Chapter 263 260. Villagers' Meeting
The land contracted from the village belongs to the village collective.

The village has a great deal of autonomy.

There are regulations on core things, such as the maximum contract period, the nature of the land, etc.

Other things, such as the contract period, payment method, valuation of shares and the like can all be negotiated, including the rent. The guidance price set by the government is just a guide.

We will only check when it is too low, too high or too exaggerated.

If you can pay annually, then it doesn't matter.

Just over 700,000 yuan a year, which is equivalent to half an acre of angelica and a few rows of ginger. It's easy.

However, this time Luo Yihang has contracted most of the land in the village.

It’s such a big thing that the village head lady can’t make the decision alone.

A village meeting must be held.

Ping'angou hasn't organized such a large-scale event for a long time.

The whole village, young and old, gathered together.

Even Luo Yihang's grandparents dressed up and asked their uncle to bring them back.

Old man Luo Hongyi said that he would help his grandson to curse in the streets today, and anyone who dared to disagree would be cursed to death.

Highlight a high morale.

The villagers’ meeting, the village is very... Never mind, let’s just base ourselves on the existing conditions.

On a sunny day, the village headwoman gathered all the villagers to the small open space at the entrance of the village where they talked about this every day.

A table was moved from the village committee and used as the rostrum.

Each participant had to bring their own small stool.

It took us half an hour just to find a place to sit and chat in such a lively atmosphere.

Very unorganized and undisciplined.

Not all the people came.

The seventh master's son did not come. He was the one who supplied goods to the small shop and had entrusted all authority to his father.

It was hard to calm down.

The village chief’s grandmother stood behind the podium and began to speak.

"Ping'angou has 37 registered households. There should be 37 households, but the actual number is... Let me take a look."

"There are actually 32 households. Who didn't come?"

He even brought some heads with him halfway through his speech.

There was a commotion below, and people started shouting, "Aunt Li's granddaughter is sick, so she went to see her.", "Old Wu and his wife went to visit relatives, and when they left, they said they would listen to everyone.", "The Qin family took their child away a few days ago..."

"Alright, alright." The village head's grandmother stretched out her hand to press, "Let's ignore those who didn't come. Let's discuss it. I'll inform them of the results later."

"Today, we are mainly discussing something. Hangwazi from the Luo family came back at the beginning of the year. Everyone knows about it. He is doing very well. Now he wants to lease all the fields on the platform of our village. Let's discuss whether we should lease it to him."

As soon as the village head lady finished speaking, someone shouted from below: "Give me money!"

The old man Luo Hongyi Teng stood up and pointed at the man who was shouting, "Third kid, you are just talking nonsense, how can you not give me money?"

Being called the third brat, the old man who was over sixty years old was not angry. He happily bowed to Luo Hongyi and said, "Uncle, I'm just asking. I don't care whether you pay me or not. We watched Hang grow up. We know him very well. We feel at ease leaving the land on the stage in his hands."

This was a nice statement. Luo Hongyi also bowed and sat down.

The village head's grandmother also said: "We will discuss these issues later. First, let Hangwazi come up and talk about what he wants to do with the land."

After saying that, the village head lady made way for him and Luo Yihang walked behind the podium.

"Uncles, aunts, grandparents." Luo Yihang looked around at the crowd first.

Like I said just now, everyone here is an elder, and they have all watched Luo Yihang grow up.

"I came back this year and started a business, an agricultural company. I made some money by messing around, and now I plan to expand the scale."

"In addition, I am cooperating with Changqing Biology, a large-scale scientific research and breeding institute. We plan to build a branch in our village, right on the platform. Scientific research has higher requirements and is also particular about the surrounding environment."

"In addition, my company is now a cooperative unit with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Next year, we may set up an internship site for doctoral students, and we will also have test fields and do some research."

"So, I plan to rent out the fields on the terrace of our village, the wasteland on the riverbank, and the surrounding hillsides to save myself the trouble."

Saying this is just to show off my muscles and raise a big banner.

Tell the villagers that what he is doing is serious and noble.

Sure enough, after Luo Yihang finished speaking, there was chaos again. Everyone in the village turned around to congratulate the Luo family and congratulated them on having a good baby.

Although Luo Yihang didn't say how much money he made.

But to have connections with research institutes and agricultural science academies, and to have an internship site for doctoral students, one must have very strong connections.

The money must be considerable, otherwise how could one have bought not only the fields on the platform but also the barren land and hillsides?

Afterwards, Luo Yihang proposed to rent a few plots of land to build houses for the research institute staff to use as dormitories, which was not a big deal at all.

There are plenty of residential plots in the village, take any you want.

Now that we have introduced the background, let’s get into the details.

The village chief’s grandmother took over the presidency.

"Now I'll tell you about the area and price that Hangwazi wants to rent. First of all, 1079 mu of basic farmland, 400 per mu, 422 mu of wasteland, 200 per mu, and 20 mu of hillside land, per mu. This is for one year."

After he finished speaking, someone shouted again, "The money is not right, I heard that in other villages, renting an acre of land costs 600 or 700 yuan."

The village head’s grandmother said directly, “That place is nothing, a flat land with water, electricity and roads. Where are we, there are ravines and the roads to the platform were built by Hangwazi himself. Have you seen anyone come to lease land in all these years?” Then she took out a document and said, “The guiding price given by the town this year is 500 per mu of basic farmland, and each village can reduce it by %. Hangwazi is from our village, how can he be treated the same as outsiders? Besides, he leased thousands of acres at once, so he must be given a discount!”

The person who was shouting muttered awkwardly, "Maybe there are outsiders coming."

Luo Yihang had sharp ears, so he heard it and stood up and shouted, "Grandma Feng, if an outsider comes, he is an outsider. Give me the land. I am in the village. My company has so many people and so many cars. If you have a headache or a fever, just give me a call and I will hold you under my arms and take you to the hospital."

The whole audience burst into laughter when he said this.

But after laughing, everyone thought about it and realized that it was indeed true.

The village is full of old people, and the youngest is probably someone like Luo Cheng, who is in his fifties or almost sixty.

Getting sick is inevitable, and the children are not around.

Everyone in the village feels at ease because there is a young man there.

It seems that the amount of money is not so important.

Besides, the price is not low.

Then someone asked, will the price remain the same for 30 years?

The village head’s grandmother said that there are regulations, city regulations, that the rent should be adjusted every five years, based on the market price, with an increase or decrease of no more than 20%.

Since there are regulations, just follow them.

Later, the village head's wife brought up the issue of annual payments again, but no one commented.

Then let’s vote by raising our hands.

Thirty-two votes, unanimous.

The Luo family had two votes.

The land lease is settled.

But the villagers' meeting is not over yet.

There is something more important: how to divide the money.
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The village collective land belongs to all villagers, and how the contract money should be used depends on the situation.

Whether it is division, investment or something else, the whole village needs to discuss it.

The village chief's grandmother first proposed that the village should keep 20,000 yuan for miscellaneous expenses such as repairing water pipes, replacing street lights, dredging canals, and cleaning septic tanks, which would amount to almost 20,000 yuan a year.

In the past, we collected money from every household, but now we will collect it from here.

It was approved unanimously.

What should I do with the remaining money, which is more than 74 yuan?
After the whole village discussed it, they voted unanimously and divided it directly.

We are all old and don't want to bother anymore. We don't know anything about investment or financial management, so we just divide the money directly. It's simple and clear.

but.

There must be rules for division.

Is it divided by family or by person?

It is only given to those whose household registration is still in the village.

It also counts if the household registration has been moved.

Does it count if the person has left but the household registration has not?

There are also practical problems that most people in the village are facing now.

The contract period is thirty years, but I'm afraid few of the elderly in the village can live another thirty years.

The elderly are gone, their children’s household registration has moved away, and they may not come back again, so how can they still get a share of the money?

It's complicated.

The villagers' meeting gradually became serious.

People kept standing up to speak, and people kept rebutting.

Voting is done by raising hands one round at a time.

There was no unanimous agreement this time. Many times the votes were almost the same and the situation was stuck.

In the end, no conclusion was reached.

The village chief's grandmother decided to use the tactic of procrastination.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. Let's give the land to Hangwazi first and go through the formalities. We can discuss the money distribution later. Anyway, our village distributes money and pays it before the New Year every year. The rules don't change, so it'll be fine if we can discuss it before the New Year."

"The meeting is dismissed!"

Wow~~
The guys are gone.

Luo Yihang also followed his parents, grandparents and carried a small stool home.

When we got back, Luo's parents and grandparents were still talking about dividing the money.

Luo Yihang didn't care how it was divided, he just thought that dividing the money was quite interesting.

I paid for it myself.

If divided equally among families.

The Luo family occupies two of the thirty-seven households in the village.

In other words, I paid more than 760,000 yuan every year, and I could get 40,000 yuan back...

It's a complete hassle.

(End of this chapter)