Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 717 Thinking of each other
Song Zhuangtou also knew that everyone in Zhuangzi was staring at him, so he needed to make up his mind.

To be honest, even though Housekeeper Yao boasted about his young master like something, Song Zhuangtou didn't believe a word of it.

A boy with a hairless head, who read a few books somewhere, wanted to come and direct them, peasants who have been farming all their lives, to farm.

But who told people to be rich?He bought 15 mu of land without blinking an eye, and even formulated such subsidy terms.If he keeps his word, he can really subsidize each family with [-] taels of silver if the yield per mu is less than two shi. This deal is quite a bargain for farmers like them who are digging in the ground.

Such a cost-effective deal can still be done.

As for Du Jinning's claim that the output was more than three stones and the rent was [-]%, he simply ignored it.

He has been farming all his life, except for a few years when God rewards him with food, the weather is particularly favorable, and the field has been treated with special care, which can only produce three stones of output.As for the yield of more than three stones per mu, he has never seen it.

This handsome young master is really ignorant and fearless, he dared to say the words that renters are only paid for more than three stones.

After much deliberation, he felt that he could give it a try.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I will sign a contract with Mr. Du's family."

As soon as Old Man Song agreed to sign the contract, the others began to "buzz".

Someone asked old man Song: "Song Zhuang, can this contract really be signed?"

Old man Song is a mature and prudent person. He doesn't want to take responsibility for such an important matter.

He shook his head and said, "I don't know. What I mean doesn't represent everyone. We should think it through before we speak."

Those who were ready to move when they heard him sign the contract hesitated after hearing this.

Du Jinning naturally heard Old Man Song's words, she was not annoyed, she just pretended she didn't hear, turned to Yao Shuqi and said, "Butler Yao, go and ask the village chief to come over and let him be a middleman."

"Yes." Yao Shuqi agreed, and rode a horse to invite the village head with a nurse.

As soon as the village households invited the village chief to come, there was another burst of "discussions.

They were naturally tempted by Du Jinning's conditions.Regardless of the harvest in the field, Du Jinning's compensation is the bottom line anyway, so their lives are guaranteed.

Generally, the rent of a landlord’s family is about [-]%. After the annual harvest is converted into rent and taxes are paid, there is not much left. Their life is very difficult.But it's like this everywhere, and it doesn't make any difference whether anyone's field is planted or not.

Now it's hard to come to a foolish young master who doesn't take money seriously. If they don't take advantage of this, they are fools.

The only thing that worried them was that this handsome Du Dongjia was actually an official, and his official position was not low. It was said that he was second only to Master Zhizhou.

Knowing the state, an official bigger than the county magistrate.Officials protect each other, and the people in their yamen are all their own people.If the grain is not harvested at that time, the contract that Dong's family made with them will suddenly be worthless, and they will not win if they want to sue in the yamen.He had to swallow his anger and sell his sons and daughters to get through this difficult year.

So this matter has to be cautious.

Now that Mr. Du's family has offered to ask the village chief to act as a guarantor, at least there is some protection, right?Everyone is familiar with the head of the village, and there is a familiar person as a guarantee, and their hearts are more at ease.

Song Zhuangtou's in-law's family name is Gong. He couldn't make up his mind after much deliberation, so he squeezed to Songzhuangtou's side and asked him: "You signed the contract with him so readily, are you sure or... we are in-laws, interrupt Bones are connected to muscles, and you have to tell me the truth."

Everyone else pricked up their ears to listen.

Song Zhuang shook his head: "Not sure."

Old man Gong's eyes widened: "I'm not sure you're still signing? You're not afraid that he won't pay the money if you don't get the harvest, and you won't be able to live? Let me tell you, you can't sell my grandson and granddaughter when the time comes."

Song Zhuangtou didn't want to say much at first, lest he really didn't get any harvest when he got the time, causing people to sell their sons and women and be complained by the people in the village.

But being so provoked by his in-laws, he couldn't help but said: "If you don't sign, is there any good place for you? How can there be so many good fields for you to rent? Also, if you rent someone else's land to plant, do you want to move out? Where is there a place for you to stay?"

His series of questions made Old Man Gong and everyone else speechless.

That’s right, every landlord has his or her own tenant farmers. One or two of them are fine, but with dozens of families running to rent out their fields, how can there be so many vacant fields for them to rent?The land that they can live in must be leftover dry land or newly developed wasteland.Where can there be any harvest in such a field?Moreover, I don't know what kind of temperament the new owner is. What if it is worse than the Du owner in front of me?

In addition, although the houses on Zhuangzi were built by them, the land belonged to the original landlord.Now that landlord has bought the land and even the village to Mr. Du's family, and Mr. Du's family wants to drive them away, so they have no reason to stay here.And after leaving here, where would they settle down?Even if the new owner can let them settle down, building a house will cost a lot of money, right?With these few taels or even a dozen taels of silver, why did they leave here?Just because this Du Dong family is unreliable?

They are the ones who are unreliable, right?
Thinking about it this way, everyone suddenly felt that they had no choice.

So some people gritted their teeth and said, "Boss Du, let's sign."

"We sign too."

People have a herd mentality, and those who didn't want to understand the truth of it were analyzed by others and found that it would be impossible not to sign, so they had to follow everyone: "We will sign too."

A smile appeared on Du Jinning's face.

To be honest, she was really afraid that these people would run away.

It would be all right to lose a little money without a tenant farmer to work her fields, but it would delay her big business.She worked out the series of compensation systems, and reduced the rent to [-]%, just to keep these people.

If she wants to make money, she has more business to do, and she doesn't need to search for oil and water from this group of farmers with their faces facing the soil and their backs to the sky.

After a while, the village chief was invited by Yao Shuqi.

Yao Shuqi had dealt with him when he bought the land, and he knew that Du Jinning was an acquaintance, so he was naturally very enthusiastic about Du Jinning, so he immediately guaranteed everyone and signed the contract.

Du Jinning said: "Tomorrow, I will ask Steward Yao to go to the yamen to apply for the red deeds, and then return them to everyone one by one. The deeds are in triplicate. Everyone takes one for themselves, one for me, and another copy for the governor to keep." .”

Seeing that Du Jinning signed the contract with such solemnity, everyone's hearts were reassured.

After seeing off the head of the village, Du Jinning did not leave, but inspected the surroundings, and looked at the small and dilapidated house left by the original owner.

Finally, she pointed to a small forest not far from Zhuangzi and said, "Here, cut down the trees and build a garden."

(End of this chapter)