Huh? Wan Yuanwai's face finally lost its calmness. He didn't expect that Ma Hanshan would actually say such a sentence after thinking about it for a long time. In this way, he had already expected that someone would reach out to him.
"Mazhai Master is very confident." Wan Yuanwai quickly covered up his astonishment and said.
If he had already had a countermeasure, I'm afraid there would be little benefit from entering the mountain this time. Ma Yuanwai's face was calm and he spoke very calmly, but he was sighing in his heart, oh, I should have come earlier to make peace with him if I had known better.
, this guy is not simple.
"I can't help it, but Wan Yuanwai must have a way, right?" Ma Hanshan showed a foxy smile.
"Master Mazhai, do you think you have a solution? And you will definitely help?" Wan Yuanwai once again marveled at the power of this big boy.
"If we don't help, why would Wan Yuanwai make this trip?" Ma Hanshan said with great certainty, then stood up and bowed to Wan Yuanwai and said, "Ma thanked Wan Yuanwai first."
Alas, Wan Yuanwai originally wanted to pretend to make Ma Hanshan anxious and ask him to beg, but he didn't expect that the other party wouldn't give him a chance at all, and he suddenly felt that it was boring.
Since there is no chance to show off for pleasure, let’s just talk about the benefits.
He smiled and said: "It's not that there are no ways, but any method requires sacrifice. After all, Wagang Village has output and population."
"Wan Yuanwai, I like to go straight, so just tell me how much money it will cost to settle this matter." Ma Hanshan knew that without spending money, he would not be able to get through this time, and the idea of finding a big backer once again arose in his mind.
The Money Gang may be very powerful, but after all, it is not a direct official force. You have to find a big umbrella from the official government, otherwise...
Ma Hanshan has always attached great importance to finding a protective umbrella. However, he did not expect that Suishui County would move so quickly and pick the fruits as soon as they grow.
How much would it cost to settle the matter? This was really a question for Wan Yuanwai. He really hadn't thought about it carefully. He only knew that he couldn't let the people above destroy Wagonzhai, and he also knew that he could get some benefits this time.
Ma Hanshan was waiting for Wan Yuanwai to speak.
Wan Yuanwai thought for a moment, raised a hand and said nothing.
"One hundred thousand taels? Haha, the prefect of the Qing Dynasty paid one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver in three years. How dare a county magistrate ask for so much money? Isn't he afraid of losing his official position and dying?" Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
When the matter gets serious, it is possible to lose one's life, but it is impossible to die. Unknown to Ma Hanshan, this song is the same as that of the Song Dynasty in another time and space. The ancestor emperor has a rule not to kill civil servants. Therefore, the heaviest punishment is given to civil servants.
That means dismissal from office and exile.
Wan Yuanwai's face turned red, he shook his head and said: "It's not one hundred thousand, it's ten thousand. This money is not for the county magistrate, it is used to pay taxes and re-register household registration."
Are you kidding me? A county magistrate dares to ask for one hundred thousand taels for something like this? I really don’t want to do it anymore. Besides, I can’t get it out. Which village can afford one hundred thousand taels?
Wan Yuanwai felt that although Wagang Village's "assets" were quite a lot now, he shouldn't be able to get much in cash. Ten thousand taels was actually a lot.
Phew, Ma Hanshan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, it turned out to be 10,000 taels, and he also made up for what should be paid and paid what should be paid. This Wan Yuanwai is really a good person. He is not greedy. Such a person is worth it.
One hand.
Ma Hanshan almost laughed out loud, walked over and held Wan Yuanwai's hand and said: "Wan Yuanwai, thank you so much, thank you so much, I am determined to have you as my friend... However, Brother Wan, you can't let your work go in vain.
Yes or no?"
"You're welcome, you're welcome. Wagonzhai falls under the jurisdiction of Wanhe Township. Tian is the head of the township. This is my job..." I'm kidding, who's working in vain? There are five thousand taels here belonging to Wan.
Is it good or not.
Of course, Wan Yuanwai said this in his heart. His heart was not that greedy. His goal was to get two to three thousand taels of silver. Unexpectedly, Ma Hanshan did not bargain at all. He handed over 10,000 taels for five thousand taels and got five thousand taels for himself.
, the benefits were doubled than expected, and he almost laughed out loud.
The two of them were happy in their own hearts, so they immediately felt that the other person was a good person and someone they could get along with. Suddenly, their faces were full of smiles.
"Wan Yuanwai, Wanjia Village probably has a population of several thousand." Ma Hanshan felt that he had met a good person, so he decided to give Wan Yuanwai some benefits.
"It's not even in the thousands. There are more than 2,000 people with the surname Wan, plus other miscellaneous surnames, so there are about 4,000 people in Wanheji." The Wanheji that Wan Yuanwai is talking about refers to the area around Wanheji town, that is, Wanjia Village.
Location.
"There are four thousand people. Wanhe Township should be called Wanhe Town." Ma Hanshan said with a smile, "Except for those in Wanhe Town who do business, they all make a living by farming."
"There are also people who run boats. Don't underestimate this small Suishui River. It feeds many people..." Wan Yuanwai made Ma Hanshan five thousand taels in this way. He felt a little apologetic, so he explained to Ma Hanshan's question.
What a detail.
"Oh, does anyone engage in breeding? For example, raising pigs, fish, cattle, etc. I'm talking about large-scale breeding." Ma Hanshan continued to ask.
"Haha, we are in a mountainous area here and there is not much arable land. How can there be so much food to feed so many livestock? A family with a lot of land can only raise a pig and a few chickens and ducks at most. People with less land can't eat enough. What can they do?
Raising animals." Wan Yuanwai was very surprised. What did the owner of the horse village mean? How did he get involved in such a thing?
"Grain is not necessary for breeding. Brother Wan, let me show you something." Ma Hanshan led Wan Yuanwai towards the mouth of the valley with his hands behind his back. There was a pig farm there and a chicken farm on the hill opposite.
The breeding farm must have been built downwind, a bit far from the stockade. Wan Yuanwai followed Mahanshan, wondering what Mahanshan was taking him to see.
He would have never guessed that Ma Hanshan actually took him to look after pigs. As a scholar, people would say this when he entered the kitchen, let alone the animal's pen. A gentleman is far away from the kitchen. This is what some bullshit saint came up with for the world's nerds.
The best excuse for laziness.
There were many pigs, there should be hundreds of them, each one was crimson pink and white, strong and fat.
"Ah? Can pigs be raised like this?" Wan Yuanwai exclaimed as he saw the pig houses one by one.
Haha, in this world and this era, there is no concept of captive breeding yet. All poultry and livestock are free range.
"Of course, it's easier to gain weight if you keep them in captivity." Ma Hanshan thought what Wan Yuanwai said was ridiculous. Instead of raising pigs in pens, how could they be driven to the mountains like sheep?
Mahanshan is an uninformed place. For a long time, the ancients raised pigs as if they were raising sheep. They rushed to the mountain to herd them.
"How old...are these pigs? It looks like each one weighs a hundred pounds. They have to be raised for half a year, right?" Although Wan Yuanwai is a scholar, he lives in a rural area after all. He is not familiar with the growth of livestock such as pigs and chickens.
I still understand the situation.
"Wrong, these pigs have only been born for a hundred days." Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"Ah? It's so old in a hundred days? Impossible, absolutely impossible." Wan Yuanwai exclaimed. He felt that Ma Hanshan was insulting his IQ.
No wonder he had such a reaction. In this world, pigs can only be put into the market every one year, and a pig raised for a year only weighs about two hundred kilograms. Ma Hanshan told him that these pigs, which seemed to weigh more than a hundred kilograms, actually
How could he not scream after only being raised for a hundred days?
If he had known that in the world where Ma Hanshan came from, it only took 123 days to raise a 200-pound pig and 30 to 40 days to raise a chicken weighing several pounds, he would have been frightened.
"Brother Wan, you are a good person and a conscientious person, so I took you to see these pigs. Because I want to cooperate with you to raise pigs. No, it should be said that Wagang Village is going to jointly raise pigs with Wanjia Village.
Pig farm." Ma Hanshan wanted to see the surprise on Wan Yuan's face, but there was no surprise. The guy's face was just blank, because he hadn't figured out what Ma Hanshan meant yet.
Two villages jointly set up a pig farm? Raising animals is a dirty and despicable thing. How can he do such a thing if he is an outsider and an upright person? Besides, can you make money by raising these animals?
"Ma...Mazhai owner...can you make money by raising...raised pigs?" Wan Yuanwai stammered when he saw Ma Hanshan looking at him.
"Of course, a pig with 200 kilograms of meat can be sold for four or five guan, and the cost is only two or three guan. This is double the profit. What business can compare with raising pigs?" Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"Ah? The cost is two or three guan?" Of course Wan Yuanwai knows how much a pig can be sold for, but he doesn't believe it if the cost is only two or three guan.
"Of course, this has taken into account the wages of feeding the pigs. You can earn 20 taels per pig. If you slaughter 10,000 to 20,000 pigs a year, that is an income of tens of thousands taels." In this world, raising 20,000 pigs a year
Pig, that is simply a myth, so Wan Yuanwai looked full of disbelief.
He was thinking, if you can really raise a pig for a hundred days and earn two taels of silver, let alone raising 10,000 or 20,000 pigs a year, you can make thousands of taels by raising one or two thousand pigs. Wouldn't that make you rich?
.
However, how can there be so much grain to feed pigs?
"The horse...the owner of the horse village...even if there is such a high profit, he doesn't have that much food to feed the pigs." Wan Yuanwai wiped the sweat from his face and said.
"Who said that pigs must be fed grain? Wan Yuanwai, you come with me." Ma Hanshan took him to the small house outside the pig farm. This is the pig food preparation plant. Several "pig officials" were mixing pig food. Wan Yuanwai
I actually smelled a faint aroma of wine.
Are you feeding pigs with wine? No...it's distiller's grains. I understand, you use distiller's grains to feed pigs, but where do you get so much distiller's grains?
Wan Yuanwai didn't even know that Wagonzhai's biggest source of income now was steamed wine.
"Wan Yuanwai, do you understand now?" Ma Hanshan said with a smile.
"I understand, where do all the lees come from?" Wan Yuanwai smiled and said, "Does the village make wine? Then we have to ask for a good glass of wine."
"There is plenty of wine, and there is plenty of distiller's grains. What I want to say now is, is Wan Yuanwai interested in raising pigs? Oh, what I just calculated for you is just the profit of pig raising. Pig raising should be combined with fish raising. Look, these fish
The fish in the pond are earned for nothing, except for the cost of fry,” Ma Hanshan said, pointing to several fish ponds nearby.
Wan Yuanwai is in trouble again. To be honest, the profit of two taels per pig is very high. He wants to raise it, but as a scholar... he will be ridiculed by others even if he does business. If he raises pigs... he may be ridiculed by others.
Scholars knocked on the door.
"If we cooperate, you will provide the manpower, location, Wagangzhai will provide the cost and technology, and the profits will be shared equally. Of course, Wanjia Village can also do it on its own, and these distiller's grains can be sold to you for ten cents per load." Ma Hanshan said lightly, in order to make friends.
Out of ten thousand yuan, he was almost giving away money.