After the rice is harvested, there needs to be a place to dry the grain, and on the east side of Dongxing Village, there is a special large place as the drying area.

Li Changsheng's three staff members had already come to Xiguping in advance to wait.

In the past, they were responsible for collecting the land rent from the tenants of Dongxing Village, and everyone in the village knew them.

Guo Wendong ordered people to take out the food he brought, including bread and canned food, including canned seafood and canned beef.

Immediately, Guo Wendong and his subordinates began to eat, holding bread in their hands, sometimes using chopsticks to pick vegetables from canned food, and sometimes drinking drinks, eating with relish.

Guo Wendong and Chunxiang are okay, they can eat every meal, and the subordinates who travel with him rarely eat once.

The fragrance wafted outward, making Li Changsheng's three subordinates, who had just eaten, hungry.

What kind of food is this? So fragrant.

The proportion of food sold in foreign goods stores is very small, which Guo Wendong specially left for his family to enjoy.

Looking at the can, this is something that Da Ming does not have, it must be Western food.

Among the three people, the person who was the leader was named Dongfang Jun, who was the subordinate who followed Li Changsheng the day before yesterday and went to the household of the Tianfu official office to go through the formalities.

Dongfang Jun approached Guo Wendong and asked weakly, "Guo Gongzi, I don't know what kind of food this is?" ”

Guo Wendong didn't answer, and Chunxiang next to him replied: "This is seafood, abalone and tuna, which is food that Daming does not have; The manufacturing technology of this can seal is also not available in the Ming Dynasty. This thing is not sold, only the young master's subordinates have the privilege of enjoying it. ”

When she answered these words, she was angry, both for the young master's awesome and for herself. In the Guo Mansion, except for the young master and the original wife, with her highest status, even the housekeeper and the captain of the guard were polite to her.

Dongfang Jun asked again: "I don't know how to do things for Guo Gongzi, how about the silver?" ”

Chunxiang replied: "The monthly salary of an ordinary nursing home is one or two and a half yuan, and the average household servant ranges from five yuan to one or two, see what you can do for the young master." ”

Since last month, Guo Wendong intends to increase the number of subordinates and recruit externally, and there are more and more staff in Guofu, because the treatment is good, and it is very easy to recruit people.

Dongfang Jun said to Guo Wendong: "Guo Gongzi, you have recently purchased a lot of land, and you need someone to help take care of it, and the small one has always taken care of this land and is familiar with the management of those crops. Dongfang is willing to go to Guo Gongzi's account to do things. ”

Guo Wendong looked at Dongfang Jun, the other party was not tall, more than thirty years old, and asked, "How did you do things under Li Changsheng's account before?" ”

According to Dongfang Jun's answer, he was only responsible for collecting land rent, collecting land rent, collecting accounts, and storing grain from tenants, and did not involve the peasants' crop harvest, farming techniques, and so on.

Guo Wendong called Dongfang Jun aside, and asked Li Changsheng about the land situation and personnel situation again.

According to Dongfang Jun's account, Li Changsheng has a total of tens of thousands of acres of land, of which thousands of mu are hired to cultivate directly, and there are people who specialize in managing farming, and the housekeeper headed by him is named Liu Xingzhi, and Dongfang Jun has some friendship with him.

In the future, large-scale agriculture will be needed, which is exactly the talent that Guo Wendong needs.

"The land I bought will not be rented out in the future, all of it will be directly cultivated by hired personnel, your ability is not what I am short of, if you just collect rent, who will not collect it."

Guo Wendong said this deliberately, then changed his words, and said again: "If you can help me win over Liu Xingzhi, you will be considered meritorious, and I will hire you to help manage the farmers." ”

Dongfang Jun said: "Guo Gongzi, Liu Xingzhi has 4 taels of silver in Li Changsheng's account, I don't know how much you give Liu Xingzhi a month?" If I do it, how much will I earn to work under the child's account? ”

He worked for Li Changsheng for 2 taels a month, and there were basically no other benefits.

Guo Wendong said: "You told Liu Xingzhi that if you do things under my account, the monthly salary is more than 6 taels, and if you do it with me, the monthly salary will not be less than 3 taels." During the New Year's holidays, grain and foreign goods are also distributed. If you are sick, you will receive free treatment at Keixiu Hall, and your family will receive half the price for treatment. You need to explain to Liu Xingzhi that I will use Western seeds to grow crops in the future, and the harvest will be much better. ”

Dongfang Jun immediately patted his chest and said that he would definitely persuade Liu Xingzhi to come.

After returning to the original place, Guo Wendong let him taste bread and canned seafood and drink cola.

Dongfang Jun happily ate these Western foods, and the other two subordinates were also tempted, and under Dongfang Jun's persuasion, they immediately decided to jump to Guo Wendong's side, and from next month onwards, they would become ordinary family members of Guo Mansion, with a monthly salary of eight coins of silver.

In the afternoon, the villagers of this village came to the valley flat one after another.

In ancient times, men were inferior to women, and men were the heads of the family, and men were all men.

The land has changed owners, and everyone has new expectations, expecting that the land rent will fall.

Of the 7,000 or 8,000 mu of land in Dongxing Village, 60 percent belongs to Guo Wendong, 20 percent belongs to other landlords, and 20 percent are yeoman farmers who still own their own land.

In order to raise military salaries, Chongzhen's method of taxing peasants was not to raise the tax rate by a large margin, but to collect taxes in advance, and to collect the taxes that the peasants should pay in the next few years in advance, making the small peasants miserable.

The tenants who originally rented Li Changsheng's land have all arrived, and there are more than 1,000 people in total. There are young people in their twenties and old people in their fifties and sixties. Some families sent one person, while others had two or three men.

Although the people arrived, everyone was chattering, because there were many people and the peasants had no organizational discipline, Dongfang Jun's shouting was drowned out.

Guo Wendong picked up the megaphone and said, "Quiet... Silence..."

The sound coming out of the loudspeaker was very loud, which instantly covered out the voices of the villagers, and the scene suddenly fell silent.

Everyone was shocked, what kind of magic is this? I can make people's voices so loud.

Guo Wendong pointed at Dongfang Jun and said, "Everyone knows this Xiangbi, he is a person from the former Li Yuanwai, who comes to collect rent from you every year. He has something to say to everyone. ”

For Dongfang Jun, the villagers on the scene are very familiar, no matter how much the villagers harvest, they only care about urging the payment of field rent, and it is not okay to be a little late, and everyone has no good impression of him.

Guo Wendong gave the loudspeaker to Dongfang Jun and instructed him on how to use it.

Dongfang Jun pointed his mouth to the pickup, tried to say two words, and the loudspeaker immediately made a loud sound, thinking, there are really a lot of magical things for foreigners.

Immediately, Dongfang Jun faced the villagers and said: "Two days ago, Li Yuanwai had sold all the 4,300 mu of land in the village to this Guo Gongzi of Qingxiutang. In the future, Guo Gongzi will collect rent from you. ”

Immediately, the horn was returned to Guo Wendong.

Guo Wendong said: "I, Guo Wendong, am a person with a conscience, and I will make you the best people in the Ming Dynasty." ”

The sound coming from the loudspeaker was heard clearly by anyone who was not deaf, even the rest of the tenants and yeoman farmers in the village.

The people who live the best life in the Ming Dynasty? Could it be that Guo Gongzi is very kind, and only collects one or two percent of the land rent?

The whole village was questioning, and the tenants of Sunguping were looking forward to it.