Chapter 846： Bait

Chapter 846 Bait

"But one thing I don't know is that Qinghe's noble family, how many fields are registered in the imperial court, and the hereditary Yongye land does not account for a lot of them. I’m willing to sell it, but I dare not buy it.”

Chu Nanzhi chuckled: "Shopkeeper Sun is still cheating on me."

"What is the land that the imperial court awarded to the nobles? Shopkeeper Mu doesn't know. You are a foreigner at the next glance, and you don't know the situation in Qinghe Sanzhou."

Shopkeeper Sun moved closer to her, and suddenly smelled a faint fragrance, and then he was taken aback: "Excuse me for taking the liberty, how come I smell a daughter's fragrance?"

"Daughter fragrance?"

Chu Nanzhi's expression froze, and then he smiled embarrassingly: "It's all because I met a beautiful girl in Mengzhou a few days ago, and I lingered for several days, I laughed."

"I see."

Shopkeeper Sun sized her up again, and then continued:

"Except for Mengzhou, the capital of our Qinghe Sanzhou, Tanzhou and Xiazhou were originally barren lands. After the Taizu established the dynasty, he sent troops to these two states to reclaim and open up wasteland. Many noble families took advantage of this Concealed the number of fields, so that you can pay a lot less taxes. Now the imperial court is implementing a new policy, and the land annexation in the three states of Qinghe is extremely serious. The nobles are worried that there will be variables. Naturally, they want to turn the land into money earlier. Only in this way can we rest easy, these concealed fields are where we make money."

"According to Shopkeeper Sun, this business can be done."

Chu Nanzhi stared at him with a nonchalant smile.

"Don't worry, Mu shopkeeper, my business is definitely a business that can make a profit without losing money. In a word, the most important thing in Tanzhou City right now is land, but the most important thing is money."

Shopkeeper Sun patted his chest again with a vow: "As long as you have money, it doesn't matter how many fields you want."

Hearing him speak so confidently, Chu Nanzhi didn't know whether he really had this ability or just a charlatan.

However, the way he said to hide the fields does exist in Tanzhou.

And she dared to conclude that this method was not the only one used by the nobles to hide their fields.

According to the statistics of the imperial court, there are more than 8 million mu of land registered in Tanzhou, of which nearly 2 million mu of official land, and less than this number of private land, and the rest of the land is in the hands of noble families.

This is just the number on the tax register. It is hard to know how many fields are still hidden.

After all, Tanzhou is not only one of the largest states in the land of Qinghe, but also in the entire Dahe Empire. The population of the state is more than five million, and the number of fields on the book cannot support the whole state.

Now she has to find a way to find out how many fields are not on the booklet, and only in this way can she get the number of raising trilogy.

Thinking of this, she began to chat with shopkeeper Sun confiding in the wine conversation.

After exchanging heart and soul, Chu Nanzhi pretended to be drunk and took out a large amount of bank notes from his pocket and handed them to Shopkeeper Sun, which was worth five thousand taels, and said casually: "Today I can make friends with Shopkeeper Sun. Such a capable person is really lucky for three lives, a little silver is not enough to respect, please help me a lot in the future, and do my best for the property business, if you have other profitable business, remember to bring me with you."

After finishing the sentence, he spit out a few more words freely: "My Mu family is not short of money, money is not a problem."

Looking at the thick pile of banknotes, the words "Tonghui Bank" are particularly eye-catching, shopkeeper Sun's eyes turned green immediately, and he refused with some embarrassment: "How can this be done? Brother Mu is so generous. , but I don’t have any achievements of any size, we meet by chance, how dare I take your money.”

"Cough, what are you talking about?"

Chu Nanzhi pushed the banknote in front of him again: "It's just a matter of a few thousand taels of silver. Even if my brother disappeared after today, I'm still happy today, and I'm willing to make you my friend."

Only then did shopkeeper Sun put the banknotes in his pocket at ease, got up complacently, and promised with great emotion: "Don't worry, brother Mu, you can report the number, as long as you open the Jinkou, let alone the fields in Dangyang County, you will be fine." It is the fields of the whole Tanzhou, so there are as many as there are.”

"Okay, I just say this to you and I recognize you as a brother."

Chu Nanzhi also responded casually: "When I and my second shopkeeper add up the total, we will immediately prepare the silver tael, and I will make a deal for this."

"It's easy to say, easy to say."

Shopkeeper Sun replied drunkenly.

The two exchanged courtesies again, and Chu Nanzhi asked Ma Laifu to send him out of the house.

Back in the room, Sang Qi was a little worried: "Master, you are so eye-catching, I am really worried that you will attract too many people to covet you."

"I just want people to know the existence of my shopkeeper Mu Da."

Chu Nanzhi sneered disapprovingly.

Sun You, Sun Li and his son did not allow the victims to go out to escape famine, there must be tricks in it.

Instead of going out to find clues, it is better to let someone take the initiative to bring the news to you.

In the prefect's mansion of Dangyang County, Sun Youzheng was furious at his son Sun Li because of the fleeing of the refugees: "You bastard, I asked you to calm down those refugees, but you made such a big commotion and killed people, I'm afraid the queen has already heard about it." what you have done."

"It's just two humble lives. I don't think anyone would dare to reveal this matter."

Sun Li explained unhurriedly: "Father, don't worry, I have asked those talkative people to tell them that they don't dare to talk nonsense anymore. Get impatient, otherwise, even if the queen comes to the county in person, no one will dare to expose us, and now everyone is like grasshoppers on the same boat."

The father and son were talking to each other when they saw a bloated middle-aged man rushing in and shouted happily: "My lord, my lord, I've found a buyer."

Sun You and Sun Li looked around, and asked in unison, "Sun Huai, is the person you are looking for reliable?"

"This person is a wealthy businessman who relies on the Zhao family caravan in Luyan Port. I think he is very generous and reliable."

Sun Huai replied with a smile.

This person is the wealthy businessman of Dangyang County who negotiated with Chu Nanzhi on the sale of land, Sun You's clan brother.

After hearing this, Sun You, Sun Li and his son looked at each other in dismay, and then replied cautiously: "The Zhao family's caravans are indeed well-known wealthy merchants, but I heard that the old Mrs. Zhao has some connections with the new emperor. I'm afraid it would be inappropriate to do this business with them."

"Business is always business. Princess Yanjun is still the empress dowager's own daughter, and she points at our Qinghe honorable family everywhere, let alone a merchant family. How can anyone not be tempted by money."

Sun Huai persuaded, and then dispelled Sun You's worries: "That's true."

Staring deeply at Sun Li and Sun Huai, he said in a deep voice: "Son, you go with your uncle and father to meet the manager of the Zhao family, and first use your aunt's 200,000 mu of fertile land in the county to test it out , if it is credible that this person really has the strength to swallow this bite, then we will discuss the next matters with your aunt at that time."

"Okay, father, don't worry, I will definitely settle this matter with my uncle."

After Sun Li finished answering, he and Sun Huai left the prefect's mansion in a hurry.

(end of this chapter)