Chapter 15 Rights and Duties of the Owner
When Li Zhigao left Liu's house, he had left enough medicine and taught Liu Jinshui to prick needles and hang bottles, and since then, Liu Jinshui has been serving his grandmother, and after such a few days of hanging water for treatment, Liu Runsheng's wife has already been well.
Sure enough, when Li Zhigao personally went over to check and check, he found that Liu Runsheng's wife had recovered very well, and she no longer coughed, which was considered a preliminary recovery.
Of course, this also made Li Zhigao secretly sigh that the drug-resistant surname of tuberculosis bacteria in this era is poor, it has only been a few days, and the effect is so good, if you change to modern society, don't think about it for a month or two, and even some stubborn tuberculosis, quadruple therapy will not work.
Since Li Zhigao's ATV can seat four people, after taking Liu Runsheng, he can still sit two, and when he heard that Li Zhigao was going to drive to run errands, Marven, who was greedy, also wanted to follow, helplessly, Li Zhigao had to let Marven sit up and let him get what he wanted.
The owner of the manor does not live in the manor, but in the county seat, so it is not far away.
Li Zhigao didn't understand this, and felt that he couldn't live in a good villa, so why was he nesting in the county, but as soon as he heard Liu Runsheng's explanation, he immediately understood.
It turns out that in this era, living in the manor may not be more comfortable than in the county, and there are all kinds of facilities in the county, not to mention the convenience of doing things, and there are many fun places, such as the memory of the courtyard, the theater, the big smoke house or something, these places, there is no such thing in the Zhuangzi.
At this time, due to natural disasters [***], coupled with the invasion of cheap grain from outside, it was no longer a good deal to farm land to collect rent and sell grain, not to mention that many tenant farmers and poor peasants went bankrupt in large numbers, and many landlords did not have a good life.
At this time, the landlord either died of hardship, or sold his property to do something else, or he evolved into a bully and a gentry.
The owner of the manor is called Chen Songling, not very old, only in his thirties, a typical gentleman, since he was a child, he is lazy and lazy, loves prosperity, and is a big smoker. A person like him is naturally reluctant to leave the bustling county seat, but the manor is five hours away from the county seat, and it is very troublesome to come and go, so he simply lives in the county seat, and the affairs in the village are all taken care of by the next person.
The transaction process was very simple, the other party had just finished smoking a cigarette, and he was stunned, and when he saw Li Zhigao's side happily took out the silver ticket, he didn't bargain much, and directly sold 1,600 taels, so in a blink of an eye, Li Zhigao became the owner of the manor.
Although he had the title deed and became the new owner of Chenjiazhuang, things were not so simple, he still had to go to the manor and say hello to the farmers in the village and talk about the new charter.
Specifically, when Li Zhigao bought someone's Zhuangzi, he did not just buy the land, not only to obtain the ownership of the land, but also to buy a certain obligation, an obligation to take care of a large number of tenants who were dependent on the land of the manor.
Tenants are different from domestic servants, they did not sell their land to Li Zhigao, and they were still free people in essence. Although they have personal freedom, they have no production data and must depend on the land of Zhuangzi to survive.
Specifically, tenants rent the owner's land for a long time to cultivate, and after the harvest is shared, it is the same relationship as between the landlord and the tenant.
From a legal point of view, Li Zhigao could have opened up all these tenants, and found someone to cultivate, and then the person he found could be to find a new tenant farmer, or he could hire domestic servants and hired farmers to farm, or simply leave the land wasted, in short, there were many ways.
However, while it is legally feasible to do so, it is not logically possible, and it is not feasible to do so in practice at present, and it is impossible to dispose of the tenant farmers as they please.
According to Liu Runsheng, those tenant farmers have relied on these lands for a long time for food, and many of them have relied on it for generations, in other words, although the land they cultivated is not their own, it is their lifeblood, and once Li Zhigao, the new landlord, does not follow the past regulations, it is easy for the people to cause a popular uprising.
Those tenant farmers have lived in the local area for generations, the unity surname is very strong, the force value is also good, the family has a sword, gun and stick or something, and the practice of martial arts is also very popular, if one is not good, provoke them, they will immediately gather to attack the Zhuangzi, rob things and destroy the house or something are common things, the key is that you can only endure it, there is no good way.
This is because the government is in decline, and it has long been ignored for this kind of thing, and without the deterrence of the government, it can only be solved privately, and this situation naturally depends on who has the ability and strength.
Therefore, Li Zhigao's best way at present is to go to Zhuangzi quickly, gather the peasant households, and then announce the change of land rights, so that everyone can get to know and understand, and the other is the most crucial one -- sign a new land lease agreement with those tenants, and it is best to go as usual and not mess around.
Under this model, if it is in peaceful years, when the income from farming is okay, everyone can still be safe, but once the income from farming is too low, the tenant farmers cannot eat enough according to the original agreement, and the landlord cannot collect much money, the contradiction will be prominent.
When the contradiction is so prominent that there is a conflict, either the landlord overwhelms the tenant peasants and becomes a bully and a bad gentry and defends the fruits of victory, or the tenant peasants overwhelm the landlords and become powerful bandits and become the new owners of the land, and there is no other way to go.
In fact, a large part of the reason why the owner of the original Zhuangzi wanted to make a move earlier was because the land rent income was too low and the tail of the tenant farmers was too big. Although for the time being, those tenants and the Chen family have not deteriorated to the point of violent conflict and completely established the actual ownership of the land, but the Chen family's own surname is too soft and not ruthless enough to suppress the group of tenant farmers.
Therefore, in the troubled times, buying land is not all right, if you want to become the real owner of the land, you must get a vote of thugs, use force to coerce tenants to be obedient, and be a decent local tyrant and bully, so as to live a good life.
The main reason for your land is to show kindness, so that those tenant farmers are grateful to Dade and have a good reputation, then it is okay, but the premise is still that you have to make the tenant farmers afraid of you first, and then show your kindness after you are afraid that you will be grateful to Dade, if there is no force to back up the benevolence, it is weak, and it is destined to be bullied.
Of course, there are also some strange things, which do not play deterrence by force, but they are just to make tenant farmers support, such as personal morality is particularly high, or they have the prestige to do things and can convince the public, etc., but these people are a minority of the minority, and most of them are in special circumstances, so they cannot be regarded as a common surname.
Not to mention, the master of the Chen family is a typical negative teaching material, he has been wearing clothes and food since he was a child, he has no experience, he is stupid in reading, he doesn't hire thugs as bullies, he has to do anything to show kindness and convince people with virtue, and the result is getting worse and worse, which is why he has come to today's end.
Hearing this, Li Zhigao understood that those landlord bullies may not be born, but they were purely forced out of this world.
Also, when the world is in a recession and the government is not strong, if you are not a bully, you have to be bullied by tenant farmers, and if you are a bully, you have to have a bad reputation.
To put it bluntly, that is, the legal principles of this world have collapsed, and if you want to be reasonable, you must first rely on your fists to talk to the barrel of a gun!
Therefore, the road of a good landlord is a long way to go, and it is really not an easy task.
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