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After performing two almost identical scenes in a row, Chen Fangjie felt overwhelmed and felt a little boring.
On the other hand, Wang Mei seemed to enjoy it, but she was even more energetic. Obviously, she liked this kind of life quite a bit, which is a talent.
How could Wang Shouzhe have expected that this mediocre family general, Wang Mei, would start to greedy him when he had nothing to do.
Something happened here.
Overall, Wang Shouzhe is quite satisfied with the completion of the second phase of the task. Not only did they pay a high price of 40,000 dans of old grain, but they also planted a deadly seed in the hearts of Liu Yongzhou and Zhao Dingtian to serve the third plan in the future.
Later, according to the original plan, the Donggang Chen family used two large merchant ships, and specially removed the markings. And the Wang family also transported the grain to Fenggu Farm in advance, using a lot of manpower to transport the grain to a large merchant ship overnight.
Although it seems like a waste of manpower and material resources to transport food back and forth. But in such a special period, a little more caution means more security.
For a Xuanwu family that can be passed down from generation to generation, the most important thing is not huge profits, but a word.
stable!
It is not easy to achieve stability, but in the final analysis there are two major directions, the ability to avoid risks and the ability to resist risks.
If it weren't for the fact that the Wang family is currently in the midst of internal and external troubles, Wang Shouzhe really didn't want to go hand in hand with the Liu family and the Zhao family so quickly. He hopes more to manage the overall situation, lay out long-term plans, and finally crush people with grandeur.
But in the current situation, he can only find a way to achieve the optimal solution.
Time passed day by day.
this day.
Wang Shouzhe practiced as usual, and when he went to the martial arts arena, there was an uncontrollable light in his eyes, and his aura became fierce.
"Patriarch, is this a breakthrough?" The servant Wang Gui felt the powerful aura and said in surprise.
"I just broke through to the seventh level of Qi Refining Realm." Wang Shouzhe couldn't help but feel a little happy despite being calm. Some time ago, Bian had reached the peak of the sixth floor. After some time of consolidation and polishing, he felt something in his heart tonight, directly swallowed a Peiyuan pill, and held the spirit stone in his hand to sprint.
Due to the profound accumulation, coupled with resources and luck, he hit success in one breath.
From today onwards, he, Wang Shouzhe, is at the late stage of Qi refining.
Eighteen years old, seventh floor of Qi Refining Realm!
Looking at the entire Changning Guard, it is also a very good result. Back in the day, Patriarch Longyan achieved this achievement only at the age of eighteen, only half a year earlier than him.
Just after breaking through, the quality and quantity of profound energy, as well as physical fitness, all had a significant improvement.
In the days to come, it is necessary to practice hard to stabilize and familiarize yourself with the new level of strength as soon as possible. However, if one wants to cultivate to the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm, the difficulty is not a little bit, nor can it be done in a short time.
In the martial arts training ground, Wang Shouzhe practiced Xuanwu combat skills, body skills, sword skills, and string control skills. I can obviously feel that I am much stronger than before. I dare not say that I can beat the original two, but I feel that I can barely beat two ordinary sixth-level Qi Refining Realms. The premise is normal...
After some practice, Wang Shouzhe went back to take a bath until the sun was a little hot, and his muscles and bones were already sore.
Then he brewed a small pot of Shanyang Little Spirit Seed in the side hall, calmed down and started to deal with some chores.
"Patriarch, these are the recent information about the Liu family and the Zhao family." Wang Gui sent some letters and information.
Wang Shouzhe flipped through the information, his brows gradually frowned, and at the end, he slapped the table with a "bang", his eyes were full of coldness: "The jackal family is indeed a jackal family, covered in human skin , can't hide the greed and cruelty in his bones."
Although Wang Shouzhe had expected it, once the Liu family and the Zhao family started to implement the merger strategy, their methods would definitely not be gentle. But they didn't want their methods to be so vile and greedy.
Take the Liu family as an example, there are less than 2,000 households under their influence, and the total amount of fertile land has reached 30,000 to 40,000 mu. These self-cultivating farmers have been severely affected by this pest disaster, and even many poorly managed families have no food production after paying for food.
But among these peasant households, there are also quite a few middle peasants, even rich peasants.
Their families are relatively rich, and they habitually hoard some food. Therefore, although the self-cultivating farmers in this area are still short of food as a whole, they borrowed money from each other and endured hardships to barely survive the disaster year.
But as soon as the Liu family intervened, he first arrested a group of middle peasant owners who were hoarding grain. Because they dared to lend grain to others in private, and they dared to make a contract to return double the amount of grain borrowed after the autumn harvest.
In the end, those middle peasants had no choice but to contribute a part of their land in order to obtain Liu's "understanding".
That's all there is to it, some wealthy households see that the folks in the village are pitiful, and take the initiative to help the young and old blind dates, and they don't charge half of the interest.
This undoubtedly violated the fundamental interests of the Liu family. They secretly recruited some rascals from casual cultivators, went to the homes of rich families doing charity every day to make trouble, and also asked for "relief", which made those rich people shrink back to protect themselves.
There is also a rich family with tougher bones, who still secretly help others. In the end, a group of casual cultivators knocked on the door at night, and a dozen members of the family, old and young, all died.
The Liu family has only one purpose, which is to let those families who are out of ammunition and food, mortgage their land in exchange for their old food. According to intelligence, so far, although not many self-cultivating farmers have achieved this step.
But as time went by, the "famine" caused by human factors became more and more serious. Sooner or later, some people would not be able to endure it, and eventually replaced their land with those old grains whose prices had "skyrocketed".
Under this pest plague, in order to avoid various consequences caused by a large number of displaced persons, various areas are usually blocked, making it difficult for civilians to flee to each other. It also brought various conveniences to Liu's plan.
What Liu wanted was "not much", that is, he wanted to annex one-tenth of the property in the area under his jurisdiction. If the method is cruel and fierce, it will definitely be done in two months.
Of course, as an aristocratic family, the Liu family will not violate the law on the surface.
They will adopt the method of "Tantai Heyu" to trade with Liu's, which is called dry gold mortgage loan, and the custody will not cause crimes on the documents.
This is the so-called policy at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. Especially the aristocratic families in the countryside, to those common people, they are like the emperors of the earth. If you don't want to lose face, you can really do whatever you want.
At this moment, Wang Shouzhe regretted having "sold" Chen Liang to the Liu family and the Zhao family.
But this idea is only fleeting, even if he doesn't make a move, the Liu family and the Zhao family will still get food from other places and stage the same plan. On the contrary, it is tantamount to helping their cronies and friends, and it will also make the situation out of control.
"People's grievances have arisen. Inform Wang Zhong to close the net and start a sniper plan. At the same time, find out the whereabouts of that group of Miemen casual cultivators." Wang Shouzhe wrote a secret order for his family to send out with a gloomy face.
Although it is said that if there is any further delay, the accumulation of public grievances will be even worse, and it will be more beneficial to Wang's future plans to wait until the peak of public grievances to attack. But again, that would most likely cause more tragedies for civilian families.
After dealing with the matter, he drank a few cups of Yangshan Little Spirit Seed to calm down.
"Patriarch, don't forget that the second young master of the Liu family will come to visit today." Wang Gui carefully reminded him under his words.
The second young master of the Liu family
After this reminder, Wang Shouzhe remembered that he had received a letter from the Liu family a few days ago, saying that Liu Yuanrui, the second son of the Liu family patriarch, planned to arrive at Dingpu Ferry at noon today to visit the Wang family.
Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan, daughter of the Liu family, are already engaged. According to etiquette, Mrs. Wang will send personnel with corresponding identities to greet her. Such reception tasks are usually given to the patriarch's son.
It's just that Wang Shouzhe hasn't married yet, and Liu Yuanrui is his future brother-in-law, so he can only go to meet him in person.
Prepare the carriage, prepare some melons and fruits, and call two generals.
A group of people headed for Dingpu Ferry, and the carriage passed by the outside of Zhuwei Lake.
At this time, the shore of Zhuwei Lake has changed. Hundreds of young and strong tenant farmers of the Wang family were photographed here, cleaning up the reeds around Zhuwei Lake, leveling the land, and building greenhouses.
The person in charge of this work is the third child of the Shouzi generation—Wang Shounuo. The tanned, tall and strong young man was organizing young men to unload some wood and stone. When he saw Wang Shouzhe's carriage, he greeted Wang Shouzhe and continued to work.
These work sheds and so on are built to serve the next step of the plan. Seeing that the third child is busy, naturally he doesn't bother.
The carriage continued to sway unsteadily, all the way to Dingpu Ferry.
At this ferry, the Wang family also has some shop and ferry business. However, most of them were entrusted to the management of Wang's collateral lineage, and they were all hard work such as transporting, and there was not much profit.
Wang Shouzhe went straight to the deep water trestle, and after waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, he saw a ferry coming. After it docked, Liu Yuanrui and his party did their part to get off the ferry first.
From a distance, Wang Shouzhe greeted him with a smile on his face: "Yuanrui is here, Shouzhe is welcome, rude and rude, forgive me."
Liu Yuanrui is not yet sixteen years old this year, although his complexion is a bit immature, but against the background of his fine clothes, he is quite handsome like a heroic boy.
He also came forward with a smile and waved his hands to return the salute: "Yuanrui has met brother Shouzhe, and it is Yuanrui who has taken the liberty to come here to chatter. Please forgive me." .
The children of the Xuanwu family, especially the descendants, have received elite education since childhood, and the requirements for behavior and etiquette are very strict. It's not that there are no children of that kind of family who make trouble everywhere, are full of hostility, and are prone to provocation. It's just that it is very rare. At least in front of people, he must be personable and well-educated.
Just when the two were exchanging greetings.
A pretty girl's voice came from behind Liu Yuanrui: "Brother-in-law, you look better than I imagined."
Brother-in-law
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