Cultivation Of Immortals Begins With A Funeral Scripture

Ye Congwen nodded secretly. Six hundred catties of rice per mu is worth 1,200 Wen, and 300 catties of rapeseed is at least 100 catties of oil, which can also be sold for 1,000 Wen. For 10,000 mu, the annual output is worth 22 million Wen, that is, 220 gold bars, and the cost is half and half, at least 110 gold bars.

Wang Baochang suggested that farming by oneself is indeed more cost-effective than renting it out to others. Just as he was about to agree, he suddenly saw Kapok secretly shaking his head to wink at him.

Ye Congwen knew there was something wrong with it, so he didn't make a decision for the time being, and kept bringing food to the two officials, and only asked the two of them to take him to the local area when they were full.

Ye Congwen quietly walked to Kapok to ask what was going on by going home to get things.

I only heard Kapok quietly explaining:

"Xiao Congwen, don't promise to farm by yourself. It takes at least five hundred young and strong men to plant 10,000 mu of fertile land. We don't have that many people in Tieta Village, so you can only hand it over to Mr. Wang Baochang We grow food in Tieta Village."

"Well, what's wrong with our Tieta Village if we can't grow it and let them grow it?"

"Planting rice is a delicate job, and it is also a job that depends on the weather. There is a year of drought and a year of floods, and it will take three years if there is no drought or flood. If you earn one year and lose two years, you will still lose money in the end.

Besides, this Chief Wang Bao has never met us in Tieta Village, so you are not afraid that he will play tricks behind his back. If he secretly hides the rice and sells it, can you prevent it? "

Kapok's sentence pointed to the vital point, and Ye Congwen frowned. Originally, he wanted the giants and Mu people who were over 20 years old to make a living by farming, but now it seems that there is no way.

"We in Tieta Village have lived on hunting for generations and know nothing about farming, but you can ask the three aristocratic families in Wanquan County! How do they do it? Can't you just do it like a cat or a tiger?"

Ye Congwen suddenly realized that Yu Fu and Lin Fu all adopted the method of collecting rent. Could it be that they can only be a charter woman who guarantees income in drought and flood? Ye Congwen asked unwillingly:

"Second sister, does your village also adopt the method of collecting rent? Why do you choose such a conservative method?"

"Do you think that everyone in the world is as upright as the giant in Iron Tower Village? Growing food for yourself is the same as working for others?

Grow food for yourself, and pay more for your own pockets, and grow food for you, but you don’t share with them, so the work is naturally different.

If you think about it carefully, they are paid one silver coin a month for more or less beating. They are already very honest if they don’t want to be lazy, so how can they care for the rice for you? "

What Kapok said made Ye Congwen suddenly enlightened. Since everyone chooses to collect rent, this method is naturally the most trouble-free and worry-free.

Ye Congwen no longer struggled, decided to listen to advice, and invited Kapok and his wife to help him check it out.

"Anyway, I have nothing to do at my mother's house, so let's go to Tieta Village for us, and I will find your brother-in-law."

After Kapok finished speaking, he left, and not long after, he brought a strong and powerful black man over. The two exchanged a few pleasantries before the black man suggested:

"You'd better bring more giants to support the scene. People outside like to bully people. With these giants to help keep the place down, no one will dare to make trouble in the future."

Ye Congwen nodded in agreement, and asked Ye Rulang to take twenty giants with him to see ten thousand acres of fertile land.

The giants had never seen tens of thousands of mu of fertile land contiguously, and they all rowed to the western suburbs of Wanquan County with loud voices.

When they arrived in Wanquan County, Ye Congwen asked Mu Douya to invite Lin Xiaoyu to come and talk about what they did in Lin's mansion.

Ye Congwen and two officials rowed to Wanquan Village in the western suburbs. This piece of land covers at least 100,000 mu and is distributed along the river. It is sixty miles long and four to five miles wide. The lake water is connected with the tributaries of the Lishui River, and the irrigation conditions are excellent.

The fertile land allocated to Tieta Village is at the foot of the front mountain, with withered grass and overgrown bushes, four miles wide and six miles long. Even if it is burned with fire, it is not a small project!

"Master, such a good farmland has been abandoned like this. Hasn't your government thought about renting out the land to the common people in exchange for food?" Ye Congwen asked in puzzlement. This Wanquan Village has a total of 100,000 mu of land, except for the 30,000 mu at the end. Belonging to the three prefectures of Molin and Yu, the remaining 60,000 mu of land has been fenced tightly for decades, and they would rather let it grow grass and raise rabbits than allow people to set foot on it.

"Captain Ye was joking, the Demon Hunter's exclusive fertile land, without the leader's nod, who would dare to invade the royal family's assets?"

Master Li was afraid that Ye Congwen was trying to test the government's attitude on behalf of the demon hunters, so he quickly expressed his position seriously.

"Actually, this barren land was cultivated a hundred years ago. It's a pity that these aristocratic families have no successors. After seventy years, they have not been able to train body forging warlocks. When the time came, the land was taken back by the demon hunters. .”

Chief Wang Bao sighed, paused, and continued:

"The 10,000 mu of fertile land of Mo Linyu, one of the three great families in Wanquan County, will expire in the year after next. Maybe in a few years, it will become overgrown with weeds again."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Congwen saw Lin Xiaoyu and Mu Doumen rowing excitedly, and when they saw Ye Congwen, they smiled and shouted:

"Brother Congwen, what do you need from me?"

Lin Xiaoyu has been a bully in the backstreet since she was a child, how can anyone with a little reputation not know her? In Wanquan County, apart from the county magistrate, the most famous one is Miss Linfu.

"Tell me about how your Lin Mansion operates this ten thousand mu of fertile land?"

"Isn't that simple? You can divide 10,000 mu of fertile land into 20 mu per hill, pick 500 strong men across the river, and sublet it to them?

One mu of land produces 600 catties of rice and 100 catties of oil, just convert it into money and collect rent! Our three prefectures are generally 50-50, and each gets half, and no one suffers. "

"So, your Lin Mansion has more than a hundred gold bars for rent collection every year. Why did your grandfather say that the whole mansion only receives fifty or sixty gold bars every year, which is not enough for your Lin Mansion to spend?"

Ye Congwen was a little displeased, but Mr. Lin didn't say anything truthful.

"Brother Congwen, you don't look like a good citizen. Have you been evading taxes?"

Lin Xiaoyu joked with a smile, seeing Ye Congwen frowned and said nothing, she patiently explained:

"Have you ever heard the words "imperial grain and national tax? We collect half of the farmers' rent, and the imperial court collects half of our tax. Do you think that one hundred gold bars belong to our Lin Mansion?

Whether it is the farmers who grow grain or the landlords who collect rent, they have to pay half of the tax to the court. If you don't believe it, you can ask Mr. Li behind you, he is the one who settles this account. "

Ye Congwen suddenly realized, and asked Master Li:

"So your county government gets the most instead, and the grain growers and rent collectors only get 50% of it, and you take half of it without doing anything?"

"False! Captain Ye, you only know one thing, not the other. I'll settle it with you:

The 50% of the tax revenue is allocated in this way, the imperial court takes 10%, the county government takes 10%, the state government takes 10%, and the demon hunters take 10%. Only 10% is actually in the hands of our county government.

But the county government is responsible for disaster relief and food, opening schools, raising orphans and widows, and there are 2,800 servants on the 28th Road of the county government, and more than 1,000 security chiefs. It doesn't matter if the year is good or bad. Once there is a bad year, everyone will have to borrow money from the bank to pay their wages. "

Ye Congwen heard the master vomit bitterness, and seeing his bitterness and hatred, it didn't seem like he was lying. The wooden bean sprouts on the side asked puzzledly:

"It's enough for you to keep fewer yamen servants. You can't even pay your wages and you still support so many idlers. Isn't it just a post in the county yamen?

"Mrs. Ye's words are wrong. Bandits are rampant at the junction of urban and rural areas in Wanquan County, thieves are infested, and there are fierce beasts and raptors. The 2,800 yamen servants are too busy. How dare you reduce it!

Besides, there are more and more thugs who resist paying the imperial grain and national tax, Li Zheng Baochang is simply too busy, if there is no high-powered yamen servant in martial arts, our county government will not even be able to collect the tax. At that time, I am afraid that the county magistrate will not even be able to keep his official position. Who dares to dig his own grave? "

The more Master Li said, the more anxious he became. The county magistrate and the county magistrate have been busy suppressing the bandits recently, and they haven't had a good time in years, otherwise it would be the two of them who came today.

"Every family has scriptures that are hard to recite! Unexpectedly, the court also has difficulties. I understand everything. You urged me to take over ten thousand mu of fertile land on the fifth day of the first lunar month. You have been doing it for a long time to expand the tax source?"

Ye Congwen asked with a smile, no wonder he was in such a hurry, he came to urge him on the fifth day of the lunar new year, with a fixed income of 50 or 60 gold bars a year, where is he not a big taxpayer?

A big customer should be treated like a big customer, not to mention a 20% discount, it shouldn't be a problem for the government to lend a helping hand to help reclaim the wasteland, right?

"Master Li, you also know that there are few people in Tieta Village, and it will be spring plowing season soon, how can we reclaim 10,000 mu of fertile land in more than a month?

Building canals and building embankments for flood control, which one is not a time-consuming and labor-intensive project? How about this, this year's rice will not be planted, so let's plant some soybeans in March! "

"Captain Ye, this is too wasteful!"

Wang Baochang hurriedly retorted from the side, and before Ye Congwen could answer, he said like pouring beans:

"This fertile land of yours is next to a large natural lake. Just build a canal to draw water in, and flood control dikes can be built slowly during the slack period. It's a pity to grow soybeans on such a fertile black soil, which is only more than two hundred per mu. Compared with the yield of six hundred catties of rice, the harvest is less than half!"

The master on the side also echoed repeatedly, and the output was halved, so wouldn't our county government's tax be halved? Resolutely oppose the waste of staple food!

"I also know that the yield of rice planting is high, but now the year is not over, how can I get the villagers of Tieta Village to come out to build embankments and dig ditches?"

"Captain Ye, you don't have to worry about this. The government will handle the matter of building embankments and ditches. As long as you choose to plant rice in the spring, I guarantee that your canals and flood embankments will be completed before the flood season!"

Master Li hurriedly made a promise, and said to Chief Wang Bao:

"Wang Baochang, if Captain Ye rents 10,000 mu of fertile land to your Wangjia Village, are you sure that the barren land will be planted with rice within half a year?"

"There is no problem in opening up wasteland and farming, but it is up to the county government to find a way to build canals and embankments. After all, people only have two hands."

"Okay, you are in charge of land reclamation. The government has issued a document to find someone to build a flood embankment. Captain Ye, what do you think?"

Ye Congwen was about to speak, when Dalbean suddenly rushed to answer:

"Allow us to discuss it, and I will reply to you within three days. After all, there are more than 300 people in a village. Ye Congwen needs to go back and hold a meeting for everyone to vote on."

"My daughter-in-law is right. After all, it is the property of the clan. I have to go back and ask for everyone's opinions. Please rest assured, I will notify you as soon as the result comes out."

Ye Congwen knew that Dal had something to say, so he sent the two of them away. Before leaving, Master Li kept urging Ye Congwen to make up his mind as soon as possible, so that spring plowing should not be delayed.

When the two of them were far away, they humbly asked for advice:

"Second sister and second brother-in-law, what do you think is the best way?"

Kapok pushed Hei Han to speak out all the words. Hei Han contemplated for a long time and watched dozens of giants staring at him curiously. After a long time, he made up his mind and said:

"The government can't do a good job of digging canals and building embankments, and you can't leave all the land reclamation and farming to Mr. Wang Bao. You really want to see rice in the fields in autumn. The flood control dikes have to be repaired by yourself, and the tenants have to choose by themselves."

Ye Congwen was taken aback when he heard this, if he didn't take advantage of it, wouldn't he be a bastard? But since I asked him to come over to help with advice, I have to trust the eyes of professionals.

"Second brother-in-law, why can't the government help build it for free? Isn't it a waste of a huge sum of money to repair it yourself?"

Wood bean sprouts expressed the doubts in Ye Congwen's heart. The surrounding giants and Lin Xiaoyu stared at the black man with wide eyes.

"The government builds embankments by apportioning corvees. These people can't eat enough to eat and they build river embankments for free. How can the quality be guaranteed? The Linfu embankment will be repaired every three years, and a small amount every two years. You can do it. Ask Miss Lin, does their family have to spend money to repair the flood embankment every now and then?"