There are many people on the official roads of Jiangning, and most of the animals coming and going were donkeys. A team of Song cavalry marched right on the official road, which made many people's eyes lit up. The cavalry did not ride horses, and drove the horses calmly. The horse's leather goods, the neat uniforms of the cavalry, and the strong figure all made the pedestrians on the road admire him.

Qian Yuanwai and his servants rode donkeys. Nowadays, most of the donkeys are Guanzhong donkeys brought back from the north. They are not much smaller than Mongolian horses. However, the horses watched them walking forward carelessly, and as they walked, they left the donkeys struggling forward with small steps behind.

Not long after the cavalry in front disappeared from sight, a team of cavalry came from behind. When the cavalry also walked to the front of Qian Yuanwai's team, Qian Yuanwai and others arrived near the Qian family's land.

"Go down." Qian Manwai ordered. The group rode a donkey off the road. At this time, the young man from the Qian family said, "I didn't expect the horses to walk so fast."

Qian Manwai was too lazy to answer, if the donkey ran faster than the horse, wouldn’t the cavalry have long been riding the donkey? The group continued to ride the donkey and walked along the rugged paths in the fields to reach the town. He saw that several boards had been placed in the town. It said, "Borrow grain from the government, borrow money, and make a monthly interest rate of one minute."

Seeing such blatant viciousness, Qian Yuanwai became angry. He didn't know which landlord deliberately wanted to make money from Qian Yuanwai, but he wanted to kill someone near Qian Yuanwai's village. It would be fine if the murderer was killed. If the person didn't kill him, he would be arrested instead. Qian Yuanwai could only suspect that someone was deliberately trying to get rid of him.

But there is no other way to do this kind of thing except guesses. If you ask that year, you will definitely not be able to reach a conclusion. Qian Manwai could only call back the family members who were looking for bandits in Jiangbei. At this time, he could no longer catch anyone.

When they arrived at the Qian family's courtyard, the local elder immediately rushed up and grabbed Qian Man Wai's hand, and asked hurriedly: "Head of the family, what should I do? If this continues now, our family's money will be gone."

Qian Manwai patted the elder's hand and said helplessly: "If you can't put the money out, we can keep it in your hands. If this person is gone, how can we find it back? Life is more expensive than money."

The elders listened to Qian Yuanwai's helpless but heartwarming words, and some people's eyes were already filled with tears. Qian Yuanwai sighed and raised his voice, "Everyone, no matter which dog thief attacked Song Gongming, the president of Jiangning of the Song Academy near the Qian family's land, this matter will not be easy. Our family has thought about this level and can only get through it. Now the people in the government see that there is no other movement, and that is they are waiting. This time, they have enough reason to take action. I came here to tell everyone that the government's monthly rate will be reduced to 100% and 50% if it is not possible, so we will let 1000% and 200% and we will not fight with the government now, so we will follow."

"How can this work? Only one or two points, what should we eat?" The elders' voices were filled with grief. Originally, there were only a few people with tears in their eyes, but now everyone has tears in their eyes.

Qian Manwai looked calm because he had cried several times in the house before, and even had the intention of hanging himself. When he got rid of this mood, he could face everything calmly. "No need to be afraid. I have also inquired carefully these days, but I found out a new news. The government's farm is not the situation we originally thought. The government does not want the entire village to become his tenants. The average land that everyone grows in the farm must have 30 acres."

The elders were already confused at this time, and only one person continued to ask the question, "Why do you need one person to have an average of thirty acres of land?"

Qian Yuanwai said loudly: "People on the farm have to earn a salary of two jin a month, and they still have a few hundred kilograms of rice and flour a year. After a year of discount, they will have 30 jin a year. Everyone knows that a mu of land produces a maximum of two jin acres. If there is no 30 acres of land per person, how can the government make money from it?"

The elders were all in a low mood, and what did the government do with them? In the end, only one elder responded, "What's the use of this for us?"

"This is of course useful to us. The government now has 150,000 acres of land, which can accommodate at most 5,000 people. The population in Jiangning Prefecture must be 500,000. How useful can 5,000 people be. Even if these 5,000 people are to support five people by their families, they will only support five people by one person. " Qian Yuanwai said loudly about his views, and he was quite confident. This confidence also made others unable to help but pay more attention to what they said.

"Twenty-five thousand of the 500,000 people joined the government, and the remaining 400,000 are still there. How could we lack tenants? The government can at most suppress the interest on borrowing money and grain, but what if they really get these land? Jiangning Mansion has a lot of people and a little land, and no matter what the government does, it will be useless."

"There are many people and few lands, don't they take our land even more?" the elders asked in confusion.

"They took all the land, and the tenants in Jiangning Mansion still couldn't get enough. At most, we sold the land and the money was still in our hands. But what could the tenants even if they only collected 30% of the rent? The government said it nicely, but it would be difficult for them to raise the tenants? They themselves also understood that they were still trying to collect taxes."

What made the elders suffer was that the interest rate was reduced. Qian Yuanwai's words could not solve this problem no matter how much he heard it. So some elders pulled the topic back, "Let's give it a 50% discount, will the tenants borrow it?"

Qian Yuanwai also felt that the elders didn't care about such important things at all, and they were too lazy to say more. He replied: "We should be able to borrow. We know tenants better than those governments. The government only lends for a while, and it will be gone in March and April. The tenants use more money. If they don't lend us, who can they borrow?"

"But the interest rate is so low, we suffer."

"If the most profitable Qinghuang doesn't accept the government's intervention, we shouldn't think about it. Besides, the interest can be adjusted, so we will deal with it with 15% now."

The one who is in charge of the Qian family's core territory is Song Gongming. He has been very attentive these days. If the Qian family is angry and has any force to fight against each other, he can just mobilize troops to wipe out. Now the cavalry patrolling the streets are urgently transferred troops to monitor the roads. There is no way for the regular army to take action on a large scale, because the war zone of the Song Dynasty is in the north and west, and Jiangning is too far from the war zone, so there are not many regular troops stationed in the non-war zone in the Song Dynasty. It is even more impossible to be transferred here suddenly.

There are many ways to anger the landlords, and ultimately, it is to greatly damage their interests. Lending is undoubtedly the most direct way. Song Gongming tried his best to promote this matter in the past few days. Although he was a little nervous, he did not hesitate. In another three days, there were fewer people coming to borrow money and grain. Then the retired soldiers in the town came to report, "The Qian family began to lend money with a monthly interest rate of 100%?"

"What?" Song Gongming was very surprised.

"Qian Family lends money by 100% per month. People feel familiar with Qian Family, so they go to Qian Family." The veteran who helped answered.

"I'm paying half the extra interest." Song Gongming didn't understand why the people were willing to suffer this loss.

After the retired soldier was in the village for so long, he sighed: "President Song, it turns out that he can tolerate a monthly interest rate of five points. The people don't think that the interest rate is half more, but that the interest rate is reduced by three or five points."

"...Does these people still think that the Qian family is closer than the government?" Song Gongming quickly found the key to the problem.

The retired soldier did not speak and was silent for a while. He sighed and replied, "President Song, I'll go and do my job first."

Song Gongming knew that retired soldiers were unwilling to say too much, and saying too much would make them feel disrespectful. Facts proved that there was only one answer to Song Gongming's question. Local people may think that the Qian family was bad, but between the government and the Qian family, a large number of people were willing to get close to the Qian family, but were unwilling to get close to the government.

In order to verify the results, Song Gongming stayed in the town for another three days. As expected, fewer and fewer people come to borrow money and grain, and there are endless people going to the Qian family to borrow money and grain. If we look at this situation alone, it would be like the interest on the Qian family's loan is one cent monthly interest, while the interest on the government's loan is one cent monthly interest on five cents monthly interest.

When the situation reached this point, Song Gongming chose to leave and head to the next target, Duan's town. The Qian's town probably had nothing to do with this.

The retired soldier sent Song Gongming to the entrance of the town and said to Song Gongming with some anxiety: "President Song, I didn't expect the Qian family to deal with it like this."

"Nothing." Song Gongming had recovered his usual spirit at this time. He smiled and said, "When I was in the school, I heard a passage from the officials. I can't remember exactly what I mean. You can only tell the people after you go back that after we leave, the landlords will reduce their rent and interest, and may increase their wages. But this is not because the landlords find their conscience, nor because the landlords have become good people. This is only because our government has come."

After hearing this, the veteran originally wanted to laugh, but after he opened his mouth, he laughed dryly, but his eyes turned red and tears came down. He wiped his tears, but he couldn't stop the tears from gushing out, and finally started to cry.

Song Gongming patted the local man on the shoulder, "What are you crying? What's there to cry? We can't win, it's just that the landlords can't win. If we are in our hearts, the school is for the people. This time the people have gained benefits. If the landlords dare to raise interest rates and rent, the people will lean on the government again. At that time, the landlords wanted to deceive the people again, but it would not be so easy. Let's not talk about it, I'll leave first."
Chapter completed!