Chapter 010: The Manor and the Iron Row
Yang Fangyu's matter can't be handled impartially, and Xu County's order really has no choice. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the same, it can't deal with Yang Fangyu, and it won't leave any stain on his political achievements, after all, the people above are also people, and they can understand his situation.
But the case of the murder of the son of the Qian family is different, the human and material evidence are all there, and the criminal has been successfully arrested and brought to justice, if it can't be concluded into an iron case, and the deceased is given justice, that is the problem of him allowing someone.
If this situation can let people go, then no one will believe him if he says that he has confiscated the bribe.
But in the end, he let people go.
It's not because Zhao Ning gave him much benefit, but because Zhao Ning said such a thing to him, so he couldn't help but let him go.
"If Lord Xu judges impartially and sentences Mr. Qian to a summary decision, then according to the laws of Great Xia, this case involves the death penalty and must be reported to the court. Once this is the case, there must be people in Beijing who will associate and finally know that this life lawsuit was forced by Yang Fangyu, and then things will be complicated. If Yang Fangyu leaves a stain because of this, or even is attacked by political enemies, then there must be people who are angry with Lord Xu who stabbed this matter, how can you deal with yourself at that time? Do you want a future? Therefore, this matter can only be suppressed down, and it can be concluded that the shopkeeper of Wu committed suicide because he was ashamed of the owner, and Mr. Qian could only be acquitted. ”
Xu Xianling was originally interested in enforcing the law impartially, but he wanted to enforce the law impartially, also in order to have a beautiful political performance, so that he could have a good future in the future. But as Zhao Ning said, if he offends the Yang family because of this incident, it is likely to be a devastating blow to his career. Therefore, Zhao Ning's reasoning, he can't help but listen to it, and he can't ignore it.
As a result, he could only let go of the young master of the Qian family and put the case to rest. As for Zhao Ning, who saved his future, he didn't say how much he was grateful, at least he didn't blame him, after all, Zhao Ning is such a smart person, if he can become a friend, then no one will be willing to turn him into an enemy.
Yang Fangyu gave up Su Xiaowan, of course, because he couldn't be entangled with a woman from a Qinglou for a long time, but he may not have the intention of befriending Zhao Ning, not to mention his surname Xu's little dune county order?
After Zhao Ning successfully took over the Qian family iron shop, he bought several properties in the county town, such as Tianxiangju, Yipin Teahouse, and Tianlu Rice Shop, and spent a total of thousands of taels of gold before he was satisfied and returned to the manor.
After that day, such a saying began to circulate in the county. The little young master of the Zhao family is the most reasonable, for what he wants, he must have a way to tell a convincing reason, let you hand over the things, and even thank him afterwards, feeling that he helped you.
However, people don't know how clumsy the young master of the Zhao family, who is the most reasonable, when he returns to his own village and faces Su Xiaowan, who he won back.
After a few days of delay in the county seat, after returning to Zhuangshang, Zhao Ning still went into the study and muttered to Uncle Lian, instead of going to see Su Qing, who he had always been worried about.
"Young master, although we have gained a lot this time, this limelight is a little bigger!" Uncle Lian bowed and saluted and said.
Zhao Ning actually thought so, but there were some things that were ready to be sent and had to be sent. Just like the son of the Qian family, he actually had to be saved. If you don't save Qian Gongzi, you will be looking for trouble for Yang Fangyu, and in the end, it will still be bad for him. And since he saved Mr. Qian, such a great opportunity, not to swallow the Qian family's iron line and realize his first step into the forging industry, how can he not be reconciled.
At this time, 1,200 taels of gold can take down this iron line, if you change the usual, I am afraid that there will be twice as much gold, and people will not let go, how can Zhao Ning be willing to give up such an opportunity?
And for Zhao Ning, who has a huge manor, it is equally important to have his own rice line. And when he has many businesses in the county, in order to grasp more information, controlling the largest restaurant and teahouse in the county has naturally become a matter of necessity. After all, Zhao Ning, who comes from modern times, knows the value of information.
It's just that this time, Zhao Ning is in Dune County, and he has naturally become a popular figure in people's eyes, the focus of everyone's discussion, and this is obviously not what Zhao Ning wants to see at this time.
After all, he still understands the truth that he is not afraid of thieves stealing and is afraid of thieves.
Zhao Ning pulled Lian Da Butler to do it and said, "Uncle Lian is right, in the future, we still have to keep a low profile in everything." ”
"Young master, the old slave has calculated it, now that we have these properties, in the future, our annual income will probably reach the level of four or five hundred taels of gold per year, I don't know what the young master plans to do next?" Uncle Lian knew that even if his young master planned to keep a low profile in the future, he would never stop there and be content with the current situation.
Zhao Ningsheng was born in this peaceful and prosperous era, but he did not have the crazy idea of rising up and arguing with the entire Great Xia Dynasty, so what he hoped was to use the advantages of his traverser to be a real wealthy businessman and a rich Tao Zhu Gong in this farming society.
"The matter of frying rice can no longer be repeated, and in the end, this move is still harmful to others and self-interest, and it is inferior. Although Yang Fangyu has carried the infamy for us this time, it is not difficult for discerning people to see that we have also benefited a lot from it. Although this move offended some businessmen, it is not a good law after all, and it is better not to use it in the future. In the future, let's make plans, or try to focus on benefiting others and ourselves, which is the right way and can last for a long time. ”
Hearing Zhao Ning's words, Uncle Lian couldn't help but nod, originally he also wanted to persuade this young master about this, but he didn't know how to speak, but he didn't want Zhao Ning to say it himself. This also made him believe that following this young master might be a blessing in disguise.
Zhao Ning didn't wait for Uncle Lian to answer, but still said to himself, "The predecessors said, 'Ploughing and eating, you can only satisfy your stomach; Work with skill, and make ten times the profit; The way of value of goods, its benefits are 100 times; Gain the benefits of heaven, and fight for ten thousand. 'There is no greater benefit in the world than casting copper from the mountains and boiling the sea for salt. But those who are qualified to do that kind of business are all big businessmen and giants, and that kind of business is not something we can plan today. Now our industries, the most room for improvement, one is our Zhuangzi itself, and the other is the iron industry. ”
Uncle Lian also felt that Zhao Ning was right, "Then what does the young master mean is to focus on developing these two aspects in the future?" ”
"That's right. At present, our Zhuangzi has 7,600 mu of fertile land, which can be purchased to 10,000 mu, and the existing farmer households are 50, and I think it can also be recruited to 100 households. In the past, everyone cultivated and worked together, although they could work together, but after all, it was not a good way. From now on, each household can receive 100 acres of famous land, cultivate independently, and only take 40% of the rent tax on the village after the autumn, and if there is a disaster year, the tax can also be reduced or reduced as appropriate. Zhao Ning has long been thinking about the implementation of the policy of guaranteeing production to households in his manor, but when his mother was in the past, he was unwilling to participate in these more.
"Young master, even if the peasant family cultivates their own fields, in addition to the land tax handed over to the imperial court, there are also poll taxes and levy money, which add up to about forty percent of the harvest. Wouldn't it be too little for us to give the land to the tenants and collect only 40% of the rent? Although our family's fields do not need to pay conscription money and poll tax, one percent of the land is still to be handed over to the imperial court, and if we go to this one, won't we only have thirty percent of the income left? Our fields are of the highest quality and the harvest is high, so wouldn't our tenants be happier than the farmers who own their own land? ”
Speaking of this, Uncle Lian realized something, and paused obviously, "The young master really has a plan, but the old slave has lived in vain for many years." ”
"Not only that, but also for the farmers with the best harvest every year, they will also be rewarded, and each year according to the harvest will be selected for one first-class household, with a reward of 20,000 yuan (that is, two taels of gold), three second-class households, each with a reward of 10,000 yuan, and ten third-class households, each with a reward of 5,000 yuan, and the famous fields will be rotated every three years, so as to avoid the disadvantages of uneven land fertility. Those who have been in the bottom 10 of the harvest for three consecutive years, and those who have not changed their views in the fields have been expelled from the estate. Then the hundred tenants, every five households in a group, into twenty groups, one false report of the harvest, someone in the group to report, if the knowledge is not reported, then all five households are driven out of the village, never allowed to cultivate my Zhao family's field. ”
"In this way, the tenants must be all masterpieces, everyone is vying for the first, and the harvest is bound to increase greatly, not to mention, I am afraid that those farmers who have their own land will compete to enter my Zhao family manor, the young master is really smart." The more Uncle Lian listened, the more he felt that the young master was a genius who bought property. With such a master, maybe it's better than those who stay in the sect, right?
Zhao Ning wouldn't know how shocking Uncle Lian's heart was with the idea of a package of production to households, adding some incentive policies, the last elimination method, and the method of sitting together.
"First, I will have a rough idea of these things, and I have to arrange for Uncle Lian to operate them; Second, we have to have a long-term goal, the biggest deal in the world is salt and iron, and I prefer the iron smelting industry to boiled salt. Zhao Ning seemed to be very relaxed and said what he wanted to eat at night.
That's what I said, but the calculation in the young master's heart, I'm afraid it's not so simple, boiling salt can only make money, and smelting iron, the prosperous era can make money, in the troubled times, having an iron mountain is a matter of having countless knives and guns, Lian Shuxin said.
Although he thought so in his heart, he just listened quietly, nodding his head from time to time. After all, some words are just clever, but they seem shallow, and the real smart people are tacitly acquiescent to each other, and they don't talk big, just keep their heads down and do things.
If you advance, you will run rampant in the world, and if you retreat, you will be rich, isn't this what he has been wishing in his heart for many years, the career that the previous master did not have the opportunity to do, maybe it will really fall on the little young master in front of him.
"Although our current financial resources and strength are not enough to own an iron mine or copper mine, but the long-term goal is still to have, this time we have the Qian family iron company, it is a good start, at least we can start to enter this industry, and gradually explore and accumulate talents."
Zhao Ning understands that Uncle Lian was born in the Zhao family for several generations, and the idea of being loyal to the Zhao family and loyal to the master is engraved in his bones. What's more, he once proved his loyalty with the act of desperately protecting the master, so he had no reservations about Uncle Lian.
And taking a step back, people like Uncle Lian, he also knows better that he must not have two hearts for the Zhao family, even for Zhao Ning, a young master who has no status in the family.
The history of the Zhao family is longer than that of the Great Xia Dynasty, and in the history of the Zhao family, there has never been a precedent for betraying the master and getting a good death. Even if the family has decided to get rid of the person, as long as the surname is Zhao, outsiders will never be allowed to bully.
This is also the reason why, even if he was assigned to this small Zhuangzi as a housekeeper, even Uncle and the others did not go far away. A family like the Zhao family does not allow any betrayal.
"Master Ge in the Qian family's iron shop, the old slave has also heard of it, his skills are second to none in this Dune County, and even in the entire Donghai County, he is a number of figures. Master Ge is not good at swordsmanship, but he specializes in swordsmanship, and the first hundred steel-making knives he built are well-known throughout Xuzhou, even in the Zc County of Xuzhou Thorn History, which is the most sought after good knife. Many of the hundred refining knives that we bought in the village before were from him. Uncle Lian saw that Zhao Ning was interested in Tiexing, so he said in detail.
"So very good, since there is such a talent, we must keep him, in the near future we must invite him to the village as soon as possible, and then around the Zhuangzi, circle a thousand acres of land, dedicated to iron forging, if the thousand acres are not enough in the future, you can continue to expand.
At the same time, we must further recruit famous masters, whether it is a master of sword or sword, or other skilled blacksmiths, as long as they can do their best, they must try to recruit them.
For the iron smelting, we should also use the method of governing the peasant households similar to what I said earlier, and encourage the craftsmen and craftsmen to give heavy rewards, so as to encourage them to forge high-quality products and seek refinement and speed.
The iron shop in the county, in the future, will also change from the status quo of the front store to a simple shop, and the operation will be mainly based on high-quality products, and when the time is right, it will gradually open the store to the surrounding counties, and even the entire county seat of Xuzhou, including Tancheng, the first county, and even the entire land of Shenzhou in the future.
In short, we want to become the largest and best iron business in Xuzhou and even the whole world. After all these are done, and enough gold has been accumulated, it is time for us to plan the iron ore and seek further development. ”
Uncle Lian knew that the opportunity to do a big job was finally coming. Compared with such a plan, buying more land and recruiting some displaced people is really just a small action.
What Maxima is afraid of is not the gallop that travels thousands of miles every day, but the grinding disc every day, abandoning his ambitions and strong bones, he Lian Tao is precisely such a Maxima, and Zhao Ning is the Bole he finally met.
This is the master worthy of his follow, for such a master, he has no regrets even if he dies.