Four hundred and fiftieth chapters forcibly seized
Yuncheng County, Dongxi Village
In this village where Chao Gai, the Lord of Liangshan and King of Tota, was born, there are basically no traces of the existence of Chao Gai and the Chao clan.
Even when the government attacked Liangshan, Dongxi Village was implicated and was severely stripped of a layer of oil and water.
The entire Dongxi Village was already dilapidated at that time.
Liangshan became stronger and stronger under the encirclement and suppression by the army, but the villagers of Dongxi Village did not have the courage to complain about being implicated by Chao Gai.
Besides, after Chao Gai left, he transferred all the fields in his hands to the villagers in the same village at a low price. From this, the villagers gained quite a lot.
The villagers must recognize this favor!
Later, Chao Gai disappeared from Liangshan. The villagers in Dongxi Village wanted to ask whether this person was dead or alive, but unfortunately they did not have the courage and no channels.
Unexpectedly, after the main force in Liangshan accepted the recruitment, Chai Daguan, who stayed behind in the village after leaving, was so capable that he actually started a vigorous rural transformation plan.
Dongxi Village is right on the edge of the water, so it is naturally one of the villages that was renovated in the first round.
No matter whether the villagers are happy or not, they don't have the guts to stop Liangshan Village from taking the initiative to transform the village. They still have to work hard and actively cooperate.
Unexpectedly, in just a few months, the entire Dongxi Village has undergone earth-shaking changes.
In short, with the emergence of workshops and schools in the village, Dongxi Village has changed from its former dilapidation, almost changing every month, and its life is becoming more and more prosperous.
Some shrewd villagers followed the trend and set up a small workshop. They asked for technical support from their village to become a shareholder and became popular small workshop owners.
Liu Laosan is one of them!
He gritted his teeth and almost emptied his family fortune, applied for a low-interest loan, and with the technical support of Liangshan Village, he finally built a small candy workshop.
With the commercial expansion of Liangshan Village, Liu Laosan's candy workshop also benefited. It took less than a year to recover the cost. In the second year, the village's shares were recovered at a high price, turning the candy workshop into a pure candy workshop.
family workshop.
You can earn at least three hundred guan every year, which is definitely not a small amount.
Fortunately, Liu Laosan's family is not the only one with small family workshops in Dongxi Village, and he is not particularly outstanding. It's just that the living conditions have been sufficient in the past two years, and his life has become more and more prosperous.
As you become more prosperous, your relatives around you will naturally become more enthusiastic.
Fortunately, Liu Laosan and his relatives live around Shuibo. Once the rural reconstruction plan of the village is over, the lives of his relatives will quickly improve, and they will not become annoying characters in the autumn wind.
Seeing that his family's savings were rising rapidly, Liu Laosan had been very excited recently and planned to expand his family's candy workshop. He also asked the mysterious students from the Talisman Academy to help transform the production process and add some Talisman utensils.
, improve production efficiency and earn more profits.
Not to mention Jingdong's east-west market is vast enough, and now there is the newly opened Yanyun market, which is enough to absorb the output brought about by the expansion of the production capacity of his candy workshop.
In the blink of an eye, the Liu family will prosper and even become a wealthy family, becoming an existence that was unimaginable before.
If you can really become a wealthy family, even if a few kids in your family fail to become famous in school, they can still live comfortably with their family's property.
It's a pity that before Liu Laosan could take action, a sudden disaster struck.
After Chao Gai, Du Baozheng of Dongxi Village suddenly came to Liu Laosan and told Liu Laosan a piece of news like a bolt from the blue: a big man in the city had taken a fancy to his candy workshop and wanted to buy it for a hundred dollars.
Give a reply as soon as possible.
This, this, this is really a bolt from the blue!
Liu Laosan was panicked, anxious, and angry...
He did not have the usual Liangshan village representative stationed in Dongxi Village. Instead, he found Mr. Su in the village and hoped that Mr. Su would come forward to help intercede.
Just kidding, the annual profit from my family's candy workshop is 300 guan. When I first established the workshop, I spent dozens of guan. How could I sell it for only 100 guan?
In Liu Laosan's mind, the family's candy workshop must be passed on to the next generation as a legacy industry of the Liu family.
As for not finding local representatives who are resident in the village, it is also an old habit.
At this time, the village's permanent representative in the village was almost the same as a member of the government in Liu Laosan's eyes. It was better not to be easily alarmed if nothing happened.
It's just a pity that the old and traditional methods don't work at all.
The village elder who was invited to work around for a few days found out the exact situation, and also told Liu Laosan clearly that if he did not want to bring disaster to his family, he would honestly sell the candy workshop according to the other party's requirements.
The old man in the village who was invited told Liu Laosan that the person who had taken a fancy to his candy workshop was Zhang Dahu, a big householder in the county town.
This guy has a very strong relationship in the yamen. Even Song Jiang, the lord of Liangshan, did not dare to offend him easily when he was the prison chief. I heard that he has connections in the yamen.
If Liu Laosan is not wise, Zhang Dahu can destroy Liu Laosan's family with just a few tricks.
Liu Laosan was naturally scared to death, but it was impossible for him to sell his family's workshop easily and cheaply.
"To tell you the truth, if you, third brother, are not wise, I believe that within a few days, the county government officials will come to your door!"
Baozheng from the village warned earnestly: "Once the government's methods are used, it will no longer be a normal business!"
Liu Laosan's face was full of bitterness, and he said bitterly: "Is it possible that there is nothing we can do?"
"What can be done?"
Baozheng smiled bitterly and said: "Zhang's family is so powerful that we ordinary people can't afford to offend him. If he doesn't do well, we will end up worrying!"
Liu Laosan and his mother-in-law looked at each other, the bitterness in their hearts almost drowning them completely, and their eyes were red.
The little lady, who had just been born, didn't know if she sensed the dull atmosphere, and suddenly burst into tears.
For a moment, Liu Laosan felt that dark clouds were covering his head, making him almost breathless.
"Sister, why are you crying?"
Just when the atmosphere was extremely depressing, the three boys of Liu Laosan's family went home for the holidays. They heard the cry of a baby coming from far away. The eldest brother, Liu Dazhuang, hurriedly asked loudly.
"It's okay, it's okay, I guess your sister is hungry!"
Liu Laosan quickly put on an ugly look, not wanting his three boys to know the current predicament.
"Liu Laosan, please think about it carefully and I will come back to you tomorrow!"
Baozheng seemed to be a little afraid of the three boys from the Liu family, so he hurriedly left without waiting for them to come over and said something.
"Dad, why did Baozheng come to the house?"
Liu Dazhuang had already run over. Seeing Baozheng almost running away in a hurry, he couldn't help but frowning and asked curiously.
In other words, Baozheng has the responsibility of helping the government to collect taxes, which can be said to have a great impact on the people at the bottom.
If Baozheng had no ill intentions, the people's lives would be barely tolerable.
But once Baozheng has evil intentions and wants to exploit the people for profit, then the people under his command will really be in dire straits.
But the situation here in Liangshan Village is completely different, because Liangshan Commercial Bank, in the name of the villagers' mutual aid association, directly negotiates with the government on the method and amount of villagers' tax payment.
Every year when it comes time to pay taxes, Liangshan Commercial Bank will pay the full amount of taxes to the government on behalf of the people.
In this way, without the exploitation of the middle government officials and Baozheng and others, the burden on the people was greatly reduced, and the government taxes were not reduced by half.
The only ones whose interests were harmed were the Yamen tax collectors and local Baozheng, but Liangshan's stronghold was so powerful that they didn't care at all.
To be honest, Baozheng in Dongxi Village has basically become a decoration.
As the party whose interests have been harmed, it is obvious that Baozheng will not be happy and will try every means to seek personal gain through various means.
Baozheng of Dongxi Village is such a person, and he is quite unpopular.
"It's okay, it's okay, I just met Nao Zai Lao Zai!"
Liu Laosan showed a forced smile, he didn't want his boy to be involved in such a thing.
The so-called hot-blooded young man may do something stupid if he is impulsively impulsive.
Especially after the three boys in the family attended the school in Liangshan Village, they all became very high-spirited and began to have more independent opinions on family affairs.
If his own boy dared to offend like this before the family started to gain momentum, Liu Laosan would probably have to punish him severely.
However, since the boys at home attended the village school and saw that they were all as strong as calves and exuding a strong aura, Liu Laosan did not have the guts to teach casually, for fear of attracting the attention of the boys.
Resistance and dissatisfaction.
Fortunately, the boy at home became different after studying. He behaved politely and looked like a human being. He had not caused any trouble to the family, so Liu Laosan was relieved.
Speaking of my own children going to school, this is also a new situation that started to appear after Liangshan Village began to renovate Dongxi Village.
I don’t know what the kings of Liangshan Village were thinking. They built a school in the village and forced all children of school age to attend school. Not only did they also impose mandatory night school study tasks for adult villagers.
Fortunately, what he taught was not about the Four Books and Five Classics, otherwise Liu Laosan would have had to suffocate to death in the night school class.
But the subsequent request caused quite a stir in the village.
After graduating from the village school, students have to continue to study in the secondary school in Liangshan Village, but the secondary school teaches various practical skills.
No matter whether you like it or not, your arms can't twist your thighs.
Facing the extremely powerful Liangshan village, Liu Laosan and other villagers did not dare to object. Of course, studying is a good thing, and being able to learn a skill is even better among good things.
Liangshan Benzhai School does not restrict students, but only charges textbook fees, which Liu Laosan can easily afford with his family background.
If it were in the past, I wouldn't have dared to think about it.
Although the family had some savings at that time, how could they afford to send three children to school?
This is also one of the main reasons why Liangshan Village is respected by the villagers. Who doesn’t want their descendants to have a good future...