"God's gift, how much land has been harvested?"

After the registration was completed, the captain Wang Long asked Gu Tianci, who was in charge of statistics.

"306 villagers, a total of 1,867.4 acres of land, irrigated land accounted for about one-third, dry land accounted for two-thirds." Gu Tianci said.

"There are about 3,000 acres of land in Lujia Village, and we only collected 60% of the land?"

"The rest is basically landlords' land, and most of it is fertile watered land, but it is in the hands of a few landlords in the village, and they have no intention of selling the land to us." Gu Tianci said.

Wang Lung's brows suddenly furrowed.

Gotta get ready to gnaw on the hard bones.

It is not easy to recover the land in the hands of the landlord.

What's more, some landlords are squires who have meritorious reputations, such as Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi, who enjoy the tax exemption policy of different quotas of land, and there are many people who dedicate land to their names, and they are the most stubborn interest groups in feudal society.

It is extremely difficult to get the land of these landlords, and even if extremely favorable conditions are offered and the sky-high price is purchased, it may not be effective.

When Xujiazhuang was established two years ago, he hit a nail on the landlord's head.

"Tomorrow, let's go visit the next few landlords."

Wang Lung rubbed his temples, knowing that he was going to fight a tough battle.

As a matter of fact!

The process of building a new estate does not mean that all the land has to be expropriated, which is impossible and unrealistic.

It is only in order to improve the efficiency of farming and facilitate the play of mechanization, what is needed for the construction of the manor is a large and complete land.

The terrain is required to be flat, and there are few rivers, forests, hills, and swamps.

The shape should be square, circle, or polygon.

A piece of land of tens of acres should be left in the middle for the construction of a fortress.

Remove ridge barriers, increase the area of effective cultivated land, and there can be no 'nail land' belonging to others, mixed with the land of collective estates.

That is, the land demarcated within the scope of the manor must all belong to the manor, and no one's land is allowed to affect the planning and integrity of the manor.

Based on these principles, it is the next step for those landlords to buy their land by any means, but as long as the landlord's land is no longer within the scope of the estate, the goal has been achieved, and of course it is better to buy their land, which is the most ideal situation.

……

Lujia Village.

In the living room of Lu Jinghui's mansion, there are several big people in the village.

Lu Juren, who sat in the first position, was the largest landlord in the village, with 500 acres of fertile land, and a large piece of irrigated land near the Dagou River, all of which belonged to his family, and naturally became the richest family in the village.

But at this moment, in the face of the vigorous collective estate land acquisition activities carried out by Xujiazhuang, Lu Juren couldn't help but have a sense of crisis.

"Master Lu, our land must not be sold to that Xujiazhuang, not a single acre!"

Li Yanzhi and Li Xiucai in the village said with a tough and resolute attitude: "Xujiazhuang harbors evil intentions and plots against us, and wants to break our foundation, if we sell the land to them, we will be finished." ”

"Brother Yanzhi, what you said makes sense, but that Xu Jiazhuang came prepared."

Another Xiucai said: "Xujiazhuang is wealthy, in order to expropriate the land, will take various methods, can be called unscrupulous, they first salute and then soldiers, first increase the price of acquisition, twenty taels of silver and one acre of land, increase the price to fifty taels, one hundred taels, ten times the premium purchase, with this method to settle some people." ”

"If the premium acquisition fails, they will propose a land replacement plan, exchanging large fields for small fields, fertile fields for thin fields, and near fields for distant fields, so that the land changers feel that they have taken advantage of it, and many large households have been settled in this way."

"If the premium acquisition and land replacement do not work, the big households are not willing to sell the land for the land, in order to achieve the goal, Xujiazhuang will collude with the bandits, kidnap the ticket for extortion, take your grandson and son in your hand, and tear the ticket if you don't agree! In addition, Xujiazhuang also used small profits to win over all the farmers, employing a large number of long-term and short-term workers, resulting in a shortage of labor, and there were no people planting in the land of our squires, even if they could hire people, the silver spent would be more, and the gains outweighed the losses, and over time, we would not be able to hold on. ”

"This is a desperate plan to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle!"

Li Xiucai's face turned pale, his body shook, and he felt very bad.

Although his family only has 50 acres of fertile land, it is impossible for him to work in the field, that kind of work is for the mud legs, how can he do farm work?

Lu Juren's face was not very good-looking.

Xujiazhuang's means are too much, the soft ones can't come to the hard ones, the hard ones can't be ruthless, and the ruthless ones can't come to the end of the household, not to mention the ordinary landlords, he feels that it is difficult to withstand them.

"This Xujiazhuang is really lawless and lawless, can no one cure them?"

Lu Juren's son, Lu Shengwen, patted the coffee table and said angrily.

This caused silence among the people.

The wealth of Xujiazhuang is obvious to all and is well known, and Xu Yuan, a maritime merchant from overseas, is even richer than the country, with countless amounts of money.

This can be seen from the sugar, glass mirrors, lighters, soaps, table clocks and other commodities that appear in Lu Ju's house.

And in order to purchase these items, Lu Juren spent more than 5,000 taels of silver, accumulated several generations of family funds, and spent a small half, which is still the result of some restraint.

In ancient times, money could communicate with the gods, and money was also an all-powerful existence.

Although fame is more important, and the power lies in money, Xujiazhuang has been able to stand safely until now, which proves that its backers are excellent, or its own strength is strong, otherwise it would have been torn apart and carved up.

……

The next day.

Wang Long and Gu Tianci came to visit.

Although Lu Juren resisted a little, he still treated him politely, and people served good tea, and he didn't dare to offend him.

in the living room.

After greeting for a while, Wang Lung said his purpose, saying that Lu Juren's 500 acres of fertile land, about 300 acres, is in the planning area of the collective estate, I don't know if Lu Juren can bear the pain to sell, Xu Jiazhuang is willing to buy at a high price.

"Nephew Wang Xian, can Lu use the good land to invest in your manor, don't pay a penny, just give me half of the dividends every year."

Lu Juren said his plan and wanted to take a stake in the collective estate.

Because he has also personally visited Xujiazhuang, the kind of wheat and corn that yield thousands of catties per mu, potatoes and sweet potatoes that yield 10,000 catties per mu, the scene of the harvest of these high-yield crops, and those steel monster-like farm machinery, have completely subverted his worldview and made him let go of all his arrogance as a lifter.

Immediately, he also saw great benefits.

If his family's 500 acres of fertile land were also planted with high-yield crops, and they were also harvested using iron and steel machinery, bringing five times or ten times the yield, how much money would he earn in a year?

It's just that the good seeds provided by Xujiazhuang are limited, and the cultivation is illegal, and no chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used, and the five acres of high-yield crops planted by his family last year are not as high as expected, and the yield has only increased by about two times, bringing a small disappointment rather than a big surprise.

Presumably, only in the mode of collective estates can a real increase in production be achieved, and it is not possible to make a small fuss.

Therefore, Lu Juren had the idea of joining the shares, thinking that after joining the 500 acres of fertile land, after joining the collective estate, all of them achieved a tenfold increase in production, and he got half of them, which also had a five-fold harvest.

"Our estate does not accept land shares."

Wang Long decisively refused: "The best plan we can provide is the 300 acres of fertile land in the planning area, we buy it out at a price of 50 taels and one acres, or divide 350 acres from other plots for land replacement, if Uncle Xian is willing to cooperate, it will be the priority partner of Xujiazhuang in the future, and enjoy the qualifications of priority to buy improved seeds, farm tools, pesticides, and fertilizers, and can even rent large machinery to help harvest, and the grain produced can also be sold to our processing workshop first, without worrying about sales, and the price is particularly fair. Guaranteed not to lose ......"

Wang Long listed many preferential conditions, which made people conclude that as long as they cooperate with the collective estate, even if they can't buy shares, they can get a lot of benefits and share the benefits brought by the estate.

"Father, I think I can say yes!"

Lu Shengwen couldn't help but be moved, and said in Lu Juren's ear: "Father, Xujiazhuang is good at farming and management, and the output is amazing, it is not a loss to cooperate with them, it is better to agree to the land replacement and become the priority partner of Xujiazhuang." If you don't agree to cooperate and offend Xujiazhuang, the consequences will be unpredictable. ”

Lu Juren remained silent, but he also nodded slightly, obviously moved.