Chapter 472: Eight Hundred Schemes
But there was no time to discuss their endeavours.
Now that the land had been distributed among households, organizing fields, weeding the wheat, preparing other plots for planting maize, and spending money to buy grain seeds had become priorities.
No longer having to strive for work points, the land was now privately owned, and the only obligation was to pay the public grain tax when due, with the remainder belonging to oneself.
Even the laziest people in the team were urged by their family members to work the fields; not doing so would result in beatings.
Captain Zhao and Mrs. Zhao were also tending to their own plots of land.
The couple only had a small area to manage between the two of them.
"Have you written a letter to Laosan yet?"
Captain Zhao nodded, "I have, what’s the rush?"
Laosan’s family’s land, sufficient for a family of four, was being tended to by Laosan’s eldest brother.
"If Laosan and his family don’t come back for the summer break, after the maize harvest, you could also visit the Capital City."