Zhen Rong is a greedy villain, of course Lin Mo believes this, is it possible that the Northern Kingdom family is all good people?

To be able to let them attack in groups, even the Xin family brothers of the Henan faction were involved, this level is definitely not something that the Zhen family can call on, and Bacheng has done something that makes them hurt.

Zhen Rong held a stack of silk cloths, stacked them on Lin Mo's desk with a smile, and then began to list them one by one, "Brother Xian, please take a look."

This is the income and expenditure of the glass factory in the past year and a half, this is the sugar business, the red sleeves, by the way, and this. ”

He lifted a bunch of explanations from the beginning, "Our main event, the fertilizer business, the income and expenditure account books of Yan, Yu, Jing, Si, Yang, Jiao, and Yi states, you can check it, foolish brother, I just took the carriage and horse fares of the business, after all, the laborers are all those soldiers who have been injured and retired."

As for the northern ones, because the distribution rights were given to the Li family in Zhao County, the account books were also in the hands of the Li family.

This pile was dispatched from the Xuzhou treasury when the navy supported the disaster relief and the states and counties were short of money and food, and the virtuous brothers could also reconcile the accounts. ”

In Zhenrong's opinion, these account books were all marks of his merits, but seeing that Lin Mo didn't seem to be interested, he didn't even look at a single one, so he turned to the bottom and started to flip it up, "Why don't you take a look at the trade roads and shops I ate from the northern country?" Led by the Zhen family, there are also other wealthy families and some merchants"

"Okay, okay, just now the brothers of the Xin family said that you deducted food from the mouths of the victims and raised prices during the floods in the two counties of Qingzhou, but is there such a thing?" Lin Mo asked with a dark face.

"Yes."

"How much has it gone up?"

Di Rong fiddled with his fingers and calculated, and then said, "I have risen to two hundred and sixty yuan for twenty yuan of millet, and the other rice and wheat are similar, and there must be thirteen times." ”

Lin Mo tactically leaned back and looked at him with an incredulous expression, how did you manage to do something black and still be proud? You really didn't take me seriously, did you?

"Brother Hugh should be angry, let Brother Yu explain."

Zhen Rong sighed, and said earnestly: "The flood of Qingzhou is indeed only Jinan and Qi County, but the scope of the impact includes a total of five counties in Le'an, Pingyuan and even Beihai, I was in Qingzhou at that time, seeing the Zhen family and the local family sitting on the ground and raising prices, they even privately agreed to raise the price of grain, more than two million victims, even if the Zhen Chamber of Commerce did nothing to specialize in grain transfer and disaster relief, it could not solve the problem of food shortage." ”

Lin Mo clasped his hands on his chest, glanced at Zhen Rong obliquely, a little dazed, and the latter continued: "What can I do, I can only increase the price with it, and at the same time invest all the money in my hand to buy grain from their chamber of commerce at a high price, and I will buy as much as they want, so in the end it has risen to two hundred and sixty yuan."

As the news spread, the wealthy families in the northern counties, including the Zhen family, smelled the smell, and they began to mobilize grain and grass from all over the country to send it to Qingzhou.

After they delivered the grain, Brother Yu purchased nearly 200,000 stone of grain, plus the government had 300,000 stone of grain in stock, at this time, the price of grain in the Zhen Chamber of Commerce plummeted to 20 yuan, and at the same time, the government also opened a warehouse for disaster relief, so they were dumbfounded.

If the grain is sent from such a distance, if it is transported back, the loss along the way can also kill them, and in desperation, the Zhen family and the major families can only reduce the price and sell it for twenty yuan.

Therefore, in the end, the price of the grain purchased by the people was still 20 yuan, but the Zhen family and the major families suffered a lot in this flood, which was equivalent to providing free relief to the victims for us. ”

After finishing speaking, Lin Mo was stunned.

, my brother Rong is amazing, this is simply a subtle trick, the Zhen family and the major families in the north have been played by him, and it is estimated that the brothers of the Xin family also have a share.

Therefore, here in the north, Rong has become the target of public criticism.

Probably in order to prove himself, Di Rong also took out the vouchers for grain purchase and the account books for grain delivery.

"This thing. It's beautiful. Lin Mo was a little emotional, probably because he didn't expect a villain like Zhenrong to be able to play such a sassy operation.

"Hey, Brother Xian is fighting on the front line, leaving the foolish brother in the rear, I can't help in the battle situation, and I can't always let the rear problems bother you.

What's more, the foolish brother has always known that you love the people like a son, and you will never stretch your hand on them no matter what. What Zhen Rong said was sincere, his face was calm, and he looked like an official with clean sleeves.

"This can be regarded as a thousand wounds to the enemy, and eight hundred self-inflicted losses."

Lin Mo sighed, looking at Zhen Rong with gratitude in his eyes, "This time, how much did the Zhen Chamber of Commerce lose?" ”

"It's not much, it's not much, it's just a hundred thousand gold."

Anyway, it's all the business of the Zhen family, and Zhen Rong didn't feel distressed at all, and then wondered: "But ah, the matter of the Qingzhou flood has not been completely resolved." ”

"How?" Lin Mo frowned slightly.

"Brother Xian, our disaster relief is just to save them for a while, many sections of the Yellow River have burst their banks, all the fields under the flood have failed to harvest this year, how should the people spend the autumn and winter, even if we don't increase the price at all, in the end they may not be able to have money to buy grain.

You can't give it away for nothing, right? He spread his hands.

That's really a problem.

Under the current system, the vast majority of the people can only make a living from farming, and there is still a shortage of jobs that can make a living.

It seems that in the future, we must work hard in this direction, and the rulers really want to provide enough employment opportunities for the people, and they can't completely look at the sky to eat, they are better than the traversers, and Lin Mo has seen this problem very thoroughly.

"Brother Xian, Brother Fool has an idea."

Seeing that Lin Mo was deep in thought, Zhen Rong spoke, and the former raised his forehead and motioned for him to continue.

"At this time, when the Qingzhou Thorn Shi is sent to work, after taking office, he must vigorously advocate that officials from all over the country repair their mansions, contact the family businessmen to start Qingtian activities, and build a large number of buildings, so that the people will not have a livelihood?"

"Hahaha"

Lin Mo laughed loudly when he heard this, leaned back and leaned back with a smile, and only stood up after a while before he patted his hands on Zhen Rong's shoulder, "With you, I have solved the problem again, and I have earned the position of the assassin history that you have been thinking about for a long time, Brother Zhen, I really underestimate you." ”

"Brother Xian, I just want to share your worries." Zhen Rong smiled.

Indeed, before entering the northern country, he promised Zhenrong, and in the future, the Dading Northern Congress allocated a state to him to make a history of assassination, and from the beginning of the plan to enter the northern country, he did not contribute much to himself.

For example, the purchase of war horses, Xu Yu's control, and even the checks and balances of the family, Zhenrong has made a lot of efforts.

The credit for this thing doesn't have to be on the battlefield, and it's not too much to give him a stab history.

Moreover, judging from the handling of the disaster of this flood, as long as his brain is used in the right place, it is more than enough to be a thorn history.

In particular, you can also play with the Zhen family and the northern family in applause, so lively, deserve a reward!

The corners of Lin Mo's mouth curled into a smile, "I will arrange this." ”

After speaking, Lin Mo was interested in slowly flipping through the account books sent by Zhenrong.

Zhenrong is very ruthless, the Zhen family's business and business in the south of Jizhou and the entire Qingzhou have all been eaten by him, and Caoyun is controlled by one person, no wonder he is not distressed after folding hundreds of thousands of gold here in Qingzhou, now he is really rich.

At the beginning, Lin Mo was still smiling happily, but when he turned to the back, his face sank again.

"I've told you more than once, you can occupy these things if you want, I don't care about you, but you have to eat more land, and after a year and a half, you have taken such a little land? What do you eat? ”

Speaking of this, Zhen Rong showed an expression that was even more wronged than Dou E, "Brother Xian, how easy is it, you don't let me buy land from the people, I can only trade it from the hands of the powerful family, and they are not short of money, so they can't buy and sell it by force."

Just these thousands of acres of land were snatched at a high price when the family bought the people's land. ”

Hearing this, Lin Mo let out a long sigh, "At this progress, even if it is ten or even twenty years, the land in hand will only be tens of thousands of acres. ”

"Although I don't know what you want to do with such land, Brother Xian, you have always asked for land to reach out to the people, how can there be a reason to reach out to rich merchants and families, after all, people are not short of this money."

Zhen Rong lowered his head and didn't understand Lin Mo's behavior, and said softly: "If it weren't for the fact that they hold a large amount of land in their hands, how could your strategy of using fertilizer to break their alliance succeed." ”

That's right, too.

Even Zhen Rong understands this truth.

But what he didn't understand was that there were some things that he couldn't wait for the time to do, and he had to start working on them now.

After making money, after truly controlling the power of the world, there are actually many ways, but the land problem needs to be stored over the years.

The real horror of this giant beast of the family, in addition to monopolizing knowledge and infiltrating the temple, the most heinous thing is the land in their hands.

Because of these lands, they were able to keep so many serfs in captivity, and even raise an army, which was also their greatest confidence to compete with the dynasty.

The emergence of Ziyang Academy is to break their monopoly on knowledge, and slowly cultivate talents who will go to the temple.

However, in order to dismantle the situation of the family's rule over the land, it is necessary to compete with them for land.

Counting the peasant uprisings in China for thousands of years, all of them started because of the land annexation issue, which finally caused the people to be unable to survive.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the wind of annexation prevailed, and the local gate lords colluded with officials to get the peasants' land in their hands, and finally the people were unable to support the heavy taxes and were forced to revolt.

Even the old father-in-law had thought about this problem, he once felt that if one day Lin Mo accompanied him to kill a circle on the territory of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, he could redistribute the land when he was in power, and find a reasonable system to check and balance the family's annexation of land.

In fact, this idea is a bit naïve, because while growing itself, the family is actually crazy to loot and grow.

Whether you want to admit it or not, every time you send troops, you can't support the army to burn money on the front line alone, whether it is Yuan Shao, Cao Cao or yourself, or even Sun Ce, who is the most difficult to deal with with the family, must compromise with these families in the end.

In exchange for their temporary support to tide over the difficulties, they used these privileges to expand their family base, and in the end, they actually passed on the damage to the people.

Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer.

I think this sentence probably came into being in this context.

In the end, the tail of the family could not be lost, the people were miserable, and the contradictions intensified.

In fact, in the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, there were also many mainstays who saw the huge drawbacks of land annexation and put forward corresponding countermeasures, such as Dong Zhongshu, Chao Cuo and others, who were committed to cracking down on land annexation when they were officials in the court.

But in the face of the giant beasts of the times, the power of the individual seems insignificant.

Even if Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, went down in person, the bearer of the continuation of the Han Dynasty vigorously carried out the 'Dutian' movement, and in the end it ended in failure.

There is no way, the implementation of policies never completely depends on the will of the highest power, even an emperor like Zhu Yuanzhang who kills without saying a word has a place that he can't control.

At that time, Liu Xiu's great movement was finally eliminated by the cooperation of various families and officials.

Lu Bu may not have seen through these things, but Lin Mo, as a traverser, knows very well that it is difficult to fight the country, and it is even more difficult to defend the country.

Therefore, as the foundation of the family, the land must be prepared as early as possible, otherwise even if the treasury has enough silver to be apportioned into the mu, in the end, it is not the people who will benefit, or the biggest benefit is not the people, but the family.

However, judging from the current situation, it is obvious that Zhen Rong alone can't do it at all, and he was valued at the beginning because he dared to attack the officials appointed by the family and even the imperial court, and felt that this guy would be very useful to deal with these giant beasts of the times in the future, but it turned out that he could not jump out of the shackles of the times.

Of course, it is also possible that he will not be able to share the honor and disgrace with himself after all, after all, his motivation over the years has basically been limited to the pie he has drawn for him.

I also need someone who is proficient in the way of business, and who has the courage and ability to acquire land from wealthy families and wealthy merchants.

"Who are the people who have the most land on our land at the moment?" Lin Mo collected his messy thoughts and asked.

"The Chen family in Xiapi, the Li family in Zhao County, the Cui family in Qinghe, the Lu family in Fanyang, and the Zhen family in Zhongshan Kingdom. The Zhen family alone has a land area of more than one million acres. ”

One million acres of land sounds outrageous, but at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the official data given by the imperial court showed that the cultivated land reached 700 million mu.

It is a pity that except for a few of these 700 million acres of land, most of them are in the hands of families, wealthy merchants, and palace nobles, and the hoarding land that the court can use to reward also occupies a part.

After Lin Mo nodded, the corners of his mouth outlined a touch of cunning, "Are you, one less person?" ”

Zhen Rong raised his eyes and made a contemplative gesture, "The Lu family, there is some land, not much; Liu Ziyang has been in power all these years, but I haven't heard of how he annexed land, and the Qiao family may have eaten a lot. ”

can still pretend, you are comparable to the Zhen family alone.

Lin Mo didn't poke him, just bowed slightly, this pig can be fattened and killed.

Attacking Zhen Rong, Lin Mo has no conscience at all, the world is safe and perfect, if it is not himself, let alone the history of assassination, he can't count on him if he is too guarded.

I want to make money, and I want to be a big official, so I want such a good thing.

After Zhen Rong retreated, Lin Mo rested his legs on the table, his whole body leaned back on the handsome chair, looking up at the dome, thinking about how to get their land out of the hands of these families.

It's a difficult question.

You need a qualified, absolutely trustworthy person who is well versed in business.

Zhenrong is not proficient in business, he is more relying on the privileges he gave him to bully the market, and he is not a family with himself, and he always feels that he is too selfish.

Where can I find such talents?

Just as he was thinking about it, a maid came over to ask for instructions, "Master Hou, the young lady is invited." ”

Cui Xian?

Lin Mo just glanced at the maid and didn't want to deal with her.

Most of the time I can't wait for the old father-in-law to ask myself, this guy is Cao Cao's person, Lin Mo thinks that she can come here, she is definitely not a heavyweight, it is very likely that she is a dead soldier cultivated in an institution like Red Sleeve Move.

In Lin Mo's thoughts, it was best for the old father-in-law to come back together and pass on some fake news to Cao Cao through her, so that the plan could be calculated.

The problem is that the old father-in-law has recently fallen into self-doubt and can't sing with Cui Xian.

Then, it doesn't seem to make much sense to keep her in Yecheng.

God knows when the old father-in-law will find himself and redeem himself.

Gai Ming'er, find a good day with her to have a showdown, let her explain 1510 is also a good choice, Lin Mo always thinks that she can come over, maybe there is an accomplice.

Of course, if it is according to the cultivation method of the Red Sleeve Move, the dead and the dead do not know each other, this is to prevent someone from being uprooted after missing the trap.

is really to take Cui Xian down and serve the big punishment, and the person who can make Cao Cao trust is probably a hard bone.

It's hard.

"I'm not free, tell her that my father-in-law has returned to Pengcheng, and I'll talk about it when he comes back." Lin Mo thought for a while and then sent the Cui family's dowry maid.

This thing, don't look back and take off your clothes and put on a mother-in-law's hat for yourself, and your reputation will be ruined.

Seeing that the sun was waning, Lin Mo changed into a brocade suit, and with a team of guards, he left the Yuan Mansion and headed towards the Xin family's compound.

The brothers of the Xin family have been waiting for a long time, and Guo Tu is also there.

When these two people get together, they must be suffocated, and they don't have the courage to feast on the Hongmen, but tonight's meal must be famous.

Most of the northern countries are now in hand, and they want to make some small moves for the growth of the Henan Gang.

Lin Mo didn't ask much, and sat down normally.

Wu Ding and Four Gui opened up to eat, and then looked at the girl who was wearing a faint, thin and light gauze dance costume, and fiddled with her posture, Lin Mo said that she felt very right, after all, after fighting for half a lifetime, can't you enjoy it?

Every time the song and dance ended, the three of them took turns to toast, and the sycophants of all kinds of prodigies bombarded them, but they just didn't jump into the theme, which was quite bearable.

"I'm almost drunk, if you don't say anything, I'll leave." After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Lin Mo was already a little drunk.

The three of them looked at each other a little embarrassed, and Xin Bi hurriedly smiled and said: "Hou Ye misunderstood me and waited, tonight's banquet is not for anything else, just for Hou Ye to celebrate."

Then the music, the dance! ”

And so, the accompaniment sounded again.

Unlike before, this time, it was a solo dance.

A young woman is dressed in emerald tulle, highlighting her graceful figure, and a wisp of veil is also hanging from her face, revealing only autumn-like eyes.

That figure alone was enough to make Lin Mo swallow his saliva, and then looking at the looming face, the skin that could be broken by blowing, people couldn't help but want to step forward and remove her veil to see her true face.

Unexpectedly, there was such a beautiful woman in the northern country, Lin Mo couldn't help but sit upright.

Just this one action made the eyes of the Xin brothers and Guo Tu flash with essence, there is a play, there is a play!

The girl who dances to the rhythm is different from the previous girl, the clothes that can show off the figure do not expose the excess skin, and the eyes are watery but not charming, but there is a sense of resentment, and there is a cool feeling that is contrary to the hot and turbid world.

Lin Mo swallowed his saliva, and his breathing couldn't help but be a little shorter.

After a song, the girl took the initiative to come forward to toast, "Congratulations to the Hou Ye for taking charge of the Northern Kingdom, and I wish the Hou Ye to step on the Central Plains, sweep the Liuhe, sweep the Eight Wilderness, and the slave family will give the Hou Ye a cup." ”

"That's a good point." Lin Mo really likes to hear this.

Just as she was about to take the wine glass and drink it all, the graceful girl dodged and moved it, sticking it to Lin Mo's body, and then raised the wine glass high, tilted it slowly, and the cloudy wine dripped into her mouth.

Hiss.

The wine in his mouth, the fleshy feeling that can be clearly felt on his arms, no wonder there is such a faint monarch who will not go to court sooner, who can withstand this.

After a cup of silence, Lin Mo couldn't help it anymore, and gently removed the girl's veil.

Then, the whole person froze.

(End of chapter)