The spy leader frowned, "What do you mean..."
"I decreed that officials should be beaten to keep them away from gangs and gangs and do official business."
"What does this mean?"
Yamazaki sighed: "There are many Jianghu gangs. These gangs who collude with the government must compete with other gangs for business."
"The bigger the gang, the more business it robs, and the more comrades it offends."
"Jianghu gangsters are also human beings. They bring families and children. Naturally they are afraid of the government. They can tolerate it if they can, but the hatred and resentment are definitely still there."
"Once these gangs find out that their opponents have been abandoned by the government, they will naturally attack those gangs for the sake of business and to express their grievances."
"After the war, the Jianghu forces in the southeast area have declined a lot, and there may be heavy casualties."
"But this is also a good thing. Without these gangsters who bully and dominate the market, businessmen can do business more easily and the people can get more benefits."
"Of course, people under gangs sometimes live a good life, but that's only a relatively small number."
"It seems that the gangs are the ones who have benefited from colluding with the government, but this benefit is unfair, and it should be without it."
"Well, it's normal for Jianghu gangs to collude with the government. After all, they are under the rule of the government. There are many things that need to be relied on the government."
"But colluding with the government to grow bigger and suppress other Jianghu gangs, that's enough."
"For the sake of the overall interests of most people, it is normal for the court to rectify such Jianghu. However, it is still a Jianghu matter. Jianghu is a Jianghu matter. It is best for Jianghu people to solve it themselves."
The secret agent commander nodded with satisfaction. This was similar to his plan, but better than him. There was no need to mobilize troops.
"Okay, okay, it's all about the Jianghu. It's all about the Jianghu. You solved a serious disease without spending a single soldier. Your resourcefulness is really extraordinary."
Yamazaki held up his hand and said, "My lord, I am very complimentary. I have been thinking about this for a long time."
The secret agent commander thought, "I can honestly say that His Majesty also has a special regard for your resourcefulness. So what do you think? Do you want to become an official?"
Yamazaki raised his hand with a grimace, "Sir, I forgive you for having the courage to refuse. I just bought an oiran, and now I'm buying a property. I want to live a leisurely life as a fairy, so you'd better show your respect."
The secret agent commander thought about it and found it very interesting, "Are you buying an oiran?"
Yamazaki held up his hand, "I'm seventeen or eighteen years old. For some people, like me, it's normal for their children to run away, right?"
The spy leader asked: "Did you sneak out of Luojiazhuang?"
Yamazaki smacked his lips and said, "It's not like I slipped away. I came out after the announcement and said I wanted to buy a beautiful woman."
"Ah?" The secret agent commander couldn't stop laughing and simply found a place to sit down.
Yamazaki felt something was wrong, "Why are you doing this, sir?"
The secret agent commander suppressed a smile, "You, did you really tell Luo Wendao that you were going to buy a beautiful woman? Did you say it in front of him?"
Yamazaki became more and more puzzled, "Yes, what's the problem?"
"Hahaha..." The secret agent commander burst into laughter, laughed for a while and then asked, "Does Mrs. Luo know?"
Yamazaki told the truth, "I told the Luo family."
"Ha..." The secret agent commander covered his mouth and laughed. It was really unimaginable that someone would say to buy a beauty in front of his future father-in-law, mother-in-law and future wife.
Moreover, Yamazaki is an extremely smart person. Precisely because Yamazaki is smart, it is even more interesting for him to do such stupid things.
Yamazaki asked directly, "Sir, may I ask what's so funny about this?"
The secret agent leader also figured it out and tried to calm down, "It seems that you really don't know, and it's not convenient for me to tell you. I'm just sorry that you are so smart, but you can't get up here. It's really interesting."
Yamazaki frowned, but he never expected that Luo Wendao and his wife were his future father-in-law and mother-in-law.
The secret agent commander laughed at this, "That's all, you can go out first."
"Yes." Yamazaki bowed, "I'll take my leave."
…
The secret agent commander's undisguised laughter was heard by many businessmen. After all, they all had some martial arts skills, and some were even charlatans.
They were curious about Yamazaki's identity, and although they didn't dare to ask more questions, it didn't stop them from giving Yamazaki an extra courtesy.
So when they saw Yamazaki come back, they all handed him over.
Yamazaki returned the gift and continued to purchase the property.
…
The knife and pen official announced the rules again, giving priority to those with more than five million taels of silver.
Along with Yamazaki, a total of six people stood up.
Yamazaki didn't care who they were, anyway, there were dozens of industries, which was enough.
The six of them gave in a bit, and each took a pile of them and chose from them.
From the documents in his hand, Yamazaki selected a Jiang family that built ships and transported goods, and spent 9 million taels of silver, including 4 million taels of goods and property.
The house is located on the riverside in the southeast of the city, covering an area of nearly fifty acres (more than 30,000 square meters), and is connected to the riverside waters.
(Forty taels per square meter, about 1.3 million taels.)
There are many valuable things in the house, including expensive pearls and corals, priced at one million taels.
Thousands of slaves guarding the courtyard are priced at 500,000 taels, and singers, dancers and musicians are priced at 200,000 taels, for a total price of 3 million taels of silver.
Outside the city is a private wharf, including restaurants, inns, cargo yards, shipyards, carpenters' workshops, dyeing shops, brocade workshops, ready-made clothing shops, medical clinics and drug stores, residential areas, etc. It is like a small town.
The dock site is priced at one million taels of silver.
The craftsman and embroiderer waited for tens of thousands of people to sign the contract, and the goods were priced at three million taels of silver.
A lumberyard was built in the mountains southwest of the city to cut down trees, and 5,000 acres of mountain fields were reclaimed to grow tea and medicinal materials, and 10,000 acres of orchards were reclaimed.
There are quarries to mine rocks and coal mines, and furnaces are built to bake bricks and ceramics.
The total price of the site was one million taels, and thousands of servants were also contracted.
There is also a villa in the mountains and five small villas, totaling one million taels.
When nine million taels of silver were spent at once, Yamazaki also felt distressed. It wasn't that it was worth it, but that it was too much.
But there are still goods worth three million taels of silver, which makes me feel comfortable just thinking about it.
…
Yamazaki paid the bill, and Daobi Li asked someone to take him to see Butler Jiang.
He was a capable middle-aged man who was nearly fifty years old and a top expert.
Yamazaki was not afraid of his rebellion. After all, since he didn't leave, he had other plans.
As for guarding the house for the old master, there is no such thing.
If the Jiang family really dared to come back, the family that was also guilty but at ease would beat them to death first without the need for the court to take action.
Just kidding, you are already a slave. How can you get your original property back? How did you get this money?
When the time comes, the court will seriously investigate and deal with it, and no one will have a hard time.
Therefore, if you go down, you can only admit defeat, and when you come back, you will change to a place where no one knows you.
…
Yamazaki introduced Shandai and others to Butler Jiang, and then followed him to the mansion.
On the way, he picked up Xiyu and the five girls Mei Lan, Zhu Ju and sent the shopkeepers back.
After entering the mansion, Butler Jiang shouted loudly, and everyone ran to the front yard to greet the new owner.
Yamazaki and Shandai were okay with this scene, but Dong Fenglin felt very uneasy, but not for this scene, she had seen many similar scenes in the Flower House.
Instead, she began to worry about gains and losses again, worrying that Yamazaki would not take her seriously.
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