Old Zhou was a little curious, "Why does Bai Shan want a cow?"
He suddenly thought of something, and widened his eyes, "This kid doesn't want to eat the cow, does he?"
Before Zhou Zhoulang could speak, the old Zhou Tou had already shouted: "This is too reckless."
Zhou Zhou Lang said: "He said it was a gift, and a classmate wanted it, but the ones bought outside have a number, and there are records in every yamen."
The imperial court still has strict control over farming cattle. Zhou Lang's cattle were brought back from the grasslands. Before they were numbered, he could use them for anything. Once they were numbered, they were farming cattle.
Old Zhoutou expressed dissatisfaction with Bai Shan's extravagant act of giving a cow as a gift, and then asked: "Will people return the gift?"
How did Thursday Lang know
But in order not to reassure his father, he nodded without hesitation, "It will definitely."
Old Zhou was relieved.
Man Bao, who had already been booked to receive a gift, had no intention of preparing a gift for Bai Shan. After seeing that Cui's condition had stabilized, she wanted to pack up and go home.
Yang Heshu left her behind and said, "Tang Zhihe is coming over at noon, why don't you stay and have dinner together."
Man Bao thought that she might not have seen Master Tang for a long time, so he nodded in response.
Tang Zhihe really came over to have lunch, and Cui couldn't leave the delivery room yet, so there were only the four of them and the servants in the dining room.
Tang Zhihe asked Man Bao with a smile, "I heard that you are in charge of the land yourself. How is it? Is the land allocated to you by the Ministry of Households okay?"
Man Bao nodded, "Very good. The land in Qili Village is much flatter and more fertile. The Guanzhong Plain is mostly better than our Sichuan and Sichuan."
After thinking about it, she said, "Except for being too hot in summer and too cold in winter, there are no other major problems."
Tang Zhihe: ...
He turned his head and wrote to Yang He: "It's quite picky."
Yang Heshu smiled and asked Man Bao, "Have you found the sharecropper?"
Man Bao nodded, "Basically, it was rented by the former tenant farmers."
Yang Heshu raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked, "How did you collect the rent, that they are willing to renew your lease?"
Tang He was not familiar with these things, so he raised his head strangely when he heard the words, "Why, is it difficult to hire tenant farmers in Yongzhou?"
Yang Heshu glanced at him, obviously the county magistrate didn't know the tricks in the job field, he didn't say anything, and looked at Man Bao.
Man Bao swallowed the vegetables in his mouth and said: "I only charge 40% of the rent. I will provide all the wheat seeds, half of the rice seeds, and they will be responsible for the other seeds. Besides, I plan to give them 20% of the rent. Cow."
Before the county magistrate Tang spoke, Mrs. Tang had already said, "It's only 40% of the rent. If you give so much, how much can you earn in a year?"
Man Bao said with a smile: "Maybe you earn less in the first one or two years, and then you will earn more?"
Mrs. Tang raised her eyebrows and asked, "What, you're going to raise the rent later?"
Man Bao shook his head, "Sister-in-law, the most precious thing is not only the job field, but also their manpower. Some benefits will not be seen for a while, but will be seen after a long time."
Yang Heshu thought of their small village in Qili Village. As a frequent visitor of that small village in various senses, he could roughly calculate their income.
Yang Heshu asked her, "The conditions you offer are so good, do you also have demands on them?"
Man Bao nodded, "I asked them to listen to us. As long as it is related to everything in Zhuangzi, it will be divided into four or six."
Mrs. Tang didn't think this was a condition, "Isn't the tenant supposed to listen to the master?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said: "There is a difference between listening willingly and listening unwillingly."
The three were puzzled for a moment.
Man Bao gave an example, "Mr. Zhuang used to bring me a copy of "Book of Changes" to read. I sat and read it all morning and didn't read the next two pages. I didn't think about it after reading it; but I myself Reading scripts is different, I can read the second half of the book in one morning without blinking, and I can still remember everything.”
Three people: ...
Man Bao said: "This is the difference between being willing and unwilling."
Mrs. Tang held back for a long time and asked: "Farming the land is not like reading, you need to use your brain."
Yang Heshu didn't quite agree with this, saying, "Farming the land doesn't all depend on brute force."
Man Bao was more straightforward, "Who said that people don't need brains in farming? Farming land doesn't use brains, it shows that they are unwilling, so the food they grow is not as good as others."
Man Bao said: "My family has a few fields close to other people's. The soil fertility is similar, but every year, whether it is wheat or rice, the harvest is better than other people's. It’s because my third brother is very good at farming.”
She said: "This is the same as cooking. The same ingredients, my elder sister-in-law cooks it in the same taste, and my second sister-in-law cooks it in a different taste. So it's not just about reading. Things are generally like this, with brains used and brains not used. They are willing to work for me, and the harvest is naturally different."
"Even if I only account for 40%, if the total amount is too much, I will get more, and they will also get more. Isn't a win-win situation better than mine alone?"
Mrs. Tang was stunned when she heard this, while Yang Heshu thought about it in her heart, and said to Man Bao, "Sit down first and see how your mu yield will be in two years' time."
Man Bao nodded.
Magistrate Tang asked her more directly, "Tell me, what do you want from us?"
Man Bao just smiled, "Brother Tang Xuexiong understands me."
She said seriously: "I want to buy some breeding eggs for them to hatch their chicks, but Li Jun looked for them and found that the breeding eggs in Beijing are very difficult to buy."
It's not that it's not easy to buy, but a lot of it is not easy to buy.
Manbao is expected to raise twenty chicks for their family, and such a large number of eggs cannot be bought for a while.
Man Bao said to County Magistrate Tang: "Brother Tang Xue, can you help me find it?"
Master Tang didn't expect her to make such a request, and was stunned for a moment, "Where can I find eggs for you as a county magistrate?"
Man Bao said: "You are the county magistrate, shouldn't it be easy to find?"
"Who told you that the county magistrate is easy to find eggs?"
Man Bao turned to look directly at Yang Heshu.
Yang Heshu was full, he took a sip of tea, wiped the corners of his mouth and said, "Leave this to me, how many do you want?"
Man Bao: "Two thousand?"
Yang Heshu just frowned and nodded, "You can just ask someone to bring the money later."
Man Bao poured out a small piece of silver from his purse and said to him, "Here, three taels, don't need to look for it."
Yang Heshu: …
He just remembered that although two thousand eggs sound like a lot, they are really not that expensive. Three taels are two, and if the three taels are converted into copper coins, there will be some left over.
Yang Heshu took the money and said, "I don't want to take advantage of you. I'll ask someone to send you the rest of the money later."
Tang He was very curious, "Where do you, an official of the household department, go to buy eggs? When you were the county magistrate in Luojiang County, you bought eggs for them?"
Yang Heshu said: "I not only bought them for them, but also sold them for them."
Or how can he be a regular visitor