Chapter 115: The Quiet Girl
The thirteen tenants in Feng Yi's courtyard returned home full of joy, and Feng Yi's reputation in Hexi Village gradually began to improve with the agreement to collect 20% of the rent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Feng Xiaolangjun is really benevolent and righteous, he only collects 20% of the rent."
"Feng Xiaolangjun really deserves to be the son of the talented master."
"If only Feng Xiaolangjun still had land."
"Yes, it would be nice if all the land in Hexi Village belonged to Feng Xiaolangjun, it was really cheap for Old Man Song and them, why didn't I encounter such a good thing."
"Yes, I heard that the autumn harvest only collects 20% of the rent, and the rest is let the families take it back for a good year."
The entire Hexi Village is talking about Feng Yi's affairs, and it is really not easy to meet such a good master in this world. Although Feng Yi has not yet entered the rivers and lakes, the rivers and lakes already have his legend. And what is the benevolent gentleman in the mouth of the villagers of Hexi Village doing now? Feng Yi, who has become a legend in Hexi Village, is quarreling, yes. And the reason for the quarrel was the fact that the villagers had all the rents.
Hexi Village is not big, and the successful convening of the first congress of Feng Yi's tenant farmers soon brought Feng Yi great fame, basically changing Feng Yi's original image of an unfilial son in the eyes of the villagers. But Feng Yi has become a good master, Feng Yi is happy, but some people are unhappy. Hexi Village is not big, but it is not small, the cultivated land of the entire Hexi Village is thousands of acres, it stands to reason that Feng Yi's less than 200 acres of land is just a drop in the bucket for the entire Hexi Village, as long as you pay the grain, it is not a big deal for you to buy and throw away the wasteland in the Dahua Dynasty, after all, there are so many imperial court lands, there is not much more than you, and there is no less than you; You're thinking about wasting money, and no one says anything about you.
Feng Yi, Feng Buxie; You damn bastard. You are the ruling class of the Dahua feudal society, as a member of the landlord class, and you are a newly promoted landlord class, although you are only a very small and completely unpopular member, but you actually make your own opinion, casually reduce forty percent of the land rent to two percent, what kind of behavior are you? Do you know that you are digging into the corner of feudalism and betraying the landlord class!
That's right, you're cool. It has become a great benevolent person praised by everyone in Hexi Village, and a good master's family. Those tenants can't wait for you to farm one by one, and they can't wait for the entire land in Hexi Village to be yours. But have you considered my feelings? Thou shalt receive two percent of the rent, and thou art a good lord's house; Then I, the one who collects fifty percent of the rent, is a wicked person? I don't care about you if you have money, and I don't care about you if you buy land for the maid, but you shouldn't have reduced the land rent. You are still here for me to greet the county and intimidate the Liu family to get it for you. Is there anyone like you? That's right, I took your money, but I worked hard to help you, what's wrong with collecting some commissions! What kind of grudge do I have with you, how do you hurt me, do you know that the entire Hexi Village is poking me in the back in the back!
The lieutenant chief of Hexi Village, Wang San, is very angry and very unhappy now, and the whole person can't wait to eat Feng Yi in front of him.
"Feng family boy, let me ask you again, do you change the ground rent."
"Wang Lichang, what you said is excessive, the land is mine, I can take as much as I want, can you control it?" Feng Yi is also very unhappy, you Wang Lichang has the right, but you came to my house early in the morning to settle accounts with me, and you dare to bully me.
"Feng family boy, don't be ignorant! Can the ground rent be changed casually? It's true that the land is yours, but the rent is not collected like you. Wang Sanshou really regrets it now, what did he do at the beginning, he actually forced the Qian family to hurry up and sell this land to the kid in front of him.
"Then what did the king say should I collect? The big guys in Hexi Village are all villagers, and if you look up and don't look down, I'll charge a little less land rent and let everyone live better. Feng Yi really looks down on Wang Sanshou, he is a fellow villager and can do it.
"If you charge less rent, these mud legs are better, but what will other tenant farmers think when they see you collect so little rent? You collect so little, others collect so much, can those mud legs be willing? Now your name is spread throughout Hexi Village, and even those tenants of my family have come to ask me to reduce the rent, do you know? "Wang San is thin and can't wait to shoot Feng Yi to death, he really doesn't understand the rules, although he was called Wang San thin, but the gap is compared to this kind of thing, Feng Yi lowered the rent, only 20% of the rent, Wang Sansan was 50% of the good field, and 40% of the rent of the lower field was extremely eye-catching.
"It's not like you're a miser, what's wrong with helping a bunch of villagers? Isn't it good to have a good reputation? Feng Yi thought of the simple looks on the faces of the thirteen people, and he really couldn't imagine how a person like Wang Sanshou could be so shameless and collect the rent so calmly.
"Fame? Can fame eat? I bought my field, and the harvest of the land I planted was of course mine. Why should I help them? Helping them is a matter for the imperial court, and they can't keep their own fields, so why should they take my fields to help them? Do you think that my fields are blown by a strong wind? It's not that I've worked so hard to save. When Wang Sanzhuang heard Feng Yi say this, he was not happy. Helping the mud legs is a matter for the imperial court, what does it matter to me? I have given them a great gift by renting the land and planting seeds, so why should I suffer?
"Don't you have a little compassion? You collect fifty percent of the rent, the court collects another two percent, and the hard work is only thirty percent, and the yield per mu is two stones, how can they live. No wonder everyone calls you Wang Sanshou! If it weren't for Xiao Lori pulling Feng Yi, Feng Yi really wanted to rush over and leave some traces on Wang Sanshou's shameless face.
It's a pity that Wang Sanshou didn't react at all to what Feng Yi said, so he looked at Feng Yi quietly and measured his face contemptuously.
"Feng Xiaolangjun, this kind of thing is a long story, and it is not a simple matter of reducing the rent if you want to." Wang Baqiu, who was standing next to Wang Sanshou, saw the two of them, stopped and stopped talking, so he walked out from behind Wang Sansan and wanted to analyze something.
"Feng Xiaolangjun's idea of wanting to reduce land rent is good, and he also deeply admires Feng Xiaolangjun's approach. It's just a matter of ground rent, and my lord also has a hard time. Wang Baqiu stood up and first agreed with Feng Yi's opinion, and then looked at Wang Sansan thin, wanting to come out and do peace.
"What's the problem? It's just that he is reluctant to give up his little money, he doesn't want to benefit the township, he is not benevolent to the rich, and he is not afraid of being dug up alive or dead. Feng Yi didn't think Wang Sanshou had any trouble.
"Feng Xiaolangjun, in fact, this land rent is not set by my master." Wang Baqiu had to continue to explain.
"In the whole city of Hangzhou, and even in the entire Dahua Dynasty, although the land rent is high and low, it is generally the same. Like our Hexi Village, fifty percent of the high-grade paddy fields and forty percent of the equal dry fields, in fact, the whole city of Hangzhou is customary, unless those with big backgrounds want to have a good reputation to reduce the rent, otherwise they are all collected like this. And those who receive 20% or 30% are because they basically don't have to pay taxes. ”
"What do you mean?" Feng Yi didn't know what Wang Baqiu was talking about.
"That is, Feng Xiaolangjun only collects 20% of the land rent, although he is kind, but Feng Xiaolangjun will offend all the landlords in the entire Hangzhou City by doing this. Xiao Langjun only collects 20% of the land rent, and his heart is good, and the land in Xiao Langjun's hands is only less than 200 acres, and it is only a few dozen stones if he collects a little less. But for those people who have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of acres of land, Xiao Langjun can't get along with them by doing this. Generally speaking, that kind of big landlord cherishes his reputation, and if Xiao Langjun's thing is known to all the tenants, they all ask for a rent reduction, and make a big fuss, they generally say something. Although it is unlikely that it will make a big trouble, if Xiao Langjun's behavior is known to them, it will indeed offend them. Wang Baqiu saw that Feng Yi was puzzled, so he could only say in more detail.
Feng Yi heard Wang Baqiu say this, and only then did he understand the seriousness of the matter. Cutting off someone's money is like killing someone's parents, and although it is a good intention, it does damage their interests. Fortunately, he is still only in Hexi Village, and he has no influence, otherwise he really doesn't know how he died. The whole person was scared out of a cold sweat, and even the little Lori behind him was scared.
"Is it really that serious?" Feng Yi still couldn't believe it.
"This kind of thing, it's better to believe it than not to believe it, it's better to be careful." Wang Baqiu is also related.
"Know my good intentions, Feng family boy, how can I say that I am also a fellow villager, how can I harm you. Don't I want to benefit the village? There's just nothing you can do. Although Wang Sanshou just felt that his interests had been affected and came to reason with Feng Yi, it did not prevent him from pretending to be X at this time.
Feng Yi scoffed at Wang Sanshou's narcissism, as long as you can think so far, you won't be a lieutenant now. However, Feng Yi still stood up and bowed deeply to Wang Baqiu.
"Mr. Qiu's explanation, it is really better to listen to your words, than to read ten years."
"Xiao Langjun is polite, I'm just a few years older, and I've seen a lot. It should not be so praised. Wang Baqiu was not complacent, he actually appreciated Feng Yi's approach, otherwise he wouldn't have said so much to Feng Yi.
"But now that the agreement has been made and the entire Hexi Village knows about it, I can't break the contract casually. Please sir teach me! Feng Yi made a deep bow to Wang Baqiu again.
Wang Baqiu looked at Wang Sanshou on the side, and seeing that he had no objection, he stroked his beard and began to ponder.
"A gentleman's words, the horse is difficult to chase. Since Xiao Langjun has already said it, it is inevitable that it will be difficult to break the contract. It would be better if Xiao Langjun personally came to the door and asked them to sell four percent of the harvest every year, and pay the remaining two percent. This matter has not spread far yet, as long as you hide it from outsiders, these thirteen families have just accepted your favor, and they should not object. It's just that Xiao Langjun will inevitably have to break the bank. ”
Feng Yi listened to Wang Baqiu's method and felt that this was also a solution. Anyway, as long as it doesn't continue to spread out, it won't lose money if the grain is bought anyway, as for the money, Feng Yi doesn't think he will be short of money. In desperation, I could only agree.
Wang Sanshou and Wang Baqiu left, and Feng Yi leaned on the chair weakly. I thought I was a traverser, omnipotent, and completely crushed the ancients in terms of intelligence, but now it turns out that all this is because I think too much, even if I am a traverser, if I am not careful, I will never recover. Good intentions can also do bad things, and even ruin yourself. Although I have the knowledge of the previous year, I still have too little social experience, and I always take it for granted. It seems that a staff member is really needed, and Mr. Qiu should be suitable. Feng Yi thought of Wang Baqiu, although he looked like a traitor, but the facts told him that Wang Baqiu was actually a wise man.
Little Lori looked at Feng Yi, whose eyes were blank, and she was so sad, but she didn't know how to comfort her.
"Young master, it's Xiao Chi who is not good, if it weren't for Xiao Chi, the young master wouldn't have made a mistake." Little Lori thought that it was her own reasons that made Feng Yi reduce the land rent and made a mistake.
"Don't worry about Koike, it's not Koike's fault, it's that my brother is too self-righteous. My brother will be careful in the future, don't worry. And we didn't do anything wrong, it's just the way of the world that is wrong. The more Feng Yi spoke, the more he spoke, the more he said it, and he didn't know whether to say it to Xiao Lori or to himself.
"Okay, don't be sad, let's go to Uncle Song and make it clear, we have to build a lot of granaries and buy all the grain." Feng Yi is an optimistic person in the end, after thinking about it for a while, he stood up and pulled Xiao Lori out of the house, the sooner this matter is resolved, the better.
Little Lori didn't know Feng Yi's thoughts, but she also knew that things were getting better and better, so she relaxed and followed Feng Yi out of the door