Jiujiang County is famous for its wealth, but the problems here are also the most serious.
Basically, all the characters can survive by clinging to the top families here like vines. Most of them are their slaves, tenants, and farmhands. There are only a handful of people who truly have the status of free people.
Jiujiang County is the richest county in the world, but it has little to do with many ordinary people and does not allow them to have an extra meal.
But it has a great relationship with those top aristocratic families. After all, all kinds of trade ships will pass through here, and they can have a hand in the relevant taxation and business firms.
The wealth of Jiujiang County lies in these top families. It is so rich that it makes people's scalps tingle.
They did not need to take advantage of floods like Jianyi and Xingguo counties did. The drought forced many people to sell their children and fertile land at low prices.
Under normal circumstances, they can purchase most of the good farmland. Compared with the money they earn from business every year, the money from purchasing land is not much, just a small part will be enough.
Of course, normal aristocratic families and wealthy families will never do business at a loss. Buying at a normal price is a loss for them.
However, they do not need to rely on natural disasters such as floods and water disasters. The power of nature can allow them to achieve this.
After all, gentlemen are all decent people.
Since the business here is extremely developed, many ordinary people are involved in it, but often a slight disturbance can make them lose everything, forcing them to sell their children and mortgage all their ancestral land.
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It is normal for some disturbances to occur in the course of business.
Those lords who were respectable enough could get most of the land.
It is impossible for an individual to fight against a huge business alliance, which is like hitting a rock with an egg.
By arbitrarily controlling the price of grain, raising or lowering it by a few points, those who have countless dreams of getting rich can be killed without a burial place.
What these people do is quite obscure, and the situations in all aspects are extremely complicated. Even if you want to catch them, you can't.
Ruihai competed with them during these days and brought some of the more rampant members of their family to justice, but at the same time, it also taught many people to use more obscure means to deal with Ruihai, especially commercial means.
Of course they would not openly defy a prefect.
However, laying traps in various directions to force Ruihai to compromise is possible. The current hybrid rice synthesis path is a way to force Ruihai to cooperate with them.
"They already know this route, so they could just confront us directly and secretly. Why did they take the initiative to come to our door to demonstrate? Isn't this just showing us their trump card?"
Zhang Mingtu smiled as he looked at the two mother plants and the related synthetic varieties, and even gave a kung fu evaluation.
"Judging from the level of operation and the remaining traces of Yimu essence, it should be the work of Jiujiang County Agricultural College. It seems that they are indeed local figures who could not resist the temptation and coercion."
Seeing Zhang Mingtu still had time to read this, Ruihai said unhappily, "After all, I am the prefect here. If they really want to make things difficult for me, they won't feel comfortable either. After all, I represent the imperial court. If they really push me too hard, I will lead the troops to confiscate their property and bring up old scores. None of them can stand it, after all, they were not clean in the past."
Of course, this was just a rant.
Looking around the world, there is not a single aristocratic family that is completely clean.
If Ruihai really disregards the bottom line and indiscriminately confiscates the property and exterminates the families of many wealthy and powerful families, it will cause unrest in the entire southeastern coast and even the entire Daxia, and all the noble families will unite against the enemy.
No matter whether these wealthy and powerful families are hostile to each other or have some dirty deeds in their daily lives, they will take action without hesitation when facing their common enemies and hatred.
After all, if Ruihai really pushed forward such a thing, then the entire rule would be messed up and the whole world would be doomed.
After all, that would touch the cake of all the wealthy families.
So after saying the relevant angry words, Rui Hai turned to talk about what had just happened.
"Jiujiang County is, after all, a legitimate commercial center. Various policies and trade operations require the maintenance of a prefect like me. If I deliberately block things here, many things won't be able to proceed."
Ruihai carefully explained to Zhang Mingtu that he was the lord of a place and had the orthodox status of Daxia. If the aristocratic families really pushed him too hard and made Ruihai desperate, regardless of the local GDP and local business practices, and tried to confront them and drag each other into the water, the lethality would be terrible.
Of course, this is Zhang Mingtu's translation of Ruihai's words in his own words. In this era, there was no specific and clear GDP and related people's livelihood requirements, but there were similar political achievement policies.
If done well, a local official can also be promoted.
Many wealthy families are not willing to offend a local official to death.
Therefore, at such moments, both sides will often take a step back.
Even if the aristocratic families can make an administrative chief receive the worst evaluation in the local area, as long as they take the initiative to reduce taxes and actively let the many people under their control stir up trouble and cause small-scale chaos, it will greatly affect the political achievements of a local chief and make it difficult for them to be promoted.
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