Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 716 The Tenant
The yamen servant had already received the order from Master Zhizhou, and seeing that Du Jinning was young, he wanted to show her off.If Du Jinning's attitude is softer, then what awaits her next will be an intensified embarrassment.

But now, seeing that she does not seem to be a soft man, and that she still has a kind of official authority on her body, the yamen servant dare not be presumptuous any more, and said: "Master Zhizhou and the two masters of Tongzhi went to see the rice fields outside the city today, and they are not here. In the yamen. I don’t know, my lord, you..."

He stared at Du Jinning, waiting for her reaction.

Du Jinning had no expression on his face, he just nodded slightly: "Oh." He lifted his foot and walked inside.

The yamen servant was a little confused: This reaction is wrong.

According to his thinking, Lord Zhizhou knew she was coming, even if he didn't go to the gate of the city to greet her yesterday, he should wait in the yamen today.Now he ran out of the city, apparently to give her a bad blow.

This Mr. Du was admitted to Jinshi and became an official at a young age. He must be arrogant and arrogant. After hearing the news, he was either so angry that he was dying and walked away, or he was angry and asked them to go out and find Mr. Zhizhou back.

But now, with an understatement "oh", I just walked in, what is this for?
When he came back to his senses, he directly chased after him.

In ancient times, the hierarchy was strict, and the layout of the yamen was also very particular.When Du Jinning was in Guangxi province, he had been to the magistrate's yamen. The magistrate's prefecture was smaller than the magistrate's, but it was similar.

She first took a look at the place where Zhizhou and Tongzhi worked, and seeing that the door was locked, she didn't go there, but walked through the yamen one by one. Every time she went to a department, she would stand at the door for a while, waiting When the people inside saw her official uniform clearly and dared not salute her, she nodded slightly and walked to the next yamen.

After walking around the yamen and letting everyone see her, she walked outside without saying a word.

The yamen servant who had been following her all the time saw this scene and became more and more confused, not knowing what Du Jinning's action meant.

To be honest, because these local officials do not need to implement the official origin avoidance system, they are basically locals, and their relationships are intricate.Not to mention Du Jinning, even Master Cao from Zhizhou had just arrived and suffered a lot of secret losses at their hands, and was almost emptied.Later, it still relied on various means to gain a firm foothold.

Zhizhou doesn't even give face, let alone a young fellow Zhizhou like Du Jinning.

She is like this now, she goes to each yamen for a while, doesn't get close to everyone, doesn't even say hello, what does it mean that she is full of airs?
After Du Jinning left the Yamen, he got into the carriage directly and told Wang Fulai, "Go to Zhuangzi outside the city."

Yao Shuqi hurriedly showed Wang Fulai the way.

Du Jinning planned to go to Zhuangzi, so he brought Yao Shuqi out early in the morning.When Du Jinning entered the yamen just now, Yao Shuqi also acted as the chief follower, and followed Du Jinning into the yamen for a walk.

The field Yao Shuqi bought was more than ten miles away from Runzhou City. The carriage left the city and walked for a meal before arriving at Zhuangzi.

This Zhuangzi was allocated [-] mu of land, which originally belonged to a landlord.There is also a house on Zhuangzi.Yao Shuqi bought it all.

Although the tenant farmers on Zhuangzi did not sign the deed of sale, they have been tenanting the land of the original landlord to plant.At this moment, there was a sudden change of owner, and this owner also took a kind of rice seed they had never seen before, telling them to raise seedlings now, and would not give them any more land if they were disobedient, and they were all panicked.

At this moment, when they heard that the owner was coming, the head of the village led the heads of each household to welcome them out of the entrance of the village.

Du Jinning took off his official clothes in the carriage and put on his ordinary clothes.At this time, he was dressed in a moon-white brocade forging robe, and he looked like Mr. Pianpianjia.Seeing that the new owner is such a young man, the hearts of the tenant farmers are cold.

It's unreliable at first glance.

Seeing the melancholy faces, Du Jinning turned to Yao Shuqi and asked, "Did you explain everything about the double-cropping rice and Champa rice to them?"

"I explained it. But they haven't heard of it, let alone planted it, and they feel uneasy, fearing that there will be no harvest by then, and there will be a famine next year." Yao Shuqi said.

Du Jinning nodded, walked to a dirt slope and stood still, looking around at the people present.Du Jinning's young and handsome, there were still some "buzzing" discussions, but they stopped following her glance.

"I know what you are worried about." Du Jinning didn't talk nonsense, and went directly to the topic, "Then I give you two options now, one is to rent other people's fields to plant; if you don't want to leave, then you can sign a contract with me. Let's There are three chapters in the agreement, if the grain harvest this year is less than two shi per mu, I will not only not collect your rent, but also subsidize everyone with 15 taels of silver per household. If the grain harvest per mu is between two and three shi, I will not collect rent subsidy, but there will be no subsidy; if the grain harvest per mu is more than three shi, I will charge everyone [-]% of the rent."

Seeing everyone's unbelievable expressions, she said: "We can directly sign the contract and press our fingerprints, and go to the government to make a red contract."

"However..." She raised her voice, "If you rent my land to cultivate, you must obey my instructions and do everything according to my requirements. This should also be written in the contract. If you don't do what I require, Not only will there be no harvest and subsidies, but they will be driven out of Zhuangzi immediately."

Everyone calmed down after hearing the excitement of the original conditions.

They look at me, I look at you, and no one can make up their minds.Finally, everyone's eyes focused on Zhuangtou.

The head of the village is equivalent to the head of the village. Although there are appointments by the owner, most of the heads of the village are chosen spontaneously by everyone.

This Zhuangtou, surnamed Song, is over 50 years old, with a strong body and a hale and hearty spirit.

He cleared his throat and said to Du Jinning: "We naturally believe in the character of Du Dong's family, let alone a contract. If the grain is not harvested and everyone can't eat, I believe Du Dong's family will definitely make compensation according to the contract. our."

"However, old man, I would like to ask on behalf of everyone. If the grain harvest is not good this year, will Mr. Du's family still want to farm according to their own ideas next year? Mr. Du's family is raising seedlings now, and what kind of double-cropping rice is going to be planted? Where did this statement come from? Did you hear me?"

Du Jinning glanced at Yao Shuqi.

Yao Shuqi immediately stood up and said with a smile: "Everyone doesn't know who our master is, right? The master is this year's champion of the new discipline, and is now sent by the emperor to Runzhou to be a co-prefect, with a rank of sixth rank. Although the master is young, he is I have been studying farming, and last year I proposed ratooning rice, which increased the rice fields in Beijing by more than [-]%..." He boasted about Du Jinning's achievements in agriculture.

After Yao Shuqi finished speaking, Du Jinning said, "If everyone thinks I'm unreliable, you don't need to share my land. I don't ask for it."

　In the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi said in the "Report on Famine Relief Matters": During Chunxi's time, the six counties of Shaoxing Prefecture on Zhedong Road "produced two stones per mu".

　　
　
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