"What else does the old general have to say?" said one thing after another, and Qi Ke intuitively felt that what he was going to say later was the point.

"It has to do with the farmland in the village." Old Ninth Master and Lu Chen both became serious all of a sudden, which made Qi Ke can't help but sit up straight.

"What's wrong with the farmland?"

"It's not that you have a great ability to farm, no matter how we plant, we can't catch up with the yield of your land, the old general asked our village to combine all the cultivated land and unify what you arrange to cultivate, try to see if you can increase grain production, if it is useful, you will be rewarded."

"Reward what?" Qi Ke rested his hand on the table, his fingers tapping on the table in turn, looking like a money fan who could do everything as long as the money was in place, and at the same time he was waiting for a bargain.

"Hey, where do you know what to reward now?"

"That's not good, the old general said that it's easy to make a suggestion, it's us who do the work, the cultivated land has been distributed to the households, at this time, it is said that the whole village will be concentrated and arranged by me, even if I don't think it's too troublesome, the whole village agrees?"

"The whole village agrees."

"Everybody agrees."

Old Ninth Master and Lu Chen spoke in unison.

"Huh?!" This time, Qi was really confused.

"After the old general made this suggestion, we discussed it with the whole village, and everyone agreed."

“…… Huh?! Qi Ke raised his eyebrows, three forehead lines wrinkled on his head, and finally reacted, "In other words, this matter has been decided by the whole village, just waiting for me?" "Ambiguous 43

"Oh, yes." The two village chiefs nodded in unison, and their movements were in unison.

"Each family doesn't have its own opinion? So easy to talk to? If this is the case, the first thing to do is to rebuild the irrigation ditch and occupy part of the land that used to belong to them, and the villagers have no opinion? And is there a time limit for this unified farming? Don't, I invested a lot of money this year to repair the ditch, and next year I told me that I would not do this and return the land to the families, so what should I do with this ditch? Demolished again? Not a waste of money? If there is also unified farming, how to calculate the wages of each family? ”

"You can rest assured, these whole villages have also been discussed, if you really do this, you really have to hurry up to repair the ditch, this is a big deal that costs money, you can't repair it this year and demolish it next year, and the cost of repairing the ditch has not been earned. The old general also gave this suggestion and hoped that we would do a good job in Siliu Village, so the period of unified farming was tentatively set at ten years. ”

"Ten years? What kind of farmland to grow in the whole village in the past ten years is up to me? Won't anyone jump out and talk against me? ”

"You're going to give people a chance to go against you, aren't you?" The old ninth master smiled slyly.

"That can't be."

Unified farming started by the old general, and the whole village discussed and passed, Qi Ke now just got a notice and then he was going to take office and arrange it quickly, in fact, there was no possibility of changing the matter, and Qi Ke was not hypocritical.

"It's not enough for me to have the final say on the farmland alone, there are many things involved in farming, such as manure and fertilizer, do I count it?"

"You have the final say, as long as the grain production can be increased, the whole village will listen to your dispatch, you will never go to the west, our military household discipline is very good, you can rest assured, never lag behind." Lu Chen slapped his thigh very heroically.

"Okay, let's go to the military post in the afternoon to select the yard, tomorrow we will go to the field, and re-measure the cultivated land in the whole village, and then I will ask the foreman of the construction bank to come to the field to see, the ditch waterwheel, as long as the things that can be used are listed, and a list of materials is listed."

"It's not cheap to build ditches and waterwheels, is there money in the village account?" Old Ninth Master asked a little nervously.

"No, only the hundreds of taels of silver that are turned over every day, the one thousand taels before were also staked on the cotton account, and they can't even withdraw the principal with interest, and now the business is stuck, and the textile merchants with financial resources are still waiting, as long as they are gone, the money will come back." Qi Ke told the truth very calmly.