Three days later, in the backyard of Shangguan's mansion.

On the large school grounds, Shangguan Shenhao stood in awe with his hands behind his back.

In front of him, a black bison with a size of one foot was charging towards him.

Not only is this bison huge, its body is even more muscular, and its chest is covered in scales. Every step it takes makes the earth tremble.

It lowered its head and pointed its sharp horns forward, its eyes were scarlet, and its whole body was filled with black energy.

Shangguan Shenhao remained motionless until the buffalo hit less than five feet in front of him, then he waved his left arm and suddenly struck the buffalo on the head.

With a loud "boom" sound.

The bison's hind hooves were raised high under the huge momentum, while the bison's forehead collapsed deeply.

By the time the bison's body crashed to the ground, there was no sound.

At this time, on the edge of the school grounds, a handsome man wearing a scholar's robe clapped his hands and said: "The master of the Shangguan family is so strong in cultivation. This demonic cow has a cultivation level of sixth level. When it collides, ordinary fifth-level people would not dare to correct themselves.

He raised his head, but he couldn't stop the attack from the master of the Shangguan family."

Shangguan Shenhao didn't answer. He looked down at his 'left hand'.

This is an arm made of gold and iron, with an icy cold glow on the surface and mysterious light golden lines.

Shangguan Shenhao's face was extremely gloomy, and there was hatred deep in his pupils.

His real left hand will never come back.

After a little while, the handsome man couldn't wait impatiently and asked with a smile: "I wonder if the head of the Shangguan family is still satisfied with this arm? To be honest, this is one of the best works of our Shenji Sect in recent years. Not only can it be regarded as a normal

When used with his arm, its power is equivalent to that of a fifth-grade magic weapon, and it looks pretty good.

With the help of this thing, Shangguan family master, not only will his combat power not be compromised, but he will even be better than before. The price I am offering you is also very fair, and I am honest with you."

Shangguan Shenhao looked indifferent, glanced at the handsome man, and then ordered the butler standing by: "Take him to the accounting room and give him money!"

The handsome man smiled and followed the butler away.

Just as the two of them walked out of the door, the handsome man saw a young man with a face like a full moon walking in.

The handsome man recognized this as Long Heng, the eldest son of the Long family.

He subconsciously glanced at the man's left arm, and then sighed.

such a pity!

The arm is extended, otherwise it will be another big deal.

When Long Heng walked into the courtyard, he also looked at Shangguan Shenhao's left hand, paying close attention.

However, Shangguan Shenhao retracted his gold and iron arm and hid it in his sleeve: "Has the matter of Xishan Hall been settled?"

Long Heng smiled slightly and looked back: "It's almost done. After the New Year, the remaining twenty shops will also return their leases from Xishan Hall's shops. They have also promised not to do anything in Xishan Town as much as possible.

Large transactions.

I can guarantee that after the New Year, Chu Xisheng and the others will not receive any rent in Xishan Town, nor will they receive any city tax exceeding one tael of magic silver."

Shangguan Shenhao frowned when he heard this: "That alone is not enough. What about those wealthy and wealthy families in Xishan? What do they say?"

Long Heng smiled bitterly when he heard this: "At present, only three companies have agreed to join forces to fight the tax, which is not yet a success. The young tyrant still has some reputation. This matter needs to be discussed in the long term."

Shangguan Shenhao's idea was to mobilize local wealthy families to join forces to resist the tax.

In the next few months, if the poll tax and land tax near Xishan cannot be collected, then the money can be planted on the head of Chu Xisheng, the 'township leader'.

The county can justifiably attack Chu Xisheng.

However, this is different from the situation of renting out, which means not doing business with Xishan Hall. Armed resistance to taxes is a direct enemy of Xishan Hall.

The problem is that the Iron Banner Gang is very intimidating, and Chu Xisheng even used the elite of the Eight Hundred Selected Fengtang to capture Xishan and forced Shangguan Shenhao to cut off his arm with three swords and six holes.

It is normal for wealthy people in those places to have concerns.

"Let Shen Zhou think of a way. The Shen family has been operating in Xishan Town for hundreds of years, and he is familiar with people there."

The corner of Shangguan Shenhao's lips raised slightly, and his pupils showed a stern look: "In addition to the wealthy and aristocratic families in these places, you can also provoke those Xishan hunters. In the past, Liu Dingtang relied on the Xishan Junjun and Baiyun Village, the Nine Swordsmen and these Xishan hunters.

Bandits must master both black and white so that they can smoothly collect blood tax from them, but why does Chu Xisheng?"

Long Heng crossed his arms and shook his head slightly: "Shen Zhou still doesn't want to see me. He is very resentful towards you and me for standing by and watching."

"What qualifications does he have to complain? I was forced to cut off my arm a month ago, so why did he ever lend a helping hand to my family?"

Shangguan Shenhao sneered: "If you don't want to see him, then let his housekeeper tell him that he wants to take back Xishan and rebuild Yima Valley, so he has to do something. You are right, for people like Shen Zhou, the only way is to force them

Only by forcing them to die personally. You and I are fighting to the death with the Iron Flag Gang, how can we let them just watch from the sidelines and be just spectators?"

At this time, he noticed that Long Heng's expression was hesitant, as if he was hesitant to speak.

Shangguan Shenhao couldn't help but snorted coldly, his eyes impatient: "What do you want to say? Just say what you have to say, don't be pretentious."

"I just don't know whether to say it or not."

Long Heng's eyes were fixed: "There is something very strange, and I am a little unsure. During the past three days, Chu Xisheng was buying land in the Xishan area and north of the east dock of the city, or using the high-quality farmland under his name

, exchanging land and land with various hometown tycoons.

I went to the county government office before I came here. On the occasion of the New Year, the government office had already locked up. Those civil servants who were supposed to take a break were invited back by him with money to revise the land registration book for him. The land he bought this time

It’s a lot, more than 700 hectares in total.”

Shangguan Shenhao was stunned when he heard this and looked puzzled: "What does this son want? He has bought so many fields, does he want to make a living from farming? Also, where did he get so much money?"

Isn't it a joke that a gang leader quits his job and goes to farm in the countryside?

"The money was borrowed from Zuo Qingyun. Three days ago, Zuo Yanei took away the deposits of two banks and raised a total of ninety thousand taels for him."

Long Heng said thoughtfully: "The key is that the land he bought is all uncultivated wasteland and low-grade fields on the side of Linxi Mountain. I don't know what he wants to do."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Shangguan Shenhao is also very strange, this is obviously a loss-making business.

Even if these wastelands are successfully reclaimed, we don’t know how long it will take to recover the cost.

He immediately stopped caring: "Ignore him, you and I just need to implement the established strategy."

He wants Chu Xisheng to be unable to get even one tael from Xishan Town.

The Iron Flag Gang can occupy Xishan Town, but they must spend more than 100,000 magic silver every month to fill this bottomless pit.

I heard that Chu Xisheng also closed the brothel gambling house under the name of Xishan Hall.

This move was equally stupid and saved him a lot of effort.

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At the helm of the Iron Flag Gang, Tie Kuangren also learned about Chu Xisheng's massive purchase of land near Xishan.

After reading the news from the county government, he couldn't help rubbing his forehead with a headache: "Next month, let the accounting office prepare 30,000 magic silver. This money will be paid by me personally and will not be transferred from the public account."

This little brother is indeed wise, courageous, and unparalleled in benevolence and justice, but his ability to run an industry is really not that good.

"Is this money going to be allocated to Xishan Hall?"

At this time, Songfeng Jianlin Stone was on one side, and he couldn't help but frown: "But what about your secret medicine? There is already news of the main material 'Cangshan Worm' in the north. If you want to buy this thing, you need a sum of money."

Not a small amount of money."

Tie Kuangren looked calm and spoke calmly: "In other words, if we postpone it for one month, Xishan Hall will be captured, and it must not collapse!"

"But you missed the 'Cangshan Insect' this time, and I don't know when you will be able to gather the complete fourth-grade secret medicine again. Things have priorities, and your current Yuan Gong cultivation is the most important."

Lin Shi snorted slightly: "Not only is this person a germophobe, he is also naive and simple. As long as he doesn't touch opium, I didn't expect that he wouldn't even touch a brothel or gambling house. Such a person is not suitable to be the master of a house."

Tie Kuangren felt that this old brother's words were a bit too much. He glanced at Lin Shi: "Xiao Chu has his own ideas, not to mention that the foundation of our Iron Flag Gang is on the river. Later, we will allocate a few boats from the gang to

With a few old shopkeepers, Xishan Hall can still be maintained. As for the Cangshan Insect, I might be brave enough to ask my brothers to borrow it——"

But before Tie Kuangren finished speaking, Tie Xiaosheng suddenly said: "Who said he can't manage? This guy is a genius!"

Tie Kuangren and Lin Shi immediately looked sideways at Tie Xiaosheng across the table.

"Take another look at the news delivered to us by Bo, the director of the county government office."

Tie Xiaosheng handed a piece of letter in his hand back to Tie Kuangren: "You see, the land he bought is all connected together, from the east foot of Xishan Mountain, to the south foot of Xishan Mountain, to Xishan Town, and then from Xishan Mountain to Xishan Town.

The town reaches the bank of Shenxiu River."

The iron madman was stunned for a moment, then took the letter and read it carefully.

Lin Shi frowned: "So what if the land is connected into one piece?"

Before he finished speaking, he thought of a possibility, and his expression suddenly froze.

Tie Xiaosheng dipped his fingers in tea and drew on the Eight Immortals table in front of him.

"Look, this is Xishan, this is Xishan Town, this is Shenxiujiang——"

Then Tie Xiaosheng drew a line between the three.

"After this business is completed, Xiao Chu will not have to do anything in the future. He can earn a lot of money just by sitting down."

At this time, both Tie Kuangren and Lin Shi's pupils narrowed slightly, and they immediately raised their heads and looked at each other.
To be continued...