Chapter 54: The Qian Family is Furious
According to the general conditions of renting land here, the yearly harvest would range from three to seven silver taels depending on the size of the land. Still, the reality is that most landlords who depend on their fields for food are trying their best to squeeze these toiling peasants at the bottom of society, in addition to grain rent, villagers are generally charged a separate rent of 200 copper coins per acre of land.
Don’t underestimate these two hundred copper coins, after everyone harvests an acre of land, they earn an average of two taels of silver per acre of land, and everyone in the family lives on this bit of silver for nearly the whole year, and they have to save money for their children’s dowries in the future, repair their houses, and to collect two hundred copper coins in rent per acre of land, this is definitely a kind of oppression.
Now Wu Qingyuan only collects grain rent and also promises to give subsidies that ensure that if one acre of land’s harvest does not earn three taels of silver, he will subsidy it, which is simply a good thing like a pie that drops in the sky, as long as the land is fine, this account can be calculated.
And Wu Qingyuan also wrote the deed to the officials to witness, all the villagers had no doubts and worries, and one by one, they hurried to line up in front of Lin Amo to rent the land, for fear that if they went late, others would all rent it out, because there were only 168 acres of wasteland, and it would be gone after renting.
There are more than 200 households in Liushu Village, and this bit of land is definitely not enough, and in the end, Wu Qingyuan only rented some of the families with better reputations, and let everyone rent the rest later.
These fields are only temporary, Liushu Village is only the village where he will hold the first experiment, and when the trading stabilizes, he will continue to buy fields to expand his industry- he can’t do things in one bite, especially business matters, he needs to take his time.
Although the villagers who could not rent the field were a little disappointed, Wu Qingyuan said that his 50 acres of fertilized land needed to hire short-term workers to cultivate it later, and everyone could also come to help earn an income.
In short, the matter of renting land ended successfully.
But everything has two sides, some people laugh and some people cry, most of the villagers have rented Wu Qingyuan’s field this year, and naturally, they will not renew the lease of Qian Yuan’s house, the Qian family suddenly had nearly 100 acres of land in which no one rented, this loss is huge and this movement is not small!
“Useless things, what’s going on this year? Why haven’t so many fields been rented out?” Knowing that his family’s field was vacant, Qian Yuan, who was enjoying the service of a concubine at home, immediately dressed and called the servant who was doing this errand to him for interrogation.
Although the Qian family is a well-known large landowner in Shiqiao Town, and there are many fields and shops in the family, more than 100 acres of land is not a small amount, the landlord makes money on good land, and so many fields are not rented out, and his family’s income this year will be several hundred taels of silver less.
“This old man naturally finds this strange, this small servant can’t help ah, all these fields that are not rented out are all from Liushu Village, this small one has already inquired, it is the Wu family of Liushu Village, his family bought a lot of lands this year, and rented to the villagers at a very cheap price a few days ago- no rent, they claim that they will only collect grain as payment, and also promised that the villagers who would not earn enough three or two taels per acre of land to be given subsidies, so the villagers did not rent our fields.”
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His errand was not done well, Wang Dafu was afraid of being punished, and did not hesitate to place the blame outside: “Sir, do you remember that the business of our coal kiln in the New Year earned two hundred taels of silver less than in previous years?”
“I remember, just because of these two hundred taels of silver, that tigress almost pulled off the ears of this old man!”
As soon as the coal kiln business was mentioned, Mr. Qian immediately covered his ears and complained indignantly.
Coal kilns are such a profitable business so his family naturally also has this industry, and the silver earned every year accounts for a large part of his family’s total income, last year due to Wu Qingyuan’s intervention, several members involved in the coal kiln business in the town have been affected, among which the money outside the town is where loss is the most because Shiqiao Town is the gathering place of his main industry.
Qian Yuan was taught a lesson by the tigress at home because of this hundred taels of silver, and Wang Dafu, the servant, naturally also learned a lesson because of his unfavorable work, and was deducted a lot of monthly wages, at that time he secretly began to pay attention to Wu Qingyuan.
Who knows that he hasn’t found a chance to clean him up, and now he has pried their share in the matter of the tenant field, causing himself to be scolded by the old man again, robbing people of wealth is like their killing parents, Wang Dafu hates Wu Qingyuan in his heart at the moment.
“Sir, it’s him, it’s this Wu family, I have inquired it all clearly, that one surnamed Wu opened three coal kilns last year, and the silver we lost was earned by him, and now he is robbing our tenants, sir, this kid is deliberately against you!”
Wang Dafu spared no effort to say bad things and made sure to pay attention to attracting the anger outside and away from him, otherwise, if the old man blamed him for not doing things well, he would lose his job.
He didn’t do much to sow discord and say bad things about people, and the big boss also trusted him, and after listening to it, he immediately slapped the table and became angry.
“Where is the smelly boy who dares to rob my business, he is really impatient! Darn! Wang Dafu, say, what should I do about this?” The anger was successfully transferred, Wang Dafu smiled on his face, and he was relieved in his heart, and then he walked up to help out with an idea.
“Sir, we can’t deal with this matter openly, otherwise people will spread that you bully the good people, and you don’t want to find someone to beat him up, it’s too cheap for that kid…”
“If you have any ideas, you should say them quickly, don’t talk nonsense!” Qian Yuanwas unreasonable and impatiently interrupted to poke at the subject.
“It’s like this master, the little one thinks, after a while, isn’t it time to get ready to burn carbon again, let’s deal with it like the Chen family last time, say hello to a few timber bosses in the town, and let them sell a batch of waste wood to the Wu family when the coal can’t be burned, the Wu family can’t help but lose to bankruptcy?”
“Well, this is feasible, you do have a lot of ideas, but what about the empty fields in Liushu Village?”
Qian Yuannodded in agreement.
“This…..”
As soon as this Wang Dafu was mentioned, he was also embarrassed, thinking left and right, looking at Mr. Qian’s face that was not very good-looking, waiting for his own idea, hesitating for a long time, before whispering, “Sir, you see that this year, we might as well not charge rent…..”
“What? No rent?!” Qian Yuan sat up again, he is a well-known money-greedy man in Shiqiao Town, and he has always only increased rent and has never given anything rent-free!
As his servant Wang Dafu, of course, he knows this fact about his boss, but if the rent is not reduced, with the comparison of the Wu family, the remaining villagers may be planting a few acres less land to help others, and they will definitely not be willing to rent the Qian family’s field, and then all the fields really can’t be rented, and the Qian family will definitely have to blame him.
As a dog leg, his future is not good if he is fired- he has offended a lot of people while in this position, so it is better to be scolded now than to lose his job in the future, Wang Dafu continued to bite the bullet and say.
“Sir, if we don’t charge rent, we still have thirty percent of the grain, we don’t incur a loss, we just earn a little less, but if we don’t remove the rent, the villagers won’t rent our fields, those fields will have to be abandoned this year, and the losses will definitely be even greater, I’m afraid the Madame will…”
“Enough is enough, reduce it, you hurry up and do it, if things are not done well, Madame will grab my ears again, if this happens, I will chop your ears and feed them to the pigs, hurry up and say hello to the timber boss in the town if anyone dares to let that Wu family earn money this year, I will make them beg for food in Shiqiao Town!”
As soon as the tigress of a wife at home was mentioned, Qian Yuan was encouraged and nodded impatiently.
“Yes, don’t worry, sir, the small one will get things done…..”
Successfully pushing the responsibility out, Wang Dafu let out a breath, nodded and slapped his hands to bow, and hurried down to do things.
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Regarding old master Qian’s anger- Wu Qingyuan does not know for the time being, even if he knows, he is not afraid, it is inevitable that he will encounter opponents in business, what kind of money will he make if he is fearful of rivals? When soldiers come to face problems, there is always a way to solve them.
In addition to the three carriages at home, he also bought a lot of other goods on the road, all of which were transported back by the people of the post office, and estimating the distance would arrive in half a month at most.
So many goods can’t always be pressed on the hand, and the store must be opened as soon as possible for sale.
The preparations in the early days of the business were very busy, the shops in the town were easy to buy, but there were too few that met their wishes, and after running around the town for several days, Wu Qingyuan bought two adjacent small shops.
He was going to open up and decorate the two small shops into a large shop, the left side specialized in selling all kinds of goods brought back by the caravans, as well as the later grain sales, and the right side was decorated separately for Amo to start his own small business.
Whether it is a special noodle restaurant, a small restaurant, or something else, Amo can do whatever he likes, and the teenager likes to be lively so he will definitely like to do something of his own.
In fact, after thinking about so much, whether it was hoping that Amo would not be bored with his own career, or wanting Amo to walk side by side with him, and finally summed up so many reasons, he was just happy to let Amo stay by his side, and every day he looked at the teenager who laughed happily next to him and his heart was also light and happy, Amo is the only reason for him to stay here.
In fact, just as he thought, Amo jumped with joy when he learned that he also had a general store to do what he liked.
He originally couldn’t stay at home, his favorite thing since he was a child was to run outside, and then think of various ways to make money and save silver, and now that Wu Qingyuan let him do what he likes in the store- he can also earn money by himself, it is simply poking his sensitive point, he very happy to fly free.
Although the two were busy after becoming a couple, they stayed together in the morning and returned late, the smile on Amo’s face became more and more pronounced, Wu Qingyuan’s heart became softer and softer, and they hugged each other and fell asleep at night, and the cold home was particularly warm.
Thank you for the chapter! 🤍💚🤍💚
I’m imagining the two as a mallow and a gummy bear
New bunch of scums apeared!
Thank You for the new chapter ( ˘ ³˘)♥
Thanks! They’re so cute!! (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
This Wang dafu and qian family are digging Thier own graves tsk tsk tsk🤦🏻♀️😏
So cute! Very heartwarming, it could have easily become a ceo pampering and salted fish kind of romance.