Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 566, Songhu buys land

In an inn in Songhu County, Sun Xin was carefully sorting out the information collected by his subordinates.

This time he came to Songhu to buy land under Liu Jin's order. Naturally, he needed to have a detailed understanding of Songhu and figure out the situation in Songhu, so that he could better complete Liu Jin's explanation. task.

"It's really a good place. The estuary of the Yangtze River radiates the most fertile areas of the entire Ming Dynasty. Along the Yangtze River, you can also go to Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, and Nanzhili. These places are the land of fish and rice for the Ming Dynasty."

"To the north, you can go to Shandong and Beizhili, and to the south, you can go to Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Ryukyu. There is no other good place like this in the entire Ming Dynasty."

"In terms of ocean trade, it is possible to go to North Korea and Japan to go to the Golden Continent, but it is difficult to go to Nanyang and Australia."

"A good place, a good place, the young master's eyesight is amazing."

After carefully studying the location of Songhu, Sun Xin couldn't help but nodded.

Songhu is a good place. In the past, it was mainly based on agriculture. When the sea ban was not lifted, the importance of Songhu could not be seen.

Now that Daming's maritime trade is getting more and more developed, and there are more and more ships, the position of Songhu is suddenly highlighted.

Relying on the Yangtze River, backed by the most affluent Jiangnan area, and in the middle of the north and south coastlines of Daming, this is definitely the best geographical location of Daming.

"If Songhu develops, I'm afraid it will surpass Tianjin soon~"

"Well, we must find a way to buy as much land as possible. In the future, the land here will be the same as the land in Tianjin, and every inch of land is expensive."

Sun Xin looked at the map of Songhu, and his eyes began to light up.

Now the land in Tianjin is very expensive. The key is that there is no market for the price, because most of the land is in the hands of Liu Jin. Liu Jin plans and develops the land in Tianjin in an orderly and gradual manner. .

And it will not be sold to the outside world. All the land, Liu Jin will either develop it himself or rent it out. In short, he will not sell it.

There are still a few lands in Tianjin that are held in the hands of Tianjin natives, and the prices of these lands have skyrocketed.

The closer the land is to Tianjin New City, the more expensive it is. In the past, a few taels of silver per mu of land was skyrocketing, and no one wanted the saline-alkali land and tidal flats by the sea.

Now, an acre of land costs thousands of taels of silver. The key is that there is no place to buy it if you have money.

Realizing the importance of Songhu's location, Sun Xin knew that the land in Songhu would definitely be very valuable in the future.

"The location on both sides of the Huangpu River is the best. In the future, large ports and wharves can be built here. The land on both sides of the Huangpu River will be given priority."

Sun Xin studied the map carefully and fixed his eyes on both sides of the Huangpu River.

With the goal in mind, Sun Xin started to take action, and began to arrange for people to buy fields on both sides of the Huangpu River on a large scale.

However, soon Sun Xin became worried again, because in this era, the transfer of fields is very rare.

Most people would not easily sell the land in their hands, because in the concept, land property is something left by the ancestors, and it cannot be easily sold, and it must be passed down forever.

If you sell the property in your home, it is the behavior of a prodigal, and you will be scolded.

This concept is deeply rooted, especially in the Jiangnan area.

Because the Jiangnan area is very rich and full of people, so as long as there are some paddy fields in the house, life can be quite good, and the willingness to sell the land is even lower.

"This is going to be difficult, this is something money can't buy~"

When the news reached Sun Xin, Sun Xin couldn't help frowning.

In his hand, there were boxes and boxes of banknotes from the First Bank of Ming Dynasty, but he couldn't buy land.

He also tried a lot of methods. He took the initiative to find the landowners and gentry here, expressing that he was willing to buy their land at a price twice or even three times higher than the market price.

But these landlords and gentry didn't care at all, they didn't even think about it, and the land just didn't sell.

This is something passed down from the ancestors, and it must not be sold. If you sell it, you will be a prodigal.

"There is no other way. I can only write a letter back to see if there is anything you can do."

After thinking about it again and again, Sun Xin couldn't think of any solution, so he could only write a letter back to the capital to see if there was any solution from Liu Jin.

Sun Xin was worried here, but these local landlords and gentry in Songhu were smiling from ear to ear, gathering on the Songhua Tower in Songhu County, chatting non-stop while drinking.

"Mr. Xu, did that Yankee look for you?"

Zheng Liangzuo said to Xu Pu with a smile.

Zheng Liangzuo is the biggest landlord here in Songhu. His home has ten thousand mu of fertile land, and his family's fields are everywhere on both sides of the Huangpu River.

Mr. Xu, Xu Pu, he is a native of Songhu County. Arrange, unless you have money to move up and down, wait slowly.

Although he is not an official, Juren is Juren, a privileged class in Ming Dynasty. Xu Pu also has a lot of land. In the entire Songhu County, his land is the only one with Zheng Liangzuo.

"I found it, and said that I would buy my field at three times the market price."

"These Yankees are real rich, nouveau riche."

"I don't know if this property is passed down from the ancestors, it must not be sold?"

Xu Pu said with a smile, his eyes were all indifferent.

"Mr. Xu is right. How can the things passed down by the ancestors be sold so easily?"

Zheng Liangzuo smiled and nodded.

"And judging by his appearance, he must be very anxious to buy our field, but we just won't sell it to them, maybe they will pay a higher price."

"Everyone said it right?"

"Yes, yes~"

"If we offer a higher price, we won't sell it. Anyway, we won't sell it."

"They northerners don't want to insert themselves into our Songhu."

"I heard that they are going to open a factory here. If this factory opens, there will be no one to cultivate land for us. Many good fields in Beizhili will be barren, and we will have a northwesterly wind."

"Isn't it? In the Beijing-Tianjin area, if you go to work in a factory, you will get at least 3 taels of silver a month, and you will be provided with three meals a day. If this factory really opens in Songhu, who will pay for it?" Farm for us?"

"Didn't those muddy legs go to work for the northerners?"

Hearing Zheng Liangzuo's words, the other landlords and gentry around him also nodded one after another, and followed suit one by one.

"So we're determined not to sell the fields to these Yankees."

"In the past few years, our scholars in the south of the Yangtze River have been severely suppressed by northern scholars. Many upright ministers in the court have been suppressed and persecuted. Now they are the northerners who have the final say on the court."

"Now our Southern Shilin has almost no place to stand, and there are not many high-ranking officials who were born in the South. Now they want to come to our South to set up factories, just dreaming."

Xu Pu also followed suit.

Originally, he was from the south of the Yangtze River, and he had a lot of money, so it was not like he didn't have money to connect with others, so it was not a problem for him to want a certain official position.

According to the past practice, as long as the money is in place, he will definitely be able to go to a certain county to be a master, county magistrate, pawn, etc. at that time.

After working for a few years, and then using money to clear the way, if there is a chance, maybe you can be promoted to a county magistrate or a magistrate, which is quite promising.

But now it is different. Jiangnan Shilin has suffered a heavy blow in the court, and now the right to speak is in the hands of officials who are not from Jiangnan.

Moreover, Emperor Hongzhi's intention of suppressing Jiangnan scholars is obvious. As long as the following officials are smart, they can see that there is something good at the top, and there must be something wrong with the bottom.

The result of this is that it is more difficult for officials from the Jiangnan area to be promoted than before.

When it comes to Xu Pu, a juren, it means that he has money and has no place to use it, and it is very, very difficult to get a certain official position.

"Yes, in a dream, they must not be allowed to set up factories in our Jiangnan area~"

Zheng Liangzuo nodded and said.

"Everyone has agreed that the land in this hand must not be sold to the northerners."

"Yes, if you don't sell them northerners, they won't be able to buy land even if they have money."

"Even if the land is bought, in the future we can make them rich enough to not be able to hire people."

"That's right, this Songhu is not their north, but here we have the final say."

The landlords and gentry present also nodded.

"Now the court is controlled by a group of villains, the upright gentleman is plotted against by the villain, the emperor loves the villain and keeps away from virtuous ministers, he values ​​profit and forgets righteousness. Let's take a look at what the court is doing now."

"Everyone in the north wants to go to sea to do business. Everyone wants to go to Huangjinzhou to dig gold. Everyone only sees yellow and white things in their eyes, but they have already forgotten the way of Confucius and Mencius."

"This year, the imperial court is aggressively conquering the Japanese country again, forcing the vassal states to sign an alliance under the city. Some time ago, I heard that they sent troops to the northern grasslands. This is a warlike war, and you will die~"

Xu Pu looked at the crowd and let out a long sigh, with a worried expression on his face, worrying about the country and the people.

Of course, he was a bit depressed when he was watched by the people around him, but he had no way to serve the country even though he was a recruiter.

He couldn't pass the Jinshi examination, and he was not an official, so he often pointed out the current malpractices, blaming all of this on the problems of the imperial court.

He thought it was because the imperial court had a traitor and suppressed them who were born in the south of the Yangtze River, that's why he couldn't pass the Jinshi exam, and he couldn't be an official either.

He is often depressed and frustrated, and anything can be involved in it.

　If the south develops, then capitalism will really explode~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)