Zhu Yuanzhang washed his face, cheered up his spirit, walked out of his small yard, and was about to find Wang Er. At this time, Ma Qianjiu suddenly came from the front yard, holding a thick stack of paper in his hand. It turned out to be a big land deed. When he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he immediately smiled and called out, "Zhu Ba, I'm looking for you, come and get these land deeds."

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang reached out to take it and looked carefully. It turned out that these land deeds were the fields of several villages in the south. They should have belonged to the Shan family's territory before. When he turned to the bottom, he also saw the land deeds of Xigu Village...

Ma Qianjiu smiled and said, "This morning, Shan Qi from the Shan family suddenly came to our house to visit and sold a large amount of real estate to us at a low price. This time I really made a profit. The money for buying land is half lower than the market price."

Zhu Yuanzhang was very clear in his heart. After the thirty-two father-in-law returned home, he told his family that Wei Zhongxian was about to lose power. The Shan family planned to run away with their family, so they sold the land and sold it into cash.

Although the Shan family has not much land, there are still thousands of acres. I think it is not just for the Ma family. From Shanda to Shantian, the eleven brothers in the head are now desperately visiting the nearby gentry's house and selling the land they have. As for the thirty-two father-in-law, who is ranked 12, they will definitely not dare to show up.

Ma Qianjiu patted Zhu Yuanzhang on the shoulder and said, "These fields will be handed over to the side courtyard for management in the future. You take these land deeds to these villages, take over the villages, and then hand over the land deeds to the second young master for preservation... The Shan family didn't know what was going on, they were all good land." As he said, he happily went back to the front yard.

Zhu Yuanzhang brought the land deed back to his house and counted it carefully. There were about six or seven hundred acres of land here. At the bottom, there was a contract signed by the Shan family to the Ma family. It said that all the fields were sold to the Ma family, and the transaction price was stated. Zhu Yuanzhang looked carefully and found that the selling price of one acre of land was actually 500 cents.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the land was extremely low, and when the poor were desperate, they often sold land at extremely low prices. In the Hubei Archives today, a land deed from the seventh year of Tianqi in the late Ming Dynasty was preserved, which recorded the price of a man named Liang Tianci selling land. He sold the ancestral acre of 70 cents of land to a man named Liang Tianlian for one or three cents of 5 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 10 cents of 5 cents, which means that a mu of land was less than one or two taels of silver.

The six or seven hundred acres of land sold by the Shan family to the Ma family, only 500 people per acre, which is cheaper than the poor who are desperate. No wonder Ma Qianjiu seems very happy.

Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily took the land deed into the small cabinet in the bedroom and put it in. He left the house and walked towards the gate of the side courtyard. He soon found Wang Er who was patrolling the door. Since Wang Er's job at the Ma family was to chop wood and protect the yard, as long as he didn't go up the mountain to chop wood, he would always walk around the yard with a whistle stick.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang coming, Wang Erxian smiled and said, "Brother Zhu, where did you go to sleep today? I haven't seen you for a day... I'll tell you a strange thing. Last night, Wei Zhongxian's temple was demolished overnight, and even the tiles were removed. I'm so laughing! Now the new county magistrate is sending constables to investigate everywhere, hahaha."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not take on this topic, pulled Wang Er into a secluded and deserted ditch, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Wang Er, what do you think of the eunuch party?"

Wang Er frowned: "I feel disgusting when I hear their names... Don't Storyteller often say it? These dead eunuchs with fair faces blinded the emperor and made the whole world mess up. If I were touched, white knifes would come in and red knifes would come out, and they would all be killed one by one."

His answer was not beyond Zhu Yuanzhang's expectations. The eunuch party's reputation among the people was extremely poor. This was caused by the spread of various remarks by the "gentlemen" of the Donglin Party. Many people were influenced by the stories told by the storyteller, thinking that the emperor was good and the eunuchs were bad. They deceived the emperor and made the world mess... Unfortunately, they didn't know that if the emperor had not given the eunuchs the rights, where would the eunuchs have the ability to call the wind and rain?

These things are far away, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to tell Wang Erxin. He just wanted to take advantage of Wang Er's hatred for the eunuch party, so he patted Wang Er's shoulder and said, "Good statement! I will tell you something quietly. This morning I found that Shan Shi Er's Shan family has returned, and it is the eunuch in the eunuch party. He is now staying at the Shan family. Do you dare to kill him with me?"

Wang Er jumped up: "What's there to dare?" But he was not a stupid person. After saying this, he immediately looked around and saw that there was no one around, then lowered his body and whispered: "How many Dongchang players have he brought? Although I dare to kill him, if there are too many masters around him, we can't kill them."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and stretched out a finger and said, "I only brought one Dongchang station! I should be a good player, and I must be better than Fang Xuan, the personal guard of our eldest son."

"There is only one who has nothing to be afraid of!" Wang Er laughed: "One on one, I'm not afraid of anyone, no matter where he got his good skills. By the way... The Shan family also has many servants to protect the hospital. This is a bit troublesome. I usually look up and see fellow villagers who look down. I'm embarrassed to start."

Zhu Yuanzhang patted his shoulder and smiled and said, "Don't worry about this. I guess the Shan family is dismissing these servants to protect the hospital..."

"Hmm?" Wang Erdaqi: "Is something happened?"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the sky and smiled slightly: "The old emperor is dead, the new emperor ascended the throne, and it is about to change the world. The eunuch party is no longer there. This is the time for us to kill the eunuch party and vent our anger for those people who have been oppressed by the eunuch party."

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In the evening of that day, Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er changed their black clothes, each carrying a whistle stick, and came to the small hill where the glazed tiles were buried. Thirty-five young people had arrived. Everyone sat or stood up, chatting casually in the valley. Everyone held a long stick in their hands. When Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er arrived, everyone stood up and greeted respectfully: "Brother Zhu! Second Brother Wang!"

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and smiled and said, "Everyone is here? Are you not afraid of coming?"

"How could we be! We are so brave." The young people burst into laughter.

"Okay, let's talk about what happened last night first." Zhu Yuanzhang whispered: "The incident of our demolition of Wei Zhongxian's temple last night has spread. It is said that the county magistrate has sent a constable to investigate this matter... I hope everyone keeps their mouths tight. If someone betrays us, then this person is not our brother."

"We will never do anything to sell our brothers." The young people said seriously.

"What?" Wang Er was shocked: "Wei Zhongxian's temple was demolished by you? Okay! Brother Zhu, you didn't bring me such an interesting thing! Have you seen me?"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "Brother Wang Er, you are sturdy, have big movements and loud voices. It is not suitable for you to secretly demolish the house. Look, will I just look for you for good things tonight? How can you see it?"

Wang Er thought about it and made sense, and then he gave up.

At this time, the young people started yelling: "Brother Zhu, you said last night that you took us to kill someone. Who are you going to kill? Can you tell me now?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said, "Let's kill Wei Zhongxian's gangsters, the 12th father-in-law of the Shan Twelve!"

"Oh? The twelve masters of the Shan family?"

"That eunuch nicknamed Thirty-Two Father-in-law?"

"We demolished the temple of Wei Zhongxian last night and killed Wei Zhongxian's lackey tonight. It's so exciting! My whole body is getting hot."

The young people are all fearless. When they heard that they were going to kill Wei Zhongxian’s lackey, they were immediately excited. A hint of joy flashed across everyone’s faces, and an excitement began to spread among the team.

Excitement can bring great combat power, but it also has the ability to destroy a person's spirit. For example, Zheng Yanfu's uprising, the hundreds of villagers under him rushed into Zhang Douyao's home with a sense of excitement. As a result, after the knife was bloody, they instantly became evil men who burned, killed, looted. It has to be said that excitement destroyed them and turned them from just uprising troops to bloody executioners.

Zhu Yuanzhang would never allow his team to have this kind of emotion. If these people killed Shan Twelve and became like Zheng Yanfu's subordinates, the team would deteriorate the same. He had to suppress the excitement of the young people, so he waved his hand and said, "Everyone calm down and prepare the weapons first. Where is the stick I asked you to bring? Lift it up!"

The young people raised the wooden sticks in their hands together. The sticks they brought were thick and thin, long and short, twelve feet long, and short as well as six or seven feet long. However, one thing was unified. The sticks were very strong, made of good branches soaked in oil, and were very tough.

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Sharpen one end of the stick and make a spear!" He said, while taking out a small dagger from his arms and carefully cutting it on his stick.

He deliberately cut it very slowly and started very carefully. He was guided by his actions. The young people also took out their own knife and began to cut their sticks. Some young people did not bring the knife, but waited for their companions to finish cutting it and borrow the knife.

Cutting a stick is a very meticulous job that requires careful work, so everyone didn't say anything for the time being, carefully cutting their weapons, and the scene temporarily calmed down. The brief excitement just now gradually disappeared without a trace.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction. The best way to dispel the sickly mental excitement is to give them something to do and let them devote themselves wholeheartedly. Then, it can effectively eliminate the fanaticism and calm down both body and mind. By the time they finish peeling the stick and completing their combat preparations, they have become calm enough.

This will create a successful army, rather than a group of bloodthirsty monsters.

Wang Er, who was standing beside him, blinked and whispered: "Brother Zhu, I have a feeling that you are more effective in finding these thirty-five brothers than the more than 400 brothers in Zheng Yanfu's village."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled faintly: "Of course!"
Chapter completed!