Chapter 204: Harvesting the land and not tenants
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Zhang Chao followed Cui Yingying to inspect the 800 acres of land that Zhang Jiaxin had replaced. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Very good Zhuangzi, contiguous fields, 800 acres of land intact together. Compared with the scattered dozen pieces of land in Jingyang, Liyang, and Xinfeng, these 800 acres of contiguous land are so precious.
Cui Yingying looked at these places with a smile on her face, and walked around the ridges with her skirt.
The housekeeper and Lao Niu walked behind with hoes, and dug out the boundary stones of the Zhao family according to Cui Yingying's request. Pieces of Zhaojiajie stones have been dug up, and this piece of land is changing from the Zhao family to the Zhang family.
Many of the original Zhao family's farmers came to watch.
"San Lang, we don't share this land."
Zhang Chao originally planned to hand over the land to the original tenants for rent as in the past, but unexpectedly, Cui Yingying said that these lands would not be rented out.
"If we don't go out, do we grow it ourselves?"
"Well, we grow our own."
Cui Yingying has her own plans, and these 800 acres of land also include Cui Yingying's original 500 acres in Jingyang to marry. Her 500 acres of land were not rented by tenants, but operated by herself, mainly cultivated by slaves and maids, supplemented by long-term and short-term laborers.
Farming by oneself is more profitable than renting out.
Zhang Chao looked at the tenants of the original Zhao family Zhuangtian who were watching from the side, looking forward to it, and said to Cui Yingying, "They are all tenants of the original here, we changed the land and didn't give them tenants, okay?" ”
Cui Yingying carried her skirt and looked at this piece of land with a smile on her face.
"San Lang, actually, I wanted to say it a long time ago, but you are sometimes too casual and don't speak well to tenants. Who is like our family, not only does not raise the rent, but also takes the initiative to reduce the rent, and still drops so much? Look at this Manchurian Guanzhong, who is like our family, renting only five buckets per mu? ”
"It won't affect much if we take a little less." Zhang Chao explained that he lowered the rent in the hope that there would be more harmony between the landlord and the tenants, and that the rent was too high and the tenants' lives were difficult. Anyway, he has a lot of ability to make money, and it doesn't affect him to collect less rent, and besides, their father and son are not from here originally, and they are in great need of a good reputation.
"San Lang is right, but what you can do is not necessarily right. The rent set by our family is much less than that of others. This kind of rent made the other landlords unhappy. ”
"What does it have to do with other people about my own land, how much rent I want to collect? Besides, the rent is not uniform among others, and there are high and low levels. ”
"It's true that the rent is different, but our family is so low that no one else has ever lived. It is said that the tree is a big wind. ”
Zhang Chao felt that what Cui Yingying said was very reasonable, and he didn't know how to refute it.
"San Lang don't worry about these farmers, they also have their own land, and we don't give them tenants, but we can still recruit them to work and farm on the village. It's just that they used to be tenants of land to plant, but now we are recruiting them to do long-term and short-term work, and we also earn wages to earn food, and also ensure harvest during drought and flood. ”
The land was exchanged by Cui Yingying, and Zhang Chao couldn't refute her. After getting married for so long, Zhang Chao also discovered some of Cui Yingying's temper, and she seemed to be very good at money. It's not that you love money, it's just that you're sensitive.
"Well, well, just hire some long-term laborers from these households, and then hire some short-term laborers every year when the farming season is busy."
"San Lang, I think we should buy some more cattle, and we have to use oxen for our 800 acres of land. The cattle were bought, we raised them ourselves, invited a few old cowherds, and then invited some shepherd boys from the nearby farms, which didn't cost a few dollars a year, but it was much more cost-effective than putting the cattle in the farms to raise. ”
Zhang Chao listened to Cui Yingying's ideas, and could only smile wryly and nodded. Women are always too shrewd, only looking at the near and not looking at the long term.
"Yingying, you see that after we exchange these 800 acres of land, I want to simply buy the ditch slope near here."
"Still buying? Didn't we already buy ten miles and eight thousand acres of ditch slopes? ”
"You don't have to buy it now, and you don't have to reclaim it now. I think that this ditch slope is very valuable for reclamation and utilization, especially after we develop the upstream section, the value here will definitely rise, and it is very valuable for development. If I don't buy it now, I'm afraid that after we develop the above paragraph, others will follow our model and buy it. ”
Now the bathing ditch is still a barren ditch, but as soon as Zhang Chao's reclamation business model appears, I believe that some people will discover the value of this ditch slope, and maybe some people will follow suit.
If you buy this land now, even if you don't operate it yourself in the future, you can make money by selling it when the price of the land rises.
"Since San Lang wants to buy it, then buy it, I still have some money here, so if you want to use it, you can take it directly."
The boundary stones have been dug up.
After Zhang Chao made an inspection, he returned to Zhuangzi, asked the housekeeper to greet him, and called all the original tenants over.
A group of former tenants stood there, waiting to hear the fate of the new owner. After all, after the two farms next door were sold to the Zhang family this year, their rent was reduced a lot, and even the Zhang family even bought cattle to be raised in their homes, so that they could use the cattle when they were busy farming.
Now that their own Zhuangzi has finally been sold to the Zhang family, they can finally enjoy the good treatment of the Zhang family.
Looking at their expectant looks, Zhang Chao didn't know how to speak.
"Butler, you can announce it to everyone."
The steward then went to all the households.
A group of farmers said with a flattering smile, "Steward Zhang, will we also reduce the rent in the future?" ”
"Will the owner buy us cattle too?"
"Everyone, be quiet, listen to me first." The butler shouted loudly, and all the householders fell silent, and stood there looking at the butler expectantly.
"Everyone, this land is now the people of the Zhang family, I believe you also know, we have dug up the boundary stone just now, and the boundary stone of the Zhang family will be planted tomorrow. From now on, these 800 acres of land will also belong to the Zhang family. ”
"I know that everyone is the tenant of the original Zhao family, and the Zhao family gave you the land to tenant and then collected rent. Now this place belongs to the Zhang family, and some rules have to be changed. In the future, we will no longer rent out this land. ”
As soon as these words came out, the farmers below were stunned.
Don't rent anymore?
"Butler, why don't you rent it?"
"Why?"
"Our family has rented this land for generations, how can we say that if we don't rent it, we won't rent it?"
"Be quiet, be quiet, listen to me first!" The butler stretched out his arms and kept pressing down to signal.
"This land was exchanged between us and the Zhao family, and most of our original land was cultivated by ourselves, and we have more than 20 Zhuang slaves. Now the land over there has been replaced by the Zhao family, so the Zhuang slaves there have to move here. The landlord is still handed over to them for cultivation, and we can't give the land to you, but we will hire some long-term laborers among you, and then directly work and farm for our Zhang family, and get a fixed salary. In addition, during the busy farming season, some part-time workers will also be hired. ”
"Now we are going to recruit ten long-term workers, young and strong men from the age of eighteen and under the age of fifty. In addition, two old cowherds and ten shepherd boys were recruited. ”
A group of farmers were disappointed.
They all expected that after the Zhang family bought the Zhao family's Zhuangzi, they would be able to pay less rent in the future and receive the Zhang family's cattle. Who knows, in the end, Zhang Chao not only did not reduce the rent, but even the land was taken back and no longer shared.
The Zhang family only needs to work long and short, and they don't rent out the land at all.
Only ten long laborers.
Eight hundred acres of land, but it turned out that forty or fifty households were divided into these lands, but now the Zhang family has brought in twenty village slaves to cultivate these lands, and then only ten long-term workers are recruited, and some short-term workers are recruited when the farm is busy.
This means that the dozens of families who originally planted the 800 acres of land will lose a large amount of income in the future.
"Don't worry, although we only recruit ten long-term workers here, our Zhang family still recruits people to work. If you are willing, you can sign up to work in Zhang's family, both long-term and short-term work, no limit to the number of people, and the Zhang family wants it. ”
Zhang Chao held his hands and looked at these villagers who were a little excited, without these fields to share, this still had a great impact on the villagers. After all, Bashang is a narrow village in Gyeonggi, and there is less land granted to the average field, so it is very difficult for a large family to rely on that little land to pay the full amount of rent.
Although renting land is a bit harder, it can subsidize a lot of income.
Fortunately, the Zhang family now employs many people, whether it is the family's workshop or the development of the ditch slope, it needs a lot of people. The Zhang family has to hire a lot of long-term and short-term workers, which can be regarded as a solution to make up for these people.
"Everyone also knows that Zhang's Ah Lang and Xiao Lang Jun are the most benevolent, you go to Zhang's family to work, in fact, compared to your tenant farming or higher income, even your mother-in-law, girl, your boy, have the opportunity to go to Zhang's family to work to earn money and grain, if you work in the workshop, the wind can not blow the rain and do not get wet, compared to you every day facing the loess with your back to the sky, the wind and rain can be much easier."
"Working in Zhang's house, I also pack you to eat, and the food is good." The butler shouted loudly.
After hearing this, the dealers finally calmed down a little, but many people were still not satisfied. If you have tenant land, you can always do it, but when you go to Zhang's family to work, who knows how long you can do it.
Cui Yingying stood next to Zhang Chao and watched all this with a smile.
Many Zhuang began to sign up, although there are only ten long-term workers on the Zhuangzi, but Zhangjia Village still needs a lot of long-term workers, short-term workers also have to work, and the wages given by the Zhangjia family are also very good, and they also have food.
She calculated in her heart how much more she could earn in a year after the 800 acres of land were recovered for her own planting.
"San Lang, how about you say that we will take back the other more than 1,000 acres of land in our family and ask someone to cultivate it ourselves?"
Zhang Chao sighed, "Those lands have signed contracts with tenants, and now they regret it, it's not good." ”
Cui Yingying said with a smile, "How do you know if you don't try, we can talk to them, as long as they are willing to give up the contract, they can come to our house to work, and their wives, daughters, and sons can also come to our house to work." ”
"If they don't renounce their contract, they can come to our house to work."
"I have a way, they must be willing, didn't San Lang always plan to build a private school, then I told these villagers, as long as they return the land to us, then we will not only let them come to the Zhang family to work, but also let their children come to our private school for free to study."
Cui Yingying smiled very shrewdly, she didn't believe it, those villagers still didn't agree to such good conditions! (To be continued.) )