Lu Ming trembled, almost thinking he heard wrongly, and his eyes widened: "Three hundred thousand taels?"
"Yes, three hundred thousand taels." Ye Qing smiled reservedly, with a determined expression, and said lightly: "But these three hundred thousand taels are not a donation, but land resources."
Lu Ming could no longer maintain his composure. He was a steady and steady official. Many squires were embarrassed in front of him. Seeing Ye Qing talking so wildly, a trace of displeasure flashed across his face.
But Lu Ming, after all, the city was very deep. He sat up straight, put back his unhappy expression, and said calmly: "Gong Xie Yuang is joking, even if it is to pay for the land to the government, he still has to pay cash.
There are 150,000 people in the county, and the annual tax revenue from agricultural and grain merchants is only 70,000 taels, most of which must be paid to the county and state. How much cash does your Ye family have?
"Even if your Ye family sells out all their farm property, it won't be more than this amount. I don't see how Mr. Xie Yuangong is still a person who destroys families to help people in trouble."
There was a bit of anger in these words. He was very disappointed that Ye Qing was joking at such a time. He sneered in his heart: "Even if my family is a wealthy family and has a business in two states, the total assets are only one million."
"No matter how rich the Ye family's savings are, they are just a small family in the county. To put it nicely, they are from a family of farming and reading, and to put it more modestly, they are rich people from the countryside. To have one hundred thousand taels of silver is already top-notch. With this amount, it is better to consider the Ye family
The winery has recently emerged in the county, and there is a lot of potential to be exploited..."
"The county magistrate probably thinks that I am lying." Ye Qing leaned forward and said with a straight face: "Sir, you have underestimated me. How could I be so frivolous as to say such nonsense in front of you?
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"Even if I am Jieyuan, if I offend you, I am afraid that my family will not be able to live comfortably in Pingshou County. Do you think I am so unwise?"
After Lu Ming heard this, he was startled and leaned slightly: "It's me, Mr. Xie Yuang, please tell me."
"In previous years, the Ye family did not have such a large amount of cash, but with the recent expansion of the wine business, many enthusiastic nobles in the county have come to invest in shares. My family thought that in this business, we should not be able to go it alone, so we sold our shares.
I sold twenty-five shares in three days," Ye Qing said.
Lu Ming's face hardened, and the initial flash of unhappiness disappeared. He hadn't heard of this matter yet, so he asked: "Who is the buyer, and how much silver is it worth per share?"
"This county belongs to the Zhou family, and within the county there are the Li family, the Qian family, the Zhang family, the He family... Each share is priced at 10,000 taels, and each family has a few shares." Ye Qing said calmly, and put the 15,000 taels
It became ten thousand taels, but just this price and these names immediately made Lu Ming break into a cold sweat.
Twenty-five shares, 10,000 taels per share, means 250,000 taels.
These families can only be regarded as large households at the county level. Lu Ming doesn't care about each one alone, but together, not to mention Lu Ming, even the prefect does not dare to act rashly. With so many families participating in the Ye family, the power of the Ye family has suddenly changed.
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Thinking of this, Lu Ming immediately had some thoughts and felt a little enlightened.
However, he didn't believe half of the nonsense of "enthusiastic nobles" - who would pay real money without seeing such huge profits with their own eyes?
I heard that this wine-making method was inspired by Ye Qing from ancient books, and then became a family secret. It’s really enviable to have made so much profit.
It seems that the Ye family is going to expand in Ye Qing's generation, and this is an important item under his own rule that involves the court's control of land and performance evaluation...
Looking at Ye Qing, Lu Ming's tone couldn't help but become serious: "Which piece of land does Mr. Xie Yuan want? Since I asked the county to buy land, it must be official land."
"Don't even think about the official land worth three hundred thousand taels. The piece of land in the east of the city is completely divided. The other good land is relatively divided, but it is still three times the price of the whole piece. It can be sold to you for six thousand acres.
A family with seven thousand acres always has thirteen thousand acres."
After a pause, Lu Ming's eyes were somewhat meaningful: "But it has crossed the ten thousand acres red line. I am afraid that the status of your red house will be improved."
I knew you would say that
Ye Qing's heart trembled slightly, and he was not surprised.
What is the concept of ten thousand acres?
Just talking about the interest rate per acre per year, the laws of this world have to do with the weather and ground conditions, so that the efficiency and quality of crops per acre have to be improved. However, in terms of pure yield, it is far inferior to mechanical farming, fertilizer, hybridization, and rest and rotation farming in the previous world.
It would be good to have an average of 4 shi of rice per acre of fertile land, which is 40 dou, or 400 kilograms. The official price is 4 taels of silver.
"Ten thousand acres equals forty thousand taels of silver."
But Ye Qing can't cultivate ten thousand acres by himself, so he still has to rent it out, collect the rent for fifty-fifty, and discount it to twenty thousand taels of silver, or maybe more, because he can go to other counties to exchange money, and he can have a second-hand job in handling management and labor consumption.
Twelve thousand taels.
This is not a lot of money, and it will take twenty-five years to recover the capital. The rate of return is extremely low, but it is not worth it. Under normal circumstances, there is no need to worry about the decline of craftsmen, business turmoil, various taxes, and light and dark management.
It is a spring of resources passed down to descendants. After twenty-five years, it has consolidated its foundation in one generation.
This is equivalent to a long-term basic investment. It is not surprising that the cost is high and the return is large. What is more worthy of attention is the population. Tens of thousands of acres of land require thousands of adult men to cultivate. According to the average household, a household of five people and two men, that is
There are more than 500 farmers and a population of 3,000. On this basis, it can support almost double the population.
"Ten thousand acres means six thousand people." This actually breaks through the family structure of five thousand people.
The Ye family originally had 3,000 acres of land and a total of 3,000 members and children. It was already considered a deep-rooted red house family. Adding another 6,000 to this foundation would be equivalent to creating two more Ye families, which would mean a huge number of people.
Great vacancies, choices, and practical opportunities are waiting for this generation of the Ye family. They will surely train many elites, attract many foreign talents, and become the generation of ZTE.
For a family, compared with superficial profits, people's attachment is a qualitative change.
In fact, if it weren't for the heroic deeds of archery and horses in the troubled times, most of the noble families in the county would have started from the sudden change of ten thousand acres. Both Lu Ming and Ye Qing have read history books and know this very well. Any chance to deceive or mislead is useless.
possible.
Ye Qing didn't even bother to do this
During this moment of thinking, a maid came up to change the tea. Her posture was supple and beautiful, but she didn't attract the two people's attention at all.
Lu Ming was not in a hurry. He slowly took a sip and looked at Ye Qing who was thinking with interest, waiting for his answer.
Fortunately he didn't wait long.
"Master Mingfu, I have never deceived you. What I want is to break through these ten thousand acres." Ye Qing looked at Lu Ming sternly, seeing that he was not angry and did not dare to make any mistakes. He directly revealed the answer: "But what I want is not fertile land.
, but 10,000 acres of poor farmland within five miles of Nanlian Mountain to the north of my home."
"Wait a minute... Jie Yuan doesn't think that these ten thousand acres can be turned into fertile farmland, right?" Lu Ming's expression changed slightly, he put down his tea cup and looked at Ye Qing.
After thinking for a while, out of some considerations, Lu Ming still kindly explained: "This is not an ordinary way to open up mountains and fields. The county annals are also available for scholars and above to consult. You should know that for five hundred years, many people have been jealous of this small plain and do not believe in evil.
, but buying these ten thousand acres
Impoverished land renovation, mature farming, water conservancy, Taoist methods... all attempts failed in the end, and it earned the name of this bad land. Qi has good and evil, and land has good and evil. As long as the underground spiritual veins remain unchanged, all attempts will be in vain.
On the contrary, it consumes the family’s vitality.”
"Thank you for reminding me, sir, but this is not farming... I know very well that in the past five hundred years, countless people have tried to improve the ten thousand acres of poor farmland within five miles of Nanlian Mountain, but they have all failed. How can I
How can virtue turn it into good farmland?"
"But you also know that the raw material for my wine making is cassava. Although it doesn't cost a penny, how can there be so many wild cassava to dig in the mountains?"
"If you plant them on the plains and take care of them, the yield per mu can be tripled. The five miles of Nanlian Mountain are barren, so we can only plant these. Please forgive me, Lord County."
"Wait a minute." Lu Ming stretched out his hand to stop him. A bright light flashed through his heart, but he couldn't catch it for a moment. He frowned and thought: "I know this is the raw material for your new wine. You don't need fertile land to grow potatoes. I support it."
We can’t afford too many people, but wouldn’t it be worth the loss?”
The meaning of the field industry is to stably form a bumper harvest and multiply the population. Spending a lot of money to plant some sweet potatoes. Tens of thousands of acres that are not real, but this is all you get?
Although Lu Ming didn't say this clearly, he believed Ye Qing could hear it.
Ye Qing took a slow sip of tea and pondered in his heart. The transformation into a blessed land during a great catastrophe was a top secret, but the actual purpose of concealing it was not unexplainable if one wanted to find a reasonable reason.
It must be an upright and upright statement in order to impress them.
After thinking for a moment, he lowered his head and said, "The fields here are tired. Pure potatoes cannot support the population, but they also mean output and the foundation of the earth."
He also explained a little: "Ten thousand acres of yam are used as raw materials for wine making, which is enough to support the expansion of the wine industry to the whole county, or even a state. This is the effect of gathering gas, industry...the workshop, which is different from farming which can be accumulated slowly.
, the wine industry suddenly exploded, and my family’s talent and power were not enough to support it, so I sold a small half of the shares to unify the industry. The key is not how many people my family has, but how many manpower my family can drive. At this time, it is enough to make up for tens of thousands of people.
Mu’s popularity.”
Lu Ming smiled and was noncommittal. In fact, he understood without having to explain. This kind of practice of relying on temporary momentum and temporary skills to try to take detours to break through the family structure has been seen by many people at his level, but not many
If it succeeds by luck, it may come back and destroy the family, or it may return to its original shape, and the outcome will not be very good.
Ye Qing's eyes were solemn and his face did not change: "Of course, some people may think that there is no need to buy this land and grow it yourself. Wouldn't it be more convenient and beneficial to the turnover to directly invest in the potato purchase? But to be honest, Ye Qing does not think that this winery's technology can be monopolized.
How long does it take, and in terms of brand, sales and each
When all the families are working together to expand, they must try their best to expand the production area alone. For this purpose, they will invest 300,000 taels, and the output of 10,000 acres of fields will be enough to form a price monopoly on the county's yam potatoes, and also have the leading bargaining advantage over the entire state. This guarantees the wine
The company’s continued development after losing its monopoly.”
Lu Ming's expression became serious. This sounded feasible. If it could be continued, the risk of failure could at least be reduced by half.
Ye Qing saw it clearly and secretly smiled inwardly. What he said was based on the industry chain's habit of penetrating upstream and downstream in Earth's time - the further downstream it became, the more popular it became, deriving huge profit benefits, while the further upstream the industry became, the more fundamental it became.
, the product may be of low profit, but it contains huge social energy.
But fundamentally speaking, it was still a lie. Even he himself didn’t believe it when he paid 300,000 taels of silver to buy this wasteland to plant potatoes.