Chapter 9, Proof of land sale
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Just as Xi Xingchen was waiting to answer, there were three knocks on the door outside the guest room.
"Who?" Xi Xingchen asked.
There was no reply from outside.
Xi Xingchen opened the door and saw a package on the ground.
"What is it?" Dong Liangce asked curiously when he saw Xi Xingchen picking up a package.
Xi Xingchen opened the package and found ten land sale certificates neatly placed inside. The land seller was signed by the deceased Yang Xiaojin.
Inside the Discipline Hall.
Xi Xingchen, who has studied psychology, knows very well that in order to impress the elders present, he must interact first. Only through interaction can empathy be generated between each other.
Once people develop empathy, things will fall into place.
Therefore, when Xi Xingchen talked about the receipt of land sales, he deliberately made a twist and asked the elders present: "Elders, do you know how much land Yang Xiaojin sold in total?"
"How much?" Wen Gaoming asked cooperatively.
"Ten acres!" Xi Xingchen stretched out his palm and turned it over twice, and said loudly, "Ten acres of farmland."
"And these ten acres of farmland were all sold in the past six months, which means that Yang Xiaojin sold two acres of farmland every half month, and the latest land sale deed was signed less than ten days before his death. .”
"This is unreasonable!" An elder named Han Xiuxian from Ximo said in confusion.
"Elder Han, why is it unreasonable?" Yuan Xingbang looked at Han Xiuxian.
Han Xiuxian is in charge of the general purchase of the Mohist family, so he knows the market conditions very well, which is why Yuan Xingbang asked him.
Yuan Xingbang said: "Although the price of rice rose during the famine and the price of one acre of land shrank sharply, one acre of farmland could be sold for at least five taels of silver, and one tael of silver was exchanged for one thousand cash. Even if the price of rice rose to one hundred cash per liter, Five taels of silver can buy at least fifty liters of rice."
"The Yang family of four eats one liter of rice every day, and fifty liters of rice can't survive for two months. Moreover, during disaster years, people rarely eat dry rice, so they have fifty liters of rice to survive for three to three months. Four months won’t be a problem.”
Han Xiu Not at this price.”
"How much is that?" Han Xiuxian had a look of surprise on his face.
"One tael of silver per acre of farmland." Xi Xingchen stretched out a finger and shook it.
"The difference is five times, this is too ridiculous!" Han Xiuxian took a breath.
Xi Xingchen sneered: "If you knew who the buyer was on the land sale certificate, wouldn't it be surprising at all?"
"Who is it?" Han Xiuxian asked quickly.
"Who else could it be? It must be Yao Guoping, the owner of Dafa Rice Store!" Wen Gaoming said in a somewhat sinister tone.
Han Xiuxian looked at Xi Xingchen.
Xi Xingchen nodded: "It's him."
"This person first hoarded rice and drove up the price of rice, forcing the hungry people to sell their fields and soil. He also bought the fields at a low price, killing the people's hope for the coming year. It was clear that he wanted to force people to a dead end." Han Xiuxian was originally An outgoing and easy-going little old man, his face looked sulky at this moment, which showed that what Yao Guoping did really annoyed him.
"To disrupt the country and take away people's livelihood, this person should be killed!" Zhou Zhenhai, an old scholar from Dongmo, puffed his beard and suddenly said a meaningless sentence.
Although Zhou Zhenhai's words were meaningless, Xi Xingchen still understood what he meant.
People like Dong Mo are different from Nan Mo who are spontaneous and Western Mo who focus on practicality. They pay more attention to the study of social theory.
In the words of Xi Xingchen's previous life, they are all philosophers and usually think about things from the perspective of the ruler.
As the chief of Dongmo who takes the world as his own responsibility and cares about the country and the people, Zhou Zhenhai's starting point for thinking about problems is very different from that of ordinary people.
For example, when a natural disaster occurs in the country this time, for ordinary people, the first thing they think about is hoping that the disaster will pass soon.
But Zhou Zhenhai wouldn't think so.
First of all, Zhou Zhenhai will objectively accept the fact that when a natural disaster occurs in the country, the price of rice will skyrocket. This is inevitable, so it has been like this for thousands of years, without exception.
Since it is inevitable that rice prices will skyrocket during natural disasters, in Zhou Zhenhai's eyes, necessity means foreseeability, and if it is foreseeable, it can be prevented in advance.
Therefore, Zhou Zhenhai believed that the most correct way to deal with the problem was to suggest that the court build granaries in advance and buy more for storage when rice prices were not high.
This has two advantages: first, when there is a disaster, the court can open the granary in a planned way, and part of the food can be used to relieve the victims; second, part of the food can be put into the market and sold at a price that is par or slightly higher than par. to disaster victims, and at the same time send personnel to crack down on unscrupulous traders who hoard goods, conduct macro-control and stabilize social order.
Yao Guoping, the owner of the "Dafa" grain store, is definitely a bad trader who disrupts national laws and regulations in Zhou Zhenhai's opinion, and must be severely punished and decapitated during disaster years.
"It's still unreasonable!" Han Xiuxian frowned, and it seemed that he was still struggling with the one-third of an acre of land that he was good at.
"What's unreasonable?" Wen Gaoming lost no time in finishing the attack.
"The grain output from one acre of farmland is generally not less than two and a half dan, and the annual output from ten acres of farmland is at least 25 dan. This is so much food that a family of four can't finish it even if they eat dry rice every day." (Note: 1 shi. A meter is roughly equivalent to 125 kilograms today, and 25 shi is about 3,125 kilograms.)
Han Xiuxian saw everyone looking at him in confusion, so he added: "What I mean is that although Yang Xiaojin's family is not a wealthy family, it is definitely much richer than ordinary villagers, and they should have a surplus of food at home. A family like his, even in a disaster year, should not be reduced to selling their land and starving to death."
"Elder Han finally got to the point of the case." Xi Xingchen clapped his hands and said.
"At that time, Dong Liangce and I also believed that there must be a hidden secret behind the case, so we discussed it. The next day, he would come forward to deal with Li Zheng and Yang Sansong, while I would secretly find the villagers of Yangjiacun to investigate..."
In the thirty-fourth year of Jingxian's reign, April 13th, it was cloudy with occasional light rain.
After Xi Xingchen and Dong Liangce broke up at the entrance of the village, they came to a house.
The head of this family is Yang Liusheng, the villager who dared to complain in front of Xi Xingchen that the government was not doing things well during the chat yesterday.
This is the first home that Xi Xingchen secretly visited. The reason why he chose Yang Liusheng was not only that Xi Xingchen felt that Yang Liusheng dared to speak up and had a sense of justice, but also that during the chat yesterday, Xi Xingchen felt that Yang Liusheng must know something, but Because Yang Sansong was present, he didn't dare to say it.
