Chapter 152: buy land

Chapter 152 Buying Land

Jiang Mansion is in the center of the county, only a quarter of an hour's walk from the county government office. Shang Xiucai and the others arrived at Jiang Mansion very quickly.

Grandpa San and the others did not enter the Jiang Mansion, but waited outside. Shang Xiucai went into the Jiang Mansion to find his uncle, told him about Lu Dezhu, and handed him Lu Dezhu's confession.

After Jiang Qi learned everything, he was very angry: "Old thief Zou is so evil that he wants to use this matter to test our Jiang family."

 Some time ago, the Lu family was almost ruined due to the robbery of prescriptions. The Lu family father and son were frightened to death. Logically speaking, Lu Laosan should have been honest for a while, but this happened suddenly. It can only be said that this was signaled by Zou Xiancheng. The purpose was to see if the Jiang family could settle this matter when his father was away.

 If not, then the Jiang family is incompetent. After his father dies, there is nothing to fear. The Zou family can continue to dominate Tianfu County.

It’s a pity that Zou County Cheng made a mistake with the Qin Gu Luotian family. Before the Jiang family took action, the Qin family’s descendant arrested Lu Dezhu and forced Lu Dezhu to write a confession.

Jiang Qi said to Shang Xiucai: "Brother-in-law, don't worry. You can ask those families to go to the county government office in a quarter of an hour and go directly to Gao Zi. Gao Zi will handle this matter for them."

Although the household registration and house and land deeds are in charge of Zou County Cheng, there are also people in the Jiang family who work in the official office, and Gao Zi is one of them.

As long as Brother Yang holds back Qian Xuezhi and Fan Pingshan from the official office, Gao Zi can get the house deed to Qin Gu Luotian and his family in less than a quarter of an hour.

 “Thank you for your hard work, uncle.” Shang Xiucai bowed to Jiang Qi.

Jiang Qi resembled Jiang Xianwei, very rough and open-minded. He waved his hands and said: "My family, why are you so grateful? I'll leave first, and you ask them to follow me."

Jiang Qi left the study room with a quick stride, rode away from the back door of Jiang's house, then entered the class room through the back door of the county government office, found Team Leader Yang, and told him the matter.

 Hand him Lu Dezhu's confession.

Yang Ban took the confession letter, and after reading the word, he laughed with joy: "This sin is not light. Brother Jiang is relieved.

Instead of rushing to arrest Lu Dezhu, Team Leader Yang wrote a note, called two more yamen servants, gave them the note, and asked them to go to the office immediately and send away Qian and Fan. .

Two government officials were ordered to go, and the method used was simple and crude. They found an excuse and took them away directly, and gave the note to the high clerk.

The two clerks Qian Fan and Lu Dezhu couldn't wait for a long time, so they were already worried. Now they were bothered by Team Leader Yang's people, saying that the class room had something to do with them and they couldn't go, so they knew something was wrong and struggled not to think about it. , but the two of them are literati, so they are no match for the government officials.

Scribe Qian moved out of Zou County Cheng and threatened: "You guys, let go quickly. The County Chief had previously sent a message to us, and we were about to rush over to see him."

"Why are you rushing? Prime Minister Zou has gone home to accompany his maid, and is not at the county office at all."

In order to avoid suspicion, Zou County Prime Minister deliberately avoided coming to the county government office today. However, Zou County Prime Minister recently got two maids who were married to each other, and the whole county government office knew about the fact that he was doting on them. Therefore, as soon as the Yamen servant's words came out, he immediately refuted Qian Shuli and ran out of words to reply.

 The two scribes were quickly carried away.

Secretary Gao opened the note and read it, and it read: In a quarter of an hour, a family named Qin Gu Luotian will come to apply for the house deed. The Gu family is the benefactor of the county captain. Don't be embarrassed and let them handle it.

 Gao Shuli heard from Jiang Xianwei that his granddaughter was rescued by a little girl named Gu. He thought it was the Gu family.

 He put away the note, took out the land and property booklet of Dafeng Village, Qingfu Town, placed it on the table and waited.

After having a cup of tea, I saw a group of people led by Yang Bantou to the official's office.

The Third Grandpa, who was the leader, bowed to the senior official: "Sir, we are from Dafeng Village, Qingfu Town, and we are here to apply for the house and land deeds."

Clerk Gao didn't ask any more questions, he just said, "Bring me the household registration. Are you going to apply for the property deed of that house?" The third grandfather took out the household registration of each family and the purchase receipt, and put them on the table.

The house purchase receipt states the size of the dirt yard they purchased. As long as the yard area on the receipt is the same as the area registered in the county government's land and property book, the county government does not need to send people to measure the land, which is easier.

  Gao Shuli is a member of Jiang County Wei, so he naturally treats them as easily as possible.

 Gao Shuli said: "To apply for a house deed, you need two taels of silver; to apply for a land deed is to buy land, which requires two taels of silver per acre."

Secretary Gao was afraid that they would find it too expensive, so he also wanted to remind them, and said: "Now that the north is unsettled, many disaster victims have come to our Tianfu County. With more people, the land price has also increased a lot. Now that we are applying for the title deed, the wasteland has already been It has risen to one or two and a half, and the land for building a house has risen to three taels of silver per acre."

 So he gave the lowest price, so they shouldn’t find it too expensive.

Shang Xiucai told Third Grandpa and the others that Secretary Gao was one of his own. He knew that the price was deliberately low, and there were no complaints, so he immediately said: "We will do it."

Gu Jinli asked Gao Shuli: "Uncle, we want to get the title deed for the wasteland. How much money does it cost per acre?"

Secretary Gao looked at Gu Jinli, smiled and stretched out his finger.

Gu Jinli was overjoyed: "Thank you very much, uncle."

 After a pause, he asked again: "We want to buy a few old houses at the end of Dafeng Village. How much money will it cost?"

She explained: "Although we have a house and land, after today, we are afraid that a group of gangsters will suddenly come out and become our neighbors. There are old and young people in our family. It is very unsafe."

Lu Laosan could come up with this trick to seize their house and land, so he could come up with the disgusting idea of ​​finding gangsters to live at the end of the village and surround their family.

That old house is not expensive, and this clerk is obviously helping them by giving them a cheap way to apply for the house and land title. If you come across this kind of advantage, why not take advantage of it?

When Third Grandpa and the others heard this, they immediately trembled in fright and hurriedly said: "Xiaoyu is right, we have to buy all the old houses at the end of the village close to ours, otherwise it will be unsafe."

"Yes, you must buy it. We can't let the Lu family mess it up again." Luo's father and others said one after another.

Seeing that they all agreed, Secretary Gao took out a drawing, pointed at it and said: "The above is the distribution map of the courtyards in Dafeng Village. This is the end of the village. Counting from the back to the front, the six courtyards are all yours. If you still want to buy those old houses, you can choose them yourself.”

Gu Jinli did not expect that the county government in Dachu also drew a map of the courtyard distribution in each village. After a brief shock, she pointed to the three courtyards above Uncle Tian's house and said: "Our family bought these three courtyards."

Only these three remaining old houses at the end of the village can still be inhabited, while most of the others have collapsed.

 She turned her hand and pointed to the open space behind their houses and said: "We also bought these two empty spaces."

There are a lot of open spaces. After buying them, they can be used to build new yards in the future.

Clerk Gao said: "These two pieces of open space are quite large. There are fifteen acres in the back. The open space in the front is the largest, about forty-five acres. It is a big place and costs a lot of money. Are you sure you want to buy it?"

Before Gu Jinli could say anything, Third Grandpa nodded: "Buy, our family still lives in an old house. When we have money in the future, these vacant lands can be used to build houses."

After listening to what Gu Jinli just said, he was also afraid that one day, some gangster would run to the open space in front of their house and build a house, causing trouble for them.

 It is better to bite the bullet, be ruthless, and buy those vacant lots now.

 (End of this chapter)