The little fat man's surname is Mu, and Mu Youcai.

Even though the name is like this, he is actually quite lucky.

Mu Youcai was born in Quanchengfu. When Dazhou was still in Jiangbei, their family was a feces section of Quanchengfu. Three generations of his ancestors took charge of cleaning up feces for the residents of the entire city.

This job sounds pickled, but in fact it is very profitable - there is no cost except for handling some yamen.

The labor is just hired from the village outside the city, and then manure is used as wages.

Other manures can be sold to farmers, just like picking up money for nothing.

With accumulation, or lending money or buying land, as long as you don’t go to the slap in a bad way, three generations have enough time to accumulate a lot of wealth.

In addition, the Mu family also accumulated considerable connections by enclosing the manure section. During the chaotic moment of the Great Zhou migration south, Mu Youcai's grandfather gathered his own men, hired workers, and tenants to build a fort near Quancheng, and was the owner of the fort for more than ten years.

In other words, Mu Youcai was born as a son of the fortress owner, and he was considered a wealthy family in Qi Province.

When the Xu family rose and marched towards Quancheng Mansion, the Mu family was very aware of the current affairs and took the initiative to surrender to the Xu family, who was still the governor at that time, which allowed their family to retain a lot of wealth they had accumulated in the past - at least the Qi army did not confiscate their family's existing money and food, except for the population and land.

Of course, the Mu family suffered a lot of losses. First of all, the fortresses who had all their personal rights in the past became free people, and the Mu family no longer had the right to use these precious labor free of charge.

The second is land limitation. In the past, all the land in the fort was owned by the fortress, and all the farmers who farmed on it were tenants from the fortress owner's family.

After the founding of Qi State, the King of Qi and the Prince of Kings carried out land reforms. The owners of the fortress were only allowed to reserve cultivated land based on two or one household, with each household being 50 acres as the standard. The excess land had to be "sold" to the Qi State government at a low price.

Moreover, if a family has more than three households in the local area, the extra household registration must be moved to another place - sometimes it is Liaodong, or it may be Hebei Province or other prefectures in the province, and use local land to replace it.

Of course, the Qi King government encouraged the family of dock owners to invest in the industry with this money. If the dock owners do not collect money and invest land compensation into the industry according to the government's guidance, they can receive an additional 10% to 20% of the compensation.

Therefore, when the land was collected, the fortress owner did lose money, but if he guided the investment in the industry according to the Qi King government, he would actually make a profit after the development and dividends over the past few years.

What is more tragic is that not all families trust the King of Qi who took their land, such as Mu Youcai's father, who held all the money in his hands and did not invest in any industry.

Therefore, for the Mu family, Qi's land reform policy was indeed a complete loss.

Last but not least, Mu Youcai's father's attempt to bribe officials in Qi State and re-encapsulate the feces section completely failed.

Because Qi State's demand for saltpeter is unprecedentedly huge, Xu Shiyang always promoted public toilets when he was in Shiwutun.

After the founding of Qi State, this became something institutional again - it was strictly forbidden to urinate and defecate in cities and rural roads, and every village in the city and every village in the countryside must have at least one public toilet.

If you urinate and defecate when you go out, you will be fined or punished for voluntary labor to clean the streets.

The manure in the public toilet can be sold or used in the village. The income is divided equally according to the population of each household, and the saltpeter produced in the public toilet must be handed over.

In other words, Qi State does not have the idea of ​​taking care of manure sections. The manure in rural public toilets is used on their own fields, while urban manure is the property of Fangguo residents.

The old Mu family lost their ancestral business. In the eyes of Mu Youcai's father, this family has inevitably declined.

However, Mu Youcai himself thinks that things are not that simple.

Today, Qi Kingdom is booming. Although many old industries have disappeared, new industries have also emerged like mushrooms after a rain. As long as you are willing, it is not difficult to find a new business that can be passed on to your family.

Therefore, Mu Youcai's father split up with his family and moved to Hebei Province with some money, and he was in a daze and slump, but Mu Youcai himself was indeed looking for opportunities to make money carefully.

He has a small business and cannot seize the big opportunities (the family of the former fortress owners of Qi's junior high school, whose biggest opportunity for wealth is actually that the government guided the investment in the industry, and there was policy support at that time. If you personally want to invest in others, you may not be willing to ask for it). If you seize a few more small opportunities, you will still have the opportunity to accumulate a considerable amount of wealth.

For example, this time going on the expedition.

Now the Qi army has about 20,000 combat soldiers under the city of Datong. The local rural soldiers who surrendered to Jin Province and the logistics convoys and caravans that Qi and Jin had previously traveled, had at least 100,000.

So many people eat, drink, defecate and vent every day, and the public toilets in each camp naturally have an astonishing amount of manure.

Of course, it was impossible for the Qi army and the merchants to transport these things back to China, and the Qi army did not prohibit the residents in Datong from coming out to take care of the fields. The farmers near Datong naturally needed a lot of fertilizer.

There is output and demand, this is a good deal.

The best thing is that except for Mu Youcai, who has taken over the feces at home, others will not see such a business for a while.

This is simply because God directly threw the opportunity on Mu Youcai's head.

The only regret is that this business is destined to be long-term, because the Qi army will not be sure that the siege of the city will be too long. Once Datong is taken down and the troops leave, the business will naturally disappear.

But it doesn’t matter. If you save your capital a little more, you can get a bigger opportunity in the future.

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Qi's strange conquest of Jin Province gave many opportunities to small people like Mu Youcai.

Some people are braver than Mu Youyou and have a better family fortune than him. From the beginning, they believed that the Qi army would win this battle. In their eyes, Jin Province was equivalent to being included in the jurisdiction of Qi.

Therefore, they took advantage of the short opportunity that local enterprises had not yet begun to make large-scale entry and began to take the lead.

Some people invest in coal mines, some open brick kilns, and some others seize the opportunity here to open a wool textile factory that is unwilling to be away from the grassland.

At this moment when the Qi army had not yet completely occupied Jin Province, some more basic industries and commerce had already taken Jin Province into control before the government and the army.

The people of Jin Province can naturally make profits from it. Not to mention anything else, just the newly opened industrial and mining enterprises' demand for manpower, combined with the workers' welfare guarantee system in Qi, is enough for farmers who face the loess and backs on the slopes all year round but cannot have a full meal all year round to change their living conditions.

Working in a coal mine, brick factory or textile factory opened by Qi people, the wage income of each quarter is equivalent to the harvest of the previous year of farming.

In addition, the factory also provides two meals a day, which is equivalent to saving a lot for poor families.

Of course, more importantly, no matter whether it is the Qi army or the factory, everyone spared no effort to promote it. As long as Shihou was defeated, the usury that the farmers owed before would not count!

This is simply a great news!
Chapter completed!