In the autumn and July of Mengqiu, the flow of water in the canal gradually decreased, and it was necessary to erect a waterwheel to draw up the water in the ditch.

Li Tai sat barefoot on the ox cart, driving the ox cart decently, and when he saw the farmer standing on the ground drawing water with a bucket, he shouted loudly: "Hot soup, give way!" ”

The farmers jumped to let the ox cart pass, looked at the water buffalo cart that was moving away and sighed: "What a loser, I don't love animal power!" The distance of more than ten miles, his family's thousands of acres of land, this has to be watered by how many cows can be wasted! ”

"The poor man worries about the rich! Hundreds of people worked in his family's weaving workshop, and they weaved hundreds of horses of cloth in a day. There are also workshops that press oil, and the big families in the township all supply materials to his family, and it is enough to use oil to water the ground......"

"How many months has this family been in the township? Is the family already so thick? ”

When the farmer who was watering the ground next to him heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"It's someone's business how thick the other people's bottom is. You're still gossiping here, and you're still gossiping about the ground at night, and you're missing out on work in the evening, but no one cares about your night's meal! ”

When the farmers heard this, their movements also sped up, and after a while, another farmer couldn't help but sigh: "I can't envy the development of people's governance, and the big families in the township will also recruit people to work when they are busy, but who is like this bold, full of grain and rice, and meat and sorrel?"

Accumulate good people, there will be long and rich, this Lang Jun is too clumsy as a farmer, and the waste materials that can starve to death in good years, but this industry is growing stronger and stronger day by day. If there is no blessing from heaven, I really don't believe it! ”

Fortunately, Li Tai's ox cart is skilled in driving and has gone far away. If you hear that the villagers despise his farm work level so much, you will deduct a sheep's food for anything today!

The land reserved for winter wheat has been ploughed twice, but it still needs to be watered thoroughly and the roots and stems of the previous crop have been used to fertilize the field.

Li Tai drove back in an ox-cart, and his own villagers went in front to draw water and water the ground.

He had just jumped off the ox cart here, and a person who had been waiting for a long time next to him hurriedly walked up, shaking a big pu fan in his hand and approaching Li Tai: "Li Lang is really diligent, a few days ago, he did a wonderful job and had more than enough wealth, but he can still work and cultivate by himself, which is really admirable." ”

The big white sun hung in the middle of the sky, no matter how hard the pu fan swayed, there was no cool breeze, Li Tai walked all the way to the ground and sat down under the shade of the tree, and then pointed to Liu Heng, who was following him and shook the fan diligently, and said with a smile: "Liu San doesn't go to the city to make a fortune, how can he have the leisure to come to my small garden to watch the wind?" ”

"Lang Jun said this, it's really embarrassing for me! Compared with Lang Jun's ingenious homework a few days ago, what did I calculate with that little vulgarity? A bucket of sesame oil in the township near the left is close to a piece of silk, and Lang Jun collects oil before and after, which alone is comparable to the mediocre people's hard work for several years! ”

There was a perilla drink from the village that brought the well water to cool the town, and Liu Heng grabbed it first, and respectfully handed it in front of Li Tai with both hands, revealing a sense of hospitality from head to toe.

"Let's talk about something directly, it's hot and dry in autumn, and I don't bother to guess what you have in mind."

Li Tai took the drink and drank most of the bowl, and then said in small sips.

"There is indeed one thing to ask for, the oil price is just right this autumn, so the family also wants to take advantage of the market to make up for hot pressed oil, so ......"

"So you don't want to deliver the flax after the autumn?"

Li Tai glanced at him and said with a smile.

"It's not that I don't want to, how dare I ......"

Liu Heng glanced at the grain cart transporting grain on the country road and drove into the manor, and his eyes were busy taking it back. There is no secret between the villages, and the materials that the historian has almost bankrupted today have come here to apologize, and in a very short period of time they have spread all over the left township.

Although I don't know much about the specific inside story, the big families in the left and near don't dare to regard Li Tai as a newcomer to Dongzhou who has no foundation, and they have a lot of awe in their hearts.

"Before, the villagers laughed a lot...... But now I realize that we are short-sighted fools! As soon as the miscalculation is made, my family is not without the pride of admitting defeat, only today's autumn flax harvest is poor. It's just, it's just ......"

Li Tai glanced at Liu Heng, who was still considering his rhetoric, and said with a smile: "It's just that the flax harvest is small, but in the next few years, the current price of oil in the township is not controlled by your villagers, this is the real big problem?" ”

"Lang Jun Mingjian, although my family also has a side business of buying and selling to make profits, it is still farming after all. The food and clothing are hard for the family to harvest, and if the season is miscalculated, it will be hungry and cold. When Daxingtai loses the levy, the information in the township is even more lacking......"

Liu Heng said with a bitter face, and even had a cold war in this autumn and summer day.

Li Tai couldn't help laughing when he saw this, not gloating, but purely proud.

Natural and man-made disasters in Kansai have been disrupting for many years, and it is difficult for small civilian households to make a living, and land and population are concentrated in large estates. In addition to the considerable rural situation, the township capital is also very rich.

One of the characteristics of the large estate economy is that it can concentrate the productive forces and flexibly arrange the mode of production, which can be said to be completely self-sufficient, and does not need to be frequently traded and demanded from the outside world.

So there is not even money in the entire Kansai market, and these big estate owners are still living a very nourishing life.

Li Tai finally built a large spinning wheel, but because of the shortage of raw materials and labor, the production capacity was seriously dragged down, and the farming plan was difficult. The stubbornness of these surface tycoons for the control of township capital can be seen.

In later generations, the commodity economy was developed, so the stalk of "rich people can really do whatever they want" was derived. But when the market transaction degenerates to the state of barter, having money is a fart, and having goods is the last word!

In the past, Li Tai was famous in the township for the image of a wronged leader, so that these big families set off a boom in slaughtering fat sheep, selling him a large amount of sesame seeds, the most important oil crop, and even the output after the autumn was pre-sold for a large amount.

Judging from the gains and losses of trading alone, these big farmers are not at a loss, after all, the crops in the fields are produced every year, and even if they can't keep up with the trend of soaring prices, they only earn a little less.

But from a comprehensive point of view, Li Tai's temporary monopoly on sesame seeds is equivalent to directly cutting off a link in the manor economy of these big families. Not only do they lose their immediate profits, but they also have to pay for the entire year of fuel.

In an ordinary year, although such a blockade also has a certain impact, it can also reduce losses by adjusting its own production pattern, such as hybridizing some other oil crops, controlling self-consumption, etc.

However, this autumn, Daxingtai issued a reward for losing, and a large number of materials in the township were requisitioned and transferred to the officials, and the savings of these big families have shrunk greatly, and it will be very uncomfortable to be choked by Li Tai again, and it is likely that they will not be able to slow down this momentum for several years.

There is no fiat, freely circulating currency in the special customs, and the cloth that is usually used for trading also requires tedious labor to produce.

This makes the large households even more stretched when arranging production for the next year, and the self-sufficient manor economy has a loophole, which is the most uncomfortable.

"I'm not a flying immortal outside the sky, I can eat and sleep in the dew, since I still have to live in this world, of course, I won't complain about the township for some material gains. The pre-received goods list after the autumn can be redeemed, but it also depends on the sincerity of the villagers. ”

Old God Li Tai is saying, now he is not the person who couldn't spend the money before, so he will naturally not be polite when he should take care of it.

"Of course, of course! Lang Jun has returned all the prepaid goods before, and my family will also give a batch of local fresh food to compensate for the fault of breaking the contract. ”

Liu Heng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said.

Li Tai was happy again when he heard this, and waved his hand and said, "If Liu San doesn't know how to speak human words, go home first and ask your parents to come again." It's hot and dry, and I can't guarantee that I won't listen to your lies calmly again. ”

"My family is indeed full of sincerity, why don't you give Lang Jun advice?"

Seeing that Li Tai was getting up to end the conversation, Liu Heng said again in a hurry.

"In this way, the prepaid goods will be returned to me by 30%. How much flax do you pre-sell? Sell me ten times as much grain as this autumn. ”

Li Tai already had a plan in his heart, and after hearing this, he said directly.

"Thirty percent? That's too high......"

Liu Heng looked bitter after hearing this, before Li Tai was able to buy the township at a premium of 20%, and they were greedy for the difference in the price of flax in summer and autumn and received it in advance, but now they have to pay out 30% of the goods without doing anything, which is really distressing and a little difficult to accept.

Li Tai didn't bother to bargain with him, so he stood up and walked towards the manor.

Liu Heng hesitated in the rear for a while, and saw that Li Tai was about to enter the manor, so he strode to catch up: "Lang Jun is slow, slow!" Thirty percent, can be thirty percent, but please Lang Jun to agree, don't dump the bad market in the near future! ”

In winter, the weather is dry and dry, the nights are long and the days are short, even if there is no consumption of food, the moisturizing and maintenance of utensils requires a lot of oil. Although sesame oil is not the main maintenance oil, it will also be raised with this wave of market.

Although the newly harvested sesame seeds are high in moisture and are not easy to use to press oil, these big farmers obviously do not want to miss this wave of market.

"You can rest assured that my oil will not be sold on the market before the end of the year. If you don't believe, you can make a separate covenant with each other. ”

This time, Li Tai was very talkative, and said directly.

Most of the oil he searched for has already helped Zhou Changming lose his official position, and the oil mill has not officially started, even if there is still some storage, he has to wait to see how strong and measured Daxingtai controls the relevant prices before he can enter the market for sale.

Moreover, while purchasing sesame oil, he also bought a large number of raw hemp materials, which need to be spun into cloth as soon as possible in order to directly increase his purchasing power and realize it.

In the next few years, there will definitely be a systemic change in the livelihood of Guanzhong, and the barter trading environment is not about inflation or deflation, and strengthening its own productivity is undoubtedly the most critical.

It is precisely because of this that Li Taicai wants to extort a hundred historians. These tribes are not just Ding Zhuang, Li Tai also requires them to have a skilled skill, which is to reserve talents for the future development of the countryside.

To be honest, if it hadn't been for He Batsheng's capital to make trouble this time, Li Tai really didn't want those big investors to redeem the goods bills back. But since it is borrowing to save profits, it is naturally easy to borrow and repay.

The big families in the township redeemed the bills one after another, and Li Tai returned to Huazhou with a batch of returned cloths to repay the money.