"Steward Sun, now the entire land of Songhu has been concentrated in Zheng Liangzuo, Xu Pu and their guards, and these people have all borrowed a lot of debts, as little as hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and some people have even borrowed millions of taels of silver."

In a courtyard in Songhu County, Sun Xin was listening to a report from his subordinates.

Hearing this, Sun Xin's face finally showed a smile.

"It seems that it's time to close the net, they have gathered the land for us, and it has saved us a lot of trouble, or the son is smart~"

"A simple trick can make these people obediently sell the land to us willingly."

"No, they'll rush to sell it to us when the time comes."

"Send this letter back to the capital immediately and tell Childe that you can close the net."

"Yes~"

After doing this, Sun Xin also walked out of this courtyard and came to the outside of Songhu County, looking at the Huangpu River, and then looking at the paddy fields of the Huangpu River dilemma, his eyes seemed to see that in the next few years, high-rise buildings will rise from the ground here, becoming a prosperous city comparable to Tianjin.

A few days later, on top of the Songhua Building.

"Bang~"

"How can this be, we don't open a port here in Songhu, but choose to go to Nanjing."

"How can Nanjing be compared with our Songhu?"

Zheng Liangzuo looked at the latest Ming Morning Post from Beijing and Tianjin in disbelief, and the Ming Morning Post published a note by Liu Jian, the first assistant minister of the cabinet.

Liu Jian believes that although Songhu has a good geographical location, it does not have a certain foundation, and as an open port in the south, the imperial court needs a lot of investment.

But Nanjing is different, it itself has a good foundation, and the three treasure eunuchs also set off from Nanjing for their seven voyages to the West.

Nanjing is still the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there is even a whole set of teams here in Nanjing, and the opening of the port in the south should choose Nanjing, not Songhu, which is still a paddy field.

Liu Jian is the first assistant of the cabinet, and his words are still quite weighty, and now the court is divided into two factions for this matter.

Among them, the civil officials headed by Liu Jian and Xie Qian believed that Nanjing should be opened up, and Nanjing's geographical location was not bad, and its foundation was quite strong, which was very suitable.

However, Zhang Mao, Zhu Fu and other military generals and nobles believe that Songhu should be opened, although the foundation of Songhu is worse than Nanjing, but the geographical location is much superior.

Moreover, there are many similar places in Songhu and Tianjin, and there is no foundation, which also means that better planning and construction can be carried out, so it is more appropriate to open Songhu.

Both sides have their own reasons, one side supports Nanjing, the other side supports Songhu, but one thing is certain, that is, there will inevitably be a new open port on the southern side.

"Liu Jian is really dizzy, he is a native of Henan, how does he know the importance of foreign ports, geographical location is the key."

"Although there is a foundation in Nanjing, there is no way to build wharves and ports on a large scale here in Nanjing, unlike our Songhu, near the sea, and the Huangpu River, no matter how many ports and wharves can be built."

"He actually said that he had never come to our Songhu, and even said that Nanjing was better than our Songhu."

"It's just mediocre, mediocre and misguided~"

Xu Pu also shouted angrily.

If this open port in the south had really been chosen in Nanjing instead of Songhu, the land they had hoarded in their hands would have become worthless.

Thinking of this, everyone present suddenly couldn't help but look dark, everyone has borrowed a lot of foreign debts to Tuntian, those money banks, big families, big businessmen are willing to lend them money, a very important reason is also to take a fancy to the geographical location of Songhu.

It really has the conditions to become the second Tianjin.

However, if Songhu could not become an open port in the south, then the land in their hands would be worthless, and the foreign debt they borrowed would be enough to crush them.

"Master, master, it's not good, it's not good~"

At this time, someone came in a hurry, and before the person went upstairs, the voice had already come.

"Fell, fell~"

"The price of our land in Songhu has fallen~"

"What? Fell? ”

As soon as they heard this voice, everyone present suddenly fell into a trance one by one, and then rushed downstairs desperately in an instant.

"Fast~Fast~"

"Immediately sell all the fields in our hands, all of them~"

Xu Pu was the first to react, and immediately commanded his subordinates as soon as he got downstairs.

"Immediately help me contact those northerners and sell them all the land in my hands."

Zheng Liangzuo's reaction was not slow, and he hurriedly asked his subordinates to find those northern Yankees and look for the pick-up man. Reading nests

However, the two of them are smart, and the others are not slow, and at this time, they are all like gamblers who have woken up, and they immediately know their crisis clearly.

Here in Songhu County, a large amount of land soon began to be put up for sale, and then in a short period of time, these local landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu began to sell their land frantically.

It's just a morning.

Yesterday, it was able to sell more than 600 taels of silver for an acre of land, but it suddenly fell to only 300 taels of silver for an acre of land, the key is that at this moment, there is no one to take over, and there are more people who are constantly selling the land in Songhu.

It used to be everywhere, holding signs begging for land in the north, as if they had disappeared overnight, and no one was seen again, and there were people selling land everywhere.

Your family sells 300 taels of silver for an acre of land, and I sell 290 taels of land here.

One moment it was still four hundred taels of silver per acre of land, and the next moment it was directly reduced to three hundred taels of silver per acre of land.

It took almost a few months to rise, but when it fell, it didn't even take half a day.

No one buys the fields anymore.

At the same time, all kinds of bad news followed.

Nanjing will replace Songhu as the opening port in the south, and the imperial court intends to open a foreign port in Guangzhou as well.

Nanjing Wei Guogong and Nanjing Liubu Shangshu jointly signed a letter, demanding that Nanjing be opened as a foreign port.

Then there was news that the Tianjin shipyard was going to build a southern shipyard on the Nanjing side, saying that there was no foundation in Songhu and it was not suitable for building a shipyard.

There is also news that these local landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu prevented the northerners from coming to Songhu to open factories and set up workshops, so now those factory owners and workshop owners in the north do not think much about Songhu, but more about Nanjing.

The bad news is one after another, making matters worse, constantly hitting the land price in Songhu, and also constantly knocking on the big landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu.

In the afternoon of the same day, there were still more than 300 taels of silver per mu of land in the morning, but now it has directly fallen to more than 100 taels of silver per acre.

At the same time, there is bad news that the northerners who have been staying in Songhu are ready to go to Nanjing to buy land.

And with the spread of the news, the local money banks, wealthy families, big businessmen, etc. in the south of the Yangtze River also sent people to Songhu to find Zheng Liangzuo, Xu Pu, the local landlords and gentry in Songhu, and asked them to return the silver to them now.

I used to be willing to borrow silver, because I saw the value of Songhu here.

But now that I think about it, I suddenly feel crazy.

How can Songhu be compared to Nanjing?

How could it be possible to fight for Nanjing?

Nanjing is the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, there are a large number of powerful people in Nanjing, big families, big landlords, big businessmen, and there are only three or two big cats and kittens here in Songhu.

Nanjing can influence the court of the Ming Dynasty and the decision-making of the Ming Dynasty, can these people in Songhu be?

In addition, even if Songhu really becomes an open port, can it really be compared with Tianjin in a short period of time?

Tianjin can have the current situation, I don't know how much silver has been smashed in, and there are people here in Songhu who are willing to smash silver in?

After thinking about these things carefully, everyone is much more rational.

Therefore, the people who originally lent money to the local landlords and gentry in Songhu began to be anxious, and they were even more anxious than these local people, and they sent people to collect debts.

The next day, the land price in Songhu continued to plummet, directly falling below the 100 taels of silver mark.

The desperate landlords and gentry were cornered one by one.

The money banks, landlords, and gentry who lent them money are all real local snakes here in Jiangnan, and compared with them, they can only be regarded as earthworms.

They have borrowed their money, and it is all usury, and the land in their hands is plummeting, and you can imagine how sad their lives are.

Crazy to sell the land in their hands, the price has no longer mattered, as long as someone is willing to buy, they will sell.

One is cheaper than the other.

At this time, everyone can't care so much, and they are all crazy looking for their next home, looking for the original northerners who are looking for land everywhere.

However, the Yankees are said to have gone to Nanjing to investigate, and because of these news, the price of land in Nanjing has also begun to rise.

By the afternoon of the next day, the land here in Songhu had plummeted to the price of cabbage, and the price of a few taels of silver and an acre of land was no longer cared about.

In just two days, the house price in Songhu has dropped from the sky-high price of more than 600 taels of silver per mu to a few taels of silver per mu, which is so fast that it is incredible.

But that's not all.

As more and more debt collectors came to Songhu, the hard days of the local landlords, gentry, and families in Songhu came.

They were frantically raising money, frantically selling everything they could.

They need money, or they may not even have a place to die, and even their families will be implicated, and then the men will be slaves, and the women will be prostitutes, and that will be the case for all generations, and that will be the really terrible thing.