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Chapter 173 Summer and Autumn Storms in Guyang County

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    When Zhao Ran met with Zhang Yunzhao, the Supervisor of Xizhenwu Palace, Zhang Yunzhao gave him an order to start the matter within three months. The reason for such a deadline was that Zhang Yunzhao had already been keenly aware of the entire dragon situation this year.  The grain harvest in Anfu is not optimistic.

    From March to early June, there was no rain in northern Sichuan. There was still river water for irrigation in the farmland along the river. However, in the central areas of the counties, especially around the county towns, the streams almost bottomed out and many fields were drained.  We can only rely on well water to water our crops.  Not only Longan Prefecture was affected, Baoning Prefecture and the northwest of Kuizhou Prefecture were also in an increasingly serious drought.

    In addition to the drought, the ongoing Ming Xia War in Songfanwei also lasted for three years, causing the entire northern Sichuan to become increasingly poor in supplies. This will also have a great impact on farmers, making them more likely to survive the drought safely.  reduce.

    Zhang Yunzhao is worried that once the drought continues, the entire Long'an Mansion will fall into a huge disaster. As the de facto head of the mansion, he dare not imagine what the consequences will be.

    In order to take precautions, Zhang Yunzhao and Long'an Prefecture Magistrate Feng have met in secret many times to discuss how to deal with disasters.  When Zhao Ran returned to Guyang County and began to prepare for the charity fund loan, Zhang Yunzhao conveyed to Zhao Ran his request to speed up the charity fund preparation process through Jing Zhimo.

    As the time gradually entered autumn, Zhang Yunzhao began to appear more anxious. The news fed back from various counties was extremely pessimistic. This year's comprehensive production reduction is an indisputable fact. At least half of the fields will have a production reduction of more than 70%, and one-third of them will be reduced by more than 70%.  It is certain that the grain fields will lose their harvest.

    Zhang Yunzhao's letters to Zhao Ran became more and more frequent, urging him almost every day to issue charity loans as soon as possible to prevent farmers from fleeing from famine on a large scale. If this happens, the famine in the entire Guyang County will not just be this year, but the impact will be  It will last three to five years!  The three-month period he gave Zhao Ran was originally intended to be a pilot project to see the effects, but now there is not that much time. Zhang Yunzhao meant that if Zhao Ran successfully issued the loan before the end of July, the whole government would have to wait until the end of September to see the results.  The county is fully open!  For this reason, he specially wrote to Song Zhiyuan of Wuji Academy, asking Song Zhiyuan to fully support Zhao Ran in issuing charity loans. At the same time, he asked Magistrate Feng to issue a formal document to Kong County Magistrate, asking Guyang County Government to fully cooperate.

    With Zhang Yunzhao¡¯s strong promotion, the entire Guyang County moved quickly, and Zhao Ran¡¯s process of organizing charity funds suddenly accelerated.

    In mid-July of the 15th year of Jiajing, the charity fund opened by the Charity Hall in the east of Guyang County officially disbursed funds to farmers in the county. In order to spread the news as soon as possible, Zhao Ran mobilized the poor people who were receiving assistance in the Charity Hall to  These people were divided into more than ten groups, traveling from village to village, and acted as "salesmen" for lending charity funds.  Their task is to go directly to every village in the county, publicize the charity funds in place, and then handle various documents on site.  With these documents, farmers who need loans can go to the Charity Hall to receive charity loans. Zhao Ran finally applies for young crop money from the Guyang County Household House and collects the money from the Long'an government office.

    The amount of charity loans issued by Charity Hall varies according to the degree of disaster of farmers, ranging from 10 taels to 20 taels, of which one-third is used as farmers' half-year ration money, and one-third is used to purchase seeds.  , and the remaining one-third repairs or purchases agricultural tools and prepares for turnover.

    As soon as this point-to-point door-to-door service lending method came out, it immediately showed its powerful power. From mid-July to the end of July, in just ten days, Zhao Ran¡¯s initial investment of 5,000 taels was used up, and he benefited  There are more than 300 farmers.  After spending a huge amount of money, Zhao Ran received excellent feedback immediately - the merit power in his Qi sea increased rapidly, and the situation was very gratifying.

    Compared with helping people repair their houses, showing condolences to the poor, and providing food, the amount of merit that increased in the Qi Sea this time was completely different. In the past, every three to five strands of merit could be converted into a trace of mana, but now the amount of merit gained  Every strand of power can be converted into three to five strands of mana!  Of course, the transformation of merit power and magic power is not a simple numerical relationship, but the huge difference in its effect can be clearly perceived. From this, Zhao Ran has further knowledge and understanding of the connotation of merit.

    After the five thousand taels of charity money are loaned out, Zhao Ran can theoretically take these loan agreements to the county government to apply for young crops money, and then go to the government government youth warehouse to receive real money. However, in practice, this process takes a while.  , with the full cooperation of Wujiyuan and the county government in the county, and the full support of Xizhenwu Palace and the government government in the government, Zhao Ran compressed the process to seven days.  Moreover, the green crop money received will be depleted, about 10% to 15%. In other words, Zhao Ran's first investment of 5,000 taels of silver will end up with a deficit of about 500 to 750 taels.  .

    Zhao Ran is not afraid of losing money, but he cannot ignore the seven-day gap period. Fortunately, he has a lot of money.Angry and rich, he immediately took out the money and invested another five thousand taels of silver to support the loan turnover of the charity fund, so that the charity fund could run smoothly.

    In the next month, the lending of charity funds reached a peak, especially on the tenth day of August. Zhao Ran's merit power increased by hundreds of strands. You must know that in terms of thickness, each strand of merit  The power is more than ten times that of before!  It took Zhao Ran a full night to convert all of it into mana.

    Zhao Ran verified his magic power according to the "Innate Merit Sutra". Just a month ago, he could only light a flame about three inches high from his fingers, but now the flame is more than three feet high.  , and wraps around the arm like a huge torch.  Zhao Ran looked at the blazing flames and felt frightened. He was really frightened at first. He shook his hands and tried to throw the torch away, but he couldn't throw it away for a long time. Later, he looked up the scriptures and found out that this was the case.  It belongs to the category of Shenxiao thunder method, which is not something that can be done easily.

    Fortunately, although the flame temperature is very high, it will not affect him as the master, otherwise it would really be a joke of playing with fire and burning oneself.

    Zhao Ran¡¯s charity loan was very successful, but it soon caused a big problem - the money was distributed, but the money could not be used as food, and food could not be grown when planted in the ground.

    Zhao Ran released tens of thousands of taels of silver, which soon had an impact on grain prices in Guyang County.  According to the previous estimates of Zhao Ran and the county government, the grain in Guyang County can consume this amount of silver. What's more, the ten thousand taels of silver will not enter the market all at once, but will be used in installments within half a year. This gives Zhao Ran  He Guyang County allocates grain and seeds, leaving room for control.  But the current situation is that in less than September, the price of grain in Guyang County has risen from thirty cents per dou to one hundred cents per dou. The price of grain has more than tripled!

    This situation is extremely serious. If grain prices remain at this level, the 10 or 20 taels of silver loaned to farmers will be reduced by three times. The lending of charity funds will not be able to solve the problem of farmers surviving the disaster years.

    For Zhao Ran, the most intuitive feeling is that as September approaches, the merit power growing in his body begins to become gradually thinner. Compared with the thick merit power at the beginning, the effectiveness of transforming mana becomes more and more.  Coming weaker and weaker.

    After asking around for a while, both Zhao Ran and the county government immediately figured out the reason: This was a unified behavior of the wealthy gentry in Guyang County, and they were hoarding!

    Zhao Ran and County Magistrate Kong immediately reported this situation to the Xizhenwu Palace and the government office. Magistrate Kong was very troubled by this. He personally sat in the county government office and convened Guyang County's wealthy gentry for discussion, hoping to force the wealthy gentry to release grain.  Selling, but the result was of course disappointing. The wealthy gentry used various excuses to evade, but in short they did not sell food.

    Seeing that the negotiation failed, Zhao Ran directly proposed a solution to the problem to Zhang Yunzhao through Jing Zhimo: severely crack down on these hoarding wealthy gentry, and if necessary, they would not hesitate to kill people to establish their power!

    Zhao Ran's suggestion can undoubtedly have a deterrent effect, and it will have immediate results, but the consequences are not something that everyone can bear. Zhang Yunzhao and Magistrate Feng were unable to make this determination for a while.

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