Chapter 141: High-priced docks and zealous predecessors

Zhang Liang and Tie Dan's faces were not very good, the two young men were also majestic characters when they were in Jingshi, and whoever saw them on the ground around Huifeng Tower was respectful, and they originally thought that they had come to a small place like Dengzhou. Compared to Jingshi, it should be more awesome.

But in fact, this morning they went out of Dengzhou City with the third steward of "Ban Dengzhou", and the third steward did not give them a good face at all. The third housekeeper is also surnamed Dong, according to Dong Qianping, a large landlord with a scale of more than 100,000 mu, the senior stewards in the family are basically relatives of the same clan.

Dong San's housekeeper himself sat in a carriage, Zhang Liang in the back, Tie Dan rode a horse, and the craftsman explained by Jiang Feng followed in a big cart.

"I don't think those officials in the capital are so bullish, but they are just three housekeepers, what is their majesty?"

Zhang Liang spat at the side, and said viciously, he is Jiang Feng's apprentice, and the relationship is the closest among these people under Jiang Feng, and after Jiang Feng is promoted to a thousand households, Zhang Liang will definitely not be able to run away from the position of a hundred households. So there are some things he can say more casually.

Tie Dan smiled wryly there and didn't say anything, when he got up in the morning, he had already made an appointment for the two parties to meet in the Dong Mansion, but the two of them rode over with people, and the other party delayed for about an hour before coming out. The two men were quite impatient, but the man in the middle persuaded them bitterly:

"This is the Dong family, young man, bear with it, in our Dengzhou Mansion, Mrs. Dong is the sky!"

After the third housekeeper came out, he ignored the two young men who had been waiting in the cold wind for a long time, and directly lost his temper at the middle man and said:

"You are so old, you are getting more and more blind, is the Dong Mansion still short of money, and I want the third master to come out to entertain, our master said, it is not easy for outsiders, thirty taels of silver and an acre of land, go to the bottom of the mountain to choose."

The iron egg over there was already on guard, and hugged Zhang Liang who was about to have a seizure, and shouted in a low voice:

"This is not our capital, the master said that thirty taels of silver will be bought first, and there will be a place to stand first."

Zhang Liang's irritable Dong San housekeeper naturally saw it in his eyes, thirty taels of silver and an acre of land is indeed equal to robbery, although it is said that the landlord's family generally does not sell land, but the land in Dengzhou Mansion is bought and sold, three taels of silver and one acre of land is considered a high price, and a large purchase of one or two silver and an acre of land is not a low price.

However, the price mentioned above is a local, I remember that when someone told Dong Qianping about Jiang Feng's land sale, Dong Qianping smiled and said:

"What does an outsider want to buy so much land for, is it to farm and collect rent, this kind of bad rules can't start with our family, tell him that twenty taels of silver is an acre of land, and if it is less, he will not sell it, go and say hello to the Wang family, and we will take the land by the sea first."

The nearby Qianhu Office is going to come to a new Qianhu town guard, and the Dong family's power in Dengzhou Mansion City naturally has long been known, and someone reminded Dong Qianping on the side:

"Master, let's sell him a face, isn't the second young master still staying in the Thousand Households."

Dong Qianping sneered when he heard this:

"Face, ask the old man to give him face, what kind of face does a small generation of thousands of households have, if the second child loses a hair on the mountain, hum ......"

When the sun was about to set, we arrived at our destination. There are only three or four families there at all, and this is still an official errand for the transit and support of Yantai Mountain. The surrounding area of Dengzhou Mansion is relatively gentle hills and flat land, which can be farmed, but when you go to Yantai Mountain, there is basically no place where you can drop a hoe, relying on the sea, the sea breeze in the north is cold, the salt content is quite large, and there are no crops on the ground at all.

Such a place also requires thirty twenty-one acres of land, Zhang Liang's anger rose, but the three housekeepers in front were happy in their hearts, he was the head snake of the land, and naturally knew that Jiang Feng brought hundreds of people to come here from outside, presumably with the whole clan to Dengzhou to take root here.

In this year, you can't live in an inn for hundreds of households, you have to buy a house by yourself to live, and you have to have land to grow in the future.

Steward Dong San added five taels to the price per mu of land, but the two stupid-looking young men actually agreed to it, and now they were too big.

Although the sky was already close to dusk, and the sea breeze was getting colder and colder at this time, the craftsman who brought it stood on the top of the carriage and looked at the land by the sea, but Dong San's housekeeper didn't pay attention to it at all, and he had already been respectfully invited in by the three or four families here, and he was waiting for good wine and food.

After Dong San's housekeeper woke up in a hangover at noon the next day, Zhang Liang and his party had already selected the land, with the coastline as the side, and the foot of the mountain as both sides of the enclosed area of about 400 acres.

So even if it is idle here, there are no fishermen or the like, speaking of which, there are more fishermen here that are Jiang Feng and Zhao Xiucai came to buy sea intestines near the small port, in this place now, one is that there is a fortress on the mountain, and the other is far away from Dengzhou Mansion, the traffic is very inconvenient, and the fishing village cannot be developed at all.

Although it was the third steward who came out of the Dong Mansion to deal with the matter of selling land, when he came, the third steward was also told that good land could not be sold, around the official road could not be sold, and those sensitive places could not be sold. Our Dong family has such a big industry in Dengzhou Mansion, everything must be careful.

But the 400 acres of land in front of him, except for the sand and gravel and the sea in the distance, there is no place that can be valuable, is it ready to fish, it is only a few dollars and can not be exchanged for food, salt, if it is so simple to dry salt, the people on the seaside are salt merchants.

Four hundred acres of land is a total of 12,000 taels, and he can get 2,000 to 3,000 taels of silver, thinking of this, the third steward made up his mind in his heart, this bird will be sold where it does not lay eggs, and there will be no accidents.

As long as the contract document is returned to the city, it will be concluded if it is notarized by the yamen, and the face of the third steward does not have the arrogance when he came, after all, it is thousands of taels of silver that fall into his pocket. If you are not polite to others, you must also be polite to money.

On the way back, the third housekeeper and the Chinese were all sitting in the carriage in front, and the third housekeeper Dong smiled and whispered:

"It's still someone from Jingshi, it's really stupid and has a lot of money!"

When both the Chinese and the coachman heard this witty remark, they were stunned at first, and then they both laughed. In the back, Tie Dan and Zhang Liang rode a horse between the craftsman's carriage on the left and right, and the craftsman had already drawn a rough pattern with a pen, looked up and followed the two young men with certainty and said:

"It can be used as a port, and at least there is no problem with the berthing of ships of a thousand materials (stone, a unit of measurement for the size of a ship)."

More than 100 households, six or seven hundred families, in Dengzhou City, food, clothing, housing and transportation are only more than 100 taels of silver, in Jiang Feng's eyes, this is nothing at all, now the amount of Huifeng Lou in the capital every day he should get, is more than 100 taels a day, and now the biggest income is the sea boat.

Anyway, it is also approaching the New Year, Jiang Feng does not plan to be too excited, so he simply asks these people to spend a stable year in the city, in metropolises such as Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou, the residents all live in the city, and although the rich and powerful families have manors outside the city, they still live in the city.

But in the following medium-sized mansions, large families have mansions in the city, but more of them live in their own manors, and what they want there is much more comfortable than inside, Dong Qianping and those big landlords are like this, and their Zhuangzi is probably one-third the size of this mansion if they add up.

It is precisely because he does not live in the city that Jiang Feng's affairs in the city are much more convenient, those who live in Tieding's family and the residents of Dengzhou City, who live in the Orion family, are all very happy to have this extra money to earn, and they still hope that the other party will live for a longer time.

Therefore, in Dengzhou City, although it is chaotic, it is not in a hurry.

After reading the notarized land deed of the yamen, Jiang Feng secretly put down a stone in his heart, opening a private port by the sea, if he was targeted by someone with a heart, it would be a big crime, but no one would have thought that a thousand households guarding the town, and a thousand households with hundreds of clansmen, would have any reason for buying land on a large scale, of course, to resettle the clansmen.

The old and weak who had a faint role as a hostage, but now they have such convenience, I really didn't expect that the next step was to arrange the port after going up the mountain.

At this time, Jiang Feng was receiving an unexpected guest, although the conditions in the passenger station were not as good as Jingshi, but there was also a single courtyard for the rich and noble to live in, and it was now used by Jiang Feng as a place to receive guests, and sitting at the head of Jiang Feng was a mighty-looking, quite tall officer, wearing the regular uniform of a thousand military attachés.

Although Jiang Feng was surprised in his heart, his expression was quite affectionate, and he said with a smile:

"Chen Qianhu actually came to visit my brother first, it's really a loss of my courtesy, I'm ashamed, I don't know what advice Chen Qianhu can have?"

In his heart, the officers of the Dafan Guard Station are all eating empty quotes and greedy for military salaries, and there are people there who are so willing to move the place easily, but Jiang Feng himself doesn't look down on that bit of salary, so he is already ready to give some blood to let this thousand households leave, but the next words greatly surprised him.

"It's okay, it's okay, I don't know when Lord Jiang and his brother will go through the handover procedures? Could it be that there is any inconvenience to delay? Isn't it a bit of a hassle to resettle the clansmen? Tell Chen that I will definitely handle it properly for you, and we will hand it over as soon as possible. ”

Chen Qianhu's mighty face was now full of eagerness......