。 "Don't think!" Hearing what Wang Xian meant, Wei Zhixian jumped like thunder and said: "The people's land can't be sold cheaply, and neither can these lands!" He excitedly pulled Wang Xian's arm, pointed to the topless and sweaty people, and said: "Zhilu Daoping such a field, does it take a lot of effort?" Every inch of the terraces is soaked with their blood and sweat, but you are going to sell it cheaply! How much benefit did you take from those big households?! ”

"If you don't sell these fields, there will be no grain in storage." Wang Xian was unmoved: "In case after ten days, the disaster relief grain is cut off, the people have no food to eat, and the big households lower the price of land, will the government stop it at that time?" ”

"Of course you have to stop it!" Wei Zhixian said in a deep voice, "Otherwise, how can the law of heaven and law exist!" ”

"Teacher, there is only a reason to set up a pot to cook white rice, not to set up a pot to cook." Wang Xian sighed and said, "We don't have food, what can we do to stop the people from selling the fields?" Can't they starve to death? ”

"......" Wei Zhixian was silent, but his face was still like frost.

"And it's not really for them." Wang Xian whispered again: "It's just that they have passed it, and when our grain arrives, we will bring the field back." ”

"It's not child's play!" Wei Zhixian said unhappily: "As a teacher, as a county parent official, how can he use fraudulent means?" ”

"It's not fraud." Wang Xian said: "It's just a matter of paying attention to the design of the contract." ”

"How can there be any reason to spit out the fat in the mouth?" Wei Zhixian frowned.

"Because they can't retreat," Wang Xian said lightly: "The lesser of two evils is weighed, and they can only obediently retreat from the field ......."

After going back, Wang Xian found Shuai Hui and Er Hei and gave them such an instruction.

He even asked them to spread the news...... For Shuai Hui and Erhei, this is not the first time, and the familiar road and the scene of the famine year are the best hotbeds for rumors. The next day, rumors spread in the county, saying that the big households had joined forces to monopolize the grain in Fuyang County, and wanted to artificially create a situation of food shortage, so as to buy the people's land at a very low price!

The people of Fuyang are naturally angry, for those who have property, that bit of land is the root of life, but some people want to use despicable means. When the mountains and rivers are exhausted, it is naturally unacceptable. Those who have no property are even more angry, because the good ones who have property can still sell their fields for food, so what should they do if they have nothing to sell, starve to death?

There was a lot of discussion in the streets and alleys, and the squires were so angry that they stomped their feet, saying that this was someone maliciously spreading rumors! and asked the government to find out who made the rumor. He swore to the sky that he would never take the initiative to buy a share of the villagers' fields!

As soon as the people of Fuyang breathed a sigh of relief, some people stood up and pierced and said that this oath was not a burden on the big families at all, because after the real famine, it was the common people who came to the door with the title deed and begged the big families to buy land.

The common people will be suspicious and will say anything. The rumor finally reached the ears of Wei Zhixian, and the result was that on the eight-character wall outside the yamen, a notice was posted that due to the busy disaster relief affairs, the household house would suspend the transfer of private land and property!

Seeing that the government wanted to block the transaction of land and property from the formalities, the squires sneered, but this still did not affect them. In fact, there are a large number of private land transactions, because the government charges too black, they will not go to the house to transfer, but only reach an agreement in private. Of course, this will often cause disputes, but the big players will not be the one who suffers.

However, the squire's thoughts of watching the play with cold eyes disappeared in a blink of an eye, because another notice was quickly posted on the eight-character wall of the county government - the Fuyang government decided to sell the 10,000 acres of terraced fields reclaimed in the county!

The reason why the big households are paying special attention is that they have long coveted those terraces, and second, the number of terraces is wrong. As far as they know, less than 2,000 acres have been opened so far, where did 10,000 acres come from?

So they asked Wu Wei, the warden of the house, for verification, and learned that the sale was indeed a thing, and it was true that he wanted to sell 10,000 mu. It's just that there are two kinds of 10,000 acres, one that has been completed, and the other that has not been completed or even started.

Wu Wei took the drawings from the workshop and showed them, and sure enough, there was a large area under planning, on which the completion time was written in small block letters, such as 'mid-March', 'lower March', 'upper April', 'mid-April', 'lower April', and so on......

"The terraces that haven't been opened yet can be taken out and sold?" It was the first time the squires had heard of it.

"It's called a presale." Wu Wei explained: "It is the government that sells the terraced fields under construction to future buyers in advance at the current price. Future buyers will pay a deposit as a consideration. ”

"Why should we buy unfinished fields?" The squires asked.

"Because it won't be that price then." Wu Wei said lightly: "You should know that this county has gone to Huguang to buy grain, and the short is a few rì, and the long one is half a month, and it is time to return." ”

"How did you hear that the grain ship that Mr. Sima bought grain was detained in Hushu Pass?"

"Where did you hear that?" Wu Weixin said that your news is really well-informed. He couldn't help but wonder with the greatest malice, is it a big Fuyang family making trouble in secret?

"It's just a rumor, it's a shadow." Li Xun, the son of Old Man Li and Li Yu, Li Xiucai's uncle, said: "Is there really such a thing? ”

"That's true," Wu Wei had no choice but to tell the truth: "My family official has already rushed to Suzhou to deal with this matter." ”

"I hope all the best." The squires wished on the surface, but secretly laughed in their hearts, that Wang Er was really beyond his strength, relying on Wei Zhixian to call for wind and rain in Fuyang County, so he thought he was a character? I also went to Suzhou to deal with ...... It really makes people laugh out of their big teeth.

Even if Wei Zhixian went to Suzhou, no one would treat him as a dish, let alone a young man in a green shirt. Shame on yourself......

Coming out of the yamen, the squires gathered in Li Xun's other business and discussed the matter while eating and drinking.

"It seems that the news is true, and the government is really short of food!" Wang Yuanwai, the outside head of the Wang family, said excitedly: "Du Ziteng is still hard-mouthed!" ”

"Yes, otherwise how could you be in a hurry to sell land!" Yu Xiucai's father Yu Yuanwai said with a smile: "Even the unfinished land has to be sold, it can be seen how much money is lacking!" ”

"Alright, let's stop gloating." Li Xun took a sip of wine and said, "Let's get down to business, what should we do?" ”

"Well...... everyone nodded, and Yu Yuan said, "You have to see how long it will take for the grain they buy to arrive." ”

"I can't ship it." Li Yuanwai said categorically: "It was detained by the salt envoys of the two Zhejiang, and it was not easy for the Zhejiang Domain to intercede." ”

"For what?" A lot of people don't know about it.

"What other reason can there be for the salt division to sell smuggled salt." Li Yuanwai said lightly.

"I see, that's ......" Everyone believed in Li Yuanwai's judgment, a little Wang Xian would never be able to solve the problem.

"Zhou Papi and Lu Dayan, these idiots, believed Wang Er's words, took out all their belongings and went to Huguang to buy grain, and now they are going bankrupt." Yu was not without schadenfreude.

"Well deserved." Wang Yuanwai snorted and said: "A group of lowly businessmen are vainly trying to take the official mansion and sit on an equal footing with us, they deserve this fate!" ”

"Schadenfreude again......" Li Yuanwai smiled bitterly: "Although I am also very happy, let's get down to business." ”

Everyone was amused and laughed, how could anyone take the life-saving food of the people of Fuyang seriously.

"Tell me, can we buy these official fields?" Li Yuanwai asked.

When it came to business, everyone stopped laughing, and with a small calculation in their hearts, Wang Yuanwai said: "It is said that it is cheaper to buy private land." ”

"But now the eldest lord has made it clear that he won't let us buy the land." Yu Xiucai's father is relatively timid, "If we buy it hard, it's hard to guarantee that he won't go crazy." ”

When the squires heard this, they were deeply impressed, they were worried about what happened last winter, and they didn't want to annoy Wei Zhixian anymore.

"What are you afraid of, buying and selling in private, without going through the government." Wang Yuanwai said indifferently: "The county can't always refuse to give the transfer?" It would be nice to make up for it after a year and a half. ”

"I'm afraid that there will be a dispute then." The squires knew very well that the famine in Zhejiang must have been only temporary, and at most half a year would have passed. When the time comes, the land will rise back to its original price, and those landlords who have sold it at a discount or two will definitely regret their bowels. Wei Zhixian is also famous for 'rather bend the rich than take care of the people', and when the time comes, there will be a disturbance among the people, I really don't know what the result of the road will be......

Although they said that they didn't care, they all beat drums in their hearts, and finally someone whispered: "It's okay to buy some completed official fields, which can be regarded as giving the eldest man a face." ”

"You didn't have any ears just now? What Wu Xiaopang said clearly is that if you buy one acre to build a good can, you must also buy five acres of unbuilt along. Wang Yuan rolled his eyes and said, "If you just buy and build a good one, what is there to hesitate about?" ”

"That's what I said." Yu Yuanwai said: "Actually, there is no need. Eight thousand acres of terraced fields will be completed in three months at most. ”

"Hmm." Everyone nodded outside, after all, the 8,000 acres of terraced fields were not without a shadow. Nearly 10,000 people, under the leadership of the eldest master, kept opening up the wasteland and cultivating fields. Those people can't stop, and as soon as they stop, they will go hungry and make trouble, so there will be no variables in the 8,000 acres of terraced fields.

"But this kind of unfinished field can't be the same price as the one that has already been completed." Wang Yuanwaidao.

"Of course, it has to be half cheaper!" The opinions of the squires gradually unified: "After all, there are still some and no, we are taking risks." ”

So the squires agreed to send Yang Yuanwai and Wang Yuanwai as representatives to negotiate the price with the government, and before that, no one was allowed to buy land privately. Wait until the price is negotiated, pool the money to buy the land back, and then decide how to distribute it internally.

The next day, the two outsiders found Wu Wei to discuss buying land, Wu Wei said that according to the market price, twenty taels of silver per acre of land, the old man means that now silver can not be exchanged for rice to eat, so no money is charged, only grain.

"How much grain is an acre?"

"Now the price of grain in the county is two taels of silver and one stone, and it is said that it is ten stones of grain, but you will definitely not do it, so the old man said, give a twenty-percent discount, eight stones of grain for one acre of land." Wu Wei said slowly