The Ming Dynasty’s Prodigal Son - Chapter 1667

[1667. Chapter 1585 Richest in the World]

Some people are foresight, while others are hindsight.

But soon… the exchange was overcrowded.

Almost all big businesses have now put down everything they are doing.

Some appeared at the exchange, and some… appeared at Yahang.

Wang Bushi was different from others. Others ran to the exchange, but he quickly mobilized all his strength and went directly to Yahang.

Even… countless fast horses, carrying Wang Bushi’s instructions, rushed to various prefectures and counties.

The exchange was ablaze.

Countless people are shouting, but on the other side, in Jinan Mansion…

This Jinan Mansion is thousands of miles away from the capital.

But if you have a fast horse and don’t sleep, you can arrive there in two days.

Of course… arriving in these two days requires a lot of costs and fast horses, and we can’t have the slightest mercy on these valuable fast horses. They usually need to be carefully supported. After running once, this horse It is almost useless, not only that, but also requires the maintenance of specialized knights, who must have an excellent physique, eat meat every day, and train on horses every day.

Of course…many businesses are training people and horses like this now.

Everyone knows that time… is money.

Jinan Prefecture has long been affected by the influence of the capital, and mourning is everywhere.

The first problem that occurred was that the stock price plummeted, which caused merchants to become cautious. The original large orders from merchants suddenly came to a halt for Jinan Prefecture’s purchase of large amounts of grain and many agricultural products.

In the past few years, due to the increase in commercial activities in the capital and the promotion of agricultural technology, Shandong has had bumper harvests for many years. Millions of craftsmen in the capital need to eat and drink, and the types of food have become richer. People in the capital need to To eat meat, you need to drink wine. Meat needs food to feed it, and wine also needs food to brew.

Therefore… in the Gyeonggi area, there are a large number of livestock workshops and a large number of wineries purchasing grain from all over the place, which makes landowners everywhere make a lot of money.

Seeing the profits, many gentry have been frantically annexing land, which has triggered a skyrocketing increase in land prices. However, because they have great expectations for the future, they even pay no attention to the cost. If they don’t have enough money, they borrow money from Xishan Bank. , and the initial investment in land also began to increase significantly. In order to increase production and meet the needs of the capital and Baoding Chief Envoy, they purchased a large number of cattle with loans, purchased fine seeds, and purchased fertilizers.

If this huge cost is invested, the harvest will be guaranteed despite droughts and floods. After all, no matter how much grain is grown and how much mulberry is produced, as long as it is placed in the market, there will be no worries about lack of sales.

This group of gentry almost cursed Fang Jifan in Beijing while enjoying huge economic benefits.

But this year… it suddenly plummeted.

All of a sudden, the merchants who originally came to purchase disappeared.

Almost all the gentry had mountains of food stored in their homes.

The gentry who originally thought… they would definitely make a fortune suddenly became anxious.

In the past, as gentry, they were almost insulated from the market. They were self-sufficient within their own land.

With thousands of acres of land, they have their own small oil-pressing workshop, with specialized people raising mulberries and weaving cloth. They eat the food they grow, and even if it is given to farm laborers, they also distribute food.

The only economic activity is to buy some salt and sell some home-pressed oil.

But with the emergence of specialized oil-pressing workshops and specialized weaving workshops, when large quantities of high-quality and low-priced goods appeared in the market, even the gentry realized that it was not worthwhile to be self-sufficient, so they purchased instead. As for the large-scale grain and raw silk produced by the family, they are sold out. Only in this way… can it be profitable.

And now…this large amount of raw silk and grain hoarding has almost destroyed the comfortable environment that all the gentry relied on to survive.

Having produced so much grain and raw silk, I couldn’t eat it all, and I couldn’t use it up. It also took up storage costs when it was hoarded. If you save for one more day, you will lose money.

The most important thing is that the large amount of money invested in the early stage has now been wasted.

The value of the land began to plummet…

The loans taken before had to be repaid every day.

It was like a rope tightening around their necks.

Only then did they realize… Qi Guogong’s death… was not a happy thing.

The abolition of the Eight Legged Legs has already made them exhausted and cursed endlessly.

But to abolish stereotyped writing would cut off their path to progress.

The huge shock caused by the market became the last straw for them.

So in Jinan Prefecture, mourning was everywhere.

A large amount of land is directly linked to Yahang.

However, no one is interested in the large amount of land listed in Yaxing, even though the price has plummeted again and again.

Some gentry were beginning to be unable to hold on any longer.

Especially after the abolition of meritorious titles, the imposition of taxes made them even worse.

Therefore… they had to bite the bullet and continue to sell land at lower prices, hoping to quickly withdraw funds and stop losses.

The scary thing is… when the price dropped again and again, the land that had originally risen to fifty taels of silver per acre, but after plummeting to seven or eight taels, became even more uninterested.

Just three days ago, a gentry from Changqing County, Jinan Prefecture, went bankrupt due to desperation or excessive borrowing and hanged himself.

This old gentleman was a wealthy man in Jinan Prefecture since the time of Emperor Taizu Gao. However, because he annexed land too quickly, he directly caused a break in the capital chain.

As soon as the news came out, the gentry who had previously celebrated the death of Duke Qi suddenly realized… that their survival could only depend on today.

At this moment, these gentry, who had read poetry and books, began to laugh and cry.

Almost all of the thirteen restaurants in Jinan Prefecture are deserted.

He didn’t even bother to put out the land he was selling.

But at this moment… Deng Jian came.

Deng Jian came to Jinan Prefecture on orders.

The land in Shandong… is both fertile and flat. It is simply fertile soil.

Although Wang Bushi sent many people to various states in the world to beat the time gap, what he valued most was Jinan, so he sent Deng Jian to come in person.

On the street… a man wearing big sunglasses and a huge gold chain hanging around his neck suddenly appeared.

This kind of dress is indeed ostentatious, but it was not new in Jinan city more than a month ago.

But now, they are different.

When Deng Jian showed up at the dental shop…

the clerk at the dental shop seemed too lazy to entertain him.

He asked him with his nostrils turned up in the sky: “Is it possible that the guest guest is also here to sell land?”

Deng Jian shook his head, with his nostrils turned up in the air even more than him, and said arrogantly: “Grandpa, I am here to buy land.”

The next moment, Ya Xing There fell into a suffocating silence.

Immediately afterwards… the dental shop clerk felt that his legs were weak in an instant. It was as if at this moment, he, who had been orphaned since childhood, saw his biological father Chen, who had been dead for thirty-five years, standing in the coffin. Climbed out.

His eyes shone with light, and then… he actually felt that the circles under his eyes were warm and the corners of his eyes were moist, which showed how excited he was inside at this moment.

Then he laughed.

Smiling with tears.

The guy said with enthusiasm: “Master… please, please… Master… your journey seems to be full of dust, come… please sit down, ah… drink tea, drink tea…”

Deng Jian said impatiently: “Stop blabbering… How much land is there here?”

“This… this… this…” The man was stunned. To be honest, he had never seen such a big fool.

Everyone is here to sell land, but you are here to buy land?

And with this tone, it seems that this person who was taken advantage of is not ordinary!

“I wonder how much land you want to buy.”

Deng Jian asked him tentatively: “How many do you have here?”

Damn it…

It was as if a sharp arrow had pierced his heart. This was an arrow of happiness.

The waiter said: “This… this… I have carefully selected fertile fields here… Why don’t you take a look at them first.”

“No.” Deng Jian shook his head, and then said simply: “How many are there? Get everything for dad, both good and bad.”

The guy was confused again, and he even began to suspect that Deng Jian was here to cause trouble.

“What?” Deng Jian was furious. He took out a wad of Ming Dynasty treasure notes from his sleeve and shouted, “You still look down on it, don’t you?”

Deng Jian couldn’t suppress his fiery temper.

Is this looking down upon others?

Well, I raised my hand and gave him a slap in the face.

Bang…

this slap was extremely crisp.

Then I heard Deng Jian roar: “Within one stick of incense, all the land will be sent to me. If you don’t send it, I will break your dog legs!” After the

boy was beaten, not only was he not angry, but he looked like himself As if I were married to a daughter-in-law, my whole body suddenly felt energetic and my face was beaming with smiles.

Then, the whole Yaxing was jumping up and down.

Up and down, from the shopkeeper to the waiters, there were more than ten people, from going to check, to making calculations, and finally the abacus beads were crackling, and then the seller was invited, and then they started to draw up the documents, and went to the Yamen to ask for the guarantor.

This dental shop is professional.

Anyway, this month, Deng Jian has been the only client, and everyone has been around him.

It only took a few hours…hundreds of thousands of acres of land to change hands.

At the end of the day, the shopkeeper, waiters, vendors, and guarantors lined up in a row, looking at Deng Jian with tears in their eyes, and sent Deng Jianhuan out of the dental shop.

People raised their hands and waved goodbye: “Walk slowly, walk slowly…”

…

that day…

in an inn in Jinan Prefecture.

Deng Jian took a break, and then dozens of people gathered to report the acquisition to Deng Jian.

“Master Deng, this little man has taken over 70,000 acres…”

“This little man…”

Deng Jian only nodded and listened attentively.

After everyone finished reporting, he stood up, opened his eyes, and said with great ambition: “Tomorrow… we will prepare to go to the county, and you few… will prepare to go to the various prefectures in Shandong… I heard that there are also places in Xishan Action, in short, we don’t want what Xishan wants. We can just follow him and eat some soup. If anyone dares to steal my young master’s business, I will kill him.”

Everyone was stunned.

Mr. Deng, which side are you on?

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There are dozens of characters alone. In addition, it also involves categories such as people’s hearts and the economy. Tiger dare not write quickly. If there is any place that is not explained clearly, or some things that cannot be ignored are omitted. things, the story becomes imperfect.

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(End of chapter)