"How did you two sign the contract?" The outsiders poured their anger on Yuanwai Yang and Yuanwai Wang, and angrily accused them: "You are being tricked right before your eyes!"
The two of them were full of grievances and said: "I got the documents back the day before yesterday. Didn't you all read them? Who saw the problem?"
Everyone was speechless at once. The deed was unimaginably thick, and it was something most people had never seen before. They patiently read it one by one, and it was inevitable that they would feel dizzy, and even vaguely understood some of the clauses. Just like this deceptive one.
, in fact, everyone has seen it, but no one thought there was anything wrong with it. It wasn’t until someone detonated the bomb that they suddenly realized that it was a trap!
"If this is going to be a lawsuit, I'm afraid it's hard to say that we will win, right?" After a long silence, Yu Yuanwai Fang whispered.
"Hmm..." Mr. Li nodded and said in a low voice, "How can we really file a lawsuit? If this kind of thing gets too big, it won't be good for anyone."
"We can't just let them default on their debts!" the members said with great difficulty.
"You can't lie! Didn't the person named Wei just want to drag this matter out? Don't even think about it!" Li Yuanwai said bitterly: "If you don't give him some clues, he doesn't know who owns Fuyang County!"
He glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice: "There is no hurry about this matter. Let's put it aside for a while and talk about it later. The top priority right now is selling grain. If he is unkind and I am unjust, we don't need to pay attention to the ban. It doesn't matter whether it's money, land or property."
, workshops and the like are all open for purchase!" He beat a few boxes and said: "Don't keep a grain of these 50,000 shi of grain, buy whatever you can, buy as much as you can, this is what we are fighting against Wei.
capital!"
"Okay!" "Yes!" "Understood!" Everyone responded in agreement. Grandma is a bitch. They have always been the only ones to play tricks on county magistrates. The one named Wei dared to turn against the guests and treat them like monkeys! The anger was burning, turning into infinite power.
, they are going to fight with the one named Wei!
The members of the family walked out of the Li family hall again with a mournful attitude. Unexpectedly, the son of member Wang stumbled in again and shouted: "It's not good, something bad is going to happen..."
"Shut up!" the members and outsiders roared together: "We already know!"
"Uh..." Wang Yuanwai's son was stunned and said, "You guys knew it just after it was posted at the Yamen Gate?"
"Is it the notice announcing the suspension of work in Canyue?" Li Yu and Li Xiucai said, "I have already informed your uncles."
"It's not that one." Wang Yuanwai shook his head and said, "Later, another one was posted..."
"What?" Everyone was stunned, "Another one?!"
"Yes." Wang Yuanwai nodded and said: "The government said that they established the 'Fuyang County Grain Bank'. The first batch of 40,000 shi of rice purchased from Huguang will arrive in Fuyang two days later and will be sold to Fuyang County Grain Bank at a low price.
The people are open to supply." He swallowed hard and said, "And from now on, there will be a regular supply of 20,000 shi of low-priced rice every month..."
The first notice could make the members of the team jump into fits of rage, but the latter one made them dumbfounded. After a long time, Wang Yuanwai hissed: "The low price...how low is it?"
"One tael of silver and one stone." His son said in a tearful voice.
"Ah..." The non-commissioned officers finally couldn't bear it any longer. Three of them fainted on the spot, and several others were unsteady and fell to the ground. Although the others were standing, they all expressed shock, as if they were mourning for their concubines, and some even howled.
Crying loudly. But this time Yuan Li didn't say anything to stop, because he was one of the three people who fainted...
Although the first notice from the government was resented by the officials and laymen, it did not cause them any loss, because after all, they had obtained two thousand acres of cultivated land, and even if they had to pay 17,000 shi of grain, it would not be considered compensation. Not to mention the eight thousand acres.
The planners must have a statement. The worst they can do is to refund one-for-one according to the contract, but they will still make a profit.
Therefore, it was more of anger caused by being fooled and humiliated. However, this second notice cost them their lives!
This dynasty implemented the imperial examination system, granting special privileges to those with merit and fame. Therefore, the wealthy squire families of this dynasty were mostly linked to the imperial examination. Whoever's family can pass the imperial examination, the family will prosper rapidly, and whose family has a high-ranking official, they will immediately become a wealthy family.
However, if the descendants have no future and no fame, the family will lose its privileges. Therefore, these wealthy squire families are completely different from the wealthy gentry in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Their privileges are closely related to the family members’ fame and official positions. If they cannot seize the period of privileges,
After accumulation is completed, the family cannot escape the fate of rapid decline.
Everyone knows that the year of great disaster is also the year of outbreak. In the year of disaster, everything is as cheap as dirt, except food and gold. As long as you have a large amount of food, you can own thousands of hectares of fertile land and thousands of houses at a very small price.
This is how the legendary rich man Shen Wansan made his fortune. Although the rich people in Fuyang looked down on Shen Wansan, they always regarded him as an example in their hearts. However, the good weather in eastern Zhejiang for more than ten years was certainly a blessing to the country and the people, but the big families
People are crying out for help...the day lilies will be cold if we don't suffer disasters. So you can imagine the reaction of the big households in this big disaster in Zhejiang.
I don’t know about other places, but the wealthy people in Fuyang gave up all their money and sold off all their properties... Because they expected that the prices of various assets would plummet in the disaster year, they were very bold and sold off their properties first.
Convert everything into money to buy grain, so that when grain prices rise, you can buy back ten times the original property at the price of cabbage! Get rich overnight!
They also borrowed money from banks and even pawned their wives' dowry, and finally collected two hundred thousand taels of silver to realize their great plan to carve up Fuyang!
Money alone is not enough, you also have to have food. This era is not the future, people do not have the Internet, there are no TV newspapers, and this dynasty strictly restricts the movement of people, so the scope of their activities is limited to their own county, and the world they know is
This province's knowledge limits their thinking. When they want to buy food, their eyes are limited to this province, and at most the Susong area.
What I have to admit is that the energy of the wealthy people in Fuyang is quite high, and they do have the capital to be proud. The government has been unable to buy a grain of grain in the province, but they can open up many connections, bypass all obstacles, and buy seven grains.
Fifteen thousand shi of grain. Of course, the cost paid is also high enough, with an average of 2,261 shi!
Taking into account all kinds of losses, you have to sell it for at least three liang and one stone to break even.
But the price of grain given by the government was one tael per dan!
It is no exaggeration to say that half of the people in this courtyard will go bankrupt, and the remaining half will have to return to the level of the late Yuan Dynasty...
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The rich people were in agony, but the people of Fuyang felt that happiness came too suddenly. When the clerk of the household read this notice loudly to them, everyone could not believe their ears!
Because even in normal years, the price of food in Fuyang has never dropped by one liang or one stone. Now that the whole province is hit by disasters and there is a spring famine, even in the provincial capital Hangzhou, the price of food has soared to three taels and one stone. It must also be Qiantang Renhe
Only residents of the two counties can purchase in quantity. If your household registration is not in these two counties, you won’t be able to buy it for any amount of money!
Outside of Hangzhou, grain prices in all prefectures and counties are around three to five taels. In grain-deficient counties like Fuyang, the price has risen to seven or eight taels, making it impossible to buy.
Now the county suddenly announced that it would sell grain for one tael per dan and open up the supply. The people's first reaction was not happiness, but suspicion. How is this possible? It's not true!
But this notice has been posted in every neighborhood and is now known to the whole county. How dare the county magistrate make such a big joke?
Soon, thousands of people gathered in front of the county government office, blocking the entire Yaqian Street in a dark crowd. People wanted to find out whether the news was true or false.
At the same time, in the county government office, officials gathered in the second hall.
All the officials only found out after reading the notice, and they all asked Wei Magistrate for confirmation.
"How, how is it possible?" Master Diao stuttered.
"No, it can't be true, right?" Wang Ziyao and the clerk also stuttered. The reason is very simple. Chief Diao and the squires wear the same pair of trousers. Wang Ziyao himself is a squire. This time when Fuyang was divided, the two of them also fell in love.
Bloody.
Jiang Xiancheng and Ma Dianshi didn't have much money, and they didn't have close ties with the squires. Naturally, they didn't have the opportunity to make a 'windfall'. So although they were shocked, they didn't stutter: "Sir, this kind of thing is not a joke!"
"Of course it's true!" Weizhi County swept away the gloom of the past few days, his eyes lit up, and Longma said spiritedly: "This county has been planning this since last year, but we didn't expect to catch up with this year's disaster. Hahahaha, it can be seen that
God bless me, the people of Fuyang, hahahahaha!!”
Wei Zhixian is a disciple of the sage, and his emphasis is not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself, and not to express his joy and anger. You have never seen him smile like this... To put it nicely, it is called joy, but to be honest, it is
It's the trembling branches of flowers.
All the officials were stunned, and Chief Diao fainted. Although Secretary Wang could hold on, he was sweating profusely and his face turned pale. The people next to him quickly moved a chair for him and asked him to sit down...
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"What's going on, you two?" Wei Zhixian looked at the two of them and said with a smile.
"Perhaps I have been too busy recently and am too tired." The official in charge of the official office hurriedly explained to his superior. However, it elicited a burst of laughter. All the offices have been very busy recently, but no matter how busy they are, they can't keep up with the official office.
"Then you should pay attention to rest." Wei Zhixian said calmly: "Hurry and help Master Diao and Secretary Wang down. I will give them a holiday to rest."
"This..." Chief Diao was in a daze and didn't know, but Secretary Wang was shocked. Isn't this the rhythm of suspension? He hurriedly struggled to get up and said: "Disaster relief is important, my subordinates can persist..."
"No need!" Wei Zhixian suddenly lowered his face and snorted coldly: "Why are you still standing there in a daze!"
The Zao Li in the hall quickly carried Master Diao down, and two more people, one on each side, forced Wang Sili, who was refusing to leave, out of the second hall.
Seeing that Wei Zhixian was settling accounts after the fall, all the officials were in awe, and needles could be heard in the hall.
At this time, Zaoli, who was guarding the gate in front, came in and reported that thousands of people had gathered in front of the yamen to ask for confirmation about the price of grain.
After hearing this, the magistrate of Wei County said to Wang Xian, who was serving at the lower level: "Go out and explain it to the people."
"If a humble person speaks lightly, the people may not be convinced." Wang Xian cursed in his heart. It's really hypocritical. If I steal the limelight, won't you be depressed to death? He hurriedly suggested: "I'd better go and explain it to the people in person."