"Zheng Ai, what are you doing here?" Xiao Wu asked.

Zheng Ai said: "Xiao Wu, I remember that your family has your father, your brother, and you, although the three of you can get fifteen acres of land, but according to your appetite, I'm afraid it will be difficult to eat enough." ”

"Well, no, I'm worried about that." Xiao Wu said with a sad face.

In the world of high martial arts, while the strength is improving, the amount of food has also increased greatly, and a strong labor force needs at least twenty acres of land to be satisfied.

The three of the little martial arts father and son need at least sixty acres of land, but they are only thirty acres, and even if they add the church's lunch and wild vegetables, they can only barely survive.

"Then the ten acres of my family will also be handed over to you for farming, and you only need to give me 300 catties of grain every year!"

The county magistrate prohibits buying and selling, but does not prohibit the renting of seeds, and the land can be transferred to others for cultivation and land rent can be collected by mutual consent.

"Only three hundred pounds? How can this work, I'm afraid this little food is only enough for my aunt to eat, what do you eat? ”

Xiao Wu exclaimed, with his family's three strong laborers, ten acres of land is nothing, if he can use this extra seven hundred catties of grain, it is naturally a good thing, but he is worried about what to do if Zheng Ai has no land.

Zheng Ai raised his head and said lightly: "I, you don't have to worry, I have already taken the exam of the church school, and I can at least win the place of the second-class student, if I am lucky, it is not impossible to be a first-class student!" ”

Church colleges give students exams every two weeks, and the results of the exams are graded into three grades.

Third-class students are ordinary students, there is no special treatment, just like before, free admission, and they can eat lunch after completing their tasks on time.

But the second-class students are different, they can stay in the school, not only free of board, but also two sets of spring and autumn costumes every year, and there are rewards for every New Year's holiday.

The first-class students are even more amazing, on the basis of the treatment of the second-class students, they can eat 1,000 catties of refined grain and 100 catties of meat every month!

100 catties of meat every month, isn't it possible to eat meat every day?

In this turbulent world, even those sons of the family cannot guarantee that they will have meat to eat every day!

Zheng Ai is eleven years old this year, his strength is not strong, and he can reach the peak of ordinary people.

But because he received a good education since he was a child, he is stronger than other peers in terms of intelligence, insight, and understanding.

And these happen to be the focus of the church school exams.

"Child, no matter what time you are, don't give up reading, reading is the only chance to change your destiny!"

Thinking of his father's admonition before his death, Zheng Ai sighed infinitely in his heart, officially because of his father's words, for so many years, he has been working hard, and he has also insisted on studying in the clan.

And it is because of these years of perseverance that I can get the opportunity to become a second-class or even first-class student in a church school today.

……

Wuling County Shoufu.

Liu Cong stood in the backyard practice ground, in the space invisible to ordinary people on his head, endless luck gathered into a dragon, rising and falling.

"Sure enough, with the implementation of the new policy, the people have returned to their hearts, and my luck is also gathering rapidly, Wuling is poor, the population of a county is only 200,000, and it is not as good as a county in Nanyang County, but the number of dragon qi gathered by me is not much different from that of Nanyang County!"

Liu Cong has been thinking about a question for a long time, what is dragon qi.

According to the law of conservation of energy, no force can appear out of thin air.

Although according to the laws of the world, the way of transforming the power of each world is different, but everything is the same, and the power must be transformed by other forces.

The dragon energy of the Fantasy Three Kingdoms can generate generals, so that generals have the ability to obtain soldier bonuses, and can also make the head of the force transform from an ordinary person to a strong man who pushes mountains and reclaims the sea.

But where does this power come from?

Population under rule?

Thinking that the size of the population under his rule directly determines the strength of the dragon qi, Liu Cong once came to this judgment.

But then it didn't feel accurate enough.

Because if you judge by this alone, then Liu Xie, the Han Emperor at this time, is still the emperor of the world, and theoretically all the Han people in the thirteen states are his people.

But why can't his dragon qi catch up with Cao Cao?

In the future, Cao Cao's southern expedition, according to the original history, Liu Cong was the lord of Jingzhou, controlling millions of people in Jingzhou, why did he have no power to fight back?

It can be seen that dragon qi is not simply referring to the number of people.

Dragon Qi really refers to the number of people under the rule who truly recognize the monarch and are willing to serve the monarch!

This conclusion can explain everything.

Although Liu Xie was the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the nominal co-lord of the world, at this time the world was full of disputes, and the princes did not take him seriously.

And the people were displaced, and these grievances were concentrated on him.

In this case, what dragon energy can he have?

In the future, Liu Cong will be the same, although he is the lord of Jingzhou, but the military and political power is in the hands of Cai Mao, and he has not given favors to the people, so naturally the dragon spirit is dim, and Cao Cao can be killed with a wave of his hand!

And this also explains why he is a poor Wuling County, and his dragon qi can be compared to Nanyang County, a large county in Jingzhou.

Nanyang County is indeed well fed and has a large population, but in this land, there are countless families, large and small.

These families control the people, and the court controls the families.

In short, the first object of the people's allegiance is the family, not the imperial court, so the first-hand dragon energy is concentrated in the hands of the family.

Then, through the allegiance of the family, the dragon qi of each family was provided to the imperial court.

After such a hand, there are still a few points of dragon qi left, and it all depends on how loyal this family is to the court.

"No wonder all dynasties have to suppress the family, ambitions are all based on strength, the strength of the family is low, it is good, if the family is strong, ambition will be born, and it will be a disaster for the court. This is the law of the ancient feudal dynasties of the end of the earth, but it is still common in this fantasy world. ”

It's just that if the dragon qi is so simple, why doesn't the imperial court just get rid of the family and directly control the people?

Liu Cong never thought that ancient people were stupider than modern people, except for thousands of years of experience, the amazing methods of those brilliant people in history are incomparable to more than 99 percent of modern people.

The fantasy world and the end world seem to be the same, but they are completely different.

After all, this is the world where dragon qi manifests itself, and if the manipulation of dragon qi is so simple, even if those founding emperors can't think of the system of red leaders, a similar system will inevitably appear.

But why is it still a system similar to that of the ancient times of the end of the earth?

"I'm afraid it has something to do with the superb strength of the generals in this world, the stronger the strength, the more dragon qi is provided, the dragon qi provided by a third-rate military general is almost similar to the people of a county, for the imperial court, it is natural that the loyalty of the generals is more important than the people. And if you want the generals to be loyal, you can't have no rewards, and you can't ban the family! ”

Liu Cong looked at the particularly thick silk threads in the dragon qi, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth, fortunately, he had the main god system, and the life and death thoughts of these people were all controlled in his hands, so even if he was so perverse, although these people had resentment, they didn't dare to disobey!