The 40th episode The government is unreasonable in paying grain, and it relies on the old cow to dredge it

The poem says:

The long river of history is rolling, you sing and I come,

The king has his own Lingyun Zhi, and thousands of miles of mountains and rivers are still there.

It is said that during the unification of the Liao State, Emperor Yelu Longxu, taking advantage of the momentum of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the ambition of annexing the Central Plains swelled sharply, colluded with the Western Xia, and launched wave after wave of offensives against the Great Song Dynasty. In the first few decades of her succession, her mother Empress Dowager Xiao, the armistice war, and the policy of recuperation and recuperation with the people, after twenty or thirty years of economic construction, the Liao State has sufficient grain and grass, the treasury is full, the people are rich, and the whole country is singing and dancing, thriving, and happy. After Emperor Yelu Longxu took over power, he recruited troops on a large scale, built weapons, arranged troops, and hoarded grain and grass. Although there were some small-scale battles in previous years, neither Song nor Liao had any major gains, and a tug-of-war was basically formed. This time, the whole Liao State mobilized, under the leadership of Han Chang Han Yanshou, the three-way army, marching hand in hand, waved the army south, it can be said that it is invincible, invincible, as if destroying the withering and decaying, fully captured the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Song Dynasty army, formed a confrontation on both sides of the Yellow River, and finally forced the Song Dynasty to sign the alliance under the city.

It's easy to say, one attack and one retreat, 10 years. What do you think is a war? What you fight is money, and without money you can't feed the army, without money you can't build weapons, and without money you can't hoard grain and grass. Where does this money come from? It is all the hard-earned money of the common people, and it is all the people's fat and ointment, whether you are windy, rainy, hail, or knife, natural or man-made? The imperial grain must be paid, the tax burden must be paid, the emperor is the glory, and the common people are the sufferers. The ruling group of the Liao State is a descendant of the Khitan people, bloodthirsty, and a group of war maniacs, Empress Dowager Xiao has been in power for 30 years, making the Liao State a powerful empire, squeezing the Western Xia in the west, and coveting the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and constantly expanding, not only letting them cede land and pay compensation, but also making them lose their power and humiliate the country. Externally, it is aggressive and expansion, and in order to ensure war, internally, it is also the people's fat and the people's anointing.

This year, due to heavy rains and floods, the people are living in dire straits. The 16 prefectures of Yanyun, which were originally the land of the Great Song Dynasty, were forcibly occupied by the Liao State. Although Empress Dowager Xiao has implemented a 30-year policy of recuperation, the people have taken a breath of relief. However, Emperor Shengzong's expansionist policy soon made the people impoverished, and in the face of such a big disaster year, they not only did not open a warehouse to release grain and provide relief to the victims, but instead intensified their efforts, exploited the people, and made the people live in dire straits.

Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Wang are worried every day, because the grain they have beaten down this year cannot feed the people of the whole village after they pay the public grain. Just when they were worried, the government posted a notice asking for an increase of 30% of the emperor's grain every year, which was really worse. The two ladies sighed sadly, and there was no way to do it.

The old housekeeper Niu He had already been mentally prepared and went to the county yamen in advance to dredge. took 10,000 taels of silver and gave it to the county magistrate of Liangxiang. I bought an official guide, led the middle-aged laborers at home, took 200,000 taels of silver, crossed the Yellow River in the south, bought a large amount of grain in the Nanyang area, hired dozens of carts, and also invited the dart bureau to quietly send the grain back to Niuquan Village. Then she led a few clever young men to Jinling, where she started her old business, trafficking in silk. After a winter, more than a dozen round trips from Jinling to Youzhou, 200,000 taels of silver have become 1.2 million taels. At the same time, thousands of quintals of grain were stored at home. turned a winter of a disaster year into a winter of abundant harvest. In the Li family of Niuquan Village, the family rule is that children are not allowed to do business, so Niu He, as a housekeeper, is not bound by this family rule.

Why was Lao Niuhe able to cross the battle line between the two countries and go back and forth to do business? What is an official citation? It is a document for trade and a license issued by the government. The Song and Liao countries exchanged troops and formed an alliance under the city, in which there was an agreement that the two countries would trade. The official quotations issued by the two sides recognize each other and provide convenience to each other. Liao Guo was willing, Da Song was originally unwilling, and after being beaten by Liao Guo, he had to agree. The Great Song Dynasty occupies, the Central Plains, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, are all the land of fish and rice, rich in products. After the two countries opened trade, a large number of materials were sold to Liaoguo by merchants, enriching the market of Liaoguo and alleviating the poverty of the common people of Liao. It was through this judgment of the situation that Lao Niuhe spent a lot of money to buy this official introduction, and after a winter of trafficking, the wealth of the Li family in Niuquan Village increased several times. What is the most lucrative year in a catastrophic year? The old cow and the capital used for grain are not much, in fact, it is 50,000 silver, but the 50,000 silver, after more than a dozen operations, quickly reached 500,000 taels of silver. A peasant household can reach 500,000 taels of silver, whether it is in the Liao Kingdom or the Song Dynasty, it is one of the richest people. In addition to the capital of 200,000 taels, Lao Niu and Chun earned 1.5 million taels of silver. Of the 1.5 million taels of silver, only half of them were taken home, because the other half was used to buy road money, dot the government at all levels, dot various road cards, spend road money from bandits, and hire dart boards. In short, 200,000 taels of silver, all the expenses of running out, and the home has become 1 million taels of silver.

All this is not the final ending, Lao Niuhe in order to be a low-key person and do things, bought a big ravine in Fangshan, called Loess Slope, built hundreds of houses there, as a warehouse, most of the grain, most of the commodities, are stored here, and ask Mr. Zhao Jie's big apprentice Ren Bingquan to specialize in guard management. The loess slope is actually a large ravine, and the waterway is connected by two ways. Take the main road, you can directly enter the village from Jingxi official road, 20 miles from the west district. Take the waterway, from the Dumba River upstream, is the Dashihe, in the Dashihe River, directly to the loess slope along the Dashihe. The transportation is convenient, the terrain is hidden, the terrain is broad, this is the old cow and, the reason why the warehouse is chosen to be placed here, if you want to enter the loess slope, you must pass through a pass, called the Qingshan Gate, a husband when the pass, ten thousand people do not open.

In the north mountain of the loess slope, Ren Bingquan built a large courtyard there, the courtyard erected a wooden tower, standing on the wooden tower, you can have an unobstructed view of the surroundings of the loess slope, take in the panoramic view, no matter which direction of the village, which place, what is a little movement, you can be clear here. In order to choose this place, Lao Niuhe traveled all over the mountains and rivers of western Beijing, and asked Xue Shenxian to calculate it over and over again, and finally settled on the loess slope.

After choosing the loess slope, Lao Niu and specially invited the two ladies to come and have a look, Mrs. Liu did not come because she was unwell, Mrs. Wang Chunhua, with her son Li Wusheng and his wife, made a special trip to the loess slope to inspect it, and was particularly satisfied with it.

After spring, when the greens and yellows are scarce, a large number of disaster victims choose to go out of Gubeikou and beg for food to survive. Lao Niuhe took the opportunity to choose 20 relatively good farmers and let them settle down in the loess slope, see the land of the loess slope, provide them with recuperation, and grow grain and vegetables, raise chickens and ducks for Ren Bingquan and her brothers.

In order to prevent the victims from being displaced to Niuquan Village, Lao Niuhe opened a porridge field in Changle Temple, which is five miles away from Niuquan Village, to provide relief to the victims. In addition, in Liangxiang County and Youzhou City, five grain stores were established to sell grain and raise funds. In the year of the great disaster, what is the most valuable and embarrassing? Grain is the most valuable, and having grain is equivalent to having a lot of silver, and storing so much grain is just to make money in the spring, not only to let people survive the famine, but also to earn a lot of money, why not do it?

In order not to let the cattle pen village be impacted, Lao Niu He specially arranged a batch of coarse grain, which was regularly put into several villages around the cattle pen village, so that they could survive the famine. Lao Niu He is a scheming man, she doesn't want money for these grains, but lets the people mortgage their land for food, because the people have no money in their hands at all, and some can only be land. Lao Niuhe did not take the opportunity to buy and sell land with them on these mortgaged lands, but let them use the land as a mortgage, repay the grain and interest in the harvest year in the second year, give the people a way to live, and also accumulate virtue and good deeds for the Li family, spread Yang's good name, and accumulate wealth.

Exactly: the wind and rain bumps the old cow and, go south and north to report kindness,

Qiaodu famine to operate the old business, hoarding goods on the loess slope.

The Li family's wealth is accumulating more and more, and the people around them are becoming more and more red-eyed, especially those officials, who are eager to grab them. So what will the Li family suffer? Please listen to the next breakdown.