When the Cao family brought out a thousand Yinzhou plows, it really caused a sensation in the entire Yinzhou.
Who wouldn’t want the labor of one person as much as three people?
Farmers are also very envious.
However, a very real problem arises.
These farmers drooled all over the market when they saw them. But there were very few who paid for them.
"Why is this?"
Liu Zheng was dumbfounded.
At this time, Shen Xingxing came over and said with a helpless smile: "Sir, they are poor! Although this Yinzhou plow is already very cheap, the total cost of all the costs still costs twenty taels of silver!"
"That's two taels!"
"If a family spends a year's expenses to buy a tool, why wouldn't they hesitate?"
Hearing this, Liu Zheng couldn't help but feel endless sadness in his heart.
yes.
One year’s expenses…
Suddenly, Liu Zheng remembered a point of view he had seen in later generations. That was the way of governance during the heyday of Britain and the Qing Dynasty. It was to allow most ordinary people to earn two taels of silver every year!
what does that mean?
This means that these two taels of silver are enough to feed a family for a year.
Then, if you want to survive, you must keep working, without even thinking about other things, thinking about rebellion, thinking about some kind of movement, and emancipating your mind.
In this way, two taels of silver can be used to ensure the stability of an empire.
Of course, the mortgage loans of later generations also have similar meanings.
This is the wisdom of the superiors, but it is also the sorrow of the people at the bottom.
Therefore, this leads to the fact that every time there is a new ideological collision and ideological emancipation, most of them occur among the elites. Those peasant uprisings, unless they really can even guarantee these two taels of silver, will not have enough to eat. , if you don’t oppose who will you oppose?
so.
At this time, Liu Zheng actually felt sad in his heart when he looked at the people in front of him with burning eyes and cash-strapped people.
Very few of these farmers have savings.
Moreover, they would rather cultivate the land by hand than risk money to buy such tools.
What if it breaks?
What if you don’t have money to eat?
What if we encounter a disaster year?
Tiring themselves a little, working a little harder, and feeding the whole family is their top priority!
"this......"
Liu Zheng felt a little overwhelmed after hearing this.
At this time, several big horses galloped in the distance, and they were members of the Wang family. Wang Zengming laughed loudly: "Except for Mr. Cao, I, the Wang family, will come first with five hundred horses!"
Cao Zhen looked depressed when he heard this and looked at Liu Zheng.
The county prince said that Yinzhou plows would be the first to supply to the people, and only after five batches could they be sold to the Wang family and those landlords.
"Why, others can sell it, but my Wang family can't?"
When Wang Zengming saw Cao Zhen like this, he snorted and asked.
The people present shook their heads and sighed, a distinguished family is indeed a distinguished family, they are rich and powerful! There were five hundred of them when they came. These common people wanted to buy one, but they couldn't afford it.
"Wang Yuanwai, this matter..."
Cao Zhen smiled bitterly.
"The county marquis bought these thousand planes!"
Liu Zheng said coldly.
The whole place was in an uproar.
Cao Zhen was even more stunned. Didn't he say that it would be supplied to the people first? The county magistrate bought it again. What happened?
Liu Zheng pulled the reins and said loudly: "This batch of Yinzhou plows will be supplied to the people first, which is the promise of our county marquis! Today all the people present will go to the county marquis's mansion to register, and then receive the Yinzhou plows!"