Jiao Yun and Huo Shoubei next to them both looked at the head of the Qi family in front of them in disbelief.
A few days ago, this person had openly resisted the Huzi Banner's land-dividing policy in Yanghewei. Today, his attitude changed drastically, and he turned from a resister to a supporter.
Qi Feng faced Yang Yuan and said: "Support, support, we support."
"Oh? So there are other people who support dividing the land?" Yang Yuan heard other meanings from the words of the head of the Qi family.
Qi Feng nodded and said, "I don't know about other families. Master Qian of the Qian family, Master Wang of the Wang family, and Master of the Shi family all support the division of land."
Jiao Yun and Huo Shoubei, who were sitting at the table, looked at each other.
Because the people mentioned by the other party were all the big households of Yang and Wei who had resisted the land distribution with Su Naichen before.
"Master Qi, stop standing, sit down!" Yang Yuan pointed to the seat beside him.
Upon hearing this, the head of the Qi family realized that what he just said touched the itch of the person in front of him, so he took two steps forward, came to an empty seat and sat down.
"I wonder what this official's name is?" the head of the Qi family curiously asked Yang Yuan, who was sitting on the throne.
Although I have already guessed that the other party should be an important figure in the Tiger Flag, I am curious about his identity, so Lian Yang and Wei's guards and the county magistrate have to accompany him.
"This is Director Yang of our Tiger Flag." Jiao Yun received Yang Yuan's signal and introduced Yang Yuan's position within the Tiger Flag to the head of the Qi family.
The head of the Qi family looked confused.
He could understand any department, but the director of this department couldn't figure out what kind of official it was for the moment. In the end, he could only think that it was a specially established official position within the Tiger Character Banner.
This made him feel contemptuous.
I feel that there is no difference between the Tiger Character Banner and other bandit rebellions. They have created some messy official positions to make it difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the high and low official positions.
"It turns out it's Director Yang, please be polite." After returning to his senses, the head of the Qi family cupped his fists and greeted Yang Yuan.
They knew that although the Tiger-Character Flag was a dog-meat dish, they, the wealthy squires of Yanghewei, would be under the control of the Tiger-Character Flag for the time being, so they did not show any look of disdain on their faces.
Yang Yuan took a sip of the tea in the teapot and said, "Master Qi, as a big householder in Yanghewei, I think he has a lot of land. I wonder where they are?"
"The ancestors left some land, not a lot." The head of the Qi family laughed, but did not directly say the number of acres of land in the family.
Moreover, after several generations of business operation, in his generation, unless he personally checked the title deeds of his family's land, he himself would not know exactly how much land he owned, so he could only say a lot.
Jiao Yun, who was next to him, interjected at this time: "More than half of the fertile fields on both sides of the river outside the city belong to the Qi family. There are also many fields over Jinglu Fort that belong to the Qi family."
"It seems there are quite a few." Yang Yuan said with a smile.
Beads of sweat appeared on the Qi family's forehead.
Unexpectedly, the county magistrate sent to Yanghewei by the Tiger Character Banner would destroy the place where their Qi family's fertile land was mainly concentrated.
"With so much fertile land, you must not owe the Qi family anything in terms of land redemption. I think we will compensate the Qi family at 50% of the market price." Yang Yuan said to Jiao Yun.
Jiao Yun intervened and said, "Yes."
However, the face of the head of the Qi family suddenly changed.
This means not only taking away all the fertile land of the Qi family, but also redeeming it at half the market price. You must know that these fertile lands are difficult to buy with money, and the Qi family will have to lose a lot of money inside and outside.
"Master Qi, do you have any objection to my arrangement?" Yang Yuan looked at the head of the Qi family with a smile.
The head of the Qi family said with an ugly face: "Not all the land in the surrounding counties is redeemed at the market price, so why should the price be reduced by half when we get to Yanghewei? Isn't this inappropriate?"
He didn't dare to say anything too unpleasant. Now that the whole of Datong was occupied by the Tiger Character Flag, he was afraid that if he said something too unpleasant, he would anger the director of the Tiger Character Flag in front of him.
"Other places outside Chuyang and Wei in Datong have already implemented land allocation. Only Yang and Wei have been resisting the land allocation, so that the land allocation has been delayed until now. The proprietor is very unhappy. He was originally going to use the method to divide the land. In the name of turmoil, we suppressed all the large squire households in Yanghewei who owned large amounts of land. Fortunately, they were persuaded to stop. Otherwise, Yanghewei's fields would not have been redeemed at half the market price, but even a tael of silver would have been used." Yang Yuan said in a tone of voice. Speak plainly, just like telling a small thing.
After hearing this, the head of the Qi family suddenly turned pale and felt cold in his heart.
Only then did I realize that they, the wealthy squires living in Yanghewei, were simply wandering around the gates of hell.
Yang Yuan smiled and said: "If Mr. Qi feels that the money to redeem the land is too little and is unwilling to hand over the land, our Tiger Character Banner will not force it."
"No, yes, yes." The head of the Qi family was worried that if he objected, the Qi family would be suppressed by force from the Tiger Flag, so he hurriedly expressed his support.
Yang Yuan smiled and turned to Jiao Yun beside him and said: "Hurry up and implement the land allocation matter. It can start in a day or two. I think it will start from the fields at Master Qi's house."
Jiao Yun nodded.
"Director Yang, is it too urgent to allocate the fields? The winter wheat hasn't been harvested yet. It's not too late to allocate the fields after the summer harvest next year." The master of the Qi family said tentatively.
In addition to expressing his support for the land distribution, he also hoped to delay the land distribution as much as possible. If possible, he even hoped to delay it until the army regained Datong. In this way, the Qi family's land would be There is no need to hand it over.
Yang Yuan looked at the head of the Qi family and chuckled, "It seems that Mr. Qi didn't listen carefully to what I just said."
"What do you mean?" The head of the Qi family was confused.
Yang Yuan said: "Our proprietor was very dissatisfied with Yang Hewei's lack of movement in dividing the fields. He wanted to send an army several times. Fortunately, Mr. Zhao who stayed in Datong Town persuaded him to stop, otherwise Mr. Qi would have seen it. It’s not me anymore, it’s my tiger-character flag army.”
"This, this, Dongzhu Liu can't be accommodating?" the head of the Qi family stuttered.
I hope Yang Yuan can change his mind and not immediately take away the fields of big families like them.
Yang Yuan's face darkened and he said: "There is no discussion on the matter of dividing the fields. Either agree and take the general redemption money, or wait for the tiger-character banner army to come to Yanghe to defend."
Hearing this, the head of the Qi family looked disappointed.
He understood that it was no longer possible to delay the distribution of land, and the property at home would immediately become the property of the poor tenants.
"Mr. Qi, if you think about it, you can get a sum of redemption money by taking the initiative to divide the land. If you don't agree to the land allocation, let alone the redemption money, I'm afraid your family's fate will be difficult." Jiao Yun comforted the head of the Qi family.
For Yang Hewei, who was the first big family in the city to take the initiative to support the division of land, he somewhat had a favorable impression.
