[I'm tired today, I've been busy all day, and I've had a bad stomach after eating, so I'm sorry for the red ticket first, thank you for your support]

The spring is beautiful, the morning breeze is cool, a rain in the night comes down, and the water vapor is steaming out of the twilight under the illumination of the sun in the early morning, undulating in the southern suburbs of Guiyang.

From Wanao Alum Stone to the south, the river flows for nearly two miles, and then turns north and crosses a sharp bay, and then turns to the east and winds all the way.

There is about 10 hectares of good watered land wrapped in the river bay, and half of the Thai half of the best 30 percent of the Wang's land is in this village called Shuiwo Village, and the other 20 hectares are slightly worse on the east bank of the river bay.

Guizhou is not ordinary in the mainland, the Han people who live here with Guo have come in from Hongwu as early as the Hongwu period, and the late ones have come in in the last ten years, and the big families like the Wang family who have held the position in Guizhou with military merits have only been running for more than 100 years.

The imperial court immigrants have only been pacified for a few generations, and the cultivated land is still in pieces, but it has not become scattered after several resales like the inland provinces. If it is in the south of the Yangtze River or the suburbs of Beijing, I don't know how many twists and turns it will take to have such a whole piece of good land.

The living water from the Nanming River makes this plain in the southern suburbs of Guiyang have nearly 100 hectares of good fertile land, and the fields that have just completed spring plowing are verdant and verdant, which makes people feel a little happy.

If it is said that people are only diligent, then Li Lao Liu will definitely feel that he is a diligent person.

Last year, the year was not good, and a lot of food was confiscated, but it was still able to get through it, so as not to flee, not to mention that in Guizhou, there was nowhere to flee for the Han people.

A snowfall in the first month of this year gave the tenants in Zhuangzi some hope.

After years of continuous hard work, Li Lao Liu looks about ten years older than his actual age, and the sadness on his face cannot be concealed.

Li Lao Liu and his son pulled up their trouser legs high, retreated in the paddy fields one foot deep and one foot shallow, and carefully inserted the seedlings from the big family in the village into the ground along the line, and there was a bush every few steps.

Before the sun sets today, these acres of land must be planted, because the matter of credit seedlings has delayed the agricultural time, and this time is already too late, and it should have been planted after the Spring Dragon Festival.

However, it is good that these fields can be planted before the Qingming Festival, so as not to delay the second crop of rice this year.

Li Laoliu, who had been busy for a long time, raised his head and wiped his sweat, and vaguely saw a young man who looked like a young master walking towards this side surrounded by several people.

"Isn't this the Ye family's little five?"

The son of Ye Dajiao's younger brother, his family lives in a nearby village, and he used to walk around here in the past, and Li Lao Liu naturally recognized it.

It's just that his father had an accident later, and last month he and his younger brother Xiao Qi were taken over by the owner to work on the counter, which can be regarded as a care for his deceased father.

"Lao Li, don't be noisy, you haven't seen the young master of the Wang family yet."

The little five shouted sharply, and the sharp words and the deliberately withdrawn voice were quite incongruous, which made Li Lao Liu, who was used to seeing him, also a little uncomfortable.

The old farmer stood in the paddy field, looked at Ye Xiaowu, and then looked at Wang Xingping, a little overwhelmed.

"Lao Li, why don't you come up to accompany the young master to ask?"

Wang Xingping stopped it, and his voice was calm.

"You all go down to help, finish the work for my husband early, I still have something to ask." And as he spoke, he commanded the people.

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After cleaning up the muddy water that was full of hands and feet, it didn't take too long, the village was surrounded by river water on three sides, and it was impossible to wash it quickly.

Standing in front of Wang Xingping, tenant Li Laoliu and his son were a little restrained, but the superficial restraint was not enough to impress Wang Xingping, after all, this young master was not a young man, and he had seen a lot of duplicitous people.

What's more, the understanding of tenants has been taught by Mr. Mei himself, no matter ancient or modern, tenants and owners really only look at whose temper is good and the means are hard, and there is no natural difference between strength and weakness.

The powerful and bullies oppressed the good, and many people were forced to sell their sons and daughters to tenants for a few taels of silver.

But the big tenants, relying on the weakness of the master's family to bully the good land, such a case has never been broken.

At least in the eyes of outsiders, the Wang family is now an orphan and a widow, no matter how you look at it, it seems like the latter situation, if he hadn't heard some rumors, he wouldn't have started the idea of Zhuangzi outside the city.

"Mr. Li, you all sit."

"Lao Li, you should be sitting, the young master has ordered, you are still standing here."

Young people have simple benefits, but they are a little stunned when they speak, this Ye Xiaowu seems to be older than his own family, but after all, he is still a child, even if he persuades others, he is also impulsive.

However, if there is no such strenuousness, it will not be less than an hour, and a few people will help finish today's work.

That Li Lao'er cowered and sat on his stool, listening to Wang Xingping.

"Young master, are you really a young master?"

I have never seen Wang Xingping go to the village, and it is common to have a little more suspicion in my heart.

"How can this be fake?" Wang Xiaoliu also coaxed.

"Don't be noisy."

After everyone quieted down, Wang Xingping instructed Wang Xiaoliu and Li Laoliu's son to go back to the house and move the tables and stools out, and all kinds of dried fruit snacks bought in the shop outside the city in the future tense were spread all over the table, and Li Laoliu's Hun family Li Apan also came out to serve, and it was not lively for a while.

"Don't be afraid, Uncle Li, I'm not here today to urge tenants, nor to increase tenants."

A sentence first settled the hearts of the tenants, and then said, when the tenants saw the landlord in the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the tooth order, they were all grown up by the landlord, Wang Xingping called an old man, which was a kind and friendly gesture, in order to calm his heart.

How else to say that a young master who is studying has a blank eye, and he personally ran to this suburban Zhuangzi to do something? The so-called 'night owl enters the house, nothing does not come'. This sentence seems to be absent from Wang Xingping's memory now, but the meaning is right, Li Laoliu's mind was guessed by him, and as soon as he said that, Mu Ran's expression began to relax.

That Li Apan saw the opportunity faster, and praised it without words.

"It turned out to be the young master of the owner's family, I heard Gu Dahu's family say that the young master is a talented person, I see where is the talent, it is clearly the style of the master, most of them can be the same as when the old man is there."

As soon as the words came out, the mother-in-law knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she snorted lightly, and then grabbed a handful of peanuts on the table by herself, and half-covered her face and went back.

As he walked, he said, "Young master, you say it first, the old woman is busy first, and I heard that the head of the Gu family is still the pilgrimage of the owner's business, and what he said will not be wrong." ”

After Li Apan walked away, Li Laoliu, who was originally bored on the side, finally opened his mouth.

"If we like the villagers can understand something, we can only work as fields, and we should not ask the young master."

Wang Xingping was also not polite, "I just want to ask about this field." ”

Li Lao Liu is honest, "Where do you dare to ask the word young master, they are all rules set by the ancestors, and they are very rude, for fear of insulting the owner." ”

"Xu Zanshan in Beijing is a big official, and he has rented two large plots of land in the suburbs of Beijing to grow rice, but I don't think you can grow it well, Dad, he is still a Jinshi."

"The so-called art industry has a specialization, you are doing this, asking you something else, that is my madness, asking the cultivation to ask you this will not be wrong, you don't have to be afraid, you will answer whatever I ask, and if you don't know, you don't know."

"That's a good answer, and this year's tenant will be halved."

Where can a tenant farmer outside Guiyang know what 'must drill eel' in Beijing, and he doesn't care what kind of ordinary lifting it is.

It was only when he heard the last sentence that an undetectable trace of joy instantly drowned in Li Laoliu's ravine-ravine face, making Wang Xingping sigh in his heart, 'This Qi cultivation kung fu is not bad'.

"Is this true?"

Hearing about the rent reduction, the old farmer's eyes were full of brilliance.

"The water and soil power of this water nest village is very good."

did not answer Li Laoliu's question, but also threw out a question, as long as Li Laoliu nodded and said 'yes', then this matter will be done.

Li Lao Liu really did not disappoint Wang Xingping.

"The water here is two seasons a year?"

"Yes."

"Every year it starts in March, and when it comes to June, then it has to be planted in July at the latest?"

"Yes."

"After the second season is harvested, the soil should be evenly broken and the rice manuscript should be rotten in order to be fertile, yes or no?"

When asked for the third time, the old farmer finally let down his guard, this young master seems to have read a lot of agricultural books, I don't know if he is stupid to read, and the methods he says are all used at home on weekdays. But at noon, the young master of the owner came to tell him what he was doing.

But when I really asked about my 'profession', there was nothing bad to say, "When the young master talks about this manuscript, it is better than ordinary dung." ”

The stalk is the stalk left after the rice is harvested, the wheat stalks are burned in the north, and the stalks are made in the south, all for the purpose of fertilizing the fields, and there are indeed many benefits in enhancing the soil strength.

Wang Xingping smiled and looked around.

"Uncle Li's rented paddy field for my family is five acres, right?"

Li Lao Liu was stunned for a moment, and then said with a pleasant face: "The young master has a good memory, and it is indeed five acres." ”

"Why not more, I think the old man is also old in farming, Guangxi sells a lot of cattle, if changed to cattle farming, when it can be more varied, in the livelihood or more can be supplemented."

The old farmer put down a lot in his heart, and it seems that this young master is really just interested in farming.

"Young master, don't blame the old man for talking too much, most of the cattle sold in Guangxi are buffaloes."

"Although the buffalo is powerful, it is twice as laborious to take care of it as the ox, and it doesn't matter in the summer, it is by the river, but in the winter it is necessary to build an earthen room to keep out the cold, which takes some effort."

"And this buffalo is the most taboo about rain before spring, if it rains before Gu Yu, most of it will be a serious illness, but our rain in Guizhou, the young master also knows, no certainty."

"Not only the old man and me, but most of the households in this village have no livestock power, and they have to account for the price of cattle and water and grass, as well as theft and death, after all, it is not as convenient as manpower."

"Take my family as an example, if you add a buffalo, it is of ordinary physique, and you can rent ten acres of land to make it."

"But after the ordinary autumn harvest, the fields will empty the water, and then plant some wheat, hemp and vegetables, etc., which is only half of the waste, and there can be some harvest after the spring, but if you raise cattle, these will not be planted, and it will take some effort and be trampled by animals."

Li Lao Liu said energetically, and he added a little pride.

The rest of the boys saw that Wang Xingping liked to listen to it, but they also relished it, and they didn't know which one was true and which one was false.

I saw Wang Xingping nodding while listening, and his mouth was full of words.

"After the imperial court carried out a whip law, the regular tax set for each mu of land is five cents of silver, and even the other additions over the years are covered by my family, right?"

A whip law is the tax reform carried out by Zhang Juzheng in the early years of Wanli, and all taxes in kind are converted into cash, and Li Laoliu nodded honestly.

"The rent of the Yu family has always been thirty and a half, which is benevolent compared to other families?"

Li Lao Liu still nodded, or not to say that there were no tenants fleeing in the Zhuangzi of the Nian Cheng Wang family like last year, and it was placed in the whole Ming Dynasty, so that those who collected rent were worthy of a sentence of benevolence and righteousness, usually forty percent were still high, and six out of ten were considered fair.

"My family's good watering land, the yield per mu of two seasons a year should be two and a half stones, and if it is converted into cash, it should be more than one or two."

The price of rice at the time of harvest is different from that of the beginning of spring, so it is good to calculate it evenly, but this time Li Laoliu's face changed suddenly, and he immediately called out to hit the sky.

"The owner is good, and he has never had such a high yield per mu, and the old owner also knew it when he was there."

Wang Xingping was full of smiles and held Li Laoliu, who was about to fall.

"You can't think of such a thing as exchanging good rice for silver, and cheap rice as land rent."

"As for this mu of property, why don't I ask the sister-in-law of the Li family? See which of you has a good memory? ”

Li Lao Liu had already seen sweat on his forehead, but he saw that the young master of the Wang family, who had just raised his eyebrows for a moment, had regained his amiable smile, and happily walked out of the courtyard gate of the Li family with a few boys, heading towards the north, which was the direction out of the village.

Wang Xiaoliu followed behind Wang Xingping and nagged, "The young master just let this old thief go?" ”

accompanied Wang Xingping to check the past account books for a few nights, and secretly visited Zuo Jin for several days, so tired that Xiao Liu really had a lot of resentment against Li Laoliu's family.

"Of course not, you have to do what you promise, and I will personally mention to Gu Erji when I go back, and the words of reducing half of the Li family's tenant rent will be said first, and I can't help but count." Wang Xingping understated it, as if he instructed him Wang Xiaoliu a few days ago, and looked for important people on the counter, and today he pulled out this huge battle not to rectify the tenants, but to make a special trip to him Wang Xiaoliu.

"Besides, this village is not the only one who is treacherous."

Wang Xiaoliu was really angry.

"But he's the most honest."

The co-author of the young master is looking for an honest person to start, and the persimmon picks a soft pinch, but the pinch is pinched, and he left again without even squeezing out the juice, which one is this singing?

Wang Xingping looked at a man standing on the head of Tian Long from afar, he stared at them since he entered Shuiwo Village, and he was still there, the person's face was indistinguishable, and he was dressed in a short coarse cloth coat that did not seem to have an identity, but his movements were sharp and alert.

Seeing such a person, Wang Xingping was relieved and said to the boys.

"Give me a laugh."

A few boys don't know why.

"Come back with me for a treat."

This time, everyone had a smile on their faces.