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  Chapter 92 090 [Powder Keg] (addition for Penguin boss)

   After several days passed, Huang Zundao agreed to all Zhao Han's demands.

  Zhao Han was also very straightforward, and paid five hundred taels of silver again. In an instant, only one-third of the 1,500 taels snatched from Chaoguan was left, and there was still a box and a half of copper coins left.

  The three of them went out to give money, and Zhang Tieniu continued to take care of the money.

  Xiao Hong pulled Xiao Cui aside, whispered softly: "I'm afraid you are going to do something big."

  Xiao Cui smiled and said: "Young Master, what you do is a big deal."

   "Don't scream," Xiaohong whispered into her ear, "Young Master wants to harm Master Huang, and after spending so much money, he definitely wants to kill Master Huang!"

"How…"

  Xiao Cui quickly covered her mouth: "How is it possible, isn't the young master going to do business with Master Huang?"

   "Young Master, I'm afraid he's not a rich man," Xiaohong asked, "Which rich man have you ever met who is willing to pay big respects to slaves?"

  Xiao Cui shook her head and said: "No. Don't say rich family, even the tenants in the village, if you don't look at the master, you won't give us servants good looks."

   "That's the reason," Xiaohong said, "I guess, the young master may be a robber."

  Xiao Cui smiled and said, "How can there be such a handsome robber."

  Xiaohong felt tired of communicating with Xiaocui, so she said to herself: "If the son is a robber, then I will be a robber's wife."

   "Don't talk nonsense, my son is not a robber. If you are a robber, you will be beheaded if you are caught by the official." Xiaocui was a little scared.

Xiaohong complained: "You are so stupid, my son, I have been inquiring about the news of the village for the past two days. Which one has land, which one has a store, which one has a festival with which one, and what is not. .Isn’t this a robber stepping on a plate?”

   "What is stepping on a plate?" Xiao Cui asked.

   "Just to inquire clearly first, so that we can make a move when the time comes," Xiaohong warned, "You are not allowed to speak out, so don't ruin your good deeds."

  Xiao Cui shook her head quickly: "No, no."

Xiaohong suddenly began to fantasize: "You said that the young master robbed the property and returned to the cottage, will you make us the wife of the village? I am half a year older than you. At that time, I will be the eldest lady and you will be the second lady. "

   "That's great, I'm afraid the young master will look down on us." Xiaocui also laughed.

  Xiaohong asked: "Aren't you afraid of being arrested by the government?"

"I'm afraid, but the young master is very smart, and he will definitely not be caught by the officials." Xiaocui put her hand on her chin and tilted her head and said, "In this life, I have always bowed down to others, and this is the first time someone has worshiped me. I was terrified at the time, but looking back I was so happy that I could wake up laughing from my dreams."

  Xiaohong seemed to understand very well, and said: "Young master is buying people's hearts."

  Xiao Cui asked: "We are the son's people, why is he buying people's hearts?"

  Xiaohong said acquaintedly: "You idiot, you not only want our bodies, but also our hearts."

   "You are talking nonsense, my son will not lie to us." Xiaocui said angrily.

   "What's wrong with being cheated?" Xiaohong said with a smile, "If a man treats me like this, even if I'm cheated, I'd be willing. No matter if he's a bandit or a robber, I just follow him from now on."

  Xiao Cui murmured: "Yes, just follow him."

  The requirements for being a maid are very low, beating and scolding frequently, and feeding them enough will make them loyal.

   Zhao Han said that everyone is equal, there is no distinction between good and bad, and he gave them a big bow.

   How can this be resisted?

  That night, the two girls stayed up all night, each hugging their pillows and crying secretly.

  Some people treat them as human beings, they really treat them as human beings, not pretending to deceive them!

   To put it a bit more extreme, one day Zhao Han is in danger, Xiao Hong and Xiao Cui will definitely rush to block the knife.

  In the eyes of the ancients, this is buying people's hearts.

  Wu Qi, a famous general in the Warring States Period, had a soldier under his command suffer from a malignant sore, and Wu Qi sucked the carbuncle himself. When the soldier's mother heard the news, she immediately prepared for her son's funeral, crying and saying, "My husband has already died for the general, and my son may not be far from death."

  You are good to me, I die for you!

  …

  Is Zhao Han going to be a robber?

  Some people already regarded him as a robber, and there were quite a few of them.

   On the sixteenth day when Zhao Han came to Huangjia Town, hundreds of tenants suddenly surrounded the inn.

  The cause of everything was that Huang Zunde was confused by the money, he threw out a thousand taels of silver in a row, and there were countless more money waiting to go into his pocket later. He immediately agreed to Zhao Han's request to increase the length and width of the land expropriated, including a lot of cultivated land.

   Moreover, because Zhao Han urged the construction period, Huang Zunde was also eager to make money, directly forcing the tenants to level the rocky beach, and forcing the tenants to go into the mountains to cut trees and chisel rocks.

  Spring plowing is not over yet!

   This is forcing the tenants to their death. If the spring plowing is delayed, the whole family will have no way to live.

  Because Zhao Han occupied the arable land, the farmers who were tragically deprived of their tenants were the first to complain on the construction site. The more other tenants thought about it, the more angry they became. They didn't dare to settle accounts with Mr. Huang, so they joined forces and went to the inn.

   As long as Zhao Han is driven away, everything will be solved!

  Zhao Han stands on the upper floor overlooking all living beings, and below are countless tenant farmers holding up their labor tools. They were so excited that they spat out countless dirty words and greeted the eighteen generations of Zhao Han's ancestors.

   "My lord," Zhang Tieniu came over with an ax in hand, "Do you want me to go out and drive these **** away?"

  Zhao Han said unhappily: "Go back and practice calligraphy!"

   "Oh." Zhang Tieniu scratched his head.

  Xiao Hong stretched her neck to take a look, then said in a low voice, "Master, my father and elder brother are below."

   "It's okay." Zhao Han said with a smile.

  Xiao Hong said again: "Young Master, when you rob Master Huang, can you share a few taels with my father when you leave?"

  Zhao Han laughed loudly: "Don't worry, I won't leave."

  The doors and windows of the inn were closed tightly, the guests hid in the house one after another, and the merchant ships at the wharf were free to leave, for fear that these tenants would lead to civil unrest.

  The ridiculous thing is that this inn belongs to Mr. Huang, and the troublemakers dare not attack it by force.

   Not long after, Huang Zundao came outside the inn with his eldest son Huang Shuncheng, second son Huang Shunzhang, and hundreds of slaves.

   "Are we all going to rebel?" Huang Zundao yelled angrily.

  A tenant tenant dared to say: "Master Huang, don't be fooled by this outsider. Spring plowing cannot be delayed."

  Another tenant said: "The rocky beach can be occupied, but the field cannot be occupied. It is left by the ancestors for generations."

   "Fart," Huang Zundao said angrily, pointing at those tenants, "Go back to work on the river beach, and anyone who dares to make trouble will be killed immediately!"

  In Master Huang’s view, delaying spring plowing is nothing more than a few people starving to death and a few stones of grain missing. Zhao Xianggong gave enough money, and if there was not enough food to buy, it was none of his own business to starve the tenants to death.

  One tenant starved to death, and countless tenants waited to cultivate. The more fierce the robbing, the better, and you could take the opportunity to increase the land rent.

   As for the occupation of arable land, that is nothing. As long as the warehouse can be built, more merchants will stay in Huangjia Town in the future.

  The tenants gathered together and refused to leave, and did not dare to use force with Mr. Huang, so they could only stand there in a stalemate, at a loss.

  Zhao Han suddenly shouted upstairs: "It's all a misunderstanding, Mr. Huang and I have no malicious intentions, let's sit down and discuss things!"

   "There is no discussion, you leave Huangjia Town!" a tenant shouted.

  Huang Zundao suddenly felt that he had lost face under Zhao Han's eyes, and he said angrily, "Hit me!"

  The eldest son, Huang Shuncheng, and the second son, Huang Shunzhang, rushed out immediately with their slaves.

  The tenant slaves did not dare to resist, so they had to run away with their heads covered.

  Zhao Han said to Xiaohong and Xiaocui: "Look carefully, and write down whoever is injured."

  Xiaohong and Xiaocui didn't know what it meant, they only remembered the injured tenant.

   Zhao Han's meaning is very simple, he doesn't want to develop slowly, he must have a base as soon as possible.

  Huangjia Town is very good, there are mountains to the west, and class conflicts are very serious here.

   It's just that the tenant farmers dare not resist due to the coercion of Master Huang, and they still lack a powder keg to detonate.

  One thousand taels of silver is enough to make a powder keg!

  Huang’s family didn’t really kill them either. There were countless minor injuries and none of the serious injuries. After all, the construction site needed manpower.

  …

   night.

  Zhao Han took Chen Maosheng, Xiaohong, and Xiaocui to Xiaohong's house in the dark to visit the injured.

   After knocking on the door for a long time, it finally opened.

   "Father, it's me!" Xiaohong said quickly.

  Because of the dark light, the old farmer didn't recognize Zhao Han. Hearing his daughter's words, he immediately put them into the house.

  Zhao Han suddenly stuffed a handful of copper coins over, and said, "Old man, I am that foreign businessman, and I am here to make an apology to you."

  The old farmer held the copper coin in his hand, wanted to swear but couldn't swear, and just stood there silently.

Zhao Han said again: "I gave Master Huang one thousand taels of silver to ask him to hire someone to level the rocky beach. It was agreed in advance that each person will be paid 30 yuan a day, and they can wait until the spring plowing is over before starting work. But I don't know, Why is he... oh... I'm sorry for you. I'm a foreigner, so it's not easy to confront Mr. Huang. Don't you think so?"

   "Is it true that the wages are thirty yuan a day?" The old farmer grasped the point.

  Zhao Han said: "I wanted to order 50 Wen, but Mr. Huang said that it would not take much, so I could only lower it to 30 Wen. You take your time to recover from your wounds, and I have to visit the next family."

  The old farmer quickly said: "I will send the master away."

   "No, no, old man rest first." Zhao Han bowed his hands and quit.

  When they left, Xiaohong's parents and brother-in-law immediately counted the money with a lamp, and there were two hundred copper coins!

  Sister-in-law said: "Master Zhao is a good man, and he came to apologize in person in the middle of the night."

  The eldest brother said angrily: "I heard clearly just now, Mr. Zhao is paid for his wages, and his Mr. Huang only eats two meals a day. They are all thin, and he can't eat enough!"

   "There is no way," the old farmer sighed, "In this Huangjia Town, Master Huang is the Emperor of Earth."

  Overnight, Zhao Han visited seventeen families of the wounded.

the next day.

   On the river beach construction site, rumors about wages are everywhere.

  Some tenants dared to ask the foreman: "Master Liu, how do you calculate the wages?"

  The foreman sneered: "What wages? I'll give you two meals a day, don't you know what's good?"

  The tenant left angrily, and when he was eating in the middle of the morning, he said to others: "Master Huang swallowed all the wages and didn't give us a penny."

   "It's fine if you don't pay. My field has not been plowed yet, so what will happen this year if the spring plowing is delayed!" Another tenant began to cry while talking.

  The gunpowder keg has been buried, and someone needs to light it.

  (end of this chapter)