In order to deter these philistine and snobbish local rich people.
Early in the morning.
Shen Lie deliberately put on a gorgeous Shu brocade robe, a gorgeous Qingyun scarf, and satin thin-soled fast boots.
This robe, headscarf, and boots were all made by Yun'er at the most famous tailor shop in the capital using the high-grade Shu brocade given by the emperor. The labor cost alone cost ten taels of silver.
Is this something ordinary people can wear?
Shen Lie would usually be reluctant to wear this outfit, it was too ostentatious...
But when Shen Lie wore this gorgeous clothes and stood outside the village gate.
The magnificence was extraordinary, the luxury was rich, and it immediately surprised the rich man and his seven or eight relatives and friends.
After all, there was a scholar in the family, so he knew what he was doing.
As soon as he saw Shen Lie's clothes, the rich man immediately knew that he was an extraordinary person, and his waist immediately collapsed in half.
Therefore, amid the anxiety of the rich man and several wealthy households, Shen Lie once again displayed his superb acting skills and showed a bright yet polite smile.
"Brothers, please."
Seeing Shen Lie's demeanor being so humble, the wealthy locals and rich people became even more uneasy and hurriedly made concessions: "I don't dare, I don't dare. Shopkeeper Shen is being polite."
So under Shen Lie's smiling reception, the local rich man and seven or eight wealthy households calmed themselves down and walked into Shenjiazhuang along the spacious and clean road.
As soon as I walked into Zhuangzi.
Looking at the various fruits and vegetables grown in this big farm, the farmers practicing on the threshing floor, and the acres and acres of fields.
There is also the most beautiful maid in the world, the extraordinary temperament of the eldest lady in snow-white Confucian clothes, these money-grubbing landowners, most of their suspicions have been eliminated.
This style is definitely not ordinary.
From this look, it seems that they belong to a wealthy family, and they still have the background and strength to be a powerful person!
So the rich man and scholar's father changed his face on the spot and complimented Shen Lie: "Oh, Shopkeeper Shen is really... a noble man!"
At this moment, he was smiling all over his face and talking to the shopkeeper one after another. He was really a philistine to the extreme.
Shen Lie didn't want to care.
He just suppressed the disgust in his heart and brought these wealthy locals into the living room. Yun'er served tea and Tian Hong and others called over.
On the spot, the articles of association of the cooperative were agreed upon with the wealthy local man and the seven or eight wealthy households who donated their acres to him.
Shen Lie paced in the hall and muttered: "Yun'er, write it down."
As a Beipiao ethnic minority who was born in a rural area, Shen Lie is very familiar with cooperatives. He often heard from his family members when he was a child.
This form is quite common in rural areas.
Shen Lie first funded the establishment of a cooperative, and then let these landlords and wealthy households join in using their land as shares.
This way.
It is equivalent to organizing the originally unrelated and fragmented small-scale peasant economy into a cooperative management method.
After this cooperative is established, everyone will grow vegetables and grain together, and Shen Lie will provide the seeds, labor, and planting expenses.
And when the vegetables and grains in the fields mature, Shen Lie will also purchase them uniformly. The responsibility that these wealthy households and landowners need to bear is to promise a minimum output.
It is written in black and white in the contract that unless there are irresistible reasons such as floods, droughts, and locust plagues, the minimum output of each household must be guaranteed.
After each household meets the minimum output, the excess surplus will be distributed among the rich landlords according to the number of shares.
Finished speaking.
Shen Lie said to Yun'er: "Have you written everything down?"
Yun'er held a wolf hair in her delicate hands and said quickly: "Remember it, Master."
As Shen Lie took the contract that smelled of ink in his hand, he waved it to the rich man and the wealthy households who relied on him, and said loudly.
"Whether it will succeed or not, please make up your mind as soon as possible."
So the rich man, the scholar's father, and his relatives and friends gathered together and had a heated discussion.
Several people put together a plan to grow vegetables for shopkeeper Shen, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, and raise some chickens, ducks and fish. No matter how you calculate it, it is more cost-effective than growing millet and wheat.
No matter how you calculate it, you won’t suffer any loss.
The rich man was already a little excited, but he had never seen the world, and deep down he felt resistant to this novel form, and always felt uneasy.
Shen Lie then said loudly: "How about this... let's work for a year first. If you are not happy after one year, you can withdraw from the company at any time. Shen can come and go freely here and will never be forced to stay."
Now that the rich man no longer had any worries, he gritted his teeth and said resolutely: "Thanks to Shopkeeper Shen for being so old... it's settled!"
Shen Lie smiled slightly and looked at the other wealthy households. Five of the seven were willing to join the club, while two were timid and uncertain and chose to quit.
This result already made Shen Lie very satisfied, so he smiled and said: "Yun'er, I will take care of you with pen and ink."
Yun'er then added some water to the inkstone, grinded the ink, and handed the brush to the rich man.
Only then did this philistine rich man show a trace of the self-cultivation of a cultured man, and he signed and stamped the contract document.
With the pressing of a few bright red handprints, the first rural cooperative in the history of Ming Dynasty, and perhaps in human history, was born.
Shen Lie carefully put the contract away, then smiled freely and said: "Yun'er... prepare the wine."
Not long after.
The sounds of drinking and drinking could be heard in Shenjiazhuang.
In the blink of an eye, another day later.
As morning came, Shen Lie woke up from his gentle home. He drank a few more glasses of rice wine last night and his head was a little groggy.
He rubbed his sore temples.
Lower your head.
Shen Lie looked at the pretty maid curled up in his arms like a kitten, and she clung to him like an octopus.
Women of this age are the most sleepy. In her even and pure breathing, the bellyband on her body has disappeared, and only a piece of underwear is rolled up around her delicate waist.
Under the cover of the scattered hair, the pretty face that is fair and slightly childish is still flushed with a flush that has not faded. The slender and tender body exudes a luster that can be broken by blows in the dim light of the morning. , tender and as delicate as tofu.
There is nothing beautiful about this scene.
It was only because he thought that she was a new woman and that she was unbearable that she could not be picked apart, so Shen Lie resisted his hand that was about to move and wanted to sit up from her entanglement.
But when Shen Lie moved, Yun'er woke up with a start, and instinctively hugged the young master's thick waist tightly. Her elegant eyes also opened, but they were still deeply hazy.
As she turned over and sat up, she instinctively knelt on the bedside, rubbed her hazy eyes with her green-white hands, and muttered in her little mouth: "Master, is it dawn yet?"
Bright light shone in from outside the window lattice, and her slender and graceful body exuded natural beauty under the morning light. Her dazed look was even more breathtaking.
Shen Lie couldn't stand the beauty of such infinite spring, but his heart couldn't help but feel hot again. He stretched out his hand and pulled her over, holding her in his arms for tenderness and affection.
Yun'er, who was awakened, curled up in Shen Lie's arms. She was a little shy at first, but soon stretched out her slender body, and responded enthusiastically to the young master's greedy request.
