The blacksmith shop began to produce firecrackers, which made Liu Pei feel good for a long time. His happy mood did not stop until he saw the bills sent by the two shopkeepers.

This time Liu Pei has become a veritable big landowner! He bought all the unowned land, barren mountains, and even saline-alkali land within the two counties! The magistrates of the two counties even laughed when they heard that

Crooked!

The reason Liu Pei gave for buying the saline-alkali land was that crops cannot be grown on the saline-alkali land, but you can build pens to raise chickens and pigs! You can also build workshops and houses! Fortunately, it is all wasteland and barren mountains, so the price is not high. It costs more than tens of thousands in total.

An acre of land costs only a few hundred thousand taels of silver.

However, after the money was spent, Liu Pei was completely out of money. Before the next payment was recovered, Liu Pei had less than 20,000 taels of silver left in his account. This amount of money was not enough for his huge team of servants and tenants.

It's just a drop in the bucket.

But just when he was worried, Liu Jiang arrived. He was notified by the guard and entered Liu Pei's yard. When he entered the room, he saw Liu Pei sitting on a chair with his feet on the table in a daze, wondering about something.

Liu Jiang found that Liu Pei's mood was a little low, so Liu Jiang said carefully: "Master, I have good news to report here."

When Liu Pei heard the good news, he immediately put his legs back and sat up, saying, "Did you get the money?"

Liu Jiang was stunned for a moment, then thought about Liu Pei's land purchase, and secretly thought that it was because of lack of money! He said: "The master of the house is a master of calculation! This time we did collect a lot of money in Jiaozhou and Jimo!"

When Liu Pei heard this, he was discouraged again and said: "How much money can two small counties receive? You can keep it for yourself!"

Liu Jiang said with a smile: "That's what the master said, so I'll really keep it for use! Don't regret it!"

Liu Pei seemed interested and said, "How much is it? Let me tell you!"

Liu Jiang said: "This time the collection of money is different from the past. This month I have started to collect the regular money from the wealthy gentry! The entire Jiaojie and two counties have collected more than 10,000 taels of silver!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Pei lost interest and said, "I thought it was a lot! Forget it, you can keep it for yourself!"

Liu Jiang lowered his eyebrows

He said pleasantly: "Master, the money you have received is already quite a lot! The two counties of Jiao and Ji have little production, and we only collect the industrial and commercial tax, which is not bad! And we are in accordance with the regulations of the country and the tax rate is 30.

The tax is enough to collect money. If we are more ruthless, we may be able to collect another 10,000 or 20,000 yuan!"

Liu Pei sighed in his heart, both the Tianqi Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty were short of money, to the point of being unsustainable! The commercial tax of this dynasty was frighteningly low! Not to mention the various modern tax laws, it was "our Qing Dynasty"

"The taxes collected are more than those of the Ming Dynasty! And these gentry are clinging to their money bags. Don't they understand the principle of losing money? When the common people are exploited and have nothing, that's when they will rise up!

Do they still think they can survive at that time? What a bunch of stupid people!

Liu Pei turned around and thought again, since the court can't collect their taxes, then I'll worry about collecting them! If the money is handed over to the court, it will end up "floating". It's better to use it to build water conservancy projects and recruit refugees.

!So Liu Pei said: "This money is still yours to use."

Liu Jiang was overjoyed after hearing this! This amount of money is a small amount to Liu Pei, but it is not a small change to Liu Jiang's Bloody Hand Gang. With this money, how many people can be expanded! I originally wanted to ask the family leader for money, but no

Thinking that the head of the family had directly returned the full amount! He immediately handed over his hand and said, "Thank you so much, head of the house!"

Liu Pei waved his hand and said: "Don't be too hasty to thank me. I also have a request. In the future, we will have more and more opponents, so you must expand your strength as soon as possible, master and penetrate the entire Shandong underworld! At least do

It turns out that we have clear ears and eyes in Shandong! This is very important!"

Liu Jiang nodded repeatedly and said: "Understood! Don't worry, Master, I will start working on it as soon as possible."

Liu Pei nodded and said: "Okay, but you have to hurry up! In addition, you have to pay attention to the trends of those cult organizations! For the White Lotus Sect and the like, you have to find a way to infiltrate some people. It does not require a high position, at least

We need to know when they make big moves in Shandong Province!"

Liu Jiang said: "Understood! When I get back, I will arrange a few people to be responsible for the sect's affairs."

The two discussed some more

Official business. When the business was finished, Liu Jiang gave a detailed report on how he collected the regular money from the wealthy gentry. Liu Pei couldn't help laughing when he heard Liu Jiang's underhanded methods, and felt like he was heartbroken.

Stifling.

Not long after Liu Jiang left, Liu Pei had almost spent all his money. When he was wondering whether to ask Huashufeng to borrow some emergency funds, good news came: Qi Qitao and Wu Yizhou

The two convoys led by two people are back!

Originally, according to the normal travel time of the caravan, he would not have come back so early. However, the caravan used rubber-tired carts, and when he went there, they were loaded with soap and shampoo.

Lightly loaded goods such as these are larger in size but not in weight, so the journey is faster.

When we came back, although the convoy was fully loaded with goods from both places, with the help of many servants and the carrying capacity of the rubber-tired carts, the return time was more than a month ahead of the normal time.

These two convoys were not only carrying goods, but also tens of thousands of taels of silver in payment. This solved Liu Pei's urgent need. When Liu Pei received the news, the two convoys had already arrived in Jinan to unload the goods. Unloading

After finishing the goods, they will come back with the money.

A few days later in the afternoon, Liu Pei and his people went to greet the two convoys in person. In Liu Pei's plan, these two convoys were the top priority. The two caravans not only shouldered the task of delivering goods, but also

He was responsible for the important tasks of checking the roads along the way, drawing maps, and training grassroots officers. So Liu Pei was very concerned about it.

Now that spring plowing has passed, everyone is free. Therefore, the work of relocating Fushan Village has been started early. Now there are not many people left in Fushan Village. Even the remaining people are here because they work here.

Downstairs. Most of the entire Fushan Village has been demolished, and a huge warehouse area is under construction. In addition, there are many military barracks on both sides that have also been built.

Liu Pei planned to send the two hundred people who came back to help after they rested for a while. With these two hundred people, the construction speed would be faster. Anyway, he had no other plans this year. He just planned to cover the land with a radius of more than ten miles.
Chapter completed!