After leaving Zhang Qi's house, Zhang Ran directly took the remaining two servants to Zhang Meng's house. After finding Zhang Meng's father and son, Zhang Ran told Zhang Meng's family about what had just happened at Zhang Qi's house.

When Zhang Ran forced Zhang Qi and his son to make concessions, handed over all the fields that had embezzled the tribesmen in recent years, and forced the other party to come to the door to apologize to the tribesmen in person, Zhang Meng couldn't help but exclaim and praised Zhang Ran severely.

However, when Zhang Meng heard Zhang Ran ask Zhang Li to resign from the position of the official position of the local master and hand it over to him, Zhang Meng hesitated and said to Zhang Ran very worriedly: "Brother Ran, I appreciate your kindness, uncle, but I can't afford to be a good person here!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but say, "Uncle, isn't it just a lie? How can you not afford to be a lie? I think you are quite suitable. Are you not better than that old guy Zhang Li?"

"Oh! Brother Ran, it's not that I don't want to be this Li Zheng, but that I lack the ability!" Zhang Meng smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly, "The first thing I need to have enough prestige in this Li Zheng, so that the tribesmen will believe in you, and they must also know the text and verbal words to take on the things assigned by the government such as taxes and corvee. I don't have these two things, how can I be this Li Zheng?"

"Uh" Zhang Ran didn't expect that Zhang Meng was still illiterate and could not read, and he was stunned.

"What should I do?" Zhang Ran racked his brains and thought for a long time before trying to say to Zhang Meng: "Well, uncle! I think you have to study hard on your own to overcome this difficulty, and there is no other way! However, in the short term, you can ask Cui'er girl to help me. She learned a lot from me some time ago, and she is almost recognizing all the characters, and she is proficient in math. It is not a problem to collect personal income taxes. Moreover, tax collection is only once a year. This year's autumn harvest has just been collected not long ago, and next time you will have to wait until October next year! Such a long time is enough for you to recognize all the characters!"

Zhang Meng was still a little confident when he heard this: "Is this... OK?"

"Of course it's OK!" Zhang Ran laughed and advised Zhang Meng: "Uncle, have you forgotten that our Zhangli taxation matter was not handled by Zhang Li himself, but by Zhang Qi, who took people from house to house! So, if you feel that you are too busy, you can also ask for help! Now Sankui, Cui'er, Zhang Shan and others know some words, so there is no problem in handling this matter!"

After a pause, Zhang Ran said again: "As for the prestige matter, it is easy to solve. A few days ago, didn't I ask you to find a group of people and set up a construction team to teach them how to repair the kang? I think you can do it now. After Zhang Li resigned from the position of Li Zheng in the past two days and recommended you to the pavilion, you can directly help our tribe members build and repair the kang from house to house in the name of Li Zheng! After the kang is repaired, everyone lives in a warm and harmonious kang house. How can you not remember your good things? Moreover, we can finish the house ourselves and take jobs outside, which is equivalent to finding a way for the villagers to make money. In this way, will your prestige in us be higher than that of Zhang Li?"

"this…"

Zhang Meng was still a little hesitant when he heard this. Although the method given by Zhang Ran was very feasible, Zhang Meng was still worried that he was not capable enough. He rashly took over the burden of Li Zheng and would harm Zhang Li's tribesmen...

"Bang!"

Just as Zhang Meng was hesitating, Zhang Wang, who was standing by, slammed the table suddenly and stared at Zhang Meng with a angrily eyes and said, "Boss, Brother Ran has even thought of the method for you! Why are you still hesitating? Are you worthy of Brother Ran's efforts? If you don't want to be this, I will be the one! I won't believe it anymore. I've been walking on the road. Can't I still go there?"

"Uh." Zhang Meng's face became even more bitter when he heard this. Seeing that his wife was really angry, he couldn't help but wave his hands and said, "No, don't, don't make trouble with me, I'll do it! I'm just here, can't I do it!"

...

Zhang Ran thought that even after solving Zhang Meng's affairs, he would be able to have two days of leisure even after finishing his work, but he didn't expect that after returning home, he soon encountered a headache-inducing new problem.

Because the emperor gave Zhang Ran a two-entry house and ten servants, the place was quite large and there were many people. Therefore, Zhang Ran wanted his mother to move to Chang'an City to enjoy the happiness, but unexpectedly, his mother was unwilling to go with Zhang Ran at all.

And my mother also advised Zhang Ran with great sincerity: "Ran'er, there are thousands of chickens in our chicken farm, all of which are living things. If you don't eat a day, you will starve to death. You can't take care of your flour business. You can't stop! You'll leave this to someone else's mother! Let me stay and watch this for you! Besides, if you go to Chang'an City, you'd rather stay at home and have no one to know, you might as well stay at home and be comfortable, don't you think?"

"Uh" Zhang Ran thought about it carefully and found that what his mother said was a little reasonable. Whether it was the chicken farm or the flour business, Zhang Ran had devoted a lot of effort. If he simply gave up, even Zhang Ran himself would be a little reluctant to leave... Considering that Zhang Li was only more than 30 miles away in Chang'an City, and he could only come back in more than an hour by horse or donkey cart, Zhang Ran did not force his mother.

So Zhang Ran could only compromise and said, "Mother, then I will send a few more servants back tomorrow!"

"Ah? No, no!" Zhang Li waved his hand and refused, "My mother is not that precious and doesn't need to be served by others! I'll just be busy at home!"

Seeing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but smile: "Mother, the emperor gave me such a servant to serve you. If you don't want it, I can't explain it to the emperor!"

"Ah?" Zhang Li's screamed, "What should I do?"

Seeing this, Zhang Ran couldn't help but smile and said, "That's why I have to send a few more people to serve my mother!"

Zhang Li had no choice but to accept it and said, "Then... well! Let's just let you go this time!"

......

They stayed at home for two more days and sorted out some trivial matters at home until Zhang Qi and his son, who had nearly 500 acres of white deeds, returned them to Zhang Li's tribe members from door to door. Under the supervision of Xue Tong and others, they personally apologized to Zhang Li's tribe members who had been bullied by Zhang Qi.
Chapter completed!