I'M THE FARMGIRL YOU CAN'T MESS WITH

Chapter 306: Dividing the Land

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Magistrate Fang paced around the study excitedly and asked Qi Haoran with bright eyes, “But even if she managed to raise the oxen, no one would have the money to buy it?”

“Ah Ling said that she can rent it to them.”

Magistrate Fang clapped his hands and threw out compliments as if they were free. “Wonderful person! General Qi, You have a wonderful person under you!”

The corners of Qi Xiuyuan’s lips twitched. “Magistrate Fang, Ah Ling only has 300 acres of land. Even if she wants to raise oxen, she can’t raise much…”

“It’s fine. Isn’t it just land? I’ll give it to her.” Magistrate Fang said generously, “But after she succeeded in raising the oxen, she has to rent 100 oxen to our government office first. Don’t worry, I won’t bargain down the rent. I’ll pay as much as the others. Also, commoners have the same rental rights as military households. You can’t be biased towards military households just because she belongs to a military household.”

The corners of Qi Xiuyuan’s mouth twitched. “You’ll have to ask Ah Ling for her opinion on that. However, I can help you agree to the 100 oxen for the government office.”

Seeing that Magistrate Fang was still not satisfied, Qi Xiuyuan said with a smile, “Since Magistrate Fang can find out that Ah Ling is my subordinate, you should know that that child has always been soft-hearted and can’t bear to see others suffer.”

When Magistrate Fang heard this, he immediately felt relieved. When he came to office last autumn, there were many things waiting to be done. Although business in the Hanzhong Prefecture was thriving, the commoners outside the city were living a different life.

Although Magistrate Fang was not an upright and honest official, he still had compassion. However, Qi Xiuyuan had moved away everything in the treasury before he came. Of course, Qi Xiuyuan had said that the Jin soldiers had moved the things away when they retreated, but he didn’t quite buy it. It would be strange if the Jin soldiers had the time to move all the rice in the granary in the midst of escaping.

Of course, he could not find any evidence.

Since he could not find any evidence, he could not ask Qi Xiuyuan for grains. He could only force the merchants to pay more taxes or bribe him. Then, he would use the money to buy grains from the merchants to help the people.

However, there was only so much money. Considering there were 12 counties and 32 towns under Hanzhong Prefecture, how could he save them?

Just as Magistrate Fang was certain he was going to get fired, Mu Yangling came to buy the sheep. Of course, he didn’t realize it at first. By the time he realized it, Mu Yangling’s business had already grown to the scale of 10,000 taels per deal.

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