[New Idea: Opening a Factory in Another World]

Hearing Lin Ze's reprimand, the group who were about to kowtow again immediately stood up obediently.

They kowtowed to show their obedience, hoping that the benefactor would agree to let them continue as tenant farmers, as this was a matter of life and death for them.

Now that the benefactor didn't like them kneeling, they would naturally obey and do as he wished.

"Is what they say true?"

Lin Ze asked Shi Shanbao, who was beside him.

This Brokerage manager knew very well about the tenant farmers and landlords of the land. Lin Ze directly verified the truth of the villagers' words with him.

Shi Shanbao nodded and said, "Yes, young master, these three families have been tenant farmers on the land you bought. They don't have their own land and rely on being tenant farmers and helping others with odd jobs to make a living."

Shi Shanbao couldn't figure out what Lin Ze was thinking at the moment, so he stated the facts without any emotional color.

Hearing this, Lin Ze also began to calculate in his mind.

The more than two hundred mu of land he was about to buy had an annual grain yield of about 71,400 jin, fluctuating within this range depending on the year.

As tenant farmers, they had to pay half of the harvest as rent, which meant they could keep 36,000 jin of grain.

After deducting more than 20 jin of seed grain per mu, they could use about 30,000 jin of grain. These three families had forty-two people, which meant that each person could get a little more than 700 jin of grain on average.

Seven hundred jin of grain seemed like a lot, but in this ancient time with little sugar and oil, doing heavy physical labor every day and relying solely on staple food to provide energy to the body, an adult could easily consume two or three jin of grain a day.

To eat enough in a year, a person needed at least a thousand jin of grain.

Because families had people of all ages, this average of 700 jin of grain per person might barely be enough.

Considering that these people also needed money to buy daily necessities, pay the Poll Tax, occasionally perform Corvée, and avoid getting sick.

At the end of the year, they would not only have no money left over, but they might also have to tighten their belts to make ends meet.

In this situation, if Lin Ze didn't lease the land to them, they might all starve to death within a year.

"Compared to this, the villagers of Clear River Township still have money to buy sugar, so their living standards are much higher than the people in this village."

"Dynastic Prosperity, as long as there are no large-scale starvation deaths, it is indeed a prosperous age."

"But if I don't change the tenant farmers, wouldn't I have bought this land for nothing? How can the plan to buy people's hearts proceed? I need to think of a way..."

Lin Ze muttered to himself.

While his brain was working rapidly, Lin Ze began to talk to the villagers in front of him to stabilize them.

"Don't worry, this young master is not unreasonable. Even if I buy the land, I won't let you have no means of living."

Hearing Lin Ze say this, the tenant farmers were overjoyed and wanted to kneel down and kowtow to thank him again.

However, seeing Lin Ze's face turn cold, the tenant farmers hurriedly stopped their kneeling motion and instead bowed and thanked him repeatedly.

"I've got it!"

After thinking for a while, Lin Ze had an idea in his mind.

An important factor in buying people's hearts was to make a family eat under his command, making it difficult for them to survive without him, or significantly lowering their quality of life.

Both sides have aligned interests. If Lin Ze is well, the servants under him will also be well. This is the only way to ensure sufficient loyalty.

Starting from this factor, the idea of buying fields and land, and having the families of the servants in his household become his tenant farmers to win people's hearts, was derived.

This idea is not wrong. In the Great Zhou Dynasty, an agricultural society, it is a surefire way for many aristocratic families to rise and even remain at their peak.

However, Lin Ze has the Gates to Heavens. His method of arranging work is not limited to the current agricultural society. He can also think of ways from the Main World, a developed industrial society.

"In the early stages of the feudal dynasty in an agricultural society, years of war led to a significant decline in population, balancing the number of people and the amount of land, reducing starvation."

"As the feudal dynasty develops to the middle stage, the population gradually increases, and the price of land, as a resource for survival, rises year by year. At this time, because the population exceeds the number of people the land can support, people begin to starve to death."

"In the later stages of the feudal dynasty's development, the population explodes, many people cannot get enough to eat, so social order collapses, land depreciates, wars occur, the population is reduced, and a new dynasty is established, entering a new round of dynastic reincarnation."

"The industrial society solves this problem by increasing food production and then developing the service and industrial sectors to accommodate the surplus population."

"In other words, my vision does not have to be limited to finding ways on the land."

Lin Ze recalled some historical cycle law knowledge he had learned many years ago, and from this, he came up with a solution.

"I want to arrange work, but I can't buy land. At this time, I can build factories to produce products, thereby providing jobs."

"If the families of the servants in my household all work in factories under my banner, with a stable and decent job with a good income, it can also have the effect of winning people's hearts."

"Moreover, factories can not only accommodate the families of the servants in my household, but also absorb the surplus population of the entire Fengping County and even the surrounding areas. When people's hearts are inclined, I will have more room to choose confidants."

"If there are hundreds or thousands of confidants who can be mobilized, then my two-world trading business can justifiably snowball and grow."

Thinking of this, Lin Ze's emotions stabilized.

"Let's go, buy these lands first, and the tenant farmers will remain the same for now."

Lin Ze didn't have the extra energy to continue arguing with these tenant farmers, left these words, and directly boarded the carriage to prepare to leave.

"Thank you, Benefactor, thank you, Benefactor."

Amidst a chorus of thanks, Lin Ze got into the carriage and returned to the city with Shi Shanbao.

"However, what kind of factory should I build?"

On the way back to the city, Lin Ze fell into deep thought again.

The technology of the Main World is a dimensional strike against this agricultural society. In theory, anything can be sold well.

However, Lin Ze needs to follow these principles:

First, he cannot let the government feel that he has gathered so many people and has any ulterior motives. If he is directly attacked, Lin Ze's idea of winning over confidants will fail.

Second, it cannot exceed the technology of this world too much. If it is taken out, people will think it is a super-era thing, which is also not acceptable.

Lin Ze's strength and power are currently in the initial stage, and he does not want to be too eye-catching.

Third, the profits created by this factory cannot be too much. Otherwise, if the income is too much, so much that any passerby can find him picking up money in sacks, then even with his first-class master status and the County Magistrate's collusion between officials and businessmen, he will not be able to protect it.