delicious little cook

Chapter 655

"Buy? Let the villagers sell their ancestral land for money?"

"Of course it won't work. Forcibly buy the villagers' land, and they turn around and go to Beijing to beat drums and complain. What will you do then?"

"You can't massacre the village, and you can't buy it by force. Is there any other way?"

"Yes, yes, it's worth a try. The purpose of everyone joining together to buy land is to do business, to buy an estate for yourself that can be passed on to your children and grandchildren, not to kill people, that's too unlucky, and it will damage your reputation. He is a student who is earning a high reputation, and he still expects to earn a Jinshi background so that he can serve the country in the future. There is no need to stigmatize himself by pouring dirty water on himself at this time. Since there are so many restrictions, there is only one way left. "

"tell me the story."

"Since the villagers are landlords, we will rent their land and price it according to wasteland, raw land and cultivated land."

"Rent? How much does it cost per year?"

"It's definitely cheaper than our land occupation. Once a trouble breaks out, the money spent on the aftermath will be enough to pay the rent. In the end, the trouble might end up on the road of massacring the village."

"Wait a minute, we rented the villagers' land, so what did the villagers do this year? Just waiting for the rent?"

"Of course, we will hire them to be our farm laborers and farm the land for us. And as long as they are rented out, the unified canals and ditches will also lead to their villages. They don't spend a penny, but they get brand new irrigation facilities. The Union gets their land too, and neither side suffers."

"We rented the villagers' land, and we still need to hire them to do things? Let them earn two dollars?"

"What? You are only allowed to make a fortune, but not others?"

"I don't mean that. Don't be in a hurry. I'll just ask more questions. I have something to say when others ask."

"It's almost there."

"Come on, let's talk about it carefully. We rented the village's land, hired them to do things, and spent money to repair the irrigation facilities. What are the benefits of our side?"

"First of all, those villagers have been farming for generations, and they are already familiar with farming. They are the talents that the alliance is in short supply. If we force them to leave, where can we find so many farmers? Instead of spending effort to move farmers from other places, why not just stay Get them to work?"

"Yeah, forget that."

"The villagers know that it is profitable, so they will naturally agree to sign a contract with us, and even take the initiative to extend the lease term. Then we can set it for 50 years casually. The money for renting land and farm labor is basically nothing in this long period of time. It's drizzling."

"It's not a bad calculation, it's a good calculation."

"This is the most gentle solution. Other than that, the means that can be adopted may eventually turn into violence. It is not good, and it violates the principle of making money through harmony."

"Okay, I'll remember, and ask them to have a talk tomorrow."

The next day, Gu Yun invited all the members of the Alliance to talk to Gong Changji's house at the government school, and asked them all to send their servants home to say that if it is late, they can stay overnight, and it happens that school ends early today. , A group of people also caught up with an afternoon snack when they came to Prince Cheng's Mansion.

Now that it is cold, everyone gathers in the west wing of the guest courtyard. The inside is open and the floor is paved. A group of sons and daughters are nestled in their most comfortable positions. A copy of the map is placed in front of each of them. They eat and drink while discussing land acquisition. problem.

Those wastelands are easy to manage, and you can buy them with money, but the five villages are a headache. Gu Yun has Bai Kou's idea in his heart. He looks calm and listens to other people's opinions first.

It sounds like this sounds really bad as you listen to it. No matter how you discuss it, the method you come up with will eventually turn into violence and persecution. It was all guessed by Bai Kou. The method she said is the most peaceful and most likely to be accepted by both parties Otherwise, if the villagers go all out, they would rather go to Beijing to sue after a meal. They really can't stand it.

Everyone talked for a while, and they also felt that they didn't have any reliable good ideas. Shi Tianmin came back to his senses, pointed at Gu Yun and said with a smile: "It seems that I haven't heard you all this time. You don't say a word. What kind of idea are you holding back?"

"He doesn't have any idea, I'm afraid Bai Kou already gave him a trick yesterday, and now he is sitting on the Diaoyutai, watching our jokes." Gong Zhangji scolded with a smile.

Finally, Gu Yun didn't hold back, and grinned, so angry that his brothers and buddies really wanted to hit him with the food in their hands.

"Stop dawdling, tell me, what good idea do you have?"

Gu Yun put on airs and took a sip of tea in a leisurely manner, causing everyone to raise dessert plates and teacups one after another. He finally repeated Bai Kou's opinion as it was. After listening to it, everyone pondered together. Moreover, water conservancy construction needs to be done for the village, but those villagers are all ready-made farmers, and they still manage their own land, and there is no change for them. If the lease period is extended, the rent and wages will still be paid It's not really a big expense.

So based on this opinion, everyone discussed it again. After thinking about it, there is really no better idea. Why not pick a village and try it. If it succeeds, the other four villages can be taken like a gourd. up.

By now it was getting late, everyone was in high spirits, and no one wanted to leave. It happened that during the day they sent their servants home to say hello, so they all booed Gu Yun and asked him to call Bai Kou to come over and burn it for everyone. For dinner, she didn't take charge of the last celebration banquet, which made them very disappointed, and felt that the trip was in vain.

Bai Kou received the message in the mansion, changed her clothes and left. First she bowed to everyone in the wing room and then went to the kitchen to prepare dinner. She made a large table of wine and dishes with ready-made ingredients, and also made it for Princess Ning Peilan. The dinner that fits her current taste was sent to her room and left to eat together, so as not to have to wait on those men.

When the two women get along, they naturally also talk about land acquisition. Bai Kou shared her opinion, and Ning Peilan thinks it is feasible, but the details need to be discussed again. The price for dividing the land into three classes must be determined. There must be some differences in the cultivated land, so that the villagers will actively open up wasteland out of greed or profit, and strive to turn the wasteland into raw land before signing the contract and earn more rent

As for the candidates to go to the village to negotiate, Ning Peilan was also in charge. The Ning family's talents were all ready-made, so there was no need to use them for nothing.

Following the palace chief, the group of young masters and brothers finally made a formal decision. First, get the land, and while starting the construction work, they are slowly working with the five villages. They can't waste all their time on them.

When it came to paying for the land, everyone was gesturing back and forth on the map in front of them as if they were dividing up pastries. The three major shareholders all wanted hundreds of acres of land, and the rest were divided among themselves. But this piece of wasteland is big enough, at least one person has subscribed for [-] acres, and even the few people who were not present were helped to subscribe for part of the land. That large piece of wasteland is like the victor in the war dividing up the fruits of victory. The land was divided cleanly.

And the five villages were very tacitly owned by the three major shareholders, and none of them were poor money owners, so they were divided according to the size of the villages. Gu Yun only took the largest village located in the inland , Gong Changji and Shi Tianmin divided the remaining four villages, two for one person, and the wasteland subscribed by the three of them was also as close to the village as possible, so that they could contact each other in case of problems.

It's been agreed, let's rest and wait for the good news.

Two days later, Ning Peilan sent people to the yamen to go to the yamen to go through the land purchase formalities with the bank notes that everyone put together. They bought the large piece of wasteland in one go. The land deeds were all written in everyone's name, and the houses of Yingtian Mansion A scribe was specially assigned to do this, and he was about to break his hand when he wrote it. He also saw that the land deeds were full of the names of the sons and daughters of powerful families, including the names of Gu Yun and King Chengjun, so he left a Xinyan, after the matter was finished, he passed it on to his superiors, and Fu Yin soon found out, and a secret letter entered the palace in a short while, and placed it on the desk of the sage's imperial study.

After reading the secret letter, the sage called the Minister of the Household Department and made some arrangements with him. Master Shang Shu led his order to retreat and secretly observed every move of Gu Yun and his group of young people.

(End of this chapter)