"Huang Baimu's case is not easy to handle!"

In the original hall of the Ruan family, several high-ranking figures of the Southern Chinese Army, headed by Shouhan, sat around a stove, while rummaging the sweet potatoes, corn and other crops that had just been transported from the mountains so that these crops could be heated evenly, while discussing the yellow hundred acres of paper.

Huang Baimu's shape is actually very simple.

Wealth does not return to their hometown, such as a night walk in clothes. This is a common disease of the Chinese people, who work and study hard outside, and always have to make a successful person when they return to their hometown, otherwise they will be considered the best sample of "things leaving their hometowns and noble people leaving their hometowns".

What's more, Huang Baimu and others are the first batch of people who have enjoyed the various preferential policies of Shouhan, and after several years of hard work, they have hundreds of acres of paddy fields, nearly 1,000 acres of mountains and forests, thousands of stones of rice in the warehouse, and hundreds of jars of vegetable oil and meat oil, hundreds of catties of dried bacon and fish hanging on the beams, cattle tied to the pen, pigs fed, muslin cloths are worn, and there are often more than a dozen taels of silver in the waist.

In such a situation, Huang Baimu moved the idea of returning to his hometown to repair the ancestral hall and continue the family tree.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I returned to my hometown in Sanshui, Guangdong, trouble followed.

From Dibao to Sanshui County, officials at all levels who can be counted and those who are not, and officials who cannot enter the flow have come one after another, and the slogans are the same, and the fugitives must be severely punished.

Facing the iron chains and iron rulers in the hands of the officials, Huang Baimu had to sacrifice the most reluctant, but it was the most symptomatic magic weapon, stuffing money.

The land protector came to ask for favors, and stuffed five taels of silver and a piece of cotton cloth.

The squad leaders in the county led a group of officials to congratulate them, each with two taels of silver and a suit of clothing, and several squad leaders each with ten taels of silver.

Several old masters in the yamen each sent twenty taels of moisturizing pens, imploring the old master to write a superlife.

The two adults of the classic history and the county Cheng each asked the old master to pay a hundred taels of ice on their behalf.

The eldest lord of the county gave a pen of two hundred taels of silver, and the return was that the eldest lord waved his pen and wrote a plaque for the Huang ancestral hall.

After calculating such a mess of various expenses, Huang Baimu found that his hard work in the past few years was afraid that he could not fill the blood of these officials.

Just about to flee back to Nanzhong on the grounds of insufficient money and food for the ancestral hall, unexpectedly, the ruffians in the countryside also came to help.

"Brother Huang Qi, don't have the money to repair the ancestral hall? It doesn't matter, we lend it to you. The interest of nine out of thirteen returns, use your Huang clan ancestral hall as collateral! ”

Huang Baimu saw that the situation was not good, if he didn't leave, he was afraid that he would even lose his life in his hometown, endured humiliation and pain, and used it as a delaying tactic on the grounds that he wanted to borrow money to discuss with the old and young in the family, and bought himself a few days.

In the past few days, he fled from Guangdong overnight with a few children of the clan who wanted to work hard in Nanzhong.

When I went home to take stock of the money and food spent on this trip, the money and grain spent on a few months was more than 1,000 taels. There are still a lot of them, and the scattered expenses are even more.

Thinking about it, Huang Baimu felt that he couldn't swallow this evil breath no matter what, so he simply poured his courage, and the central people wrote a piece of paper and went to the door of the general's mansion to complain.

His idea is also extremely simple, I pay food and taxes on time every year, and every time I do a business, I pay all kinds of taxes, and now I am being bullied and blackmailed, so the general's mansion will make decisions for me.

"The reason why this case is not easy to handle is that recently, many old reclamation people have gone back to their hometowns to visit relatives, and by the way, they are engaged in ancestral halls, genealogies and other things. There are not a few things like Huang Baimu. We have to give these people a reasonable, legitimate, and justified outcome. If it is a matter within our jurisdiction, it is naturally easy to handle, and it is enough to send these officials to the law enforcement department to handle it in accordance with the law. However, the officialdom of the two Guangzhous is the same as our well water, not the river water. If you want to investigate it carefully, I'm afraid I'll set myself on fire. Li Peilin peeled the sweet potato while expounding his opinion on the case.

"I think it's an opportunity." Shouhan took a bite of the roasted flowering potato. sighed, and said his opinion vaguely.

"First, we can make the old people everywhere realize how far apart those officials are from our officials, so as to strengthen their loyalty and sense of identity. Second, it is also an opportunity for us to start with Liangguang! ”

"Let's go!" The sweet potato in Pei Lin's hand fell to the ground.

"My lord, do you mean that you want to take advantage of the new monarch's first ascension to the throne, and you can't use troops against Liangguang?"

"There are some things that don't have to be swords and guns."

Shouhan took a bite of the potato in his hand.

"That's right! I went to the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang and walked on a trip, Li Fengjie received many benefits from us, and a county order was to invite the sword of the Son of Heaven and the banner of the king's order to kill him. "Li Peiting's temper has flareed up again.

"Second brother! Let me ask you, what evidence do you have for the crime of Sanshui County? Excuse me, is there anything wrong with him rectifying the fugitives according to the law of the Ming Dynasty? Does he have any evidence of blackmailing the people under his rule? ”

Peilin's questions made Li Peiting hesitate.

"Second brother, not long ago, during the funeral of Emperor Daxing, Ye Qi wrote a letter back from Jiangnan and told such an incident in the letter." Shouhan began to teach the two brothers-in-law.

In Suzhou, people were suddenly surprised to find that prices in the city had changed a lot, and business was becoming more and more difficult.

The various goods placed in the market are much cheaper than in the past few days, but no one cares about them.

Merchants are also worried, and the gold and silver positions they have on hand suddenly seem to be a lot shorter for some reason.

After a few days, the turmoil gradually disappeared as some large families took out the gold and silver from their cellars and took advantage of this opportunity to absorb valuable goods and goods to buy pù in the field shop. That's when people found the cause of this crisis.

The shops of several Shanxi merchants ended their business in Suzhou, and after clearing all the accounts, hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver were shipped back to Shanxi. All of a sudden, there was a shortage of gold and silver circulating in the market in Suzhou, which caused this turmoil.

After listening to Shouhan tell Ye Qi what he had seen and heard, several people present were all thoughtful. What does this kind of thing say, everyone's mind is racing to find the answer they think is appropriate.

"I'll talk about another thing."

This matter has to do with Gonzalez, Alfonso's group of Spaniards, and the Portuguese. "The Spanish conquests in all directions gave the royal family access to overseas territories dozens of times larger than their homeland. The gold, silver, and goods accumulated by the natives from generation to generation were all owned by the royal family and nobles. However, the influx of a large number of gold and silver goods did not make the people of Spain puff up and sing from then on, but caused a huge disaster, and in a very short period of time, the price of goods rose fivefold! In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating further, the Spanish crown imposed a series of rules: began to use iron-fisted measures to prevent the outflow of gold and silver, so that it remained in the country and banned exports; However, due to the excessive amount of gold and silver, and the relative shortage of various materials, the reason was attributed to the export of goods to overseas territories. He also issued a ban on the export of Spanish goods to overseas territories. After several tosses, Spain's economy and people's livelihood withered, and there was not much gold and silver in the treasury, but the lives of the people were not bitter. You have also seen how the people of Gonzalez and Alfonso spent a lot of money in the market, and they feared that one day they would never be able to buy such cheap and high-quality goods with gold and silver in their hands, and they would never be able to enjoy such delicious food and wine again! ”

If you have less money, you can't do it, and if you have more money, it's even more troublesome. Such a paradox made the two Li brothers and Fu Bo, Wu Lao Wolf and others fall into the clouds and mist, but there seemed to be a little vague light in front of them.

"My lord, what you just said seems to have a lot of overlap with the content expounded in Guan Zhong's "Guanzi" back then!" Wu Lao Wolf, who was born as a scholar, seems to have touched a little way.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if we want to attack Liangguang, can we also follow the example of the sages?"

"What does the lord mean is to use the tricks of the pipe against the Chu State back then to deal with Liangguang?" Old Wolf Wu's eyes radiated green light, as if he was really like a wolf in the wilderness, just like his nickname.

"Not bad! The deer of the Lu country and the deer of the Chu country! Li Peilin, who told Shouhan about the subset of scriptures and histories every day, also understood at this time.

However, Fu Bo and Li Peiting, who don't read much, are still a little confused.

It is inevitable that Wu Lao Wolf wants to explain such tactics to the two of them.

Qi and Lu are close neighbors, in order to bring down the Lu country, Qi under the unified organization of Guan Zhong, set off a wave of wearing Lu special silk, but also in the country order, strictly prohibit the planting of mulberry trees. At the same time, in order to meet the domestic demand for this kind of high-grade silk fabrics, the Minister of Qi ordered that the merchants of Lu State would sell 1,000 silk pieces to Qi State, and they could get 300 gold. and if you sell ten thousand horses, you will get three thousand. So the price of silk is desperately rising. The people of Lu felt that it was profitable, so they gave up their farm work and weaved silk threads. Soon, the country's grain fields became barren. Lu has no food, and if you want to ask Qi to buy it, you have to accept Qi's conditions. If you buy from other countries. The blockade of the grain channel by the State of Qi made the monarch of the State of Lu anxious all of a sudden, and Guan Zhong easily made the State of Lu obey at once, honestly asked the State of Qi for help, and was at the mercy of the State of Qi. (Doesn't that sound familiar?) Today's bald eagles often use such tricks. ）

As for the purchase of deer in the Chu State, it is even more negative.

It was regarded as a carnivore in the Chu State, and a deer could be bought for two copper coins, and in the mouth of the merchants of the Qi State, it became an ornamental animal that the Duke of Qi Huan liked, and the price soared to five copper coins. Such a price soon alarmed the Chu state, but soon the price rose to forty copper coins. The farmers of Chu saw that the price of a deer was worth 10,000 catties of grain, which was too profitable, so they all put down their farm tools and went to the mountains to hunt deer. In the dense woods, there were peasant brothers of the Chu State everywhere. Later, even the officers and soldiers of the Chu State changed their weapons into hunting tools and secretly went to hunt deer in the mountains. It was this year that large tracts of land in the Chu State were abandoned, but copper coins were abundant. As a result, the fate of the State of Lu once again befell the head of the State of Chu. Guan Zhong ordered a ban on grain trade with the state of Chu. At the same time, the vassal states also received a unified order issued by the Duke of Qi Huan, strictly prohibiting the grain trade between the vassal states and the Chu state. At this time, the people of Chu were miserable, the price of grain rose wildly, and the copper coins could not be eaten. The king of Chu panicked and sent people to buy grain everywhere, but they were all intercepted by the Qi State. As many as four-tenths of the country's population of Chu refugees fled to Qi.

The Chu regime was in turmoil because of this, and in desperation, the king of Chu had no choice but to send an envoy to Qi Huan Gong to sue for peace and recognize the hegemony of Qi.

"However, in the Liangguang area, there are neither deer nor silk!" Pei Ting still didn't react.

"I told you a long time ago, don't go to Mazhangtai Hulu to drink pheasants every day, read more books, you just won't listen! Which one did you call the original copy you used? It is important to know that doing business is the same as fighting a war with soldiers, and the magic of using it is one mind. In the same thirteen chapters of Sun Tzu, there are Zhuge who has soldiers like gods, and there are also Zhao Kuo and Ma Jian who can only talk on paper! (Zhao Kuo cried pitifully, I didn't have any paper when I read the military book, okay?!) ）

"What the chief historian said is right, Li Da's shopkeeper must not have good students to study, did he use the few books issued by the general's mansion as pillows?" Shouhan half-truthfully ridiculed Pei Ting.

"Guanzi" about Guan Zhong's theory, "Sun Tzu" which is respected as a classic of soldiers, "Mozi" about the Mohist ideological system and craftsmanship, and "Han Feizi" about the way of Legalism are all uniformly printed by the military government, and as a must-read book for officials at all levels, the "Analects", which is respected to the point that half of the Analects governs the world, is very pitifully listed as a selected reading publication.

"The state of Qi has the benefits of fish and salt, which can be used to destroy the economy and people's livelihood of various countries, and what we have compared with the mainland is not the benefit of fish and salt." Shouhan began to teach heuristics.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you can think about it, what are our advantages compared with Liangguang and Fujian?"

"The above three provinces, the land is narrow and densely populated, and there are not many grain producing areas. In order to increase the population and fields of my southern middle school. ”

"Good! What Fauber is talking about is one, which is one of our purposes, to recruit displaced people to reclaim the famine. ”

"Guan Zhong is using to buy, and we can use the rice, ironware, cotton cloth and other materials we have here to sell to the Liangguang area."

Wu Lao Wolf is in charge of the tax department, and he is naturally familiar with the export situation. A large number of Fujian merchants from Liangguang and Guangxi did not hesitate to venture into the Nanzhong region for the sake of cheap rice here.

"Just count it below, at present, in our South Central Army, there are 15 million mu and 823 mu of paddy fields cultivated all year round, and mountains and forests, dry fields, and ponds are not included. The registered population is more than 7 million, and if you add the laborers, official slaves, etc., who work in various places, at least 500,000 people will be added. More than 7 million tons of rice are harvested every year, and in accordance with the principle of having enough to eat three meals a day put forward by the lord, in addition to the surplus grain retained by the peasants themselves, there is also not a small amount of grain consumed in road construction, mining operations, wharves, steel mills, textile factories, and the army. After deducting the above items, at least nearly 10 million tons of rice have been accumulated over the years in various official warehouses, regular positions, and non-warehouses. ”

Although Fauber is old, the numbers in his mind are still very clear. A series of numbers came out, which made the people present smile one by one.

At present, there are only 8 million people in the whole territory to eat, and the storage of rice in my hands alone is as much as 10 million tons, that is, according to the 1,000 catties of grain that each person eats every year, (including the types of fish, meat, eggs and other types consumed), the stored grain is enough to feed these 8 million people for several years!

"These grains, as well as the various oils we have in reserve, mainly vegetable oil, are the materials that we sell in large quantities to Liangguang and Fujian."

"And salt!"

Pei Ting added a sentence to Shouhan on the side, but he knew the price of salt in the mountainous areas of Fujian.

"Naturally, there is as much salt as you want." Shouhan said lightly, "Now let's discuss, what kind of price should we use to sell rice to the three provinces of Guangzhou, Fujian and Guangzhou?" ”

In the past, it was sold to Guangxi, but it was a kind of sales with the meaning of benefit delivery, and each stone of rice was only five yuan. In the past few years, there have been floods, droughts, locusts, hailstorms, and windstorms everywhere, and the grain production in various places is decreasing, and the price of rice is also soaring, which is why He Shijin and Li Fengjie and others are unwilling to turn their faces with the Nanzhong Army.

"In the past, we sold it for five dollars and one stone, but now we have to add at least two to three dollars to this!" Pei Ting said it wherever he thought of it. "The year before last, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the price of rice in Liaodong was as much as two taels per stone!"

"We sell it at a high price, and the price of local rice is the same, so who will buy it?" Pei Lin reprimanded his younger brother in a stern tone, "Don't just have silver in your eyes!" ”

"What the second brother said is not unreasonable, we sell it cheaply, and the price of buying from everywhere is bound to be lowered, and there is a risk that the grain will hurt the farmers, so be it!"

Shouhan came up with a workaround.

"In the past, five coins of silver and one stone referred to the price of transportation, and the freight was included in it, but now we remove the freight item, and the FOB price of each stone of rice in Nanzhong is five coins and one stone. If there is no ship to transport it itself, we have to add freight to this basis. ”

A few people silently calculated in their hearts, if calculated according to this standard, the cost of adding at most one penny per stone of rice would still have a great advantage and competitiveness compared with the crazy rice prices in the mainland.

"In addition, the household Cao discussed, take a charter, for the farmers who sell grain, in order to prevent the grain from hurting the peasants, see what kind of reward to give, for example, with the grain sales voucher, with the household registration, you can use the reward price to buy all kinds of wrought iron, nine steel farm tools, pesticides, fertilizers and other items."

When a few people heard this, their eyes were full of joy, and in this way, the products of the Han Yuan firm, iron and steel mills, chemical workshops, etc., found buyers, not to mention, the peasants everywhere had pure iron farming tools, they could cultivate more grain fields, and beat more grain.

Where is this to find justice for the grievances suffered by the reclamation people, and this is obviously to lay a solid foundation for the industrial and agricultural production of Nanzhong to reach a higher level! Several people couldn't help but fall into a dream of a better future prospects.

"Now, in order to accomplish this purpose, everyone divides the work into one worker. Counting our shipping capacity and the capacity of the storage houses and warehouses of various ports, we ordered the Han Yuan firm to organize a planned and step-by-step purchase of grain stocks in various places, mainly for two to three years of rice. Ordered the steel mill to quickly manufacture a batch of water mill parts, to turn rice into rice. It's not enough to rely on the original stone water mill! ”

"Only by implementing these tasks can we carry out targeted sales activities of rice, oilseeds, salt, ironware, and cloth in Liangguang and Fujian!"

"Today," the guard on duty who guarded the Han order took the yellow calendar and looked through it carefully, "it is the day of the death of Emperor Daxing for three months, November 22 of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, we are scheduled to start from the month of La, to carry out the preparation of goods, the salt number, the rice mill, the iron and steel factory, and the Tonghe dyeing mill within this month, and we must send more manpower to me on the New Year's Day of next year, that is, the New Year's Day of the first year of Chongzhen, to drive out at least 1.5 million stone rice and other related goods. ”

With Shouhan's instructions, various departments became nervously busy.

Hufang came up with incentives for farmers to sell surplus grain, and clearly demarcated that for every certain amount of surplus grain sold, farmers will be given the standard of buying iron farm tools and nine-turn steel farm tools according to the incentive price, if you don't want to buy farm tools, then, a variety of industrial products will also be available for you to choose: printing and dyeing very fine flower cloth, dyed cloth, fertilizers, pesticides, horse-drawn carts needed for farming, and so on are enough to make people excited.

The people of the iron and steel mill used wrought iron and nine-turn steel to make the metal components of the water mill for the rice mill, which made the rice milling speed up a lot, not to mention that the milled rice was whiter and more sophisticated. In addition, according to the requirements of Shouhan, the two small blast furnaces are kept day and night, and the people do not stop. Large quantities of wrought iron were transported to the vicinity of various ports and were ready to be loaded onto ships for shipment.

Batches of salt and sugar, which were as white as snow per barrel, were loaded into very tightly closed wooden barrels according to the standard of 100 catties per barrel, ready to be transported to the northern region for sale.

On the New Year's Day of the first year of Chongzhen, in the crisp sound of celebration firecrackers, several lucky boats sailed away from the wharf, loaded with rice, ironware, cotton cloth, sugar, salt and other things, heading for Guangzhou.

The dumping action against the Fujian region of Liangguang and Guangzhou, which was named "Qi Chu" by Shouhan, kicked off.

However, the changes in shape brought about by these boats were unexpected by Shouhan.

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