kingnovel Chapter 914 Buying Cultivated Land
Chapter 914 Buying Cultivated Land
She had 140,000 taels in her own hands. She didn't plan to spend the money to buy the land, and not everything had to be put out in the open. It would be better to hide some in secret as a way of retreat.
Er Pang and his friends ate without even raising their heads. After hearing this, they said, "Master, these vegetables and meats are cooked by you yourself. They are more delicious than any delicacies from land and sea. We don't know what kind of blessing we have in our previous lives to have you cook for us yourself."
There was a bunch of food in his mouth and his words were vague.
Zhou Guo was really disgusted, "Can you please swallow what's in your mouth before you talk? If it's sprayed everywhere, just stand and eat it!"
Several people quickly shut their mouths, looked at each other and stopped talking.
A pot of rice and two bowls of vegetables were eaten up cleanly, and the little soup left in the bowl was wrapped up by Xiaoshu with the last bit of rice and eaten up cleanly.
Zhou Guo said: "It's not like there's nothing to eat, why are you still drinking this soup?"
Xiaoshu said with a smile: "Master, you made this with great difficulty, of course it cannot be wasted. If this bowl is not inedible, I will eat this bowl too."
Erpang and Dashu nodded repeatedly.
Zhou Guo asked, "Is it that serious?"
Several people nodded again, "As for that!"
They had never eaten the food cooked by Zhou Guo. Even if the food prepared by their master did not taste good, in their eyes it was much better than delicacies from land and sea.
Zhou Guo thought of Li. The family had a cook in the past two years, but she was busy and rarely cooked.
Occasionally I cook one or two dishes, and everyone in the family rushes to eat them, and they are definitely the first ones to finish eating at the table.
Every time I make her smile.
After dinner, Zhou Guo took them out for a walk.
Nanhe City had just experienced a war, and the streets were deserted with few people. The few people who were there were coming and going in a hurry. There was no one walking around the streets leisurely like them.
After walking around several streets and seeing the same thing, Zhou Guo sighed. Judging from the number of shops on both sides of the street, this place would not be worse than Huaiyang during peaceful times. He didn't know how much effort it would take to restore the bustling scene with people coming and going.
It is the most cost-effective to buy a shop at this time.
Er Pang looked at the deserted street and said, "There are only a few people here. The battle is over. Shouldn't those people be back? Or haven't they received the news yet?"
Dashu Xiaoshu said: "I'm afraid it will take some time for him to come back."
There are many others who have lost their family members and friends, and there is a high possibility that they will never come back.
In troubled times, very few people can escape alive but come back alive.
Zhou Guo said: "We have to attract people here. Nanhe is much richer than Yunzhou. It will only take a few days to recover to its former glory. It will become rich again sooner or later."
He turned on his heel and said, "Let's go buy some land."
The pawnshop is still there. Unlike the deserted street, there are still quite a few people there and it is bustling inside.
As soon as Zhou Guo and Er Pang entered the door, a man who looked like a manager came forward and said to Zhou Guo, "What do you need, young master?"
Zhou Guo looked around and said, "Ghosts can kill people on the street, but your dental clinic is quite busy."
The steward smiled and said, "That's right. Now the war is over. Nanhe now belongs to General Xu. You know General Xu, right? He has made the poor Northland prosperous. Not to mention our Nanhe, which will be richer than the Northland sooner or later! Sir, you came to visit us at this time. Your vision is not comparable to that of ordinary people. It's amazing!"
Zhou Guo smiled, "What do these people do?"
The steward said: "It's okay, it's just those things, they are the same as you."
Zhou Guo said: "In that case, then find me a piece of land."
When the manager heard that they were here to buy land, his eyes lit up. There have been many people buying shops recently, but few buying land.
"It just so happens that I have several plots of land in my hands. They were all mortgaged by wealthy families before the war. No one has come back after a while. Can I take you to have a look?"
He saw that Zhou Guo was well-dressed and very attentive.
Zhou Guo nodded, "Okay."
The first piece of land was not far from the Nan River, and it took more than half an hour to get there by horse-drawn carriage.
"Sir, please look. This piece of land is cultivated land. It is very close to the city. It has the best location. Most importantly, there is a river next to it. This piece of land is as much as 86 hectares."
Zhou Guo took a stick and went to the field. He stuck it into the soil piece by piece and pulled it out. Looking at the mud on the stick, he found that it was indeed very good land. Although the river was not very close, it was not very far away either. When the time came, he could directly bring water to the field and plant rice.
After walking around for a while without saying anything good or bad, he asked the broker, "Is there no other place?"
"Ah? Oh, yes, yes, if you think this piece of land is too small, there are bigger ones. There is one that is over 300 hectares. Do you want to go and have a look?"
Zhou Guo nodded, "Let's go and take a look."
Although the second piece of land is large, there is no river around it. If you want to grow rice, you have to build water conservancy projects yourself. You can't build such a large piece of land, so you can only grow half rice and half wheat.
But this piece of land is not as fertile as the first one.
But it doesn’t matter, she has plenty of fat.
The third piece of land is more than 200 hectares. This piece of land is much more fertile than the one of more than 300 hectares. The most important thing is that there is a river about 20 miles away, which has the same source as the moat. If this water is brought in, all of these more than 200 hectares of land can be planted with rice.
It’s not that she likes rice and dislikes wheat, but the rice she has has a higher yield than wheat, so she would still grow rice if she can.
The broker has been taking them around for about ten days, and now he has looked at almost all the land, big and small.
Zhou Guo started asking the price.
Sure enough, even the less fertile land near the city center with water sources was more expensive, with one mu of land costing nine taels, while land a little further away was eight or six taels, and even five or four taels for land farther away.
Zhou Guo felt that there was no benefit in having land too close to the city, and it was also so expensive, at nine or eight taels per mu. Land a little further away was enough to buy two mu of land.
I picked two plots of land that were farther away, both in the county town below. Both plots were over 100 hectares. Because the land was not fertile, but there was a river, I asked for 426 yuan per mu, but I bargained it down to 328 yuan per mu.
Finally, a piece of land a little further away from the city was acquired. It was not large, only more than 50 hectares. The asking price was 6 taels, and I acquired it for 5.56 taels.
Adding the taxes paid to the government, all the 140,000 taels in his hand were spent.
Not a single ounce of silver was left.
The broker smiled and said, "Sir, now is the best time to buy. After a while, I'm afraid the price will not be this high. In previous years, when the land price was the highest, an acre of top-quality land could even be sold for twelve or thirteen taels. The current eight or nine taels is already much lower."
After all, this place can't be compared with Yunzhou.
Yunzhou is a poor place with few people. If it weren't for the increasing population in recent years, two or three taels of rice per acre would be the norm.
Zhou Guo left with the land deed in his hand.