Chapter 101: The New Year

After He Changling went back, he opened the frame and Baoxing bar, first counted the Yongzheng and Qianlong years, the heyday of Yunnan copper, one or two million catties of refined copper a year, and then counted the Jiaqing years, Yunnan copper fell and withered, to now, the number of one or two million catties a year, more than ten times the difference, this is a big bait.

The foundation of the revival of Yunnan copper is still there, just a little help, if you can merge Sichuan copper, there is a breathing time, three or five years doubled, more than ten years to reproduce the grand occasion of Yongqian, it is not impossible.

The area where Dechang is located is also a sensitive and controversial area, Sichuan has a Chengdu general, the purpose of this position is to deter the Kang, Tibetan and Yi tribes north of Dechang and west of the city, for this region, the Sichuan governor's weak control is almost negligible, so that the belonging of Dechang has an article to do.

Grasping Baoxing's natural weakness, He Changling went up with a mess, and Baoxing, who hit him directly, rolled his eyes. Baoxing didn't help, and a group of military planes also pulled up a bias and handed over He Changling and Baoxing's recitals together.

The sacred heart is unpredictable, Emperor Daoguang is very concerned about the revival of Yunnan copper, he himself took a mess, now there is a turnaround, it is also an opportunity, if Yunnan copper is resurrected, it is also a big income, it is a good choice to leave it to his children and grandchildren.

He Changling and Baoxing fought against each other, but he didn't care much about this, Yang Shiqin, who was born as a businessman, became the best candidate in the eyes of Emperor Daoguang. The Yang family can come up with millions of silver to prevent the epidemic in Yunnan, and it is good to think that Yang Shiqin's means are good.

I have also seen the portrait of Yang Shiqin's father and son, although his son is not worrying, but Yang Shiqin still has some bones. Whether this can be done or not depends on the attitude of Yang Shiqin, the main master.

Transferred Yang Shiqin's recital to take a look. Just one is still crying poor, and the copper class in Yunnan is withering. Emperor Daoguang is clear, but to what extent, he really doesn't know.

In Yang Shiqin's excerpt, if what he said is true, it is not impossible to allocate the Dechang copper class to Yunnan, but the matter is too big to be carefully examined.

Daoguang approved Yang Shiqin's excerpts, threw aside the excerpts of the battle between He Changling and Baoxing, and issued an edict to thoroughly investigate the current situation of the Yunnan copper class.

He Changling was fighting fiercely. The Yang family was busy for the New Year. The stewards of the major horse gangs, Chashan, and Yang Shiqin's group of old brothers gathered in Kunming Wuzhuang.

This year is also the biggest festival of the year, the Yang family has a big holiday, no horse gangs, department stores, more than ten days, but the Yang family up and down the most relaxed days.

Most of the stewards of the Yang family's horse gang are gathered in the Dali area of western Yunnan, and there are dozens of stewards. handed over the year's income and expenditure accounts, and because of Yang Meng's suggestion, half of the six major tea mountains in western Yunnan have entered Yang's mansion. Because the timing was right, Yang Meng's suggestion had an immediate effect. The year's gains were impressive. It has doubled from last year, with more than three million gains. I'm going to be escorted to Wuzhuang in a few days.

With the surplus money in his hand, Yang Shiqin was also arrogant. Nearly 200,000 Yunnan specialties were purchased and sent to Yiliang Manor, so that Yang Meng could arrange manpower and send them to his in-laws in Guangzhou before the end of the year.

Father-in-law Pan Shicheng has also helped a lot in the past few months, Yang Meng has prepared a lot here, plus the old man, as well as the green ornaments worth tens of thousands before, this batch of New Year's goods can reach about 400,000, plus more than 1.5 million yuan left in Lixiangyuan in advance, plus the commission promised to the Pan family, in the past few months, it has cost nearly three million taels in the Pan family alone.

Looking at the mountains of New Year's goods piled up in Zhuangzi, Lian'er also narrowed her little moon eyes, and after writing the family letter in a beautiful manner, she told Yang Meng to get a letter for her father-in-law.

This can make Yang Meng embarrassed, and he wrote half a page crookedly with a brush, which can be regarded as a mess.

This letter was handed over to Lian'er, and the big characters on it were crooked, but the little girl was so happy, with snot bubbles, this eldest lady became Yang Meng's scholar.

Seeing Xiao Nizi laughing at herself, Yang Meng also made a bad move, in the morning, he didn't stop talking, sprinkled tens of thousands of words of family letters, and choked Lian'er tiredly.

It just so happened that Jiang Shuxian also had results there, and this batch of New Year's goods was sent to Guangzhou City along the newly opened waterway, one is a short time, and the other is to familiarize the newly recruited shipwrights with the waterway.

The New Year's goods have just been sent out of Lu for three days, and the news has come from Guangzhou City, and in a few days, most of the people of the Pan family of Lixiangyuan will arrive from Yanjin Copper Road with a large number of imported goods, it seems that this New Year's goods, more than half of them are sent in vain, and the father-in-law has to spend manpower to transport most of the things back.

This communication is a big problem, and it is very inconvenient for letters to come and go, so it would be nice to have a telephone! But I can only think about it, and it is impossible to do it, so I can only think of a way in the future.

Lixiangyuan Pan's new house in Yiliang has been built, this matter was done by Pan Gui, Lian'er has also been there a few times before, and he didn't say anything wrong, thinking that it should be in line with their family's taste.

According to the information in the letter, there are a lot of goods this time, and it seems that it is time for the epidemic prevention camp to move, the things have been transported, and there must not be the slightest omission in Yunnan.

It just so happens that the 1,500 cavalry there are in Wei Huozi's place, which can be used for a while, and it shouldn't be too eye-catching to pretend to be a horse gang. This batch of goods from Yanjin comes back, even if the year has passed, rest for a few days, and the next task will be even more arduous!

It's a pity that he couldn't pick up Ge Shiyang's family this time, if his family comes, this foreign master can be of great use, now! It's not time yet.

In the past few days waiting for the cargo ship, Yang Meng has not been idle, the tenants of Yiliang Zhuang are the foundation of the Yang family, it is impossible to reduce the rent, the rent set by himself is already low to the limit, and these rents are also the basis for the Yang family to support the knife hand and the epidemic prevention camp, which cannot be easily reduced.

spent 30,000 taels of silver to buy a batch of bacon, salt, and cloth, which was regarded as the welfare of the Yang family's farming, Yang Meng took the steward in the manor and walked from farm to farm. Looking at the tenants of the farmer who had greatly improved his health, Yang Meng also felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart. This year is a good year! Although many people have been killed, many more have been saved.

followed Yang Meng's Lian'er all the way. Only then did he know that his husband, his status in Yiliang, no matter where he went to the farm, Yang Meng and his party were treated very highly, kneeling to greet and kneel, Yang Meng didn't like this, but he couldn't resist the tenants of the village farmers who cultivated their own land.

A few catties of bacon, a few catties of salt, and foreign cloth distributed according to the head of the village, these won the hearts of the farmers and tenants. A season of harvest so that the family no longer goes hungry. The tenants of the farmer, who were already grateful, were completely relieved by Yang Meng's move.

Yang Meng left the farm, he didn't know what was going on, but it was quietly happening, and the training of the farmers was up to the old man in his sixties and seventies, and down to the strong man in his twenties and thirties, all of them showed the strength to eat milk. The younger daughters of the farmer's tenants in the Yang family's private school also began to do one thing. Every day, we must worship Kunming Yang Buddha and Yiliang Little Buddha.

The village chiefs and village elders of each farm also got together to discuss how to change the land rent, not because the land rent was too high. It's because the rent is low.

What did the Yang family do in Yiliang? Land division, rent reduction, epidemic prevention, these are all piled up with silver, how many people did not starve to death? How many people didn't die of illness? These farmer tenants know what to expect. These lives were all bought back by the Yang family with silver from Lord Yama.

The land rent is too small, and the Yang family suffers, and these farmer tenants are not afraid of anything else. I'm afraid that the Yang family will be brought down, and the Yang family will be gone. Where to find such a good day?

Zhuang farmers and tenants are all veterans who deal with land all the year round, and they know how much rent they can afford, according to the current standard, they can still live a full and warm life, and they can still leave a lot of surplus grain in their hands, and they can live well, and the Yang family can not cross, so that the days can live for a long time.

Not all of them can understand the farmer tenants, but those village chiefs and villagers are not given for nothing, and they are even scared and coaxed, and this thing is done. Returning to the Yang family is not all about repaying gratitude, for the tenants of the farmer, it is not easy to be full, to keep this job, now there is no other way to go except to keep the Yang family.

For the doubling of the land rent, Yang Meng just smiled, the land rent he set was repeatedly discussed with the stewards, although the food is important, but the gratitude and protection of the Yang family's mind is more important, because this is the cornerstone of the Yang family's foothold in Yunnan.

After finishing the work of the farm, the goods of Yanjin have also arrived, and the goods of nearly 100 ships are magnificent, such a scene of hundreds of boats flowing, Yanjin Copper Road has been there decades ago, and it was the most glorious years of Yunnan Copper Class at that time.

One million eagles in silver, five ships of munitions, three ships of Pan clansmen, and a shipload of foreigners proficient in gunpowder manufacturing and cannonball making, these are the most important goods.

These ships of goods, Yang Meng was escorted back to Yiliang overnight, and the rest of the goods were piled directly in the freight yard of Yanjin, which should be slowly transported away to Kunming and Yiliang, and the goods of the caravan were stored on the spot, and the matter of Sichuan copper entering Yunnan was solved, which was when these goods set off and went to Sichuan.

This year has been quite smooth, although there have been some twists and turns, but this has gone quite smoothly along the way. The prosperity of the Yang family is just around the corner, Yang Shiqin sees it in his eyes, is happy in his heart, and with a wave of his hand, this old man has lost his family again, and he will give up the porridge!

The porridge all over Yunnan, from the beginning of the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month to the end of the fifth day of the first month, all over the country is familiar with the Yang family, the business with good human nature does things, and the Yang family pays silver.

Yang Shiqin also made a bold statement, not to let Yunnan starve to death during the Chinese New Year, how much the Yang family will bear. He Changling, who has recently been in the midst of a fierce battle with Sichuan Governor Baoxing, also made a fool of himself, and took out part of the little money and grain in Yunnan to participate in good deeds with Yang Shiqin.

This is a good deed, but also a means to suppress Baoxing, through the New Year's excerpt, He Changling reported the good deeds of the Yang family again, Yunnan copper has such a good family to support, the court is still not at ease?

But Yang Shiqin didn't care about He Changling's bad things, the matter of Sichuan Tong's entry into Yunnan, he had already promised the third child to do it, and his killer weapon was also in preparation, just waiting for the end of the New Year, and make a contribution!

Originally, there would be social dramas, Mulan operas and the like during the New Year's holidays, but this year there was a big epidemic in Yunnan Prefecture, and Mulan operas and the like are also things to resist the itchy daddy, and the organization of the New Year is not very auspicious, but Yang Shiqin has a trick!

The buffalo battles organized by wealthy households in Yunnan were also a good situation, and Yang Shiqin spent several thousand taels of silver in Yiliang and Kunming, which were specially used for buffalo battles.

This first month, it is time to see the buffalo battle, and the bull kings in various arenas will gather in Yiliang after the first day of the new year to start the battle of the bull kings.

On the first day of the first lunar month, the Yang family did not come back except for the second Yang Yong, and it can be regarded as a gathering, the Yang family has no ancestral grave in Yunnan, except for Yang Shiqin's group of old brothers, there are no relatives. The three fathers and sons of the Yang family, after sweeping the ancestral hall, also began the feast.

The Yang family banned alcohol, except for happy events, only this year is the day when the ban is lifted, and after getting together with a group of old brothers, the Yang family has arrived in Yiliang.

The in-laws Pan family came to vote, and the first year was to be held more grandly, which is also the reason why the Bull King Contest was chosen in Yiliang. The buffalo battle in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi is definitely worth watching, the old and young women and children are suitable for salty, after the buffalo fights and family banquets, the friendship between the Yang family and the Pan family of Lixiangyuan has also become blended.

On the day of breaking the fiveth, Yang Meng also ended the days of a few days, the Yang family had a good year, but the return of the western Yunnan side was miserable, the Han people rejoiced in the New Year, and what about those who lost their relatives?

As soon as the New Year passes, I am afraid that the situation in western Yunnan will have ups and downs again, and some things still need to be prepared in advance. (To be continued......)