Although Su Tang didn't finish speaking, Mrs. Zhou understood what she meant. She looked at Su Tang and said, "Miss Su Tang is kind-hearted, but you don't know how difficult it is for tenant farmers. If they meet that kind landlord and charge less rent, they will You can survive as a family without starving to death. If you encounter someone who is not kind, you will never starve to death."
"How could that happen?" Su Tang was surprised.
Mrs. Zhou saw that Su Tang was young and although she had money to buy Zhuangzi, how could a young lady from a wealthy family understand the hardships of the people at the bottom
"Miss, I don't know. Even if you have some skills, you are not willing to rent other people's land to live. Generally, tenant farmers have no other options. It is better to have some servants who sell themselves, but these people are not willing to leave their hometowns. So I can only barely support it.”
Mrs. Zhou carefully told Su Tang that it was actually Su Tang who was wrong. In her opinion, renting a farm was similar to renting a house. She had to pay to live in it. In fact, it was not the case.
When landlords rent fields to tenants, they require the tenants to pay a certain amount of grain every year. But now farming depends on the weather. The harvest in the farmland is not so fixed. Some landlords charge extremely high rents. Many tenants work really hard. After a year of hard work, my whole family will be hungry.
So anyone who has some skills basically either goes to the mountains to make a living, or does something else. If you have skills, you can make money with your skills. Anyway, you can't afford to buy a field, so you can't rent it if you can. There is no future in renting a field, so you can only keep doing it. Exploited.
So in fact, many sharecroppers are worse off than servants who sell themselves. Even if they sell themselves, not everyone can find a buyer. Moreover, many sharecroppers are unwilling to leave their hometown, or hope that their families will not be separated.
But how could such a kind-hearted person be willing to buy it back together for men, women, old and young? Su Tang also said that she wanted to buy a farmer, so Mrs. Zhou suggested that she just buy a tenant farmer.
These people do not need to leave their hometowns. They will only have to work hard to farm the land, and their families will provide them with enough food to keep them fed and clothed.
You don't have to leave your hometown, and your whole family can be together. As for whether you are a slave or not, it is very difficult to survive. Who can care about these things.
Su Tang's previous contacts in Sujiatun were all families like Su Yongshun and Su Yongqiang. They all had land at home, and their lives couldn't be said to be great, but they were not bad.
When we arrived in the town, most of the people in the town lived a pretty good life. In fact, no matter what society we live in, there are those at the bottom who have a hard life. The tenant farmers are the bottom class and can only hope to meet kind-hearted landlords.
But to be honest, the most kind thing is just to let people barely have food to eat so as not to starve to death.
Landlords are not philanthropists, and many landlords are just like Su Tang. They have no idea how the tenants are living. They live a wealthy life and have no idea about these things.
Hearing what Mrs. Zhou said, Su Tang couldn't help but sigh. When she took Su Nuo to adopt Su Laoshuan, she also said that the starting point was very low, but although Su Laoshuan had no property or land, after all, her son and daughter were still alive. When doing business outside, even if you fail and die unexpectedly, you will be down and out, but you really haven't fallen into the worst situation.
Since Mrs. Zhou had said so, Su Tang was not someone who refused to listen to persuasion, so she agreed to go to those farms first and ask if they wanted to buy the tenant farmers there to become farmers.
Mrs. Zhou knew she was going to Zhuangzi, so she went home to explain, packed up, and followed Su Tang by car to three Zhuangzi near Qinghe Town.
(End of chapter)