Chapter 25 Hongmen Banquet

Author: Soy Sauce Xuanzhu

Chapter 25 Hongmen Banquet

Of course Li Yewu didn't know that during this period, Meihua Village was fighting among themselves because of Long Er's death, so he had no time to care about her.

Long Jiu secretly sent a message to Long Er, "Prince Zang's Mansion went to Cuiwei Mountain to catch mountain goods." After receiving the secret letter, Long Er immediately took his people and set off to wait for the fishermen's profit.

However, no one knows what happened that night.

They only knew that there was a landslide in Mount Cuiwei, and no one in Long Er's group survived.

But the people from Prince Zhang's Mansion came back with a hundred sheep.

Cuiwei Mountain is not the place with the most cattle and sheep! It can be seen that Longjiu’s news is not accurate!

Going a bit more conspiracy theorist, who knows if Long Jiu is deliberately spreading false news?

However, when he wanted to confront Long Jiu, he unexpectedly discovered that he was no longer in Prince Chang's Mansion, and no one knew where he had gone.

Therefore, Meihua Village is trying its best to find Long Jiu and has no time to care about Li Yewu.

This also made it convenient for Li Yewu to do research.

The huge Taihe City is just as the four major families said. The first 100,000 acres of farmland outside the city are basically abandoned except for the four major families.

What a coincidence, the abandoned fields are all Xiao Jiuxi's property.

However, Xiao Jiuxi sold these private properties a long time ago in exchange for money to subsidize the people.

It was the four major families who bought these fields.

Originally, the four major families thought they had made a fortune. As landlords, the more fields they have, the better.

Who knows, and because the benefits provided by Xiao Jiuxi are so good, many people would rather go to the slums than work.

Therefore, the four major families own these land deeds, but do not have enough labor force to farm, so that these lands can only be left uncultivated, and even their own fields are being abandoned year by year...

All in all, it can be considered a vicious cycle.

They are the few victims of Xiao Jiuxi's high welfare policy.

After all, they are not eligible to receive welfare if they are not in the slums. Without welfare, they have to lose their labor force. How unfair!

Although Xiao Jiuxi bought things from them every year, they were all bad checks, without a tael of actual money coming in, and she also deceived them into paying for the land. It was really injustice upon injustice.

However, what can you do if someone holds the title of King of Wine? Even if you want to go against it, you can only curse a few words secretly.

Through these days of investigation, Li Yewu also discovered that the biggest problem in Xiao Jiuxi's city and his biggest burden were the people in the refugee camp.

Taihe City has a population of 1.2 million, of which 800,000 live in slums.

This is a very scary number.

This is equivalent to almost all the labor force in Taihe City leaving the farmland.

They are all supported by Xiao Jiuxi alone.

How much rice do 800,000 people need to eat every day? How much does it cost?

It’s no wonder that Xiao Jiuxi became a millionaire in just five years.

However, Taihe City does not produce its own grain, so relying solely on buying it from outside is not an option.

In an agricultural society, it is impossible for people to survive without farming and producing.

All in all, Li Yewu had made a plan. After paying off the debt, he would buy back all the land Xiao Jiuxi sold, and then find a way to lure the labor force from the slums back to the fields.

There are still ten days left before the thirty-day appointment.

However, the four major families received invitations from the princess, asking them to come over to attend the dinner.

All the heads of the four major families were shocked.

For them, this is not just reminiscing about old times, but a real Hongmen Banquet!

After all, they made a fuss when they came to collect debts, and they even showed the princess the problem with the IOU.

For this reason, the four major families secretly met for a secret meeting to discuss how to deal with it.

After all, what the princess said was indeed correct. The things they sold to Xiao Jiuxi did drive up prices, and because Xiao Jiuxi didn't notice, they became more and more outrageous and the prices on the IOUs became more and more outrageous.

Of course, the main reason is mixed with resentment. Who made Xiao Jiuxi take away all their tenants in disguise?

However, how happy it was at the beginning is now so painful! It is a huge amount of work to overturn and redo five years of accounts. At this time, the accountants are still working overtime to settle the accounts.

For the first time, they had the idea of ​​​​hoping that the princess would postpone the payment of the debt.

One month is really not enough time!

However, fearing that something might happen, the princess still invited her in advance!!!

Everyone was speechless, but the invitation came and they had to go.

In this way, the four major families prepared to die and came to Prince Zhang's Mansion again.

Compared to the high-spirited and high-spirited times last time, the four major families are obviously not as confident this time.

Li Yewu smiled and said nothing, and generously invited them to sit down.

The living room is still the same empty living room with four bare walls.

The princess still looks beautiful, calm and generous.

But the ledger... is no longer the original ledger.

Therefore, the state of mind of the heads of the four major families is completely different from the previous burning cauldron.

"I invited everyone here today because I want to know how the reconciliation of the four family heads' accounts went?"

"Uh... still... still checking."

As the head of the four major families, the head of the Sifang family was introduced as the representative speaker. He answered with a forced smile while wiping his cold sweat.

Li Yewu was a little dissatisfied: "Your speed is really too slow."

Everyone looked at each other and said nothing.

"Of course, inviting you here today is not just about the bill. The prince said that he had sold you the land in his hands a few years ago..."

When the four masters heard this, alarm bells rang loudly in their hearts and they quickly said: "It is indeed true, but... there is no problem at all with the accounts of Tiandi Conscience's land purchase and sale. The price is set by the prince, and we pay the money directly."

At that time, Xiao Jiuxi did sell all the 30,000 acres of land in his hands at a cheaper price than the market price, with a total price of 240,000 silver. However, buying and selling land was a matter of willingness to pay. They did not force it.

Selling land with Xiao Jiuxi.

If Madam wants to overturn the price increase now, they will never agree to it.

Li Yewu smiled: "You have misunderstood. I don't want to overturn the agreement made back then, but I want to buy back these fertile fields."

"Buy it back?" Everyone was stunned: "You...you..."

After all, I didn’t have the nerve to say the words “Are you rich?”

Li Yewu said calmly: "To tell you the truth, the prince has made a lot of money doing business in the capital snowman these days. With the help of people from the palace, the prince sent the money back. He told me that I must collect the fields I sold back then.

return.

As you all understand, the prince had no choice but to sell the land back then. However, after all, these fields were gifted by His Majesty. It would not be good if they fell into the hands of others. Moreover, the 30,000 acres of land are still idle and cannot produce any benefits anyway. It is better to let them go.

It reappears, what do you think?"

Everyone looked at each other in confusion for a while, not understanding what kind of medicine Li Yewu Gourd was selling.

But when it comes to selling farmland, to be honest, they are quite happy. After all, even if there is no labor force, it is useless, and they were worried that they would foolishly take over Xiao Jiuxi's hot potato.

Before the Sifang Patriarch could speak, the Liu Patriarch, who was at the bottom of the four major families, spoke.

"How much does the princess plan to...buy it for?"
Chapter completed!