Did the landlords in the old society have more land or money?

In the eyes of landlords, land is everything.

Why? Because with land, you can make money from it.

With land, you can hire long-term workers to farm the land yourself, and the food you get belongs to you.

Or you can rent the land to tenants and charge a certain rent every year.

Because land belongs to renewable resources, it can earn endless money.

And the money earned from the land can buy new land, so many a mickle makes a mickle, and gradually grow bigger.

Moreover, more importantly, the price of land has remained almost unchanged for thousands of years, and there will be no commodity depreciation or currency inflation.

If the landlord takes money to do business, it will be risky and may even lose everything.

If you take money to lend usury, you can certainly get it back. Many loan sharks become bad debts.

Even if gold and silver were hidden at home, there were many bandits in the past. Maybe they will rob you once, not only the gold and silver will be lost,

So land is actually the most valuable and stable asset, and even bandits can't take it away.

The landlord didn't really have much money before. When they have money, they usually use it to buy land.

Excerpted from a real week skinning experience:

Lao Zhou's family also walked this distance. ? Huang Diantun, an 83-year-old farmer, said Yan. The specific year when they moved from Shandong is unknown to the descendants of Zhou, probably in the early Qing Dynasty.

Fuxian county, like other places in Northeast China, has a vast territory and a sparsely populated area for a long time. In the early Qing Dynasty, people were called upon to reclaim land, and some Shandong people came here. In the 12th year of Yongzheng (1734), the population increased to 5278. At that time, what about the Eight Banners? Running around? Garrison officers and soldiers? Grant Tian according to Ding? Immigrants, including Zhou Chunfu's ancestors, began to cultivate their own land.

The ancestors of the Zhou family settled here, reclaimed land, cultivated land and had children, so the family flourished. Later, immigrants could choose less and less good land, and some people simply rented land. Changes such as natural and man-made disasters and the decline of family wealth will also lead to the circulation and concentration of land.

Even so, the relationship between people and land here is far less tense than that in the Central Plains, and the relationship between landlords and poor peasants is quite relaxed, and there is basically no major conflict.

In fact, it is a very simple sentence: in the northeast, there is plenty of land. Landlords have land, so do farmers. As long as the cultivators are willing to work hard, they will not worry about making money!

In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), the government measured and registered the land ownership. After three years' statistics, the existing cultivated land in Fuxian County is 15 17570 mu, and there are 46 10 farmers, of whom 87% are self-farmers, self-farmers and lease farmers.

Speaking of Zhou Chunfu's generation, the Zhou family is not rich. According to Yan, Zhou Chunfu? Inherited some land, but not much? .

In Zhou Chunfu's view, those floating wealth are just passing clouds, and only land is a solid guarantee. Children and grandchildren can also benefit from eating and drinking on the land.

As a result, the diligent and shrewd peasant children began to save money for farming bit by bit. His diligence and thrift even reached a harsh level. In Huangdiantun, all the elderly people who have had contact with Zhou Chunfu know? Zhou Chunfu is so poor no matter what he eats or wears that he is reluctant to buy a belt. He wiped it with a rag. ? Another feature of Zhou Chunfu is stingy.