Thinking of the stable days before, everyone sighed. In the past, hardship was hardship, but everyone has a clear mind, and the hardships can always be endured.

And now, there seem to be more opportunities.

You can join the army as a military household. A military household can obtain 100 acres of land south of the Yangtze River, or 120 acres of land in Lianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan, or 150 acres of land in the north.

You can also go to the gold and silver mountains of Mingzhou continent. During this period, many large commercial banks have obtained mining licenses and are recruiting personnel to cover the travel expenses. The gold and silver dug in Mingzhou are divided into the commercial banks, leaving 30% of the shares, and the commercial banks earns 70% (the commercial banks have to take out a portion of them and pay the mine tax).

You can also go to King Fu to join the army and conquer Tianzhu, and you can get a considerable settlement fee immediately. After you take down Tianzhu, everyone will be nobles.

Even the least, it seems better to be a tenant in the north than in Jiangnan. There are fewer people in the north and it is difficult to recruit tenants, so the land rent is naturally cheaper, and a tenant can rent more land.

But these ways of findings are undoubtedly accompanied by risks. In addition to being a tenant in the north, it is also a little more stable. Other ways are all about fighting for wealth and honor!

While everyone was sighing, a few men wearing long swords walked over. They were all military households in the village, all of whom looked ashen. There was nothing they could do. They had already received military orders and were going to be military farm soldiers. The tenants in the village could still tighten their belts and endure hard, but these military officers were not even qualified to endure hard!

They have already obtained 100 acres of good irrigated land, which is their "selling money"! Their lives have been sold to Chen Shengren for the rest of their lives. Now they dare not be a military farmer. If they catch them, they are sure to engage in military law... The deserter will naturally be beheaded! Moreover, the 100 acres of land in their family will have to be confiscated, and the good life that the family and themselves have only lived will come to an end.

What else is there to say now? I can only grit my teeth and become a military farmer. I don’t know if I will be back if I have any life?

If I had known this would be the end, I would not have been greedy to be a military soldier.

Seeing these ashen military soldiers, the people in Pingba subconsciously shrank their heads. These military soldiers had all gone to the battlefield and had seen blood. The big horizontal swords used in the army were hung on their belts!

Among the few military soldiers, Li Sanfa was the rascal Li. His face was the most ugly. He was a rascal. This kind of person was the most unpopular in the army and was a rat shit that ruined the soup. This time, he was immediately ordered to be appointed and sent directly to Hetao, the Northwest Hetao as a military farmer! I heard that the place was still in the hands of the Mongolians. When going there to cultivate farming, he would have to fight with the Mongolians. This is clearly a rascal Li went there and never returned!

Naturally, the raspian Li was unwilling to die outside, so he asked his family to raise some money to bribe Shangguan. As a result, he met a viscount who was slandered and sent him directly to the instructor Dayi and sentenced him to whip for 30 times in public. The raspian Li was still a hero, gritted his teeth and endured the torture, and did not say a word! However, after the fight, he lay on the bed for 10 days and walked around the day before yesterday. He immediately returned to his hometown with a few military soldiers who were also sent to the bitter and cold land to get money. This time, it was a thousand-mile expedition. I don’t know when I could go back, so I had to bring more money to prepare for emergencies!

And this property can only be scraped from the tenant.

Ripi Li and a few equally unlucky military soldiers stopped. His eyes swept through the crowd and found that several of his tenants were there. He snorted coldly: "Are they all here? OK, I just happened to talk to everyone about rent and deposit."

"Default? Why is there a deposit?" Liu Laosan, the tenant of Li, heard the deposit, immediately screamed.

Tenants rent other people's land, just like renting houses in later generations, and they also have to pay a deposit. Generally speaking, it is a year's rent. The rent in Linhai County has always been very high. One stone and a half millet a year have to pay a good paddy field, which is almost 60% of the harvest (the harvest of irrigated land in Jiangnan is high, and it is good to collect one and a half stone in general dry land). If you want to pay a year's rent, it is to pay a half stone in one acre of paddy fields, and another half millet acres of paddy fields. This is really a life-threatening!

"Liu Laosan, have you rented my land? Have you ever given a deposit?" Li Yi glared at him, "Your family rented my twelve acres of land, all of which are good paddy fields. You should pay the 18-stone rent and add the 18-stone deposit, a total of 36-stone millet... It must be dried and removed, and the millet can be collected from the rice shop!"

"Thirty-six stones!" Liu Laosan's wrinkled face was suddenly filled with grievance and grief. "Master Li, do you still let people live? Although the harvest this year is good, it is impossible to harvest thirty-six stones of millet a year even if the twelve acres of land is not enough to harvest thirty-six stones of millet a year!"

The thug Li snorted: "Then let's get the tenant out. After handing over the eighteen stones of grain, you can get out! I happened to recruit new tenants. You know what the market is now. Such a good field is not a problem at all. "

He said it was certain that he was not actually a fool. The next family was already there. It was Lai Hata family, the three brothers of Lai Hata family and a strong father who was in his fifties but was as strong as a cow. Lai Hata was a military soldier outside. The two brothers and a father planted the 100 acres of paddy fields at home. He borrowed a low interest rate of 100 guan from Tiandaozhuang (10% annual interest rate) loan, bought oxen, farm tools, seeds, built irrigation canals and wells, and bought a lot of manure (well, this fertilizer that can be bought and sold in the Song Dynasty) as fertilizer, bought some pigs and chickens, and hired a long-term worker.

After a year, Lai Hata's family actually managed the land very well. Not only did they repay the loan, they married a wife for Lai Hata, but they also had nearly 200 guan of savings. So this year, they planned to grow bigger and they couldn't afford to buy land, so they wanted to rent the land of Lai Hata's fields and were connected to Lai Hata's fields. If they could be managed together, they could reduce the cost. As for the deposit of 150 shi of grain (almost 110 shi white rice, the market price in Linhai County is about 220 guan), it is not a problem for Lai Hata's family. At worst, they can just borrow some money from the Tiandaozhuang in the county.

"Master Li, are you trying to force Liu Lao San's family to death?" Fang Si Xiucai couldn't stand it anymore. There were very few things like dumping the tenant in the Song Dynasty in the past, and the Fang family of Yimen had never done such a thing.

Of course, there was no room for rich peasants to survive in the Southern Song Dynasty. If there was no official position, just one and buy could kill all rich peasants. And with an official position, who would still farm?

Now, Chen Ming has no such thing as "buying", and there are no miscellaneous rules outside the land tax. In fact, it is not entirely due to corruption, but the inevitable result of the financial arrangements between the central and local governments. The central government's financial power is too large and all the local financial power is collected, so local clerks will have no salary, so they naturally have to rely on squeezing the farmers below to live. This is how this miscellaneous thing comes from.

Moreover, there was also a gentry card in the Ming Dynasty. When the rich peasants became bigger, they could spend some money to donate a gentry card. This way, like the original literati, they were not afraid of local government table tennis.

Therefore, the Funong, a class that did not exist in the Southern Song Dynasty, grew up quickly after the Ming Dynasty captured Jiangnan.

To put it a little bit, the so-called "rich peasants" belong to the rural bourgeoisie according to the later Marxism-Leninism theory. The farmers who operate family farms in Western Europe in later generations were all so-called rich peasants. They regarded land and agriculture as capitalists who were doing business. They were the main force of agricultural production and the basis of rural capitalization. Therefore, to achieve rural capitalization, it is necessary to support rich peasants instead of eliminating rich peasants to share the land equally. Dividing the land equally is only the demands of some poor peasants at the bottom, and satisfying their demands has nothing to do with the development of capitalism...

Seeing that Li and several military landlords were not talking, Fang Si Xiucai immediately became confident and continued: "If you do this, you will really force someone to death. Are you not afraid of the farmers in the village making trouble? Then they will carry the corpse and complain, and the judges in the state will have to use your head to quell the public's anger!"

Li sneered, "You are so scared. When is it time for you to suppress the officials? Now it is the dynasty of the Ming Dynasty. A certain family is a military household and is about to go to garrison the emperor's borders. Now he is asking for some deposit to buy some clothes and armor to avoid ruining the emperor's affairs. Even if someone can't think about it, it has nothing to do with a certain family. He is not afraid of suing the state and going to a certain family... Now the people who talk in the state are all nobles who have made military achievements, and there is no such thing as poverty and inciting him."

A military soldier said, "It's not that there is no way out. A family of Ding went to join the army, and there will be 150 acres of land in the north. If you are afraid of death and dare not join the army, do you still have the courage to commit suicide? Joining the army is not bound to die. Even if you don't have your life for the saint, the pension will be enough for the whole family to spend ten or eight years. If you have some minor achievements, it is possible to be a sir!"

Fang Si Xiucai stubbornly said, "Go to the north? Not to mention the bitter and cold, even the Mongolian Tartars will die forever! I don't know if they will come back in this life! Such wealth and honor that can be lost at any time are also the previous dynasty, and going up the mountain and into the sea (referring to being bandits and pirates) is more comfortable and happy than fighting the Tartars."

That's right! Several military households regretted it too. If they had known this would happen, they would have been honestly a tenant and a bastard. It was hard, but life could always be lived. Now, I really don't know if I have the life to go back to my hometown.

Rich Li was still holding on, snorted and said to Liu Laosan: "Liu Laosan, Linhai River has no lid! If you want to jump, hurry up! If you don't jump, get out after paying the rent! I'll take back the twelve acres of land you rented to you!"
Chapter completed!