Chapter 39 Agricultural Reform
Liu Yong held the rich peasant strategy that he had thought hard about, and rushed to see Yu Xuan. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info Yu was very surprised when he saw him coming, and said with a smile: "Isn't the son prescient?" The old man was about to invite his son, and the son came. ”
Liu Yong was also stunned and said with a smile: "That's really a coincidence." I don't know if Duke Yu has anything important to tell Liu Yong? ”
Yu chuckled and said, "What's the matter, it's the pills that Gongzi explained that he wanted to purchase from the county are back, and they are all in the compartment." ”
"Really?" Liu Yong was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "I'll go and see first." ”
Liu Yong looked at the pieces of minerals ground into fine powder, including red cinnabar, yellow ochre, green malachite, and blue limestone...... Colorful, my heart is excited.
"I don't want my son to practice Dan. Is there really an elixir of immortality in this world? ”
Liu Yong said with a smile: "How can there be immortality in this world, it is all a trick used by Fang Shi to cheat money." I'm using these things to paint. ”
"Painting?" Yu Fu was very puzzled, "Childe, these ores are extremely expensive and hard-won, wouldn't it be a pity to use them for painting?" ”
Liu Yong explained: "Yu Gong, I don't paint on paper, but on porcelain. In this way, extremely beautiful colored porcelain can be fired, which can be much more expensive than ordinary porcelain. ”
"Do you have to use these ores as pigments? Wouldn't it be possible to change it to another dye? Yu was still a little distressed when he thought about the prices of these minerals.
"It's quite expensive, but you can't do it without this." Liu Yong explained, "Most of the pigments we usually paint are squeezed from leaves and grass roots, and it is good to dye silk and paint, but when it enters the kiln, it will change color when it encounters high temperatures, so we can only use these ores as pigments." Yu Gong rest assured, I can earn back ten or a hundred times these costs. ”
Yu sighed and nodded secretly, he didn't know Liu Yong's ability. The painter was recruited by Liu Yong in the early stage, and now it finally comes in handy. Soon after, Fuyi launched a variety of colorful porcelain, such as figures, flowers and birds, fish and insects, as well as red, blue and white, colorful and so on, which were immediately popular everywhere, and were sold out as soon as they came out, and their reputation also spread to Xuzhou, Xudu and other places, all of which were in short supply and had no price. Then, owning a set of beautiful and durable Fuyi porcelain has become a symbol of the status and status of the wealthy family, and has become an excellent item for gifts and entertainment.
"I don't know why the son came to see the old man?"
"Gong Yu, I have carefully studied "On Guisu Shu" in the past few days, and it is very beneficial. I have a lot of feelings in my heart, like a fish in my throat, I want to discuss it with the county magistrate, I don't know if it's possible? ”
Yu chuckled: "The old man is planning to implement Doctor Chao's strategy, but he is still a little worried in his heart. Childe came just in time, so how about you and I go to the garden to sit and chat while drinking tea? ”
Yu Pan took Liu Yong to the pavilion in the back garden, where a small stove was set up and a small copper kettle was supported on it, steaming hot. The servant made fragrant tea for the two of them and went out. Yu chuckled: "This is the new tea picked this year, Childe might as well try it." After tasting it for a while, Yu Flip Fang said: "Childe, how do you feel after reading Dr. Chao's "On Guisu Shu"? ”
Liu Yong sighed: "Although I knew the suffering of the people before the next generation, I didn't know that the suffering was like this; I also knew the importance of Annong and Xingnong, but I didn't expect it to be heavier. Agriculture is the source of food and clothing for the world, the way to stand on the foothold, and the foundation of survival. As the saying goes: 'The people take food as the sky, and the grain is based on agriculture', if a country can't even solve the problem of food and clothing for the people, how can it develop and grow? Only when there is a harvest in the fields will the farmers feel at ease and the society will be stable. Only by first solving the problem of eating well and enabling the people to live and work in peace and contentment can we have the energy and possibility to develop many industries such as handicrafts and commerce. Why the Yellow Turban Rebellion? There is no harvest in the fields and taxes are not reduced, the people cannot survive and the court does not know how to give relief, how can the world not rebel? ”
Yu Fu nodded and sighed: "What Gongzi said is extremely true, food is related to the stability of the society and the life and death of the people. It's just that it is true that the imperial court did not reduce taxes in the disaster year, but I don't know that relief is not necessarily the case. Nowadays, most of the granaries in the whole country are empty, but they are powerless in the face of famine. Yu sighed and said, "Childe thinks that Doctor Chao's response is good?" Can it be implemented according to the regulations? ”
Liu Yong Zhengse said: "Doctor Chao said, 'If you want the people to farm, you need to be noble; The way of noble millet is to make the people reward and punish millet as a reward. Today, recruit the world to become a county official, to worship the lord, to get rid of the crime', but most of the land in the world is in the hands of the landlords, how many ordinary people are there? Therefore, even if we adopt Dr. Chao's 'Guisu' strategy, it is the rich people who benefit from the land, and the ordinary people who suffer. ”
Yu Chuan sighed lightly and said, "The old man doesn't know the drawbacks of this. I don't know what Childe thinks? ”
Liu Yong arched his hand and said: "I think that if we want to do it, we must do it thoroughly." There are three methods, one is to reform the field endowment. Originally, I thought that the income of the county government was too low, so it was changed to a proportional levy, but now we are not short of that money, it is better to change it back to the fixed amount. It's just that taxes should be greatly reduced to benefit the people. ”
Yu pondered for a moment and nodded: "Although the income in the county has been reduced in this way, the people can get more benefits and can farm with peace of mind, which is very beneficial to the stability of the party." It's just that we changed to proportional collection, and now we have changed it back, don't we give people and handles, saying that the county government will change its orders and not keep its promises? ”
"It's easy." Liu Yong had already thought of a countermeasure, and said with a smile, "The county magistrate can issue a proclamation, and the land that has been signed before can choose a lower settlement among the 'sixty tax one' or the fixed amount of collection." For the newly reclaimed land, the ownership belongs to the county government, and the county government signs a contract with the peasants to provide land, seeds, cattle and farm tools, which are reclaimed and cultivated by the peasants, and the land endowment is collected according to a fixed amount. In the past, the more you planted, the more you paid; Now it's different, the more you plant, the better the harvest, the more you get, and the farmers get more benefits, and the more you can farm with peace of mind. ”
Yu Pan nodded, only to hear Liu Yong continue: "Although the county has less income in the field, it produces more agricultural products. These losses can be levied from commerce and manufacturing. In addition, in order to protect the fruits of their labor, the peasants would consciously and voluntarily join the militia to assist the officials and soldiers in searching for thieves and stabilizing local security. The above measures should be implemented for at least five years, and they must not be capricious and cause instability among the people. ”
Yu Fu smiled and said, "Childe is reasonable. Anything else? ”
Liu Yong said with a smile: "Second, it is to replace food with endowment. All taxes are taken, not money, no silk, only corn and other crops. As a result, merchants and workshops have to pay taxes and have to buy from the peasants, and the price of grain will not rise? ”
Yu Xuan praised: "This is more thorough than Doctor Chao's." However, beware of some profiteers taking advantage of the opportunity to hoard grain and make a fortune. ”
Liu Yong nodded and said, "This is natural." We also need to build a granary, introduce a protective price for government purchase of grain, and a corresponding disaster reduction policy. That is, it ensures that the price of grain will not drop in good years, and that there will be less or no taxes in disaster years, so as to give benefits to the people, protect the interests of peasants, and protect peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain. ”
Yu laughed and said: "You can let the people take advantage of all the benefits in this way, but this is also a small loss and a big bargain." And the third? ”.
"Third, the county has rewarded the county for the effective implementation of increasing grain production and improving varieties, and promoted the emergence of various new technologies and inventions."
"I'm afraid it's hard." Yu turned his brows, "There hasn't been much improvement in thousands of years. ”
Liu Yong said with a smile: "There are some ways to increase the yield of rice by about 20%, and there are other harvests. ”
Yu was surprised and delighted, and said, "Childe said to listen to it." ”
"This method is called three-dimensional farming, I don't know if Yu Gong has heard of it?" Liu Yong replied cautiously. He knows that there are two main magic weapons for increasing grain production, one is seeds, and the other is fertilizer. It's just that Liu Yong doesn't know much about these two things, thinking that the common three-dimensional breeding in his hometown is not bad, and the climate and environment of Fuyi are quite similar to his hometown, so he copied it.
Three-dimensional farming is a concept, there is no fixed model, there is no fixed project, as long as it is several interrelated planting, breeding projects combined, recycling, to achieve the same area of land to play the greatest effect, reduce the cost of breeding, get greater benefits of the purpose, so is the three-dimensional farming.
Yu shook his head and said, "The old man has never heard of it, please explain it in detail." ”
"Okay." Liu Yong arched his hand and said, "There are several similar kinds of three-dimensional breeding. Let's start with one of the most common 'mulberry rice farming models'. Fish are raised in the rice fields, mulberry is planted on the ridges, and chickens are fed in the mulberry garden. All three of these things seem quite ordinary, but the combination is very mysterious. The silt and chicken manure in the fish pond can be used as fertilizer for mulberry trees and rice fields, silkworm pupae and mulberry leaves can be used to feed chickens, and silkworm manure and chicken manure can be used to feed fish. In this way, mulberry, fish, chicken, silkworm will form a complementary cycle, which is three-dimensional farming, which can achieve the effect of increasing rice yield and harvesting fish and chickens. ”
"Childe, what kind of fish are there in the rice fields?" Yu Fu wondered.
"Generally, grass carp and carp are stocked, and the time is more than a week after transplanting, and about 1,000 fish fry can be cultivated per mu."
"Since it's a grass carp, won't it eat rice seedlings?"
"Let's start with why we put grass carp instead of other fish." Liu Yong explained, "I think Yu Gong knows that there are a lot of weeds in the rice fields, and weeding is a very troublesome thing, and feeding grass carp can solve this problem very well." Generally per square meter...... Oh, about 1,000 weeds per mu can control the growth of weeds without farmers going to the field to remove weeds, and there is no need to feed any more forage, which can save a lot of labor and costs. At the same time, fish manure is an excellent fertilizer, and rice can purify the water quality by absorbing the fertilizer in the water, providing a good living environment for the survival of grass carp. Therefore, the effect of increasing rice yield and fish weight gain is extremely obvious. ”
"Of course, grass carp may also eat rice seedlings, affecting rice yields. So what to do? Liu Yong went on to explain, "It's time to grasp the timing of stocking. We can first dig a fish pit at the edge of the field, feed grass carp fry in it, and usually sprinkle some duckweed, grass, silkworm dung or bran and the like. Once the leaves of the rice are straight away from the water, the fence around the pit can be removed and the fish can move freely in the field to feed. At this time, the rice seedlings are far less tender than the weeds, and the grass carp will not jump high to eat the rice seedlings as long as they are full. The locusts, moths and other pests that are often found in the rice fields are excellent food for carp and frogs. Instead of weeding, fertilizing and pest control, farmers have more free time to do other things. ”
"Well, that makes sense." Yu Fu stroked his beard lightly, and said with his chin bowed, "The old man thinks this method is good." We have a lot of rice fields and mulberry trees here, so we can do it. ”
Liu Yong saw that Yu Pan agreed, and became more confident, and said: "This can be extended." Chicken manure can be fed to pigs after fermentation, pig manure can also be fed to cattle after treatment, cow manure can be used to cultivate mushrooms, mushroom harvesting scraps can breed earthworms or fly maggots, earthworms and fly maggots are used to feed chickens, so the cycle repeats, can effectively reduce the cost of feeding, greatly reduce the contradiction between people and animals competing for food, and greatly improve the economic benefits of the breeding industry. ”
"It's okay, let's take our time later." Yu Fu hurriedly stopped Liu Yong's play, "The old man agrees with the above strategies." There must be many skills in planting mulberry and raising fish, and the old man thinks it is better to find a piece of land for Liu Gongzi to demonstrate in person, what do you think? ”
"Well, this is a must." Liu Yong nodded in agreement, "No matter how much you say, it's not as good as observing it truthfully." Here's another idea, compiling an illustrated guidebook. It's just that there is a question that I don't understand, I don't know if Yu Gong knows? ”