Since the county lieutenant Zhao Jiaren and the county magistrate Li Yong reached an agreement on interests, the interaction between the two still looks like a gentleman's friendship, and it even looks more vivid than before.

The sixth month of the Song calendar is the seventh month of the western calendar, and at this time the sun is like fire, Zhao Jiaxin brought a hat and planted chrysanthemums with the local households. Li Yong just came here to show his face and say hello to everyone, and then disappeared without a trace. Zhao Jiaxin has no good impression of Li Yong, and he has negative feelings about Li Yong's performance.

The big families did not sow seeds on the commons as originally planned, and they imitated the stone walls used by the Zhao family to build stone walls on the slopes of their homes, and opened up not too many terraces. The big ones are no more than seven or eight points of land, and the small ones are less than one point of land.

The people who did not participate in the planting of chrysanthemums in the vicinity picked a large amount of earthworm soil from Zhao's house here, a layer of earthworm soil, a layer of local soil, a layer of plant ash, and a layer of earthworm soil, and built the soil of the seedbed. The poor local people who didn't have terraces just patted their hands on the stone walls, not knowing what to say.

But the babies who came to see the excitement ran around happily, climbing the stone wall from time to time, and then jumping down. When the babies accidentally loosened a stone, the adults of their family pulled the baby down and hit the ass a few times, and then carefully tried to restore the stone to its original appearance as much as possible.

The big families are the big families, and it is said that a few families have made a hundred acres of land. When it was time to plant, because suddenly a few families also joined the group that invited Zhao Jiaren to give lectures, more than a dozen families worked together to make about 150 acres of land. Zhao Jiaxin ran back and forth in different places, but he was tired. There were also happy people, and the laborers who were responsible for transporting earthworm soil had been extended to five days, and each person earned more than 30 yuan.

When he returned home in the evening, the exhausted Zhao Jiaxin was hungry, he nibbled on a very small roast chicken, and complained to Zhao Jiaren about how irresponsible Li Yong was.

"Big brother, it is inconvenient for Li County to come forward at this time. He is a county magistrate, and these big households have reclaimed the terraces, and he is so anxious to run to look carefully, is this telling those big households to increase the field tax according to the number of acres of land? Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but give Li Yong some explanations.

Zhao Jiaxin was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then slowly figured out the truth. He didn't answer, and he couldn't help but feel some regret in his heart. His younger brother is quite proficient in officialdom, and he is not proficient at all like a teenager of this age. The obsessed Li Yong made Zhao Jiaxin hate, but this annoying Li Yong also knew the rules of officialdom. Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaxin asked again, "Third brother, what good is it for us that Li Yong does this?" ”

"Big brother, land is scarce in Fujian, and a large part of the families are fifth-class households. They have nothing to do with paying taxes. Zhao Jiaren was afraid that his eldest brother would not understand, so he started with the tax system of the Southern Song Dynasty.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, household registration management was divided into the main household and the customer. All taxpayers who have permanent property are classified as main households. A small part of them live in towns and cities, called fangguo households, and are divided into 10 classes according to the number of real estate, etc. The main households of the villages are divided into five classes according to the amount of permanent production.

The first, second, and third classes are the upper class households, with a population of about 6 or 7 percent of the total population, but the land they occupy accounts for about 50 to 670 percent of the total cultivated land. Among them, the big landlords, who account for only two-thirds of the total population, account for about 450 percent of all the cultivated land. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, some of the first-class households collected rents of one million hundreds, and they were rich princes.

The fifth-class households occupy 12 to 20 or 30 acres of land, and the tax paid is less than 500 yuan, and most of them live by renting part of the land, constituting a semi-self-cultivated peasant class. In the Southern Song Dynasty, self-cultivated peasants and semi-self-cultivated peasants accounted for about 50 percent of the total population, but their land accounted for only 30 or 40 percent of all cultivated land. According to the regulations of the state, according to the amount of land occupied, the household level bears the state's servitude; the more land occupied, the higher the household level, the heavier the servitude will be.

Fujian is a 'college entrance examination province', and the wind of the imperial examination is extremely strong. This is not because the Fujian people have a natural desire to be an official, but because the land in Fujian is scarce, and in such an agricultural era, the best way for the people of Fujian to get rid of poverty is to study.

Introducing the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren continued: "Don't look at just such a little more land, it is likely that the people will change from fifth-class households to fourth-class households, and the taxes will immediately increase a lot. Cleaning up the hidden fields is the responsibility of the county order, if he dares to clean up the hidden fields, the gang will dare to demolish the terraces just for fear. Is it more difficult to grow chrysanthemums in terraces than to grow chrysanthemums in the fields? ”

“…… It seems that I also blamed Li County Order. Zhao Jiaxin replied in a sullen voice. Knowing these taxes and the content of officialdom, Zhao Jiaxin's mood was even more depressed.

Seeing that the eldest brother was listless and looked drowsy, Zhao Jiaren hurriedly reminded: "Big brother, tomorrow will be those poor families, their families are poor, and it is even more difficult to build terraces. What's more, they have the guts to spend so much effort, and please be more serious. They're really short of money. ”

"Yes." Zhao Jiaxin said as he got up and went back to the house to sleep.

Zhao Jiaren shook his head slightly, in the Southern Song Dynasty, he was sure that the Southern Song Dynasty was far from being as rich as he imagined. Before the Zhao family crossed to the south, Jiangnan had been developed, but it was far inferior to Henan and Hebei. The Southern Song Dynasty was under tremendous military pressure all the time, and it was never able to make a military breakthrough and defeat the strong enemy in the north.

This time in Fuqing, the rich people who cooperated with Zhao Jiaren took a fancy to the terraces, and the so-called lectures were just to get closer to Zhao Jiaren. Some medium-sized families who have built four or five acres of terraced fields are interested in allowing their children to board Zhao Jiaren's official ship, and if they can be mixed into an errand service, it can also help the family's status in the county.

A small number of poor people put all their efforts into it, and each family probably built terraced fields of one or two acres, or at most three acres. The reason why they work so hard is simply because they want more land and more food income. The plight of these poor people made Zhao Jiaren can't help but care more about the poor.

Like a considerable number of young people who went abroad, Zhao Jiaren became more patriotic after arriving in the United States, so he often watched domestic forums. Before the crossing, the Wumao people on the domestic network lashed out at the topic of 'the poor are poor because they are lazy'. Zhao Jiaren felt that this topic was weird, and he couldn't find his own answer.

In the Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren felt that he had finally found the answer. The reason why the rich look braver and more aggressive is because they have been taught. They don't worry about food and clothing, they want to be more successful. When these people come into contact with people like Zhao Jiaren who can provide new ideas and new methods, they naturally seek the opportunity to learn. Those poor people didn't dare to find Zhao Jiaren for advice.

Even if the rich fail, it will not be devastating for the rich. Because they can afford to lose. Even some people from very good wealthy families can summarize the reasons for failure, continue to invest in previous projects, and then achieve success.

Failure is the mother of success, this is what Zhao Jiaren has learned since he was a child. However, when he was a child, Zhao Jiaren did not realize that this sentence actually has a preset premise, that is, the participants must have enough resistance to blows. For the poor, any failure will swallow them in one bite and leave them with no chance.

I hope this terraced field doesn't trap the poor. Zhao Jiaren secretly prayed in his heart.