Chapter 162: A Thousand Hectares of Fertile Fields

At the beginning when Ning Zhiyuan moved out of the palace, the emperor gave three farms, plus later given by the king, there were 1,200 acres of land, a total of ten owners to take care of, and now this time is the end of the year when the settlement, the ten owners came to the Rui Wangfu with the account book.

Ning Zhiyuan still has affairs at hand, and he sent Du Yiyi to the Rui Wangfu and let the coachman drive the carriage to other places, he will not take care of these housekeeping, as the largest source of income for the Rui Wangfu, if Du Yiyi wants to run the family, she must first figure out these Zhuangtian matters.

All the way to the lobby, you can see the ten owners sitting on the left and right sides of the lobby, eight men and two women, seeing that they are dressed similarly to the housekeepers, and there are no delicate people with sallow faces and insufficient nutrition, it can be seen that the owner of this farm is also a fat man.

They all had a booklet in their hands, which recorded the harvest of the fields under their management and the rent paid by the tenants for the year.

These ten people are all over thirty-five years old, and the oldest one is in his early forties and sixteens, and he can do things with a group of men, and the two women are also very strong, with fat bodies and hard arms, plus the shrewd eyes and mean mouth, which is enough to fight with these men here.

Seeing Du Yiyi entering, the ten people all got up and saluted.

"Princess, these ten are the owners of the village who came to settle the settlement, and the servants have already checked their account books before, and there are no discrepancies, what about these things! They are the ones who honor you! The butler pointed to some baskets in the corner of the lobby.

"It's all worthless mountain goods, and I hope I can get into the eyes of the princess!" A middle-aged man sitting at the top of the right side began to take over the butler's words.

Du Yiyi turned around and sat down, and glanced at this person, six feet tall, wheat-colored skin, thick eyebrows and small eyes, thin lips, wearing a cyan Suzhou Hangzhou Yunjin straight embellishment, hair all bunched and on the top of the head, with a hosta inlaid don't matter, well-dressed and respectful, so that it was still pleasing to the eye.

Du Yiyi straightened his throat and said, "This year is the first time I have met with you, but there will be one or two such meetings every year in the future, so please introduce yourself!" It starts with this owner! ”

The man who was standing smiled happily, and immediately replied: "Back to the princess, the little one is the owner of the thirtieth Zhuangtian in the west of the city, everyone calls Xiao Lao Qi, the thirtieth Zhuangtian has a good harvest this year, and the rent is all paid, this is the account book, and the princess is invited to take a look!" ”

The housekeeper took the account book and handed it to Du Yiyi.

"The small one is the owner of the thirty-first farm, named Liu Fan, everyone calls the little old willow on weekdays, and the rent of the thirty-first farmland is also paid off, this is the account, please look at the princess!"

The second book was delivered to Du Yiyi, the third, the fourth, and the fifth, all the way to the woman who was sitting on Du Yiyi's left.

"The villain is the owner of the fortieth Zhuangtian, with the husband's surname Chen, the husband is the account of the Rui Wangfu, everyone is called the villain Chen's family, and the rent of the fortieth Zhuangtian is still missing three households with a total of fifteen buckets of rice! The villain is already being severely pursued, and he will definitely make up for it tomorrow! This is the account book, and the princess is invited to look at it! ”

The other five people were all handed over, but she didn't have any credit in her hand, and the five people who had already submitted the account books all laughed sullenly.

Although the woman was angry, she could not attack, so she could only grit her teeth, bow her head and explain: "These families all have special circumstances, one family has died and the man is unable to farm, one family has a strange disease and has delayed the autumn harvest, and another family lives at the foot of the mountain, because the house was destroyed due to the heavy rain at the end of summer, and the harvested grain has been bought to build a shelter!" ”

The husband is the bookkeeper of the Rui Wangfu? Then the Chen family should have become the owner of the fortieth village through his husband's relationship. After thinking about it, she said sharply:

"The prince has always been lenient, if there are special circumstances can give an appropriate delay, but this wind can not be opened at will, if it is unable to cultivate, then take back the field and transfer it to other tenants, but these tenants are dependent on these fields to live, our palace can not be ruthless and unjust, if you can, give a little funding! You can't ignore the life or death of the tenants for the sake of collecting rent, if they really don't want to sue Shuntian Mansion, it won't look good for the prince's face if it is spread out! ”

"The villain understands!" Hearing that Du Yiyi did not mean to pursue in his words, the woman immediately made two gestures happily, and did not forget to make a smug look with Lao Qi on the right.

"Princess, which family has no difficulties, if this wind opens, it will attract tenants to follow suit, and it will be difficult to collect rent at that time, these tenants in order to escape rent, but the means are all at their best, what is a strange disease, it must be lazy, the destruction of the house is their private matter, since they received the grain, they use it to build a house, it is really unreasonable!"

Liu Pan was the first to stand up, they are the owners of the village, and the management of the farm is the first to collect rent, if they are all the same as the Bodhisattva, then how to collect the rent? As soon as Liu Fan spoke, the other four people on the right all stood up and opposed Du Yiyi's words of funding.

"You don't need to say more, natural and man-made disasters cannot be avoided, and the wind of connivance cannot be opened, but it is still necessary to consider the situation, and the matter is so decided, I will go to see it when the spring sowing is right next year, and you will select some of the more difficult families among the tenants, and I will inspect it when the time comes.

Du Yiyi's eyebrows were solemn, his face was grim, and it was the second time that he had repeated the words, so that everyone had no courage to refute again, so they could only sit back in place one by one, shrinking their necks and carefully waiting for the next person to hand in the account book.

Immediately after that, the other four people all returned to their seats with the account books handed in one by one, Du Yiyi took a cursory look at them one by one, corrected the amounts, and put the account books aside.

"These ten farms, the largest is the thirty-fifth farm, the smallest is the forty-ninth farm, but the best harvest is the thirtieth farm, according to the topography and the field calculation, the most rent per mu is the forty-fifth farm, the topography is one of them, but this management is also one of the most important, Li Zhuang, you tell everyone how you manage the farm!"

The forty-fifth Zhuangtian Li Zhuang Owner is another woman outside the Chen family, the size of the Zhuang Tian is the second smallest among the ten Zhuang Fields, and the terrain is not close to the water source outside the city, but the harvest of the Zhuang Tian under her is ranked fourth, and the management is the most important thing to let a piece of silver play the role of gold, compared to the background of the Chen family, this set of management methods of the Li Zhuang Owner, who was widowed in the early years and never remarried, made Du Yiyi more interested.

"The villain is ugly, the villain became the owner of the forty-fifth Zhuangtian is the year before last, the year before last Dahe was rich in rain and the wind and rain were smooth, the harvest of each Zhuangtian exceeded previous years, only the villain that Zhuangtian because of the steep slope of the terrain and is a dry field, the harvest did not improve compared to previous years, so the villain took the people in the farmer's field day and night to work hard day and night from the river that everyone used to water to dig a ditch to divert water, although it took more time, but the effect was very good, when the spring planting time solved the problem of everyone's water source, The tenants are full of energy, the crops are fertilized sufficiently, and the harvest will naturally come up, although the villain is said to be widowed and sick, but the spring and autumn harvest have not fallen at all, the princess is right, so that the tenants can farm with peace of mind is the best way to increase the harvest! ”

"Some tenants, that is, Diao Min, don't reason with you at all, and often scold with sticks and hoes, what can you do!"

Lao Qi glared at Master Li Zhuang obliquely, and immediately overturned her explanation: "The better they are, the more they will only kick their noses in the face." ”

"Lao Qi, you have said this too much, if you treat them brutally, they will naturally not greet you with a smile! The prince asked us to be the owner of the farm, that is, to take care of the farmland, if there are no tenants to farm, who will plant these fields? Where do you have rich errands, and where do you have brocade clothes? ”

Master Li immediately overturned Lao Qi's statement.

"The kindness of a woman, none of the tenants under my command dare to make trouble, even with the kindness of a woman like you, the rent of the Chen family will not be collected."

Seeing this, Du Yiyi has roughly understood, the five people on the right can be said to be a faction, the Chen family and the Li Zhuang owner on the left are a faction, and the other three are a faction.

Of course, this kind of trivial matter does not need her to take action in person, and called out to the housekeeper, and the housekeeper immediately stepped forward, pointing at the few people who were arguing and reprimanded angrily: "Presumptuous, what kind of place is this, I want to quarrel with you to go back and quarrel!" ”

It was the owner of Li Zhuang who opened his mouth to pay tribute to the past and hurriedly bowed, and Lao Qi and the others also lowered their heads.

"I think Li Zhuang said well, the people are the foundation of the country, Mencius has clouds and the people are the most important and light, ten Zhuangtian, there are 500 tenants, it is not easy to govern, they are the official government before, the prince took over and reduced the rent, is to appease the tenants, if there is a bad people, it is necessary to counter violence with violence, but in normal times, they must be friendly, you are all for the sake of the interests of the palace, I will not do much responsibility for this matter, in the future you must treat the tenants well, you work hard for the palace, steward, What I asked you to prepare! Distribute it to everyone! ”

The butler answered yes, and immediately went into the back hall, and soon took ten money bags, although they were not full, but the weight of the money could still be guessed from the shape of the money bags being propped up.

These owners are all fine people, and when they look at these money bags with uniform weight, they visually measure the weight, and they are all smiling like flowers and can't help but be happy.

"Two copies of fifty taels, respectively for Li Zhuang and Lao Qi, and thirty taels for each of the others, it will be regarded as the New Year's red envelope given to you by the palace!"

In the past, at the end of the year, the owners of the village came to the house to hand over the account book, and the housekeeper would distribute the reward, which was thirty taels, but this year, Du Yiyi has slightly changed, there will be competition if there is a difference in interests, and there will be competition to pull interests, and the expenditure of forty taels of silver will definitely be worth it.

"Thank you princess for the reward, thank you princess for the reward!"

Although there was such a previous unpleasantness, but with such a rich reward, Li Zhuang and Lao Qi were both bright, their eyes were golden, and they bowed deeply to Du Yiyi while holding the money bag.

"Wait for the spring next year, I will go to Zhuangtian to have a look, and then you will tell me the situation in detail, and this will be the case today, you talk to the housekeeper, and I will not accompany you!"

With a smile, Du Yiyi got up and entered the back hall.

Ning Xiao had already entered the backyard, Forsythia Wu Qian Shuiping and the others were doing needlework in the house, Qin Huai had already obtained Ning Zhiyuan's approval to go to Lian Qiao's family, there would be no more mistakes in this marriage, Du Yiyi specially asked Forsythia to support a red satin, and asked her to prepare in advance to sew a wedding dress for herself, Wu Qian Shuiping and the others had already learned about the relationship between Forsythia and Qin Huai, and they were all very happy to help her make a wedding dress.

As soon as Du Yiyi entered the house, she called Weng Tong and a few people in, and let Xu's mother stay outside, even for lunch, she also let people bring it to the house, practicing from morning to afternoon, until there was a sound in the yard Mother Xu knocked on the door of the house, and she put away the wooden sword in her hand.

"What's the matter!"

"Princess, the third lady is here!"