Chapter 359: Autumn Harvest
If Xiao Lu and Xiao Dan can only be regarded as second-tier actresses, then Sister Li, a young woman, is an unscrupulous first-line female star, more than ten years ago, she starred in a TV series about the anti-drug policewoman who made her famous in one fell swoop, and the harem palace drama named Zhen Huan's harem concubine who starred in the first two years made her popular all over the country, saying that she is a first-line female star is definitely not a little water.
It's just that the only thing she regrets is that although she has not had any good works on the big screen over the years, although she has also starred in a few movies, she has always had a mediocre response, which also makes her unable to step into the ranks of top domestic superstars, but despite this, she is still the eldest sister in Haitian Entertainment Company, and now that she has opened her mouth, Xiaolu can't say anything, so she can only pout in the back and not speak, hugging Yueyang's jade bi harder, A pair of firm and plump twin peaks were tightly clinging to Ailang's back by her.
And Yue Yang also felt a mess in his brain when he heard Sister Li's words, what, is this the rhythm of taking the initiative to send beautiful women to the door? Or are the women in this circle already seeing it so openly?
Just when Yue Yang felt that his head was big, Xiao Dan, who wrapped himself in the quilt and only revealed a small head, secretly looked at Yue Yang cautiously from his fingertips, as long as it was a woman, no matter how heroic she said on the surface, there would be a special plot for her first man, just like a man would have a hard time forgetting his first woman.
"How...... Little Man...... Aren't you still satisfied with giving you such a flower-like woman for nothing? Seeing that Yue Yang still didn't say anything, Sister Li was a little unhappy and glared at Yue Yang with big eyes.
Looking at Sister Li, who was wide-eyed, Yue Yang suddenly found that Sister Li not only had fair skin and facial features, but also was very beautiful, different from the delicate and beautiful girl next door of Xiao Lu's beautiful goose egg face Xiao Dan, Sister Li's facial features were particularly exquisite, although she was now a thirty-year-old young woman with two children, but she looked no different from a twenty-five or six-year-old woman with proper maintenance, especially now that the two twin peaks and crimson grapes were still unyieldingly upturned. As if proudly announcing that he was still young, seeing this, Yue Yang felt a "wake-up qi" begin to surge in his body.
Women have always been sensitive to men's gaze, and even if this gaze stays on them for only a fraction of a second, they can already feel the chill of this gaze.
When Yue Yang's unscrupulous gaze continued to scan her jade body, Sister Li's delicate melon seed face, which originally looked like a female man, slowly turned red, and she pretended to be calm at first, but Yue Yang, who was used to seeing big scenes, had long been completely immune to this kind of small battle, so she had to scold with a red face: "What to see, it's not like I didn't see it last night!" ”
"But I drank too much last night. Didn't pay attention! At this time, our comrade Yue Yang was very honest and admitted that he drank too much last night and didn't see it clearly.
Well, to be honest, it is often the most hurtful, and Sister Li can't stop this kind of attack that ignores defenses, so she has no choice but to lose.
In the end, when she mustered up the courage and was about to drink Yueyang again, she found that the figure in front of her had blossomed, and she had been thrown down on the bed.
"Oh, what are you going to do...... It's daylight...... You're going to die...... Hmmm......"
Although Sister Li struggled for a while, for Yue Yang, this kind of behavior could only add extra interest, and soon the delicate body in her arms stopped struggling senselessly. After a while, they began to cater to it, and this trial meeting after getting up turned into a fragrant conference, and in the end, not only Sister Li, but even Xiao Dan, who was hiding in the quilt, was once again turned into a big white sheep by Yue Yang, the big bad wolf. Then there were no bones left in his stomach, not to mention Xiao Lu behind him, and for a while, a low or high-pitched panting moan sounded in the big bedroom again......
Two hours later, Yue Yang was lying on the bed. The three women, who had been harmed by him again, lay in his arms, and the four of them rested motionless for a long time.
At this time, on Yueyang's left was Xiao Lu, who was still habitually hugging her man. As if swearing sovereignty. And on the right is Sister Li, a beautiful young woman, she is being hugged tightly by Yue Yang, she is very satisfied with her expression just now Yueyang, although at first a little uncooperative, but our Comrade Yueyang's efforts later began to cater to it, and the cooperation between the two became more and more tacit, although she was finally defeated by Yueyang, but Yue Yang found that she had the courage to defeat and fight, this spirit is worthy of praise, as for Xiao Dan...... At this time, he was already ashamed like an ostrich, and the whole person shrank into the quilt on the side and hid.
After a long time, Yue Yang spoke, and his first sentence said: "Xiao Dan, from now on, you will follow me like Xiao Lu, although I can't stay by your side for a long time, but I can also give you what other men can give you." But you have to remember that if you choose to be my woman, then you can't be in a relationship with other men, remember? ”
After a while, Xiao Dan's muffled voice came from the thin quilt, "People haven't agreed to follow you yet, why do you have to start managing people." ”
Yue Yang smiled helplessly, "Of course, you can refuse, I'm not a Lei Laohu, I don't have the habit of robbing my daughter-in-law, and I don't mean to force you to be my woman, if you don't want to, I can give you a certain amount of compensation, or fight for a new drama for you, or give you a certain amount of material compensation, you can choose." ”
After finishing speaking, the room was silent, and soon there was a crying sound in the quilt, Sister Li quickly sat up and lifted the thin quilt and hugged Xiao Dan in her arms to comfort her softly, and then glared at Yue Yang and scolded: "You stupid, what do you think of our Xiao Dan, do you worship gold?" It's not that there was no son-in-law chasing her before, but she rejected it, and now I'm cheaper for you, but you treat her like this, do you still have a conscience? ”
"Hey...... I have no conscience to tell the truth. The only thing the helpless Yue Yang could do at this time was to keep his mouth shut.
Looking at Xiao Dan, who was crying non-stop, Sister Li just said: "Okay Xiao Dan, don't cry, if you cry again, your little face will be deformed, and then you don't want you even if you want to talk to Yueyang." ”
is worthy of being an experienced young woman, just like this, Xiao Dan stopped crying, and then raised her face to reveal a crying little face and slightly red and swollen eyes, looked at Yue Yang, clenched her silver teeth and said, "Then I followed you, will you abandon me one day after you get tired of playing." ”
"Hey...... This little girl. "In the face of such a strange girl. Yue Yang was speechless.
In fact, not only Yue Yang, but even Xiao Lu, who was quite jealous of this, was amused by Xiao Dan's innocence, and Sister Li on the side could only stare at this strange girl speechlessly, which can only be said by a second person.
Yue Yang said helplessly: "Don't worry, I promise you that as long as you follow me and don't leave me and other men on the way, I will be responsible for you for the rest of your life, have you heard of the previous state-owned enterprises?" ”
"You know, my grandfather used to be a worker in a state-owned enterprise, and he was holding an iron rice bowl. Are you saying that in the future, if I follow you, it will be like holding an iron rice bowl? ”
"Right...... It's an iron rice bowl. Faced with such a peculiar thinking, Yue Yang wondered if she had never had a boyfriend because of this strange personality. At this time, Sister Li and Xiao Lu were already lying in Yue Yang's arms and laughing......
What puzzled Yue Yang was that when he asked Sister Li what compensation she wanted, Sister Li just smiled faintly and said nothing.
In this way, Yue Yang has been staying in Mingzhu City for a month, and in this month, he has been hanging out with Xiaolu and Xiaodan's two daughters all day long, shopping and traveling during the day, playing threesomes at night, and enjoying all the glamorous blessings. But what made him feel strange was that since that day, Sister Li had never appeared in front of him again, let alone made any requests to him, and when Yue Yang asked Xiao Lu and Xiao Dan for this, he got two blank eyes. Xiao Dan scolded even more coquettishly: "Sister Li has a husband and children, if she hadn't drunk too much that day, how would it have been cheaper for you, a villain, you are now cheap, do you still want to destroy other people's families?" ”
"Am I like that?" Yue Yang was a little angry and argued.
"Of course!" Unexpectedly, the two girls glanced at each other. At the same time, the little head is dotted like a chicken pecking rice.
"Hey...... Don't run, see how I clean you up! For a while, chickens and dogs began to jump in the villa......
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In September of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Shanxi, which had undergone some turmoil, gradually stabilized, and this time it was also the harvest season. This is the busiest and most stressful season for officials throughout the country, and this season has a name for the autumn harvest, and countless farmers are counting on a good harvest. Shanxi North Road is the nest that Yueyang has been operating for many years. After more than five years of operation in Yueyang, the cultivated land area of the North Road has reached more than 3.2 million mu, in addition to Yueyang has also established hundreds of livestock farms, specializing in raising pigs, sheep and other livestock, it can be said that the North Road is now no less than the Jiangnan known as the land of fish and rice, and even has surpassed them.
After nearly half a month of intense harvesting, more than 18 million quintals of wheat and other grains were harvested on the entire North Road, and this result once again shocked Hailou, the new governor of Shanxi, who was in charge of auditing.
"Hailou, is this our grain harvest this year?"
In the governor's yamen of Taiyuan, Yue Yang, who had just returned from modern times, did not have time to do anything else, and immediately rushed here non-stop to inquire about the results of the autumn harvest.
"Yes, Master Hou!" Hailou took a deep breath and handed the results of the calculations to Yue Yang and said, "A total of 18 million quintals of grain were harvested on the North Road this time, of which 60% went to farmers and 40% went to us. That is to say, we have 7.2 million quintals of grain at our disposal, and in addition to the 1 million quintals handed over to the imperial court, we still have 6.2 million quintals left. "Hailou, who has been doing agricultural work for four or five years, is already very proficient in calculating the accounts, and some numbers will come as soon as he opens his mouth.
"Well, six million quintals!" Yue Yang pondered for a while and then sighed lightly: "These grains seem to be a lot, but I'm afraid they are still not enough!" ”
Hailou smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Master Hou, since Pangu opened the world, there has never been enough food for this food. Now that the imperial court has cut off the appropriation for us, we originally raised an army of 50,000, and a few days ago you recruited 50,000 new recruits, and also revoked more than 100,000 military households, although now those military households have distributed fields, but after all, they have not been confiscated, right? Six million quintals of grain seems to be a lot, enough for the North Road itself, but Shanxi is so big, there are more people who have no food to eat, and if these six million quintals of grain are spread evenly, it will be far from enough. ”
"yes!" Yue Yang also sighed, in the past, he was only in charge of the North Road, and he didn't have to worry about whether the peasants in other places had anything to eat, but now he held the military and political power of the entire Shanxi, and the burden of eating for more than 10 million people in Shanxi was on his shoulders, which made him feel a lot of pressure, and Hailou on the side was originally just a director of the Department of Civil Affairs. is only in charge of such a piece of land on the North Road, and now when he becomes the governor at first glance, the territory to be managed has suddenly become five or six times larger, and he is a little uncomfortable for a while.
However, Yue Yang has always been a person who firmly believes that there are always more ways than difficulties, he thought about it and said: "I estimate that now the news of our bumper harvest has been known by merchants from other places, and there will definitely be people who will flock to us to buy grain from farmers in the next period of time, what you have to do as a governor is to urge the officials at all levels below, without the approval of the governor's yamen, you must not let a grain flow out of Shanxi, do you understand?" ”
Hailou's expression was also stern. He knew that now that the Ming Dynasty was raging, coupled with the drought in the provinces, it could be said that there was a shortage of food everywhere in the Ming Dynasty. It would be fine if these grain merchants bought grain and sold it to the people in other places at a flat price, but Hailou knew too well that those grain merchants would not stop if they did not increase the price of these grains several times or even more than ten times with their greed.
"Master Hou, don't worry, the lower officials promise that they will never let those profiteers succeed." The guarantee of the sea building is sonorous and powerful......
Yue Yang's worries were justified. In mid-September, when Tang Hu, then deputy director of the Financial Department, came to the capital with 5,000 sergeants escorting 1 million quintals of grain and 1 million taels of silver from the autumn harvest, the whole capital was in a sensation. When he saw the endless convoy, the newly appointed old man excitedly threw himself on a grain cart and choked up.
Cheng Guoxiang took office at the end of last year, and for most of the past six months, he has been worried when he looks at the granaries and silver warehouses that can almost run rats, but whether it is Chongzhen or the governments of various places, they have reached out to him to ask for grain and silver. He was so worried that his hair was almost gray, and today he finally saw that a large sum of money and grain had been put into his account, and how could this not make him overjoyed.
looked at Cheng Guoxiang, who was so excited that he almost lost his temper. Tang Hu showed a habitual smile on his big round face and asked, "Master Cheng, seeing that you are excited, this time of year should be the happiest time for you, you should laugh, why are you crying?" ”
Cheng Guoxiang, who was excited, regained his composure after a while, and said embarrassedly: "Alas...... Let Lord Tang laugh, this official is also poor, don't you know, since the official took office last year, today is the largest grain tax received by the official, these two silver and one million loads of grain have solved the urgent need of the imperial court! ”
With Cheng Guoxiang's words, the grain trucks drove over one after another, and the coolies who had been waiting on the side carried bags of grain from the cars, and many small officials were busy counting the pounds, and the whole scene was busy.
One million quintals of grain and one million taels of silver is not a small amount, the officials of the household department worked hard for three days to put all these things into the warehouse, Yueyang's big money shook the entire capital, with this money Cheng Guoxiang was grinning for several days, but there was one thing he had to report to Chongzhen.
"Cheng Aiqing, did you say that all the silver dollars sent from Shanxi are this kind of silver dollars?"
In the imperial study of the Nuanxiang Pavilion, Chongzhen was carefully observing a piece of silver dollar in his hand, which was a silver dollar that was beautifully cast about the size of a baby's palm, one side of the silver dollar was cast with the four words of Daming Wansheng, and the other side was cast with one or two words, and there were precise toothed imprints around the silver dollar, which looked exquisite and abnormal.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Cheng Guoxiang stood in front of Chongzhen and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, the Marquis of Zhongyong began to mint silver dollars as early as two years ago, because this kind of silver dollar system is excellent, easy to use and very high purity, most of the merchants in Shanxi only recognize this kind of silver dollar when trading, and now not only Shanxi, but also Jiangnan and the capital have begun to circulate. ”
At this time, there were not only Chongzhen and Cheng Guoxiang, but also Yang Sichang and several ministers in the imperial study. Yang Sichang also held a piece of silver dollar in his hand and unconsciously checked it, and then asked Cheng Guoxiang with a moving expression: "Lord Cheng, why does this official think that this silver dollar doesn't seem to have one or two weights." ”
Cheng Guoxiang, the first assistant who single-handedly promoted himself, did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "Looking back at Lord Fu's words, the weight of this kind of silver dollar is only eight coins and eight cents, which is indeed less than one or two. ”
"Less than a tael?" Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites on the side, couldn't help but be furious: "Lord Cheng, you are only able to report to the emperor that the Marquis of Zhongyong has paid a tax of one million taels of silver, but each of these silver dollars weighs only eight coins and eight cents, and the one million pieces are not less than 100,000 taels of silver!" Do you know that this is a bully! ”
Jiang Fengyuan didn't look at Cheng Guoxiang very well, but when he saw that Cheng Guoxiang had made such a big mistake, he immediately buttoned up a big hat without saying a word.
It's just that he didn't see it, and just after he said this, the people around him looked at him with an idiot look...... (To be continued......)