Zhang Daniu didn't have a rut, and took the old man to the supply and marketing cooperatives to see the prices. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Mr. Zhang looked at the price, the price of rice and white flour is quite normal, but the price of miscellaneous grains is a lot more expensive - this area actually does not produce miscellaneous grains, but in fact, the nutritional value of miscellaneous grains like millet and others is very high. The price is not too cheap if it is shipped all the way.

Mr. Zhang looked at the price of fish and meat, it was really several times cheaper than rice, flour and cereals. When I asked the staff of the supply and marketing cooperative, they said that it was beef cattle imported from the Americas, and the troops subsidized some of the cattle at such a high price, and as for the fish, the money was calculated according to the time period. Although the fish is not dead, the longer it is caught, the lower the price. Freshly dead fish is the cheapest, and no one wants the logistics of the supply and marketing cooperatives to stew fish themselves.

As for lobsters and king crabs, there is no shortage here, and the prices are lower - now the American landlords feed their slaves lobsters, while the American landlords themselves dare to eat only safe food such as beef. The horrible appearance of the lobster has frightened many Americans. There are also few people in the New Army who can eat, and some of them can eat and buy them back for tooth sacrifices. It's just that this thing is a cold thing in traditional Chinese medicine, and you can't eat too much.

Old Man Zhang and Zhang Daniu carried a dozen catties of live fish and a few catties of beef back. Old Man Zhang wondered: "Looking at it this way, the price of eating this fish is really cheaper than eating grain." I've lived for nothing for decades. ”

Zhang Daniu: "Don't say it, fish is a local specialty, and there are many in the sea nearby." The price of beef, milk, and brown sugar is subsidized by Dashuai himself. ”

Old man Zhang: "Then why don't you subsidize the price of grain, I think the price of millet is twice as expensive as that of my hometown." ”

Zhang Daniu: "The millet was transported from thousands of miles away, and the yield was low, so how could I eat millet." I heard the secretary general say that this is a big boss who wants to change people's eating habits. To put it simply, it is to eat more meat and vegetables and less staple foods. So that a man grows strong and strong. Especially eating beef, the army said that eating beef and beans increases strength. However, people usually eat beef and tofu to increase their strength, and beans and bean cakes and bean dregs are used to feed large animals. ”

Old man Zhang: "That is, this big animal has no strength to pull the plow if he doesn't eat soybean feed and salt for a day." Our family has opened these hundreds of acres of land these days, and it really can't be done without them. ”

Zhang Daniu patted the gold medal on his chest: "These big animals in our family were all rewarded together when I won this gold medal, and I didn't spend any money." ”

Old man Zhang: "What do you know, this is called a gold medal for meritorious service, and when the imperial court was there, there was also it." Especially when the dynasties were founded, there were many martial arts, and this kind of thing was sent down the most. This is not the highest class, I heard the storyteller say that this highest class reward gold medal is called Danshu Iron Coupon. and he who can forgive his offspring from sin. ”

Zhang Daniu: "I haven't heard of it, the highest class in our army is said to be called a personal special merit, and no one has won it yet." ”

Old man Zhang: "You take a gold medal and keep it, and leave a memory for future generations." ”

Zhang Daniu: "You can't keep it here, except for fighting, as long as people are alive, they must wear it on their bodies at all times, so that people can see it." ”

Old man Zhang: "Well, this is a new dynasty and a new atmosphere, heavy martial arts." It's a good thing for you to be a soldier, but, Da Niu, there is no county master nearby. ”

Zhang Daniu: "There is no county master here, and everything is under military management." But if you commit a crime, it's also a marching law. ”

Mr. Zhang: "Then let's play the board!" ”

Zhang Daniu: "No, those who can't kill their heads are locked up." ”

Old man Zhang: "This is unusual, I heard that the army is full of boards." ”

Zhang Daniu: "Just now you also said that the new dynasty is new. ”

Old man Zhang: "Yes, at night, you should also work hard." Save it for the first time, and you'll be sure. ”

Zhang Daniu: "Hey! ”

In this world, there are always people who are happy and some who are sad, take the village of Zhang Daniu's hometown as an example. In this village, Zhang Daniu's family originally had a large population and little land, and they had to rent dozens of acres of land from the landlord of the village to have enough for the family to chew. This time, Zhang Daniu's family of seven or eight people all defected to Zhang Daniu, and the remaining dozen acres of land were temporarily enough for the eldest brother Zhang Dali to cultivate, and there was no rented land this year.

In addition, Ah Hua's family, as well as another tenant family in the same village who served as a soldier with Da Niu, also moved away. The landlord's family in the whole village vacated more than 100 acres of land, and no one rented it.

There are also many kinds of landlords in China, including business landlords who work in the fields and hire some short-term workers when their own families are busy farming, and rent-collecting landlords who do not touch the spring water. Now, once this relationship between supply and demand is broken, it is no longer the tenant market where the landlord had the final say, but suddenly becomes a tenant market with tenants and nobles.

Naturally, the tenants demanded lower taxes and better land. Nowadays, labor is expensive, even buying white slaves is expensive, and according to the careful observation of Chinese, many of those white slaves are not good at farming. At least not as well as self-employed workers and tenants. It is no wonder that the governors of the provinces bought white slaves and sent them to the mines for mining, and these white slaves were good at mining.

But this discovery is of no use to birds, and China's arable land has been cultivated continuously for thousands of years. The land itself is already very tired, if no one cultivates intensively, sprinkle more than a dozen catties of seeds on an acre of land in the spring, and the wind and rain are smooth in the autumn, and an acre of land can harvest more than 100 catties of grain, that is still God's face.

If God doesn't give face, it's not uncommon for a year of drought and soup locust grains to be harvested. The floods that occur once in 10 years in the southern region and the drought and locust plagues that occur once in several years in the northern region have never stopped. Moreover, after the great calamity, there will be a great battle, which is also in the ancient books.

This butterfly effect, in fact, was already in Song Haiping's consideration, and there were two completely different concepts of more people and less land. But as the landlord of a land, whether you are a business type or a tenant type, the local magistrates who should pay the imperial grain and national tax will not receive a penny less -- this directly affects the performance appraisal of people, that is, the future.

In order to produce more food for fewer people, some business landlords imported agricultural machinery and fertilizers from the legendary Japan.

In fact, things like animal-powered harvesters, animal-powered threshers, animal-powered seeders, etc. are all very simple things. Regardless of quality and durability, some carpenter blacksmiths can finish a knockoff with a single look. The ancients cottaged up, and there was no discipline at all.

However, in any case, mechanization has been promoted, even if it is animal mechanization, Song Haiping is still quite happy. In the future, human beings will definitely follow the path of exploiting machines. The general direction of this is not wrong. In this general direction, the more people who understand how to use machines, the better.