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Chapter 76 Cultivation breakthrough and the arrival of my brother-in-law

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After two almost identical plays in a row, Chen Fangjie was overwhelmed and felt a little boring.

On the other hand, Wang Mei seemed to be overjoyed. Instead, she was more invigorated. Obviously, she liked this kind of life quite a bit.

How could Wang Shouzhe expect that this unremarkable family general, Wang Mei, would start greedy for him when he was fine.

Here it is.

In general, Wang Shouzhe is quite satisfied with the completion of the tasks in the second stage.Not only did they sell [-] dan of old grain at a high price, but they also planted a deadly seed in the hearts of Liu Yongzhou and Zhao Dingtian to serve the third plan.

Afterwards, according to the original plan, Donggang Chen used two large merchant ships and specially removed the markings.The Wang family also transported the grain to Fenggu Farm in advance, and used a lot of manpower to transport the grain to a large merchant ship overnight.

Although the food is transported back and forth, it seems like a waste of human and material resources.But in such a special period, a little more caution and a little more safety.

For a Xuanwu family that can be passed down from generation to generation, the most important thing is not huge profits, but a word.

stable!
It is not easy to achieve stability, but in the final analysis, there are two major directions, the ability to avoid risks, and the ability to resist risks.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang's family was in the midst of internal and external troubles, Wang Shouzhe really didn't want to fight with Liu's and Zhao's family so quickly.He hopes more to be able to manage the overall situation, lay out a long-term strategy, and finally crush people with grandeur.

However, in the current situation, he can only find a way to achieve the best solution.

Time passes day by day.

this day.

Wang Shouzhe practiced as usual, and when he went to the martial arts field at his own time, some uncontrollable light flashed in his eyes, and the aura on his body became sharp.

"Patriarch, you have made a breakthrough?" Wang Gui, the young servant, felt the strong aura and said in surprise.

"I just broke through to the seventh level of the Qi Refining Realm." While Wang Shouzhe was calm, he couldn't help but feel a little happy.Some time ago, Bian had reached the peak of the sixth floor. After a few days of consolidation and polishing, he felt something tonight, and directly swallowed a [Peiyuan Dan], holding the spirit stone in his hand and sprinting.

Due to the deep accumulation, coupled with resources and luck, the impact was successful in one breath.

From today onwards, he, Wang Shouzhe, is the strength in the late stage of qi refining.

, the seventh floor of Qi Refining Realm!
Looking at the entire Changning Guard, it is also a very good result.Back in the day, Patriarch Longyan only achieved such an achievement, only more than half a year earlier than him.

Just after the breakthrough, the quality and quantity of profound energy, as well as the physical quality, had a significant improvement.

In the next days, it is necessary to cultivate well, stabilize and become familiar with the new power level as soon as possible.However, if you want to cultivate to the eighth level of Qi Refining Realm, the difficulty is not a little bit, nor can you do it in a short time.

In the martial arts field, Wang Shouzhe practiced basalt combat skills, movement skills, swordsmanship, and string control skills.I can clearly feel that I am a lot stronger than before. I dare not say that I can beat the original two myself, but I feel that I can barely beat two ordinary Qi Refining Realm sixth layers.The premise is ordinary...

After some practice, until the sun was a little hot, and the muscles and bones of the whole body were already sore, Wang Shouzhe went back to take a bath.

Afterwards, he made a small pot of Shanyang Spirit Seed in the side hall, calmed down and started to deal with some chores.

"Patriarch, these are the information about the Liu family and the Zhao family in recent days." Wang Gui offered some letter information.

Wang Shouzhe looked through the information, his brows gradually wrinkled, and at the end, with a "bang", he slapped the table with a slap, and his eyes were full of coldness: "The jackal family is really the jackal family, covered in human skin. , and can't hide the greed and cruelty in his bones."

Although Wang Shouzhe had already anticipated, once the Liu family and Zhao family began to implement the merger strategy, their methods would not be gentle.But I don't think that their means can be so vile and greedy.

Take the Liu family as an example, their forces have a population of less than [-] households, and the total number of fertile fields has reached [-] to [-] mu.These self-cultivation farmers have been severely affected by this insect disaster, and there are even many families with poor management who have no food production at home after paying grain.

But among these peasant households, there are also many middle peasants, even rich peasants.

Their wealth is relatively rich, and they habitually hoard some food.Therefore, on the whole, the self-cultivation farmers in this region are still short of food, but they have borrowed from each other and worked hard to survive the disaster.

But as soon as Liu stepped in, he first arrested a group of middle peasant owners who were hoarding grain.Because they dared to lend food to others privately, and they dared to make a contract that double the borrowed food would be returned after the autumn harvest.

In the end, those middle peasants had to donate part of their fields to obtain Liu's "understanding".

That's all, some wealthy households see the poor villagers in their villages, and they take the initiative to help the blind date they don't accept, and they don't charge half of the interest.

This undoubtedly violated the fundamental interests of Liu's family. They secretly recruited some rogues in the loose cultivators. They went to the houses of the wealthy families who were doing charity work every day to make troubles, and also demanded "relief", causing those wealthy families to retreat to protect themselves.

There is also a wealthy family with hard bones, still secretly helping others.As a result, a group of loose cultivators came to the door at night, and more than a dozen people in the family, old and young, all died.

The Liu family has only one purpose, that is, to let those families who have run out of ammunition and food to mortgage their farmland in exchange for their old grain.According to intelligence, it has been done so far, although not many homesteaders have done this.

However, as time goes by, the "famine" including human factors becomes more and more serious, and sooner or later some people will not be able to endure it, and eventually they will replace their fields with those old grains whose prices have skyrocketed.

Under this insect plague, in order to avoid various consequences caused by a large number of refugees, various areas are usually blocked, and it is difficult for civilians to flee from each other.It also brought various conveniences to Liu's plan.

What Liu wanted was "not much", that is, he wanted to annex one-tenth of the land under his jurisdiction.The means are cruel and fierce, and after two months, they will definitely be able to do it.

Of course, as an aristocratic family, the Liu family will not violate the law on the surface.

They will use the method of "Tantai and Yu" to trade with Liu's, which is called dry gold mortgage loan.

This is the so-called policy above and countermeasures below.Especially the noble families in the countryside, to those commoners, are like the existence of the emperor.If you don't show your face, you can really do whatever you want.

At this moment, Wang Shouzhe regretted that he "sold" Chen Liang to Liu's Zhao family.

But this thought was only fleeting. Even if he didn't take action, Liu's Zhao's would still get food from other places and stage the same plan.On the contrary, it is equivalent to subsidizing their friends and friends, and it will also take the situation out of control.

"People's grievances have arisen, notify Wang Zhong to close the net and start a sniping plan. At the same time, find out the whereabouts of the group of extermination and loose cultivators." Wang Shouzhe wrote a secret order for the family to send it out with a gloomy face.

Although it is delayed a little longer, the accumulation of public grievances will be even greater. Waiting for the sniping at the peak of public grievances will be more beneficial to Wang's future plans.But again, that will most likely lead to more tragedies for civilian families.

After dealing with this matter, I even drank a few cups of Yangshan Small Spirit Seed to calm down my emotions.

"Patriarch, don't forget that the second young master of Liu's family will come to visit today." Wang Gui carefully reminded him under observation.

The second young master of the Liu clan?
After this reminder, Wang Shouzhe remembered that he had received a letter from the Liu family a few days ago, saying that Liu Yuanrui, the second son of the Liu family patriarch, planned to arrive at Dingpu Ferry at noon today to visit the Wang family.

Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan, the daughter of the Liu family, are already married.According to the etiquette, the Wang family will send personnel with corresponding identities to greet him.Such reception tasks are usually handed over to the direct son of the patriarch.

It's just that Wang Shouzhe hasn't married yet, and Liu Yuanrui is his future brother-in-law, so he can only go to meet him in person.

Prepare the carriage, prepare some melons and fruits, and call two generals.

A group of people went to Dingpu Ferry, and the carriage passed by the outside of Zhuwei Lake.

At this time, the lakeside of Zhuwei Lake has changed. Hundreds of young and strong tenant farmers of Wang's family were dispatched here to clean the reeds on the periphery of Zhuwei Lake, level the land, and build greenhouses.

In charge of this work, it is the third child of the Shouzi generation - Wang Shounuo.The tanned, tall and strong young man was organizing young men to unload some wood and stone. When he saw Wang Shouzhe's carriage, he greeted him from afar and continued to work.

These work sheds are built to serve the next plan. Seeing that the third child is busy, naturally he will not bother.

The carriage continued to sway forward, all the way to Dingpu Ferry.

This ferry, Wang also has some shops and ferry business.However, most of them are entrusted to the management of Wang's collaterals, and they are all drudgery such as handling, and there is not much profit.

Wang Shouzhe went straight to the deep-water trestle, and waited less than a quarter of an hour when he saw a ferry approaching. After docking, Liu Yuanrui and his party did their part and did not allow them to get off the ferry first.

From a distance, Wang Shouzhe greeted him with a smile on his face: "Yuanrui is here, Shouzhe has made a mistake in welcoming him, rude and rude, forgive your sins and forgive your sins."

Liu Yuanrui is not yet 16 years old this year, although his complexion is a bit immature, but against the background of his fine clothes, he is quite handsome like a heroic boy.

He also smiled and hurried forward, shaking his hands to return the salute: "Yuanrui has seen brother Shouzhe, it was Yuanrui who took the liberty to come and talk, please forgive brother Shouzhe." .

The children of the Xuanwu family, especially the descendants, have been educated by elites since childhood, and the requirements for behavior and etiquette are very strict.It's not that there are no family children who make trouble everywhere, they are full of ill-will, and they are often cocky and provocative, but they are very rare.At least in front of people, he is bound to appear personable and well-bred.

Just when the two were chatting.

A pretty girl's voice came from behind Liu Yuanrui: "Brother-in-law, you look better than I thought."

Brother-in-law?

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(End of this chapter)