allonlinenovel Chapter 296 Dahe Village Acquisition Agreement
Chapter 296 Dahe Village Acquisition Agreement
Chapter 296 Dahe Village Acquisition Agreement
That afternoon, Village Chief Liu gathered all the villagers and informed them of Su Tang's idea.
The threshing ground in Dahe Village is full of villagers at this time.
"Village Chief Liu, we want to leave our land to our children. If we sell it, the money won't last long. We don't want to sell it."
Because Su Tang is a princess, even if everyone doesn't want to sell her, they suppress their emotions and dare not show too much anger.
After all, she is a princess, and to put it bluntly, the world of Dayong belongs to the Xuanyuan family.
If Su Tang insisted on seizing their land, they would have no way to stop him. Even if they sued the government, it would probably be that the government would not dare to take their case.
While the villagers were still anxiously struggling, the village chief took out Su Tang's agreement.
Village chief Liu really couldn't think of anything that needed to be improved in this agreement. The agreement given by Su Tang seemed to have only benefits for the villagers of Dahe Village, without any loss.
"I know everyone's concerns. Here is an agreement. It is the agreement for the princess to purchase the land of our villagers. I will read it to you first. You can think about it carefully. Anyway, I think this agreement will not harm anyone."
"Ahem!" Village chief Liu coughed lightly, then unfolded the agreement and read it to the villagers item by item.
"......This agreement will be made in triplicate, with the buyer and seller each holding one copy, and the other kept at the county government office to demonstrate fairness!" After Village Chief Liu finished speaking, the entire threshing ground was silent except for the sounds of children playing.
"What do you all think?" After half a cup of tea, Village Chief Liu looked at the villagers who were whispering and chatting with each other and asked.
"Um, Village Chief Liu, are you selling your land?" a villager stood up and asked.
"Sell it. It's written in the agreement that it will only be sold for 50 years. After 50 years, if you don't want to sell it anymore, it will belong to us. You can rest assured that your descendants will not be without land in the future."
"Yes, that sounds good to me. The village chief just said that in the next fifty years, we only need to concentrate on farming, and the boss will give us enough money to support our lives every year."
In the eyes of Village Chief Liu, Su Tang and Zhao Youtian's family had become his employers.
"How much money is enough to live on? Will it be given to us all at once?" a villager asked again.
"It will be given once a month. If everyone's harvest is good, one more month's worth of silver will be given at the end of each year. The princess also said that if the farmland is kept good for more than three consecutive years, one more red envelope will be given every three years."
Village chief Liu explained it to everyone. In fact, these were all clearly stated in the agreement. He just read it out, but some people probably didn't remember it. After all, we are all farmers and how can we remember so many clauses?
Village chief Liu was very patient. Su Tang even promised him that if he could mobilize everyone in the village to sign the agreement, Su Tang would give his family more benefits.
"Well, my family will sign it, but I want you, the village chief, to sign it first, and then I will sign it." After a period of interpretation, a villager finally expressed his opinion.
"That's no problem. To be honest, the princess and my family talked about this yesterday. After I thought about it for a while, I signed an agreement with the princess. This is my family's agreement. You can take a look. This is our family's signature and fingerprints."
At this time, Village Chief Liu took out a signed agreement from his arms and showed it to everyone.
A few people who could read came forward to check it out. After a while, someone pointed at the agreement and said to the crowd, "I recognize that it is the village chief's handwriting."
"Then my family will sign too." The person who just said that if the village chief signed, his family would also sign immediately responded.
With the first one, the second, and the third will follow.
Some people who were still hesitant saw that most of the families in the village had signed the agreement, so they also followed the crowd.
Soon there were only four or five families still hesitant.
"Do you have any other concerns?"
In the drying yard, those who had signed the agreement dispersed with their own agreements. After all, everyone was not idle. Even if they had signed the agreement, they still had to take good care of this year's crop of grain. The agreement also stated that all the grain harvested this year belonged to each household.
"We just want to ask, will there really be any problems with this agreement?" The remaining households have all been farming for generations, and there is not a single literate person in the family.
These families have a low presence in the village. They are usually honest and don't like to communicate with other villagers.
"It's okay. Most people have signed it. You've seen it. I signed it, too. Once everyone has signed it, I'll send another copy of the agreement to the county in a little while. If you want to sign it, hurry up."
"this......"
"Old man, sign it. If everyone signs it, the princess will definitely not covet our little piece of land. Besides, Zhao Youtian's family is still living in the village. What's there to be afraid of? At worst, if they really don't keep their word, we can just kill them on the mountain..."
"Hey! That girl is a princess now. If your family really goes up the mountain to kill them, you will be beheaded and your property will be confiscated. Besides, anything in the princess's hands is more valuable than your two acres of land. What does the princess want from your family?" Village chief Liu interrupted the villager as he heard his increasingly unreliable words.
If these people really had these thoughts, his role as village chief would be over.
In the end, thanks to the efforts of Village Chief Liu, all the villagers signed the agreement.
Looking at the stack of agreements on the table, Village Chief Liu suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction.
"Hehehe..." Village Chief Liu smiled foolishly.
The last family to leave couldn't help but look back at Village Chief Liu.
"Have we been fooled?" the old man asked his wife.
"It's all signed, it's too late to be fooled. Let's go. We still have time to work on the fields when we go back. Now, we are also benefiting from the princess. We don't have to pay taxes on the harvest from the fields. The princess has been very good to us villagers..."
After packing up the agreement signed today, Village Chief Liu didn't even have time to drink a sip of water. Carrying the agreement to be sent to the county, Village Chief Liu hurried to the valley.
"Village Chief Liu, what's going on?" Zhao Baichuan, who had just returned to the valley to get some stuff, asked the village chief Liu, whose face was flushed and sweaty.
"Hey, is the princess here? I just finished what she asked me to do." Village Chief Liu replied breathlessly.
"Yes, I saw her just now." Zhao Baichuan pointed towards the wooden house in the valley, and sure enough, there was a woman in a goose yellow skirt standing there.
From afar, the woman's skirt fluttered slightly in the breeze in the valley, and Village Chief Liu actually had the illusion that he saw a fairy.