Wu Haogu stood there, quietly and seriously, watching every long-term worker leaving.

Everyone's face was filled with satisfaction, gentleness and joy, and a smile that made Wu Haogu feel very strange.

His soul has been in this time and space for four years and has also come into contact with many ancient people, but because he was a Bianliang son in this life and was a wealthy businessman, he mainly contacted the citizens and bureaucrats, merchants and powerful landlords, and did not have much contact with the lower class people, especially farmers.

Moreover, he had no interest in going deep into the fields, into the countryside, and in order to get along with the most miserable and actually the lowest-level people in the Song Empire.

Until today, he hadn't even noticed that the lowest-level farmers - the farmers of the Baibowu family were not the lowest-level farmers. They were the Yimen Wu family. The family owned a large area of ​​land, had the political privileges of the imperial seal, and had all read books. These people were already very grassroots in Wu Haogu's opinion, and they were a little nerd, but Wu Haogu could understand them.

They are climbing up very hard! I hope they can change their destiny through hard work. Just like the young people who drifted in big cities that Wu Haogu met in his previous life... Of course, he himself is one of them.

But today, Wu Haogu saw many poor farmers in the Wu family in Haizhou (who seems very poor in Wu Haogu), but very contented farmers, without the expression of suffering on their faces, and as if they did not have the legendary numbness...

The wages of a few dumps a year are probably not enough for Wu Haogu to eat a meal, but they are very happy and satisfied. They don’t look like they can rebel and kill Wu Chengchang, a rich man.

It seems that it is not easy to mobilize farmers to carry out a land revolution...

"Oh, isn't this the patriarch?"

Wu Chengchang had already discovered that Wu Hao was here, so he dared not be negligent. He immediately stepped forward to greet him and smiled: "You are back from Jiehe Commercial City, right?"

"Yes," Wu Haogu walked in with a smile, "Uncle Qi, were those who were your family's long-term workers just now?"

"Yes." Wu Chengchang said, "Didn't I have bought 3,000 acres of paddy fields? I can't grow so many fields alone, so I hired 55 long-term workers. Today is the day to earn a salary."

"How much is given to them?"

"It's more than six bribes a year," Wu Chengchang said, "and even reserved food and accommodation. This is the highest wage in the countryside of Haizhou."

"Is this the highest? Then you are quite generous." Wu Haogu sat down on the rose chair.

"Hey, this money cannot be saved." Wu Chengchang ordered his family to take tea and prepare a family dinner, and sat down on a chair and explained to Wu Haogu with a smile, "I paid a lot of money, but it is also cruel to use it. I have to do a lot of work in the whole year... I won't talk about it during the busy farming season. During the slack farming season, I have to build canals, water trucks, oil workshops, land rectify, and fruit trees. I really treat people as cattle, and it's not enough to give them less.

Moreover, farm work is not easy. If you don’t have any less, you can’t invite a handful of things. If you can’t do a good job, will it be me who loses it?”

"Why do you want to make a good handcraft for you?" Wu Haogu asked strangely, "They don't rent a piece of land themselves?"

"The patriarch doesn't know anything," Wu Chengchang shook his head and said, "Farming is not easy! Farming is a business, and it is profitable. If you don't do it well, you will lose money. The old man can afford these 3,000 acres, but you are not taking care of you, the patriarch?

Moreover, I am now an official householder. My father is a ninth-rank civil servant or a vocalist outside Donghua Gate. The Martial Family in Haizhou is also a first-class family. There is also the big tree of your patriarch, you, to shelter me from the wind and rain. I don’t dare to come to my house for all kinds of troubles! How can those bitter farmers compare?

They rented dozens of acres of land, worked hard for a year from morning to night, and maybe they would lose money and owed debts. In the end, there were many people selling their children, women and wives!”

Wu Haogu nodded. The old man Wu is indeed insightful! He regards farming as a business... A big farmer must first be a businessman! He must take profits, follow the market, and understand business management. Those "rural businessmen" who know how to operate and manage, know how to seize the market, and also take risks and have a certain amount of capital are probably Western agricultural capitalists? It is actually very absurd to regard farmers and merchants as two opposing classes.

"I heard from my elder sister that there are several old uncles from the Cheng generation who have also bought land like you. How are they doing?"

"Most of them are good," Wu Chengchang said, "There is one that's not good... Your 19th uncle can't manage it. He has been working in vain for a year and has not made any money. He doesn't want to do it next year. He wants to go to Jiehe Market to find an institution."

"Uncle Nineteen?"

"His name is Wu Chengjiu, and his courtesy name is Xiangshan." Wu Chenglan said, "He is rough and not a good source of study, but he has a few pounds of brute force, so he can be the first to be a front and back."

"Just make the arrangement." Wu Haogu still needs to take care of the people in the family. Anyway, he is just a front-end (subsidiary, guardian, bodyguard, etc.). Who is not a arrangement?

"We have many customers, right?" Wu Haogu asked about his customers again, "How are they? Are they all okay?"

"Okay," Wu Chengchang smiled, "The family planted thirty or forty acres of paddy fields, and collected 50 kilograms of rice per acre, and it is still used to pay taxes. This is no different from not paying rent. Where can I find such a good thing?"

The income of paddy fields is not comparable to that of dry fields, and the paddy fields here in Haizhou are usually two seasons, one season of rice and the other season of cold vegetables, and the economic value is still very high.

"Their families have to serve as strong men," Wuhao Gudao, "Now the guards in Tianya Town are all the guards from their families. It would be impossible not to give them some benefits."

"That's too much," Wu Chengchang said, "Baoding served in turn, and Tianya Town also managed food and accommodation. Moreover, the corvee labor of each family was also washed away by the name of Qushan County archers, so the exemption money was saved, and the customer's household tax was not much.

Clan leader, I know you want to win people's hearts, otherwise you can charge a few times the rent."

Wu Haogu smiled and did not take on this again. Of course, people's hearts would have to buy it! That was more than 600 families! One family was more than 600 heroes. Ximen Qing arranged for the warriors of the Ximen family to train them, and also purchased weapons and equipment for them within the scope permitted by law.

When needed in the future, they will be the reliable armed forces mastered by the Wu family in Haizhou! If there are hundreds of armed doctors in the Yuntai Academy at the same time, it is possible to take down Qushan County one day...

"Uncle Qi, how many ducks do you have to sell?" Wu Haogu suddenly asked about the duck.

"There are five or six hundred more."

"I want it all," Wu Haogudao, "Tomorrow you find some people and bring these ducks to our customers for New Year's Eve."

...

Wu Haogu guessed that the custom of landlords to pay New Year greetings to customers should have appeared in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was no longer a world of aristocratic families, and most of the landlords were weak scholars. The relationship between farmers and them also changed from the original feudal dependence to commercial leasing. In other words, the relationship between landlords renting land in rural areas and renting shops in cities is similar. In theory, there is no one who depends on whom. Then it is natural for the landlord to pay New Year greetings to tenants and then collect rent and usury in a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere...

However, Wu Haogu, a landlord, is different from most landlords in the Song Dynasty. He is now a typical semi-feudal and semi-capitalist existence!

On the one hand, he is a big capitalist, and has some money, and does not care about the income of tens of thousands of acres of paddy fields. On the other hand, he is a typical feudal lord compared to the children and customers of the Haizhou Wu family. There is no equality between the two parties, let alone commercial exchange.

Because what he was interested in was not land rent and interest, but controlling some of the peasants' personalities through land. So he adopted a similar method to the Hetian clan, benefiting the people and making them love them.

"master……"

"Old man," the charity man from Wuhan University picked up a fat duck, took a string of copper coins, and handed it to an old man who looked fucking and thin. "How old are you? You are seventy years old?"

"No, no..." The old man grinned with his mouth that had fallen out of his teeth, "How could he be seventy, the little old man is only fifty-one years old this year."

"Oh, oh..." Wu Haogu asked with a smile, "Your son is a bailiff in Tianya Town?"

"It's the old man's grandson who is serving the master," said the 51-year-old old man. "The old man has three grandsons, two of whom are in Tianya Town, one is a baoding and the other is an apprentice in the boat run by the master."

Wu Haogu nodded and said gently: "The apprentice in the boat yard is promising, you have to ask him to study hard..."

The old farmer who talked to Wu Haogu was already feeling grateful. In the burger drying ground in a village where the Wu family customers lived, Wu Haogu was sending ducks to farmers in the village with a hypocritical smile. According to the Confucian custom of respecting the elderly, he started with the elderly who gave birth to older farmers. Each household gave birth to one duck, plus a string of "New Year's money" - "New Year's money" was given to the younger generation. Now Wu Haogu gave birth to it, which symbolized that he was also the elder of these farmers in front of him.

In the Confucian ethical system, "king and father" are one, and the emphasis is on "king and king, minister, minister, father, son and son". These farmers who rely on Wu Haogu to have good food to eat must regard Wu Haogu as their king and father.

Of course, a solid personal dependence relationship cannot be established in a few years, or even a generation. However, Wu Haogu’s vision is not focused on the present, but seen twenty years later.

Moreover, the relationship between personal dependence cannot be solely dependent on kindness, but also has to be powerful. The kindness and power are used together, and then it takes time to achieve results.

So in the past year, many Baoding from Wujiazhuang has been beaten by the board and military sticks, and several customers have escaped by the Wu family because Baoding cannot bear the hardship of training!

However, the evil people were not made by Wu Hao since ancient times. They had their own Wu family and the nephews of the Ximen family pretended to be this black face.
Chapter completed!