Contrary to what Zhao Fuxiang expected, the farm in Damei Village was just a very ordinary small courtyard. If Liao Dagui hadn't parked his car at the door, Zhao Fuxiang would have thought it was just an ordinary farmer's home.

According to Zhao Fuxiang's simple nouveau riche mentality, Zhang Chengde's family has a big business and has so much money. Why doesn't he decorate his farm into a wealthy compound? There are two stone lions at the door. When you enter, there is a nine-dragon screen wall, and then a parking lot.

A large square with 180 luxury cars in it can show the magnificence of thousands of adults. Now that he knew that the farm turned out to be like this, Zhao Fuxiang not only secretly cursed Zhang Chengde in his heart for being so stingy.

Zhao Fuxiang has never seen a truly wealthy person in his later generations. As a township cadre, he only encountered small contractors who built cement roads and ditches. He had a small watch with a big gold chain and a Hermès handbag in his arms. At the opening of 2.7

His seven hands were domineering, and when he got out of the car, his mouth was filled with the taste of Northeastern slag: "Brother, tell me what you want to eat, I know people here!"

In fact, no matter which dynasty, the really rich people are very low-key. Basically, you can't see them in the mainstream media. Naturally, their lives are not accessible to ordinary people. Although Zhang Chengde is not a rich person, he is also very low-key.

He is not a high-ranking official, but after all, the Zhang family has been operating in Haikou for more than two hundred years. The ups and downs in the officialdom have made successive Zhang family heads understand the meaning of low-key early on, so it is understandable that this farm in Damei Village is very ordinary.

There were four or five people standing at the door of the farm early, probably the stewards of the farm. After receiving the news, they came out to greet the new owner.

Zhao Fuxiang got off the horse, and Liao Dagui ran over and said with a smile: "Sir, this is Zhang Gui, the steward of the Damei Village Farm. Oh, no! His name has been changed to Zhao Gui now!"

Zhao Gui, the steward in his thirties, trotted over quickly, knelt on his knees and said, "Zhao Gui pays homage to my master!"

It seems that this Zhao Gui is also a smart man. When he found out that the owner had changed, he immediately changed his family and even changed his surname. Zhao Fuxiang smiled and said: "Get up, are you the manager here? Take us in and have a look!"

Zhao Gui nodded in agreement, and when he got up, he saw Mr.

She is still your mistress, so you can call her whatever you were before! But the old master has become Zhao Xiang, you have to remember that!"

Although Zhao Gui cursed Zhao Fuxiang in his heart for not being a thing, for killing his husband and taking his wife away, he did not dare to show it in the slightest, so he quickly nodded in agreement and went forward to greet Xue and Zhao Xiang respectively!

Zhao Fuxiang saw that his new godson was timid and had been hiding behind his mother Xue, not daring to speak. He cursed in his heart that he was really a loser. How could I expect you to come out to compete with Zhang Rong for power in the future? Zhao Fuxiang thought for a while.

You should find an opportunity to train this godson. Although he is not as good as his own son, he can't embarrass himself in front of his wife Sun Jing!

Zhao Gui walked over and opened the door. Standing inside were five family members, two servants and three maids, who were probably responsible for cleaning the house on weekdays. Zhao Fuxiang nodded to them, then walked around the screen wall and walked into the yard.

This yard is really small. There is a small living room in the front, and you enter the back house through the corridor. There is a small back garden in the back, about more than 100 square meters, with some Xiangfei bamboo planted, and then there are three main rooms, and then there are three main rooms in the back.

This is where the servants live.

Zhao Fuxiang entered the room and took a look. The decoration inside was better than the appearance. There were several erotic paintings hanging in the bedroom. After Zhao Fuxiang looked at it,

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I cursed in my heart that Zhang Chengde was really obscene for hanging such a thing in his bedroom!

In fact, Zhao Fuxiang didn't know that this main room cost a lot of money. The mahogany bed in the bedroom was an antique from the Song Dynasty, and the tables and chairs in the middle were all made of high-quality wood. Even the erotic paintings hanging on the wall of the bedroom were also made of fine wood.

Authentic work of Tang Yin from the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhao Fuxiang read it, he went to the reception room where he first entered the courtyard. Zhao Gui had already brought the land register of the entire farm for the new owner to review.

Accounting in the Ming Dynasty was extremely backward, similar to the running accounts of later generations. Not only did it look cumbersome, but it was also extremely easy to falsify. But this was not a problem for Zhao Fuxiang, because he couldn't understand it either.

Zhao Fuxiang picked up the account book and flipped through it casually, then asked: "Zhao Gui, how much land rent do those tenants pay?"

Zhao Gui didn't know why Zhao Fuxiang asked about this matter when he first came up, but he still replied respectfully: "We charge 50% of the land rent. Our family collects the least land rent among the surrounding landlords. All the tenants say that our family has a conscience...

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Before Zhao Gui finished speaking, Zhao Fuxiang said: "The land rent is less and will increase to 70% in the future!"

Zhao Gui was stunned after hearing this, and quickly explained: "Sir, 70%? In this way, those tenants can only keep enough rations, and over time they will flee!"

Zhao Fuxiang snorted coldly and said: "I don't care, sir, I still have a large farm on the other side of the river, which is farmed by refugees. If there is an escape and the land rent cannot be collected, you should stop working and go to the other side of the river to teach the refugees to farm!"

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When Zhao Gui heard this, his face turned pale with fright. Those refugees were all foreigners. He would definitely suffer a loss if he went there as a local. Zhao Gui had no choice but to agree and increase the land rent of tenants to 70%!

Ms. Xue didn't know that Zhao Fuxiang wanted to increase the land rent for the farmers. After Zhao Gui left, Ms. Xue asked: "Master, why did you increase the land rent for those tenants?"

Zhao Fuxiang looked at Zhao Gui's back and snorted coldly: "Didn't you see how the villagers in Damei Village live on the way here? Are they similar to the villagers in other villages? Since the land rent we charge is less than other villages, why do the villagers live so well?

Is it like this? Naturally, the extra 20% of the land rent was pocketed by Zhao Gui! In the past, Zhang Chengde probably didn't care about these things, but now these lands belong to me. Zhao Gui is embezzling my money, how can I tolerate him? What if?

If Zhao Guixi doesn't change, I will throw him into the homeless pile!"

After hearing this, Ms.

Got this guy Zhao Gui.

Different from the son who thinks about land to the tiller all day long, Zhao Fuxiang is much more selfish. Although he opposes charging such high land rent, he is talking to outsiders. Now these fields have become his own.

Naturally, he did not want his property to be damaged, so he directly raised the land rent to 70%, which meant that unless there was a disaster, the food left by the tenants would be enough for food and clothing.

When Zhao Fuxiang saw that he and Mr.

, tell me the location where Zhang Chengde hid his silver?"

It was daytime at this time, and Zhao Fuxiang moved his hands and feet, making Xue's face turn red. He quickly pushed Zhao Fuxiang's hand away and said, "Master, please come with me!"

Zhao Fuxiang was very excited when he heard this. He gave away hundreds of thousands of silver in the afternoon. He was lying if he said he didn't feel bad, but according to his estimation, Zhang Cheng

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A big family like De must have three caves. In addition to that cave, there are other places to hide the silver, so they generously pushed the silver out in the afternoon. Now when he heard that there was really a hidden silver in Damei Village, Zhao Fuxiang was so excited that he was shaking all over.

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Mrs. Xue led Zhao Fuxiang into the bedroom of the back house. Zhao Fuxiang saw Mr. Xue entering the house and smiled: "Brother and sister, why are you thinking about that kind of thing before night? But now, sir, I am not in the mood, let's go find Zang Yin!"

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Xue glared at Zhao Fuxiang, then pushed the mahogany box beside the bed and said to Zhao Fuxiang: "Master, the place where Zhang Chengde's treasure is hidden is right here!"

Zhao Fuxiang was stunned. How much money could be hidden in this house? He walked over and followed Xue's instructions to pry open a wall brick. Sure enough, there was a small wooden box one foot square inside.

Zhao Fuxiang took out the wooden box and looked around. It looked like the wooden box was old, but it was well preserved and showed no signs of moisture.

Ms. Xue said: "Zhang Chengde comes to Damei Village once a month, and every time he opens this box to view it. I also asked what was inside, but Zhang Chengde never said anything, only that it was an important treasure.

I will pass it on to my son in the future!”

When Xue said this, she felt a little sad when she thought that her husband had died and this treasure had become Zhao Fuxiang's collection!

Zhao Fuxiang looked at the lock on the wooden box, and asked Xue where the key was. Xue said that the key was on Zhang Chengde. Now Zhao Fuxiang was in trouble. Zhang Chengde was already dead, and his body was no longer known where to go.

Where to find the key?

But how can a living person die from suffocating his urine? Zhao Fuxiang went out to find an ax for chopping firewood, and chopped off the lock head in two or two strokes. Zhao Fuxiang carefully opened the wooden box and found that the contents inside were completely wrapped in a foot of red silk.

Some quicklime was also put in to prevent moisture.

Zhao Fuxiang took out this thing and found that it was a square object, about fifteen centimeters in length, width and ten centimeters in height. Seeing this, Zhao Fuxiang felt a chill in his heart. Even if this thing was gold, it wouldn't be worth much.

If I had known earlier I wouldn't be so generous. At least I should have taken the tens of thousands taels that Zhao Mengguan gave me.

After Zhao Fuxiang opened the silk, he found a seal made of jade. The whole body was white. On the top of the seal was a small tiger-like beast. Zhao Fuxiang didn't know what it was.

Seeing that it was a seal, Zhao Fuxiang probably thought it was Zhang Shicheng's emperor's seal. This thing had even less value. He didn't dare to sell it, and it had no collection value. If it were kept in future generations, it could still be regarded as an antique, but in the Ming Dynasty, you dared to take it.

The emperor's seal of Zhang Shicheng?

Zhao Fuxiang muttered in his heart: It would be great if it was Zhu Yuanzhang's seal. At least if he presented it to the court, he could get another official position!

When Zhao Fuxiang looked at the seal, he found that a corner of the seal was missing, but it was repaired with gold. At this time, Zhao Fuxiang had not noticed anything wrong. He was still despising Zhang Shicheng for being a private person who had never seen the world.

Dealer, it’s still bad to carve a big seal!

When Zhao Fuxiang turned the seal over and looked at the inscription, he found that the inscription on it was not the commonly used seal characters at all, but a strange bird-like character. Zhao Fuxiang already felt that something was wrong and looked for one in the house.

He used some paper to see what the inscription was, but there was no blank paper in the room. Zhao Fuxiang had no choice but to take down Tang Bohu's erotic painting from the wall and cover it in the blank space.

Zhao Fuxiang was shocked when he saw the inscription of the seal clearly. It turned out that this seal was not Zhang Shicheng's seal of the Great Zhou Emperor, but the famous imperial seal in history!
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