A gentry arched his hand and said: "Lord, the grain merchant is indeed much richer than us, but when the grain merchant has a background, he must have a backstage." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info When the Tartars were there, the grain merchants were all their people. Now that you are here, Nanyang Company is the only grain merchant, what do you want us grass people to do business with? ”

"In fact, our Nanyang company wants to expand its shares and set up a Huguang branch in Huguang, and you can all come and buy shares. The governor of Huguang, Zhou Zhitai, and the governor Ren Futai have both become shareholders. Wang Xinyu said.

"Stake?" The gentry exchanged words.

Shareholding, it sounds very good, everyone knows that this Nanyang company is the prince's company, and the governor and the governor are all shareholding, whether it is an official, an officer or a local splash, they will definitely not dare to provoke this company, and if they can become a shareholder, it will definitely be beneficial and harmless. But will pie fall from the sky?

Wang Xinyu looked at the gentry with a puzzled look on their faces, knowing that they had doubts. It must have been a good thing for these gentry to be able to take a stake in Nanyang Company, but they didn't believe that such a good thing could happen to them. Everyone is a smart person, and they must know that such a large company must have high profits, which is higher than the income of farmland. But they are worried that they have no background, and after they buy shares, will they be swallowed up?

Speaking of which, people in this era are still very honest in business, and they will not engage in a deceptive project like later generations, so they will lure others into shares, wait until the money is in hand, and then run away with the money; It's not like in later generations, it's the grandfather who owes the money, the creditor is the grandson, and others can't afford to pay back the money they owe, so they have to pray that he doesn't get sick and doesn't die, otherwise he really won't get the money back.

In this era, since people have become shareholders, they will not run away with money; If you owe someone money, someone else can ask you for a debt with an IOU.

But in this era, there are also cases of cooperating with people with the same background and being embezzled by others. The other party is powerful, and after the grass people buy shares, although they can also make money, they will definitely not give you much, and maybe they will also engage in some projects, such as poor management, so that your shares will shrink, and then buy them cheaply.

Those who can really enter the government and business shares are people with a certain background.

As for the fact that the Governor and the Governor have joined the shares, the gentry have no doubt that they have a background and are also the head snakes of Huguang, and the Ming army also needs them.

But what about yourself? And what? If you have no power or power, why should someone give you such a big piece of pie? Maybe it's a trap, it is likely to be a way for the Ming army to collect land for their own merits and distribute meritorious fields, if you are gullible and sell the land into shares, maybe after a period of time, the other party will return the shares to you, then you will lose the land. If you don't have land, what can you do with all that money? Nanyang Company is not short of silver!

The strength of Nanyang Company, the gentry are very clear, from horse-drawn carriages, pleasure boats, small to oil lamps, glass bottles, as well as the clothes they wear, cotton cloth, silk, tea leaves, food to eat, cigarettes to smoke, as well as canned meat products, canned fish, etc., now Nanyang Company's products have penetrated into every household, even the mud legs of farming are used in Nanyang Company's goods, which shows that this company is rich!

The strength of the company must be completely fine, but is there such a good thing in the world?

Wang Xinyu looked at the gentry who were puzzled, so he said with a smile: "We are in Huguang, we will open a new farm, you can use your own field as a share, you don't need to sell the farmland in your hands, as long as you treat the field as a share, the land ownership is still your own, and you use our farming methods, unified use of standardized farm tools, standardized production, and turn tenants into farm workers." But you don't need to rush to buy shares, you can first visit the farms of the people who have already invested in the Taiwan and Futai, and after reading it, you go back and think about it slowly, there are three years for you to consider, but after the deadline, there is no chance. ”

Now Zhou Zhaonan and Ren Shaojun have both invested in shares, in addition to contributing a part of the silver into the shares, their farmland has also been regarded as a new type of farm.

On Zhou Zhaonan's new-style farm, there are a large group of people standing on the edge of the field, ready to visit the efficiency of the new farm tools.

After all, Wang Xinyu didn't study agriculture in his previous life, what hybrid rice, what plow, what harvester, etc., he naturally couldn't make it. However, with the establishment of the Academy of Sciences on Dongfan Island, the rapid development of scientific and technological forces has led to the creation of new agricultural equipment with high efficiency.

With new agricultural equipment, it is possible to build large farms.

When Zhou Zhaonan and Ren Shaojun saw those new farm tools, they keenly realized that with these farm tools, the production efficiency of farmers could be greatly improved, so they did not hesitate to take out their own land and use it as an experimental field for new farms, and the tenants at home also became agricultural workers.

When the gentry came to the edge of the field, they saw the new farm tools, so there was an uproar, because the shape of the farm tools was so strange that no one had seen or heard of it, even the good farmer who was invited to the scene.

The main structure of this new type of farming tool is made up of iron rings with thorns, and those iron rings are somehow connected together, and they are connected to a bracket under which there is a blade similar to a birch. And the most eye-catching thing is that there are three cows in front of the support.

After the initial surprise, everyone also figured out a little taste, this thing is indeed a farm tool, similar to a knife and shovel, the parts should be similar to a plowshare, and the iron ring behind is obviously a rake.

The soil is loosened in the front, followed by turning and leveling. It's not impossible to combine the power of three cows. After taking a closer look, the farmer who was invited over also saw some ways.

Most of these good farmers were small landlords and rich peasants. In fact, in the countryside, the gentry and scholars were not the driving force behind the development of agriculture, but they gradually embezzled other people's land by virtue of the fact that the meritorious people could be exempted from taxes, and eventually became large landlords. But when it came to farming skills, the gentry and scholars knew almost nothing.

The reason why ordinary tenants and hired peasants are poor and have no land of their own, in addition to being exploited by the famous gentry class is a factor on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also related to their lack of technology.

Therefore, the real masters of farming in the countryside were the small landlords and rich peasants, who relied on their own farming skills to maintain their own property so that their farmland would not be encroached upon by the gentry.

The Nanyang Company, on the other hand, adopted the method of a shareholder system, established a new type of farm, and combined such big officials as Zhou Zhaonan and Ren Shaojun with the local small landlords and rich peasants, and everyone became shareholders together, and the gentry who did not know how to farm became happy shareholders who did not have to take care of anything, while the small landlords and rich peasants became farm managers and were responsible for running the plantation industry.

After watching it for a long time, a rich peasant said, "Lord Wang, do you want the grass people to try it?" ”

"It was originally for you to try, that's it!" Wang Xinyu nodded.

The rich peasant called a hired farmer in the family, and the two began to work together, the hired farmer holding the new plough in the back, and the rich peasant himself leading the oxen in front and began to plow.

At the end of April of the Gregorian calendar and the end of the third month of the lunar calendar, it is the season for Hunan to start planting rice. After the wheat is harvested, the fields are ploughed and flooded with water to turn them into paddy fields.

The farmer held the front end of the support, pressed down with both hands, and the coulter was inserted diagonally into the soil. The rich peasants in front led the oxen along, and the soil on the ground seemed to have turned into tofu, without causing the slightest obstacle. The ploughshare plunged into the dirt, and patches of dirt were turned up. As the plough moved forward, the rolling gear harrow behind it soon showed its powerful function, and the clumps of earth disintegrated under the rolling rake and turned into tiny pieces.

"Oh my God!" The small landlords and rich peasants, who were familiar with farming, shouted one after another.

This kind of farming efficiency is indeed too high! Since the Governor and the Governor have taken out all their farmland and handed it over to these small landlords and kulaks, with this new type of farming tool, they are fully sure that the same land will be cultivated with the least amount of manpower, and that more wealth will be created!

In just half an hour, ten acres of land were cultivated! This was something that was unimaginable before!

Seeing that the two of them finished cultivating the land, Wang Xinyu ordered again: "Change the next one!" ”

Someone brought a round nail rake plow: "This is a disc nail harrow plow, which is used for intensive ploughing." The big plough just now was just a preliminary ploughing of the ground, and if you want to cultivate intensively, you need to change this plow and plow it again. ”

The efficiency of the new nail rake plough is also very high, and in about half an hour, the farmland that has just been extensively cultivated is intensively cultivated. Then someone opened the sluice gates and poured water into the fields.

Someone has already picked up the abacus and crackled and hammered, and calculated an account: "According to this, in addition to the shareholders, we have a lot of income." ”

Wang Xinyu said to the small landlords and rich peasants: "You are the operators, as long as you can bring along the agricultural workers and improve the efficiency, the credit will naturally belong to you operators, and your income should be increased." ”

A small landowner stood up: "I am willing to take a stake!" I can take out all my ancestral skills! ”

A rich peasant also couldn't wait to stand up: "I'm also a shareholder!" I have the skills to be a manager for me, and with only ten agricultural workers, I can be in charge of three hundred acres of land! ”

Although those small landlords and rich peasants enthusiastically signed up, Zhou Zhaonan saw the problem.

"Lord Wang!" Zhou Zhaonan pulled Wang Xinyu aside, "Xiaguan has found a problem: if we all use new agricultural tools for farming, then there are many tenants and hired farmers who cannot be converted into agricultural workers. And we have to quit, they have to lose their rented land, so how can they survive? ”

To quit the tenant is to drive the tenant away. This kind of thing could not be done by ordinary landlords, let alone by the gentry. Unless the tenant cannot afford to pay the debt, it may be discharged. After being displaced, the tenants can only become beggars or vagrants, and no one will be willing to rent their land to them.

In fact, Wang Xinyu hopes that after having high-efficiency farm tools, the more tenants will be quit, the better! Because the tenants who have been dismissed can be transformed into workers and work in factories. In fact, this is also a way to liberate the labor force.

Wang Xinyu said: "Zhou Zhitai can rest assured, the tenants who have withdrawn will be handed over to the domain, and the domain will arrange them." They can choose to go to work in a factory in Jiangnan or they can choose to go to Nanyang. ”

Zhou Zhaonan said with some unbearable feelings: "Maybe someone will not be able to live after being dismissed." They can't do it to the factory, and it's a long way to Nanyang. ”

In the past, Britain gained more workers by eating people with sheep, and now Wang Xinyu adopts the method of eating people with new agricultural tools to get more workers. Although in this process of transformation, many peasants will be disemployed and may even starve to death, but that is the only way to enter industrialization!

At the beginning, many of the gentry were reluctant to join the new farm approach, and their tenants would not have been dismissed. But according to Wang Xinyu's estimates, a year later, at most two years, those gentry will take out their land, join the farm, or even sell the land to become a shareholder in the company. When the time comes, there will be more tenants who will be dismissed.

And those heroes of their own, their meritorious fields will sooner or later become shares merged into the new farm. In fact, the heroes don't know how to farm, so it's better to hand over the land to real good hands to take care of.

In the blink of an eye, it was already noon.

People have long set up sheds around, steaming braised pork in pots, fish steaming on steamers, and people busy stir-frying. Inside the shed, tables and benches are arranged.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we will have dinner here at noon, and this clan will have a treat at noon today! After eating, the paddy fields have been irrigated, and when the time comes, I will show you the new method of transplanting rice. Wang Xinyu said to everyone.

All the people who were invited sat in the shed, and the soldiers quickly served plates of dishes.

During the meal, the officials and Confucians discussed with Wang Xinyu how to distribute the shares and how to share the profits, and how to use the income with the small landlords and rich peasants who were in charge of the business. After all, the operator pays the most and needs to give them a share.

With the introduction of new agricultural tools, fewer farmers are needed, and in fact, fewer people are needed to distribute agricultural products. Originally, according to the lease of farmland, even if the land rent received an astonishing 70 percent, 30 percent would still be left for the peasants. Now, if the number of peasants can be reduced to one-fifth, or even one-tenth, of the original number, then there will be fewer people to divide the agricultural products, and the income will be greatly increased for everyone.

Therefore, the officials, the Confucians, the small landlords, and the rich peasants were very active.

But the ordinary gentry, the heads of the country families, they were hesitant and wait-and-see, after all, they had no backstage guarantee for them, they were afraid that their fields would be encroached upon, and they could not be farm managers like the small landlords and rich peasants. (To be continued.) )