Ye Congwen nodded secretly. The output of 600 kilograms of rice per mu is worth 1,200 cents, and 300 kilograms of rapeseed at least 100 kilograms of oil can also be sold for 1,000 cents. If 10,000 acres are worth 2,000 per year
Two million cents, or 220 gold bars, can earn at least 110 gold bars if you spend half of the cost.
Wang Baochang suggested that farming was indeed more cost-effective than renting it to others. Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly saw Kapok shaking his head and winking at him.
Ye Congwen knew something was wrong and did not make a decision for the time being. He kept picking up food for the two officials. When they were full of wine, they asked them to take them to the local area for a look.
Ye Congwen quietly walked to Kapok to ask what was going on while going home to get things.
I heard Kapok explain quietly:
"Xiao Congwen, don't promise to farm yourself. Ten thousand acres of fertile land will take at least 500 young and strong men to grow it. There are not so many people in our Tieta Village, so you can only leave it to Wang Baochang's help at that time
Our Tieta Village grows grain.”
"That's the case, is there anything wrong with our Tieta Village that can't be planted and packaged for them?"
"Growing rice is a meticulous job, and it is also a job that relies on the weather to make a living. It takes three years to get drought and flooding without drought. If you make a profit, you will still lose money in the end.
Besides, this Wang Baochang has never known our Tieta Village, so you are not afraid of him making trouble behind his back. If he secretly hides the rice and sells it, can you defend against it?"
Every sentence of Kapok pointed directly at the key points. Ye Congwen frowned when he heard it. He originally wanted the giants and the Mu people who were over 20 years old to change their farming to make a living, but now it seems that the road is not clear.
"Our Tieta Village has been relying on hunting for generations and knows nothing about farming, but you can ask the three major families in Wanquan County! How did they do it? Just just take pictures of the cat and draw tigers?"
Ye Congwen suddenly realized that the Yu Mansion and Lin Mansion all adopted the method of collecting rent. Could it be that they could only be a landlady who can guarantee income from drought and flood? Ye Congwen asked unwillingly:
"Second sister, does your village also take the method of collecting rent? Why do everyone choose such a conservative method?"
"Do you think people in the world are as straightforward as the giants in Tieta Village? Can growing grain for yourself be the same as working for others?
Grow grain for yourself, and put the more you get to your own pockets. Grow grain for you. If you get more, you won’t give it to them. It’s naturally different when you do the work.
If you think about it carefully, they will pay a silver coin for a month if they don’t want to be lazy, so how could they help you take care of the rice?"
Kapok Flower said something and Ye Congwen suddenly became enlightened. Since everyone chose to collect rent, this method is the most worry-free.
Ye Congwen no longer struggled and decided to follow advice and invited the Kapok and his wife to help him check.
"Anyway, I have nothing to do in my parents' home. Let's help us visit Tieta Village. I'll go find your brother-in-law."
Kapok left after saying that, and not long after, he came over with a strong and powerful black man. The two of them exchanged a few greetings, and the black man suggested:
"You'd better bring more giants to support the scene. People outside like to bully their lives. With these giants helping to help the market, no one dares to cause trouble in the future."
Ye Congwen nodded in agreement and asked Ye Rulang to take twenty giants with him to see ten thousand acres of fertile land.
The giants had never seen a scene of tens of millions of fertile land being connected together, and they rowed their boats to the western suburbs of Wanquan County at the top of their voices.
When he arrived at Wanquan County, Ye Congwen asked Mu Douya to invite Lin Xiaoyu over to talk about their Lin Mansion.
Ye Congwen followed the two officials to Wanquanzhuang in the western suburbs. This land is at least 100,000 acres, distributed along the river, 60 miles long and four or five miles wide. It is backed by a ring-shaped low mountain, and there is a natural lake inside the mountain.
The lake water is connected to the Lishui tributaries, and the irrigation conditions are excellent.
The fertile fields distributed to Tieta Village are at the foot of the mountain at the front. The dead grass is decaying, the bushes are growing, four miles wide and six miles long. Even if they are burned with fire, it is not a small project!
"Master, such good fertile land is abandoned so much. Have you never thought about renting the land to the people for food?" Ye Congwen asked in confusion. This Wanquan Village has a total of 100,000 acres of land, except for the 30,000 at the end.
The mu belong to the three palaces of Molin and Yu, and the remaining 60,000 mu of land have been surrounded by fences for decades. I would rather let it grow grass and raise rabbits than allow people to step on.
"Captain Ye is kidding. The exclusive fertile land of the Demon Hunter Guard, without the commander nodding, who dares to invade the royal assets?"
Master Li was afraid that Ye Congwen was testing the attitude of the government for the Demon Hunting Guard, so he quickly made a serious statement.
"In fact, these wastelands were also fertile fields that people cultivated a hundred years ago. Unfortunately, these families have no successors and have not been able to cultivate body-building warlocks after seventy years. As soon as time comes, the land was taken back by the Demon Hunting Guard.
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Wang Baochang sighed from the side, paused, and then continued:
"The 10,000 acres of fertile land in Mo Linyu, the three major families in Wanquan County, will expire in the next year. Perhaps in a few years, it will become overgrown with weeds."
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Congwen saw Lin Xiaoyu and Mu Douya come in excitedly on a boat. When he saw Ye Congwen, he smiled and shouted:
"Brother Congwen, are you asking me for something?"
Lin Xiaoyu has been a back street bully since she was a child. How could anyone with a little reputation not know her? In Wanquan County, the most famous one is Miss Lin’s Mansion.
"Tell me how your Lin Mansion operates these ten thousand acres of fertile land?"
"It's not simple? You divide 10,000 acres of fertile land into 20 acres per hill, go to the opposite side of the river to pick 500 strong men and sublet them?
A mu of land produces 600 kilograms of rice and 100 kilograms of oil, and it’s enough to just pay for rent! Our three governments usually spend 50% of them, and each takes half of them, and no one suffers."
"So, your Lin Mansion only collects rent every year, but why does your grandfather say that there are only fifty or sixty gold bars in the entire mansion every year, which is not enough for your Lin Mansion to spend?"
Ye Congwen was a little unhappy, and he didn't expect that Mr. Lin didn't say anything truthful.
"Brother Wen, you are not a good citizen at this time. Have you been evading taxes?"
Lin Xiaoyu laughed and joked, and then he explained patiently:
"Have you ever heard of the four words "Imperial Grain and National Tax"? We collect half of the rent from farmers and half of the tax from the court. Do you think those hundred gold bars belong to our Lin Mansion?
Whether it is a farmer who grows grain or a landlord who collects rent, they have to pay half the tax to the court. If you don’t believe it, you can ask Master Li behind you, who is the only one who settles the account.”
Ye Congwen suddenly realized and asked Master Li:
"So your county government gets the most, and the grain growers and rent collectors only get 50% of them. You just take half of them without doing anything?"
"Fall in the fallacy! Captain Ye, you only know one thing, not the other. I will settle the score with you:
This is how the 50% tax is distributed, the imperial court accounts for 10%, the county government accounts for 10%, and the demon hunting guards accounts for 10%. Only 10% of the taxes actually come to our county government.
But the county government is responsible for disaster relief, food relief, school opening, and widows. There are 2,800 yamen runners on the 28th road of the county government and more than 1,000 jails. It doesn’t matter if the year is good, once the year comes,
Everyone has to borrow money from the money house to pay for their wages."
Ye Congwen heard the master complaining loudly, and seeing his bitterness and grudges, he didn't seem to be lying. Mu Douya asked in confusion:
"You just need to raise less yamen runners. You can't even pay the wages and still have so many idle people. Isn't it just that you stand on a post in the county government and call someone a mighty voice when he shouts injustice?"
"Mrs. Ye's words are wrong. At the junction of urban and rural areas of Wanquan County, bandits are rampant, thieves appear, and ferocious beasts and birds of prey are harming people. The 2,800 yamen runners are too busy, so how dare they reduce them!
Besides, there are more and more unlucky people who are resisting paying imperial grain and national taxes, and the chief security guards are simply too busy. If there is no strong martial arts yamen runners, our county government will not even be able to collect taxes. At that time, I am afraid that the county magistrate will not even be able to maintain his official position.
Who dares to dig your own grave?"
Master Li became more and more anxious as he spoke. Recently, the county magistrate and county magistrate were busy suppressing bandits and had not lived a good life for the years. Otherwise, they would have been the two of them today.
"Every family has a difficult sutra! I didn't expect that the court would have difficulties. I understand everything after saying this. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, you urged me to accept tens of millions of fertile land. Is it for a long time to expand the tax source?"
Ye Congwen asked with a smile, No wonder he was so rushing, but he came to urge him on the fifth day of the lunar month. Where is the fixed income of fifty or sixty gold bars a year?
Large customers should be treated as big customers. Not to mention 80% off, it should be no problem to ask the government to lend a helping hand to help rectify the wasteland?
"Master Li, you also know that our Tieta Village has few people. It is almost the spring plowing season. How can we reclaim tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in more than a month?
Building canals and building flood control embankments is not a time-consuming and labor-intensive project? Why not do this? I won’t plant rice this year. Just plant some soybeans in March!”
"Captain Ye, this is a waste!"
Wang Baochang hurriedly retorted, and before Ye Congwen could answer, he poured beans and said:
"Your fertile field is next to a natural lake. You can bring water by building a canal by simply building a canal. The flood control embankment can be slowly built during the slack season. It's a pity to plant soybeans with such fertile black soil. That thing is only more than 200 acres of that thing per acre is only fertile.
Compared with 600 kilograms of rice, the harvest is less than half of it!”
The master on the side also agreed, "The output is reduced by half, so the taxes of our county government should also be reduced by half?" We firmly oppose the waste of staple food!
"I also know that the rice planting yield is high, but the year has not yet ended. How can I let the villagers of Tieta Village come out to build dikes and dig canals?"
"Captain Ye, you don't have to worry about this. The government will handle the matter of building and digging the ditches. As long as you choose to plant rice in the spring, I guarantee that your canals and flood control ditches can be completed before the flood season!"
Master Li quickly promised and said to Wang Baochang:
"Chief Wang Bao, if Captain Ye rents 10,000 mu of fertile land to your Wangjia Village, are you sure to plant rice in the deserted fields within half a year?"
"There is no problem in clearing land and farming, but the county government needs to find a way to build canals and embankments. After all, people only have two hands."
"Okay, you are responsible for clearing the land. The government issued documents to find someone to build a flood control dike. What do you think, Captain Ye?"
Ye Congwen was about to speak, but suddenly Mu Douya rushed to answer:
"Let us discuss it and reply to you within three days. After all, there are more than 300 people in a village. Ye Congwen needs to go back and hold a meeting for everyone to vote."
"My wife is right. After all, it is a land property in the tribe. I have to go back and ask everyone for their opinions. Please rest assured that once the result is released, I will notify you as soon as possible."
Ye Congwen knew that Mu Douya had something to say, so he quickly sent the two away. Before leaving, Master Li kept urging Ye Congwen to make up his mind as soon as possible, and spring plowing could not be delayed.
After the two of them walked away, they humbly asked:
"Second sister and brother-in-law, how do you think it's best?"
Kapok pushed the black man and asked him to say everything. The black man brewed for a long time, and looked at dozens of giants staring at him curiously. It took a long time to make up his mind and say:
"The government office cannot do a good job in digging canals and building embankments, and the land reclamation and farming cannot be handed over to Wang Baochang. You really want to see rice growing in the fields in autumn. You have to pay for the flood control embankments by yourself, and the tenants have to choose the tenants themselves."
Ye Congwen was stunned when he heard this. If he didn't take advantage, he wouldn't be a bastard? But since he asked him to come and help him with advice, he had to trust the eyes of professionals.
"Second brother-in-law, why can't the government help you with free construction? Isn't it a waste of a huge sum of money to pay for it?"
Douya gave Ye Congwen a question. The giants and Lin Xiaoyu around him all looked at the Heihan with wide eyes.
"The government relies on levying labor service in the government to build dams. These people don't have enough food to build river embankments for them. Can the quality be guaranteed? The Linfu River embankment is replenished every three years and a small one every two years. You can
Ask Miss Lin, do their family spend money to repair the flood control embankment every now and then?”