Ming politicians

Niu Er has become a popular figure among the tenants. The young master of the Su family went to his house first, and he also publicized the promise of the young master of the Su family.

There was not much wheat noodles left in the house. Niu Er asked his wife to cook a hearty lunch. The daughter was full and the wife was full too. Niu Er had a big appetite, so he held back when eating.

The head of the village and A first went to Niu Er's house to make statistics to see how much stock was left. Niu Er also continued to publicize, faintly, everyone was a little convinced.

To be honest, everyone didn’t believe Su Tiancheng’s statement among the tenants. How could there be such a good owner? Not much, and what the harvest will be like next year is still unknown. Could it be that the young master of the Su family is planning to use his own money to support so many tenants.

Su Pingyang, the new housekeeper of the Su Mansion, came among the tenants. The most important thing was that Su Pingyang brought over 300 shi of wheat flour. This time, the tenants were shocked.

Only one day has passed, and the statistics of Lichang and Jiashou have not yet been completed, but the wheat noodles promised by the young master of the Su family have already been delivered, which shows that the young master of the Su family has really kept his word.

Niu Er accepted the task a long time ago, and sorted out an open space next to his house, as Su Pingyang said.When distributing food, there are things to be arranged.The heads of every tenant household must be concentrated here.

Early in the morning, the open space was full of tenants, clean men.

Niu Er boiled a lot of boiled water, and the tenants were not so particular. If anyone was thirsty and wanted to drink water, he would take the bowl prepared next to him and pour hot water for himself. Tea cannot be supplied, and this is precious. s things.

Niu Er and the mother-in-law were busy, the mother-in-law boiled water, and the little girl was not idle. She had eaten enough for the past two days and her spirits improved.

Seeing the carriage transporting food, as it slowly approached, cheers erupted from the crowd.

Everyone was surprised to find that the young master of the Su family had also come, riding a fine horse, at the front of the carriage.

"Brothers, you have been farming for the Su family. In the past two years, you have suffered disasters and fell to the current field. On behalf of the Su family, I can't afford to compensate you. I visited Niuer's house the other day and felt ashamed. If the tenants of the Su family want to sell their sons and daughters and starve to death, this is the crime of the Su family. Such a situation must never happen. Before this festival, each family will give another stone of wheat noodles, and Jing salt and meat food, the Su Manor must also find a way to solve it, during the Chinese New Year, every family must have meat to eat, and use fine salt."

The big guys already knew about the food distribution, but each family distributed two catties of coarse salt, which was unexpected by everyone. In the huge open space, there were more than 300 people standing in silence.

Salt is a precious thing. For 350 tenants, each family has two catties of coarse salt, which is 350 catties of coarse salt. The price of salt in Pingyang Fucheng is five yuan a catty of coarse salt, and one tael of silver per catty of fine salt is seven hundred catties. A hundred catties of coarse salt would cost [-] taels of silver. This time, the young master of the Su family really thought about the tenants.

Salt is a very important thing. To put it bluntly, sometimes, it is no less important than food. If you don’t eat salt for a long time, your body will become weak and your immunity will decline. For farmers, this is fatal.

Niu Er stood at the front, heard what the young master said, and saw that the top of the carriage at the front was really coarse salt.

He knelt down, raised his head, and looked at the young master.

"Niu Er will never forget the master's kindness and virtue all his life. If there is anything in the future, the master will order, and Niu Er will do his best."

After Niu Er knelt down, all the tenants also knelt down.

The tenants are not good at talking, but it is the best performance for them to kneel down. This also shows that if the young master of the Su mansion has any arrangements, they will do their best. What's more, the young master calls them brothers, such treatment , the tenant was meeting for the first time.

"Okay, everyone, hurry up, I really have something to do today, and I ask everyone to do it."

Su Pingyang and Su Ertong have already called everyone to get up.

"There are four things that everyone has to do. The first thing is to start planting winter wheat immediately. I have brought the seeds and distributed them according to the number of seeds needed by each household. Everyone must seize the season and not delay During farming, the second thing is to dig ditches. For a field of [-] hectares, all the ditches must be unblocked. At the same time, digging three weir ponds to store water is a lot of work, but it must be done well. The third thing is to dig Wells to draw water, if there is no water, there will be no harvest of winter wheat, five wells must be dug within a year, the fourth thing is to collect straw and stalks, chop them up and harvest them, it will be useful at that time.”

Everyone didn't talk, except for collecting straw and stalks, everyone knew about the rest, and this was actually something they did for themselves.

"For digging ditches and weir ponds, including digging wells, the head of the village and capital city Jia need to count the working hours of each family. After the winter wheat is purchased next year, the Su Mansion will give out silver taels. Everyone will get paid for doing things."

The reason why Su Tiancheng came in person was not because he wanted the tenants to thank him, but mainly to implement these things. If it was Su Pingyang, the head of the village, and Chief Jia who came to arrange such things, the intensity might not be great. It must be different.His thoughts are still somewhat different from those of people in this era. Through the dialogue with Su Pingyang, he has already realized it.

Su Pingyang believes that these things he has done are the greatest favors to the tenants, and the tenants must be grateful. As for the few things that need to be done, there must be no problem. Everyone will do their best. Including repairing canals, digging weir ponds and digging wells.But Su Pingyang didn't think so.

The construction of ditches and weir ponds should be done by the Su Mansion, not by asking the tenants to do it. The work of digging wells can also be closely related to the lives of the tenants. Therefore, it is necessary for the Su Mansion to ask the tenants to do these things. If you want to pay money, besides, the harvest has not been good for two consecutive years. As the host, you need to consider the specific difficulties of the tenants. This is a basic human nature problem. , will eventually lose everything.

The Su family is in Pingyang Fucheng, and there are only 350 tenants for the time being. It will gradually develop in the future, and there will be more and more tenants. This is the same reason for managing tenants and managing the country. The tenants of Su’s family have become richer, and the tide rises. Naturally, they will become richer. On the contrary, with unrestrained exploitation and fishing, the tenants will not be able to survive, and the host family will naturally not get any wealth.

Based on this understanding, Su Tiancheng's starting point is different.

Now that the father and the eldest wife have left Pingyang Fucheng, this is the base camp for their own fortune, and everything must be created by themselves, servants and more than 300 tenants, including wealth.

If you want to take it, you must first give it.

This is the basic principle. The tenants will try their best to protect their property when they have their own property and their life is getting richer. Once these interests are damaged, they will do their best to protect them. Don't talk about peasant uprisings. The army, even when the officers and soldiers came, they dared to pick up hoes and fight desperately.

If there is such a benign development, everything will slowly get on the right track, and more things will be carried out step by step in the future.

As a modern person, Su Tiancheng has an unparalleled advantage in understanding. He believes that through his own short-term observation and combining the laws of historical development, he can quickly find the crux of the problem and find a solution to the problem.

So, coming here today and personally arranging these things for the tenants, in his opinion, is a very crucial step.

After Su Tiancheng finished making arrangements, Su Pingyang continued to add.

Thirty Lichang and Jiashou were assigned tasks, including Niu Er.

Niu Er is representative. The words that the young master said in Niu Er's house are being fulfilled step by step. It can be said that Niu Er is a witness. He and his wife are gone, but under the leadership of the young master, earth-shaking changes will take place.

Niu Er has once again become a celebrity among the tenants. The young master still remembers his name, which is really not easy.