After the Li family and the original yeoman farmers were transferred, the entire Xizhuangzi was all tenants, and Chen Xian concentrated the land of the entire Xizhuangzi, including the land that was rewarded to his subordinates, and divided it into more than 40 parts according to the region.

Chen Xian set up more than 40 working groups under the newly established agricultural company, each of which was responsible for a piece of land, and the militia in each working group was gathered to form a militia squad.

Chen Xian also mobilized a large number of managers of agricultural companies from Dongzhuangzi.

The managers of these old agricultural companies were all apprentices under Chen Xian, and they all received a long-term militarized education at Chen Xian's school.

Chen Xian asked these managers of the old agricultural company to serve as the managers of the Xizhuangzi Agricultural Company, the leaders of each group, and the instructors and captains of the militia squads under them.

The managers of these agricultural companies trained their militia in the morning and took them to work in the fields in the afternoon, and soon established absolute authority.

Chen Xian equipped the Xizhuangzi Agricultural Company with a three-plough heavy plough and a variety of agricultural tools that he improved and greatly improved in efficiency.

In order to make full use of the labor force, Chen Xian also allowed each agricultural group to recruit some physically qualified auxiliary labor from the families of the militia below, and recruited them at half the price of the militia.

In order to avoid fraud and corruption in the management of the agricultural company, Chen Xian selected some of the administrative personnel of the various ministries at all levels in Xizhuangzi to form the board of directors of the agricultural company, and these people all obtained a different amount of equity in the agricultural company (the equity was distributed in the form of land rights) in the previous commendation meeting.

Chen Xian also linked part of the salaries of managers at all levels in Xizhuangzi to the harvest of the agricultural company (for example, Chen Xian assigned them vocational fields according to the positions of administrative personnel, and these vocational fields were not specific fields, but the output of a certain number of acres, for example, if the town mayor's vocational field was 50 mu, then he would get the average yield per mu of the agricultural company multiplied by 50 times the income of the agricultural company every year, and there was no 50 mu of farmland in the agricultural company's field that belonged to the town mayor. ）

Chen Xian gave the board of directors of the agricultural company the right to supervise and hold accountable the general manager of the agricultural company, and this board member only needs a quarter of the directors to approve the investigation of the company's accounts and other aspects, and once the investigation is resolved, the directors can vote on whether to remove the general manager.

But the board of directors can only target the general manager, and has no power to intervene in the leadership of the agricultural company, and the general manager has the power to remove any official below him......

This series of measures is to prevent the company's management from misappropriating the company's property, and at the same time to prevent the board of directors from interfering too much in the company's operation, which reduces the company's efficiency.

Of course, these measures alone cannot avoid various situations in the company, and in order to establish a company system similar to that of a modern one, the intervention and improvement of the law as an external force is also indispensable, but this cannot be completed overnight, and Chen Xian needs a long time to improve the construction of commercial law little by little.

Under such regulations, the board of directors of the agricultural company with a vital interest, and even the town administrators, will voluntarily supervise the operation of the agricultural company to ensure their own interests.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of agricultural workers, Chen Xian on the one hand set the basic salary of agricultural workers, and also delegated the power to exercise part of the bonuses to managers at all levels, and he also drew a red line for the average harvest of land, as long as the harvest of the land for which a group is responsible at the end of the year exceeds a certain average yield per mu, no matter how much the excess is used, half of the excess will be used as bonuses for the agricultural company.

Chen Xian's red line of yield per mu is not high, as long as you cultivate hard and work hard, it is not difficult to achieve a yield per mu that exceeds the red line by about 20%.

Of course, it is impossible for all of this bonus to fall into the pockets of the workers, and Chen Xian did not give a mandatory provision in this regard, as long as the agricultural company can hand in enough grain and the basic income of the agricultural workers can be guaranteed, then it is completely natural for the management to seek certain benefits.

Such a system of rewards and punishments ensures the basic livelihood of agricultural workers on the one hand, and the productivity of agricultural companies on the other.

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When Chen Xian straightened out everything in Xi Zhuangzi, it was already three months later.

Shortly after the battle of Xizhuangzi, although he knew that there was little hope, Chen Xian asked Yang Yuanwai and Li Yuanwai to use their respective connections to move around Laiwu County, hoping to reopen the trade routes.

But as Chen Xian expected, the attitude of all parties was very resolute, and it was obvious that there was a strong force behind the blockade of Chen Xian.

After this fruitless effort, Chen Xian decisively gave up hope in this regard.

Just when Chen Xian finally got out of government affairs, locked himself in the barracks, and was ready to go all out to train soldiers, his cheap old man Yang Yuanwai suddenly came to the door.

Yang Yuanwai brought good news to Chen Xian, and the Yidu Yang family finally relented and agreed to his marriage to Yang Miaozhen.

In fact, as early as almost five months ago, Yang Yuanwai sent a team to Yangjiazhuang in Yidu.

But his proposing team almost had a closed door in Yangjiazhuang, and if Yang Miaozhen hadn't personally sent someone to greet them, they wouldn't even be able to enter the gate of Yangjiazhuang.

Because the Yang family knows that their ambitious owner Yang Anguo doesn't want to marry this powerful sister at all. Even if you want to get married, you must get enough benefits for the Yang family.

In the eyes of the Yang family, a nobody in the depths of Yishan also wants to marry the pearl of our Yang family, why don't you pee and take pictures!

At that time, the Yang family didn't believe that a nobody in Yishan had defeated and killed Liu Erzu, the leader of the green forest on Taishan West Road, and they all thought that it was the person who proposed the marriage to brag.

Yang Miaozhen couldn't prove it in person, so she could only be in a hurry.

The team sent by Yang Yuanwai was humiliated in the Yang family in Yidu, and he didn't dare to tell Chen Xian at all.

It was not until the news that Chen Xian defeated Liu Erzu and then defeated the three Meng'an infantry armies of the Jin State spread from outsiders to the Yang family in Yidu that the Yang family began to face up to Chen Xian's proposal.

These news and Chen Xian's request were sent to Yang Anguo, who was serving as an assassin and defense envoy in Laizhou, and Yang Anguo immediately sent someone to Dongping Mansion to inquire about the news.

In this era, the speed of news transmission and personnel coming and going is relatively slow, so the time is dragged from summer to winter.

In the end, although the Yang family agreed to propose marriage and agreed to marry a daughter, they put forward a large number of conditions, Yang Anguo asked Chen Xian to give 1,000 pairs of high-grade armor, 1,000 pairs of high-grade vests, 2,000 three-eyed eye muskets, 100 cannons, and 1,000 catties of gunpowder as a dowry.

Chen Xian listened to the conditions and almost laughed, this Yang Anguo obviously didn't understand what the cannon was, and he asked for a hundred as soon as he opened his mouth, and it was estimated that he regarded the cannon as a relatively large three-eyed musket.