There was nothing to say all night, Chen Xu fell asleep in bed after days of fatigue, and slept until dawn after hula la, and the sun was already high when he got up.

Jiangbei Pavilion didn't go to the county government today, and the family was also washed and dressed, and after Chen Xu got up, they had breakfast together, and after drinking morning tea, Chen Xu asked about Liu Bang.

Jiangbei Pavilion also knew that Chen Xu was specially here for Liu Bang, although he didn't know why Chen Xu was interested in an ordinary Pei County villager, but after retiring his family and servants, he carefully talked about Liu Bang's observations in the past two years, except for the fact that Liu Bang was promoted from a pavilion chief to the prison of the county government police station by Jiangbei Pavilion at the moment, everything is no different from the historical records of his previous life, and even from other ordinary township officials in Pei County.

Liu Bang is now nine years old Chinese New Year's Eve, three years younger than Qin Shi Huang, because of his bold and righteous spirit in Pei County, Feng County, a little famous, made a lot of bad idlers, originally had a good widow Cao, gave birth to a cousin eldest son called Liu Fei, now five years old, married Lu a few years ago, and now there is also a second son, called Liu Ying, but only three years old, when Jiangbei Pavilion came to Pei County, Liu Bang's family was not good, the family was not poor, but it was only enough to make a living, so Lu was at home farming and raising silkworms, And Liu Bang is almost all day long outside the fool, and a group of playful idlers play money, basically belong to a very ordinary lazy man, but Liu Bang is not only righteous, but also quite literate, after being a prisoner, he is also very serious and proper, but he has close contacts with a group of idlers in the county, and has a very good relationship with Xiao He, the chief official of the county government, and Cao Shen, the warden, and often drinks and plays together.

In Jiangbeiting's view, this Liu Bang does not have any outstanding features, and it is not worth paying special attention to, but because of Chen Xu's special advice, Jiangbeiting did not dare to be careless, and in the past two years, he has almost arranged for someone to investigate Liu Bang's ancestors eight times clearly.

"Master Hou, there is nothing strange about this Liu Ji, he is on a business trip in the county government right now, and he can be recruited at any time to ......," Jiang Beiting said.

"I'm not busy, this person I want to communicate with him secretly, the current identity is actually a little inconvenient, I knew it was so, I shouldn't have notified you in advance yesterday!" Chen Xu shook his head a little depressedly and interrupted Jiang Beiting's words.

Jiang Beiting sighed in his heart, and cautiously arched his hand and said: "Hou Ye forgives the sin, it is Beiting who is not thoughtful, but Pei County has a lot of idle people, and often fights with fishermen, if Hou Ye disguises himself as a business traveler to wander around the city, I am afraid that it will provoke blackmail from idle people, and the consequences are a little unpredictable, maybe the identity of Hou Ye will be exposed early!" ”

"Pei County is so chaotic?" Chen Xu was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Alas!" Jiangbei Pavilion stroked his beard and began to pour bitter water: "Hou Ye doesn't know, this Pei County is located in the original Qichu border, the people are fierce, many of them are the people who fled in the melee of the princes, so the situation in each township is extremely complicated, when I first came to Pei County, Liu Jishang was the pavilion chief in Surabaya Township, and the county was quite stable, but in order to facilitate control and monitoring him, I transferred him to the county prison as a prison Peng, and as a result, that group of playful idlers followed, and they all did not like farming and business. Wandering around some farmers' markets in the city all day long to blackmail some villagers for their money, causing dissatisfaction among the villagers, so the two sides often gather to fight, and yesterday there was a fight between hundreds of people on both sides, but it was only a kind of noisy and serious noise that was not trivial or serious, and it could not be punished severely according to the law, at most it was to whip and fine money, and many officials in the county government also had wine and meat dealings with these splashes, which was really difficult to govern......

"There is such a thing, the county police station eats!" Chen Xu couldn't help frowning.

"Hou Ye underestimates these splashes too much, there are thousands of people in this Pei County, some people also do some livelihood on weekdays to support their families, but after all, they are not serious people, as long as someone ascends to the heights and shouts, they will inevitably gather, the police officers of the county government police station are limited, and there are only a few people assigned to a township, so every time a crowd fights, the county lieutenant can only use the soldiers, and the lieutenants are now under the management of the military department, and the call is very uncomfortable, not to mention that those fishermen are not obedient to the people, and they will take the initiative to provoke from time to time......" Jiang Beiting shook his head with a wry smile.

Chen Xu: ......

"The most important thing is that these unscrupulous idlers collude too deeply with the officials in the township and county seats, and once these officials are dismissed, these pimplers will be even more difficult to manage!" Jiangbei Pavilion kept sighing.

This is a complete mud pond, and it is not much different from the underworld of later generations.

Chen Xu pondered for a long time and said, "In that case, I'd better get Xiao He, Liu Ji and the others to Xianyang, so that Lord Jiang will be easier to deal with!" ”

Jiang Beiting nodded with a hint of joy on his face: "Yes, as long as these people leave Pei County, this group of splashes will inevitably be much more docile under the leaderless group of dragons, and I can slowly suppress them!" ”

"Well, I'll talk about this later, I'm going to take a look around today, and then I'm going to meet Liu Ji and Xiao Hehe!" Chen Xu stood up and said.

"Xiaguan will arrange it!" Jiang Beiting also hurriedly stood up.

"Don't make any special arrangements, just let Brother Jiang accompany me out for a walk!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"That's fine!" Jiang Beiting sent Chen Xu out of the living room, and after calling Jiang Chuxing to tell him carefully, Chen Xu took a few teenagers and guards to follow Jiang Chuxing out, and Jiang Chuyue, who was neatly dressed and wearing a hat, also followed silently, and Chen Xu couldn't refuse.

The county seat of Pei County is not big, the radius is only ten miles, the scale is about the same as the county seat of Pheasant County, but it is much more prosperous than Pheasant County, the houses on both sides of the street look a lot wider, although the houses of bamboo and wood structure are majority, but most of them are covered with reeds, the people who carry the basket on the street to drive the cattle come and go, the complexion is good, and the villagers who set up stalls can be seen everywhere on the roadside selling some rural melons and fruits and fish, shrimp and lotus roots.

The prospective son-in-law of the county magistrate from Xianyang was a household name in the county yesterday, so seeing the son of the county magistrate accompanying a handsome young man to ride a horse on the street, there were many people gathered on the side of the road to point and discuss, Chen Xu did not say anything in his ears, first rode a horse and wandered around the city, and then went out of the city.

A few miles outside the east gate of the city is the sparkling big lake, the shore is full of reeds, in addition to a large number of farmland, there are many mulberry fields, there are mulberry pickers wearing hats to pick mulberry leaves in the field, many places can also see scattered farmhouse courtyards, which are full of reeds woven curtain shed, the curtain shed is the mulberry silkworms that are being fed, and a dustpan and a dustpan colorful silkworm cocoons are also placed in the sun to dry, occasionally you can see a weaver under the pergola in the silk reeling spinning and weaving silk.

Along the lake, the rice fields are everywhere, here is not far from the East China Sea, in the old days belonged to the Wuyue area, so the mulberry and silkworm breeding has a history of thousands of years, and the water source is sufficient for planting rice, so the farmers here produce and plant completely different from Guanzhong, and the climate is much warmer and more humid.

After walking five or six miles under the sun, Chen Xu was dizzy from the sun, so a group of people looked for a roadside farmer to rest and beg for some water to drink.

There is a farmer's courtyard by the lake, the house is a little dilapidated, the reeds and bamboo fence have rotted in some places, there is also a silkworm shed in the courtyard, a peasant woman with a man and a woman are feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, and a bare-ass child of three or four years old sits in the middle of a pile of mulberry branches and picks the juice of mulberry fruits.

Watching a group of men armed with swords, bows and crossbows dismount in front of their homes, the peasant woman was terrified and protected her three children behind her.

"Don't be afraid, I'm going out to play, and I'm a little thirsty and come to ask for some water!" Chen Xu waved his hand to stop a group of guards who were about to rush in, and stood at the gate of the courtyard and greeted him with a smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... Gentlemen, please come in! Seeing that Chen Xu was polite and didn't look like a bad person, the peasant woman relaxed slightly, invited Chen Xu and others into the yard, and then asked the two children to go to the room to fetch water.

Several guards stood at the gate of the courtyard to guard, Chen Xu and Jiang Chuxing Jiang Chuyue walked into the silkworm shed with a few teenagers, and without the strong sunlight, they instantly felt much cooler.

After a while, two children brought over a bucket of cold water, and after several people drank it with a gourd, Chen Xu looked at the silkworms on the shelf that were chattering like rain and eating mulberry leaves, and took a closer look with curiosity.

Silkworm farming is very popular in the south, especially in the area of Yangzhou in Suyue, and the silk of later generations is basically produced in these two places.

Although Chen Xu knew about planting mulberry and raising silkworms, he had never seen it, let alone weaving silk with a silk defense line, so he asked the peasant woman about raising silkworms and weaving silk, and the peasant woman also answered carefully and carefully.

The history of silkworm raising in China is very long, from the Xia Dynasty has begun to raise silkworms purposefully to collect cocoons, but at that time the silkworms were almost all wild silkworms, and there were several types of silkworms, such as silkworms, mulberry silkworms, Tsubaki silkworms, spiny silkworms, etc., not all silkworms eat mulberry leaves, so the quality of silkworm cocoons obtained by silkworm raising is also very different, to the Shang Dynasty, with the rapid development of agricultural civilization, silkworm farming began to be slowly formalized, the royal family already had a special silkworm official, and the silkworm god began to worship and worship, silkworm raising has risen to the national level, The words silkworm, mulberry, silk, and silk also appeared on oracle bone inscriptions and bronzes. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a "pro-silkworm" system, the Son of Heaven and the princes had a "Gongsang silkworm room", the summer calendar bathed in February, and the silkworms began to be raised at the beginning of March. By the Warring States Period, silkworm farming had become very popular in the south, and silk had also appeared in large quantities. During the Qin and Han dynasties, silk had begun to be promoted from the royal family to wealthy families, but because silk production was extremely time-consuming and precious, the price was comparable to gold, dozens of stones of grain could be exchanged for a piece of silk, and even the worst quality silk civilians could not consume, so silk fabrics were still an absolute luxury.

According to the peasant woman, now you can raise two seasons of silkworms a year, there are ten acres of mulberry fields at home, if there are no pests and diseases, you can harvest ten catties of silkworm cocoons, and in autumn and winter, you can spare time to weave two or three silk silks, and the remaining silkworm cocoons can only be dried to kill the silkworm pupae and then sold, and a few silk silks of the textile have to pay mulberry field tax, and the rest are sold to the government, each silk silk is three hundred dollars, it seems that the price is more than ten times that of linen, but the difficulty of breeding and weaving is more than ten times that of linen, because planting mulberry and raising silkworms consumes energy and time, Unable to farm, the food for the whole family needs to be purchased from the official warehouse and grain merchants, and it can only be counted as one food and clothing.

This is the same as farming, and if there are pests and diseases, sometimes the hard work will turn into tears, and the family will be hungry.

Looking at the situation of the peasant woman and her three children and the family, Chen Xu also knew that the hard work of silkworm farmers was not proportional to the harvest.

Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm farmers!

Xing, the people are bitter. Death, the people suffer.

These exclamations of later generations are even more obvious in this era.

"Where has your husband gone?" Jiang Chuyue, who had been following Chen Xu's side, asked.

"My husband went to the lake to fish two years ago, and the boat capsized and fell into the water...... Again...... Never came back......" The woman's eyes instantly turned red and tears flowed down her face.

"Alas~~" Chen Xu couldn't help but look up to the sky and let out a long sigh.

"This kind of thing happens everywhere in the world!" Jiang Chuxing shook his head next to him and said.

"What the second brother said is that Xu Lang doesn't need to sigh!" Jiang Chuyue really comforted softly like a little daughter-in-law.

Chen Xu glanced at Jiang Chuyue lightly, then looked at the more than ten silkworm plaques and three shabby children placed under the pergola, took out a fifty yuan gossip treasure from his pocket and handed it to the peasant woman and said, "Thank you for your water, you keep this money, I'll be disturbed, say goodbye!" ”

The peasant woman was stunned with a brand-new purple coin, and watched with tears on her face as Chen Xu and the others rode away from the yard, and soon disappeared between the reeds and mulberry fields.

There are so many miserable people in the world, Chen Xu alone can't save them, and they can't save them.

Therefore, Chen Xu would not give her hundreds or thousands of dollars to pretend to be generous.

What he needs to do is to continue to reform, change the living conditions of the common people who farm and raise silkworms but are still poor, and promote commercial reform is only a way to speed up the circulation of products, and commercial development will lead to the value-added of agricultural products, but this linkage will not see much effect for a while, the most important thing is that it is also necessary to change the government's abnormally high tax pressure on the peasants and all kinds of forced labor, reduce the agricultural tax, abolish the forced labor, and allow the peasants to sell all their property freely, so that the peasants can obtain the benefits they should have obtained.

If the private trade in silk is liberalized, the wealthy merchants are allowed to wear silk, and the strict concept of hierarchy is abolished, the price of silk will inevitably rise.

But there is still a long way to go, at least in a few years, and families like this don't know how long they will be able to hold out.

In addition, if we do not change this almost primitive silkworm breeding and weaving method, it is absolutely impossible to become rich by hand-weaving three or five pieces of silk a year, and once the peasant woman is seriously ill, the family will go bankrupt in an instant, and the three children will be orphaned.

It seems that the invention of the loom is on the agenda.

Chen Xu decided to return to Xianyang this time, and arranged for the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences to start researching textile machines and even jacquard machines, and even the embroidery process in newspapers, so that these ordinary silkworm farmers can learn more skills, increase the added value of products and obtain higher income.

Throughout the history of China in later generations, only the Song Dynasty was the most relaxed agricultural and commercial environment, whether it was commerce, agriculture, handicrafts and large-scale industrial and mining industries in the Song Dynasty has achieved unprecedented development and prosperity, and the Song Dynasty is also the most glorious period of China's feudal era, the level of culture, economy, education and other levels have reached the peak of Chinese development, which benefits from the Song Dynasty monarchs advocated the concept of light and thin endowment and emphasis on agricultural business, both agricultural tax and commercial tax are very low, which brought about unprecedented economic and cultural prosperity in the Song Dynasty, Because the transaction required a large amount of money, silver began to become the mainstream currency, and even the first paper money exchange of mankind was born, and from the Song Dynasty, overseas trade also began to flourish, and the vision of the Chinese began to expand to Japan and the South Seas and even further to India and Rome.

The tax of the Song Dynasty is also the lowest period of all dynasties, the agricultural tax is twenty taxes one, the commercial tax is fifty taxes one, even if it is added to other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, it is far lower than other dynasties, the official history record is not good to discuss, after all, there will be people to refute what is said, but through history you can see the wealth of the people of the Song Dynasty, Wu Dalang, who bought baked cakes in the Water Margin, can have a two-story mansion with a small courtyard on the street, and he can marry a beautiful wife who makes people lose his teeth, hiding the wealth in the people is not just talking, Including Song Jiang, this kind of small officials are very generous, the rivers and lakes are known as timely rain, and anyone can throw money to help, and the era described in the Water Margin is already the period when the Song Dynasty began to collapse, but the people are still rich, the reason why the country is crumbling is that the corruption of the court and the corruption of officials, coupled with the heavy literature and military suppression, the armament is not strong enough to lead to the destruction of the country.

In order to support Daqin's armament and construction, the people have borne an extremely heavy burden, and the current pattern is that the country is strong and the people are poor.

At present, Daqin has killed the Xiongnu and Donghu, the most threatening Xiongnu, basically the external threat has been swept away, there is no Song Dynasty that Liaojin, Xia, Tubo and other alien races are surrounded by the situation, the surrounding area has been very stable, and it is necessary to follow the Song Dynasty to implement the policy of light taxation and light endowment to cultivate and recuperate, so that the people can become rich, and the country will be prosperous and stable.

Another point is that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the resources distributed per capita are far greater than those in the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties in later generations, as long as they are industrious enough, the per capita cultivated land area is simply unimaginably large, and there will never be a situation where farmland is not enough to be distributed in a short period of time, so there will be no sharp contradiction between the peasants and the landlord class because of the large concentration of land.

Because the land question was the main stimulus for peasant uprisings in history.

But this factor is unlikely to appear in Daqin.

Heavy taxation and forced labor were the main reasons for the collapse of Great Qin.

The only way for Daqin to persist and prosper is to promote new farming, promote steel farming tools, promote new business ideas, and reduce taxes to stimulate private development. (https:)

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