Yes, officials can make requests through the Ministry of Household Affairs and their tenant farmers. For example, some officials like to eat white rice but not wheat, so they will specifically request to grow more rice and less wheat.

But Guanzhong is the best for growing wheat. They don’t grow the land anyway, and they don’t live on the farm. They have all kinds of requirements, so everyone hates being ordered to farm.

Knowing that these thousand acres of land were cultivated by them, Man Bao felt relieved and immediately smiled and said, "That's just right. It's easy to manage. How much do you want to rent and cultivate? Come forward and tell us."

There are hundreds of families in Yili. When Pucun was moved here more than ten years ago, they moved directly to Yili. In the past ten years, no matter whether the elderly people in the family died, there was no separation of families anyway.

It's already difficult enough, why do you have to separate the family and make yourself uncomfortable?

Even if they were noisy, they would not separate their families to save one household from labor, so now Pucun is still neatly composed of 100 households.

Man Bao thought, if one hundred households can rent only ten acres, they will all be divided. When the time comes, some families with larger families will be persuaded to rent more and the husband's one hundred acres will be secured. How great.

Then she spread out the paper, polished the ink and asked the first man in line, "How much land does your family plan to rent?"

The man hesitated for a moment and then asked, "Are you sure you want to provide us with new wheat seeds?"

Man Bao nodded.

The man gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'll rent twenty acres."

Man Bao was stunned, glanced at the people behind him, and said with a confused expression, "Is it too much? There are so many people behind."

The man said, "I have a large family. This year, fifteen acres of farmland have been allocated to my family. We also rented an additional ten acres of land from Mr. Fang's family, so we are all busy."

Man Bao raised his eyebrows slightly, glanced at the field covered with green grass behind them, and secretly thought that it was no wonder that the field was so abandoned.

Man Bao thought for a while and then asked, "Then if you rent my land, you will also rent Mr. Fang's land?"

The man smiled slightly awkwardly and said, "Since I am a tenant farmer of your family, I will not rent other people's land anymore. If you have anything to do in the future, just give us your orders."

Sharecroppers do not just need to farm land. Sometimes they have to work for their bosses for free when their bosses need it. This is why wealthy families prefer to use sharecroppers.

If you own a tenant farmer, you may have a household of tenant farmers, long-term workers and short-term workers, which is very cost-effective.

Manbao didn't quite understand this at this time. After all, she had only worked as a long-term worker while her brothers had only worked as part-time workers, so they didn't know much about it.

She is like this, let alone Bai Shan and Bai Erlang.

However, the three of them have many plans in mind, so they need a lot of manpower. Naturally, the three of them are very happy that the tenant farmers can devote their full attention to their work.

So Manbao agreed with a wave of his hand, and then wrote down their names.

Sure enough, he was the one who rented the most. The people behind him could not rent so much, either twelve acres, or seven or eight acres.

Manbao and Baishan Baierlang asked people to divide into three teams, one person recorded one team, and after the recording was completed, the calculation began.

Because this is their wish, whether they can rent so much depends on their decision.

The three of them calculated and found that the total was 1,183 acres, which was 83 acres more than what they had on hand.

Man Bao and Bai Shan compared the labor reported by each household, and then selected and subtracted some acres from some households.

Most of the time, one acre is subtracted, while some families do not.

After calculating that the total was 1,100 acres, he went to the village chief and said, "Let's rent according to this number of acres."

The chief looked at the extra 100 acres and was a little surprised, "This is"

"This is my husband's job field, and the village chief should be familiar with it. It's right next to Hecun Village, and it's connected with my job field. That area must have been rented by people from your village before, right?"

Li Chang smiled sheepishly, "It's true, I can't hide anything from you adults."

Man Bao gave him the final list and said, "Fill out the tenancy form. We will come over in two days to stamp it and divide the land."

The head of the village responded and asked, "What kind of wheat seeds?"

"I've sent someone to pick it up, and it will be delivered in four at most."

The headmaster breathed a sigh of relief and sent Manbao and the others away after receiving the list.

Man Bao glanced at the noisy crowd and thought that today was the Mid-Autumn Festival, so he took out a piece of silver from his purse and gave it to the chief. He smiled and said, "Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I don't have anything to give to everyone, so I will give it to the chief.

Buy some and give them to them."

This piece of silver is about twenty taels, enough to buy a pig.

Li Chang was slightly stunned.

Man Bao directly stuffed the money into his hand. One pig was divided into one hundred households, which was just a small piece for one household. Man Baoqi, Bai Shan and others said goodbye together.

The headman hurriedly chased out the door. When he saw them mounting their horses and leaving, he stopped, raised his hands and saluted them.

What Man Bao said just now was not too quiet, and he said it while sitting in the yard, so some farmers heard it, and everyone was shocked.

To be honest, after more than ten years of farming for the imperial court, there have been seven or eight different owners of the farm, but no one has given anything to the tenant farmers during the festival. Zhou Man is the first one.

So when the village chief bowed his hands and bowed, the farmers who heard it reacted and followed suit.

Man Bao was a little surprised, waved his hand on his horse and said, "You're welcome."

The farmers behind didn't know what was going on, and they followed the messy salutes with confused expressions on their faces.

Man Bao already smiled and rode away with Bai Shan Bai Erlang and others. Da Ji followed with his guards.

There are only six of them here today, the others have gone to Yongzhou.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival today, and we agreed to go to Yongzhou to see the lanterns.

Madam Liu and the others packed up their things early in the morning and left early, and Man Bao and the others also ran after finishing handling the matters here.

This place is not far from Yongzhou City and can be reached in less than half an hour on horseback.

The official road is very spacious and easy to run around.

It was the first time for several of them to come to Yongzhou, and it was already past noon when they arrived at Yongzhou City.

They were a little hungry, so they only looked up at Yongzhou City. This was the third largest city gate they had ever seen.

It looks similar to Yizhou City.

The three of them only watched for a while and then dismounted and lined up to enter the city. Because it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were particularly many people entering the city today.

The three of them were not very tall, so they were almost drowned when they walked in. Mrs. Liu sent someone to wait at the city gate and almost couldn't see them.
Chapter completed!