Chapter 389 I'm willing to suffer

The wheat in the field was still green. Old Zhou reached out and touched the thin husks on the ears of wheat. The fine spring rain wet his hands gently.

He looked down at the wheat roots in the wheat field that were rapidly absorbing the spring rain, and couldn't help but say happily, "This rain is so good."

Zhou Dalang wiped the rain on his face, nodded repeatedly, "Yes, it happened just in time, just in time to grout the wheat."

Old Zhou Tou spent a day walking all the fields planted with winter wheat. Like him, there were quite a few people in the village who came out to look at the wheat fields in the rain.

The vast fields are dotted with people wearing coir raincoats walking back and forth.

On this day, many people were drenched by the rain in Luojiang County, among them those who got wet while walking in the fields were the happiest.

County Magistrate Yang, who was also drenched by the rain, was not very happy. He quickly walked into the main room, pulled off the coir raincoat and threw it to his followers. In the hands of the servants.

The master who greeted him paused for a moment, and quickly asked: "My lord, is there something wrong with the front office?"

"It's okay!" Is that why you are even more angry?

Yang Heshu sat down on the chair, and couldn't help frowning, "Is the interest rate of one tael of silver a month and twelve cents high?"

The master said: "Not high."

"It's not high, why is no one coming to credit cattle?" Yang Heshu said: "It's been five days, and there are only six households in Luojiang County who have come to borrow steers on credit. Now that a new round of spring plowing is about to start, there is no one. Exciting?"

The master smiled and said: "Why should you be anxious, my lord? For a poor family, let alone three or four taels, even three or four pennies are a big deal. If you really want to sell the cow on credit, you might as well relax some requirements. I believe it will take less than three days. Cattle can be sold on credit.”

"If you relax it further, you will lend the cattle to the squires on credit."

The master smiled and said, "Why not? Anyway, cattle are used for farming."

Yang Heshu glanced at the master indifferently.

The master froze, and said with a stiff smile, "My lord?"

Yang Heshu flicked his robe and asked, "Does this officer look like an idiot?"

After all, he got up and left.

The master froze, trying to catch up, but couldn't hold back, and blushed for a while.

Wan Tian, ​​Yang Heshu's follower, quickly chased after him, "Master, why are you getting angry just talking about it?"

Yang Heshu snorted.

Wan Tian said: "Actually, I think what the master said is right, so many cows need to eat a lot of fodder every day, and they can't get credit all the time. The young master is upset when he sees it, isn't he?"

"What do you know?" Yang Heshu said angrily, "I sent so many cows. Do you think it's a business of buying and selling? Do you know that every time a cow is sold on credit, the county government and I will lose money."

"I don't care about them being like the Zhou family who first bought the cattle on credit and then made me a fortune. It's because they are poor, so I'm willing to take such a harmless loss," Yang Heshu said, "But the profits from this loss What's the deal with a squire who is not short of money?"

Wan Tian had a question on his forehead, obviously he didn't understand.

Yang Heshu patted him on the head bitterly, and said, "Why are you so stupid, worse than a child, thanks to the fact that you have been studying with me for so many years."

Yang Heshu went back to the house and asked after changing into fresh clothes: "You know that kid, the one named Man Bao, who borrowed silver and exchanged it for copper plates to buy cattle, how much did I lose?"

Wan Tian said with a confused face: "Didn't the young master say that what the county government borrowed was silver, and what they wanted back was also silver? Although there is a price difference between copper and silver, we actually did not lose money."

"If you say you're stupid, don't believe me. The county government didn't lose money on credit, but we lost money when we sold the cows. When we bought these cows, the county government and I paid silver, not copper coins!"

Yang Heshu said: "This batch of cattle to be borrowed on credit is all priced at cost, and the price is set in silver. I didn't know there was such a big difference between silver and copper coins..."

Yang Heshu paused and said, "So, we are putting every cow in the cowshed at a loss."

What made him angry was that no one came to take advantage of him in such a loss-making business, he was really pissed off!

Wan Tian finally understood the relationship during this period, and couldn't help becoming anxious, "Then young master, why did you deliberately ask people who came to buy cattle on credit at the gate of the county government office to first credit silver, and then exchange it for copper coins to buy cattle? , isn't that cheating yourself?"

"It doesn't count," Yang Heshu calmed down a little after taking a sip of tea, and said, "Although I paid a little money, the bulk of the money was paid by the county government, and it was also the county government that got the hang of it, but at least the people are left alone." Affordable, isn't it?"

Wan Tian: ...Forgive him for being stupid, he really doesn't know the difference between this period. Isn't his young master the magistrate of Luojiang County now?

Didn't you cheat yourself if you cheated the county government?

"These people are poor. One cow is two more laborers. Their lives are easier. But those country gentry, they are not short of money. If the conditions are relaxed, they will definitely take all the cows without blinking an eye." , "Yang Heshu said: "Why should I suffer and let them take advantage?"

Wan Tian couldn't help muttering, "It's a loss anyway..."

"What do you know?" Yang Heshu knocked him on the head, and said: "Some losses are reaped, and some losses are not. Luojiang County was also severely affected by the disaster last year, and the tax was only exempted for one year. This year's autumn harvest will have to pay taxes... Forget it, forget it, you don’t even understand.”

"Then young master, if no one comes to credit the cows, what will happen to the cows in the cowshed?"

"What else can I do, I can only divide it."

"Huh?" Wan Tian opened his mouth wide.

Yang Heshu waved his hand and said: "Okay, on the way back just now, I heard the old officials in the yamen say that the spring plowing will start again after the spring rain, you go, call Master Zhang and the others, and let him inform Li Zheng, let's discuss how to divide the cattle."

Wan Tian closed his mouth and asked hesitantly, "Really?"

"It doesn't matter, keep these cows and feed them," Yang Heshu said: "Distribute them to each Li, so as to relieve the pressure of spring plowing."

As a county magistrate, his main duty is to persuade farmers and mulberry farmers.

How to persuade Nongsang?

In addition to going to the mountains and the countryside to do ideological construction and encouragement for farmers, sometimes they also need to provide certain material and technical support.

Supplies, including but not limited to seeds, agricultural tools and cattle, etc.

Seeds are generally supported on a large scale, and basically every family can get some. Of course, such activities vary depending on the situation of each county. At least as far as Man Bao remembers, her family has never been given seeds from the yamen.

As for farm tools, they will be given to those who are particularly poor, whose farm tools are seriously damaged, or simply don't have them.

Such precious things as farm cattle are generally the common property of the people in a mile, that is, they are used and cared for in turn.