Chapter 115: Negotiation (1)

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang determined that "opening up the fields and increasing the number of household registrations" was the primary task for restoring and developing the economy, especially the revival of the north. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Through incentives and measures such as resettlement and reclamation, reduction and exemption of labor, and the establishment of military cantonments, the cultivated land area of the country has grown rapidly. In terms of spatial geography, the official land statistics of the Ming dynasties only included the northern and southern Zhili and the Thirteen Political Divisions, but did not include the northeast and northwest frontier regions. In terms of the area covered, it only includes the registered taxable fields, and does not include the acres of Haoqiang's hidden fields and uncultivated fields, and does not include the acres of cultivated fields that are "never able to afford the department" for a considerable period of time. Therefore, the amount of nearly 4 million hectares in Hongwu 24 years should be the registered taxable acres.

After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the reclamation of barren land and the development of underdeveloped areas, the area of cultivated land continued to grow. However, due to the abolition of the law, the deception of the rich, the falsification of the documents, and the observance of the ancestors' standing quotas, the registered fields often remained around 4 million hectares in the early Ming Dynasty. During the Wanli period, the reformer Zhang Juzheng carried out land clearance across the country with the determination and courage of "profiting from the community and living with it", in order to solve the sharp contradiction of "uneven land and grain, which is biased towards the small people". According to the statistics of Wanli in the sixth year, there are more than 7.01 million acres of land across the country. From the tenth year to the eleventh year of Wanli, the national Qingzhang was basically completed, with more than 1.82 million acres of new fields, plus the number of acres of fields in the sixth year of Wanli, a total of more than 8.83 million hectares of cultivated land at this time, which doubled compared with the 24 years of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty. Due to the further development of barren land and mountainous areas, the cultivated land area was further expanded, and by the 30th year of Wanli, there were more than 11618948 hectares of land for the government and the people, and more than 635343 hectares of grain land for Tuntian, and the total of the two was more than 12254291 hectares. This is the highest amount of cultivated land in the Ming Dynasty, quadrupling from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty and 2.33 times the highest amount of land in the Song Dynasty.

Until the late Ming Dynasty, there was still a large amount of uncultivated wasteland in the Gyeonggi region, the Huaihe River Basin, the Yellow River Basin, the Huguang Plain, and the southwestern mountainous areas, and there was still a lot of room for development. Hongzhi asked Qiu Jun and said, "In today's terms, in the land of Jinghu, there are many fields and few people; In the land on the right side of the river, there are few fields and many people, and most of the people on the right side of the river live in Jinghu. During the Jiajing period, the three prefectures of Jinan, Dongchang and Yanzhou in Shandong Province have been "quite known as Yinshu", but "the two counties of Denglai, south of Yiji, are sparsely populated, and there are still many desolate places".

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, land concentration had reached an unprecedented level. The princes and the landlords and gentry frantically annexed land, and most of the peasants lost their land one after another. In Sichuan, an ordinary landlord owns dozens of tenants. In Zhejiang and Fujian, 1/10 have land, and 9/10 are tenants. Most of the fields in Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Huguang and other places were occupied by the princes and relatives and the landlords and gentry.

Ordinary landlords and gentry take by grabbing and stealing, "asking for land and giving up without stopping". The rich and wealthy families in the south of the Yangtze River occupy hundreds of acres of land, thousands of acres, or even 10,000 acres. Henan's gentry Fuji occupies 50,000-70,000 acres of land. The most prominent was the vassal king Zhantian. Wanli time, King Fu sealed Henan, Mingshenzong gave him 2 million acres of land at one time, Henan fields are not enough, "and take Shandong, Huguangtian benefit". At the time of the Apocalypse, Ming Xizong ordered the allocation of Zhuangtian to the three kings of Gui, Hui, Rui and Princess Suiping and Princess Ningguo, with a minimum of 70-800,000 mu and a large number of 3 million mu. The states and counties had no land to allocate to them, so they ordered the people everywhere to share the silver rent, which was called "landless rent." This situation is unprecedented!

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After the two of them sat down, the dishes were served after a while, and there was a wine glass in front of both of them, at this time Hua Zhankui picked up the wine glass and said: "Thank you Boss Feng for coming, Hua someone heard that Boss Feng has a good business and time is tight, so he hurriedly booked a box in the most upscale restaurant here in the capital to invite Boss Feng." ”

In this way, Boss Hua also has a heart! This time I came to the banquet of the flower boss is also because I have a word with your son before, and I will talk about honesty in business, so I naturally came to talk with the flower boss first, because yesterday the flower boss did not give a letter, so a little later yesterday, there are other bosses who are also interested in buying the land in my hand, of course, I can only respond first, and I can't just wait for the news of the flower boss and miss a deal, right? Of course, the price I negotiated with your son before was the same, so I didn't use this as a reason for the price increase. I wonder if Boss Hua can decide today? Feng Qingbai's words were naturally worded early in the morning, and they were completely leaky.

As soon as Hua Zhankui heard Feng Qingbai say this, he had seven or eight points of belief, and the price according to the current market is almost relatively low, since the other party did not use this to increase the price, then this can be determined.

"Then Hua really wants to thank Boss Feng for his kindness, of course, what we businessmen pay attention to is integrity, since Boss Feng is so sincere, then Hua can still settle down. Come and toast for our sincerity! I wish us a successful cooperation! Hua Zhankui raised his glass and drank a glass with Feng Qingbai!

"Hahaha, come, eat vegetables, eat vegetables, the chefs of this restaurant are well-known for their good skills." Hua Zhankui took a bite of the dish, and heard what the family Ding said to Hua Wu's ear.

Hua Wu walked over directly and said a few words in Hua Zhankui's ear, probably because he felt that this news was not a secret, his voice was naturally a little louder, "Dad, listening to the words of the family, they found that Yang Gongzi, the spokesperson of Lord Yin Cheng of Nafu, was also eating upstairs with the president of the Zhengyang Chamber of Commerce here. Why don't you go and see us? ”

After Hua Zhankui heard this, he also felt that it was not a secret, and he also told him before thinking about it, Hua Wu had some misunderstanding between Hua Wu and the spokesperson of Lord Yin of this mansion, and he was worried that it would be difficult for Hua Fu, so he had to find an opportunity to talk about it, at least talk about it, that is to say, let others know that even if this Yang Gongzi embarrassed their Hua Mansion, it was morally untenable in the rivers and lakes, and everyone knew that he had friction with Hua Fu and then embarrassed Hua Fu, that is, your Yang Gongzi was narrow-minded.

Therefore, as soon as Hua Zhankui heard this, he wanted to use Feng Qingbai's people to influence the name of Yang Gongzi, the spokesperson of Lord Yin, in this mansion, so as not to trouble their Hua family in the future. didn't know that all this was exactly what Feng Qingbai expected, and when Hua Wu told Hua Zhankui, Feng Qingbai quickly came up with a plan in his head, how to maximize the interests of his son.

"It's not that you kid caused trouble before, just make trouble for Lao Tzu. Boss Feng smiled, the dog Hua Wu is really not angry, some time ago there was a little misunderstanding with Yang Gongzi, the spokesperson of Lord Yin Cheng, it happened that Yang Gongzi was also having dinner with Boss Zhu, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, upstairs today, I want to trouble Boss Feng for one thing, we can sign a contract immediately after this matter is over, you see......" Hua Zhankui put forward his own idea, he was also insidious, and wanted to pull Feng Qingbai to his own ship, even if Yang Gongzi had something to do to Huafu, it would be for Feng Qingbai's face to have some scruples, After all, he knew that this Boss Feng was the first person to come forward to support Lord Fu Yin, if he hadn't been able to come up with so much money as a deposit at that time, he really thought that this Boss Feng had something to do with Young Master Yang!

(End of chapter)