Zhou Man not only supports them in raising chickens, but also supports them in raising sheep, cattle, and pigs.
It's just that few people in the village choose to raise pigs, and most of them choose to raise sheep and cattle.
If it weren't for the high qualifications required to raise cattle, the owners would have to investigate for a period of time, and the villagers would definitely have chosen to raise cattle.
Regardless of what to raise, the seedlings are provided by the owner, but they need to share some with the owner after they grow up.
For example, raising pigs, out of 100 households in the village, only 28 households choose to raise pigs. The piglets are provided by the owner. After one year of raising them, they can be slaughtered when they grow up, and they get 40% or 60%.
If the raised sows give birth, the owner only needs 20% of the piglets, and the remaining 80% are their own.
Moreover, it is entirely the owner's own responsibility to raise him to death.
Therefore, many villagers who just pay for their labor are willing to raise them.
The work field is very large, and there are always lands that are not suitable for sowing. They planted pastures on those lands and used them to feed pigs, cows, and sheep. Anyway, the village's harvest has been good in recent years, but it is a bit tiring.
But they were tired before, and they feel that life is more hopeful now, especially the children...
They need to work as before, but they used to go to the ground to knock mud. No matter how old you are, you can do it with a wooden hammer if you can walk.
Now they can herd chickens, sheep, and cattle...
It’s not hard at all, just follow behind the chickens, sheep and cows, just keep them from eating the crops, and occasionally cut a little grass for them and catch some bugs, which is much more fun than hammering mud in the field.
When the chickens grow up, they will lay eggs for them to eat. When they kill sheep in winter, they also have mutton to eat...
Wei Zhi reached out and touched the little boy's head, nodded with a smile, "Good boy, go and release your ass."
The child turned around and ran away, followed by his friends laughing and chasing the chicken.
Wei Zhi thought all the way back, Bai Shan and Zhou Man just woke up and were washing up.
Seeing the laziness of the two, Wei Zhi couldn't help but smile, "I saw Master Zhou's career field, and I was very pleasantly surprised, I want to ask Master Bai, after autumn, you should also be assigned a career field, right? "
Before Bai Shan was in the Hanlin Academy, most of his salary was his salary, and he hadn't had time to divide his duties. This is the cunning of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Because of the special department of the Hanlin Academy, many future bigwigs will go in for a transfer, and it is estimated that they will leave and transfer to other places after a year or two. His rank supplements Lumi in the autumn to serve as income from the job field.
It's just that Bai Shan's luck is too good or too bad.
He joined the job in the early summer of last year, and according to the usual practice, he won't be assigned a job until after autumn, so he didn't have a subsidy that year.
He didn’t have a job last year, so he should get a subsidy this year, but this year he was promoted to Zhongshu Province, so he will get a job after this autumn, and he is no longer in the Imperial Academy, so he won’t be able to get the subsidy from the Imperial Academy. He still has no career income this year.
Man Bao thought about it for a while, and said, "I suddenly remembered that I earn a lot more than you."
Bai Shan said: "Our family doesn't rely on salary for food."
He said modestly: "My family is not short of money."
Man Bao, who was not very rich, and Wei Zhi, who was short of money, skipped his words and continued to discuss, "That's right, when the time comes, his job field will have to apply for self-management, handing it over to the Ministry of Households for a low harvest, and the income of the tenants will not be high. Not high either."
Wei Zhi nodded. His job field has been entrusted to the household department to take care of it, and he gets a fixed rent every year.
He can also try to take over and take care of it, but this requires a very careful manager.
The other party must not only be able to manage the tenants, but also be able to farm the land, and must have a fair heart, and must be kind, otherwise it is better to hand it over to the Ministry of Households;
But you can't be too kind, otherwise the job field will lose its original meaning.
Of course there are such people under Wei Zhi's command, the old butler of his family is.
But if the old housekeeper went to take care of the job field, what would happen to the family affairs
Wei Zhi glanced at Zhou Man, and began to think about his relatives...
Man Bao was still urging Wei Zhi, "Master Wei, I think it's better to leave this job field to the officials. That way the benefits will be higher."
Wei Zhi shook his head directly, and said with a smile: "I've been thinking about this all the way back, but I rejected it with just one thought."
Not only Man Bao, but even Bai Shan couldn't understand, "Why? Isn't our job field managed well?"
"Of course it's good, but that's just your family," Wei knew. "There are not many official families in this world who are as kind and disciplined as your family. Moreover, it is better to trust the system than to trust people's hearts."
He said: "The system is more credible than the people's hearts."
On the way back, Wei Zhi was thinking, can such a method be promoted in the court
He knew with just one thought, no!
First, not all officials have the same harmonious family as Zhou Man, the same capable brothers and sisters, or available managers who can help them take care of their jobs;
Second, not all officials have the same blessings as Zhou Man, and are willing to transfer most of the benefits to tenants.
Third, and most importantly, people's hearts will change.
Wei Zhi looked at Zhou Man and Bai Shan quietly, he thought, now they can abide by the imperial court's regulations, just do their best to take care of this job field, and return the job field to the court when they leave.
But what about ten years later, twenty years later, or even longer
When they are used to having this job field, and the tenants here are also used to such an owner, when they leave, will they want to "buy" this job field, or will the tenants here Think of a way to get them to buy the job field
Dajin owned a lot of public land at the beginning of the founding of the country, but lost a lot of land every year.
The Ministry of Household Affairs always said that there are not enough job fields, and has been urging them to reduce the allocation of job fields, but where did so much public land go
Although the number of officials is increasing every year, many officials die and retire every year. Generally speaking, the number of officials in the officialdom has been in a relatively stable state, with a steady increase, but not much.
The amount of land where the country was founded can fully support the employment of officials.
The reason why it is not enough is because the job field has been encroached on by people.
There is "malicious" embezzlement, and there is also "good faith" embezzlement.
But no matter what kind it is, from the overall situation, this kind of occupation will bring great harm to the country and the people in the future.
Looking at it now, the "good faith" encroachment seems to be for the benefit of the tenants who cultivate this land, but after ten or twenty years, a generation of owners will change, will they be able to treat them all the time
If not, how miserable would they be if they lost the supervision of the court
Therefore, it is impossible for Wei Zhi to vigorously promote this move, but he can use another method.
He can't trust people's hearts, but he believes in the system.
This matter cannot be handed over to individual officials, but it can be handed over to an institution—the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Liu Shangshu, who has no fields to plant and no field leave, has been so busy these days to fight the drought, and it rarely rains, so he took a break at home to rest, but couldn't help but sneezed twice in a row, and he gathered his clothes , looking at the gloomy sky outside, muttered: "It's a rare rainy day, and I actually caught a cold?"