Chapter 858
Chapter 858: Another Form of Counter-attack
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
There were 4 red lanterns 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 Palace . 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 placed 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 the land that you've purchased . With the general agreement, the title deed that you sigh when you want to divide and sell this land 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 that land 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 similar to silver-based paper . However, it was more ductile than silver-based paper . The title deed for the land was watermarked with complex, 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 the land, the corresponding identifiers of the subsidiary files, maps and a scarlet stamp of the Land Bureau of Youzhou Province on the title deed for land .
The names of Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang were written in the column of owners of the title deed . Because the land 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 of land was really nothing for the two brothers . The common title deed symbolized the common undertaking of the two brothers .
The entire land that Zhang Tie purchased covered 257,970 square km . In the beginning, Zhang Tie thought that he could buy an integral area of land such as 250,000 square km . Later on, he knew that plain countries in Taixia Country could be easily sold integrally; however, such mountainous areas were always sold according 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 according to details .
As the attached document of the title deed, the map of this private territory was composed of over 40 pages .
The turnover on the receipt presented by the Land Bureau was 110,927,100 . According to the preferential policy formulated by the Land Bureau of Youzhou Province, Zhang Tie could enjoy 5% off . However, Zhang Tie felt that Huaiyuan Palace might be framed as being greedy for small gains due to this, especially when Huaiyuan Palace wielded the scepter of Youzhou Province; therefore, he ignored the benefit of millions of gold coins . Compared to the reputation of Huaiyuan Palace, 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 of compensation 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 slightly complex expression at the sight of the receipt presented by the Land Bureau, the deputy director lightly coughed twice and comforted 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, this land will definitely pay off . Additionally, all the mineral resources beneath this land have not prospected . If you discovered large-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 clans in Taixia Country also usually make such enclosure investments on large scale in lower provinces and have made great profits . As there're more and more people in Taixia Country, after a few years, this land would become 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 glance at this deputy director .
After telling the deputy director to put away these materials for him, Zhang Tie said, "Did any other clans purchase a lot of land like me lately?"
"Over the past two months, the Land Bureau has received a lot of records of land purchase cases . Many major clans from Tongzhou Province, Qiongzhou Province, Yanzhou Province, Huizhou Province and Chaozhou Province were purchasing lands which ranged from hundreds of square miles to tens of thousands of square miles . Besides being used for domestic investment, these lands are always provided for the branches of those major clans! Aww, Zhu Dabiao 1 the grandson of the provincial governor of Yanzhou Province had also bought one patch of land in Youzhou Province . His private land covers over 200,000 square miles, which is the largest patch of land 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 that land, draw a map and set boundary marks for it . "
After hearing his words, Zhang Tie realized that a climax of land 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 . . .
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