Hearing Lin Ze's scolding, the group of people who were about to kowtow again suddenly stood up obediently.

They kowtow to show their obedience and hope that the noble will allow them to continue to be tenants, which is related to their life and death.

Now since the nobles don't like them kneeling, they will naturally do so obediently.

"Is what they say true?"

Lin Ze asked Shi Shanbao on the side.

The shopkeeper of Yahang knew very clearly about the tenants and landlords of the land. Lin Ze directly verified the truth of the villagers' words from him.

Shi Shanbao nodded and said: "Yes, sir, these three families are working as tenants on the land you bought. They don't have their own land, so they all make a living by being tenant farmers and helping others."
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Shi Shanbao couldn't figure out what Lin Ze was thinking at the moment, so he told the facts without any emotion.

Hearing this, Lin Ze also made calculations in his mind.

The annual grain output of the two hundred acres of land he is about to buy is about 71,400 kilograms, which fluctuates within this range depending on the year.

As a tenant, you need to pay half of the harvest as rent, which means you can have 36,000 kilograms of grain left.

After deducting more than 20 kilograms of grain per mu of land, about 30,000 kilograms of grain can be used. There are 42 people in these three families, which means that on average each person can get a little more than 700 kilograms of grain.<

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Seven hundred kilograms of grain may seem like a lot, but in these ancient times when there was little sugar and oil, and people did heavy physical work every day, and only relied on staple food to provide energy for the body, it would be easy for an adult to eat two to three kilograms of grain a day.

To have enough food for a year, a person needs at least 1,000 kilograms of grain.

Since there are many families in the family, the 700 kilograms of food per person may be barely enough.

Considering that these people still need money to buy daily necessities, pay population taxes, occasionally perform corvee labor, and not get sick.

At the end of the year, not only will there be no money left, but I may have to tighten my belt to live.

Under such circumstances, if Lin Ze did not rent the land to them, their whole family might starve to death within a year.

"In comparison, the villagers in Qinghe Township still have money to buy sugar, and their living standards are much higher than those in this village now."

"When a dynasty is prosperous, as long as people don't starve to death on a large scale, it will indeed be a prosperous time."

"But if I don't change the tenants, wouldn't my land be bought for nothing? How can the plan to bribe the confidants be carried out? Think of a way..."

Lin Ze murmured in his heart.

With his brain running rapidly, Lin Ze began to talk to the villagers in front of him to stabilize them.

"Don't worry, I'm not unreasonable. Even if I buy land, I won't make your life without a solution."

Hearing what Lin Ze said, these tenants were overjoyed and wanted to kneel down and kowtow in thanks.

However, seeing Lin Ze's cold expression, these tenants hurriedly stopped kneeling, and instead bent over and bowed their heads and began to express their gratitude.

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"Yes!"

After thinking for a while, Lin Ze had an idea in his mind.

A very important factor in winning over your confidants is to make the family eat under your hand. Without you, it will be difficult to live or the quality of life will be greatly reduced.

The interests of both parties are consistent. Lin Ze is good and his servants should also be good, so as to ensure sufficient loyalty.

Starting from this factor, he came up with the method of buying land and letting the family members of his servants be his tenants, in order to win people's hearts.

This idea is not wrong. In the farming society of the Zhou Dynasty, it was the only way for many aristocratic families to start their careers, and they are even still at their peak.

But Lin Ze has Zhutian Sect, and his method of arranging work is not limited to the current agricultural society. He can also find ways from the main world, an industrial society with developed productivity.

"In the early stages of development of the feudal dynasty in a farming society, years of wars led to a significant decline in population, which brought the population and land into balance, and fewer people died of starvation."

"When the feudal dynasty developed to the middle stage, the population gradually increased, and the price of land as a survival resource increased year by year. At this time, because the population exceeded the number of people supported by the land, people began to starve to death."

"In the later stages of the development of the feudal dynasty, the population exploded and many people did not have enough to eat. As a result, social order collapsed, land devalued, wars occurred, the population was reduced, and the establishment of a new dynasty entered a new round of dynasty reincarnation."

"The way industrial society solves this problem is to increase food production and then develop service and industry to accommodate the excess population."

"That is to say, my vision does not have to be limited to the fields to think of solutions."

Lin Ze recalled some knowledge about the laws of historical cycles that he had learned many years ago, and came up with a solution.

"I want to arrange work, but I can't buy land. At this time, I can build factories to produce products to provide jobs."

"If all the family members who are servants at home work in my factories and have a stable and decent job with good income, it will also have the effect of winning people's hearts."

"And the factory can not only accommodate the family members of the servants at home, but also the entire Fengping County and even the excess population in the surrounding areas. When the time comes, depending on what people want, I want to have more room to choose my confidants.

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"If I have hundreds or even thousands of confidants who can be mobilized, then my two-industry trading business can naturally snowball and grow."

After thinking about this, Lin Ze's mood stabilized.

"Let's go, buy these lands first, and the tenants will remain unchanged for the time being."

Lin Ze didn't have the extra energy to continue arguing with these tenants, so he just took the carriage and prepared to leave after leaving these words.

"Thank you, noble man. Thank you, noble man."

Amidst the shouts of thanks, Lin Ze got on the carriage and returned to the city with Shi Shanbao.

"But what kind of factory should we build?"

On the way back to the city, Lin Ze fell into deep thought again.

The technology of the main world is a dimensionality-reducing blow to this farming society. It stands to reason that anything you build can be a big hit.

But Lin Ze needs to follow the following principles.

The first is that the government cannot let the government think that he has gathered so many people and has some evil thoughts. If he is directly attacked, Lin Ze's idea of ​​​​gathering his confidants will be in vain.

The second is that there are too many technologies that cannot surpass this world. Once they are introduced, people will think that they are beyond the times, which is not acceptable.

Lin Ze's current strength and power are in their infancy and they don't want to attract too much attention.

The third is that the profits created by this technology cannot be too large. Otherwise, if the income is too large, a passerby can find him picking up money from a sack, and his status as a first-class expert will not be able to maintain collusion with the county magistrate and businessmen.
Chapter completed!