The villagers were stunned, they only hoped that whether it was the Taiping army, the Qing army or the foreigners, they would leave as soon as they were done, and they would be thankful not to come to their own troubles, where would they dare to ask for compensation? None of these three teams can afford to mess with them!

But the more afraid of something, the more they were afraid of something, the village was surrounded by the Taiping army, and the land security came to notify the gathering of the grain field, which made their hearts sink to the valley in an instant, and the women, especially the young daughter-in-law and the eldest daughter who had not left the cabinet, did not care about their respect, grabbed the pot ash and touched it on the face, and the strong man had no way to hide it, he could only be ready to be pumped strong, but he did not expect that the peak turned around, and the Taiping army offered to compensate for the loss.

The word compensation, in the impression of the villagers, has always only compensated for others, and no one has ever compensated for themselves, everyone is you look at me, I look at you, eyes are full of doubts, although they hope this is true, but no one speaks, no one comes out, the atmosphere on the barn is unusual.

Hong Xuanjiao whispered: "Wang Feng, the villagers don't appreciate it, how should this be?" ”

Wang Feng said helplessly: "Who called our Taiping Army's reputation so bad?" If it weren't for the death of 100,000 people in Nanjing, would the villagers have been killed? As he spoke, he gave Lu Dayou a look, and Lu Dayou beckoned to the local security knowingly: "You, hurry up and organize the villagers to go to the ground, what time is it?" Don't procrastinate! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" The land security was busy responding, and rushed directly into the villagers to pull people, with him, the head of the snake, and soon, each family was dragged out of one, men, women and children, under the leadership of the land security and fifty Taiping soldiers, walked towards the ground.

Wang Feng didn't say much, but the soldiers put away their knives and guns, sat down to eat on the spot, and the rest of the villagers were both uneasy and had some expectations in their hearts, looking forward to the rows of torches in the distance from time to time, and sometimes staring at the dry cakes in the hands of the soldiers, secretly swallowing saliva.

In fact, in the dark night, although torches are lit, it is impossible to accurately check the loss, and you can only identify whose field you are stepping on and how much.

According to the statistics of the "Household Regulations" compiled by the Qing court in 1851, the per capita cultivated land area of the whole country is one mu and six cents, and in Chinese history, from the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the per capita cultivated land area has increased in a spiral, from nine and a half mu to nearly 20 mu, according to which it is estimated that the per capita ration in the middle of the Ming Dynasty was about 500 kilograms, which was the highest in all dynasties, but in the prosperous era of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, it dropped sharply to less than 200 kilograms, and then from the late Daoguang period to Xianfeng, with the population explosion, the per capita ration was not even 150 kilograms. This is still an average, and if we take into account the difference between the rich and the poor, it is difficult to say whether the rations of the poor are 100 kilograms per capita.

The Jiangnan area is densely populated, specifically in Zhoujiazhuang, the fields of poor peasants basically do not reach the average level of one acre and six points, in order to maintain a half-full lifeline, they can only repeatedly cultivate the palm-sized land, and their clothing also shows their poverty from the side.

Since there is very little arable land, basically all the seedlings of the family will be trampled on at a single step, so Lu Dayou calculates the losses of the poor and middle peasants in full according to the full amount, and the only rich family is estimated according to the real number.

After an hour and a half, Lu Dayou returned with someone, handed over a piece of paper, and reported: "The supervisor army and the division commander, there are 86 households in Zhoujiazhuang Village, including the land protection, and the seedlings of 37 households have been trampled by our army, of which the land protection family has been trampled on 13 acres. ”

The area of cultivated land and the compensation plan of each household were recorded on the piece of paper, and after Wang Feng took it and read it carefully, he called forward: "Everyone, the compensation plan set by my Taiping Army is calculated according to three hundred catties of rice per mu of land, if there is no objection, we will start now, and below, the person whose name I reported will come forward to receive food!" The first place, Chow Tai Fook, has six acres and two cents of arable land, and the compensation is 1,860 catties of rice! ”

The villagers were in an uproar!

Three hundred catties per mu is not too little for them, but too much, far beyond their psychological expectations!

In the Qianlong period of the Jiangnan region, the average yield of rice per mu was about 300 catties, and the average yield of rice per mu was about 400 catties, and the double planting rice refers to two seasons of rice and wheat.

The second is the two seasons of rice and wheat, the harvest period of wheat and the rice transplanting period have an overlapping window, must be harvested and seeded, the intensity is extremely great, the family laborers are a little thin, can not bear it at all, so generally speaking, the landlord rich peasants are mainly rice and wheat two seasons, and the vast number of poor middle peasants can only plant one season of rice, after the rice harvest and then plant Chinese cabbage and other autumn sowing, early winter harvest vegetables, barely paste a winter.

According to the single season of rice yield per mu of 400 catties, the sowing area generally accounts for 80 percent of the cultivated area, Zhou Dafu's 6 acres and 2 points of land can actually only be counted as 5 acres and 3 points, and the harvest of rice is 2,120 catties, deducting the loss of 20 percent in the process of harvesting and storage, the raw grain processing yield is 5 to 6 percent, and in a year, his family is supported to die of 1,000 catties of rice, and according to Wang Feng's compensation standard, it is 1,860 catties of rice, 80 percent more!

Although Chow Tai Fook can't read, he is no worse than others in arithmetic, he was stunned! His lips trembled and his face was full of disbelief, but he couldn't take a step.

Wang Feng swept his eyes and urged: "Who is Chow Tai Fook?" Hurry up! ”

"Chow Tai Fook, the adults called you!" A neighbor boldly reminded.

"You dead pig's head, why don't you hurry over?" Chow Tai Fook's wife also came back to her senses and pushed him violently!

"Oh~~" Chow Tai Fook woke up like a dream, took the whole family, ran to Wang Feng quickly, kowtowed, and said incoherently: "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" ”

Wang Feng helped Zhou Tai Fook's family of four up one by one, and said with a slight smile: "Our army stepped on your field, and you didn't blame me, I was already very uneasy, how could I still let you thank you?" This is the compensation you deserve, and it is also a little bit of my heart to disturb your village, don't kneel down to people casually in the future, and hurry up to get food. ”

"Hmm~~ Thank you, sir!" Chow Tai Fook's nose turned red, wiped his tears, and led his family to get up.

1,860 catties of rice, 50 catties per bag, a total of 38 bags, the soldiers who distributed the rice gave his family an extra 40 catties without giving change, and Chow Tai Fook's family of four cried and laughed, and they couldn't know what was going on.

"Zhou Liangsheng" Wang Feng continued to sign up, this time, the atmosphere was instantly warm, all those who were stepped on the rice field were blessed by Lianhu Bodhisattva, and those who were not stepped on were envious and regretful, and could only watch the neighbors carry bags of rice home!

With joy on one side and sighs on the other, the atmosphere on the field is completely different!

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