No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

The county magistrate's wife came to the village to see Li Erlang and did not go back immediately. Instead, she stayed in the village for one night.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Erlang and his family habitually went out to work in the fields early. Now that spring plowing is coming to an end, only some finishing work is left in the field.

After the family had breakfast, Dad Li picked up his hoe and went out first to clear the ditch in the field, intending to clear out the soil.

As soon as I opened the courtyard door, I looked up and saw a light carriage parked in front of the door.

There were two young men driving the carriage. One of them saluted Mr. Li, while the other turned his head and said something to the people in the carriage.

After a while, the carriage door opened from the inside and a person walked out.

The county magistrate, wearing loose regular clothes and a bamboo-green crotchless robe, jumped out of the carriage nimbly.

The moment the county magistrate approached, Father Li quickly turned around and shouted into the courtyard: "You guys move faster, don't wait any longer!"

Aniang Li's voice came over: "What's the rush! We'll be fine, just fine! You usually take the first step, but why are you urging us now!!"

The county magistrate has already arrived. Father Li looked apologetic but was unsure of the purpose of his visit.

"Oh! You bitch! The county magistrate is here! Why don't you hurry up and come out to greet me!!"

Before Hong Yu could say, "Don't panic, don't be anxious," he heard a commotion in the yard.

"What?!" Aunt Li was running around in the yard, shouting this and that.

"Erlang——"

"Father and mother——"

"Jin Niang! Quick, quick, quick -"

“Don’t keep the county magistrate waiting for too long!!”

There was a lot of chattering behind him, but Father Li had a sly smile on his face and signaled the county magistrate to wait a little longer.

When everything returned to calm, Aunt Li opened the courtyard door completely and saw Li Aweng standing at the front, leading his family to stand in the courtyard. Aunt Li returned to the courtyard and stood next to Aniang Li. The family greeted Hong respectfully. Jade.

Ji Qingyue was also among the crowd, but he looked a little unconscious. Perhaps he had just gotten up and had no time to carefully arrange his collar and tie his hair. He drooped his eyelids and fell asleep.

God knew the county magistrate would come so early! It’s only just dawn!

Hong Yu felt very sorry: "I'm really sorry, because the time limit for supervision of plowing is approaching, I have to hurry up and return to the county government, so I have to choose to visit at this time..."

The county magistrate is here to see Ji Qingyue.

Ji Qingyue was still lying on the bed just now, but he was suddenly woken up by Li Erlang's shouting. He came out of the painting and found that the place he landed was not the study room, but Li Erlang's room.

"What happened?"

Li Erlang hurriedly put on Ji Qingyue's clothes and buttoned them, and even brought water and whispered to him to wash his face.

Although he didn't understand it, Ji Qingyue still did it.

"If the county magistrate hadn't come to the door in a hurry, how could I have disturbed you?" Seeing Ji Qing getting sleepy and drowsy, and having to hit his front feet with his back feet when walking, Li Erlang felt very distressed and could only help him while wiping his face. .

Putting a cold towel on his face, Ji Qingyue suddenly woke up and regained consciousness: "The county magistrate came to see me?"

"I'm here to find you."

Ji Qingyue and Li Erlang followed the magistrate into the study and closed the door.

The empty walls were supposed to be hung with paintings, but now they were empty, which Ji Qingyue didn't like very much.

This was done by Li Erlang. In the morning, he suddenly heard his father say that the county magistrate was here. Li Erlang's thoughts jumped again and again, and he immediately thought of the adults' purpose, so he quickly brought the paintings from the study into the room to prevent Ji Qingyue's "lie" of staying at their house from being exposed.

Hong Yu looked around the simply furnished study room. There were no decorations on the bare walls, which was a pity.

However... there are faint marks left on the empty wall diagonally opposite the door, combined with the wooden wedges left on the wall, it seems that a painting has been hung there?

"Ha-" Ji Qingyue couldn't help but yawned, "I'm sorry... Sir, I'm really sorry...!"

Hong Yu shook his head and didn't care. He didn't mince words in the conversation, but directly asked about Mian Qian.

Ji Qingyue gave the detailed data that he had already calculated in his mind: "You only need to give me one year to expand the scale next year."

Hong Yu counted the numbers given by Ji Qingyue over and over again in his mind. As the county magistrate, he naturally thought much more than Ji Qingyue.

I thought that the county magistrate would be entangled in the cotton matter for a long time, but I didn't expect that after just asking Ji Qingyue some data, he looked at Li Erlang: "You are determined to grow garlic, and Hu Shang will not be able to let this matter go lightly. , if they want to take action, can you think of a way to deal with it?"

"You" refers to him and Xu Chi, the young master of Fengshou Liang Store.

On the night of the banquet, Xu Chi was still hesitating after meeting Mrs. Hong. He didn't know the close relationship between Li Erlang and Ji Qingyue, let alone Ji Qingyue's cooperation with the county government to grow cotton. He couldn't figure out Mrs. Hong's identity for a while. purpose, he hesitated whether to tell the county magistrate's wife all about Feng Suo Liang Xing and Li Erlang's countermeasures.

Li Erlang had nothing to worry about. He thought about his employer's concerns and simply explained to his employer why Mrs. Hong was trustworthy without revealing the cotton matter.

Xu Chi felt convinced that as long as the government no longer blindly favored Hu Shang, there was no reason for them to lose.

In the study, Li Erlang calmly responded to the county magistrate's question: "In the past, the usual tactics used by the chamber of commerce were nothing more than the use of violence by ordinary farmers to grow and sell garlic privately, forcing and threatening farmers to give up the garlic business on their own."

The infliction of violence often ends in a disastrous defeat for the weak. Everyone knows that the instigator is someone from the Chamber of Commerce, but the county government cannot find direct evidence. In the end, the farmer not only lost the business, but also injured his hands and feet in the struggle and became seriously disabled, but he had to A little money for medicine as compensation.

Hong Yu has checked past cases related to Hu Shang. It is meaningless to talk about the secrets inside now, and the results will probably be bad. "There were merchants who banded together to try to support this business. They collected garlic from farmers and shipped it to the south. Because the volume of goods was not as good as that of Hu merchants, they could not withstand the pressure of the Chamber of Commerce's wanton manipulation. The Chamber of Commerce only needed to raise prices slightly. Or lowering the price, many merchants saw an opportunity and joined in, but little did they know that they had already been manipulated by Hu merchants. "

In order to avoid direct collision in the area where Hu merchants are concentrated, small merchants hurriedly left the northwest after getting Hu garlic, thinking to avoid unnecessary risks. But as a result, costs will also rise.

Hu merchants have already formed a mature transportation and sales system. They know the bottom line of costs. Even if small merchants transport garlic to distant Lingnan, Hu merchants have the ability to make their garlic prices the lowest in the market.

In the early stage, they welcomed all comers and attracted many people to join the garlic trade, but in the later stage, they suppressed them arbitrarily. The merchants could not match the quantity of goods, and sometimes the quality of the garlic was inferior. Under the repeated attacks by Hu merchants, these merchants who had invested all their wealth lost everything and had no power to fight back.

It is such a difficult attitude that makes people think carefully about whether they have the courage to challenge the Chamber of Commerce before they want to get a piece of Husuan's pie.

Nowadays, it is such a plump and high-quality garlic that hits the weak point of Hu Shang's control and monopoly.