From the gate of heaven

Chapter 40 [Brand new idea, open a factory in another world]

Hearing Lin Ze's scolding, the group of people who were about to hit another one suddenly stood up obediently.

They kowtow to show their obedience, hoping that the nobles will allow them to continue to be tenants, which is related to their life and death.

Now that the nobles don't like them kneeling, they will naturally obey them.

"Is what they said true?"

Lin Ze asked Shi Shanbao beside him.

The shopkeeper of the dental shop knew the tenants of the land and who the landlords were. Lin Ze directly confirmed the veracity of the villagers' words from him.

Shi Shanbao nodded and said: "Yes, my lord, these three families are usually tenants of the land you bought. They don't have their own land, and they all rely on being tenant farmers and helping others to make a living."

Shi Shanbao couldn't figure out what Lin Ze was thinking at the moment, so he didn't tell the truth without the slightest emotion.

Hearing this, Lin Ze also began to calculate in his heart.

The more than 200 mu of land he is about to buy has an annual grain output of about [-] catties, which fluctuates in this range depending on the year.

As a tenant, you need to pay half of the harvest as rent, which means you can have [-] catties of grain left.

Deducting more than 20 catties of grain per mu, about 42 catties of grain can be used. There are [-] people in these three families, which means that each person can get more than [-] catties of grain on average.

Seven hundred catties of grain may seem like a lot, but in the ancient times when there was less sugar and less oil, doing heavy physical work every day, relying on staple food alone to provide energy for the body, it was easy for an adult to kill two or three catties of grain a day.

In order to have enough food for a year, a person needs at least a thousand catties of grain.

Because the family is big and small, the [-] catties of food per person may be barely enough.

Considering that these people still need money to buy daily necessities, pay population tax, occasionally go to corvee, and don’t get sick.

Not only will there be no money left throughout the year, but they may have to tighten their belts to live.

Under such circumstances, if Lin Ze didn't lease the land to them, maybe their whole family would starve to death within a year.

"In comparison, the villagers in Qinghe Township still have money to buy sugar, and their standard of living is much higher than that of the people in this village right now."

"The dynasty is prosperous, as long as people don't starve to death on a large scale, it will indeed be a prosperous age."

"But if I don't change the tenants, wouldn't I have bought this land for nothing? How can I proceed with the plan to buy my confidants? Think of a way."

Lin Ze muttered in his heart.

While his brain was running fast, Lin Ze began to talk to the villagers in front of him to stabilize them.

"Don't worry, my son is not unreasonable. Even if he bought the land, it wouldn't make your life difficult."

Hearing what Lin Ze said, these tenants were immediately overjoyed, and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to thank them.

However, seeing Lin Ze's cold face, these tenants hurriedly stopped kneeling, but bowed down and began to thank them constantly.
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"Have it!"

After thinking for a while, Lin Ze had an idea in his mind.

A very important factor in buying confidantes is to let the family eat under their own hands. It will be difficult to live without themselves or the quality of life will be greatly reduced.

The interests of both sides are the same, and Lin Zehao and his servants will follow suit, so as to ensure enough loyalty.

Starting from this factor, he came up with the method of buying fields and land, and letting the family servants of the family serve as tenants for him, so as to buy people's hearts.

There is nothing wrong with this idea. In the agrarian society of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it was the only way for many aristocratic families to start their families, and even now they are still in their prime.

But Lin Ze has the All-Heaven Sect. His method of arranging work is not limited to the current farming society, but he can also find a way from the productive industrial society of the main world.

"In the initial development stage of the feudal dynasty in the farming society, the population dropped sharply due to successive years of wars, which brought the population and land into balance, and fewer people starved to death."

"When the feudal dynasty developed to the middle stage, the population gradually increased, and the price of land as a living resource increased year by year. At this time, because the population was greater than the number of people supported by the land, some people began to starve to death."

"In the later stage of the development of the feudal dynasty, the population exploded, and many people did not have enough to eat, so the social order collapsed, land depreciated, wars broke out, the population was reduced, and the establishment of a new dynasty entered a new round of dynasty reincarnation."

"The way for industrial society to solve this problem is to increase food production, and then develop service industries and industries to accommodate the excess population."

"That is to say, my eyes don't have to be limited to the field to find a way."

Lin Ze recalled some knowledge of the laws of historical cycles learned many years ago, and thus came up with a solution.

"I want to arrange work, but I can't buy land. At this time, I can build factories to produce products and provide jobs."

"If all the family members who are servants at home work in my factories and have a stable job with decent income and good income, it will also have the effect of winning people's hearts."

"And the factory can not only accommodate the family members of the servants at home, but also the surplus population in the entire Fengping County and even the surrounding areas. When the time comes, I will have more room to choose my confidants under the direction of the people."

"If there are hundreds or thousands of confidantes who can be mobilized, then my business of trading between the two worlds will naturally snowball and grow."

Thinking of this, Lin Ze's mood stabilized.

"Let's go, buy these lands first, and the tenants will remain unchanged for the time being."

Lin Ze didn't have the extra energy to continue arguing with these tenants, so he took the carriage and prepared to leave after leaving this sentence.

"Thank you sir, thank you sir."

Amid the sound of thanks, Lin Ze got into the carriage and returned to the city with Shi Shanbao.

"However, what kind of factory should we build?"

On the way back to the city, Lin Ze fell into deep thought again.

The technology of the main world is a dimensionality reduction blow to this farming society, and it stands to reason that you can sell anything you want.

But Lin Ze needs to follow the following principles.

The first is not to let the government feel that he has gathered so many people and has any unruly ideas. If he is directly attacked, Lin Ze's idea of ​​gathering his confidants will come to naught.

The second is that there are too many technologies that cannot surpass this world. Once they are brought out, people will think that this is something beyond the times. This is also not acceptable.

Lin Ze's current strength and forces are all in their infancy, and they don't want to attract too much attention.

The third is that the profit created by this factory should not be too much, otherwise if the income is too much, any passer-by can find him picking up money with sacks, then he will not be able to keep collusion with the county magistrate as a first-class expert.

(End of this chapter)