Zeng Wei said: "Your father was originally a scribe of the official office, and your family is not in the field, no wonder you don't know." Home-grown peasants sound like they only pay taxes and don't pay rent, but where do they pay less of those two taxes? My father said that when he went out to the state capital as an official, it was a good year, and the peasants who farmed and ate by themselves paid the two taxes, and the remaining things may not be able to live a few families. If there is a disaster year, it will be starvation. ”

"Can't you take a tax cut?"

"Tax cuts? These many forbidden armies want to eat and drink, who will pay for them? ”

"Hmm," Yao Huan muttered, "After all, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, can't Kaifeng Mansion reclaim and operate these fields?" ”

Zeng Wei said: "My good lady, your little business experience, the court will not think of it?" Most of these escaped fields have been accepted as official land property by the counties under Kaifeng Prefecture. However, the government recruited tenants, the tenant rents were higher, and the imperial court explicitly ordered that the countryside should not be forcibly tenanted, so few peasants came to tenant. ”

Yao Huan understood.

This is one of the manifestations of the economic dead cycle of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Was the Northern Song Dynasty rich?

Very rich.

Kaifeng, Chengdu, Suzhou and Hangzhou are all gorgeous and prosperous cities. A Duanming Hall bachelor has a salary of 50 yuan per month, 20 stones of rice and wheat, and a number of tea, noodles, and silk silk. And Zeng Bu, a prime minister-level envoy, knows that the Privy Council envoy can reach 300 yuan a month.

Was the Northern Song Dynasty poor?

Very poor.

Redundant officials, redundant soldiers, redundant expenses, where does all the financial revenue come from? Naturally, it has to come from the people, and when the KPIs are not enough, the fiscal deficit is not terrible.

The more insufficient, the more scraped, the more scraped, the less enough.

Vicious circle.

Therefore, from the perspective of a later generation, Yao Huan feels that judging the poor and the rich, praising and deprecating the prosperous times and the famine years, praising the picturesque rivers and mountains, or sympathizing with the thousands of miles of displaced people like ants, blowing or black, depends on what kind of position and where the vision falls.

The prosperity of Wenchen, the prosperity of the powerful, the prosperity of the world with the Qing family, the ass is changed, and the eyes fall outside the first-tier cities, this is still an era in which the people are fished and exploited.

Emperor Taizu set the policy of "raising soldiers", and the successors of later generations blindly recruited regardless of the upper limit of posts, and even recruited a group of the most dishonest and easy to change among the displaced people as the forbidden army and the box army, which seemed to be benevolent government, but in fact made the problem of military spending worse.

The so-called wealth of the Northern Song Dynasty was nothing more than the wealth of the government, scholars and the main households of big cities (Fangguo households with property).

No wonder the frequency of civil uprisings in this dynasty is so high.

Wang Anshi once wanted to solve this problem by changing the law, but unfortunately the old disease has not been eliminated, but it has brought a sinister new disease to the empire that is difficult to return to-party strife.

Zeng Wei saw that the expression on Yao Huan's face became thoughtful, and he was wondering how the two of them discussed the abandonment of the fields when they were traveling between the world with great affection, but Yao Huan pulled him to the other side of the dirt slope.

Changed the direction, and sure enough, it was more distinct.

The snow covered the land, but it couldn't cover the puddles.

In this era, Kaifeng also had a developed water network, with several rivers passing through it, and the dotted river ponds seemed to be in sight, just like a miniature version of the Yangtze River Delta or Pearl River Delta region fish and rice paddy field model.

"Mulberry fish pond, shrimp and rice interculture." Yao Huan muttered to himself in his heart.

Since in the area of Suzhou and Hangzhou in later generations, crayfish can be intercultured with rice, and in Shunde, mulberry trees can be opened with fish ponds, so why can't you try to arrange and combine them, and change them to mulberry trees and crayfish?

In the land outside Kaifeng, even if the Zhancheng rice in Jianghuai and Liangzhejiang does not grow well, it is not difficult to grow mulberry trees.

Yao Huan clearly remembered that among Wang Anshi's changes, there was a persuasion to carry the mulberry method.

Later generations mostly studied Wang Anshi's Qingmiao method, the average loss method, and the city easy method, but less understood the "persuasion and mulberry method".

During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, some local officials in Hebei first proposed a variety of willow elm mulberry dates, in order to prevent the Liao people from wading south and attacking the border of the Great Song Dynasty when the river froze. If the number is full, the cavalry of the Liao army will inevitably be blocked.

Subsequently, Wang Anshi persuaded the people to plant mulberry and raise silkworms, put it into the content of the reform, and the imperial court issued an order that the farmers who planted mulberry should not increase taxes because of mulberry trees. The purpose of such an initiative to encourage mulberry planting is to sell more land for mulberry planting and to obtain more silk silk, so as to raise funds for the cultivation and use of troops.

At that time, the experimental site of the persuasion of the mulberry method was in the suburbs of Kaifeng.

Therefore, Yao Huan believes that the land outside Kaifeng City can definitely grow mulberry trees.

In this way, you can follow the example of the mulberry fish pond that became popular in Guangdong from the Ming Dynasty, use the abundant water resources of Kaifeng, dig the pond, pile up the pond mud to form mulberry, and plant mulberry trees.

In this way, the excrement of shrimp can fertilize the pond mud, produce mulberry leaves, mulberry leaves can raise silkworms, silkworm pupae and silkworm sand can be used as feed to feed crayfish, and a three-dimensional agricultural model of ecological breeding has been formed.

Of course, in addition to mulberry trees, fruit trees can also be raised on the pond base, and in addition to crayfish, grass-eating fish and lotus root can also be raised in the pond.

Yao Huan's idea, before the stall, when Shao Qing told her that the crayfish had not been washed away by the flood, she crossed it.

It's just that, first, she didn't have the opportunity to go out of the city to investigate the environmental conditions around Kaifeng.

Second, she only knew that the Song Dynasty did not suppress land trading, but she didn't know how to buy it and how much it was.

Third, she has no idea how much tax she has to pay to raise mulberry and where to recruit tenants to grow mulberry and shrimp.

Finally, on today's trip, she saw the situation outside the city on the spot, and the follow-up items, using the year-end farming, inquire one by one.

Zeng Wei looked at Yao Huan's face with joy on his face and asked, "What's the matter, what are you thinking?" ”

Yao Huan pursed his lips: "When you were enjoying the snow in the North Garden of Jinmingchi at noon, you said that you didn't like the hypocrisy and impetuousness of the eunuchs in the capital, and wanted to live in a clean place. In the past, when your brother and sister-in-law came to meet my aunt, they also said that the Zeng family was originally a family of cultivators. I thought, if you have a small countryside in the suburbs, isn't that what you want? ”

Zeng Wei was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "There is a pure other business, such as Wang Wei's residence in Gongchuan in the Tang Dynasty, which is elegant and interesting. When I get paid for it, I'll buy you one. ”

Yao Huan said in his heart, look, you say that you hate Vanity Fair, but in fact, you still want to earn some money with a half-official position.

She then brought a look of fun and said to Zeng Wei: "If my main store in Donghuamen is well opened, I can save enough dowry by myself, and then pay for other businesses." ”

Because he added another layer of sweet pleading, he said: "Shiro, don't you stop me and my teacher and lady from renting a shop, okay?" ”

Zeng Wei heard that Yao Huan had turned into the big dream of becoming a rich businessman again, and he was slightly awkward.

But when he saw that this woman rarely showed a shallow and natural coquettishness, he suddenly drank alcohol again, his chest was very comfortable, and he replied with a soft voice "Okay".

Zeng Wei thought about it secretly, and promised first, he could handle even a woman like Zhang Shangyi, and he would like to mix in the market to make a little money, and after welcoming her into the market, there would always be a way to correct her inch by inch.

The two of them left the snow field together and went back to meet Gao Yu.

When I arrived at the door of the restaurant where I was eating hot pot, I saw a tall and sturdy man who was helping Gao Yu to load things into a few bamboo baskets.

The man raised his head, Yao Huan looked at it fixedly, hey, acquaintance!