"You'll know when you get there."

Lin Hao threw a word to Ming Huan, and then got into a sedan chair and closed her eyes to recuperate.

She wanted to go and see for herself the tenants who had leased the fields of the Chengguo Mansion, why did they pay so little grain every quarter?

After all, we can't let the Chengguo Mansion keep making ends meet, and it's not a way to go on all the time.

She had in her hands all the land deeds, as well as the list of tenants, and the details of the grain handed over to the Guogong Mansion every quarter, and she had the power to become the Guogong Mansion at the beginning, so naturally she had to take care of everything herself.

Soon, the fields of the Chengguo Mansion arrived.

This autumn is the harvest season, and it is also the busy time for farming, and many tenants in this field are busy.

"Listen, all of you, the head of the Chengguo Mansion is here." Steward Zhang was also ordered by Lin Zhener to go together.

He was familiar with most of the tenants, and he had dealt with them a lot in the past, and when those tenants heard this, they hurriedly put down their hoes and rakes, and soon gathered over.

"Huh? This is a handsome girl......"

"Shhh, don't talk nonsense, this is the daughter of the Chengguo Mansion, and her status is precious......"

"Wasn't it the wife of the Chengguo Mansion in the past? How to ......"

The tenants exchanged heads and muttered a few words.

Lin Hao had already gotten out of the carriage at this time and came to the front of the crowd, "I just came to see everyone today, and I didn't want to hinder everyone's work. ”

"Steward Zhang, if you read the name on this list, I am familiar with it." Lin Hao opened his mouth, and even Steward Zhang didn't know what Lin Hao's idea was.

I had to read it according to the roster, "Li San's family of five, Zhao ......" After the roster was read, Lin Zhen also had a rough impression, "You can read the tenants who did not pay grain to the Chengguo Mansion last season." ”

Everyone gasped, it turned out that this new boss was here for this, and he was really the master who ate people and didn't spit out bones.

The tenants immediately muttered with resentment, "Why did you ask for debts again if you didn't pay an IOU and interest?" ”

"Isn't it? This new boss is forcing us to come. ”

The resentment became heavier and heavier, and the eyes that looked at Lin Hao did not have the envy of Fang Cai.

Some time ago, the rainy period was too long, and a lot of crops were drowned, where is there a good harvest!

This is good, the food is still not enough, and because of the day of shirking the grain payment with the Chengguo Mansion, it has become a 30% usury, and it is not possible to borrow money, and it is not possible to see that the harvest is about to be completed, so you can't be taken back by the Chengguo Mansion before your eyes!

This is good, in less than a month, the Chengguo Mansion has come to collect debts again.

It's really a full man who doesn't know how hungry a man is hungry!

Steward Zhang was quite prestigious, and after a few words in front of these tenants, the noise of discussion was finally suppressed.

"Alright, quiet."

Steward Zhang then continued to think of the tenants who owed their debts.

The more Lin Zhen listened, the more panicked she became, there was no one who didn't owe this feeling.

Looking at the wheat in the fields of crops, it was staggering and unsatisfactory.

The tenants present were all sad, and there was a lot of resentment in their cloudy eyes, but more of them were numb.

Many women, with their hair in a bun, took the child into their arms, and the child, perhaps hungry, sipped his thumb and ate with relish.

"Boss, just give it a few days! Our family counts the rice in the pot every day, and we really can't eat enough, and we don't have the strength to work. ”

A farmer stood up from the ranks, his yellow cheeks sunken, his lips chapped, and he looked at Lin Zhen tightly.

"Yes, yes!" Immediately, someone in the team responded, and a few words were scattered, so many people had no momentum at all.

Lin Hao was silent, and Steward Zhang didn't dare to say anything.

Once the land of this powerful person is leased to tenant farmers, who cares whether these tenant farmers can pay the grain on time, and if they can't pay it, they can only owe it, plus interest, and more and more, and if they can't pay it back, they will naturally have to serve as slaves for the whole family.

Steward Zhang often dealt with these tenant farmers, and although the usury was done by Fang Cheng, which one did not operate in this way.

The Great Zhou Dynasty prohibits usury, but where can it really be forbidden from ancient times to the present!

In this way, the rich gentry and magnates became richer and richer, and the peasants became poorer and poorer.

This does not exploit these peasants, where does the money come from to covet pleasures?

Secretly glanced at Lin Hao, found that her face was not good, and hesitated whether to speak, but saw Lin Hao's eyebrows raised, and said clearly, "Why did you come to be tenants?" ”

"......" Everyone was silent, this question is irrelevant.

Who has land and enough to eat, and is willing to come as a tenant?

“……”

Steward Zhang doesn't know what's going on, what does Lin Zhen mean?

"What? No one answered me this question? Lin Hao seemed to be smiling, and her tone was a little stronger.

"When you go back to the house, you naturally don't have anything to eat, so you come to farm." Someone in the crowd replied.

"My land has been sold, and my three children are hungry every day......," replied another peasant woman.

In this way, most of the words you say to me are sad words.

These tenant farmers are having a hard time.

If it weren't for Lin Hao's own eyes, how would she know that there were still people who couldn't eat enough in this big week?

This completely subverted Lin Hao's cognition, she was in this peaceful and prosperous era of the Great Zhou, eating, this is the basic food and clothing.

She has been clothed and fed since she was a child, where have she seen these low-level characters, and she suddenly had a trace of anger in her heart!

Only now did she understand why this upper-class magnate was arrogant and lascivious, and they all came to exploit these peasants!

If the peasants can't eat, they naturally have to sell their fields, and if they don't have land, they will be hungry, so they have to become tenant farmers, and the tenant farmers can't pay the grain, so they can only borrow usury from the masters, and the profits will be endless.

In the end, the whole family had to act as a slave, and they were oppressed by this magnate or landlord for the rest of their lives, and they died before they died, but there were still children and grandchildren!

Scold.

Lin Hao couldn't help but sneer.

"And how are your crops this year?"

Lin Hao asked again, if she wants to solve this situation, the expenses of the Chengguo Mansion can't rely on these bottoms, she doesn't care or shame to do so!

She wants to fight a beautiful turnaround battle for the Chengguo Mansion, and she wants to show that person, the one who looks down on the world.

There are a lot of fields in the Chengguo Mansion, today is just a place in the south of the city, Lin Zhen wants to start from here, completely change the lives of these tenant farmers, she not only wants to let these tenant farmers eat, but also let the income of the Chengguo Mansion come to the fair, she does not need to eat the food of the court in vain, she wants to make a good name for the Chengguo Mansion!

The originally exhausted heart suddenly set off a stormy wave, she had never felt like she was today, she felt that she was a useful person, compared to these low-level tenant farmers, her starting point was many times higher!