Yes, officials can make requests through the household department and their tenant farmers. For example, some officials like to eat white rice and dislike wheat, so they will specifically ask for more rice and less wheat.
But Guanzhong is the best way to grow wheat. Anyway, they don’t grow the land, and they don’t point to this job to live. They have all kinds of requirements, so everyone hates being ordered to farm.
Knowing that the thousand mu of land was planted by them, Man Bao felt relieved, and immediately said with a smile: "That's just right, it's convenient to manage, how much each of your families want to rent and plant, come forward and tell me."
There are hundreds of families in one mile. More than ten years ago, when Pu Village was moved here, it was moved directly according to one mile. In the past ten years, no matter whether the elderly in the family died or not, there was no one who separated the family anyway.
Life is hard enough, why make yourself uncomfortable with a separate family
Even if it is noisy, in order to reduce the labor of one household, they will die without separating their families, so now Pu Village still has a neat hundred households.
Man Bao thought, for one hundred households, one family can rent only ten acres and then they will be allotted. At that time, they can persuade some families with more families to rent and plant a little more, and the husband's one hundred acres will also be settled. How wonderful.
Then she spread out the paper, raised her head while grinding the ink and asked the man in the first row, "How much land does your family plan to rent?"
The man hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Are you sure you want to provide us with new wheat seeds?"
Man Bao nodded.
The man gritted his teeth and said, "Then I will rent twenty acres."
Man Bao was stunned for a moment, glanced at the people behind him, and asked with a tangled expression: "Is it too many? There are so many people behind."
The man said: "My family has a lot of people. This year, I have allocated 15 acres of land to my family. We also rented and planted another 10 acres of land from Mr. Fang's family. We are all busy."
Man Bao raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at the grassy field behind them, and thought to himself: No wonder the job field is so deserted.
Man Bao thought for a while and asked, "Then you rented my land and also rented Master Fang's land?"
The man smiled awkwardly and said, "Since I'm a tenant farmer of the lord's family, I won't rent another family's land anymore, just tell us if the lord has something to do in the future."
Shareholders don't just need to farm the land. Sometimes when the owner needs it, they have to work for the owner for free. This is why wealthy families prefer to use tenant farmers.
Owning a sharecropper, then you may have a family of sharecroppers, long-term workers and short-term workers, which is particularly cost-effective.
Man Bao didn't know much about this at the moment. After all, she had only worked as long-term workers, and her brothers had only worked as short-term workers, so she didn't know much about it.
She is still like this, let alone Bai Shan and Bai Erlang.
However, the three of them have a lot of plans in their hearts, so a lot of manpower is needed, and the three of them are naturally very happy that the tenant farmers can devote all their energy to the job field.
So Man Bao agreed with a wave of his hand, and then wrote down their names.
Sure enough, he was the one who rented the most, and the people behind could not rent so much, ranging from twelve mu to seven or eight mu.
Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang divided people into three teams, and one person recorded one team. After the recording was completed, the counting began.
Because this is just their wish, and whether they can rent so much depends on their decision.
The three of them did some calculations and found that the total was 1,183 mu, which was 83 mu more than what they had.
Man Bao and Bai Shan compared the labor force reported by each household, and then picked and subtracted some acres from some households.
Most of them subtract one mu, while others don't.
After calculating the total of 1,100 mu, I went to the head of the village and said, "Let's rent according to this number of mu."
The head of the village glanced at the extra one hundred acres and was a little surprised, "This is..."
"This is my husband's job field, and the chief of the village should be familiar with it. It's on the edge of He Village, and it's connected to my job field. That area should have been rented by people from your village before, right?"
The head of the village smiled embarrassedly, "It's true, you can't hide anything from your lord."
Man Bao gave him the final list and said: "Fill out the rent form, we will come over in two days to stamp and divide the land."
The head of the village responded and asked: "The wheat seed..."
"I have already sent someone to pick it up, and it will be delivered within four days at most."
The village chief heaved a sigh of relief, and after accepting the list, he sent Man Bao and the others away.
Man Bao glanced at the bustling crowd and thought that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he took out a piece of silver from his purse and gave it to the Li Chang, and said with a smile: "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have nothing to give everyone, so the Li Chang will take it on his behalf." Go and buy some meat to share with them."
This piece of silver is about two taels, enough to buy a pig.
The chief was slightly taken aback.
Man Bao directly stuffed the silver into his hands, and one pig was divided into one hundred households, which was just a small piece of meat for one household. Man Bao got up and bid farewell with Bai Shan and others.
The chief hurriedly chased them out, and when he saw them getting on their horses and about to leave, he stopped and bowed to them with his hands folded.
What Man Bao said just now was not in a low voice, and he said it while sitting in the yard, so some farmers heard it, and everyone was surprised.
To tell the truth, the land that has been planted for the imperial court for more than ten years has changed seven or eight adults, but none of them gave gifts to these tenant farmers during the festival, and Zhou Man was the first one.
So when the chief bowed his hands in salute, the farmers who heard it reacted and followed suit.
Man Bao was a little surprised, he waved his hand immediately and said, "You're welcome."
The farmers behind didn't know what happened, and they saluted in a confused manner.
Man Bao had already smiled, and rode away with Bai Shan Bai Erlang and others, and Daji followed with his guards.
Only six of them came here today, and the others went to Yongzhou.
It's Mid-Autumn Festival today, we agreed to go to Yongzhou to watch lanterns.
Mrs. Liu and the others packed their things early in the morning and left early, and Man Bao and the others also ran after finishing their affairs here.
It is not far from Yongzhou City, and it takes less than half an hour to ride a horse.
The official road is very spacious, and it is quite easy to run.
It was the first time for several people to come to Yongzhou, and it was past noon when they reached the city of Yongzhou.
They were a little hungry, so they only looked up at Yongzhou City, which was the third largest city gate they had ever seen.
The accompanying capital looks similar to Yizhou City.
The three of them only watched for a while, then got off their horses and lined up to enter the city, because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there were a lot of people entering the city today.
The three of them were not too tall, so they were almost submerged when they walked in. The people Mrs. Liu sent to wait at the gate of the city almost couldn't see them.
Fortunately, Dajigao, and the three young masters looked different, so they were still seen when they walked into the city for a while, and the servants immediately waved and shouted: "Master, Miss Man, Master Tang, here..."