Twenty-one years after the founding of the new village, a young child in a farming family in Qinghe Village was meditating under a pear tree in his yard.

This is, of course, Xie Yan in our previous life, Xie Yan in the 21st century, and Xie Yanqing, a peasant boy in the current Xia Dynasty.

It has been 4 years since she came to this era, and Xie Yan gradually inquired and knew that the current dynasty was not recorded in the history she knew.

In this world, the Ming Dynasty was not destroyed by the Qing Dynasty but by another dynasty, the Xia Dynasty.

Nowadays, it is still the Han people who rule the world, not the Manchus, which is of course best for Xie Yan, who is a Han before and after the crossing.

Now that the country has been established, the rulers have been recuperating and recuperating, and everything is in an atmosphere of peace and well-being.

This is undoubtedly another good thing for Xie Yan, because it means that she does not need to survive in the chaotic world filled with gunpowder.

But what makes her a little sad is that now high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and corn have long been introduced and have been planted in a large area. So her dream of making a fortune from foreign crops was ruthlessly destroyed.

In today's era, productivity is still relatively low, everything is manual, and there is only farm manure and weeds as fertilizer, and there is no help from chemical fertilizer, hybrid rice, and genetically modified seeds, so the life of farmers is still very poor, and most people are still fighting for food and clothing.

In fact, no matter ancient or modern, the living standards of farmers are always inferior to those of other industries, and only a few people can get rich through agriculture, which is very clear to Xie Yan, who was born in the countryside.

In her previous life, her parents were both farming at home, because of the high yield of modern crops, the price of crops is very low, and the money her parents earn is not enough for her and her brother to study, since high school their family borrowed money to study, and in college they used loans to study, and the eggs that are tired of eating for other people's families are better food for their families, and every time it is generally only her brother and her, who are children, have to eat.

After all, the wages of modern laborers are still high enough, and a man will have more than 100 yuan a day to move bricks on the construction site, but at home farming, crops only mature once a year, and they have to buy a lot of pesticides and fertilizers, so this is not comparable.

The dynasty she is in now is generally somewhat similar to the Ming Dynasty, and it has not yet reached the peak of monarchical power like the Qing Dynasty, and because it has just been established, the politics are still quite enlightened. Xie Yan also doubted whether the establishment of the Xia Dynasty was a traverser, but the rural people knew very little, but I heard that the founder of the Xia Dynasty was originally a down-and-out official eunuch, and he had been depressed in his career, seeing that the court was corrupt at the end of the Ming Dynasty and there were peasant uprisings from time to time, so he rose up and overthrew the Ming Dynasty. Now the emperor has reigned for 221 years, is now fifty-four years old, and is said to be in good health.

And some of the edicts issued by this emperor were also very enlightened, such as raising the status of merchants, merchants were very valued in this dynasty, and legend has it that this was due to the fact that the emperor had been helped by merchants during his uprising.

But it should be that the emperor himself experienced the harm of the late Ming Dynasty's prison system, so on the one hand, the merchants of this dynasty no longer suffered from status discrimination, but on the other hand, these merchants did not have the prestige of the late Ming Dynasty.

How to say this, because during the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to solve the country's financial difficulties, the government began to implement the "prisoner" system, that is, as long as you pay a sum of money and grain to the imperial court, you can go to Guozijian to study, and you can also be an official after being released from prison.

At the beginning, this policy also had qualifications restrictions, that is, only Xiucai could be imprisoned, and later anyone who paid double the money could enter the national prison, and even later bought and sold officials, which was also a major factor leading to political corruption in the late Ming Dynasty.

And now that the Xia Dynasty strictly forbade this kind of behavior, the rich merchants were naturally not as majestic as before.