Although the reclamation of the mountains and forests is only this time, the fields that the Xue family will plant in the future are more than 100,000 mu, and they will not only be planted for one year, but every year.

You can imagine how much labor is required.

More than 100,000 acres of land is not a small amount for the entire town.

You know, they have more than 60,000 people in Xinwen Town.

If these hundreds of thousands of acres are divided into one point, it will be more than two acres per capita.

As the pavilion chief, he knows best that in the past few decades, the fields in the hands of the people have gradually flowed to the rich and noble.

Excluding those rich and noble families, the people in the lower classes are now only three or four acres per capita.

If one person has less than five acres of land, excluding taxes, the annual grain output on the field cannot reach the level of food and clothing.

It is conceivable that these hundreds of thousands of acres of land are a huge number for the villagers.

And if it is really as Jiang Qianyue and others said, the sweet potatoes they planted, as long as there are enough people, they can take advantage of the time difference between the seasons, save part of the time for seedlings, and directly plant the next season of sweet potatoes with the vine seedlings left in the previous season, and they can plant three seasons in a year, and the labor required will be greater.

His only concern was that if he planted so frequently, would the fertility of the land not be enough, resulting in insufficient yields, so that the Xue family would stop planting?

Regarding his worries, Jiang Qianyue promised that the Xue family would have their own way to solve it.

After getting her promise, the pavilion chief was also much more relieved, in short, this matter was definitely a great thing for the people.

After that, when Jiang Qianyue described the blueprint for the future of the Xue family and emphasized the benefits that his family could bring to the villagers, the pavilion chief knew that this time he was going to hemorrhage.

The Xue family can give them so many benefits, and everyone is naturally trying their best to persuade the pavilion chief to sell the mountain land to the Xue family at the lowest price.

After all the people took turns to fight, there were more than 92,000 acres of mountain land left, plus a wasteland under the mountain, and the pavilion chief made up a total of 100,000 acres of land and sold it to the Xue family for 56,000 taels of silver.

It is equivalent to only 560 yuan for one acre of mountainous land, which can be said to be quite cheap.

After the price of the mountain land was determined, the pavilion chief asked for more benefits from the Xue family for the Li Zheng people, regardless of their previous suspicions.

After some bargaining, Jiang Qianyue and everyone agreed on the amount of mountain land that the Xue family contracted to each village to reclaim, as well as the number of acres of land leased by each village to the Xue family.

The former, of course, is distributed according to the number of people in each village.

As for the latter, it is natural to assign it to the villages closest to the mountain, and the other villages that are far away can only be envious and jealous.

The last item is the allocation of labor for growing sweet potatoes.

When the time for cuttings comes, each village must provide a certain amount of labor for the Xue family.

At this point, the purchase of land and the distribution of land and labor were determined.

But there is a problem that will inevitably be solved.

That is, the number of people the Xue family wants to recruit is too much, almost all over the town.

These villagers, who are a little closer to the mountains and forests, usually go out after breakfast in the morning, and then go home for dinner after work in the evening.

If you don't rush the schedule, you can go home and come back for lunch.

If they are more industrious, they can send someone home to make lunch and bring it over, so that they can save a lot of time, and they can cultivate a few more acres, or end the task as soon as possible and get paid early.

But what about people who are far away from the mountains and forests?

Even if they are assigned the farthest village, they have to walk for at least two hours to get to the nearest mountainous area, and if they go back to lunch like everyone else, they will probably spend their daily time walking.

Even if you bring your own dry food for lunch, it will take more than four hours to go back and forth in the morning and evening.

Originally, there were six or seven hours of time to work in a day, and most of their time had to be spent walking, and the efficiency of two days was not as good as that of others.

In the end, everyone agreed that the Xue family would deduct part of the wages and provide the villagers with three meals a day.

Those who are far away from the mountains and forests can bring their clothes and other things to live in the mountains and forests temporarily.

The Xue family had to arrange a place for these people to live.

At this point, everything was agreed, and the two parties signed the first version of the contract in the presence of the pavilion chief.

As for the details, it is natural to add them later.

Zheng Linchu's budget for the Xue family in terms of mountains was 60,000 taels of silver, and after removing these 56,000 taels, only 4,000 taels remained.

And 4,000 taels of silver were used to reclaim and enclose the 100,000 acres of land, plus people had to be hired to plant in the later stage, which was obviously not enough.

and only a portion of the other twenty thousand taels of silver could be drawn.

Fortunately, Shanlin finally bought 100,000 acres of land, and the original plan to rent planted could be reduced by 10,000 acres.

So the twenty thousand taels of silver that was given was abundant again.

In this way, it seems that it will not be too difficult to plant these hundreds of thousands of acres of land for 80,000 taels of silver, and you can even take out some of the silver to buy tools.

However, if the Xue family still wants to save some silver in a short period of time, it is basically impossible.

The batch of sweet potatoes that have been planted in the future of the 4,000 acres of mountains that have been planted now will only be worth 20,000 taels of silver even if they are all made into finished products and sold to the Zheng family, plus labor costs.

At that time, a large number of villagers will have to be hired to process it, and the Xue family will have to pay for it first.

After making a contract with everyone, they don't have to worry about the fields and recruitment for the time being, and Jiang Qianyue and the two can finally rest at home for a few days.

The 100,000 acres of mountains and forests have to wait for the county magistrate's instructions, and then they can pay the silver, and wait for the pavilion chief to send a surveyor to come and demarcate the land.

It's going to take some time.

During this period, the recruitment of workers and the rental of land for cultivation were collected and counted by the members of the village themselves.

The land rent given by the Xue family is definitely not small, and the villagers who are willing to rent land are given priority to recruit workers.

Rent and wages combined, they could get much more money than they could grow their own grain.

In this way, it is naturally more cost-effective to rent out than to grow your own food.

Of course, there are many villagers who value food more than silver, just as Jiang Qianyue thought.

For these people, the Xue family replaced wages with grain.

With such favorable conditions, the villagers are naturally quite receptive.

Another reason for such acceptance is that the output of the field depends on God's face in addition to the diligent cultivation of the farmers.

And what God wants, but it's not for them to decide, luck is also very important, what if there is a natural disaster**?

If you give the land to the Xue family and have a contract in hand, you don't have to worry about this sudden natural disaster**.