The first thing Liu Pei did when he returned to Fushan Village was to invite the whole village to hold a meeting. All the villagers appeared in the square in the middle of the village in the afternoon. The villagers gathered in a noisy manner, waiting for Liu Pei to speak.

Liu Pei looked at the noisy villagers, squinting his eyes and saying nothing. Liu Pei had been commanding hundreds of men for a long time, and had led them into battle, so he naturally exuded a sense of majesty. Villagers

We soon felt the different atmosphere and slowly became quiet.

Liu Pei then said: "I invite you all to come here today because I want to discuss some things with you. That is to say, all of Fushan Village must be moved."

Liu Pei's words caused a burst of uproar among the villagers! "Move? Where to move? Don't move!"

"No way! Our ancestors settled here back then, how can we move away?"

"That's right, our ancestral halls are all here!"

"Why should we be moved? We won't move!"

"..."

Looking at the chaos below, Liu Pei said nothing. Uncle Qi had angry with Liu Pei beforehand, so he understood the reason. So he shouted with all his strength: "Quiet, everyone! Quiet! Everyone, listen carefully to what Liu Baihu said.

?”

Only then did everyone remember that the person in front of them was not the smiling villager Liu Pei, but Liu Pei, the official of 100 households! Moreover, he had commanded his men to kill many people! He was a ruthless person! Only then did everyone feel guilty

The fearful people died down and became quiet.

When Liu Pei saw that everyone was quiet, he continued: "I know what you mean, it is hard to leave your homeland! But if you think about it carefully, it turns out that this place is also uninhabited. It is our ancestors who worked hard to open up wasteland and built today's village.

It doesn’t mean that we have been here since the beginning of the world! And we also have an old saying that if you move a tree, you will die, and if you move people, they will live! If we have a better life in the future, what if we move away?”

Someone in the crowd whispered: "It's easy to say! It's not you who moved! You must want to get all these lands under your name!" This caused another commotion among the villagers.

Liu Pei didn't want to quarrel with the villagers anymore, so he waved his hand to the people below to be quiet, and said: "The reason why I asked everyone to move is actually for everyone's consideration. I and Yang Qianhu have reached an agreement

The condition is that from now on, each family’s rent must be handed over directly to me.”

The villagers below were in chaos again. This time they were really scared! Because now their rent was in Liu Pei's hands, Liu Pei had all kinds of means to punish them! And Liu Pei and Yang Jingfa reached an agreement

The news has not been spread at all, so the villagers still don’t know about it. So Liu Pei’s announcement of this news at this time has achieved results.

Liu Pei then continued: "Everyone, in the wasteland I bought, near the river, I have prepared a piece of land for everyone. Even the houses and fields have been sorted out by the refugees. They are just waiting for the masons.

Once construction starts, the houses over there can be built. And all your land will be exchanged at a ratio of one to two. In other words, if you move from here and have two acres of land at home, you can get four acres of land there!

"

The smiling people below started talking again, but everyone's faces showed excitement. But someone in the crowd said: "What's the use of giving us so much land? We still have to pay so much rent!"

"That's right! If there is less land, we can still plant. If there is too much land, we can't plant. The harvest will be small. If we can't pay the rent, wouldn't we be even more unlucky?"

Liu Pei slapped the table and said: "Who is talking! Can you wait until I finish speaking? In addition, if you want to say something, don't say it secretly, stand up and say it!"

Seeing that the villagers were being honest, Liu Pei snorted and said, "You still have to pay the rent for your land! But you only have to pay 35% of the actual harvest every year! And there is no rent this year!"

After Liu Pei said this, he waited for the villagers to cheer him and worship him! But the strange thing is that not only did no one speak, but there was a look of fear on everyone's face! Liu Pei was surprised that these people today

What happened?

In fact, Liu Pei still doesn't understand these villagers. Even though he has lived with the villagers for a long time, he has no worries about food and drink and has not really turned himself into a farmer, so he does not really understand the villagers' thoughts.

According to the previous practice, the villagers paid all the rent and grain grains collected by the guards. If the family had three or four floors left, they would be regarded as honest! Some farmers were even worse. After paying all the rent, they only had

One or two floors down! So

The spring famine is so difficult every year!

The conditions Liu Pei promised to the villagers sound good, but who knows how they will be implemented? The previous superiors also used this routine. They first promised to coax the villagers into obedience, and then finally changed their attitude, and the villagers' things were taken away.

They all became the property of Shangguan's family! That's why the villagers showed fear after hearing Liu Pei's promise! They thought that Liu Baihu had also started to trick them! The villagers were ignorant, but they were not stupid! After that,

Once you’ve seen it, you naturally know it by heart!

At this time, Uncle Zhang, the oldest man in the village, took a few steps forward and said slowly: "Liu Baihu, since you came to the village, you have helped our village a lot! I see it all, old man. But

You can’t make fun of everyone’s livelihood!”

Liu Pei looked at the face in front of her that was full of wrinkles carved by time, as well as the uneasy yet hopeful eyes. Liu Pei felt sad and almost shed tears!

It is these people who are as humble as dust and grass, but they support the foundation of the existence of Chinese civilization. In times of peace, there are endless taxes and labor tormenting them to satisfy the desires of those high-ranking officials and powerful people. In times of war,

It is these people who have paid the most blood and sweat. But they have never received the goodwill of high-ranking officials and powerful people. What awaits them is only more and heavier cruel exploitation that is close to robbery! They endure it silently, generation after generation.

!

So Liu Pei looked into the old man's eyes and said seriously: "Uncle Zhang, as you said, you can't joke about everyone's livelihood! Let me repeat what I said. First, after moving to the village, each person can get one more

times the land. Secondly, you have to pay me all the rent, but the rent is only 3.5% of the harvest, and no rent will be collected this year! I, Liu Pei, keep my word! If there is any lie, I will be struck by lightning!

"

Now everyone was cheering and screaming! Some were shouting, some were laughing, and some were crying. The place was a mess. Liu Pei let everyone vent, but Uncle Qi couldn't stand it anymore. He patted his thigh and shouted

: "You are a bunch of old people! You are all older than Liu Pei. When Liu Pei was talking just now, you were interrupting and talking behind his back! Now you think you are taking advantage? You have to thank Liu Peizhi for this."
Chapter completed!