Although the landlord offered very preferential conditions, but after this incident, most people have realized the landlord's face, and now it is just forced by the situation, and who knows what is going on when there are many people? It's not much safer to have your own land.

Most of the immigrants chose Jeju Island or Taiwan, and Liaodong was in a war-torn area after all, so there were relatively few people who chose it, and this was inseparable from the propaganda and guidance of the imperial court. Zhu Youxiao believes that it is imperative to occupy Taiwan and Jeju Island first. As for Liaodong, when the time comes, the Jiannu will be wiped out, and it will not be too late to emigrate well.

As a result, the situation of land rental in these prefectures, especially in the Daimyo's Mansion, was extremely unsatisfactory, and only forty percent of the fields in the Daimyo Mansion were cultivated, and the rest of the fields were wasted there, so that those landlords looked at the pain in their flesh, but there was no way.

And those landlords who supported the imperial court kept their tenants for the time being, but they were also a little afraid in their hearts. The landlords who lost their tenants at the slightest thought were eyeing their tenants, and it was also very troublesome to try to make the tenants easy to rent with various preferential conditions.

At this time, the imperial court promulgated the "Ming Tenant Management Measures", which is now only trialed in Beizhili. There are three main stipulations: first, the landlord can only collect land rent according to 40% of the total output in the three years of the Apocalypse; Second, in the event of a disaster year, tenants can apply for government mediation to reduce the rent; Third, the term of the lease is at least three years, and if the tenant wants to sell the land rented by the tenant, it should be sold to the tenant under the same conditions, and if it is not in the fallow season, the tenant should be compensated for the annual harvest, and the tenant should also be compensated for one year's harvest if the tenant changes the rent in the middle of the year.

This method was warmly welcomed by the enlightened landlords, who already had tenants and no longer feared that their tenants would be taken away by other landlords. As for giving priority to the sale of land to tenants, they have no problem, and when it comes to selling land, who will sell it to not sell.

The tenants also welcomed this method, so that the landlords could not take the country away when the fields were halfway through. As for the purchase of land, they have not thought about it, do they have the money to buy land? It doesn't seem to be.

The most bitter are those landlords who are unwilling to accept forty percent of the rent, and now that the tenants are gone, how much land can they plant? Originally, I wanted to hook up with other people's tenants, and I would rather collect a little less than let the fields be wasted, but now that this management method is over, the tenants will not dare to have an affair with them anymore. Nearby farmers either emigrated or went to mine, and the land was deserted.

At this time, the agricultural cooperatives in various places had something to do, and they brought a large number of sweet potatoes and potatoes, and found the owner of the wasteland, claiming that the crop only needed to be planted in the field, and nothing was left to care, and then there would be a harvest. Moreover, the cooperative society buys at a certain price, so there is no need to worry about the problem that no one wants to plant it.

Although the price of seed potatoes is relatively high and the purchase price is relatively low, the landlords have calculated that there is still money to be made, which is much better than barren land, and does not require too much manpower, so sweet potatoes and potatoes are planted in large quantities in various places.

Agricultural cooperatives have only entered these places, and they have already made a lot of money by selling seed potatoes, and next year's vermicelli raw materials do not need to come from Shaanxi, saving a lot of freight, which is really a good start.

And after the news reached the capital, Zhu Youxiao smiled at the ministers: "The three of them have a good method, so that at least there will be no major repetition of rent reduction, and there is no need to worry about the food problem in Beizhili, especially the price of land will fall, it can really be described as killing three birds with one stone." ”

Ye Xianggao smiled and said: "It's all the ideas provided by Your Majesty, we just hit a time difference in the middle, let them be proud first, and then suddenly attack, catching them off guard, Your Majesty is the consul general, and the ministers are just acting on orders." ”

Fang Congzhe and Xu Guangqi just smiled and didn't speak. It's easy to say, but it's not easy to get the time done. With the cooperation of all aspects, there can be no mistakes, God willing, everything goes well.

Zhu Youxiao was proud for a while, and then said: "It's easy to go straight to the north, and there shouldn't be a big problem in Shandong and Shanxi, but I'm afraid it's a little difficult to reduce the rent in the south." ”

Fang Congzhe said: "There are too many people in the south and too little land, which is indeed more difficult than in the north, but as long as the north settles down, the south does not need to be in a hurry." ”

Xu Guangqi said: "There are still a large number of civilians in the south, although the south has always been relatively stable, but don't forget the Fang La rebellion in the Song Dynasty. ”

Ye Xianggao said with a smile: "The chaos of the Fangla Sect is also because there are a large number of poor people, as long as we reduce the number of poor people, then the cult will not be able to obtain the soil for survival." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "Poverty is the greatest original sin, and eliminating poverty can ensure long-term peace in the world." ”

Xu Guangqi thought: "The emperor actually used the word original sin, does the emperor also believe in religion?" These missionaries can't be allowed to give the emperor some reason, and they have time to talk to the emperor. ”

Zhu Youxiao smiled again: "To eliminate poverty, I have another magic weapon. The Bureau of Ordnance has built a working steam engine, so let's take a look. The factory minister, go and inform the six Shangshu, and go to the Weapons Bureau with me. ”

The emperor came to the Weapons Bureau with the cabinet and the five Shangshu (Bi Ziyan was not in the capital). The three members of the Ordnance Bureau greeted them at the door and led them to the river, where they had built a pumping machine.

Sun Yuanhua added firewood to the steam engine, and naturally some students came over to light the fire, at this time Zhu Youxiao thought of the production of matches, so he said: "Sun Qing, bring a pen, I have thought of a new way to make a fire, you write it down first, and then study it." ”

Sun Yuanhua was overjoyed, the steam engine was gone, and he hurriedly brought paper and pen. Zhu Youxiao said: "The match head is composed of flammable materials such as oxidant and sulfur, and the matchbox is composed of red phosphorus and other components, and the friction between the two can make the match head burn." ”

Sun Yuanhua said confusedly: "What does oxidant mean? ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "It's something that can make the fire burn harder, you have to find it yourself, I only know potassium chlorate, but I don't know where it is, how to make it, and there should be something else." ”

Sun Yuanhua didn't understand it at all, so he had to write it down according to what the emperor said. At this time, Bi Maokang next to him said: "This should be able to ask the Taoist priest of alchemy, they may know." ”

Zhu Youxiao was overjoyed and said: "Yes, this I have forgotten, although the Taoist priest of alchemy is a liar, he may indeed know something we don't know, just ask a few real people to come down from Longhu Mountain to help." ”

Mao Yuanyi said with a difficult face: "I'm afraid that Longhu Mountain won't take us seriously." ”