"If you want to rent, the government will waive the rent and only charge 20% of the product!"
Tang Ping stretched out two fingers and shook them at them.
"Twenty percent?"
These people looked at each other in disbelief, not too high, but too low.
You must know that if landless tenants rent their land to plant crops, up to 40% or even half of the harvest will be handed over to them.
Now it is equivalent to them renting land from the Tang government and only giving them 20% of the harvest.
"But if we send people to that place to farm and graze, isn't it too far?"
Someone finally raised this question. If these were in China, they could find a way to find someone to grow them.
The people of the Tang Dynasty made so much money that they didn't care about the wages they paid. They could go to the poorer subordinate countries nearby to recruit people.
But the place Tang Ping mentioned is too far away.
"You don't know yet, right?" Tang Ping said, "As for the Arab soldiers we captured this time, it's naturally impossible to let them go, but we can't kill them or keep them in vain, right?"
"So we established an Arab Production and Construction Corps. Their tasks in the future will be to farm, herd, build, etc. Of course, we have to pay them, so if you rent the land there, you will actually Just send a few stewards to manage it, and then hire people from the Construction Corps to work for you. When the harvest is harvested, hand it over and take it away."
"As for whether you sell it locally, take it to another place, or whatever, it's all your own business."
Tang Ping even made a list in advance of how many people to hire and how much money it would cost, and sent it to each of them at this time.
This price was decided after discussion between him and Fakhr al-Din.
They definitely earned less than those Arab soldiers when they fought in the war, but they definitely earned much more than Arab civilians.
Only in this way can the construction corps continue to recruit people from the local area to join.
But after looking at this price, these people made a rough calculation. In addition to the rent paid to the Tang Dynasty government and wages paid, they could basically still have half of their income.
This is the same harvest as renting land to tenants in China, but those fields are your own, and these fields still belong to the Tang Dynasty.
Who can let go of such a good thing?
So everyone began to ask Tang Ping excitedly how he could rent these places.
Tang Ping called them all here. Naturally, he didn't mean that anyone could rent as much as he wanted. He must have his own conditions.
"Hey!" Tang Ping sighed: "Actually, these lands can be rented directly to everyone, but now, there is a problem."
"Ping Guo Gong, if you have any difficulties, just tell me!"
"That's right, there are so many of us here, I really don't believe anything can be difficult for all of us!"
Everyone said enthusiastically, and those who didn't know thought they and Tang Ping were life-and-death friends.
"The main problem is that these lands originally belonged to the Arab Empire. Now our Tang army has blocked the Arab Empire in Damascus, their capital."
"It's a shame to say that our Datang Army is running out of rations. Everyone knows that this large army is out there. If the supplies can't keep up, I'm afraid they will have to retreat."
"But today there are many disasters in the country, and all the government's food is used for disaster relief. So if we can't raise food anymore, we may have to retreat."
Tang Ping looked annoyed, as if he had dragged down the three armies because of him, and he said it with sincerity.
But when it comes to acting skills, when have the old foxes here ever lost?
If Tang Ping mentioned this matter now, wouldn't it mean that whose family produces more food will be able to rent more land?
The elder of the Wang family was the first to pound the table and said indignantly: "Why didn't Duke Ping tell you earlier? Doesn't this treat us all as outsiders? Who are these Datang Expeditionary Forces? They are all good people of our Datang. Erlang!"
"Why did they go on an expedition? Isn't it because the Arab Empire bullied others too much? Now they are throwing their heads and blood thousands of miles away. As family members, we can't let them bleed and starve, right?"
"On behalf of our Wang family, I will donate a thousand fat sheep, a thousand fat cattle and three thousand fat pigs to the Tang Expeditionary Army!"
"The same goes for our Li family. Even if we starve ourselves, we can't starve our... right, we call them soldiers, right? We starve ourselves, but we can't starve our soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Our Li family provides 10,000 dans of rice. , five thousand loads of white flour!”
Now the Tang Dynasty almost no longer collects agricultural taxes and only collects commercial taxes. Which of these wealthy families does not have thousands of miles of fertile land? There is plenty of harvest in the fields.
The Tang Dynasty may be temporarily short of food, but their families will never be short of food.
The North African grasslands and Nile plains that Tang Ping had begun to show them were now seen as their own.
If the Tang army retreated and the Arab Empire reoccupied those places, wouldn't it be a loss for itself?
What these people believe in is that they can eat anything, but they cannot suffer losses.
Giving the government some food now is just an investment in advance.
They have also figured out the policies of the Tang Dynasty government over the years. As long as you contribute to the court, the court will not forget to share your share of the pie if it benefits you.
Sure enough, everyone shouted to donate food. Tang Ping asked Lao Cui to write it down and said: "Everyone knows that in the future, those places will need to be grazed and farmland will be cultivated. Houses and roads will need to be built, and government buildings will be built." The team is not strong enough, so if you are interested, you can participate in the government tender."
"However, I still hope that everyone can send us to take a look on the spot, so that everyone can have a good idea of what to do."
These wealthy families also have their own craftsmen. What Tang Ping means is that we can contract the infrastructure there to you in the future.
Who doesn’t know that infrastructure makes money? This is big business.
And it's obvious that Datang's next development focus will be there.
This is not surprising. Everyone knows that Datang will soon start to develop something called oil. I heard that it is a mineral that is more valuable than coal mines.
Those families who took photos of the oil-producing areas even secretly called oil black gold, which can explain its value.
The families who didn't get involved in the last oil-producing area auction began to regret it, so naturally they couldn't miss the opportunity to enter this time.
After Tang Ping said this, everyone was moved. Several clan leaders or elders even expressed their willingness to personally escort food to the Arab Empire to reward the army.
Tang Ping clapped his hands and said:
"Okay, since everyone is so positive, let me arrange it. How about we organize an inspection group to visit the Tang Dynasty?"
