Chapter 529: Buying a field as a step into the body
Chapter 529: Buying a field as a step into the body
There are several places in the world where there is money, Shandong because of private salt, foreign trade, the prosperity of industry and commerce and the stability of the situation is one, Jiangnan, to be precise, Zhejiang and Nanzhili of the Jiangnan land, here hundreds of years of prosperity and wealth have accumulated, there are countless wealthy merchants, the salt trade in the land of the two Huai naturally has a group of rich people, as well as Shanxi because of the trade with the grassland Jin merchants who made a fortune.
In addition to these businessmen, the remaining rich people are none other than the officials of Beijing and Nanjing, who are only for money, and the high-ranking officials in the two capitals are rich, and they often buy real estate at home, and they are the leading local landlords.
The noble family that has such a relationship with the royal family, not to mention, most of the real estate in Beizhili except for Huangzhuang is theirs, and many industries in Beizhili, Henan and even Linqing Prefecture and Jining Prefecture also have their shadows, and those in Nanjing are naturally needless to say, they are all in the big cities in the south of the Yangtze River.
The merchants' money is better to say, they know to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, as long as they are given profitable projects, the merchants will automatically and consciously take the money and invest it.
Up to now, although Shandong has such and such problems in the eyes of merchants, as long as you don't break the rules, the king of Qi will let you make money peacefully, and will let you do business in the fairest environment possible, which is extremely fair to the Ming army that extorts, the Shun army that is hostile to merchants, and the Tartars who loot at every turn.
But the money in the hands of the merchants is a part, some of their money is in turnover and some are invested, and it is these ruling classes of the Ming Dynasty, those high-ranking officials with real power and those royal relatives and nobles who really have a large amount of liquid gold and silver.
For this part of the wealth, in order to maintain a smooth transition situation, Li Meng did not want to come hard, in the history without Li Meng, after Li Zicheng's Shun army entered the Beijing Division, made 7,000 pairs of flails, and then searched for the Ming Dynasty's high-ranking officials and nobles, and began to torture.
Many high-ranking officials and nobles were pampered and pampered, and they did not think of suffering at all, many people could not bear to vomit out their family property, and many people were shackled to death.
After this incident, the Shun army probably fished out nearly 10 million silver and a lot of physical goods, but it also completely broke with the landlords and gentry of the world.
After the Manchu Tartars defeated Li Zicheng in a piece of stone and entered the customs, the land of Beizhili and Henan was full of beacons, all of which were riots and riots against the Shun army, and the organizers were naturally landlords and gentry who did not share the sky with the Shun army, retired officials, and even shameless people shouted out the words "Qing help me to avenge the destruction of the Ming Dynasty, and I should be loyal".
In Guannai, for the Jiaozhou battalion, the decisive battles against the Ming have been fought, and the next step is to make the transition as smooth as possible, rather than conquering through a destructive war.
The small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty firmly occupies the richest land in the whole world, Jiangnan, if it really starts, it will not be difficult to win the battle, but Jiangnan is afraid that it will be seriously damaged.
The most people in the world are peasants, but the real ruling class is the landlords, and Li Meng now wants to be the general representative of this class, rather than standing in opposition to them.
However, the high-ranking officials and nobles of the Ming Dynasty and some high-level families, who accumulated and fished wealth, could not be ignored so much, let them be hidden, and only used for their own enjoyment and purchase of luxury goods, but the world could not benefit at all.
How can they be willing to take out the money, and after spending the money, there is no complaint, and they have to form a strong community with Shandong, this is the beauty of selling land.
The sale of ownerless land in Shaanxi, Henan, and North Zhili provinces has the advantage of showing the position and attitude of Li Meng, the king of Qi, to the gentry and landlords in the world.
The second advantage is that the land price is so cheap that it makes people laugh, this time more than 60 million mu of land was released at once (Henan in the 6th year of Wanli registered acres is 1449470 hectares, this number has been proved to be relatively reliable, one hectare is equal to 100 acres, this time and space Shaanxi and North Zhili land is relatively less, and there are several prefectures in Henan that have not been damaged too much), and there are less than 6,000 acres of specifications that cannot be purchased, all dynasties and dynasties are trying to suppress mergers as much as possible, and it is difficult for everyone to buy some fields, but this Shandong does not care about selling, it's really cheap.
Since the people of the world know about the Jiaozhou camp, the Jiaozhou camp has been doing well in keeping promises, and those who believe in him have made a fortune with it, although so much land is sold, few people think this is a scam, especially after the Zheng family, the Fang family and the Liu family have come out with a huge amount of money, everyone is moved by the wind, lest they do it late, and the cheap will be earned by others.
Henan was sold these land, the original many landlords fled out, or in the mountains to protect themselves, their land was also swept away, the original landlords of the land ownership of the legal source is the Ming government of the title deed, and buy these land, issued to the newcomer of the land deed of course is the king of Qi Tian Zhengsi, the same is true of Shaanxi, and for Beizhili, those used to sell the land are from Huangzhuang.
Whoever buys land must have made a bargain, and there will be greater benefits in the future, but their ownership of the land comes entirely from the legitimacy and status of the King of Qi, which is equivalent to tying the powerful and qualified rich and noble people in the north and south of the river to the same chariot through the sale of land, and the name of this chariot is Jiaozhou Ying, which is the second benefit.
Of course, such a low-priced land, all the people who come to buy it have a number in their hearts, everyone is not a fool, and no one will come if this transaction will lose money.
The third advantage is obvious, a large amount of silver is in the account, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the Qi Palace, as well as the secretary and supervisor, the inventory department, the finance and trade department, the gold bureau and other departments jointly made the army budget, for the next huge military expenses are a headache. There is no objection to giving priority to the military, but other departments are also spreading out in the future, and although the benefits will increase by a large margin in the future, the first increase will be a large budget and expenditure.
The income from the private salt in various places, the trade from foreign countries, and the transportation of gold, the leaders of the various divisions under the King of Qi used to feel that they had a lot of money, but suddenly they became nervous.
However, because of the hostility between Nanming and King Qi, the waterways were blocked and strictly investigated, and the income was reduced a lot at once, and it was even more stretched.
Looking at the noisy merchants from all over Jinan City, looking at the gold and silver brought by the Jiaozhou battalion troops, the money is not a problem at all, the Department of Finance and Trade made a rough calculation, these silver taels with the future income, there will be no deficit in the next 50 years, not to mention that the huge expenses in the past two years are exceptional, at most it will last for five years.
As for the other advantages of the Jiaozhou battalion, the peasants on the newly occupied land were either starved to death in famine and disaster, or were recruited by the government and the exile army to fight to the death, or they were scattered in the mountains as thieves, and the fields were abandoned, and there was no one for hundreds of miles, and if they wanted to recover, they needed to recruit, resettle, and provide relief for all kinds of troublesome things, and the affairs were incomparably numerous, and even if Shandong increased the number of manpower in the Tuntian Grange and added officials to various places, it was impossible to fill the huge manpower gap in doing these tasks.
Let these gentry and heroes do these tedious work, and the Tuntian Grange in Shandong will give them a good example and give them a feasible method.
Now the world is a number, Shandong this comprehensive manpower of the grange method is effective, and a profitable way, everyone buys land is to make money and business, there is such a good way to naturally learn, in the sale of land policy, also specifically noted this.
To buy these lands, you have to operate them according to the guidance of Shandong, and for a way to make money, of course, everyone will not have any doubts.
The above benefits were all thought of by Shandong, and these methods took out the silver of those people out of their pockets, so as not to make these huge wealth that was not under the control of the king of Qi become an obstacle and a scourge, and then tied everyone to the same chariot, forming a ruling group with big warlords, big landlords, big bureaucrats, big businessmen, and big families as a collective, and let the local integration as soon as possible become their own power.
Of course, for taxes, it will not be like the Ming Dynasty, officials and gentlemen are exempt from taxes, which is a stupid thing to weaken the country, but not to get any loyalty in return, in other words, now these tycoons have taken out so much gold and silver, how can they accumulate such wealth, it is not that the state has not received a penny of taxes.
For these people who took out a large amount of money to buy land, they have been operating and owning land tenants for much longer than most of the people in King Qi and Snake Whip, and they are also much familiar with the corresponding business, how can they not know that these fields, except for the Huangzhuang in Beizhili, large pieces of land in Henan and Shaanxi need to spend a lot of effort to become something that makes money, and it is certain to make a lot of money, but it is not the kind of cheap that is easy to swallow.
The reason why you want to buy, and the world is flocking, it is because everyone understands that King Qi has taken the world is already the trend of the times, King Qi and Jiaozhou Camp are rising too fast and too fast, except for a few lucky, most of them have no chance to make contacts, this time to give everyone such an opportunity to send money, and there are real benefits in return, so why not buy, why not come forward to have fun.
The key is not the question of how much money to buy, but the question of whether you can buy it, which is considered to be an important symbol of whether you can have a place in the postage machine in the new dynasty.
People from all over the country kept coming with large sums of silver, arguing over who could buy as much, and by June, buyers from Canton and Nanyang also came......