After Yuan Yao and Lu Su finalized the decision of the grain bank, they still needed to discuss the follow-up links.

Because the role of the grain bank is to collect the right to use the grain, like the bank of later generations, to support Yuan Yao's people's livelihood and the construction of the army, so how to use it is the key.

Military grain can save transportation costs, because the previous military grain is transported from the grain storage to the place of use, so there is a rule of "soldiers and horses do not move the grain and grass first", which requires hiring a large number of people to transport grain, and the people need to eat, 10,000 Hu grain transported to hundreds of miles away may be half left, so in this era of manpower, the transportation cost is extremely high.

After having a grain bank, some transportation links can be eliminated, and the army only needs to take the grain money made of rice paper and exchange it for grain nearby, which is a cross-era progress and saves a lot of unnecessary consumption.

However, the use of the army is only a small head, and the biggest role of the grain bank is to provide assistance for agricultural reform.

Yuan Yao was ready to set up a "Nongcao" to promote agricultural reform, the main function was similar to that of the agricultural reclamation company in later generations, the role was to replace the production model of the small-scale peasant economy, no longer divide the fields into households, but use the employment system to recruit farmers, use the concept of intensive management and collective farming in later generations, and make scientific and full use of human resources, so as to achieve the purpose of improving production efficiency.

Some people may worry that the peasants who do not divide the land will not have the enthusiasm to produce, this problem is not necessary to worry about in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, people in this era can live is lucky, what is the enthusiasm?

Besides, it is true that there is enthusiasm to be the boss yourself, but the workers are also creating value, so as long as the system keeps up, there is no problem.

At least for the time being.

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If you want to reform agriculture, you must first have arable land, as explained above, the ninth layer of arable land in Danyang County is in the hands of the family, so Nong Cao has three ways to choose if he wants to obtain arable land-

One is to contract the existing land of the family, which needs to pay rent to the landlord, and the market price is 5 layers, that is, half of the grain produced, which is equivalent to the substitution of the peasants by the peasants and the large tenants of the family;

the second is the income from land reclamation, which does not need to pay land rent, and all the income belongs to the farmer;

For example, the 100,000 mu of fertile land of the concubine family became official land after the rebellion, which naturally did not need to pay rent.

Among these three sources of cultivated land, it takes time to open up wasteland, and it is impossible to plant now;

Fighting landlords in the late Han Dynasty in the world of the family must also be restrained, not messy;

Therefore, in the early days of Nongcao, it was mainly necessary to rely on the first kind of ready-made land products contracted by the Danyang family to start the operation.

It sounds like a bit of a wretch, as a prince, Yuan Yao actually wants to work for the family!

But it's a pity that the society in the late Eastern Han Dynasty developed like this, otherwise how could there be the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Unless Yuan Yao is ready to plunge into the Yellow Turban Wave and fight the landlords in an all-round way, including the Yuan clan where he is located, he will have to follow the rules of the game at the end of the Han Dynasty.

What's even funnier is that Yuan Yao wants to be a tenant for others, but people are still unwilling to use it, because this will make the family lose control of the tenants, and this is the main purpose of Yuan Yao's setting up Nongcao-

The right to use arable land and population resources were liberated from the hands of the family.

For this reason, it is not unacceptable to work for the family.

As for the ownership of cultivated land obtained by the family through land annexation, Yuan Yao does not plan to touch it for the time being, otherwise the family will have nothing, and this targeting the family is no different from the Yellow Turban, so it is not a change, but a revolution.

Even so, under normal circumstances, the Maison would not hand over any of the land, population, and food.

Yuan Yao also needed to pay resources such as power and official positions to exchange for them, and he also had to let Lu Su continue to implement the strategy of division, coercion and inducement, and coercively let some of the families fight with Yuan Yao, so that it was possible to obtain their right to use farmland from the family.

When there is arable land, manpower is needed, and the source of manpower comes from employment, and if you want to hire farmers to work, there is a key factor involved - wages.

If the wages are set low, no one wants to do it, and if the wages are high, they will not be able to afford it and lead to bankruptcy, so how to set the appropriate amount needs to be investigated first, and the target of the investigation is naturally the current tenant class, because they are mainly the objects of employment of Nongcao.

According to the data of 5 mu of cultivated land per capita in Danyang County, 1 person has 5 mu, the yield per mu is 3, and the grain is 45 mu in two years, and the average annual harvest is 22.5 Hu.

Then pay the landlord five layers of tenant rent and 11.25 hui of grain leftover, and then average to 0.93 hui of grain per month.

In other words, the average monthly income of tenants is barely 1 grain.

However, this income is calculated in units of "people", but the income of small-scale peasant economies is calculated in terms of "households", if a family of 5 people, the monthly income becomes 5 Hu, and then according to the male ploughing and female weaving production model, in fact, the monthly income of these 5 Hu grain is the income of 2 male populations.

In other words, if Yuan Yao used the employment system to develop agriculture, he would have to set a salary higher than 2.5 per person per month before anyone would be willing to do it, otherwise it would be better to be a tenant for the family.

After figuring out the cost of manpower, we will calculate the cost of land and see if it can afford it, if it loses money, then there is no way to implement this agricultural reform plan, even with the help of grain banks.

If calculated according to the family contract land with the highest cost of cultivated land, if Nong Cao contracts 10,000 mu of land to the landlord's family, the average annual grain output is 45,000 hu, and after paying five layers of land rent to the landlord, there is still 22,500 hu of grain left.

If you hire people with 22,500 grains, you can hire 750 farmers in one year with a monthly salary of 2.5 grains per person, so that the 10,000 mu of land needs to be cultivated by 13.3 mu per person to be planted.

This efficiency can still be achieved with the production model of a smallholder economy;

If the monthly income is increased to 5 grains per person, then 375 people can be employed in one year, and 26.6 mu per person needs to be cultivated per mu.

In this way, with the production model of a small-scale peasant economy, it is impossible for one person to cultivate so much land, at least not by manpower alone, and it is possible to do it with animal power.

However, the popularity rate of cattle in Jiangdong is very low, so animal power cannot be counted on for the time being, which requires upgrading the production model, adopting intensive management, and everyone working together to cultivate and cooperate with each other to complete.

This is also the fundamental reason why Yuan Yao adopted the employment system, in order to use a more scientific production model to improve production efficiency and improve the current situation of the sparse population in Jiangdong, to put it bluntly, it is to exploit the existing labor force;

If the monthly income is increased to 10 grains per person, then the grain production of 10,000 mu of cultivated land can only employ 187.5 people in one year, and 53.3 mu per person needs to be cultivated to plant 10,000 mu of land.

Under the current production technology, if all the cattle are fully equipped, the full use of animal power may be barely feasible, but it cannot be satisfied at this stage......