Chapter 212: The Storm in Wangcun's Tenant Fields
Lin Zhu's new house in Wangcun was built thanks to the help of the people of Wangcun, she invited the villagers who were idle and had nothing to do to work and build houses in Wangcun, and the wages and food they were given were also good, so they left a good impression in the hearts of most people in Wangcun.
However, because the Wang Village of Xiaolinzhuang is very close, there are always some in-laws between the two villages, so what happened in Xiaolinzhuang has also spread in Wang Village. Some of them became dissatisfied with Lin Zhu.
Wang Dashan is the village chief of Wang Village, and his two brothers all live in the same village, because the family is prosperous, so it is very prestigious in Wang Village.
As soon as Lin Zhu arrived in Wang Village, he first found the village head, Wang Dashan, to discuss the construction of houses, tenant fields, and hiring people. Of course, it is indispensable to give Wang Dashan some gifts.
Although he was also more envious of the good luck of the people of Xiaolinzhuang, he was not dissatisfied with Lin Zhu, mainly because Lin Zhu's tenant rent was less than that of General Chang's Mansion.
As the head of the village, the situation of Wang Dashan's family is definitely better than that of ordinary farmers, but the previous fake seeds have also affected the people of Wang Village, so if his family wants to restore the previous living standard as soon as possible, it is also necessary to have tenant fields.
So after discussing with his two younger brothers, Wang Dachuan and Wang Dalin, he decided to plant the fields of Lin Zhu, but they still didn't trust the seeds of Lin Zhu, and they would rather spend some money to go to the food of the capital to buy some reassuring seeds.
Driven by Wang Dashan, half of the families in Wang Village decided to land in the fields of Linzhu and some of the families were so bad that they could not afford to buy rice seeds. They boldly decided to use Lin Zhu's rice seeds, after all, using her seeds can be returned after the autumn harvest, which gives them a chance to breathe.
However, Lin Zhu's approach made Wang Shiman, a wealthy family in Wang Village, very dissatisfied, his family has many people, and they are all strong laborers, so there will be a lot of tenant fields, if the grange is in the name of General Chang's mansion, then they may have to pay less taxes, so although Lin Zhu proposed two conditions for tenant fields, one of them is lower than the land rent collected by the general's mansion. It can't make his family feel suitable.
So Wang Shiman encouraged some villagers very much. Came to the door of Lin Zhu's house.
Lin Zhu, who had just moved over, was directing the people at home to clean up the yard and arrange a place to live. It was interrupted by a noise outside the gate.
"Uncle Bo, go and see what's going on outside?" Lin Zhu's home was built in the eastern part of Wang Village, next to the slope. The arrangement of the courtyard is also similar to that when it was in Linjia Village. But there was more into the yard. More room.
Feng Yuanbo took two subordinates, opened the gate, and saw a lot of people from Wang Village outside the door. Some of them had helped build houses, but they had some angry expressions that made him very strange.
"Everyone come to my door, is there something wrong?" Feng Yuanbo's appearance made the crowd quiet for a short time, so he asked first.
"Hey, let me ask you, is your family going to rent out the field?" An unceremonious voice came from the front of the crowd.
Feng Yuanbo looked for the owner of the voice and found that it was a young man in his twenties, not very good-looking, but with a strong figure, but not very tall.
"What do you call this little brother?" Feng Yuanbo bowed his hand politely.
"My name is Wang Tianbao, and Wang Shiman is my father." Wang Tianbao said his father's name with some trepidation, as if others would definitely know him when they heard the name.
"Little Brother Wang asked my family if they rented the land, what is the so-called matter? If I'm not mistaken, there is no name of your father among the tenants of my field. Feng Yuanbo asked tepidly.
"Of course my father won't tenant your family's land, and the tenant rent you want is so expensive, so we won't fall for you? People say, isn't it? The louder Wang Tianbao spoke, especially when he was deceived, it had caused a lot of riots in the crowd.
"Little Brother Wang's words, why can't Feng understand, are you saying that forty percent of my family's tenant rent is expensive?" Feng Yuanbo's eyes were a little dark, who asked him to come here to make trouble, and he brought such a group of people. Feng Yuanbo looked at the crowd in front of him, looking for a suspicious person.
When Feng Yuanbo said that forty percent of the tenant rent, the faces of the people gathered around changed slightly.
"Didn't you start by saying that forty and a half of the rent?" Wang Tianbao pointed at Feng Yuanbo's nose, as if questioning.
"Forty and a half, that's for those who use my family's rice seeds, and if you don't use my seeds, the tenant rent is forty percent." Feng Yuanbo said loudly to the crowd around him, "Do you think this rent is very high?" "The voice is high, but the tone is calm.
He swept the crowd around him with his eyes, and some people were already not calm. A few of them are people who have come to build houses for Lin Zhu.
"Steward Feng, is what you said true?" A man who had worked in Lin Zhu's house asked.
"Of course it's true." Feng Yuanbo nodded.
Loud chattering erupted in the crowd again.
"Don't listen to him, everyone, he says this now, when there is a harvest in the future, it will definitely be much more expensive than the tenant rent of General Chang's Mansion, and the taxes paid by the grange under the General's Mansion are much lower than theirs." Wang Tianbao continued to shout.
"When the time comes, the rent plus the tax, we ordinary people will not be able to eat. They've got to give us a rent cut, yes, they've got to get them a rent cut. Finally, Wang Tianbao said his purpose.
"That's it, that's it, rent reduction." There were immediately a few echoes in the crowd. And also to incite those who are watching in the crowd. Many people also shouted with encouragement.
"I know that you are a subordinate, and you can't be the master, so call that little girl out and say it." Wang Tianbao said some unimportant words with a big grin. "It's just a yellow-haired girl, and she dares to charge such an expensive rent, and she doesn't look where she is?"
"If you think that the rent is too expensive, and you will work in vain if you tenant the land, you can not tenant it." Feng Yuanbo forcibly suppressed his anger, ignored these agitations, and said coldly. It seems that the girl's kindness has been in vain, Feng Yuanbo thought to himself. These people are unreliable, so it's better to buy some more people.
"Steward Feng, I'm a tenant." The person who had worked in Lin Zhu's house who came out to ask just now listened to Feng Yuanbo's words, and quickly stood up, and said in his heart, if you don't tenant this field, how can the family rely on the little land in their own house in the future.
There was one, and then there was a second, and then there was a third. However, there were always twenty or thirty people in this group, but only seven or eight immediately decided to take up the land. The rest is still a posture that if you don't reduce the rent, I won't tenant.
Feng Yuanbo frowned and looked at them, he was not just angry now, "Are you really not tenants?" ”
"Hmph." Wang Tianbao snorted with his nose facing the sky, and said in his heart that it is not a tenant, your family has so much land, and it will be empty if you don't reduce the rent. He inquired clearly, this family had bought a total of 500 acres of land, and there were a total of 50 or 60 households in Wang Village, and only more than 30 or so tenants of their fields, and there would definitely be a large number of fields left uncultivated, and he would not be able to reduce the rent at that time.
The more than twenty people who followed Wang Tianbao also had the same expressions as him. It's like the eldest of the heavens, the second of their earth.
"Well, it just so happens that the remaining fields are only enough for these brothers just now, and we don't have any more." Feng Yuanbo's angry expression changed, and he said happily.
Now Wang Tianbao and his group were all dumbfounded,
"You're lying, there are more than 100 acres of land, who do you want to deceive?" Although Wang Tianbao still looked tough, it could be seen from his somewhat flustered eyes that things seemed to be too far from what he imagined.
"Little Brother Wang, I don't know who told you how many things there are in my land, but those lands, the main family has its own arrangements, so I don't bother." After Feng Yuanbo finished speaking, he agreed with the few people just now to go to the village chief's house to sign a contract to sign a contract for the land, and then he turned around and returned to the courtyard, ignoring Wang Tianbao and his party who were standing in place stupidly.
After telling Lin Zhu about the matter, Feng Yuanbo went to find the village chief Wang Dashan.
"Village Chief Wang, I have to ask you to explain some things in the village, otherwise there will always be some people who misinterpret the kindness of my girl, which is really chilling." Feng Yuanbo told Wang Dashan about Wang Tianbao leading people to make trouble in front of his house.
After Wang Dashan listened, his face was very bad, blue and red for a while, green made Wang Tianbao angry, and red was ashamed of Feng Yuanbo's words.
The condition given by Lin Zhu was originally to take care of the people of Wang Village before taking care of the people of Wang Village, because the loss was too great, and he would have to breathe a sigh of relief this year. Now some villagers who don't know the truth are encouraged by people with good intentions to go to the door of their homes to make trouble. Wang Dashan was very angry with Wang Shiman.
Relying on Lin Youcai, the village chief of Xiaolinzhuang, is his in-laws, so Wang Shiman can come out of the fields from Xiaolinzhuang, and his life has always been better than that of Wang Dashan in Wang Village, so he attracted some villagers from Wang Village.
Now he is doing this not only to see that Lin Zhu is young and wants to take advantage, but also to add to Wang Dashan's blockage. Wang Shiman's desire to be the village chief of Wang Village is not a one-day or two-day thought. Wang Dashan also clearly understands this.
"I'm causing trouble to Miss Lin, and I'm asking Steward Feng to go back and say a few good words for us." Wang Dashan was very polite to Steward Feng.
"Village Chief Wang said that as long as there is no big change in Wang Village, some of my girl's plans will remain unchanged. But we don't want to cheapen the white-eyed wolves with good stuff for nothing. Feng Yuanbo said meaningfully. He had already revealed to Wang Dashan that as long as he used Lin Zhu's rice seeds, she would give priority to the grain she grows, which couldn't help but make Wang Dashan overjoyed.
"That's really thank you Miss Xie Lin, please tell Miss Lin from Steward Feng, please rest assured, I can still count my words here in Wang Village, and I will definitely not trouble her again." Wang Dashan swore and said.
Lin Zhu's troubles in Wang Village were solved, but it was not until autumn that the people of Wang Village discovered that Lin Zhu's fields were really not only soup to drink, but also meat to eat. This made some of the people who made trouble in front of Lin Zhumen before almost regret their intestines. (To be continued......)