Chapter 35: Digging the Mountain
Li Dayou did things really quickly, Li Cheng had just arrived home on the front foot, and someone came to call Li Cheng on the back foot, asking him to hurry over to measure the land, so that he could hand over the land deed, and the wind was pulling and shouting!
In fact, it is not all the credit of Li Dayou, the most important thing is that the twenty taels of silver that Li Cheng took out played a role.
The reason why Lingnan can be the exile of the Tang Dynasty is not only because the land here is poor, but even the people are poor, and how poor they are.
Twenty taels of silver may not be anything in Chang'an City, and it is not even a fraction of the time that some playboys have been amorous overnight.
But in Lingnan, this is a huge amount of money! It is not a problem to buy a green building, of course, the premise is that there is a green building in Lingnan.
No matter what era people are, they will always have a common characteristic——— people will always sharpen their heads and want to climb high.
In the hearts of Lingnan people, the rich Central Plains is a high place, and there is no one who will not yearn for it.
So how poor is Lingnan to make so many people daunting?
First of all, it is impossible to farm in Lingnan, not for a lifetime, and it is not possible for farmers not to want to, but they can't.
It's all bush forests, and even the so-called villages are nothing more than a consolation phrase that generations of ancestors have chopped out of the bushes with their hands.
The people who live here are all dependent on the mountains, and there is no reliable land. Risking their lives for three days to hunt in the deep mountains and old forests, there is no shortage of large carnivores such as bears, tigers, and cheetahs in the mountains and forests of Lingnan. What's even more terrifying is to encounter packs of wolves, so that it is almost the whole army annihilated, without any luck, a proper copy of primitive life!
Then some people asked: what is the use of coins in this area of Lingnan?
There are also many uses, and it is also feasible to have money to travel all over the world in this Lingnan. Except for the food that cannot be bought, everything else can be bought, maids, slaves, but generally there is no stock. Because strictly speaking, Lingnan is a group of slaves who have been degraded from abroad, and everyone who lives here is a slave class! How can a slave buy and sell slaves by himself!
Money is not omnipotent, but no money is impossible, money can make ghosts grind, this sentence is even more respected in the hearts of Lingnan sentient beings.
Everyone in Lingnan knows one thing, and they also advocate this thing: there has always been a secret rumor in the Sui Dynasty: but anyone who was degraded and exiled to Lingnan, if it was a commoner, could not return to the Central Plains within two generations, and the third generation had the opportunity to return to the Central Plains, but they had to pay 50 taels of silver, otherwise they would not be allowed to return unless there was an order from the emperor.
This thing is absolutely true!
This is why coins are so precious in Lingnan.
On the contrary. The land here in Lingnan is worthless, crops cannot be grown and overgrown with weeds, who would be stupid to spend this unjust money to buy it?
So don't look at Li Cheng bought a mountain with only 20 taels of silver, and the size of this mountain is not small, but in fact, whether it is Litun or the county order, everyone knows that Li Cheng is a blood loss, and he is properly possessed by a stupid big man.
There are so many such big green mountains in Lingnan, and there may not be many people who want them for nothing!
How would they know that Li Cheng didn't want to fight in the future, so he simply bought it out, and no one owed anyone.
So you can imagine how happy Li Tun was when he saw so many silver taels, and his enthusiasm for this matter even exceeded that of the village chief Li Dayou, who almost treated Li Cheng as a grandfather, serving tea and toasting.
Li Cheng understood: This is this Litun who is afraid that he will suddenly regret and stop investing, so that people and money will be empty, and Bai will be happy. Only then did the official urgency to complete the deal.
The title deed was written on the spot, and although the landscape of Lingnan nominally belonged to the Tang Dynasty, no one actually took it seriously, and the title deed would not exist. Usually the mountain is there, which family likes to use which family, and no one has ever thought about the existence of such a thing as a title deed.
But in any case, the land belongs to the Tang Dynasty, and the handling of the title deed needs to be officially recognized.
The delivery process was smooth, and there were no cats and dogs barking. So, in less than a quarter of an hour after coming here, Li Chengcheng went back slowly with the title deed.
In the afternoon, the sun is blazing, and the weather in Lingnan is exceptionally hot. The villagers who went out to farm returned in twos and threes, and then rushed to Li Cheng's house with their cubs.
By 2:00 o'clock, the courtyard of Li Cheng's house was already full of people, and there were still many people outside the courtyard in groups.
Li Cheng took a cursory look and saw that there were more than 200 households in the village, and almost 1,000 people of all sizes were here.
Seeing that everyone was almost there, Li Cheng did not procrastinate, and after a few polite words, he asked Wan Niang to take a few aunts to the backyard to get the cloth out and distribute it to everyone.
Even if the number of people is a little unexpectedly large, Li Cheng still does it as he said before: no matter how old or young, one head and one piece of cloth!