Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1329 After returning home
"Under the large crowd, men and women are not afraid of being different, and hugging each other openly, how decent is it!" Huang Bingkun couldn't help but get angry when he heard that the young man asked him what his master was doing openly, and immediately put on the prestige of his master He reprimanded, "You are a good son of a dutiful family, and you must not imitate the behavior of that unscrupulous boy!"

Huang Ping didn't dare to talk back, but his face was full of dissatisfaction.Huang Bingkun eased his tone again: "You are not young anymore, if that girl is a dutiful and kind-hearted child, I will propose a marriage for you, make an appointment, and marry you next year or the next year .”

He would have thought that Huang Ping would be grateful, but Huang Ping showed a shocked expression instead:
"Second young master, you must not..."

"Why not?"

"Students in the school cannot get engaged, let alone marry..."

"Since it's not possible, then why are you acting like this with others?" Huang Bingkun said earnestly, "You are now a scholar, and a scholar must have a good reputation. Girls also have reputations."

"Second Young Master, that girl and I just have a crush on each other... No, I didn't think about it..." Huang Ping said hesitantly.

"Then what do you want to do?!" Huang Bingkun began to be confused.

Huang Ping had an expression of "I can't explain it to you", so he could only reluctantly say: "She and I are just friends, we both like each other..."

Huang Bingkun felt that the amount of information was a bit large, and he searched for a long time before he found an adjective: "Is it a confidante?"

"Probably, that's what it means." Huang Ping breathed a sigh of relief.

"What kind of family is she from?" Huang Bingkun still pursued closely.

Huang Ping was helpless: "She came from a naturalized folk family, her hometown is Guangdong, and now her parents are working on the farm of the Council of Agriculture..."

Huang Bingkun heard that the other party's parents were not of lowly background, but were from a farming household. He felt relieved and said seriously:
"You don't want to be engaged to someone, so you must never do such an abrupt move in public again!" Huang Bingkun taught earnestly, ""

Huang Ping had no choice but to respond: "Yes, little one understands."

Huang Bingkun returned to Huangjiazhai, but he knew that his father had just decided to entrust about [-] mu under the name of Huang's family to Tiandihui.This news surprised him, and what surprised him even more was that his father actually abolished Huangjiazhai's Tuanyong because of this.

In order to express their cooperation, the Huang family purchased Tiandihui’s agricultural technology services last year—although the original starting point was nothing more than hypocrisy. This made both the master of the Huang family and the eldest young master, who were wary of the intention and starting point of the Tiandihui, become interested in the Tiandihui.The two discussed that they had close to a thousand acres of Susukida under their own name, and they could hardly get any rent from tenants for farming—if they insisted on collecting rent, the tenants might starve to death.And the tenants of the Huangjiazhai are the main source of courage, so the Huang family is naturally unwilling to offend the tenants too much.

Now that the situation in Lingao is clear and the law and order is good, there is no need for the Huang family to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to continue "running the regiment"—the cost of maintaining a team of hundreds of people in the Huang family village is very high. Everyone in the family village has been miserable about this for a long time.

In the past, it was necessary to "survive" in the chaotic social order. Now the bandits have been wiped out. With such a strong presence of the Fubo Army, the people dare not make trouble. Tuanyong is too uneconomical.Therefore, there have long been calls for a complete disbandment of the group.

This time, Master Huang directly abolished most of the regiments, and only kept a few dozen people as gangsters according to the population base of the village. He demanded that each village must have "village soldiers".

In this way, there is no need for the Huang family to continue doing such unprofitable things in order to support Xiangyong.The eldest son of the Huang family, Huang Bingcheng, went to Tiandihui to visit Ye Yuming, and reached a business cooperation agreement to "fully contract" the land and its tenants to Tiandihui.

Huang Bingkun was shocked when he heard about Caiyong's contracting of fields—this is killing himself!Huangjiazhai's high status in Lingao is directly related to the fact that their family has been the "pillar" of the village for several generations.Now that Tuanyong has been laid off, and the tenants of the fields are outsourced -- doesn't father know that the most important thing in Lingao is the population?These tenants are all "old households" who have settled down for many years, and many of them have fought with their grandfathers and fathers.Even if there is no war, this large population is a rare wealth, why did my father become confused all of a sudden.

He hurriedly went to find his father and elder brother, but they couldn't find them—the servant replied that both the master and the young master were meeting Chengmai's Master Song in the flower hall.

This Mr. Song is a family friend of the Huang family - not only a family friend, but also the father-in-law of the boss of the Huang family.Love is unusual.Huang Bingkun hurried to the flower hall.

In the flower hall, Song Zongmao, the owner of Song Zhuang, was talking loudly.He said he was visiting to see his daughter and grandson.But everyone knows that Song Zhuangzhu is here to ask for advice.

The Song family is a big family in Chengmai County. It turns out that Song Zonghui, the richest man in Chengmai, is Song Zongmao's clan brother.Although Song Zongmao is not as rich as his brothers in this clan, he is also a moderate landlord, sitting on thousands of acres of land.Originally these lands were rented out.Since the Australians defeated the officers and soldiers and established the "Rehabilitation Bureau" in Chengmai County, and then established the "Chengmai County Office" and "Chengmai County Consultation Bureau", Chengmai has gradually undergone changes like Lingao.

Suppress bandits, Zhangtian, and check the population.Clarify taxes and implement a new tax system... step by step.Although Song Zongmao had some complaints about some of these policies, at any rate Chengmai has seen a new look, the ground is flat and peaceful, and everyone's life is much more stable than before, rich or poor.

But the recent actions of the Australians really made him panic.The Council of Agriculture aggressively opened up wasteland to run farms in Chengmai and recruited farm workers.It is said that the treatment is good.Not only did the long-term and short-term workers who came here just after a full meal "resigned and quit", even the tenants clamored for a rent reduction-if the reduction was not made, they threatened to quit the tenant.In the words of the tenants: Now that the Australians have come to work for them as long-term workers, they not only eat well, but also have a house to live in, which is much better than being a tenant who can’t eat enough all year round.

After such a commotion, Master Song could no longer sit still.Since Qingzhang Tianmu started to implement the new tax system, his tax burden has been much heavier than before, and a large number of Australian goods have poured into Chengmai, which has greatly increased consumption expenses. Master Song originally wanted to increase the rent. In this way, let alone increasing the rent, it will become a problem whether anyone will farm for him this year.

In desperation, Master Song thought that his in-laws were members of the Lingao Council.Since I am a committee member, I want to get close to the Australians, and Lingao is the home of the Australians, so I came here to ask for an idea.

"...Hey, I didn't expect the [-] imperial army to be wiped out in a few days. When the imperial army came, my village also paid a lot of money and food, and almost emptied the treasury—— It’s really harmful!” Song Zongmao was talking loudly in the flower hall, “At the beginning, the hole hadn’t been repaired, and I expected the ground to be calm in the past few years, and it would be slowly repaired, but I didn’t expect the Australians to come out like this again! This Will you give us a way to survive? This is a trickster! If you didn’t see them pitiful and gave them fields, you would have starved to death. Now you actually say such words in front of me, really, really ..." Song Zongmao shook his head repeatedly while talking.

Under the rule of the Senate, the burden on the tenant landlords was great.After clearing all the land, they lost the interests of the hidden land. After the implementation of the new tax system, not only the preferential treatment of tax exemption under the Ming Dynasty was revoked, but also all the cheating and tax evasion methods secretly colluded with the subordinates in the past were all invalid.This has already caused the landlords to complain.And they also have to pay a progressive agricultural tax at higher rates according to the progressive system.As a result, many renters went bankrupt and could only sell their land to work in the city for industry and business. The rest changed their course one after another, either subcontracting the land to the Tiandihui, or transforming themselves to manage the land.

Huang Shoutong said consolingly: "This is also the general trend. Since the tenants have many troubles, why not simply entrust them to the world? No matter how tricky the tenants are, Australians will naturally reason with them."

"I don't worry about entrusting it to the Tiandihui, but I have never dealt with them before, so I don't know if it can be relied on." Master Song said.His worry is that Tiandi will turn his face and deny people after engaging in "contributions" like some big households, and blackmail his land.

Huang Shoutong immediately stated that Tiandihui is reliable.The income from the cooperation between my family and the Australians is not bad, so this year I plan to contract out a piece of land together with the tenants above it to Tiandihui for farming.

"Australians still hold the word "loyalty". Master Song doesn't have to worry about this."

When Master Song was told by Huang Shoutong, his mind came alive.Instead of confronting the tenants like this, making it difficult for everyone, simply entrusting it to the Tiandihui is also a way out
Then he inquired about the second matter.

"I heard that Australians have set up an 'Australian Academy' in Lingao?"

"That's right, it's been running for several years. It's called Fangcaodi."

"I heard that many of the children of high-ranking gentry families have gone to school?"

"There are quite a few."

Song Zongmao hesitantly said that it was because he heard that his family brother Song Zong would send a son to study in high school.This made Song Zongmao feel a sense of crisis.Song Zonghui was originally a member of the County Advisory Bureau, a popular person in the eyes of Australians, and he sent another son to Lingao to study, needless to say, he was sending a "proton" to lose his sincerity.My family has never been a member of the committee. If we fall behind in this respect, will the county still have a voice in the future?Although they belonged to the same clan, they were far away from each other after all.

(End of this chapter)