The little fat man's surname is Mu, and Mu has wealth.

Despite the name, he is actually quite lucky.

Mu Youcai was born in Quancheng Mansion, and when Da Zhou was still in Jiangbei, their family was the dung section of Quancheng Mansion, and the three generations of their ancestors took over the work of cleaning up the feces for the residents of the entire Fucheng.

This job sounds pickled, but it's actually very lucrative - there is no cost except for the yamen.

Laborers are hired from villages outside the city, and then manure is used as wages.

Other manure can be sold to farmers, as if it were for nothing.

With savings, or to lend money, or to buy land, as long as you don't go to bad gambling and losers, three generations is enough to accumulate a lot of wealth.

Moreover, the Mu family has also accumulated a lot of contacts by taking over the dung section, and at the chaotic moment of the southward migration of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Mu Youcai's grandfathers gathered their own strong men, hired workers, and tenants to build a dock fort near Quancheng, and served as the dock fort owner for more than ten years.

In other words, Mu Youcai was born as the son of the master of Wubao, and he is also a big family in Qi Province.

When the Xu family rose up and marched to Quancheng Mansion, the Mu family was very aware of the current affairs and took the initiative to surrender to the Xu family, who was still a festival envoy at that time, which allowed the family to retain a lot of the wealth accumulated in the past - at least the Qi army did not confiscate their family's existing money and grain, except for population and land.

Of course, the loss of the Mu family is not small, first of all, the people of Wubao, who used to have all their personal rights, have become free people, and the Mu family has no right to use these valuable labor without compensation.

The second is the land limitation, in the past, all the land of the dock fort belonged to the dock castle owner, and the peasants who cultivated on it were all tenants of the dock castle owner's family.

After the establishment of the Qi State, the King of Qi and Wang Shizi carried out land reform, and the lord of the Wubao was only allowed to reserve cultivated land according to the standard of 2 Ding per household, and each household was 50 mu as the standard, and the excess land had to be "sold" to the Qi government at a low price.

Moreover, if a family has more than three households in the local area, the extra hukou will have to be moved to other places - sometimes Liaodong, or it may be Hebei Province or other provinces in this province, and replace it with local land.

Of course, the government of King Qi encouraged the Wubao owner family to invest in industry with this money, and if the Wubao owner did not collect the money and invested the land compensation into the industry according to the government's guidance, they could get an additional 1 to 2% compensation.

Therefore, when the land was collected, the owner of Wubao did lose money, but if he invested in industry according to the guidance of the Qi Wang government, after several years of development dividends, he actually earned.

What is more tragic is that not all families trust the King of Qi who received their land, such as Mu Youcai's father, who held all the money in his hands and did not invest in any industry.

Therefore, for the Mu family, Qi's land reform policy was indeed a complete loss.

Last but not least, Daddy Mu Youcai's attempt to bribe the officials of the Qi State and regain the dung section completely failed.

Because the demand for saltpeter in Qi is unprecedentedly huge, Xu Shiyang has been implementing public toilets when he was in Wuxiantun.

After the establishment of the Qi State, this became something of an institutional thing - it was strictly forbidden to defecate and defecate in the city and on the rural roads, and every fang in the city and every village in the countryside must have at least one public toilet.

If you go out to defecate and defecate at will, you will be fined or punished for voluntary work to clean up the streets.

The manure from the public toilet can be sold or used in the village's land, and the income is divided equally according to the population of each household, and the saltpeter produced in the public toilet must be handed over.

In other words, Qi did not cover the manure section, and the manure of the rural public toilets was used on their own land, and the urban manure was the property of the residents of Fangguo.

The old Mu family has lost the ancestral business, and in the eyes of Mu Youcai's father, this family has inevitably declined.

However, Mu Youcai himself feels that things are not so simple.

Today's Qi country is thriving, although many old industries have disappeared, but at the same time, new industries have sprung up, as long as you have the heart, it is not difficult to find a new business that can be heirlooms.

Therefore, Mu Youcai's father separated from his family and moved to Ji Province with some money, but Mu Youcai himself has been carefully looking for opportunities to make a fortune.

He has a small business, and he can't grasp the big opportunity (Qi Guoxiao's former dock owner family, the biggest opportunity to make a fortune is actually the government's guidance to invest in industry, there was policy support at that time, and then you personally want to invest in other companies, but you may not be willing to ask for it), grab a few more small opportunities, and still have the opportunity to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth.

For example, this expedition.

Now the Qi army has almost 20,000 soldiers under Datong City, and there are 100,000 people in the local township soldiers in Jin Province and the logistics convoys and caravans that Qi and Jin have come and gone before.

With so many people eating and drinking every day, the public toilets in the camps naturally have a staggering amount of manure.

Of course, it was impossible for the Qi army and merchants to transport these things back to China, and the Qi army did not prohibit the residents of Datong City from coming out to take care of the fields, and the farmers near Datong naturally needed a lot of fertilizer.

There's production and there's demand, and that's a good deal.

The best thing is that except for Mu Youcai, who has taken care of the dung section at home, others will not see this kind of business for a while.

This is simply God directly throwing the opportunity on Mu Youcai's head.

The only pity is that this business is destined to be long-term, because the Qi army will not be sure that the siege will last too long, once Datong is taken and the troops leave, this business will naturally disappear.

But it doesn't matter, save a little more money, and you will be able to strive for greater opportunities in the future.

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Qi's bizarre conquest of Jin Province gave many small people like Mu Youcai opportunities.

Some people are bolder than Mu Youcai, and their family background is thicker than him, and they believed that the Qi army would win this battle from the beginning, and Jin Province was already included in the jurisdiction of Qi in their eyes.

Therefore, they took advantage of the brief opportunity when local companies had not yet begun to enter in a big way, and began to seize the opportunity.

Some people invest in coal mines, some people open brick kilns, and some people take advantage of the opportunity to open wool textile factories from the grasslands.

At this moment when the Qi army had not yet completely occupied Jin Province, some of the more basic industries and commerce had already taken Jin Province under their control before the government and the army.

The common people of Jin Province can naturally profit from this, not to mention that the demand for manpower in the newly opened industrial and mining enterprises, combined with the welfare and security system for workers in Qi State, is enough for those peasants who face the loess all year round on the slopes and face the sky but cannot eat a full meal all year round to change their living conditions.

Working in coal mines, brick factories or textile factories opened by Qi people, the income from wages each quarter is equivalent to the harvest of a whole year of farming.

In addition, the factory also provides two meals a day, which is equivalent to a large saving for poor families.

Of course, more importantly, whether it is the Qi army or the factory, everyone spares no effort to publicize, as long as the Shihou is defeated, the usury owed by the peasants before will not count!

This is great news!

The hearts of the people of Jin Province are falling towards the Qi State at an unexpected speed.