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"My lord, this person's origin is unknown, it's better to investigate carefully." Seeing that Mu Qingtian was about to drag him into the house, Zhang Fu finally lost his composure.

It's rare that the other person and Zhang Fu's thoughts coincided with each other.

"Aren't your lords going to check my identity?" the man said calmly.

Check, of course check!

Mu Qingtian rubbed his hands and stood beside the man, and said, "Where does the strong man live, what did he do before, and how much money does he get a month?"

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"My lord, here, should you read his documents?" Zhang Fu was dumbfounded, he had never seen such an unreliable person like Mu Qingtian.This doesn't sound like an interrogation, but rather like a matchmaker visiting?

The man was also surprised, but he still answered Mu Qingtian's question truthfully: "Under Wu Tingyun, he lives in Wu County, Suzhou. He used to be a martial arts master, and his salary was one yuan a month."

"Follow me, I'll give you two dollars a month." Mu Qingtian squinted his fox eyes, made a "2" with his hand and waved it in front of the man, trying to bribe/bribe him.

Mu Qingtian is not familiar with the place here, and was robbed by bandits before he arrived in Zimingli. If there is no reliable person to protect him, he may die in office within a few days.In order to save his life, no matter what the identity of the person in front of him is, since he took the initiative to send it to his door, he must take good care of it.Comers are welcome.

But these two moneys are also empty checks written by Mu Qingtian, he is penniless now, a little poorer than the poorest scholar.Anyway, he still has the system of corrupt officials and a monthly salary, so he won't be unable to pay the salaries of his subordinates.

"Your Excellency doesn't have to be like this. Tingyun is entrusted by others and will assist you with all your heart."

The man's words were ambiguous, Mu Qingtian thought that the man he was talking about was his father, and was afraid that his only son would be bullied, so he found another martial artist to protect him.And Zhang Fu thought that the person he was talking about was the power of the Suzhou government, in order to keep the soft persimmon sent by them.

"That's great! Since you insist on asking, I can't force you." Mu Qingtian laughed boldly, "From now on, I will still give you a salary every month."

He wanted to pat Wu Tingyun's shoulder twice to show his friendliness, but in the end he felt that he had patted a solid wall, and his palms turned red.

"...Your Excellency keeps his promises, but in fact, two coins are not all bad."

Now Zhang Fu was happy, and the anxiety in his brows and eyes disappeared.A person who cares about every penny and silver is not a good official with a clean sleeve.As long as Mu Qingtian loves money, he has a way to draw people to his side.

Mu Qingtian lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time, just in time to be bumped into by Cuizhu who came back from fetching water.She threw the bucket and rushed to Mu Qingtian with big strides, using her body, which was smaller than the three present, to protect Mu Qingtian.

"Two bullies one, what kind of heroes are you?"

Both the man and Zhang Fu were dumbfounded, especially Zhang Fu. Before the video of this little girl came out, it was Mu Qingtian who was talking to Wu Tingyun, so why did he get involved?

"How dare we people bully your lord." Zhang Fu smiled and said to Mu Qingtian: "My lord, please say something."

Mu Qingtian raised his head, his eyes were red, the corners of his eyes were also red, and even the ends of his eyebrows were stained a little.The two tear streaks haven't dried yet, there is still a crystal clear and soft teardrop hanging on Mu Qingtian's chin, which will not fall off.

"Big, my lord?!" Zhang Fu had never seen such a posture before, and his voice broke.

Wu Tingyun was also taken aback, and subconsciously began to reflect on whether it was really too much for him to ask for two dollars a month...

Not too much at all!It's only a penny, and the tax and profit that a Lizheng can collect in a month is more than one penny! !Isn't this Mu Qingtian the only son of Mu Yushi, a rich man in Taicang Prefecture? Why is he so picky?

Zhang Fu was also extremely shocked. Although he was stingy, he didn't care about money. What kind of official is Mr. Mu? He's really greedy.Thinking about it, Zhang Fu couldn't help licking his lower lip.Greedy, people live in this world is not the word "comfortable", there is money, a lot of money can be refreshing, it seems that Mu Qingtian is a sensible person.

"One money is one money." Wu Tingyun seemed to dislike Mu Qingtian, so he didn't say any more.

Great!Mu Qingtian didn't expect that the ancients would also take his trick, and his impression of Wu Tingyun was even better.Although crying is embarrassing and beyond his control, it has to be said that tears are really the best weapon, and Mu Qingtian has never missed it.

"Cui Zhu, I was joking with them." Mu Qingtian wiped away tears with a smile, "I must have traveled all night to arrive so early, come in and rest."

With this episode, both Zhang Fu and Wu Tingyun forgot to check their identities.

It's not that Mu Qingtian doesn't know how to check, but he is illiterate, even if Wu Tingyun took out Ren Shu or a document, he would not be able to understand it at all, and would expose himself as illiterate, causing people to suspect.

After Wu Tingyun and Mu Qingtian entered the Lizheng mansion, they found an excuse to separate from him, went to the room Mu Qingtian allocated to him, closed the door, stepped directly on the beam and lifted the tiles to stand on the roof, overlooking the The whole Lizheng house.

"Three into four rooms, beyond the rules."

Turning his gaze, he saw Mu Qingtian cheerfully about to run out of the house again, and there was more playfulness in his eyes.

This Mu Qingtian, whether he is stupid or shrewd, unexpectedly didn't realize that the house left by his predecessor exceeded the specifications.Lizheng has no rank, he kept calling "Master" just now, and Mu Qingtian didn't say anything.

Whether it's true ignorance or blindness, Mu Qingtian is unqualified as Li Zheng.

Three days later, the inside and outside of the Lizheng mansion were finally arranged properly.Fu Bao deliberately dug out a bunch of firecrackers from the warehouse, hung them on a bamboo pole in front of the house and lit them, and the crackling sound was loud.

Strangely, even such a loud sound did not attract a commoner from Mingli to watch.The front door of the Lizheng Yamen is deserted, and only a few mice run by occasionally.

Mu Qingtian stood at the door with his hands behind his back, not angry at the empty space.Fu Bao defended him from the sidelines, shaking his fist and saying that he would drive all these ignorant people over.

"The mountain is not just me, I will go to the mountain." Mu Qingtian smiled.

On the way, Mu Qingtian ran into Master Zhang who was late again.

"Okay, I know you have difficulties, let's go together." Before Nian Shun opened his mouth, Mu Qingtian stopped him.

"Master Mu, please."

When Mu Qingtian arrived at Zimingli on the first day, he discovered that there were many deserted fields here.The reason why it is not called wasteland is because although these lands are full of weeds, the boundaries around them are clearly defined, and they are divided into small rectangular grids one by one.

It is impossible for weeds to grow so regularly, Mu Qingtian took another look, and found that there were dry ditches on the edges of some of the fields, which were obviously used to irrigate the farmland.

These lands were originally supposed to be farmland, but for some unknown reason they were abandoned.At first Mu Qingtian thought that Zimingli was sparsely populated and there were not enough people to cultivate it, and then it was abandoned.But in the past three days, he walked around Zimingli and counted the number of households here. Although it was less than two hundred households, it was more than one hundred, and there would be no shortage of people.

He came across a commoner by chance, but as soon as he heard that he reported his family name, the man left quickly, and he couldn't even catch up.

With so much land left uncultivated and uncultivated, where does Zimingli's monthly tax come from?

"I wandered around for two days and found that many of our fields are deserted. What's the matter?" Mu Qingtian walked up the slope of a deserted field and looked down.There are at least ten acres of good land here, which is a pity.

Wu Tingyun followed Mu Qingtian to the left, glanced at him without any trace, and then focused his eyes on the ground Mu Qingtian was looking at, his face darkening a little bit.

Because of the lack of land, Zimingli's land tax is very small every year, and Li Canshi, the former Lizheng, also pays the land tax on time and in an amount every month, so that no one has discovered that he has been a disaster for so many years.Seeing it today, the amount of land in Zimingli is not at all what Li Canshi reported. He is so courageous!

"My lord doesn't know that these fields were originally owned by each family." Zhang Fu said.

"Then why don't the families not cultivate it, wasting these good lands for nothing. It is a violation of the law not to cultivate some land." Fu Bao asked curiously from behind.

Zhang Fu looked down on Fu Bao, but he knew that what Fu Bao asked was what Mu Qingtian wanted to know, so he could only hold back his breath and answer: "Since Mingli people have all become lazy since Mr. Li promulgated the 'Order to Draw Fields'. "

It turned out that in order to solve the conflicts between neighbors, Li Canshi formulated a "land allocation order", as long as the people he judged to be "guilty" or "wrong" would be "zoned" to a piece of land in other people's homes.But this field does not belong to this person. As a punishment, he needs to cultivate this field for free, and the length of time depends on the size of the mistake.

"Many people are opportunistic, provoked others many times, and made unreasonable words, letting others farm for themselves for free. Over time, the people in Zimingli are not willing to farm, and they are all idle."

"If they don't farm, how will these people survive?" Mu Qingtian felt strange.

"Someone died of starvation, that's Lizheng's fault." Zhang Fu sighed, "There is no other way, Mr. Li can only ask me to help, let me hire these people to plow the fields, so that we can pay the monthly land tax."

Wu Tingyun frowned, the report he heard was not like this.In Zhang Fu's mouth, this Li Canshi has become a good official.

"No matter how many fields the Caomin family has, they can't afford so many people to plow it. But, all these lands will be deserted." Zhang Fu felt sorry, but then he smiled and said, "The fields of the Caomin family are all in good order. Planted, the yield is excellent, do you want to go and see?"

"No." Mu Qingtian shook his head, "I'll hang around here again."

Mu Qingtian found an excuse to send Zhang Fu away, and asked Fu Bao and Wu Tingyun to go back to Lizheng Yamen in advance to prepare today's lunch and food.

Wu Tingyun was a little suspicious of his sudden unnaturalness, on the surface he promised him to go back with Fu Bao, but halfway he let Fu Bao go back alone, he went back again, and happened to bump into the conversation between Mu Qingtian and the system.