In an inn in Songhu County, Sun Xin was carefully sorting out the information collected by his subordinates.

This time, he came to Songhu to buy land on Liu Jin's order, and naturally he also needed to have a detailed understanding of Songhu and figure out the situation in Songhu, so that he could better complete the task assigned by Liu Jin.

"It's really a good place, the mouth of the Yangtze River, radiating the richest area of the entire Ming Dynasty, along the Yangtze River you can also go to Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, these places are the land of fish and rice in the Ming Dynasty."

"To the north, you can go to Shandong, North Zhili, and to the south, you can go to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Ryukyu, such a good place, the whole Ming Dynasty can't find a second one."

"In terms of maritime trade, this north can enter Korea and the Japanese Kingdom, go to the Golden Continent, and it is difficult to go to the South Seas and Australia."

"Good place, good place, Childe's vision is amazing."

After carefully studying the location of Songhu, Sun Xin couldn't help but nod his head.

Songhu is a good place, in the past, when agriculture was the mainstay, there was no ban on the sea, and the importance of Songhu could not be seen.

Now the maritime trade of the Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more developed, and there are more and more ships, and the position of Songhu is suddenly highlighted.

Relying on the Yangtze River, backed by the richest Jiangnan region, and in the middle of the north and south coastlines of Daming, this is definitely the best place in Daming's geographical location.

"If this Songhu develops, I'm afraid it will soon surpass Tianjin~"

"Well, if you have to find a way to buy as much land as possible, the land here will be the same as the land in Tianjin in the future, every inch of land will be valuable."

Sun Xin looked at the map of Songhu, and his eyes began to glow.

Now the land in Tianjin is very expensive, and the key is that there is no market, because most of the land is in the hands of Liu Jin, and Liu Jin has planned and developed the land in Tianjin in an orderly and gradual manner.

And it will not be sold to the outside world, all the land, Liu Jin will either develop it himself, or use it for rent, in short, it will not be sold.

There are still a few pieces of land in Tianjin that are in the hands of Tianjin natives, and the price of this part of the land has risen to the sky.

The closer to the land in Tianjin New Town, the more expensive it is, in the past, a few taels of silver per acre of land would reach the sky, and no one wanted saline-alkali land and tidal flat land by the sea.

Now a casual acre of land costs thousands of taels of silver, and the key is that there is no place to buy it if you have money.

Realizing the importance of Songhu's location, Sun Xin knew that the land in Songhu would definitely be very valuable in the future.

"The location on both sides of the Huangpu River is the best, and a large number of ports and wharves can be built here in the future, and the land on both sides of the Huangpu River will be given priority."

Sun Xin carefully studied the map and locked his eyes on both sides of the Huangpu River.

With a goal, Sun Xin's side began to take action and began to arrange people to buy the fields on both sides of the Huangpu River on a large scale.

However, soon Sun Xin's side was worried again, because in this era, the circulation of fields is very small.

Most people will not sell their land easily, because in the concept, the land is something left by the ancestors, and it is something that cannot be sold easily, and it is something that will be passed on forever.

If you sell your property, it is a ruined act and you will be scolded.

This concept is deeply rooted, especially in the Jiangnan region.

Because this place in the Jiangnan area is very rich and there are a lot of people, as long as there are some paddy fields in the family, life can be quite good, and the willingness to sell the fields is even lower.

"It's hard to do now, this is land that money can't buy~"

The news was summarized to Sun Xin, and Sun Xin couldn't help frowning.

With a box and a box of Daming No. 1 Bank bills in his hand, he couldn't buy land.

He also tried many methods, and took the initiative to find the landlords and gentry here, saying that he was willing to buy their land at two or even three times the market price.

But these landlords and gentry didn't care at all, and they didn't even think about it, and the land just wouldn't be sold.

This is something handed down by the ancestors, and it must not be sold, and if it is sold, it will be a loser.

"There is no way, I can only write back and see if there is any way on Childe's side."

After thinking about it again and again, Sun Xin couldn't think of any way, so he could only write back to the capital to see if there was any way on Liu Jin's side.

Sun Xin was worried here, but these local landlords and gentry in Songhu couldn't close their mouths with their mouths smiling, gathered on the Songhua Building in Songhu County, and chatted non-stop while drinking.

"Mr. Xu, did that northerner look for you?"

Zheng Liangzuo said to Xu Pu with a smile.

Zheng Liangzuo is the largest landlord here in Songhu, and his family's fields are 10,000 acres of fertile land, and the entire Huangpu River is full of his family's fields.

Mr. Xu in his mouth, Xu Pu, he is a local person in Songhu County, he has not been able to pass the Jinshi examination, waiting for the government to arrange a one-and-a-half position for him, but everyone also knows that waiting for the government to arrange, unless you have silver activities up and down, otherwise wait slowly.

Although he did not become an official, he was the privileged class of the Ming Dynasty, and Xupu's fields were also very many, and in the entire Songhu County, his fields were the only ones with Zheng Liangzuo.

"I found it, and I said I wanted to buy my field at 3 times the market price."

"These northerners are really rich, a bunch of nouveau riche."

"I don't know that this property is handed down from my ancestors, and it must not be sold?"

Xu Pu smiled and said, his eyes were all unconcerned.

"Mr. Xu is right, how can this ancestral thing be sold so easily."

Zheng Liangzuo smiled and nodded.

"And judging by the way he looks, he must be in a hurry to buy our land, but we won't sell it to them, and maybe they will pay a higher price."

"Aren't you right?"

"Yes, yes~"

"If the price is higher, we don't sell it, we just don't sell it anyway."

"They northerners don't want to intervene in our Songhu."

"I heard that they are going to open a factory here with us, if this factory is opened, there will be no one to farm for us at that time, and there are many fertile fields in Beizhili that are barren, and we will have a northwest wind at that time."

"Isn't it, here in the Beijing-Tianjin area, go to work in the factory, at least 3 taels of silver a month, and include three meals a day, if this factory is really opened in our Songhu, who will give us farm?"

"Didn't those mud-legged people go to work for them northerners?"

Hearing Zheng Liangzuo's words, the other landlords and gentry around him also nodded one after another, and they all followed.

"Therefore, we are determined not to sell our fields to these northerners."

"In the past few years, our Shilin in the south of the Yangtze River has been greatly suppressed by the northern Shilin, and many upright ministers in the DPRK have been suppressed and persecuted, and now they are the northerners who have the final say in the court."

"Now we have no place in the southern Shilin, and there are not many of the big people left in the court who came from our south, and now they want to come to our south to set up a factory and dream."

Xu Pu also said.

Originally, he was a native of Jiangnan and had a lot of money, so it was not that he didn't have money to dredge up and down, and there was no problem if he wanted a certain official and a half-job.

According to the past practice, as long as the money is in place, it will definitely be possible to go to a certain county to be a master, a county officer, a warden, and so on.

After working for a few years, and then dredge with silver, if you have the opportunity, you may be able to raise a liter of county order and Tongzhi, which is quite promising.

But now it's different, Jiangnan Shilin has been hit hard above the court, and now the right to speak is in the hands of officials who are not from Jiangnan.

Moreover, the meaning of Emperor Hongzhi's suppression of Jiangnan Shilin is obvious, and the following officials, as long as they are smart people, can see that they are naturally good at the top, and they will be very bad at the bottom.

As a result, it is more difficult for officials from the Jiangnan region to be promoted than before.

When he came to Xupu, he had no place to use the money, and it was very difficult to get a certain official position.

"Yes, dreaming, we must not let them come to our Jiangnan area to set up a factory~"

Zheng Liangzuo nodded and said.

"Everyone said that the land in their hands must not be sold to their northerners."

"Yes, don't sell it to the northerners, so that they can't buy land even if they have silver."

"Even if they buy land, we can make them unable to hire people even if they have money."

"That's right, this Songhu is not their north, but we have the final say here."

The landlords and gentry present also nodded their heads.

"Now the court is controlled by a group of villains, the upright gentlemen are all plotted by the villains, the Son of Heaven is close to the villain, the virtuous minister, the emphasis on profit and forgetfulness, let's take a look at some of the things that the court is doing now."

"Everyone in the north wants to go to sea to do business, everyone wants to go to the Golden Continent to dig gold, and everyone only has yellow and white things in their eyes, but they have already forgotten the way of Confucius and Mencius."

"This year, the imperial court is a large-scale conquest of the Japanese state, forcing the vassal country to sign the alliance under the city, some time ago I heard that the northern grassland was sent again, this poor army, belligerent will die~"

Xu Pu looked at everyone and let out a long sigh, with a worried look, worried about the country and the people.

Of course, looking at people next to him, he is a little depressed, he has a lot of hills and valleys but has no way to serve the country, although he is already a person, but there is no way to get an official and a half-position.

He couldn't pass the Jinshi exam, and he couldn't be an official, so he often pinpointed the disadvantages of the times, blaming all this on the problems of the court.

thinks that the court has traitors and suppresses them, who are from Jiangnan, so he can't get into the Jinshi, and he can't be an official.

I'm often depressed, and anything can be involved in this.