On the New Year Festival of the third year of Xuanhe, Jeju City seemed a little deserted......

Business-minded merchants can easily see that the number of villagers who purchase New Year's goods at the end of the year has decreased significantly, making the business atmosphere in Jeju at the end of this year much worse than in previous years.

The sad faces of the shopkeepers, the income of the store at the end of this year has plummeted, and the owner will not care what the reason is, they are the shopkeepers and have no good fruit to eat.

Fortunately, everyone is unlucky, even the shop of the initiator Liangshan Commercial House is no exception, and they can only comfort themselves in this way.

Not only the shopkeepers are sad, but even the big families in the city are also shrouded in a depressing atmosphere.

A middle-aged man dressed as a member of the staff looked at the income account book in his hand, his face was ugly and suddenly closed, and he threw it on the table in front of him and said dissatisfiedly: "This year's income is less than forty percent of previous years, it is simply unreasonable!" ”

"Sir, this is already very good!"

The housekeeper standing next to him smiled bitterly: "Due to the influence of the village over there, the opportunity to make a lot of money at the end of the year has been lost, coupled with the fierce competition of Liangshan Commercial Bank, to maintain such a level, several shopkeepers have also made a lot of efforts!" ”

"It's those thieves in Liangshan again, it's just lawless!"

When the middle-aged outsider heard Liang Shan's name, he was immediately furious, slammed the table, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "No, you must find a chance to give them a great taste, otherwise you won't ride on our heads to and pee in the future?" ”

It's not just the business that is lost, but also the grange outside the city, which is less than half of what it has been before.

The reason why this is the case is not that Liangshan Benzhai fights local tyrants, the fields near the state city, it is obvious that the strongmen of Liangshan Benzhai are not willing to touch it, at least for now.

However, the tenants of the previous grange all ran away, and they all went to Liangshan Benzhai to rent the three-story rented land......

Without tenants to cultivate, no matter how fertile the fields are, don't expect to produce much, and if you don't abandon the waste, you can already be Amitabha.

This time, the blow to the land property of the family where the middle-aged member is located is simply painful.

The current Jingdong East Road is not the last years of the dynasty where the homeless people are everywhere, and the place where the homeless people are most concentrated is called the Xiangjun barracks!

Even if the box army at this time has been reduced to the point of free helpers from large families, it is not so easy to command.

In particular, with Liangshan Benzhai as a benchmark, even if tenants are hired in the future, the commission cannot exceed three and a half floors, otherwise there will be no tenants renting fields for the family to exploit at will.

That's right, in the hearts of middle-aged people, it is a matter of course to exploit the people to support their families, and even if the strength of the exploitation is not enough, it feels unpleasant.

There are many big families with such ideas in Jeju City, and the family's income has dropped a lot this year, and they are so angry that they scold and grit their teeth.

"No, we must not let this kind of thing continue, either those thieves in Yangsan bow their heads, or the whole of Jeju will completely fall into the hands of thieves in the future!"

They are all large families, although the family has a lot of income channels, but the cost of their own family is also very large, whether it is the normal expenses of officialdom or personal contacts, or the provision of food, drink, housing and transportation for children and the whole family, it is extremely costly.

It's okay for a year or two, and with the background of a big family in Jeju City, it can still be easily handled, but what if it's five or six years, eight years and ten years?

Who can guarantee that the income of the family business will not continue to be weakened, even to the point that the income will be outrageously low later?

When the time comes, the income can't cover the expenses, so you will have to eat the old capital......

Therefore, the threat from Liangshan Benzhai must be solved as soon as possible!

The big households in the state and city united, although they didn't have the courage to take the initiative to put it right with Liangshan Benzhai, they still had the ability to make stumbling blocks.

Whether it is for economic interests or disgusting Liangshan Village, at the end of the year, the state city has increased the collection of various assessments.

For example, the Liangshan Commercial Bank, which belongs to Liangshan Benzhai, needs to add one or two layers of fees for goods entering and leaving the state city.

For another example, the Liangshan shops in the state city have been squeezed out and suppressed by all sides.

The big families in the city are having a hard time, and they will definitely make the Liangshan Commercial Bank, the initiator, pay a heavy price.

They are playing the means of the officials, using the power of the government, and they wish that Liangshan Benzhai couldn't stand the anger and completely got on the bar with the state government yamen.

The big families in the state city are quite dissatisfied with the prefect Zhang Shuye......

Previously, he united with the landlords and squires outside to put pressure on him, asking him to use the power of the government to forcibly suppress the misbehaving Liangshan Village.

As for whether it is possible to directly force the Liangshan Benzhai, they don't care at all, the headache is still the imperial court and the official yamen, and it has little to do with them as big households.

Besides, didn't Liangshan accept the imperial court's recruitment, the main force was still quelling the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was estimated that he didn't have the courage to completely fall out with the imperial court.

What's damning is that Uncle Zhang, who is a son of man in vain, actually just went to Liangshan Village in person, and then everything remained the same.

How could such a result be acceptable to the united state and city households, as well as the landlords and gentry outside the city?

You must know that the forces of Liangshan Benzhai have begun to infringe on their fundamental interests, and there is no room for relaxation at all.

It's just that the official methods are not very good......

It's the end of the year, and the big families in the state city have already got the detailed accounts of the shops and granges, and the imaginary Liangshan Commercial Bank has not yet appeared.

What's going on?

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"A bunch of idiots, and they don't look at the situation outside, they know how to play these unseemly methods!"

In the study room in the backyard of the Jeju Prefecture Ya, listening to the information sent back by his subordinates, Uncle Zhang couldn't help but sneer continuously.

He was a little desperate for the big families in the city......

Nima, they just want to deliberately target Liangshan Commercial Bank, but how can the old oily officials below not take the opportunity to make a lot of money?

The key is that these old oilmen of the government may not dare to offend the Liangshan Commercial Bank too much, and then those small businessmen and hawkers who have no power, no power and no background have fallen into bad luck.

During the year-end period, without the lively atmosphere of those small traders and hawkers to attract villagers outside the city, how could the commercial activities in the city not be deserted?

As far as he knew, the small merchants and hawkers who were originally in the state city had at least half of them at the end of the year, and all of them had gone to the village markets outside.

The business of Liangshan Commercial Bank in the state city seems to have been seriously disturbed and affected, but I don't look at how lively the village market outside the city is!

Recently, taking advantage of the good weather, he personally visited a number of villages outside the city, where the atmosphere was quite warm, and the flow of tourists from outside the city who used to gather in the state city was completely diverted by the village markets everywhere, leaving only a little soup and water for the state city.

The big families in the city who are used to being high and high have no idea how serious the situation really is.

If this trend continues, even if Liangshan Commercial Bank completely abandons the state city, it will still be able to thrive.

Chai Daguan is powerful......

Uncle Zhang finally understands what he meant by rural development when he was talking about it.

Nima, when he thinks about the lively scene and atmosphere when he travels through the countryside outside the city, he will definitely remember it for the rest of his life.

If you look closely, many of the daily necessities businesses that originally belonged to the state town have been completely replaced by lively village markets.

Think about it, if you can buy these daily necessities at the village market and at your doorstep, why go to the city and be looked down upon?

Even, he was surprised to find that many ordinary people in the city, braving the cold and snow, ran all the way out of the village markets outside the city to buy cheap and practical New Year's goods.

Uncle Zhang is a capable official, so he naturally has a clear understanding of the prices of goods sold in the state city and the rural markets outside.

There is indeed a significant gap in price......

Especially in the price of pork and mutton, as well as fresh fish, as well as poultry and poultry eggs such as chickens, ducks and geese, it is simply two kinds.

Speaking from the heart, if it were him, he would also be willing to buy cheap and fresh meat and eggs from the rural markets outside the city.

Seeing such a situation, he had to admire the methods of Chai Daguanren.

As far as he knew, all the villages affected by Liangshan Benzhai had established breeding farms.

Not only breeding pigs and sheep, but also breeding chickens, ducks and geese, so that these originally poor villages, in the Chinese New Year there is no shortage of meat and eggs, and even a large number of supplies to the surrounding areas, I am afraid that it is not going to make money.

Shame on you!

It should be a pro-people official like him to guide the people to live a good life.

It turned out to be a thief leader who did such an incredible thing.

As far as he knows, the situation in Jeju this year's festival is very different from previous years.

For the first time, the villages outside the city, especially those that have been renovated, have more supplies for the Chinese New Year than the state cities.

Such a situation surprised him and was helpless at the same time.

Not only is it just the meat and egg reserves for the New Year, but also the rice, flour, grain, oil, sauce, vinegar and tea, and the transformed villages can be produced by themselves, so they still need to go to the city to procure?

It is a luxury that some large families can afford, and the supply of Liangshan Benzhai is quite sufficient, and it is sold quite well in the state capital, at least the purchase volume of many large households is an astonishing number.

That is, things like cloth and satin, Liangshan Benzhai and the renovated villages cannot produce and provide them independently.

However, the Liangshan Commercial Bank was not a vegetarian, they had established a stable purchase channel, and they did not give the rest of the trading houses the slightest opportunity to firmly grasp the large demand for cloth and satin.

Even the grain wine monopolized by the imperial court, Liangshan Benzhai also tried to replace it by brewing fruit wine, and did not ask some commercial houses specializing in buying and selling wine to make a profit.

In short, in the business battle at the end of the year, the Liangshan Commercial Bank is dominant, and the rest of the commercial banks can only drink some soup and water, can there be no resentment?

But if you have grievances, you can only hold back, and you still want to use force?

Looking at the five pieces of rune paper on the table side by side, Uncle Zhang's face was unprecedentedly solemn......