"Dean, do you want to go down and tell him that you are the king of the town in his mouth?"

Seeing that Li Yang was actually blasted out by Mr. Teaching, He Zhang held back his anger and did not laugh.

Li Yang is also very depressed, it seems that the cult of personality is unacceptable.

Seeing He Zhang's look, Li Yang said: "Okay, this force, let's not pretend." Let's go into the village and have a look. ”

Now that you have arrived at the entrance of the village, you have to go in and have a look at everything to understand the life of the villagers.

Along the entrance of the village until I came to the village, I saw that the houses in the village all have other courtyards, the courtyard walls are planted with mulberry trees and bamboos and the like, the country roads are staggered and intertwined, and every household is full of smoke, a state of living and working in peace and contentment.

On the bluestone road in the village, there are no villagers.

It wasn't until I walked forward for a while that I met an old man from the village.

Although the old man is already a white man, his hair is still tied into a bun, the front is sparse up, and the bun on his head is slightly to the left, which is a typical dress of a Qin man.

Li Yang stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, why are there so few people in the pavilion?" ”

The old man said: "The weather is fine, and everyone is working in the fields. ”

When Li Yang heard this, he suddenly realized.

Asked about the direction of the farmland, Li Yang went to the field.

Passing through several rows of houses, there are indeed patches of rice and vegetable fields in front of them, and the villagers are all gathered in a vegetable field to work.

Some of them carried baskets on their backs, and some carried baskets, as if they were picking some vegetables and fruits.

Li Yang was curious, so he stepped on the stalk and walked towards the vegetable field where the villagers were.

When I got closer, my eyes lit up.

"Chili!"

I saw that this was a large pepper garden with no edge in sight.

The pepper seedlings are already full of red peppers, which look very attractive.

Obviously, this village is actually a new crop cultivation base in Nanyang County.

Li Yang walked all the way, and all the rice chestnuts he saw on both sides of the official road were rice chestnuts, and this was the first time he saw a new crop, and he was surprised and happy for a while. In particular, these peppers are growing very well and the harvest is excellent, and my heart is even more ecstatic.

In this way, the new crops introduced by Shaohao have been very successful in cultivating in Daqin. At the very least, the cultivation of chili peppers can be regarded as a success.

He Zhang, who was on the side, was also surprised, and hurriedly reached out to pick one, and said with a smile: "Dean, chili peppers, a lot of chili peppers." The people here are going to make a fortune this time! ”

Li Yang smiled, this pepper base has a bumper harvest, and it is indeed going to get rich this year.

Why?

In the spring, Xu Fu brought thousands of catties of chili peppers from Shaohao, although they were cultivated in various provinces, but because all the peppers brought by Xu Fu were dried chili peppers, it was actually the seeds in the dried chili peppers that were distributed to the provinces at that time, and the chili peels were naturally left in Xianyang.

What's even more interesting is that at first, no one wanted those dried peppers.

However, under Li Yang's reminder, the Ba family bought it.

Then, under the guidance of Li Yang, Tianxiaju Restaurant launched a spicy hot pot, which directly turned the chili pepper that no one cared about into gold. All of a sudden, countless Xianyang people became obsessed with chili peppers until they became addicted.

Later, as the limited batch of dried chili peppers became less and less, the price of the chili peppers eventually rose again and again.

For example, when Li Yang left Xianyang, it was said that if he wanted to go to Tianxiaju Restaurant to eat a meal of spicy hot pot, the price would not be less than one gold.

What is the concept of gold?

Let's put it this way, most people work for two months to earn this money.

You can imagine how popular this chili pepper is.

Anyway, the people around Li Yang can already be said to be spicy and unhappy.

Of course, only Li Yang and other ministers of the DPRK and China can afford to enjoy this pepper as expensive as gold.

And in this Taoyuan Pavilion in front of them, they planted a large patch of chili peppers, and the harvest was gratifying. According to the imperial court's decree on the cultivation of new crops, in the first year of cultivation, the government forcibly recycled ninety percent, and farmers could keep one percent for themselves. Then, this self-retained chili pepper will definitely bring a lot of income to the villagers in this pavilion!

And the government's income is even more unimaginable.

As long as the seeds are kept and cultivated next year, the dried chili peppers will become the property of the local government and be sold and circulated in the market.

Just as Li Yang was admiring the chili field in front of him, several villagers seemed to notice Li Yang and the others, so two of the men came over and asked, "Who are you?" Pepper base, don't trespass! ”

Obviously, the pepper base, which is not ordinary farmland, is taken very seriously and cannot be easily stepped into by outsiders.

Li Yang gave a salute and said, "The three of us passed by here and saw you picking here, so we were curious to come and take a look." Brother, don't worry, we just take a look, and we will never step on these pepper seedlings. ”

One of the men said: "It's not that we won't let you enter, it's that the government has already issued a strict order that idlers are not allowed to set foot in the chili base, otherwise the official will see you and hold you responsible." ”

When Li Yang heard this, he suddenly realized, but he was very happy in his heart.

Because this shows that the local government attaches great importance to the cultivation of new crops, and at the same time, it also shows that the local officials are serious and responsible.

At that moment, Li Yang turned his head to He Zhang and said, "This should be under the jurisdiction of Wan County under the rule of Nanyang County, right?" ”

"Yes." He Zhang nodded.

Li Yang said: "The county order of Wan County seems to be very good. ”

He Zhang nodded, it was obvious that Li Yang was highly appreciative of the county order of Wanxian County.

At this time, Li Yang also retreated to the side of the field, but still turned his head to the villagers and said, "Brother, how many acres of pepper field are there in the pavilion?" ”

One villager replied, "More than 100 acres." ”

In the Qin period, a hundred steps were taken as acres.

"One mu" is estimated to be equivalent to about 0.2907 mu according to the unearthed "Shang Yang Fangsheng", so 100 mu at that time is equivalent to 29.07 mu in later generations.

However, about 30 acres of chili peppers were planted in the future, which is also an extremely shocking amount.

Li Yang immediately praised: "100 acres of chili peppers, and such a harvest, it should be gratifying." ”

According to the decree of the imperial court, the people of the new crops can keep one percent for themselves, and they have a total of 100 acres of chili peppers, which is equivalent to one acre of chili peppers for themselves.

Let's ask, isn't this a happy event for the villagers in the pavilion?

However, as soon as these words came out, they originally thought that the villagers would be very happy after hearing it, but they smiled bitterly and did not reply.

At this moment, Li Yang and He Zhang were stunned, looked at each other, and both noticed that these villagers were not very happy.

"The peppers have this harvest, why are the old guys still not happy?" Li Yang was very puzzled in his heart and asked curiously.

The villager snorted coldly and said, "Happy? Peppers are like little fingers, and these 100 acres of land are not as cost-effective as growing crops. ”

Another villager said: "Zhang Sheng, don't have anything to do with him, hurry up and pick, wait for the county order to come to harvest." Moreover, this person knew at a glance that he was the son of a noble family, how could he know about farming. ”

The man named Zhang Sheng nodded, and then he wanted to turn around and continue picking, obviously not wanting to talk to Li Yang more.

Li Yang was surprised, and hurriedly said, "Brother Zhang, slow down." ”

"What's the matter with Childe?" Zhang Sheng asked.

Li Yang said: "You just said that it is better to plant crops than to plant peppers, and I am very puzzled. Don't you know the market price of chili peppers? ”

Zhang Sheng said: "What about the high price, it's just planting for the government, what does it have to do with us." ”

Li Yang's brows furrowed at this time, and said: "The chili pepper is extremely expensive, the price is extremely high, the imperial court has an order, and the people can keep one percent of it for themselves to plant new crops." Although it is only a hundred acres of grain chestnuts, but this pepper is not comparable to this hundred acres of grain chestnuts? ”

Zhang Sheng chuckled: "What the son said, who said it, the government has never told us, and we can keep it for ourselves." ”

"Oh?"

Li Yang was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted, this must be because the price of chili peppers is too high, and the government wants to recycle all the chili peppers, so he deliberately did not inform the villagers of this matter.

Thinking of this, Li Yang said: "I can't hide it, I know the people in the official mansion, the new crops, the people can keep one percent, this is a court decree, there will be no fake." ”

"Really?"

At this time, the other villagers also looked over, obviously they didn't know that the chili pepper was valuable, but they didn't know that they could keep it before.

Li Yang nodded: "There is no half-talk." ”

After everyone listened, they all started talking, and several villagers were pleasantly surprised: "If what this son said is true, it would be great." I've heard that the price of chili peppers is more expensive than meat. ”

He Zhang, who was on the side, said with a smile: "How can meat be compared to chili peppers." You have 100 acres of chili peppers, and you keep one percent for yourself, which is a lot of income. And the remaining ninety percent of the peppers, although they will be recycled by the government, but they are also three times the acres of rice and chestnuts, which is worth celebrating. “

"Triple the acres of land and grains?" Who knows, after hearing He Zhang's words, the villagers frowned again, and seemed to be surprised.

"Why, when the government recovers new crops, isn't it based on the number of acres of land and gives three times the compensation for the grain chestnut?" He Zhang doubted.

Li Yang was also puzzled, wouldn't it be even this, the local government would deceive?

Sure enough, the villagers said: "The government recycles the chili peppers, and it is paid by three times the grain." ”

"Huh?"

This time, Li Yang and He Zhang were shocked!

You must know that when Li Yang asked the household department to formulate a decree to recycle new crops, the new crops were divided into two categories, potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes were qualitatively staple foods, so in terms of weight, the government gave three times the grain recovery. That is to say, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, one pound can be exchanged for three pounds of grain.

Peppers, tomatoes, peanuts and other substances are characterized as cash crops, and the government will give three times the grain recovery in terms of acres. This means that no matter how much these crops are produced, they are recovered from three acres of grain per acre of land.

At this time, Li Yang finally understood why the villagers would say that it was better to grow crops than to grow chili peppers, and it turned out that the chili peppers they planted, one catty of chili peppers could only be exchanged for three catties of grain from the government, and they could not keep their own chili peppers.

Thinking of this, Li Yang's heart suddenly burned with anger.

Before, he also praised the county order of Wan County for being serious and responsible, but now it seems that the county order of Wan County is black in his heart, which makes people extremely angry!

He Zhang didn't expect such a situation, and he also saw the anger in Li Yang's heart at the moment, so he said softly: "Dean, do you want your subordinates to send Yulin to bring the county order of Nawan County over?" ”

Li Yang was about to nod, when he heard the villagers say: "Look, the county order has brought people to collect chili peppers!" ”