The next day, a reed marsh outside Jinkou was hidden in a small boat in the reeds. Dou Jiande was talking to Li Liangtian. At this time, Li Liangtian was the master, and Dou Jiande was the guest.

Yesterday, Li Liangtian tried to assassinate the shopkeeper of Xinghe Trading Company on the street, but because his benefactor Dou Jiande was present, he had to give up this move temporarily.

Li Liangtian wanted to know what the relationship between Dou Jiande and Ma Jing was, so he asked his subordinates to contact Dou Jiande secretly and asked the other party to see him at his hiding place today.

Back then, Li Liangtian committed suicide. After the help of the village chief Dou Jiande, he escaped the government's search and then left the country. Since then, it was the first time that the two met yesterday, and today, the two met officially.

As soon as he came up, Li Liangtian thanked Dou Jiande for saving his life and briefly talked about his situation in the past few years. Of course, some things are not enough to be known to the other party.

Dou Jiande also talked about his situation with his hometown. After some greetings, Li Liangtian got to the point and asked Dou Jiande and Ma Jing what the relationship was.

"I have no deep friendship with Zhangguin Ma. He is the shopkeeper of Xinghe Trading Company. He rents land everywhere in Qinghe County. I am not a helper."

After hearing Dou Jiande say this, Li Liangtian was relieved, but listened to the other party's addition: "Liangtian, the subordinates of Ma Zhanguan are not easy to meet, especially those few men, who have been on the battlefield and killed people and seen blood. You should be careful."

"I know this." Li Liangtian smiled, "It's just a knife to lick blood from the knife, so you can get money quickly."

"Good fields." Dou Jiande looked at the other party and said sincerely: "Listen to my brother, this world is different from before, so there is no need to do this business."

"Brother, Liang Tian knows, but where has the world changed?"

Li Liangtian still smiled, his eyes flashing with gleam: "It's still corrupt officials bullying the people. Now the food price is so low, it's not a collusion between dog officials and unscrupulous merchants? What loves the people like a son? Whose mother will force her son to not even have food, I'm spoiled!"

Dou Jiande was a little surprised when he heard Li Liangtian’s complaint. Li Liangtian had no knowledge and was timid. At that time, he was bullied by the bully who came to collect debts and then started to kill people.

But now it seems that I am quite independent and don’t know what happened to the other party in the past few years that has changed so much.

Li Liangtian vomited some bitterness and turned the topic back to his hometown. He just heard Dou Jiande mention it and said that Xinghe Trading Company had rented most of the land in the village, and couldn't help but care: "Brother, has the other party asked you to rent land in a different way?"

"Well, I'll try to make a difference every day."

"You have to be more careful. If these unsuccessful merchants come clearly, they will still use tricks!"

Dou Jiande's expression became solemn: "How do you say this?"

"You don't know, they..."

Li Liangtian was a little excited as he spoke and began to tell Dou Jiande some inside information he knew.

Since the imperial court started digging the Yongji Canal, as the canal section continued to extend, foreign merchants like flies flocked to maliciously lower the grain prices in the coastal areas of Yongji Canal, and so that grain prices have fallen year after year.

It is said that the government should take charge of such behavior, but the governments in various places remain indifferent and allow the unscrupulous businessmen to bully the kind people by "scaring the grain and hurting the farmers".

Because the food prices are low and farming cannot support their families, many farmers can only sign a lease with the unscrupulous merchants who come to the door, rent out the land passed down from generation to generation, and work and earn money from their own family.

But not everyone will surrender. After all, the land was passed down by our ancestors. Even if it was rented, I would not dare to rent it, because the unscrupulous businessman had many methods. Who knew that when he woke up, the land he had originally rented was turned into a sold one.

The dog official colluded with the unscrupulous businessman, and the land lease contract he made at that time might turn into a land sale contract one day. After all, this thing is in triplicate, and the dog official and the unscrupulous businessman each have one. Then, the contract will be forged together, and the people will not be able to say whether they have any suffering.

Of course, the unsavvy people may not necessarily think that the knowledgeable local geniuses from all over the country have seen through the sinister intentions of foreign businessmen in the morning and reminded the villagers many times to be careful of collusion between officials and businessmen.

Seeing someone bad things, the people were as clear as a mirror. If they couldn't rent a land, the unscrupulous merchants broke up and began to use magic tricks, pretending to be a ghost, and threatening the people who refused to rent the land.

For example, someone suddenly knocked on the door in the middle of the night. After the head of the household opened the door, he did not see anyone. He closed the door and went to sleep. After a while, the door rang again.

When I opened it, there was still no one.

In this case, someone must have been making trouble, so the head of the household squatted outside in the middle of the night to see who was secretly knocking on the door.

As a result, there was no one there, and there was still a "person" knocking on the door.

The ghost knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and the whole family could not bear it. At this time, the profiteer appeared and invited a mage, pretending that as long as you rent a land, the mage could do it and keep the family safe.

Well, in order to save his life, the mage signed a land lease contract, so he walked around the house a few times, and whispered around. Oh, there was really no "people" knocking on the door that night.

There are many similar methods, and profiteers rely on pretending to be a god and ghost to intimidate the people. Under such despicable means, no one dares not to rent land.

Hearing this, Dou Jiande's face became solemn. He vaguely heard Sun Wanquan's son say that there was a time before, when the house was haunted at night, and at that time he thought the little guy was timid and talked randomly.

Now it seems that Sun Wanquan also has his own difficulties...

Bastard, it turns out that he is a businessman and a traitor!

Dou Jiande thought so, and when he saw Li Liangtian angrily accusing the evil deeds of the profiteer, the thought that had already arose in his heart did not dissipate. He felt that even though Ma Jing was a profiteer, what he said was indeed reasonable.

A real man was born in the world, how could he sigh for two meals a day all day?

Dou Jiande felt that even if the world is still the same, the truth has not changed. If you want to be rich and have a wealth of wealth, you can't just rely on farming.

Just as it is played in the drama "The Stupid Horse", if a down-and-out scholar Ma Xinyi makes a living by tutoring, then his life will be like this. Only by going to sea to do maritime trade can he become a big ship owner in just a few years, and have a wealth of money in his hands, and buying land is no problem.

Of course, Dou Jiande would never do such a villain as Ma Xinyi's ungrateful act of killing his brother and robbing his daughter-in-law, otherwise he would have no shame to meet his ancestors in the future.

Since Dou Jiande has watched "The Horse", he has already become more thoughtful and decided to change his lifestyle and go out to fight. Like Ma Xinyi (the first half of the plot), he has made a family business through hard work. Even if he is not rich and powerful, he can always offer cold pork in front of the ancestral tablets, and eat meat and oil every meal with himself and his family.

When Dou Jiande saw that Li Liangtian had been experiencing outside in the past few years, he seemed to have gained a lot of knowledge, and he couldn't help but win over: "Liangtian, you have been experiencing outside in the past few years. Your knowledge must be higher than your brother, so why not... point a way forward?"

Dou Jiande originally wanted to ask Li Liangtian to provide advice and see which workshop is more suitable to start, and then work hard together. After all, it is a fact that after the opening of Yongji Canal, there is an increase in business opportunities along the coast.

Although merchants have been labeled as lowly since ancient times, the court seems to be very tolerant of merchants and perform well. The workshop owner who "pays taxes according to law" can still have an official position, which is a "official agent".

Dou Jiande doesn't want to be a businessman, he wants to be a workshop owner, and he relies on paying taxes according to law to be a clerk. This is considered an official.

But after hearing this, Li Liangtian thought his benefactor was desperate to prevent him from going to the future, so he wanted him to point to a place to take refuge, so he couldn't help but feel energetic:

"Brother, don't worry, I have a good place to go!"

Dou Jiande was stunned when he heard this: "A good place to go?"

"Yes, that place is the right place, right in Beizhou, it's a big place, you can avoid soldiers!" Li Liangtian said, and became excited again: "In the future, if your brother wants to take refuge, just go there and report my name!"

Dou Jiande was shocked as he listened, and then blurted out: "Are you talking about... Gao Jibo?"
Chapter completed!