After they also received the news that a large number of salt owl were killed, they completely understood that what they were facing was not a small gang that did not know the so-called, but a ferocious and cruel behemoth. A few people went to discuss it quickly and felt that

The losses would be too great if we continue to fight like this! And it is really difficult to get any benefits from fighting with this kind of local snake. After all, even a powerful dragon cannot suppress a local snake! What's more, these salt merchants are just looking for money.

So these people quickly recognized the facts, confirmed their failures, and understood that the other party always left room for them. At this moment, they received a fiercely worded letter, which said that they

If they continue to cause trouble, I'm afraid they won't be able to return to Jianghuai! So a few people had to pack their things and leave Yanzhou Mansion.

At this point, Liu Pei has completely controlled all the salt roads in Shandong. This means that a huge amount of money will flow into Liu Pei's pocket! Fortunately, Liu Pei has already prepared, and the output of several newly opened salt fields

Not bad, plus the production from the government salt field and the scattered salt goods collected from the seaside villages, it can be fully supplied to the Shandong market.

After receiving the good news, Liu Pei just laughed and didn't care about celebrating at all. Because he had more important things to be busy with, which was collecting rent.

Liu Pei almost burst into tears when he mentioned rent collection! What a pity, as Liu Pei is the biggest landlord in the two countries, he has been losing money!

There was nothing he could do. His hands were all filled with newly reclaimed wasteland! In the past two years, he had lent so much money to tenants at low interest rates that he was almost unable to make ends meet. If it weren't for private individuals and

Supported by taxes and a large amount of subsidies from soap and perfume profits, Liu Pei is already bankrupt!

Otherwise, this army is a gold-swallowing beast! The daily food, clothing, housing and transportation of these more than a thousand servants cost too much money. The medicine that the steward trains every day is a lot of money! In addition, he has to provide for a large number of orphans.

, so Liu Pei’s money is always tight.

As for this year's autumn harvest, he finally got some money back! But the rent he received was not much. After all, he only collected 10% of the rent this year. And only the first batch of wasteland was cleared for rent. Most of the rest were collected.

The wasteland is still in the state of investment. It will be next year to make profits.

However, although the rent is small, it also solves a big problem for Liu Pei, that is, he and his men have enough food this year, and they do not need to spend a lot of money to buy it in the market. What you save is money you make!

While Liu Pei was busy collecting rent, he escaped another trouble this year. The helpers of this trouble were Jiao, the big landlords in the two counties.

Liu Pei started working hard when he decided to reclaim wasteland.

Liu Pei tried his best to recruit refugees as tenants and established a lease. Liu Pei set the rule that he would only charge 35% of the rent. In Liu Pei's view, this was extremely sinister. But in the eyes of the big landlords and tenants, this

The rent couldn't be any lower! Those big landlords who usually charge 50% of the rent are doing good deeds. As for 60% or 70% of the rent, it is normal behavior. There are also many who charge 80% or 90% of the rent.

Therefore, it was absolutely unique for Liu Pei to set a rent of 35%, not to mention that the landlords also required the tenants to provide labor for free on a regular basis.

In the history of China, in addition to labor rent, which is the fulfillment of the obligation to work for the landlord's family, rent payment methods can be divided into two types: divided land rent and fixed land rent. The former is divided equally between landlords and tenant farmers in proportion to the annual output;

The latter belongs to the fixed land rent calculated on an acre basis, which is what we usually call "iron plate rent". Regardless of whether there is good or bad season, the amount of rent is always fixed. The land rent owed by Yang Bailao to Huang Shiren roughly falls into this kind of "iron plate rent".

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During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Nasutu, the governor of Liangjiang River, described the general method of rent payment in the Qing Empire at that time in a memorandum to the emperor. Nasutu said: "Tenants in the north divide the grain evenly, while those south of the river mostly work on the basis of acres.

"Rent". In fact, "iron rent" was also very popular in the north at that time, but it was more popular in the south. Basically, during the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the Republic of China, "iron rent" had always been the main way to pay rent.

In literary works, the main weapon used by Huang Shiren to force Yang Bailao to death was the "iron rent" between them. Regardless of Yang Bailao's age, Huang Shiren's land rent was always fixed. Once Yang Bailao encountered a famine, he could not help but

After completing the "iron plate renting" and incurring debts, Huang Shiren came back with a compound interest rate and an increase in interest rates. From now on, Yang Bailao would never be able to turn around again.

Therefore, the big landlords in the two counties hated Liu Pei to death! They were all afraid that their tenants would transfer to Liu Pei, so that they would have no one to exploit them. But Liu Pei did not recruit tenants from the local area, but

Instead, a large number of refugees were recruited to serve as tenants. This inadvertently eased the relationship with the local landlords.

But will these big landlords let him go? No! Those people headed by Mr. Huo have already set a trap for Liu Pei. They have even prepared things such as raising food prices and farm tools.

But to everyone's surprise, Liu Pei was promoted to Qianhu this year because of his military exploits. This is not a good thing for Mr. Huo and the others. Since ancient times, it makes sense that the people do not fight with the officials.

Especially someone like Liu Pei, who is a high-ranking official and a military general, and has a large number of people who can fight. These big landlords really can't afford to offend him.

They must have a head-to-head confrontation with Liu Pei

Not afraid, but if Liu Pei releases his men, they will beat you today and smash your carriage tomorrow. They will not be able to deal with it. When chasing important people, although they have good eyesight in officialdom, the county government and the guards are not afraid.

So they are two yamen, not subordinate to each other. Therefore, these big landlords have nothing to do with Liu Pei in their own home, so they can only admit defeat!

So when the big landlords received the news that Liu Pei had become a thousand households, their minds naturally stopped. Liu Pei didn't even find out that there was a conspiracy against him. And to Liu Pei's surprise, he was

Organizing the refugees to build water conservancy projects and dredging old canals, some problems that arose were solved.

You know, if you want to build water conservancy projects, you will inevitably have to pass through other people's land. This requires negotiation with the landlords. Some small landowners or farmers can just say that they can accept compensation and agree, but the real big landowners

They would never agree. They were still thinking about Liu Pei's land, so how could they provide him with convenience.

So this has caused Liu Peixing to encounter a lot of trouble in building water conservancy. But recently, people below have reported that some people who originally did not agree with the canal passing through their fields have expressed that they can accept a certain amount of compensation and let the canal pass through their own land. However, the compensation is higher than expected.

It's a little higher.

But Liu Pei didn't care about this compensation at all. You know, a field has sufficient water resources, and the income from farming is more than the compensation for building canals. So Liu Pei agreed without saying a word.

Moreover, Liu Pei felt that these landowners were quite reasonable, and asked someone to prepare a batch of gifts to send them there. This move further eased the relationship between Liu Pei and the local landowners. Although the two parties did not meet, they had some pleasant moments.

It feels like at least the tenants under both parties no longer look at each other with cross eyebrows! After all, the attitude of the tenants will change with the attitude of the landlord.

The third major thing Liu Pei was still busy with was building docks, breakwaters and shipyards in Jiaozhou Bay! During this period, Liu Pei purchased a large amount of cement from Hyundai and used prisoners to quarry stones in the mountains to build the docks.

and breakwater. Because Liu Pei felt that he had initially established a firm foothold in the Ming Dynasty, he could try to reach out to the ocean. And he was now Jiao, the largest landowner in the two counties. So Liu Pei felt that he could control the news

Not leaked.

Some people may think that if Liu Bei did such a big thing in Jiaozhou Bay, how could he not be discovered by the government?

In fact, the government really couldn't find it! In the Ming Dynasty, because Zhu Yuanzhang was lonely since he was a child, he was oppressed by the government, so he tried his best to reduce the power of the government and wanted the people to be less oppressed by the government. Therefore, the power of the government in the Ming Dynasty was very weak
Chapter completed!