No matter what difficulties and tragedies you encounter, life will always continue for those who survive.

On the one hand, the gentry and landlords brought by Liu Mingqi quickly transported livestock and food to compensate for the labor shortage caused by the losses of their families.

On the other hand, He Fei also raised a batch of funds to ask people from the surrounding villages to help the villagers rebuild their houses.

Fortunately it's summer, otherwise I wouldn't know where to rest at night.

Mao Shizhu also brought three thousand garrison troops over. He personally led the team deep into Daliang Mountain and conducted strict investigations on other native tribes that might appear inside.

Once an alien native is discovered, he will definitely capture these natives with thunder. He will kill them if he should, and will never be ruthless.

This is also Mao Shizhu's self-rescue.

If you do this again, Ge Songdao will definitely not be able to spare him.

What happened here, He Fei and Mao Shizhu each wrote a document and sent it to the Sichuan Governor's Office and the Southwest Governor's Office.

Liu Mingqi also attached what she saw and heard, which was to prove it to them.

Not blown.

That day, Mao Shizhu probably shed the most sweat in his life.

They are all scared.

Liu Mingqi didn't have to worry about planting tobacco seeds later.

First of all, Liu Mingqi himself has no experience.

Secondly, he is very confident in tobacco cultivation. After all, this is a large-scale plant and it is impossible to plant it more difficult.

Besides, Yibin is one of the best lands for growing tobacco.

Third, the gentry and landlords gave Liu Mingqi enough face and specially sent the best and most experienced tenants to plant them.

With the intention of these experienced masters, there is no need to direct them to do anything like a young man.

Nangong Qiucheng has a very strong action ability.

On the afternoon when he talked to Liu Mingqi, he actively contacted the big landlords outside Yibin City.

The landlords and gentry that He Fei found for Liu Mingqi were not considered big. The landlords and gentry were not interested in these things and would not participate for the time being.

They are not afraid of offending others at all. They have been rooted in Yibin for hundreds of years and have sufficient connections and abilities, and are pure local snakes.

Nangong Qiucheng found such landlords and gentry to talk about land transactions.

Now everyone has seen how Young Master Nangong talks about business.

There is no other trick, it is to spend money.

One thousand acres of land, will it be sold for 12,000 taels of silver?

Not selling?

What about 15,000 taels? How about 20,000 taels? What about 25,000 taels? If you agree, you will immediately give the silver notes to Guangde Money House.

In such a situation that is more than twice the market price, few landlords can withstand it.

Wang Zhiru was a little hesitant at first.

Later, when he saw Nangong Qiucheng so crazy, he bought five or six thousand acres in one go and kept working. He couldn't sit still, so he followed Nangong Qiucheng to buy one thousand acres.

The Wang family also has a lot of assets, but it is still possible to make money with Prince Yu like this.

After all, all the businesses that Liu Mingqi has done have been successful so far and has made a fortune.

Follow him to drink soup, and also to drink broth!

In the end, Nangong Qiucheng bought 27,000 acres of land, plus Wang Zhiru's one thousand acres, and swept 28,000 acres of land in a village outside Yibin City.

In fact, if you go to the countryside of Yibin, the land price will be much cheaper.

But Nangong Qiucheng was unwilling to go so far, believing that staying away from the city would bring many uncontrollable factors.

Even if it is a little more expensive around the city, it is also a place where the laws and regulations can be implemented well.

With his grandfather Nangong Ji's identity as deputy prime minister, are there any officials who dare to do whatever they want?

The two people's extensive purchases made a group of royal family members jealous.

This group of royal children who followed Liu Mingqi were relatively rich.

For example, Prince Cheng’s eldest son and youngest daughter are both here.

It would be no problem for them to buy one or two thousand acres of land each.

And they also know that in order to get tobacco to make cigarettes, Liu Mingqi will definitely promote large-scale planting of tobacco. You will definitely make a big profit by buying land to grow tobacco.

But the problem is that the children of the royal family cannot buy any agricultural-related land!

Even the farm where Liu Mingqi raised cattle was borrowed from the emperor's imperial farm, and he was not qualified to buy it.

This prevents the children of the royal family from occupying the land and constantly absorbing the land, resulting in less and less farmland for farmers.

This was the case with the royal family of the previous dynasty. It occupied no less than 35% of the land. Do you think the world will be in chaos?

So from the beginning, Taizu had to eliminate this hidden danger.

It doesn’t matter if you do business, it doesn’t matter if you raise the price of various supplies. Anyway, farmers will not rebel as long as they have food to farm.

As for those city people, wealthy businessmen, nobles, etc., who went bankrupt because of eating, drinking, having fun and buying things, it was also worthy of it.

Although Liu Mingqi was a little dissatisfied with her, she felt that it was inconvenient to do things without her own land.

But from a broad perspective, Liu Mingqi admired Taizu's decision and was full of admiration.

With his foresight, I have no problem living for three or five hundred years.

Besides, Taizu has more than just one move.

He also regarded "expanding wasteland" and "resetting refugees" as an assessment indicator for the performance of local officials.

For example, Sima Bei, the county magistrate in Xinye County, Nanyang, had opened up hundreds of thousands of acres of land to recruit refugees?

There is also the more powerful Governor Ge Songdao in Guizhou. While killing the brutal natives, he actively built roads and water conservancy construction, and resettled those poor families.

Twenty years ago, Guizhou had only more than two million people, but now there are more than four million people, doubled!

The reason is that as there is too much arable land, people are willing to have more children if they can eat enough, and children can be raised because they eat enough...

That's why there are so many people.

Although there are only about two million people in Xikang, before Ge Songdao went to Xikang, the total population there was only about eight hundred thousand.

It is also often harassed and robbed by many native tribes.

It was Ge Songdao who killed the natives again, either fled to Tubo or to the northwest grassland, which made Xikang safer.

So the landless people in other places were willing to move over to live with their families.

According to the current situation, in twenty years, the population of Xikang will definitely grow to more than one million people.

With so many reserve forces, sufficient logistical support is provided. Several important fortresses in Xikang can easily obtain materials and supplements, and it is excellent to defend the southwestern border of the empire.

This is also an important reason why the tycoons of the court all admire Ge Songdao very much.

It can also ensure peace in the three southwestern provinces, strongly suppress the surrounding countries and tribes, develop agriculture and enrich the population... How can such people not be used?

In other words, Ge Songdao's killing was too strong, otherwise he would at least be able to go along with Liu Renhuai, the governor of Jiangnan.

Although Liu Renhuai was in great success in Jiangnan, he greatly supported all kinds of disasters throughout the world over the years, ensuring that at least there would be no chaos.

But Jiangnan itself has a good foundation.

When it comes to rectifying the situation and thoroughly managing local areas, Ge Songdao should be sharper.

...

Just when Nangong Qiucheng and his friends bought land and Mao Shizhu brought three thousand soldiers into the mountains to encircle and search, a group of thousands of people from Nanzhao were rushing north overnight.

They were dressed in a very bad manner, at best, more than 200 people were wearing leather armor.

The weapons in the hands of this group of people are also very primitive, mostly very rough wooden guns and short swords.

But each of them is in their twenties or thirties. They are not tall but Kong Wu is powerful. They walk among the rugged and difficult mountain roads at a very fast speed.

When he arrived at a mountainous place, a man in the lead, who was at least 180 cm tall raised his hand and ordered his subordinates to take a break. Send a few people around to see the situation! Then send someone to hunt and get some water!"

"yes!"

A group of people scattered.

Most natives simply sat on the ground and seized the time to rest.

When I looked closer, I saw that these natives were very thin and had many vegetables on their faces. They were obviously malnourished and could not eat enough.

Even their great leader had a prominent cheekbones on his face.

He asked a thin man beside him and said, "Wish, how long will it take for us to get out?"

The thin man replied: "It will take about three or four days before we can reach Qianwei."

"There are no more fierce border troops in Jianwei?" asked the leader.
To be continued...