Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1375 Mandatory Cooperation

Just as she was preparing for this "tragic", Duoduo Niang came.Now she has officially become the "busy month" of Wang Si's family.What he often does is to convey Wang Siniang's "instructions" among the villagers. In Shen Kaibao's eyes, he has become a "dog leg".

Although everyone can't help being a little contemptuous, but they are a little envious of the treatment of "doglegs": I heard that Duoduo Niang can get one or two taels of silver a month!The clerks in the big shops in the town are about the same - they can make more money than many men in this village.Therefore, while everyone despises her in their hearts, every time they see her, they will inevitably flatter her with a smile on their faces. They are afraid that they will offend her and be slandered by her in front of Wang Siniang, first to force their own debts.

Duoduo Niang was all smiles, but she just told everyone that Mrs. Shen invited every family in the village to her house for a "drink" tomorrow night, as a "thank you banquet" for taking care of her business this year.

"The whole family is here!" Duoduo Niang greeted, "I have prepared a lot of food and wine!"

Hearing this, every household had goosebumps on their backs. It is definitely not a good thing for the master to invite the tenants to eat.Either to increase the rent, or to seize the tenant.

Although Wang Siniang's family is not a landlord, they are creditors of everyone, and the creditor invites the debtor to dinner, let alone.

"I think this is a Hongmen Banquet!" Shen Kaibao said viciously.

But it is absolutely impossible not to go.Several boats were parked in front of Wang Siniang's house, and the cooks who "packed the banquet" came to build a stove on the yard and unload baskets of pots, pans, and various vegetables and meat.Many women gathered by the river to wash vegetables, and the courtyard was blazing and steaming.The aroma of cooking dishes can be smelled in the whole village.The children were drooling, eagerly waiting for the toothbrush festival at night-this kind of day has not happened for several years.Even the worried adults were starving and salivating one by one.

In the evening, the whole village, old and young, went to the yard in front of Wang Siniang's house, where tables, chairs and benches borrowed from various families had been prepared, and the torches were lit all around.The table full of dishes seduced the eyes of the whole village.

Wang Siniang sat down as the chief with a smile on her face, and asked her subordinates to greet everyone to take their seats.He said some scene words again.Then he ordered to open the table.

There is no drink on the table, but the rice is full.Everyone these days can barely get enough to eat.With the delicacies in front of us, who cares what kind of medicines are being sold at the Hongmen Banquet? They gobbled them up one by one like a storm, and the cups and plates were messed up in no time. A few children simply took the oil soup at the bottom of the plate and mixed it with rice. Bowl after bowl, they ate so much that their stomachs were bulging, and they were almost stuffed to death. Wang Siniang hurriedly ordered someone to bring vinegar to fill them with vinegar.

Seeing that everyone was full of food and drink, Wang Siniang finally got to the point.

The debts owed by each household may not be repaid for the time being.But Mr. Zhao wants the village to continue raising silkworms——raising summer silkworms and autumn silkworms.

Sericulture in ancient society used to raise two and three silkworms, but because of the lack of disinfection awareness and methods at that time, the second and third silkworms were continued to be raised after spring silkworms, which often caused serious silkworm diseases. Over time, there were very few silkworm farmers. Breeding silkworms in summer and autumn.

Specifically, it is a contract between the two parties.Mr. Zhao loaned silkworm eggs, mulberry leaves and rations to everyone as advance payment without interest.Each family is responsible for raising a certain number of silkworm eggs according to its own ability.After the silkworm cocoons are harvested, the contract price is converted into the number of silkworm cocoons and the advance payment is deducted, and the remaining silkworm cocoons are purchased at the contract price.

Everyone has heard of raising summer silkworms and autumn silkworms, but no one has ever raised them. Now that Mr. Zhao wants everyone to raise silkworms, they can't help but look at each other, and no one dares to respond to his words.

"Everyone can rest assured that I have a way to raise summer silkworms and autumn silkworms, and I will help you take care of them when the time comes. I hope everyone can succeed in raising silkworms." Wang Siniang patted her chest for this.

No one believed her words. In their opinion, this was just a new trick for the rich to entrap the farmers.

But now no one dares to say "no". Wang Siniang's debt notes with one-cent monthly interest are life-threatening ropes, so no one dares to say no.Tomorrow, Mr. Zhao sent people to collect debts, and all the households that could be run on were immediately ruined.

Zhao Yingong knew that in the current predicament, the silkworm farmers had no choice but to accept his conditions.It is difficult to win the trust of farmers, and it requires long-term and unremitting efforts to get them to cooperate.He didn't have enough manpower or enough time to do it slowly, so he could only use the advantage of this cheap acquisition to force the conditions on them with lightning speed.Although the method is cruel, it is the most efficient method at the moment.

Order production, this is the first step.Sericulture farmers have to wait until summer silkworms and autumn silkworms are successfully bred to truly trust them.Then we can talk about the formation of cooperatives.

There is a town more than ten miles away from Jixian Village, named Jiuli.Like most towns in Jiangnan water towns, it is surrounded by rice fields, dotted with lakes, ponds and rivers.

Like most small towns in the south of the Yangtze River, Jiuli is full of prosperity.Although this is not a first-class town on the Hangjiahu Plain, there are more than 500 households. On both sides of the Shangxiatang Road paved with stone slabs, houses and shops with black tiles and white walls are next to each other.Rice shop, cloth shop, grain shop, ironware shop, boat shop, sundry shop, tea house... Not only are there everything that should be found in an ordinary small town, but also "silk and satin shops, washing and dyeing houses, and silk shops" Big deal".There are also a few temples surrounded by cigarettes and dedicated to gods and Buddhas.

In the southwest corner of this small town, there is a small but very exquisite house.This is Master Cao's "mansion".

Country people don't understand the rules of the imperial court, and society in the late Ming Dynasty is not as sensitive to overreach as it was in the early days of the Republic of China. Master Cao, a local tyrant who was born as a scholar, was grandly called Master, and his mansion was called "Cao Mansion".

In the water pavilion of the garden pond of "Cao Mansion", the teeth board was tapped lightly, and the voice of a woman singing softly came faintly.

Master Cao——Cao Guangjiu was leaning on a concubine Xiang's couch, his eyes were slightly closed, and he snored faintly.A servant girl knelt by the couch, resisting the sleepiness in the afternoon, and lightly beat her leg.

Although he had been asleep for more than [-] quarters of an hour, but without the master's order, no matter whether it was the singer or the maid, he dared not stop.

Mr. Cao was in his middle age. Although he was a scholar and his family was regarded as a "heir of poetry and calligraphy", he had nothing to do with the images of "white-faced scholar" and "gentleman in the south of the Yangtze River". He was a big black and strong man.His face was full of flesh, and even when he was asleep, he showed a ferocious expression.

Cao Guangjiu is a typical "broken boot party" - this is the "title" given to such scholastic scoundrels by the society at that time.The Broken Boots are almost all scholars or supervisors. They think they are well-dressed and can walk around the government.As for lending money to earn interest and exploiting villagers, it is even more common.

Therefore, the Cao family originally opened a private school in the town to survive. Since Cao Guangjiu became a broken boot gang, relying on these means of making money, they have prospered in just over ten years.In the past few years, he has taken over the food and taxes of nearby villages. Every summer and autumn, he can rely on means such as defaulting on arrears and paying less to pay a lot of "foreign water".The family business is thriving.

Although Cao Guangjiu is a gangster who has done a lot of unreasonable things outside, but he eats pretty well in his hometown and town. Not only is the interest rate on borrowing money lower than the average, but he is also more restrained in his work.It's not that he has a good heart, it's that the style of imperial examinations in Jiangnan is very prosperous, there are many people with fame and reputation, and the power of gentry is very strong.He is a mere scholar, if he really wants to annoy the powerful gentry, a film can make him look good.Ordinary gentry also hold the mentality of "rather offending a gentleman than a villain", and they don't offend each other.

Recently, someone in Jixian Village and a dozen surrounding villages heard the news that someone was lending money at the price of one cent per month. Cao Guangjiu sent someone to ask who would do such a good deed and lend money at this price?Although borrowing usury is one of his "business contents", he has never dared to form a monopoly nearby-lending money to earn interest is the main means of growth for the country gentry, and he, a gangster, would never dare to dream of eating alone.

But this made it clear that the practice of "grabbing business" attracted his attention.They sent a few people to inquire about the news, and they knew that behind the moneylender was a "scholar master" surnamed Zhao in Hangzhou, and that this scholar was very popular among the gentry in Hangzhou.Especially among the gentry who were educated, they were especially powerful.

After hearing this, Cao Guangjiu had no other ideas.Without diamonds, there is no porcelain work.No wonder this Mr. Zhao dared to send people to "grab business" carelessly.It's natural for him, a broken boots gang, to make trouble for him, but the other party's background is deep, and he is absolutely no match for him if he really wants to get to the bottom of it.Besides, there are many gentry lending money here, and I am not the biggest one, so why bother to make such a head?When it grows bigger, there will naturally be masters who will come up with this.

Cao Guangjiu shrank back like this. These days are the busy farming season, even if it is not time to pay taxes, no one has time to file a lawsuit. His "business" is not much, except going to the teahouse every morning to "bag water" as usual Apart from reading some news and talking with "friends" of all kinds and classes to see if there are any chances to make a fortune, he spends his days leisurely at home.

His snoring grew louder, when the butler came hurriedly from the garden path.There is also a photo of visiting guests in his hand.

When Cao Guangjiu was sleeping, the subordinates did not dare to disturb him—they had to hang him up and beat him to death.But today this guest was no small matter, the butler walked into the waterside pavilion and called a few times softly.

"What's the matter?" Cao Guangjiu was awakened by someone, and he was full of evil fire. Seeing that the person was the housekeeper, he knew that there must be something important, so he hurriedly asked.

"There are guests coming to pay respects."

(End of this chapter)