Watching the clerk keep weighing, his attention was extremely tense.
"Holy crap, are you so fierce? You have accumulated more than four hundred stones of food in these years?"
The clerks were all dumbfounded, with disbelief on their faces.
The middle-aged man burst out laughing, the joy in his eyes completely unstoppable, but that was not what he said.
"Most of it is corn and potatoes, with only a small amount of millet, which is not worth a lot of money."
The clerk nodded and quickly took notes with a pen and paper.
"100 shi of corn, money."
"200 shi of corn kernels, money."
"100 stones of potatoes, 4,000 coins."
“After deducting the rented farm tools and cattle, there is still money left.”
"I gave birth to two calves successfully and have passed the calving period. The reward money is total money. Do you have any opinions?"
The strong man showed ecstasy on his face and waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, I'm very satisfied."
"You are going back to Shangguo this time. How do you calculate the money?" asked the clerk.
The strong man asked carefully, "Will bread be delivered from the county this time when I go back?"
"Yes, your Majesty has given instructions. You don't need to spend any money, but you must prepare dry food along the way. We don't provide these things."
"Hehe, it should be right. In this case, 20,000 yuan can be converted into gold, and 10,000 yuan can be directly converted into coins."
As the brawny man spoke, the clerk's men quickly took out the gold monk country coins, put them into a package, and threw them to the brawny man.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Some people behind saw this situation and became excited.
After some people made a noise for a while, they asked the clerk.
"Sir, the county has had good food harvests one after another. Why haven't the food prices dropped yet?"
The price of grain drops when there is a good harvest, and the price rises when there is a bad harvest. This has been a long-standing principle.
The clerk smiled and said, "Your Majesty said that cheap food hurts farmers, and expensive food hurts the people. Therefore, unless there are major events, the price of food in Yuntong County is basically stable."
Seeing this situation, everyone's enthusiasm for selling food began to rise again.
It's just that there are not many tenant farmers who have accumulated so much grain like Da Han. After a good harvest, many people exchange money for consumption in the city.
But there were also some tenant farmers who didn't save much food, but were good at raising cattle. They rented a few cows, gave birth to several calves, and became rich directly.
Although a large amount of money entered Shangguo this time, Yang Qian was not afraid at all.
This small amount of money can only be considered trivial in the annual trade with Shangguo, not even with Mao.
The clerk looked at the situation and immediately applied for more people. Otherwise, if the exchange continues like this, it may not be possible to get it done by night.
A statistical team basically consists of ten people, one clerk, one person in charge of money, and the others are responsible for helping carry food.
When a group of about ten people came over, the long queue split up instantly and the speed became much faster.
The strong man excitedly took the money back to the house where he lived and kept walking around. He had never seen so much money in his life.
It was so fast to make money in Yuntong County. Fortunately, he could resist the temptation. Many people who couldn't resist the temptation would basically go to the county.
The brothel is too expensive, so go directly to Goulan. The price is fair and the service quality is good. After having fun, go directly to the bathhouse and take a long bath.
After taking a bath, you can also go to the restaurant to listen to music, or go to the chess and card room in groups to buy a bottle of water and wine for entertainment.
In fact, such consumption is not expensive. At the beginning, these entertainment facilities were almost monopolized by nobles. Ordinary people wanted to enter? That's a dream. It's not that you won't be allowed in, but that you simply can't afford it.
But as ordinary people have more and more money in their hands, some civilian-oriented entertainment industries have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
The popular entertainment industry focuses on mass sales. The more people go there, the more they earn. As a result, many people fall in love with it.
I always go there four or five times a month, and my consumption automatically goes up.
In order to control the price of food, some food stalls have also been opened. When food is cheaper, there are naturally more shops, and the profit is a processing fee.
As food becomes more expensive, there will be fewer food stalls, but in general, Yuntong County and Zhuangzi control the majority of food, so it is easy to control food prices.
Yuntong County focuses on the parallel planning and market economy. Except for businesses that are expressly prohibited, as long as other businesses are registered, the county magistrate's office will not control them.
But the premise is that no matter whose business you are doing, you must pay taxes. If you don't pay taxes, it will be useless for me to come.
Under Yang Gan's high-pressure situation, even if Sun Wukong came to Yuntong County to do business, he would have to leave his tiger skin skirt behind.
Precisely because Yang Qian implemented commercial taxes, many of the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the people were removed one by one.
Using superb planting technology, when people have money, they will start to increase their living costs, such as renovating their houses.
Once the house is renovated, do you need to buy new furniture? At this time, the craftsmen have something to do.
When they have money, they will spend and buy things. After the merchants make money, they need to pay taxes to the county magistrate's office every month.
In order to prevent people from evading taxes, Tianshou Division also sent a large number of manpower to lurk in some restaurants, teahouses, brothels and other places.
It is clear at a glance how much money you make in a month and what your gross profit is.
In Yuntong County, not only those who have shops have to pay taxes, but also those who set up stalls need to pay taxes, plus there are restrictions on the venue.
It is not easy for many people to do business, which prevents many people from wanting to become merchants without farming.
The strong man did not spend it as others did when he had some money. Instead, he applied to Zhuangzi that as long as he had food, he could store it in Zhuangzi's granary. Zhuangzi also agreed.
He had no choice. He still had his parents at home, not his brothers, but he had Adi, his wife, and their children. If the money could be successfully transferred to his hometown, his life would not be too easy.
Three golds, which is thirty thousand dollars, can allow a middle-class family to live comfortably for a year without worrying about food and drink.
What is a middle-class family? It is at least a scholar or doctor family.
What is a strong man? For a sharecropping family, three golds will definitely make the whole family live happily in three to five years.
If possible, he would still like to farm and raise cattle, and the money would be more and more, and his life would be better and better.
People, sometimes when there is hope, the whole person's energy and spirit are different. Holding the package containing money tightly, the strong man fell into a deep sleep.
In the dream, he was reunited with his family, and the whole family worked together to live a good life. While he was sleeping, he couldn't help but smile happily at the corner of his mouth.
The next day.
"Dang Dang Dang~~~!"
The bells and cauldrons rang, and a group of soldiers began to beat gongs and drums outside the farmhouse.
All the prisoners came out one after another. They had been waiting inside for a long time, and many of them had had breakfast.
"General, when do we set off?"
The strong man looked at the soldiers along the way. After staying here for a long time, he understood that these belonged to the frontier army. They had terrible fighting power. I heard they were called the Polu Army.
The soldier smiled.
"I'm not a general. You can't yell blindly. If the generals hear it, you might be reprimanded."
"Sorry sorry."
"You prepare dry food and set off when most of them are gathered."
The strong man looked around and asked curiously, "Where is the carriage?"
"The carriage is already waiting outside Zhuangzi. If you have a lot of things, just pack them up and take them away. This time we are going to rush and send you to your country as soon as possible, so we may not pass through other counties along the way."
The strong man nodded, suddenly understanding.
The people who were sent back this time were all homesick and they were naturally thinking about how to go home as soon as possible.
In addition, these prisoners turned out to be soldiers. Although they were not the most elite, they were no strangers to rapid marches.
As long as I can go home, let alone marching in a hurry, marching in a hurry every day, as long as my body can eat and live, there is absolutely no problem.
When the crowd of 20,000 people gathered together, carriages parked next to them. They put their luggage and dry food on the carriages, and started to set off under the leadership of the soldiers.
Looking at the long queue, Yang Gan put down his telescope and confirmed again.
"Yu'er, how much do they know about some of our technologies?"
Xiao Yu shook his head.
"Land fattening, piglet castration, semi-automatic machinery, they all use ready-made machinery. They only know how to use it, but they don't know how to make it."
Yang Qian nodded with satisfaction.
Xiao Yu asked, "Master, is this really useful? There were five thousand people in total last time. It seemed that there was just a commotion and then there was no follow-up."
Looking at Xiao Yu's face full of curiosity, Yang Gan talked eloquently, "A strong country needs two things that will never be defeated. Do you know what they are?"
"Appreciate further details."
Yang Gan pointed to Yuntong County in the distance.
"The first type is cities and passes that are visible and tangible. Only if the city is strong can outsiders be unable to invade."
"The second type is the spiritual fortress. As long as we in Yuntong County are united and all our thoughts are in the same place, the enemy's soft knives will not be able to penetrate."
"Shangren is indeed not a bad person. People in Fuyan and even around Fuyan are proud of being born as a Shangren, but it is useless. As the saying goes, comparison will hurt. It doesn't matter if we are all poor together."
"But what do you think those sharecroppers will do if one day they learn that each of their captives is better off than a person from an average family?"
Xiao Yu thought about it carefully and suddenly said, "It's better to worry about the minority than to worry about the balance!"
"Look, Shang Guo's life will not be easy. I'm really looking forward to what will happen if the 20,000 people are released this time. Even if it doesn't work, it can make them feel sick and arouse the anger of the people over there. The meaning of resistance.
"Young master is wise!"
Looking at the 20,000 people in the distance, Yang Gan murmured, "I don't know if Ying is not wise, but if I can cause them some trouble, even if I succeed, I hope it can be delayed until after the autumn harvest."
"Young master, with Wang Shumao here, I thought it wouldn't be a big problem, but I didn't expect him to be so good at doing business. In the past, he was inferior to his talents."
Yang Qian nodded noncommittally. For a person of his status, some of the naive ideas he had in the past have long since been abandoned, because the things he saw have already repeatedly ravaged his three views.
