“When buying land in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they could use real silver notes.”

The real name of the company that bought the land, "Su Zhe", is Nan Xing!

The "owner" selling the prime shop is actually named Bei Chen.

The shop assistant at the "silver shop" was actually named Xiu Ning.

The young master who is now collecting the "fake" banknotes is actually named Guan Yan.

Xie Zhaozhao now truly understands.

Emperor Chen, you cunning bastard, just how many schemes have you been plotting?

If the people of Xujia Village knew they had personally lost all their real silver notes, they'd probably be spitting blood!

*Xujia Village.

"I am the young master of Guotai Bank. I will accept one counterfeit banknote for one tael of silver, and I will only accept a few samples and then stop."

Guan Yan, dressed in fine clothes, exuded the imposing aura of a young bank owner.

His words made everyone clearly feel once again how painful it is to have counterfeit money.

Regardless of the face value, each piece of paper was only exchanged for one tael of silver, and people had to rush to exchange it, otherwise it would just be a worthless piece of paper that rotted in their hands.

Everyone knew they had counterfeit banknotes and were reluctant to exchange them, but if they didn't, they wouldn't even be worth a tael.

The constables followed Xu Lizheng to Xujia Village to investigate, where they encountered Guan Yan buying counterfeit banknotes.

The constable asked him suspiciously, "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

Guan Yan said, "I am the young master of Guotai Bank. I heard that there are counterfeit banknotes here, so I came to take a look and collect a few to study how they are counterfeited and to strengthen our anti-counterfeiting measures."

That makes perfect sense.

The constable said, "You can't collect them all; we need to collect evidence."

"I certainly won't accept too many counterfeit banknotes; I'll just keep some for research purposes."

The constables asked around the village and said they also needed to ask the two neighboring villages.

The swindler named Su Zhe has been gone for many days. The constable sighed and said, "The chances of finding him are very small. Don't have any hope. This person is definitely here to swindle people."

"What should we do? Officer, you must do us justice!"

"I've been a constable for over ten years and I've seen plenty of swindlers, but this is the first time I've seen something this big."

This person might have already fled to another country. Such a huge scam—if they stay in Yulong Kingdom, they'll be killed if caught.

Who's still waiting in the country?

The constable asked around, looked at the villagers with sympathy, and left.

Guan Yan said, "Do you want to sell? If not, I'm leaving."

Upon hearing this, the village head quickly took the "fake banknotes" and sold them to Guan Yan.

“Look how pitiful the whole village is, isn’t it too cheap for you to give one tael of silver per piece?” the village headman said.

Guan Yan laughed and said, "Village head, these are counterfeit banknotes! I only gave you one tael of silver out of pity!"

"For tickets worth less than ten taels, we'll exchange them one ticket; for tickets worth more than ten taels, can we exchange one tael for every ten taels?"

Guan Yan shook his head: "If I have to pay 500 taels for a 5,000 tael silver note, wouldn't I be a fool?"

The village head pleaded repeatedly, explaining that those who had received more than five hundred taels were mostly people like him and Master Xu, and that other commoners didn't have that much money.

Guan Yan finally decided that one hundred taels would be exchanged for one tael, and the remaining smaller amounts would be exchanged for one tael per sheet.

Soon, Guan Yan had exchanged a lot of silver notes.

However, he would remind some ordinary small households that their small denomination silver coins were real money, which made some of them very happy.

But he was not polite at all to the village head, Uncle Xu, Xu Tiezhu, and the village chief—all of theirs were fake.

Everyone was a bit afraid of banknotes, so Guan Yan basically paid with cash and large sums of money instead of banknotes.

Perfectly completed.

After leaving the town, he immediately changed the decorations on the carriage and his own clothes.

The young master of Guotai Bank has disappeared from the public eye ever since.

Selling land and counterfeit banknotes drained the entire village of its strength.

The village chief, the village head, and Uncle Xu were the three families who suffered the most losses.

Master Xu was a scholar. Some people used to register land under his name to evade taxes. When his family suffered misfortune, he secretly claimed all the land as his own.

He always took 20% of the harvest from the fields registered under his name, so he lived a good life and gradually accumulated 200 acres of land, becoming a new landlord.

This time, they gambled away the principal and interest.

When someone revealed that the land sold by the entire village had actually been sold for ten times the original price, the villagers' anger reached its peak, and the three families were smashed to pieces by the villagers.

Master Xu suffered a stroke. His children and grandchildren, having suddenly fallen from heaven to hell, couldn't take care of him. Master Xu passed away before the first month of the lunar calendar was over.

The village chief and the village head had their homes smashed and their heads broken by villagers.

At the beginning of the first month of the lunar calendar, bricks and stones were piled up around the garden, waiting for the ground to thaw so that the foundation for the wall could be laid.

There was no progress in the Xujiacun case, but Zhou Shaoyu took action and cleaned up the mess quite thoroughly.

The people from Jiangsu and Zhejiang only deceived the people of Xujia Village. Except for a few families, the land in Wangxiaozhuang and Wangji was sold to the government.

Xu Li finally returned, Xu Erlei was found, but Xu Sanduo was not. After the mine was found, Zhou Shaoyu immediately ordered the arrest of the illegal mine owner, the local magistrate, and their entire family, killing those who should be killed and exiling those who should be exiled.

Xu Li personally went with the local chief steward to arrest the man, and also searched the mine, but couldn't find Xu Sanduo.

The mine owner only had a simple roll call for registration, and the names were remembered very roughly; once someone died, a mark was crossed out.

Xu Li looked at the list and burst into tears. He really didn't know which entry was for his own brother.

Xu Erlei was working as a bodyguard in the household of the son of a scholar in the prefectural city. Xu Li redeemed him, but the scholar's son didn't want the money back. He insisted on forming a good relationship with Xu Erlei and returned the indenture to him.

Xu Li and Xu Erlei, along with Xu Erlang, returned to Xu Family Village.

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