Wei Anguo and Yang Xiaolin both asked, "Is there any way for you to meddle in this matter?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Aren't they going to liquidate the land area?" Wouldn't it be nice if I went to be a craftsman? ”

Yang Xiaolin and Wei Anguo were stunned when they heard Lin Yuan's words, and Wei Anguo said, "You go to be a craftsman?" How can you be a craftsman like this? They're definitely not going to let you be a craftsman! ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "To be precise, I am not going to be a craftsman, but to take over the work of liquidating the land area, and when the time comes, whether a piece of land is ten acres or twenty acres, it is up to me to decide!" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "If you take care of this matter, it means that every time they demarcate the ownership of the land, they will have to go through you, and they will no longer have any room to do it!" Xiao Dezhang has a deep grudge with you, and Yuan Yulin is Yuan Shikai's henchmen, they came this time with a plot to loot the land, how can you easily take over the matter of liquidating the land area? ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "It's man-made, I want to use a series of means to take this matter down!" Have you investigated the situation of those craftsmen? ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "The specific situation of each person has not been investigated, but we have found out where they live, and they often come out to drink and eat, so it is very easy to find out about their situation." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Where do they live?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "Yuan Yulin and his gang live in the Shaanxi Governor's Yamen, and there is an inn run by the government on the side of the Governor's Yamen, called the Longmen Pavilion, which was originally for those poor students who came to take the township test, taking the meaning of carp jumping over the dragon gate, but because of the war some time ago, the township test was interrupted for a while, so the Longmen Pavilion was empty, and those craftsmen lived in the Longmen Pavilion. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Knowing each other and knowing oneself, invincible in a hundred battles, the first thing we have to do is to understand the situation of these craftsmen, it is getting late today, we will go to Longmen Pavilion early tomorrow morning." ”

Early the next morning, Lin Yuan and Yang Xiaolin came out and walked to the Longmen Pavilion, the road was quite prosperous, and the trading was done with the RMB issued by Lin Yuan Bank. ”

As soon as Lin Yuan turned the corner, he saw a long queue on the street in front of him, the people in the queue were sitting or standing, and the end of the long line was the Longmen Pavilion, Lin Yuan couldn't help but ask, "What are they going to do with such a long queue?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "I'll ask, you wait for a while." So Yang Xiaolin walked to the middle of the team, trying to find someone to ask, just approached the team, and before he could speak, he heard a big man behind him shouting in a bad tone: "Boy, do you want to cut the line?" Line up in the back! ”

Yang Xiaolin was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled: "I don't want to cut the line, I just want to ask, what are you lining up here for?" ”

The big man snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "What are you asking!" Does it have anything to do with you? ”

Yang Xiaolin ate a closed door, but he didn't get angry, he accompanied him, and wanted to find someone else to ask again, so he walked to the front of the team, and then heard an old man behind him say: "Why do you bother him?" ”

Yang Xiaolin turned around and saw an old man talking to the big man, the old man seemed to be the elder of the big man, the big man listened to the old man's words and bowed his head and was silent, Yang Xiaolin turned around and asked the old man: "Hello master, what are you going to do in line here?" ”

The old man arched his hand and smiled: "This lord, you are polite, we are waiting in line here to receive salaries." ”

Yang Xiaolin said: "So that's the case, I don't know how much money Lu Dao gives?" ”

The old man replied, "Five yuan per person." ”

Yang Xiaolin nodded in thanks, and then the old man smiled: "My nephew is a little short-tempered, so he just collided with you, don't be surprised." ”

Yang Xiaolin said with a smile: "There is nothing to do, nothing is wrong. ”

At this time, he heard the big man say: "If you want to blame, you have to blame the people of the yamen, saying that it was paid at eight o'clock, but now you see," he said, pointing to the big clock hanging next to him with his hand, and said, "It's already eight forty!" The salaried ones haven't come yet! ”

At this moment, I saw that the team in front of me moved slowly, and the people sitting stood up, and the big man hurriedly said: "Don't say it, don't say it, it's time to pay your salary." ”

Yang Xiaolin nodded in thanks, returned to Lin Yuan, and said, "They are all craftsmen, waiting for their salaries." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Looking at the anxious appearance of this group of people, now is not a good time to inquire about the news, let's sit on the breakfast shop on the side for a while and see the situation." ”

Lin Yuan then sat down with Yang Xiaolin on the breakfast shop on the side, at this time the breakfast time had passed, and no one came to greet Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan didn't care, and asked Yang Xiaolin: "I think there seems to be a conflict just now?" ”

Yang Xiaolin said with a smile: "It's not a conflict, there is a big man who is in a bad mood because he is more than forty minutes late for his salary, and he thinks I am going to cut in line, and he said two hard words to me." ”

Lin Yuan smiled secretly in his heart: "It seems that it is the same in any era, in my era, everything that starts at eight o'clock, it is good to start at half past eight." Lin Yuan was thinking about it, when he suddenly saw two people coming from the side of the street, walking all the way from the end of the line to the front, and then stopping at the place where the salary was paid, and the person inside handed out a bulging envelope, and the two of them took it and walked along the line.

Lin Yuan knew that the price level of this era was usually sold in "points", so their envelopes should be filled with change, so they were so bulging, but what he didn't expect was that these two people not only openly cut the queue, but also walked to the front of the line, took the salary in front of everyone, took the salary but did not sneak away, and actually swaggered away in front of everyone! What's even more strange is that no one in the team dared to speak out, and even the big man who had just scolded Yang Xiaolin shut up, as if they deserved to do so!

Lin Yuan felt strange in his heart, and said to Yang Xiaolin: "Let's go to the front and have a look." When I got to the front of the line, I found that there were two windows where the salary was paid, one window was lined up, and although there were people in the other window, no one stepped forward to receive it, Lin Yuan was very strange, and it happened that an old man on the side received a salary, Lin Yuan called him down with a smile and asked, "Why is there no one receiving a salary in this window?" ”

The old man said with a frightened face: "That window is specially for the old men of the rent collection bureau, their salaries are higher than ours, we are five yuan, they are fifty yuan." ”

Lin Yuan was even more puzzled, took the old man to a tea shed on the side, and asked, "What is the rent collection bureau?" ”

The old man said helplessly: "The rent collection bureau is to urge rent, the landlord rents the land to the peasants, and when it comes to the season of collecting grain and rent, the landlord's family has few people, how can they collect rent door to door, so there is a rent collection bureau, they collect rent for the landlord, this group of people is not a thing!" For example, if the rent is one stone of grain, they have to collect one stone and two buckets, and the extra two buckets will be kept for themselves. ”

"If someone's family suffers a disaster and can't pay the rent, they want to torture others for fun, such as 'boccia' and 'tired cow' These torture tricks are all figured out by them!"

Lin Yuan asked, "What is 'bocce ball' and 'tired cow'?" ”