Jiangnan Governor Liu Renhuai has been in a good mood these two days.
Because the two big landowners in Jiangnan sold a total of three million shi of grain to the Jiangnan Governor's Mansion.
The price is seven cents stipulated by Liu Renhuai.
Calculated based on the land size of these two families, this is basically 80% of their total grain reserves and new grains in recent years.
Not only were the people below surprised when he took out so much in one breath, but even Liu Renhuai didn't believe it at the first time.
It wasn¡¯t until he received several letters from flying pigeons, confirming that the two manor houses had shipped grain on a large scale to the nearby government granary that Liu Renhuai breathed a sigh of relief.
When things have reached this point, they can no longer fake it.
Liu Renhuai¡¯s hard work during this period, which cost more than 200,000 taels of silver, finally bore fruit.
What surprised him the most was not only the Zhang family and the Ma family themselves, but also the large and medium-sized landowners in Wuxi and Jiaxing, who had successively contacted the grain purchasing officials he sent and wanted to get their hands on the grain. Sold to the court.
Both Wuxi and Jiaxing can be regarded as a land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River, close to Taihu Lake, the largest freshwater lake in the south of the Yangtze River.
Taihu Lake is located at the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. There are tens of millions of acres of fertile farmland around it. It is also the most important grain producing area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Once there is a harvest failure around Taihu Lake, Jiangnan will definitely not be well.
Fortunately, Taihu Lake is not the Taihu Lake that will have shrunk by 90% in a few hundred years. It has a powerful regulating function and has always benefited the surrounding people.
Not only food cultivation, but also abundant fishery resources - the origin of the land of fish and rice actually comes from the praise of Taihu Lake.
"Yunxian, looking at the statistics of Wuxi and Jiaxing, we can at least earn another two million shi of food. That's great!" He held the document and said to a middle-aged man wearing a third-grade official robe next to him.
Liu Renhuai himself is tall and handsome, but he is not as good as this handsome middle-aged man.
This rich and handsome man is Su Feng, Su Yunxian, the governor of Zhejiang in the Jiangnan area.
He is three years older than Liu Renhuai. He participated in the palace examination in the same session as Liu Renhuai and was awarded the second rank of Jinshi.
He was not as good as Liu Renhuai from a starting point, but along the way he was not only down-to-earth, but also shrewd and capable. Therefore, after Liu Renhuai was promoted to governor of Jiangnan a few years ago, he inherited the position of governor of Zhejiang.
After so many years of cooperation, Liu Renhuai appreciates Su Feng's ability very much.
Zhejiang has ranked first in the world in grain production for several consecutive years, all thanks to Su Feng's strategic planning and down-to-earth agricultural production.
When he returned to Beijing last year, Emperor Jinghe asked Liu Renhuai, if you, Aiqing, want to return to the center, who will take your place?
Liu Renhuai didn¡¯t even think about it, so he directly reported Su Feng¡¯s name.
But it¡¯s a pity.
Liu Renhuai himself would not consider returning to Beijing for two or three years, and Su Feng could only wait two years for promotion.
Su Feng didn¡¯t know that Liu Renhuai recommended her.
He took the document and took a look, but his face was very calm: "Mr. Ling, five million stones of grain is still far from our needs. Moreover, several of the largest grain merchants and landowners are still indifferent to their decision. It will still affect most people.¡±
"Hey, don't I know?" Liu Renhuai shrugged and said, "But five million shi of food is enough for our two hundred thousand taels of silver, right? Otherwise, I would be very distressed."
He has a very good relationship with Su Feng, so he never hides anything in front of Su Feng, and is very free and easy.
Su Feng smiled when he heard this: "That's true."
As soon as he finished speaking, urgent footsteps suddenly came from outside, and then a man in his thirties ran in like flying.
"Ling Gong! Ling Gong! What a happy event!" Others were still outside, and the joyful voice came into the house, "The Lu family has also agreed to sell grain!"
The two people in the room were shocked at the same time.
Liu Renhuai was overjoyed when he heard this, "Ziyun, show it to me quickly and let me see!"
Gong Caibo handed him the copy of Fei Ge's letter and continued: "The Lu family said that not only will they sell three million shi of grain themselves, but they will also mobilize the landowners around Chaohu to sell grain together."
"good!"
This time Su Feng also applauded the case.
Chaohu Lake is a freshwater lake located in Anhui Province. It is known as the smaller Taihu Lake. It is also a land of plenty.
&when! How can you be so selfish? Could it be that when the Dakang Dynasty was in chaos and war broke out, the food in their hands could be preserved and sold at a high price? "
Therefore, there is a reason why Gong Caibo can only be a scholar and cannot be an official.
¡°He can scold whenever he wants, and he can say whatever he wants without any taboo at all.
Such people cannot even get out of the Imperial Academy in the officialdom, and they will spend their whole lives waiting to become scholars.
However, neither Liu Renhuai nor Su Feng felt that what Gong Caibo said was wrong.
He is quite right.
? Then here comes the problem.
Why would Cao Suping do this?
Is he really crazy?
Or is it that he has Cao Yi¡¯s full support and is fighting to preserve his family¡¯s property?
Su Feng shook his head first, "Impossible. A calm person like Cao Xiang cannot let him do this. There must be some situation that makes him feel that he has a chance to win. We don't dare to refute him or punish him, so he acts unscrupulously. did so."
"What could be the reason?" Liu Renhuai said, pondering.
After a moment, Liu Renhuai raised his head thoughtfully.
"Hehe won't have discovered our empty city plan, right!?"
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