The heroes of Tiebiguan include the Feng family, the Yang family, the You family, and the Zhu family. These four occupy more than half of the entire city of Tiebiguan. Basically, the shops, the houses, and the land are theirs. In addition, outside the city, they have patches of land and a lot of pastures.

Every official of the Iron Wall Pass must respect these four families. The people of the northwest are fierce. These four families are all families with strong personalities, if the government dares not to rely on them, they will work against the government, and the government has no choice, that is, after the Northwest Army came, there was a large army pressing, and they were more restrained.

However, it is impossible for ordinary officials to govern them. This time, Tiebiguan ushered in a new parent official, the Northwest Gong, who not only manages the entire Tiebiguan, but also manages the three provinces around Tiebiguan, which are Shaanxi Province, where Tiebiguan is located, and the two provinces next to it, Gan Province and Jin Province. In addition to this, there is a large grassland and desert outside the Iron Wall Pass, which was once the territory of the barbarians. Because the barbarians were defeated by the Northwest Army, a large area of unclaimed land is now vacated.

It can't be said that this is ownerless land, nominally, these are now under the jurisdiction of Da Chu, but Da Chu has not yet exercised effective management here, has not set up provinces, and has not stationed officials. It was now the domain of some steppe tribes who had been suppressed by the barbarians, and of course it was the territory of horse thieves.

Now, such a vast land is under the management of the Northwest Duke, and everyone is smacking, but this is the emperor's holy decree, and they have to accept it if they are surprised.

No, as soon as the Northwest husband and wife came to Tiebi Pass, they began to reform, starting with reforming Tiebi Pass. It is really a money-burning project to build roads inside the city of Tiebi Pass, and also to build roads outside the city to connect the three provinces.

However, I heard that the money was paid by the Great Chu court, so the Northwest Duke and his wife were not distressed.

However, Feng, Yang, You, and Zhu, who are the four powerful families of Tiebiguan, are unhappy. Because. Many of their industries have been affected. The imperial court wanted to draw the way from their land, although they gave compensation, and these families were not happy.

And. These are clear. If everything goes according to this Northwest Gong. After that, Tiebi Pass is what the Northwest Gong said, what else is going on with these four families? So. They resolutely resisted. When the Northwest Duke said that they wanted to build roads, they said that they would occupy their land and not build them. The Northwest Gong said that the occupied land was bought by the government. However, they said that the price offered by the government was too low. The Northwest Gong said that they would build a workshop and recruit people, but they controlled the people and did not allow them to work in the workshop. Anyone who goes to work in the workshop will not be allowed to rent the land of the four major families next year.

If the people don't rent the land of the four families, if they don't work in the shops, workshops, and pastures of the four families, how can they live? Therefore, although the wages paid by the government are very high, they can only look at their greed and dare not apply.

As a result, many of the measures taken by the Northwest Gong fell into the air and could not be realized. The four major families were proud, they knew that it would not be long before the Northwest Duke would succumb, and when the time came, the four major families would have the initiative, and in the future, they would still have the final say. Historically, the rulers of the Iron Wall Pass have been subdued by them in this way.

However, no matter how they resisted, the behavior of the government that they could resist could not stop more and more merchants from the mainland of Dachu from pouring into the Iron Wall Pass. In particular, there are many merchants in the south of the Yangtze River. I heard that these merchants in Jiangnan are all well-known rich people in Jiangnan, and the style and the silk and satin they wear are something that the big families in Tiebiguan have never seen. These big families naturally became friends.

After these merchants came, many of them had to do business here, so they naturally wanted to buy shops. If you buy a shop, you still have to eat, you have to feed your buddies and your family, and you have to buy land. So, they also want to connect with the big local households. After a few days of familiarization, soon, the merchants in Jiangnan and the big families in Tiebiguan became familiar with each other. After getting acquainted, merchants in Jiangnan began to propose to buy real estate in Tiebiguan, wanting to buy real estate in the hands of the four major families. As a result, people from these four families come to their door every day to ask to buy their property.

At first, these four were very happy, because the land in the northwest is not valuable, the shops are not valuable, and the yield of these real estate properties is very low, and no matter how much they keep in their hands, the output is very small. However, once someone buys in large quantities, it can drive up the price of these properties. This allows these four families to sit still and get a lot of money, which is a great thing.

However, at the beginning, it was several families who were good at the Northwest Public Transport, such as the Ma family and the Xiao Chen family, who came to buy it, and the price was higher than the market price. Although they made money in this way, these four were still unhappy, and they also knew that once the Ma family and Xiao Chen family bought these lands, it would be equivalent to the Northwest Gong mastering these properties, so could there still be a place for the four of them to speak?

Therefore, although some of these four have also been sold, the number is not much. They grasped the property in their hands tightly and observed it quietly.

Who knows, after the first snow, many merchants came from Jiangnan, all of them were high rollers, and they all wanted to buy properties here. All of a sudden, the prices of these industries have been raised.

The wealth is moving, and with such a high price, it is impossible to say that these four are not greedy. But they still have a little hesitation, afraid that after the property is sold, what will happen to the life of the clan in the future?

At this time, the Ma family and the Xiao Chen family were reluctant, and began to raise the price. These two forces want to buy the property of Tiebiguan, one is a Jiangnan merchant, and the other is a family of cronies of the Northwest Gong. In this way, the two sides are fighting, and they keep driving up the price.

hung the hearts of the four families in the iron wall. Every day when I open my eyes, I want to ask, what price has their industry been raised to by them?

The big businessmen in Jiangnan are indeed rich, and every time they raise the price, they have the upper hand.

The descendants of the four major families are still sitting firmly, but the other small families in Tiebi Pass, the small people can't sit still, and they have sold their industries, which makes the market price fall for the first time.

With this decline, the four major families couldn't sit still, and they also began to sell. Who knows how many industries these Jiangnan merchants will buy? In case, it is too late to sell, and people have already bought it, who else will sell their property to?

In this way, the sell-off of the four major families once again lowered the price. At this time, more small families and people began to sell.

After this round of selling, the money in the hands of the four major families has increased a lot, but the industry has also shrunk by half. After the shrinkage, the four major families did not dare to move anymore. If you sell it again, your children and grandchildren will have no inheritance, so what if you just have money? That's not sitting on a mountain and eating nothing.

The four major families are no longer selling. Those small families, what the common people can sell have already been sold. As a result, the price has increased again.

In the face of the stagnation of the four major families, several businessmen from Jiangnan have been secretly introduced to the people of the four major families, and have negotiated the conditions with the patriarchs of the four major families. Not long after, Tiebiguan announced that the four largest families in the city had sold off the rest of their estate, leaving only some sacrificial fields where their ancestors were buried, and each of them left a room to guard, and the family migrated to the south of the Yangtze River.

Although it is already the middle of winter and the north is already full of frozen soil, it is still getting warmer and warmer as you go south. When the people of these four families arrived near the capital, it was still late autumn and there was no snow, and they could take a boat all the way to the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, the expenses along the way are also very large, after all, it is the relocation of the family, eating along the way, driving horses, traveling thousands of miles, how much does it cost? However, it doesn't matter, the entire travel expenses of the four major families are covered by these Jiangnan merchants.

When the four major families were gone, the people of Tiebi Pass would know. It turned out that in order to get the real estate of the four major families, the merchants in Jiangnan actually exchanged their fertile land in Jiangnan. And it's an acre for an acre, a shop for a shop.

As soon as the news came out, the whole city was in an uproar. It's no wonder that the four major families that have been entrenched for many years can move obediently this time, and if they change themselves, they will make such a decision. What is the land near Tiebi Pass worth? It's barren, and the climate is not good, so you can't even grow rice. It's only one crop a year, but the fertile fields in the south of the Yangtze River are fertile soil. There is water, there is fish, and rice is abundant. Crops are harvested twice a year. The output that year was twice as much, or even triple, or quadruple as the yield of one acre of land in Tiebiguan. Isn't this equivalent to two, triple, or even four times more income from the four major families every year? What a temptation.

There are also those shops, the economy of Tiebiguan is not active, and it is even under the shadow of war all the year round, the people of Tiebiguan, including those big families, who have not died because of the war?

But Jiangnan is different. Jiangnan has been peaceful for a long time, the economy is prosperous, and the rent of shops is also high. How could they not change? To be able to leave the bitter cold place of Tiebiguan and go to the warm Jiangnan is already a great happiness.

The people in the city are envious of the four major families, and they all think that these merchants from Jiangnan really have something wrong with their brains, and can they take the good shops in Jiangnan and exchange the good land for these barren land?

However, they were not allowed to wait and see, and the merchants in Jiangnan had quickly gained a foothold in Tiebi Pass. Began to recruit people to learn technology, so that after the beginning of spring, they would open shops and workshops. (To be continued......)