After everyone left, Han Ju sat down beside me: Brother Li, you really plan to use the manor mortgage to borrow grain

Li Yang sighed: Hmm

Han Juzheng: But after all, the manor is the foundation left by the ancestors, so there is no other way than this

Li Yang: At the moment, this is the only way, otherwise no one will easily borrow so much food from us

Han Juzheng: Brother Li saved Juzheng's life on the battlefield regardless of the suspicion of the two families, and then paved the way for Juzheng to become the county commander, how many students have been studying hard for decades and have not been able to embark on their official careers as they wished, your great grace Juzheng has always been remembered in his heart, and now Brother Li, you have a difficult situation, Ju Zhengding will do his best to help you get through this difficulty, I will persuade my father to raise 1 million catties of food as soon as possible and send it to Alan County

Li Yang: Don't mention the previous things in Juzheng, this county order is something that you can only do with your own hard work and governance, I understand your kindness, as for the matter of raising food, I will forget it

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, I really want to help you, if you recognize Juzheng's brother, don't postpone, you can say whether you recognize me as a brother or not

Li Yang: Of course I recognize you as a brother, but let's first say that I borrowed this grain, and when I harvest the grain, I will pay you back plus 50% interest, if you don't agree to this grain, I won't borrow it

Han Juzheng smiled and nodded: Okay, then this matter is decided

Li Yang: My brother will settle the account, let's make a note, so it's safer

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, there is no need between you and me, Juzheng believes in your character

Li Yang raised his hands: Ju Zheng, I thanked you first

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, you're going to see you outside, it's not too early for me to go back and rest

With the passage of time day by day, the original barren land gradually becomes leveled, and the newly reclaimed fields will be divided into squares or rectangles according to the mu rules, so that it will be more convenient to divide the fields to everyone

Seeing the fruits of their labor these days, everyone was full of enthusiasm, and the more they worked, the more experienced they became, and the progress of land reclamation became significantly faster, and when the people were quiet in this joy, an unexpected thing did happen, and hundreds of people instigated everyone to go on strike

Li Yang and his two wives were looking through the account books at home to see which properties could be mortgaged, which properties could not be mortgaged, even if the mortgaged properties could not be recovered, they could not make the clansmen hungry, and finally decided to use 10,000 acres of fertile land as collateral, leaving 2,000 acres of paddy fields for the clansmen to cultivate and ensure their livelihood

A voice suddenly came from outside the house, "Brother Li is not good-something is wrong" Li Yang heard this, and hurriedly got up and ran out of the house, Han Juzheng bent over and panted and raised his hand to point outside: Brother Li is not good-something is wrong

Li Yang: Something happened to Ju Zheng who was panicking

Han Juzheng: Brother Li's 4-5,000 people have gone on strike

Li Yang's eyes wrinkled when he heard this: Do you know why they are striking?

Han Juzheng shook his head: I don't know

Li Yang: Let's go to Juzheng and see what's going on

Han Juzheng: When I came, I had people prepare the car

Ju Zheng and I were jolting on the carriage for nearly an hour, and when we arrived at the scene of the incident, we saw a man sitting in the field, and his face instantly pulled down and his sharp eyes scanned over the people: why did the work stop

A man sitting on the ground suddenly stood up: These fields that we have worked so hard to reclaim are not reclaimed for you rich people in the end, I said how can someone be so kind to resettle tens of thousands of disaster victims, it turned out that they used a mouthful of food to trick us into being coolies, and the fields we worked hard to reclaim cannot fall into the hands of others

The surrounding people also coaxed, "That's right, the fields we have worked so hard to cultivate must not fall into the hands of others, if we don't leave us a way to live, then we can only fight with him", saying that, the people all had a fierce light in their eyes, holding tools and surrounding them step by step

Seeing this, Han Juzheng was so frightened that he trembled: "You-what are you going to do?"

Li Yang was actually scared when he encountered this situation, but he didn't stand still in the slightest, he used his dantian to use his strength to eat milk and howled: What are you doing - you want to rebel

Then he raised his hand and pointed to the man who took the lead in making trouble: What are you doing there, when these fields are reclaimed and cultivated, they will be distributed to you according to households, and the food you eat now can live in the house, including the clothes you wear, which one is not given by our Alan County, and someone asked you for a penny, and I don't think about what you have to deceive

Minfu: You have no basis for what you say, now that you can use it, we should turn your face when we finish harvesting the grain

Li Yang: Actually, you said this today, and I also made it clear, I made it clear that I made a guarantee to the prefect to reclaim these wastelands, promising to make up the field tax and grain tax when the grain is harvested in the autumn, everyone should know that according to the law of Zhejiang, you need to pay taxes for one acre of land, and the government will issue you a title deed with one or two silver, if you are asked to pay taxes with silver now, can you take it out

The people looked at each other, and they were all silent

Li Yang: This time to reclaim 200,000 acres of land, I can't take out so much silver to pay the land tax, so you can only cultivate the fields first, harvest the grain, we are making up the tax arrears, and when we get the title deed, I guarantee that these fields will be distributed to each of you according to the household

Another citizen: It's still not very safe, in case you change your mind at that time, aren't we people working in vain, since ancient times, the people do not fight with the officials, this is an iron law that has not changed through the ages, and it is not us poor people who suffer from the protection of officials and officials

Li Yang: You don't trust me, so you might as well talk about what you want to do

The man who took the lead in making trouble: Why don't you hire us to clear the land for you, and when the land is cleared, we will rent the land for farming, so that it will be fair to everyone

Li Yang laughed when he heard it: Then I will discuss it with you to see how much salary is appropriate, and after discussing it, tell Han County that he will send you the salary when the time comes, and the settlement on the same day will be five or ten days, and it will be up to you, but I said that the share of the land that received the salary in front of you will not have your share when it gets it

Han Juzheng looked at everyone: The people who want to divide the fields should go to work first, and the people who want to be paid stay and discuss with you

The men looked at each other and discussed in low voices, and after a while those who wanted the fields returned to work in the fields with their tools, and the rest of the people who wanted wages gathered together to discuss how much they should be paid

After they discussed, the man who took the lead in making trouble came up to me: We discussed 15 wages a day plus 3 catties of rice, and we would work for 5 days to settle the wages once

Li Yang: That's it, Ju Zheng will go back and elect some representatives among these people, and they will report to you if they have any demands and needs in the future

Han Juzheng: I'll handle this matter, Brother Luggage

Li Yang raised his hand with a gloomy face and patted the man on the shoulder: There is nothing wrong with asking for wages, this is a normal labor, and you have to get something, but this method you use makes me very unhappy, this kind of thing can only happen this time, do you understand

The man was so frightened that his face turned pale and sweat dripped down his cheeks: the villain understood

Li Yang: Okay, you can go to work

The strike of thousands of people was quelled by him in a few words, and on the way back, Han Juzheng kept lifting the curtain and looking back: To be honest, it really frightened me just now, so much so that Brother Li, you didn't move in the face of thousands of people with instruments in hand, which made Ju Zheng and I admire from the bottom of my heart

Li Yang looked at him seriously: Ju Zheng was actually so frightened that I couldn't move just now

The two laughed loudly in the carriage, "Haha-Brother Li, you are really good at joking"

Li Yang: In the final analysis, these people are kind-hearted farmers, and if any of them take the lead just now, you and I will be in danger

Han Juzheng: When I think about this now, I feel like I'm in a cold sweat on my back

Li Yang: Do you remember all the people who took the lead in making trouble just now, go back and send a few officials to pay more attention to them, if you want to just ask for wages, it's nothing, I'm afraid that someone will make a ghost behind their backs and incite them to make trouble

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, are you worried about the "flower scorpion"?

Li Yang raised his hand to stop his words: There are tens of thousands of people in Alan County at once, and it is not impossible to mix in one or two young people, I don't know how to feel a little unsteady in my heart in the past two days

Han Juzheng: When I go back, I will ask the officials to strengthen their precautions

Li Yang: One thing I don't understand is why the people don't have enough food to eat, why don't they reclaim some fields by themselves, and the more fields they harvest, won't the grain they harvest every year also increase, or do they really can't think of it?

Han Juzheng: Brother Li is actually not so simple to reclaim the land, like this time, we reclaimed 200,000 acres of land at once, it is really a pie in the sky, this is not the whole world, the people of the king want to open up some land, they must first obtain the consent of the government, and cultivating the fields is a job that depends on the sky to eat, and it also requires costs

If the harvest is not good to catch up with the year, the grain will be reduced, if it is not good to get a disaster, there will be no harvest, and the farmers cultivate the fields almost entirely by manpower to complete, if a village has more than 20 cows, then it is considered a rich village, the original lush and fertile land will become more and more boring with the cultivation of the land year after year, and the farmers will give up these boring land after a long time, which is why there are so many wastelands, ten acres of land and a cow for many farmers is a lifetime of luxury

Li Yang: Ju Zheng said that there is also a certain risk to open up the wasteland and cultivate the land, so it is said that it is a good thing for us to reclaim the land and distribute it to them for cultivation, why do some people prefer not to divide the land and pay for it?

Han Juzheng: Brother Li, if he has land to cultivate, he will not go to open up wasteland, and all those who open up land will have no land and have to take a certain risk, but tenants are different, they are helping rich households, no matter what the years are, the wages and food earned will not become more stable than that of land reclamation

After listening to Han Juzheng's words, he finally understood, this is like letting the current wage earners go to start a business, how many people dare to let go of their hands to do it, although the part-time job can not be rich and expensive, but it is no problem to solve the basic food and clothing, but if the money accumulated after many years of hard work in entrepreneurship is not good, it will accompany it in a year or two, and thousands of entrepreneurs can really succeed There are a few people, so many people would rather work hard all their lives than take the risk of starting a business, but I didn't expect this to be an immutable law

As time passes day by day, the newly reclaimed 220,000 acres of fields have all been cultivated, the dark land arches out of the tender green seedlings, the farmers are busy in the fields with joy to build seedlings, Han Ju is integrating the fields of the villages and the newly reclaimed fields into a total of 229,200 acres, these fields are divided into 24,100 households in the county, each household is divided into 9 acres, and all the idle manpower after the reclamation is concentrated on the construction of canals

At night, the conference hall was full of joyful laughter and noisy jokes, everyone sat on the chair with Erlang's legs crossed and peanuts in their hands, among which Yuankui was the most happy: Originally, we planned to open up 200,000 acres of land, but who knew that we accidentally opened up an extra 20,000 acres

Gao Yuan: If it goes well this year, our Alan County will turn over in a year

Li Long: At that time, we will all change to a big house and buy a few good war horses

Li Pingping clamored: I want to take my daughter-in-law

Everyone present laughed out loud when they heard this, "Haha"

Li Yang waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet: Have all the fields in Juzheng been divided?

Han Juzheng: The fields reclaimed by Brother Li have been distributed to them according to households, and now each household under the rule of Alan County has 9 acres of farmland, and after the fields are divided, there are still 12,300 acres left and 20,000 acres of more reclaimed land, a total of 32,300 acres

Li Yang: The extra 20,000 mu in Juzheng will be used as an industry for the county government, and these fields can be rented to farmers for farming, and the money earned every year will be used to pay the government officials and the six houses, and the rest of the money will be used to build some civil facilities

Gao Yuan: This is a win-win situation, the farmers can rent the land and farm, they can collect more grain, and the county government will also have an extra income to pay the government officials and the six houses

Yuan Kui: When the full salary of the government and the six rooms are opened, it will be nearly 7,000 taels a year, and this money is indeed not a small amount for us

Li Yang: If everyone has no opinion, then this matter is decided, and the remaining 12,300 acres will be divided, 3,000 acres of plateau - 3,000 acres of Yuankui - 2,000 acres of Hengqi - 2,000 acres of Han Juzheng - 1,000 acres of Li Long - 1,000 acres of Da Niu - 300 acres of Guanshan Road, I have no opinion on this division

Yuan Kui: I have an opinion on why we are all divided, but you don't have it

Li Yang: The fact that such good results can be achieved this time is inseparable from your efforts, and I am also happy to see your brothers happy, saying that my family has enough land

Gao Yuan: These are two different things, Yuankui, you and I each give away 1,000 acres to the patriarch

Yuan Kui: Okay

Li Yang: Don't postpone this matter, not to mention that you both have hundreds of clansmen to support

Gao Yuan: Okay then

Guanshan: The poor road of the owner has always been a breeze with two sleeves and only asks for coarse tea and light rice, so you should take back these fields

Li Yang: Guanshan Daoist, I see that you are usually willing to tinker with some gadgets, these fields are specially used for you to tinker with gadgets, today I am a little tired, everyone should go back early

Seeing that the grain in the grain depot is getting less and less day by day, Li Yang's heart is becoming more and more anxious, and the first person he thought of borrowing grain was the other 19 guards in Taizhou, so he found the largest restaurant in Taizhou City, hoping to borrow some grain through the villages under their respective jurisdictions

Brother Zhao and Brother Su expressed their willingness to help make up 3-400,000 catties, but this is still a lot different from 9 million catties, but compared with these people who are full of wine and food, Brother Zhao and Brother Su are still fastidious people, Li Yang saluted the two brothers with a glass, "The kindness of the brothers, the elder brother understands it, brother, I think about it first, I have to think about other ways, I really have to trouble the two elder brothers."

Brother Zhao is a cheerful person: You can come to us when you need it

Brother Quan came up with an idea for me, "So much food, you have to go to the city to find those big families and rich businessmen, only they can give you enough food" Although Brother Quan just helped out with an idea, Li Yang was really grateful to him from the bottom of his heart, friends are so capable of helping with it, the conditions do not allow you to help come up with an idea, this meal is really not in vain, please let me make 3 friends worth making

In the next few days, almost all the big families in the city and the wealthy businessmen came to visit, and for a while, Li Yang borrowed grain in Taizhou City, which can be said to be known to everyone, but it backfired, and now the price of grain has risen to 8 yuan, even though Li Yang is willing to use the field as collateral, but they still feel that the price of this grain will rise, in contrast, it is faster to continue to store grain than to borrow grain, which makes Li Yang eat a lot of closed doors

In the courtyard of the Zhang family's house, Zhang Da was meeting an important guest, Zhang Wenxuan ran in from the outer door in surprise, and shouted as he ran: Dad has a big deal - something big has happened

Zhang Da had a straight face: Didn't you see that your uncle was here, and he was rude

Zhang Wenxuan bowed: My nephew has seen Uncle Wen

Zhang Da: What's going on, you're making such a fuss

Zhang Wenxuan: Dad, this Li Yang has come to an end

Zhang Da: You can tell me slowly what is going on

Zhang Wenxuan: Dad, you don't know yet, Li Yang's wife has been borrowing grain from around the city in the past few days

Zhang Da: What's so strange about this, he resettled tens of thousands of disaster victims in the city, and it is normal that there is not enough food

Zhang Wenxuan: I found out through a friend in the government that Li Yang had cultivated 200,000 fields in northern Taizhou in one go

When Zhang Da heard this, the teacup in his hand fell to the ground instantly: I didn't expect that this Li family would have such strength, and it would cost 200,000 taels of silver just to pay the land tax for 200,000 mu

Zhang Wenxuan: Dad, I heard that friend said that this Li Yang is to give a guarantee to Lord Sun, and after the autumn harvest, he will make up the arrears of taxes and grain taxes, this Li Yang went to the city to borrow grain with ancestral property mortgage is enough to show that he is desperate, the child has already let out the wind to go to this Li Yang to borrow grain, if you cultivate your own 200,000 acres of land, use the grain in your hands to earn more money for himself, I estimate that these big families and wealthy businessmen in the city will not borrow his grain

Zhang Da: Wenxuan, you have finally grown up, and you have done a beautiful job in this matter

Wen An was on the side: Wen Xuan, what you just said is true, this Sun Yuanwu actually connived at Li Yang to open up the wasteland privately, and I can go to the book to join him on this basis, I planned to use this whole army to cut Li Yang, but I didn't expect Sun Yuanwu to be so partial to him and ensure that he passed

Zhang Wenxuan: What my nephew said is true, uncle, if you don't believe it, you can go to the north of Taizhou and take a look

Zhang Da: How can I talk to your uncle?

Wen An smiled slightly, "Hey, it's not in the way, it's not too early for the head of the Zhang family, and the official should also leave for China."

Zhang Da: Wenxuan will send you Uncle Wen quickly

Wen An: No need

Two days later, in a flower shop in Shaoxing Mansion, Wen An knelt outside a luxurious room: the Li family in Alan County, the flower master, gave a guarantee to the prefect Sun Yuanwu, and first opened up 200,000 acres of wasteland and waited for the autumn harvest to make up the arrears of taxes and grain taxes, and now Li Yang used his ancestral property to borrow grain from Taizhou City, and a friend of Xiaguan had already greeted the big families and rich businessmen in Taizhou City and asked Li Yang to borrow a grain of rice

Hua Ye: This stunned young man is really not ordinary, Wen Shilang told us people in Taizhou that he needs food, and we will lend him it

Wen An was blindsided when he heard this, and he looked up at the dark shadow in the room through the paper window: Hua Ye, this is a great opportunity to get rid of the Li family

Hua Ye: It just so happens that I've been playing with him when I've had nothing to do lately