The contract between Kunshan County and Kunkaisi stipulated that the county would lease 100,000 acres of abandoned farmland on both sides of Yanglintang to Kunkaisi for 99 years.

However, only the first twenty years were free of rent, and there was no tax exemption. From the twenty-first year onwards, rent and tax had to be paid like normal government farmland.

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In this way, the county's tax revenue will not decrease, but will increase significantly. Because abandoned land, as the name suggests, is abandoned land that has become wasteland and has no owner, and naturally will not generate tax revenue.

The extra 100,000 acres of land can generate an additional 30,000 dan of tax revenue for the county in the autumn grain season alone.

And starting from the 21st year, the county was able to collect an additional 30,000 to 40,000 dan of rent. This was equivalent to giving the county an additional 100,000 mu of official farmland!

In fact, there is no need to wait until twenty-one years - because Kunshan County still owns a quarter of Kunkai Company's shares, as long as Kunkai Company starts to make a profit, the county will be able to make money.

What made Lin Zhongcheng most satisfied was that these lands still belonged to the county and were not divided up by the gentry.

Haven’t you seen that there are hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land in Wujiang County, but not a single acre fell into the hands of the government, and they were all divided up by the gentry and wealthy families.

It's true that if you compare yourself to others, you will die; if you compare goods, you will throw them away!

Lin Run read it again and again, praised it again and again, and asked someone to copy the contract so that he could go back and study it to see if it could be promoted in various counties.

Then he bowed deeply to Zhao Shouzheng and said, "If you become a prime minister in the future, there will be hope for the Ming Dynasty to be revived."

"Oh, Zhongcheng, you are too kind." Zhao Shouzheng was startled and waved his hands quickly, saying, "I am just a small county magistrate. I did something insignificant. It's no big deal."

"No." Lin Run shook his head decisively and said, "Your exploration in Kunshan has pointed out an unprecedented new path for this court and the court - it turns out that you can accomplish great things even without money!"

If Zhao Hao could hear these words, he would definitely give a thumbs up to Lin Zhongcheng. He was so sharp, so sharp that he almost immediately grasped the trick of land finance.

This is something that many officials four hundred years later could not even begin to match.

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After Zhao Shouzheng was overwhelmed with praise, Lin Zhongcheng asked with a smile:

"How long is this levee?"

"Report to the Minister of Justice, after cutting the bend and straightening it, it is fifty-eight miles."

"That's less than 20,000 taels per li?" Lin Run was a little surprised. "The stone embankment they built cost 30,000 taels per li."

"They work long hours, so the wages are high." Mr. Zhao answered verbatim, thinking that the actual wage was less than ten thousand taels per mile.

"Well, that makes sense. It saves time, effort and money. This cement is really a good thing." Lin Run said in a fascinated way: "Then where can I buy it?"

This is probably his main idea.

No matter whether you are a prefect or a governor, you cannot resist the force of cement, meow...

"All cement and stone are purchased from Jiangnan Building Materials Company." Zhao Shouzheng replied quickly.

"Jiangnan Building Materials Company..." Lin Run coughed dryly and said, "Didn't they say that cement is owned by Jiangnan Company? What is the relationship between the two companies?"

"It's probably a father-son relationship."

"Then it's the same thing." Lin Run looked at the river with his hands behind his back and asked, "What is the origin of this Jiangnan Company?"

"It was formed by a group of Jiangnan gentry and business companies." Zhao Shouzheng answered honestly: "As the inventor of cement, I also own a small share in it. Without him, I would not be able to connect with the Jiangnan Company."

"Oh? Your son also has shares?" Lin Run asked with great interest, as if he had just heard about it for the first time, "Can you tell me how much it is?"

The bad thing about officials who were former censors is that they like to get to the bottom of everything, which makes people feel overwhelmed.

"Two percent." Zhao Shouzheng answered affirmatively.

This is by no means a lie. Even if Lin Run ordered the retrieval of Jiangnan Company's equity files, he would only see the same result.

Because Zhao Hao had been prepared and had dispersed the shares in advance.

He first introduced several strategic shareholders and diluted Jiangnan Company from a one-person company to a joint-stock company.

Then, based on the agreement of "equal shares but different rights", he introduced salt merchants as financial investors, who took over 20% of his shares and successfully reduced his own equity to below 50%.

Then, by exchanging shares with Wu Ji, while acquiring Wu Ji, he further reduced his shareholding in Jiangnan Company to a little more than one-third, or 36%.

However, his voting rights in Jiangnan Company expanded to 74%, nearly three quarters, giving him absolute control over the company.

As if that weren't enough, Zhao Hao recently became a 'Singularity Holdings' to hold 34% of Jiangnan's shares under his name. In this way, his personal shareholding on the shareholder list dropped to a negligible 2%, making him the smallest shareholder in the entire company.

Although Mr. Zhao’s hiding place is not secretive enough at the moment, it is enough to make everyone feel comfortable.

At least they won't treat him like a crazy inflated little monster, and that's enough.

Sure enough, even someone as smart as Lin Zhongcheng, after hearing that Zhao Hao only owned 2% of the shares, he also stood up for him and said:

"Your son is still too young. I'm afraid he will be bullied by those old foxes. He invented cement, so it's reasonable for him to have at least 10% to 20% of the shares."

"Jiangnan Company is a big company. Two percent is a lot, enough for my father and I to spend." Zhao Shouzheng said with an expression that showed no interest in material things.

"Well, one must be indifferent to fame and fortune to show his ambition." Lin Zhongcheng praised Mr. Zhao again, then pointed at Kunnan, where the water had receded, and said:

"This year's flood situation is over. What is Kunshan going to do next?"

Zhao Shouzheng replied: "The third phase of the water conservancy project will be carried out next."

"There are still three phases of the project?" Lin Run couldn't help but laugh and said, "I think you are addicted to building dikes."

"Kunshan fell behind its neighboring counties a lot in the past few years, and has a lot of lessons to catch up." Zhao Shouzheng said in a deep voice: "Although Kunbei has been renovated, Kunnan is still the same. So the goal of the third phase of the project is to keep Kunnan away from floods for a long time!"

"This is a big project." Lin Run waved his hand, and his attendant quickly presented him with a map of Kunshan.

Zhao Shouzheng drew a line on the map with his finger and said, "First, the south embankment of Wusong River is 60 miles, then the embankments of Dianshan Lake and Chenghu Lake, and the embankment of Pu River in the south, which is about another 120 miles."

"Hiss, it's a full one hundred and eighty miles." With the first two phases of the project in place, Lin Run naturally had no doubt that Zhao Shouzheng could do what he said.

But this terrifying construction capability is really too much for people to bear.

He can simply be called an 'infrastructure maniac'.

"Yes. Phase III is a big project." Zhao Shouzheng answered seriously, "The county also feels it is quite strenuous. In addition, Kunnan has to carry out large-scale epidemic prevention and renovation. It may not be completed before the New Year. We can't not have a holiday in the first month of the year, right? If it is delayed, it will probably go into February. Alas, then the arrangements for next year will be disrupted..."

Governor Lin was very upset when he heard this.

Damn, the levee is a whole 180 miles long. It would take others ten years to repair it. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to finish it before the New Year?

Did you know that the Chinese New Year is only three months away?

Do you want to live in another county?

You've tortured all of us county magistrates and prefects to death, don't you know?