Duan Fengming walked into the door of Duan Tiande's house with great reluctance, and the people who followed him enthusiastically led this person with the highest official position in the Duan family in, this enthusiasm was the reason why Duan Fengming felt that he had no way to refuse directly.

"Feng Ming, come in." Duan Tiande, who was standing in the middle hall, said enthusiastically. Not only did the subordinates of the Duan family behave very differently, but the head of the Duan family also behaved completely differently than before.

After sitting down here, Duan Fengming also said happily: "Family Master, I can't come recently. There are too many things going on in the government. ”

Duan Tiande had a considerate expression, nodded and said, "I know." I know. There are so many corrupt officials and cadres under Wen Zhang, and the court here is nervous. It is inconvenient for you to come. ”

If it was before, Duan Tiande would not be so polite. Duan Fengming felt that Duan Tiande would roll his eyes impatiently, and then said, "Let me come to the Duan family, have I wronged you?" ”

Since Duan Tiande was already so polite, Duan Fengming was ready to move forward. He said, "If the head of the house has nothing else to do, I will take my leave." ”

"Of course it's okay to call you here." Duan Tiande's expression was calm, and he didn't look offended at all, "I just want to ask you, have the government ever thought about how they will operate after buying all the land in Jiangning Mansion and turning it into official land." ”

Duan Fengming was slightly stunned, this question didn't seem like Duan Tiande had said it back. In the past, Duan Tiande was disdainful, and he was determined to fight to the end against the 'official government that beat the Duan family's idea'. So Duan Fengming asked tentatively, "The head of the family is stumped and ready to sell the land?" ”

"Whose land is it to sell? In fact, the Duan family's land has its own owner, so I can sell it if I want to. I'm just curious about what the government wants to do. I also read some newspapers, and according to the government, Jiangning Province is now about 10,000 square kilometers in size. According to the new area, fifteen million acres of land. However, most of the land is mountainous, and there are 3 million acres of flat land. I'm wondering, and I don't know what this government is going to do after it takes all of us land. ”

Duan Fengming looked at Duan Tiande and felt that Duan Tiande still had a confrontational expression. This kind of confrontation is not unusual, and of course it is confrontation when anyone faces a strong enemy. When Song Gongming, the president of Jiangning of the Great Song Society, was attacked, many people felt that the government was going to send troops to exterminate the landlords. Not only are landlords like Duan Fengming having a sense of confrontation, but the government in Jiangning is not a mud ball to be kneaded.

"What's the use of the head of the house knowing it. In many cases, even the government itself does not know about the affairs of the government. Duan Fengming replied.

"Feng Ming, will you tell me the truth? I might as well tell you that I tried all the people I could find, but no one was willing to help us. You are not the only one who just wants to keep your official position, everyone who is an official is like this. Now the government has come to our Duan family's town and started to lend money. The Qian family has reduced their family's interest to one to five, and we won't be able to resist for long. That is, in the past two days, the elders in the town will follow the Qian family. So I don't understand what the government wants to do after spending so much effort and making everyone suffer such a big loss. ”

"The government has its own plans."

"Don't give me any plans. I've also heard that the government wants everyone on the farm to plant an average of 30 acres of land. At present, the 3 million acres of land are only enough for 100,000 people. Isn't the government boasting, saying that the population of Jiangning Mansion will add up to one million now. Even if he didn't brag, how would the other 900,000 people out of this million people make a living? ”

"Why don't you go to the prefect and tell me about this?" Duan Fengming still didn't want to take this stubble.

"Can you let me see the prefect?"

"I can try it."

“…… Forget it. If you know, you might as well tell me about it. The prefect will never have the safety of the Duan family in his heart. You still have a family in your heart. Duan Tiande finally chose to refuse.

Duan Fengming's heart warmed, although he couldn't talk about saddle the front and back of the Duan family, he wouldn't release cold arrows behind his back. Thinking about Duan Tiande's words, Duan Fengming also felt that there might be a chance to make sense. So he briefly talked about the plan made by the newly appointed uniform Lu Feizhi.

"The forestry in Jiangning Province probably needs to get some chestnut trees and mulberry trees. Others are actually made with herbs. But these are not what Jiangning Mansion really wants, what Lu Feizhi thinks is to make Jiangning Mansion an industrial city in the south of the Yangtze River. Now I started with silk, and then I started with some shipbuilding, machinery, and so on. ”

"What's that?" Duan Tiande was greatly puzzled.

"The head of the house must have seen the machines of those silk reeling factories and silk weaving factories."

"Yes."

"None of those machines were produced in Jiangning, but were shipped from somewhere else. It would be nice if these machines could be produced locally in Jiangning. ”

"But what is the use of feeding the people?"

"A woman can go to work in a silk reeling factory, or she can go to work in a silk factory. Silk is sold in other places, and they can earn more than a month. Now, as far as I know, the number of workers in the silk reeling and silk factories is going to increase to 50,000. ”

"Huh?" Duan Tiande was stunned by this number.

"With so many workers, someone has to carry them. How many people does the head of the family think is needed? Two or three thousand people must have it, maybe more. With so many people, it will be profitable for people who raise chickens and ducks, and their number will increase. Moreover, the imperial court wants to let the children of the people study, and the school must have teachers. Again, many people have made a living. To put it bluntly, the prefect now values not outside the city, but inside the city. In the future, most of the population of Jiangning Mansion will be in the city. ”

“…… So why is he tossing us? Duan Tiande felt completely unable to understand what was happening.

Duan Fengming didn't answer immediately, this question was very cruel to say, if he didn't control the outside of the city, how could he control the inside of the city. In the end, Duan Fengming could only say: "I don't know about this." ”

Duan Tiande also felt that Duan Fengming didn't know, because he didn't even understand what Duan Fengming said. After sending Duan Fengming away, Duan Tiande took a while to recover his mood and eliminate those chaotic statements, Duan Tiande recovered his train of thought.

The current matter is very simple, the government is pressing step by step, and the money that the Duan family can provide to the family has been greatly reduced. The result of this is that it is no longer possible for the Duan family to provide money and food to the children of the Duan family according to the previous method of distributing money. The official family and the account office have already calculated the results, and the Duan family's amount of money and grain this year is only forty or five. It is similar to the income of the Duan family from renting out land and lending by themselves.

Although he was very reluctant in his heart, Duan Tiande found that he was facing the possibility of the Duan family splitting up.