After signing this contract, Guo Dan immediately became less powerful and bowed to Liang Kui and other major landlords and said with a smile: "Sir, this will be a historic contract and will surely be recorded in history.

Because this contract will rebuild the glory of Weihui Mansion in the past, we should have celebrated it well, but the situation in Weihui Mansion is really not suitable to celebrate. We will postpone this celebration until one year later. I promise that after a year, you will be very glad to sign this contract, and your life will definitely be much better than it is now."

It turns out that there are so many things, so we won’t leave it to have dinner here.

Many landlords showed contempt. They were already so late and asked us to go home to eat.

Liang Kui smiled and said, "Okay, then let's celebrate again in a year."

"One word is determined."

After sending them away, Zhu Yiliu said, "Guo Dan, I think you are so cheap for them. Why do you help them pay taxes? If you exempt all the agricultural tax, what do you give to the court?"

This guy is still a little different from Xu Jirong. Because during the Zhang Juzheng period, Empress Dowager Li had the idea of ​​abolishing Wanli, so she was also cultivating him at that time. Later, when Wanli went to his tomb, he was the one who handled government affairs on his behalf.

This is why he was able to talk freely in the hall without any stage fright.

Guo Dan smiled bitterly and said, "I have no choice. I have to control the food and food prices. Without these as the basis, it will be difficult for industry and commerce to develop, and I will also find it difficult for me to control the situation in Weihui Mansion."

No matter which region you develop, the first step is to solve the food problem. If you don’t solve this problem, there is no way to talk about anything. Guo Danyan’s purpose is to control food.

Moreover, the price of grain should not be too high. If the price of grain is too high, all the money will be sucked away by the grain merchants, the currency will not be circulated, and other industries will not develop, especially in the service industry. People go to you to do business, and a meal will make people poor, so the genius will come here to do business.

Therefore, after the negotiations with Liang Kui and the others, Guo Dan did not stop. He began to meet with the big landlords in other counties to buy all their food.

When those landlords saw that Liang Kui and the others had signed, they should not behave themselves and honestly owe Guo Dan a contract.

In fact, they are not losing money. They can't sell the food there and it's hard to preserve it. So they might as well exchange some silver. Besides, they can now be confident that they will not pay taxes and formally take over the land they hide for themselves. Anyway, no matter how much land they have, they don't have to pay taxes.

In a few days, Guo Dan controlled 80% of the food in Weihui Mansion. Of course, he paid a small part of the money.

Although God has not done good things in recent years and has poor grain harvests, it does not mean that there is no grain. These big landlords occupy half of the land of Weihui Mansion and pay less taxes. There is no way to collect them from the construction of Luwang Mansion.

Therefore, there are many surpluses every year, so many of them can only raise mice. In short, it is drought, drought, flood, and flood.

Take out all their food to support the autumn harvest.

On the other hand, Guo Dan was recruiting workers frantically and began to divide the people by their jobs. Those who are about forty years old and have no skills and only know how to farm will become hired farmers.

The imperial court still had a lot of land here, so Guo Dan certainly would not plant it himself. He contracted all of this land to some small landlords who were on the verge of bankruptcy, and at the same time concentrated all the fragments of land in the hands of the people and transferred them together, because the people now have to find a job to get food immediately. If they grow their own fields, they cannot get food immediately.

Those little landlords are actually worse than those of the common people because they have some wealth, but at the same time their backing is not strong enough, and they all rely on themselves to fight. Therefore, the minions of Lu Wang specifically look for such little landlords and small merchants.

Many are already bankrupt.

Those who are not bankrupt can be lucky.

These small landlords got so much land and merged them together to form large-scale farmlands. It was really endless. They also transformed into one of the top landlords in Weihui Mansion. Moreover, Guo Dan also allocated oxen and farm tools again. All farmlands used livestock to cultivate land to minimize manpower.

In this way, productivity will be liberated from the farmland.

The notice also stated that when both husband and wife are working, the children go to school for free, which liberates women's labor force.

Of course, this is just beginning, and we are not going to work in the workshop immediately, but focusing on engineering.

A large number of young people are building docks, roads, warehouses, and rivers.

They all settle the bill every day, get as much as they do, and go to the grain store to buy grain with the money. Guo Dan took the money and paid them wages. The money was transferred here, and Guo Dan was losing money every day, and he had to bear more than 200,000 taels of tax.

But he got a rejuvenated Weihui Mansion.

The entire Weihui Mansion seemed to be alive. It was still tense a few days ago and wanted to fight and kill, but now it is not closed at night and not picking up the remains on the road.

This is of course worth it, because it will lay a solid foundation for the arrival of industry and commerce, and the stability maintenance costs will also fall in an avalanche.

"I have to admit that that kid is indeed amazing. After just a few days, the entire Weihui Mansion has returned to peace. Even if the Prime Minister comes here in person, it is impossible to do this."

Dong Ping stood on the hillside, looking at the busy people and the curling smoke from every household, and couldn't help but feel emotion. After a while, he turned his head to look at Tong Li and said, "Tong Xiaoqi, he is your subordinate, and you will benefit from being your boss."

Tong Li said with a smile and tears: "My lord is joking. Now, the humble rank is still confused about this. Who is the boss and who is the subordinate?"

When Dong Ping heard this, his face changed and said seriously: "You are Xiaoqi, and he is just a little captain. Of course you are his boss. You must keep this in mind, otherwise I will replace you."

Tong Li was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists and said, "I understand."

Dong Ping nodded and said, "In a few days, I will go back to Beijing to report my life. I will leave it to you temporarily. If anything happens, I will send a message to me immediately."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties."

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On the pier.

"Son-in-law, this is Brother Wang, and he is quite prestigious in this generation."

Chenchen came to Guo Dan with a bearded young man.

The beard hurriedly said, "I dare not, I dare not, all this is thanks to Captain Guo."

"How do you say this?" Guo Dan asked.

"No." As soon as he said that, the beard suddenly reacted and laughed: "Of course this is the blessing of the Captain Guo. If Captain Guo did not come, I would probably have to go up the mountain to be a robber."

Guo Tan nodded with a smile and asked, "What's your name?"

"Brother Wang."

"I asked it was your name."

"My name is Brother Wang." The beard said awkwardly.

"!"

In the future, I will be called Dad Guo, who will take advantage of him. Guo Dan said angrily: "Your father really knows how to name him, and I will leave this dock to you in the future."

The beard was so excited that he hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "I will definitely not disappoint Captain Guo because he respects him."

Guo Dan nodded and waved, "You go and do your business."

"yes."

Brother Wang was bribed by Guo Dan's people in the morning, and in the process of robbing grain, he gained a very high prestige. There are many others like him, and these people will be promoted to the supervisors here.

This was also what Guo Dan had arranged long ago.

"Son-in-law, look."

Chen Chen suddenly pointed to the east and said.

Guo Dan raised his eyes and saw more than 30 cargo ships coming up the river.

After a while, a short and fat man with a round body stood on the bow and shouted: "Nephew Guo Xian, Nephew Guo Xian."

It's Chen Ping.

Guo Dan waved his hand and walked over immediately.

When the boat landed, Chen Ping couldn't wait to get off the boat and looked around, "Oh, this has already been done."

Guo Dan snorted: "Mr. Chen, you have the nerve to say that if you want to come later, then I will do it myself. You can go back."

"Nephew, this is my fault. Sorry, sorry, I really didn't expect that you would settle it so quickly, and I thought I was too early to come." Chen Ping apologized repeatedly.

Guo Dan said: "Stop talking about these, have you brought the goods and silver?"

"Take it, bring it, bring it all."

Chen Pingzhi nodded, very embarrassed, such a big thing was delayed.

Guo Dan nodded and said, "I will hand over all the projects here to you. I will give you the expense account book for the past few days later, and you can pay me the money."

"Okay, no problem." Chen Ping nodded and agreed without saying a word.

Guo Dan didn't know how to do any project by himself, and he didn't know how to do this thing, and he was unwilling to devote his energy to it. At most, he invested. This project was contracted to Chen Ping, and Chen Ping had already gone to Daming Mansion to prepare, but Chen Ping did not expect Guo Dan to settle the place so quickly.

However, Chen Ping's arrival relieved Guo Dan a lot of pressure. Chen Ping himself kept the money for the project. He went to Yinuoya Bank to settle the bill directly. He not only brought a lot of money, but also brought a large amount of textile machines and other production tools.

Chen Ping was not afraid of Shilin's boycott, because all the projects he was doing now were in the hands of Guo Dan, so as long as he did not offend Guo Dan, he would make money and he had no worries.

But Zhou Feng and the others still have many concerns.

Yinuoyaxing.

"I invite you all to come today because my son-in-law has sent a message. He has taken over Weihui Mansion and asked me to tell you that if you are interested in going to Weihui Mansion to do business, you have to go now."

Kou Shouxin told Zhou Feng and others.

Kou Weisha was like before, standing next to Kou Shouxin, but this woman still couldn't get on the table.

Zhou Feng said in great surprise: "Brother Kou, a few days ago, we heard that the nephew had lost the news. I don't know where it was. After only a few days, why did the nephew take over Weihui Mansion?"

Kou Shouxin shook his head and said, "I don't know this. The letter does not explain this. The letter only says that he has taken over Weihui Mansion. If you are interested, go there quickly, otherwise he will have to find another way."

After hearing this, everyone couldn't help looking at each other.

Cao Da said embarrassedly: "But we are not prepared for anything now."

Kou Weisha said: "You just need to bring the money over."

"The money is not ready either." Cao Da said hurriedly.

Kou Shouxin said: "Then what do you mean?"

Cao Da said: "We are all very interested, but we have to give us some time to prepare. This is not a small amount of money."
To be continued...