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A few days later.

Just talking about the Changningwei area, there has been a lot of chaos.

Every day or two, Wang Shouzhe would receive a letter from Wang Shouyi, telling him about what happened in Changning Weizhong. The Chengwei Mansion has reached an agreement with the two celestial families, as well as several top Lingtai families, including the Changning Xu family, as well as the Qian family and other forces, and began to open warehouses in the city for disaster relief.

However, the population of the Acropolis is large, it is a large city with a population of more than 100,000 people, and the daily consumption of food is astronomical.

A few groups of bold merchants even joined forces to hoard Juqi and secretly sell grain to the people in the city at five or six times the price. As a result, he was caught by the Chengwei Mansion, not only was he beheaded for public display, but the food he had hoarded was also confiscated and confiscated by the Chengwei Mansion.

There are even more gossip rumors, because this time the disaster has spread outside Longzuo County. Therefore, in a short period of time, it is difficult to dispatch grain from outside the county to suppress the grain shortage, so that there is also a food shortage in the huge county town.

According to legend, the county seat of Longzuozhou is a large city with a population of more than one million. The food shortage in this city must be a big deal. It can also be seen from this that the overall situation in Longzuo County has been eroded to what extent.

Now rumors and rumors are spreading, and it is said that the Zifu School Palace can't raise food outside. It is also said that the county ordered the collection of grain from the city guards under his command to ensure the food supply of the county town.

The biggest rumor even said that the [Emperor Changlong] Shouyuan is approaching, and the Great Qian Empire is coming to an end, and this insect plague is a sign. made Wang Shouzhe break out in a cold sweat, and sure enough, the situation was chaotic, and any bull, ghost, snake and god would run out.

However, he dared to say that Emperor Changlong was about to hang up, and he was quickly pulled out by the City Guard Mansion and hung on the city gate and was executed by Ling Chi.

In Wang Shouyi's letter, he only dared to express it vaguely, but Wang Shouzhe still listened to the messenger talk about it secretly.

In a word.

Disorderly!

And the Ping'an Wang family is in this chaos, and they can only be honest on the surface. Taxes should be collected, grain should be paid, and there are many town guards who should pay a burden. In fact, even if the Wang family wanted to pay less than a load of grain, they couldn't do it.

Even if the Sanbo Wang Ding clan served as the deputy town guard envoy in the town guard mansion, he would never dare to have any favoritism at this juncture. It's just that the city guards have already sent people down to supervise the process of grain payment, who dares to show favoritism at this moment?

This summer tax, the Wang family paid a lot of grain.

A load of grain hit the carriage and was transported to the Dingpu Ferry, under the supervision of the envoy of the city guard, the people of the town guard house weighed it one by one, and finally loaded it onto the grain ship.

The three major farms combined, there are a total of 7,650 acres of fertile land in the register, and each mu of land is collected under a 4-tax system, and a total of 3,060 quintals of wheat are required in a single season. Fortunately, this time the total harvest is good, except for the problem of honey worm flooding, this year is actually a season with abundant rain in the early stage and good sunshine in the middle and late stages, which is very conducive to the maturity of wheat filling.

Therefore, the total output of the wheat harvest of the three major farms combined actually reached more than 26,000 quintals, and the average yield per mu was about three and a half quintals, which was barely a bumper harvest.

After the summer tax is opened, the [pest extermination tax] invested before, the seed farming cattle are amortized, and the tenant farmers are shared, and there is an additional net income of 14,500 quintals. Of course, there is actually a lot more food than that.

Because the previous expenses such as exterminator powder were paid with dry money before, and I will not buy Nalaoshzi insecticide powder in the future. And that's just one quarter's income.

By the way, the fourth old lady was fooled into hoarding a batch of exterminators before. I also took advantage of the high price before, and sold it at three times the price, making a lot of money.

This made the fourth old lady Wang Xiaozhi proud, and boasted that he had made a "lot of money" for the family with his outstanding vision and made great contributions.

Except for the summer tax on the wheat field of the farm, the rest of the property in the farm is paid before the year. And because it is not a food crop that is produced, there is no need to subscribe to the grain.

In addition, it is the jurisdiction within the Wang family's sphere of influence that collects taxes on behalf of the people.

Because of the small sphere of influence of the Wang family, the registered fertile land of the civilians in the jurisdiction is only 16,000 mu, and these are the five tax systems implemented, but the Wang family takes into account the self-cultivated farmers in the jurisdiction, although the losses are less than those of the outside world, but they also suffer greatly.

Therefore, it was decided to collect only four taxes of grain, which belonged to the family, and it was deducted with a big copper slot. This time, the Wang family worked hard to collect 6,400 loads of grain, all of which were loaded and transported to Dingpu Ferry, and then transported away by large ships one by one.

Under the protection of the generals, Wang Shouzhe stood at the busy and hot Dingpu Ferry, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. In the past few years, the Xuanwu family and the freedmen have worked hard to farm, and the income is really far less than the tax extraction.

It is estimated that some of these grains will be transported to the Acropolis as rumored, and some of them are estimated to be used to "relieve" people in higher levels of states and counties. You know, the living conditions of the people over there are far better than those of the people in Ping'an Town.

Speaking of which, it can be regarded as a kind of irony.

What's more, such a boatload of grain will make Ping'an Town, which is already short of food, even worse. In particular, many yeoman farming families who have invested their savings in buying farmland, or who have spent a lot of money to send their children to school, or who have just experienced a huge cost of weddings, funerals, etc., will be particularly sad this time in this crisis.

The family conditions of yeoman farmers are theoretically not bad, but their consumption level is also much higher than that of tenant farmers, and the cost of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, clothing, food, housing, transportation, weddings and funerals will also be higher.

Moreover, most yeoman farmers, with a little savings, will find ways to expand their fields, build houses, and train their children to study and learn arts. It costs a lot of money, and most of them don't have much savings.

The normal situation is no problem, but this time the insect plague came so ferocious and sudden.

Even so, though.

Except for a small number of yeoman farmers, most yeoman farmers are trying to survive until the next season's grain output, even if they are out of the picture. But among them, there are people who can't stop being demons.

Whenever there is a natural or man-made disaster, there will always be some powerful people who are not greedy enough. Take this opportunity to engage in mergers and acquisitions, devour the people's fat and ointment to strengthen themselves.

Wang Shouzhe glanced at it from a distance, and the Liu and Zhao convoys that kept coming to pay taxes narrowed their eyes slightly. Previously, it was only based on the style of the two jackal families of the Liu family and the Zhao family, as well as some rumors, to estimate their actions.

However, with the development of intelligence work, some conclusive information gradually reached Wang Shouzhe. He was almost certain that the other party would indeed make a big move.

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Ping An Liu.

In the main hall of the Liu family's main house, Liu Shengye, the head of the Liu family, was listening to several waves of clansmen reporting incidents, including Liu Yongzhou, who was relatively good in the younger generation.

His brows furrowed: "How did the Changning Sun clan do it, obviously promised to lend us 15,000 quintals of wheat, and we will return 30,000 quintals of rice after the autumn harvest, why don't you cash it out now?

Changning Sun said that they were all rushing to buy insecticidal powder, so they barely managed to maintain some production. A clansman in his fifties replied, "They say that Sun's losses are too great. ”

"How much does that need?" Liu Shengye's face was a little gloomy, this time Liu's loss was too big and too big, if he couldn't make up for it, it would be too much of a loss of vitality.

The face of the tribe was also ugly: "The Sun family said that we don't want us to double the grain repayment, and also said that it is illegal to speculate on the price of grain." It is better to barter and exchange 1,500 acres of fertile land with us. ”

Fifteen hundred acres of fertile land?

Liu Shengye's face turned blue and white for a while, and he fainted out of breath: "Are they crazy, 15,000 quintals of grain for 1,500 acres of land?"

This opening is one-seventh of the land's property, how cruel, this is several times the profit.

"The head of the family, why don't you forget it?" the clansman said helplessly, "According to our original plan, we can also annex about 2,000 acres of fertile land.

"I can't forget it, my Liu family has lost too much this time. Liu Shengye's eyes were fierce and said, "Then this time, if you don't do anything, then you will annex it to the number of 3,000 mu." Even if the time comes to mortgage and borrow, or replace with others, we will make a lot of money. ”

His eldest brother Liu Shenghao is at the critical moment of impacting the Lingtai, and there are still some resource gaps. Once you rush to the Lingtai realm, it is a double spirit platform, and you can break your wrists with the Sun clan.

Liu Shengye has always been good at drilling the economy, and he will never suffer losses. Moreover, the family has worked hard to accumulate wealth in the past fifty years, and while strengthening the family, doesn't it just want to cultivate a second Lingtai ancestor?

"Family master, such a big move, I'm afraid it will cause resentment among the people, right?" the clansman said with some concern, "What's more, because the Wang family has a spirit insect master this time, the result is not a disaster, and there must be a lot of surplus food left in his hands this time." Will you take the opportunity to ......?"

"They don't dare!" Liu Shengye said confidently, "Our Liu clan and the Zhao clan have joined forces to do things, how can the weak Wang clan dare to move half a claw? Not to mention that I have already heard that the Wang clan has transported the surplus grain to Donggang, and the high return is exchanged for a cultivation resource." It would be wise to keep the surplus in your hands until the next season, and it will certainly not be so sought-after. ”

"How can the head of the family be sure of this?" said the clansman strangely, "according to this trend, not every family can use double the dose of exterminator. ”

"The head of the family has received the news that the Purple Mansion School Palace has begun to improve the next generation of insect exterminators. And as a sign of apology, the next season's exterminator will only be distributed to each losing family at a loss of 10%. ”

This news is relatively secret, but in this chamber, they are all the core of the Liu family, so they are naturally not afraid of leaking.

"That being the case, this is an opportunity not to be missed. The clansmen said, "It's just that the Sun family is too dark." ”

Liu Yongzhou, who had not spoken and was holding back, suddenly arched his hand at this time and said: "Family master, uncles, Yongzhou has a way to not cooperate with the Sun family." Anyway, some time ago, my fishing boat was by the river and rescued a lost daughter......"

As soon as this eldest lady was mentioned, Liu Yongzhou's eyes were irrepressibly scorching, obsessed, and even fanatical......

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