Liuting Town is a town of fish and rice, and it produces a lot of rice and wheat. It has been said that the world's granaries have been stolen since ancient times. The Japanese army entered Liuting Town with only one purpose, which was to collect grain and grass.

There were more than 30 people in the grain collection team. The captain was Ichiro Hashimoto. He was a Chinese expert, who spoke fluent Chinese dialect and was well versed in Chinese etiquette. He knew that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival and summoned the townspeople to have a meeting, so naturally he would be polite first and then soldiers.

The venue was set up in the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall. Hashimoto put a paving board at the entrance of the ancestral hall, which contained mooncakes and candies brought from Japan, and arranged for the principal Feng Yunbing and the translator Yuquan to stand beside the paving board to welcome the attendees.

Under the threat of guns, the townspeople were unwilling to do so, but they had to come. People from groups of three or three were at the same time, almost not looking at the things piled on the paving board. However, Feng Yunbing was obviously instructed. Perhaps because he had expected it, he would give it to everyone with a piece of mooncake and a few candies. A few people didn't answer and slapped it on the ground with a "hum" sound on their noses. Feng Yunbing was not annoyed, picked it up and stuffed it into the pocket of the visitor.

The teacher's wife was timid and was afraid of suffering the loss in front of her. She took it casually, but did not thank her. In the teacher's wife's heart, not expressing her gratitude was a kind of resistance. What she could do seemed to be a disdainful struggle.

Seeing that there were not many people coming, Hashimoto waited patiently for more than an hour before announcing the meeting. In fact, there was no room for negotiation at all. Instead, after making a speech on "building a circle together", he clearly announced the resolution that had been drafted. From tomorrow, all shops in the town must open business and private schools will continue to open classes and lecture.

Liuting Town will start martial law tonight. The security chief will count the number of people in the town and apply for a good citizen certificate. In the future, no matter who it is, you will pass by the good citizen certificate when entering and leaving Liuting Town.

Finally, the point is here!

To collect autumn grain, a warehouse for storing grain and grass must be built, and labor must be carried out by every household. In order to collect grain, artillery towers must be built in the town at the same time; to transport grain and grass, roads must be widened and docks must be built, and the craftsmen must be convened locally. Hashimoto requires that all laborers and craftsmen put down their work, do not give any conditions, and do their best to ensure work and serve the Imperial Army.

The master's wife went back to repeat everything she heard at the conference and shared the mooncakes and candy he brought back to Jiang Chenge and Zhang Shouyi, and said casually: "The Eastern Japanese are still kind. They actually know that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and even Xiaoen and Xiaohui understand."

Kong Xiaoan thought for a while and asked, "Goodness is not true or good, but evil is afraid that people will know it, it is a great evil. Have people in the town sent people there?"

The teacher's wife shook her head and said, "I didn't go all the time, at least I didn't see the people from the Zhang family and the Zhou family."

Kong Xiaoan scratched his temple with his fingers and said, "In our town, we need to talk about the fields, either from the Zhang family or from the Zhou family. Whose territory will the dog thieves build warehouses and docks? Also, the Zhang family and the Zhou family have always been intimate and do not interact with each other. This time it is rare. They don't send people to the meeting. It seems that they have to sing opposites to the Japanese devils! They can be consistent with the outside world, good, good!"

The teacher's wife said: "Don't think too beautifully! They are one of the top wealthy families in the town. Maybe the Japanese had already secretly passed by secretly. Otherwise, how could the Japanese live in the Zhou family ancestral hall!"

Kong Xiaoan sighed and said, "Your analysis makes sense, people's hearts are unpredictable! But then again, from ancient times to the present, no foreign invasion has been easy to conquer, and the Japanese will be driven away early and night. If it is true that they have insider trading, haha, I see how they have the face to gain a foothold in the town in the future."

The teacher's wife shook her head and said, "You are thinking too far away. I don't know how to pass this level in front of you!"

Kong Xiaoan and the others were guessing the situation at home, but they didn't know that the Zhou family and the Zhang family were both in panic at this moment.

In Liuting Town, the Zhou and Zhang families were evenly matched, each occupying half of the town of rivers and mountains. The Zhou family had a transport fleet, and the Zhang family controlled the Liuwang Lake fishing boats; the Zhou family had thousands of acres of fertile land, and the Zhang family had hundreds of houses. They fought each other for benefits and face for several generations, with both losses and losses, but it was precisely because of the competition between the two major families that their wealth grew day by day and restrained each other.

By the generation of Zhou Chong and Zhang Laikun, they could no longer win or lose in the fields and real estate, and began to secretly have children. Zhou Chong married Cen Lifen and gave birth to two daughters, the eldest daughter Zhou Xiaoqing, who had already married to the outside town last year. The second daughter Zhou Xiaocao was 17 years old. At the same time, Zhang Laikun gave birth to three sons in a row, the eldest son Zhang Shoudao, the second son Zhang Shoude, and the third son Zhang Shouli. In this way, Zhou Chong obviously lost, how could he swallow this? So he took a concubine named Cai Hua, and everyone was used to calling her cauliflower. Unfortunately, Cai Hua's belly did not help Zhou Chong gain face, and also gave birth to a daughter, named Zhou Xiaojin.

Zhou Chong had a daughter but no son, while Zhang Laikun had a son but no daughter. It was a bit far-fetched to really talk about winning or losing. Interestingly, when Zhang Laikun was fifty, his wife gave birth to Zhang Shouyi, which made Zhang Laikun so happy. He had both children and had enough face. In the competition with Zhou Chong, he was a great victory. Zhou Chong had no choice but to swallow his anger into his stomach.

Zhou Chong had a cousin named Zhou Liang, who gave birth to two sons, one named Zhou Xiaohe and the other named Zhou Xiaokeng, which made Zhou Liang laugh and cry. For this reason, there was an indescribable barrier between their cousins ​​and their relationship was not harmonious. What made Zhou Chong feel comforted was that Zhou Liang was good at eating, drinking, gambling, but he didn't want to manage his ancestral property and made a living by selling real estate. By this time, the real estate under Zhou Liang's name had almost been acquired by Zhou Chong. Now there is only a dozen acres of dry land left for Zhou Liang's father and son to live in secret.

In the rural areas of Jiangnan, traditional thinking is prevalent. Zhou Chong had the idea of ​​his cousin's son and wanted to accept his nephew Zhou Xiaokeng as his stepson. However, Zhou Liang was determined to be unable to get along with his cousin, but he did not agree. Therefore, the Zhou family had this account that was difficult to open, and he was embarrassed to maintain a distance of neither close nor far or near.
Chapter completed!