Section 2065 Contracts

In fact, some people have experienced the way of doing things in Cao's Commercial Bank before, but not many people said that this method works. It's also started, but their meat buns are relatively good on the surface. It's not that there are no grain sales in these hundreds of counties. Li Cong said before that this grain business can be said to be not very profitable. Big, but the victory lies in the stability. If you do other business, you can’t say that this business is drought and flood protection, but the grain business is definitely considered, and the profit is only more than ten percent, but you can do this business. There are plenty of people, especially those who need to expand their influence and have relatively rich families. Generally speaking, such people are some famous local families. These are the first-class grain merchants. Most of the grain sales in the county, and some grains from other places, have to be approved by them. It can be said that the development of Cao's business has offended them the most. Pin Shu Wang (w W W . V o Dtw . c o M)

The second-class grain merchants are the small rich landowners in the countryside. They all have their own arable land and their own tenants. Although they don’t have a lot of grain, they can also control the grain trading in some counties and towns. Yes, of course, there are some problems with the quality of their food. What they want is to make money, and they don’t need so much so-called prestige. In their opinion, the most important thing is the white money in the middle reaches , as for some other things, that is impossible. They also need those things, but in their hearts, they really think that money is more important.

Although the sales of Cao's Commercial Bank have also begun to go to towns and villages, the impact on them is not too great, mainly because their prices are basically in the same position as those of Cao's Commercial Bank. Don't be afraid of people from Cao's Commercial Bank to fight a price war. Cao's Commercial Bank's food needs to be transported. Although there is a professional transportation team, it is also a waste of money. For them. Food is brought from the ground. Just drag it to a town more than ten miles away, and they will save a lot of cost if they don't say anything else. Of course, their food quality can't be compared with the people of Cao's Commercial Bank. Many people have also said it. They can spit out half a mouthful of sand when they eat food.

If this is in some big cities, they may not be able to buy or sell. But in places like the countryside, most of them still eat coarse grains, which is beyond what the people of Cao's House can do. What they sell are some fine grains. For the majority of ordinary people, this refined grain is not something that ordinary people can eat. Many people have never eaten a few meals of refined grain. For them, as long as they have something to fill their stomachs, it is enough. For the rest, they don’t even think about the taste and the like. What’s the use of those things? No matter how delicious they are, they’re just food. Don’t you have to get out of your own place? Although this is not very pleasant to say, the truth is the same. It’s better to exchange these few meals of fine grains for one month’s coarse grains. At least it will make you feel more comfortable in your heart. Outsiders don't look like a prodigal, do they?

In the eyes of the country people, this is the case. Even if your harvest is better this year,

But if you don't hold a wedding at home during the holidays, you can't use fine grains, right? Everyone is serving the crops in the field, and they all know that fine grains are hard-won. If they all eat fine grains, this is a sign of life, unless your family has other sources of money, but the people in the countryside don’t They don't live by guarding their own few acres of Susukida, and they wouldn't do this if there were other ways to get money. Ordinary people can only get more than three hundred catties of wheat per mu of land, and one tenth of it is for One-tenth of the tax paid to the court is to be given to the landlord’s family, and the remaining 80% is his own. When the year is good, it is only more than 200 catties. When the year is not good, there is no such thing. If I have enough food for a year, I have to take these to exchange for coarse grains.

In response to the counterattack of these grain commercial banks against Cao's Commercial Bank, Cao's Commercial Bank naturally has its own methods. The price reduction is only one aspect. Cao's Commercial Bank also needs profits. If it is just a price war, it will not be very good for itself. Wu Liu and Bai Er have been wandering their minds for a long time. Li Cong gave them a way, that is to cooperate with some local landlords and farmers. Leave the land to us to take care of it. Now you just need to bring in as much food as you give in a year. I will give you 10% more than this at this time next year.

These landlords and peasants were all dumbfounded. Of course they knew that this must mean that the Cao’s Commercial Bank was going to cut off the back roads of other grain commercial firms. of? You have discussed it directly with the landlord, what about us people? The rent they hand over to the landlords every year is not very much, at most it is one-tenth, and it is only a few tens of catties of grain per mu of land. The grain in this era is really pitifully small, and it is once a year every year. Ripe, although some other things will be planted in the middle of a few months, but the value of these things is not very high.

The Cao's Commercial Bank plans in this way, sign a contract with the landlord, and all the land under your hands will be leased to the Cao's Commercial Bank. It will be 20 years at once. You don't need to pay anything during these 20 years. It has nothing to do with you if anything happens. We will rent the land to you for 20 years at a time. Whether it is money or food, it is all according to your wishes. In the past, one mu of land That is to say, 10% of the harvest belongs to you. Although you will use other things to get 10% more, it will not be on the table after all, right. Each mu of land can only get one or two silver per year at most. It is different now Yes, we will give you twice as much, which is directly two taels of silver. This number directly fooled these old landlords.

They are all stupid like those peasants. Those peasants don’t know what to do when they don’t have their own land. It turned out that they all thought that there might be some mineral deposits in their fields. Did the people from the Cao's firm discover something? If this is the case, it might really be possible. These people can do anything, but when they inquired, it seems that this is definitely not the case. They rented out some of the surrounding land. , Is there something like this in the surrounding fields? That is absolutely impossible. If there are any. How many things will be needed, it is absolutely impossible.

No one here is a fool, and the current income is twice as much as before. If I don't do this kind of thing myself. Then all these years have really been wasted. They all took out their land. These landowners have 100 hectares and 80 hectares, although it is very troublesome to handle. However, the people from the Cao’s Commercial Bank took care of these things quickly. 100 hectares here is 10,000 mu of land, and they are definitely considered big landlords. There are 20,000 taels of silver a year. It's 400,000 taels of silver. Even if you buy this piece of land, you won't need that much money. Isn't the remuneration given by Cao's Commercial Bank too high? This is definitely not high. If Li Cong buys all these lands, this matter will be a bit unbearable. These landlords are absolutely unwilling. If they don't rent them to themselves, they can only watch For others who are stronger than themselves, selling land is a prodigal act for them. They can only increase land while they are alive. It is absolutely not allowed to sell land. There is no psychological burden for renting out land. If you have money, you can get it. Then, you can also let these people make money for themselves, why not do that? I really can't find such a thing.

Naturally, Li Cong will not lose money. If he uses his own seeds for one mu of land every year, it will definitely be three crops a year. The annual output of one mu of land is more than 3,000 catties. According to the current price, that is If the output exceeds 45 taels of silver, the land rent for 20 years can be obtained in one year, and the rest will be earned for nothing. How can we say that science is the primary productive force, and these seeds are all It is impossible for these guys to obtain these seeds if the genes have been altered, so Li Cong's is absolutely safe.

As for those farmers who have no land, Li Cong has also made arrangements for them. In the past, if you worked hard for a year, you could leave more than 200 catties of grain for yourself, right? Some are made by the whole family, and it is still the same as before. Of course, after your food is produced, it will not be yours. You have to hand over the food to Cao's House every year, of course. Your income will also be doubled. Each person on an acre of land can get 400 catties of grain every year, which is twice as much as before. This kind of thing makes them dumbfounded. Of course, talking to them I also told them when I signed the contract that although you can get twice the income, I also told you clearly that your labor volume will also triple than before. If no one can do it, it can only be said Sorry, you will be unemployed in the future.

The most important thing a farmer has is strength. In fact, in the past, most of the time in a year was resting at home with nothing to do, and each of them was choking on themselves. Isn't it just a little more effort? , It’s not that I haven’t worked hard. In the past, I used my energy in useless places. Now I have to do it. At the beginning, it was a county town, and then this model began to sweep the initial 1200. Wu Liu and the others were thinking of 600 counties, but Li Cong directly doubled the size. At first they thought it was difficult to do such a thing, but now it seems that there is no difficulty That's right, it's normal to do these things, and now these people are very motivated.

Li Cong used mechanized operations on the earth and on the rty planet, but this cannot be done here. The islands in the sea also use mechanization, but this is on the mainland. A few years ago, Li Cong didn't want to Let these people enter food production, after all, their own food is still enough, now it seems that if they want to tie all these people. Just use this method, and now they are all their own tenants, and it is impossible to continue working if they leave themselves.

Now the property rights are not my own, it doesn’t matter, the fist is not very hard now, of course I have to listen to you, if my fist hardens in the future, it’s up to you to decide this matter, whose fist is hard Whoever can formulate the rules, this is absolutely passable. But this time Li Cong took out a lot of money. It takes Li Cong 40 taels of silver for one mu of land to do this, plus some other measurement costs, it takes at least 50 taels of silver, and a county has an average of more than 15 million mu of cultivated land . A county requires Li Cong 750 million taels of silver. Li Cong took out trillions of silver for the whole plan. It is estimated that Li Cong can have such a big hand. Others have seen that Li Cong has invested a lot, but only Li Cong knows it. At this time next year, all the food will be in my hands. For the common people, they will also get benefits. In the future, they will get fine grains. The improvement of their own food is very good, of course. Well, if they want to eat coarse grains, you have to find a place to exchange them yourself, because the cultivated land within a few thousand miles around is owned by the people of Cao's Commercial Bank, and there is no place to exchange it if you want to.

No matter what each of you thought at that time, anyway, the whole world has become what Xi’an is like, and you have to pay attention to some things now. Everyone in the world is like the Cao family. The business has a constant relationship, so what if King Ning comes back? Would he go to hang out with King Ning? Unless there is a problem with my brain, otherwise, I will never wear a pair of pants with King Ning. The danger is too great. King Ning is very powerful, but that was all a few years ago. At that time, King Ning was considered the boss here, but what is King Ning now? It is nothing, King Ning is just a passer-by, and the word Ning King will disappear in this land in the future. When any dynasty is newly established, there will be some old and young survivors from the previous dynasty, because if the previous dynasty is restored, they will They are all considered to have good abilities, but now if King Ning wants to restore this land, it is absolutely impossible, because the owner here is the Cao Family Commercial Bank.

This is just the idea of ​​some people, definitely not Li Cong's idea. The current Li Cong wants to erase the Eastern Empire from this territory. But the dozens of surrounding provinces can be said to be the sphere of influence of Cao's Commercial Bank, because these places used to be within the sphere of influence of King Ning. Although King Ning is coming back now, they are not I will listen to King Ning's words. It is definitely a fact that the wall fell and everyone pushed it, but these officials did not deal with the court very much in the past. Most of the people are basically at fault with the imperial court. For example, when the imperial court’s order came to me in the past, no one would go to the bird. Most of them were waiting for the order from King Ning. His Majesty said Dong, but as long as King Ning talks about West, no one will say anything about all these things, because they all know that the emperor cannot kill him here, but if King Ning wants to kill himself, it is very possible. King Ning can do whatever he wants, and it's not that the court has not sent officials here. They are both princes and imperial envoys, but what is the final result?

If the prince comes, in order to maintain the support of the men in the clan, King Ning can't do anything to the prince, so what King Ning has to do is to order his servants to do this thing beautifully Bright, no matter how many people come, you can't let people go back without anything. If this is spread, others will definitely say that our Ning Palace people can't do things. We can't let people say that about ourselves. We don’t want to be ashamed anymore. The last time a prince came to check on the situation of King Ning’s army, it was obvious that there were nearly half a million more troops, but in the end King Ning spent more than one billion yuan to settle this matter. It was redeemed, what this guy said back was the correct number, and His Majesty's spies naturally knew what was going on, but that's what the imperial envoy said, what can His Majesty do? Could it be that you don't believe the minister in front of you? Tell him that he has spies around King Ning? If this is the case, should the emperor still be in power? That doesn't work either.

If you don't believe it, you can find another minister to go there. Of course, His Majesty the Emperor has used such a method, but at the end he knew that it was impossible. Those people couldn't draw any conclusions at all. They have been officials for such a long time, how can they not know what is going on in the court, even if His Majesty knows the truth, so what can he do? At most, King Ning was reprimanded for a while. Over the years, King Ning has received a lot of reprimands, one after another. Even if all the ministers in the court are added up, it is estimated that they are not as many as him. of. Over the years, King Ning has long been too lazy to care about these things. He doesn't care what these things look like in the end, he can do whatever he likes with these things, anyway, it doesn't have much to do with him, the imperial decree is it. Praise is also a word. Punishment is also a word. It's enough for me, King Ning, to block it, and I can do anything to myself, as long as I don't rebel. Everything is nonsense.

This was what King Ning thought at the beginning, and the ministers in the court naturally understood this matter, and each one of them knew what was going on with King Ning, so they also knew how to do such a thing , His Majesty the Emperor told us to go there, let’s just go there, how to say how to repay is naturally what the prince who came back earlier said, so we can just say what, as for the future, we don’t care about it, everyone has been doing it for so many years I know, King Ning is still very good at doing things. As long as someone says that, he will make this matter a fact. If someone says something different later, he won't be able to hold back, right? Of course, sometimes His Majesty the Emperor will let some young and vigorous people go, and each of those people is very powerful, and they will not care about King Ning after they go, anyway, they will follow their own rules. What is the final result of doing things like this? At the beginning, King Ning will treat you with good wine and good food. If you can listen to this advice, you can talk about everything in the future. The only thing we can do is take your head off. This is also the way King Ning has always done things. Even if you are very powerful, it’s okay. The lives of so many ministers in front have to be preserved, right?

Over time, the officials in this area are not very obedient to the central government. Just like now, they don't know how to go in the future. If King Ning does not fall, they will be twisted together. Well, it is not so easy for His Majesty the Emperor to put his own people in. Now that King Ning is gone, there is no one among them who is highly respected and can make other people listen to him, so they can only start to split. Everyone thought that they could succeed King Ning and gain such great power. Of course, they didn't think that they could be the same as King Ning. What is King Ning's greatest strength? It’s not the decree that you can’t kill if you don’t rebel. Each of them has that thing. If they also have that thing, they will definitely do things. It’s a pity that they don’t have that thing, so they can only do it one by one. I hope that I can integrate part of the forces. In the end, I can be a big member of one side. The court can't touch me, and I won't do anything out of the ordinary. It's not an easy task. Many people can't grasp such a speed well, and those who can't grasp it can only lose their lives.

Cao's House will never allow such a semi-enclosed place to become the territory of the Eastern Empire court. As long as there is such a split state, it can be said that most of the Eastern Empire is still in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor. However, there are also more than a dozen counties and one province in the hands of Li Cong. Li Cong naturally wants to treat these places well, and there are fifty other provinces in the hands of the Linghu family. They can't help Li Cong, because they suffered heavy losses during the retreat. Of course, the emaciated camels are bigger than horses. What they can do now is to hold back a large number of troops in the Eastern Empire. , This is the only thing they are useful for. If they don't even have this usefulness, Li Cong won't cooperate with him.

It turns out that Li Cong couldn't give up on these spheres of influence of King Ning. This is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, but when Li Cong hadn't contacted them, Li Cong's Cao's firm had already started to confront some of their firms. up. Most of their governors and governors have their own grain stores. Although they don't pay much attention to such a business, Li Cong took this knife from the beginning and didn't give them any face at all, no matter who said it Such things are not very good, and each of these people is angry in their hearts, but thinking that someone as strong as King Ning did not do anything to Cao's House, on the contrary, he made himself so embarrassed at the end , if they also learn from King Ning, what good results can they have in the end. Isn't it going to be killed directly? Thinking of this, everyone wants to maintain a close relationship with Cao's House of Commerce. If that is the best, they are in an independent strength and can bargain with the court. It can also make the people of Cao's House of Business less underestimate themselves. This might not have been a difficult task in the past. But now they don't have that chance, and Cao's House will not give them that chance, as can be seen from today's meeting.

There are nearly eight billion people in fifty provinces. Some senior officials here also know that they should do something now. If they don’t do anything now, they will see it in the future. In the past, there were many people in the Ning Palace, although they were all in the Ning Palace. Some of the aides of King Ning’s mansion are now down. It is said that they have lost the power they had before, but now it seems that they are still guests here. There is no other reason, that is because the situation in this area is still They understand, others will not understand the things here at all, even if they understand, they are not as clear as they are, just like the big families and governors below, although they know some things, but because they used to At that time, King Ning didn't let them contact each other, so what they knew was their part of Hu Siqing, other than that, the other parts had nothing to do with them, and they didn't want to know, as long as they lived well, that's all. But this was established yesterday, and King Ning has fallen today. If they don't unite well, they really don't know how to go about it in the future.

"Everyone, this gentleman is Jian Nanbo, the former number one counselor of Lord Ning. I believe everyone knows him. Now the gentleman is no longer at the Palace of Ning. I think everyone is very clear about the understanding of the region. If the husband is the second, I guess no one will be the first. Let's listen to what the teacher has to say, how about it?" This person who spoke is one of them. The governor is now, and it can be said that he is a relatively powerful governor of the province. This guy is often the dog's leg of King Ning. Many people think he is just a flatterer, but all these people today I got to know this fat guy again. This fat guy is absolutely different from before. This guy has a very strong heart. Although there are several organizers in this meeting, he really wants to integrate With these strengths, this guy is the first active person. It is this guy who has booked such a safe place today. In such a place, so many officials, all of them use this consumption method. Every day The consumption is definitely not a small amount, but now this guy doesn't even blink his eyes. Many people said before that this guy seems to be King Ning's purse. Is this statement correct? Now it seems that it is possible. It costs tens of millions of dollars to hold a meeting a day. The average person does not have this power. Only those with real money dare to do it. Others naturally do not have that The courageous ones, even if they were there, did not have the courage.

Although everyone underestimated this fat man, they all know Jia Nanbo very well, and they all have a little respect from their hearts. For the staff, in their eyes, they are behind the scenes Shameful guys, although some things they do can sometimes affect many people, but still few people think highly of them. In fact, this is the fastest way to promote themselves. Of course, the premise is The person you follow can go on like that, if you can't go on, your life will be over, just like King Ning, there are hundreds of staff in King Ning's mansion, but what about now? Most of them have been divided up by these people present. Although their current treatment is not as good as it was before King Ning, this is the only way for them to do so. Otherwise, what can you go out for? Apart from knowing a little writing, I don’t know much about it. Do I want to go back to my hometown to be a teacher? Although I can live comfortably, this society still respects scholars very much, but they all I'm already used to this kind of life, if I go back to do that, I don't want to do it one by one, it's better to be the staff of these governors.

When King Ning fell from power, there were many people who wanted to get in touch with Jananbo. These people were also relatively powerful people, and they all knew it clearly. This Jananbo is no ordinary person. Back then, he won the first place in the imperial examination, and I don’t know how King Ning got this guy. At that time, His Majesty the Emperor used a lot of high-ranking officials and generous salary to keep this guy in the capital, even breaking the rules. It is the beginning of the fifth rank. If this guy is always by His Majesty's side. Now there will definitely be a seat for him in the Sixth Minister. There was such treatment at the age of fifty, and the whole court estimated that it was Wang Quantai who had the ability to compete with him for a while, and those other people were not their opponents at all. Many people think that this guy will stay in the capital. Although there are many big families who have extended their olive branches, no one will believe that he will accept the invitation of any big family. But what happened later? , King Ning just talked with this guy for less than an afternoon, no one knows what King Ning talked to him, but the fact is that King Ning took this guy back to his fief nw province, This is something that no one has thought of. Many people are wondering what King Ning did, what kind of price he offered, and what does this guy need to be alive?

This matter made many people unable to find the answer they wanted, but in the end, someone knew a little bit about it. Although no one could have guessed what King Ning said, this guy's life in the past few years can be said to be It's a very good life. For this reason, most people also think that the price for King Ning's dismissal was not low. I really didn't expect that he could follow King Ning to this land in ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi. Actually, this guy is also the one who started to betray King Ning now.

At the beginning, King Ning actually didn’t really want such an aide, he just wanted His Majesty to look ugly, didn’t you fall in love with this guy, I just let you know that although you are the younger brother of the emperor, many people I'm not very optimistic about you, he will follow me, although you feel uncomfortable, but I don't have to worry about what you think in your heart, this kind of thing makes His Majesty really angry, but I can't What to do with this guy, because this Jia Nanbo has already dismissed all his official positions in the court, and there is no one in his family, so it is impossible to do anything to this guy.

At the beginning, this guy came to Ning Wang's territory, and not many people paid attention to this guy. Most people wanted to see this guy's jokes. Who knew that Ning Wang had taken a fancy to this guy in a few years. Guy, what I'm talking about here is naturally not like a man's fancy to a woman, but the talent of this guy. This guy is really good and useful. This guy has also begun to analyze some important military affairs. Many people also know this young guy, and many people have eaten and chatted with him. This kid is definitely not a boastful person, he has his own real skills.

"We have read some of Mr.'s previous works, and many times we are clear about Mr.'s affairs. I don't know what Mr. is going to say this time? We are all waiting and seeing. His Royal Highness King Ning has not returned yet. , if we come back, I think our side will be different, and we really need a new way of doing things." A guy below said, this guy and that fat guy are relatives, and now the two of them stand up to talk Of course, there is a reason for this. Aren't these guys just wanting Jia Nanbo to talk about what is in his heart? What good things can happen?

"Hehe, I dare not say anything about the works. I just followed His Royal Highness Ning Wang for a little longer. This brain is actually no smarter than yours. I often make my own correct analysis based on information from various places. Most of the time, this information is sent by you, but the information you know is not as comprehensive as I know, so I can say so many things, if it is really about the brain, I can't do it. " The guy said modestly, although everyone knows that this guy is modest, but a smart person would still be very happy when he said such a compliment.

"Mister's words are really too modest. We all knew about Mr.'s ability in the past. We don't need to be so modest. In fact, we know that Mr. does a lot of things. In fact, this time, if Cao's house is not so rampant. If we come in all at once, I don't think we will be so passive now, and His Royal Highness Ning Wang will also sit back and relax. It is impossible for the imperial court to do anything to us. Speaking of which, Cao's firm is definitely our largest His enemy." Fatty's words made many people hate Cao's House of Merchant in their hearts. This is absolutely true. Didn't the damn Cao's House of Commerce come in to do business at the beginning, but they Some recent actions have come out, which is not what serious businessmen should do.

Many people with better brains have also thought that what this fat man said was all bad things about Cao's firm. If this continues, there will definitely be big things. What does this fat man mean? Could it be that this guy is from the imperial court? If this is the case, he really hid it too deeply. Fatty said some things about the court, and everyone has their own little things in their hearts. If the relationship with the court was not so bad in the past, they can naturally return I went to the imperial court, but the relationship with the imperial court is so bad now, let alone my official hat, even my own head may not be able to keep it when I go back.

"Your Excellency's words are very correct. You must not be very clear about the intentions of Cao's House of Commerce. I also know something about them. Some of their actions in other empires are also very dangerous. According to me As we all know, the relationship between the Cao Family Commercial Bank and the other three empires is not very good, and they also hate what the Cao Family Commercial Bank has done. It means nothing, mainly because of the greed of the Cao Family Commercial Bank." Jananbo also said. (To be continued..)