Chapter 0043: The Power of Hybrid Rice
Public opinion is always diluted with the arrival of the next public opinion, and then faded out of sight.
The white building, which has been covered by a black curtain, has disappeared step by step from the conversation of the people. Then what I talked about was related to Li Boyan, that is, suddenly, many large households in Yongzhou recruited tenants.
Li Boyan never thought that things could develop so quickly. The first to move was actually Lao He's family. First of all, a large amount of silver money was used to cover a lot of lakes and swamps, and the fields were cultivated on a large scale, and then it was announced that all tenants of the He family would be exempted from the household tax. As a result, the tenants in Yongzhou, who had long been complaining, flocked to He's house.
The rest of the local tyrant landlords, when they were heading, invited a lot of old farmers to see, according to the rice seeds taken from the Li family, the yield of one mu of land can indeed reach seven stones, and some good fields can even reach the yield of eight stones or nine stones per mu.
They are not stupid, one acre of land is used as three acres of land, but one person can't be called by three people. Yongzhou has fields, but no one cultivates them. In the face of the crazy recruitment of these wealthy families, the officials in Yongzhou were confused for a while.
Is the sun rising in the west?
The household registration system of the Great Song Dynasty was very relaxed due to the turmoil of the war. In addition to the landed owners, the flow of customers is very frequent. More than 20 large households in Yongzhou have been exempted from Ding tax and household tax, and tenants from several nearby states and counties have come to Yongzhou.
For a large household like the Chu family, there were more than 100 customers at the bottom, and in an instant, there were thousands more people in Yongzhou, which made Fan Niande unable to sit still.
There is something that can shock Fan Niande more than this. This is definitely not a matter of thousands of more households, but these large farmers who are willing to help customers pay household tax and Ding tax, which is unprecedented and makes Fan Niande cry.
This matter, when Mr. Linchuan was a failure, when he knew Zhangzhou, he proposed a similar "meridian boundary", and was strongly backlashed, and now, these big households in Yongzhou have taken the initiative to pay household tax and Ding tax on behalf of the unprecedented, which shocked him.
The first person he thought of was Li Boyan. The measures to pay the Ding tax and household tax started with the Li family, and he thought it was a joke at first, but now this situation is simply a picture that he can't even think of.
"Dalang! Oh Lang! ”
Before Li Boyan came out of the study, he saw that Fan Niande hadn't even changed his official uniform, so he hurriedly ran over.
"Fan Gong, you are ......"
Fan Niande grabbed Li Boyan's wrist and asked excitedly, "Tell the old man, how did you do it?" ”
"How?"
"Forever...... Why are all the wealthy families in Yongzhou exempted from household tax and Ding tax for tenants? This...... In just half a month, why are there thousands of more accounts in Yongzhou? ”
"Thousands? These guys are pretty quick to get started. Li Boyan originally thought that he would have to wait for the autumn harvest and wait until the farm was slack, and this group of old guys would exert their strength, but he didn't expect that this group of shrewd guys saw the signs when the rice was headed, and began to shoot one after another.
Fan Niande saw that Li Boyan was still selling Guanzi, and he really wanted to slap him, but he was reluctant, and said anxiously: "Da Lang, you are going to die in a hurry, say it quickly!" What the hell is going on! ”
"It is naturally unrealistic to let Yongzhou have so many more customers for no reason all at once. However, now that the Great Song Dynasty has heavy taxes, these wealthy families have exempted these tenants from the Ding tax household tax, which naturally attracts tenants from other states and counties, and Yongzhou naturally has a lot more population. ”
"I'm going to die, is this what the old man is asking? The old man asked, why did they exempt the tenants from the household tax, it can't be because they have too much money, right? Don't tell the old man that it's none of your business here. ”
Li Boyan laughed and said: "These big families in Yongzhou have got some rice seeds given by the late birth, and each mu of land can produce seven stones of rice, Yongzhou is now sparsely populated, and the tenants are underemployed, and these landlords are ......."
"Out of the rice seven stones!" Fan Niande directly interrupted Li Boyan's words, just because of the four words of rice and seven stones, then everything is easy to explain. If one acre of land is only produced with rice and two stones, according to the undeveloped agricultural level of Yongzhou, a household of two to three strong men, at most, is the cultivation level of 100 acres of land, and the regular tax of summer and autumn every year is removed, and then if you pay the tenants' personal tax and Ding tax, and as the main household, you have to bear the field tax.
Therefore, many fields in Yongzhou would rather be empty and barren than uncultivated. Because once cultivated, it means that the main household has to pay a field tax, and according to the ratio of the population to the acres of land in Yongzhou today, I am afraid that it will not be able to make ends meet.
However, now it is different, seven stones per mu of rice, which is equivalent to saying that as long as there is one more household at the bottom, the summer harvest and the autumn harvest can be enough to produce an extra thousand stones, then this tenant alone can generate more than 1,000 yuan of income for them every year! It's no wonder that these big families are so crazy and recruit tenants regardless of the cost.
Fan Niande suddenly realized that if he didn't strike first now, when this rumor spread, I am afraid that the tenants in the land of Jinghu would immediately become sought-after goods.
A thousand! That's another ten acres of land! With such crazy profits, those tenants' taxes must be a fart. No wonder, the sun came out in the west.
Fan Niande's little heart was beating a little unbearably, his lips trembled, he looked at Li Boyan, and said, "This ...... This...... I have to play the court immediately! Nowadays, the good breed must be promoted throughout the country! ”
"Fan Gong is not in a hurry."
"Nonsense! I don't have to rush! How can such a sharp weapon become a mere means for these rich people to grab profits! Even if the old man is for political achievements, he can't hide such sacred things privately, and he should report to the official family for the country and the people! ”
Li Boyan looked at Fan Niande with a look of concern for the community, and said comfortingly: "It is precisely because it is related to the society and cares about the future of Fan Gong, so I didn't let Fan Gong report it." ”
"Why?"
Li Boyan leaned closer and whispered: "This secret, Fan Gong must not reveal it. ”
"You say yes."
"These rice varieties will be degraded the next year."
"Degraded?"
Li Boyan nodded and said, "If you keep seeds in the coming year, the yield will not exceed five stones." ”
Fan Niande was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If it is five stones of rice, then it is fine, how much yield does the farmer have per mu now?" Two stones, two stones! ”
Li Boyan raised his eyes and said softly: "If you rotate again, it will be sharply reduced, and I am afraid it will become three stones......
“……”
Fan Niande's face suddenly became gloomy. This undoubtedly gave him great good news, and then told him that this was just a dream. It's no wonder that Li Boyan will say that he can't report to the official's family.