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The landlord is like a hungry wolf who can never get enough to eat, and his desire for land is endless. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThey are not afraid of a bad harvest in a disaster year, because they have too much land, and no matter how bad the harvest is, they will not go hungry. On the contrary, in their hearts, they are still looking forward to a disaster and a reduction in production, because once the output is reduced, the price of grain will inevitably skyrocket, and the grain saved in the good year will be sold to make a lot of money.

Moreover, after the catastrophe, there will definitely be farmers who will not be able to survive and will have to sell their land in exchange for food. The landlords took advantage of this opportunity to fiercely lower the price and merge up the land at a much lower price than the market price. In the long run, the land became more and more concentrated in the hands of a few large landowners, and the peasant households gradually became their hired farmers, no better than slaves. But these landlords can spend all day drinking and enjoying the wealth of the world.

The same is true for Sun Yunchang, last year there were many disasters, and he originally estimated that by the end of the year, he would be able to buy at least dozens of hectares of land at a low price. Unexpectedly, a Jingyang merchant gang appeared out of thin air, and actually rented all the fields of poor farmers in the county. In this way, of course, he could no longer annex the land, and he couldn't help but hate it.

If someone else harms his own interests, Sun Yunchang will never do it. But he also knew that the backer of the Jingyang Merchant Gang was King Qin, and King Qin he could never afford to provoke. On the one hand, he will never rent his land to the Jingyang Merchant Gang, and on the other hand, he hopes that God will be a little drier, and it is best not to snow in the winter, so that all the crops in the Jingyang Merchant Gang will die of drought and let the King of Qin pay for it.

The weather was as he wished, from the beginning of autumn to the beginning of spring, Jingyang County really did not fall a drop of rain or snow. In this part of Shaanxi, in the past, farming relied on the sky for food, and when we caught up with this kind of drought, it would definitely be a harvest without a harvest.

But what Sun Yunchang didn't expect was that the Jingyang merchant gang actually shoveled the unharvested millet in the summer and planted all the cotton instead. Cotton is a crop that likes drought and is afraid of rain, and the drier it is, the better it grows. Although the experience of the first large-scale planting was insufficient, because there were many insect pests and bells, under the hard work of thousands of workers, nearly 200 catties per mu were harvested, which became the raw materials of Qinwangzhuang Textile Factory.

Later, the Jingyang merchants planted winter wheat, and Sun Yunchang thought that this was the right time, because there must be a few rains after the winter wheat starts spring, otherwise it will die of drought. Although the crops in his own field also died of drought, Sun Yunchang was not distressed at all. As long as the Jingyang Merchant Gang is unsustainable, he can continue to annex the land, and this loss can be made up for sooner or later.

Who knows that the Jingyang Merchant Gang doesn't rely on the sky to eat. In addition to diverting water from the Jing River for irrigation, the family also drilled many deep wells throughout the county and used well water to irrigate the ground. This completely subverted Sun Yunchang's farming experience, because in the past, well water was only used for eating, and watering the land was not feasible at all, because the water was too shallow and not enough, and the workload of watering the land was too large.

However, the collective labor method of the Jingyang Merchant Gang perfectly solved this problem. The wells are extremely deep, and the groundwater in the Guanzhong Plain is still relatively rich, which can be said to be inexhaustible; The workers worked day and night shifts to get water for irrigation, and they managed to complete three rounds of irrigation of tens of thousands of acres of farmland. However, Sun Yunchang's land was not leased to the Jingyang merchant gang, and the people naturally did not let him use water, and as a result, all his thousands of acres of winter wheat died of drought.

When it was time for the summer harvest, the Jingyang merchant gang collected more than 200 catties of wheat per mu, and Sun Yunchang couldn't sit still. He is not stupid, he is happy to see those ordinary farmers sitting on the rent, and he is happy; Jingyang merchants harvested two seasons in a row in the year of the catastrophe, and the output was not low; Only he has no harvest and heavy losses, and his mind is a little lively.

It just so happened that Yang Sichang of Zhixian County mobilized the big households in Jingyang County to lease the land to the Jingyang merchant gang, and Sun Yunchang took the opportunity to ask Yang Sichang for more than 20 couplets, and then agreed to rent 1,000 acres of land. On the one hand, he has hundreds of hectares of fertile land, which is only one-tenth, and it is relatively barren land. Sun Yunchang wanted to see what the effect was when it was his turn.

On the other hand, although Sun Yunchang did not understand the art of calligraphy at all, he also knew that Yang Sichang was a genius who moved the world, and his ink treasures must be valuable.

After listening to Yang Sichang's introduction, Zhu Youzhen sneered and said: "We don't care what his idea is, just hand over the land." Come, find me 200 workers who can farm the land, and ask for the best work in the farm!" ”

Soon, 200 workers from the Jingyang Merchant Gang came to the fields that originally belonged to Sun Yunchang. They were originally farmers, and now they are also doing farm work, but their status has changed, and they are equivalent to farm workers, and they are paid as much as they work, so their enthusiasm is also very high. The foreman named Lei Erhu is a young man with a quick temper, and he has known Zhu Youzhen for a long time.

And Sun Yunchang, the original owner of this land, also looked over here from a distance, he wanted to see how the Jingyang Merchant Gang planned to toss.

This thousand acres of land is connected into a large area, and now all the millet is planted, but because the weather is too dry, many millet has not even sprouted, and the barely germinated ones have grown sparsely.

Zhu Youzhen was already standing on the ground, and he waved his hand and said, "Come on, shovel all the crops in the five acres of land in front of you!" ”

Originally, the peasants were most taboo to destroy the crops, but the workers did not care about this, they only listened to the orders of the foreman, and shoveled the grain in the field in three strokes and five by two. looked at Sun Yunchang in shock, if he hadn't received compensation for the rent and crops, he would have to fight with the other party for his crops like this.

"Fence off these five acres of land to prevent wild beasts from coming in and destroying the crops." Zhu Youzhen continued to give the order, "Let the people of the well drilling team come over, dig a well in the middle, and then use the well water for irrigation." Then turn the ground thoroughly, get the fertilizer from the septic tank, apply the base fertilizer, and water the ground thoroughly. ”

"Okay!" Lei Erhu agreed unequivocally, and asked Zhu Youzhen flatteringly, "Lord Wang, what crops are you going to plant this time?" ”

"You don't care what you plant." Zhu Youzhen said solemnly, you first divide these people into three classes, and let me watch these five acres of land day and night, and no one is allowed to enter or leave at will! Build some small huts next to the ground, and you will work hard, and when you are tired, you will live here, and someone will bring you food. Build me one too! ”

"Lord Wang, do you want to farm the land yourself?" Lei Erhu exclaimed, "This can't be helped! It's all mud legs, you golden branches..."

"Less nonsense, I do more farm work, not necessarily worse than you!" Zhu Youzhen is not talking nonsense, when he was detained by the Dutch in Taiwan, he worked in the fields a lot, otherwise he would not have had the opportunity to obtain these precious seeds.

Seeing that Lei Erhu was still a little hesitant, Zhu Youzhen glared at him and said, "You can do whatever you want!" There's still a lot of work to do! ”