Chapter 17: The night passes and the sky is bright

"Xiaobao, do you think they can be fooled? If you don't do as you think, will we make a plan for nothing?"

On the couch, Wang Juan was a little uncertain whether those people would follow Zhang Xiaobao's plan and finally improve the economy of Huayuan County.

Zhang Xiaobao was not worried, "regardless of whether they were following the path we arranged, at worst, they could continue to make arrangements. As long as they still wanted to occupy land in this place, as long as the master and the county magistrate still wanted to make more money, there would always be a bureau suitable for them.

My father is really amazing today. He cheated them once. I guess they gave them a lot of usury loans. Now it’s over. There are basically only two types of people who can borrow money. One is a gambler, and the other is someone who has difficulty living at home or who needs money to treat the disease.”

"Well, it's almost the same. Even if the gamblers are cheap this time, those people in the difficulties in their families must be grateful to your father. They are not fools, so they can naturally understand the reason." Wang Juan did not expect that Zhang's father would have such a big thing today.

When talking about gambling, Wang Juan had a new idea and ran into Zhang Xiaobao. "You said, can you not let them gamble like this? Let's help them gamble, such as lottery, so will they be more stable? Then we have made a lot of money, and we can set up a name. Wherever there is a disaster, we will take out some of it and give it to us.

We do not represent the court and the emperor in our personal name, in the name of your father's county magistrate. In this process, we will invest that money and make more money. Is it okay?"

"Okay, why can't it be? But we can't make this money. We should write to the court directly and let the emperor do it directly. At that time, we will pay a large part of it, leave a small part, or pay it all, and let the superiors get some money back.

In fact, doing this is just to make money. Gambling cannot be prohibited at all. Those who like gambling will continue to gambling while buying lottery tickets. The only way is to catch them, catch them hard, and if they catch them, they will beat them hard. They cannot be punished. If they are punished, they will think about betting back on the money they have been punished.”

Zhang Xiaobao agreed with Wang Juan's idea, not from the perspective of banning gambling, but to make money. When it comes to banning gambling, he could only catch a few whips or parade the streets. Is there such human rights here? Let everyone watch and scare those gambling people.

Wang Juan also knew that this matter would never be banned. The gambling was broken and the gambling wife and children were separated, but it never stopped.

"Is it useful to catch it and beat it? What should I do if the man runs to a hidden place to bet?"

"You'll know if you try it. Increase your efforts. Unless you have a very big gambling addiction, no one will gamble if you are caught at any time. You can report it. You can give some rewards or something at that time. As long as there are enough yamen runners, you can suppress it. I will tell my father tomorrow that there are also Sanshui County.

This person is gambled when he is poor and rich, especially when he has no work to do, they will naturally have to gamble when they are bored. Let’s go to bed. Maybe someone will send him to the next day.”

Zhang Xiaobao was sleepy as he spoke. He turned around and fell asleep for a while. Wang Juan glanced at the candle that had not been extinguished and muttered, "It's okay to try it, as long as most of the gambles I used to don't gamble," and fell asleep.

It’s time to sleep, and some people are destined to be unable to fall asleep tonight. The merchant at the dock, like the county magistrate of the county magistrate, said what piece of land they wanted. Someone has already bought ginseng. It’s not easy to find ginseng for a hundred years, but if you want to buy it, you still have the chance to buy it.

The county magistrate and the lord were preparing to discuss with the merchants how to deal with the county magistrate's affairs this night. Now they are just dealing with the land affairs, and they will find a way to deal with Zhang Zhong himself in the future.

People in Yushu Village can't sleep at night. They had a good meal today. They had to order dumplings, so they made wontons. The little kids also ate a lot of them. They felt so uncomfortable that they didn't sleep at night and came out to play. The adults thought about the future and chatted with their neighbors. They didn't want to sleep anymore.

Even the people from Zhangjiazhuang who came to deliver things were pulled and talked, asking how they lived there in Zhangjiazhuang and what they would look like in the future. The people from Zhangjiazhuang said truthfully and told the people in the village that in the future, the villagers would smile like Zhangjiazhuang.

There are also people who can't sleep, the "inmates" who were put back. The money given by the county magistrate ran home like crazy. Some ran back, and their families were all there, hugging their heads and crying, and then taking out the money, and the family became happy again. They started talking in the afternoon and couldn't finish it until evening.

But some people ran to their homes and found that they had no family members. They asked their neighbors, but they said they didn't know, so they could only cry on their own.

There is another family that hasn't had a good sleep for several days, just next to the Chen family of Yuan. After learning that the master of the Zhang family came to be the county magistrate, he was afraid of being retaliated and was so scared that he lit the torches and lanterns at night, and he would have nightmares to wake up when he fell asleep.

The head of the family had long stopped letting the concubine's younger brother be the housekeeper, so he arranged a job for a choreography, and the concubine's place was not over. He kept the original housekeeper Zhang just to find trouble one day so that he could hand over the person out to block the disaster.

When different people experience different experiences, the night finally passed. After dawn, the difficulty and fear of the night disappeared a lot. Even if there is only one "inmate" who is left with only one person, they will look for it as long as they still have hope to find their families.

When the first ray of sunshine penetrated the morning glow, people also got up and started to do things. After the spring plowing, people also had to go to the field to check it out. As long as a little weed head grows, they must be hoeed.

Business people also set up stalls or open shop doors. Some restaurants in the county do not open in the morning and will only open when it is almost noon. There were many people at that time.

The only exception is Jinlailou. The door was opened early in the morning and various porridges were prepared. Even though there were very few people who could eat, they kept insisting on it. According to Xiaobao, they would develop a habit that such a store would not be just these places, but would have to open to other roads.

There is the same sign. As long as those who are rushing to travel or have something special, they find that they can’t eat anywhere else in the morning. If they can be eaten in such a hotel, they will continue this kind of consideration after opening various places in the hotel.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were eating in the yard, and Zhang Xiaobao had to continue pretending to be sick until the businessmen were able to continue to show up outside after the businessmen bought land.

Zhang Zhong went to the restaurant to have dinner. There were already many yamen runners and other yamen working people. Now they eat breakfast here, which is a benefit. After all, there is no money in the yamen. If you buy breakfast in Jinlailou, it is not cheap, but the cost is very low. Zhang Zhong is not short of this amount of money either.

Not only the people who originally received the things, but also some servants who worked chores in the yamen later forgot about them, but later added another one. They can now go to the restaurant for breakfast.

All of this is arranged. Zhang Zhong can talk to people in the yamen during dinner, ask about things, and bring them closer together. This is better than just giving things, especially some people who can also know some news about the trail.

"Sir, you are here, sit here." When a yamen runner was eating and talking with his colleagues there, he saw Zhang Zhong coming in, and quickly got up and pulled out the chair of an empty table next to him.

However, Zhang Zhong did not sit there, but pulled out a chair next to the yamen runner and sat on it. He looked at the food of the yamen runners, and said to the clerk: "A big bowl of tofu brain, and two more side dishes, what stuffing does the buns have today?"

"Master, the buns are made of mutton, pork and green onion, and leek, egg and shrimp. Is there any beef stuffing? Master, which one do you eat?" The guy asked, his way of speaking was different from other people. He didn't shout so loudly, and he didn't have to count his mouth.

Zhang Zhong didn't like eating that leek, and didn't like anything else. He thought, "Switch it, don't have tofu brain, give a big bowl of soy milk, and a pound of fruit."

"Master, please wait a moment, bring it to you immediately." The guy turned around and ran away.

Then Zhang Zhong said to the three yamen runners who had already sat down beside the table: "In the future, I will ask for a few more side dishes when I come here for breakfast, which is not worth it. Can't I even afford this?"

Listening to the county magistrate calling himself Master, the three yamen runners laughed, and one of them said, "Sir, you are so kind to the young people. If the young people meet other yamen runners in the county, they will tell them that they will not believe it. Oh, except for the Sanshui County, who will let your farm be there?"

"What's good or not? I'm counting on you to work hard in the future. What's the point of eating something? Come, eat, you eat first, my portion will come soon. No matter how much you are waiting, you have to prepare it for me first, right, eat it."

Zhang Zhong seemed very kind at this time, just like when he was chatting with the merchants before. He didn’t have to be stern when he had no business.
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