Chapter 313 Willing to Join the Farm
The surrounding villagers nodded, confirming Gu Yuexuan's words. She coughed lightly and continued to explain, "I'm not greedy for the output of my neighbor's three or five acres of land. My own land is hundreds of acres, so I don't lack even a small amount."
This statement is indeed pertinent.
Vast wastelands can be seen everywhere. Since the Tu Su family has accumulated this family fortune by reclaiming wasteland, they can just continue their previous practice and continue to reclaim wasteland without misleading others in this matter.
The skeptics stayed to listen, while those who disagreed left with sneers. Gu Yuexuan, however, paid no heed. She continued, "I plan to continue clearing wasteland and bring everyone's fields under unified management. I'm not after other people's land; I'm after people."
"As you all know, my family's farmland is vast, and the manpower required is also increasing accordingly. Although I can hire temporary workers to help, it is very inconvenient for me. If I can consolidate the fields, gather the available manpower together, and establish a fixed process, everything will become much more convenient."
Gu Yuexuan surveyed the thoughtful group before her with a pensive gaze and gently raised a finger. "Once you join the farm, I'll teach you how to use farm tools that save effort. When we start farming next year, I'll provide rice seedlings for every participant."
"Everyone uses the seedlings I provided and the planting techniques I taught us. By this time next year, we will no longer split the harvest 50-50 as the old man described. Instead, we will adopt a new model of distributing profits proportionally."
At this time, Aunt Wei, who was listening with fascination, couldn't help but ask curiously: "What exactly is this proportional dividend distribution?"
Gu Yuexuan patiently explained, "This means that if the land you cultivate is your own, I will only take 30% of the harvest as compensation, and the remaining 70% will belong to you. I will not take a cent of the excess."
"On the other hand, if the land being cultivated is the Tusu family's, then during the harvest season, the Tusu family will take 50% of the harvest."
Seeing Aunt Wei's face suddenly change, obviously frightened by the number, Gu Yuexuan smiled.
She said gently, "Auntie Wei, think carefully about how much grain my family harvests from the fields every year, and then carefully calculate the 50% I mentioned. Is that really a lot?"
As we all know, the per-acre yield of an ordinary family's land rarely exceeds 200 kilograms, but the situation of the Tu Su family is quite different.
This year, among the fields with the most abundant harvest in the Tu Su family, one acre actually yielded more than 630 kilograms of grain!
If it's 50%, that would be more than 300 kilograms!
Even for fields with slightly lower yields, a harvest of four or five hundred kilograms is still very impressive.
Like everyone else, Aunt Wei worked hard in the Tu Su family's fields all year round. They witnessed with their own eyes the baskets of golden rice being harvested from the fields, and the scene of weighing them was still vivid in their minds, without any falsehood.
A thoughtful villager immediately stood up excitedly and asked, "So, if my six acres of land join your farm, will you really only want 30% of the dividends from all the grain harvested from these six acres?"
Gu Yuexuan nodded affirmatively: "Words alone are not enough, we can make a written document as proof."
She changed the subject and continued, "But I also have some conditions."
Everyone couldn't wait to ask: "What are the conditions?"
Gu Yuexuan looked at everyone and said calmly, "The condition is that while you manage your own fields according to my guidance, everyone who joins the farm must also devote themselves to the common cultivation of the farm."
Gu Yuexuan paused briefly, then slowly spoke, "Most of the friends who come to work here have limited land at home, and farming is not enough to support their families. They also can't afford the heavy taxes imposed by reclaiming wasteland, so they're forced to do odd jobs. I know your land isn't actually very busy, and you have plenty of energy. Helping out on the farm isn't in vain."
"I plan to implement a clock-in system for everyone involved in farming, the purpose of which is to record everyone's working hours and the amount of work completed."
"Admittedly, I won't pay wages for this work, but I will ensure you have two good meals a day. And when the autumn harvest comes, we'll distribute the harvested grain according to how much each person has cultivated and how much work they've done. This is what I call a profit-sharing system."
Gu Yuexuan looked around at everyone's faces with different expressions, and said with a smile, "For those who have helped since the spring sowing, if they clock in for more than 25 days a month, I will take out 40% of the farming income and divide it equally among the participants."
This practice is somewhat similar to that of tenant farmers who rent land from landlords to cultivate it.
However, the landlord's commission is often higher, and the difference between the tenant farmers' harvest and the Gu family's is immeasurable, and the two cannot be compared at all.
The labor required for each acre of land is not much, and two or three people can easily handle it.
If these three people can work together and take good care of the ten acres of land, and the yield per acre reaches five or six hundred kilograms, then if 40% of the total output of the ten acres is divided equally among the three people, it will be a considerable income.
Not to mention, if they are willing to put in more labor, they can get more!
For farmers, what they lack the least is the energy to work hard!
When the atmosphere was just right and many people were ready to make a move, Gu Yuexuan seized the opportunity and continued, "I understand that not providing wages, only providing meals, and keeping everyone busy for a whole year is not an easy task for everyone, and naturally there will be some concerns in their hearts."
Therefore, as long as anyone is willing to join our farm, I am willing to solemnly sign a contract with each joiner and sign a written agreement. As long as you completely follow my instructions and never act on your own, be lazy, or take shortcuts, if the harvest in the fields does not reach the amount promised today during the harvest next autumn, no matter how much the difference is, I will personally compensate for the loss and will not owe you a single cent.
"Those who are determined to step onto the farm and work with me are like those who have temporarily taken up the Tu Su family's rice bowl and must obey my command. I don't welcome those who have too big ideas. After all, who can guarantee that they don't have ulterior motives and are waiting for me to compensate them with silver next year?"
Gu Yuexuan cracked a playful joke, drawing laughter from the crowd. As night fell, a faint twilight enveloped her. Her eyes curved into crescents as she smiled, patiently explaining the whole story over and over to those who approached her, seemingly never tired of it.
Tu Suting also quietly appeared at the scene at some point.
He stood quietly behind his grandfather, listening to Gu Yuexuan's explanation, with a myriad of thoughts running through his mind, and in the end, his eyes were filled with deep sighs.
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