Chapter 55 Two million taels

After Hai Rui left, within two days, news came. Hai Rui and Lu Yi jointly formulated a charter. Generally speaking, it was to redeem land equally. For all less than 100 mu, you only need to pay the work fee and replace the land deed. For more than 100 mu to 1,000 mu, more than 1,000 mu to 1,000 mu, the price is stairs.

A total of 2 million taels were recorded in all aspects.

The reason why I have so much money is thanks to Hai Rui and Lu Yi for their joint cooperation. Hai Rui's cleanse of the ground on Haining is so clean that it is impossible for local tyrants to conceal the reports. As long as there is land, they must pay.

On the other hand, Lu Yi knew the Jiaxing family too well. After all, Jiaxing was too close to Songjiang. For the local snake of the Lu family, it was not a problem to investigate who these lands belonged to. Some of the methods of the Jiaxing family were completely useless, such as scattering the land under different names. After all, many large families have never had many family children.

But Lu Yi came up with a cruel thing, which was to directly record it under the head of these people's houses as the private property of these registered people.

This is a problem.

Every big family is not a solid piece of iron. Lu Yi is the most typical example. If Lu Shen had not been an official outside for many years, Lu Yi was sick and entrusted his property to his clan members, so that the clan members became more and more eager. They even felt that Lu Shen was the only son, and Lu Yi was also a sick man, and he seemed to be unable to survive at any time. He wanted to eat Lu Shen's lineage completely.

Lu Shen would not make up his mind to move.

Lu Yi Tai understood the dirty things of the big family. His actions made the legitimate gentry of each family have to be careful. If one of them is not done well, it will become a bad debt that cannot be broken up within the family.

In this way, they would rather spend more money.

After all, the land in Jiangnan has always been priceless but not marketable. This is also related to the attributes of the aristocratic families. As mentioned earlier, these aristocratic families value political interests over economic interests. In fact, the land output is not too much. It is just to seek stability, as long as it can support the family to be an official. These families are more seeking political influence attached to the land. After all, in ancient China, power was always more important than money.

In addition, Lu Yi also invited some old relatives and friends. If some families bid too much, the crossing dragon on Songjiang River is not impossible to come to Jiaxing Mansion to take a bite. If nothing else, the Xu family will definitely be interested.

Anyway, the Xu family is supported by Master Xu. Zhou Mengchen also wants to pay attention to the Xu family’s goodness and will give him some support. In this way, all the land in Haining County will be sold at a sky-high price of 2 million taels.

The price of some land is as high as ten taels per mu.

It's almost up to the price of buying a piece of land.

Another point is the support and tacit consent of the Xiang family in Jiaxing. The status of the Xiang family in Jiaxing is beyond doubt. If the Xiang family in Jiaxing had come forward and contacted the aristocratic family in Jiaxing, everyone would have played tacit understanding together, the price would not have been so inflated.

But the Xiang family made up their minds and didn't make any progress. They were even ready to abandon all the land in Haining. Anyway, the Xiang family had a great career and it would be fine to suffer any losses. But if they made their way forward, they would face Zhou Mengchen, who was in the limelight.

At that time, the other families in Jiaxing will benefit, while the Xiang family in Jiaxing will be remembered by Zhou Mengchen.

How could Xiang Yuanbian agree?

The Xiang family did not come forward and the Jiaxing families could not unite, which is also a reason.

However, the news from Haining County is not all good news. There are two news. The first news is that Haining County has two million taels. It is impossible to pay it at one time. After all, it is not that family that has hundreds of thousands of taels of cash.

All families need to raise money.

However, Zhou Mengchen didn't care. After all, a small number of these two million taels were small families. The rest were from aristocratic families. These families could run away and could not owe to the government anyway. The credit of their families was not a few years or decades, and some were a hundred years or hundreds of years. Some people even regarded the credit of their families as more important than their own lives. As long as they recognized it, they would definitely not count it.

Zhou Mengchen could even use the IOUs of these families as silver notes.

Another news is that Zhou Mengchen heard that the land prices of garrisons in various places fell accordingly. It is estimated that all garrisons will not have high prices in the future.

In fact, it can be seen from the fact that some families have to raise money that this amount has actually exceeded the psychological reserve price of some families. However, it is just that they cannot give up for various reasons, such as family reputation, etc., or that there is no time to clean up the problems associated with these lands.

The situation forced them to raise prices.

But with the lessons of Haining County.

Some confident families naturally dare to hold the land of the garrison, but some families with weak families, after careful consideration, they all think that the land is not cost-effective in holding it in their hands, so they naturally have the idea of ​​selling the land. Once this idea is too many, the land prices of garrisons in various places will naturally drop sharply.

However, Zhou Mengchen smiled when he found out.

Yes, Zhou Mengchen wanted to raise some money in Haining to solve the urgent problem. Isn’t there any solution? But after having this money, it will not be used in the future. Zhou Mengchen has some solutions and uses this money to make money. As for the other wards, Zhou Mengchen focused on military affairs.

Money is a secondary issue. However, Zhou Mengchen made a good start in Haining County, and the other families in other garrisons would not be too persistent. It can be seen from their selling of these lands.

After Zhou Mengchen learned about Haining carefully, he immediately said, "Call Qi Jiguang here."

Xu Wei said: "Sir, Earl Qi is already waiting outside."

Zhou Mengchen laughed and said, "He really can't wait." Then he immediately sent someone to call Qi Jiguang over.

After Qi Jiguang came in to salute, he immediately said, "Sir, Haining County belongs to Zhejiang, and this silver is used for the army. Should I control the general of Zhejiang?"

Zhou Mengchen said, "You came so fast, but the amount of money is too big to go. I can't give it to you."

Zhou Mengchen understood Qi Jiguang's mentality very well. In the past few months in Zhejiang, Qi Jiguang has been writing letters to complain and asking for help from his teacher. Why? If you say a thousand words, you will have no money and no illness.

As mentioned earlier, Zhou Mengchen left three thousand cavalry in Suzhou and used it as Zhou Mengchen's central army. Qi Jiguang only brought his own personal soldiers to Zhejiang to take office. However, after arriving, he found that the most combat-capable army in Zhejiang was the army of former Zhejiang General Yu Dayou, who was now transferred to Zhoushan, and Yu Dayou was also appointed as the general officer of the East China Sea Navy. In other words, Yu Dayou no longer belonged to Qi Jiguang's management, and the two were on the same level.

Qi Jiguang counted the troops he had at hand. There was a pile of mud on the coastal garrisons, which could not be used. After counting, there was a Chuzhou soldier who looked good, but only one or two thousand people. In addition, there were many soldiers from all over the country. If we only looked at the guards and the rural soldiers, Qi Jiguang was in charge of more than 100,000 troops. But in fact, the Chuzhou soldiers who were fighting were the Chuzhou soldiers.

Although this state is in Zhejiang, it is mountainous and mine-rich, and the mountain people are strong. In addition, since its founding, many mines have been infringed here in Chuzhou. The local army in this state has often suppressed and is an army with combat experience. Therefore, after investigating Chuzhou, there were several good battles.

However, the Chuzhou soldiers came from Chuzhou for several years in the 30th year of Jiajing, and lost many generals and officials. In addition, the problems with military pay were not known. Now I don’t know how much combat effectiveness can be.

That is, the general of the Count and General, and he was also a general who had led tens of thousands of troops. Now his troops are not even as powerful as the Datong garrison, or Thousand Houses? How could Qi Jiguang bear this? He has always wanted to recruit soldiers and expand his army.

But if you want to do all this, you have to be rich.

Zhou Mengchen had no money, so Qi Jiguang had no money. Without seeing the smell of money, he hurried over.

But when Qi Jiguang heard Zhou Mengchen say this, he could no longer sit still and said, "Teacher, no. If the army is not expanded, the situation in Zhejiang will never be able to hold on."
Chapter completed!