Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 255 Follow-up Arrangements
When Wei Zheng came out of the venue of the theater, his steps were light and light. What he wanted to do most now was to go back to the inn to write a memorial to the emperor. This was more than 800 million yuan. Although the cash was only less than 300 million yuan, it was still less than the court. Yearly taxes are more.

Sun Xiangfu, who came out behind him, didn't pay attention to the money. The money seemed to be a lot. Compared with the money saved in the cabinet, it still didn't reach half of it. He was calculating the amount of land acquired by each family. .

The Wang family acquired 150 million mu of land due to the most abundant cash reserves, the Li family in Longxi took 70 mu, the Cui family in Qinghe took 60 mu, the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Cui family in Boling only took 50 mu, and Fan Yang The Lu family took 90 mu, while the Li family of Zhao County only took 30 mu, and all other small and medium-sized families were excluded.

Now, the five surnames and seven families are not satisfied with the amount of land they have obtained, and they are even more dissatisfied with the price of Tuna land, because the average price is almost equivalent to the cultivated fields in Guanzhong, and these lands are not enough for them to pay. The serfs who came up did the farming, not to mention that they prepared tens of thousands of serfs themselves, and they all stayed at home to eat?Obviously impossible.

Therefore, their eyes will turn to the second-class land. In fact, many places in the second-class land are not worse than the first-class land. The only problem is that it is far away from the Han city, not close to the Great Wall, and the security is not so good. More manpower and material resources are required for development.

In fact, Sun Xiangfu is more inclined to develop it into a half-grazing and half-cultivating area, and he has asked Xi Junmai to mobilize all the herdsmen who might live in this area and move them to Shanyang City.

Historically, after Li Shimin defeated Jieli, he moved 10,000+ people to the south of the Yellow River. Almost all of these people live in this area now. However, there are still many people in the area controlled by Xieli in the west, and half of them may be in the area. The jurisdiction of the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion is not bad.

After these people return to Shanyang, Sun Xiangfu will let the aristocratic families who have taken the land hire some of them to help develop animal husbandry, and some of them will stay to develop new breeding methods, combining Datang's dairy products and animal husbandry. Supporting industries developed.

After walking two steps faster, Sun Xiangfu got on Wei Zheng's carriageway, "Master Wei, I don't want to stop you from reporting your meritorious service, but it's better to report this memorial to His Majesty in a closed form."

"There's nothing you can't tell others. If you can't tell the reason, the old man won't listen to you."

Wei Zheng's expression was serious, and he said in a businesslike manner, he thought that as an admonisher, the most important thing to do was to limit the imperial power and prevent the emperor from having too many arbitrary behaviors, such as holding too much money and spending it indiscriminately.

"If you report the amount of money, what do you think those officials in the imperial court who haven't received their salaries for several months will think?"

"Of course it's a replacement salary."

Sun Xiangfu shook his head with a smile and said, "Master Wei misunderstood, the boy never said to hand over the money to the court, even if he did, it would be after next year's autumn tax, according to the regulations. At present, it should belong to me If you report the income in the account of the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion, the people in the imperial court will try their best to take the money from my Anbei Protectorate's Mansion."

"Don't hand it over to the court? Tell the old man, what does the Anbei Protectorate Mansion want to do with such a large amount of money?"

Wei Zheng's face was obviously a little angry. The local officials withheld such a large amount of money in their hands. Using a word often used by the officials to describe it, it was 'conspiracy'.

"If it is handed over to the imperial court, will I go to Anbei Protector's Mansion to drink the northwest wind?"

"Drink the northwest wind?"

"Uh, it's nothing to blow the cold wind."

"Your Anbei Protectorate's Mansion is a border village, so it's normal to blow cold wind!" Wei Zheng continued, still not quite understanding what Sun Xiangfu meant.

"Hehe, if all the ministers of the imperial court treat the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion as a side land like you, it will always be a side land, but if it is developed according to my plan, it will soon not be a side land. It’s a land, but it’s an important tax center for the imperial court. If you take these Anbei Protectorate’s development funds back to the imperial court, it’s tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs, breaking the foundation of Datang’s outward development. Don’t tell me, you forgot the walls of the meeting place Put on that map? That is not a groundless fantasy, if the court does not hold back, it will become a reality here in two or three years at most."

Hearing this, Wei Zheng was a little dazed, and Sun Xiangfu really said two reasons why he couldn't take the money back, but he also felt that, let Sun Xiangfu do this, feed meat to the herdsmen outside the pass, and make the officials and people in the pass There is something wrong with living a life of poverty.

"Half, the old man will take half of the money and go back to His Majesty to support the imperial court to run the head office!" After thinking for a while, Wei Zheng said in a compromise.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu shook his head and said, "This is not a bargain, one is one, and the other is two. If Mr. Wei takes the money back, not only will he not be able to help the court solve the difficulties, but it will return the money to those family officials again. hand, but if you don’t take it back, you will receive miraculous effects.”

Wei Zheng felt that his brain was not enough, and asked, "What miraculous effect?"

Sun Xiangfu replied with a smile, "Think about it, these aristocratic families left more than 2000 million yuan in cash in Shanyang, so what will happen?"

Wei Zheng raised his head and thought for a while, "I don't dare to say how much money the entire Tang Dynasty has, but 2000 million yuan must account for a large proportion, which will lead to an increase in copper prices across the country."

Sun Xiangfu patted his leg and said, "That's right, even if the aristocratic family has accumulated enough wealth and took out 2000 million yuan, it is impossible for them to have so much cash in their hands, and after taking the land, what are they going to do?" ? To buy farming tools, timber, build villages, and engage in development, they can’t buy these things in the Central Plains, and transport them all the way to the outside of the customs! So, they will purchase them in Shanyang, and I, Shanyang, only accept cash."

"You, you, you want to collect all the money in the world into Shanyang?" Wei Zheng stammered after thinking about the scene.

Now 500 million mu of land has been auctioned off. According to the agreement, the few families that have taken the land will move more than 20 young and strong people to develop outside the customs. It will cost a lot to build houses, farm tools, and cattle for so many people. Small.

"No, no, the Central Plains has been digging copper coins for thousands of years. It is difficult to estimate how much money the folks have, but it is definitely not only tens of millions of coins. It is difficult for anyone to collect all of them. The purpose of my doing this is just to let them release the grain in their reserves due to lack of money, so as to stabilize the price of grain in Guanzhong. Therefore, your memorial should not only mention the amount of money less, but also explain that I, the Governor of Anbei The government needs a lot of investment in construction. For example, the 10,000+ herdsmen on the original Tuli land will need to be raised by the Anbei Duhufu. A lot of money invested..."

What Sun Xiangfu said, Wei Zheng finally understood, if you don't give money to the court, then the officials in the court will not trick the emperor to spend a lot of money to buy the grain in their hands, because they know that the emperor has no money, and they want cash To engage in follow-up development, you have to sell what you own to the people. Now, what is the most in short supply, food, and who are the people who lack food?

It must not be their aristocratic families or the nobles of the court, but the poor people. How much money can the poor people have to buy food?It’s nothing more than a little salary for helping the imperial court to build roads recently. If they want to earn this hard money, then their food prices can only be reduced, because the people work hard to make money. If the money they earn is not enough to support themselves, they will Will not spend the money.

In fact, this is a follow-up method of the investment promotion plan launched by Sun Xiangfu. The land sale emphasized the need for cash, which reduced the price of grain in Guanzhong by a round.

Now, the land is almost sold out, and if we want to develop it, we have to invest in it!Sun Xiangfu still wants cash, which will lower the price of grain in Guanzhong again, because in this year, the only thing that can be sold in large quantities is grain.

Sun Xiangfu is also a genius to be able to think of ways to reduce food prices in times of calamity. Wei Zheng thought so, but then said, "Then how to solve the situation where the court is short of money and difficult to operate?"

"Hehe, this should be something that many ministers in the court should discuss. However, after Mr. Wei returns to Chang'an after a while, there should be surprises."

Sun Xiangfu didn't tell the truth, he really couldn't tell the truth. After all, history has changed now. It's hard to say whether Li Jing can successfully take down Xieli. But he had plundered all the countries in the Western Regions before, and he should be able to support one hundred thousand cavalrymen. His family background should be very rich. If Li Jing took him down, it should not be difficult for Guanzhong to spend the most difficult time in next spring.

Then there is Wang Hao’s line. I believe that not long after Wei Zheng’s return, the grain from Jiangnan will be transported to Chang’an, which will once again impact the grain market in Chang’an. Of course, at that time, Sun Xiangfu will send a sum of money to Li Shimin to purchase Some spare food.

The carriage arrived at the inn very quickly. When Wei Zheng got off the carriage, he didn't have the same excitement when he got on the carriage. Wei Xuancheng, the dignified royal historian, the head of the admonishing ministers, came to Shanyang, and he was first forced to do something. For deceitful things, now, like some ministers, they have to give a secret narrative to the emperor, just like the emperor's confidants, how decent is this!

Sun Xiangfu didn't take a long walk outside, changed to his own car, and went all the way back to the mansion. After a while, Wu Ying'er was called to the study by him.

"In addition to helping me keep an eye on the Wang family's movements tonight, send some people to help me spread the news."

Wu Ying'er cupped his hands and said, "My lord, please give me instructions."

"In other words, there are several animal husbandry and dairy product development projects in the Anbei Protectorate's Mansion, and they are looking for partners. If there is no accident, they will choose from families who have obtained the second-class land. In addition, the toffee newly produced in the Fuchu Hand it over to those vendors, and sell it in the city, I believe that those aristocratic families will know what to do after eating toffee."

Shanyang's milk tea is very popular now. Not only has it become a must-have drink in noble houses, but ordinary people also buy a cup to drink when they are greedy. However, the consumption of more than 300 people is huge. The supply is already insufficient. The reason why he wants to cooperate with Wang Xu to plant [-] million mu of oat fields is not only to stockpile enough fodder, but also to raise more cows in captivity to satisfy the milk market in Shanyang.

However, even if the 300 million mu of oats are planted, the cows raised from the fodder can only meet the needs of the Anbei Protectorate Prefecture, which has a large population growth in the future. It wants to expand this industry to radiate the entire Northland , and even the entire Datang, the gap is still huge.

Therefore, it is also necessary to expand animal husbandry after the foundation of keeping the city warm is established. Similarly, if he cannot accomplish this by himself, he must find someone to cooperate and use something that he originally wanted to do. Things, to maximize the benefits of selling land, why not do it!

(End of this chapter)