Traveling through the farmhouse: farming and making a fortune and raising cubs

When Lin He took Chuntao back, Li Changhui was not at home. The servant said that Li Changhui had written a notice and asked a scholar to copy a dozen of them in the city and post them in more places in the city.

As for the problem that the vast majority of poor people are illiterate, don't worry too much. There will always be people who are literate. If people spread the word, it will spread quickly.

After that, Li Changhui went out, saying he was going to the fields to have a look, but he didn't say where exactly he went. When Lin He came back, he didn't run into him either.

I looked at the time and saw that it would be time to have lunch soon, so I didn’t go looking for it. I would be back later.

Let Chuntao go about her business, Lin He turned around and went to the study.

On the desk, there was a topographic map of their farm, with dense small characters written on it by Lin He using a thin charcoal pen.

When Lin He had nothing to do, he would take a look and keep these in his mind. Sometimes he would adjust the original ideas and sometimes add some other ideas.

She has been thinking about it for the past few days. When the pig pen is finished, she will let the workers build a yard again.

There is no courtyard house, where several families live together. Lin He himself doesn't like living with others, so he doesn't want to do this.

Just build rows of mud and tile houses, which are much better than the shabby houses that most tenants live in now.

Then allocate rooms to them according to the number of people and the size of the farmland.

But the prerequisite for doing this is to first count all the tenant households and where they live now.

Li Changhui is doing this recently. After all, he is also a map maker. If this matter were left to Lin He, he would probably end up in the fields without knowing where he was.

Li Changhui drew ten such maps at once. They were all exactly the same at first. Now, only four are left, and Lin He wrote various things on the other six.

For example, the distribution map of the field in her hand was divided into four parts of equal size by dotted lines. She planned to build a small yard in each of these four places.

There are more than 2000 acres of land, about [-] tenant households, almost [-] or [-] households in one place, and the area is not too large.

When the tenants live together in a concentrated area, the place where they used to live can be bulldozed and returned to the fields. When the time comes, it will be easier for her to plan the whole field and plant crops in large tracts, which is beautiful.

There is another thing that Lin He only mentioned to Li Changhui, not even to Jinrong.

But Jinrong doesn't care about these trivial matters, and there is no need to tell others everything.

Tenants rent the land from the landlord for cultivation, and then keep part of the grain as food for the year, and the rest belongs to the landlord.

The area of ​​land they rent is also determined based on their family's population, or to be precise, based on the family's labor force. The more people working, the more land they rent, and they can keep more food.

But Lin He didn't like this.

She was going to try to turn the tenant farmers into permanent laborers.

According to what she learned during this period, as long as they are willing to work, long-term workers are definitely more cost-effective than tenant farmers. They have a fixed income every month, which can be used to buy food and still have surplus.

In this way, she can better plan what to plant in the ground.

For example, if she asks people to raise chickens better, they can be rewarded with an extra penny for each chicken, or the extra chickens can be purchased at market price. This is also a test.

If he told them directly that he wanted to take back the fields and let them work for him, most people would probably panic, and it would not be good if it made a big fuss, so Lin He let them taste the sweetness first before talking about it.Looking for long-term workers to work these days can also be used as bait.

As for the wages of long-term workers, before Lin He prepared to follow suit, the wages for hard and tiring jobs were higher, while the wages for relaxed jobs were lower. Some of them could be measured and settled.

For example, there will be tasks such as choosing vegetables in the future.

Lin He wrote down everything he could think of in his book, so as not to forget it next time.

When Li Changhui came back, he saw Lin He writing furiously and didn't even hear him enter the room.

"What are you writing? I'm so fascinated."

It wasn't until Li Changhui interrupted that Lin He woke up. Seeing that it was Li Changhui, he quickly motioned for him to come over and take a look.

"Why did you come back? The housekeeper said you went down the mountain, and we didn't even meet you."

"Do you hear the housekeeper wrong? I went up the mountain as I said. I made two traps last night. I went to check them out just now and caught a rabbit and a porcupine. I just took them to the kitchen."

While talking, Li Changhui had already arrived at the desk and was a little surprised to see Lin He writing a page densely: "Why are there so many more ideas?"

When I picked it up and looked at it, I found that it was mentioned before.

Then he smiled and said, "Actually, there's no need to go to such trouble. You just need to tell them the salary of a long-term worker. I think someone will be willing to do it."

"And for tenants, the biggest wish is to buy their own land, but land is not cheap, especially near the capital."

"Now they are no longer allowed to farm at will in the farm. Even the tenants plant crops according to our requirements. As a result, they have to work a lot more than before."

Of course, they planted all the sweet potatoes in the first half of the year, and they were idle for several months, so they were even.

"Since everything is planted according to our requirements, and long-term workers are paid very well, and there is no shortage of work all year round, most of them are willing to take the money."

It’s all about having a bite to eat. If working can earn more money and buy more food, no one will be unwilling.

In fact, the tenants depend on the weather for their meals. If the harvest is good, they may be able to keep an extra [-] pounds and have a few full meals.

If God is not kind and the harvest is not good, then we will have to tighten our belts for a year, which will be very difficult.

But according to their previous experience, long-term workers really have work all year round. Even if there is not, Lin He can still find work and will not leave people idle. In other words, they will not make people earn money. Not enough money.

Hearing Li Changhui's explanation, Lin He understood clearly: "Okay, let's have someone give people some air this afternoon. Let them spread the news privately first, and then let them take a look when someone comes to do the work."

He pointed to the place he had drawn before: "But these yards still need to be built. There are one or two hundred households with hundreds of people. Even if they are doing work, they still have to be settled."

After all, she wanted the farm to look pleasing to the eye. She didn't want a dilapidated thatched house suddenly popping up in the middle of a large field of rapeseed flowers, which would look unsightly.

"Okay, the pigsty can be finished in ten days at most. Tomorrow we will find someone to clear out the place where the house is to be built."

After the two of them packed their things, Li Changhui asked, seemingly unintentionally: "Xiaohe, you have been in the capital for several months. Do you want to go hunting with me in the mountains?"