Chapter 45 Siege of the Store
Li Yuchun and others are waiting for the courtiers who are demoted to the local courtiers, the first few months are in Tiancheng, Yanghe, Ulzhou, Lingqiu and other places, to the southernmost Lingqiu there are more than 300 miles, to the westernmost town there are more than 100 miles, to Yanghe also has more than 100 miles, the acres of land in these places add up to 5 million acres, he has been running several times in the past few months, almost every day on the road, after the year and Yusheng a large number of grain began to get together, and then the account business opened, the daily silver is rolling in, Zhang Han has silver in his handLater, in Tiancheng and Yang and the town of Ulzhou four cities have set up sub-bureaus, it is more convenient to take silver, Li Yuchun has set up grain collection points in each county and the Acropolis, and several larger towns located in the main roads have also been set up, a total of 20 points, each point has two or three people, rented a warehouse, after May began to collect a large amount of grain, the daily harvest of grain by the mule and horse shop outlets of Yusheng transported to Xinpingbao, these ten days he has collected 110,000 stones, is expected to July wheat harvest and summer tax begins, More than half a million can be received in these places...... This is also due to the fact that the weather is not good, and the production is decreasing in various places, and if it is a good year, the wheat and miscellaneous grains harvested in these places in a year can be at least 3 million stones.
Of course, it is impossible for so much grain to be eaten by He Yusheng's family, according to Li Yuchun's estimate, if this continues to be harvested, sooner or later it will be able to eat four to fifty percent, and nearly half of the less is the production of other grain stores' own fields or large landowners, those people have to hoard grain to sell at a high price during the spring famine, even if He Yusheng's bid is not low, it will not let everyone choose He Yusheng's family...... In the same corner of the world, it is already rare to receive so much food.
The main reason is that from Yanghe to Tiancheng, and then to Zhenyu, there are quite a lot of plains, and there are also many paddy fields along the Yanghe River basin and tributaries, which greatly increases the average yield per mu in these places.
In particular, there has been a shortage of water in recent years, and in some areas where dry fields are the mainstay, the peasants' harvest can only make ends meet, and the people in these places have to tighten their belts and pay taxes after completing their grain, and the burden is very heavy, and the limited grain must be used with wild vegetables to fill their stomachs, and in addition to the tax grain that must be sold and paid, not a single grain will be sold, and it is naturally very difficult to collect grain.
Li Yuchun really wants to go to Xuanda in the next step, where there are more rivers and plains, as long as you put a little heart, the grain is at least easier to harvest than Shanxi.
But now that all the plans have come to naught, Li Yuchun is very at a loss, and he doesn't know what to do next?
This incident, it is already obvious that there is a big man with a strong background and scenery behind him, otherwise, it is impossible for a palm print commander and a few grain merchants to dare to deal with a strong business like He Yusheng.
Although there is still a gap compared to a giant businessman like the Fan family, it is not far behind in terms of scale, and in terms of account bureau and dart master strength, He Yusheng has surpassed the Fan family.
"Someone is making trouble again."
There was a noisy sound outside, Li Yuchun's face was ugly, Yang Qiu also stood up, and scolded and said, "If it is in Xinping Fort, you can't kill these dogs." ”
And Yusheng's branch in Tiancheng Acropolis is not small, after all, this is the Acropolis, the area is much larger than Xinping Fort, Fang Guang is about six miles to seven miles, although there are no military and civilian thousands of households here in Datong, but each guard is a solid soil guard, there are not only military households and civilian people under the rule, the place is also quite rich, the population of the Acropolis is about 100,000 people, in the west here is a large Acropolis, the more west, the population of the guard is smaller, of course, the population of the people in the northwest is much less.
The branches, mule and horse shops, grain stores, and accounts are all in one place, and five compounds are bought in one place, and there are more than 100 houses, which occupies no less area than that of Xinpingbao.
The account office is in the middle of the shops, although there is not a lot of silver, the scale is also similar to Xinpingbao, a big house made of blue bricks, no windows and only doors, and the security is very strict.
If there were no such scale and weather, there would not be more and more merchants who would dare to hand over silver and goods to He Yusheng for transshipment and exchange.
The grain store is in the outermost periphery, with nearly half of the big houses, which have been treated with moisture, and can store more than 300,000 stone grain, plus the branches of Zhenyu and Yanghe, the grain storage is more than one million.
These are all purchased by Zhang Han as the master, and they are also generous, which makes Li Yuchun surprised and admired.
Now there are some peasants who come to sell grain and some low-level small grain merchants, collecting grain everywhere and selling it on the back of mules and horses, and the grain harvest has been stopped in the past few days, and many people gather outside every day, scolding and Yusheng for having no reputation, Li Yuchun knows that most of the people here are selling grain and not getting angry, and there are also those who read jokes, and even deliberately instigated trouble.
The price of grain collected by Yusheng is five dollars and one stone, compared with the current situation of famine and production reduction in recent years and high grain prices, this price is an absolute conscience price, and the rest of the big grain merchants, including the branches of the Fan family, are still three coins and one stone, at most the old price of one or two silver and three stones to collect, the price difference is so much, naturally the sellers are like clouds.
There is a mess outside the store, Li Yuchun and Yang Qiu can't sit still, today's people seem to come extraordinarily, there are crowds of people outside the store, there are almost nearly a thousand people at a glance, so many people of course will not all come to sell grain, I am afraid that there are more people who look lively, there are more farmers pushing chicken carts outside the store, and there are more grains of two to three stones on the car, most of these people come to sell grain to prepare for paying taxes, and the grain sold is estimated to be just enough to pay taxes, if the price of grain is lower by half, these farmers will have to sell twice as much grain to pay the Naxia tax, In a few months, there will be a higher amount of autumn tax, and at the same time, many tenant farmers will have to pay nearly half of the land rent to the landlord, and the burden is really heavy, not to mention that the price of grain here in Heyusheng is two cents higher, even if it is only two cents of silver, I am afraid that many people will push a cart and run for dozens of miles.
If the peasants are okay, they are all squatting on the ground with a bitter face and waiting, not making much noise, if they really don't accept it, these people can only push the cart back, but those small grain merchants are very anxious, and the main force of the noise is also them, as soon as they see Li Yuchun's figure, many people just jump up and shout.
"Uncle Li, didn't you always say that you always collect grain? I ran a hundred and ten miles and collected more than 100 stone grains at a high price, and if you stop here, don't you want me to hang myself? ”
"Li Erjiao, if you don't collect grain, I can only die at the door of your store, you and Yusheng are also decades old, do you really do such a lack of morality?"
"You have to explain it today, do you still accept it?"
These small grain merchants actually know that the current situation is not to blame with Yusheng, everyone has heard about Li Yuchun's injury, there must be those big grain merchants behind it, and some people guess that it is related to the gentry or the forces of the guard, but most of these people have collected a lot of grain, and if they sell at the price of the big grain merchants, they will lose a lot, and if they put it in their hands, these people can't afford it...... Everyone knows that after two months, when the summer tax is paid, the price of grain will rise back, but in the past few months, there are hundreds of stones of grain on hand, and ordinary people really can't afford it.
Li Yuchun has a plain face, but his heart is mixed, people at that time rarely talk about contracts when doing business, only talk about faith, and the buyer and seller export a word is a mouthful of spit and a nail, there is no reason to break his word, this time to suspend the collection of grain, Li Yuchun does not know how the proprietor will decide in the end, but he knows in his heart that if he really does not collect grain in the end, even if he Yusheng completely smashes the brand, he does not know how much effort will be spent to make up for it in the future...... Even if ten or twenty years later, when people mention him Li Yuchunlai, there will definitely be no good words in his mouth...... has been doing business all his life, and he is already inferior to a scholar, if the good reputation that he has always been proud of is ruined again, and he will really have no energy to live......
"Second cabinet," as if seeing that Li Yuchun and his mood were not right, Yang Qiu squinted his eyes and said: "These guys also want to make money on our and Yusheng's heads, if we have nothing to do, they will make money, and if something happens, they will come to scold the street, how can there be such a simple reason, don't pay attention to them, besides, there is a young proprietor in everything, don't be so worried, the young proprietor will not let you end up." ”
"That's all I can think about......"
Li Yuchun is not as confident as Yang Qiu, after all, he has been away from Xinpingbao for a long time, and his every move towards Zhang Han is equivalent to standing on the outside, he only feels that the development is too fast and it is too easy to make money, and what is the reason, he doesn't understand much, because his confidence in Zhang Han, the young proprietor, is not too much.
No one on Heyusheng's side made a sound, not to mention continuing to collect grain, those farmers who pushed carts or drove donkeys continued to sigh, the small grain merchants became more and more angry, many people waved their arms forward, Yang Qiu waved his hand, and the twenty or so dart masters suddenly let out a breath, and the scene suddenly became a lot quieter.
These dart masters are veterans drawn from various branches, most of them are from Lahu, and they have a cold breath on their bodies, and they have been practicing non-stop in the past few months, and they have fought a lot of group fights with knives and guns, and they have added a lot of fierce air to their bodies, and they all have short weapons hidden in their bodies.
Yang Qiu grinned: "Look at the second cabinet, do the idlers standing on the periphery look at it?" ”
Li Yuchun nodded subconsciously, and his eyes couldn't help but glance behind the crowd.
Those idlers stood there at the beginning, and came every day, and there were forty or fifty people, and a few of them were hiding in the corners with conspicuous long weapons, and most of them were carrying waist knives, or bulging bags around their waists, and they were obviously hiding short weapons such as picks, and these people all had an aura, and they were obviously not good people.
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