The carpenter followed her advice and set the rent at 5 wen per day for each machine.

As a result, there are still many people who refuse to pay this money, preferring to hold the rice harvest in the sun and beat it against the wooden plank.

Their reason is simple: save money.

You say that the rice threshing machine is efficient and fast?

The peasant family lacks everything, but there is no shortage of idle work!

The biggest characteristic of the smallholder economy is self-sufficiency, and the disadvantage is that it is content with the status quo. When the common people were hit by a disaster, eating grass roots and gnawing tree bark did not mean that they would find ways to make a fortune during the peaceful period, which is the mode of thinking only in the commodity economy.

The young Liang County Ling couldn't stand it, in the middle of summer in July, when the early rice was harvested, she went to the countryside to inspect, and sat with a group of ordinary people under the big elm tree at the mouth of a certain village, listening to the long and short cicadas above her head, and theorizing about the matter.

She crossed her fingers and told everyone the reason for using the rice threshing machine:

First, the grain should be put into the warehouse as early as possible, so that the late rice seedlings can be planted in time. There are many heavy rains in summer, if the grain is soaked by the rain and mildew, will it not be a big loss because of a small one?

Second, it saves time to find fertilizer and raise fields. Farmland yields are not high, and fertilizer is also key. Humans and animals have limited fertilizer, so wouldn't it be good to mow grass and make fertilizer, or burn grass ash and sprinkle it into the field to increase the yield in the coming year?

Third, if you have time to store enough firewood and grass, don't always be reluctant to boil water in order to save firewood, drinking cold water and taking cold showers are easy to get sick, and it costs money to see a doctor!

Fourth, have time to develop a side hustle. Raising pigs and chickens, growing tea and fruits, these can improve life. Liang County Ling said that if she farmed, she would definitely plant melons, fruits and vegetables in the corners and corners of the front and back of the house, and would dig wild tea from the mountains to plant it. Plant a few watermelons on the ground, isn't there a watermelon to eat in the middle of summer?

As soon as he said this, someone immediately said: "I can't plant it! The baby steals it! I have a peach tree at home, and when it was still a green peach, it was picked by the baby." ”

Liang Xinming said: "So you have to plant it! Every family has it, so no one steals it." ”

She was so worried, why didn't she make sense? She didn't do anything unrealistic, or let everyone run for modernization. It's all within their power, but they don't work hard to do it. In the past, the government was poor, but now you can't blame her, right?

She swept her eyes and pointed to a nearby farmer, whose wall was crumbling and dilapidated, and the stench of the thatched hut was blowing in the wind, and said, "You have a lot of spare work, why don't you fix the wall of your house?

Speaking of this, she pointed to the four or five-year-old boy beside her, who had a thick green snot and a pistle on his head, and looked up at her with adoring eyes, and said: "How cute this child is, I just saw my friend helping him catch lice; ”

The pestle cover was named by the fairy-like county master in his mind, and suddenly focused on everyone's gaze, his little face blushed, his shame attacked, and his little mouth was deflated, and he was about to cry.

Liang Xinming hurriedly touched his little head and said, "This official is not laughing at you, he is telling your father and mother to care more about you." He said to the crowd: "He has a cold, if he doesn't get it sooner, if he has a small lesion and a big illness, where can he get money?" Now he doesn't need to take medicine, and he sweats after boiling a bowl of ginger soup and drinking it, maybe it will be better." ”

A man hurriedly stepped forward and admitted in shame that his father was not good, and when he came home, he would definitely let the child's mother boil ginger soup to sweat the child and so on. I thought that the child was dirty and sat next to the county master, throwing others away, covering his son's nose with his big hand, pinching his son's little nose and letting him exert himself. "Whew", he blew out a large handful of soft and glutinous things and held it, and the other hand held the short brown hem to help him wipe it clean. Then he diligently took the pickled thing to the side and shook it, and then wiped his hand on his pants.

Liang Xinming was dumbfounded and forced to hold his breath.

Zhao Ziyi sat next to Liang Xinming, gently shaking the folding fan to help her fan the wind, while listening to her painstaking planning for everyone. Aren't the so-called "parent officials" as worried about the people as parents are about their children? At this time, he hurriedly fanned the wind vigorously, fearing that Liang Xinming would not be able to get angry.

After a while, Liang Xinming returned to normal.

She immediately carried out medical and health education for everyone: "If the home and the thatched house are not cleaned, and the children are not clean, it is easy to get sick." It doesn't cost money to see a doctor, so prevent it. Drink boiled water, not raw water, and children and women should bathe in hot water, not cold...... The official is going to help the village set up a private school so that the children can study. Reading can be rational and know what is going on in the past and today. ”

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In her previous life, Lin Xin'er was not a rural person and did not understand farm work; in this life, Liang Xinming had never farmed, but she often asked the old farmers for advice, linking theory with practice, and did her homework before she spoke, all she said was her confusion and incomprehension.

Poverty leads to backwardness, backwardness in education, and backwardness in health. In order to improve, it is necessary not only to develop productive forces, but also to set up private schools and teach and educate people. Education, at a small level, can be read and reasoned, and at a large level, it can improve the relations of production.

She talked about medical and health care to setting up a private school, and her mouth was dry.

Zhao Ziyi hurriedly handed over the bamboo tube she had brought with her and asked her to drink saliva to moisten her throat.

The people looked at their handsome county lord and were stunned when they heard it. What the county magistrate said -- in the hearts of most people, they think it is too delicate, and the peasant family, how can they live so delicately?

However, everyone can't bear to refute the county master's face, they are officials, and they are willing to sit and chat with them and listen to their troubles, can they not admit their feelings?

Someone said earnestly: "Don't worry, the adults will plant the late rice seedlings, and the villain will go up the mountain to cut firewood, cut a few trees and come back, and chop them into big firewood, which can be burned until next year." Drink boiled water from now on, not raw water......"

Halfway through speaking, Liang Xinming choked violently, coughing and waving his hand.

The man hurriedly stopped talking and looked at her inexplicably.

Liang Xinming relieved himself and said hurriedly: "You can't cut down trees!"

What's wrong with cutting down trees?

And they were all bewildered.

Liang Xinming said: "Rely on the mountains to eat the mountains, rely on the water to eat the water, and you can't cut down trees casually." This is also the reason why the official told you not to fish in Qianshan Lake for three years. ”

Fish farming, fish farming, where do you not raise fish?

To this end, Liang Xinming ordered a three-year ban on fishing.

It's easy for her, if she is transferred away after three years, the results will be left to the next county magistrate. Don't be a corrupt official, otherwise you just enjoy the results!

Success always belongs to a few.

There are also people who fully understand Liang Xinming's painstaking efforts and intentions. This person's name is Li Shan, and when everyone got up to work after chatting, he earnestly invited Liang Xinming to his house, "Master go to the villain's house to have a look." The villain's rice is all gone. ”

Liang Xinming thought about it and went with him.