For those second landlords, they naturally look down on the 80 acres of duty-free land that shows off their fame and fortune, so if no one helps with the operation, the scholars can only ensure that their family will not starve to death. However, in Jiangnan, those with scholars and reputations will most likely worship a great scholar as their teacher, so that the teacher can choose 80 acres of land to be placed under the name of the students. There are many juren, scholars and other students under the name of the teacher. These farmlands are concentrated and managed by the teacher, so that the teacher can rent them out.

Therefore, it is not surprising that a great scholar with a tax exemption amount of 10,000 mu of farmland owns more than 100,000 mu of farmland or even hundreds of thousands of mu of farmland.

When he walked into Qian's farm, Li Guodong found that there were very few rice fields, only some low-lying areas had a little farmland, and the rest were covered with rivers. The ditches were raised between the rivers and rivers, and the densely packed mulberry forests. The farmers who were busy between the farms looked very energetic. Some farmers who were sitting at their doorsteps were even better than those of the small landlords in the north.

"Brother, Jiangnan has abundant resources. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will not go hungry. Some farmers can even eat fish often." The butler Qian Fugui introduced to Li Guodong.

"It's pretty good. I rented more than ten acres of land, mostly planted mulberry trees, leaving one or two acres of land to plant rice and vegetables, and raised ducks in the ditches. The family has no worries about food and clothing." Li Guodong looked at the farms and nodded slightly.

Then the grain grown from the rice fields is definitely not enough for Jiangnan to consume. Tenants are basically only enough for their own family to eat. The grain from Jiangnan even has to purchase goods from Huguang. However, Jiangnan is not short of money, planting mulberry trees and tea, and the money sold can buy back the grain.

However, Jiangnan also has a disadvantage, which is that it has too many people and not enough land. If tenants want to rent good land, they need to have a certain friendship with the landlord to rent land and plant. What's more, planting mulberry trees and raising silkworms does not require so many farmers, which makes it even more difficult to rent land. Because of the large population and small land, many farmers no longer engage in planting, but enter workshops to engage in industrial production. At this time, Jiangnan already looked like capitalism.

Li Guodong looked at the swamps between the river nets, and they were abandoned there in vain. So he had a plan: "Butler Qian, I have a way to increase your harvest a lot. I dare not say that I can double it. It is still okay to increase by half."

"What are the good plans? Could it be to open a factory? Our master also has silk workshops, ceramic workshops and tea processing workshops. But there must be someone producing raw materials? You can't waste the farmland that produces mulberry trees and tea into factories." Qian Fugui asked hurriedly. With his ability, planting mulberry trees in Jiangnan is the best source of income, and the income from raising silkworms far exceeds that of growing grain. What else can you do to better increase your income? He really can't figure it out.

The Qian family has many workshops, and benefiting from Li Guodong's new loom, the Qian family workshop has a good output. Qian Qianyi does not worry about not being able to sell his goods because the Qian family has a close relationship with the Zheng family. The silk produced by the Qian family, which cannot be consumed in China, can be transported overseas through Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Zhilong had close ties with the gentry in Jiangnan because Jiangnan was an important place of origin for his export goods.

The gentry and maritime merchants in Jiangnan formed a common interest group. If this interest group is used well, it will give birth to an emerging bourgeoisie.

Therefore, what Li Guodong really wants to crack down on is grain merchants and salt merchants. Those people have no benefits to the country and no progressive effect on society.

In this era without vaccines, it is impossible to raise chickens on a large scale. Just imagine that tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of chickens are crowded in a small chicken farm. As long as a chicken plague occurs, all the chickens will die. Then won’t the chicken farmers lose all their money?

The way Li Guodong wanted to teach the Qian family was to three-dimensional agricultural production.

"Butler Qian, my idea must not be released in vain. If you make this idea, you should give me some money if you make more money? You can't make the decision on this matter, so I can only say my idea in front of Mr. Qian." Li Guodong said with a smile.

He can no longer sell new looms and new spinning machines to Jiangnan, and they are all copied by people, and the guys in the copycat don't give him any money.

After learning this lesson, Li Guodong decided that his idea had to be paid to Qian Qianyi to buy it before he could sell it to him, otherwise he would not have made any advice in vain.

Li Guodong drew all the pictures of the Qian family manor. He was originally an engineer, and drawing was a basic skill. Then he followed the housekeeper back to the Qian family.

"Mr. Qian, I have an idea that it can greatly increase your income, and the grain in the manor does not need to be purchased from grain merchants. It can be self-sufficient and will never affect mulberry leaves and tea production." Li Guodong threw a bait to Qian Qianyi.

"Is there something that good? It will not affect the production of mulberry leaves and tea, but will also make our Qian family self-sufficient in food?" Qian Qianyi was overjoyed when he heard this. In his manor, the tenants could produce and supply the grain themselves, while the gentry and hundreds of people from the Qian family could not support themselves.

The tenants rented land to plant, and the land rent paid was silver. Most of the fields were used to plant mulberry trees and tea, and only a few of them planted rice fields. The output of those rice fields was kept by the tenants themselves, and the land rent of rice fields was also paid in silver. The reason why farmers planted rice by themselves was because the price of grain sold by black-hearted grain was too high.

Li Guodong said: "Mr. Qian, I can help you transform the farm, but the output has increased and the income has increased. Mr. Qian, do you want to give me some commission? Li's idea cannot be in vain, right? Like looms and spinning machines, good things that have finally been made have been imitated by people."

Qian Qianyi hesitated for a while before speaking: "As long as the method is good, Qian is willing to share the money for uncle."

"Mr. Qian, as for the transformation of the farm, Li will ask his brothers to help. This is a big project. I can tell you the plan: It is like this. Some rivers need to be digged deep, and the digged soil is piled up in low-lying areas, so that rice can be planted in low-lying areas; some soil can be raised to form a shelterbelt, and the shelterbelt is naturally mulberry forest. Falling leaves and silkworm manure can be used to raise fish, and the silt in the pond is dug up as fertilizer for farmland..." Li Guodong talked about his three-dimensional farmland plan.

In fact, this is a small ecological circulation system, which makes rice fields, mulberry trees, silkworms, fish, pigs, etc. form a virtuous cycle between each other. However, the methods mentioned by Li Guodong are very large in project volume, and it is impossible to complete it with the Qian family and his tenants alone. Therefore, Li Guodong can dispatch his own army to help him.
Chapter completed!