Impeachment will make me stronger, and I will be invincible on the road to death.

Chapter 64 Partnering with Wu Zetian to defraud wealthy people

Yang Yanzhang wanted to resist, but Wu Zetian took a tough stance this time.

"It's about the stability of the frontier, you have to agree even if you don't agree! But don't worry, if you really can't pay it back in the end, I will naturally step in to help you! But in that case, your high-yield words will be self-defeating. Now! When the time comes, just wait until you enter the palace to sleep!"

As she said that, Wu Zetian stared at Yang Yanzhang's shirtless body without concealing it. That look made her salivate.

In fact, Yang Yanzhang is not afraid of not being able to repay the debt. He just allocates grain and grass to the frontier fortress. That is an astronomical figure. Even though he has 2500 acres of fertile land and ten times the output, the cost of supplying the frontier fortress is not enough to fill the gap, let alone several times. Give it back to the rich!
Therefore, it was okay to agree to Wu Zetian, but he had to put forward a condition.

"Queen Mother, if you don't do this, I can only agree, but I have to put forward a few conditions."

"Haha! As long as you agree, the conditions are whatever you want!"

Yang Yanzhang pondered for a moment and then slowly said: "First of all, the Queen Mother has to issue an edict. She only says to pay twice as much, but she doesn't even mention the exact amount of food she wants to pay back. Moreover, she pays by the stone instead of the pound!"

Wu Zetian was stunned: "Why is this?"

Yang Yanzhang felt that there was no need to deceive Wu Zetian about this matter, so he told the truth: "If it were ordinary grains, I would not be able to pay it back, because the yield of that thing is too low! But the corn I planted, one grain can It will produce about two thousand grains, so it is easy to pay back with corn. But the premise is that the wealthy households cannot know my plan in advance. "

Wu Zetian was immediately surprised: "One seed, there are about two thousand rewards? Yang Yanzhang, are you sure this is true?"

Yang Yanzhang smiled bitterly: "That's not the case. How come I am so busy from waking up early to staying late? I originally planned to plant it for a few years, and when there were enough seeds, the court would promote it nationwide! But now it seems that this plan will be postponed. "

Wu Zetian was thoughtful, and after a moment of silence, she solemnly agreed: "Don't worry, I will issue an edict according to your wishes when I get back! I will work with you to defraud those wealthy households!"

As she said that, Wu Zetian couldn't help but giggle again.

"By the way, why don't you pay for the pound instead of the stone?"

"Because the kernels of corn grow on a big cob. If you weigh it per stone, the cob can be included in it. Even though the cob is big, it doesn't weigh much just because it takes up a lot of space! If you weigh it by the pound, even if you include the cob, you have to count the cob." A lot more for a lot more!”

The smile on Wu Zetian's face grew stronger when she heard this: "Yang Yanzhang, I didn't see it, you are still a profiteer! It's a good thing that you didn't do business, otherwise, everyone in the world would have been deceived by you!"

"By the way, you just mentioned the first condition, what about the other conditions? Let's talk about them together!"

"Others, there is only one thing! The Queen Mother allows me to rent some official land. The more fields in the Shendu area, the better. In the coming spring, I will need a lot of land to expand planting! The 2500 acres I have is simply not enough. !”

Wu Zetian laughed: "Okay, okay, I will say hello to the Ministry of Revenue when I get back. Next year, all official fields in Luoyang will be used for you! But the harvest of these official fields is related to the salaries of officials at all levels. How much benefit do you plan to give them? If If you don’t give me enough, I’m afraid they will deliberately make things difficult for you and not let you do what you want!”

The land of the Tang Dynasty could not only be distributed to the people, but the government also had corresponding land. It was usually contracted to the people for farming, and most of the harvest was used for the salaries of officials at all levels.

Therefore, the government is definitely not willing to let others control this thing easily. If you want to use it, you must take care of it to avoid problems.

But considering the high yields of corn and potatoes, Yang Yanzhang naturally spent generously: "I will give them double the amount of food they usually get!"

"Then what if they don't want your corn and potatoes?"

Yang Yanzhang smiled nonchalantly: "If they don't want it, I'll buy it back at the price of rice!"

Wu Zetian was stunned: "You finally gave it away, and now you want to buy it back? Are you stupid?"

"The Queen Mother doesn't know that corn can make good wine! I took back the price of rice, but what I sold was several times or more than ten times the price of wine! In the end, I made a profit!" Wu Zetian was overjoyed: "Is there such a good thing? No. Yang Yanzhang, it’s useless for you to make so much money, you can’t spend it all! In this way, I will provide you with manpower, venues, and even guards! You can use the profits to share with me??”

Yang Yanzhang burst into laughter: "Okay, okay, the Queen Mother said it should be evener. Can I not give it to the Queen Mother? In this way, we can split the net profit in half, how about it?"

Wu Zetian curled her lips, obviously dissatisfied.

"Queen Mother, don't forget that your food debt must be repaid by me! I need money to run all of this!"

Speaking of this, Wu Zetian suddenly felt discouraged: "Half and half! I will suffer a little loss for the time being. Humph, one day you commit an offense, I will send people to raid your home! Yours will be taken away after all. Become my own!"

With that said, Wu Zetian returned to the palace proudly.

"What a female hooligan! She saw someone's breasts and threatened to confiscate her home! Ugh, shameless!"

Yang Yanzhang complained bitterly for a while, but soon became happy again: "I can share the dividends [-]/[-] with Wu Zetian, who would dare to believe it? As for confiscating your home, if you dare to confiscate your home, I will stop contributing good things to you! Old witch, I I can’t cure you yet??”

……

After Wu Zetian returned to the palace, she personally drafted an imperial edict.

This imperial edict is for the wealthy people in the world to see.

"...The borrowed food will be returned twice as much in the future..."

In this edict, it does not say what kind of food will be returned, nor does it say how much stone will be used to repay it, nor does it specify the date!
What Wu Zetian did was even more obscene than Yang Yanzhang.

After signing the imperial edict, Wu Zetian looked strange.

"Who wouldn't believe it if I put my phoenix seal on it?"

"They probably all thought that they were borrowing rice for rice, borrowing face for face, but little did they know that what they were asked to pay back was something they had never seen before!"

"The key is, what you borrow is a handful of grains of rice, but when you return it, there are still a lot of useless things!"

"If you can pay it back this year and next year, I will naturally ask Yang Yanzhang to pay it back. If you still can't, I will pay it back in a few years! Anyway, I didn't say that I will pay it back this year and next year!"

As she thought about it, Wu Zetian chuckled to herself.

"It's true that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to Mo are black. I am close to Yang Yanzhang, but it is because of his influence that I have learned bad things!"

"Wu Zetian, who is so cunning and cunning, seems to be very different from before!"

Wu Zetian looked in the mirror and felt that her face was radiant and her energy was much better than before.

Thinking about the fact that Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen were the most important people in the past, she often felt uneasy, and Wu Zetian gradually became disgusted with the dark life in the past.

"I, I really envy Shangguan Yuqing!"

(End of this chapter)