The Ambitions to Conquer the Official Career
Chapter 243: The Clans React

Chapter 243: Chapter 243: The Clans React

As the people of Qingyuan Village flocked to Wushu Village to contract land, they realized that almost all of the land in Wushu Village had already been contracted out, and, moreover, those contractors were mostly villager themselves. When others tried to get land from the villagers, the villagers simply refused to agree.

After finding the village committee, the committee’s stance was very clear, which was that all the land had been contracted out. If people wanted it, they could only sub-contract; however, for sub-contracting, there were special documents in the township that required payment of certain fees.

Therefore, quite a few people turned to the township.

Seeing so many people coming to inquire, the township also made its position clear: anyone could contract the land as long as they followed the rules. As long as they handled the transfer procedures at the township and paid the required fees, the township would support them.

By this time, families from the province also reacted, one after another, making phone calls to Ji Yang.

Everyone still had some awe of Ji Yang, after all, many owed him favors and could not afford to offend him.

At first, there were some people who wanted to use force to pressure the county to help them expropriate land, but such actions were all rejected by Ji Yang.

Ji Yang’s stance was that everything must be done according to regulations, following market principles, and also taking into account the wishes of the farmers.

Ji Yang also knew that he couldn’t stop the might from above and had already discussed with Wu Laofu and others to make more demands when the time came.

Soon, leaders from the province also made a special call.

After receiving the call, Ji Yang spoke of how villagers earned money by selling rice wine, which was known to everyone in the village, and analyzed the income that one acre could produce. Only then did he say that land expropriation standards of other places could not be applied, and besides, those lands had been contracted out. If expropriation was necessary, it would require negotiating with each household.

Those families from the province did not expect such a situation and immediately suspected the Chu Family of playing tricks.

When they remembered how the Chu Family had made the rice wine recipe public, they were even more convinced it was their doing.

The land of Wushu Village wasn’t valuable in the past, but now it was; those who contracted it seemed unwilling to sell.

As for this issue, everyone could only ask the township to do their best to work with the contractors.

In fact, medicinal herbs had also contracted a large piece of land in the past. Those new noble families from the province didn’t pay too much attention to it, so Ji Yang only needed to deal with some other families.

When those families came to him, Ji Yang also transferred some land to them at a high price.

Ji Yang had already told Wu Laofu and others that it was impossible to keep all the land in their hands, so they might as well transfer some at a high price.

As the land was transferred at high prices, Wushu Village suddenly became wealthy, and then, Ji Yang started to build up the village, adding many elements of spiritual and cultural development in the new village.

Wushu Village was rapidly changing, with every family now owning a large house, even those with storefronts, and as the flow of people increased, they could live quite comfortably just on rental income.

Of course, the villagers of Wushu Village still had their own land, and they could also plant crops on it to earn a significant profit.

With Ji Yang’s shake-up of the status quo, Wushu Village suddenly eradicated poverty, and every family prospered.

It could be said that the villagers of Wushu Village all knew how to brew rice wine, and as Ji Yang said, they had no worries about sales. Many merchants from other places even stayed on site, ready to buy the rice wine at high prices as soon as it was available.

Seeing such changes in Wushu Village, Ji Yang felt good, having effectively helped a village escape poverty.

Of course, helping just one village wasn’t enough; Ji Yang took out funds to start the construction of roads connecting every village.

Besides Wushu Village, several other villages also started to develop well.

Following the widespread promotion of tourism advertisements throughout the province, Qingyuan Village’s reputation was quickly enhanced, and almost every family thought about visiting Wushu Village on weekends.

The roads were now well constructed, and Qingyuan Village had many leisure facilities. Cao Li and their entertainment projects, though stripped of some shady elements, were still attracting people to come relax and enjoy.

Some villages, although lacking distinctive features, offered country-style leisure facilities for relaxation.

Ji Yang’s approach was to use a few key attractions to drive the development of the surrounding areas.

In this series of actions, Ji Yang not only took out fifty million to assist Cao Li with her transformation but also gave her fifty million from Da Jiang Company to contract a piece of land from Wushu Village. Taking advantage of the moment when everyone needed land, he directly increased the price and transferred it.

To Ji Yang’s surprise, the land value of Wushu Village appreciated too quickly; in less than a month, the invested fifty million turned into three hundred million.

He then had Cao Li transfer these funds into Da Jiang Investment Company’s account. Subsequently, those three hundred million were reinvested back into the stock market.