Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 889
The tung oil bidding turmoil in Shuangliu County finally ended with an ending that the participants reluctantly accepted.

Under the mediation of the government, the Four Seas Trading Company did not do anything wrong, and finally left a way for these tung oil merchants to survive. The sale price of tung oil was set at [-] per catty, and the Four Seas Trading Company took half of the tung oil produced in Shuangliu County. share, and the remaining half is distributed by these tung oil merchants themselves.

After all, this group of people has also stayed here for a month or two, and spent a lot of food and accommodation in the middle, which can be regarded as a contribution to Shuangliu. People sell products.

The production of [-] acres of tung oil tung trees in Dongluo Village is all underwritten by the Four Seas Trading Company at a price of one cent per catty. Although the several big tung oil merchants hated it in their hearts, they did not resist the giant of the Four Seas Trading Company. Power.

As for the price of [-]% of the bulk tung oil, it was also a decision made by Sun Kedi after considering the inconvenient transportation and high transportation costs in Shu, and always leaving a proper profit margin for merchants.

For the sake of the long-term prospects of local economic development, he also does not want the tung oil bidding turmoil to affect the reputation of Shuangliu County.

After all, there are goods produced by other local industries that need to be sold by merchants. If merchants from other industries have a deep misunderstanding of Shuangliu County because of this incident, it will not be worth the loss.

As for the batch of tung oil taken by the Four Seas Trading Company, in addition to taking out part of it to evaluate the needs of the two major shipyards, the rest will be sold to Dutch merchants who are also in urgent need. The price is initially set at [-] yuan per catty. This is nearly ten times the huge profit.

Foreigners' money is not earned for nothing, especially for such a scarce commodity.

The shipping industry in European countries is very developed, and the demand for anti-rust paint is huge, and high-quality tung oil is an indispensable part of making paint.

Although the Four Seas Trading Company did not sell tung oil because of the scarcity of tung oil resources, since Shuangliu County intends to become a tung oil production base, the Four Seas Trading Company will of course quickly organize forces to enter this industry.

After the tung oil pricing agreement was reached, the mysterious visitor sent by the Four Seas Trading Company returned to Chengdu the next day. The subsequent trading company will naturally arrange corresponding manpower to continue the transportation and sales of tung oil. The mission of the young spoiler has been completed and he can go back to deal with business .

Due to the sudden intervention of the Four Seas Trading Company, Shuangliu has gained huge benefits from the tung oil transaction.

The price of three cents and eighty-one catties is already much higher than Sun Kedi's original estimate. The first batch of nearly 26 catties of tung oil brought local farmers nearly [-] silver coins in new income, and the county government also A tax of nearly three hundred silver coins was extracted from it.

There are a total of 23 tung tree villages in Shuangliu County, with a total population of more than [-]. Among them, Huayu Village, where the first batch of tung oil was sold, is the largest village. It is the closest to the county seat and has the largest area of ​​tung tree planting.

There are more than [-] households and more than [-] households in the village. Based on the income from the tung tree this time, each person can get nearly nine silver coins. .

In order to put the money to practical use, Sun Kedi made major changes to the original income distribution plan.

Excluding the official tax, the income from tung oil in Huayu Village this time is [-] silver coins, of which each person can get six silver coins, and another two hundred silver coins must be used to reward two seedling experts, and the rest of the silver coins will be shared by the villagers. The property is deposited in the Sihai ticket number in the county, and the receipts are kept by the three Lizhengs in the village.

All future public expenditures of Huayu Village must be reported to the county government in advance by these three Lizhengs. After approval, when cash is withdrawn, the three Lizhengs must also come forward together, sign and pledge, and keep the withdrawal amount vouchers in the Sihai Bank. For future peak review.

The county government will send people to help Huayu Village build a school for [-] school-age children, disband the private schools run by large households in the village, and the county government will be responsible for hiring some teachers to teach the students. Mainly.

All school-age children in this village have to go to school, and the books, pens, ink, paper and inkstone needed are all paid by the village public funds, and the school is closed every five days.

In addition, a small clinic will be built in the village, equipped with a doctor and several apprentices, whose monthly salary is the same as that of the public hospital in the county seat. The daily medicinal materials and related medical consumables needed by the clinic will be paid for by the village collective. Villagers are free to see a doctor and get medicine.

The main road in Huayu Village and the main road leading to the county will be widened and hardened, and the required funds will be jointly borne by the county government and the village.

Since a nursing home has been set up in the county seat, and all those who agree to the conditions in the county are accommodated, there is no longer a separate nursing home in the village.

On the second day after all the tung oil payments were settled, Sun Kedi arrived at Huayu Village together with the convoy escorting the tung oil funds. After supervising the distribution of the funds on the spot, Sun Kedi announced the above-mentioned revised regulations.

For the more than [-] people, men, women and children in Huayu Village, most of them have never received such a huge sum of six silver coins at one time. No one thought that those seemingly inconspicuous tung trees could be so big. Every village that received heavy silver coins from Lizheng knelt down and kowtowed to Sun Kedi in gratitude without exception.

Most of the people at the lowest level are illiterate and have little knowledge, but they still have the ability to distinguish right from wrong. When they understand the new policies loudly announced by the county magistrate, all of them express their absolute determination. Acknowledge and obey.

Running schools, building clinics, and repairing roads are all for the sake of farmers. Such a good government and such a loving Qingtian master are hard to find with a lantern. Such a master should be a prince for generations.

After announcing the relevant policies, Sun Kedi knelt down at the villagers of Huayu Village and sent him back home. The sense of accomplishment and pride in his heart was beyond words.

In the next period of time, the entire Huayu Village fell into a major transformation.

Schools and clinics began to be built, and roads began to be widened and leveled. Farmers with money took advantage of their slack time to hire various craftsmen from county towns and other villages to renovate and expand their houses.

The originally not-so-wealthy family suddenly got a lot of money, so they had to hurry up to build a house and marry the grown-up man to his wife and aunt. Suddenly, this unknown village became the focus of the whole county. focus.

At the end of the 24th year of Chongzhen, the tung oil produced by more than 150 acres of tung tree in Shuangliu County was sold out. The total output of tung oil reached 360 million catties, with an average yield of [-] catties per mu, and a total output value of more than [-] silver coins. It created a tax of nearly two thousand silver coins, which was enough to cover the original tax paid in half a year.

All this is just the beginning.

　Thank you Feiyang Domineering for rewarding me for Xiong.

　　
　
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