Chapter 316 The difference is not even a little bit
When Zhou Yang and Kong Daming heard this, their eyes immediately lit up.
yes.
They hadn't thought about this before.
Cultivation of fields is the most laborious, but if you have a farming machine, you can save a lot of effort.
The farm machine was driven back and forth like this, and the fields were quickly muddied. If it were hired, wouldn't it be easy to cultivate twenty acres of land? !
An acre of good-quality farmland can be sold for five taels of silver, and an acre of inferior land can be sold for two taels of silver.
As long as the large tree stumps and rocks on the wasteland are cleared in advance, the plow will be able to plow the fields in no time.
In the first three years, newly cultivated fields do not need to pay land taxes to the government. After a year or two, if you don't want to plant them, you can sell them.
Of course, for most crop farmers, the land is their life. Once it is cultivated, they grow it themselves and rarely sell it.
After calculating the calculation, Zhou Yang and Kong Daming no longer felt expensive when they looked at the busy plow machine in the distance.
When the two returned to the village to talk, the villagers all yelled at you at first.
"Village Chief, although we have some money, two hundred coins per acre of land is too expensive."
Who wants to spend 200 cash to open a field? They wouldn't be willing to part with it anyway.
Zhou Yang was not surprised at all.
He smiled and said: "You will know if you listen carefully and I will calculate an account for you."
“It takes six or seven days at the fastest to cultivate one acre of land, and that’s when there are four or five people working in the family.”
"If you go to the town to find work, you can only earn sixteen or seventeen cents a day during the off-season. Five people can earn less than one hundred cents a day."
"After six or seven days, I can earn about 600 yuan. With a farm machine, I can cultivate at least fifteen or six acres of land in one day."
"With the time you save, you can go find work. Will you make back the money you spent on hiring a cultivator?"
After such an explanation, everyone present looked at each other and started counting on their fingers.
Kong Daming was also telling the villagers about this matter.
"You decide for yourself whether it is more cost-effective to cultivate the land yourself or hire a farming machine."
"Right now, there are only two big villages around here, ours and Shangcun, and many suitable fields have no owners."
"If you don't take advantage of it when no one is around, you will have to spend money to buy it if someone drives you away in the future."
As he spoke, Kong Daming said in a soliloquy voice that could be heard by many people: "There are only seven people working in my family, but there are quite a few people eating, drinking, and defecating."
"When my son and nephew are old, it's not okay to marry his wife without sharing the land. When my daughter or niece gets married, shouldn't she be given a few acres of land as a dowry?"
Kong Daming smiled helplessly and said, "I have to save some money for my family."
For farmers, their family property is their fields.
In fact, many people were already interested after Kong Daming settled the accounts for using farm machines and reclaiming land by himself.
Then I heard that using a farming machine can cultivate more fields, and I thought it was profitable.
"Village chief, my family wants to hire someone."
"Village chief, you are right."
"Taohua Village has seen the world. They all use it. It must be a good thing."
"That's right, my family will definitely hire people anyway, and I also want to save some land for my children and grandchildren."
If you have a field, you can still sell it, and no matter how bad it is, you won't starve to death.
Many people are silently calculating in their hearts that since Peach Blossom Village has given out this year's grain crops, their families only need to pay for the farm machinery. One acre of land costs 200 taels of silver, five acres of land is one tael of silver, and ten acres of land is 200 taels of silver.
Twenty acres of land only costs four taels of silver. Buying one acre of medium-sized land costs between three hundred taels of silver and three to four hundred cash.
Therefore, hiring a farm machine is a great deal.
Yang Xianglian has been leaving early and coming back late recently, but she also knew this when she came back at night.
"That must be a farm machine."
She works in Cloth Village, but she knows the difference between using machines and manual work. The difference is not even the slightest.
"Mom and Dad, we really don't have much labor at home. If we cultivate our own fields, I'm afraid we won't be able to cultivate three acres of land this year, let alone catch up with the planting time."
"With three to five taels of silver, we can have more than ten acres of land this year. This is a sure profit."
Mrs. Zhang nodded: "Yes, that's what I thought when I heard the village chief say it today."
On the side, Old Man Zhang clasped his fingers and said, "I did the math. Excluding digging tree roots and picking up rocks at the beginning, it's equivalent to spending two hundred coins to buy an acre of land. It's a great deal."
"Dad, Mom, there are a lot of orders from Cloth Shop right now, and I really can't get away from it, so we hired a few people to clean up tree roots and stones for our family."
As she spoke, Yang Xianglian said earnestly: "We can't delay planting crops, right?"
Mrs. Zhang and Old Man Zhang looked at each other and nodded: "Okay."
Hiring people costs money, but overall, it's still much more cost-effective than buying land.
There was no choice, the family didn't have much labor, and if they wanted to acquire more acres of land without delaying the planting season, they had no choice but to hire people.
Mrs. Zhang sighed with emotion: "The first crop of reclamation was a bit troublesome, but it will be fine next year and the next."
Yang Xianglian also smiled: "Yes."
She was afraid that her parents-in-law would not be willing to do it, but unexpectedly, the second elder was quite open-minded.
"Then our family is planning to acquire a field of ten acres and five acres?"
Mrs. Zhang thought for a while and said: "Let's put it together, twenty acres. Your father and I will just pay more attention to people working."
If this were the case in the past, who would dare to say this? To cultivate an extra acre of land, the whole family would have to work for several days, and it would be common to lose a few pounds.
That is to say, now we can hire people and use farm machines to help, saving time and effort. This can be said to be easy.
Naturally, Yang Xianglian would not object. After responding, she took out the money and said, "Mom and Dad, I will go to the village chief's house in a minute. I think our family is not the only one who needs to hire people."
Mrs. Zhang: "In the afternoon, many people in the village said they wanted to hire people."
After all, there are only ten or twenty acres of land, and it would take several days just to pick up rocks and dig tree roots. How can we do it without hiring people?
There are several types of farming machines, and cultivation can be divided into paddy fields, dry fields, mountains and slopes. The cost of one acre of land ranges from 200 to 600 cash.
While the fields were still being plowed a little elsewhere, Bai Dacheng led a few people who knew how to drive farm machines to the upper and lower villages respectively.
Several cars started moving together, and amid the roar of the machines, in less than a week, every household in these two villages had more than ten or twenty acres of land.
People like Kong Daming, who has a large family, even opened more than 40 acres of farmland in one go.
Although everyone felt distressed when they gave the money at first, when they saw acres of their own fields being cultivated in a few seconds, they immediately grinned with joy.
"It's so easy." Someone muttered happily. So many fields can be cultivated in one day.
Someone immediately answered: "It's just a waste of money." His family spent five taels of silver.
Good night, see you tomorrow~~