Li Qi ordered Fu Yanqing to lead 2,000 people to garrison Lingshi, help He Fujin defend Yangliang Nanguan, and strictly ordered the two to defend the pass, and returned to Jinyang after not attacking.

When the spring snow melts, it is necessary to reclaim the farmland and sow the seeds in the fresh, moist soil before the moisture of the land has subsided.

Spring has arrived, the vegetation has revived, and the land has begun to become busy.

At the beginning of spring, as the head of the family, Li Qi rushed to his own Huangzhuang in time, and then with the help of Yuan Ren, symbolically held the plow handle and ploughed the first ridge of land.

The idiom "water becomes a matter of course" should be reversed to "the canal becomes the water to arrive" in line with the facts, if the channel is not repaired, how can the river be attracted? It's just that Li Jiqi soon sadly discovered that even in the imperial village he took over, less than one-fifth of the fields were built with canals and could be irrigated.

The Chinese gentry clique has always been tirelessly pursuing how to exploit the peasants who depend on the land for their survival to the greatest extent, and they have tried to make these toiling people think that exploitation is a matter of course. The so-called "uprising" of Huangchao overthrew the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and killed the Guanlong and Hedong family gate valve groups that maintained the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule.

However, the fate of those who depended on the land for their livelihood was even more miserable, but they still had to pay taxes, be forced into forced labor, and endure the blatant looting of the army. As the saying goes, "bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates", the army in troubled times is indeed inferior to bandits, and the bandits who sit on the mountains and eat the mountains will also consider the sustainable development of the robbery cause.

Robbing food, money, and women, this is the ideal of those big-headed soldiers!

Li Qi knew that most of his relatives, such as aunts, aunts, and sisters-in-law, were robbed, and this south naturally included his own sister-in-law, Liu Yuhuan.

In order to avoid the robbery of the soldiers and bandits, the surrounding farmers were forced to put their fields in the names of those "new wealthy families". It's just that seventy percent of the output in the field is used to pay rent, and Li Qi feels a little ashamed of this. These "new heroes" have stripped money and food, and they are more black-hearted and greedy than the world lords of the past.

It is impossible to reduce rent and interest, which will make Li Qi stand on the opposite side of the vast majority of the generals and nobles of the Jin army. Isn't this breaking the rules and smashing everyone's jobs?

For the majority of the poor, these heavy exploitations are not intolerable relative to survival, as long as they can continue to live. Most of the so-called ideals are imposed on them by others.

In the spring, the peasants who work in the fields consume a lot of land, and if they do not have enough to eat, it will seriously damage the health of these people. Therefore, in the royal estate of the Li family, since the beginning of spring ploughing, they have been providing two pieces of millet flour cakes and a piece of pickles for every worker working in the field at noon.

This practice immediately made countless dealers grateful, and unanimously praised Xiao Shizi for "benevolence and righteousness".

Li Qi felt as if he had suddenly grasped the essence of the feudal ruling class's means of maintaining its rule: first brutally squeezing the exploited in the system, and then giving small favors in the name of individuals. The truth that the wool comes from the sheep seems to have been understood by the ruling class very early.

There is still a lot of grain hoarded in the imperial estate, and these royal estates have not paid any taxes for many years since they were built, so they are naturally the most wealthy estates around Jinyang. Although many victims were received, one-third of the granaries in the manor were still full, and Li Qi estimated that the grain stored in them was enough to last the entire garden for three years.

If the new grain is not harvested, the old grain in the granary will not be produced.

The Chinese landlords had a much stronger love and attachment to hoarding grain than hamsters.

People have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and when they saw that the Li family's royal manor would make so much money, the nobles of Jinyang began to find ways to stuff their children into this manor and learn the production methods of the Li family's manor.

Li Qi basically won't refuse this.

Only when the primary industrialized mode of production is popularized in the country can more wealth be created for the world. A rich world can only be created by the efforts of all people, and it cannot be accumulated by relying on the self-cherishing of a broom and monopolizing certain production technologies and production processes.

Wealth is created and cannot be obtained through unfair exchange.

The accumulation of wealth is only the concentration of it in the hands of one person, and does not increase the total wealth of the society.

Zhang Xian also wanted to promote the practice of the Li family manor locally, and his idea was more noble, so that this mode of production could be popularized in the jurisdiction of the Jin state.

Shelter the world's poor people are happy!

Compared with him, Li Qi felt a little embarrassed.

Sometimes, the feelings of the literati do make people feel a little uplifted.

It's just that if they want to put the so-called feelings into practice, these literati will show the chronic disease of being a master and a low master, and most of the time they will do a good thing into a bad thing.

In the past six months, Zhang Xian's figure often appeared in the workshops and fields of the Li family's manor, and sometimes Li Qi learned that this Taiyuan Mansion Yin was much more competent than his housekeeper.

After gaining an in-depth understanding of the production methods of the Li family's manor, Zhang Xian finally looked up to the sky and sighed. This mode of production is impossible for the vast majority of people to do, unless it is promoted by relying on the power of the government. The problem is that now Taiyuan Mansion is so poor that they keep searching for places, and they still have spare money to invest?!

The Li family manor is actually a semi-industrialized comprehensive agricultural factory, and not only agricultural production, but also a large number of semi-mechanized industrial workshops. Although the method of industrial production is the most efficient, it does not seem to be easy to generalize.

Just one thing, as far as the most basic embankment and dam construction is concerned, it has to be completed by a wealthy family or a group of wealthy households. Li Qi did not deliberately conceal the hydraulic machinery technology in the manor, and even explicitly stated that he could sell it to the outside world and assist in the installation. But so far, everyone is still in a wait-and-see mode, and no one has really started to put it into practice.

The cost is a bit too much.

The prosperity of the Li family's manor is mainly due to the fact that many women in the manor can also work, so that two members of the family can earn money to support the family, and their lives will be much more comfortable.

With more and more steel fittings used in the machine workshops on his estate, steel production has become the most important thing for Li Jiqi. After pouring coke, cement and lime and building several small dams, this mechanized production model, which was mainly powered by hydraulic power, seems to have allowed several estates to enter the stage of primary industrial production in iron-smelting, forging, weaving, milling, etc., and greatly improving production efficiency. It is precisely because of this that these workshops have earned him a lot of money.

The development of new food industry varieties is Li Qi's main goal in the near future.

In fact, it is mainly dairy and table sugar.