All Hail Cousin Brother

There are fewer materials in the north, and they are exploited layer by layer. In the end, the ones who are exploited are the army that needs materials.

The You Army is passive, and they "seek" the local gentry. Naturally, they will not put the You Army in their eyes.

It was also after the case of King Li of Zhou that a group of tyrants were punished, and the imperial court granted Youzhou the privilege of exempting the salt tribute, so that the Youjun had the right to purchase materials independently.

After Yin Huaixi guarded the northern border, the control of the northern border was strengthened again and again. Although the official government was not under the rule of King Wumu's mansion, he had to fear the majesty of King Wumu, and gradually began to develop commerce.

After walking around Liancheng, Yu Youyao's heart moved slightly.

The geographical advantage of Liao Province is very obvious. It has resources such as grain, medicine, engineering, and soldiers. As long as it can be revitalized, it can be self-sufficient, produce and sell itself, and does not need to rely on the imperial court.

Liancheng has less arable land and many mountains and forests. Raising tussah can strengthen the army and enrich the people, and it can develop the first economy, and the fruit and seafood is the second.

In this regard, the Xie Mansion understands better than Yu Youyao. As early as the Xie Mansion decided to come to the North, the Xie Mansion has also successively established a number of characteristic industries in the North, and has made a lot of preparations for a foothold in the North in the future.

In a year and a half at most, the Xie Mansion will be able to revitalize the entire Liancheng.

In the past few years, Yu Youyao has successively set up a lot of industries in the northern area, and the forests in the city are well developed. She used Yin Huaixi's network to buy two villages with hilltops in the north. The tussah silk produced by raising tussah silkworms is bought for the You Army to make army armor.

On the second day, the steward of Zhuangzi came to greet her and brought the ledger.

Liancheng is considered the northern part of the country, and there are few places less affected by the drought, but even so, the production of tussah silk produced in Zhuangzi has also decreased by 40 to 50%.

Fortunately, Tussah Silk has considerable profits, but there is no loss.

The sweet potatoes grown in the cultivated land were not affected, and the yield was very considerable. Most of the sweet potatoes produced in the village were sold to Youjun at a low price.

After Yu Youyao looked at the ledger, he asked a few stewards: "I want to expand the breeding of tussah, how likely do you think this is?"

One of the blue-robed stewards shook his head: "I'm afraid it will be difficult, 70% of Liancheng's tussah farming is in the hands of local big households, and the remaining 30% are small and retail farmers, and it's not a climate."

Another gray-robed manager also said: "The four great masters of Liancheng have monopolized Liancheng's tussah silkworm business and controlled the price of tussah silkworm cocoons, forcing those retail investors to sell the tussah silkworm cocoons that they have worked hard to raise at a price lower than the market price. They sold it to them at twice the price, and they sold it to silk merchants at a high price, making huge profits from it.”

Yu Youyao understood: "The tussah silkworm cocoons that they own are all provided to the court to buy?"

Listening to what the stewards said, the four families acted very domineeringly. The four families shared 70% of the business, and each family only had more than 20%, but they indulged those unscrupulous retail silkworm farmers and divided up the remaining 30%.

Either way, there is a problem.

After thinking about it carefully, Yu Youyao understood.

The four great masters in Liancheng have mastered most of the tussah resources, and they have to deal with the purchase of the imperial court. The price of the purchase in the imperial court is generally lower than the market price. The four of you have worked hard, and you can only make a small amount of money.

When the imperial court buys materials, it is impossible to monopolize all local materials.

The 30% in the hands of the retail investors has become a loophole for the four big families to exploit.

They jointly controlled the operation of tussah silkworm, so that retail investors had to rely on them to live, buying low and selling high, making huge profits from it, and taking the hard-earned money of the retail investors.

Even if the retail investors are united, 30% will not be able to fight against 70%, and they will not be able to make waves.

Squeeze those silkworm farmers to death.

"exactly!"

The two stewards looked at each other and couldn't help sighing inwardly, the eldest lady is really a formidable person, she immediately understood the twists and turns inside.

"For so many years, those retail silkworm farmers in Liancheng have been oppressed by the four great masters, and the situation in the north has been bad. The production of tussah has been decreasing every year. There are few people, and they can't even make a living. Earlier, the eldest young lady's Zhuangzi was also eyeing, but the people of the four families didn't dare to be embarrassed when they found out that there was someone behind Zhuangzi."

Yu Youyao frowned: "As far as I know, the three northeastern provinces have a very wide area, and the area suitable for raising tussah is the sum of Henan and Shandong. There is still room for more than 30 counties in the three northeastern provinces. Tussah silkworm farming is not as good as Henan and Shandong, and it can be seen that this is the case in the entire Northeast region.”

The case of King Zhou Li has made many noble families in the northern region restrained a lot, but the freezing three feet is not a day's cold. If you want to revitalize the business and trade in the northern region, Liancheng, which has a superior geographical location, is the top priority.

As one of the main materials for making armor, how can she tolerate these inhumane lords, who monopolize the city-wide tussah market and chomp on You Jun's throat? !

Yu Youyao's eyes were gloomy, and there was a hint of coldness in his eyes.

The two stewards nodded solemnly: "What the county master said is extremely true."

Yu Youyao thought for a while: "The spring silkworms will start breeding in a while, and you will connect the retail silkworm farmers who are struggling to survive, provide them with some help, and make a contract with them. The silkworm cocoons they produce will be sold to us at the market price. "

Retail investors are oppressed by the Four Great Families, and if they are usually afraid of the power of the Four Great Families, they would not dare to cooperate with them.

But this time, that time!

The retail investors are desperately raising silkworms to survive, and they can't even survive. What is there to be afraid of?

If they don't fight, the fate of the hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city will be their fate in the future.

The gray-clothed manager hesitated a bit: "This, you are directly facing the four great masters. The strong dragon can't suppress the local snakes. The four great masters of Liancheng unite, we..."

Yu Youyao chuckled lightly: "Another day, send me and King Wumu's famous post to the Liancheng County Yap. According to the jargon, this is called Baishanmen. I, the newly appointed Shaoyi County Lord, don't know whether it will work in Liancheng. "

Manager Lan Yi had an excited look on his face, and he had long disliked the behavior of the Four Great Families: "Miss is right."

The gray-clothed steward immediately reacted. The Shaoyi County Lord has a great reputation in the north, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city are very supportive of the Shaoyi County Lord.

The owner of Shaoyi County did not seek personal gain for himself, but for Liancheng, the thousands of retail silkworm farmers who were oppressed by the four great families.

There is little arable land in the north, so raising tussah is the best way out for the refugees.

It is necessary to unite retail silkworm farmers, forcibly open up the tussah silkworm market monopolized by the four major families in Liancheng, and further expand tussah silkworm breeding, so that the refugees outside the city can survive.

Everything the county master does is for the sake of the people.

It is expected.