Chapter Ninety-Four: The Sword
At this time, Xiao Tian, who was called a sword by Zhao Wenhua, was finally unsheathed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he said to his father and Hu Zongxian: "You two just need to distribute grain for disaster relief, just leave the matter of buying land to me for big households, it is impossible to do 30 quintals of an acre, but I can still do it for 15 quintals of an acre, and you are not good at dealing with the big households, so let me deal with it."
Le He said: "It is related to the lives of 700,000 people, are you sure?"
Xiao Tiandao: "Don't worry, I won't let the people starve to death because of changing rice to mulberry, it's a big deal to go out and kill them all, just don't go ashore in this life, but when I also learn from that Wang Zhi, which small country will be defeated as my soil emperor."
Hu Zongxian said: "When we don't hear this, I'll lend you Yu Dayou, do what you think." If something really happens, even if I can't hold back, Hu Zongxian will accompany you to death."
Xiao Tiandao: "It's serious, we can't die."
When he went out, Xiaotian went to find Yu Dayou.
"Mr. Yu, are you afraid of death?"
Yu Dayou said: "Don't provoke me, I have an old friendship with Master Ciku, he has told me everything about you, what use do you have to say."
Xiao Tiandao: "Okay, I'll send Liu An back and transfer my people, I want you to let the widows into the city, do you do it or not."
How do you know that Yu Dayou said: "Don't be so troublesome, I will let my brothers pretend to be widows, and everything is at your disposal."
Xiao Tiandao: "Okay, worthy of being a hero in the mouth of the master of mercy, I promise you, I'm fine, you'll be fine, if something happens, I'll confess with you."
Yu Dayou said: "Okay, from now on, I will climb high, you are my brother Yu Dayou's life and death."
Xiao Tiandao: "It's wrong, it's me who climbed you." Fifteen quintals of grain is the bottom line, and everything below this number will be looted by the pirates, can it be done?"
Yu Dayou said: "No problem, what about King An's side"
Xiao Tiandao: "King An, don't move first, I will send people to communicate with the five families of Lu Yang, Zhang and Li Wang, it is best for them to know the current affairs, otherwise try not to kill people, as long as everyone takes fifteen dans, King An can't buy land with ten tains."
Yu Dayou said: "I understand, but is there enough food for these big households?"
Xiao Tiandao: "Of course it's not enough, if you can really control the price of land, their grain will only be enough to buy half of the land, and half of the people will be hungry, so leave these to me."
Yu Dayou said: "Okay, the state affairs are difficult, and I will encourage you." ”
Yu Dayou really did as he said, and directly asked his soldiers to pretend to be Xiao Tian's subordinates, Xiao Tian also transferred some from the island to some extent, and tens of thousands of people were divided into small units and sprinkled directly to the 13 counties affected by the disaster, and the three counties of Tonglu that were flooded were the top priority.
For a time, there was a strange scene in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the Japanese robbers specially robbed those rich households who annexed land at a low price, and all those who offered less than 15 quintals of grain were robbed, and the grain they had robbed was used for 15 quintals to buy the people's fields on the spot, which was still recorded in their own names.
And Xiaotian, together with Yang Jinshui and Zhu Qi, Pegasus rushed to the Suzhou Weaving Bureau.
In the Ming Dynasty at that time, in addition to grain, the most profitable business was salt and iron, which was controlled by the state, followed by silk and cotton yarn.
The two are largely connected, and silk, without a doubt, the Weaving Bureau is the largest customer of silk. Therefore, the vast majority of silk merchants in the world rely on the weaving bureau to eat, this sentence is actually true.
Today, all the silk merchants with heads and faces in the provinces of Nanzhili have arrived.
These wealthy businessmen sat according to different provinces, and Xiaotian and Yang Jinshui took the seats.
Xiaotian said: "You all make a fortune on silk, and I invite you to come today to have a good chat with you about silk."
A wealthy businessman led by the following said: "Everyone is a weaving bureau to enjoy food, Le Gongzi and Yang Gonggong have any instructions, just say it, and naturally there will be no two words if you can do it."
Xiaotian said: "Okay, it's good to have this sentence, let's get rich together, you are all the masters of a huge fortune, a few hundred taels per minute, I don't go around in circles, the court changed rice to mulberry in order to produce more silk, this silk is woven by you, when the silk is sold for money, it is not all put into your pockets, such a big bargain, you can't pick it up in vain, why don't you invest some money, you say it's a reason."
The wealthy businessmen below nodded their heads.
Xiao Tiandao: "There must be five workshops here today, the first batch of new looms made by the imperial court has already been made, and these looms are all to be sold to you, I don't know if your silver is ready."
One of the following replied: "Naturally, it has been prepared for a long time, and as long as the raw silk can be supplied, there must be no problem in producing 550,000 horses of silk."
Xiao Tiandao: "Raw silk, of course it can be supplied, the imperial court is not changing rice to mulberry, the emperor is merciful, exempted the two provinces from mulberry tax in the next few years, this is a great grace, you do this silk business, the family must have planted a lot of mulberry trees, all are adult mulberry trees, this is a lot of silver."
All the merchants laughed and said, "Thanks to the Son of Heaven."
Xiao Tiandao: "Yes, the Son of Heaven Shengming." We, the big silk households, are the ones who know the mulberry best, and those who originally planted grain, where can we plant this mulberry well? So, it's best to change rice to mulberry in our own hands, you say, isn't it?"
The merchants below said: "That's natural, now the adult mulberry field is a cash cow, but our money is kept to buy machines, otherwise we have to buy some."
Xiao Tiandao: "Open heaven's grace, the machine will not let you buy it for the time being, and lend it to you in vain, and wait for the silk to sell the silver next year and then pay the bill, now use the silver to buy grain for land."
Naturally, all the merchants below were in chaos at once, and a buzzing discussion began. Of course, such a great good thing could not be that the imperial court suddenly looked at them and asked, "I don't know what Gongzi Le asked us to do, please make it clear." ”
Xiao Tiandao: "Smart." Xin'anjiang has breached, and countless people have been affected by the disaster, and the land there is now very cheap, only fifteen quintals of grain per mu, and where to find such a good thing, give me the silver to buy land in Xin'anjiang."
The following said: "Le Gongzi Mingjian, some of us are from Suzhou, some are from Nanjing, and even AH, this, we bought land so far away, how do we manage it?"
Xiao Tiandao: "Then I don't care, that's your business, you can't control who you are willing to sell to whom, and it has nothing to do with me if you make money." But I'll put it here now, the 550,000 horses of silk that came out of the new production were sold to me by the Weaving Bureau, and if any of them make me unhappy, no matter who is standing behind you, I won't accept it, and no one can do anything. Got it? ”
Naturally, there was a discussion at the bottom, and after a while, the leader said: "Since Le Gongzi ordered and the court needs it, we people will naturally go all out, and we will leave tomorrow, exchange all the silver in our hands for grain, and go to buy land along the Xin'an River."
Xiao Tiandao: "Is this good, how much land are you going to buy?"
The crowd discussed again and said, "If we pay 15 quintals of grain per mu, we can buy 1.8 million mu together."
Xiao Tiandao: "If it's less, buy me at least three million mu, and fifteen quintals of one mu must not be lower, I'm not happy if I can't buy it."
The buddies who answered were all crying, and said: "Son, you Mingjian, we all rely on the Weaving Bureau to eat, and I know best how much silver Yang Gonggong has in his hand, but I really can't take out so much."
Xiao Tiandao: "It's hard to be bitter, such a good opportunity to make a fortune, where to find it, to do business, to have courage, no money, you can sell some other industries, if it's not enough, can you find a money village to borrow, but it's a little interest, and when the silk is sold, it will be repaid, but the land that produces mulberry is forever."
Everyone is naturally in a dilemma, this era of borrowing is not a later generation, all special code is a genuine loan shark.
Xiao Tiandao: "You don't have to be embarrassed, I am the most fair person, I have heard of whale oil and soap."
Whale oil and soap, which seemed to have appeared out of thin air this year, and there was nothing more profitable than this, how could they not know, and nodded their heads one after another.
Xiao Tiandao: "Quan Daming, these two things are from me, you make me happy, this whale oil soap, will naturally share your share, the more happy I am, the more you get, I'm not happy, so that you can't even sell silk, now, is there any problem?" ”
Everyone is noisy again, this whale oil business has always been controlled by the strict party, and everyone is greedy, but who can grab meat from the hands of the strict party to eat? Yang Jinshui and Zhao Wenhua turned their faces, this business must be moved, as for because this Xiaotian was hated by Yan Shifan later, he couldn't care so much.
Everyone muttered for a long time, and finally the leader said: "In this way, when I go back, I will smash the pot and sell iron, and I will definitely make up the grain to buy 3 million acres of land." ”