He's crazy?

Must be crazy!

Another crazy ......

Yao Daqiao's ecstasy was exchanged for a few sympathetic glances.

That's understandable! Because everyone looks at his outfit and knows that he is a profiteer. Profiteers generally deposited their land in the name of the respected gentry to evade taxes, so they did not have land deeds.

If you don't have a land deed, you can't be compensated!

Moreover, the gentry who have been compensated must give up their fame and settle in Wuhan, and they are not allowed to buy real estate in their hometown, and they must also give up their real estate and shops in their hometown!

This means that the profiteers have no local umbrella, and without the umbrella, the usury they have released will naturally not be recovered.

The losses were so great that many profiteers with limited financial resources went bankrupt...... It's light to go crazy, and it's estimated that there will be no fewer people who can't think of jumping the Yangtze River!

Ye Jiaxin looked at Yao Daqiao and was also scared - this is his food and clothing parents in Wuchang, don't really go crazy...... So he hurriedly dragged him to the Hanyang Gate, thinking that he would be pulled over so that the sisters-in-law could comfort him.

Yao Daqiao was dragged by him, and he could only stagger and follow. Ye Jiaxin is a big rich peasant, he is full of strength, although Yao profiteer is fat, but he is fat, how can he earn it?

When the two arrived at Hanyang Gate, Yao Daqiao found an opportunity to pull out his arm, rubbing it and complaining: "What are you doing?" What are you anxious about? I haven't seen the notice yet...... This is an opportunity to make a fortune! ”

"Rich?" Ye Jiaxin wanted to cry without tears, "What kind of wealth?" It's all gone......"

His land was deposited in someone else's name, and he had no land deed in his hand, so he had no compensation.

Yao Daqiao patted his chest, "There is me!" I still have the money...... You come with me, let's find a restaurant to eat and drink, brother, I'm happy, let's talk while drinking! ”

Ye Jiaxin didn't look like he was crazy, so he could only follow him to find a tavern, casually asked for some wine and food, and began to talk while drinking.

"When you go back, pack up, let's set off together, and follow the prince's military ship!"

Ye Jiaxin asked: "What are you doing with the military ship?" ”

"Collect rice! These days, I have built a few ships of 500 materials, which can transport three or four thousand stone meters. Yao Daqiao smiled, "Didn't you say that the harvest in Hubei was good last year?" Last year's harvest was good, and there was no one to collect rent, and the trade route was cut off...... If the notices posted outside the Hanyang Gate are posted everywhere today, the price of rice will definitely rise a lot. Let's go to your hometown of Jingxian to collect rice! ”

"That's right!" Ye Jiaxin is a rich peasant, of course, he is also a traitor (rich peasants are also businessmen), "How did I forget...... The prince wants to let the farmers in Hubei redeem the land, and the rice in their hands will have a place to go, so the price of rice must have risen! ”

Yao Daqiao pondered: "Now the rice merchants in the southeast have sailed to Wuhan Mansion...... We will sell the rice as soon as we come back, and then we will split into two ways, and I will go to collect the rice. You can bring some capital to Huainan to buy wheat seeds, rice seeds, plough cattle, and hire strong workers! ”

"Wheat seeds, rice seeds, oxen, and strong laborers are bought for the sake of ...... Rent land? ”

Yao Daqiao nodded: "That's right! It's renting land...... If there is no method of redeeming land with rice, there will be a lot of land in Hubei in the next few years. Because Li Zicheng's method of equalizing the land was too sloppy, many farmers who had divided the land might not be able to cultivate it.

If there is no pressure to buy rice and land, they may not rent out the land. But now it will definitely be rented, and the rent will not be too high, because Hubei has just been chaotic, and the population is much smaller, and there must not be many people who are willing to rent land for farming. ”

Li Zicheng's plan to give the field was only "granted", and there was no floating wealth - the floating wealth was taken away by Li Zicheng and his old battalion soldiers, including ploughing cattle and farm tools (farm tools are all iron tools, which can be used to build weapons, and can also be used by the old battalion soldiers' own granges). Therefore, in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Hanyang, there will definitely be a surplus of land and a shortage of production tools such as farm tools and cattle.

In addition, the standard of four to five acres of land is also very "coarse". Because whether this one was a strong man or a woman or a child, a farmer or a resident of the town, the officials of the Dashun court did not bother to ask, so they arbitrarily granted the land.

Therefore, many of the peasants who were granted land were actually unable to cultivate, and those rich peasants who were good at cultivating the land and cultivated a large amount of land suffered heavy losses in Li Zicheng's Jikou Average Land, and many of them even ran away.

Therefore, in the future, there will be a surplus of land in the four prefectures of Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Hanyang in Hubei, and perhaps Xiangyang Prefecture.

For a businessman like Yao Daqiao who still has a little capital in his hands, it is an opportunity!

Yao Daqiao calculated: "Let's rent as much as possible, rent contiguous land, and sign a long-term contract...... I will come out of the capital, I will sell the rice and noodles that I grow, and the rest will be handed over to you. ”

"Okay!" Of course Ye Jiaxin is happy, he is empty-handed now, and eating is a problem, and he is not qualified to say no!

However, he was still a little worried, and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yao, let's follow the prince's warship...... Will it work? Let us follow? ”

"Okay!" Yao Daqiao patted his chest, "I have a way!" ”

His path is Chen Yongxi, the one who ran from Shanxi to Li Zicheng as an envoy, and then slipped to Nanjing. Because he had stayed with Li Zicheng for a few days, he was transferred by Li Yan to the Xingyuan Military Division, and he followed him to Wuchang. In Wuchang City, he met Yao Daqiao, who was looking for a way everywhere, and became a friend of wine and meat.

However, Yao Daqiao would not ask Chen Yongxi for help, but Chen Yongxi turned around and begged him for help...... Help buy rice!

It turned out that he was transferred to the Jiangdu Left-behind Division not long ago to serve as the grain depot promotion, and he also sent Liu Kongzhao to mobilize rice merchants.

So since May, Chen Yongxi has been begging Yao Daqiao for help. And Yao Daqiao looks like he is afraid of death, and he must be rewarded to encourage him...... He also opened his mouth and wanted to borrow ten wooden boats of 500 materials (these are the boats he and Ye Jiaxin said) and a large piece of white land on Hanzheng Street - he has the title deed and house deed of Hankou Town, but Hankou Town has been destroyed by the war and must be rebuilt, so the title deed and house deed can be exchanged for white land, but it is difficult to say where the land is. Not necessarily in the same place, because all the streets in Hankou had to be redesigned.

Yao Daqiao had already calculated, and after the white land on Hanzheng Street was in his hands, he immediately bet it to the Yanshang Bank, took the money as a deposit to buy cloth and charter a boat, and then exchanged the cloth for rice, and then poured the rice to the grain warehouse left behind, so that he could earn a vote, and he had the capital to do a bigger business.

It turned out that this profiteer also tossed Li Zicheng to the brink of bankruptcy, but he has been trying to hold on to the façade.

"Chen Tiju, I really don't lack money, what money I have, what kind of profit will I be greedy for? It's just helping friends, right? You are a friend, and those big farmers (not only Zhang Jiaxin) are all my friends...... I can't do them any wrong! ”

In an ear room in the Jiangdu Left-behind Division, Yao Daqiao, who was waiting to sign a contract with Liu Kongzhao, did not have any joy at all, but sighed and talked to Chen Yongxi (in fact, it was Zhu Cihong who was slaughtered by him).

After consulting Liu Kongzhao, Chen Yongxi agreed to all the conditions of Yao Daqiao, and now he is quite grateful to Yao Daqiao - he is so rich, and he took such a big risk to go to the countryside to buy rice, and he also signed a contract of 200,000 stone white rice, which is really interesting!

Although Chen Yongxi was slaughtered once, it was still worth the money to invite a very reliable rice merchant, so he was considered a meritorious service, and he is in a pretty good mood now.

"Don't worry," Chen Yongxi said in Shanxi official dialect, "There are sailors' ships going with you, what other accidents can happen?" And this deal is very stable, as long as you have a way in Hubei, you are not afraid that you will not be able to make money. If you can really buy 200,000 stone white rice, you can still be promoted to be an official in front of the guards. ”

"That's really glorifying the ancestors, it's really good......" Yao Daqiao finally showed a little smile, he still wants one for the official body, how can it be a talisman! It would be even better if you could get an imperial merchant status!