He's crazy?
Must be crazy!
Another crazy one...
Yao Daqiao's ecstasy was exchanged for a few sympathetic looks.
This is understandable! Because everyone knew he was a profiteer just by looking at his appearance. Unprofitable businessmen generally put their land in the name of respected gentry to evade taxes, so they do not have land deeds.
Without a land deed, you cannot get compensation!
Moreover, the gentry who received compensation must give up their official positions and settle in Wuhan, and they are not allowed to buy real estate in their original place. All properties and shops in their original place must also be given up!
This means that profiteers no longer have a local protective umbrella. Without the protective umbrella, they will naturally not be able to recover the loan sharks they have given out at high interest rates.
The losses are huge enough to bankrupt many profiteers with limited financial resources... It's easy to go crazy, and there are probably many who jump into the Yangtze River because they can't think of it!
Ye Jiaxin was frightened when he saw Yao Daqiao - these were his parents in Wuchang, so don't really go crazy... So he quickly dragged him to Hanyang Gate, thinking of putting him Pull him over and let the sisters-in-law comfort him.
Yao Daqiao was dragged by him and could only stagger along. Ye Jiaxin is a rich farmer, and he is full of strength. Although the profiteer Yao is fat, he is just puffy. How can he get rid of it?
When the two arrived at Hanyang Gate, Yao Daqiao found the opportunity to take out his arm, rubbing it and complaining: "What are you doing? Why are you anxious? You haven't seen the notice yet... This is an opportunity to make a fortune!"
"Get rich?" Ye Jiaxin was on the verge of crying, "What kind of fortune? It's all gone..."
His land was all stored in other people's names, and he didn't have the land deeds, so he couldn't get compensation.
Yao Daqiao patted his chest, "Here I am! I still have money... Come with me, let's find a restaurant to have a drink. Brother, I'm happy. Let's talk while drinking!"
Ye Jiaxin didn't look like he was crazy, so he could only follow him to a tavern, casually ordered some food and drinks, and started talking while drinking.
"You should tidy up when you get back. Let's set off together and follow the prince's warship!"
Ye Jiaxin asked: "What are you doing following the military ship?"
"Harvesting rice! I have built a few 500-ton boats these days, which can transport three to four thousand kilos of rice." Yao Daqiao said with a smile, "Didn't you say that Hubei's harvest was good last year? Last year's harvest was good, and again No one is collecting rent, and trade routes have been cut off. Hubei farmers must have a lot of rice on hand now. Let’s buy it quickly... If we wait until today, the notices posted outside Hanyang gates are posted everywhere, the price of rice will It will definitely increase a lot. Let’s go to your hometown, Jing County, to collect rice!”
"Yes!" Ye Jiaxin is a rich farmer, and of course he is also a traitor (rich farmers are also businessmen), "How could I forget... The prince wants the farmers in Hubei to redeem their fields, so that the rice in their hands will have a place to go? , so the price of rice must have gone up!”
Yao Daqiao thought thoughtfully and said: "Now the rice merchants from the southeast have sailed to Wuhan... We will sell the rice immediately after returning from transporting it, and then divide it into two roads. I will collect the rice. You can Bring some money and go to Huainan to buy wheat seeds, rice seeds, cattle, and hire strong laborers!"
"Buying wheat seeds, rice seeds, cattle, and hiring laborers is for... renting land?"
Yao Daqiao nodded: "That's right! It's renting land... If it weren't for the prince's method of redeeming land with rice, a lot of land in Hubei would have been abandoned in the next few years. Because Li Zicheng planned to equalize the land. The method is too crude, and many farmers who have divided their fields may not be able to cultivate it.
If there is no pressure to hand over rice to buy fields, they may not rent out the fields. But now we will definitely rent, and the rent will not be too high, because Hubei has just been in chaos and has a much smaller population, so there must not be many people willing to rent land for farming. "
Li Zicheng's plan for handing over land was only to "grant the land" without sharing any extravagant wealth - all the extravagant wealth was taken away by Li Zicheng and his old camp soldiers, including cattle and farm tools (farm tools were all made of iron and could be used to make weapons or be given to the old camp soldiers). Bing's own farm for use). Therefore, in Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Hanyang, there will definitely be a surplus of land and a shortage of agricultural tools, cattle and other production tools.
In addition, the standard for a land grant of four to five acres is also very "rough". Because whether this group of people were strong men or women and children, whether they were farmers or residents of the town, the officials of the Dashun court did not ask whether they were strong men or women and children, and they just granted the land to them indiscriminately.
Therefore, many farmers who were granted land were actually unable to cultivate it. However, those rich farmers who were good at farming and cultivated a large amount of land suffered heavy losses in Li Zicheng's Jikou Equalization of Fields, and many even ran away.
Therefore, in the future, the four prefectures of Jingzhou, Chengtian, De'an, and Hanyang in Hubei Province, and perhaps Xiangyang Prefecture, will have a surplus of land.
For businessmen like Yao Daqiao who still have some capital, this is an opportunity!
Yao Daqiao calculated: "Let's rent as much as possible, rent contiguous land, and sign a long-term contract... I will pay for the capital, and I will sell the rice and noodles grown. I will leave the rest to you. I will make a profit." We’ll split the money 70/30, I’ll pay 70/30 to you!”
"Okay!" Of course Ye Jiaxin was happy. He was now empty-handed and had trouble eating, so he had no right to say no!
However, he was still a little worried and asked in a low voice: "Brother Yao, is it okay for us to follow the prince's warship? Can we follow?"
"Okay!" Yao Daqiao patted his chest, "I have a way!"
His path was Chen Yongxi, the one who ran from Shanxi to Li Zicheng as an envoy, and then sneaked to Ji Shan, the prince's palace in Nanjing. Because he had spent some time with Li Zicheng, he was transferred to the Xingyuan Army Department by Li Yan and followed him to Wuchang. In Wuchang City, I met Yao Daqiao, who was looking for connections everywhere, and they became fair-weather friends.
But Yao Daqiao would not ask Chen Yongxi for help. Instead, Chen Yongxi would ask him for help... to help buy rice!
It turned out that he had been transferred to the Jiangdu Left-behind Department not long ago to be promoted to the grain depot, and he was also sent to Liu Kongzhao to mobilize rice merchants.
So since May, Chen Yongxi has been asking Yao Daqiao for help. Yao Daqiao, on the other hand, looks like he is afraid of death and must be encouraged by a large reward... He even wants to borrow ten wooden boats worth 500 materials (these are the boats he and Ye Jiaxin talked about) and Hanzheng Street A large piece of white land - he has the land deed and house deed of Hankou Town, but Hankou Town has been destroyed by the war and must be rebuilt, so the land deed and house deed can be exchanged for white land, but it is hard to say where the land is. It may not be in the original place, because all the streets in Hankou need to be redesigned and planned.
Yao Daqiao had already made a plan. After receiving the white land on Hanzheng Street, he immediately pledged it to the Salt Merchant Bank, took the money as a deposit to buy cloth and rented a ship, and then used the cloth to exchange for rice. The rice was exchanged for the grain depot of the left-behind secretary. , this way he can earn a vote, and he will have the capital to do bigger business.
It turned out that this profiteer had been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by Li Zicheng, but he had been trying hard to keep his appearance afloat.
"Chen Tiju, I am really not short of money. I have plenty of money. Why would I be greedy for huge profits? Just to help friends, right? You are a friend, and those big farmers (not just Zhang Jiaxin) are all my friends. .....We can’t treat them badly!”
In a side room of the Jiangdu Remaining Department, Yao Daqiao, who was waiting to sign a contract with Liu Kongzhao, was not happy at all. He was just sighing and talking to Chen Yongxi, who had just been stabbed by him (in fact, it was Zhu Cihong who was killed). .
After Chen Yongxi asked Liu Kongzhao for instructions, he agreed to all Yao Daqiao's conditions. Now he is quite grateful to Yao Daqiao - he is so rich, but he still takes such a big risk to go to the countryside to buy rice, and he also signed a contract for 200,000 shi of white rice. The contract is so interesting!
Although Chen Yongxi was brutally slaughtered, he hired a very reliable rice merchant and it was still worth the money, so he has made a contribution and is now in a good mood.
"Don't worry," Chen Yongxi said in Shanxi Mandarin, "With the navy's warships going with you, what else can happen? And this deal is very stable. As long as you have a way in Hubei, you don't have to worry about not making money. If I can really buy 200,000 shi of white rice, I can still recommend you to become an official in front of Liubei."
"That's really honoring the ancestors. It's great..." Yao Daqiao finally showed a smile. He still wanted an official body. Why are they all amulets? It would be even better if you could get an imperial merchant status!
