That day was probably the day with the most activity among the five people who came to the City Lord's Mansion.
Everyone took out the quilts, sheets and other things in their rooms to wash and dry them. Some maids took rags and buckets to clean everywhere, and some male servants took brooms and mops to clean the city lord's mansion inside and out.
Lucas thought it was very funny and twisted around in Jiang Jin's arms, wanting to join in the fun.
Seeing how excited he was, Jiang Jin couldn't resist him, so she used magic to create a small broom for him and asked Lucas to sweep the floor in the house.
"Hoo, hoo, hoo." Lucas' eyes lit up as he grabbed a small broom and swept the floor in the bedroom in an orderly manner.
Although there was no garbage on the ground, Jiang Jin thought he looked so cute waving the broom that she just let him play.
Looking down from the balcony of the bedroom, you can just see that in the large open space in front of the City Lord's Mansion, Yager is having people set up a clothesline, and then put all the washed sheets and other things on the clothesline to dry in the sun so that they can get enough sunshine.
The entire City Lord's Mansion was plunged into a cloud of flying dust. When Jiang Jin sat in front of a small desk in the bedroom, the book on the desk was turning pages one by one in the air.
Next to the book was a notebook, which Jiang Jin used to record some important things. There was a pen on the notebook, writing something quickly. Jiang Jin's hands were placed on her knees.
Although she didn't touch them, the paper and pen were moving very fast. This was Jiang Jin using her magic little by little to practice her magic control ability.
"I feel like my magic reserves have increased recently."
"It should be because I have been practicing magic non-stop in recent days that my body has made some progress. It's just that I can't make progress quickly because my body is too weak." Jiang Jin sighed lightly.
Her body couldn't withstand the rapid progress of training. If she trained too quickly, her magic power might be suddenly drained and she would be attacked back. Then she would become an ordinary person without any strength.
After she finished reading the book, Jiang Jin shrugged her shoulders, turned her stiff head and wrists, and gradually absorbed the magic power into her body. At this time, she looked at the little guy Lucas again.
Lucas is very clever now. After playing the sweeping game for a while, he got bored and wrapped the broom with his tail and started swinging it in the air, holding a pillow and a toy in his hands and playing happily by himself.
"Spring is here, and I should gradually put my plans on the agenda." Jiang Jin took out a booklet from the warehouse where she had written a plan. The biggest item on it was the spring plowing. Only after the spring plowing was the first school in Alicante built, and all the children could be sent to school.
The spring plowing in Alicante is interesting because all the fields are owned by the lord of Alicante.
Therefore, if the residents of Alicante wanted to farm, they could only pay a large sum of money to rent land from Jiang Jin.
If they didn't have enough money, they could only choose to give Jiang Jin a large portion of grain during the autumn harvest season to offset the cost of sowing the land in Alicante.
The city lord in front of Jiang Jinyu charged extremely high fees, but in order to survive, many residents of Alicante still rented farmland.
This also explains why there are so many beans and other grains in the grain warehouses in Alicante.
"If it's farmland, there's no need to charge too much price. We should let the residents of Alicante pay more attention to food so that they won't go hungry in the autumn and winter." Jiang Jin was thinking about this when Yager walked in.
"Lord Mayor, this is the basic information of some residents recruited in the mission hall. Daisy's price for them is fifteen copper coins a day, plus a bag of beans." Yager was ultimately the director of the Mayor's Mansion in Alicante City, so Daisy was smart enough to report this to Yager first when she did this.
Jiang Jin nodded to show that she understood.
"Spring has arrived, and it's time for spring plowing to begin in Alicante." Jiang Jin slowly closed the book on her desk and looked calmly in the direction of Accord.
Yager seemed prepared. She pulled a scroll of old land lease documents from her sleeve and placed it on Jiang Jin's desk. "This is the land lease contract from a few days ago. Lord Mayor, please take a look and see if we can still lease land from the residents of Alicante according to the previous contract."
She lowered her eyes and did not look directly at Jiang Jin, because that action would make her seem very rude.
This very capable housekeeper always surprised Jiang Jin a little, because no matter what request Jiang Jin made or even what she wanted to do, Yager seemed to be able to predict it in advance and prepare everything.
Therefore, it can be said that having such a capable housekeeper really saves people a lot of worries.
Jiang Jin took the booklet from Ya Ge's hand with a smile and flipped through it casually. She was immediately shocked by the regulations written on this booklet!
Because the regulations set by above regarding how much grain is needed to offset the loss are too harsh.
No wonder the residents of Alicante are so poor. After all, they have been working hard for a bite to eat, but after working hard for a whole day, they can only barely survive and don’t even have anything extra to make a profit. No wonder they are getting poorer and poorer, and no wonder the rest of the residents of Alicante are gradually leaving the town.
"This tax rate is really too high. It directly takes away 95% of their food. How are they going to survive the winter?" Jiang Jin made a sound of derision.
Moreover, the previous lord of Alicante wrote in the contract that no matter whether your land can produce a certain amount of grain or not, you must bring 100 kilograms of grain to the lord's mansion. Otherwise, you will be severely punished.
"Don't bother with all this nonsense." Jiang Jin quickly made up her mind.
She will rent all these fields to the residents of Alicante, but her demands will not be too high.
If you have money, you can directly exchange two silver coins for a piece of lease certificate. If your family is really poor and cannot afford two silver coins, then in the autumn and winter seasons, you only need to consume 40% of the grain produced by this field to obtain the right to rent one piece of land.
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