After Ye Chen returned to Liaodong, he was busy with this and that, and he didn't have time to entertain the Cai family's father and daughter who came together, but Cai Yong didn't feel lazy.

In fact, the Cai family's father and daughter are also very busy, and after they arrived in Liaodong, they did find that the people here were different from those in other places.

The people here give people the feeling of being angry, and you can see a sense of anger in everyone, not like other places, most of them are lifeless and glazed.

Cai Yong had a deeper understanding and found that the reason why the people here are like this is that their lives are really stable, and there is no oppression, although their lives are not very rich, they can eat enough.

It is not easy to eat enough, from Luoyang, not to mention other places in Dahan, even around Luoyang there are so many hungry people, you can see what kind of scene other places are.

Cai Yong was taken all over the Ye family's Zhuangzi, and the situation of each Zhuangzi is like this, the Ye family is really good to these farmers, although they also collect taxes on them, and the taxes are not less, according to the regulations of the Han Dynasty.

But Cai Yong felt strange, what was the same tax rate where they could eat enough, while farmers in other places couldn't?

In order to understand this problem, Cai Yong went to the countryside for a few days in a row, and Cai Yan also wore a hat and veiled to go together.

Cai Yong walked a lot of Zhuangzi and found that they were all calm and serene, the peasants lived a stable life, and there were no other places full of refugees, and the peasants in other places were either very violent, or their eyes were empty and muddy.

"Daddy, the living conditions of the farmers here are very different from what we see in Jizhou."

"Well, we have been to some farmers' homes, there is not much difference between Jizhou and Luoyang, they are all four walls, it is not easy to have food every day, but the farmers here, although the food is not very good, they can eat enough."

Cai Yong frowned suspiciously, he didn't know why they were all farmers, why the difference was so big, so he decided to continue to dig deeper, and he had to figure things out.

Cai Yong asked the people who followed him to wait for them outside Zhuangzi, because he was afraid that those were sent by Ye Chen and would affect his own investigation.

Cai Yong and Cai Yan walked into the Zhuangzi with three entourages and the maid Xiaoli, and there was a group of children playing in the Zhuangzi, and these children were all very good-looking and had a good time.

"Daddy, it seems that their life is really better than other places, when we go to other places to see, the children are too lazy to move because they can't eat, they are sick, where are they like here, running around." Cai Yan said on the side.

Cai Yong looked at everything in front of him and nodded.

A few people continued to walk for a short distance, and saw a group of peasants working in the fields in front of Zhuangzi, and some were talking and laughing.

Cai Yong was puzzled, now that the spring ploughing has just passed, they are idle, but when they entered the village, there were very few people in the village, and it seemed that they had all gone out to work.

Cai Yong took the lead, and several people walked over and watched from more than ten meters away.

The peasants were not curious about Cai Yong and his entourage, no one entertained them, no one drove them, and they still did it enthusiastically.

An old man, who was old, looked as if he was fifty years old, and seemed to be tired, walked to the ridge next to him by himself, sat down, rested, and drank some water.

Cai Yong looked at it and knew that they were making fertilizer, but through a long visit to the countryside, he knew that farmers did not like to make fertilizer, because they were easy to get hungry when they worked, and they did not have much food, so it was best to do nothing and eat less food when the farm was slack.

Because the production of fertilizer increases the amount of food, it is not enough to work and consume more.

With a puzzled face, Cai Yong planned to ask clearly.

"Old man, what is your surname? Gui Geng geometry? ”

"What? What do you ask me? The old man didn't understand, so he asked.

Cai Yong smiled self-deprecatingly, and also felt that his problem was a little ridiculous, the other party was just an ordinary farmer.

"I ask you what's your last name and how old are you?"

"The old man's surname is Meng, and he is fifty-three years old this year."

"Meng Laohan, are you making fertilizer? Why are you so motivated? ”

Meng Laohan smiled happily and took a sip of water before saying, "But it's not, what about making fertilizer?" This year, everyone can use all the field fertilizer, and this year, we can have a good harvest. ”

Meng Laohan looked at the hard work of everyone and laughed out loud with satisfaction.

Cai Yong looked even more puzzled, it can be seen that they are all very willing to work? It seems to be able to increase the harvest a lot.

"Meng Laohan, does this fertilizer really work?"

Meng Laohan took another sip of water, and then said with a smile: "I see that you are from somewhere else." We've been making fertilizer for a few years, and we've been able to increase our income a lot every year, and I don't know how much, but if each family uses fertilizer, they can feed two more children. ”

"You make different fertilizers than others? Why is it so much more? ”

"I don't know this, it was all taught to us by the Ye family, and the way to use it is not the same. First of all, when planting, it is necessary to thicken the fertilizer base, and then it will be topdressed several times. ”

"If you can really increase so much, you should promote it on a large scale, so that the entire Han can increase production?"

Cai Yong said loudly in surprise, as if he had discovered something, if the old man's words were true, and the entire Han would be promoted, then the people of the entire Han would not have to starve.

Of course, this is just Cai Yong's wishful thinking.

"Hehe, why is there no promotion, the entire tenant farmers under the Ye family have to do it, before the Ye family forced us to do it, now we don't need it, we don't need to take care of the Ye family, we are willing to do it, and we are more active than the Ye family asked us to do it before."

"Oh, did the Ye family force you to do it in the first place?" Cai Yong seems to have dug up something he doesn't know, and no one has said anything bad about the Ye family since he has been inspecting for a few days now.

"Haha, how could it be, this Ye family is good to us. At the beginning, we didn't make fertilizer, we all thought that the little master of the Ye family was messing around, he was still a child when he first came, and he was a little shorter than the old man. ”

"And then?"

Cai Yong was interested and wanted to find out how the Ye family did it, which was very important to his investigation, because he came for the purpose of national promotion.

"It's very simple, to make fertilizer, the Ye family takes care of the wages and rice, and gives priority to the distribution of cattle. Whether it is food management or wages, we are willing, even if it is only in vain in the end, and we can give priority to the ploughing cattle. ”

"In the end, we made the fertilizer, and everything was according to the requirements of the Ye family." The old man remembered what happened before and came to talk, and Cai Yong answered whatever he asked.

"What was the end result?"

"In the end, that regret, many people regretted it that year." Meng Laohan patted his thigh, and said with some annoyance, as if he was also one of the people who regretted it back then.

Cai Yong's heart lifted, did something happen in the end?

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