Today, everyone is indeed coming for the official land, but when Li Ling really told the price of the official land, even the most intent rich people would not want to pay the money, because this is too a big mistake.

At the usual season, the price of land in Jiangnan is only between three and five taels of silver, and this hectare of official land will only cost a hundred taels of silver if it is killed. This is still a disaster or hardship. Now the price of land in Yangzhou has to be greatly discounted.

But the opening of the tutor Li's mouth was 500 taels per hectare, which increased by more than five times. Moreover, this was a three-year service period, and the price of this official land was too expensive, which was really unacceptable.

Even the Liang Ronggui brothers who were willing to please the government office, and the Lu Xie family who were consciously able to take the steps to go down, frowned and refused to give the money. It was one thing to make friends with the prefect Li, but it was another thing to be regarded as a fool. No one was willing to pay for the title of a fool.

Li Ling waited for a while and saw that no one in the hall responded, and laughed: "It seems that you still have concerns. Yes, just looking at the surface, it is indeed unreasonable to have a hectare of land at a minimum price of 500 taels, but what you want to look at is its hidden use. This is an official land, so those who work on it can also be regarded as people in our government office in the future. In this way, not only can they be exempted from taxes, but their identity is also very different from that of ordinary farmers.

"Of course, some people look down on this identity, but those who buy this land can give it to people close to you. As long as the whole acre is given, they can be regarded as the user of the official land. He and his family can be blessed by the government and avoid the trouble of tax and labor."

After hearing what he said, many businessmen's eyes had already illuminated, but they were moved.

As merchants, even in an open place like Jiangnan, their status is not high, and having money may not necessarily be powerful. Some things can be settled by money, but some things are not that simple, such as corvee labor.

Except for scholars who are famous, no one can escape the corvee service in the Dayue Dynasty. The labor service in March every year is really tormenting, and sometimes even if you want to spend money to ask someone to serve, you will be invalidated due to the deliberate attacks of the government, and you will still suffer.

This has become the biggest concern of many wealthy businessmen. But now it is different. Once you have such a hectares of land in your hands, let alone yourself, even your relatives and friends can get rid of the troubles of labor service. Five hundred taels in three years, and carefully calculate it, you can get more than twenty people. Twenty-five taels of silver will be worth one labor service, but it is too cheap.

Li Ling's words continued: "There is another point. Since it is an official land, what the superiors want to plant is the meaning of the government, so naturally no one will be asked about it. Even if you want to open a mining house in it, you can decide for yourself..."

This is not selling land, it is selling land, so it is more flexible than what I thought before, and everyone finally couldn't sit still. At that moment, someone raised his hand: "Five hundred taels, I want five acres!"

"I'll pay 600 taels, and I'll need ten acres!" someone immediately shouted.

Then there was a price increase, and some people called 700 taels and 3 hectares, and 650 taels and 2 hectares... Different people have different needs, but the prices are much higher than the reserve price, but the number of all the land acres together has long exceeded the official land number in the hands of the government office.

Chu Lian, who was watching behind, was already impressed by the prefect Li. It was rare for him to sell the calligraphy and paintings that were not famous just now for thousands of taels. Now, a batch of official fields were actually rushed to buy by everyone, and the price was raised again and again, which surprised him even more. After doing so, if you sell the official fields today, your income would have exceeded 100,000 yuan.

Seeing that everyone was fighting and clamoring, Li Ling decisively picked up the mallet and knocked it twice, which made everyone calm down: "Everyone, I already know your intention to buy official fields, but the quantity is limited and it cannot meet everyone's needs in the end. Fortunately, everything is fair. We are auctioning here, and all the goods can be decided by those with higher prices.

"In this way, we will come one hectares of land. By the way, before that, let me give you a precise number. Now the newly established official fields in our government office are 152 hectares, located in the east and west areas of the city, starting from the area in the east and west of the city. There are seven hectares of fertile land there, and the first hectares of the base price is 500 taels."

"I'll pay 800 taels and I'll ask for them all!" At this moment, a wealthy businessman in Dongcheng made a quote, but it had exceeded many of the previous quotes.

"Why? I only need two hectares, and I will pay 850 taels!" Someone immediately followed.

"Then I'll pay nine hundred taels, but I'll still want them all."

"One thousand taels, two hectares."

"One thousand two hundred taels, all!"

The two of them fought in an instant, and before the others could react, the price of Yiliudi doubled more than once, which stunned many people.

Only Xie Wenruo, Lu Xu and others were smiling at the ground, and then looked at Li Ling with some admiration.

This move is really powerful. The land is divided and sold bit by bit, giving people a sense of urgency to be fast and slow. As long as two people compete for the price, the auction of the land can be quickly raised, and there is no fear of people repentance. Whoever dares to quote a high price and fails to pay the money will be severely punished, and the consequences will be serious.

After all, this is not an online auction, nor is it a gold handle that I bought...

It was not until this person quoted a sky-high price of 1,200 taels that he suppressed the competitors and obtained the seven hectares of official land alone. As a result, Li Ling was surprised and was stunned for a moment before asking three times, saying, "Congratulations to this official, after the end, you signed a document with me and paid the money, and you will be the owner of the seven hectares of fertile land within three years."

He quickly clasped his fists and thanked him, while some people whispered around him: "Is this Mao Laosan crazy? He actually bought seven hectares of land for so many silver? More than eight thousand taels of silver."

"You don't understand this. How could he do a loss-making business? Have you forgotten his origin?"

"Yes, he was a dilapidated house, but somehow he had this huge fortune. It is said that he was earned by money and murder. The government wanted to investigate him before. And his more than ten brothers were not good at seeing it."

"Yes, this time it's different. With these few official fields in hand, he is a real rich family. How could the government check his own people? This is not buying land, it is clearly buying amulets."

Everyone understood this job. They were even more excited than before, and even regretted not continuing to increase the price just now. Maybe the price of land acres will be higher later than this.

The facts later showed that their guess was really right. As everyone understood the further use of these official fields, they no longer could just grow fields, but became symbols of their identity. Now, the price of fields naturally rose rapidly.

When Li Ling pointed out that the next piece of land was nine hectares, a piece of land located in the west city, the price was quickly raised. This time, no one could have the financial resources to swallow all the land and finally sold it to the three families for 1,500 taels. Then there were the South City and the North City, and the prices were also more than 1,000 taels a hectares...

This time, Chu Lian was completely stunned. The money was too easy. I thought it would be a big deal if I could sell it for 100,000 taels, but now I calculated that I would lose 200,000 taels of silver. You should know that at least 100 acres of these official lands are actually half-waste land, but they didn't care at all and didn't ask any more questions.

It was not until this time that Chu Lian confirmed that Li Gongfu was a good official, but the more powerful thing was to do business. This auction made him so smoothly, and he really made money every day.

Soon, more than 150 acres of land were sold cleanly, and the smile on Li Ling's face became more and more prosperous. Sure enough, Jiangnan was rich. I thought that after a quarrel, the rich people in the city could no longer afford much money. Now I realized that I still underestimated them. As long as they were attractive, they could take out more money to buy things.

The only thing that was lacking was that the Lu and Xie families had not yet moved. With their identities, the added value of these official fields naturally could not reach their sight. Li Ling knew even more that the 200,000 taels of silver was still far from enough to pay taxes, so he came up with a big move.

Just when everyone thought that today's auction ended, Li Ling coughed again and said seriously: "Okay, next, the last item at today's auction is the heaviest item. However, this item is very different from those before, it is not a physical item, or there is no physical item yet." As he said that, he looked at Xie Wenruo and Lu Xu who seemed to be smiling.

The two of them immediately understood that it was obviously coming to their own family, because except for Lu Xu who spent 2,000 taels to buy a calligraphy by Zhang Hefeng, his two families had not taken any other things, which was too inconsistent with their identity and wealth.

After arousing everyone's appetite, Li Ling said slowly: "This product is 30% of the shares of Zongheng Bookstore in Jiangnan. The reserve price is 500,000 taels of silver!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone suddenly changed their color and was stunned.

If they can still see a clue after discussing the role of those official fields, it would be too strange that 30% of the shares of Zongheng Bookstore are.

Zongheng Bookstore, what is that? He dared to call such a high price, but he was only 30% of the shares? They are in Jiangnan, naturally they have never heard of the famous Zongheng Bookstore, but some people know, such as Lu Xu and Xie Wenruo.

The two of them suddenly became solemn, and they asked: "Master Li, this Zongheng Bookstore in the capital is related to you? Are you sure they will come to Jiangnan to open a semicolon?"
Chapter completed!