The next step is to clean up the battlefield and bury the bodies. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info The maids are all nearby villagers, because of the debt to the Hu family, forced to sell themselves as slaves, there is no sadness about the fall of the Hu family, Xia Nan asked Liu Quan to take out their deed of sale, burn it in front of them, and let them go home, these maids are happy to return home.

The Hu family was uprooted, and there was no direct threat to Ma Yuan Village, so Xia Nan ordered the escort team to be stationed directly in Hujiazhuang, and he and Lin Weiye also chose a room, and they would live in it after they were cleaned up.

Because there are still many things that need to be solved urgently, such as going to the county government to end the Hu family's extermination case, taking over the tenant's acres, etc., returning to Mayuan Village is far less convenient than living in Hujiazhuang. And as a modern person who is used to enjoyment, the material life in Mayuan Village is too hard, which can be compared to the landlord and the old rich man.

Although a battle had just ended, Xia Nan didn't take a break, discussed with Lin Weiye for more than an hour, and reached a "plan for dealing with follow-up matters after the war" - of course, the so-called name of the plan is just Xia Nan's bad taste, just thinking about it in his heart - ranking the things that need to be handled immediately, and clarifying the responsible person. The content of the plan is as follows:

1, go to the county government to do technical treatment of the Hu family's extermination, in this time and space, in the absence of the bitter master (all dead), as long as the silver opens the way, everything is not a problem, this matter is personally handled by Xia Nan;

2. Take over the land left by the Hu family. Anyway, the deed is in hand, and when it comes to collecting rent, just send Liu Quan to collect it, the tenants only have to pay the rent, and whether the owner changes it or not has no impact on them, what to do at this time is nothing more than to let Liu Quan lead the way to familiarize himself with the land, the responsible person Tan Shan;

3. Take out part of the silver from the cellar and transport it back to Mayuan Village as a comfort fee for the villagers, and the casualties in the fire will be given a separate pension, and the battle rewards of the guards will be distributed on the spot in Hujiazhuang, and the pension will also be issued to the casualties. After discussion, the villagers' comfort money was one tael of silver per household, the pension was two taels of silver, each of the guards was rewarded with one tael of silver, two taels for the wounded, and four taels for the dead -- only one person was seriously wounded and one was killed in the battle, and the culprit was Hu Yanzong, and the rest were only slightly injured. The matter is in charge of Lam Weiye.

Liu Quan, in order to show that he was thinking about the new owner everywhere, proposed that the pension was too high, and that the villagers of Ma Yuan Village had not been able to earn a few taels of silver in the past year, and it would be good to have something to eat -- of course, these were caused by the dead Hu family father and son.

Xia Nan encouraged his loyalty, but did not accept it, Ma Yuan Village and the salt factory are the only reliable bases for himself and Lin Weiye at present, and this is a great opportunity to buy people's hearts, and they can't care about small profits.

There was nothing to say all night, and early the next morning, according to the plan, Liu Quan led Tan Shan to "inspect" the tenants, and in the summer Nan left Lin Weiye to make a register and distribute pacification silver, and he took Yang Youji and ten guards to the county office.

With the previous experience, after coming to the county office, he opened the road with silver as usual, and met Master Qian with familiar knowledge.

Master Qian was quite surprised, and asked, "If you pay the salt tax and go directly to the house, what is the matter today?" ”

Xia Nan coughed dryly and said in a low voice: "Today, I have another important matter to ask the master for help." As he spoke, he handed over a piece of silver.

Master Qian took it quietly, pinched it in his sleeve as usual, estimated that it was ten taels, and was happy in his heart, although this person spoke and did things simply and directly, and the spirit of a businessman was very strong, but he was generous to the silver. At that moment, he asked with a pleasant face: "What do you want, you might as well tell me and listen to it." ”

"The villain and the Hu family had a dispute with the Hu family over the payment of the salt tax, and the Hu family injured the salt in the salt field and set fire to the salt village last night. The villain is not angry and wants to go to the Hu family to ask for an explanation."

"Oh, that's it! Since the salt class has been transferred to you to pay on your behalf, it is wrong for the Hu family to hurt people, and you could have handed over the certificate to the county honor. Now that I have gone to the Hu family to ask for an explanation, is there a result? ”

When he heard that it was such a trivial matter, Master Qian didn't think so, it was nothing more than a fight between the two families for salt profit, and it was normal to injure a few people, if it was handed over to the county government for trial, and he handed a few words to the county magistrate, it would not be difficult to affect the outcome of the case. Although the Hu family has a lot of power in the local area, since ancient times, the people have not fought with the officials, and no matter how powerful the squire is, he is still meat on the chopping block in front of the government. Thinking that Xia Nan might still have filial piety afterwards, he couldn't help but leisurely pick up the teacup and drink tea.

"When the villain arrived at the Hu family, he found that the door was wide open, and the Hu family was murdered." Xia Nan paused and continued, "The father and son of the Hu family both died. ”

With a "poof", the tea that Master Qian had just drunk squirted out, and he asked in a low voice: "Father and son both died?" "Don't seem to believe the results.

"That's true, it is estimated that he was robbed, and the villain happened to see it, and he came to report to the official to clear the suspicion."

Master Qian thought quickly: The Hu family's family was killed, not so much as being a thief, but more likely to be destroyed by the one in front of him. Obviously, this is a vicious case, but it can't be settled with a few words, and if the case is not handled well, it will have a great impact on the performance appraisal of the county master.

As the master of the county government, he can still distinguish the importance of the matter, he replied thoughtfully: "This case has many casualties, it is very tricky, and the Hu family is also one of the few squires in the county. ”

"What if there is no complaint from the bitter master?"

"There is no bitter master, what does it mean, the father and son of the Hu family died, and there are always family members ......"

Xia Nan laughed dryly: "Hehe, the master may not have heard clearly, the Hu family was killed, the Hu family's father and son and family members were included, and even the family members were not spared." ”

With a "dang bang", Master Qian's teacup fell to the ground, shattered into several pieces, and the tea was scattered all over the ground.

Master Qian didn't care about the teacup and gasped deeply.

I heard that there are dozens of people in the Hu family, and they were killed overnight, leaving no one alive, what a ruthless method and what a strong strength?

He looked at Xia Nan, who was still smiling, and then at Yang Youji and the ten guards behind him.

Although these people can see that they still have the kind of caution of ordinary people in the county government, they can't hide the evil spirit on their bodies. All of the guards had blood on their hands, and Yang Youji even killed nearly ten people, and this person with a life on his hand was naturally different from ordinary people.

The businessman surnamed Xia in front of him, leading this group of salt dings, can make a local gentry wipe out overnight, such means and strength, do things carefully and thoughtfully, and know how to make friends with the government, he will become a strong party in the future, and making friends with such a character is not necessarily a bad thing.

The balance in Master Qian's heart gradually fell to Xia Nan, the Hu family on the left and right has been wiped out, and there is no one alive, Lingao is close to the sea, and there are often pirates who come ashore to rob and report a pirate for rebellion, it doesn't seem to be too difficult to do, there is still room for operation.

Just when Master Qian was weighing the pros and cons, Xia Nan approached him and quietly stretched out five fingers: "If you can help the villain clear his suspicion, another fifty taels of filial piety will be presented afterwards ......."

Done! Don't be a bastard if you're rich!

Master Qian said righteously: "The Hu family blatantly hurt people for the battle for salt and profit, and they should have been punished heavily. However, the Hu family was troubled by pirates, all the doors were killed, no one escaped, the death was great, and the fault was written off, you don't have to pursue it, wait for me to report to the county, you can run the salt farm, pay the salt tax on time, and serve the imperial court. ”

As soon as Xia Nan heard the great joy, sure enough, there was money to make the ghost grind, such an obvious thief shouted to catch the thief, Master Qian hurriedly made up his mind to cover up, and in this way, the case was hastily concluded, and it didn't take long for the Hu family to disappear from the memory of the locals in Lingao.

The two sides who cooperated happily had in-depth exchanges in a friendly atmosphere, finalized the details of the case in each other's cryptic words, and agreed on when and where to thank the master and the county for their support to the salt works with "a number of local products", and said goodbye to the spring breeze in the summer.

Master Qian is also full of red face, and a few days later, "a few local products" will be sent to the door, and he can consider taking a new concubine again.

After handling the Hu family's case, the production and trading of the salt works proceeded steadily, and the attack on Hujiazhuang got a large amount of liquidity, Xia Nan began to think about new profit growth points - Xia Nan didn't want to nest in the countryside of Lingao to be a rich man, and he used Qiongzhou as a base to establish an armed force, dominate the ocean, and go to the mainland is his goal. Although, with the current resources and conditions, this can only be a beautiful dream for the time being.

Back in Hujiazhuang, Xia Nan found Lin Weiye and exchanged this idea.

Lin Weiye was not so optimistic: "Pull up a team to make a revolution? You think you're Taizu, and this isn't Jinggang Mountain. The army in the era of cold weapons is a lot of people, there are not many people on the whole island of Qiongzhou, and there are many ethnic minorities, I remember that it seems that the Li people here are divided into Li and ripe Li, and Li is specialized in creating the opposition of the Han regime, where did you come from to build an army? Now that Chongzhen is in power, the hinterland of the Central Plains is the peasant rebel army, and the north is the Houjin, even if you organize an army armed with long guns and short knives, can you beat Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji? It would be good if we could survive in this poor and remote country, no matter how chaotic the Central Plains is, we will still be relatively safe on this island, at least after the founding of the Manchu Dynasty, we will not attack the island immediately."

Xia Nan patiently guided his companions' erroneous outlook on life and worldview: "We know the direction of history and have knowledge hundreds of years beyond this era, why use cold weapons to fight them?" A sufficient number of hot-weapon armies is enough to sweep away several times the number of peasant armies and Houjin armies, and besides, the peasant armies are just a group of unorganized and untrained peasants, and Houjin are nothing more than a group of Tunguska savages born in hunting. ”

"Hot weapons? I am engaged in metallurgy, and in this era, it is impossible to train high-quality alloy steel without an industrial foundation, and there is no modern plant equipment, so how to build overwhelming superior weapons and how to realize the hot weapons of the army. ”

Xia Nan was full of confidence: "Brother, to conquer the enemies of the Middle Ages, you don't need modern steel guns and tanks and planes, as long as you have technology that is ahead of this era." ”