Reborn with super powers: The general wants to repay his kindness

"How many chickens and ducks do you usually raise? How many pigs?" Li Cheng saw a pig pen not far away. A village can be completely self-sufficient. This is true for small villages, and even more for big ones. Fruit trees must be planted everywhere. Up some.

"About two hundred, ten pigs." Ma Xingwang answered cautiously, fearing that his employer would dislike too few. Because the place is small, he dare not occupy too much space without the owner's permission, and if he raises too many, he will easily get sick. It will make the people who raise them waste most of their efforts.

Li Cheng didn't say anything after hearing this, and didn't want to make any changes for the time being.Because planting was about to begin, she couldn't wait until the second half of the year to start. The main reason why she wanted to get this village back was to plant the crops she needed.

Ma Xingwang was relieved when Li Cheng didn't say anything. The young lady was young, but seeing Li Dong's respectful look, he didn't dare to fool her. What's more, the young lady was a descendant of his old employer, Shopkeeper Yu.

A small part of the land is dedicated to growing vegetables, and most of it is used to supply myself and my previous employer, so there is no income.

After walking around and looking around, I found that this farm said it had hundreds of acres of land, but in fact there were eighty or ninety acres of land used to grow crops, rented by 12 families. This amount of land was more or less. , plus the previous [-]% rent excluding taxes, the remaining amount is just enough to keep the tenants from starving to death.

On the way, the tenant farmers who got the news about Mazhuangtou came over excitedly, and some knelt down and kowtowed to Li Cheng in an exaggerated manner. Unable to bear such a posture, Li Cheng quickly turned back with Li Dong.

Li Dong smiled when he saw the young lady's frightened look. In his mind, such a young lady is the best. She will never show mercy to those who are cruel, but she also has a kind heart towards these really poor people. He is the one who can meet such a master. Fortunately, as long as the people in this village don't bully the young master, they can live a good life with the young lady.

After Mazhuangtou notified all the tenants, he hurried back to report. Li Cheng gave them two days to think about it. After two days, he asked Li Dong to come over and sign a new contract with them. What would the tenants who signed the contract plant in the future? Crops must obey his arrangements, and those who disagree will directly take back their land.

Although he sympathizes with the suffering of these tenant farmers, it does not mean that Li Cheng can let them take matters into their own hands. After all, there are cases where tenant farmers join forces to force their employers.

"Mazhuangtou, I know what you and them are worried about. After signing the new lease, let your son and Li Dong go to my village to get new seeds and learn planting methods. Remember the first year's seeds first. Keep it in the account and pay it back after the harvest." Li Cheng finally explained.

"I understand, I will definitely tell everyone what the young lady means." Mazhuangtou also thought that the young lady is young and does not understand the things in the field. If new crops are replaced, the field will be damaged. But thinking that the young lady would compensate them if anything happened, I felt a little relieved.After all, this is the young lady's village, so she won't really trick herself.Ma Zhuangtou thought that after going back, he should tell others not to obey the young lady's arrangements because they think she is young and kind.

What's more, now their rent has been changed to [-]% after tax. If they rented other people's land instead, they would have to pay [-]% of the rent. How much rations can be left by paying [-]% less!

After Li Cheng's master and servant left, Ma Zhuangtou quickly called his son. After discussing for a while, the father and son decided to go separately to persuade. Ma Xingwang also felt that it was better not to go against his boss's wishes.

"Does the lady know what they are thinking? I thought the lady would be soft-hearted." Li Dong drove the carriage while talking to Li Cheng, who opened the curtain and sat on the carriage to look out.

"Softhearted? Let the tenants decide what to plant? Then what's the use of taking Zhuangzi back?" Li Cheng said with a smile, "Is it because I'm young and think I don't understand the things in the field?"

Li Dong chuckled twice: "How can you do that? I dare to say that no one knows better than Miss. You can grow whatever you want in the ground."

Although the young lady looks like she is about to stop eating fireworks, look at the fresh vegetables grown in winter. There is no lack of green on the table throughout the winter. Even the wealthy families in the city cannot live like this.And of the fruit trees planted last year in Zhuangzi, none of them died, and all of them survived.

Li Cheng's master and servant patted their butts and left, but Mazhuangtou's house in Zhuangzi became lively. Before Mazhuangtou and his son could go out, the tenant farmers ran over after seeing the carriage leaving, and they were all talking at once. There was a buzzing sound in Tongue's ears. It was not just one person from each house, but a kind of whole family coming together, adults and children making a fuss.

Mazhuangtou and his son looked at each other and smiled bitterly, thinking that the young lady had really caused a big trouble for them.

Ma Zhuangtou patted the table and said loudly: "The lady has made a decision. I will sign a new contract in two days. After signing the contract, you must follow the lady's arrangements. If you don't want to, don't sign. If you don't sign, you will have to sign." It’s been taken back, and you can’t plant it again this year or from now on.”

"How about that? If we are not allowed to farm, what will we eat?" Someone immediately started to explode.

"It's not that the lady won't plant it for you. The land belongs to the lady. What you plant is not subject to the master's arrangements. Even if you lose money, it's still the master's business. Have you forgotten that the land is not your own? And the lady doesn't Let everyone work in vain, and if the crops they grow are not as good as the previous crops, we will make up for it," Mazhuangtou said angrily, because his persuasion was useless, so let's make the matter clear.

These words silenced many people, but some people still complained that Li Cheng did not understand crops at such a young age.

"Don't think that only you can farm this land. Go outside and ask how many families are willing to farm for [-]% of the rent."

A few more people lost their voices.

It was not until dark on the third day that Li Dong rushed back from Zhuangzi and presented the new lease signed with the tenant farmers to Li Cheng.Of course, most of these tenants were illiterate and just put their fingerprints on the bottom.

Originally, the 130 acres of land were cultivated by others. Now Li Cheng has made some changes. Only [-] acres of land have been rented out, and the rest is empty.

As expected, Li Cheng smiled: "There are more people renewing their leases than I thought."

Li Dong said with a smile: "It was only after the young lady declared that those who gave up this time would have no chance in the future. This made the families who wanted to wait and see grit their teeth and renew, but they all rented a few acres less land. I It seems that they are still worried that they will suffer a loss if they follow the lady, and they do not believe in the promise made by the lady to them."

The young lady said that they would not suffer losses, and the income they would get would definitely not be lower than the original [-]% harvest. Not many people believed it. I am afraid that even Mazhuangtou and his son were half-convinced. If the harvest was less, I'm worried that Li Cheng won't be able to compensate him.