Xu Miao and Village Chief Han took the silver handed to them by Zhou Chenli and felt their backs straightened.

With this amount of silver, they would not only buy goods within a radius of 500 miles, but also as far as the vicinity of Dingzhou City.

The yamen runners saw that Xu Miao and Village Chief Han were not joking, but really wanted to buy land.

He glared at Village Chief Han and Xu Miao and shouted, "You two wait here. I'll discuss this matter with the City Lord."

The yamen runner wondered... what are these two country bumpkins up to? There's not a single soul to be seen along the way from Dingzhou City to Hanjia Village. Are the people of Hanjia Village seriously ill? They're buying up land so utterly inaccessible that even rabbits wouldn't poop.

The bailiff went to the backyard of the government office and met the city lord. He told him that Xu Miao and his friends wanted to buy a large amount of land.

The bailiff said, "Lord, are the people of Hanjia Village going crazy? Dingzhou City is only about 500 miles away from Hanjia Village. Why would they buy up such a large piece of land?"

After listening to the yamen runner's report, the city lord also felt that this matter was a bit strange. He frowned and asked the yamen runner, "Has anything new happened in Hanjia Village recently?"

The yamen runner replied confidently, "Lord City Lord, what new things could there be in Hanjia Village? There aren't even a few people there."

"If there's anything new, it's probably just the barbarians leading their troops to attack Han Village."

"But in recent years, we haven't heard of any barbarians attacking. There really isn't anything new happening in Hanjia Village."

Of course, the city lord knew that the barbarians had been engaged in internal strife recently and had no time to fight against the Great Zhou.

Haven’t you seen that recently, even General Liu doesn’t stay in the military camp often. He runs back home to rest when he has nothing to do, and he calls it resting and protecting himself.

City Lord...Since there's nothing wrong, let the people of Hanjia Village do whatever they want.

If they are willing to buy the land, let them buy it. Otherwise, the land will be idle and cannot create value for Dingzhou City. It is just right to sell it.

Thinking of this, the city lord said to the yamen runner, "Did the head of Han Village really come with silver notes?"

The bailiff nodded and said, "My Lord, that Miss Xu was holding a stack of silver bills in her hand, but she didn't say how much silver she had."

After the yamen runner finished speaking, he used his hand to show the city lord the thickness of the silver bills in Xu Miao's hand.

When the city lord saw it, he smiled and said to the yamen runner, "Since they have come with silver, then let's sell it."

"Those lands are idle, just wasteland, let the people of Hanjia Village toss around."

"I want to see what kind of weird things Hanjia Village can come up with!"

After the city lord finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked the yamen runners to go to the front to serve Xu Miao and Village Chief Han.

With money being delivered to their doorstep, why wouldn't the government make money? Those lands are just lying idle anyway, so let the people of Hanjia Village mess around with them.

The yamen runner got the approval of the city lord and came to the front to meet Xu Miao and Village Chief Han.

Yamen runner: "The city lord said that you can sell this land as you like."

"But Old Han, the distance from Dingzhou City to Hanjia Village is only about 500 miles. You don't want to buy all of it, do you?"

The yamen runner took out a map, pointed to the distance marked on the map, and said to Xu Miao and Village Chief Han.

Xu Miao lowered his head and carefully looked at the map in front of him, pointed to the location marked on the map, and asked the yamen runner.

"Brother Yamen Runner, how far is it from the northern military camp to the abandoned house halfway?"

The bailiff stretched his head to take a look, then found a pen and paper, did some careful calculations, and then answered Xu Miao's question.

"Miss Xu, from the northern military camp to that abandoned house, excluding your Han Village, the total distance is over 350 miles."

After listening to the words of the yamen runner, Xu Miao turned around and looked at Village Chief Han, who nodded.

Village Chief Han...It's great to have money, you can do whatever you want!

After receiving the approval of Village Chief Han, Xu Miao said to the yamen runner, "Brother Yamen runner, we in Hanjia Village want all these lands. Please calculate how much silver these lands will cost, and we will pay and complete the formalities now."

The yamen runners waited for Xu Miao to finish speaking before they bothered to ask any more questions.

He took out the documents required to obtain a land deed and calculated the money needed to purchase the land, then began to process the procedures for Xu Miao and the others.

Anyway, it's not their land that's being sold, so why should a small yamen runner like him care so much?

If Hanjiacun wanted to commit suicide, then so be it. He had tried to persuade them kindly, so just do your best.

It's hard to persuade a ghost who is looking for death with good words. Hanjia Village has so much money to burn that it doesn't even know its own weight.

Xu Miao and Village Chief Han quickly processed the land deeds at the government office in Dingzhou City.

He bought more than 350 miles of land and spent a total of 8,000 taels of silver.

After Xu Miao handed the banknote to the yamen runner, the runner still wanted to ask Xu Miao: "If I stamp the official seal of the Dingzhou City government for you, you won't be able to take the money back."

"Are you sure you want to buy these lands?"

Xu Miao and Village Chief Han nodded vigorously: "Brother Yamen Runner, please stamp it quickly. As long as you stamp it well, all of us in Hanjia Village will thank you for your eight generations of ancestors."

After Xu Miao and Village Chief Han finished getting the land deed, they happily rushed back to the inn to report to Zhou Chenli.

When Xu Miao saw Zhou Chenli, he took out the land deed from his arms and handed it to Zhou Chenli.

"My Lord, this stretch starts from the northern military camp and goes all the way to the abandoned house halfway to Dingzhou City. The land title for that distance is a total of 350 miles."

"Now, if we calculate it, as long as we leave Dingzhou City and walk for half a day, we will enter the territory of Hanjia Village."

"Originally, we wanted to buy 500 li of land, but the government officials said that we couldn't reach the border of Hanjia Village as soon as we left Dingzhou City, so we didn't buy that much."

Xu Miao briefly and concisely told Zhou Chenli about the process of their land purchase.

Zhou Chenli took a look at the deed. On one side was the official seal of the Dingzhou City government. On the other side was Xu Miao's signature and the large seal of the Dingguo Duke's Mansion.

When Zhou Chenli saw that the land deed was completed, he said to Xu Miao and Village Chief Han, "You can rest in Dingzhou City for a day and return to Hanjia Village tomorrow."

"Do as you wish. As long as no one is killed, you can do whatever you want with this coal mine."

"I'll send a shopkeeper over in a few days. It's better to make the payment public."

"How will the money from the coal sale be divided? When the shopkeeper arrives, I'll have him tell you. Now you just need to get started."

According to Xu Miao, Hanjia Village needs to make some preparations if it wants to dig out a large amount of coal from the mine.

It was a good opportunity to take advantage of the time when the shopkeeper was not here to let Xu Miao and the others complete the preliminary preparations.

As soon as the shopkeeper who could count money arrived, Xu Miao and his team officially started the operation.

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