Lu Bu took out the Yezhao Lion from the mansion and wanted to go to Zhuangzi with Zhen Yi to go through the formalities of handover.
Seeing the nightlight lion held by Lu Bu in his hand, Zhen Yi couldn't help but praise: "Good horse, it is really a thousand miles of horses and the god of horses, and it is the only thing to see in my brother's life."
Listening to Zhen Yide's words, Lu Bu couldn't help but smile slightly and be modest.
Then Zhen Yi got into the carriage, Lu Bu led the horse through the downtown area, and only when he reached a secluded place did he turn over and get on the horse, and went straight to Zhuangzi outside the city with Zhen Yi.
Zhuangzi is fifteen or sixteen miles outside Luoyang City, there are dozens of households, Zhuangzi leans on the Luohe River on one side, and the other three sides also build an earthen city wall more than one zhang high.
The land outside the Zhuangzi is as much as four or five hundred acres, and because the season is not enough, no crops are planted.
And the tenants in the Zhuangzi had apparently been notified in advance, and had all gathered to greet them outside the Zhuangzi.
Seeing Zhen Yide's carriage from a distance, an old man took the lead and stood respectfully on the side of the road.
When the carriage stopped and Zhen Yi got off, the old man saluted jokingly: "Shi San greets the master."
Zhen Yi got out of the carriage, helped the old man up, and said with a smile: "Old Shi, you old thing, your body is still so tough, you also know it, from now on, your owner is no longer our Zhen family, but this Lu Gongzi." ” Shi San turned to Lu Bu, bent down and saluted: "Shi San has seen Master Lu" After Shi San finished speaking, the villagers in the village behind him all saluted Lu Bu and said, "I've seen Master Lu."
Lu Bu hurriedly stepped forward, helped Shi San up, and then said to Shi San: "Old man, you are so old, I can't afford your gift."
Shi San said respectfully: "Master Lu, don't say that, the young and the old are orderly, there is a difference between respect and inferiority, and it is a small duty to see the master." ” Lu Bu was about to speak, but he heard Zhen Yi laugh and said, "Okay, Zhuangzi, you have also seen it, and the matter has been done."
If you have anything to say, you will say to them first, and if you have something to do for your brother, you will go first."
Lu Bu hurriedly said: "Brother Zhen, it's all here, it's not too late to say that you have to eat and then leave."
Zhen Yi laughed and said: "No, my brother really has something to deal with and is free, so my brother has to come over and disturb you."
Lu Bu smiled and said, "I can't ask for it."
Lu Bu watched Zhen Yi board the carriage until the carriage started and walked a distance, and then Lu Bu turned around.
Hundreds of villagers gathered together, and the person at the front was Shi San, who once again saluted Lu Bu.
Lu Bu nodded and greeted the villagers, knowing that Shi San had the highest prestige in the village, he couldn't help but ask Shi San: "Old man, I don't know what your plans are in the future."
Shi San hurriedly said to Lu Bu: "Master Lu, the little one can't be the old man, you still call me Lao Shi."
Lu Bu also knew that the concept of respect and inferiority was deeply ingrained in the minds of these people, and he did not force it.
"Okay then, then the boy will call you Lao Shi.
Lao Shi, let me ask you, what are your plans in the future?"
Shi San said to Lu Bu: "Back to Master Lu, we rent land for Master Zhen, our ancestors have been for several generations, and we are used to it.
Now this Zhuangzi has been transferred to the master, if the master doesn't let us farm, it will be even if it cuts off our way of life, and I beg the master to reward us with food."
Listening to Shi Sande's words, Lu Bu couldn't help but nodded, and then asked Shi San: "Old Shi, I don't know how your previous rent was calculated."
Hearing Lu Bu's question, Shi San hurriedly replied: "If you go back to the master, the rent here used to be one load of grain a year per acre of land. ” After finishing speaking, Shi San couldn't help but look at Lu Bu nervously, not knowing how Lu Bu was going to answer.
The land here is still good, and the rent for a load of grain is not low, nor is it definitely high, it is medium.
If the year is good, they can still have a lot of surplus.
Overall, the Zhen family is quite lenient.
At the moment, I just don't know if this Master Lu will continue to lease the land to them Will the rent go up And when Lu Bu heard that the rent was one load of grain a year per acre of land, he couldn't help but nodded.
This rent is about the market price.
A load of grain is about 100 catties of later generations, and if it is exchanged for later generations, the price of 100 catties of grain rent per acre of land is really cheap.
But the yield per mu at that time could not be compared with modern times.
Take rice as an example, the yield per mu of modern rice has reached thousands of catties, and now the latest high-yield rice has even reached thousands of kilograms of experimental field data.
But in the Han Dynasty The yield of rice per mu is less than 200 catties, that is, less than two quintals.
In other words, the rent of one acre of land and one load of grain has already collected more than half of the harvest of these tenants.
After thinking about it for a while, Lu Bu said: "Lao Shi, since you are all willing to rent seeds, then these lands will be leased to you as for rent, and it will be eight buckets per mu per year."
One load is ten buckets, and now Lu Bu has subtracted two buckets for them, which can be regarded as reducing a lot of burden for these villagers.
In fact, Lu Bu didn't fancy this little money at all, and after studying in later generations, Lu Bu knew very well that if he wanted to make a lot of money, he still had to rely on business.
Originally, Lu Bu wanted to directly reduce the rent to half, but after thinking about it, if it was reduced so much at once, it would cause these tenants to be uneasy.
Therefore, Lu Bucai reduced the rent by only two percent.
Rao was like this, and he also surprised the villagers on Zhuangzi, and repeatedly asked Lu Bu.
Shi San even knelt on the ground excitedly and kowtowed to Lu Bu to thank him.
Lu Bu hurriedly helped Shi San up and comforted the villagers.
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When Lu Bu was about to let the villagers disperse, he suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but turn to Shi San and said: "By the way, Lao Shi, this year's son is going to plant some new products, and you set aside a hundred acres of fertile land for me to sow nothing." ” Although Shi San didn't understand what the new product meant, he could probably guess a thing or two.
And Lu Bu's words couldn't help but make Shi San embarrassed.
I know that pies won't fall from the sky, no wonder the lord will give up the rent of two buckets, it turns out that he is waiting here If they set aside 100 acres of land, they will have to plant 100 acres less, and each family will plant nearly two acres less, and the grain produced will not even be enough to chew.
Seeing Shi Sande's face, Lu Bu quickly reacted, and couldn't help but say to Shi San: "Old Shi, in this way, what about this hundred acres of land, this son is going to plant something else."
You will plant according to my orders, and my son will pay you a load of grain per acre, and you will see how it is":