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Chapter 467 An Elaborate Scam
At the beginning, the villagers of Mei Village felt that doing business was not something that honest people like them could be good at, so they didn't immediately agree to Fan Zhongchen's suggestion.

But Fan Zhongchen actually persuaded some of the villagers, and sent the three teenagers to the merchant ship bound for Jiangnan by a strange coincidence.

Just half a year after the three teenagers followed Fan Zhongchen's merchant ship to Jiangnan, these villagers successively received all kinds of valuable supplies sent by their children from Jiangnan, as well as high-value goods brought back by special trustees. Commercial bank notes!
The three families suddenly became rich in the village. Not only did they build new houses, but their living conditions were greatly improved, and they all lived a moderately prosperous life.

At this moment, the entire Plum Village was in an uproar. People who had doubts about Fan Zhongchen before sent all the boys of their age to Jiangnan.

The old village chief couldn't help sighing when he said this: "Everyone is blinded by this sudden temptation..."

As young teenagers left Plum Village one after another, the entire Plum Village immediately lost its labor force, and the old fields became barren.

But Fan Zhongchen came up with an idea for the people in Mei Village, using the money sent back from Jiangnan by the children to hire villagers from neighboring villages to farm.

Such a proposal naturally won the support of most people. Most of the fields in Plum Village were planted by people from other villages.

But after a long time, someone realized a strange phenomenon. Although those teenagers who went to Jiangnan to do business would send letters and money to their families regularly, none of them came back on their own initiative!

Not only did the people who went there not return home, even the family members who went to Jiangnan couldn't find them!
People from Mei Village found that the places where they sent money back to their hometown in various places in the south of the Yangtze River were all local business houses, but no one knew where they really lived!
When the people in Plum Village knew about this situation, Fan Zhongchen and his followers had already left Plum Village and disappeared!
From then on, the people of Plum Village began to panic, only to realize that something was wrong!
But at this time, five or six years have passed since Fan Zhongchen first suggested sending the child out!
During this period, there were still supplies sent in one after another, but in the first half of last year, the family members of Meicun never received anything from a child from outside!

All contact abruptly and completely terminated!

At this moment, Mei Village panicked, and hurried to Kuizhou City to report to the Yamen.

However, when Xue Cong was trying the case, he found that the disappearance of these teenagers had started six years ago, but it was not until last year that people in the village reported the case together, and the case was shelved because of insufficient evidence.

When the old village chief said this, he immediately sighed: "It's all because of us being greedy, and giving away our children alive to others!"

This is selling his child to Fan Zhongchen in disguise!

Each family calculated that since their children left home, the total amount of supplies they had received was about 100 taels of silver!

In other words, every boy in this plum village was sold by Fan Zhongchen for 100 taels of silver!
Although the 100 taels of silver is considered a large amount of income among the people, the people in Meicun couldn't swallow it, so they jointly signed a letter and went to the provincial capital Bazhou to sue.

However, the villagers going to Bazhou have accidents on the road very strangely. Almost every time someone goes to Bazhou, the boat will have accidents inexplicably, and their lives and deaths are unknown.

(End of this chapter)