Wei Zhongxian scolded: "You are not from the government, why do you live in the post station?" And it occupies the upper room, it seems that King Fu is not strict with you on weekdays, do you want Jinyiwei to help him take care of the old man. ”

King Fu is trembling now, for fear that the emperor will find fault with him, if Wei Zhongxian's words reach his ears, without Wei Zhongxian's hands, King Fu will personally break the wrong knife and send it to Jinyiwei.

If he knew that he would meet the governor of Dongchang, the great eunuch Wei Zhongxian, he would have already gotten out of the dog hole in the post station, why not go up and down here.

He shouted: "Factory father, the little one did something wrong this time, and he failed King Fu's teachings, and he won't dare to do it next time, please spare the small one." "First of all, you must take out the blessed king and blame yourself for all the faults.

Wei Zhongxian was not interested in teaching this guy a lesson, so he said: "You get up, I will spare you this time, remember your identity in the future, and the royal servants must be strict with themselves, so as not to lose the face of their masters." ”

Zhang Cuodao said happily: "The small one must remember the teachings of the factory father, thank you for the great kindness of the factory father, the small one will immediately roll away, and no longer dare to make the factory unhappy." ”

When Wei Zhongxian dropped the wrong knife, the post official was already kneeling and trembling, thinking that he didn't look at the yellow calendar when he went out today, and he actually met a big man who he didn't dare to think about on weekdays. Factory man, trying to crush yourself is like crushing an ant, and you don't have to deliberately deal with yourself at all.

Wei Zhongxian said: "What are you doing on your knees, hurry up and prepare food for us." ”

The postman immediately got up and said, "The little one will go to fix the food immediately, and it will definitely satisfy the nobles." ”

When he left the post station the next day, Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "The food you made is really good, this time the matter is just like that, just pay attention to the rules in the future." ”

The postman was naturally grateful, and kowtowed a few times to the group that was far away. got a reward of ten yuan, and the factory promised not to pursue the matter of accepting people in advance, and the disaster he saw became a good thing in a blink of an eye, and today he wanted the Hun family to go to the temple to incense and thank God and Buddha for their blessing.

Zhu Youxiao and his entourage walked to the countryside of Changzhou and saw patches of golden rice fields, where farmers were busy. Zhu Youxiao said: "I used to say that Jiangnan is ripe, and the world is full." Later, the lake was wide and ripe, and the world was full. Now it has become overseas cooked, and the world is full. The agricultural status of this land is not so important. ”

Wei Zhongxian said: "Shengshang, now many places are ready to change rice fields into mulberry fields, and the income of one acre of mulberry fields is much higher than that of one acre of rice fields." ”

As he was talking, he saw a large field in front of him, which was planted with rice, but there were many people carrying mulberry seedlings and placing them next to the field. Zhu Youxiao dismounted and stepped forward, and asked an old man, "Uncle, is this going to change the mulberry field?" ”

The old man saw that several people were dressed extraordinarily, and hurriedly replied: "Yes, now the harvest of rice planting is getting lower and lower, so the little old man is going to change the rice field into a mulberry field, so that the harvest will be higher." Tomorrow you can harvest rice, and after harvesting it, it will be changed to mulberry fields. ”

Zhu Youxiao asked: "Is the harvest of rice planting very low now?" Didn't the imperial court buy it at a protective price? ”

The old man said with a smile: "The imperial court does use the protective price to purchase the grain produced in the field, but this protective price is conditional. The family of 32 people in the family of Xiang Lao'er has a total of more than 800 acres of fertile land, and the production of 50 acres of land can be sold to the grain depot of the imperial court at a protective price, and the rest can only be purchased by merchants or sold to the grain depot at market price. Rice from overseas is of good quality and cheap, so the price of grain has now fallen, and the government's protective price is much higher than the market price, but unfortunately a family can only sell a maximum of 50 acres of land. ”

Wei Zhongxian deliberately asked: "There should be some people who don't have so much output, if you treat your own output as someone else's, can't you sell it to the grain depot?" ”

The old man smiled: "It is true that some people have had such thoughts, but the government does not eat rice, and each family can indeed sell the harvest of fifty acres of land to the granary, but the family should have at least sixty acres of paddy fields." If a family only has 30 acres of land, then at most they can sell the harvest of 20 acres of land at a protective price, so that the grain that each family can sell is actually almost the surplus part after their own harvest, so how can they communicate with other families and impersonate themselves? ”

When the protective price of grain was set that year, Zhu Youxiao originally wanted to buy all the grain at the protective price, but in the end he was unanimously opposed by the cabinet, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Agriculture. Now it seems that I still thought too simple back then, and I don't know the pros and cons better than these people.

Zhu Youxiao smiled: "Then why don't you split up?" Thirty-two people, divided into three or five families, can't they sell more? And if it is divided into seven or eight, all the grain after the rations are removed should be sold at a protective price. ”

The old man smiled bitterly: "Don't say it, my second son and third son have long been clamoring to split up." It's just that this property, if it is a point, it will be weak, and in the future, a family will only be dozens of hundreds of acres of land, how can it achieve Zhong Ding's jade food home. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "But the tax collected by this mulberry field is different from that of grain fields, which is based on commercial taxes, which is much more than agricultural taxes. ”

The old man said: "Little Lao'er calculated, if you count the tax payment, plus the expenditure of land renovation, within five years, the two are about the same, and after five years, the annual income can be one percent more than the grain field." ”

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "Uncle, the kid is young and knowledgeable, you can listen to what you say nonsense and see if it makes sense." As you said, within five years, the harvest of grain and mulberry is quite high, and after five years, there is 10% more mulberry. But there are two things, I don't know if the old man is counted in it: one is that if there is a disaster year, in addition to the rations, the imperial court will subsidize the grain field, and the maximum subsidy can be up to fifty percent of the grain harvest, but the mulberry field is not among them. Therefore, if there is an unfortunate disaster, the grain field can be at least 50% of the original income, and the mulberry field is completely lost. ”

The old man didn't take this young man with much beard seriously, but now when he heard him say this, he put away his contempt and listened carefully to him.

Zhu Youxiao continued: "The two are that this kind of mulberry field is different from the grain field, whether it is human hands or tools, there is a big difference, and people who are used to planting grain fields, take over the mulberry field for a while, I am afraid that they will not be able to immediately receive as much as other skilled hands." And when you are busy, you have to hire someone, which is also a different situation from grain planting, and those who have just started mulberry fields are afraid that they are not very clear about the way. There is a saying that it is better to be raw than cooked, if it is just an extra income, in the eyes of the boy, it may not be worth it. ”

The old man patted his thigh and said, "This minister said clearly and clearly, the little old man really thinks badly." Thinking about the good side of everything, I just thought that I could have more harvests, but I didn't think that there might be more trouble. ”