Reborn as a landlord!I can

The village chief raised his loudspeaker and shouted, "Are there any villagers who haven't come to pay their rent? If you haven't paid, hurry up and hurry up. There are still important things in the village to inform everyone."After urging, he turned around and moved the abacus beads with the three brothers Li Yichang, and continued to calculate how much food should be received and how much food was actually received.

"Village Chief, can you tell me the important news first? I can't wait"!He was one of the first villagers to pay the rented rice. He squatted on the edge of the sunba, chewing a piece of weed in his mouth and swallowing it. "Uncle, please check the name in the registration book." I know there are some bastards out there who haven't paid their rent, just wasting time."

"Da Linzi, you little thing, why are you in a hurry? It's still early, don't worry about that."A somewhat honest-looking young man rushed from the path with a load on his back. He put down the tall basket and ran to the village chief. He touched his short head and said, "Uncle village chief, I was taking a break. I accidentally over slept".He explained with a naive smile.

The village chief stopped pulling the abacus beads.Looking through the records in the notebook, it turned out that only the last name was not drawn. "Okay, okay, you're the only one missing." The village chief put down the record book and gave him a reproachful look, "It's because your family is pitiful that I let you settle in our village. Fortunately, your family is also simple and not too troubled... Come, hurry up, the last one, after registration, the grain will be weighed and put into the warehouse. There will be a collective meeting later." As he said, the village chief couldn't help laughing, turned to the villagers and said, "There will be a meeting later. It's a great thing, I guarantee you will be happy to hear it."

The idiot didn't care. After registering, he ran to the warehouse and weighed the grain. Then he easily picked up a basket weighing more than 100 kilograms and climbed up the wooden ladder in two steps. He carefully poured the grain into the granary and looked at the piles of grain in the warehouse. He got so much rice that his eyes turned green with envy.When will he be able to fill his cellar so full?

After the accounting book was checked accurately, Li Yichang stood up, took the key to the Li family granary handed over by his third brother, and held the hard-shell record book he brought with him in one hand. "Village chief, let's go home first. You won't have to worry about it anymore. Let's talk to the villagers about my family's land sale. It doesn't matter if the villagers don't want to buy the land."Li Yichang nodded to the village chief and several elderly people in the village, and led the sleepy Li Manping toward home, bypassing the stupid-looking Er Lengzi.

Erluzi was still in a state of envy because his warehouse was full of grain. His family was a tenant farmer who had fled from other provinces a few years ago. The landowner charged a very heavy rent and did not bear taxes. They, the poor, had little left after paying rent and taxes. Food was often mixed with wild vegetables and leaves, leaving the stomach less than three-thirds full. They had to work hard every day, and many people died.Seeing that the situation was getting more and more critical, his parents took him and his sister and fled north to escape famine. They were accompanied by many familiar tenants, but most of them died of illness and starvation on the way.Those who are in better health can find a nearby landlord to rent land and continue to work if they can't hold on anymore, and they will continue to live without enough to eat!

With their extraordinary strength, he and his father pulled the family and fled to a nearby county. They heard from people in the county that there was a charitable landlord here, so they came here with the intention of giving it a try. Unexpectedly, he actually gave it to them. Found a way to survive.Compared to the days before, life now seems like a dream.With the strength of him and his father, their family has been living very well in the past few years. They have more than 200 kilograms of surplus food after eating every year, which was unthinkable before.

"Come on, why are you so dazed? Let's go and sit down quickly. I want to hear what the village chief has to say. Is there any big event worthy of holding a meeting?"A young man who usually played well with the fool put his arm around his shoulders and laughed casually.

The village chief stood in the middle of the sunba, looking at the noisy crowds. He was not angry, but still cheerful. He banged the broken gong hard, "Boom, boom, boom" "Quiet, quiet, everyone listen to me. "This morning, the eldest son of the Li family told me to thank the neighbors for their help to their family in the past few months, and also to fulfill Mr. Li's last wish."

Village Chief Li paused for a moment before continuing, "The old man is a philanthropic man. The Li family is willing to sell the land to all the villagers who have rented it, and each person can buy 5 acres of high-quality paddy fields and 5 acres of medium-sized fields. From now on, as long as you work hard and farm the land seriously. You will never go hungry. The top-quality paddy fields only cost four and a half yuan per acre. The medium ones only cost three yuan. Let’s go back and think about it carefully. We can discuss it as a family. Anyone who wants to buy land can register with me tomorrow morning. Remember, each person is limited to [-] acres."After the village chief waited for everyone to understand, he walked back to the table, picked up the bowl and filled half of it with water.

All the villagers were quiet for a moment. Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, full of confusion.

Suddenly, the crowd became noisy, "I remember when the Li family first came back, there was nothing in the old house, no firewood, no rice, no vegetables. My family asked me to send baskets full of various vegetables!"The slightly fat woman was a little proud, feeling that other people had the opportunity to buy land at a low price because of her success.At this price, you’ll make a profit if you buy it!

"My family also helps Mr. Li's family," another woman quickly jumped to her feet and shouted, "my man goes up the mountain to chop two bundles of firewood and delivers them to Li's house every day, and he delivers them to Li's house for more than two months."She was very proud and felt that her man was really smart. He could get a pile of firewood with some worthless money in the mountains and forests, but with a little time and effort, in exchange for such a sure profit opportunity!Completely forgetting how dissatisfied she was at the time.

"My family also sent food, and they also sent food!"

"My family also gave me a basket of eggs, which my family had been saving for half a month."

"I also cleaned the Li family's old house. Such a big yard made me exhausted."

Everyone was talking about even trivial matters, as if they didn't deserve to be thanked if they didn't say anything friendly to the Li family.

There is a reason for this.

Almost all the more than [-] acres of land around this village belongs to the Li family. It is the legacy of four generations of the Li family. It took hundreds of years of operation to reach this scale.The tenants in the village, including the village chief, are all people who have relocated one after another in recent decades, or who have fled and settled down. After their lives are somewhat stable, they will rent farmland from the Li family and live a relatively stable life. If you remember the favor, you will change your surname!Over the past few decades, although most of them have the surname Li, they are not related to each other by blood.

On the contrary, people in the village got married to each other. Your family married a daughter-in-law and my family married a daughter. Gradually, the neighbors became related.The main family, the Li family, seems to be weak. This situation has changed in the generation of the eldest son of the Li family. Li Yichang successfully established a foothold in the county 24 years ago, then married a noble wife and brought several brothers into the county for development.

Although the second son of the Li family joined the army and did not know whether he would live or die, the fourth son entered the Public Security Bureau and rose to the rank of deputy bureau.The villagers and the Li family have maintained a relatively stable state appropriately.But everyone knows that this balance can easily be broken.

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It was just getting dark when a group of people slowly walked into a small courtyard.

"Third brother, tell me why the Li family resold the land at such a low price?"Still at the village chief's house, there was also a circle of men sitting there. Everyone had a serious expression and the air seemed to be tense.Some people couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "It can't be what Mr. Li really means, right? He cares so much about the land that he can give it up"?

The village chief shook his head, "I can't say for sure. It's probably because young people are impatient with farming and want to go back to the county for development."Village Chief Li was puzzled, "With the old man gone, which of the brothers would be willing to stay in the village for a long time, or make two round trips a year to collect rent? This is not a 300-[-] mile journey, but nearly [-] miles back and forth." road"!

"Did they get some news from the outside, or is the land tax going to go up again?" The second uncle of the village chief stroked his beard. "The Li family is unwilling to continue to bear our high land tax. They want to sell us the land and let us bear it ourselves. Compared with other places, we have taken advantage of the old man decades ago, and the Li family is unwilling to do so."

The village chief glanced at the second uncle again and again. Who didn't know that he was taking advantage in the past? The taxes accounted for almost half of the harvest, but this can be said clearly!

"Whatever, you won't suffer any loss if you buy it at this price. If you don't buy it, it's for nothing."Some people don't care about the reasons, only the results. "If I buy a piece of land, I can save seven to eight hundred kilograms of rent per year. It's a good deal."The old man smiled proudly as he spoke.

Everyone was moved after hearing what he said, and the village chief also nodded and said, "The benefits of buying land are visible to the naked eye. As for the disadvantages, the most important thing is to increase taxes, and the taxes cannot be so high."

Mr. Li agreed, "We can afford land tax plus military expenses, security taxes, and other miscellaneous taxes as long as they don't exceed 6%. It's similar to renting land."

"Who knows, it's quite chaotic outside now. The damned Rakshasa ghosts have been driven away, and they are starting to fight again. Who knows how long the chaos will continue."The third uncle picked up the bowl and took a sip of water and then asked, "Mistress, please register my family now. My son will get married in two months, and add his future wife to the family. There will be a total of 14 people, buy seven hours."

"My youngest son and eldest grandson will also decide to get married in two months, and add their wives as well."The village elder and father-in-law ordered, "19 people, please remember 10 hours for me."

"My family is number 25, young and old, and my two wives still have babies in their bellies. It takes 15 hours no matter what."

"Eh~ No, there are only 27 people including you and the baby in your belly, how come you are here for 15 hours?"

"Can't it be twins and multiple births?"The old man whispered angrily.

After registering and confirming the number, they dispersed and sent everyone away. The village chief locked the courtyard door and was about to go to rest when someone knocked on the door again. He turned around and opened the door helplessly, looking at the old man outside the door, " Uncle Mo, what do you want from me?"

"It's okay, just come over and take a look. By the way, there are 15 people in my family who want to buy a piece of land. Please write it down in my notebook first."The person who came said it bluntly and left.

The village chief stood by the door and took a sip of cold air. He then went back to the hall and sat down with the courtyard door open. He took out the notebook and recorded it. After registering, he didn't put it away. He just put it on the table and waited.

Sure enough, this night was not peaceful. People in the village came and left until everyone was registered~