Lu Kang saw Lu Su's official purchase list and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Su wanted his officials to buy only three kinds of things: cattle, horses and grain.
The grains are mainly broomcorn millet, barley, corn, millet, and rice, which is still a specialty of Jiangdong at this time. In addition, common plants include Liangmi, but Liangmi is a relatively high-quality grain, and some families have enough money, or in good years.
Only those who pay attention to eating these, the prices are relatively high.
According to the price a few years ago, Liang rice cost about 400 yuan per stone, others were 200 to 300 yuan, and tempeh cost 500 yuan. In recent years, the price of food has soared. Even in Jiangdong, it has increased by 50%. In the Central Plains,
The area will even double!
On the contrary, land at this time was very cheap. Ordinary farmland only cost one thousand yuan, at most three to five thousand yuan per acre, and sacred land cost ten thousand yuan.
However, a normal family of five in the Central Plains or a family of six or seven in Jiangdong can only cultivate a hundred acres of land, and the current farming methods are still very rough. The yield of an ordinary medium-sized field is only about one stone per mu.
——That is, one hundred and twenty kilograms in the Han Dynasty, and sixty or seventy kilograms in later generations.
The purchase price of grain given by Lu Su was three hundred yuan.
What made Lu Kang feel relieved was that the purchase prices for the buffalo and the fine horse were 150,000 yuan and 2 million yuan respectively!
After Bai Tu arrived in Jiangdong, Lu Bu once wanted to expand his cavalry, but after asking about the horse prices, he basically gave up the idea.
A "good horse" that can train the horse's horsepower only costs a few thousand dollars in Bingzhou and Liangzhou, and an ordinary high-quality horse only costs ten thousand dollars.
However, once they arrived in the Central Plains, the price of horses immediately skyrocketed. Usually when the court used more troops, such as during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a good horse cost more than 50,000 yuan, and usually it cost 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.
However, during the Ling Emperor's period, because of the "Hao You Gu Que" - that is, the monopoly of horse sales by wealthy families, the price of horses soared to the sky, reaching a sky-high price of two million yuan per horse!
It was not until recent years that these powerful families dared to use the Han Dynasty as their sponsors, but they did not dare to use the various princes as their sponsors. This caused the price of horses to fall. However, even so, the price of horses in the Central Plains is still more than ten dollars.
Ten thousand yuan, Jiangdong wants three to five million yuan...
In other words, for the same training of cavalry, in the northern border states of You, Bing, and Liang, the cost of horses is only 10,000, while in the Central Plains it is ten times more, and in the south it is three to five times more!
Moreover, when training war horses, the most important factors are weight and explosive power. The Jiangdong horse, which is a cross between the Yunnan horse and the Central Plains horse, is far inferior to the grassland horse and is better at carrying heavy loads and endurance.
This is also the reason why Yuan Shao, who will control Hebei in the future, has a lot of money in cavalry, while even Liu Biao in the south, who is extremely rich, does not have many cavalry.
As for the price of farm cattle, it is similar to that of horses in the Central Plains area, which is about 100,000 yuan.
But that refers to "farming cattle"!
Water buffaloes in Jiangdong are "beef cattle", and the price is based on meat, which is equivalent to dead cattle.
For a long time, people in the Han Dynasty have accepted the exchange ratio, which is ten pounds of meat for one stone of rice. The "jin" in the Han Dynasty was much smaller than that in later generations, almost half. A buffalo can produce a thousand pounds of meat, and the market price is only ten or twenty thousand yuan...
And now Bai Tu is willing to use the price of 120,000 yuan for cattle to purchase buffaloes, and the price of two million yuan to buy horses. Obviously, the so-called fine of 200,000 yuan is just a loud noise.
The raindrops were light, and most of them wanted to hit the major aristocratic families - this is what Lu Kang thought at this time.
"Mr. Lu, I think it's not that easy for every household to come up with cash. Why don't you give me the convenience of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and use cash to pay the bills! Every 100 households need to pay 100 cattle and one good horse.
"How about food and thousands of stones?" Lu Su said.
Lu Kang was still thinking just now that although it would be the most cost-effective to pay the bills with "farming cattle", in order to ease the relationship between the two parties, he was still going to urge everyone to pay some grain and horses.
This can be regarded as a sign of goodwill from the aristocratic family to Bai Tu.
Now that Lu Su has proposed the ratio, Lu Kang has no intention of objecting.
Instead, Bai Tu asked more: "Do each family have so much meat... well, so many buffaloes and grain?"
"You can still get it by exchanging some," Lu Kang said.
In fact, Bai Tu had already found out that the person who breeds the most buffaloes in Jiangdong is none other than the Xu family of Wu County!
After all, when it comes to family assets, the most basic thing is grain, the best thing is salt and iron, and raising cattle is a second-rate business that the four Jiangdong surnames look down on...
This time, each family wanted to purchase a large number of buffaloes, and the Xu family was able to make a fortune. Bai Tu estimated that Xu Gong would be happy for two to three months.
It was Lu Su who proposed the idea of having the lion speak up first and then letting them use cattle, horses and grain to offset the debt. After Bai Tu put him in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was also his responsibility to collect strategic supplies.
Ling Baitu made a "cost-free transaction" and saved all the money he would have spent on purchasing buffalo and grain.
At the same time, it "on the surface" avoids the resentment of the Jiangdong family after Bai Tu spreads the nose ring technique - I, Bai Tu, did not take advantage of you, I just bought it at the price of the cattle!
Of course, it's just on the surface that they can't openly express their dissatisfaction. In fact, this move still puts the wealthy families of the Jiangdong family together, but Baitu really needs these cows...
With these 50,000 cattle, most of the buffaloes in Jiangdong are under the name of the Prefectural Mufu. Baitu can guarantee that at least ten households have one cow available - Baitu can lend it to farmers for free first and collect more grain later.
There is a tax, but aristocratic families don’t.
Especially after knowing that the biggest wealthy family was the Xu family, Bai Tu no longer felt guilty.
The other five hundred good horses, although unable to expand the size of the cavalry, are enough to supplement the horse power of the existing cavalry.
Five million shi of grain is not a small amount - decades later, when Deng Ai was working in Huainan, he could only save 5 million shi of grain and grass a year, and it took him six or seven years to save 30 million shi!
However, Bai Tu believed that Jiangdong's wealthy family had managed it together. After all, even Lu Su, who was not too wealthy and usually generous with his wealth and did not stockpile grain, could give away thousands of dan.
After Lu Kang and Lu Su discussed the specific details, such as calves, two for one, and horses for three, etc., they also hinted to Bai Tu that he could talk to the major aristocratic families, but this salary
It's not just a "fine", it's also the support and goodwill of the major families towards Bai Tu.
After all, Bai Tu has shown his strength and potential, and... he also has the effect of "Enlightenment Grandmaster"!
"My Lord, I, the Yu clan, are willing to donate an additional hundred fine horses and ten thousand pieces of silk to help the great cause." Yu Fan took the initiative to say at this time.
A piece of silk is roughly equivalent to five stones of grain, but ordinary households usually wear linen, and the price is only one-third of silk.
The Yu family is a big horse breeder - in Jiangdong, if you can raise a hundred horses, you are considered a big horse breeder, and cannot be compared with the north.
Lu Kang became more and more surprised when he heard this. What kind of medicine had been poured into Yu Fan...
At the same time, he also understood that Yu Fan was deliberately showing his loyalty to Bai Tu in front of him, and was also indirectly warning other aristocratic families that if they wanted to buy his horse, even if it did not cost two million, it would still be more expensive than usual, and he was not convinced.
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Lu Kang guessed that Bai Tu and Lu Su probably had other things to talk about, so he took the initiative to leave when he saw that there was nothing else to do. Yu Fan also left with Lu Kang, and he would also assist Lu Kang in completing the household registration sorting in the household department.
Lu Kang had expected before that Hu Bu would definitely turn to Bai Tu's confidant to be his deputy.
But I never would have guessed that this person would be Yu Fan from a noble family!