Traveling through ancient times.

Chapter 128 Just in time

These landlords and gentry wanted to argue: Who wants to sign an agreement with these peasants and pay them twenty cents a day? Dream on.

But at this moment they were being stared at by these ferocious servants and guards, and the atmosphere was controlled by the woman Jiang Yizhou, so they had no chance to defend themselves.

One of them whispered to the others that since this woman insisted on forcing them to sign an agreement with the peasants, they should sign it.

Anyway, their goal now is to get these people over there and sow the seeds on the land first.

Last season, due to lack of manpower, most of the crops were left uncultivated, and the small portion that was planted was not managed well, resulting in less than one-third of the harvest in previous years.

This year I have been living off my savings and have lost a lot of money.

So, no matter what, we should first get these people back and plant the crops.

On the other side, Jiang Yizhou whispered something to several of his men, and soon the crowd became more agitated.

Some people seemed to have received some news, and looked both questioning and excited, then looked eagerly in the direction of Jiang Yizhou.

One of them took the lead and asked loudly, "We don't trust these landlords. They only know how to exploit us and drink our blood. We only trust Master Jiang."

"That's right. Unless Master Jiang gives us a guarantee, we will never sign this contract."

"Please ask Master Jiang to guarantee us—"

"We want to be paid daily."

"You must have two meals a day, and they must include meat."

"You can't blame us for the damage to the farm tools, and you can't deduct our wages."

"..."

Someone took the lead, and the whole yard started shouting, and everyone was very excited.

These shouts and demands made these gentlemen feel overwhelmed.

Damn, daily wages? Two meals a day, with meat?

These peasants are still dreaming.

Jiang Yizhou stretched out his hand and pressed down, and the field immediately became quiet.

Then, she turned to look at the masters and said, "Well, you have seen that if you are sincere about using them, you should agree to these requests."

"Master Jiang, look... this is too much..."

Jiang Yizhou raised his voice: "So you don't really want to use them? Then why did you draft this agreement?"

"No, that's not what we mean. This is..."

Jiang Yizhou didn't have the patience anymore. "Just give me a definite answer. Anyway, I called everyone here. They all have their own things to do and are very busy. Since you are all well-known people in the local area, they put down their work and came here specially. If you don't want to sign an agreement with us, then just say one word to avoid wasting everyone's time."

This is simply putting these landlords on the fire.

Forget it, just sign it.

Anyway, the money is in their hands, so it's up to them whether to give it or not.

"Sign, we sincerely want to sign a contract with everyone, and the guarantee is more money than what we can earn here..."

Jiang Yizhou's face instantly changed to a gentle smile, "Haha, that's right. At everyone's request, some of the above agreement terms have been appropriately adjusted. Since it is a collective contract signed by both parties, I suggest that you as the employer and their labor service party sign separately together. This saves everyone from signing with you. What do you think?"

The masters gave them the newly drafted agreement by Jiang Yizhou.

The above points were indeed proposed by these peasants.

It has come to this, let’s get the person over there first.

After working for a few days, they will let these peasants know that they are still paid more, and then they can trick them into signing long-term employment agreements, and these people will still fall into their hands.

When the time comes, humph, no matter how much they eat, they will have to spit it out!

Jiang Yizhou asked both parties to confirm that they had no objection to the terms of the agreement, and then asked both parties to sign their names and put their fingerprints on it.

After working for quite a while, the employment agreement between five landlords and more than one hundred common people was finally completed.

Starting tomorrow, these people will go to work for the landlords according to the previous distribution.

...Finally got this matter dealt with.

It took Qi Hao two days to finally come up with his own farm protection plan, and he also saw what happened today.

He was very worried and said, "Master, if you really let these people go, what if they really don't come back?"

There are still so many things to do on the farm, although there are also many people coming from outside who want to work on the farm.

But those are all novices. Besides, there are good and bad people among them, and many of them are planted by people with ulterior motives, who want to sneak in to steal their technical formulas or cause sabotage.

Before, when Jiang Yizhou was dealing with the mess in the old house, Qi Hao was mainly responsible for the security work inside and outside the farm.

They caught several people who had infiltrated the gang. Fortunately, those people were not like the Viper Gang members who sneaked in the first time and did not intend to attack the workers directly.

They were just stealing information and things everywhere, gathering information, etc., and were caught by Qi Hao, taught a lesson and thrown out.

Qi Hao just expressed his worries and doubts. Before Jiang Yizhou could answer, Shu Tong, who had just been promoted to the second-class guard, said in a cheerful voice: "Haha, Guard Captain Qi, don't worry about the wine. I asked my father to sign the agreement today..."

Qi Hao looked at him and then at Jiang Yizhou, "This..."

Shu Tong: "We hate those landlords so much. Many people were forced to sell their children by them. Many people lost their land because of their tricks. In the end, they had to become their long-term tenants. We worked for them all year round, but in the end we could not even have a meal. We were insulted and beaten by them at any time and were ordered around by them at any time..."

"So you still want to sign an agreement with them?"

Shu Tong smiled slyly: "You don't understand this. If there is no head of the family, we certainly can't sign that stupid agreement with them. But with the head of the family taking responsibility for us, we are not afraid."

Qi Hao: "You've just confused the Patriarch by talking so much, and then..."

Jiang Yizhou waved his hands and said, "I asked them to sign this. If not, those people would not give up and would definitely use more means to punish us. So, I will just help them."

Qi Hao hesitated, "What if those people... I mean those landlords finally signed a new long-term labor agreement with them and didn't come back?"

Jiang Yizhou looked at him and smiled.

Qi Hao was even more puzzled. Judging from the patriarch's expression, he must have thought of this.

"Homeowner?"

Shu Tong said: "I think it is very necessary for our village to have such an event, called a great purge."