After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 1028 Resentment
Perhaps because Ma's words convinced Hai Baozhu, he had no objection to all of Ma's arrangements and even took the initiative to provide information about Jiang's land.

Since the Hai clan members were trying to persuade him to sell the bottles and buy the land, they would naturally report the relevant information to him to attract his interest in the land. Therefore, his information about the land that the Jiang family was currently selling was much more accurate than the old information from Haixi Cliff more than 30 years ago. He even knew which land of the Jiang family was seized by the government or wealthy and powerful people, which might lead to the emergence of wealthy families with different surnames in Jianghai Village. This saved Ma a lot of effort.

When Hai Xiya returned home in the evening, Ma told him what happened today, and then sighed: "Baozhu is indeed an honest and filial child, and his temperament and character are reliable, but he is a little dull. It is probably because he has been studying with his teacher since he was a child and has never experienced any setbacks and hardships outside, so he has developed such a nerdy temperament. But this is not a bad thing, as long as he is not an ungrateful person, knows how to be grateful to his mother, and can be filial to his mother in the future."

Hai Xiya nodded and smiled, "Since he is a good child who is well-behaved, filial and polite, we will take care of him in the future. He has a good teacher now, so let him study in Yongping Prefecture for a few years. When he passes the provincial examination and goes to Beijing to prepare for the examination, I will ask my cousin to give some advice on his essay. I think he will benefit a lot."

Ma thought for a moment, "His master's wife is not an outsider. She is the adopted daughter of Madam Mei, my teacher who taught me the rules of needlework. She is also familiar with Sister Ma and the others. With this relationship, Baozhu will not worry about being bullied when he comes to Beijing. However, Sister Ma and the others are powerless to help with academic matters. It is indeed cousin Xie, Lao Cao, and Lao Lu who can help more. I heard that there are several people in their school in the capital, but they are not high-ranking officials. When the time comes, we can help to connect them and let old friends meet Baozhu and his fellow apprentices. His teacher is both knowledgeable and can teach good children. I think the students are all good and decent children, just the kind of younger generation that old friends appreciate."

Is this to introduce the great scholar from Yongping Prefecture to the old students of Wumen? I'm afraid it will cause a big stir. Although it's not a bad thing, Hai Xiya thinks that there is no need to act so deliberately, it's better to let nature take its course.

With the eldest and second branches of the Hai family as a link, the two sides will actually come into contact sooner or later.

Hai Xiya advised his wife: "There's no need to make special arrangements. When your child gets married, are you still worried that the guests who come to the wedding won't have a chance to meet you?"

Ma suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I know."

Hai Xiya was thinking about the information about the Jiang family's land provided by Hai Baozhu: "The direct descendants of the Jiang family have committed the most serious crimes. The land under their names is the best. Among them, there are also good lands that were forcibly bought from the Hai family in the early years, which have all been confiscated by the government. I will go and ask whether the Ministry of Revenue intends to transfer them to government land or sell them. If they want to make them government land, we'd better give up as soon as possible; but if they want to sell them, we can just buy them with silver to avoid unnecessary trouble. Most of these good lands once belonged to the Hai family, and it is only right that they are returned intact now. We will keep them for ourselves, and give the good land of the Jiang family to Tangtang as a dowry, and the medium-sized land will be given to my niece."

Anyway, the Jiang family's medium-sized farmland in the Jianghaitun area was improved by Fang's painstaking efforts to build water conservancy projects. It is reasonable for it to be under Fang's name.
Ma had no objection, but was a little confused: "Didn't the government return all the land and property of the Hai family that the Jiang family had embezzled? It seems that this matter was handled by someone from Sister Ma, so the government acted very efficiently and did not make things difficult for the Hai family."

Hai Xiya said: "The government will naturally return the Hai family's property that was seized by the Jiang family. Even if Ma Shangyi hadn't asked someone to say hello, Yongping Prefecture would not have given me no face if they knew my official position. But in the early years when the Jiang family had not yet revealed their true colors, they pretended to be good people and coaxed my eldest brother to sell the family's good land. The transactions were all completed in those transactions. Although the price was lower than the market price, the silver was paid. Even if the government doesn't like the Jiang family, it will not return such a normally purchased land to the original owner for free. "The clan should have given up long ago and no longer hope to get it back. But I thought that after all, it was an estate passed down from our ancestors. It's okay for my eldest brother to squander the family, but now that I'm back, there's no reason to let the ancestral property drift away. Therefore, as long as we can, we should try our best to get this batch of land back. It doesn't matter even if we spend money to buy it, the key is not to let it fall into the hands of outsiders."

For this, he owed a favor to his colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue and asked someone to give a heads-up to the prefect of Yongping. Now that he was 80% sure about the matter, he dared to mention it to his wife to prevent her from being disappointed.

Ma said happily: "If these properties can really be returned smoothly, it would be great! Why didn't the master tell me earlier? You are busy with official duties in the government, which is hard enough. The family affairs should be left to me to worry about!"

Hai Xiya smiled. If it was in Chang'an, his wife was born and raised there, and she had no shortage of connections, so it would be fine to let her handle these things. But in the capital, the whole family was unfamiliar with the place, and he could find a way to solve the problem himself, so why should he let his wife worry about it? If his wife had that much free time, she might as well buy a few more new jewelry for herself and her granddaughter!
He reminded his wife again: "If those fields can be smoothly returned to our hands, my wife should also find a few more capable helpers to help us manage the property in our hometown. My granddaughter and niece don't plan to go back, and their land needs to be watched by reliable people. In addition, Chang'an also intends to buy property in Yongping Prefecture. We can buy some of the Jiang family's properties outside Jianghaitun and register them under Chang'an's name. But he has no one to use, who should be sent to manage the property at that time? You should also help think about it. Although we have a lot of servants in our family, we are used to using them on weekdays. If we send them out, who will do the housework? After the granddaughter-in-law comes home, she needs someone to serve her, and when the granddaughter gets married, she will also take the dowry with her. My cousins ​​plan to move out to start a school... All these things need people to do. Isn't it time for our family to add new people?"

Ma listened with a serious expression: "I didn't expect it for a moment... Indeed, our family should have new hands. Even if the chores at home can be handed over to hired maids, the job of close servants still needs to be done by trustworthy people. There are also the lands in the old house. There are not many loyal servants left in the eldest house. Baozhu may not be able to support it. As for my niece, we have to consider her carefully."

At this point, Ma's resentment towards the Hai family became even deeper.

If they hadn't been ungrateful, driven Fang away, and slandered and despised them, the Hai's first and second branches wouldn't have fallen out with them. When the second branch acquired new land, it could rent it out to clan members and neighbors without worrying about it, and the related affairs could be entrusted to Fang from the first branch to take care of, without having to worry about sending people to manage it.

It’s all the fault of those ungrateful wolves from the Hai family!

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