"Lord Li, the fault of the lower officials, the lower officials don't want to argue about anything, but the lower officials want to remind Lord Li that Liu Zheng is definitely a big trouble in the Ming Dynasty, he is completely different from ordinary thieves, he not only buys people's hearts, but also focuses on the development of the place, even if he privately divides a lot of officials, but what these officials do has made the entire Qingzhou Mansion come alive, and even make Qingzhou Mansion more prosperous than ever!"

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"Look at what Liu Zheng did in Qingzhou, he arrested all the gentry and businessmen who were usually rich and unkind, raided their homes and then threw people to work in the mines, although doing so would make him lose the support of the gentry class, but so what? He wasn't worried at all, and it could even be said that he was going for this! ”

"He divided the silver he copied from those people into two parts, one part was used for military expenses, and the other part was invested in all walks of life in Qingzhou, so as to promote the prosperity of commerce!"

"He used all the stolen land as official land, and rented these official fields to the common people at a price of one percent rent, and this alone could make the people return to him, but he was not satisfied, and he even directly issued an order, that is, never collect agricultural taxes!"

Hearing this, Li Tingji finally spoke, and what prompted him to open his mouth was the shock and confusion brought to him by the fact that he would never collect agricultural taxes, and at the same time, a trace of joy rose in his heart.

"Lord Wang, why is there no agricultural tax? Where does he get the money to govern the local area without collecting agricultural taxes? Or where does his military spending come from? You can't keep robbing the gentleman's money like this, right? If that's the case, I'm afraid he won't be able to grow at all! ”

Wang Jiabin smiled miserably and said: "Lord Li, at first I had the same idea as you, but slowly I found out that I was wrong, Liu Zheng's heart is too big, so big that he will not give up if he doesn't sit on the dragon chair!" ”

"He doesn't collect agricultural taxes, it seems that he has no money to do military spending and govern the place, but we all forget, Liu Zheng is vigorously developing business, he has confiscated the land, the prestige is very high, the people praise the rich people together, let them go to business, although the family heaven and earth and silver money were copied, but Liu Zheng did not interest to give them the goods on credit, these goods are some very good goods, such as the wine we drank called the fairy drunk, this wine has been sold to the south of the Yangtze River, and even popular, It has even reached the point where the literati would be laughed at without this wine! ”

Li Tingji's brows furrowed deeply, and after a while, he suddenly spoke: "How did Lord Wang know this news?" Jiangnan scholars are not good at drinking spirits, how can this immortal drunk so fiercely how can it be so sought after by literati? ”

Wang Jiabin sighed softly and said: "Liu Zheng did not restrict my freedom, but there will be soldiers accompanying me when I travel, and Lord Li has also seen the prosperity of Qingzhou, and there are many businessmen coming and going, and I have heard a lot of things from some businessmen!" ”

"I have already said that Liu Zheng is quite shrewd, how could he not know that Jiangnan Shiren does not like spirits? According to his words, in order to meet the needs of the market, he lowered the degree of this wine a lot, and sold to the south of the wine two kinds of wine, one is called Qinglian, the other is called only if you see it for the first time, in fact, these two kinds of wine are the same kind at all, but it is divided into two sizes, because the word Qinglian is homophonic and incorruptible, and because this wine is as clear as water, it makes people have an endless aftertaste, so everyone in Jiangnan officialdom loves to drink this wine. ”

"The second kind of wine name is only if you see it for the first time, this wine is famous because of a poem, if you only see it for the first time in life, this word must have been heard by Master Li in Beijing, right?"

Li Tingji nodded and said: "How can I not hear it, this word has long been popular in Beijing, and the Qinglou Yanu branch is all singing this song!" Don't? ”

Wang Jiabin nodded with a wry smile and said: "Indeed, as Master Li thought, this poem is exactly what Liu Zheng did in order to open the Jiangnan market!" ”

Li Tingji was dumbfounded and said, "This, this, how is this possible!" ”

Wang Jiabin also said speechlessly: "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears, I wouldn't have believed it, alas, who taught me to be there at the time!" ”

Li Tingji looked at each other and said, "This, this, so, so, alas!! ”

The two were silent for a while, and then Wang Jiabin broke the silence and said: "Let's get down to business first, in order to let the rich people do business, Liu Zheng not only worked this wine, but also put a lot of effort into the weavers, he released an order for 200,000 military uniforms in one go, although only a small part was distributed to those rich people who were unwilling to do wine trading, but even so, let these rich families make a lot of money, because the amount is too huge, all of a sudden the cloth merchants in Zhou Village were attracted over, Even now it has attracted some cloth merchants in Xuzhou and Suzhou! ”

"The local Gaoyuan, Boxing, Le'an are all large cotton producers, cloth merchants flock to, in order to reduce costs, will naturally buy a large number of local cotton, and Liu Zheng has limited the price, but even if the price is so limited, the local production is still more cost-effective than shipping from other places, businessmen are profit-seeking is the nature, some earn, but also make a lot, naturally will buy local cotton, so that the people in the hands of the surplus money suddenly increased!"

"Weaving cloth not only needs cotton, but also needs weavers, so the local weavers began to be robbed by the big cloth merchants.

Li Tingji thought for a while and said: "Although this official has never served in the household department and the Ministry of Industry, he also knows a little, and the official grew up in the south, so the income of this weaver household is still clear in his heart, and the income of a weaver household is about thirty taels a year, and the average is ...... a month."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard Wang Jiabin sneer and say, "One Chinese New Year's Eve?" Hmph, Master Li, in this Qingzhou Mansion, a weaving household has an income of eighteen taels a month, which is still the capital of miscellaneous expenses! ”

"Huh?" Li Tingji glared at the round eyes and said, "Eighteen taels, so much?" ”

Wang Jiabin smiled bitterly and said: "Yes, so much, Master Li, think about it, if you are this weaver and have money in your hands, then what will you do?" ”

Li Tingji thought for a while and said: "People, it's nothing more than those few things, buy some food that you can't usually eat, make a few clothes for the children, buy some furniture, and then save the rest of the money!" ”

Wang Jiabin nodded and said, "Yes, that's the case, but has Master Li ever thought that after the people start doing this, will the meat be sold out, will the tailors who make clothes be too busy, and the craftsmen who make furniture will also be too busy?" ”

Li Tingji thought about it, and finally nodded and said, "That's true!" ”

Wang Jiabin followed closely and said, "So what will you do if you are these people?" Will you think about raising a few more pigs, will you think about recruiting a few more apprentices? ”

"Yes!"

"Well, if you will, where do people come from?"

"This ......" Li Tingji didn't know how to answer.

Wang Jiabin said with a smile: "I'll tell Master Li where the people come from, and bring the people who farm from their hometown!" ”

"But even so, it's not enough at all, so the problem arises, pigs can't be raised in a while and a half, so what to do? The butchers began to go to the countryside to collect pigs! The weavers began to expand the workshop, they put the money they earned into the expansion of the workshop, so that the loom was not enough, and then asked the southern merchants to sell looms to Qingzhou, they did not come here empty-handed back, but bought some immortals drunk back to sell, so as to speed up the development of commerce! ”

"And when the people saw that they made money by doing business or by being weavers or craftsmen, and that they could earn more money a month than they did in the fields for a year, a large number of people began to leave the land and join these people!"

"This has further promoted the development of commerce, what Liu Zheng has to do is to collect business taxes, I roughly estimated that only in Qingzhou, Liu Zheng can collect business taxes of as much as two million taels a year!"

"Impossible!" Li Tingji shook his head vigorously and said, "Absolutely impossible! ”

Wang Jiabin did not argue, but continued: "This is just some of Liu Zheng's small means, does Master Li know what the price of salt in Qingzhou Mansion is?" ”

Li Tingji shook his head and said: "The official doesn't know the price of salt in Qingzhou Mansion, but the price of salt in Jingshi and Jiangnan, the official knows a little, and the Jingshi is slightly more expensive, four cents of silver for a pound of coarse salt, and refined salt is slightly more expensive, but now it is also cheaper, about four taels of silver per catty!" ”

Wang Jiabin nodded and said, "Then Master Li knows why Jingshi's refined salt is cheaper?" ”

Li Tingji continued to shake his head and said, "How does this official know? Presumably, the merchants saw that the salt in Jingshi was expensive, so they transported the salt to Jingshi to make money! ”

Wang Jiabin laughed and said, "Lord Li, it was not a businessman who transported the salt to Beijing, but Liu Zheng!" ”

"What?"

"Lord Li, there is something even more surprising, in Qingzhou Mansion, there is no salt to sell, the salt eaten by the people is free from the government, and the salt received is still refined salt, Liu Zheng does not allow anyone to sell salt in Qingzhou Mansion, and at the same time does not allow the people to eat coarse salt, if it is found that the people eat coarse salt, report a reward of one or two silver, and the people who eat coarse salt will be punished to do day work in the open air!"

"Ahh The people can only ** salt, or do they get it from the government for free, this, this, where did Liu Zheng get the money to buy so much refined salt? ”

"Buy? Master Li, do you know how many salt farms there are in Shandong? Now these salt farms are all under the control of Liu Zheng, and Liu Zheng has a secret method that can easily make coarse salt into refined salt! He did not allow people to sell salt in Qingzhou, and did not allow people to eat coarse salt, in order to check the acres of land, why the people could receive refined salt to eat, it was because the people reported the number of people and fields in their families to the government, and the government distributed edible salt according to the acres and population, and received it once a month! ”

"Master Li, do you know how many acres of land Liu Zheng has found with this method?"

Li Tingji felt that today's head was about to be broken, Wang Jiabin saw Li Tingji shaking his head, so he stretched out his hand and compared a number and said, "There is this number......

The room immediately resounded with Li Tingji's hissing gasp......