Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 569, plummeting

"Sun Guanshi, now the entire land in Songhu has been concentrated in the guards of Zheng Liangzuo and Xu Pu, and all of these people have borrowed a lot of debts, ranging from hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to others. He even borrowed a million taels of silver."

In a separate hospital in Songhu County, Sun Xin was listening to his subordinates' report.

Hearing this, Sun Xin finally showed a smile on his face.

"Looks like it's time to close the net. They collected the land for us, which saved us a lot of trouble. You're still smart~"

"A simple trick can make these people obediently sell the land to us willingly."

"No, they will rush to sell it to us."

"Immediately send this letter back to the capital, and tell the young master that the net can be collected."

"Yes~"

After doing this, Sun Xin also walked out of the other courtyard and came to the outside of Songhu County. Looking at the Huangpu River and then at the paddy fields in the Huangpu River, he seemed to see in his eyes that in the next few years, here High-rise buildings rise from the ground, becoming a bustling city comparable to Tianjin.

A few days later, on the Songhua Tower.

"Bang~"

"How could it be like this, instead of opening a port here in Songhu, we chose to go to Nanjing instead."

"How can Nanjing compare with our Songhu?"

Zheng Liangzuo looked in disbelief at the latest Ming Morning Post that came back from Beijing and Tianjin, which published the memorial of Liu Jian, the chief minister of the cabinet.

Liu Jian believes that although Songhu has a good geographical location, it does not have a certain foundation. As an open port in the south, the imperial court needs a lot of investment.

But Nanjing is different. It has a good foundation in itself, and the Sanbao eunuch's seven voyages to the West also started from Nanjing.

Nanjing is also the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, and there is even a whole set of teams in Nanjing. With the opening of ports in the south, Nanjing should be chosen instead of Songhu, which is still a paddy field.

Liu Jian is the chief minister of the cabinet, and his words still carry considerable weight. Now the court is divided into two factions because of this matter.

Among them, the civil officials headed by Liu Jian and Xie Qian believed that Nanjing should be opened up. The geographical location of Nanjing is not bad, and the foundation is quite strong, which is very suitable.

However, military generals such as Zhang Mao and Zhu Fu believed that Songhu should be opened up. Although the foundation of Songhu is worse than that of Nanjing, its geographical location is much superior.

Moreover, there are many similarities between Songhu and Tianjin, and there is no foundation, which also means that planning and construction can be carried out better, so it is more appropriate to open Songhu.

Both sides have their own reasons, one supports Nanjing and the other supports Songhu, but one thing is certain, that is, there will inevitably be a new open port in the south.

"Liu Jian is really old and dizzy. He is from Henan. How does he know the importance of foreign ports? Geographical location is the key."

"Although Nanjing has the foundation, there is no way to build large-scale docks and ports here. Unlike our Songhu, which is close to the sea and has the Huangpu River, we can build more ports and ports."

"He even talked nonsense. He has never been to our Songhu, and he said that Nanjing is better than our Songhu."

"It's simply fatuous, mediocrity is detrimental to the country~"

Xu Pu also shouted angrily.

If the open port in the south is really chosen in Nanjing instead of Songhu, the land hoarded in their hands will become worthless.

Thinking of this, everyone present couldn't help but blacken their eyes. Everyone borrowed a lot of foreign debts to cultivate the land. One of the important reasons why those banks, big families, and big businessmen were willing to lend them money was also I took a fancy to the geographical location of Songhu.

Here really has the conditions to become the second Tianjin.

But if Songhu cannot become an open port in the south, then the land in their hands will be worthless, and the foreign debt they borrow will be enough to crush them.

"Master, master, it's not good, it's not good~"

At this time, someone came running in a hurry, and the voice had already been heard before the person went upstairs.

"Fall, fall~"

"The price of our land in Songhu has dropped~"

"What? Fall?"

Upon hearing this voice, everyone present was in a trance for a while, and then rushed downstairs as if desperately.

"Quick~Quick~"

"Immediately sell all the fields in our hands, sell them~"

Xu Pu was the first to react, and immediately ordered to his servants when he got downstairs.

"Help me contact those Yankees immediately and sell all the fields in my hand to them."

Zheng Liangzuo's reaction was also not slow, and he quickly asked his servants to find those Yankees, looking for a successor.

However, the two of them are smart, and the others are not slow. At this moment, each of them is like a gambler who has awakened, and immediately knows his crisis clearly.

Here in Songhu County, a large amount of land was listed for sale soon, and within a short period of time, these local landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu began to sell the land frantically.

Just one morning.

Yesterday, the land that could be sold for more than [-] taels per mu suddenly fell to only sell for more than [-] taels of silver per mu. The key is that at this moment, no one is taking the offer, and there are more people. The land in Songhu is constantly being sold.

It used to be everywhere, the Yankees holding up signs begging to buy land seemed to have disappeared overnight, no one was seen anymore, and people reselling land were everywhere.

Your family sells [-] taels of silver per mu of land, and my side sells [-] taels of land per mu.

One moment it was four hundred taels of silver per mu, but the next moment it was directly reduced to three hundred taels of silver per mu.

It took almost a few months to rise, but when it fell, it didn't even take half a day.

No one is buying fields anymore.

At the same time, all kinds of bad news came one after another.

Nanjing will replace Songhu as the opening port in the south. At the same time, the imperial court intends to open a port in Guangzhou.

Wei Guogong of Nanjing and the six ministers of Nanjing jointly wrote a letter requesting that Nanjing be opened as a foreign port.

Then there was news that Tianjin Shipyard planned to build a southern shipyard in Nanjing, saying that Songhu had no foundation and was not suitable for building a shipyard.

There is also news that these local landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu are preventing northerners from coming to Songhu to open factories and workshops, so now those factory owners and workshop owners in the north don't think much about Songhu, but more Consider Nanjing.

The bad news came one after another, making the situation worse, constantly hitting the land prices in Songhu, and also hitting the big landlords, gentry, and big families in Songhu.

By the afternoon of that day, there were still more than three hundred taels of silver per mu in the morning, but now it has directly dropped to more than one hundred taels of silver per mu.

At the same time, there was bad news that the Yankees who had been staying in Songhu were going to buy land in Nanjing.

And as the news spread, the local banks, wealthy families, big businessmen, etc. from the south of the Yangtze River also sent people to Songhu, and found Zheng Liangzuo, Xu Pu, the local landlords and gentry in Songhu, and asked them to and returned the silver to them.

I was willing to borrow money before because I saw the value of Songhu here.

But now that I think about it, I suddenly feel that it is too crazy.

How can Songhu compare with Nanjing?
How could it be possible to compete with Nanjing?
Nanjing is the southern capital of the Ming Dynasty. There are a lot of dignitaries in Nanjing, big families, big landlords, and big businessmen. There are only three or two big cats and small cats in Songhu.

Nanjing can influence the court of Ming Dynasty and impress the decision-making of Ming Dynasty, can these people in Songhu do it?
In addition, even if Songhu really becomes an open port, can it really be compared with Tianjin in a short period of time?

Tianjin can have the current situation, and it is unknown how much money has been thrown in. Is there anyone here in Songhu who is willing to throw money in?

After thinking about these things carefully, everyone will be more rational.

So the people who had lent money to the local landlords and gentry in Songhu became anxious. They were even more anxious than the local people, and sent people to collect their debts.

The next day, the land price in Songhu continued to plummet, directly falling below the hundred taels of silver.

The desperate landlords and gentry were all driven to nowhere.

The bankers, landlords, and gentry who lent money to them are all real local snakes in the south of the Yangtze River. Compared with them, these local snakes in Songhu can only be regarded as earthworms.

Borrowing their money, and it's all usury, and the land in their hands is plummeting again. One can imagine how miserable life is for these people.

Frantically selling the land in their hands, regardless of the price, as long as someone is willing to buy, they will sell it.

One is cheaper than the other.

At this time, everyone can't care about so much anymore, and they are all frantically looking for their next home, looking for those Yankees who were looking for land everywhere.

But the Yankees are said to have gone to Nanjing to investigate. Because of these news, the land price in Nanjing has also begun to rise.

By the afternoon of the second day, the land here in Songhu had plummeted to the price of cabbage, and the price of a few taels of silver per mu of land was already gone.

In just two days, the house price in Songhu dropped directly from the sky-high price of more than [-] taels per mu to a few taels per mu.

But it's not over yet.

As more and more debt collectors came to Songhu, the hard times for the local landlords, gentry, and families in Songhu came.

They frantically raised money and frantically sold everything that could be sold.

They need money, otherwise they may not even have a place to die, and even their family members will be implicated. At that time, men will be slaves and women will be prostitutes, and this will be the case for generations. That is really terrible things.

　Do not borrow money for stock trading, especially loan sharks~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)