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Chapter 839 I know you know what happened

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    People regard food as their first priority.

    When workers have money, the first thing they think of is improving food for themselves and their families.

    Thanks to the affordable fish and meat on the market, which are cheaper than rice, the smell of meat has begun to waft on the dining tables of Haiqingcheng residents. Many families have even canceled their staple food and rely on fish and meat to eat every meal.

    The grain merchants who had made a fortune by hoarding goods were now suffering. They had to lower the price of grain again and again, and even once it was even lower than their purchase price.

    There is no other way. The acting lord of Haiqingcheng's wharf is now in control. They are not allowed to transport food by sea. The cost of land transportation is too high. People and horses chew along the way. If a truck of food is transported out, half of it may not even be transported.  There are no cars left.

    Rather than letting it mold and rot in the granary, it¡¯s better to sell it cheaper and replenish your own blood.

    Facing the huge consumer market in Haiqingcheng, small businesses with a sensitive sense of smell have taken advantage of the trend. Various shops have sprung up one after another, and the sound of firecrackers opening new stores can be heard almost every day.

    Income from fish harvests, shop rents, port usage fees massive amounts of income are continuously transported into the private treasury of the lord's mansion, and are then invested again in a new round of infrastructure construction.

    From an economic point of view, this method of not distinguishing public and private accounts has great disadvantages, but Luo Jie¡¯s purpose is to reactivate Haiqing City¡¯s economic cycle as quickly as possible, so he can only choose this simplest and crudest method.  Way.

    Fortunately, in this feudal era, the lord is equivalent to the local emperor in the territory. He has the highest power to formulate taxes and amend laws. Even if there is any trouble, he can easily get back on track.

    ?That is, the final right of explanation is very shameless.

    The currency itself has no value, but once it circulates, it forms value.

    Under the disturbance of Luo Jie, an unruly catfish, the market in Haiqing City became more and more prosperous, and even formed a chain effect that affected many surrounding industries.

    The most obvious and most influential thing is the land rent of cultivated land around Haiqingcheng.

    Originally, the land rent in Haiqingcheng was as high as 70% of the land. The farmers worked hard for a year. After paying the rent, the food left over was not even enough to feed themselves. They had to dig wild vegetables and do odd jobs to survive.

    But this year is different from previous years. The lord has recruited workers several times in succession, and has wiped out all the young men and women who were originally farm laborers. Seeing that spring plowing is approaching, only some old people, young women and children are left.

    In the past, farmers begged their landlords to rent land for farming, but this year it was completely reversed. The gentry who owned land at home lowered the rent again and again, but no one was willing to renew the lease.

    The reason is simple. Working part-time in the fish processing factory run by the lord of the city can make much more money than farming.

    For the first time, the landowners in another world experienced the terrible scissor gap between workers and peasants.

    Of course, having so much land abandoned is not what Luo Jie wants to see.

    He simply hired old farmers who were no longer as physically strong as young people but had more experience to cultivate the land under the name of the lord's mansion.

    Although this type of large-scale farm-style employment requires far more costs than the traditional form of land rent, it also needs to fully bear the risks of reduced production and cessation of production caused by climate disasters.

    But Luo Jie originally looked down on the harvest from the land. The fishing and processing one-stop service that had entered a virtuous circle and Haiqingcheng's commercial tax revenue provided him with a steady stream of cash flow, and he was fully capable of taking part of it.  Feed back agriculture.

    "However, this agricultural subsidy, which is purely to ensure that cultivated land will not be abandoned, has dug up the lifeblood of large landowners who rely entirely on land rent.

    Farming the land for the lord not only pays monthly wages, but also converts into food that is more than the harvest of a farmer who owns his own land in a year. In this case, not to mention just reducing the land rent to half, even if the land rent is not collected,  In comparison, there is no competitiveness at all.

    Country people don¡¯t have much education, but they are very good at accounting!

    The big landowners around Haiqing City are almost on the verge of collapse. Now it is no longer a question of whether to collect land rent. Unless they follow Luo Jie's example and pay people to farm the land, there will be no farmers to join them.  about.

    But what are they planning?

    They had never thought of filing a joint complaint to the Imperial Capital, but then they thought about it and collapsed on the spot - what were they suing for?

    Farmers are not slaves. They work for whomever they are willing to work. The lords did not openly rob their land and did not restrict the freedom of the farmers. Just because they could not afford to pay the farmers, they went to the imperial capital to complain.  ?

    ? ??When you took the initiative to invite Ying to the fiefdom, didn't you want to use yourself as bait to lure out the killer who attacked at night?  Why do you seem to be doing the opposite?  "

    "About this matter let's go for a walk around the city first, so that you can more easily understand what I am doing."

    The two of them put on their clothes, got on the carriage that had been waiting in the courtyard, and slowly drove out of the lord's mansion under the tight guard of a group of soldiers.

    Along the way, no matter whether they were pedestrians or vehicles, everyone who saw this carriage with the lord's emblem stepped aside to get out of the way. Many people even bowed to the carriage and saluted, their eyes full of reverence and gratitude.

    "Esdeath" was used to seeing the fear and avoidance of nobles from the residents of the imperial capital, but the attitude shown by the residents of Haiqing City was quite novel.

    Her pleasure is to abuse and ravage, but that is only against the enemies of the empire. For the ordinary people who are law-abiding under the empire, she is still happy to see the prosperous and peaceful scene in front of her.

    "Wait a minute." "Esdeath" stopped the carriage and bought a bunch of croquettes on the roadside. After taking a bite, his eyes widened unexpectedly. He threw a gold coin to the boss as a reward. He turned to Luo Jie and said, "Taste  Not bad, do you want to try it?" (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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