Chapter Eighty-Eight: Forced Buying and Selling

Jia Ling's family letter is really a treasure to deal with Jia Yidao, a family letter came over with 3,000 stone grain and rice, and it was all new rice instead of old rice.

With these, Shi Bin naturally opened a porridge shop, pulled the population, and expanded his strength. As soon as the porridge shop opened, it became a magnet, Changde, Yueyang, Yiyang and other refugees were attracted to come, and people who wanted to drink porridge dragged their families and lined up with no end, if it were not for the transfer of a battalion of people to maintain order, it is estimated that the porridge shop would have collapsed long ago.

It's naturally a good thing that someone comes, but looking at the yellow-skinned, ragged clothes outside the city, and most of them are old and weak women and children, the young and strong are really pitiful. But since it has already begun, Shi Bin doesn't want to make jokes, so he naturally has to go on hard.

There is a lot of rain and dew in the south, and the humidity is heavy, first of all, you have to find a place to live, there are still some vacant land in these ten miles and eight towns to build a few grass huts, and some of the houses are empty and live directly in them, so the place to live is not troublesome. The trouble is how to mobilize so many refugees to do things, what to do, and no one can afford to feed them. In less than half a month, there were only 1,000 stones left in Jia Rudao's 3,000 stone meters, because nearly 30,000 people had gathered outside the city.

Now Shi Bin is not only compassionate, but also pressure.

The land annexation has made those officials and landlords occupy all the good fields, leaving a few acres of thin fields that no one wants, remembering that Li Ergou has always been in charge of this agricultural matter, so he called the guards to recruit him.

When he entered the door, Li Ergou had a bitter face, like a tenant who owed rent to meet his rich man. Shi Bin knew that this guy was also a smart person, and he probably guessed what he was asking him to do, so he didn't bother to go around in circles, and directly asked him if he had any way to increase grain production or get some fields.

Before he finished speaking, Li Ergou complained bitterly, and said dejectedly: "Brother Shi, it's not that the younger brother doesn't want to help, it's really that I even use the strength to eat milk, but the good land in our land has been occupied by those black-hearted guys. Originally, there was a balance of a few thousand stones every year, but who would have thought that you would spend so much money and get tens of thousands of people to eat in one go. ”

Shi Bin knew that Li Ergou was telling the truth, and he had indeed done his best, so he immediately comforted him. However, this 'people take food as the sky', and the food problem cannot be delayed for a moment, so we have to come up with a way immediately. So he asked for a way, and when he was about to complain again, Shi Bin said loudly, 'Black cats and white cats, if you catch a mouse, you are a good cat', and now no matter how much, getting food is the truth.

Li Ergou was taken aback by these words, he himself had been a bandit and a bandit for a few days, and now he felt that Shi Bin, the eldest brother who had led the soldiers for a few days, was more like a bandit than him. also knew that these words made Li Ergou subvert his impression in his mind, and Shi Bin had to explain patiently, saying that this was just an expedient measure, and he would save these people first, after all, human life was at stake.

But with such a premise, everything is easier to do, the more troubled the times, the more black-hearted bullies, and most of these people are bullying the soft and afraid of the hard, it is estimated that some methods should be able to deal with emergencies. Li Ergou immediately asked Shi Bin with a little evil smile: "Big brother, have you ever seen a play?" ”

Knowing that his little brother is not a good person, and now he looks like this, he probably has a way, but he didn't dare to mess around because he acted properly before; Now that it has reached the point where "getting food is the truth", he is naturally willing to say it without scruples, so he asked in a low voice: "What can I do about the virtuous brother?" ”

Li Ergou is not modest, and the way to express it is that people come up with it, and there is never a shortage of solutions to things, but it is not easy to be restrained. chattered a lot, and finally said that the name of this play was 'Liu Bei borrowed Jingzhou'. This is indeed a good way, but there is a very important question: how to borrow this 'Jingzhou' without paying it back and leaving a handle? Relying solely on Jia Nidao's power and the soldiers in his hands to suppress it is really the next strategy in the next policy.

Although Liu Xiancheng is also wise, he still doesn't know whether he is loyal, so Shi Bin brought Wang San and Li Chao to discuss how to borrow this 'Jingzhou'. According to Wang San's opinion, most of the good fields in this realm are occupied by big landlords and bullies, and they can hold a Hongmen banquet to kill them, and let them obediently hand over some food. Li Chao believes that paying grain is similar to paying 'protection fees', and it is easier to settle down, so it is better to 'buy' some good land. Both of these methods are not bad, so Shi Bin decided to take a two-pronged approach, watching as he goes.

On the second day, an invitation was issued, and it was agreed that ten days later, a banquet would be set up in the drunken fairy building in the city to invite local celebrities to have dinner and chat.

Time is always the fastest, although those landlords and old wealth are the most afraid of eating this kind of food, but they can't hide no matter what, the best way is to obediently stretch out their money bags to the new county magistrate to take it, otherwise it is easy to fall into ruin.

For this banquet, Shi Bin specially dressed up in a polite manner, completely covering up his anger.

After the banquet, although he knew that this county commander was a murderous military general before taking office, it was very surprising that he was so cultivated at the banquet. After three rounds of drinking, it is time to get to the point after touting each other. Shi Bin smiled and said, "As we all know, you are the pillars of this Xiangtan City. As the saying goes, 'the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband', and now that the Great Song Dynasty is in this crisis, Shi has something to ask for, I don't know if you can appreciate your face and help? ”

Since they are all big landlords and bullies, they naturally have the ability to settle down, and they know that this so-called help is inseparable from the word 'money and food', but of course they will not be overwhelmed by such beautiful words. So they began to complain, saying that the court had collected too many taxes, and that they could not make ends meet. And the annual output of grain in the fields is only so small, and the taxes are actually more, they really can't come up with more money and grain.

Of course, Shi Bin was waiting for them here, so he also sighed: "The imperial court is indeed too much, and the taxes are actually more than the output in the field." However, Shi has a way to help you recover your losses. ”

Some of these people have become big by force, some have become big by wisdom, and some have become big by taking advantage of the danger of others, naturally not everyone understands the meaning behind Shi Bin's words, so many sincere people asked him to explain the method, saying that if it is feasible, he will definitely support it. Since someone gave a positive answer, Shi Bin just took the opportunity to propose: he went to help everyone here apply for a five-year tax exemption of 100 acres of land, and in return he would collect three years from the banker, and the remaining two years would be collected by the landlord, so that it would be a win-win situation.

knew that he had won the set, but he didn't write a contract in black and white, and in the end, only a few timid people took out a hundred acres of good land to explain. Most of the rest only promised to pay 300 stone of grain. He had long known that this method could not be exhausted, and of course Shi Bin would not feel angry, after all, these grains were enough to tide over this hurdle, but it only made him a little unwilling and wanted to find another way to achieve his goal.

"Big brother, this killing and coercion is still a bit useful, don't be unwilling, at least you can survive these few months. If we think about anything else, I don't believe they did anything bad. Wang San said with a smile, "I have sold illicit salt, and it is difficult for them to ensure that they do not cooperate with bandits and cause people's lives, especially those bullies with bad reputations." ”

thought that as long as this set was completed, those black-hearted guys would naturally obediently send grain and fields for self-protection. Thinking of this, Shi Bin couldn't help but turn his eyes to look at Wang San, and could only say with a smile: "You are very bad, and your ability to set up a set is first-class." ”

Wang San has a lot of advantages, the biggest advantage is that he is not arrogant, modest and cautious, he replied with a smile: "Flies don't bite eggs, if you are really a gentleman who is not messy, even if there is a beautiful woman on the side, you will not squint." ”

Having said that, but they all know that it is impossible, but in order to prevent the county from starving to death, of course, they can only use this method of asking for saints. Although I feel a little undignified, but when I think of the poem 'Zhumen wine and meat stinks and there are frozen bones on the road', all the unhappiness naturally dissipates completely, and I feel that I have become a Guanyin who rescues suffering.

As expected, in less than half a month, the pickling affair of those high-profile people was investigated. This time, of course, it won't be a drink, but a prison meal.

With such a hand, most people can't bear the usual fine clothes and fine food. After all, he is just a rich man, and the government has no foundation, but he just spent money to buy a familiar face.

If you are unlucky, naturally there will be no officials to reach out to help, and if you don't come, you will have to burn high incense. As a result, most of them agreed to this 'win-win' plan, but changed the lease to a 'market price' purchase for punishment.

Now an acre of fertile land is about three taels of silver, and in order to show his "caring for the people", Shi Bin bought one hundred acres of fertile land from each large household with one or two or five dollars of silver.

However, there are still some people who want money and have some roots in the government who ignore Shi Bin's warnings and continue to be his nail households. Of course, I know that these petty crimes of smuggling salt and banditry are not to be dealt with them. So this time Shi Bin came up with his killer weapon: Tongyuan.

In fact, as long as the sale of tea and pig iron to the north is indirect, but in order to confirm the crime, there must be some evidence. With the help of Jia Rudao, the old father-in-law, it is very simple to get a few profiteers who sold tea and pig iron to the Yuan Dynasty to come out of the top jar, and then go to Xiangtan for this set, those nail households will naturally have a crime, and it is a big crime.

At this point, even if those nail households want to take the initiative to send 100 acres of fertile land to support the great cause of resisting the yuan, they don't have to, let alone buy it at a 'market price', just confiscate it. After getting it, a few percent will be distributed to the insatiable cooperative bureaucrats, and this Xiangtan County is completely under Shi Bin's control.

After doing this, Shi Bin also felt happy, and he somewhat understood the benefits of this power. finally understood why so many people wanted to be officials, and also felt the difference between the routine of being a civil official and the routine of being a military attaché, and secretly decided to study hard to be a civil official, and defeat the Yuan people with both civil and military skills.