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Tenant farmers typically split the rented land 50/50, but this 50/50 split requires the tenants to provide their own oxen, farm tools, and seeds.

Li Xingdao's practice of providing oxen, seeds, and farm tools, and then splitting the profits fourfold, is already considered very conscientious.

Of course, there is another way to find tenants and collect rent, which is to collect half of the previous year's harvest, no matter how much is harvested from the land.

In this case, if there is a bumper harvest, the tenants' actual income may exceed 70% of the harvest, which is much higher than the previous 50/50 split.

However, in the event of a poor harvest or even a complete crop failure, tenants often not only fail to receive much grain, but also have to pay out more grain in return.

Li Xingdao wasn't one of those heartless local landlords who had grown up there, and he didn't want to resort to any fancy tricks. So, he simply split the profits 40/60: he provided the grain, the farm tools, and the oxen, and people came to farm the land.

After planting, he gets 4% of the harvest, and he keeps 6%.

This is already considered a good deed, and he's satisfied.

Moreover, he believed that doing this would definitely attract many applicants for tenant farmer positions.

After all, most farmers near Peach Blossom Village have land to eat and food to eat. Now is a peaceful year, so if they can cultivate more land and have a better harvest, some people will definitely be willing to work harder.

However, just as you need to find a new benefactor to partner with when doing business, you can't just find any tenant.

Tenants want to find reliable bosses, and bosses also want to find reliable tenants.

At this point, a respected elder in the village is needed to act as a middleman, and then find honest and hardworking people from various villages to work on his land.

However, by now, all 1000 mu of land has been planted.

What's needed for the time being is no longer tenant farmers who directly cultivate the land, but rather wheat harvesters who will come to collect the wheat when the time comes.

Wheat harvesters usually just provide food and give them some grain.

However, he had to start by recruiting people from among the wheat harvesters. Only those who worked as his wheat harvesters were qualified to grow grain on his land, become his tenants, and receive a share of his grain.

Therefore, even though it was still a long time before the actual planting season, Li Xingdao had already started looking for people.

After all, it's very likely that he'll leave right after the New Year.

However, once you go far away and have no business or income in other places, how to make a living becomes a problem.

As long as he manages the more than 1000 mu of land and the brick kiln in this village well, even if he goes far away, he can come back when he sells grain and carry the money he gets with him for expenses.

After considering all this, Li Xingdao's news spread throughout several villages in a single day.

They agreed that anyone who wanted to do it should go to his house to find him. After that, he smiled and groped his way back to Peach Blossom Village from the last village in the dark.

Thinking to himself, he realized that the fact that he had killed more than 20 members of Li Lai's family was quite frightening, so he decided to find an opportunity to invite the people of Peach Blossom Village over for a chat, so that they wouldn't be too afraid and the villagers wouldn't become disheartened.

As a rural person, he certainly knew how much of a shock his actions would be to the people of those four villages.

This deterrent effect is certainly a good thing, but if it's not handled well and others perceive him as a monster, that might not be so good either.

Therefore, he still needs to make some adjustments and keep things in moderation.

With this thought in mind, Li Xingdao quickly returned to his courtyard.

He turned his head and saw that dinner was ready, and several women were waiting for him to come in.

The three women sitting inside the courtyard gate blinked and walked towards him, still looking at him.

Li Xingdao looked ahead and immediately recognized them: Lin Qing, the wife of Li Lai's fourth brother Li Huai; Lin Fang, the wife of Li Lai's fifth brother Li Xiong; and Chen Lan, the wife of Li Lai's sixth brother Li Du.

As for Chen Wan, the wife of the seventh brother Li Wai, he had already slept with her yesterday. Now she was sitting with Zhang Cui inside, speaking to her with a gentle expression.

Li Xingdao glanced at their faces, smiled, and finally fixed his gaze on Lin Qing, the wife of Li Lai's fourth brother, Li Huai.

Lin Qing was a little older than Chen Wan, but a little younger than Zhang Cui, and had a graceful and slender figure.

Li Xingdao felt most comfortable looking at her today, so he went up to her with a smile, put his hands on her knees, grabbed her buttocks, pinched and rubbed them, and then kissed her on the lips.

This caused Lin Qing's face to flush red, but she obediently responded in response to the gazes of the other women around her.

Once Li Xingdao relented, Lin Qing couldn't help but stare into his eyes.

Li Xingdao smiled and put one arm around her buttocks as they walked to the kitchen. He looked at the food, then sat down with a grin, letting them bring the food to him.

"Honey, what do you say to today, after such a busy day?"

After entering the house and setting out the food, Zhang Cui sat to Li Xingdao's left, brought him a bowl of tea, and leaned close to his side to look at him, asking with a smile.

Lin Qing, Li Huai's former wife, whose bottom had been loosened by Li Xingdao, couldn't stop staring at Li Xingdao as she sat close to Zhang Cui.

"Yes, Brother Xingdao, you've gone around to several villages in the area. Have you settled things with the tenant farmers yet?"

Li Xiaohua stood behind Li Xingdao, close to him, exuding a youthful freshness, her breath almost reaching her nose, as she smiled and spoke to him.

Li Xingdao smiled and kissed Zhang Cui first, then hugged Li Xiaohua and kissed her lips gently for a while, while rubbing her body with his hands.

This made Li Xiaohua blush, and with a smile, she pressed her face against his chest, feeling a little embarrassed.

Seeing this, he turned around with a smile, touched Zhang Cui's face, and kissed her on the lips for a while.

Only then did he smile and say, under Zhang Cui's bright, sparkling eyes, "Of course, everyone who needed to be notified has been notified."

"Starting tomorrow, people who want to become our tenants will gradually come. When I see someone come in, I'll greet them and ask how many acres of land they want to work on..."

As he spoke, Li Xingdao had already picked up his chopsticks and started eating.

Hearing Li Xingdao say this, Zhang Cui felt relieved and smiled as she served him food, urging him to eat.

The other five women sat at the front, none daring to interrupt, listening to the conversation between the man of the house and the two women he had his eye on, obediently doing their own jobs.

Not long after, after dinner, Li Xingdao stretched comfortably, wiped himself with a wooden towel, and then hugged Li Xiaohua's delicate body into his arms. Amidst her cheerful laughter, they went into the inner room.

I just put the pots and pans in the kitchen and asked the other women to wash them.

Seeing this, Lin Qing smiled and poured out all the water that Li Xingdao used to dry himself after washing and the water that Li Xiaohua used to take a bath.

I filled a basin with hot water, wiped myself with a wet towel, and then poured it out.

Then, she brought in a basin of hot water and a clean towel, and closed the door behind her.

Seeing the two women go inside, Lin Fang quickly prepared a basin of hot water and a dry towel for herself, and waited anxiously at the door.