In Suzhou, a whip law was also put into effect, and Gui Cao vigorously arrested several large landlords, who made many peasant families ruined and their fields were encroached upon by putting money in prints, and lied about the land situation, reporting the good land to the second field, and reporting the ten acres to one mu, and also forcibly transferring the taxes in their own names to others, which was really a crime.

According to the new law, Gui Cao re-measured the fields, exposed their tricks, made their crimes public, and then fined them a sum of silver, ordered them to return the land they forcibly claimed within a time limit, and adopted the method of step-by-step taxation for the big landlords who owned more than 1,000 tons of fertile land, and the tax of up to 80 percent made those big landlords complain, and went around the back door to try to bring down Gui Cao, and also summoned the scoundrels to make trouble in front of the Suzhou Yamen, but Gui Cao Tongzhi Inspection Division and Suzhou Wei arrested all the troublemakers, and each of them hit 20 boards. The person who was caught as the leader was even beaten with 50 boards, killing a few scoundrels on the spot, and no one dared to make trouble again.

After several confrontations, seeing that the rice planting season was about to pass, the high field rent made no one dare to rent the fields in the hands of those big landlords, and the landlords who could not support it first began to sell their own fields, and others saw the resolute attitude of the imperial court, and did not dare to delay any longer, lest the fields have no harvest, but they still have to pay a large proportion of taxes and silver, so they began to sell their fields.

There are many large landowners in Suzhou, they collectively sell their fields, the supply far exceeds the demand, the price avalanche of the fields generally reached an unprecedented low in an instant, many locals began to buy real estate, keep the family owned by the land within the lowest ten acres, even so, there are still many fields can not be sold, at this time the Suzhou government made a very bold decision, by the Suzhou government as a guarantee, Datong money bank Suzhou number to any household registration in the Suzhou government within the farmers to issue land loans, the procedures are complicated, However, this is also to ensure that the land will eventually fall into the hands of the common people, so as soon as the news was announced, the peasants who came to buy the land with loans still lined up in long queues, asking the Suzhou government and Datong Qianzhuang to urgently send more manpower, and urgently mobilize large sums of money from Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and Nanjing to meet the loan needs.

Because of the adequate preparation to deal with the appropriate, Zhengde fifteen years of April 6 on this day, Chase money Suzhou Mansion loan out of the silver reached an exaggerated 2 million taels, because there are many land buyers, so the land price has risen, but still maintained at a relatively low price, three days later, the trend of loan purchase of land finally passed, after the statistics of Chase Money Zhuang calculated a total of 4,580,000 taels of loans, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing's treasury bank is empty, almost not enough to pay, fortunately, this action is planned, Gui Cao liquidated the number of fields early, the number of surplus fields, and the number of possible sales, which was basically the same as the plan, and the only variable was the selling price of the fields, for which he borrowed more than 500,000 taels of silver than planned.

The new law stipulates that the first year of new land purchase is rent-free, so farmers who buy land only need to repay the loan in the first year, because the tax is reduced, they can repay the loan after about five years, and live a prosperous life from then on.

Ningbo City belongs to the boundaries of Hangzhou, but after the opening of Ningbo port to trade, Suzhou is close to Hangzhou also has a lot of opportunities, Huang Suliang in the support of Gui Cao increased the investment in the textile factory, under the suggestion of Duan Fei, the concept of the brand appeared for the first time in the textile industry, high-quality and low-cost Flying Eagle brand various fabrics appeared on the market, Huang Suliang even opened a few Flying Eagle chain clothing stores in Suzhou, according to the model Duan Fei said, high prices to dig up exquisite handiwork and very fashionable sense of tailors, Ready-to-wear clothes are made for models with good figures to wear, or given to dignitaries and ladies, or tailor-made clothes for free for Qinglou and red prostitutes, for the purpose of advertising only.

Duan Fei only needs to speak, and the inspired Huang Suliang will help him do it properly, and even draw inferences from one another to do better, after the opening of the sea to trade, the merchants who came to Musu to make clothes bought a large number of Flying Eagle brand fabrics, intending to sell them all over the country and even the world, and the Flying Eagle brand clothing, for the time being, the audience is still relatively small.

Huang Suliang has abundant funds in his hands, and it is not only about textiles that are involved, but also the ceramics in Jingdezhen and the tea in the south of the Yangtze River - especially the Dongting Biluochun in Dongting Mountain, Wuxian County, Suzhou, have almost become a monopoly in his hands, which are the largest commodities to export.

Duan Fei did not leave Beijing, but began to make money in the country and even the world, Guo Zhen was spending a lot of money, he asked Zhengde for advice, sent his cronies to Fujian, and ordered Fujian to build 38 ships, Fujian has been an important shipbuilding base in China since ancient times, Zheng He went to the West seven times, and the treasure ship he took was built by Fu, Fujian not only has shipbuilders, but it is also very convenient to recruit experienced seafarers there, Guo Zhen chose to build ships in Fujian, which is a correct decision, but ...... He wanted to become a big fat man in one bite, build ten Dafu ships at once, and twenty-eight other ships, plus the recruitment and training of sailors, two million taels of silver were thrown into it and the silver was gone, and in a blink of an eye, he didn't even have the money to buy naval guns.

The Ordnance Bureau and the Gunpowder Bureau have been merged into Jinyiwei, and the relationship between Duan Fei and Guo Zhen is not bad at the moment, and he didn't want to ask Zhang Rui, so he ran to find Duan Fei.

Now that the two are forced to stand in a trench by the civilian officials based on their interests, they don't have many scruples about coming and going, they ran to Jinyiwei in broad daylight, and begged each other softly when they met: "Lord Duan, it costs money everywhere right now, and I don't have much silver in my hand, can you give me a little naval artillery on credit?" Let me get around? ”

Duan Fei said in embarrassment: "Gonggong Guo, it's not that I don't want to borrow, now Jinyiwei is not very profitable, those merchants in the Shang Alliance are very good, and they are keeping an eye on it, how many naval guns do you plan to install on dozens of ships?" I'm afraid I can't handle tens of thousands of taels of silver, right? You must know that there are a lot of nobles' investments in the business alliance, if I embezzle too much, the emperor will know about it...... It's not easy to do. ”

Guo Zhen stomped his feet and said, "Lord Duan, I didn't expect to spend so much silver, those dozens of ships are simply more expensive than gold, I even invited the holy decree to come out, and people have already started manufacturing, I can't cut it by half, right?" Master Duan, you are fine, I will definitely return it as soon as possible. ”

Duan Fei was unmoved, and after Guo Zhen lobbied for a while, Duan Fei relieved himself with a sad face and said, "Father-in-law Guo, this is not something that can be solved by tens of thousands of taels, besides...... According to me, you have more than enough money to build a navy, and there will be more time to use silver in the future, and I am afraid that it will take several years to repay the money, and I can't hide it, unless the emperor nods, I don't dare to give it to you privately. ”

Guo Zhen knew that what Duan Fei said was true, and after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, Master Duan, come with me to see the emperor." ”

Duan Fei and Guo Zhen came to the leopard room, Guo Zhen poured bitter water on Zhengde, and then said that he borrowed money from Jinyiwei.

Zhengde looked at Duan Fei in surprise and asked: "Duan Aiqing, the cost of preparing for the navy is huge, and I also know it, now that the sea has just opened for trade, the silver has not been confiscated, do you Jinyiwei have so much silver?" It's not going to be paid back in a while, and it's ...... I don't know how much silver you'll have to throw to fill this bottomless pit. ”

Zhengde glared at Guo Zhen as he spoke, Guo Zhen knelt down, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the slave is a little anxious, and he wants to build the fleet in one go. ”

Duan Fei also said: "Your Majesty, Wechen has been forming a business alliance for a while, I don't dare to say that I have made a lot of money, and there is still a lot of surplus in working capital, and it is not difficult to borrow some silver to Guo Gonggong, and it can still be supported at the speed of making money from the business alliance, but Weichen does not dare to lend him money privately, as long as the emperor agrees to guarantee Guo Gonggong, I will embezzle the money and help Guo Gonggong get through the difficulties." ”