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When Zhao Ran met with Zhang Yunzhao, the Supervisor of Xizhenwu Palace, Zhang Yunzhao gave him an order to start the matter within three months. The reason for such a time limit was precisely because Zhang Yunzhao had already been keenly aware of the entire dragon situation this year.
The grain harvest in Anfu is not optimistic.
From March to early June, there was no rain in northern Sichuan. There was still river water for irrigation in the farmland along the river. However, in the central areas of the counties, especially around the county towns, the streams almost bottomed out and many fields were drained.
We can only rely on well water for watering. Not only Long'an Prefecture is affected, Baoning Prefecture and the northwest of Kuizhou Prefecture are also in an increasingly serious drought.
In addition to the drought, the ongoing Ming Xia War in Songfanwei also lasted for three years, causing the entire northern Sichuan to become increasingly poor in materials. This will also have a great impact on farmers, making them more likely to survive the drought safely.
reduce.
Zhang Yunzhao is worried that once the drought continues, the entire Long'an Mansion will fall into a huge disaster. As the de facto head of the mansion, he dare not imagine what the consequences will be.
In order to take precautions, Zhang Yunzhao and Magistrate Feng of Long'an Prefecture had met in secret many times to discuss how to deal with the disaster. When Zhao Ran returned to Guyang County and began to prepare charity funds for loans, Zhang Yunzhao through Jing Zhimo's help
, conveyed his request to Zhao Ran to speed up the preparation process of the charity fund.
As time gradually entered autumn, Zhang Yunzhao began to appear more anxious. The news fed back from various counties was extremely pessimistic. This year's comprehensive production reduction is an indisputable fact. At least half of the fields will have a production reduction of more than 70%, and one-third of them will be reduced by more than 70%.
It is certain that the grain fields will lose their harvest.
Zhang Yunzhao's letters to Zhao Ran became more and more frequent, urging him almost every day to issue charity loans as soon as possible to prevent farmers from fleeing from famine on a large scale. If this happens, the famine in Guyang County will not only be affected this year, but also have an impact on the future.
It will last for three to five years! The three-month period he gave Zhao Ran was originally intended to be a pilot to see the effects, but now there is not so much time. What Zhang Yunzhao meant is that if Zhao Ran successfully disburses the loan before the end of July, September
It must be fully promoted in the four counties of the whole government! To this end, he wrote a letter to Song Zhiyuan of Wuji Academy, asking Song Zhiyuan to fully support Zhao Ran in issuing charity loans. At the same time, he asked Magistrate Feng to issue a formal document to County Magistrate Kong, requesting Gu Yang
The county government fully cooperates.
Under Zhang Yunzhao's strong promotion, the entire Guyang County moved rapidly, and Zhao Ran's process of organizing charity funds suddenly accelerated.
In mid-July of the 15th year of Jiajing, the charity fund opened by the charity hall in the east of Guyang County officially disbursed funds to farmers in the county. In order to spread the news as soon as possible, Zhao Ran mobilized the poor people who were receiving assistance in the charity hall to
These people were divided into more than ten groups, traveling from village to house, and acted as "salesmen" for lending charity funds. Their task was to go directly to villages across the county to publicize the charity funds in place, and then handle various documents on the spot.
With these documents, farmers who need loans can go to the charity hall to receive charity loans. Zhao Ran finally applies for young crops money from Guyang County Household House and goes to Long'an Prefecture to collect the money.
The charity loans issued by Charity Hall vary in amount. They are divided according to the degree of disaster of the farmers, ranging from 10 taels to 20 taels, of which one-third is used as the farmer's half-year ration money, and one-third is used to purchase seeds.
, the remaining one-third repairs or purchases agricultural tools and prepares for turnover.
As soon as this point-to-point door-to-door service lending method came out, it immediately showed its powerful power. From mid-July to the end of July, in just ten days, the 5,000 taels of capital invested by Zhao Ran in advance were used up. He benefited.
There were more than 300 farmers. A huge amount of money was spent, and Zhao Ran received excellent feedback immediately - the merit power in his Qi Sea increased rapidly, and the situation was very gratifying.
Compared with helping people repair their houses, showing condolences to the poor, and providing food, the amount of merit that increased in the Qi Sea this time was completely different. In the past, every three to five strands of merit could be converted into a trace of mana, but now the amount of merit gained
Each strand of power can be converted into three to five strands of mana! Of course, the conversion of merit power and mana is not a simple numerical relationship, but the huge difference in its effects can be clearly perceived. From this, Zhao Ran’s understanding of merit
The connotation has been further understood and understood.
After the five thousand taels of charity money are loaned out, Zhao Ran can theoretically take these loan agreements to the county government to apply for young crops money, and then go to the government government youth warehouse to receive real money. However, in practice, this process takes a while.
, with the full cooperation of Wujiyuan and the county government in the county, and the full support of Xizhenwu Palace and the government government in the government, Zhao Ran compressed the process to seven days. Moreover, the green crop money received will be depleted, about one day
The profit is about 15%, which means that Zhao Ran's first investment of 5,000 taels of silver will end up with a deficit of about 500 to 750 taels.
Zhao Ran was not afraid of losing money, but he could not ignore the seven-day gap period. Fortunately, he was wealthy and wealthy, so he immediately took out the money and invested another five thousand taels of silver to support the loan turnover of the charity fund, so that the charity fund could run smoothly.
In the next month, the lending of charity funds reached a peak, especially on the tenth day of August. Zhao Ran's merit power increased by hundreds of strands. You must know that in terms of thickness, every strand of merit
The power was more than ten times what it was before! It took Zhao Ran a whole night to convert all of it into mana.
Zhao Ran verified his magic power according to the "Innate Merit Sutra". Just a month ago, he could only light a flame about three inches high from his fingers, but now the flame is more than three feet high.
, and wrapped around his arm, like a huge torch. Looking at the blazing flames, Zhao Ran felt frightened. He was really frightened at first. He shook his hands and wanted to throw the torch out, but he couldn't throw it away for a long time.
He couldn't get rid of it. Later, he looked up the scriptures and found out that this belonged to the category of Shenxiao Lei method and was not something that could be easily done.
Fortunately, although the temperature of the flame was very high, it would not affect him as the master, otherwise it would really be a joke of playing with fire and burning oneself.
Zhao Ran's charity loan was very successful, but it soon caused a big problem - the money was distributed, but the money could not be used as food, nor could it be grown in the ground.
Zhao Ran released tens of thousands of taels of silver, which soon had an impact on grain prices in Guyang County. According to previous estimates by Zhao Ran and the county government, the grain in Guyang County could consume this money.
What's more, ten thousand taels of silver will not enter the market at once, but will be used in installments within six months. This leaves room for Zhao Ran and Guyang County to control the allocation of grain and seeds. But the current situation is that it is not yet
By September, the price of grain in Guyang County has risen from thirty cents per dou to one hundred cents per dou. The price of grain has more than tripled!
This situation is extremely serious. If grain prices remain at this level, the ten taels or twenty taels of silver lent to farmers will be reduced by three times. The lending of charity funds will not be able to solve the problem of farmers surviving the disaster years.
For Zhao Ran, the most intuitive feeling is that as September approaches, the merit power growing in his body begins to become gradually thinner. Compared with the thick merit power at the beginning, the effectiveness of transforming mana becomes more and more.
Getting weaker.
Upon further inquiry, both Zhao Ran and the county government immediately found out the reason: this was a unified behavior of the wealthy gentry in Guyang County, and they were hoarding!
Zhao Ran and County Magistrate Kong immediately reported this situation to the Xizhenwu Palace and the government office. Magistrate Kong was very troubled by this. He personally sat in the county government office and convened Guyang County's wealthy gentry for discussion, hoping to force the wealthy gentry to release grain.
Selling, but the result was of course disappointing. The wealthy gentry used various excuses to evade, but in short they did not sell food.
Seeing that the negotiation failed, Zhao Ran directly proposed a solution to the problem to Zhang Yunzhao through Jing Zhimo: severely crack down on these hoarding tycoons, and not hesitate to kill people to establish their power when necessary!
Zhao Ran's suggestion can undoubtedly have a deterrent effect, and it will have immediate results, but the consequences are not something that everyone can bear. Zhang Yunzhao and Feng Zhifu were unable to make this decision for a while. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated.