Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 680 Money is not everything!

Often the ideal is very plump, and the display is very skinny.

In the past few days in Jinzhong, Wang Hou has actively carried out his food-raising plan. In Bingzhou, he has more than 20 companies and more than 5000 employees who are really busy like a grandson. However, he has been busy for ten years. After many days, the result of harvesting grain was that Wang Houda suffered a catty!
"What? Only forty thousand stones!"

"Back to the lord!"

Qi He, the general manager of Jinyang, whose wrinkled old face is full of mourning, is really like an old farmer on the Loess Plateau who has suffered for more than 2000 years. It looks drier than Wang Hou's soaked tangerine peel. In the sad reminder, he has no choice but to respond with.

"This is still counting the bean seeds you let me harvest, my lord! If you only count the wheat, it's only [-] shi!"

Wang Hou really had the urge to vomit blood.

It’s not that he doesn’t have food, and even asking him to take out two or three million shi of grain in one breath is actually no problem. The Songnen Plain in Montenegro is a grain-producing area with a large area and a sparse population, and the Liaohe Plain is a production area with a large area and a sparse population. Even the Korean peninsula in the Datong River Basin where Gongsun Kang was lingering was still a grain-producing area.

But the problem is that tens of millions of shi grains are all in Liaodong!In order to ensure that Guihua City was under his control, Wang Hou would only keep enough food for one winter there forever. Who knew that Mr. Cao would suddenly give himself such a large territory!By the time the rice grains were transported across the Han Empire from Liaodong to Guanzhong, it would probably be autumn. By then, the people in Guanzhong would have starved to death.

Moreover, Wang Hou has a large amount of property in Bingzhou. There is not enough food. He has plenty of cloth, tea, ironware and copper coins. It is a piece of cake to buy hundreds of thousands of shi on the spot. Wang Hou never thought about the problem of not being able to collect food.

After being stunned for a moment, Wang Hou took a deep breath, swallowed his anger again, calmed down, and then asked again.

"Tell me! Why can't we collect food!"

"Because the big and small families who have good relations with us in Liaodong and the local small landlords' surplus food, since February this year, some people have bought them at a price [-]% higher than the market price, not only in Bingzhou, Hedong, Hongnong, etc. The place is the same! The villain doesn’t know that the general needs food! This month, the villain has already bought it at twice the market price! But there is really no food in the market!”

"Oh?"

This news was really beyond Wang Hou's expectation. What is hunting wild geese all day long, but it made the sparrow peck his eyes. He is a big profiteer who sells high and buys low, and hoards. People have figured it out!But after being stunned for a moment, Wang Hou suddenly smiled and shook his head.

"Forget it, go back and ask someone to bring some money to Jinyang! The grain collection plan has been cancelled, first send people to transport the bean seeds and steel farm tools to Chang'an, and distribute them!"

"My lord, is it true that there is no food?"

"The other party started to collect grain in February, which means that he knew that the prime minister would appoint me as the Guanzhong Daxingtai earlier than me, so I dug a hole early to trap me! But politics and our business have nothing to do. What's the difference, there is buying and selling, the price is enough, and the loyalty is enough to buy, since the price is so high, the other party probably doesn't want to lose money, anyway, they can't collect food now, just wait for the seller to come to bargain!"

Wang Hou's analysis was quite clear, and it was rare for Tian Lao's orange peel to show off.

"Little man obeys!"

…………

As expected, Wang Hou didn't pee!This commercial firm in Liaodong had just stopped buying grain collectively. Within three days, the owner came to the door. Moreover, Wang Hou didn't feel strange at all when he saw this person. Full of sneers.

"It's been a long time, but Zhong Da is even more handsome. This official has been in office for a year!"

"Don't you have to follow your tail, General!"

Sometimes Wang Hou really doubts his aura of the protagonist, good guy, his subordinate Zhao Yunwu Qiujian is more handsome than him, and the enemy, Sima Yi, is still more handsome than him. I haven't seen him for a few years. This old guy is becoming more and more mature and capable. Now, wearing a crown with a sky-facing crown, the hair is neatly combed, and if the beard is shaved on the mature and capable face, he will be an elite type of successful business executive in the future.more handsome than him!

And this guy has more face than himself, he Wang Houtang dignified Zhao Hou returned to his hometown, the patriarch Wang Xin didn't even show his face, good guy, Hanoi Sima Zhongda is here, the old guy just followed!

Hearing Sima Yi's compliment, Wang Hou snorted noncommittally, and then impatiently went around in circles and yelled angrily.

"Zhongda didn't go to Chang'an to take up his post, but he came to Jinyang to find me, it's not just reminiscing about the old days!"

"Of course not, the general is Zhong Da's boss, and Zhong Da came here to present a gift to the general!"

"150 million shi of grain! If it's not enough, you can add more!"

There was no question at all, Wang Hou still had a gloomy old face that was not as handsome as him, and then looked at him, these years were not in vain, being stared at by his gloomy gaze for half a minute, even the old thief Sima couldn't feel it, smiled wryly With a clasped fist.

"General wise, food is not given in vain. After all, it is the hard work of various families. I, the Sima family in Hanoi, the Cui family in Qinghe, and your mother's Jinyang Wang family and other 21 families have some small things to ask for!"

"We want the fields in Kinai!"

"and then!"

"No land registration!"

After all, land is still the lifeblood of aristocratic families. Wang Hou, who manages the fields in Guanzhong, looks down on him, but in the eyes of these aristocratic families in the Central Plains, he is still a treasure.

Moreover, it’s not just the land. If these 21 aristocratic families in the Central Plains take over all the land near Gyeonggi, and the land, tenants, and population all belong to them, then they will also have a strong political voice. The stage is equivalent to being emptied by them.

Then, the biggest winner of this political game is Sima Yi. He is the governor of Yongzhou, and he has also attracted a large group of families from the Central Plains. His voice even exceeds that of Wang Hou.

And no land registration is a common method used by aristocratic and powerful families. Hiding land registration and then hiding household registration, avoiding taxes, harming the country and enriching oneself. To put it bluntly, tax exemption.

But without answering Sima Yi's question, Wang Hou just asked coldly with a gloomy face.

"Zhongda, there was a time when I wanted to kill you, did you know that?"

"Oh? It's also Zhongda who was too frivolous when he was young, no wonder the general!"

With a magnanimous look, Sima Yi quickly put on a sincere smile, and shook his hand with a smile, but the next second, his smile froze on his face.

"So today you shouldn't make the mistakes I made back then! Come and see off the guests!"

"Wang Tuqiu, don't forget your origin!"

Seeing that the conversation was going on, the conversation actually collapsed, and the youngest members of the Sima family, who could bring great benefits to the families, seemed to be humiliated by Wang Hou. The old Wang Yun even got angry with the patriarch and patted the table Grinning his teeth, he reprimanded Wang Houqi.

But the same cold eyes stared at him, and even the murderous aura of those years of fighting on the battlefield emerged. Old Wang Xin, who was looking at him with murderous eyes, couldn't help but staggered back a step in horror, full of panic Add it up, yelled sternly.

"Wang Tuqiu, what are you going to do? This is the Jinyang Wang clan, and I am the patriarch of the Wang clan!"

"Don't do anything, just thank Uncle Clan for his house on East Street! Wang Fu, see off the guests!"

Seeing that old Wang Fu waved his sleeves at the door with great relief, the heads of the two big aristocratic families went out with gloomy faces one after the other.

The showdown with these aristocratic families, before the bargaining started, was completely ruined by Wang Hou!
(End of this chapter)