Mr. Jiang was named Jiang Jiaren, who was a Jinshi of the previous dynasty, a fifth-rank official, and a top gentry in Changshu.

Originally, his identity was respectable wherever he went, but some recent events have ruined Mr. Jiang’s face, making him feel embarrassed and it has nothing to do with continuing to stay in Changshu.

As a Jinshi in the previous dynasty, Jiang Yuanwai was morally honest and refused to do things for the court. He was not a magistrate. Even if someone came to ask him to come out, he shook his head aloud and refused, proclaiming that he was loyal and did not serve the second master.

In recent years, Ganchao has become stronger and stronger. Many of Jiang Yuanwai's friends have successively taken office and have found a job in Ganchao. Jiang Yuanwai is also a little moved, but before that he sang a high-profile, he was embarrassed to go and run like others.

He thought that he could come and invite him to the government, but for many years, no one in the court came to him. In the same year, his old friends thought that he was noble and the backbone of scholars, so he did not recommend it to the court.

After a long time, others praised the Gan Chao, so Jiang Yuanwai simply became a survivor of the previous dynasty, expressing his dissatisfaction with the Gan Chao everywhere to earn fame.

At the end of last year, Gao Huan arrived in Changshu and implemented the reform of state-owned land. His family's tens of thousands of acres of land were levied by the court and exchanged for some silver, a certain amount of tax deduction volume, and more than 100,000 acres of overseas land volume.

Mr. Jiang was resentful to Gan Chao in his heart, and he was unwilling to believe that Gao Huan was kind-hearted and believed that overseas land rolls were just a stack of waste paper, so after leaving the yamen, he directly rolled over more than 100,000 acres of land rolled over.

His actions also led some big investors and followed them with the land roll.

He originally wanted to make this matter a hot topic and establish his image of not fearing power in order to earn Jiangnan's fame and become the leader of the surviving remnants.

But who knew that this land roll was not waste paper. The court quickly established a special exchange for land roll trading. With the release of good news, the price of land rolls had increased tenfold.

As the price of land rolls rose, his behavior of raising land rolls became a joke. The big people who believed his words and followed him to raise land rolls came to him to trouble him.

With the current market price, Jiang Yuanwai lost more than 100,000 silver dollars at once. The big people who were making excuses also lost tens of thousands of taels, allowing the passing people, the yamen runners in the yamen, and the gentry behind each received several thousand silver dollars.

This incident made Mr. Jiang feel pain in his heart. He couldn't stay in Changshu, so he brought the duty-free ticket to Shanghai.

After all, the era of buying tens of thousands of acres of land and collecting rents has passed, and big families cannot live in vain, so they take money and think about finding other ways, hoping to find new ways to make money.

Some big investors in Jiangnan looked at the tax deductions in their hands. Some set up workshops and some started trades, but Mr. Jiang would collect rent and looked down on business, so he never found a way out.

On that day, in a tavern in Shanghai County, Mr. Jiang was drinking a little bored, and the surroundings heard the noises.

"Have you heard that? The land roll is about to rise again."

"Isn't that true! I didn't buy a hundred pennies some time ago, otherwise I would have made more than ten times the price now."

The conversation at the table hurts Mr. Jiang’s heart. The higher the price of land rolls, the more uncomfortable he feels.

"Hmph! This land roll is a scam. You can wait and see, it will turn into a piece of waste paper sooner or later!" Mr. Jiang snorted coldly, raised his head and fucked.

The two businessmen at the table frowned slightly. One of them looked at Jiang Jiaren and said unconvincedly: "Brother, this acre of land is only one piece of silver dollars, and the value is seriously underestimated. I think it can increase to at least ten yuan. How could it be waste paper?"

In the corner of the restaurant, Gao Huan looked at this scene and smiled in his heart, "This is the bears meeting the bulls!"

Mr. Jiang sneered, looking like everyone was drunk and I was awake, "You have all been deceived. Does anyone know where these lands are? There is no land and cannot be cultivated. Isn't it just a piece of waste paper?"

The merchant also sneered: "You must have read books, don't you read newspapers? The Dagan Daily has long reported that these places are in Yinzhou, and some people have already developed them!"

"I am indeed a scholar or a Jinshi from the Ming Dynasty!" Jiang Yuanwai adjusted his qualifications and then sarcastically said: "Newspaper? Can that thing be believed? How long has it been? Why is there no news? No ship is back!"

When the two businessmen heard that they were Jinshi masters from the previous dynasty, they did not dare to argue with him.

Seeing this, Mr. Jiang smiled proudly, "Whoever wants to have a land roll? I advise you to throw it away quickly, you can't grasp it at all!"

This is not the first time that Mr. Jiang has been bearish. Since the land rollout transaction on the road, he has been bearish all the way. When it rose to 200 liters, he said it was the top, and when it rose to a piece, he still said he was going to hit the market.

Not only did he insist on being bearish, he also advised his relatives and friends not to hold land rolls in his hands and let them sell them all, but as a result, fewer and fewer relatives and friends were involved.

At this time, Gao Huan stood up and smiled and said, "This brother, it seems that he really doesn't read the newspaper. Don't you know that there are ships from Jinshan County today, full of gold mined from Yinzhou, back to Shanghai?"

Everyone in the restaurant was shocked when they heard Gao Huan's words. Every time they read the newspaper, they quickly called the waiter to buy a newspaper.

Before the newspaper was bought, there was a noise outside the tavern. A man stretched his head out of the window and saw a large group of merchants and people heading towards the pier, "My brothers, where are you going!"

"The merchant ships who went to Yinzhou arrived at the port. It is said that they had loaded a ship of gold. Everyone went to see it!" someone replied on the street.

When everyone in the restaurant heard that there was no place to eat, they quickly threw down the silver dollars and rushed out of the restaurant.

Mr. Jiang was shocked. He never believed in Ganchao's newspaper, but he still couldn't help but go and take a look.

The Huangpu Wharf was crowded with people, and tens of thousands of people and merchants surrounded the wharf and watched the workers carry boxes of gold down from the ship.

The currency of Ganchao is silver dollars, and these golds are calculated based on goods. If you transport them back to the country, you will need to pay a tax.

At this time, the officials of the Maritime Bureau, with a reputation, took out boxes of gold and weighed them under the protection of the army.

The people around him saw boxes of gold, and their eyes were straightened and they held their breath.

After a long time, the official of the Maritime Bureau said that the gold was over and held the account book and said, "The total amount of 300,000 taels of gold is equivalent to 3 million silver dollars, and the tax of 30,000 silver dollars is paid."

Ganchao import tariffs are very low, only three percent, and exports are higher, about 10%.

The low import tax is to absorb overseas materials and raw materials, while the high export tariffs are because at this stage, the goods in Ganchao are unique and can be sold more expensively.

If there is competition overseas in the future, Ganchao will need to change its tariff policies, increase import tariffs to protect the domestic market, and reduce export tax rates to increase product competitiveness.

The people and merchants on the dock, when they heard about this number, took a breath and couldn't help but exclaim.

“There are really gold mines overseas!”

"It's all true, you're rich!"

When Mr. Jiang saw this scene, he was shocked and couldn't help but regret it, "It's over! No need to contact relatives and friends now."

However, Jiang Yuanwai was a smart person after all. When he regretted it, he immediately saw the opportunity. So as everyone cheered, he quietly left, went to the exchange at a speed of a hundred meters, took out all his belongings, and purchased land rolls.

He was not the only smart person. When Jiang Yuanwai arrived, the exchange was filled with merchants waving silver notes, and they were all extremely crazy.

Because they know that one second later, they will make a lot of money less.

Gao Huan sat in the teahouse opposite, and saw this scene and started singing the opera again, "I stood on the city tower and watched the mountain view, and I heard the chaos outside the city..."
Chapter completed!