ALL NOVEL Chapter 61 - Dig a canal
At noon on the second day, it was not long before the Su family finished their lunch, and a knock was heard outside. Young Jin took the hand wipe and dried her hands before going forward: “Come!” I thought that Chen Yaren should have come to this point.
As expected, it was Chen Yaren who returned from Hou Jiawan standing outside the door.
When he saw the young gold, he arched his hands with a smile and said, “The Su family girl, this thing is done.” The owner of the 16 acres of good land in Houjiawan is waiting for money, although the young gold has lowered the price, But still in his acceptance range, he nodded painfully and agreed: “There is only one thing, the crops planted in the field must be his family. The land will not return to you until the autumn harvest, you see this?”
The young gold is not the kind of person who has to be exhausted. If you want to come to that family and sell the land before the food is harvested, it must be that the family is in a hurry to use the money? He nodded and agreed.
Both the buyer and the seller agreed, and the business was completed. Young Jin went back to the room and took a hundred or two silver tickets and another twelve silvers came out and gave it to Chen Yaren: “There is also Uncle Lau Chen who helped me run this trip and exchanged the red deed back.”
Chen Yaren didn’t expect that the Su family looked at the tattered and actually there are silver tickets, and for a moment was stunned. Hearing the young Jin’s words, he hurriedly took over the silver: “Miss Su is kind, is this what we should do as dental workers?”
Chen Yaren’s work efficiency is also fast, and the red deed was sent over the next afternoon, and a few pieces of silver were refunded to the young gold: “Miss Su, the field money is 1042, and the red deed tax The fee is one or two or six dollars, and the other one will charge you three dollars. The total amount of money is 1,059. This kind of matchmaking sold 16 acres of land, and the money on both sides added up to half a silver.
Young Jin smiled and accepted the broken silver and red deeds handed over by Chen Yaren. He looked at the upper end of the red deeds and said “Su Youjin”, and squinted with a smile: “Thank you Uncle Chen.”
Chen Yaren smiled and said, “If there is any need for Miss Su in the future, despite coming to me, I will naturally try my best to find a good field for the girl at the right price.”
Young Jin nodded with a smile, and then sent away Chen Yaren.
Put the red deed on the table in the main room and showed it to the Su family. All of them looked at it with wide eyes, as if a flower could be seen above.
Su Shi swallowed, and asked in disbelief: “Is the 16 acres of land bought?” When Chen Yaren came to the house, in order to avoid suspicion, Su Shi did not show up, but vaguely knew that her daughter would buy Land, who would have thought she bought 16 acres of land in one go!
Young Jin nodded with a smile, then put away the title deeds and said: “Even if there is no money in our family in the future, there will still be more than a dozen acres of land in our hands. Isn’t it impossible to eat?” The little seven in his arms had less yellow hair and smiled: “I always have to dowry for some of my sisters!”
When I heard You Jin say this, several younger sisters who didn’t know anything about humans laughed coquettishly, but it was Su’s surprise that the eldest daughter was paving the way for a few children in the future! I remembered that I didn’t marry a dowry into Yue’s house, and after more than ten years of tight hands, I heartily agreed with my daughter’s approach: “We don’t have silver in our hands? Do we want to buy more land?” Su Shi Having lived in the village for a lifetime, I naturally felt that the land was the most secure. After the eldest daughter said this, she still gave birth to more land.
“Mother, we now have 16 acres of good land, plus four acres of wasteland and several acres of depressions in front of our home!” You Jin said with a smile: “The silver in our hands always wants to continue to produce silver, You ca n’t sit and eat in the sky. ”Now there are more than 500 or two silvers in hand. In Luohe Prefecture, you will also be able to buy a small shop facing the street. You are a weak woman at home. If you can sell things and make money, it is easier than making food in the soil. Too.
Su Shi listened to her daughter’s words, and no longer expressed any opinions. After all, the money was earned by her daughter.
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Let’s talk about Xiao Linyu’s end. This time, Luohe Prefecture came back to repair the ancestral tomb so that he could return to his hometown next year to worship his ancestors. Second, he set up an inland waterway for Luohe Prefecture. Although the Xiao family is not a shipping fortune, but Xiao Linyu’s father began to get involved in inland shipping, and now that the second uncle of the Xiao family is the official of the Chaohu Ministry, under his protection, the Xiao family in inland shipping It’s more delicious. This time, Xiao Linyu went to Luohe Prefecture from the north of the capital because there was news from North Korea that Shengshang was going to connect the inland waterway to Luohe Prefecture. The Xiao family hurried back to Luohe Prefecture.
Nowadays, the widest channel near the Luohe Prefecture town is the Wuli Bridge, which is not suitable for inland navigation, but only the Wuli Bridge, which is only four or five meters wide. If you really want to do inland navigation, you have to use another Choosing a site is either digging a canal channel. Before Xiao Linyu came, the second uncle had said that Sheng Shang still wanted to dig a river channel, but it was quite expensive to dig a river channel, and he had not made a decision for a while, so Xiao Linyu arrived in Luohe Prefecture for ten days while waiting for a letter from Beijing On the other side, you can explore the places near Luohe Prefecture where you can open an inland wharf.
In the Xiaojiabeiyuan, Xiao Linyu read the urgency letter with the capital of 800 miles in his hand and then read it carefully, then put it on the candlelight to light it, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, standing in the middle of the hall. The young man said: “The holy intention has been decided. The letter of the Second Uncle mentioned that the river should be excavated along the south side of Luohe Prefecture. Now the river channel is only about one foot, and it is estimated that it is to be five or six feet wide and fifty miles south. After receiving it in the canal leading to the capital, Luohe Prefecture ’s inland waterway is also open. “
The middle-aged man was one of the Xiao’s effective assistants in the business. He was named Xiao Han, and was playing with Xiao Linyu’s father. When Xiao Linyu came to Luohe Prefecture, the Xiao family sent Xiao Han over. Assist him one or two. After listening to the words of the young master, Xiao Han said: “Isn’t the second old man saying that there is a shortage of money in the DPRK and China, why do we have to dig a canal?”
“The second uncle said that Shengsheng intends to let private merchants involved in inland shipping raise funds to dig the canal. After the canal is laid and transported, anyone who has invested more than 150,000 in the canal can be exempted from taxation for inland shipping for ten years and overseas shipping. Five years of taxation. “Xiao Linyu said to Xiao Han that Mr. Xiao Er mentioned in his letter:” There is not much tax for one year of inland shipping, but it can be used for offshore shipping. Just my family, the annual tax is nearly 30,000. Two, this deal only makes no money. “
Although the risks of offshore shipping are large and the profits can be even greater, a large part of the Xiao family ’s income comes from offshore shipping. If the five-year offshore shipping tax can be reduced or exempted, it is really impressive. Xiao Hangong said: “The North Korea and China will take 150,000 yuan in one breath, and those small shipping people will naturally not be able to afford it. In this way, only us can get a slice of the soup here. An old acquaintance. “
Xiao Linyu nodded and said: “Once the news of Luohe Prefecture’s excavation of the canal is heard, the price of the land along the coast must also be rising. Uncle Xiao Han, you have worked harder these two days. The land outside the town of Luohe Prefecture is two or three miles away. All can be stored first. “Now the land price outside Luohe Prefecture is not expensive. A few acres of land and one acre of land are recovered. Just waiting for the news of the canal excavation, that is a tens of thousands of prices.
The Xiao family moved fast, and several other people doing inland navigation were not slow. However, on the 3rd and 5th, fields on both banks of the river outside Luohe Prefecture were taken into account. The good land, which was originally two or two silver acres, has now been fired to twenty-one acres. Even the four acres of wasteland originally bought by the young gold family have now risen in value to twelve acres of acres. Now Luohe State City Outside the city, there was news that Luohe Prefecture was about to dig a canal. Many of those who had sold the fields early had beaten their chests and felt annoyed. For a time, the whole Luohe Prefecture was caught in a frantic land buying storm.
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The Su family is now selling sour plum soup in the city. This kind of news will certainly not be missed. Today is the 17th time when Jin Jin heard that a customer mentioned to himself that the Wuli Bridge was about to dig a canal: “Sujia girl Have you heard? You are going to dig a canal over Wuli Bridge! If your family has land by the river, you must be able to earn money for young and old! ” The woman, probably knew that the Su family lived at Wuliqiao.
Young Jin sighed with a smile: “If our family has land, now I am waiting at home with Erlang legs waiting for someone to serve. Where else would I sell sour plum soup under the big sun, do you say that?”
When the woman heard it, she felt that she sighed: “Yes, you said that this is really a fate for everyone. Who can think that those wastelands can now sell more than a dozen or two silver acres? Earlier, we were asked to buy the ten-mu and 20-mu iron pots and iron. “After drinking sour plum soup, he packed a bamboo tube and took it away. The woman sighed and left.
As for the young gold with “no land at home”, I am very thankful that after buying 16 acres of good land in Houjiawan a few days ago, I bought another six acres on the edge of my original wasteland. Ten acres. At that time, the news that Luohe Prefecture was about to dig a canal had not yet been heard, so the young gold was still bought at a low price of two or two silver a mu.
A total of ten companies participated in this investment to dig the canal. Less than half a month, 1.52 million of silver was collected and handed over to the court. There was enough money. The excavation of the canal outside the Wuli Bridge was also put on the agenda, and it was only after the summer. When the dry season of autumn comes, you can dig the canal.
For the merchants, the canal was cut to facilitate trade, but for the frontier defense, Luohe Prefecture was the stronghold north of Dafeng. Once war broke out, it would take more than half a day to transport grain and grass by water than by land. Although the Holy Spirit is old today, it is also very cost-effective for the military. For the Dafeng Bandai River, it is also imperative to dig the Luohezhou Canal.
But ordinary people don’t understand this. They only care about whether they can earn money and can eat their stomachs. The imperial court has nothing to do with them, such as young gold.