Chapter 823： abacus

Lingnan suddenly calmed down, unlike the uproar a few days ago when the officials went to the countryside to inspect rice seeds, it seemed very peaceful to re-distribute the seeds at this time.

But everyone knows that this is the tranquility before the storm. The Royal Palace of Rong County cannot swallow this loss, and the court is not willing to suffer this loss.

The farmers' grain was replaced, and the legendary culprit, the second master Qin, disappeared without a trace. Who will bear the consequences?

If it was the previous dynasty or any other court, the farmers who were replaced with rice seeds might have to swallow the bitter fruit themselves, because the harvesting grain shop that sold the rice seeds was right, and the yamen was not responsible, and they could not catch the "Second Master Qin". ", can only suffer from this loss.

But now Fengshou Grain Shop and Yamen have re-issued seeds to them. Although the number of dry rice No. 1 is directly reduced by more than half, it is other rice seeds or corn seeds, but they are also satisfied.

But the harvest grain shop and the yamen have to bear the cost of this second seed?

No one can bear it silently, so the tranquility at this time is very disturbing. Not only the middle and upper classes, but also the small merchants and hawkers on the street are paying attention to the news of Qirong County Palace and Yamen, for fear of missing any news.

In this almost suffocating atmosphere, it was even more difficult for a few gentlemen with ghosts in their hearts. They felt that after this incident, their lifespan would be reduced by at least five years. Is it too difficult?

Wei Shishen even regretted it. He should not have agreed to this matter in the first place. Now he can't get off the pirate ship. Once the Rongjun Wangfu knows that they are colluding with outsiders to dig up the walls, the Rongjunwang will definitely break their bodies into pieces. Thousands of pieces.

Thinking of Qi Haoran's brutal reputation in Western Xia, Wei Shishen sat on the chair and his legs were shaking.

Qian Shishen looked down on Wei Shishen's appearance, and said: "The matter has been done, what's the use of Wei Shixiong regretting now? It's better to think about how to solve it."

"You didn't say that you would be found!" Wei Shishen said angrily: "At that time, when you followed the second master Qin to persuade us, you said that the seeds will not be found when the seeds are replaced. When the rice is harvested in autumn, they will also I would only suspect that it was the fault of the Dry Rice No. 1, but the seeds were discovered before they germinated. Once the matter is known to the Rongjun Wangfu, will we still have a way out?"

Tan squire looked at the two of them and said after deliberation: "It's not that bad, they can't find evidence after all, and now they haven't found us either..."

Squire Wei sneered, "How do you know that they didn't find it? Maybe they are holding back now, evidence? Hmph, with the power of the Prince Rong Palace, do they need evidence to clean up us?"

Everyone was flustered by what he said. Qian Shishen saw that he was inciting people's hearts, his face suddenly gloomy, and he sneered: "Whoever he is, under the emperor's land, could it be that he dares to arrest us without giving evidence? I'm afraid, why did you get on our boat in the first place? Don't rush forward when you smell the fragrance, and you will be discouraged when you see the danger."

"You!" Wei Shishen glared at him with an ugly face, "Smell the fragrance? What fragrance is there at this time? Harvest Grain Shop and Yamen together transferred a large number of grain seeds, even if they planted more than ten days late, the harvest would not be better than the harvest. Where do we go to, apart from the No. 1 upland rice that we risked to plant in the ground, what else have we got? But which one of us is short of that few kilograms of rice? We are looking at the ground, not the seeds!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Qian Shishen with some resentment. Qian Shishen was so angry that he did not force them to board the boat with a knife.

But in the hearts of Wei Shishen and others, Qian Shishen was the leader of this matter. Who would you call him if something went wrong?

It was Qian Shishen who brought Qin Erye to see them at the beginning. They agreed that they would help Qin Erye hide the news and clear the traces. Qin Erye would divide the rice seeds they got into 30%. Of course, the 30% had to be bought for money.

But are they looking for rice seeds?

No, rice seeds are not enough to buy this year, and they can keep enough for themselves next year and the year after. They are looking at the land of those farmers who never harvest!

The rice has never been harvested. As soon as the tax is collected in the fall, they have to sell the land. This is a good time for them to buy land.

There is no way, the emperor of Daqi and the king of Rongjun are too ruthless, the emperor has made a law that every household with more than 200 mu of farmland cannot open up unowned wasteland, but can only buy it.

As Xixia ravaged Lingnan in those days, they lost a lot of land deeds when they fled, and the land that was arbitrarily encircled due to the war and had not had time to make a deed to the yamen was all distributed by Qi Haoran to the exiled people and lost land. peasants.

They didn't spend money to enclose the land, but they did spend money to buy officials. Obviously they have earned a big business, and they returned to the original starting point in a blink of an eye.

How are they willing?

But Daqi is not like Dazhou. Land cannot be bought and sold casually. I wanted to take advantage of the establishment of the new dynasty and buy some fields at low prices when the order was not stable. Who knew that other orders in Daqi would be chaotic, but they were stuck on the land sale. It is very strict, even if the seller is willing, if the conditions are not met, they will not be able to easily pass the yamen checkpoint, even if it is useless to give the officials money.

So Qian Shishen only checked the relationship with them, thinking that if those who had been exchanged for rice seeds could not pay the tax during the autumn harvest, they could only sell the land, and the yamen would definitely not stop them from making a contract in order to receive the tax. , so I agreed.

Because Qian Shishen and them analyzed it very clearly, they only targeted those farmers who could not recognize the seeds. Moreover, the rice seeds were all about the same size and were bought from the grain store. Who would have thought that this was fake?

took ten thousand steps back and said that even if they were discovered, the yamen could not find any evidence against them. They paid for the rice seeds, which can be said to have been bought from merchants in the south of the Yangtze River.

But when things came to an end, Wei Shishen and others were afraid. If the Rongjun Wangfu found traces, would they really need evidence to ask them about their guilt?

In other words, the calmness of Juzhou these few days has made them more and more flustered.

Wei Shishen and Qian Shishen had a quarrel, and returned home angrily, they bumped into the butler head-on. He was knocked back two steps, and the butler pulled him back in fear, "Master, are you all right, master?"

"Go away," Wei Shishen waved him away and said angrily, "Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

The housekeeper wiped off his sweat and said in a nonchalant manner, "Small, is the young chasing people?"

"Who are you chasing?" Wei Shishen asked casually.

The butler's face was pale, and he looked carefully at Wei Shishen's face and said, "Go and chase after Xixing."

Mr. Wei wanted to turn his hands and leave, but after hearing this, he paused, stared at the housekeeper coldly, and asked, "Xing Xing escaped?"

"No, no, Xixing's elder brother, Xile, took the money to redeem people. The little boy was not there at the time, so they begged the wife, and the wife agreed when she was soft-hearted. Now Xile has taken his brother away, and the little boy is To chase it out."