At first, the villagers in Meicun felt that doing business was not something that honest people like them could be good at, and they did not immediately agree to Fan Zhongchen's suggestion.
But Fan Zhongchen actually persuaded several of the villagers, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he sent the three teenagers to the merchant ship heading to Jiangnan.
Just half a year after the three teenagers followed Fan Zhongchen's merchant ship to Jiangnan, these villagers successively received various valuable materials sent by their children from Jiangnan, as well as high-value gifts brought back by specially commissioned people.
Commercial Bank Check The three families suddenly became wealthy people in the village.
Not only did they build new houses, their living conditions were greatly improved, and they all lived a well-off life.
At this time, the entire Plum Village was in an uproar.
Those who had been doubtful about Fan Zhongchen before took the initiative to send all their boys of the right age to Jiangnan.
When the old village chief said this, he couldn't help but sigh: "Everyone is so greedy for profit that they are 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 former fields became deserted.
But Fan Zhongchen gave the people of Meicun another idea.
He used the money his children sent back from Jiangnan to hire villagers from neighboring villages to farm.
Such a proposal naturally received support from most people, and most of the fields in Plum Village were planted by people from other villages.
But as time went by, some people realized a strange phenomenon.
Although the young people who went to Jiangnan for business regularly sent letters, money and gifts to their families, none of them ever came back on their own initiative.
Not only did those who went there not return to their hometowns, but even the family members who went to Jiangnan could not be found.
Some people in Meicun found that the places where they sent money back to their hometowns in various places in the south of the Yangtze River were all local businesses, but no one knew where they really lived.
When the people in Meicun knew about this situation, Fan Zhongchen and his entourage had already left Meicun and disappeared.
From then on, the people of Meicun began to panic and realized that something was wrong.
But at this time, five or six years had passed since Fan Zhongchen initially suggested sending the child away.
During this period, supplies were sent one after another, but in the first half of last year, the families in Meicun never received anything from their children.
All contact suddenly and completely terminated At this time, the people in Meicun panicked and hurried to Kuizhou City to report to the Yamen.
However, when Xue Cong was investigating the case, he discovered that the disappearance of these teenagers had begun six years ago, but it was not until people in the village reported the case last year that the case was shelved due to insufficient evidence.
When the old village chief said this, he suddenly sighed: "It's all our fault for 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 materials they had received amounted to about one hundred taels of silver.
In other words, every young man in Plum Village was sold by Fan Zhongchen for one hundred taels of silver.
Although this one hundred taels of silver was considered a large amount of income among the people, the people of Meicun could not swallow this sigh of relief, so they jointly submitted a letter to the provincial capital Bazhou to complain.
However, the villagers who went to Bazhou had strange accidents on the way.
Almost every time someone went to Bazhou, the boat would have an inexplicable accident, and their life or death was unknown.
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