Chapter 143: Foresight, Pull Out the Thorn!
"Hmph, five dollars acquisition, plus all kinds of costs, etc., it is difficult to sell for fifteen dollars."
"And the millet valley in Yangzhou, the market price is only twelve yuan, hum, it is really a foolish emperor, he does some stupid things, and he is stupid and vigorous."
"Hahaha!"
Confirm with your own eyes that the Agricultural Bureau, which has been making trouble everywhere in Yangzhou City, has nothing to fear, let alone threaten the business of its own grain store.
Pan Fu left the place in a wandering manner, followed by five or six servants.
The vigorous grain collection campaign is still in full swing.
When it was finally his turn, the old man who was huddled in the crowd waiting to sell grain saw with his own eyes that the forty sacks of corn he had brought out were weighed bag by bag.
Subsequently, the busy officials of the Department of Agriculture and Agriculture, after carrying all the grain onto the donkey cart, took out a hanging bronze coin from the sack beside them!
One hanging is a thousand dollars!
When the old man came back to his senses, he already had ten heavy copper coins hanging on his arm!
In addition, there is a total of 100 coins minted with the "Great Zhou Heavy Treasure"?!
"Old man, one dollar is equivalent to one hundred dollars, and it is the new money implemented by my Great Zhou Guoxin!"
Shi Langguan said to the old man politely, which can be regarded as calling back the old man's soul that was frightened away.
"This ...... It really sold for so much money...... Won't you lose money? The old man actually began to worry about Sinong Temple:
"Don't hide it from your lordship, when we didn't know anything about Yangzhou earlier, we only heard that you would pay to buy our grain."
"We also went to the city to ask those grain stores and asked them if they would collect the grain, but they basically didn't accept it, because they had a lot of land."
"There are one or two grain stores that say they collect grain, but they only give the price of three dollars per liter of corn, we thought that you officials would give less, but I didn't expect ......."
Officer Shilang smiled and patiently replied:
"Old man, let's collect grain, don't consider whether to return to the original or not, this is a matter ordered by the emperor himself, as for other things, the emperor is considering, you don't have to worry about our government, hehe."
After several days of grain harvesting, nearly 30,000 peasant households in Yangzhou City alone were purchased, and 1.2 million stone millet grains were collected.
That's enough for 1.2 million people to eat for a year!
And in the entire Great Zhou, the population is only 10 million, that is to say-
300,000 peasant households, one million peasants, enough to feed the entire Great Zhou!
Although this is only the basic ration.
But only when the basic rations are met can the crops be converted into cash crops!
This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.
A few days later, Yangzhou Grain Department officially opened with a plaque!
What makes my jaw drop is -
The millet sold by the Food Department is only 5 yuan a liter! And the polished rice that was transported and sold by the soldiers in the fields was only eight dollars a liter!
This news spread explosively in Yangzhou City, and for a while, all the private grain stores in the city were instantly cool!
All the people who bought grain went to the food department to buy food!
And the WFP has already taken a countermeasure -
Those with household registration in rural households can buy 30 liters of grain at a time, and those with household registration in non-rural households can only buy 5 liters at a time! That is, the purchase is limited! In order to avoid the looting and hoarding of grain, it will lead to a shortage of grain and a sharp rise in the price of rice, so that those who are strapped for money and cannot afford to hoard grain can only buy high-priced grain in the later stage!
When Pan Fu's family learned the news, his family was angry and suddenly came to countless local gentry, all of whom were chattering about what to do in the future!
"I can figure out what this so-called Sinong Temple is doing!"
"Forcibly grabbing the field will not succeed! Just get a Si Nong Temple! Monopolize the entire Yangzhou grain market at low prices! Forcing us to smash all the grain in our hands! ”
"This little emperor really has the means! I used to think he was just a fool! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it! The scheming is so deep! ”
"Oh, what's the use of complaining about the little emperor now?" A landlord is in a hurry to turn around:
"If the grain can't be sold, it will be smashed in our hands, if no one buys it for a year! The grain will mold in the storehouse! When the time comes, you'll have to throw it all away! ”
"And the tenants in the field are still planting! The short is a crop in three months, and the long one is a crop in seven months! ”
"If you can't think of a way to deal with it! We really have to die in our hands! ”
Just like the landlords and gentry are in a hurry, on Yangzhoufang Street, a large number of tenants who came to the grain department to queue up to buy grain have finally come back to their senses-
As soon as the grain department came out of the market, it completely controlled the price of grain, so that the grain of the landlords and gentry could not be sold!
For a long time, even if the landlords' fields were not forcibly grabbed and the landlords' fields were given to the peasant households, the landlords' business would be so declined!
Wait for time, it's enough to wait for them to go bankrupt!
"Old lady, I was afraid that my brain was squeezed by the door, and the Si Nong Temple came to tell us to reclaim the wasteland with those outsiders, and it was our own field after the reclamation, and we refused without thinking about it, woo woo! We're stupid! ”
"Those outsiders! It's only been four months! A stubble harvest has earned tens of thousands of dollars from the Department of Agriculture! ”
"That's tens of thousands! When did we see so much money in one go? ”
"No! I'm going to Sinong Temple to get a farmer! Beg them to give me some more land! If you don't have ten acres, you can have five acres! ”
"I'll go too, I'll go! And not only do they not have to pay! Even if you borrow farm tools and cattle and donkeys from the Department of Agriculture, you don't have to pay rent! ”
For a time, the periphery of the Food Department in Yangzhou City was crowded, and even the Agricultural Department was crowded with a large number of tenants! They are clamoring to become farmers!
"Don't squeeze it! I want to become a farmer! Please go to the enclosure with your acquaintance first! One hundred households! After you have negotiated and circled yourself! Send another representative, and after verifying, registering, etc., together with the Shilang officer, you can smoothly become a farmer! ”
"I have a lot of land in Yangzhou! There is a lot of land that no one cultivates! Don't be afraid of not having enough points! ”
"Plus! Those who are not afraid of the wilderness and remoteness, and think that they have many abilities! More than ten acres is also OK! The Department of Agriculture is based on the principle of self-cultivation and self-cultivation! Create a farmer's registration for everyone! ”
The Si Nong Department is in a busy mess, but it is still in order, and all questions can be solved immediately in accordance with the laws of Si Nong Temple!
Soon, the chaos on the scene gradually subsided! The tenants are gathering and leaving!
"Official! The land of those landlords! Do you still accept it? The land is fertile, but it would be a pity if all the tenants ran away and the land would be desolate. "The old man who is reluctant to farm and rent land all his life, although he is happy to get the land, but he also has this pity and concern.
"What if it's wasted, those landlords won't feel sorry for the land you worked so hard to take care of, even if the land is theirs."
At this time, Yuwen Shihong, who has been stabbing Yangzhou in his heart, has long come to Yangzhou City.
He was relieved to see that everything was developing the way he had envisioned it.
This thorn can finally be pulled out!
With their own foresight!