Chapter 145: Tenants' Opportunities
For what Shen Feng said, some people understood, while others still looked ignorant and didn't understand anything.
Shen Feng glanced around at everyone, and then motioned for Uncle Gen to start.
"I have also lived for most of my life, but I have never seen or heard of any master family who cooperates with tenants like this, although there are some ideas that I don't agree with from the bottom of my heart, but since the head of the Shen family has decided, then I will tell everyone about it. Brother Wan, you are blessed!" Uncle Gen sighed, and then continued: "According to the idea of the head of the Shen family, first of all, as long as the children of the tenants in the village reach the age of enlightenment, they can enter the private school of the Shen Mansion for free to study. ”
After Lao Wantou heard this, he was stunned for a moment, not understanding what Shen Feng meant.
"The benefits of going to a private school to enlighten children, I don't think I need to say more, right? And it's all free, and all the money from Mr. Shen is from the Shen Mansion. Even the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and food that the children need in the school are all borne by the Shen Mansion.
If your children are competitive and work hard to learn, the Shen Mansion will always train them, maybe your children will become champions in the future? It's not too far from the Shen Mansion, and if this way is feasible, the Shen Mansion will even send a horse-drawn carriage to pick up the children at a fixed location. In addition, Lord Shen's family also said that if anyone wants to learn literacy, no matter how old they are, they can go to the school to study in their spare time. ”
"This, how can this be ?......" Lao Wantou couldn't figure out why Shen Feng would do this, the whole village is just such a small number of people, and they can't be busy serving the crops all day long, who has time to run to read and write? But fortunately, people have also said that they can do it in their leisure time, and how can the croppers have any leisure time? But it's just a saying, the most important thing is that the children can go to private schools to read and write, which is a great thing. Thinking of this, Lao Wantou was about to say something, but just as he was about to speak, he was stopped by Shen Changgen.
"Don't worry, there's something else!" Uncle Gen waved his hand to stop Lao Wantou from wanting to speak, and then said: "Don't worry about the child going to a private school, as long as you are a tenant, as long as the child reaches the age of enlightenment, no matter how much, the Shen Mansion will accept it."
In addition, the harvest in the field, the previous cooperation with the Xiao family was 19, and now the Shen family is kind-hearted, and plans to adjust this ratio to 28 points, if you are diligent in the future, then you will naturally be able to share more grain. ”
"Wow!" This question is the focus of the tenants of Wanyun Village, so when it comes to the composition of the harvest, everyone listens very carefully. And after hearing Uncle Gen say this at this moment, no matter how dull and numb his face was just now, all of them were replaced by surprise and joy at this moment.
"Don't think that's all there is to it, and what else!, the head of the Shen family also decided to invest two hundred taels of silver to help the current Wanyun Village, what are you going to help? One is to solve the current situation that Wanyun Village can't eat, and use part of the money to buy rough grain to distribute to everyone, but there is one thing that needs to be explained in advance, that is, each family can receive 100 catties of rough grain, which is free for everyone in the Shen Mansion, and there is no need to return it.
But if someone says that this grain is not enough to eat and harvest the crops, then they can also come and receive some more, but this time they need to sign an IOU, and wait until the grain is harvested and then return it to the owner's family with interest. ”
"And this kind of good thing?"
"The Lord is really a good man!"
"We finally have something to eat!"
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Seeing that everyone was starting to discuss, Uncle Gen said again: "The rest of the silver, Lord Shen's family said, can be captained by a respected person in the village, who is usually responsible for communicating with the Shen Mansion and supervising and managing everyone's farming.
Then the rest of the silver was also used by the captain to buy some oxen and horses for plowing the fields and pulling goods to help everyone farm and pull grain. If you think you can take care of the animals, you can sign an IOU to bring them back to your home, and if the harvest is good for three consecutive years, the livestock will go directly to your family. Tsk, three years, as long as you are not too lazy, and you have the help of big livestock, how can you be in vain. Where can I find this good thing?" Speaking of this, Uncle Gen stopped and took a sip of water, looked at Lao Wantou, who was still stunned, and said with a smile: "Brother Wan, how is it?
"You, what you said is true?" Lao Wantou obviously couldn't figure out why Shen Feng was so kind to everyone, so he even trembled a little when he spoke.
"Of course it's true, but at your age, you can't go to the field anyway?" Uncle Gen said with a smile.
"No, I can do it for another two years!" When the old man heard that he wanted to exclude himself, he shook his head like a rattle.
Shen Feng saw that everyone was a little dumbfounded, and felt that it was not interesting to sit there, so he motioned for Uncle Gen to continue, and he got up and took Chun Niang to visit the village.
"Hehe, what's the matter, I'm afraid I won't let you do it?" Uncle Gen smiled and said to Lao Wantou: "Since you are their elder, then the position of the captain of the Wanyun Village team will be held by you, this position does not have to work, it is mainly responsible for managing and supervising the tenants in the entire Wanyun Village, try to be diligent and harvest more." Then the Shen Mansion will give you a monthly payment that is enough to support the whole family. How's it going? Do you have the guts to take it?"
"Hey, what's the reason you don't dare to take it? That's what I did in the first place!" Lao Wantou happily agreed when he heard that he could still receive a reward.
Maybe it was because of the departure of Shen Feng and Chun Niang, or maybe it was attracted by the situation described by Uncle Gen, in short, the tenants who were originally watching around seemed to want to ask something at this time, and they gathered around one by one.
"Butler Shen, you said that our children can go to private school for free?" Wan Zhengping, as a tenant, came to Uncle Gen with an excited and a little restrained face and asked. In the village, his family is the most blessed person, because the wife he married was angry, and gave birth to three sons at once, and he didn't feel anything when the year was good, but now the year is getting worse and worse, and the original blessing has now become a heavy burden. Just like now, when the family ran out of food a year ago, the family could only rely on digging some wild vegetables in the mountains to survive. One of the most common things children say every day is, "Mother, I'm hungry!" Every time he saw the child's head and head drooping, Wan Zhengping felt a pain and despair in his heart like a blunt knife cutting meat.
I didn't expect that the new master can let the children go to school for free, but this is not important, the most important thing is to provide free food for the children, God, this is a great thing, if the three children can pass, even if they can't enter the school, doing some errands and chores in the master's house, it is much better than starving to death at home. Thinking of this, he mustered up the courage to squeeze in front of Uncle Gen.
"Yes, our Shen Mansion can sign and draw a pledge as a guarantee for this!" Uncle Gen said with a smile.
"Also, I just heard from your old man that the main family can also provide free food for the dolls?" Wan Zhengping confirmed again with trepidation.
As soon as Wan Zhengping's question came out, Uncle Gen grasped the key to it, he stood up, and said to the tenants again: "The child goes to a private school, and the Shen family's family provides free food, if the child works hard and learns well, the Shen Mansion will always train for free." There's nothing wrong with that, don't worry!"
"But what about my three children? can they all be fed, but it doesn't matter if they can't, if they can go to the master's house to work as handymen. Wan Zhengping said again.
"There is no limit to children, several children are fine, not to mention that you are three, if you have thirty children in your family, you can also send them over. By the way, yes, the girl can also be sent over, and the Shen Mansion has now invited a female gentleman to open a special women's school!" Uncle Gen said with an affirmative expression.
"What? Girls can also go to private school? What are you kidding? This is something that has never happened since ancient times, and the Shen Mansion will not have any traps if they take away so many children at once, right?"
"What else do girls doll learn? When she grows up, she is going to get married, and if she learns, she will learn in vain, so she might as well help work at home!"
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There were a variety of voices, but all of them were opposed to girls going to school.
"Stop, stop! You deserve to be punished, it's really cheap, you didn't have these opportunities before, but now the opportunities are in front of you, and you don't know how to seize them, they are all unsuccessful goods. As soon as Lao Wantou heard that everyone was objecting in front of Shen Changgen, he spoke directly.
After everyone quieted down, Lao Wantou said to Uncle Gen with a ashamed face: "Don't be angry, big butler, if what you say is true, then leave this matter to me." But the most important thing now is that many people in our village have been out of food for several days, can we solve the food matter first?"