Zhang Qian, the old fox, can say these words with red lips and white teeth, and he is obviously mentally prepared to be knocked hard by Cui Erlang.

Who knew that Cui Geng didn't have a lion to open his mouth, and the low requirements greatly surprised him.

"What? Do you want the moat of Yangzhou City? What's the use of that thing? Old man Zhang was dumbfounded.

Cui Geng sighed and nodded: "To be exact, it is the two thousand acres of security lake that guards Yangzhou City." Zhang Tingshi can rest assured that how much money others pay, how much money will be paid by the lower officials, and Zhang Tingshi will never be embarrassed. ”

"It's... It's not about money. Zhang Qian was puzzled and said, "The key is what is the use of protecting the lake?" The lake is connected to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the east and the Yangtze River to the west. If it is a lake to make land, how big is the project? I don't know how much money is consumed, it's a bottomless pit, what can you earn? ”

Cui Geng smiled: "My lord, where do you want to go?" Xia Guan simply wanted the protection lake, and never meant to fill the lake to make land. Of course, to protect the five-zhang land by the lake, you also have to sell it to the lower officials. ”

The lake is alive and when the water level is high, it floods some of the surrounding land. Traditionally, if the lake is sold, the land is sold at the same time. Cui Geng's request is very reasonable.

"Dare you take a fancy to the five zhang land along the Baobao River?"

Zhang Qian thought about it carefully, shook his head and said, "No, the five zhang land on the riverside is not worth much silver." In this way, the old man and the good man will do it to the end, and ensure that all the fifteen zhang land along the lake will be sold to you. As for the specific price, you go and discuss it with Wei Miao, and the old man won't mix it. ”

Old man Zhang, this is giving Cui Geng a chance to get up and down.

It's not that Zhang Qianzhai is kind-hearted and kind-hearted. But from the bottom of my heart, I don't want to go to Cui Geng, which is more or less a meaning of compensation. There's no way, the dozen or so nail households he just mentioned are quite heelous, and the background of several households is deep and hard, and Zhang Qian is difficult to move. He estimated that if he wanted to settle these damn nail households, Cui Erlang would not be able to do it without spending a lot of money.

Reasonable forced demolition expenditures, Jiangdu County Yamen can find the assassin Shi Yamen to report the account, but what about the unreasonable expenditures under the big mouth of the nail household? Zhang Qian's heart was silent, and it could only be Cui Geng's dumb eating Coptis chinensis and paying out of his own pocket.

"With the words of Lord Shi, the matter of forcibly demolishing those nail households, the lower officials should be punished. Wei joins the army and is now in the Assassin History Yamen, right? Cui Geng asked.

Zhang Qian sighed, pointed in the direction outside the hall, and said, "Wei Miao is on duty today!" ”

"Well, it's better to be in time than to be in a hurry, and the next official will go to Wei Senjun to finalize this matter."

Striking while the iron was hot, Cui Geng said goodbye to Zhang Qian, took the chicken feather as an arrow, and went directly out of the lobby to find Wei Miao.

……

About half a cup of tea later, Wei came in to find Zhang Qian, and returned to Cui Geng's discussion with him.

To Zhang Qian's surprise, to ensure the price of the lake and the fifteen zhang land on the lakeside, Cui Geng not only did not take advantage of the fire to rob and suppress the low price, but was two percent higher than the market price.

Moreover, Cui Geng is very smart and alert, and pursues the law that officials are not allowed to do business in the jurisdiction, and did not write his name on the contract, but put Baobaohu under Cui Xiufang's name.

It is the same as the method of the frosting workshop and the felt hat method, although everyone knows that there are Cui Geng's elements behind these two workshops, but externally, those elements are Cui Xiufang's and have nothing to do with Cui Geng.

This is a relatively common method of avoiding suspicion in officialdom, and it is also an unspoken rule of convention.

Under Zhang Qian's inquiry, Wei Miao quoted the price of the guarantee lake given by Cui Geng, which made the old man frown for a while, and said suspiciously: "Strange! took the old man's big trouble, but he didn't even want the benefits of sending it to the door, and the price was two percent higher than the market price. Is this still the scheming Cui Erlang that the old man knows? You say, "What is he trying to do?" ”

Wei Miao was also puzzled, and said suspiciously: "Maybe it is...... Want to please you? ”

"Not like, not like!" Zhang Qian shook his head again and again, and said, "If Cui Erlang really wants to please the old man, he won't bargain with the old man to grind his teeth here." Besides, his real backer is Shangguan Sheren, there is no need to invest so heavily in the old man! ”

"What does the old man mean?"

"Based on Cui Erlang's past experience and service methods, he should want to make a big profit by suffering a small loss!"

Zhang Qian stroked a few strands of ink hair on his chin, and said slowly: "These days, you have helped the old man keep an eye on Cui Erlang." If he needs help, you can help as much as you can. If he wants to do something out of the ordinary, you can help the old man hold him down. As for securing the lake......"

Wei Miao bowed slightly and said, "Please show me!" ”

Old man Zhang got up, patted Wei Cuo's shoulder gently, and said, "With Yangzhou Luocheng, the old man is full, but you Wei is still hungry when he joins the army." Now you keep an eye on Cui Erlang and follow him to eat together, even if you leak some soup and water, it will be enough for you to eat for the rest of your life. ”

Wei Miao's stiff face turned red, and he squeaked: "Lord Assassin, that's not what you mean......

"Say no more." Zhang Qian's right hand was raised slightly, and he said: "Wei joins the army, you are good, but you are too good-looking, and you don't even want to take the usual money." Otherwise, do you still need the old man to you with this heart? ”

……

……

At the same time, Jiangdu County Yanei.

Cui Geng's hardcore subordinates are also arguing about this matter of protecting the lake.

Song Genhai said anxiously: "My lord, at the price you offered, let alone making money, if you don't get it right, you have to lose money, isn't this equivalent to working in vain?" ”

"It's not enough to work in vain." Yao Du said: "The world has been peaceful for a long time, and the population is breeding. In the long run, the price of land in Yangzhou City will definitely rise. It's just that this time I bought Baobao Lake two percent higher than the market price, and the profit was really not big. ”

"I said that you two melons are really salty and don't worry about eating radishes," Feng Changqing grinned and said, "When have you ever seen us adults suffer?" Perhaps, when this lake reaches the hands of our adults, it will become a cornucopia. ”

"Cornucopia? Just pull it down! Chen Sanhe, a god stick, is a Jiangdu County Cheng, but he always carries a whisk of dust, rubs the mud pills on his body with his bra, and bares his big yellow teeth, and says disapprovingly, "What other calculations does the lord have, just to protect the broken place of the lake, can it become a cornucopia?" Hey, unless it's the sun coming out in the west. ”

……

Cui Geng didn't say a word, and watched them argue with a smile.

It wasn't until a few people were arguing that his mouth was dry and his voice was getting lower, that he slowly got up and said, "Everyone, this official is neither crazy nor stupid, and he bought this Baobao Lake to make money. But in my opinion, the price of this guarantee lake is not too high, but too low. In this way, I won't let you have a fight with this official in vain. Whoever wants to make a fortune with this official can buy a section of the guarantee lake from this official. Whether it is for personal use, or if it is sold when the time comes, the official will not interfere. There is no such shop in this village, don't say that the official will not take you to make a windfall! ”

Feng Changqing is Cui Geng's die-hard loyalist, and he was the first to say: "I have been following the adults for some time, and I don't have much money, so I saved five hundred yuan." This time, I took it all out and bought land with adults. Regardless of profit or loss, that's how you trust adults! ”

When it comes to real money, others are not as decisive as Feng Changqing.

There was silence.

You look at me, I'll look at you.

In the end, Yongguang and Song Genhai took out two hundred yuan, Chen San and this rich slave took out one hundred yuan, and Yao Du only took out a pitiful fifty yuan.

On the contrary, it was Zhou Xing, who didn't say a word, and took out three hundred guan in a muffled voice.

He has no official status, and his salary is much lower than others, that is, he has neither a family to support him, nor any hobbies, so he can save so much money. It's good now, there is nothing left, and it's all left to Cui Geng to buy Baohu.

Yao Du was a little dumbfounded when he saw that Zhou Xingdu had taken out the money, glanced at Chen Sanhe, and said weakly: "Chen Xiancheng, didn't you just say that you must lose money by buying Baohu Tie?" ”

"Hey, that's what I said. But ......."

Chen Sanhe casually popped out a mud pill and almost landed on Yao Du's face, causing Yao Du to feel nauseous.

Chen Sanhe said again: "Didn't the Feng guards also say it, when did we see Cui Xianling suffer a loss?" This loss-making business has to be done, this is not his style, it is to raise the bar. So, what's the matter, this county has to keep up! ”

"Is that okay?" Yao Du's eyes rolled wildly, and he said to Cui Geng in a sneering manner: "Or, the lowly position will be added again...... Fifty runs? ”

Cui Geng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whatever you want." ”

After everyone finished talking about securing the lake, the next thing naturally was to solve Cui Geng's most tricky thing at the moment - how to deal with those nail households!

After some discussion, everyone unanimously agreed that the difficult ones should be solved first, and the difficult ones would be solved, and the rest would naturally be dismantled.

The Gong family, the Pranyo Temple and Xue Youfu are the backbone of these nail households. As long as they are solved, the remaining ten or so families will be disheartened, and there is no need to worry about it anymore.

However, there is a lot of disagreement among everyone about which of these three should deal with first.

Zhou Xing thought that the Gong family should be dealt with first.

He believes that although Gong Zhengzong of the Gong family is the supervisor of the Suzheng Tai and has some influence in the officialdom, this is not only the strongest point of the Gong family, but also the weakest point of the Gong family.

The reason is very simple, because the palace family obstructed the construction of Luocheng, it delayed the fortune of the wealthy businessmen in the world, and offended the high-ranking ~ officials and nobles behind those wealthy businessmen.

Although the superintendent of the imperial history has the power to impeach hundreds of officials, but Gong Zhengzong's rank is not high, if he wants to continue to make progress in his career, he should not set up so many unnecessary political enemies for this little thing.

Therefore, Zhou Xing believes that demolition should start from the first step of the Gong family.

Feng Changqing disagreed, he suggested dealing with the Panruo Temple first, after all, according to the rules, all the monks in the Panruo Temple, Jiangdu County Ya have the right to govern. When necessary, they can even take away a monk's degree and force him to return to the world.

As long as the grace and power are combined, there is no need to worry about the group of monks.

The only thing to worry about is that the abbot of the temple will be a monk in the capital, will he use the Shenxiu monk in the capital to oppress people? But Shenxiu is eighty-eight years old this year, and time is running out. For the sake of the future of the temple, unless it is absolutely necessary, the monk should not want to get too stiff with the local government.

Soon, the men split into two factions and continued to argue.

After a long time, Cui Geng suddenly smiled and said, "It's strange, there are three major nail households in total, why doesn't anyone mention that Xue Youfu?" ”

"This ......" Zhou Xing reminded: "Xue Youfu is nothing, but he is just a housekeeper!" But his master, Xue Huaiyi, the Duke of Eguo, is not easy to mess with. In the end, how to deal with this person, we must be cautious and think in the long run. ”

Feng Changqing also nodded in agreement: "According to the humble position, it is true that you can't mess with Xue Youfu's family." If you want to forcibly demolish the Xue family's old house, it is best to let Xue Huaiyi speak. Or...... You sent someone to the capital and asked the Shangguan people to think of a way? ”

Cui Geng said: "The old mansion of the Xue family really can't be moved. Naturally, people want to send them to the capital, but instead of going to Shangguan Sheren to find a way, they ......"

"And what?" Song Genhai is anxious.

"Okay, I won't go into detail about this."

Cui Geng didn't answer him, but breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly: "To be honest, whether it is to let the palace family move the ancestral tomb or let the temple move the temple, this county is really not sure. Is this the only ancestral house of the Xue family...... You can move first! ”

Well, Zhou Xing and Feng Changqing's suggestions were so lively, Cui Geng didn't take them, and he was stunned that he had already had an idea.