The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 162 Shareholder Farming

"I'm not afraid to tell you that the greenhouse vegetables in Linjiacun were Xia Ge'er's idea, and it's the one standing in front of you." Cheng Wenliu introduced Lin Xiazhi proudly.

Cheng Wenliu's appearance successfully amused Lin Xiazhi, and also calmed down the tenant farmers.It turned out that their new owner was so powerful, everyone was whispering and talking in low voices.

"Quiet!" Seeing that the tenant farmers looked unreasonable, Xiangbo stepped forward to maintain order instead of Lin Xiazhi.

"Stop whispering below, I'll tell you how the new rented grain is collected now." Lin Xiazhi raised his voice.

What Lin Xiazhi said made the tenant farmers hold their breath, for fear of missing a word.

"Before, everyone's annual rent was half of the field's harvest. This year is my first year, Lin Xiazhi, to collect rent and reduce the rent to [-] percent." Lin Xiazhi said what he was thinking on the road.

Lin Xiazhi had already considered reducing the grain rent by [-]%. During the spring plowing this year, these tenant farmers still planted grain according to the previous method. To let them plant according to his requirements, these tenant farmers will definitely have concerns in their hearts. He took the initiative to reduce the rent, just hoping that the tenant farmers will not worry. As for how to collect the rent next year, we will see next year.

Cheng Wenliu was shocked when he heard Lin Xiazhi's words. The move to reduce the rent by [-]% was a bit bold. Fortunately, Brother Xia used his new excuse to collect rent this year. They are dissatisfied with Brother Xia.

The tenant farmers reacted even more, kneeling down to kowtow to Lin Xiazhi.

"Mr. Lin is really a good man."

"I kowtow to you on behalf of our family."

"Mr. Lin, I will definitely offer you the rank of longevity at home, and pray for your long life day and night."

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Lin Xiazhi's face was full of black lines, and what the tenant farmers said was too exaggerated.

Xiangbo knew that Lin Xiazhi didn't like people kowtowing at every turn, so he quickly stopped those tenant farmers who were kneeling on the ground, and Lin Xiaoqiu went to help them up again.

"Old man, what's your name?" Lin Xiazhi asked the oldest old man among the tenant farmers.

The other tenant farmers respected him very much, and they would look at him when they spoke or did anything. He was the backbone of these tenant farmers.

"Mr. Lin, you can just call me Lao Qintou." Lao Qintou replied to Lin Xiazhi respectfully, "Our families are all from the Qin family. If you have any orders for me, Lao Qin's family, we will definitely do it."

Old Qintou is 63 this year. He has lived for so many years. He has changed several landlords, met kind-hearted landlords, and encountered black-hearted exploiters of tenant farmers.Faces come from the heart, in his opinion, Lin Xiazhi belongs to the kind-hearted kind.

Regardless of whether the landlords are kind-hearted or dark-hearted, as tenant farmers, they must not cheat. Farming honestly will never starve to death.

Lin Xiazhi told these tenant farmers one by one the rules he set. In addition to the small rent this year, Lin Xiazhi also planned to provide them with free seeds, and the Lin family would buy the crops they planted.

During the previous spring plowing, paddy fields had already been planted with paddy rice, and corn and sweet potatoes were planted on 35 acres of dry land. Lin Xiazhi planned to let them pull out all the corn, and plant soybeans in April. When the batch of sweet potatoes were harvested, they could continue planting Potato.

Lin Xiazhi felt that these tenant farmers seemed to be honest, so he had a plan: "Old Qintou, I think the houses you live in now are too dilapidated. It's okay to live in summer, but heavy snow in winter may collapse the roof. , here is 60 taels of silver, and the spring plowing has just passed, you take the money to build a few houses, and I will arrange how you will plant the land after the houses are built."

Money is the best way to see people’s hearts. He directly gave these tenants money. The 60 taels of silver saved was enough for them to build four new houses. After the house was repaired, he would arrange farming work for these tenant farmers. Slickers, take this opportunity to see clearly.

These tenant farmers looked at the money and were about to kneel down. Lin Xiazhi quickly glanced at Xiangbo and asked him to stop the tenant farmers.

Although Xiangbo was lame, he often dealt with these matters in his former master's house, and Lin Xiazhi didn't bother about it.

After signing the new contract, Lin Xiazhi didn't need to watch it personally. He took Lin Xiaoqiu and Cheng Wenliu to leave first, and planned to go to the field to have a look around.

Lin Xiazhi looked outside at this dilapidated house, which was not much different from a dilapidated house. He admired himself for walking in without changing his face just now, without worrying about the house falling down.

"The life of these sharecroppers is not easy." Lin Xiazhi sighed.

"Most of them have run into famine years and have nothing to eat, so they sell their land to the landlord, and they can only be tenant farmers to the landlord." Cheng Wenliu said, "Once they become tenant farmers, they will not be able to own their own land. Easy."

While talking, several tenant farmers' children followed them from a distance, watching the two of them dare not approach.

Lin Xiazhi looked at them, and thought of Lin Chengzong when he traveled here. At that time, Zong'er was also thin and small, wearing the clothes that his brothers had made smaller, and looked at people with timid eyes.

Lin Xiazhi waved to them and signaled them to come over: "How old are you? What's your name?"

The oldest child walked over with his younger brothers, mustered up the courage to talk to Lin Xiazhi: "I am nine years old, and my name is Daniel."

Then he introduced his younger brother to Lin Xiazhi: "These are my younger brothers, Er Niu, San Niu, and Si Niu. Ah Mo is still pregnant with the youngest brother in her stomach. My dad said the youngest brother is Wu Niu."

"Da Niu, these candies and pastries are for you to eat, you can share them with your brothers." Lin Xiazhi saw that several young children were so nervous that they were about to cry, and took a handful of candies from Lin Xiaoqiu's hand , A pack of snacks for Daniel.

Farther away, behind a big tree, there were still a few tenant farmers hiding. From time to time, they poked their heads out to look at Lin Xiazhi and Daniu, but Lin Xiazhi could only pretend not to see them.

"Brother Xia is still kind." Cheng Wenliu waited for the children to leave before telling Lin Xiazhi.

"It's not out of kindness, but I just thought of me in the past." Lin Xiazhi said without hesitation: "Brother Wen Liu should know what life our family lived before we separated. At that time, our second room was not too different from these tenant farmers. many."

Cheng Wenliu had investigated the Lin family before, so he knew what Lin Xiazhi was talking about.

Not to mention far away, the summer before last year, when Cheng Wenliu saw Lin Xiazhi for the first time, Lin Xiazhi was thin and small, like a thirteen or fourteen-year-old brother. The food he ate over the past year got better, and he gradually smoked. The bar is long and tall.

At that time, what impressed him the most was Lin Xiazhi's eyes, which looked very lively on his palm-sized face, as if he could talk. It was those eyes that made him pay attention to Xia Ge'er, and that's how they are now. fate.

After some people become rich, they are especially jealous of others mentioning that they are poor, but Lin Xiazhi doesn't care about it. He and Cheng Wenliu chatted about the past while strolling by the field.

When Xiangbo and the tenants signed the new contract, Lin Xiazhi happened to come back from a stroll with Cheng Wenliu, and Xiangbo was telling the tenants that the new contract had to be stamped with a red seal by the government.

In fact, it is not necessary to go to the government to get the seal. Some landlords are not willing to pay the money for the seal, so they don't have to take it to the government to get the seal.

Anyway, in the relationship between the landlord and the tenant farmers, the landlord occupies the absolute dominance, and it is not the landlord who suffers when something happens. There is no contract with a red stamp from the government.

Naturally, Lin Xiazhi would not do such a thing. He took the new contract and told the tenant farmers that he would send back the new contract with the official red stamp tomorrow.

Although the tenant farmers were a little worried, they had no choice but to trust Lin Xiazhi and wait for Lin Xiazhi to send the contract back in Beishan Village.

Fortunately, Lao Qintou held the 60 taels of silver given by Lin Xiazhi in his hand, and believed in Lin Xiazhi in his heart, so that everyone could rest assured to wait in the village.

Before lunch time the next day, a young servant of the Lin family delivered the contract to Old Qin.The four tenant farmers have a total of four contracts, one of which is not bad.

Old Qintou could barely read a few words, confirmed that these contracts were the same as the one they had fingerprinted yesterday, accepted the contract, and bowed in the direction of Linjiacun from a distance.

The next half month is reserved for them to build a house, and when the weather gets warmer in April, Lin Xiazhi will let them grow soybeans and potatoes.

These tenant farmers have planted more than [-] acres of corn on dry land, and they will all be replanted by then.

On the way back, Lin Xiazhi finally remembered to arrange for Xiangbo to buy horses and carriages, and he had to buy a servant who could take care of the horses.

Xiang Bo had learned how to raise horses before, and he asked Lin Xiazhi: "Second Young Master, you bought a horse just to transport yourself? Then buying one horse is enough, why did you buy two horses?"

"A horse is usually used by them when they go out, and my brother is about to give birth. It is safer for the two children in the family to make a carriage and go out. I will prepare another horse for Zong'er. He is studying in the county college now. After passing the exam, he will go out to visit relatives. You have to use a carriage to visit friends." Lin Xiazhi spoke out his plan.

Although Xiangbo is just a servant, he knows a lot of things. Lin Xiazhi will not underestimate him, and sometimes he will discuss things with him.

It is precisely because of Lin Xiazhi's appreciation that Xiangbo always considers everything for them.

"Second young master, in fact, the third young master doesn't have to take a carriage when going out. Take Master Cheng as an example, he usually rides a horse when he goes out. It happens that the third young master is still young, why don't you buy a strong pony and learn to ride a pony first?" Horse, you can go out on horseback in the future. When the third young master comes back from the academy, he can feed the pony himself when he is free, and the pony and the third young master have a better relationship."

"Besides, this old slave knows how to raise horses. You don't need to buy a servant to take care of the horses. It's enough for this old slave to find someone to teach you how to raise horses."

After listening to Xiang Bo's words, Lin Xiazhi also felt that it made sense. Although he had never seen Cheng Wenliu ride a horse, he used to watch TV dramas, and the sons and brothers of rich families could indeed ride horses.

Riding a horse to flirt with girls seems to be a skill that every male protagonist must know. Thinking of this, Lin Xiazhi also feels a little itchy. He didn't have the opportunity to learn how to ride a horse in his previous life. Will he have the opportunity to try it in this life?