In this world, taxes are getting heavier and heavier, and the lord seems to be deliberately unable to get along with people, and his temper is getting bigger and bigger, causing the harvest in the fields of the people to become more and more unsatisfactory.

The cost of harvesting in the fields is not good, and the imperial court draws such a heavy tax, so you can imagine how much grain can be left in the hands of the people.

In particular, those who have more land and less land in their families have heavier taxes, and the remaining grain cannot feed so many people, so they would rather sell all their fields and become tenants or even homeless people themselves than keep them and continue to plant.

As a result, the lower the people, the more the fields in their hands flowed out, and finally they were concentrated in the hands of the rich and noble.

Although the land is the lifeblood of the people, and they are reluctant to sell it in their hearts, when they can't even live, they can only give up this liferoot.

In fact, at the beginning of the founding of the Chu State, Emperor Gaozu abolished the tax on people that had been used in all dynasties, and instead implemented the system of apportioning the land into the mu.

It's just that although this system benefits the people, it seriously damages the interests of the upper elites, who are naturally unwilling, but they are not easy to resist.

Although they could not resist on the surface, there were policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and the powerful landlord class, who owned a large amount of land, could make up for the losses as long as they raised the rent.

Later, after the efforts of several emperors, the commission of land rent was finally limited to a certain range, so that the life of the people at the bottom was much better.

But since Emperor Wu succeeded to the throne, the state of Chu has gradually restored the tax on people.

Up to now, this stall has basically existed in name only.

Therefore, there are not so many tenants and homeless people who do not have land in their hands, and the Xue family is really not afraid that they will not be able to hire people to plant.

On the other hand, although this tax is indeed very disadvantageous for most people who have a large number of people and scarce land.

But for the Xue family, there are only benefits and no disadvantages.

Who made her family only four adult men?

The others are all women, and women are not considered Ding, so the court naturally can't take much tax from her family.

And the family has less taxes, but because there are many women born, a lot of taxes can be reduced, and there are two women in the family, which can reduce some of them.

In this way, in terms of taxes, the Xue family has to pay less.

Under Xue Langjing's bitter words, the Tang family naturally agreed in the end.

But they don't have much experience, so it's not easy to buy too much at first.

Anyway, even if Xue Langjing went to look for fruit seedlings and fruit seeds immediately, she wouldn't be able to get so many in a short time.

Then buy a piece of mountain land to try first, and if it works, it's not too late to add it.

That's how it was decided to buy the forest.

The next step is to decide whether to hit this orchard or not.

In this regard, Xue Langjing naturally wanted to discuss with the team members.

The condition she gave was that if the team members were willing, they would be given three times the usual amount of their wages during the fruit-beating period, and the reward would be calculated separately.

Moreover, this extra salary is considered to be given extra, and it does not need to be paid after the expiration of the contract, but is directly settled in the salary of the current month and distributed to everyone in advance.

And when the fruit is beaten, the specific action will depend on the situation at any time, and they will not really be forced to work hard.

For example, if you fight for a while, if there are fewer beasts attracted and are within the strength of the hunting team, then you will resist. When the pressure they put on the hunting team exceeds a certain limit, they immediately retreat, trying not to put the hunting team in danger.

Try to be steady and steady, how much you can play every day, just for stability, not for task completion.

Such conditions can be extremely lucrative.

Wealth moves people's hearts, this is an eternal truth.

gave enough silver, and naturally got the consent of all the team members.

In fact, in this way, they can basically control the danger themselves, and it will not be too dangerous compared to usual.

You can also get three times the salary, of course, there is no reason to refuse.

The same was decided on the matter of threshing the fruit.

After another day of hunting, Xue Langjing told Zheng Linchu his thoughts through Gu Rongxuan, and by the way, he asked the other party for some precautions when beating fruits, etc., so that he could be fully prepared.

At that time, Zheng Linchu had given her advice, and this fruit probably had to wait for another four or five before it was suitable for fighting.

Therefore, they are not in a hurry to harvest fruits, but to obtain more relevant information first, after all, sharpening knives is not a mistake for woodcutters.

During this period, the hunting team naturally went out hunting as usual.

In the past day, when handing over the goods to Gu Rongxuan, Xue Langjing received dozens of pairs of handguards from the other party.

It is said that because there are some toxins in the walnut pu, if you pick it up directly with your hands, it will be difficult to wash your hands black, and the accumulation of toxins will damage the skin.

With this hand, you can avoid direct contact between the skin and the green fruit as much as possible.

When I picked the fruit, it was fine, after all, it only touched the skin.

The most important thing is to remove the green fruits, when you knock open the shell, the juice will seep out, and the toxins that infect the hands are much more powerful than picking up the fruits alone, and this hand guard must be prepared.

Therefore, Zheng Linchu sent her so many at one time.

After the hunting team was ready, another two days passed.

On this day, the fruit is officially harvested.

Today's goal was mainly to focus on the fruit, and after entering the wild forest, the hunting team went straight to the fruit forest.

Naturally, you don't pay too much attention to prey, herbs, fruits and vegetables on the road.

Don't go out of your way to pick other herbs, fruits and vegetables, even if you encounter prey, you can let it go.

Before going to the fruit grove, try not to let yourself get a trace of blood.

If the goal is clear, the speed of moving forward will naturally be fast.

Soon, they followed the mark they had made a few days ago to the orchard.

In the past ten years, two more members have been added to the hunting team.

Eighteen team members plus Xue Langjing, a total of nineteen people.

After arriving at the fruit forest, how to choose the number of people who beat the fruit gave them another headache.

Let's choose more people.

When there were more people beating at the same time, the movement was heard. Especially in the case of simultaneous progress, the outgoing movement is not as simple as one plus one, but will increase geometrically.

Too much movement can easily attract more, if not farther, beasts, and the time left for their safety will be shortened.

But the hands and siblings of those who gather fruit will be able to catch more fruit in a short period of time.

On the other hand, if there are too few people going up to fight, although the movement can win more safety time, it will take a long time.

The more time goes on and the more prey you kill, the stronger the smell of blood becomes, which will also attract other prey.

So how to choose this, isn't it a headache?

After a period of discussion, eight people were finally selected to go up the tree to thresh the fruit.

This is also convenient for beating fruit, each person will cut a slender bamboo pole and climb the tree to beat.

As a hunter who has been hunting for a long time, climbing trees is naturally an essential skill for everyone.

After going up the tree, although everyone has never beaten the fruit much, there is no skill at all, and there will be some hurry, but after a little while, you will become familiar with it, and gradually master some skills.

The people on the trees are responsible for threshing the fruit, and the people below are naturally responsible for keeping watch and hunting.

There were no wild beasts at first, and it was relatively safe here, and many of the first-time fruit players were able to distract themselves from watching how people were doing it.

I saw that the slender bamboo pole was held in the hand and danced, and when it hit the tree, there would be a crackling sound.

Then, a lot of fruit fell with a clatter.

It's not anything else that's falling, it's all money.