Chapter 858: Another Form of Counter-attack


    Trantor: WQL Editor: Aleem


    There were 4 rednterns outside the gate of the Land Bureau, which were used to set the festival atmosphere. The arrival of Zhang Tie made those in the Land Bureau busy at once.


    As the new director general of the Land Bureau in Youzhou Province, Elder Muan was not there. The deputy director and two hierarchical superiors came out to receive Zhang Tie.


    The position of deputy director was assumed by a deacon of Huaiyuan Pce. The two hierarchical superiors were from two subordinate departments of the Land Bureau respectively.


    In a magnificent parlor of the Land Bureau, Zhang Tie was drinking tea leisurely and talking with the deputy director and the two hierarchical superiors. The others were trotting here and there in the Land Bureau. In a couple of minutes, a field register official had entered the parlor with a pile of documents. He then ced those documents in front of Zhang Tie.


    After waving his hand to let the field register official leave here, the deputy director started to introduce the documents to Zhang Tie one after another.


    "Elder Mushen. This is the general agreement of thend that you’ve purchased. With the general agreement, the title deed that you sigh when you want to divide and sell thisnd would be legitimate; this is the trading document approved by the Land Bureau of Youzhou Province; this is your receipt; this is the map of thatnd that you’ve bought..."


    With the introduction of the deputy director, Zhang Tie reviewed all the documents one after another. The material of the title deed was simr to silver-based paper. However, it was more ductile than silver-based paper. The title deed for thend was watermarked withplex, colorful, secret patterns. The secret patterns would change their colors from different perspectives. Touching the grains, Zhang Tie could feel evident three-dimensional lines. This should be a very senior anti-fake printing means. There were the location, area of thend, the corresponding identifiers of the subsidiary files, maps and a scarlet stamp of the Land Bureau of Youzhou Province on the title deed fornd.


    The names of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang were written in the column of owners of the title deed. Because thend was paid by Zhang Tie, when his elder brother handled it, he only wanted Zhang Tie’s name to be left in the column of owners of the title deed. Later on, at Zhang Tie’s insistence, Zhang Yang’s name was added as well.


    This bit ofnd was really nothing for the two brothers. Themon title deed symbolized themon undertaking of the two brothers.


    The entirend that Zhang Tie purchased covered 257,970 square km. In the beginning, Zhang Tie thought that he could buy an integral area ofnd such as 250,000 square km. Later on, he knew that in countries in Taixia Country could be easily sold integrally; however, such mountainous areas were always sold ording to the trends of the mountains and rivers and topography within the territory. A river, a mountain or a remarkable topographical symbol would serve as the boundary of the territory, which could be easily identified. Because of this reason, the area of the mountainous region could only be measured ording to details.


    As the attached document of the title deed, the map of this private territory wasposed of over 40 pages.


    The turnover on the receipt presented by the Land Bureau was 110,927,100. ording to the preferential policy formted by the Land Bureau of Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie could enjoy 5% off. However, Zhang Tie felt that Huaiyuan Pce might be framed as being greedy for small gains due to this, especially when Huaiyuan Pce wielded the scepter of Youzhou Province; therefore, he ignored the benefit of millions of gold coins. Compared to the reputation of Huaiyuan Pce, such a preferential policy was really trivial. Given the overall situation, Zhang Tie ignored the small gains.


    Watching the figure on the receipt, Zhang Tie felt that he was too innocent, ’If others want to attack me, they could. It’s nothing to do with my caution.’


    As the dean of the provincial court of Youzhou Province, only those people above LV 15 on the wanted list or events that aroused a shock across a prefecture could attract Zhang Tie’s attention, ’Knights should not pay attention to trivial affairs or bury themselves in these documents all day long. Knights in Taixia Country are not that cheap. Even if I did that, I’m sure that they would impeach me too with the reasons such as "has no appreciation of things’ importance", "Being busy doing trivial affairs all day long", "sees only tree leaves instead of Mountain Tai", "has no experience and is only limited to counties and cities". Given their reasons, facing demons outside the country and evil forces inside, it’s the countrymen’s misfortune to have me take the office of the dean of the provincial governor of Youzhou Province.’


    At the sight of the figure 110,927,100, Zhang Tie felt that the zeros in this figure were like ripping mouths that were deriding him as an idiot. After running his spiritual energy, Zhang Tie instantly got a figure 5546355, "F*ck, over 5.5 million gold coins, over 2 years ofpensation for this father. Even many dogs would wave their tails towards me if I bought steamed buns for them with this amount of money; however, those b*stards still want to ruin my family."


    ’Being meticulous? That’s bullsh*t!’


    The deputy director was always observing Zhang Tie’s facial expressions carefully. Watching his slightlyplex expression at the sight of the receipt presented by the Land Bureau, the deputy director lightly coughed twice andforted Zhang Tie meticulously, "Don’t worry about that, Elder Mushen. Although it’s a high price, when Youzhou Province develops into a medium-sized province, thisnd will definitely pay off. Additionally, all the mineral resources beneath thisnd have not prospected. If you discoveredrge-scale mineral ores in your territory, you would further make a great profit. Based on the information mastered by the Land Bureau, Youzhou Province is not a barren province. We’ve found various rare mineral resources in Youzhou Province. Many major ns in Taixia Country also usually make such enclosure investments onrge scale in lower provinces and have made great profits. As there’re more and more people in Taixia Country, after a few years, thisnd would be more and more valuable. Your offsprings would have something to rely on by then."


    Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he felt a bit better. He then threw a satisfactory nce at this deputy director.


    After telling the deputy director to put away these materials for him, Zhang Tie said, "Did any other ns purchase a lot ofnd like metely?"


    "Over the past two months, the Land Bureau has received a lot of records ofnd purchase cases. Many major ns from Tongzhou Province, Qiongzhou Province, Yanzhou Province, Huizhou Province and Chaozhou Province were purchasingnds which ranged from hundreds of square miles to tens of thousands of square miles. Besides being used for domestic investment, thesends are always provided for the branches of those major ns! Aww, Zhu Dabiao 1 the grandson of the provincial governor of Yanzhou Province had also bought one patch ofnd in Youzhou Province. His privatend covers over 200,000 square miles, which is thergest patch ofnd being traded by now. Yesterday, he had already paid it off through the bank. After the new year festival, the Land Bureau will dispatch people to survey thatnd, draw a map and set boundary marks for it."


    After hearing his words, Zhang Tie realized that a climax ofnd enclosure was aroused after Youzhou was promoted to be an established lower province. However, the name of the grandson of the provincial governor of Yanzhou Province really...really...had a strong personality...


    Zhang Tie smacked his mouth...


    "Lands in lower provinces are the cheapest in Taixia Country; especially those which have just been established. ording to the regtions of Taixia Country, after one purchases a patch ofnd and builds a city there, he will take the office of the mayor of this city and be an official of Taixia Country. In Taixia Country, many major ns choose such a method to help their juniors be officials! If one buys a patch ofnd in a wild province, even though he builds a city there, he could not be an official of Taixia Country. By implementing such a policy, Taixia is guiding folklore major ns’ capital to flow in lower provinces for the sake of the development of lower provinces." The deputy director exined.


    "Hmm, not bad!" Zhang Tie nodded as he stroked his jaw with hand, "I want to buy one more patch ofnd. Do you have the map of Youzhou Province? Bring it to me, please. I want to select one more patch ofnd and register it here today!"


    After hearing Zhang Tie’s words, the deputy director became stunned, ’How rich is Elder Mushen?’


    After being silent for a second, heposed himself at once as he hurriedly threw a nce at a hierarchical superior on his side and let him fetch the map of Youzhou Province.


    After drinking two mouths of tea water, the hierarchical superior had already fetched the map of Youzhou Province and paved it directly over a huge square desk in the room. Zhang Tie walked closer to the desk and could see the whole territory of Youzhou Province on the map.


    Youzhou Province’s map was like a fat eggnt. It was almost 15,000 miles from east to west and about 7,500 miles from south to north. With Liaozhou Province in the north, it connected other provinces in the territory of Northeast Military Region in the south and west; besides and was close to the ocean in the east. The entire area of Youzhou Province was about 200 million square miles.


    The topography of Youzhou Province was predominated by mountains and ins, which were in disorderly distribution. All thends that had been purchased on the map were marked in blue while those that were avable were marked in green. Given the map, the blue areas were mainly in the prefectures of Youzhou Province while the green areas upied over 95% of the total area of Youzhou Province.


    ’Aren’t you impeaching this father for being immersed in stockingnds and wealth? This father will show you about greed. F*ck! I don’t believe that you could bite off my ass for that. There’s no regtion in the Laws of Taixia Country that officials are forbidden to buynd. Additionally, the morend I buy, the deeper Huaiyuan Pce will root in Youzhou Province.’


    Zhang Tie bought morend especially for those members of Gobbling Party. As the old Hua saying went, humans and buddhas both strove for vindication. Although Zhang Tie could not defeat the Gobbling Party right now, it didn’t represent that he would notunch a counterattack.


    Being supported by Commander Cheng and some big figures in the Xuanyuan Hill, Zhang Tie felt reassured. ’Although the Gobbling Party is powerful, someone dares ignore it too. As long as I don’t do anything excessive so that the Gobbling Party could get my alibi, I don’t need to worry about anything at all.’


    As he purchased this patch ofnd mainly for giving vent to his anger and making his enemy ufortable, what was important was not where that patch ofnd was located but that the patch ofnd should berge; therger the better.


    "Whichnd is cheapest in Youzhou Province? Even cheaper than the patch ofnd that I’ve already bought?" Zhang Tie put it straight.


    "Elder Mushen, the patch ofnd that you’ve bought is wastnd over 150 miles away from Yanghe Prefecture. It’s ss C Level II. The cheapestnd in Youzhou Province is here. The mountainous areas here are ss D Level IV!" The deputy director pointed at the green mountainous area nearby the border of Liaozhou Province which covered tens of hundreds of square miles, "This mountainous area is a depopted zone. There’s no city within 1500 miles. It borders Liaozhou Province with arge area of wilderness in the west. Additionally, the greater part of this mountainous region is covered with rocks. Few nts could be found there. Fewnds could be cultivated over there. Therefore, thend over there is ss D Level IV. Its price is only 30 gold coins per square mile!"


    ’30 gold coins per square mile?’ Zhang Tie watched the map as he thought about the money that he could use. He then directly patted onto a gourd-shaped teau which covered almost 2 million square miles, two times the size of that of Yanghe Prefecture before saying, "Here, I will buy it. Register it today. Go prepare for it, I want to handle the procedures as soon as possible!"


    After Zhang Tie moved his palm away from the map, the deputy director was shocked by the words below Zhang Tie’s palm——Zanggu teau.


    The Zanggu teau was a bitrger than 1% of the total area of Youzhou Province on the map.


    "Elder Mushen...are...are you sure? You’re buying Zanggu teau?" The deputy director watched Zhang Tie with a shocked expression, "There’s nothing here. It’s too difficult to develop it. Even if Youzhou develops into a medium province or big province in the future, this ce will still be of a very low value..."


    "I don’t care, as long as it’srge enough!" He then gritted his teeth and added, "And, I will take all the discounts! F*ck..."


    The deputy director didn’t even know why Zhang Tie suddenly swore. After all, less than 10 people had read the memorial that Zhang Taixuan showed Zhang Tie across Youzhou Province.


    Zhang Tie took all the documents away from the Land Bureau, leaving a lot of exmations once again.


    After leaving the Land Bureau, Zhang Tie came to his territory with a cold face——Provincial Court of Youzhou Province.


    Forbidding agencies like the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province remained unchanged even though the new year wasing while the other yamuns had hung rednterns at the gates. On such a cold day, it still looked like "Business Only".


    In the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie was sitting in the main seat of the main hall while hundreds of officials were lowering their bodies towards him for the first time.


    After stealthily throwing a nce at Zhang Tie, the officials in the Provincial Court of Youzhou Province found Zhang Tie didn’t look good. Therefore, they dared not breathe smoothly.


    After running his eyes over the officials, Zhang Tie sipped a mouth of tea water and put down the teacup. As a result, the officials felt much colder in the hall.


    "I’ve not been to Youzhou Province for over 2 months. While taking a round in Youzhou City this morning, my purse was stolen..."


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