Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 200 Economy

Yang Menglong smiled happily: "Easy to say, easy to say! Let me tell you, the yield of potatoes I grow is very high. With tens of thousands of acres of land, it is not a problem to produce one million tons per year. As long as the supply of phosphorus fertilizer is sufficient, if I plant 200 acres of potatoes, the yield per mu will be [-]. Wanshi is also very easy! You want to take over potato processing and sales, right? It couldn't be easier, tell me, how many ingredients do you want?"

Cheng Ji's face turned darker.

Xiao Yufang couldn't help reminding this smug guy softly: "You promised the second son that you would hand over all the potatoes to him for sale, and you even signed a contract!"

Liu Ziyan just couldn't understand Yang Menglong's high-spirited look, and said, "Yes, you signed the contract! If you break the contract, you will have to pay!"

Yang Menglong scratched his head and muttered: "I almost forgot that I signed the contract..." Somewhat frustrated, he said to Cheng Jun: "Eldest son, I'm sorry, I signed a contract with the second son last year, and I sold all the surplus food to him , the contract is clearly written in black and white, and I cannot breach the contract."

Cheng Jun probed: "If I give you one more silver for each stone of potatoes, can you sell half of the potatoes to me?"

Yang Menglong's face visibly twitched, and he gave an extra penny for each stone... Hundreds of thousands of stones, that's tens of thousands!He said with a sad face: "No... no, if I violate the contract, I will pay twice as much as you paid. Can I do such a loss-making business?" He stared at his right hand viciously, thinking about how to Don't chop off this hand that pulls people to sign contracts at every turn. The dogleg knife is so sharp that it can definitely be chopped off with one knife.

There was a glint of approval in Cheng Shi's eyes, Cheng Jun smiled and didn't insist anymore, but made up his mind to develop here.In fact, he wanted hundreds of thousands of potatoes, so he just had to discuss it with Cheng Ji. What can't be discussed between the two brothers?The reason why he tried again and again was to see if Yang Menglong could keep his promise. If Yang Menglong really broke the contract because he was greedy for the profit of a penny and a stone, then he really had to think twice before acting.

Cheng Qi said: "Unexpectedly, although you are out of tune, you are still very trustworthy. It is not in vain that my second brother invested all his wealth in investing here!"

Yang Menglong slapped his chest loudly: "Nonsense, I may not be able to do anything else, but I will definitely abide by the contract I signed, otherwise how can I mess around?" Turning his eyes, he pulled Cheng Jun and asked in a low voice: "I have a more lucrative business than selling potato noodles. Are you interested?"

Cheng Jun asked: "What kind of business? How big is the profit margin?"

Yang Menglong shook his head and said, "Set up a bank!"

Cheng Jun was a little disappointed: "Running a bank? Although running a bank makes money, it requires a very strong capital, and you can only charge a little stub fee, and the profit is not big..."

Yang Menglong chuckled and said, "My method of running a bank is a bit special. If you follow my instructions, you will become one of the richest men in the Ming Dynasty in less than 20 years. Do you believe it?"

Cheng Qi curled her lips like Yang Menglong's: "Bragging!"

Yang Menglong said: "It's really not bragging! Young master, just tell me, are you interested?"

Cheng Jun said, "This..."

Cheng Ji's eyes glowed green and he shouted eagerly: "Mr. Yang, my brother may not be interested, let's partner up!"

Cheng Jun glared at the second child, and said angrily: "Second brother, you want to take all the advantages, right?"

Cheng Ji said, "You're not interested..."

Cheng Jun said angrily, "Who said I'm not interested anymore! My lord, tell me, what should I do with this bank that will make me the number one rich man in Daming within 20 years?"

Yang Menglong put on a trick: "Actually, this is a question of turning your head around. It's worthless to put it bluntly... Unless you build a school in Wuyang that can accommodate thousands of people, we can cooperate. Otherwise, there is no way!" The military households of Wuyang Guard and the two thousand soldiers are very eager for their children to study, and they have repeatedly asked Yang Menglong to build another school, and Yang Menglong is also preparing, but now he is not only concerned with There are tens of thousands of people in a school with thousands of households. There are so many children from military households who want to study. I really can’t let go of this school if it’s too small. It would be great to come to him and help him build the school automatically.

Cheng Jun was stunned: "Build a school for thousands of people to study!?"

Yang Menglong said: "That's right. I also know that it will cost a lot of money to run such a school, but I'm just a person who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles. If you want to cooperate with me, you must first set up this school. If you don't want to, I have no choice but to change to a partner, such as the second son, he must be very happy."

Cheng Ji nodded repeatedly, expressing that he was very happy and always ready.

Cheng Jun gritted his teeth... Grit his teeth again... He gritted his teeth hard... Finally he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I will run this school! Isn't it just a few thousand taels of silver? I can afford it!"

Yang Menglong patted his thigh and said, "Okay, be courageous! This is the man! I will take you to see the school site tomorrow, and then start construction right away...Damn it, I have been annoying those military families and soldiers during this time." Dead, in order for the child to be able to read the book, even such tricks as bringing the child to the door and crying!"

Cheng Jun smiled wryly: "My lord, you haven't told me what to do with this money house that makes no money!"

Yang Menglong waved his hand and said, "I can't say it yet. I'll tell you when we sign the contract and the school is completed...Anyway, it's just a huge profit!"

Wu Yong licked his lips, held up his hand to Cheng Jun, and said, "Master, you have run such a big school, and your capital must be tight. Do you want to find someone to partner with? We have several thousand taels of cash here. How about using this money to buy a share?”

Fang Yizhi's eyes lit up: "I haven't saved much money, but I still have two or three thousand taels. If the eldest son doesn't dislike it, I will also get a share!"

Cheng Ji said: "Brother, younger brother is willing to put up 5 taels of silver to invest in the shares!"

Qi Hu felt a little regretful: "It's a pity that the old man has no money left, so he can only take out 1000 taels of silver to invest in shares. If he can have 5000 taels, Polu will not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of his life."

Cheng Jun was stunned. Looking at everyone again, he saw Xu Gong, Xue Siming, and Wang Tiechui muttering together, as if they were discussing how much money they could make to buy a share. Zhang Tong rubbed his hands vigorously, hesitating to speak... This guy must also want to buy shares, but he is a clean and honest official, has no money saved, and has more energy than energy.These guys are all possessed, right?It’s as if the money in their hands is not money, but a pile of waste paper that can be given away at any time!
He didn't know how much of a sensation Cheng Ji's money-making effect had caused throughout Nanyang!After investing only tens of thousands of taels of silver, I made a profit of 10,000+ in one winter. It was faster than robbing money!This living example proves that you can definitely make a lot of money by following Yang Menglong, so you must keep your eyes open when he is looking for a partner.After listening to Cheng Ji's explanation, Cheng Jun finally figured out the reality: it is very easy for this guy to find a partner, and some people even dream of cooperating with him!

Therefore, he must build this school, and it must be perfect, otherwise he will have to get out...

Fang Yizhi pulled Yang Menglong and insisted on telling him what to do with the farm.The idea given by Yang Menglong is to attract investment, provide some convenient politics, let the rich businessmen hire ordinary people to cultivate wasteland and farm, and then collect taxes directly from the rich businessmen, just like the modern COFCO Group, which encloses land all over the world, and then hires locals When people farm, half of the food produced is transported back to the country and half is sold to the country. How convenient it is.

"There is another advantage of doing this, that is, it is convenient to collect taxes. For example, how much food Wuyangwei should pay, come to me and explain to me clearly. I will send the money and food that should be paid over. Isn’t it much easier to collect grain payments from thousands of military households?” Yang Menglong said with gestures.

Fang Yizhi was thoughtful, but remained silent for a long time.

Yang Menglong asked proudly: "Are you deeply inspired?"

Fang Yizhi nodded: "It is true... If you do this, it is really convenient to collect taxes. As long as you register the fields of each farm clearly and find out the output of the year, you will know how much tax you should collect...Of course , you also reminded me of one thing."

Yang Menglong asked: "What's going on?"

Fang Yizhi looked at him and said seriously: "You should pay taxes this year!"

Yang Menglong's eyeballs bulged out: "I... pay taxes!?"

Fang Yizhi nodded very firmly.

Yang Menglong didn't let go of his anger: "What kind of tax do I have to pay? Didn't you say that the guard doesn't have to pay tax!?"

Fang Yizhi said slowly: "That was before. In the past, a large number of military households from the guard station fled, the fields were deserted, and the output was low. All the output was not enough for the guard station itself to consume. Even if they were asked to hand it over, they would not be able to hand it over. The court has to allocate a large amount of money for food subsidies. But Wuyang Wei is different. The output of one acre of your land is more than ten times that of others. If you don't pay taxes, it is really unreasonable."

Yang Menglong roared angrily: "It's really unreasonable to ask me to pay taxes!" After venting, he asked dejectedly: "Then tell me, how much tax should I pay?"

Fang Yizhi said: "You can't escape by paying tens of thousands of shi for grain, but this is just a drop in the bucket for you, isn't it?"

Yang Menglong snorted: "If anyone dared to say this to me before the potato harvest last year, I promise not to hack him to death!" Last year he worked hard for half a year before he put away tens of thousands of shi of wheat and handed over tens of thousands of shi na A drop in the bucket?I owe a beating, right?

Qi Hu had expected this for a long time, and was not surprised. He just asked: "Then is this tax collected by the Ministry of Households or the Ministry of War?"

Fang Yizhi said: "I don't know, I'm still arguing, I'm afraid I've broken my head!"

(End of this chapter)