Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

A group of farmers around who were helping to transport grain heard this, and they all nodded, saying that Old Village Head was right.

“That’s right, I need to pay for transporting some food for your little baby. If you say that, dont you want to have the face of our Dingzhou Village?”

“Yes, back then Duke Li takes care of us in this way, not to mention that your family now has you, a small master, women and children in the family. What kind of compensation do we need to do something for you? If this goes out, our Dingzhou Village will be scolded to death.”

“Haha, everyone, work hard, and help Li Family small master quickly transport the food home.”

The villagers of Dingzhou Village said that Li Wangyou blushed with shame.

I really didn’t expect these Guanzhong guys to be so righteous, and it seemed stingy to pay them. That’s all, if you don’t give it, don’t give it. Anyway, these grains are also reserved for the villagers.

One month later, the locust plague happened together, these are all life-saving food!

However, Li Wangyou also knows that the man in Guanzhong will never reach out and beg even if he is about to starve to death. If I give them food, it will hurt the self-esteem of these Guanzhong guys.

In a disaster year, if there is a wealthy household or the owner’s household giving grain, these Guanzhong guys will stubbornly say that they are borrowed, and they will be returned when the harvest is good in the coming year.

If they dare to say that they will be given away, they will definitely leave the food and would rather starve to death.

Furthermore, if we do what we say, after the disaster years, I will definitely carry the food to return, and even add interest.

Li Wangyou feels a headache when he thinks of this. When the time comes wants to send food to these Guanzhong men, he has to spend some tongue.

“If this is the case, how about I invite the whole village to eat tomorrow? So that everyone will not refuse? How about the housewarming banquet where I am Li Family moved to Dingzhou Village?” Li Wangyou thought, Just ask the whole village to have a good meal, and everyone has fun.

In the future, many of his industries will have to rely on the villagers to help them out. Asking the whole village to have a meal is a thank you, and it can bring everyone closer.

“haha, small master, are you kidding me? There are more than 500 people in the village, how did you invite it?”

“No kidding, I will ask everyone to eat and kill tomorrow Pig rice! Li Wangyou thought of the pig-killing rice that he cooks every year in his hometown. Its not a big deal for five-six hundred people to eat together.

“What is killing pig rice?” Old Village Head puzzled?

Li Wangyou smiled and didn’t explain: “Old Village Head, can I trouble you to buy two pigs for me tomorrow?”

“Hey…I really want to invite the whole village to eat? Two pigs? That’s a lot of money.”

“It’s okay, it should be, then it’s settled. Tomorrow at noon I will ask the whole village to eat pig-killing rice, Old Village Head, please let me know. Click.”

Old Village Head saw that Li Wangyou said so surely, he nodded agreed.

After talking about the dinner, Li Wangyou was in a good mood. Standing on the embankment and looking around at the Gan River scenery, he noticed a large area of deserted land beside the river beach.

There are at least a few hundred acres of land beside this river beach with only a few plants growing sparsely, which looks extremely desolate.

“Old Village Head, why didn’t this wasteland open up wasteland?”

Old Village Head glanced at the land behind him, sighed: “It’s all saline soil, nothing is planted Live, who will open up wasteland?”

saline soil?

Li Wangyou took a close look at this piece of land. The color of the soil is mostly white, yellow and other light colors. There are a few weeping willows growing on a large area of land.

If there is nothing wrong, this wasteland should be alkaline land. Weeping willow is also called weird willow. It cannot survive in acidic soil. Only alkaline soil can survive.

Li Wangyou squatted down again and grabbed a handful of soil. Holding it with his hand would feel like a tangled hand.

He took river water from the river again and poured it on the wasteland. He observed carefully and found that water seeped into the soil slowly, and white bubbles appeared on the water surface.

Stand up and clap your hands, Li Wangyou can be sure that this wasteland is alkaline land. After all, he grew up in a rural area. Originally, the village also had a large area of alkaline land. Later, under the guidance of the technicians at the Agricultural Science Station, the land was washed and improved to turn that land into treasure.

Even the abandoned land that was originally in Improved, the grain grown from the weakly alkaline land is more popular.

But this is the first year of Great Tang, and obviously no one will improve these saline soils.

Li Wangyou suddenly felt that he seemed to have found a way to make money, and he was able to give away the food just as he said.

If he could improve these hundreds of acres of land, wouldnt it be a huge wealth? Moreover, to improve the land requires hiring labor, and hiring these villagers with grain by then is not one move, two gains.

“Old Village Head, where do these wastelands belong?” Li Wangyou is going to ask first if these wastelands are owned.

“These lands should belong to the county, right?” Old Village Head is also not sure: “But they are all useless wasteland, worthless.”

“Then if I were Have these wastelands been reclaimed?”

Old Village Head looked towards Li Wangyou like a fool: “small master, these are saline soil, which cannot grow crops. How did you cultivate these land? “

“Hehe, Old Village Head, don’t worry about how to use this land. I will ask who this land belongs to if I reclaim it?”

Old Village Head shook his head: “Naturally It belongs to you, and the county encourages wasteland reclamation. You only need to register in the county if you open up wasteland. Reclaiming wasteland is exempt from taxes for three years. However, this saline soil does not grow live crops at all, so small masters dont make trouble.”

Li Wangyou does not refute, just smiles at the hundreds of acres of wasteland in front of him. Sure enough, knowledge is productivity!

In the eyes of Li Wangyou, this land is simply a treasure. It is close to the Gan River. There is no shortage of water for washing the saline soil or for future irrigation. It is very convenient.

However, to win this wasteland, you still have to say hello to Yang Zuan and complete the procedures. There are hundreds of acres of wasteland, so it is better to be safe.

Don’t go back and manage the land yourself, and it would be disgusting to run out of a “master”.

Li Wangyou thought about what Yang Zuan had promised before and rewarded him with the first name of the poetry club for a hundred times, so he wondered if he should go to the Hu County County Official again.

Thinking about the matter, all the food has been shipped ashore from the river. The embankment here is only one or two miles away from Dingzhou Village, which is very convenient.

Without much effort, the three hundred stone grains were all moved back to Li Wangyou’s home by the village men in a wheelbarrow and ox cart.

There is too much food, the granary in the house is full and many have not moved in.

Fortunately, he has few family members and many vacant rooms. Even so, three hundred stone grains filled the two wing rooms of the granary and the front yard.

Li Heng saw that his small master left home for a few days, and he got back so much food, his face was full of pleats with a smile, Pei Lan was also busy going around excitedly, non-stop.

For people in the Great Tang era, having food is the happiest thing, not to mention that so much food makes the family almost unable to pile up.

After finishing all these tasks, the men in the village left without drinking any water. The Niu Family brother was also going to leave, but was held back by Li Wangyou, and asked them to bring home a stone of food.

One stone of food is worth three coins and more coins, where is the Niu Family brother willing to ask for it?

“Small master, we brother didn’t help you much, how can we get so much food? If you say that you will be pierced in the backbone.” Niu Yong insisted not.

Niu Wu also rubbed his hands: “hehe, the past few days dragging the clothes of the small master, we had fun riding horses, and we ate and drank well in Chang’an City. How can we do it again? What kind of food to take back? Small master don’t have to say any more.”

Li Wangyou went to pull the brothers, and sincerely persuaded: “Niu Family brothers, you must take this food back. Have you forgotten your nine robes? Its just a little bit of my mind.”

His words made the Niu Family brother hesitate. The two brothers really dont need food, but the nine I need a robe who is physically disabled and unable to work…

After a long time of resigning, but finally stunned by Li Wangyou’s persistence, he had to thank him again and again and then carry his food back.