A group of people giggled, although they didn't dare to ridicule Chi Zhengjie, but they also relied on the strength of the wine to completely sweep away his worries. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, when he first set up this plan, Chi Zhengjie considered using a large bamboo "rat slingshot" as a rabbit trapping tool, so that farmers could place it around the rice fields to protect them, and by the way, they could also catch some rabbits to improve their lives. But now that it has been really popularized, it has been discovered that the vast number of working people do not disdain to do the stupid thing of "guarding the field and waiting for the rabbit", and they all take the initiative to directly dig out the rabbit's nest.

Especially in practice, it is often the teenage and half-old children of the peasant family, with a group of younger brothers and sisters to do this, which is both fun and subsidizes the family, and those children are the most energetic, the most flexible, and the most creative. All kinds of bizarre and unbelievable rabbit hunting methods emerge one after another.

The guests here were all large landowners, and it was impossible for them to work in the fields, but even they had heard many interesting anecdotes about this from their family servants. At this time, when an anecdote was told at the wine table, Chi Zhengjie was dumbfounded - the working people are indeed the wisest, especially in terms of eating. No matter what strong race you are, as long as you enter the recipes of the Chinese and fall into the vast sea of the people, then all that remains is the two choices of rare or endangered

Speaking of which, Chi Zhengjie instead felt that it was necessary to issue some protective regulations during the spring breeding season? Otherwise, his "Bunny" plan would have failed - at the hands of a crazy foodie.

Of course, the specific matters will have to wait for the investigation and the actual data to be determined, but those landlords are very sure that if you really want to run this good government for a long time, it is better to set a protection period - in order to get more meat for their wives and children to eat, those tenant farmers are really capable of exterminating rabbit nests.

As the speaker of the Qiongzhou Mansion Council, Xu Jing and Xu Xinan are very good at being a person, and when he found an opportunity, he raised his glass and toasted Chi Zhengjie:

"It's no wonder that I have often heard people in my family talk about it recently: just this year, the rabbits in the countryside and fields have suddenly increased, and they are all stupid rabbits that are big, fat and easy to catch. I thought it was just a natural and good year, but I didn't expect it to be the work of all gentlemen...... It's unexpected. ”

Mo Dapeng, the fat man of the Mo family next to him, has always been the only one who respects the horse, and immediately raised his glass when he heard the words:

"yes, yes, I didn't expect even this thing to be free-range. I used to know how to catch hares, but I really didn't think that this could be raised, and Mr. is really talented, admire! Admire! ”

Chi Zhengjie smiled slightly, this fat man obviously didn't understand much, he was just a sycophant. However, he originally did not plan to discuss professional issues with these Ming Dynasty landlords, as long as they were willing to help and cooperate with his subsequent fieldwork, it would be enough.

Chi Zhengjie's matter was quickly decided, and those landlords were absolutely enthusiastic about the opportunity to help a "real man", especially since it didn't cost them anything, they just ordered to go down, and at most let the family send some people to cooperate. Even if Zhao Lide didn't greet him in advance, Chi Zhengjie went directly to the door, and it was impossible for them to refuse.

And this time Zhao Lide had a treat, and they had the opportunity to come over and have a drink with "Master Zhao". As the saying goes, there is no size on the wine table, some people usually don't dare to say it, and it's not easy to mention it, so you can talk about it at this time, even if it doesn't work, it's nothing more than borrowing wine to cover your face, and afterwards you can cover up the past if you drink too much nonsense.

So in the time after that, most of it was Zhao Lide who was communicating with them. Chi Zhengjie got to be idle and lively on the sidelines. After listening to it for a while, I gradually heard something......

The few people invited by Zhao Lide tonight are among the top big landlords in Qiongzhou Mansion, and these people are of course concerned about land and harvest. But these big landowners are not having a good time now, they have large tracts of land, but fewer and fewer people are willing to cultivate for them.

- Because everyone has gone to work for the shorthair. The Joan navy recruited a large number of men from the mainland and organized them to establish many farms. Under the leadership of Wu Nanhai, Li Jiangdong, Zhang Yu and others, the farm system established should be regarded as one of the most successful systems of the Qiong Navy. In these farms, whether it is seeds, technology, or management models, although they may not be able to truly reproduce the so-called "modern agricultural system" in the minds of the public, it is definitely stronger than the general standards of this era.

In the same way, the same grain is grown, but the harvest of short-haired farms is several times that of the locals, and they can also grow a variety of cash crops. In the first year, people watched a lot of fun, and in the second year, people muttered in their hearts...... Up to now, they have occupied Hainan Island for four or five years, and those local farmers, no matter how pedantic, know that their farming skills are much better than them.

So, naturally, the farmers came to ask for learning, and the farm did not hide their secrets, saying that they would come if they wanted to learn. These peasants were illiterate and could not give them lectures, and the way the farm trained them was to let them work on the farm themselves under the guidance of technicians, and they were hired workers on the farm. In addition to a certain amount of honorarium, a portion of the harvest is also shared among them.

After studying in this way for a while, and after being taught, those who have their own land go back to serve their own fields, but those peasants who have little land at home, or have no land at all, and live entirely on renting other people's fields for a living, go back to make a calculation -- it is better to work for the short-haired farm than to help people farm the land and become tenants for the landlord's family.

Even if he is still a tenant, if he rents the field of the farm, the short-haired master not only provides the seeds, but is also responsible for technical guidance, and in the end only a quarter of the field rent is charged. The landlord's land rent must be at least 30 percent 5 percent -- this is still a dead rule that was decided by the short-haired government for this reason, and for this reason it did not hesitate to destroy a few big families who dared to engage in confrontation.

Everyone knows how to choose between the two sides -- about the beginning of the year before last, the landlords on Hainan Island began to discover a terrible phenomenon: their fields were no longer planted! As long as there were short-haired farms, nearby tenants quit their rents and went to short-haired farms to find work.

-- This is only a change in agriculture, but agriculture is not at all in the industry where Hainan Island has a large demand for population under the rule of the Qiong Navy. No matter what they build or develop, the first condition is that they need to have a floating population. Although the Qiong Navy has been trying to bring in people from other places in the past few years, compared to the goal they want to pursue, this amount is only a drop in the bucket at the moment.

But in this way, those landlords can't stand it. My ancestors worked hard to save money to buy land for several lifetimes, didn't they just think that one day they would lie at home and sleep and someone would help them farm. Now there is a field, but there is no one! A large area of fertile land is deserted and no one cultivates it, and the government's land tax still has to be paid as usual, and it is impossible to exempt it from paying because you have left the land there yourself.

This can give those landlords a headache, especially the few in front of them, they are all big landlords, and they have to pay a lot of money every year. To be sure, the land endowment set by the Qiong Navy is not high, and the standard is one-eighth of the local average production, that is, 12.5 percent. Moreover, in order to take care of the convenience of the peasants, it is okay to pay grain or money.

However, this does not mean much to the big households, who must have to sell grain for farming. In other places, it may be possible to hoard and sell for a high price in a famine year, but this is not possible on Hainan Island. Even if you have this idea, take him to the short-haired farm to see the grain production of other people; Or take another look at the Shan near the harbor and see the grain ships coming from Annam, Siam, etc...... If you still don't want to change your mind, then you can only wish him good luck.

In short, for these big landlords, the inability to find tenants and the inability to extract labor has made them feel that they have suffered huge losses, and they are required to continue to pay grain and taxes to the government...... Even with the deterrent power of "Master Zhao", it can't suppress these people.

So after a period of time, I listened to what those people said, half complaining and half pleading, and expressed to Zhao Lide their hope that the government could "let go" in this regard.

And Zhao Lide has been listening to their complaints very patiently, and he always has a smile on his face, until those people finished speaking, he slowly turned the cup and said slowly:

"As I understand it, your request is for us to be exempted from taxes on unplanted land, right?"

Several large landowners looked at each other and nodded:

"It's true, even if it's not exempt, it's great if you can discount it."

Hearing this, Zhao Lide laughed:

"Lao Xu, Lao Mo, and Lao Yu, it hasn't been a year or two since you cooperated with our Qiong Navy. Since the head of the regiment Xie and they conquered the capital city of Qiongzhou, we have been able to gain a firm foothold here, and a few of them have helped a lot. ”

"Zhang, Li two outsiders, although they didn't have much contact before, but in recent years, our land policy, the two staff members are also strongly supportive -- when we implemented the '375 rent reduction', the two staff members took the lead in implementing it, and made a good start in their respective villages, and we all remember this."

Zhao Lide suddenly said good things, but it made the faces of several people present show a little uneasiness - they are all old rivers and lakes, of course they know that this kind of words will most likely be followed by a "but"......

However, Zhao Lide did not say this word, but continued:

"So, in our concept, you can be regarded as our Qiong Navy's 'own people'. Since it's your own person, what's the benefit, the sweetness, it must be open to you first, and you should have felt this in the past few years, right? ”