The years when I was not the protagonist

Chapter 141 Liu Xiucai's Family

Gu Chuan kept knocking on the table, and finally spoke when Patriarch Dong was impatient. "Patriarch Dong really disagrees?"

Patriarch Dong thought that Gu Chuan had compromised, and said with disdain, "Yes, City Master, this method is not feasible, and I don't know which third-rate person is pointing you behind the scenes. City Master, you are still young, so don't trust the words of such a villain."

Gu Chuan didn't take Dong's words, waved his hand, and said to the commander of the city guard behind him: "The Dong family hired private soldiers, go and take down everyone in the Dong family, who dares to resist Killing Wushe."

The commander of the city guards led the order to leave, but the owner of the Dong family didn't react for a while, the city is mainly targeting the Dong family?

The head of the Dong family jumped out and said angrily: "You are so unreasonable, the city lord. My Dong family has paid so much for Jianglong City, and you have shot at my Dong family without any evidence. You are killing a donkey."

The head of the Dong family hurried outside, he wanted to return to the Dong family to deploy before the city guards.

With a wave of Gu Chuan's hand, a phantom of a soaring dragon appeared, and the gate of the City Lord's Mansion suddenly closed with a bang.

Patriarch Dong's face was ugly. The strength of the city lord was unquestionable. To fight against the lord of a city, at least [-]% of the dignitaries in Qijianglong City had to be gathered, but how could there be so much time now.

No one dared to speak out for Patriarch Dong. Who doesn't have a few private soldiers these days? If Gu Chuan wants to shoot the first bird, they can only shrink their heads.

"Since that's the case, the tax is set as it is. No one objected." Gu Chuan looked around and no one spoke, and assumed that they all acquiesced.

On the second day, the City Lord's Mansion promulgated a decree, and the people of Jianglong City were both happy and apprehensive when they found out.

Happily, the tax reduction will definitely make their lives much easier. Although there is a [-]% tax, as long as they work hard, they will still have a surplus every year.

What's disturbing is that this young city lord doesn't know what kind of demon he is going to be again, especially the ordinary people at the bottom, who can't stand such a toss.

Inside the City Lord's Mansion, Gu Chuan looked at the gold and silver treasures piled up in front of him. These belonged to the Dong family. The Dong family's power in Jianglong City was directly ransacked by Gu Chuan to fill the vacancy in the City Lord's Mansion.

"Commander Liu, this box will be distributed to the brothers." Commander Liu is the commander of the city guard army. He was generous to others in his previous life, but he was very harsh on the manpower left by his father. He naively thought that these people only need to give them food.

Commander Liu also looked at Gu Chuan with strange eyes. Why did the city lord change his temper today? Didn't he rush to move back to the treasury when he got these things?I and others can only watch. If it weren't for the kindness of the old city lord, who would suffer like this every day? Even now, many team members have expressed their opinions.

Commander Liu thanked Gu Chuan, no matter what, Gu Chuan's behavior now is good for him.

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A remote mountain village under the jurisdiction of Jianglong City was originally not under the control of Jianglong Village, but a few years ago, Gu Chuan directly led people to take down this piece of land.

There are hundreds of families living in the mountain village, and every family makes a living from farming, but there is such a family in the mountain village.

The male owner of this family is a scholar. Everyone in the village calls him Liu Xiucai. Liu Xiucai is the kind of scholar who loses his name every year but still takes the exams. He has no talent for reading but thinks that his luck is bad.

This person doesn't work hard, and doesn't know the five grains, but he got lucky and married a beautiful woman, and gave birth to a boy with a tiger's head and a tiger's brain.

More than ten years ago, his mother-in-law disappeared suddenly for a few years. Just when everyone in the village thought that she couldn't stand poverty and ran away, the woman came back again.

The family didn't farm at all, and Liu Xiucai's life was really lonely when the woman left, but when the woman returned, she lived a happy life and became the richest man in the village again.

That's right, this woman is Meng Xue, the mother of Gu Chuan's predecessor who disappeared for more than ten years. Somehow she faked her death to deceive her predecessor's father.

Now she is living a nominal life of men farming and women weaving with the person she likes, why is it in name, because they rely on buying for food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the few mu of land left by Liu Xiucai's ancestors has long since been abandoned.

But during this period of time, Liu Xiucai's family was not doing well. The money brought by Meng Xue was almost spent, and Liu Xiucai was a person who did not work hard, even worse than Kong Yiji.

During this period of time, his son Liu Hai was able to barely maintain the family's livelihood by hunting. Liu Haisheng was tall and powerful, and he was a bully in several villages around here.

On this day, Liu Xiucai, who is used to living a life of good food and drink, finally couldn't bear it anymore, and pulled Meng Xue and Liu Hai to express his decision that he had considered for a long time.

"Xiao Hai, I have something important to tell you." Seeing that Meng Xue didn't interrupt, Liu Xiucai spoke more calmly.

"Actually, the Lord of Jianglong City is your younger brother."

Liu Xiucai's words directly shook Liu Hai's mind, so the tyrant is his brother?He looked at his mother again, only to see Meng Xue nodded to him.

Liu Xiucai organized his language and changed the story between him and Meng Xue to Liu Hai.

In the story, Liu Xiucai becomes a desperate hero, and Gu Chuan's father becomes a villain who beats mandarin ducks. Finally, he has gone through a lot of hardships to be able to walk with Meng Xue.

Meng Xue didn't even refute, and she didn't know how to tell that she didn't do anything, and Liu Xiucai, who looked like she was in lovesickness and suffering all day long, became a hero.

Liu Xiucai cleared his throat and continued, "You have also seen what Jianglong City managed by your younger brother is like now. The people are in dire straits, and the people are hungry. He can't afford Jianglong City's heavy burden by himself. He needs our help."

A gleam flashed in Liu Xiucai's eyes, and he didn't know that he was a lazy person who ate and drank well every day, and he didn't know where he experienced the suffering of the people.

Except for marrying a beautiful woman, Liu Xiucai has accomplished nothing in his life. He has great ambitions, but he has no ability.

But he was not reconciled, so he turned his idea to Gu Chuan. He wanted his son to replace Gu Chuan as the city lord of Jianglong City. He wanted to use his son's hand to realize his ambitions, which is what the saying goes.

"Xiao Hai, your younger brother is younger and naive than you. This time we go, you have to help him, especially Jianglong City's government affairs and the army. Others can't control him with his soft words. This time we go, you have to give him more advice. He has no opinions and can't make decisions on some things, so you just look at them."

Meng Xue also nodded, as if it should be taken for granted, and then she looked nostalgic, "I haven't seen Xiao Chuan for a long time."

"..."

Liu Xiucai's family simply cleaned up and set off. Before they left, the three of them heard the news of tax reduction.

For the three people who had never worked before, they didn't know what it meant. The cheers of the villagers made them think that Gu Chuan had done something outrageous.

PS: There are still a few big chapters, if you don’t want to read it, just get straight to the point (_) (I have been working overtime recently, so I can only update it in the morning and in the evening, or you can save it and post it at night, what do you think?)