Chapter 74: The Qian Family’s Calculations
The courtesy brought by Wang Dafu was not small, and Wu Qingyuan did not deny that if Wang Dafu did not come this time, he would really have made a mistake.
He already knew that this Qian family was not a good thing, and they were full of bad ideas, but he didn’t expect that these people would come up with the idea of burning grain and taking the lives of half of the people in Liushu Village to fight him!
The autumn harvest is imminent, the weather this year is good, the villagers’ fields are planted very well, the more than 100 acres of dry land slopes rented out by Wu Qingyuan, and the 50 acres of seedling land planted after seedlings, a total of nearly 200 mu of fields have achieved a very bumper harvest.
Because of backward production in ancient times, there are problems with grain genetics and production, the villagers only produced four or five hundred catties of grain per mu of field, and even if they planted high-yield grain sweet potatoes, for various reasons, they did not have as large a yield as in the modern era, and the maximum amount per mu of land was only seven or eight hundred catties.
And this time, Wu Qingyuan’s careful selection of corn, potatoes, and the production of the famous hybrid rice in modern China simply stunned all the people in the tenant field.
Originally, most of the Wu family’s fields this time were barren dryland in the hillsides, and the villagers did not have the hope of planting much, only hoping that a little harvest in the first year would be enough, but no one expected that this dryland hillside would not only grow but would also yield more than they imagined.
These seeds are all grain seeds that Wu Qingyuan brought from modern times that have already gone evolution, and when planting, he also secretly used special energy to protect and ripen them, and under this cheat, the Wu family’s field yielded an average of 500 kilograms of corn per mu, 1,000 kilograms of potatoes, and 600 kilograms of hybrid rice.
Even though the land has not reached the modern standard amount of yield, this output already makes the villagers excited and in disbelief.
In order not to put his own family in the spotlight, Wu Qingyuan also used special energy to help the villagers of Liushu Village and several villages around Liushu Village, so that everyone’s harvest this year doubled compared to previous years!
This made everyone happy to death, no one doubted him, everyone thought that this year’s harvest was prosperous, waiting for the autumn harvest to sell grain and kill pigs and chickens to celebrate.
According to the information obtained by Wang Dafu, the Qian family was ready to do nothing this time, and when everyone finished collecting the grain, they would go directly to the warehouse to set fire to all the grain.
At that time, Wu Qingyuan will not only have no food to make money, but also be responsible for the livelihood of more than 100 families in the tenant field of Liushu Village in the second half of the year, and he will be able to lose his family overnight!
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“Boss Wu, this is what I heard with my own ears that day, it’s the truth, I know that Mr. Qian likes to go to the Spring Flower Courtyard the most, so I ran to squat there for days, who knows, I listened to the bastard Zhao Haisheng give Mr. Qian this idea, if this thing is done, not only Boss Wu you would lose money and face bankruptcy, those villagers will all have to be forced to die, with Mr. Qian’s character, he will definitely take this opportunity to raise the price of grain in Shiqiao Town.”
Wang Dafu has indeed done a lot of things for Mr. Qian over the years, but he is not without conscience at all, food is the foundation of the villagers’ survival, and burning grain is not much lighter than poisoning Wu Qingyuan’s restaurant last time, he has to say that Zhao Haisheng’s heart is still a little too ruthless.
“Since you’ve told me such big news, what do you want?”
Now that he knows this, Wu Qingyuan will find a way to deal with it, he is now more concerned about Wang Dafu, and the news he had just told him would have to cost something.
Originally, he wanted to brew an emotion of injustice, squeeze some tears to sympathize with those villagers, and express his kindness, but Wu Qingyuan was so direct, and for a while the little emotion that Wang Dafu had just brewed disappeared in an instant.
He smiled, Wang Dafu put away the set of Mr. Qian, and also directly surfaced his own meaning: “Actually, in fact, I don’t want anything, I just want to follow Boss Wu and eat food…”
“But I don’t like people who are too slippery, as they may have too many straying thoughts.” Wu Qingyuan ate the dish slowly.
“Now that I know my mistakes, I have already learned from them, Boss Wu, I didn’t mean to go against you before, it was all instructed by Master Qian, I had to listen to him in order to eat, and the poisoning thing, it was not what I ordered, it was that Zhao Haisheng, it was his own idea to frame me and pull me down to make room for him!”
As soon as he heard Wu Qingyuan’s tone, Wang Dafu was anxious, and the brief contact let him know that Wu Qingyuan was not a person who liked to go in circles when talking about conditions, and if he said that he didn’t intend to use him, there was really a ninety percent chance that he wouldn’t hire him.
“Boss Wu, you don’t know, Zhao Haisheng’s guy gave his sister to the old man to give birth to a son in order to ascend to the throne, his wife is still my wife’s cousin, I lifted him up with one hand, but he pit me without blinking my eyes, I hate him! And Mr. Qian, I have worked hard for him over the years, I don’t know how many people have been offended for his sake, how many people have been scolded, but in the end, he has done so well but I have nothing now, my wife and children all follow me to live in the broken temple, I hate them to death, Boss Wu, as long as you let me follow you to do things, I, Wang Dafu, swear to be absolutely loyal to you…”
“And all these years I have followed that family to do errands, I also know a lot about that family, Boss Wu, you will definitely not lose money if you accept me!”
Wang Dafu was anxious to show his loyalty, he was now cornered, and he had no other ability to make money- if Wu Qingyuan did not take him in, he really had no chance to turn over, and his wife and children could only suffer with him for the rest of his life.
“The last thing I am afraid of is to lose, the people I need don’t be too smart, but you must have absolute trust in me, I can give you some money for your family today, you must not betray my Wu family in the future, here are twenty taels for you to take, thank you for telling me the news.”
Wu Qingyuan did not immediately agree, he took out twenty taels of silver from his purse and put it on the table, said so lightly, and then turned around immediately.
No matter how Wang Dafu shouted in the back, he did not hesitate to continue walking.
Wang Dafu is a smart talent, but too scheming, after being a dogleg for so many years, he has his own mind and mature philosophy, unlike other young guys and slaves with no amorphous thinking, such a person is not a help but a scourge if he is not absolutely sure to stay by his side.
He is not afraid of trouble and difficulties, but he does not like to worry about a ticking bomb at any time.
Wu Qingyuan left without hesitation, Wang Dafu looked at his back and was extremely disappointed, he also knew that it was not so easy to turn to Wu Qingyuan, but he didn’t expect it to be so difficult, and then he looked at the silver on the table.
No, he had no other way to go, and he couldn’t just give up so easily.
Boss Wu doesn’t want him not because he is incompetent, but because he is afraid that he will be disloyal, this is normal, his reputation as Wang Dafu is indeed not very good, but as long as Boss Wu knows that he is sincere this time, then he has a chance.
Right! He must find a way to show loyalty to Boss Wu!
Thinking like this, Wang Dafu was suddenly full of fighting spirit, picked up the silver, and asked the attendant to pack the remaining unfinished meals before leaving.
On the other hand, Wu Qingyuan told Amo about this before returning home.
Amo was also very angry after listening to it, it is normal for everyone to do business and grab each other’s business, but at least there must be a degree for a person with a conscience, how can you joke about everyone’s grain, if these grains really burn, this year- the people of their Liushu Village will be hungry at best, and starve to death at worst, because the annual output of each village is enough for the village and the town to eat, and there is simply no way to save excess food!
“Brother Wu, let’s report to the officials.”
This was Amo’s suggestion, and he couldn’t think of a good idea other than to report.
“It’s useless, this has not happened yet, the official government will not care, the relationship of the Qian family with the official government is greater than ours, we can’t get the slightest benefit when we go to the official office, sleep first, tomorrow we will go back to the village to have a meeting for our tenant farmers…”
Wu Qingyuan hugged his wife to comfort him, and he already had a countermeasure in his heart.
“Brother Wu, why do you have so many ideas? Do you have a way to solve this?” Amo rubbed on him comfortably, no matter what the problem, every time he came to his big brother Wu, it didn’t seem to be a big problem.
“Because your husband is an old monster who has lived two lifetimes…”
Feeling his little husband’s dependence, a certain man’s tail began to rise to the sky.
After eating the next morning, the husband and wife returned to Liushu Village in a carriage together, gathering all the villagers who rented and helped the Wu family’s fields.
Now Wu Qingyuan’s appeal is no less than the village chief in the village, and the slaves who have sold their lives went door-to-door to inform them, and in half an hour, the entire villagers have run to the village’s drying field.
Wu Qingyuan did not say that the Qian family wanted to burn grain, now is not the time, saying it will only scare the people, he just told everyone that the recent harvest is good, and the granary should be kept a close eye on, so as not to be eaten by rats and animals, and the weather is dry and to be careful of the candle, so he wants to select some people in the village to temporarily form a grain watching team to avoid the loss of grain.
Food is the foundation of the villagers, everyone has no opinion on this proposal, these are their own things, and they look closely at it more closely than anyone, one by one, they enthusiastically sign up, and even Wu Qingyuan said that the remuneration is not low.
There were many people who signed up, and Wu Qingyuan referred to Lin Shugen to report to him the work attitude of the villagers and finally selected thirty reliable and strong men.
He did not say at the conference exactly how to guard things, but he pulled these thirty men to the house alone to explain in detail for an afternoon…
grains are village people’s only lifeline! burning the crops would directly mean forcing the villagers to die! I knew it, this zhao guy should just go die
Zhao Haisheng just gets worse and worse.
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That pig hanseng haiseng or whatever it called, need to get eradicate
Btw, when amo will call wu qingyuan “husband”?
Zhao haisheng even calling you a pig is offending the pig. And for other people who have the same name as you is very unlucky