Yamazaki and Shandai went to their own restaurant with the landlord Liu Xuan for dinner, and it felt really good.
Shandai just ate, while Yamazaki chatted with the landlord Liu Xuan and met regular customers.
I was busy until night before I went back with lots of customer information.
Yamazaki rubbed his big head and felt that running a business was not easy.
Looking at the city government office from afar, I decided that it would not be too late to kill the official in a few days.
That's right, the reason why Yamazaki accepted ten thousand acres of land was because he thought of a way to solve the land tax.
Since the tax is in charge of the officials, then kill the officials. Only in this way can the problem be solved at the root. By the way, you can get some banknotes to relieve your family's deflated wallet.
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For the next three days, Shan Dai took turns hanging out in various archways every day, going to three or four houses a day, earning hundreds of taels of silver from each house.
Working all day long, I can earn more than a thousand taels of silver, and I can support my family after having fun.
Yamazaki went to Yahang and Renshi every day to find his housekeeper, then went to learn about the property with the landlord Liu Xuan, and even rode horseback to a farm dozens of miles northwest of the city.
Ten thousand acres of farmland really occupies a huge area.
However, the river flooded and it was all washed away.
Not only his family, but also everyone around him was whitewashed.
Only the mountain fields on the nearby mountains still have a lot of them left, but they have been washed to pieces by the rain.
The owner Liu Xuan's villa, which covers an area of about 30 acres (20,000 square meters), was also flooded.
There are thousands of tenant farmers in one hundred households. Their contracts do not require money, and they follow the fields.
50% of the grain produced from the fields is taxed, and the remaining 50% is divided 50-50 between the two parties.
There are more than twenty buckets per acre of paddy field, which is more than two stones.
Five thousand acres is more than 10,000 stones, and half of it is more than 2,000 stones, or more than 20,000 buckets.
A bushel of rice is worth several taels of silver, totaling almost 200,000 taels of silver.
Crops in dry land, vegetables, fruits, medicinal materials, etc. will depend on the future sales situation. In short, it will be a 50-50 split.
There are also chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, and cows.
These livestock are also divided 50-50 with the tenants.
Therefore, there is no need to give money to ten households of tenant farmers.
For a farm, how much the farm earns in a year, regardless of rice and vegetables, are all consumables. In the end, it mainly depends on how many pigs it can raise.
A big pig can be sold for two hundred taels, and five hundred pigs can be sold for one hundred thousand taels.
As for the tenants, there were three to four hundred thousand taels of silver, and each of the hundred households had three to four thousand taels.
It seems like a lot, but based on the number of people, the average is only three to four hundred taels per person per year.
Fortunately, you don't have to pay taxes on things you eat and use yourself, and you will definitely be siphoning off your employer's profits.
That's a bad debt, so I can only turn a blind eye.
Therefore, the life of the tenants was not bad, at least they had good food and had meat every day.
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Through visits, Yamazaki also found out where the profits of other stores mainly lie.
The income from teahouses, inns and warehouses is pocket money, while restaurants sell processed ingredients to increase income.
In the end, the bulk is concentrated on wine, and the most profitable thing is wine.
The tax on alcohol is fixed, the more you sell, the more you earn.
Although Yamazaki doesn't understand wine, he also knows that the quality of wine depends first on its color.
Yamazaki drank the wine from his own winery. After tasting it carefully, he felt that it was not as good as the fruit wine he brewed himself.
However, I couldn't figure out what the problem was for the moment, so I gave it up for the time being and tried to figure out how to deal with the autumn grain first.
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September 11th, Beijing.
The news about Tongcheng was finally conveyed via carrier pigeons. After reading it, the secret agent commander's face turned green.
The spies colluded with local officials and Jianghu gangs to jointly suppress the area and blocked the news for ten days.
The secret agent commander touched his neck and felt a bone-chilling chill.
He didn't even dare to let the emperor know about this matter.
If someone is not good enough, he will be dismissed from office or even be killed.
He is also a human being, and he has received a lot of filial piety.
If the emperor investigates carefully, his family will all be dead.
The secret agent commander wiped the sweat from his forehead and thought about how to cover up the matter and solve it at the same time.
However, if he didn't go through the emperor, he couldn't mobilize troops and deal with those Jianghu gangs.
What can be done is to deceive the emperor.
The secret agent commander smiled bitterly, he was really speechless that things had turned out like this.
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The spy leader sighed, then found a piece of information and went to find You Yunxiang, the eunuch beside the emperor.
If you want to deceive the emperor, you must cooperate with You Yunxiang, otherwise You Yunxiang will receive the news sooner or later and pass it on to the emperor.
By then, he will be dead.
And the information he took was You Yunxiang's handle.
You Yunxiang is the most trusted person of the emperor. It is impossible to persuade him. Only by threatening him can he shut up.
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The secret agent leader asked You Yunxiang to talk to him alone. He first showed him the clues and scared You Yunxiang half to death. He almost knelt down and begged for mercy.
Then explain the situation and set conditions.
You Yunxiang was stunned. He cursed first and then spun around in circles.
In the end, we had no choice but to compromise, and everyone would gain and lose.
They have their own small families and businesses, the emperor's world, the country, the country, and the country, and they can't control it.
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Under the blockade and suppression of You Yunxiang and the secret agent commander Li Yingwaihe, the matter of Tongcheng was not spread to the emperor's ears.
However, the crisis has not been resolved. The news will one day be brought to the capital by business travelers and Jianghu people, and Qingliu will definitely tell the emperor.
But there is always time to slowly resolve the crisis. As long as you get things done first, you can find an excuse.
At the worst, you can save your wealth and life by asking the emperor for forgiveness when the time comes.
At this time, we can only make dangerous moves and take one step at a time.
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On the other side, the Southwest Palace.
When Chu Hong saw the news, he congratulated the king of Southwest.
It can be seen from the incident of conquering the city that Emperor Duanmuhuan's control over the world was no longer enough.
Therefore, there has been no action on such major events that endanger the country and the country.
Maybe, I still don’t know that his Southeast Jiangshan is in ruins.
The King of Southwest thought about it and felt that this was indeed the truth, so he asked Chu Hong to help him write a letter and send it to the King of Southeast.
To speak sarcastically, speak from the perspective of caring about the court, and tell the Southeast King that Emperor Duanmu Huan may have lost the support of the people.
The implication is that big things can be expected, so be prepared.
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On the other side, Hancheng.
Yamazaki finally fell in love with a housekeeper in the market, a concubine of a landlord, who was put up for sale by his wife.
Dong Fenglin is twenty-four years old this year.
She had an unfortunate fate. She was born into an official family, and her father was a fifth-grade local official.
Later, his father was convicted and executed, and the whole family was demoted as slaves.
Because there was no one to help her, she ended up living in a prostitute, and her stage name was Dong Lian'er.
He left the court at the age of sixteen and won the title of oiran at that time.
At the age of 20, he was redeemed by the landlord for 200,000 taels of silver. There was a huge quarrel at home.
Now the price is 100,000 taels, which is already discounted by half.
It seems that the wife used autumn grain as an excuse and insisted on selling her husband regardless of whether he agreed or not.
Although Yamazaki didn't see anyone, he thought he was there.
Anyone who can win an oiran must have good looks.
In addition, he will have good attainments in music, chess, calligraphy, painting, tea art, singing and dancing.
Living in a flower house for four years and being a mistress for four years, you should have some tricks up your sleeve, but you can't use them when you are under the eaves.
It should be enough to manage a household. Maybe she can't get started yet, but just find a housekeeper for her.
The only problem is that I don't have enough money on hand.
But it's enough to pay the deposit. It should rain tonight, so I can go and do it.