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Chapter 65 Saved a Missing Miss
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a few days later.

Let's just say that there has been a lot of chaos in the Changningwei area.

Every one or two days, Wang Shouzhe would receive a letter from Wang Shouyi, telling him what happened in Changning Weizhong.The City Guard Mansion has reached an agreement with two heavenly families, several top-level Lingtai families including the Changning Xu family, as well as Qian's firm and other forces, and began to open warehouses in the city for disaster relief.

However, the Acropolis has a large population. It is a large city with a population of more than [-]. The daily consumption of food is astronomical.

A few daring businessmen even joined forces to hoard the food and secretly sold it to the people in the city at five or six times the price.As a result, he was arrested by the City Guard Mansion. Not only was he beheaded and displayed to the public, but the food he tried to hoard was also confiscated and confiscated by the City Guard Mansion.

There are even more gossip rumors, because this time the disaster spread outside Longzuo County.Therefore, in a short period of time, it is difficult for the grain outside the county to be dispatched to suppress the grain shortage, so that there is also a grain shortage in the large county town.

According to legend, the county seat of Longzuo is a large city with a population of more than one million.The food shortage in this city must be a big thing.It can also be seen to what extent the overall situation in Longzuo County has eroded.

Now there are rumors and rumors that the Zifu Academy is unable to raise food outside.It is also said that the county town ordered the collection of grain from the city guards under his command to ensure the food supply of the county town.

The biggest rumor even said that [Changlong Emperor] Shouyuan was approaching, the Great Qiang Empire was coming to an end, and this insect plague was a sign.It made Wang Shouzhe sweat in cold sweat, and it turned out that the current situation was chaotic, and all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods would run out.

However, if he dared to say that Emperor Changlong was about to die, he was quickly picked up by the City Guard and hanged on the city gate to be executed in a chirping manner.

In Wang Shouyi's letter, he only dared to express it vaguely, and Wang Shouzhe still listened to the messenger to talk about it secretly.

In a word.

chaos!
And the Ping An Wang family is in this mess, and can only be honest on the surface.Taxes should be collected, grain should be paid, and there are many guards in the government.In fact, even if the Wang family wanted to take less food, they couldn't do it.

Even if the three uncle Wang Ding clan served as deputy guards in the guard house, at this juncture, they would never dare to have any favoritism.Just because the City Guard Mansion had already sent someone down to supervise the grain collection process, who would dare to show favoritism at this moment?
This summer tax, the Wang family paid a lot of grain.

Loads of grains were loaded into carriages and transported to Dingpu Ferry Port. Under the supervision of the envoys of the City Guard Mansion, the guards of the mansion weighed them one by one, and finally loaded them into grain boats.

Combined, the three major farms have a total of 7650 mu of fertile land on the register. Each mu of land is collected with a 4-tax system, and a total of 3060 bales of wheat needs to be paid in a single season.Fortunately, the total harvest was good this time. Apart from the problem of the proliferation of honeyworms, this year was actually a season with abundant rain in the early stage and good sunshine in the middle and late stages, which was very conducive to wheat grain filling and maturation.

Therefore, the total wheat harvest of the three major farms has actually reached more than 6000 dan, and the average yield per mu is about [-] dan, which is barely a bumper harvest.

In addition to the summer tax, the previously invested [pest control and scattered tax], seed farming cattle amortization, and the share of the tenant farmers, there is an additional net income of [-] to [-] dan.Of course, there is actually a lot more food than that.

Because the previous expenditures such as insecticide powder were paid with dry gold before, and in the future, I will not buy the Luoshizi insecticide powder again.That's just one season's earnings.

By the way, a batch of insecticides that the four old grandfathers had previously hoarded by flickers.Before taking advantage of the high price, he sold it at three times the price and made a huge profit.

This made the fourth grandfather Wang Xiao extremely proud, and he boasted that he made a lot of "big money" for the family with his outstanding vision and made great contributions.

Except for the summer tax on the wheat fields of the farm, all other industries in the farm paid taxes before the previous year.And because it is not a produced food crop, there is no need to subscribe for food.

In addition, it is the jurisdiction within the Wang family's sphere of influence that collects taxes.

Because the Wang's sphere of influence is small, the civilians in the land under its jurisdiction are only [-] mu of fertile land. These are all five-tax systems implemented. However, the Wang family takes care of the self-cultivation farmers in the land under their jurisdiction. Although the losses are less than the outside world, they are also damaged. big.

Therefore, it was decided to only collect the four taxes, the tax belonging to the noble family, which can be deducted with big copper coins.This time, the Wang family worked hard to collect 6400 dans of grain, all of which were loaded and transported to Dingpu Ferry Port, and then transported one by one by large ships.

Wang Shouzhe, under the protection of his generals, stood at the bustling and bustling Dingpu Ferry, and couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.This year, the Xuanwu family and the free people worked hard to cultivate the fields, and the income from them is really far less than the tax collection.

It is estimated that some of these grains will be transported to the Acropolis, and some will be expected to "relieve" higher-level state and county people.You know, the living conditions of the people there are far better than those in Ping'an Town.

Speaking of which, it's an irony.

What's more, the removal of such a ship by ship of grain will make the town of Ping An, which is already short of food, even worse.In particular, many of the savings have been invested in the purchase of farmland, or they have spent huge sums of money to send their children to study, or they have just experienced weddings, funerals and other expensive self-cultivation families. This crisis will be particularly sad.

The family conditions of self-cultivation farmers are not bad in theory, but their consumption level is also much higher than that of tenant farmers.

Moreover, most homesteaders, with a little savings, will find ways to expand their fields, build houses, train their offspring to read, learn arts, etc.Very expensive, most of them don't have much savings.

There is no problem in normal circumstances, but this time the plague of insects came so fiercely and suddenly.

However, even so.

With the exception of a small number of homesteaders, most homesteaders find ways to boil it down until the next season's grain output is over.But in this one, there is no one who can't stand it.

Whenever natural and man-made disasters occur, there will always be some greedy and insufficiency of the powerful.Take this opportunity to engage in mergers, devour people's fat and people's cream to strengthen themselves.

Wang Shouzhe glanced at it from a distance, and the eyes of the Liu family and Zhao family that were constantly coming to pay taxes narrowed slightly.Previously, it was only based on the style of the two jackal families of the Liu family and Zhao family, as well as some rumors, to estimate their actions.

However, with the development of intelligence work, some conclusive information gradually spread to Wang Shouzhe.He was almost certain that the other party would indeed make a big move.

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Peaceful Liu.

In the main hall of Liu's main house, Liu Shengye, the owner of Liu's family, is listening to several waves of clansmen reporting the incident, including Liu Yongzhou, who is a better young generation.

His brows wrinkled: "What did the Sun Clan in Changning do? They promised to borrow [-] dans of wheat from us, and after the autumn harvest, we would return [-] dans of rice. Why don't we cash it now? Not satisfied either?

"The Sun family in Changning said that they were rushing to buy Miecong powder, and they barely managed to keep a little production." A clansman in his 50s replied, "They said that the Sun family lost too much."

"How much does it take?" Liu Shengye's face was a little gloomy. This time Liu's loss was too great. If he couldn't make up for it, it would be too bad for his vitality.

The clan's face was also ugly: "Sun said that we don't want us to double the food, and also said that it is illegal to speculate on the price of food. It's better to barter and exchange [-] acres of fertile land with us."

Fifteen hundred acres of fertile land?

Liu Shengye's face turned blue and then white, so he fainted: "Are they crazy, [-] bales of grain for [-] acres of land?" Their Liu family has accumulated from the ancestors to today, how many years The situation is not good, but it is only [-] mu of fertile land.

This opening is one-seventh of the land, how cruel, this is several times the huge profit.

"Patriarch, why don't we forget it?" The clan said helplessly, "According to our original plan, we can also annex [-] mu of fertile farmland, and if Sun's has done it like this, wouldn't we bear the infamy and still marry others? clothes?"

"I can't forget it, this time my Liu family has lost too much." Liu Shengye said with a fierce look in his eyes, "Then if we simply do nothing this time, we will merge with the number of three thousand mu. Even if the time comes, mortgage loans, or Replacing with people, we also make a lot of money.”

His eldest brother Liu Shenghao is at a critical moment when he is hitting Lingtai, and there are still some resource gaps.Once he rushes to the spiritual stage, it will be a double spiritual stage, and it will be able to fight with the Sun family.

Liu Shengye has always been good at managing the economy, and he always counts pennies and pennies, never willing to suffer losses.Moreover, the family has worked hard to accumulate wealth in the past 50 years. While strengthening the family, doesn't it just want to cultivate a second Lingtai ancestor?
"Patriarch, with such a big move, I'm afraid it will arouse public resentment, right?" The clansman said with some concern, "What's more, because the Wang family has a spiritual insect master this time, there is no disaster, and there must be a lot of surplus food in their hands. .Will you take the opportunity to…”

"They don't dare!" Liu Shengye said to himself, "We Liu and Zhao work together, how can the weak Wang dare to move half a paw? Besides, I have already heard that Wang has shipped excess grain to Donggang, in exchange for high returns. A training resource. It’s a wise move. When the surplus food is left in the hand until the next season, it will definitely not be so popular.”

"How can the head of the family be so sure of this?" the clansman said strangely, "According to this trend, not every family can use double the dose of insecticide powder."

"The owner of the family has received the news that the Zifu Academy has begun to improve the next generation of insecticide powder. And as an apology, the next season's insecticide powder will only be distributed to the loss-making families at a loss of [-]%."

This news is relatively secret, but this conference hall is the core of Liu's family, and naturally he is not afraid of leaking it.

"If that's the case, then this opportunity should not be missed." The tribesmen said, "It's just that the Sun family is too dark."

Liu Yongzhou, who had been suffocating for a while, suddenly folded his hands and said, "Patriarch, uncles, Yongzhou has a way to avoid cooperating with the Sun family. By the way, my fishing boat was on the riverside and rescued a man. The troubled daughter of the daughter..."

When it comes to this young lady, Liu Yongzhou's eyes can't contain the scorching heat, obsession, and even fanaticism...

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(End of this chapter)