After having the bottom in his heart, Zhao Ji Zhengse said, "Xiao Jiu (Zhao Gou ranked ninth) didn't think about how to settle Li Min, but he hit the idea to Lone's side, so that Lone was in danger, it is really unfilial, you two go back, I will immediately write a letter to Lin'an." ”

Seeing that the goal was achieved, the two old men looked at each other and smiled, and then said goodbye and left the palace.

Although Zhao Gou was cowardly, he was also a little foolish, and after his father's letter arrived in Lin'an, he immediately issued an order to cancel the additional land tax.

Qin Hui was a little reluctant to admonish, but as a result, he was scolded by Zhao Gou, saying that he separated his father and son.

He had no choice but to give up.

……

As the first tyrant of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Yingluo's success has attracted a lot of people's eyes. Liang Da is one of them!

After a bumper harvest of summer grain, he was humiliated by Zhao Yingluo in public, and now many farmers are clamoring to surrender the rent and want to rent Zhao Yingluo's field for farming.

No one is stupid, after all, an acre of land only produces more than one stone and an acre of land is eight or nine stones, and anyone will choose the latter.

Seeing that his lord was so angry that he was about to foam at the mouth, his housekeeper Zhao Shi's eyes rolled and he thought of a very good idea.

"Lord, then Zhao Yingluo can win you, isn't it with good corn seeds and wheat seeds? If she can plant, we can plant too. Now that we're about to plant corn, why don't we buy some good corn seeds from her farmers and manage the fields like she did? ”

Liang Da suddenly realized, he couldn't help but pat his thigh, "Yes, why didn't I think of this trick?" As long as there are seeds, huh! I can't beat her? Go and tell the troublesome farmers that we're going to plant corn collectively this fall, and besides! Find a few good tricks from her farmers and ask them to teach our farmers how to farm. ”

Zhao Shi said with some embarrassment, "I'm afraid it's hard to find, unless we can offer very generous conditions." ”

Liang Da stuck his waist and said confidently with his fat belly, "It's not simple, as long as they are willing to come, they will be exempted from rent for three years, and they will be given a commission of one hundred taels a year." ”

"Obey, the villain will do it."

……

After Zhao Yingluo returned to the mansion, he was starting the next step of his plan to become the emperor, and Jiang Laosi and Feng Jing came to the mansion in a hurry.

"County Lord! Oh no. ”

Zhao Yingluo drank the tea slowly and methodically, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Originally, the farmers in Liangda were vying to rent our fields, but in the past two days, they have repented! How good is that? ”

"Didn't they sign a contract?"

"The tenant rent can't be paid until the harvest, if it's one or two households, it's fine, if the tenant rent is not paid, we can let the yamen take people, but this is thousands of households, tens of thousands of people."

"What conditions did Liang Da offer? Let them rather break the contract than rent back his family's land? ”

Feng Jing, who was not good at words, was also a little annoyed at this time, "Liang Da bought a batch of corn as seeds, and threatened to plant corn too, not only that, but he also dug up a few of our good farmers with a lot of money, and at the same time promised those farmers that he would only charge 10% of the tenant rent!" ”

Jiang Laosi then added, "This kind of favorable conditions are not only his farmers, but even our farmers, one-third of them have been tempted to break the contract and switch to Liangda's fields." ”

"What's even more infuriating is that this Liang Da is spreading slanderous words about the county lord everywhere, saying that the county lord can only have such a high yield by relying on those seeds, which is not a good thing. If everyone used the same seeds, he was confident that he would be able to grow the same yield as the county lord. ”

Feng Jing sighed, "Then Liang Da threatened to make a bet with the county lord that if his family's corn yield this year did not reach six stones, he was willing to give all of his family's tenant income this year to the county lord!" I'm afraid that the county lord won't dare to gamble with him. ”

After saying these words, Jiang Laosi put forward his own suggestions for coping, "County Lord, the villain suggested that we should also be like Liang Da, and only collect 10% of the tenant rent, only in this way can we avoid the loss of farmers, as for this gambling contract...... If Liang Da really follows the way we plant, it is very likely that the yield of six stones will be achieved. The county lord still didn't answer him. ”

Zhao Yingluo shook her head with a smile, "The tenant rent remains the same, if those farmers want to go to Liangda to plant, let them go." As for this bet, he agreed to it, but the conditions had to be exchanged. ”

Jiang Laosi was a little anxious, "County Lord, our 400,000 mu of land is already short of peasant households, and last year we sowed 200,000 mu of land, if these peasant households are transferred to Liang Da, there will be 30 mu of abandonment." ”

"You just listen to my arrangement! I promise that even if we only have a hundred thousand acres of land, the harvest will not drop in the slightest, but may increase on the contrary. Now that the corn is about to be planted, you ask one person from each household to come to the house to teach a class, and I will teach them another skill. ”

Jiang Lao Si and the others wanted to admonish again, but the county lord had no choice but to leave.

After sending the two away, Zhao Yingluo had a worried look on her face, she was not worried about the loss of farmers and losing to Liang Da, but about the farmers who were scrambling to follow suit and plant corn.

Last autumn, the first corn harvest was harvested, and the total corn output of nearly 100 acres of land reached 120,000 catties, but these 120,000 catties of corn were not ground into cornmeal and became food on the tables of every household.

Instead, in the winter of that year, almost all of them were bought by those grain merchants who were good at smelling the smell of copper, and only a few hundred catties were transferred to those farmers who had their own farmland.

Originally, the price of one stone of wheat was two and a half taels of silver, all of which were grain, and under normal circumstances, the price of corn per stone would not deviate too much.

But in order to compete for the 120,000 catties of grain, the grain merchants directly speculated the purchase price of corn to 30 taels of silver per stone! And the price they sold to the outside world reached 100 taels per stone, and the net profit was more than three times.

Yu Ji Grain Store, the largest grain merchant in Kaifeng City, even wrote a propaganda slogan directly outside the store: Eight stones of grain per mu! Plant an acre and eat it for a year, and what you buy is what you earn.

In order to get their hands on the seeds, some farmers even took risks to buy corn from grain merchants at loan sharks, and in the eyes of all, corn was a god that saved them from the starvation line.

But they don't know that there is a danger lurking within.

After Liang Da purchased enough 500,000 mu of corn seeds from Yu Ji Grain Bank, he took more than 100 people in the mansion and came to Zhao Yingluo's mansion in a sedan chair to beat gongs and drums.

Not only that, but he also ordered people to make two big red boards all the way through the market, with two lines of gold characters written on them: "Shame before the snow" and "Willing to gamble and lose".

His high profile immediately attracted the large and small snack melon masses in Kaifeng City, and squeezed the East Street where Zhao Yingluo's mansion was located.

After the new Kaifeng Mansion Yin Li Gang got the report from his subordinates, he hurriedly came to the political affairs hall, and the two old men who were working in the political affairs hall heard this, and hurriedly put down the work in their hands, picked up their official robes and rushed out of the door.