Chapter 91 Big Pot Rice
Twenty Liu family plows were delivered by Yuan Pei at noon.
At that time, Liu Yi had just gotten up because of a hangover. He was practicing Jeet Kune Do in the yard with a short dress, punching, kicking and moving his body. Seeing Yuan Pei driving a donkey cart to the door, he put away his movements and greeted him.
"Uncle Yuan is really a believer. He came here so soon. It's a big deal." Liu Yiuan bowed his hand and gave a meeting gift to Yuan Pei, then opened the door and asked Yuan Pei to drive the donkey cart in.
"Doctor Liu is polite." Yuan Pei drove the donkey cart to the yard and said with a smile: "It is the responsibility of us little carpenters to deliver goods to the owner. Look at where these plowshares are unloaded to you? Is it in the yard or in the house, so I can deliver them for you."
"Just put it in the yard," Liu Yian waited for the donkey cart to stop, and stepped forward to carry a plowshare, and asked Yuan Pei with a smile: "Uncle Yuan can make all these plowshares so quickly. I guess the Liu family plowhouse has been fully operational?"
"Thank you for the blessing of Doctor Liu," Yuan Pei looked quite proud as he spoke. He jumped off the donkey cart and said to Liu Yi: "From yesterday afternoon, before I came, the Liu family plowing workshop had already made twelve Liu family plows, and this was because the apprentices were not familiar with making it. I think in a few days, the workshop will produce fifteen to twenty plows in a day. It is more than twice as many as previously expected.
"Then congratulations to Uncle Yuan and Mr. Yuan." This is good news for Liu Yi. If the production efficiency is improved, it means a reduction in production costs and a large profit commission, and the money he earns will naturally be much more on the original basis.
"Happy together, happy together!" Yuan Pei bowed and looked at Liu Yi, and then the two of them laughed at the same time.
The two of them unloaded the plowshare. Yuan Pei refused Liu Yi's invitation and bowed directly to Liu Yi's farewell: "Doctor Liu, Liu's plowhouse has just started, and there are still many matters to deal with. Yuan is not inconvenient to stay here for more time, so he said goodbye first."
"In this way, I won't force myself to stay. I'll send Uncle Yuan out." Liu Yifan sent Yuan Pei out with a smile.
If the opening of the workshop is put to the present, Liu Yi would be a major shareholder, who would invest with funds, accounting for 60% of the shares. Yuan Fang and his son would invest with technology, accounting for 40%. Now, Liu Yi would be very happy to see that Yuan Pei, a small shareholder, would work so hard and diligently to make money for him.
"Doctor Liu doesn't have to send him off again, Yuan said goodbye." Yuan Pei got into the car, arched at Liu Yipeng, then waved his little whip and left.
Liu Yiuan closed the door and returned to the yard again. Looking at the twenty-one plowing oxen and twenty Liu's plowing plows in the yard, I couldn't help but smile on his face. With these things, how many hectares of wasteland are not like playing?
He went into the house and greeted Liu He, changed his clothes, and Liu Yi led Liu Wuhen out of the door. The destination was the village where the tenants lived.
It's time to get groundbreaking. The day I've set before should also be mentioned.
Liu Yi entered the village and rode a donkey and walked slowly. When he saw some children playing outside in the village, he was frightened to avoid him from afar. It was as if he had seen the Japanese, which made Liu Yi feel a little depressed. However, the adults in the village were quite polite to him, and they would bend over and bow respectfully when they saw him, and greet him, "Hello, boss."
"Boss, why are you here?" Li Dechen received a message from someone and greeted him from afar. He quickly walked to Liu Yi's house, bent over and bowed to him, then reached out to take the reins from Liu Yi's hand, and said, "Boss, please come to the old man's house to rest."
"Well," Liu Yiuan handed Liu Wuhen to Li Dechen and replied softly: "It's a blessing that Li Laozhan is here." Then he followed Li Dechen into the Li family.
There were still the three stools, Liu Yi was given to the main seat, and Li Dechen sat on the side. However, this time there was tea, which was brought by Li Dechen's eldest son Li Biao. When he handed the tea bowl to Liu Yi, Li Biao smiled foolishly at Liu Yi and said in a silly voice: "Boss, please use tea!"
Liu Yi took the tea bowl lightly, put it on the table, looked at Li Biao for a while, and asked Li Dechen: "Li Laozhan, is this your son?" I remember seeing him once when I came to sign a contract last time. He was very big and had the strength, but he looked a little stupid, and he was a little careless. I wonder how could such a smart person Li Dechen give birth to such a son?
Li Dechen waved Li Biao down and said to Liu Yi with a smile: "The boss is wise. He is my eldest son, named Li Biao. Because he was hit when he was a child, his head was a little bad, which made the boss laugh. But please rest assured that this boy is a little stupid, but he is a good guy when planting the ground. He will never delay the boss' farming."
Li Dechen explained carefully, for fear that Liu Yiyi would fire Li Biao if he didn't like it.
Speaking of which, Li Biao was also a heart-wrenching problem for Li Dechen. He was in his twenties and was about to reach his thirty years, but he could not get a wife. His hair was so sad that his head turned white. The incense of their Li family might be broken when he arrived here.
Liu Yiuan saw Li Dechen's little thoughts and chuckled and waved at Li Dechen, "Li Laozhan is too worried. I just see Li Biao's body is strong, honest and happy, and there is nothing else to mean."
"The boss is very loving." Seeing that Liu Yi was speaking sincerely, Li Dechen smiled at him with gratitude and said, "I wonder what instructions the boss has to do here? But is it going to start to bury ground?"
"Well," Liu Yiuan picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, frowned slightly. The taste of tea was not only bitter but also bitter, and there was no lingering fragrance after the mouth was taken. It should be the worst kind of tea. So he put the tea bowl on the table and said to Li Dechen: "I have been ready to stop working on oxen and utensils, so today I came to Li Laozhan to respond and officially start to make groundbreaking tomorrow. I have to trouble Li Laozhan to notify all households."
"In addition, there are also issues of land distribution and oxen distribution. We must discuss with Li Laozhan in advance." Liu Yiu humbly asked Li Dechen for advice: "I wonder how did these allocate them when Li Laozhan was farming for Wang Kui and the others?"
"Haha, the boss is a newcomer, and it is necessary to not know what's going on here. Then the old man will talk to the boss in detail." Li Dechen thought carefully and began to introduce Liu Yi in detail.
There were generally only two ways to cultivate lands of landlords in the Tang Dynasty, one was renting and the other was hiring.
Rent means renting the land to farmers who are half-farmers, half-tenants or registered but have no land, and levying high-priced rent for profit.
Hiring is the farming method that Liu Yi uses now, hiring some professional tenant farmers who do not have household registration to farm. Every year, the tenant farmers are given a small amount of money and food to exchange for a large amount of labor. When farming, everyone makes and eats together. As long as the farming task can be completed within the time specified by the boss, the boss will not say anything.
"So, the land of the boss does not need to be separated, nor does it need to be plowed," Li Dechen said to Liu Yiu. "We will plow the thirty hectares of land together, either by standing a cow, holding a plow, picking grass, or fertilizing it. It is absolutely clear that the land can be plowed within the time specified by the boss, and it will not delay the spring plowing and sowing."
Chapter completed!