Those who are related to the mountains and bring their ancestors, as well as those refugees, buy seeds is also this standard, there are those who are willing to pay in cash, but there are no sweet potatoes and potatoes, four catties of wheat or sorghum for one catty of seeds, this price, in the eyes of the villagers who believe that the yield per mu is 1,000 catties, it is really not high.

But in the eyes of these people who are a little skeptical near Zhuoluji, the cost is too high, they are all eaten in the stomach, why should I use four times the things in exchange, the loss is big, even if you have a higher yield, there is no reason to be so expensive, in this era, people have no concept of breeding at all, they all use the grain that was laid down in the previous year, and sow it year after year.

And some people shouted, this sweet potato potato has never been seen before, except for their own consumption, it is estimated that they will not be able to sell the price, and if they want to use them to complete the endowment, I am afraid it will not work, which makes these people even more dissatisfied with the price of seeds.

Although the Zhuolu Trading Company promised that if there were too many sweet potatoes and potatoes and no one else would harvest them, the Zhuolu Trading Company would also collect them at a fair price with silver taels, cloth or green salt, but not many people seemed to believe this in Zhuolu Market.

At the beginning of the dynasty, the imperial court adopted a tax system in kind, that is, what you plant and pay, but this method has many drawbacks, because the big head needs to be transported to Beijing, transportation, storage and loss and so on are big problems, not to mention the officials and officials from the top and bottom, with big buckets in and out of small buckets and so on to fill their pockets.

After Zhang Juzheng of the Wanli Dynasty reformed, he was uniformly converted into silver and collected taxes, which solved some of the drawbacks of taxes in kind, but brought new problems.

That is, the collusion between officials and businessmen, and the grain merchants desperately lowered the price of grain when collecting grain, and even if there was a bumper harvest, the peasants did not earn much from selling grain, but the tax was calculated according to silver taels, which was equivalent to paying more grain.

When the peasants need to buy grain to survive, the price of grain is high, and this entry and exit is equivalent to putting a piece of wool on the peasants.

It is not that the peasants do not want to keep enough rations, but that the output is low, and even if the harvest is good, the taxes and land rent will cost six or seven percent, and the rest must be left for planting, so it is really impossible to keep enough rations.

Where does the money come from? Loans, pawns, and even selling children and daughters, to name a few, in short, to squeeze out and suck up what is on people's bodies.

So far, only a handful of them have been willing to accept the price in exchange for the Divine Land, but only in words before most of the others have acted.

The rest of the people kept coming to the door to grind their mouths, hoping that Zhiwen and they could lower the seed fee, and those who were particularly poor still wanted to be able to give them credit and pay it back after the grain was harvested.

Of course, Zhiwen can't agree, if he really comes down, where are the Zhuolu mountain people who paid the seed fee as promised, it stands to reason that his own people will collect less, and outsiders will collect more expensive, but it is just a new thing, and he always has to give some profits at the beginning, but it is already the biggest concession to let these people enjoy the same preferential treatment as their own people.

As for the credit seeds, it's not impossible, the premise is that these people want to recognize the price, but the problem is that both sides lack trust, according to the words of later generations, it is a credit guarantee problem, and those who want to owe on credit are surrounded by walls, and they can't even take out something decent, and they are not familiar with Zhuolu Trading Company, purely relying on personal credit?

Zhiwen is not very relieved, and he is not doing charity, or those refugees, they also have to work, if there are people from the Zhuolu family who are willing to be guarantors, it is almost the same, but people who know Zhuolu Mountain will not be so difficult.

"Tell them to recognize our seed price first before anything else." Zhiwen commanded.

Some families have indeed reached the point where they are about to be unable to open the pot, and it is also their most kind of will, in their opinion, this kind of food that has never been seen before, even if it cannot be sold, it cannot be exchanged for money, as long as it can make themselves belly covered.

But the opening of the price reduction must not be opened, even if they find a way to make up for it after harvesting, some families are actually quite solid, and it is not that they can't exchange food, but they just want to take advantage of the troubled waters.

Shang Xiaocheng heard this, sighed, and turned around, he had endured hardships and knew that his livelihood was difficult at the moment, if these people could really grow sweet potatoes and potatoes, they would definitely be able to improve, but these two things are divine objects, and if they want to get them at a very small price, there is no such reason.

Zhi Wenfu lay back down and continued to enjoy the coolness, but he couldn't calm down, he wasn't worried that these townspeople, as well as the nearby villagers, would be demons, and the killing at the gate of the trading company that day had scared them out.

Seeing that it is August, and it is time to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes in the second half of the year, Zhuolu Mountain, as well as the surrounding familiar mountain villages, have turned over the land, applied fertilizer, and are waiting to be planted, but this place is still in dispute, if you miss the agricultural time, you will miss the harvest of a season, the promotion of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and you have to wait until next year, so that making money will also be affected.

This is not a big deal, it was only delayed for half a year, and what annoyed Zhiwen even more was the news that Ma Er brought to him when he was still in Liangtian Tunbao, that is, the Fan family had sent people to Datong to promote these two high-yield grains for the Zhuolu Trading Company.

Zhiwen didn't know much about it, he was very happy at the beginning, this is a good thing, after Ma Er explained, he knew that the Fan family had evil intentions, and the area around Zhuolu Mountain was the land of the Ming royal family, and they wanted to lure the wolf of the king over.

Most of these vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are extremely greedy, especially the kings of this generation, and they have a pathological obsession with land and wealth.

Even so, the acting king was still not satisfied, and colluded with a giant businessman like the Fan family, and through them, he wantonly sold the grain, green salt, fine iron and other forbidden goods of the imperial court that he could control to the grassland and Liaodong, making huge profits from it, but he didn't care what impact this move would have on his family and country.

Speaking of which, Zhiwen they farmed in Zhuolu Mountain, and they still received the favor of some generations of kings, and the land under the name of the imperial prince did not need to be handed over to the imperial court, of course, Zhuolu Mountain is located in a remote area, and it is a nest of bandits, no one dares to collect it, but other villages in the mountains are not less poisoned by the officials, and the land taxes of the imperial court do not need to be paid, but the fire consumption of the local government is indispensable.

This area of mountains and forests is deep, except for wild things, there is no output, the king of the king basically can't go out of the house, can not come here to hunt, even if someone farms, it is pitiful, the king of the king can't look down on it at all, is to pay little attention to the land under his name, but now if you hear that there is a grain output of up to 1,000 catties per mu here, I'm afraid it will not be as calm as before.