Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 92 "Premium" Acquisitions

Lu Kang was relieved when he saw Lu Su's official purchase list.

Lu Su wanted his officials to buy only three kinds of things: cattle, horses and grain.

The grains are mainly broomcorn millet, barley, corn, millet, and rice, which is still a specialty of Jiangdong at this time. In addition, common plants include Liangmi, but Liangmi is a relatively high-quality grain. Some families have enough money, or in good years. They only pay attention to eating these, and the prices are relatively high.

According to the price a few years ago, Liang rice cost about [-] yuan per stone, others were [-] to [-] yuan, and tempeh cost [-] yuan. In recent years, the price of food has soared. Even in Jiangdong, it has increased by [-]%. In the Central Plains The area is even doubled!
On the contrary, land was very cheap at this time. Ordinary farmland only cost one thousand yuan, or at most three to five thousand yuan per acre, and sacred land cost ten thousand yuan.

However, a normal family of five in the Central Plains or a family of six or seven in Jiangdong can only cultivate a hundred acres of land, and the current farming methods are still very rough. The yield of an ordinary medium-sized field is only about one stone per mu. ——That is, 120 kilograms in the Han Dynasty and sixty or seventy kilograms in later generations.

The purchase price of grain given by Lu Su was three hundred yuan.

What made Lu Kang feel relieved was that the purchase prices for the buffalo and the good horse were 15 yuan and 200 million yuan respectively!

After Bai Tu arrived in Jiangdong, Lu Bu once wanted to expand his cavalry, but after asking about the horse prices, he basically gave up the idea.

"Good horses" that can train the horsepower of war horses only cost a few thousand dollars in Bingzhou and Liangzhou, and ordinary premium horses only cost tens of thousands of dollars.

However, once they arrived in the Central Plains, the price of horses immediately skyrocketed. Generally, when the court used more troops, such as during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a good horse cost more than [-] yuan, and usually it cost [-] to [-] yuan.

However, during the Ling Emperor's period, because of the "Hao You Gu Que" - that is, the monopoly of horse sales by wealthy families, the price of horses soared to the sky, reaching a sky-high price of 200 million yuan per horse!

It wasn't until recent years that these aristocratic families dared to take the Han Dynasty as their winners, but they didn't dare to treat the princes from all walks of life as their winners. This caused the price of horses to fall, but even so, the price of horses in the Central Plains was more than ten Ten thousand yuan, Jiangdong wants three and a half million yuan...

In other words, for the same training of cavalry, the cost of horses in the northern border states of You, Bing, and Liang is only [-], while in the Central Plains it costs ten times more, and in the south it costs three to five times more!
Moreover, when training war horses, the most important factors are weight and explosive power. The Jiangdong horse, which is a cross between the Yunnan horse and the Central Plains horse, is far inferior to the grassland horse and is better at carrying heavy loads and endurance.

This is also the reason why Yuan Shao, who will control Hebei in the future, has a lot of money in cavalry, while even the extremely wealthy Liu Biao in the south does not have many cavalry.

As for the price of farm cattle, it is similar to that of horses in the Central Plains area, which is about [-] yuan.

But that refers to "farming cattle"!
Water buffaloes in Jiangdong are "beef cattle", and the price is based on meat, which is equivalent to dead cattle.

For a long time, the people of the Han Dynasty have accepted the exchange ratio, which is ten catties of meat and one stone of rice. The "jin" in the Han Dynasty was much smaller than that of later generations, almost only half of it. A buffalo can produce a thousand catties of meat, and the market price is only ten thousand to twenty thousand yuan...

But now Bai Tu is willing to pay the price of 12 yuan for cattle to buy buffaloes, and the price of 200 million yuan to buy horses. Obviously, the so-called fine of 20 yuan is just loud thunder and light rain. Mostly because he wanted to defeat the major aristocratic families - this is what Lu Kang thought at this time.

"Mr. Lu, I think it's not that easy for every household to come up with cash. Why don't you give me the convenience of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and use cash to pay the bills! Every [-] households need to pay [-] cattle and one good horse. , grain and ten thousand stones, how about it?" Lu Su said.

Lu Kang was still thinking just now that although it would be the most cost-effective to pay the bills with "farming cattle", in order to ease the relationship between the two parties, he was still going to urge everyone to pay some grain and horses.

This can be regarded as a sign of goodwill towards Bai Tu from the aristocratic families.

Now that Lu Su has proposed the ratio, Lu Kang has no intention of objecting.

Instead, Bai Tu asked more: "Does each family have so much meat... well, so many buffaloes and grain?"

"It's still possible to change some of them." Lu Kang said.

In fact, Bai Tu had already found out that the person who raised the most buffaloes in Jiangdong was none other than the Xu family from Wu County!

After all, when it comes to family assets, the most basic thing is grain, the best is salt and iron, and raising cattle is a second-rate business that the four Jiangdong surnames look down on...

This time each family wanted to purchase a large number of buffaloes, and the Xu family was able to make a fortune. Bai Tu estimated that Xu Gong would be happy for two to three months.

It was Lu Su's idea to first make the lion speak loudly and then let them use cattle, horses and grain to pay off the debt. After Bai Tu put him in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it was also his responsibility to collect strategic materials.

Ling Baitu made a "cost-free transaction" and saved all the money he would have spent on purchasing buffalo and grain.

At the same time, it "on the surface" avoids the resentment of the Jiangdong family after Bai Tu spreads the nose ring technique - I, Bai Tu, did not take advantage of you, I just bought it at the price of a farm cow!

Of course, it is only on the surface that he cannot express his dissatisfaction openly. In fact, this move still puts the wealthy families of the Jiangdong family together, but Baitu really needs these cows...

With these [-] cattle, most of the buffaloes in Jiangdong are under the name of the Prefecture Mufu. Baitu can guarantee that at least ten households have one cow available - Baitu can lend it to farmers for free first and collect more grain later. There is a tax, but aristocratic families don’t.

Especially after knowing that the biggest wealthy family was the Xu family, Bai Tu felt even less guilty.

The other five hundred good horses, although unable to expand the size of the cavalry, are enough to supplement the horse power of the existing cavalry.

Five million stones of grain was not a small amount - decades later, when Deng Ai was farming in Huainan, he could only save 500 million stones of grain and grass a year, and it took him six to seven years to save 500 million stones!

However, Bai Tu believed that the wealthy families in Jiangdong could work it out. After all, even Lu Su, who was not too wealthy and usually generous with his wealth and did not stockpile grain, could give away thousands of dan.

After Lu Kang and Lu Su discussed the specific details, such as calves, two for one, and horses for three, etc., they also hinted to Bai Tu that he could talk to the major aristocratic families, but this salary It's not just a "fine", it's also the support and goodwill of the major aristocratic families towards Bai Tu.

After all, Bai Tu has shown his strength and potential, and... he still has the effect of "Enlightenment Grandmaster"!
"My Lord, I, the Yu clan, are willing to donate an additional hundred fine horses and ten thousand pieces of silk to help the great cause." Yu Fan took the initiative to say at this time.

A piece of silk is roughly equivalent to five stones of grain, but ordinary households usually wear linen, and the price is only one-third of silk.

The Yu family is a big horse breeder - in Jiangdong, if they can produce a hundred horses, they are already considered a big horse breeder, and they can't compare with the north.

Lu Kang became more and more surprised when he heard this. What kind of medicine was given to Yu Fan...

At the same time, he also understands that Yu Fan is deliberately showing his loyalty to Bai Tu in front of him, and is also indirectly warning other aristocratic families that if they want to buy his horse, even if it does not cost 200 million, it will still be more expensive than usual. If you don't agree, you can Find the white picture theory!
Lu Kang guessed that Bai Tu and Lu Su had other things to talk about, so he took the initiative to leave when he saw that there was nothing else to do. Yu Fan also left with Lu Kang, and he would also assist Lu Kang in completing the household registration sorting in the household department.

Lu Kang had expected before that Hu Bu would definitely turn to Bai Tu's confidant to be his deputy.

But I never would have guessed that this person would be Yu Fan from a noble family!

(End of this chapter)