Northern Dynasties

Chapter 41 has borrowed and repaid

In the seventh month of Mengqiu, the water in the ditch was getting less and less, and water trucks had to be erected to draw the water up from the ditch.

Li Tai straddled the ox cart with bare feet, driving the ox cart decently, saw the farmer standing on the ground drawing water with a bucket, and shouted loudly: "Hot soup, get out of the way!"

The farmers hopped their feet to let the ox carts pass, and sighed as they watched the buffalo carts drifting away: "What a loser, he doesn't love sacrifices! The distance of more than ten miles, his family's land of thousands of acres, How many cows have to be scrapped to finish watering!"

"The poor man is worried about the rich! Hundreds of people work in his family's weaving workshop, weaving hundreds of pieces of cloth a day. There is also an oil-pressing workshop, and the big households in the village provide materials for his family, and use oil to irrigate the fields. Enough to make..."

"How many months has this family been in the countryside? The family is already so rich?"

The farmer watering the field next to him couldn't help being surprised when he heard this.

"It's their business how rich other people's families are. You are still chatting here, and you can't finish watering the land at night, and you miss work in the evening, but no one cares about your dinner at night!"

All the farmers in the field quickened their movements when they heard this, and after a while, another farmer couldn't help sighing: "I'm so envious that the family's business is well-developed, and the big households in the village will recruit people to work when they are busy, but who is as bold as this family?" , You can be full with rice and rice, have meat and vinegar?
A family that accumulates good deeds is sure to grow rich. This gentleman is too clumsy to farm, and is a waste that can starve to death in good years. However, this family business on the plateau is growing day by day.If it is said that there is no blessing from heaven, I really don't believe it! "

Fortunately, Li Tai is proficient at driving an ox cart, and has already gone a long way.If he hears that the villagers despise his level of farm work so much, he will deduct a sheep's food for whatever he says today!
The land reserved for planting winter wheat has been plowed twice, but it still needs to be irrigated with water once more, and the roots and stems of the previous crops have to be rotted to fertilize the field.

Li Tai drove the ox cart back, and the villagers came in to collect water to irrigate the fields.

He just jumped out of the ox cart here, when a person who had been waiting for a long time came up hurriedly, waving a big cattail fan and approached Li Tai: "Li Lang is really hardworking. It’s really admirable to cultivate family affairs.”

The bright sun was hanging in the sky, and no matter how hard the cattail fan was shaken, there was no cool breeze. Li Tai walked all the way to the field and sat down under the shade of a tree. Then he pointed to Liu Gong who was following behind him and said with a smile: "Liu San If you don’t go to the city to make a fortune, how can you come to my small garden to watch the wind?”

"Your Majesty said that, I am really ashamed! Compared with your ingenious work a few days ago, what is my vulgarity worth? A bucket of sesame oil in Zuojin village is close to a piece of silk, and I am full of oil. It is already comparable to mediocrity working hard for several years!"

A man from the village brought the perilla drink to Jingshui Liangzhen, Liu Gong snatched it first, and handed it to Li Tai with both hands respectfully, showing hospitality from head to toe.

"If you have anything to say, just say it, autumn is hot and dry, and I don't bother to guess what you have in mind."

Li Tai took the drink and drank most of the bowl, then sipped lightly and said.

"There is indeed one thing I want to ask. The oil price is just right this autumn, so my family also wants to take advantage of the hot market to make up for it, so..."

"So you don't want to deliver Qiu Hou's flax?"

Li Tai glanced at him and said with a smile.

"It's not that I don't want to, how dare..."

Liu Gong glanced at the grain carts transporting grain on the country road as they drove into the manor, and hurriedly looked back.There are few secrets among the villages, and the historians have almost lost their fortunes today to transport materials here to apologize, and in a very short period of time, it spread throughout the Zuojin village.

Although they don't know much about the specific inside story, the big households in the vicinity no longer dare to regard Li Tai as a newcomer from Dongzhou with little foundation, and they feel awe in their hearts.

"In the past, the villagers laughed at Mr. Lang...but now I realize that we are short-sighted fools! I miscalculated, and my family is not without the pride of admitting defeat. It's just that the flax harvest is poor in autumn. It's just, it's just..."

Li Tai glanced at Liu Gong who was still thinking about his words and said with a smile: "It's just that the harvest of flax is a small matter, but in the next few years, the current price of oil in the village is not controlled by your villagers, and this is the real big problem? "

"Lang Jun Mingjian, although my family also has a sideline of business and profit, but it is still farming after all. All the food and clothing are hard-earned by the family, and if one season is miscalculated, there will be hunger and cold for the whole year. And when Daxingtai loses rewards and solicits goods, the information in the village more tired..."

Liu Gong said with a bitter face, and even fought a cold war in this autumn and summer.

Li Tai couldn't help laughing again after seeing this, it wasn't gloating, it was pure complacency.

Kansai has been disturbed by natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, and it is difficult for ordinary small households to make a living. The land and population are concentrated in large manor owners.In addition to the considerable power of the township, these tycoons in Guanlong also have a lot of capital.

One of the characteristics of the large manor economy is that it can concentrate productivity and flexibly arrange production methods. It can be said that it is completely self-sufficient and does not need to frequently trade with the outside world.

Therefore, there is no money in the entire Kansai market, and these big manor owners are still living well.

Li Tai managed to build a big spinning wheel, but due to the shortage of raw materials and labor, the production capacity was seriously hindered, and the farming plan was struggling.The tenacity of these surface tycoons in their control of rural capital can be seen.

The commodity economy in later generations was developed, so the meme that "the rich can really do whatever they want" was derived.But when the market transactions degenerate to the state of bartering, money is nothing, and goods are the last word!
Previously, Li Tai was famous in the village for his image of being taken advantage of, which caused these big households to set off a frenzy of slaughtering fat sheep, selling him a large amount of sesame, the most important oil crop, and even pre-selling the output after autumn. .

Purely from the point of view of the gains and losses of the business, these big households are not considered a loss. After all, the crops in the fields are produced every year. Even if they cannot catch up with the trend of soaring prices, they will only earn a little less.

But from a comprehensive perspective, Li Tai's temporary monopoly on sesame is tantamount to directly cutting off a link in the manor economy of these big households.What they lose is not only the immediate profit, but also the cost of fuel for the whole year in the future.

If it is in an ordinary year, although such a blockage will have a certain impact, it can also reduce losses by adjusting its own production pattern, such as hybridizing some other oil crops, and controlling self-consumption.

However, this autumn, Daxingtai issued a reward for losing money and transferred a large amount of supplies from the village to the officials. The savings of these big households have already shrunk greatly. It will be very uncomfortable to be pinched by Li Tai's ankles, and it may be delayed for several years. But come to this strength.

There is no legal, free-circulating transaction currency in Special Pass, and the cloth usually used for transactions also requires tedious labor to produce.

This makes it even more difficult for large households to arrange production for the coming year, and a loophole appears in the self-sufficient manor economy, which is the most uncomfortable.

"I'm not a flying fairy. I can live in the wind and sleep in the dew. Since I still want to live in this world, of course I won't make any grudges against the village for a little material gain. The goods received in advance after autumn can be redeemed, but it also depends on the sincerity of the villagers. How much."

The old god Li Tai was talking, now he is not the same as before when he had money and couldn't spend it, so he will naturally not be polite when it comes to making decisions.

"Of course, this is of course! Lang-jun's pre-paid goods will be returned in full, and my family will also present a batch of unearthed fresh produce to compensate for the fault of breaking the contract."

Liu Gong was overjoyed when he heard the words, and quickly expressed his opinion.

Li Tai was overjoyed when he heard this, waved his hands and said, "If Liu San doesn't know how to speak human language, he should go home first and invite your parents to come again. The weather is scorching hot, so I don't know whether I will listen to your evil words calmly."

"My family is indeed full of sincerity, why don't you give me some advice?"

Seeing Li Tai making a gesture to get up to end the conversation, Liu Gong hurriedly said again.

"How about this, the advance payment will be [-]% higher and I will return it. How much flax is your family selling in advance? Give me ten times the grain in exchange, and the current autumn price will prevail."

Li Tai already had a plan in mind, so he said it directly after hearing the words.

"Thirty percent? This is too high..."

After Liu Gong heard the words, his face was bitter again. Li Tai could search and buy the village at a premium of [-]% before, and they were greedy for the difference in the current price of flax in summer and autumn, so they paid in advance, but now they have to spend [-]% of the goods without doing anything. It's really distressing and a little unacceptable.

Li Tai didn't bother to bargain with him, so he stood up and walked towards the manor.

Liu Gong hesitated for a while at the back, seeing that Li Tai was about to enter the manor, he strode to catch up again: "Sir, wait a minute, wait a minute! Thirty percent, maybe thirty percent, but please agree to the matter, don't dump the bad market in the near future!"

In winter, the weather is dry, the nights are long and the days are short. Even if there is no food consumption, the maintenance of utensils requires a lot of oil.Although sesame oil is not the main maintenance oil, it will also increase with this wave of market prices.

Although the newly harvested sesame seeds have a lot of moisture and are not easy to use to press oil, these big players obviously don't want to miss this wave of market prices.

"Don't worry about this, my oil will not be sold on the market until the end of the year. If you don't believe me, we can sign another contract."

This time Li Tai was very easy to speak and expressed his opinion directly.

Most of the oil he purchased has already been transferred to officials for Zhou Changming, and the oil workshop has not yet officially started construction. Even if there is still some storage, we have to wait to see how well Daxingtai controls the relevant prices and then enter the market. Sales.

Moreover, while purchasing sesame oil, he also searched for a large amount of raw hemp materials by the way. These materials need to be spun into cloth as soon as possible in order to directly increase his own purchasing power and realize cash.

In the next few years, there will definitely be a systemic change in the people's livelihood in Guanzhong. The barter trading environment is far from inflation or deflation. Strengthening one's own productivity is undoubtedly the most critical.

It is precisely because of this that Li Tai wants to blackmail historians for a hundred parts.These trilogy are not just young and strong, Li Tai also requires each of them to have a proficient skill, which is to reserve talents for the future development of the countryside.

To be honest, if he hadn't borrowed He Basheng's capital to make trouble this time, Li Tai really didn't want those big players to redeem and buy back the goods.But since it is borrowing money to save money, it is naturally easy to borrow and pay back.

The big households in the village redeemed the invoices one after another, and Li Tai returned to Huazhou with a batch of returned cloth to pay back the money.

(End of this chapter)