Zhou Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao, upon hearing Bei Chen's report, held Xiao Heng'er and looked out the window.

Little Heng'er saw those people beating Manager Tian, ​​and the chubby little boy pointed and anxiously wanted to go down: "Father, beat the bad guys!"

"No rush! Little Heng'er, it's more fun for your father to raise pigs until they're fat and then slaughter them."

Xiao Heng'er: "Father, I don't understand..."

"You're small and stupid!"

"Your subject is not stupid!" Slaughtering pigs and eating meat, humph!

Xie Zhaozhao said, "A country boy who becomes rich overnight can turn so wicked in just over ten days. It seems he is evil by nature."

“Well, I’ll take Xiao Heng’er to Xu Family Village later,” Zhou Shaoyu said. “The feng shui there is quite good.”

Xu Li pointed out that in his "dream," the place where Xie Zhaozhao's ashes were buried was the place he wanted to plant flowers and create the most beautiful garden.

Xie Zhaozhao said with a smile, "Since the feng shui is good, I'll go take a look too."

“You don’t need to go.” Zhou Shaoyu felt distressed at the thought of that place.

Xu Erlang and his gang of hooligans had already taken twenty taels of silver from Manager Tian and were also demanding that he cook for them.

Manager Tian pleaded repeatedly, saying that he didn't have any ingredients at all, and that the guests upstairs had brought them themselves.

Xu Erlang and Ying Biao were furious and insisted on going upstairs to extort money from Xie Zhaozhao and the others.

Manager Tian knelt down and kowtowed, begging them not to disturb them.

Ying Biao's eyes darted around, and he said to Xu Erlang, "Young Master Xu, your father is a great general, a favorite of His Majesty. You take the lead, let's make a big score?"

Nanxing and Beichen were standing at the door upstairs. Xu Erlang was a little scared and said, "Let's go to the brothel for a drink first, and then we'll find them later."

Ying Biao laughed heartily: "Alright, I'll do whatever Young Master Xu says."

The group of people left carrying several jars of fine wine belonging to Manager Tian.

Aunt Tian cried, "Half a year's work for nothing! I'm not going to open this inn anymore."

Tian Yaozu clenched his fist and said, "Mother, don't cry. I'll earn some more money and leave this place."

The next day.

Before dawn, Xu Li immediately brought Changming and Bo Mu to the inn to kowtow to Zhou Shaoyu and Xie Zhaozhao.

He knelt on the ground for a long time without getting up, feeling extremely guilty and angry because of Xu Erlang's actions.

Xie Zhaozhao asked Yuanyuan to give him a red envelope: "You didn't come yesterday, so as usual, one red envelope for each of us."

Xu Li thanked him again.

Zhou Shaoyu said, "Get up. I'd like to talk to you about buying all the land in your hometown."

"As you command, Master."

*

Prefect Guo Rong had already ordered his men to bring his official robes, and the carriage bearing the insignia of the prefect's office had also arrived. He rode in the carriage to the county office.

Ying Wenlong never expected that Guo Rong would come to his county government office on the first day of the Lunar New Year. He was stunned for a moment, then quickly welcomed Guo Rong into the county government office.

Guo Rong told him not to be polite, that he had something urgent to discuss with him.

They said they had received a notice from the imperial court, requiring the construction of a large-scale commodity trading market in the area of ​​Xujia Village, Wangxiaozhuang (next to Xujia Village), and Wangji (next to Xujia Village).

The government will pay a high price to buy land. For example, normally one mu of good quality land costs ten to twenty guan, but this time the government will buy it at fifty to one hundred guan per mu.

A mu of medium-quality land can sell for thirty or forty guan.

Ying Wenlong's mouth watered: Five times the price!

If a trading post were built in this place, it would be incredibly easy for the people around here to become rich.

Ying Wenlong asked, "Are you really going to choose Wen County? The market can be built near the county seat, which will make it easier to manage."

He wanted to live in the outskirts of Beijing, where his father-in-law was a large landowner in Wen County, owning tens of thousands of acres of fertile land outside the city.

Guo Rong said, "The places like Xujia Village are closer to the border, making them more suitable for building a market town. I'm not here to discuss this with you, but to inform you."

Ying Wenlong swallowed hard; he had to get involved.

He immediately instructed his son to relay a message to his father-in-law, as well as to the village heads of Xujia Village, Wangxiaozhuang, and Wangji, informing them that the prefect was planning to buy land there to build a trading post.

Tell them to hurry up and buy land there in advance, even some dilapidated houses and old courtyards, and buy them at low prices before the local people know about them.

They bought land at low prices and sold it to the government at high prices, making a huge profit.

Buy a plot of land near the border market, and you'll make a fortune opening an inn or restaurant.

Nanxing Beichen stared at Ying Wenlong and discovered that he not only secretly sent messages to his father-in-law, but also tipped off those villages.

Soon after, Ying Wenlong's father-in-law was seen sending different people to Xujia Village, Wangxiaozhuang, and Wangji to ask the village heads to buy land and homesteads.

In just two days, all the old houses and abandoned homesteads in Xujiacun, Wangxiaozhuang, and Wangji were bought up.

Some people even offered double the price per acre to lure villagers into selling their land.

Land is the lifeblood of ordinary people, and generally no one would sell their land.

It was strange in itself that a landlord suddenly came to buy land, even buying up dilapidated houses and old dwellings in the village at high prices.

So none of them were willing to sell.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Xu Li returned to Xu Family Village with Zhou Shaoyu's instructions.

He took Xu Erlang with him when he went.

Xu Li and Xu Erlang returned to Xu Family Village, saying they had found craftsmen to repair their parents' graves. When Xu Tiezhu saw them return, he approached them, wanting money.

The village head and Master Xu immediately and enthusiastically pulled Xu Li to their home.

Master Xu stopped putting on airs and asked Xu Li, "Little Fatty, do you know that the government is going to build a trading post here?"

"I know, but I'm not entirely sure. I work for the Ministry of War, not the Ministry of Revenue."

The village head and Master Xu hurriedly said, "We are going to establish a trading market here to trade with Tibet, Nanzhao, Pyu and other countries. Do you know that? If the trading market is opened in our area, our descendants will become rich."

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