planet for temporary refuge.Fortunately, his identity as the owner of the mall has been strictly controlled, and no one around him knows that the drinks flowed from him. As long as the limelight passes, the impact of this crisis may not be great.However, due to unexpected events, a large number of sales in his industrial chain were temporarily put on hold, which also allowed Wen Le to find a second and third buyer.

The second partner has a strange appearance and looks more like an octopus. He speaks in a hurry but is very polite. He claims to be a chief from the Tartama tribe.This is another place that Wen Le doesn't understand, but according to some information he revealed, most of the similar creatures around him look like this, because he always thinks he looks very handsome.The best quality pearls and jade are from him. They have very little arable land, but there are many mines around them. The stones on the mines grow into jade, but the color is also good or bad. An emerald The appearance of jadeite is also rare, but ordinary ones, such as glass and ice species on the upper side, can still be found occasionally. They basically only produce jadeite like jadeite, and there is no white jade that is more popular today.For a piece of watermelon-sized jade with a slightly higher color, Wen Le exchanged it with them for the price of a [-]-foot piece of linen. One hundred feet of cotton cloth and the coins needed for thirty catties of cotton can be exchanged. Due to their extremely cold climate and the need for cloth, this kind of return is very, very profitable for them and Wen Le.

Although the quality of the jade here is the best, the output is not too much, so the third partner besides them is the only one in the mall that has white jade.The businessman didn't show up from the beginning to the end, mocking himself that he looks a little weird.For them, white jade is not something for decoration, but a medicinal material.Treating their torso shedding is said to work particularly well.He used this as a selling point to sell to Wen Le at the beginning, and Wen Le was very shocked. Later, when the merchant heard that the limbs of the earth would not fall off, he expressed a considerable degree of envy.It is said that each of them has grown nearly [-] pairs of hands and feet, and sometimes they will fall off if they are accidentally bumped. If they are not treated properly, the falling limbs will affect their balance when walking.

Indeed, there are so many wonders in the world.

Wen Le has now opened a total of three warehouses. One warehouse is used by him to store explosives and detonators. Because the price of the original opening was high, the area of ​​this warehouse is quite considerable. These detonators are very inconspicuous in the corner of the warehouse. Wen Le Zheng Rui and the others are now arranged to study cannons. At least a hundred cannons can be placed here.Warehouse No. [-] is now storing the gold nuggets that Wen Run brought back from overseas. After the gold nuggets are smelted, Wen Le receives them here, which is more at ease than putting them outside.The first warehouse, from the beginning to the end, was used to store the spare goods in the mall.

Due to the recent crazy demand for pearls and rough stones, his experience has risen very rapidly, and the number of transactions has reached 99. With another transaction, he can be promoted to a low-level member.

When the low-level threshold is reached, it seems that considerable authority will be opened in the mall again. Wen Le thought about what he needs, and then went back to inspect the warehouse.

Most of the cloth, wine, and some embroideries were bought back from embroidery spinning, and a small part was purchased during the last visit to Lin'an, and the quality of the part bought in Lin'an was slightly better.It's no wonder that women workers like Fu Chun who have just started to touch textiles can't be compared with skilled workers.

Pearls don't seem to be running out of stock...

He looked at his balance, and then tapped the Mr. Chief from the Tartama tribe.

The octopus monster happened to be on the line, and its long pouting mouth seemed to poke out of the screen immediately. He said, "Oh, it's Mr. Wen. How are you after a long time?"

Wen Le touched his nose and said in a low voice, "Okay."

"You don't look as good as you did a few days ago. What happened to you? Speaking of which, the Clam Clan recently sent a large number of pearls. Do you need them hahahahaha?"

Wen Le took a deep breath, trying to figure out a paragraph from this fast text, and then quickly said: "I saw that the pearl inventory displayed on your front desk is only [-] gold coins, and it needs [-] gold coins. Recently, there are Is it a fine jade?"

The octopus monster shook its mouth up and down, and then rolled it up happily: "Of course there are so many hahahahahaha."

Wen Le quickly paid and left. After thinking for a while, he tapped Zhao Daniu's head again.

Zhao Daniu was rare, he greeted Wen Le lazily, looking very tired.After working together for so long, Wen Le rarely saw him like this, so he couldn't help but greet him: "Is the investigation okay?"

Zhao Daniu smiled wryly: "It's probably going to be over soon, and the Federation star is considered to have some family background, so there may not be doubts about him." He paused, and the sadness between his brows remained undiminished, "I saw a post on the forum last night, and it has been deleted now. Post it The author is from outside the galaxy. It is said that the lifeforms that sell the native land have been targeted, and finally posted that the planet has been captured. It took only half an hour for the Kung Fu post to disappear. I remembered that I had sold activated machines in the mall before. It’s not going to get burned like that.”

Wen Le was taken aback: "How could such a thing happen? It's terrible."

"Sell a jug of bars, I'm not in a good mood today because of this matter."

Wen Leyun took a small jar up, set a price for him to take it, and bid him farewell.The mall page began to vibrate frequently when he exited the chat, and after a while, a window popped up with fireworks, and a line of colorful words was written in the middle: "Congratulations on becoming a low-level member of this mall, please click the following link for membership privileges— —”

Wen Le closed the window without even looking at it, refreshed his background, and found that the number of sales windows had increased to ten. There is an extra shop that has never been seen before.

Oh, upgraded the original.

Thinking of the forum that Zhao Daniu mentioned before, he hurriedly clicked to the background page according to his previous memory, found the mall forum in other functions, and clicked it.

Unlike the previous "Your authority is insufficient", the background page paused for a while, became blank, and then refreshed a bright green page.

On the left side of the page are short titles one by one, on the right side is the publication time, and on the far right side is the name of the topic post.This forum appears to be a real-name system.

There is a post showing "new" floating on the homepage, and the content is "Deleted again! Please give an explanation to the administrator of the mall!"

Wen Le clicked in, and it turned out that the post was about the incident that Zhao Daniu just talked about. He thought that the coordinates of the merchants were exposed because the privacy protection of the mall was not good enough, and the emotions of the replies below were all panic ----- "Top The landlord, the coordinates can be fleshed out, the mall is so weak!"

"What if the next call comes to my door? It's selling @#￥%, if I knew it, I wouldn't do this business!" That @#￥% doesn't know what it is, and even the translation is garbled.

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After watching for a while, and refreshing it again, the post could no longer be displayed, Wen Le sighed, knowing that this kind of technical problem can only be done by oneself.Fortunately, the things he sells don't seem to be particularly fatal. As long as you have a fixed partner and don't expose your private information casually, there won't be a big crisis.

He was even more fortunate that he didn't just take out Fuchun's plants and sell them casually. Although there are local fruits for sale in the mall, plants and grain seeds have always been scarce sources.

Coming out of the mall, he wiped the sweat from his brow, and took the two boxes of pearls in front of him to the warehouse, and then sat up from the couch, when he heard hurried footsteps coming from the door.

The door was gently opened, Liandong poked his head in, met Wen Le's gaze, he opened his mouth in surprise, and then said with a happy face: "The Sir has already got up? There is news from the ferry that, The Grand Master's fleet is about to dock!"

"What?" Wen Le was taken aback, and stepped off the couch with bare feet. After walking a few hurried steps, he came back to his senses, and went to pick himself up from the shelf with an embarrassed expression on his face. robes to wear—