Chapter 575: It's Time to Kill <<<
Man, Li Chen beat him up.
Those servants at the back wouldn't have been a bother for Li Chen to deal with.
Immediately, some undercover Jinyi Guards emerged from the shadows. This group of arrogant servants could bully ordinary people all they wanted, but when they encountered the Jinyi Guards, they weren't even qualified to fill their teeth gaps.
In the blink of an eye, all the servants who had rushed in were brought down, not even a whimper escaping their lips, and were then carried away by the Jinyi guards with hands pressed to their mouths.
And that young master was still kneeling before Li Chen.
After just a short while, he came to and gasped for breath, mouth wide open. However, the intense pain and nausea continued to torment him relentlessly.
He also saw his own servants being overpowered and dragged away by a group of ferocious men. At this point, even if he were the most dim-witted person, he would know that he had provoked people he shouldn't have.
After all, although we have left the capital and entered the territory of Tongzhou, one can never be too sure that a grand official from the capital might not be here in disguise to experience life among the common people.
An ordinary household would certainly not have such a group of masters lurking nearby for personal protection.
The young master of Chen, the official's house, is now more fearful than hateful.
A single boot landed on his shoulder, sending him crashing to the ground, and then shifted to rest upon his face.
"I don't want to argue, but you should be punished for speaking incorrectly."
Li Chen looked at the struggling young master beneath him with some annoyance.
There was such a vast difference in their social standing that he didn't even feel it when he stepped on her.
Retracting his foot, Li Chen turned and walked away.
There was no need for Li Chen to give orders; the Dongchang people would naturally handle everything discreetly.
And the old farmer, now stood petrified.
Seeing Li Chen's gaze, he hurriedly pulled his wife down and knelt on the ground, wanting to kowtow.
But Li Chen had already led Su Jinpa onto his horse and rode away.

On the way into Tongzhou County, Su Jinpa saw that Li Chen was still frowning, so he asked, "Are you still thinking about that person from just now?"
Li Chen shook his head and said, "Not even a fly, not worth my concern. What I'm considering is, with an ordinary County Magistrate like Chen daring to do this, in the area near the capital city, implementing such a large-scale sweet potato planting policy, how many more people like Chen are there?"
The position of one's buttocks affects their perspective on things.
For example, that old farmer, all he cares about is the harvest from his own field. He doesn't care about anything else, nor does he understand it.
That Chen, the official, only thought about how to exploit loopholes and gain greater profits.
As for Li Chen, he was thinking about how to plug the loopholes and punish these bold and reckless people at the same time.
"Any policy will have loopholes, human nature is unpredictable, it's impossible to plug them all."
Su Jinpa slightly turned her head and advised, “Actually, it's better to wait and see. At least from the current situation, the plan for planting sweet potatoes has been put into action. As long as we see the harvest results, landowners like Mr. Chen will be more concerned than anyone else. After all, the better the harvest, the greater their interests.”
"That makes sense."
Li Chen narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "But most of the farmland in this world has been annexed by these landlords. The poor only cultivate a small fraction of the land, while the big landowners possess hundreds or even thousands of acres of fertile land. Promoting this sweet potato plan would actually be the first to undermine the landlord class."
"The richer the landlord class, the lower the chances for ordinary people to improve their status."
"This goes against my strategy of enriching the people first...These landlords deserve to be killed."
Hearing the boiling murderous intent in Li Chen's words, Su Jinpa said with some trepidation, "Don't be impulsive."