Old Master Yang is a scholar, and sometimes his ideas are more simple.

Seeing that today's scene was very harmonious, he boldly put forward a rather surprising idea.

There are always more than 1,200 households in Lanxi Township, although it is said that it is less than the huge amount of 100 mu per 100 mu in the imperial court's uniform land order, but in real terms, there are a lot of fields in Lanxi Township, and when added up in detail, it is estimated that there are 50,000 or 60,000 mu of land. Even though most of these lands are mountainous and sloping land, there are indeed a lot of them.

This time, everyone agreed to cut the output by half, and there would be at least 20,000 or 30,000 mu of land.

"Our Lanxi Township is named after Lanxi, all because of the blue stream in the township from Wang Shunshan, which flows through the whole township and irrigates and nourishes thousands of families on both sides of the river. Now there is a severe drought, and there is little water in the blue stream, so it is impossible to irrigate enough land. ”

Old Master Yang said carefully, according to what he meant, although everyone can take the initiative to reduce the yield by half, but because not all the fields are on the edge of Lanxi, and drought resistance, it is undoubtedly better to water the fields next to Lanxi, even if it is much more convenient to carry water, and even the riverside may use a water truck to divert water.

If we only cut the fields by half, then there may be good watering fields by the Blue Creek, some will be barren, and some of the mountain slopes far from the creek will still be planted, which will undoubtedly greatly reduce the efficiency of drought resistance, and even affect the harvest.

"We might as well plant the land by the Blue Creek this year, plant these lands together, fight drought and water together, and then divide the grain together after harvesting."

Master Yang's words are full of the meaning of reverence for the ancients, everyone works together to overcome difficulties, there is no individual, but a large collective.

The more he talked, the more excited he became, but Li Xiao shook his head first.

To engage in a big collective and farm together, this is to eat a big pot of rice. Although this is sometimes an expedient measure in the year of famine, Li Xiao still does not approve of this kind of big pot rice.

"Does Saburo disagree?"

Li Xiao said, "I think there is some truth in what the master said. Planting all the land along the Blue Creek can indeed greatly improve the efficiency of drought resistance and ensure more harvests. However, I don't approve of eating a big pot of rice, and I am afraid that a pot of porridge will be inefficient. ”

Disaster relief requires leadership and leadership, but sometimes it is more important to have the initiative of everyone, and if the fields are planted together, everyone may have to wait for the summer to be distributed.

This may not always be the case, but there will certainly be such people.

"It's better to engage in contracting than to engage in a big pot of rice."

"What do you mean?" The old master asked.

Li Xiao explained, "We first planted 30,000 acres of land along the Blue Creek, and then regardless of who the original owner was, according to the principle of proximity, we contracted the land to this village, and then the village contracted it to each household in blocks." ”

"In principle, the number of contracts is based on the population, and villages with more people will contract more fields, and villages with fewer people will contract less."

In this arrangement, the fields are divided into households, and each household contracts a piece, which can mobilize everyone's enthusiasm to the greatest extent. At the same time, the original land ownership was broken, and all the fields near the stream could be cultivated intensively.

This proposal is of course good for those whose land is far away from Blue Creek, after all, the land that is close to Blue Creek has always been good land and the price is high. Even in previous years, rice could be grown, and it was sold at a high price in Chang'an.

For example, Li Xiao, more than 1,000 acres of land, mostly on the edge of the Blue Creek, more than half of which are paddy fields that can grow rice. Even if you can't plant rice this year, it will be much easier to water it, and you will definitely be able to save more harvests.

Now, according to everyone's agreement, Li Xiao wants to take the initiative to reduce the output by 50 percent, and he himself proposes to reduce it by one percent, then he can only leave four or five hundred acres of land.

And now, according to this latest proposal, Li Xiao will take out these hundreds of acres of land to cultivate with everyone, and he will definitely suffer some losses.

Similar to his situation, the land by the stream is basically owned by the big families and landlords in the township. Most of the land of the poor is found on the slopes and valleys far from the streams.

Everyone looked at Li Xiao and waited for him, the largest landlord, to make a statement.

"I am willing to take out more than 1,200 acres of land by my stream, anyway, this is temporary, and after this great drought, this land will still be mine, and you don't have to worry about anything."

And they laughed.

This is natural, whose field is his/hers, and this time it is only temporary.

After some discussion, the final preliminary result was to keep the 30,000 acres of land by the stream first, supply all the water resources to these 30,000 acres, and give up the remaining tens of thousands of acres of land first.

The 30,000 acres of land were handed over to more than 1,200 villagers for cultivation, and they were contracted according to households, which was almost 25 acres per household.

In this way, a problem arises.

For example, Li Xiao was originally a big landowner and had more than 1,200 acres of land, all of which were good land by the stream, but everyone contracted to divide the land, and Li Xiao's household was only divided into 25 acres, which was equivalent to more than 1,200 acres of land in his family, which was to be distributed to other villagers for planting.

So how will this harvest be counted in the end?

Can't Li Xiao give all the land to the villagers selflessly, right? Even if it's just one season, it's not fair.

"San Lang, what should you do about this?" A few Li are looking at Li Xiao, although they don't have as much land as the Li family, they are all landlords, this problem can't be solved reasonably, so what they said before is useless.

Li Xiao pondered for a while.

"I think it can be like this, the 30,000 mu of land will be divided according to the households, and each household will contract 25 mu for cultivation. When it comes to the summer harvest, the township will go to collect the grain. The contractor can keep 60% for himself and then pay 40% of the rent. The 40 percent rent was received from the township covenant hall, and then we distributed the rent to the original land owner according to the number of acres according to all the circumstances of the 30,000 mu of land. ”

In this case, although Li Xiao's 1,200 mu of land is only allocated to 25 mu, after the summer harvest, he can get 40% of the income of the 1,175 mu of land as tenant rent, which is actually to give the land to others to plant, but this year's situation is special, breaking the previous way of tenanting.

Originally, the Li family's land was also leased to others for tenants, and it was also rent-collecting.

Forty percent of the tenant rent is not high, but considering that this year is a disaster year, this rent is only temporary, and other landlords no longer object.

It's not a perfect solution, and there are flaws in some places. For example, some families originally had their own land, but it was only on the slope land, but this time they changed to cultivate the land by the stream, but the result was equivalent to becoming tenant land, and they had to pay rent with 40% of their income.

In the past, some families used to farm the land by the river, but this year, it is equivalent to temporarily losing the right to tenant for one season.

But although this plan is not perfect, it is already a better plan for compromise, and everyone can't think of a better way for a while, after all, this idea will obviously be better than all kinds of water fights and brawls in previous years, and in the end there are almost only one or two percent of the harvest.

If we can really keep these lands by the stream, even if a family only grows 25 acres and has to pay 40% of the rent, then we can survive this drought.

"If everyone has no problems, then I will ask the master to write them down as a covenant for our villagers, and then we will press our handprints together, and then we will fight drought and provide disaster relief according to this method."

"Do you still disagree?" Li Xiao's eyes patrolled the audience.

"Nope."

"That's all."

"Listen to Saburo."

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