Putting aside Ning Qingtian's surprise, Wu Qianlan, who was standing behind him and observing, was extremely angry at this moment.

She never expected that just a mere secret service would have collected so much money and food from her family. As the king of a country, the treasury was empty, and even the rats would cry when they came.

If you have the opportunity to go back, you must find a way to remeasure the land in this world and kill all these thieves who harm the people.

"What's in this box?"

Ning Qingtian didn't think much about it at this time, but just kicked the mahogany box under his feet and looked at Yang Ba and asked.

Seeing his village asking on his own initiative, Yang Ba hurriedly squatted down and opened the mahogany box, revealing the stacks of paper stuff inside, and then said,

"Reporting to the village master, there are all the land deeds of the official family here and some usury IOUs."

"Oh, there are so many?"

Ning Qingtian exclaimed, took some paperware that Yang Ba took out and looked at it. As expected, most of them were land deeds and some usury IOUs.

He even saw the IOU from Zhang Kai’s family. He had borrowed two staples of money in the disaster year, but this year he had to pay back twenty taels of silver.

He couldn't help but gasp. This was not a loan shark, it was simply a robbery and it didn't give anyone a way out.

When I looked up, I saw that the people around me were looking at me nervously, to be precise, at the bills in my hands.

After thinking about it for a moment, Ning Qingtian made a firm decision in his heart.

He reached out and took a torch from a person next to him, looked at the people trembling in the cold wind, his mouth slightly raised, and then threw the torch into the mahogany box in the surprised gaze of many people.

Immediately, the burning torch burned the land deeds and IOUs in the mahogany box.

The raging fire shone on his face, reflecting a quiet and peaceful state.

Around them, there were the regretful voices of the bandits and the secret joys of the villagers.

After the torch burned the land deeds and IOUs, along with the mahogany box, the originally fearful expressions gradually calmed down.

However, no people dared to speak at this time. Everyone just looked at the king who looked like a scholar, not knowing what he meant.

Ning Qingtian ignored the confusing eyes of the others in the village. Anyway, the counterfeits had the final say, and he just stood tall on the stone mill and said loudly,

"Dear fellow villagers, I'll bother you tonight and offend you. I'll burn these IOUs and land deeds, all of which are for you to give you a gift."

Many villagers dared not answer his words. Besides, even if these land deeds were burned, they would not be their turn to plant them. Corrupt officials from the government re-planned them.

These people have seen each other for many times. No matter how the landlords change, they are just tenants after all.

Ning Qingtian was not surprised by this, knowing that these people were afraid of being close to them and others.

Just when he was about to say something, Zhang Kai, who was beside him, woke up at this time. After seeing Ning Qingtian, he immediately knelt down in front of Ning Qingtian regardless of others' obstruction, and knocked down three times.

"Thank you, the master of the village, for helping Xiao take revenge. In the future, the master of the village, called Xiao, and this life belongs to the master. If I violate this oath, I will not be raised by my parents in my life..."

Seeing that he was going to make another poisonous oath, Ning Qingtian quickly jumped off the rock mill and helped him up and said,

"Since you have joined my hamlet, you and I are brothers. If you have a grudge against me, how can I ignore it? Why do you have to say two families? Get up quickly?"

When Zhang Kai heard this, his eyes turned red again. He immediately bowed again, kowtowed three times in a row, and then he fell to the ground, only seeing the other men around him secretly admired him.

Yang Ba, who was standing bent down again when he saw the village leader bent down again, quickly opened the kneeling man and pulled up the kneeling man. Seeing that his forehead was red at this time, he was already broken, and he couldn't help but pat him and said,

"Good boy, Brother Buwang Village Master went down the mountain to avenge you."

At this time, he was also impressed by Ning Qingtian's series of behaviors, and he couldn't help but use respectful titles.

After Ning Qingtian saw the nervous opening, he suddenly slapped his forehead. Why is he so stupid?

Since there is this local snake here, Isn’t it better to do some things to him than to do them yourself? It would be better for the people to resist them too much.

When she thought of this, Ning Qingtian waved to Zhang Kai, signaled him to come over, and then asked in a warm voice,

"Zhang Kai, how many households are there in your village?"

Zhang Kai didn't know what the village leader asked him about this, but he replied immediately,

"If you go back to the village leader, there are 397 families in my village."

Ning Qingtian nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, and then looked at his wife.

When Wu Qianlan saw him looking at him, he was a little confused, wondering what he was thinking of him doing at this time.

"Madam, are you sure that all the affairs of the copycat are left to the husband?"

Wu Qianlan didn't know why this "bandit husband" suddenly asked about this again, but she didn't know much about everything here at this time, so naturally she wouldn't meddle in other people's business. Hearing this, he just nodded to confirm.

“So very good.”

After confirming again, Ning Qingtian felt relieved and looked at Zhang Kai in a daze and said,

"Zhang Kai, go and tell the villagers, just say that there will be many disturbances tonight, which will scare the villagers. To apologize, the counterfeit village will distribute ten stones of food to each household, and there are not many things, so it is a sign of apologizing."

Zhang Kai was stunned when he heard this. However, before he could reply, Ning Qingtian immediately ordered Yang Ba, who was also surprised at this moment,

"Don't stand there, take Zhang Kai and send food to everyone with your brothers."

"Master, this is four thousand stones of grain. Is it just for those villagers who have nothing to do with us?"

When Yang Ba heard this, he reacted and asked immediately in surprise.

Ning Qingtian frowned and looked at Yang Ba and Zhang Kai. Seeing these two people, they were so surprised that they could not be able to do so. He followed around and saw that everyone was looking at him like a monster. He shook his head and explained,

"Since my village has taken the banner of taking advantage of the heavens, we will follow this principle from now on. Not only this time, we will go down the mountain to borrow food in the future, and we will do this accordingly."

After saying that, although everyone was still confused, they did not dare to say more when they saw the cold expression of their village leader.

Yang Ba immediately pulled him open to release the food.

Wu Qianlan, behind Ning Qingtian, was even more shocked and was also in anger, wishing to kill this traitor immediately.

As an empress, how can she not see what this traitor is going to do?

Killing officials and releasing food to win people's hearts is a sign of rebellion!
Chapter completed!