Su Naichen, who was in a bad mood because Jiao Yun and Huo Zonghou heard this, looked at each other and said: "I know that you have some status in Yanghe Wei, but how can you share my worries? Is it possible that you can still Will you voluntarily hand over your property?"
Land is regarded as the lifeblood of most wealthy squire households, and they would not sell it even for money, otherwise he would not have quarreled with Jiao Yun, the county magistrate, over the land allocation.
Qian Wanjun's smiling face was filled with sadness in an instant, before Su Naichen cried and said: "It's not that I can't bear to part with the few acres of land at home. It's because there are so many people in my family. Without the land, the whole family will be hungry."
"Okay, I can understand your difficulties, so don't complain in front of me." Su Naichen looked unsullied.
He does not support the Tiger-Character Banner's division of fields in Yanghewei because he believes that the Tiger-Character Banner needs the support of local gentry like Qian Wanjun if it wants to win the hearts and minds of the people of Datong. However, this does not mean that he believes the other party's lies.
There are many wealthy squire households in Yanghewei, and even those who don’t have a few shops would be embarrassed to call them local wealthy households in Yanghewei.
"I would like to report to the eldest sir, several heads of the Qi family, the Wang family, and the Shi family are outside asking for an audience."
While they were talking in the room, a Yamen servant came in to report.
"I asked them to come together to visit the county magistrate." Qian Wanjun, who was sitting in his seat, explained.
Su Naichen wanted to win over the people of Yang Hewei, so he naturally would not treat these local squires who represented the people's hearts lightly, so he said to the Yamen who came in to report: "Invite all the family heads in!"
The officer agreed and left the room.
Not long after, several rich middle-aged people in gorgeous clothes walked in from outside the house.
"I've met the county magistrate."
Several people raised their hands and fists to say hello to Su Naichen at the same time.
"Gentlemen, please take a seat!" Su Naichen pointed to the empty seat in the room without even moving his buttocks.
There are two types of county magistrates in the world, one is a county magistrate who is completely under the control of the squires, and the other is a county magistrate who orders the squires under his control. Although he needs the popular support represented by these squires, he must be a county magistrate who orders the squires. .
Several squires who came to the room took their seats respectively.
"Serve tea to some old country squires." Su Naichen ordered the servants waiting for him in the room.
The servant is a person left behind by the previous inspector.
As the county magistrate of Yanghewei and the county magistrate of Yanghewei, he was a seventh-rank official who was born as a Jinshi. He felt that he should have someone to serve him, so he kept all the servants and maids in the governor's house.
If it weren't for the fact that it was too far to go back and forth from his hometown, he would have sent someone to his hometown to find someone from the same clan to come to Yanghewei to be his long-term follower.
The servant brought the freshly brewed hot tea, placed a cup next to each of the squires present, and finally replaced the remaining cups of tea that Su Naichen drank with the newly brewed hot tea.
"Sir, you are a good official who loves the people like your own son. We have discussed it with you and cannot make things difficult for you. Each family is willing to hand over a piece of land to the Yamen. And we don't need any money to redeem it, so we will give it to the Yamen for free. ." Qian Wanjun said.
"Yes, we are willing to give the land to the county lord." The head of the Qi family agreed.
Although the heads of the Wang family and Shi family did not speak, they nodded in support.
Su Naichen glanced at Qian Wanjun thoughtfully.
I don’t understand why Qian Wanjun, who just now was complaining about the land allocation, suddenly changed his gender.
"Since you are willing to donate all your land for free, I will soon arrange for someone to hand over the acres of land to each of your families. Don't worry, with your attitude of supporting the Tiger Flag, I will definitely inform my owner and help you. Please reward me for your merit." Su Naichen was in a good mood.
Although he believed that the wealthy squires represented the people's hearts and would not criticize these people harshly, he was naturally happy to accept these people's willingness to hand over their property.
After all, he and Jiao Yun broke up because of the disagreement over the land distribution, and were ordered to reprimand by the proprietor. Now that these wealthy squire owners have taken the initiative to hand over their land, he can finally explain to Datong Town.
"There is no need to trouble the lord to send someone over again. We have already brought the title deeds of the donated land." With that said, Qian Wanjun took out the title deeds he had prepared from his sleeve.
Then, he said to the others: "You all should also take out the land deeds!"
Several elders from the squire clan took out the prepared land deeds.
The servants on the side walked up to several people, took the land deed from these people, and respectfully handed it to Su Naichen.
After taking the land deed, Su Naichen took out one and held it in front of him to read.
As he watched, the smile on his face slowly disappeared.
He put down the land deed he had just read, and picked up the other land deeds in his hand and read them again. His face became gloomy, without any smile.
"Are you fooling me with these useless things?" Su Naichen waved his hands, and several land deeds in his hand were scattered on the ground.
Qian Wanjun, who was sitting on the seat, said with a smile: "What's going on, sir? Are you still not satisfied with getting these land deeds and the land for nothing?"
"Do you know who gave the order to divide the fields? You used these more than ten acres of saline-alkali land to deceive me. Aren't you afraid that I will arrest you and punish you?" Su Naichen raised his hand and slapped the table.
The land deeds add up to only a dozen acres, which is less than a fraction of the land owned by the wealthy squire families in front of me. Moreover, these dozen acres of land are all saline-alkali land that is difficult to harvest, and they are simply fields that no one wants to plant. field.
"Sir, please calm down," Qian Wanjun comforted him. "Although our family has some land, it has been passed down from our ancestors. We can't just hand over all the land with just a word from Mr. Liu! We really have to agree to hand over the land." , wouldn’t it mean that he has become an unworthy descendant and has failed his family’s ancestors?”
Su Naichen said with a gloomy face: "Then you use this little salt-alkali land to humiliate me. You still think that I have been too tolerant to you people since I took office, and you think you can sit on my head and shit."
I felt extremely angry.
The more than ten acres of saline-alkali land these people sent to us would be worse than nothing.
"The elder has misunderstood, and we have absolutely no intention of doing so." Qian Wanjun explained, "We also heard that the elder was being pressed hard by Liu Dongzhu who was in Datong Town, and we didn't want to see the elder worry about the land distribution. This I just took the initiative to donate these more than ten acres of land. Although it is saline-alkali land, the people in Datong Town don’t know, and it’s not like there is no harvest at all. It’s just worse than those fertile fields.”
"So it's better for me?" Su Naichen said with sarcasm.
Qian Wanjun said hurriedly: "We just want to share the worries of the county magistrate."
"We are sharing the worries of the county magistrate."
The other gentry elders in the room bowed their hands towards Su Naichen and saluted.
