[On the first day of July, Heng Yi is working hard]

After a three-month exploration trip, Yunyi did not forget to go to the place where the sweet potato was discovered. Ωヤ看圕閣免费費槤載ノ亅、哾閲讀網メ.. kàn..

Coming to the monkey village that had been destroyed, Yun Yi looked at the sweet potato field in front of him that was close to half of the acre, and was overjoyed.

Yun Yi had also planted (planted) sweet potatoes in his previous life, and the appearance of the sweet potatoes in front of him was slightly different, but Yun Yi had already determined that this was a sweet potato.

In this era of backward science and technology for people to fill their stomachs, the emergence of sweet potatoes is undoubtedly a huge discovery, as long as there is less than half of the acres of sweet potatoes as seeds, there will be thousands of acres of sweet potato planting land in Yingzhou in the coming year, and the year after tomorrow, Yun's will be able to feed millions of people with his own strength.

Before Yun Yi came here, there were always two sergeants and five warriors guarding here to prevent the sweet potatoes from being destroyed by monkeys or wild beasts, and even Yun Yi dropped six peasant disciples from Yunhua County to take good care of the sweet potatoes.

After Yun Yi was sure that this was the sweet potato, Yun Yi immediately sent a warrior to send a message to Lin Zhe, asking him to send some more people here, and he must protect this sweet potato field, and the sweet potato field cannot be lost.

Speaking of sweet potatoes, I have to mention another big thing.

It is now October, and the days of the autumn harvest have long passed, but Yun Yi learned some things about the Dali Empire from Yun Hao's mouth, because of the strong drought, the grain production in most areas of the Dali Empire has been reduced by several percent, and in a few areas where the drought is particularly serious, even the grain harvest has failed.

Born in this world, the people who make a living from farming are diligent all year round, guarding a few acres of land to live, although the income from farming is not much, but it is enough for them to pass on from generation to generation.

But this year, a major drought hit, the people looked at the geographical withered village with worry, but there was nothing to do, there were too few water conservancy facilities, there was no way to transport a large amount of water to water the land, and even some rivers and streams dried up.

When the autumn harvest came, the common people harvested the remaining crops with a bitter face, and within a few days of putting the grain in their hands, the officials and officials came, and they came to collect taxes.

To pay taxes or not to pay taxes?

It's a dilemma for ordinary people.

In the past, in the harvest year, there was more grain harvested, and even if the tax was paid, the remaining grain was enough for the family to last until the next year, but now, the grain production has been drastically reduced, and the government's tax revenue has not been reduced by half a cent. officials, resulting in higher taxes in the region.

In this case, if the tax is paid, it is difficult for the people to have much food left, not to mention that they can hold on to the autumn harvest next year, whether they can hold on to the Chinese New Year this year is a big problem, when the wild vegetables on the mountain will be dug up, and the roots of the trees will also be eaten into the stomachs of the people, and I don't know how many people will starve to death in the end.

If you don't pay taxes, it is disobeying the government, and the government will send troops to force the collection of taxes, and when the situation is tense, those soldiers will even kill a few people to make an example, and the government doesn't care whether the people are dead or alive, no matter what method is used, it can be used to collect taxes.

According to some books, every disaster year, there are often cases of officials forcing the people to rebel, and then the government sends troops to easily suppress it, after all, the former is just the common people who do not have much force, but the latter has a more powerful warrior, the two are not an order of magnitude at all, but once a large-scale riot occurs, it will have a considerable impact on the economy of the region and the production and life of the people, and the number of people who die because of the riot will be countless.

Now there have been hundreds of small-scale unrest in some areas of the Dali Empire because of the persecution of the government, but they have all been suppressed by the government, even if the government can't suppress it, the families in the territory will help, and they will not let the turmoil expand its impact, as for the dead people, no one cares, they have seen a lot of such things.

The local governments were indifferent to these small-scale unrest, and whenever anyone dared to rebel, they would quickly send troops to suppress it, and Xinping, the center of the empire, did not have a single voice passing through, but even if the news came through, the magnates who were busy fighting for the throne did not have time to care about those small things.

"How are you going to spend this year?" I don't know how many ordinary people are kneeling on the ground and wailing.

Not long after the autumn harvest, every household has more or less some grain stock, once the food stock is exhausted, the real chaos will come, and the hungry people can do anything.

And the families of the Dali Empire are indifferent to the things in front of them, they receive a large amount of grain in their hands, and the price of grain on the market is getting higher and higher day by day, and the lower families in the city can no longer bear the current food price, if the food price is higher, the middle family may not be able to hold on.

Yunhua County also suffered from the impact of drought, but fortunately, Yunhua County is rich in water resources, and under the leadership of Yunyi, a large number of canals have been dug, so that the grain production in Yunhua County has not decreased, but increased a lot, and the people of Yunhua County are lamenting the horror of the disaster year, and at the same time thank Yun's kindness.

It is a very miraculous thing to be able to increase grain production in disaster years, but it is a matter of course in Yunhua County, the population of Yunhua County has been increasing over the years, and the newly reclaimed land area has also increased year by year, and the grain yield per mu in this year's disaster year has decreased some, but the total grain output has increased some, barely able to feed all the people in Yunhua County.

In this decade of rare disaster years, the Yun family's recruitment of young people has gone much smoother, once the Yun family's recruitment point appears, it will attract a large number of people to come, they don't care about their homeland, now they can't eat, there is such a good opportunity to live, even if it is to leave this hometown where I was born and raised, it doesn't matter, not to mention that Yun's recruitment of young people is to drag the family with them, let them bring the whole family, and it is better for the family to leave their hometown together than to leave alone.

In this case, the population of Yunhua County (including Yingzhou) has risen rapidly, and the total population of Yunhua County has exceeded 210,000, and it is still increasing at a high rate.

For the migration of people from the outside world to Yunhua County, the Yun family does not refuse, Yunhua County has a vast land, even if it is mountainous, forested and poor, it is enough to accommodate 300,000 or 400,000 people, and the Yun family is also moving a large number of people to Yingzhou, with Yingzhou's land area comparable to Zezhou, it is a small matter to accommodate millions of people.

It's just that food is a big problem, fortunately, the Yun family's own food reserves are relatively large, as long as there is no refugee flow, there will not be too much problem in one or two years, and after a year or two, with sweet potatoes in hand, the Yun family will have enough food.