I will lead the whole village to occupy the land and become the king.

The magistrate of Yongshan County came to the provincial capital to do some business these days. He was pestered by the One-eyed King to avenge the people of Qinggang Mountain. Unexpectedly, while the two were arguing, they saw Meng Tianze driving a carriage to the back door of the cloth shop.

The horse that Meng Tianze was riding was the one-eyed king's former mount, and he recognized it at a glance.

"You wouldn't mistake the horse, but what about the people? Do you remember the man and woman just now?" The Yongshan County Magistrate narrowed his eyes and looked in the direction where the carriage disappeared.

The One-Eyed King shook his head. "It was too dark at night. The torches made it hard to see clearly. Besides, there were so many people there that night, men, women, young and old. I really couldn't recognize them all."

Although he had met Jiang Qinyu before, Jiang Qinyu was wearing men's clothes at the time, and it was indeed difficult to see clearly at night.

As for Meng Tianze, although he has been hunting for many years and his skills and reactions are better than ordinary people, his height and body shape are too common among the crowd, and the One-Eyed King is not sure at all.

"It's also possible that those people stole your horses and sold them," the Yongshan County Magistrate pondered. "But the missing items must not be known to anyone. Since there is a clue, you should quickly find someone to follow them. Regardless of whether it is them or not, you must not act rashly."

This one-eyed king has already messed up once, and now there is no expectation that he can do anything good.

Although the One-Eyed King was unwilling, he did not dare to go against the Yongshan County Magistrate. He could only clasp his fists in agreement and go find someone to make arrangements.

Seeing the One-Eyed King leave, the Yongshan County Magistrate stood there for a moment before leaving.

The magistrate of Yongshan County is named Zhu Youcai. He was transferred to Yongshan County three years ago.

After he took office, the people of Yongshan County had a harder time, because after Zhu Youcai was transferred, everything from the city entry tax to other miscellaneous taxes and levies were rising year by year.

In the past, there was no tax on entering the city in Yongshan County. Now, anyone entering the city, including infants, is required to pay a tax of two copper coins per person.

The people complained bitterly, but there was nothing they could do.

However, what the people did not know was that this was just one of Zhu Youcai's ways of making money.

……

When Jiang Qinyu and Meng Tianze returned to Kangyue Inn, Liu Erleng and the others had also returned.

This time, everyone did not go to Jiang Qinyu's room, but sat in the corner of the inn lobby, each talking about the purchases they were responsible for.

"Erleng and I went to check out the grain. The price in the city is higher than in Yongshan County, but Yongshan County can't buy much grain now, so we ordered 5,000 kilograms of coarse grain and 2,000 kilograms of fine grain. The shopkeeper said we'd go pick it up tomorrow morning."

"We went to look for the cotton that Mrs. Lu mentioned. We searched many places before we found it. It's definitely warm, but it's incredibly expensive. Liu Yazi and I only ordered 200 kilograms."

"Dacheng and I went to see..."

After everyone else finished speaking, their attention turned to Jiang Qinyu.

"Brother Meng and I went to buy cloth this afternoon. We spent the whole afternoon negotiating with the owner of the cloth shop. She gave us a much lower price, lower than the price in Yongshan County." Jiang Qinyu only stated the basic situation and did not specify how much they bought.

Meng Tianze was excited, and added with a grin that showed his teeth: "Guess how much cloth we bought?"

Everyone shook their heads, and Liu Yazi asked, "How much?"

"Hey," Meng Tianze gestured, "this number."

"Eighty horses?" Chen Shao asked hesitantly.

Meng Tianze continued to laugh, "Be bold and guess."

"It can't be eight hundred horses, right?" Liuyazi blurted out with little belief.

"Haha...you guessed right this time. My sister-in-law spent less than two hundred taels of silver to get us eight hundred pieces of various cloths!" Meng Tianze is still very excited when he thinks about it now.

The others gasped. Eight hundred horses, what does that mean?

A piece of Dai Viet cloth is four zhang long, which is more than thirteen meters. Based on the average height of people at that time, at least five or six sets of clothes can be made from it.

Moreover, cloth, like gold and silver, is a hard currency that can be used for everything and is an indispensable item in people's homes.

However, Yongshan County was too remote and transportation was difficult. The price of cloth was even more expensive than in the provincial capital. People in Dingshui Village might not be able to buy a single piece of cloth in a whole year.

"With these cloths, can we all have new clothes to wear?" Liuyazi asked with bright eyes.

Chen Shao rolled his eyes at him and said, "That depends on how hard you work. In our village, we use work points to earn money."

"I have to work hard for new clothes!" Liuyazi smiled foolishly.

Chen Shao was speechless. What kind of man would like to wear new clothes like this? What's wrong with a few patches on the clothes? He would even admit that it was a mistake if there were no patches!

Everyone was very excited. After all, most of their families had not bought new cloth in several years. The children were wearing clothes with patches on top of patches, and the older ones had to pass them on to the younger ones. It was heartbreaking just thinking about it.

Seeing them like this, Jiang Qinyu felt very sad.

She thought of the Lu family's elders and two children.

There was only one set of clothes that was patch-free in her original body. It was bought for her by the eldest brother of the Jiang family when she got married six years ago. Because she was reluctant to wear it, she was able to avoid the fate of having patches.

However, although the Lu family's clothes also had patches, both Chen and the original body were good at needlework, so the patches were not very noticeable.

"Okay, okay, now that we're done, we can pack up our stuff and go back tomorrow. But we have a lot of stuff, so we all have to walk on the way back." Meng Tianze said with a smile.

"Why should I be afraid of walking? I'm full of energy just thinking about how we won't have to go hungry this winter!"

"Besides, we shouldn't be cold this winter. Just thinking about it makes me feel beautiful..."

Jiang Qinyu thought of the new task and spoke carefully, "I'll go check on the seeds tomorrow. Even if they can't be used for autumn planting, they can still be used for spring plowing next year."

"It's time to buy some seeds," Meng Tianze sighed, "We didn't have any food before, and many families in the village ate their seeds..."

This topic was too heavy and everyone fell silent.

The next morning, Jiang Qinyu divided the money according to everyone's needs, and then went to look at seeds with Meng Tianze.

There are many kinds of seeds in Yukang Mansion. Jiang Qinyu picked out the commonly planted ones for the village and also looked carefully to see if there were any new varieties.

To her surprise, she found several seeds that were not previously found in Dai Viet, such as cumin.

"Sister-in-law, this thing is too expensive, why don't you just not buy it?" Meng Tianze hurriedly advised after hearing the price.

Jiang Qinyu smiled and said, "I'll buy this myself, without spending the village money."

With cumin, maybe I can open a barbecue restaurant or something in the future.

Since she said so, Meng Tianze naturally couldn't object anymore.

Jiang Qinyu bought a lot of seeds out of her own pocket, and when she got on the carriage, she collected the number of seeds she had completed for the system tasks.

After that, Jiang Qinyu stayed at Kangyue Inn, while Meng Tianze and others helped load the truck.

They bought so many things that all five carriages were filled to the brim. Jiang Qinyu was afraid that the horses would get tired.

It was not until the evening when the city gates were about to close that Jiang Qinyu and his group left the city.

Ji Xiaoqi looked at Jiang Qinyu and the others as they walked away, and sighed, "I really underestimated this group of people!"

"Xiao Qi, look and see if there are any more people following that group of people?" The leading gatekeeper pointed behind Jiang Qinyu and the others and asked.