Chapter 137: Catch the Strong
Fang Chen didn't keep it a secret and said directly: "I intend to build a farm in the county and drive all the debts to farm and raise pigs. The government did not mention 40% of the income, 40% of the gang, 10% of the gambling, and 10% of the remaining debts, and the share of the borrowers will be distributed. What do you think?"
Food is a hard currency, and meat is an important resource, and you will never have to worry about selling it.
More importantly, he lacks people and is very short of people. These gamblers and their families are good at human resources, and they just take the opportunity to use public interest to catch all the powerful men.
The four of them looked at each other. Speaking of which, apart from the gang, the four of them were the biggest creditors. Although they were a little moved, they were not sure whether they were losing or making money for the time being, and they didn't know how to choose.
After a long time, Lin Tong said carefully: "Gangmaster, I wonder how much this achievement can be?"
Fang Chen smiled and said, "Let me say that, I have more than 2,000 acres of land in Wanghai, and each acre can produce 50 kilograms of grain, and 10% is 50 kilograms. In total, there are more than 100,000 kilograms and more than 800 stones in a season, which is about 600 taels of silver."
The four of them suddenly became alive and used their poor mathematical knowledge to calculate it desperately. In the loan, their private share accounted for about 40%, and each person could get sixty taels, which was 120 taels per month, which was equivalent to ten taels of silver per month.
Is there a small amount of ten taels of silver? They have dozens of debt-owed gamblers in their hands. These guys have sold out their valuables long ago, and the money they usually get is pitifully small. It is enough to pay back a few pieces of silver every month, but more of them are dozens of copper coins, and there is no ten taels of silver at all.
After doing this, his heart suddenly became hot. Only 2,000 acres were ten taels. What if it was 5,000 acres, ten thousand acres? There were many people in the county who were good at gambling, but not everyone borrowed them. After all, it was very troublesome to recover the principal. They were usually selected, such as having a fixed job, having a unique job, or having a family and a house, and someone at home could make some money, etc.
I will never lend it to someone who is so poor that he has only a life left!
If you follow the gang leader’s method now, wouldn’t everyone be able to borrow money? If you don’t want money, you will die? It’s okay, you will be arrested and farmed!
"Okay, I've done it!" Xu Baoshun said happily, "Gangmaster, I have more than 60 debts in Feng'antang, and many of them want to borrow money. I can get one hundred in the past few days."
"Gang Master, I have more than 70 people in Yong'an Hall, and I can also gather a hundred people." At this time, another newly surrendered hall leader, Wei Qing, also spoke.
Wu Guan, the owner of Fu'an Street, was left unwilling to fall behind and said: "There are more than 70 gang leaders in Fu'an Street, so it's not difficult to get a hundred."
In the end, Lin Tong, who was in charge of Xin'an Street, opened his mouth and looked depressed. Most of the people who came to Xin'an Street to bet were outsiders, and they would leave after the transaction and would not borrow money at all.
However, not many residents nearby participated in gambling, mainly those merchants and some of their subordinates in the big market. These people are more rational and rarely borrow money. Even if they borrow some, they will pay them back quickly. If they don’t get a trap, they will not be able to trap people.
The gangs, including stolen men, coolies and messy small gangs in the market are all controlled by the Baishui Gang and will not come to the Iron Fist Gang Gambling House at all.
This will naturally make it difficult to get many people together.
He immediately said ashamed: "The leader of the gang, Xin'antang has only more than ten, and it should be possible to get twenty." When he spoke, his head was almost down.
"Hehe, Lao Lin, you can't do this, why don't I give it to you?" Xu Baoshun grinned and shook his eyes at him.
"Hmph!" Lin Tong turned his head and ignored this old man.
Fang Chen was a little amused and crying. Can this kind of thing be gathered together? How many more can he even look at Xu Baoshun without hesitation? This old man seemed to have a good brain.
"Okay, remember it first." He interrupted, "Don't think that everyone will be sent to the farm. It's better to have someone with your family. The more families you bring, the more land you can grow. If you are just a bachelor and a gambler, then do it? He will be unable to do it, can you still kill him? When you go back, you will figure out who can give it and who can't give it!"
"Yes!" all four of them responded embarrassedly.
In the era of no mechanization, farming depends on the population. In Wanghai Fang’s family, there are only more than 2,000 acres of land, because there are a large number of elderly, weak and lonely people. A normal family can grow twenty acres of land, and it is not a problem that there are many children or thirty acres of cattle.
So he would rather have to take the family and not the bachelor. After all, women and children are definitely more likely to be more disciplined than gambling ghosts. What's more, what he really wants are those teenagers and young children.
Immediately, he said to Tong Qian: "Tomorrow, you will send someone to the county town to see if there is a suitable place, and... "
Fang Chen lowered his head and thought for a while before continuing: "Flying Shark Village has been destroyed, but Qingcang Mountain is a good place. You can send some people to the foot of the mountain to see if there is a suitable valley. It should be wider, with abundant grass and trees, and it is best to have water sources. I plan to build another farm outside the valley and recruit some people who live in poverty. It will be of great use at that time."
"Yes, the leader of the gang!" Tong Qian responded respectfully. Although he didn't know what the gang leader did, he just did it.
The matter of Feisha Village has spread among the senior management of the gang, so he is not worried about the trouble of going to Qingcang Mountain. At worst, he can send someone to inquire first. I believe that news will come soon.
Fang Chen had long been coveting Qingcang Mountain. This place may be a wilderness forest to others, but it is a treasure land for him.
Not only is there a large amount of wild medicinal materials on the mountain, but the environment is also very suitable for growing medicinal materials. As long as you can win Qingcang Mountain, it can at least satisfy 80% of the medicinal materials under your subordinates. Not only can you save a lot of money, you don’t have to look at the faces of the three major families.
In Fuyu, the medicinal materials business is controlled by the three major families, and no one can interfere. Because from county towns and even states, those who control medicinal materials are all gentry, and they have long formed an interest group and no other forces are allowed to intervene.
In other words, as long as you are not a gentry, you cannot find the source of goods even if you have money, unless you have a fleet to purchase goods from outside the state. But even if you have bought goods and dare to bring them back to sell them, you will still be strongly suppressed by the gentry.
Medicinal materials are indispensable training resources for warriors. Without the assistance of medicinal materials, unless they are really evil or genius, they can only be transferred to the bottom. In other words, the control of medicinal materials by the gentry is equivalent to blocking the path of progress of the lower-level warriors. Without their permission, they will never have a chance to make a name for themselves.
Fang Chen didn't want to go to the medicinal materials business, but he didn't want to practice resources and was pinched by others.
Chapter completed!