A few more days passed, and Huang Zundao agreed to all Zhao Han's requests.
Zhao Han was also very happy and paid another 500 taels of silver. In an instant, only one-third of the 1,500 taels he snatched from the bank was left, and there was still a box and a half of copper coins left.
The three of them went out to deliver the money, while Zhang Tieniu continued to take care of the money.
Xiaohong pulled Xiaocui aside and whispered: "Young Master is afraid that he is going to do something big."
Xiaocui smiled and said: "What you do is a big deal."
"Don't scream," Xiao Hong said close to her ear, "Young master wants to harm Mr. Huang. He has spent so much money and he definitely wants to kill Mr. Huang!"
"How……"
Xiaocui quickly covered her mouth: "How is it possible? Don't you want to do business with Mr. Huang?"
"I'm afraid you are not a rich man," Xiao Hong asked. "Have you ever seen a rich man who was willing to kneel down and kowtow to a slave?"
Xiaocui shook his head and said: "No. Not to mention the rich family, even the tenants in the village will not kowtow to our slaves unless it is for the sake of the master."
"That's the truth," Xiao Hong said, "I guess the young master may be a robber."
Xiaocui smiled and said: "How could there be such a handsome robber?"
Xiaohong felt that it was very tiring to communicate with Xiaocui, so she thought to herself and said: "If you want to be a robber, then I will be a robber's wife."
"Don't talk nonsense. How can the young master be a robber? If he is a robber and is caught by the official, he will be beheaded." Xiao Cui was a little scared.
Xiao Hong complained: "You are so stupid. The young master has been asking about news in the village these two days. Which family has land, which family has shops, which family has festivals with whom, and whether there is any, let us tell you.
.Isn’t this a robber stepping on a plate?”
"What is stepping on the plate?" Xiaocui asked.
"We just want to find out first, so we can take action when the time comes," Xiao Hong warned, "You are not allowed to tell anyone about it, so don't ruin the young master's good deeds."
Xiao Cui quickly shook her head: "No, no."
Xiaohong suddenly began to fantasize: "You said that the young master has robbed the property and returned to the village, will you make us the ladies of the village? I am half a year older than you. By then, I will be the eldest lady and you will be the second lady."
"
"That's great, I'm just afraid that the young master will look down on us." Xiao Cui also laughed.
Xiaohong asked: "Aren't you afraid of being arrested by the government?"
"I'm afraid, but the young master is very smart. He will definitely not be caught by the officials," Xiao Cui held her cheek with her hand and tilted her head and said, "In this life, I have been the one to kneel down for others, and this is the first time someone has followed me.
I knelt down. I was scared at the time, but when I looked back I was so happy that I could wake up laughing even in my dreams."
Xiaohong seemed to understand very well and said, "Young master is trying to win people's hearts."
Xiaocui asked: "We are the master's people, what is he doing to win people's hearts?"
Xiaohong said familiarly: "Idiot, the young master not only wants our bodies, he also wants our hearts."
"You are talking nonsense, Master will not lie to us." Xiao Cui said angrily.
"So what if I'm cheated?" Xiao Hong said with a smile, "There is a man who is willing to kneel to me and kowtow to me so much. Even if he is cheated, I am willing to do it. No matter he is a bandit or a robber, I will follow him from now on."
yes."
Xiaocui murmured: "Yes, just follow him."
The requirements for being a maid are very low. If you don't beat or scold them frequently and feed them well, you can make them loyal.
Zhao Han said that everyone is equal and there is no distinction between good and bad, and he knelt down and kowtowed to them.
How can I withstand this?
That night, the two girls stayed up all night, holding their pillows and crying secretly.
Some people treat them as human beings, and they really treat them as human beings, not just pretending to be deceiving!
To put it more extreme, if Zhao Han encounters danger, Xiaohong and Xiaocui will definitely rush to block the knife.
In the eyes of the ancients, this was to win people's hearts.
Wu Qi, a famous general in the Warring States Period, had a malignant sore on a soldier under his command. Wu Qi personally sucked it up. When the soldier’s mother heard the news, she immediately prepared her son’s funeral arrangements and cried: “My husband has died for the general, and my son is afraid that he will die too.”
Not far away."
If you are good to me, I will die for you!
…
Is Zhao Han going to be a robber?
Some people have already regarded him as a robber, and there are quite a few of them.
On the sixteenth day when Zhao Han arrived in Huangjia Town, hundreds of tenants suddenly surrounded the inn.
The cause of everything was that Huang Zunde was so confused by money that he continuously poured out a thousand taels of silver, and there were countless more coins waiting to be put into his pocket. He immediately agreed to Zhao Han's request and lengthened and widened the land acquisition area, including a lot of cultivated land.
Inside.
Moreover, because Zhao Han was pressing the construction deadline, Huang Zunde was also eager to make money, so he directly forced the tenants to level the rocky beach and went into the mountains to cut down trees and cut rocks.
Spring plowing is not over yet!
This is pushing the tenants to death. If the spring plowing is delayed, the whole family will not be able to survive.
The farmers who had been deprived of their land because Zhao Han occupied their farmland were the first to complain at the construction site. The other tenants became more and more angry. They did not dare to settle accounts with Mr. Huang, so they joined forces and headed to the inn.
As long as Zhao Han is driven away, everything will be solved!
Zhao Han stood upstairs and looked down at everyone. Below him were countless tenant farmers holding their working tools high. They were so excited that they spat out countless curse words and greeted all the eighteen generations of Zhao Han's ancestors.
"Sir," Zhang Tieniu came over with an axe, "do you want me to go out and drive away all these bastards?"
Zhao Han said angrily: "Go back and practice calligraphy!"
"Oh." Zhang Tieniu scratched his head.
Xiaohong stretched her neck to take a look and whispered: "Sir, my father and eldest brother are downstairs."
"It's okay." Zhao Han smiled.
Xiaohong said again: "Master, after you rob Mr. Huang, can you give a few taels to my father when you leave?"
Zhao Han laughed loudly: "Don't worry, I won't leave."
The doors and windows of the inn were closed tightly, and the guests hid in the house one after another. The merchant ships at the dock were also allowed to leave, for fear that these tenants would cause civil unrest.
The funny thing is that this inn belongs to Mr. Huang, and the troublemaking tenants dare not attack it by force.
Every so often, Huang Zundao brought his eldest son Huang Shuncheng, second son Huang Shunzhang, and hundreds of slaves to the outside of the inn.
"Are we all going to rebel?" Huang Zundao shouted angrily.
A tenant farmer said bravely: "Mr. Huang, don't let this foreigner deceive you. Spring plowing can't be delayed."
Another tenant said: "You can occupy the rocky beach, but you cannot occupy the fields. They are left behind by our ancestors for generations."
"Fart," Huang Zunde said angrily, pointing at the tenants, "go back to the riverbank to work. Anyone who dares to cause trouble again will be beaten to death immediately!"
From Mr. Huang's point of view, delaying spring plowing is nothing. It's nothing more than starving a few people to death and harvesting a few stones of grain less. Mr. Zhao has given enough money, but if there is not enough grain to buy it, it is none of his business to starve the tenants to death.
If one tenant dies of starvation, countless tenants will be waiting to cultivate the land. The more fierce the robbery, the better, and they can also take the opportunity to increase the land rent.
As for occupying cultivated land, that's nothing. As long as the warehouse can be built, more merchants will stop in Huangjia Town in the future.
The tenants gathered together and refused to leave, and they did not dare to use force with Mr. Huang. They could only remain in a stalemate and were at a loss.
Zhao Han suddenly shouted upstairs: "It's all a misunderstanding. Mr. Huang and I have no ill intentions. Let's sit down and discuss things carefully!"
"There is no need to discuss, you should leave Huangjia Town as soon as possible!" a tenant yelled.
Huang Zundao suddenly felt that he had lost face under Zhao Han's eyes. He said angrily: "Hit me!"
The eldest son Huang Shuncheng and the second son Huang Shunzhang immediately rushed out with their slaves.
The tenant slaves did not dare to resist, so they had no choice but to flee.
Zhao Han said to Xiao Hong and Xiao Cui: "Look carefully and write down whoever is injured."
Xiaohong and Xiaocui didn't know what it meant, they just remembered the injured tenant silently.
Zhao Han's meaning is very simple. He doesn't want to develop slowly and must have a base as soon as possible.
Huangjia Town is very good, with mountains to the west, and class conflicts here are very serious.
However, due to Mr. Huang's power, the tenant farmers did not dare to resist, and they still lacked a powder keg to detonate.
One thousand taels of silver is enough to make a powder keg!
The Huang family did not really kill anyone. They suffered numerous minor injuries but no serious injuries. After all, the construction site needed manpower. How could they earn Xianggong Zhao's money if they were damaged?
…
at night.
Zhao Han took Chen Maosheng, Xiaohong, and Xiaocui to Xiaohong's house in the dark to visit the injured.
After knocking on the door for a long time, it finally opened.
"Dad, it's me!" Xiaohong said quickly.
Due to the dark light, the old farmer did not recognize Zhao Han. When he heard his daughter talking, he immediately put them into the house.
Zhao Han suddenly pushed a handful of copper coins over and said, "Old man, I am that foreign businessman, and I am here to apologize to you."
The old farmer held the copper coins in his hand and wanted to curse, but couldn't. He just stood there without speaking.
Zhao Han added: "I gave Mr. Huang a thousand taels of silver and asked him to hire people to level the rocky beach. It was agreed in advance that each person would be paid thirty cash per day, and they could wait until the spring plowing was completed before starting the work. But I didn't know that,
How come he...sigh...I can't help you. As a foreigner, I can't stand up to Mr. Huang. Don't you think so?"
"Is it really thirty cents a day?" The old farmer grasped the key point.
Zhao Han said: "I originally wanted to settle for fifty cents, but Mr. Huang said that it wouldn't take much, so I could only settle for thirty cents. You guys need to recover slowly, and I have to visit the next family."
The old farmer said quickly: "I will send you away."
"No, no, I'll take a rest first." Zhao Han bowed his hands and exited.
After they left, Xiaohong's father, mother, brother and sister-in-law immediately held up a lamp and counted the money. There were a full two hundred copper coins!
The sister-in-law said: "This Mr. Zhao is a good man. He came to apologize in person even in the middle of the night."
The eldest brother said angrily: "I heard clearly just now, Mr. Zhao is paid wages, and Mr. Huang only provides two meals a day. They are all watery, and they are not full!"
"What can I do?" the old farmer sighed. "In this Huangjia Town, Mr. Huang is the local emperor."
Overnight, Zhao Han visited seventeen families of injured people.
the next day.
At the Hetan construction site, rumors about wages were everywhere.
One tenant had the courage to ask the foreman: "Master Liu, how do you calculate the wages?"
The foreman sneered: "What kind of wages? I'll give you two meals a day, but you still don't know what's good for you?"
The tenant left angrily and said to others during dinner in the middle of the morning: "Master Huang swallowed all the wages and didn't give us a penny."
"Forget it if I don't pay you. My fields haven't been plowed yet. What should I do this year if I delay the spring plowing?" Another tenant began to cry as he spoke.
The powder keg has been laid, and all it takes is someone to light it.