Bang Bang Bang ~

Xu Erduo slapped the pillar of the room with the scabbard and shouted: "Don't make noise, don't make noise, let the son finish speaking~" Many people quieted down, only a few people who didn't know each other were still screaming, Xu Erduo rushed to them with the scabbard and made a move to cut off his head, and these people shut up

Song Youliang said: "Everyone, don't be impatient, listen to what I say, the land is no longer rented to you, but the Song family will hire you, and you will continue to cultivate the Song family's fields without doing other work." If you are willing, as long as you sign the contract, the Song family will pay you the salary regularly and in full every year, and the current amount is set at five buckets of wheat per person per month. ”

In the Ming Dynasty, a stone of grain is equal to about 140 catties, and five buckets are about 70 catties, calculated by five people in each military household, if there are two fathers and sons who are hired workers, they can get 12 stones that are 1680 catties of grain in that year. According to the calculation of a family of five, each person has 28 catties of food per month, which is not only full, but also a small amount of surplus. There is a big difference between the salaries that are often withheld and the unpaid labor for officers. Continue to be a tenant or a hired hand? The people with active heads have already begun to count with their fingers, in fact, they don't need to count to know that they can't leave Haiyang, if they don't plant the Song family's fields, and they are not hired by the Song family, then there is no other way to live.

So a military tenant farmer immediately said, "Song Gongzi, I am willing to be hired" This person's name is Sun Laoshui, and Song Qianjin is a relative who has turned several corners, and with this relationship, he rents 30 acres of land from the Song family.

"Okay~Uncle Sun, you came over and signed this contract~" Song Youliang took out the contract that had been prepared a long time ago, "You press a handprint here" Song Youliang said again: "However, my ugly words can be said in front, if you are lazy, nest work, or even unclean hands and feet, the light one will be deducted from the salary, the heavy one will be punished with a military stick, and the most serious one will be dealt with by military law" Song Youliang said word by word, loudly. Sun Laozhuan hesitated for a moment, but after a while, he still dipped his thumb in the ink and pressed his handprint on the contract. Although everyone felt that it was not so easy to really do this good job, after a little hesitation, they still pressed their handprints.

Song Youliang put away the contract with a smile, pointed to a small pile of sacks beside him, and said, "This is the first month's salary, five buckets per person."

"That's what wages we're going to pay?" Everyone was stunned, knowing that there were only fifteen days left in this month, and they hadn't done any work yet.

Seeing that everyone was hesitating, Xu Erduo actually grabbed a sack with one hand and threw it at Sun Laoshuo, "What's wrong, you don't know what to do, don't you thank your son for paying you?" ”

Sun Laozhuan was smashed by a 70-pound sack and stumbled, so he hurriedly thanked him: "Thank you Childe, thank you Child~" The rest of the people hurriedly grabbed a bag, and after happily thanking Song Youliang, they carried the sack home

Song Youliang looked at the corner of the wall, there were still four sacks of wheat flour left, and then looked at Xu Erduo, who was envious of those hired workers, and said with a smile: "Xu Erduo, you are not less busy with the saddle and horse by my side, I will reward you with this grain, you can take as much as you can~"

Xu Er was overjoyed and asked, "Childe, if you really can take as much as you can, you can take as much as you want?" ”

"This son says one thing and no two~"

"Thank you Child~" Xu Erduo laughed, two in one hand, lifted four sacks, as easy as lifting four old hens, thanked him on the one hand, and ran towards the house on the other hand, leaving only Song Youliang who was dumbfounded. Two stones of wheat, weighing nearly 300 pounds, Xu Erduo can not do two in one hand, and he can still use a monster-like person to run

The next step is to prepare for the reclamation

"Wasteland?" Many people in Haiyang haven't heard anyone say that they have cleared the wasteland for decades

The reclamation of the wasteland requires the mobilization of the power of the whole Haiyang, so Song Qianjin found Deputy Qianhu and Zhenfu and others to go together

"How much do you want to drive?" Deputy Qianhu Jiang Huairen asked

"From 100,000 acres," Song Youliang replied with a smile

"100,000 acres?" In the realm that Hai Duong people can understand, 100,000 is an incomprehensible and unimaginable number

Xu Renbiao was a little worried, "You can't get grain right away, but you have to give food and drink to the farmers." It hasn't rained for several months now, and it's hard to say what the weather will be in the future. 50,000 acres? "Xu Renbiao is a relatively smooth person, he has concerns, and he doesn't dare not give face to the Song family. He looked at Song Qianjin, but Song Qianjin didn't make a sound

Zhenfu Zhang Guishan has always managed the tuntian, but in fact it is no different from the steward of the Song family's fields, "The fields we actually cultivate are less than 3,000 mu, and the yield per mu is about one stone, and now more than 1,000 mouths have been added." Relying on our own planting and Laiyang County's food and salary, which was not available at that time, it was enough for all of us to starve to death twice."

Song Qianjin finally spoke: "Brother Guishan, you have been with me for decades, if you have anything to say, you might as well say it directly~"

Zhang Guishan said: "The more we grow in Haiyang, the less we plant, the less we fight, and the less and less grain. Just the 1,000 people in our house are hungry and immortal, and now there are 1,000 more mouths, if we don't open a little new field, then we will have to be homeless and eat big households like them in the coming year~" Obviously, Zhang Guishan supports the development of wasteland.

Song Qianjin smiled and said, "Brother Guishan has been in charge of Tuntian for so many years, what he said is definitely right."

Song Qianjin opened his mouth, and everyone no longer objected, but Jiang Huairen said: "To open 100,000 acres of land, you need a lot of seeds, farm tools, digging ditches, and eating and drinking in the wasteland, which is a lot of money~"

Song Qianjin naturally supported his son, he said: "Brother Huairen, there is still some money and food in the institute, as the saying goes, I can't bear the child to trap the wolf, and I still have to spend what I should spend~ But we have to look at the long run, and when the newly opened fields have a harvest, won't they all be recovered?" Saying that, he asked Song Youliang again, "Youliang, what your Uncle Jiang said also makes sense, how much money and grain does it cost to open 100,000 acres of land?"

Song Youliang blurted out, "Uncle Zhang and I have calculated, we need 1,500 taels of silver and 400 stone of grain."

"Fifteen hundred taels?" The crowd gasped

Song Qianjin also looked embarrassed, "This grain is not a big problem, but this thousand five hundred taels of silver~"

Seeing that everyone was hesitant, Zhang Guishan said again: "Qianhu rest assured, I have discussed with my son, and in terms of wages, I will first record the accounts with grain, and not give cash." In this way, it only costs about five hundred taels of silver, mainly to buy some farm tools, seeds and ploughing cattle."

"Oh, only five hundred taels" Song Qianjin breathed a sigh of relief, "You don't need to make up this money, son, dad will give it to you" You must know that if only the Song family is allowed to pay, then Song Qianjin can justifiably take all the newly opened fields for himself.

As soon as Xu Renbiao heard this, he hurriedly said: "The reclamation is for the benefit of everyone, how can you let thousands of households contribute money and efforts?" Xu Renbiao immediately said, "I am also willing to pay two hundred taels of silver" Now I will pay a share of the money, and I will be able to get a piece of the pie in the future

Jiang Huairen also immediately understood the key point, and quickly said: "I will give two hundred and fifty taels"

"I'll give one hundred and fifty taels"

"I'll give fifty taels"