Chapter 4 Investigation

"Nonsense! If I'm farming, it's not bad if I can keep my family from going hungry for a year, and I can't even save a single copper coin. But if I use my farming time to do other work, don't say anything else, just do whatever I want. Find a chamber of commerce in the city to do something, you can get at least ten gold coins every month, and you can get more than a hundred gold coins in a year! Even if you buy all the food for a year, you can still have at least fifty gold coins left. The gold can be used to buy something else. Why don't you say I don't go farming?"

Sakeqi rolled his eyes and looked at the city lord's mansion officer who claimed to be running from the city lord's mansion to investigate with disdain. He thought that the service officer who followed the idiot city lord must be an idiot himself.

Such an obvious fact still needs to be specially asked?

This is just the most basic arithmetic problem. Even an old farmer who has never attended school and is almost 60 years old can easily figure it out. He is a guy in a uniform that looks very expensive. I don't understand, are the officials of the City Lord's Mansion the same as their stupid City Lord, with nothing but straws in their heads?

Seeing the obvious disdain on the face of the old farmer on the opposite side, Officer Moya was extremely unhappy.

If it were any other time, he would not even bother to talk to such an old peasant with a humble background, brown hands, and calluses. If it wasn't for the special order of the city lord, how could he have come to such a remote and remote village in Mexico. What the hell is going on in a dirty, backward place?

Thinking of the serious advice from the Lord of the City before leaving, Moya reluctantly suppressed the displeasure in his heart, tried his best to maintain a smile that he thought was kind and kind, and continued to ask Sa Keqi: "But as long as there is farmland, at least you can guarantee your family. I won’t be hungry. However, if you go to work in a chamber of commerce, although your income may be relatively high for a month or two, you might lose your job and make you lose your income, right?”

It's good that Moya didn't ask this question, but once he asked this question. Sakeqi suddenly widened his eyes, and angrily stabbed the steel shovel in his hand to the ground, making a crisp sound, pointing at Moya's nose and scolding directly.

"You are too embarrassed to ask this question? If it weren't for the city lord's government, it would have to implement some bullshit policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture. The Sandier Chamber of Commerce would not have moved from Bangta City, and my son would not have lost him in Sandier. The Chamber of Commerce has a job! Did you know that his monthly salary at the Sandier Chamber of Commerce is close to 20 gold coins! Because of you, he has not only lost this job now, but he can't find any other work in the city It's all your fault!"

Moya didn't expect Sakeqi's sudden outburst. After being stunned for a while, he stretched out his hand and touched his face. He felt that the old farmer had sprayed several spit stars on his face, and suddenly felt sick in his heart.

It was difficult to suppress the idea of ​​turning around and leaving. Moya took a deep breath and tried to calmly say: "This is the decision of the Sandier Chamber of Commerce. Can't blame our City Lord's Mansion?"

"Fuck! If it wasn't for your city lord's mansion to force the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce away, how could the Sandier Chamber of Commerce leave? If the Sandier Chamber of Commerce did not leave, how could my son lose his job? And you guys made this shit-like suppression. The policy of revitalizing agriculture through business. It forced all the chambers of commerce in Bangta City away, and now the jobs in Bangta City are several times less than before! It's not just me who blames you, you go and ask other people in Bangta City, Ask those people who came to our Bangta City all the way from other cities to look for jobs, who wouldn't want to scold you?" Sakeqi widened his eyes and asked unceremoniously.

Moya took a few steps back in a row before he avoided the spittle that spewed out of Sakeqi's mouth. He quickly retorted: "The city lord launched this policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture for the good of you ordinary farmers. Why don't you understand the painstaking efforts of the city lord?"

"Good for us? What a shit!" Sakichi sneered loudly: "Being good to us is to let us lose our good jobs that make a lot of money? Let's just run back and forth to plant that damn farmland? To make sure you don't go hungry it is good!"

Moya's face changed slightly. He had no idea that an ordinary old farmer in Mexico Village would actually know what was said in the newspapers in Karma City, which was dozens of kilometers away. And also understand the meaning of the word "achievement".

After thinking about it, Moya continued to argue: "Isn't it good for you to increase the food production in Bangta City? Did you forget that you were still hungry a few years ago?"

"Shit! It was good to be hungry a few years ago, but when did the people in Bangta City go hungry in the past two years?" Sakeqi retorted unceremoniously: "Go back and tell the Lord of the City, our farmland in Bangta City. It has been completely reclaimed by the Satsuma City Lord in the past two years, even if we drive all of us back to the fields. There is not much food, so let him die!"

Hearing that Sakeqi was able to speak so bluntly about the city lord's most worrying problem, Moya finally understood that the ordinary-looking old peasant in front of him actually understood much more than he imagined.

This was much better than the ignorant peasants he met in other cities in the Lampari Kingdom.

Although it is easier for him to get the answers he needs from someone with some knowledge for his investigation this time, from Moya's personal point of view, he still prefers to face those ignorant farmers.

Obviously, the Lord of the City thinks so too.

If only these ordinary farmers in Bangta City were as ignorant and obedient as those in other cities in Lampari Kingdom, then the Lord of the City would not have to worry about how to convince these farmers to return to the farmland, in order to improve Bangta food production in the city.

Thinking about it this way, Moya still had to hold back his anger and impatience for what the city lord explained, and said to Sake: "The plan made by the city lord is very long-term, you may not be able to understand it now, but you must believe it. Lord City Lord, he really does it for the good of you ordinary peasants. As long as you follow the arrangements of Lord City Lord, I dare to say that you will not only not have to go hungry in the next two years, even in the future, you will not have to worry about hunger. On the contrary, you always It is to claim to support the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and this Xinfei Chamber of Commerce can't make food for you to eat."

"Come on." Sakci sneered. "You look down on the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, don't you? Then you have the ability to ask the city lord to order Bangta City to never use the things produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce? When you have the ability to farm, you don't need those farmland magic machines of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce? "

Moya was at a loss for words.

Whether it is him or the Lord of the City, no matter how much he hates the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in his heart, he has to admit that if he loses the support of the farmland magic machinery produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, not to mention that the food production in Bangta City will reach a new high. It is simply impossible to solve the reclamation of so many farmlands in Bangta City.

Seeing that Moya couldn't speak, Sakeqi sneered: "I don't understand shit. It's a waste of time to come and ask this question. Okay, I'm still rushing to Koror Village for a meeting, and I don't have time. I'm talking nonsense with you here, goodbye."

After all, Sakci put the shovel that he had been stabbing on his shoulders, turned around and left.

Moya stared blankly at Sakeqi's back as he turned and left, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't figure out how to keep the somewhat knowledgeable old farmer to continue asking.

After staying for a while, Moya turned to look at the peasants in the other Mexican villages who were watching the conversation between the two, and wanted to continue the investigation. Who knew that those peasants saw his eyes swept over and immediately showed an expression of avoiding the god of plague. , The birds and animals scattered in an instant, leaving only Moya standing alone in the middle of the road.

Moya looked at the Mexican village not far ahead, and smiled bitterly, thinking that although only sixteen farmers have been investigated so far, the tone of these sixteen farmers turned out to be surprisingly consistent, and they all spoke to Lord City Lord. Strong opposition to the policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture.

Judging from this result, the investigation has almost lost its meaning to continue, because the result is already very clear.

But Moya is also very clear that if he takes this investigation result back to the Lord of the City to see, he will be greeted by a storm.

Under normal circumstances, the Lord of the City would not care about the views and opinions of ordinary farmers.

But at this time, the city lord's first goal is to further increase the food production of Bangta City, so as to prove that his policy is in the right direction, and it also proves that the views of the nobles represented by the city lord are also correct. .

With the help of the farmland magic machine produced by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, the former city owner, Earl Satsuma, has vigorously renovated and reclaimed the farmland in Bangta City in the past two years, and has almost fully tapped the potential of the farmland in Bangta City.

If the current city owner, Earl Stark, wants to further increase food production on this basis, he must get the support of these farmers who have cultivated the farmland for many years.

Especially an old farmer like Sakeqi, who is very old and has rich farming experience, is now even more precious in the eyes of the Lord of the City.

So no matter how unhappy Moya was in his heart, he didn't show it to Sakeqi, but tried his best to convince Sakeqi.

However, Sakeqi was as stinky and hard as a stone in the toilet, not giving Mo Yan the slightest chance.

"Do you just go back like this?" Moya thought for a while with a wry smile, and suddenly saw three peasants walking on the road ahead with similar clothes to Sakeqi just now.

His eyes swept across the face of the peasant in the middle, and Moya's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly greeted him.