Wishing You Eternal Happiness Chapter 790: ：Local snake

There are fewer supplies in the north, and they are exploited at all levels. In the end, the people who are exploited are the Youjun who need the supplies.

You Jun is passive and is "seeking" the local gentry. Naturally, they will not take You Jun seriously.

After the case of King Zhou Li, a group of wealthy gentry were punished. The imperial court gave Youzhou the privilege of exempting from salt tribute, allowing Youjun to have the right to purchase supplies independently. Those wealthy gentry depended on Youjun's Act with a wink.

After Yin Huaixi guarded the northern border, his control over the northern border was gradually strengthened. Although the government was not under the rule of Prince Wu Mu, he still had to fear the majesty of Prince Wu Mu and gradually began to develop trade.

After walking around Liancheng, Yu Youyao's heart moved slightly.

Liao Province has very obvious geographical advantages. It has resources such as food, medicine, industry, and soldiers. As long as it can be utilized, it can be self-sufficient, produce and sell itself, and do not need to rely on the court.

Liancheng has little cultivated land and many mountains and forests. Raising tussah silkworms can strengthen the army and enrich the people. It can develop the primary economy, followed by fruits and seafood.

The Xie Mansion is more knowledgeable than Yu Youyou in this regard. As early as the Xie Mansion decided to come to the Northern Territory, the Xie Mansion also successively purchased many special industries in the Northern Territory and made a lot of preparations for establishing a foothold in the Northern Territory in the future.

In a year and a half at most, the Xie Mansion can revitalize the entire city.

Over the past few years, Yu Youyao has successively purchased many properties in the northern area, and the city has developed forest trees. She used Yin Huaixi's connections to buy two villages with hills in the north. The hills are mainly planted with elm and oak trees, and arranged People came here to raise tussah silkworms, and the tussah silk they produced was bought to Youjun for making armor.

On the second day, the steward from Zhuangzi came to greet her and brought her account books.

Liancheng is considered the northern border, and there are few places that are less affected by drought. But even so, the output of tussah silk produced in Zhuangzi has been reduced by 40 to 50%.

Fortunately, Tussah Silk's profits are considerable, but there is no loss.

The sweet potatoes grown in the farmland were not affected, and the yield was very impressive. Most of the sweet potatoes produced in the village were sold to You Jun at a low price.

After Yu Youyao looked through the account books, he asked several stewards: "I want to expand the breeding of tussah silkworms. How likely is this to you?"

One of the blue-robed stewards shook his head: "I'm afraid it's difficult. Seventy percent of tussah breeding in Liancheng is in the hands of local large households, and the remaining 30% are small individual farmers, which is not a viable business."

Another gray-robed manager also said: "The four big families in Liancheng have monopolized the tussah silkworm business in Liancheng and controlled the price of tussah cocoons, forcing the retail investors to sell the tussah silkworm cocoons they have worked so hard to raise at a lower price. Sell ​​it to them at several times the market price, and they sell it to silk merchants at a high price, making huge profits from it."

Yu Youyao understood: "But all the tussah cocoons they produced were supplied to the imperial court for purchase?"

According to what the stewards said, the four families acted very domineeringly. The four families shared 70% of the business. Evenly divided, each family only had more than 20%. However, they indulged the unworthy retail silkworm farmers and shared the remaining 30%.

No matter how you look at it, there are problems.

Yu Youyao thought about it carefully and understood.

The four major families in Liancheng have mastered most of the tussah resources. They have to deal with the court procurement. The price purchased by the court is generally lower than the market price. Occupying it, the four of us can only make a small amount of money after working hard.

It is impossible for the imperial court to monopolize all local supplies when purchasing supplies.

The 30% in the hands of retail investors has become a loophole for the four big companies to exploit and profit.

They teamed up to control Tussah's operations, forcing retail investors to rely on them to survive, buying low and selling high, making huge profits and pocketing retail investors' hard-earned money.

Even if retail investors unite together, 30% will not be able to fight against 70%, and they will not be able to make waves.

Press those silkworm farmers to death.

"Exactly so!"

The two stewards looked at each other and couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The eldest lady is really a powerful person, and she immediately understood the twists and turns inside.

"For so many years, the individual sericulture farmers in Liancheng have been oppressed by the four big families and have suffered terribly. In recent years, the northern border has been in bad weather, and tussah production has decreased every year. Small households have invested more in sericulture and earned less. There are already many people who can't even maintain their livelihood. Earlier, the eldest lady's Zhuangzi was also targeted, but when the people of the four families learned that there was someone behind Zhuangzi, they didn't dare to embarrass him."

Yu Youyao frowned: "As far as I know, the three northeastern provinces are very large. The area suitable for raising silkworms is the same as the total area of ​​Henan and Shandong. There is still room. There are more than 30 counties and districts in total. Silkworm breeding in the three northeastern provinces is actually not as good as that of Henan and Shandong. It can be seen that this is the case in the entire Northeast region."

The case of King Zhou Li caused many wealthy gentry in the northern border to restrain themselves a lot. However, if you want to revitalize the business in the northern border, Liancheng, which is strategically located, is the top priority. heavy.

As one of the main materials for making military armor, how could she tolerate these inhumane gentry monopolizing the city's tussah market and strangling You Jun's throat? !

Yu Youyao’s eyes were dark, with a hint of coldness in them.

The two stewards nodded solemnly: "What the princess said is true."

Yu Youyao thought for a while: "Spring silkworms will be raised in a while. You will contact the individual silkworm farmers who are struggling to make ends meet in Liancheng, provide them with some help, and make a contract with them. The cocoons they produce will be sold at market prices. Give it to us."

Retail investors are oppressed by the Four Families. Under normal circumstances, they would still be afraid of the power of the Four Families and would not dare to cooperate with them.

But this moment, that moment!

Retail investors work hard to raise silkworms just to survive. If they can’t even survive, what else is there to fear?

If we don’t fight hard, the fate of hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city will be their fate in the future.

The steward in gray clothes was hesitant: "Here, you are directly confronting the four major families. A strong dragon cannot defeat the local snakes. The four major families in Liancheng unite and we..."

Yu Youyao chuckled softly: "Send the name cards of King Wu Mu and I~IndoMTL.com~ to the Liancheng County Yamen another day. According to the jargon, this is called worshiping the mountain gate. I, the newly named Princess Shaoyi, will not do it either. I know it won’t work in Lian Cheng Guan.”

The steward in blue looked excited. He had long been dissatisfied with the behavior of the four families: "The eldest lady is right."

The steward in gray clothes immediately realized that Princess Shaoyi had a great reputation in the north. Hundreds of thousands of refugees outside the city all supported Princess Shaoyi very much.

Princess Shaoyi did not seek personal gain for herself, but for Liancheng, the thousands of retail silkworm farmers who were oppressed by the four major families.

There is little arable land in the north, so raising tussahs is the best way out for the refugees.

We must unite with retail sericulture farmers, forcefully open the tussah silkworm market monopolized by the four major companies in Liancheng, and further expand tussah silkworm breeding so that the refugees outside the city can have a way to survive.

Everything the princess did was for the people.

It is what everyone expects.

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