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In September, the autumn is high and cool, all the corn in Nanzhuang is dried and put into the big warehouse in the Luli, Zheng Lao has to walk around in front of the granary several times a day with his hands behind his back, this granary is piled up with the rations of hundreds of people in the village this autumn and winter to the spring and summer of this year, and each family needs to receive grain by counting the accounts of each family, so as to improve the efficiency of grain storage and reduce waste.

Last year's old grain 6 continued to take out, can eat the sun and take it back to share, can not eat the age of boiling and cattle as feed to eat, the cowshed in the Zhuangzi raised dozens of ploughing cattle, this is a good cattle selected from Hedong, this year the county order with people to let the people of Nanzhuang pull out their own bulls and breed with other cows, the two sides agreed that this time the calf will return to his family, next time to his own family.

Since the beginning of the year to start the waterwheel irrigation, Nanzhuang four circles of more than 200 hectares of dry land turned into watered land, earlier an acre of grain production is only four stones, a lazy acre can hit three stones of grain, and then lazy not even a mu of three stones, a family of a few people desperately fiddling with a hundred or dozens of acres of land, fell into the hands of a maximum of 4oo stone grain.

Because it is a rented field of the Hou Mansion, the Hou Mansion pays the grass tax and field tax on behalf of the Hou Mansion, and only the head tax such as oral endowment, calculation tax, and donation money is paid by the peasants themselves, and each family must sell five stone of grain to pay the tax. In addition, the price of grain in Chang'an will drop sharply in the autumn harvest season, and a stone is worth about 1oo yuan, and the mouth of the grain collection is worth 7o yuan at most. Originally, there was only a tax of five stones of grain, but now it is enough to sell eight stones to pay the tax.

These grains must take out 2oo stone and hand it over to the Hou Mansion as a rent tax, and the remaining family of several people use firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, clothing, food, shoes and hats to sell food for money to buy, and the food at home will be saved about a dozen stone a year, if there are some ceremonial activities such as weddings and funerals that cannot be avoided, this year will be in vain.

Things are much better now. Just after the autumn harvest, the grain in the granary was counted, and the calculation of the income of each family was already in full swing. The situation of the statistics of the past few days is unprecedentedly good, and the grain output of each household has increased by at least 30 percent by watering the land, about 40 percent for the well-tended fields, and about 20 percent for those who are lazy.

Corn must be well hydrated to produce full ears. Irrigation plays no less important role than the popularization of iron tools, greatly improving the farming efficiency of farmers, saving a large amount of manpower and material input, and greatly increasing grain production, which plays a great role in promoting the peasants' tax reduction in Central Asia.

The average grain yield increased by three percent, which means that the original abundant geographical advantage is only not fully managed Shangtian yield per mu has more than three stones, and now the yield can be increased to four stones per mu, and the yield of four stones per mu is increased to five stones, four stones are converted into Han Jin is 48o catties, and five stones are converted into Han Jin and 6oo catties of grain. If converted to the newly launched city catties of Shaofu, there are 3oo catties of corn at a discount.

It is also more than 100 acres of land, and each family has received an average of 5oo stone of grain this year. Consuming the same manpower to take care of the fields, the grain yield per mu has increased by nearly one stone, and it is no wonder that the farmers in Nanzhuang are smiling one by one, which is equivalent to each family handing over the land rent and capitation tax to the Hou Mansion, and then deducting the rations for the expenditure of next spring and summer, each family can also save 1oo stone of grain. If you find an opportunity to sell the grain, you can get a deposit of 10,000 yuan, and within a year, you can turn an ordinary peasant household into a well-off family with a deposit of more than 10,000 yuan. It is simply the "10,000 yuan household" of the Western Han Dynasty.

The good news brought by the harvest made the Zhuangzi under the Pingyang Hou Mansion boil, and even the Xiongnu women who stayed at home came out of the house, holding the newborn dolls and dancing in the Zhuangzi, after a year they could barely communicate in everyday language, telling the people in the village that they had to dance and celebrate during the annual harvest season of the Xiongnu.

In the past, it was not easy for each family to save a dozen stone of grain throughout the year, and a cropper with excellent farming skills and diligence and ability could save twenty or thirty stone rations a year, and he also had to guard against floods, droughts, and locust plagues every seven or eight years.

In addition to working hard in the fields, the diligent farmers also pray to God to give a face not to rain a catastrophe, as long as the wind and rain are smooth for more than ten years to make every household live a good life, the current situation is very different from previous years, each family leaves 100 stone of grain a year, and the skilled farmer can save 150 or 60 stone of grain, even if there is a catastrophe and disaster in a few years, he has the confidence to carry it.

After all, there is food in your hands and you don't panic.

Zheng Lao walked through the Zhuangzi with his hands behind his back, and saw a few old guys in the Zhuangzi basking in the sun, they are also ordinary people with several levels of civil lords, they have fought a lifetime and have not made much merit, and when they are a lot of years old and past the age limit of conscription, the old men will return to the Zhuangzi to live in the old age, and their spare time is to go to the fields to go around twice, sit together and talk about the story of the founding of the country when they have nothing to do, and occasionally go to talk to the three elders in the township, and the life is very good.

"The prince's idea is good! The waterwheel can not only carry water to water the ground, but also grind the millet with a stone mill turntable below, plant some beans at home and take them out to squeeze out soybean oil, and add a few drops of soybean oil to taste when cooking, not to mention how fragrant the meal is. ”

"Old grandson, how many soybean cakes are left in your family's soybean oil squeezing? If you don't want it, give me some, I have a few big fat pigs at home and are short of delicious feed, so it's good for me to feed the pigs. ”

"Hey, why didn't you say two days earlier, I'm sorry brother, my little grandson took all the bean cakes to the east of the river to raise fish, in the spring Hou Fu got some iron cages in the river and sprinkled a lot of fish fry, my little grandson was responsible for taking care of those fry, only a few months those fish all grew into two catties (Han catties) of more than a big guy, those fish are fat and black scales are very gratifying."

"Don't say it. A few days ago, when I went to the river, I met your little grandson who raised fish, and he didn't know where to catch dozens of catties of locusts and throw them into the water to feed the fish, and the fish were all waiting on the surface of the water with their mouths open. The locusts that fell down ate one by one, no wonder they grew so big in just half a year. ”

"Why do you say that Hou Mansion raises so many fish? Isn't it easier to go to the river to catch ready-made fish directly in the cages? ”

At this time, Zheng Lao came to cough, and several old men immediately stopped their mouths and beckoned him Zheng Lao to sit down, and the old men flattered: "Zheng Lao also said a few words in front of the prince and the marquis, he must know the meaning of the Hou Mansion to raise fish, so you can tell me what these fish plan to use?" ”

"You think of fish farming as too simple. We have an inexhaustible supply of wild fish caught in the back of the Wei River, but the rule handed down from ancient times is that fishing must be suspended for a few months every spring and summer. The fishermen knew that this was to avoid fishing with exhaustion, but Chang'an City was so big, and the wealthy merchants in the surrounding tombs were full of rich people, so they could only endure eating fish for a few months. It is not the same as the fish we raise ourselves, the fry can grow to seven or eight catties to ten catties (Han catties) in a year, and this fish is not a problem to sell it for at least twenty yuan during the fishing moratorium, so that five fish is equal to one stone of corn, seven fish and a fat sheep, one hundred and fifty fish can be exchanged for a strong cow, and three hundred fish can buy a three-year-old ploughing horse, how many fish do you say there are in the river in the east? ”

The old men looked at each other: "I see that the cage is connected to the side of Bashui from that end, and there are too many to count." ”

"That's right! There are too many to count. Our Hou Mansion does not have so much pasture to raise sheep, so we have to use the water by the river to raise fish, and the fish and sheep are fresh. Rich people will be uncomfortable if they don't eat fish for three days, and it will be very uncomfortable if they don't drink fish soup for five days, and if there is no fish and sheep stewed in the feast, it is not called a banquet. ”

The old men crossed their fingers and counted for a long time without coming up with a reason, Zheng Lao raised his head proudly and said, "Tell you the truth." You can buy at least a thousand cows! ”

In fact, Zheng Lao didn't know how much money he could make, so he casually talked nonsense about a thousand cows to fool this group of old men.

"Oops! That's a big deal! It's more money than our hard work in the fields. This fish farming must be carried out well. ”

"That makes sense, why don't we go and put a few cages on the river to the east? It's not easy to make iron and wicker? ”

Zheng Lao fanned the flames on the side: "It's too late to raise fish now, only the elderly start to raise new fish fry in the spring, at least take care of the price that can be sold for a whole year, raise a big guy who can grow to 8o catties (Han catties) for three years and five years, this kind of fish can be sold for less than five hundred dollars without thinking about buying it, we can discuss the batch of sales, control the amount of fish to ensure that you make a lot of money, you all total, if you want, follow me Lao Zheng together." ”

"There's no need to sum up, our old brother has believed in your ability for decades, we all listen to you, we will do it if you say it!"

The old men rejoiced, celebrating that they had found a new purpose in life, and no longer had to wander in the middle of the road with nothing to do, as if they had suddenly found the second spring of their lives.

They didn't notice that there was a middle-aged scribe in Zhuangzi, who listened to the heated discussion of the old people throughout the whole process, and was very emotional about the hope of the old people in their old age.

Turned around and walked out of Luli, walking between the slender Qianmo in the field, he was the guest who lived in the Hou Mansion for many days.

In the past two months, he has been walking around the ten miles and eight townships near the Hou Mansion, with his rich grassroots experience as a county magistrate and county official, he has traveled to several counties in the east of Chang'an City, the capital division, and has personally visited the mansions of several county magistrates, checked the number of fields to understand the situation in each township, and personally visited each township, with his identity as Yuan An's nephew and the former county official of Donghai County, he will be courteous wherever he goes.

Yuan An's reputation is very big, as an example of a virtuous minister who is honest and honest and dedicated to the public, Yuan An's accidental death has won the sympathy of the people of the world, everyone knows that Yuan Ang died in Liu Wu, the king of Liang, if it weren't for the identity of the son of heaven's brother who was inconvenient to abuse, I was afraid that Liu Wu's reputation among the people would have been stinky.

The more places I visited, the deeper I felt, the more I felt it, the people of the Han family lived in such poverty, they couldn't save more than a dozen stone of grain all year round, and they had to endure hard military service and military service on the border, if it weren't for the Han system inheriting the pre-Qin and involving the country, he would definitely support the abolition of these iron laws of forest rules.

What is statecraft?

Yuan Chong was once confused and distressed.

Statecraft is an abstract concept. It cannot be measured by a simple number of indicators, the principle of the people's desire is very simple, but how to satisfy the people. It has become the biggest problem for bureaucrats.

The system of farming and warfare under the classical militaristic system, in which the cultivation and warfare of the people complemented each other, was based on the expansion of territory as the national policy, and the prosperity of the people depended on the expansion of the Han Empire.

But since the defeat of Bai Mountain, the expansion of the Han Empire has dropped sharply, the enterprising Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang died of illness, and Liu Ying, the king of Shoucheng, who came to power, lacked the ability to govern the country. Pursue the political strategy of Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, and take the restoration of national strength and people's livelihood as the main direction. As a result, the national policy of the Han Empire expanded from the outside to the inward governance, and their strategy of governing the country was very simple.

Huang Lao did nothing.

Governing the country by doing nothing is complicated and simple. To put it simply, in addition to taxation and forced labor, the government should save money, pursue the idea that the bureaucrats do not cause trouble, and the people do not make trouble, and every household performs its own duties, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Such a simple system did play a huge role in the restoration of national strength in the early Han Dynasty, and the 60 years of peace and prosperity created a miracle of doubling the population and prosperity of all industries, breaking the curse of the destruction of the six kingdoms of Qin and destroying the world, and powerfully proving the great unified empire. You can still govern the country well.

However, with the change of the times, Huang Lao was able to meet the needs of society, and the growth of population caused the contradiction between land and people to increase day by day. At this time, it is necessary for a group of thoughtful and courageous people to come up with a new strategy for governing the country.

Yuan Chong was once very disappointed that the Manchu civil and military forces were not interested in changing the national policy and implementing the new policy, and the only enterprising Confucianism was a group of unconscious people. Hongguoguo's idea of academic hegemony led many people to be very disgusted with Confucianism.

Two court arguments. Although Wang Zang and Kong Anguo did not represent the full voice of the Confucian clique, their poor performance still disappointed many onlookers.

Yuan Chong once expressed a strong affection for Confucianism, but now he has also put aside his mind and no longer considers delving into the so-called Confucian statecraft.

When Yuan Chong was in charge of the government, he did not perceive the benefits of Huang Lao Wuwei, and it was not until recently that he was idle in the Pingyang Marquis Mansion, and he wandered around the counties of Guanzhong when he had nothing to do, and often asked the villagers about their living conditions.

Under the harsh system of the vast empire, the life of every common person is very difficult!

Many poor families have only a few dozen acres of thin land, and even if they cultivate their own land and do not have to pay rent, they cannot withstand the pressure of paying taxes, and are almost struggling between food and clothing and hunger.

In such a cruel society, the oppressive force of the top down class all falls on the heads of the people, those poor families who cannot pay taxes must borrow and pay taxes, usury interest rates skyrocket like a snowball, and the terrible interest rate that doubles several times in a few months will force people to death, and then the yeoman farmers can only sell their land to pay off their debts, or if they can't pay it back, they will sell themselves as slaves to pay off their debts, and if they still can't pay it, they will only be ruined.

Such a system and pressure, do not need Huang Lao Wuwei to alleviate the class contradictions, is to force the rhythm of ordinary families to death, Huang Lao Wuwei is like a set of shackles to clamp the hands and feet of the officials, want to make political achievements but can not disturb the people, harm the people, destroy the customs of the villagers, and the persecuted grassroots bureaucrats can only persuade the people to flourish agriculture and actively farm.

Instead of sending small officials to the villages to loot the people's fat and ointment, urging the people to hand over their surplus grain to pay taxes, the people will not be able to cope with the natural disasters that occur every seven or eight years, and once the disaster comes, the whole family will become a displaced pauper, even if there is no land, they still have to pay the poll tax, and if they can't pay the tax, they will sell themselves into slavery or flee into the mountains to become savages, as long as they are caught, they will become untouchables, and the good family will be finished.

The Han law was too harsh, so they did not dare to practice harsh government, and the bureaucrats at all levels of the court had to find a more urgent way to solve the trouble of farming in order to make the people's lives better and have fewer examples of being forced to ruin by usury.

Changing the system will inevitably destroy the system of Huang Lao's inaction, and the suppressed petty officials will lose the constraints of the system, and as soon as they turn their heads, they will become executioners who slowly strangle the people with a noose, but the problem of the people solving poverty and seeking food and clothing still has to be solved.

The idea of solving it is in this humble Nanzhuang.

The villagers of Nanzhuang were very lucky to meet the kind-hearted Hou Cao of Pingyang.

He built a huge waterwheel and a mill out of his own pocket, and quietly pointed out a good business for the farmers to raise fish to make money. All the men in the Zhuangzi were busy working at the racecourse in the south of Chang'an City to earn rations, and there were a few strong men in the family who could eat, and they saved 20 stone rations in a year.

I believe it won't be a few years. The Zhuangzi under the Pingyang Marquis Mansion have become well-known rich villages.

Silent, not impatient, not impatient, no fanfare, no boasting, as if the spring rain moisturizes things silently.

Governing the country does not need to be as tirade as the water of the Yellow River, and governing the country requires a conscientious, responsible, and conscientious conscience for the sake of others.

Cao Shi was using his own actions to explain what it means to govern the country, and the arrogant middle-aged scribe was convinced.

In terms of wisdom and means, he boasts that he is not weak to others, but when it comes to governing the country, he can have strategic insight. Yuan Chong felt that he was too far away from Cao.

"What is statecraft? The people have enough to eat and sleep well, and they don't have to worry about paying taxes in August. Don't worry about this year's heavy conscription, there is hope in the hearts of the people, this is the art of governing the country! No, this should be called the law of governance! ”

Thinking about it, the mood is getting more and more excited. Yuan Chong made a decision in an instant: "I have to go to the Inner History Mansion for a while, and I can't say anything to let the merits of the Marquis of Pingyang be drowned in vain, so take this small help as my vote for joining the Marquis of Pingyang's Mansion!" ”

The Son of Heaven's illness was so severe that the gate of Weiyang Palace was locked.

No one knows how long the Son of Heaven will live, maybe three months, maybe two months, or even shorter, and the hearts of civil and military officials are tugging at every moment.

Cao Shi took a rare long vacation.

After working for 25 days in a row, I saved five Mu Xiu and used it together, and I slept lazily with my wife Liu Wan in my arms, and I didn't wake up until three poles in the morning.

It didn't take long to wake up. Yuan Chong hurriedly broke in: "The prince is overjoyed!" Shi Huanxian went to the Zhuangzi under the Hou Mansion to inspect the waterwheel, and I heard that Shangqing was rushing over. ”

"What's going on today? What are you doing in my Zhuangzi? It seems that the watermill is not much to see. ”

"Junhou is wrong, how can an increase in grain per mu be called nothing to look at! It's even more beautiful than gold! ”

Yuan Chong danced and talked about his experience of going to the Inner History Mansion. Xiang Taiyi, who claimed to have sworn by him, saw all the truth, and finally coaxed the right Neishi out of the Neishi Mansion, and he knew what was in it by looking at his smug expression.

Cao Shike was dumbfounded at this time, he never thought that he would attract high-ranking officials to inspect, and he always felt that it was not a secret to build a waterwheel, and all the princes were engaged in that thing. Danong Ling Lecheng Hou Dingwu Hakka also has it, and it will be clear if you go home and see if you can't do it.

Yuan Chong left again like a gust of wind. Cao Shi sat stupidly in the outer hall and was a little confused, Princess Yangxin casually curled her hair and walked out with a plain face: "Gentleman, what's going on outside?" ”

"Just now, Yuan Chong said that Shi Huanxian came to see our waterwheel."

"Huh? Why? ”

"I don't know why."

The husband and wife stared at each other for a long time, and Princess Yangxin yawned and walked back while rubbing her eyes: "I'm so sleepy, I still have to go to sleep, is the gentleman still sleeping?" It's so warm in the bed! ”

"Uh, what about Zhuangzi?" Cao Shi was a little moved.

"Let them be."

Cao Shi also yawned, secretly saying that yawning can still be contagious, sleepy-eyed and hugged his wife to go back to sleep, and just lay down and was twisted by his wife's arm.

"Oh, it hurts! Why are you twisting me? ”

"I almost forgot to sleep, what was the smell of women on your body the other day? I didn't say at the time, do you think I really forgot about it? Princess Yangxin turned over and straddled her husband's body, and her apricot eyes widened and reprimanded: "When did you hook up with which woman, what do you look like, how many people in the family look like, when will you bring it back to the house for me to see, and the acquaintance will be recruited, so as not to suffer from skin and flesh later." ”

"My sister! I really didn't hook up with a woman, I'm a good man who guards you like jade! ”

Liu Wan made a disgusting expression, and in the blink of an eye, she stretched out a pair of jade hands and went straight to the itchy flesh under her husband's armpits, and after a while, Cao Shiluo laughed so much that tears were about to flow out.

Seeing that he still didn't say anything, Liu Wan said angrily while scratching: "If you don't tell the truth, how ugly it is to raise a woman outside!" People still think that I don't have the capacity to tolerate people, so don't think about it if you don't say it today. ”

"You forced me, watch me press the bottom of the box stunt Silk Winding Dragon Claw Hand!"

"Ahh The gentleman's methods are so filthy and despicable! Liu Wan protected the vital point on her chest, and vigilantly looked at her husband's hands of thieves.

The young husband and wife have fought many times on equal footing, but if he is allowed to come up with this trick, Liu Wan's undefeated golden body will be broken in an instant, and no matter how he struggles, he will not be able to escape the unfavorable dilemma of being unable to take care of the tail, and it will eventually turn into a fiasco.

Cao Shi smiled: "Xijun is wrong, for the husband to attack him in the art of war, he must be saved, and he will save Zhao all the way around Wei, and it is not too unjust for Xijun to lose under my fame stunt today." (To be continued)

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