It's night. Wangjiang building, the largest restaurant in Yiling City, is brightly lit and full of friends. There are all polite voices upstairs and downstairs.

The whole restaurant was wrapped up.

In the most luxurious box, Liu muduan, the governor of Yiling Prefecture, sat in the first place, and was almost praised by more than a dozen gentry who accompanied him. All the gentry who could come to this box were the respected masters of Yiling.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of dishes, the people looked at each other. One of them, a member surnamed Xu, over half a hundred, took out a gift list from his sleeve.

"Zhizhou adult, this is a little of our intention. I hope adults don't refuse!"

"Hehe, you are so polite." Liu Mu smiled and took the gift list. He just looked at it and returned it. However, he was secretly surprised that these people were generous, with a full ten thousand liang of silver.

"I appreciate your kindness, but the State Council of the Qin Dynasty stipulates that officials and yamen at all levels are not allowed to collect money from the people and businesses under any pretext, so don't hurt me."

It is absolutely false to say that he is not excited, but Liu Mu is not drunk and his mind is clear. He knows that once the money is collected, it is light to lose his official position and go to jail.

Because next he will clean up the land, shops and people and start collecting taxes. If he collects their silver now, he will be short handed and soft lipped.

And those women will check carefully after personnel, so as long as there are mistakes, they will definitely be found out, and he will be finished.

Now the great Qin state is booming. He is only in his early 40s this year. As long as he performs well in the future, the governor of the prefecture is determined, and it is not impossible for the minister to wait for him. Therefore, it is not worth delaying his future or even taking a small life for this money.

They didn't expect that Liu Mu would refuse so simply. They also said that they should not collect any money under any pretext, which means that even if they donate the silver to the yamen, the other party won't want it.

For a moment, the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing.

Everyone's heart was raised. They didn't want to drink or eat meat at all. They guessed one after another. This man surnamed Liu refused to accept silver. What do you want?

Should they give their land to those mud legs like Xiangyang? Even the family property should be divided, and the wife and daughter should

At the thought of this, more than a dozen gentry were sweating on their foreheads.

Liu Mu seemed to see what was in everyone's mind and comforted with a smile: "you don't have to worry. You can take the initiative to submit to the state of Qin. In the future, you will be the people of the state of Qin. Both your own and your family's safety and property will be protected by the law of Qin.

However, just as the so-called new atmosphere of the new dynasty, the previous land deeds, land deeds, personal deeds and ious will be invalid. They must be reissued by the Yamen and stamped with the relevant seal before counting. When you go back, you just need to replace the old contract with the new contract.

Of course, the IOU and the deed of sale can only be issued with the consent of both parties, otherwise it will be deemed invalid. In addition, the state government will check the land within one month. If the new contract cannot be obtained at that time, both the real estate and the land will be owned by the state government as ownerless things. "

After hearing this, they all looked dignified and secretly frightened. They all had contracts. In addition to the IOU and the deed of sale, there was some trouble. It was nothing to go to the Yamen to replace the land lease and the house lease. But they doubted whether the Yamen would deliberately delay and confiscate their land under this excuse.

"You may rest assured that the replacement of the contract will be implemented tomorrow. I will personally supervise it. Whoever dares to delay and create difficulties will be brought to justice."

Liu Mu slapped the table with a straight face.

Seeing that he was not a fraud, they dispelled many doubts and decided to have a try tomorrow.

As for tax collection and fixed rent, Liu Mu was not in a hurry to say that although he had never been an official, he also knew that everything should be done step by step.

Now Liu shoubei has only 100 soldiers and horses in his hands, and the sheriff and yamen serviceman in the Yamen have not returned. Once forced to hurry, the consequences are really unpredictable.

In this way, the banquet ended with a lot of gentry and gentry. Although the result was not as good as they expected, it was not bad.

Liu mu, the governor of the prefecture, has already started the work deployment in the restaurant. Zhou and his husband are also not idle in the back house. After a general understanding of the situation of Yiling, he plans to divide the towns in the territory into ten towns, one of which is in charge of ten wives.

Tomorrow, I'll go to all towns. First, I'll walk through all the villages to understand the situation of the people. By the way, I'll count the population. After a full discussion for more than an hour, I'll go back to my room to have a rest.

"Sister Liu, aren't you going to have a rest so late?"

When Zhou saw that the light in the next room was still on, he pushed the door and went in. He saw a lady and two concubines and several servant girls discussing something and recording it in a booklet from time to time.

"Sister Zhou, have you finished your negotiation?" Mrs. Liu looked up and smiled bitterly.

"Well, my sisters are leaving for various towns tomorrow. Is your firm more complicated than a bank? Sister Qian, they have long rested. " Zhou nodded and came to some surprised way.

"Alas, there are so many things in commercial banks. Where can banks compare? As long as a bank opens one, in addition to silver, it is treasure money, but our firm has more than a dozen kinds of commodities. Each town needs to find two agents, especially to buy grain in the future. Therefore, it is not only necessary to build a large granary, but also to build large and small utensils, recruit people, etc. at present, those who are not familiar with the land will also give us 10000 silver, which can be described as a thousand heads and a hundred threads, I don't know where to start! "

Liu got up and sighed. She knew that the shopkeeper of her business was definitely the hardest and most tiring job.

"That's true." Zhou pricked his mouth. Just thinking about what she said, his head was as big as a fight.

The secret way is that if you let yourself be the shopkeeper of this business, you can't do it. You can't help admiring sister Liu's ability.

"By the way, sister Zhou, you go to various towns tomorrow. Can you help our firm publicize it?" Liu smiled and began to think about the ten mayor's sisters.

"What are you promoting?"

"Of course, it is to publicize the benefits of being an agent and some relevant regulations. The first batch of goods of our firm should arrive in five days."

Liu said and took out a notice he had just written.

"This is no problem, but the ten sisters are nominally under the jurisdiction of Liu Zhizhou. I'm afraid I have to talk to him about it."

Zhou took the notice, looked at it, nodded, thought about it and said.

"Come on, you said, it's just nominal jurisdiction." Liu turned his eyes. Obviously, he couldn't be more clear about the doorway.

"I still want to talk about it. That man hates us, but don't let them gossip."

Although Zhou's ability was poor, he was very principled and had a good view of the overall situation. That was why Qin Huan made her a special envoy because of people.

"By the way, this Yiling is no better than Nanyang and Xiangyang. You should ask those sisters to be more careful on the road tomorrow. Don't have any accidents."

Liu reminded that Liu Da Pao had only brought 100 people, and he must not be able to escort them. This time, there are only 12 female soldiers following them. Tomorrow, there will be at most one person in each town, plus two or three captors and yamen guards.