The silver he brought with him this time was more than 400,000 taels.

These can be said to be all the liquidity he can use.

Although Fengcheng has many disasters and difficulties, because of the high grain output under the normal annual fee, the price of its land is not low, and the land closest to the river costs fifty taels of silver per mu. The land that is far away from the danger zone is even more expensive, and there is a highland that has not been affected by floods for many years, and it is even priced at 400 taels of silver per acre. Because if a flood comes suddenly one day, it is very likely that this will be the only safe place.

Life is bigger than the sky!

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Chen decided on the land to be bought. Including 100 acres on the highlands, 1,000 acres on the flat land, and 300 acres near the river. All the land cost him almost 180,000 taels of silver.

Because it is a post-disaster reconstruction and meritorious service to the imperial court, it is exempted from paying taxes for ten years, which is a great benefit.

After buying the land, the next step is to find someone to plant.

It is impossible to count on the aborigines here, Zhang Chen can only ask Jin Ruisheng to help him find a famous tooth woman.

According to Na Ya Po herself, there are hundreds of people who go out of her hands every day, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she is the first Ya Po of the Apocalypse Dynasty.

However, the scale is large, and the people are really professional, and they told her that they were bought to farm the land, and these people she recommended almost didn't need to be eliminated, and they were all qualified.

It wasn't until these people were transported to Fengcheng, the houses used to live were built, the personnel rations were organized, and all these things were settled, that Zhang Chen suddenly found that more than three months had passed.

I missed the spring planting, but I just in time for the summer planting, and when the autumn comes, I will be able to harvest a wave of rice.

Fengcheng has also changed a lot from when he first came, the streets have become much cleaner, and the people who come from all over the world to pan for gold have also made all kinds of shops busy.

Wherever Zhang Chen went, he didn't forget to buy a few shops, and in addition to using them for himself, he could also rent them out to get some rent.

The shop he opened was also carefully considered, except for a grocery store and a ready-to-wear store, the rest was an inn.

Before autumn, the inn's business had been tepid, but in the late autumn, when the grain should be harvested, the inn suddenly became popular.

The grain merchants from all over the Apocalypse filled it in a few days. The inn not only provides accommodation and three meals a day, but also holds intermediary meetings every other day, providing a platform for communication between landlords who want to sell grain and merchants who come to collect grain and resell.

And this kind of intermediary will not be free, and his inn will take a commission of one thousandth of it.

But even so, there are many people who choose to trade through the inn, after all, the inn will not run there, and there is more security.

At this time, some people envied Zhang Chen's foresight, you must know that just this half month of the peak season of grain collection is enough to make Zhang Chen's inn make a lot of money.

Then follow Zhang Chen's ass and build a similar inn? Maybe he will make a small profit, but his inn has already been named among the merchants who come from the south to the north, and most people will choose to come to Fengcheng again, and it is impossible to be a hit like Zhang Chen.

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All the gains also come at a price. In order to arrange a good job here in Fengcheng, Zhang Chen stayed here with Lexi for half a year. Every day during this period, Zhang Chen did not have any free time, and often returned home tired and fell asleep.

Lexi was not idle. There are always various sequelae after the flood, there are many microorganisms and bacteria in the air, which will cause various epidemic diseases, and the imperial court also thought of this, and sent many doctors to help the local residents disinfect and prevent.

Lexi spontaneously participated in this event. Not only did he contribute, but he also donated a large amount of money to purchase medicinal materials. is busy every day, and it is even more difficult to see Zhang Chen than before.

Therefore, although the husband and wife did not live separately, they did not have much time to spend together.

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After the autumn harvest, I was finally able to take a breath, and Lexi's work came to an end, and the two of them took a boat to Chengjiang together.

The calm Chengjiang River, the scenery is beautiful, looking at the calm river in front of you, it will not make people think that it is the same river, when it is tyrannical and crazy, it can easily take the lives of thousands of people within minutes.

Zhang Chen naturally would not mention these things to Lexi at such a time.

With a fishing net in his hand, he threw it down against the setting sun, and after a period of waiting, he suddenly closed it.

"Wow! This fish is so big! Lexi looked at the giant catch that was almost as long as Zhang Chen's arm, and forgot to step forward to help.

"Hurry up and help me, I can't stand it anymore!" In front of his daughter-in-law, although Zhang Chen wanted to be handsome, he would not be embarrassed to ask for help because of this. If you lose the big fish because of your own hypocrisy, it will be more than worth the loss, right?

"Oh!" Lexi came back to his senses, and the husband and wife worked together to pull the fishing net onto the boat.

Looking at the few big fish that were still unwilling to jump inside, the corners of Zhang Chen's mouth hooked slightly.

Looks like it's time to arrange a boat for a fishing trip.

When he bought the land, he signed a supplementary agreement with the yamenli, and the two parties agreed that Zhang Chen could organize fishing in the river at the appropriate time, without having to pay additional silver. Although there is a limit to the number of times, looking at the size of the fish in front of you, the harvest will definitely not be small.

When they returned to land, they took the fish and went to the inn, where the cook cooked a feast of whole fish, and invited Pan Daining and his cousin Pan Daiyi to attend.

There is a lot of fish in the river, which is absolutely unconcealable, and it is better for him to take the initiative to confess than to let others expose it in the future. And Zhang Chen has a hunch that such a confession will only be good for himself.

Sure enough, Pan Daiyi was very excited when he heard Zhang Chen's explanation, and almost put down his chopsticks and left for the yamen.

Two days later, the decision of the Yamen came down, they decided to release the quota qualification for fishing in the river every day, and the number of fishing boats in the water was charged, Zhang Chen's agreement with the Yamen before that was still valid, and there would be no additional charges.

That's a lot of money!

Zhang Chen is already very satisfied with such a result, delusional to eat alone alone? He didn't think he had that much face.

Therefore, when everyone wanted to go down the river to fish, only Zhang Chen didn't have to worry about whether he would have the opportunity to go down the river to fish tomorrow, and several of his fishing boats were often lucky to catch big fish, and the cash received every day.

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Although the weather in the south is warm and generally does not freeze in winter, in order to recuperate and not draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, after November, the Yamen still closed the fishing boats and no longer let them go down the river, and Zhang Chen also had a lot of free money.