Chapter 1825 Bargaining
The Fan family simply didn't care about this kind of small change. Even if it was waived, they would still be angry and heartbroken.
You have to know that in previous years, they only paid four hundred taels. This time, it increased more than ten times!
Mrs. Fan meant to ask the Chancellor Guanzhou to help delay the matter until this annoying Lord Shao left Anzezhou, and then the matter would naturally come to nothing.
Lord Shao challenges the bandits. Can those bandits with bad tempers, arrogance and killing without blinking an eye endure it?
So, is Lord Shao still far from leaving?
Guanzhou Cheng: "..."
Guanzhou Cheng was quite convinced by Mrs. Fan’s logic!
I was so convinced that I almost laughed out of anger!
If Guanzhou Cheng wants to delay, it depends on whether Shao Yunduan agrees.
Shao Yunduan pressed the issue very urgently. Just as Guanzhou Cheng was about to give a vague explanation, Shao Yunduan gave him an ultimatum, demanding a result the next day!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have to do this job, and he would personally lead people to the Fan family the day after tomorrow.
How many families are watching the Fan family? If the Fan family doesn't pay taxes, how can they collect taxes from other families? If other families say "bullying the weak and fearing the strong", wouldn't his image as the prefect be greatly damaged? The majesty that he has established with great difficulty will immediately collapse.
For him, this was something that he absolutely could not allow to happen.
Guanzhou Cheng was awed. He knew that Shao Yunduan was a man who would do what he said. How could he dare to let Shao Yunduan contact the Fan family?
He had something to hide. What if the Fan family was implicated in the fact that they had concealed 40,000 acres of fertile land and had not reported it?
Guanzhou Cheng had no choice but to agree and went to Fan's house again the next day.
Old Madam Fan naturally refused, and couldn't help looking down on Guan Zhoucheng in her heart. She thought to herself, no wonder the governor of Anze Prefecture has been replaced like a revolving lantern, but it has never been his turn to take the position. He is really useless!
Lord Shao captured him with just a few words.
Old Madam Fan insisted that Guan Zhoucheng carry out the strategy of procrastination to the end. She didn't want to pay any attention to him at first, but she was annoyed by his constant begging and reluctantly agreed to give 500 taels first. The rest would be paid in stages, and at least they had to wait until the Fan family sold all the grain. Now the Fan family was short of money and couldn't get the cash together for the time being...
Guanzhou Cheng was also a little angry.
He was a dignified provincial governor, and he had already humbled himself to such an extent, but this old woman only gave him a mere five hundred taels!
If it were in previous years, he would be happy.
But now, Lord Shao wants seven thousand taels, how can he give five hundred taels? ?
Is this Lord Shao so easy to fool?
Who would believe a family like the Fan family when they say they are short of money?
If you need 70,000 or 700,000 taels at once, it might be reasonable to say that you are short of money, but 7,000 taels... are you embarrassed to do that?
For an ordinary family, this is indeed a huge sum of money, but this is the Fan family!
Guan Zhoucheng had no choice but to hold back his anger and continue to harass. Old Lady Fan was fed up with him and angrily said that she would give him another two hundred taels at most, no more! He was a Zhoucheng after all, couldn't he do such a simple thing as delaying? Then he had been a Zhoucheng for so many years in vain...
Guanzhou Cheng almost fainted after giving his heart out and humbled himself to the ground, only to receive two hundred taels to treat a beggar.
He knew that Mrs. Fan would never give him more money, so he had to return to the yamen with the 700 taels of silver.
Just delay it, there is no other way!
(End of this chapter)
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