After talking about health insurance, the meeting ended here.

Guo Dan took advantage of the exhaustion of the journey, politely refused their banquet and hospitality, and returned to his exclusive courtyard in Chen Lou.

But in fact, Zhou Feng didn't want to talk to Guo Dan about this, they actually still had a lot to talk about with Guo Dan, after all, the subsidy program had just ended, and they had experienced such a big turmoil, the reduction of tariffs, and changes in the market.

There are too many things to talk about with Guo Dan.

However, Guo Dan's medical insurance plan made them feel that it seemed a little inappropriate to talk about these things at this time.

After all, this medical insurance plan was proposed by Guo Dan, and since they didn't agree, they immediately hoped that Guo Dan would give them advice or help, which seemed a little embarrassing.

They didn't get the conversation going.

"Layman, why didn't you wait for us?"

Guo Dan, who had just returned to the small courtyard, saw a maid walking out with a few small bowls.

Aunt Xu said, "I thought you would eat with those merchants." ”

"How is that possible?"

Guo Dan snorted: "I hate eating with businessmen the most in my life, it is really full of copper smell, which makes people have no appetite." ”

Yang Feixu said: "The same must be true for laymen. ”

Aunt Xu glanced at Yang Feixu and nodded.

What do you mean?

Guo Dan was stunned for a moment before he reacted, and then said outside: "Prepare two meals, I want to eat with Yang Feixu." ”

As he spoke, he said to Yang Feixu again: "I'm disgusting to you." ”

"Childish!"

Yang Feixu rolled his eyes slightly.

Aunt Xu shook her head with a smile, and asked again: "You just came here today, and they don't set up a banquet for you to catch the wind and wash the dust, just talk about things now?" ”

She thought that Zhou Feng and the others would definitely wash the dust for Guo Dan, but in the past half a day, Guo Dan hadn't even eaten.

"It's not that they're looking for me, it's that I'm looking for them."

Guo Dan sat down and said, "After all, asking for money is not a matter of one or two days, and I won't stay long in Weihui Mansion, so I should talk to them as soon as possible." ”

"Money?"

"It's medical insurance!"

"Have you negotiated?"

"They haven't said yes yet."

"The medical insurance doesn't have much money, so they won't even promise you this?" Aunt Xu was surprised.

She thinks that Guo Dan has helped them so much, and if she comes up with one million taels, this medical insurance should not be a problem in Weihui Mansion.

Guo smiled and said: "Layman, we are doing business, but we are not talking about the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, how can it be so easy for people to pay money." ”

Aunt Xu said: "But after all, they help so much." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "But when I helped them, I didn't say that I wanted to collect a return, since I didn't say it, then they don't have this obligation, and no businessman will take out the money casually because of their feelings, but I think they will agree, but this kind of money is a constant expense, and they still need to think about it carefully." ”

Aunt Xu nodded slightly and said, "It seems that I still think a little too simply, I think with your prestige, this is an easy task." ”

"According to my experience, when it comes to money, when you think it's easy or take it for granted, you usually feel disappointed. ”

Aunt Xu nodded and smiled: "Thank you for the advice, I remember." ”

However, she didn't stay here to watch Guo Dan eat, chatted with Guo Dan for a while, and then went back to the house to rest.

Guo Dan was not so relaxed, he didn't stop by to take a look here, he still had to come to finish this game, so not long after the meal, Cao Xiaodong and Chenchen came.

"I don't really want to see that right now."

Guo Dan put the information handed over by Cao Xiaodong on the table next to him, and asked, "How much did we spend this time?" ”

Cao Xiaodong said: "If you don't count the losses on the side of the transport team, we spent a total of 350,000 taels, of which 50,000 taels were spent on the construction of Xinxing and Qianzhuang, 100,000 taels were spent on helping the merchants of Weihui Mansion pay interest and reduce rent, and 200,000 taels were spent on the debts and silk purchases in Jiangnan. But if we include our subsidy in transportation, it may reach 600,000 taels. ”

Guo Dan asked again: "How much is the tax left in Weihui Mansion?" ”

Cao Xiaodong said: "We received a total of 500,000 taels of taxes last year, and after deducting expenses, we still have 450,000 taels left, because Xinxing and Qianzhuang did not use this to get money, so we still have 150,000 taels left, which is still 30,000 taels less than the taxes to be paid to the court every year, but our contract can help us fill it." ”

"Uncle, I really think it's a little unfair, why are we all paying this money, they all care about making money." Chen Chen said with a look of grievance: "Uncle, don't you know, they have been making a lot of money recently, let's just say that the Qin family has a silk village, I heard that their profits have doubled compared to before." ”

Guo smiled lightly: "Don't feel wronged, others want to give this money, and I don't want to." ”

He asked Cao Xiaodong again: "Can the financial revenues of Kaifeng, Huaiqing, and Zhangde be calculated clearly?" ”

He has always paid attention to the financial situation of these places, but he has not counted them.

Cao Xiaodong nodded straight, and said with an extremely excited expression: "Brother Guo, we have already calculated clearly, we have earned a full million taels from the financial taxes of these three prefectures alone, and we have spent more than 200,000 taels on the river. ”

Guo Dan was surprised: "So many? ”

Cao Xiaodong said: "Don't hide it from Brother Guo, I didn't believe it before, we all calculated it several times before we were sure that we didn't make a mistake." ”

Guo Danzhi pondered with his eyebrows, "I know that during this period, we will transfer from the Daimyo Mansion to Kaifeng Mansion, which will bring some profits, but there shouldn't be so much!" ”

Cao Xiaodong looked left and right with a thief's head, and whispered: "Brother Guo, in fact, it should be so much. ”

Guo Dan was curious: "How do you say this?" ”

Cao Xiaodong said: "There was not much tax money before, that is because there are many lands in Kaifeng Mansion that do not pay taxes, and there are many, many people who are forced to flee Kaifeng Mansion, leaving a lot of ownerless wasteland, and now, those big landlords have to pay taxes, and there are a lot more here." And because there are many people in Kaifeng Mansion, many wastelands have become vegetable soil, which also has to pay taxes! ”

"Really?"

Guo Dan said twice: "This is really ironic!" ”

But in fact, if you can serve as the prefect of Kaifeng Mansion, you will never be a mediocre official, you must be a capable minister, and Kaifeng Mansion will bear the food of the capital, but the problem is still the same, in the capable officials, they will also persuade Nongsang, persuade Nongsang, and persuade until they die. Not to mention that they are also affected by the entire system, environment, and rituals.

The ceiling is very, very low.

If not many people are starving, it is very successful.

Although so far, Kaifeng, Zhangde, and Huaiqing still maintain the traditional small-scale peasant economic route, but due to the existence of Weihui Mansion and the blessing of private colleges, the local commodity economy is also developing very rapidly.

It's like inadvertently, the vegetable economy began to rise in Weihui, Kaifeng, Huaiqing, and Zhangde.

In the past, growing vegetables was almost always for their own consumption, because of the small-scale peasant economy, everyone grows vegetables, who can you sell to, and the vegetable soil only ensures that the people eat, and does not have much impact on the entire economy.

But now it's different, a large number of people go to the workshops, and they need to buy vegetables, which makes growing vegetables very profitable.

However, because Guo Dan not only did not inhibit land annexation, but also accelerated land annexation, which formed a large-scale manor, and the ability to regulate and control was relatively strong.

The landlords are calculating, what season to grow what vegetables, and how to combine them to be the most profitable.

Because no matter what you grow, you don't have to worry about selling.

Then this brings a lot of deed tax and person tax that did not exist before.

Not only that, in the past, farmers had poor harvests, and the weather was one of the reasons, and they also had limited financial resources, so it was difficult to manage the land well, but now the landlords have taken over, but it is different, they can take care of the fields very well.

This has increased both production and tooling.

Because of the developed economy and population growth, agriculture has become very popular, and now in Weihui Mansion, no matter what you grow or raise, you have to make a lot of money.

This is another sad aspect of the smallholder economy.

The whole country has advised agriculture to attach importance to agriculture, but the speed of development is far less than that of agriculture under the commodity economy.

Money talks.

The commodity economy, the capital economy, will inevitably stimulate the development of agriculture, because the demand increases, you can make money by planting anything, and those people are trying to find a way to grow more crops with the same land.

At the same time, we will develop more wasteland, some barren land, which used to be impossible to grow food, so it became wasteland, but now these wastelands are being used, and I will plant whatever I can anyway, which will inevitably require more manpower.

I used to be a tenant farmer, and I didn't care what you planted or how much you produced, anyway, the rent money couldn't be less.

Nowadays, it is very difficult to hire people to farm the land, because businessmen also need manpower.

As a result, agricultural technology is developing faster than industrial technology.

And the wind was first harnessed.

The next morning, outside the northern suburbs.

"This Weihui Mansion is really changing with each passing day!"

Aunt Xu looked at the rows of windmills in the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

When I first came here, I hadn't seen any windmills, but in less than a year, the world was full of windmills.

Guo Dan was curious: "Why are there so many more windmills?" ”

Chen Chen hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't you know, now our Weihui Mansion, whether it is a mill or a waterwheel, all of the windmills that can be used are used." This is because during that time, it was more difficult to buy grain, and the landlords of our Weihui Mansion wanted to produce more grain. But this person is not easy to recruit for a while, so they thought of replacing people with this windmill, but in just half a year, we have 6,000 more windmills in Weihui Mansion, oh, the old man of the Franc machine has also helped a little. ”

"Six thousand?"

Aunt Xu couldn't help but be shocked when she heard this.

Chen Chen nodded and said, "It is estimated that it will be able to exceed 10,000 by the end of the year." ”

Aunt Xu was completely speechless.

It's a monster!

Even if the windmill is easy to use, there is no need to do so much.

Is it crazy?

But this is the capital economy, for those big landowners, the cost of this windmill is cheaper, much cheaper than hiring people, so everyone tries to install windmills as much as possible, even if there are people, they try to load windmills as much as possible.

Guo Dan was also a little speechless.

The merchant is really unproductive!

Losing to agriculture in Weihui Mansion, this ......!

At that time, he asked them to develop technology and reduce costs, mainly to those businessmen, but he did not expect that this agriculture would rise first.

Aunt Xu also felt embarrassed.

She thinks that valuing agriculture and suppressing business is really a joke!