"If you don't have any other ideas, I'm going to let the shopkeeper below run the business as usual and send the account books to the house for review once a month. Everything else remains the same."

"In addition, I have also arranged the residence in the house. The rough lady will live in the backyard, the watchman, the sedan bearer, the coachman, and the porter will live in the front yard. Grandma Sun and the four little girls will live with you in the middle.

The hospital is always at your service, do you think this arrangement is appropriate?"

"It's OK, you arranged it well."

Zhang Heng became more and more satisfied with the old housekeeper.

With such an old butler who coordinates everything, there is no need for him to worry about the inner house.

"Right."

Thinking of the accounts, Zhang Heng also asked: "How much rent did the Chen family charge before?"

"If I tell you, it's 70%."

"Seventy percent!"

Zhang Heng shook his head: "The leases of the Chen family are all invalidated and replaced by the leases of my Zhang family. The land rent will be changed to 40%. We will also be responsible for the food tax."

"Forty percent?"

The old housekeeper was stunned for a moment: "Master, 70% of the rent is considered a good thing. We charge 40% and are responsible for paying the grain tax, so there is nothing left. We cannot give the land to tenant farmers for free all year round.

We don’t want anything, just a reputation, right?”

Landlords during the Republic of China were quite ruthless.

Seventy percent of the rent means that the landlord has to take away 70% of the annual grain.

This is not bad, some more ruthless ones will harvest 80%, and the remaining food is not enough for the people.

Mr. Gu mentioned in his "Rizhilu" that if you get three to four hundred catties of grain per mu, you have to pay seventy-eight percent of the rent. If you rent ten acres of land, you will only have six to seven hundred catties of grain left after one year.

In famine years, the output dropped, with only one or two hundred kilograms of grain produced per acre. After paying the rent, the people had to go out to beg for food the next day.

In addition to rent collection, there is also a fixed rent.

It doesn’t say how much harvest you will get, but how many kilograms of grain you are required to pay.

You have set a price of 300 kilograms per mu, and when the autumn harvest comes, you have to pay 300 kilograms of grain per mu.

If there is a good harvest and 400 kilograms of grain are harvested from one acre of land this year, everyone will naturally be happy.

In bad years, one acre of land only produced 200 kilograms. In order to pay the fixed rent of 300 kilograms, one had to sell his sons and daughters, or even sell his whole family into slavery.

"You don't understand. You can't make much money from farming. It doesn't matter if the rent is 40% or 70%. There is no difference in my eyes."

"Most of the tenant farmers who rent my land are villagers from ten miles and eight villages. Instead of earning food ration money from the villagers, it is better to use a few percent of the rent to become a good person."

Zhang Heng showed a serious look and said: "I have no shortage of money, and I don't worry about ways to make money. What I want is people's hearts and stability. Do you know what stability is? If there is food in the rice vat, there will be stability."

, even if you drive them away with sticks, they won’t turn into a mob.”

The old housekeeper still had doubts and said hesitantly: "But Master, the rent in this town is 70%, some even 80%. If we lower the rent, will anyone gossip?"

Many people in the town have no land and can only rent land from landlords.

If Zhang Heng's salary is reduced, it will be like several factories recruiting workers together, and suddenly one of them raises the salary from 3,000 to 5,000. It will definitely cause turmoil and attract criticism from other landlords.

"Don't be afraid of this. The big landowners in the town will not be free for long. Sooner or later, I will buy all the land in their hands."

"At that time, except for farmers who own land, the rent of tenant farmers will be reduced to 40%."

"That day in front of the ancestral hall, I boasted about Haikou, saying that I would make everyone in the Zhang family well-fed and well-clothed. It was not an empty promise."

Speaking of this, Zhang Heng looked at the old housekeeper: "The reason why many people don't have enough to eat is that the land rent is too high. After paying the rent every year, the tenant farmers have nothing left, and many of them starve to death every year."

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Zhang Heng never considered himself a savior. He just wanted to make the lives of those around him better within his ability.

As for making money, as a bad guy from both worlds, there are so many ways to make money.
Chapter completed!