Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Current Situation of Willow Town
Liu Zhen hasn't changed much, and for many people, it's still the same.
Most people are very poor and have little to eat.
Those landlords are doing well.
This state of affairs cannot be changed by Liu Qing letting the Liu family exempt some land rent.
Not only Liuzhen, not just Gyeongju, the whole Daqian, most of the land is in the hands of those landlords.
More than 90 percent of the common people own less than 10 percent of the cultivated land in Daqian.
In an agricultural country with backward productivity, there is no land of its own, so it can basically only struggle on the subsistence line.
In contrast, the Little Golden State is simply a paradise.
The burden of the sinners was heavy, but at least each of them had twenty or thirty acres of land, which he could support himself by his own labor, and still have a little surplus every year.
The Liu family is the largest landlord in Liuzhen, and they have made a lot of profits in the past year, but they alone cannot make much change in the living standards of the people here.
It can change some families, but not all families.
They will do some good deeds, but they can't do good deeds with all their money, and even if they do make such a change, it won't change the lives of so many people.
Some tenants who have difficulties in living are exempted from rent, but it is not possible to waive all rents, or even reduce them.
——Those big landlords have a customary price, and your Liu family can afford such a loss by doing this, but other big landlords are not happy.
That's how to disrupt the market.
In that case, the Liu family will become the target of public criticism, and there will be no way to gain a foothold in this area.
It doesn't matter if you do some good deeds to the individual, it reflects the kindness of the big landlord's family.
However, if the market price is messed up, it will be a big problem, and it will affect the interests of other large landowners.
The Liu family hasn't been so strong yet.
There is no big official in his family, and he doesn't have that confidence.
In fact, that little rent is really nothing to them now.
Now the Liu family's bookstore and winery are doing very well and have become their biggest source of profit.
Mastering lead movable type printing and distilled spirits technology has made them extremely competitive in these two industries.
Now the printing market in Gyeongju has been monopolized by the Yoo family.
There is no way to gain a foothold in other printing at all, the printing quality is poor, the printing cost is high, and there is no competitiveness.
In Gyeongju's high-priced liquor market, the Yoo family also squeezed in, occupying a 30% share.
Their highly distilled spirits are also sold far and wide, and they have made a name for themselves.
It's just that the time to make this distilled liquor is too short, and the only thing that can be played at present is the height, there is no aging, and their liquor culture has not been formed, and there is no heritage.
In a few decades, this market will probably be monopolized by their family.
At present, the development of Liujia liquor industry is restricted by insufficient productivity, and it is simply not possible to brew so much wine to meet this market.
Their winemaking workshop further expanded, and in addition to Liuzhen, they also built winemaking workshops in several places to purchase grain and brew wine on the spot.
As for the incense-making workshop, because it carries the role of expanding the incense for Liu Qing, it is only a small profit sales, and there is no loss.
These three new industries allowed the Liu family to recruit more than 1,000 workers, of which eight or nine hundred were recruited in Liuzhen, all of whom were people whose families had no land, which could be regarded as giving them a chance to support their families.
Of course, the Liu family earns more.
This also makes them more confident when it comes to doing good deeds.
The actions of the Liu family over the past year or so have indeed improved the living conditions of some ordinary people in Liuzhen.
But most of the people still can't touch their light and live in dire straits.
It is somewhat unrealistic to change the majority of the people, to get the government to come out and rely on a big landlord to get ahead.
However, the things that the Liu family has done for more than a year have made the people of Liuzhen believe that they are truly good people, and their reputation in Liuzhen has been better.
Liu Qing had been away from Liuzhen for so long, and only occasionally used small spiritism to communicate with the pilgrims here to solve their troubles.
In this way, his incense in this part of Liuzhen has not weakened, and it is getting more and more prosperous.
The land temples in every village in Liuzhen are dedicated to him, and there are also many land temples in Bowu County that worship the land gods who have become him.
His incense followers are all expanding, but the speed of expansion is not as fast as that of Gumu County.
After all, here Liu Qing is just the land god of Liuzhen, and it is a little out of bounds to expand the incense to other places.
Now it's just that no one cares about that.
If you go too far and attract the attention of the Dao Palace, something may happen.
The collective treatment on the second day of May last year had too much impact, even if the Liu family did not take the initiative to publicize it, this matter still spread to a large area.
Not only the natural county, but also some surrounding counties have heard about it.
Some people think it's ridiculous and laugh it off.
When some people heard that this was indeed the case, they moved their minds and waited for this day to come.
When Liu Qing returned to Liuzhen, it was not yet May, but there were already many patients who had come to Liuzhen in advance.
I'm afraid that it will be too late for that day, so I have to come early.
Some of them were patients from wealthy families who were admitted to the Liu family compound after they came.
There were also some people who didn't have enough money, so they spent money to live in the homes of ordinary people near the Land Temple—although most of them were thatched huts, but at least a place to stay.
If you don't have enough money, you don't dare to come in advance, and you can't afford to eat and live.
On the first day of the fifth month, three or four villages near the Land Temple were inhabited by people from outside Liuzhen.
Every villager's house is inhabited by people from other places, and they are all full.
This also made them a little extra money.
- Whether it is housing or food and drink, they have to pay for it, and the income of a few days is worth a month of hard work.
After the last group treatment, there is not much left of the patients in Liuzhen, and they live here, and they don't need to come in advance.
There are thousands of people from outside Liuzhen who come to see a doctor, some of them are from the county of the museum, and some of them are patients from outside the county of the county.
In this mortal world, most diseases are incurable, and no amount of money can cure them.
Such people will come and try their luck when they hear that there is such a place where all diseases can be cured, even if they don't believe it very much.
What if?
By the second day of the fifth lunar month, more than 10,000 people had come to Liuzhen Land Temple for medical treatment.
Now Liu Qing has fifty or sixty thousand believers, and he can provide him with a large amount of divine power every day, and it is not a problem to treat these tens of thousands of people.
- Even if every patient meets the criteria for terminal cancer, he can handle it.
There are no cultivators here, and there will be no patients like Lin Youmeng who need to consume more than a billion incense values.
On this day, Liu Qing cured tens of thousands of patients.
Some are minor illnesses, and a few hundred incense values are enough.
Some are terminally ill and need more than 100,000 incense values.
Tens of thousands of patients consumed a total of more than 400 million incense values, and all of them were cured.
Calculated together, it is one-third of the incense value required to treat Lin Youmeng.
And through this collective treatment, Liu Qing has nearly 10,000 more believers.
Another benefit is that the system task is completed.