Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 2545 Landlords and tenant farmers

  The staff test is half a day's work. After Bai Erlang finished the test today, he got his score the next day. Among the more than 20 Jinshi, the ranking is not bad.

  However, unlike Bai Dalang who hurriedly went to the waiter, Bai Erlang did not go to the staff after getting the results, but ran home to find Mingda, and took her to the imperial village.

  Now go to line up to select officials. In case the father-in-law gives him an official directly, will he report immediately, or two days later?

  So in no hurry, he decided to rest for a few days before talking.

  From last year to the present, he has been too busy. It is rare that he can go out to play. It is also a play with the heart, and he can't be wholehearted at all.

  Mingda knows five grains, even sowing seeds by himself, and seeing people planting the land, but the understanding of farming is only based on knowing the surface.

  Unlike Bai Erlang, he has been in charge of a Zhuangzi since childhood.

  So I took Mingda to live in the imperial house for two days, and walked around, knowing that there were only 68 tenant farmers and 29 servants in the huge imperial house...

  And every year, Liyang County will transfer one mile of Yiding to help spring plowing and autumn harvesting. Rotating from county to township, you can guarantee that it won’t be repeated for several years.

Bai Erlang and Mingda said: "Zhou Man recruited tenant households for one mile in the vocational field of Putian, which is a hundred households. Because of the lack of land, they can cultivate intensively. A Zhuangzi like yours has only so few people. Basically It is to sow the seeds and chase some fertilizer, let alone watering, for fear that even the grass will not be removed. After two months, the grass will grow better than the wheat seedlings."

  Mingda suddenly realized, "No wonder the wheat field I saw last time is sparser than the grass next door."

   Shirajiro endured a smile and said, "There are too few people, and the soil is different. There is also the reason for the snow disaster last year."

   "But no matter what it is for, a small number of people in such a large imperial house is not enough," he said: "It is not enough to plant the land by sowing the seeds. Daily life is also very important."

   Baijiro thought he probably knew why the emperor had so many land, but he was still so poor.

  He said: "Every year, Huangzhuang can get 100 workers for free, but they only plough for ten days in spring and harvest for ten days in autumn. What about that long time in between?"

"The seeds that are planted need to be fertilized, watered, weeded, and even need to be dewormed. For beans alone, they must be weeded at least twice after planting. Otherwise, the grass that emerges later will take away the fertilizer and grow longer than beans. Even better."

  White Erlang said: "So I can't rely on the servants, I still have to recruit long-term workers or tenants."

  Mingda tilted her head and thought for a while, curious, "Why can't Huangzhuang recruit tenants?"

  White Jiro: "Because you are too dark."

  Minda:……

   Baijiro said: "Do you know how much the average person's tax is for a year?"

  Mingda smiled and said: "Every dice must pay millet and two stones every year."

  White Jiro nodded and said, "This tax is not high. Compared with their granting land, it is almost 40% tax. However, tenants who rent land from others generally have to pay 40% to 60% of the tax."

  Mingda calculated the difference between the two, and was shocked, "How can there be so much difference?"

   Bai Erlang said: "Private is not a country after all. From ancient times to the present, the tax on tenant farmers has always been so high, even in a mean house, the tax is increased to 70%."

"However, in order to ensure the harvest, the owner usually provides improved varieties, farming tools and some cattle, but some others are mean and will not provide them. In the end, the tenants leave and prefer to be a refugee instead of farming." Bai Erlang looked at Mingda and said, "We just now. Didn't you ask, the tenancy rate of Huangzhuang has always been 60%."

  Mingda:......So her family is a mean family?

  She asked, "How much is your rent to the tenant farmers?"

"Depending on the situation, sometimes 50%, sometimes 40%, and at least 20%. If there is a catastrophe, you have to rent-free." Bai Erlang once ran to inherit his father's land and became a small landlord. Go, plus the examiner now knows this kind of thing very well, he said: "The rent that the tenant farmer should hand over to the court is paid by the owner. Unless he has another share of the land, it will be shared according to the proportion."

   "Like my family, Dazhen has been flooded for ten years, and my father has exempted many people from taxation. My father has to pay the tax for every small and two stones in their family. This is a loss."

  Lord Bai lost a lot that year. If the tenant farmers didn’t divide their fields and only rented the land of the landlord, they would only need to serve the country, and the landlord would pay the rest of the rent and taxes.

  Usually, the owners will allocate land to grow mulberry and hemp for the tenant farmers. They spin and weave the cloth, hand in part of the rent according to the reservation, and the rest is theirs.

When the imperial court was about to collect taxes, the owner handed over the tenant farmers’ rent to the county government. So in those days, Master Bai not only had to pay the tenant farmers in vain money to pay the rent, but also paid for the tenant farmers from Tao’s pocket, and lost the previous year’s money by the way. Grain...

Of course, Bai Erlang said this to tell Mingda, "Although there are few people in Mianzhou, my family can always recruit enough tenant farmers if they want to recruit tenant farmers. That is, there are no people in Mianzhou, and there will be special people coming from other places. ."

  Mingda thoughtfully, "Do you think our imperial village is not generous enough, that's why it recruits insufficient tenants?"

  Shirajiro nodded without tact, and said to her: "Although the capital is rich, there are many people who have lost their land here. As long as you give enough benefits, it is not difficult to recruit people."

  He said: "Our family is not short of money. It is because the investment in the early stage is larger. Such a good land, as long as the harvest is intensive and meticulous, the harvest will not be low. Even if the harvest is only 40%, the annual income will be a lot."

  Look at Zhou Man’s vocational income over the past two years.

   Mingda became interested, his eyes gleaming and said: "Okay, let's take care of this imperial house."

  She also discussed with Shirajiro, "Do you want to change the manager?"

  Intelligent Mingda naturally knows that there are so many tricks in the imperial village because of the reasons for the affairs.

  Bai Jiro also wanted to change, but he felt that the replacement was a big deal, and he was a little undecided, so he ran back to ask Bai Shan and Zhou Man.

  Bai Shandao: "As long as he is obedient, he doesn't have to change."

He said: "He has been used to the imperial estate for so many years. He is familiar with the land and people there, and he can control people. No matter what he did before, he just listens to you now. No, he listens to the princess. It’s okay."

  As long as Princess Mingda asks him to do what he does, it will be available.

  Man Baodao: "Even if you want to change, you have to go through spring plowing first. It's not easy to change a job to take care of so many places at the moment."

  Bai Erlang took the reassurance pill, exhaled and asked Man Bao, “Where do you think I’m going to recruit workers and tenant farmers?”

  Manbao feels that it is too late to find tenant farmers. In such a good place, we must find hard-working talents. What if we recruit some lazy people?

  So she said: "You spend some money and directly hire long-term or part-time workers. Anyway, there are many people idle in Beijing. These people should not be difficult to find."

Bai Shan said: "It's a pity that the fourth brother went out, otherwise you can ask the fourth brother for help. But the manager of Huangzhuang should also have a familiar servant. You will make announcements in both Beijing and Yongzhou, and you will definitely be able to invite a lot of people. ."

  　See you at six in the afternoon

  (End of this chapter)