This year there is a bad harvest in Zhuo County, and Jizhou needs a lot of food to settle the people. Yuan Gang is also having a headache if he cannot pay enough taxes this year. The only people he can collect taxes in Zhuo County are basically the poor people, but how much food can the people have?

In the past, if he could just find some excuse to forcefully levy some from the people, he would be able to pay the autumn tax, but this year he would not dare to levy taxes at will. Zhuoxian finally survived this year without major chaos. If the people give in and force rebellion

, then even Liu Qi wouldn't be able to protect him.

"My lord, this banquet is not a good one! I'm afraid our county magistrate will ask us for food." Yan Zhong said to Liu Xin.

"It's nothing to ask for food. I'm afraid that what he brought to my lord is the Hongmen Banquet. Ever since we wounded his soldiers, he has endured it without even making a sound." Zhou Tai said.

"No matter what, we have to go to this banquet. If we don't go, we will be isolated by Yuan Gang. This is not a good thing for us." Liu Xin scratched his head and said.

"Tomorrow Guan Hai and I will accompany the lord. Even if Yuan Gang holds a Hongmen Banquet, we are not afraid of him." Zhou Tai said.

The other generals nodded when they heard this. Zhou Tai and Guan Hai were both first-rate military generals. Even if they were trapped, they could lead Liu Xin out of the county government without any problem.

"We will send 200 troops into the city today. If we really fall out with Yuan Gang, we are afraid that we will suffer a loss if there are not enough troops in the city. I want to see how big a show our county magistrate can perform this time!" Liu

Xin Qing said.

In the afternoon, Guan Hai selected 200 of the most elite soldiers, all of whom had fine leather armor with a combat power of more than 40 points. The 5 commanders included 10 captains and 50 captains. They were divided into groups after entering Zhuoxian County.

Go to the courtyards in the south of the city and wait quietly for Liu Xin's orders.

Liu Xin thought carefully about Yuan Gang's possible ways to deal with him. As a later generation, there were too many stories about sudden killings at banquets that led to enemies and mortal enemies. He considered all the situations that could be considered, and then eliminated some impossible ones.

My heart felt calm.

Asking people to prepare the things they need to bring tomorrow, Liu Xin was discharged from the hospital and heard her mother talking gently to someone. It turned out to be the daughter-in-law that her second brother had just married this year. Now her belly was very big, and it looked like she was about to give birth.

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"Third son, your second brother has brought his daughter-in-law Lianhua!" Mother Liu smiled when she saw Liu Gu's daughter-in-law with a big belly.

"I've met the master!" Liu Gu's wife was about to kneel down when she saw Liu Xin. She was Liu Xin's servant at the dam last winter. She couldn't help but kneel down when she saw Liu Xin, but Liu's mother hurriedly stopped her.

"You are so sick that you don't need to be so polite. We will all be a family from now on," Liu's mother said.

"Yes, now that you are married to my second brother, you can be considered my sister-in-law..." Liu Xin was saying. When Lotus heard Liu Xin's words, she was so frightened that she almost knelt down. Fortunately, Liu's mother reacted in time and stopped her.

"... I don't dare, the master saved my life, and my life is very good now!" Lianhua looked at Liu Xin and said gratefully.

Liu Xin saw that his second brother Liu Gu and his young daughter-in-law Lianhua were both dressed in coarse cloth. He had never taken food from Liu Xinzhuang in the past year or so.

"Second brother, your wife's belly is so big, she's probably going to give birth soon, and you don't have anyone at home to take care of her. Let's live here for now! There is a woman who delivers babies in the village, and there is also a doctor here. You can come back in winter when the baby is born.

It may be too late to find someone." Liu's mother told Liu Gu while looking at Liu Xin.

"Mom is right, just move to this village! The 40 acres of rented land at home are now mine. When the time comes, it will be better for you to find a job on the village than at home." Liu Xin was about to speak when he saw his second brother.

If he refused, he said that he would be asked to work for the villager.

Lianhua didn't say anything and seemed to obey Liu Gu in everything. Liu Gu looked at his wife, thought about it and finally agreed. After all, he didn't know how to deliver the baby when his wife was pregnant. There were a lot of people who died in childbirth at this time.

Liu's mother happily asked people to clean up Liu Gu's house, but Liu Gu couldn't insist on living in the upper courtyard. Lianhua wanted to go back to her previous group 3, but now it has become group 2 after integration. Liu's mother could only let them live in the lower courtyard.

The second round of sweet potatoes and beets were almost ripe in the greenhouse of the lower courtyard. Liu Xin asked people to pay attention to collecting the beet seeds, and then went down the mountain to the foot of the eastern mountain.

This is a newly opened field this year. There are now more than 500 acres, of which more than 200 acres have been leveled three times and fattened with silt and earthworm attractants. Now they are no longer barren. Coupled with the water brought down from the mountains, the land should be here next year.

The first planting has begun.

I spent an afternoon plowing fields with my servants. This land reclamation is really physical work. Thousands of people just plowed the previous fields and then opened more than two acres of new fields. This shows how slow the land reclamation speed is.

Early the next morning, Liu Xin asked Zhou Tai and Guan Hai to wait for the prepared things at the village. He came to Zhuoxian City alone. When he arrived at Buzhuang in the west of the city, Liu Xin saw that Buzhuang had changed greatly. He was renovating the store in front of the door.

The layout was also changed. He didn't recognize the cloth seller, and then he remembered that Wang Qingxun and Wang Xiaohua had moved to the east of the city.

"I've met the head of the family!"

The child in the store saw Liu Xin at the door and hurriedly walked out to salute him.

"Well, you can go about your business! Who is in charge of this store now?" Liu Xin asked.

"This store is in charge of Su Jun, this street is in charge of Sun Ning Nursing Home, and the general person in charge of the entire south of the city is Master Wang Hui," Xiao'er replied.

Su Jun and Liu Xin were not impressed, but Sun Ning was a management talent that Zhuang Shang had been cultivating, and his management ability had improved rapidly in the past year.

When I came to the east of the city, it seemed that the prosperity of the past had returned. Many shops were open. Liu Xin knew that many of the things in these shops were bought from him.

Liu Xin knew where Wang Xiaohua lived. He went to the door of the courtyard and knocked on the door. A servant who also came from his village came out and welcomed him into the courtyard.

This residence looks very nice. All the houses are painted wooden buildings. There are hundreds of people living in more than 40 rooms in the outer courtyard, half of whom came from Qilin Villa.

"I've met the master!" Several of Liu Xin's guards saluted him, and the other servants knelt down and kowtowed to him. Liu Xin saved their lives and was their only master in this life.

"Get up! How are you living in the city?" Liu Xin raised his hand, and everyone on the ground stood up.

"Master, the royal master treats us very well. He leaves everything at home to us, and Miss Wang's monthly salary is sufficient." The leading nurse said to Liu Xin.

"That's good. Even though you don't live in the village, don't waste your martial arts skills." Liu Xin said.

"I don't dare!" all the nursing homes replied together.

Liu Xin looked at the people in front of him. These are the foundation for his survival in this world. Most of the people in this world are illiterate, but if you are good to them, they will fight for you for the rest of their lives. He led his troops to fight and killed so many soldiers.
Chapter completed!