Pick up a princess to be your wife

In just one day, Zhou Wanfu sold more than 200,000 jin of grain.

Rice accounted for nearly half of the total revenue, which was around 200,000 taels.

However, the cost he invested in it was only a few thousand taels of silver.

Back then, several thousand taels of silver was a huge sum of money, but now money is worthless.

"Father, we've sold over 200,000 jin of grain, but there's still a lot left in the granary. Should we continue selling?" Zhou Feng asked.

“Grain is our capital, so of course we can’t sell it all. After the grain is requisitioned, the city people will run out of grain, and then we can raise the price and sell the grain again, wouldn’t we make more money? If we sell it all now, we’ll have to share the money with Rong, so why bother?” Zhou Wanfu laughed.

"Father is right. Should we really send half of the money we earned this time to Yu Rong?" Zhou Feng asked.

"There's nothing we can do about it; we have to let go, even if we don't want to," Zhou Wanfu said.

“Being an official is really easy. With just a few words, not only did they gather 200,000 catties of grain, but they also earned 100,000 taels of silver. I’ll try to become an official myself in the future,” Zhou Feng said.

"Easy for you to say. I used to tell you to study hard, but you insisted on going to brothels. Now you want to be an official? Too late," Zhou Wanfu laughed.

"Hehe, isn't that inheriting Dad's fine tradition? With such an excellent father, I only need to enjoy life and don't need to work hard," Zhou Feng chuckled.

"That's right, we have enough money for you to gamble away your life. But that's a story for later. You still need to find a good girl to marry and give your father a grandson," Zhou Wanfu said with a smile.

"The girls who want to marry me could line up from one end of the city wall to the other."

"Then open your eyes wide and choose carefully. You must choose a virtuous and sensible one."

"Of course. By the way, Father, when are we going to collect grain?" Zhou Feng asked.

"Yu Rong has already delivered the official document. We'll gather everyone tomorrow morning and start requisitioning grain first thing in the morning," Zhou Wanfu said.

"it is good."

That evening, at the Li family's house.

Wang Xiulian bought some wheat today, but as soon as she entered the house, she saw new furniture.

Although it's very simple, this is the kind of basic furniture they used to have.

"I'm back. Erlang bought this." Li Tian forced a smile and said.

"Did Erlang buy it?"

"Yeah, I bought it from Brother Ertie, it didn't cost much," Li Mu said.

To be precise, he didn't spend a single penny.

"Oh, no wonder Li Ertie specially had these wooden tools made today."

Wang Xiulian nodded.

"Luckily, the five taels of silver I hid in the kitchen yesterday weren't discovered, otherwise our family would be starving today."

The family sat together, each lost in their own thoughts, and none of them had an appetite.

It felt as if a huge mountain was pressing down on Li Tian and his wife, making it hard for them to breathe.

Li Ertie dared not join forces with Li Mu to deal with Zhou Wanfu, and Li Mu could not allow Li Tian to get involved.

He doesn't have the ability, and he certainly doesn't have the guts.

If Li Mu can collect a large number of antiques and have enough capital, then things will be fine.

Even with all his skills, he can't carry the burden alone.

Li Mu felt incredibly mocked, thinking about how his family had just been ransacked and robbed by Zhou Wanfu, yet his sister-in-law still had to spend money to buy food from him.

What a damn world.

The next morning, just as Li Mu and his family got up, Zhou Feng and his men came knocking on their door again.

"Oh ho, you actually bought new furniture? I'll smash it first."

Zhou Feng waved his hand, and the group filed in.

"Zhou Feng, don't push your luck!" Li Tian, ​​who was usually docile and dared not retaliate, suddenly roared.

Zhou Feng didn't take Li Tian's anger seriously at all, and didn't even glance at him.

Li Tian was angry, but only for a moment.

The furniture I bought yesterday was smashed to pieces by these beasts.

“The government has issued a decree ordering us to requisition 200,000 catties of grain from the entire city to fund the army. I see your family is quite wealthy, so please contribute 50 catties of grain,” Zhou Feng said.

"You just stole the last of my family's rice the day before yesterday. Where would I have any food left?" Li Tian said with a bitter expression.

"You have money to buy furniture but not money to buy food? Who would believe that?" Zhou Feng grinned and sneered.

"We're really out of food! I don't know how we're going to get through this winter!" Li Tian collapsed to the ground and wailed.

"If you can't produce the grain, then I'll just seize your two young ladies and sell them. Maybe that will scrape together fifty catties of grain," Zhou Feng said coldly.

"We're really out of food, you can't just take people away."

"You say you can't, but I'm going to arrest them anyway. These two..."

"and many more."

Li Mu walked up to Zhou Feng, his brows furrowed, and said in a deep voice, "I will try my best to gather fifty catties of grain and deliver it to your residence today. But if you insist on arresting people, I will not give you a single catty of grain."

"it is good."

Zhou Feng readily agreed.

He remembered his father's words: it wouldn't be too late to take these two young ladies away when the Li family had nothing left to gain.

This Li Mu is quite capable.

According to his father, the best way to maximize profits is to first exploit people and then seize them.

"Young master, we've found a few pounds of wheat." A subordinate came out carrying a cloth bag.

"Who said there's no food? What's this?"

"This is my family's food rations for the next few days! Young master, please have mercy and don't steal it!"

Zhou Feng didn't take Li Tian seriously at all and left in a hurry with his men.

As the saying goes, there are only three things that can happen.

But the Zhou father and son would often sit on Li Mutou and defecate, and they would also frequently threaten Li Mutou, his sister-in-law, and Li Xin.

Such aggressive behavior is intolerable.

After leaving the Li family, Zhou Feng began collecting grain from each household.

To be precise, it was a scramble for grain.

"Young Master Zhou, this is the food my family needs to survive! You can't take it!"

"What do you mean by 'robbery'? I have official government documents. I'm requisitioning grain. Making your family hand over grain is contributing to the country. You should feel honored, don't you understand?"

"But you stole my family's grain, and my family is going to starve to death!"

“If you had money to buy grain yesterday, you’ll naturally have money to buy grain tomorrow. I think your girl is quite nice; if you sell her to me, you’ll have money to get through the winter.”

"I only have one daughter, this won't do!"

"Then stop wasting your breath on me and get out of here!"

Zhou Feng led his men and looted their way through, and soon the carriages were piled high with grain.

He was like a vicious wolf, leading a large pack of wolf cubs through the streets and alleys.

Every time they entered a house, the family would burst into tears and kneel down to beg for mercy.

But Zhou Feng didn't care about their lives at all; he just robbed all the grain from each household, leaving not a single grain of rice behind.

If someone has even a little backbone and tries to resist, they will inevitably be beaten severely.

After looting grain along the way, Zhou Feng arrived at Li Ertie's doorstep.

He raised his hand and waved, and the group filed in.