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Guo Xiancheng took a bite of the cooking cake, tasted the locust flower and black bean sauce crayfish stuffing inside, and tasted it.

"That's what you call prawns? It looks like a cicada chrysalis, but the meat is thicker and fresher, well, it is indeed the taste of shrimp. How have I never seen it before. ”

Yao Huan smiled: "I was quite surprised when I saw this thing last year. Later, I thought about it, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Central Plains could not see Zhanhe, until our dynasty, there were merchants from Jiaozhi, Zhenla and other places, and now they have been planted all over the inside and outside of the mountains. ”

Zhanhe is Zhancheng rice, which is indeed an alien variety introduced in the early Song Dynasty.

Wang Coulter was picked up at the right time: "Guo Xiancheng, who is also a long-eyed man, chose a kind person like Yao Niangzi to get this thing." Mrs. Yao saved Princess Fuqing this time, and the official family gave her a few rewards, and it happened that the lady was cooking and eating in the city for a living, so she wanted to raise this shrimp well. On the side of Xiangfu County in the east of the city, it is either a Caoyun wharf or a granary of the forbidden army, or a deep forest and dense forests, or Shuoye in Kaifeng County to the west of us, and the canal can be built. The lady wanted to rent the official land in Wu County. ”

When Guo Xiancheng heard the words "Princess Fuqing" and "Official Family", he didn't expect that the little lady in front of him, who looked only about twenty, would have such a background, and her expression was much more modest.

Guo Xiu has only been promoted to Kaifeng County from the south for two years, and he is already very troubled by the barrenness of official land.

The countryside of Kaifeng County, away from Bianjing City, is only half a day's mule cart walk, the city is bustling and bustling, nowhere do not use errands, skillful, cooking, laundry, the city households can afford the price, and the tax is too heavy for farming, but who is not crippled or stupid, who wants to stay and farm?

The private land of the landlords is becoming more and more unable to recruit tenants, let alone the official land?

But Guo Xiu is different from those noble sons who are well-dressed and well-fed, he himself was also born in a family of tenant farmers, only because the main household is a good person, and Guo Xiu's family is benevolent, so he was given the opportunity to study and take the exam.

He knows best how important agriculture is the foundation of the country.

Therefore, when he saw the abandoned land, even if the imperial court did not have an edict to persuade the peasants, he was also troubled.

This Yao family is the first Chengguo household to come to negotiate the tenant property in the spring of this year.

"The lady has tenanted the official field and only raises this shrimp?" Guo Xiudao.

Yao Huan was waiting for such a good question.

In the Song Dynasty, the sources of official land were Zhenatian (land that was discounted and confiscated due to arrears of official debts), Wuguan Tian (land confiscated due to crimes), closed land, and terra nullius. With the exception of the extremely barren part of the barren fields, which were allowed to be bought and sold by means of free bidding in the city, most of the official properties could only be rented.

Tenants who rent official land must also grow millet, rice, wheat, and millet.

If the grain is abandoned, Guo Xiancheng is afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the superiors, which is also a reasonable concern.

Yao Huan hurriedly patted his ass and said softly: "Don't hide it from the county, the women really only thought about raising shrimp, but today I saw that this place is under the rule of the county and the county, the ditches are in order, and the water is unobstructed. Let's try this......"

As she spoke, she picked up a branch, tucked her skirt, squatted on the ridge, and drew four rectangles with the branch as a pen.

"For example, these are four fields that can be irrigated with water. Here, it is the foundation of the field, if the foundation of the field is piled high and wide, you can form a gentle slope on both sides, and there is thick soil, so you can plant mulberry. In the middle of the field base, people can be passed, and mulberry is cultivated. After the whole field is rammed, several ditches are opened, two feet deep and five or six feet wide, which is a shrimp ditch. When the shrimp ditch is dug, the water of the ditch should be slightly higher than the source of the canal water, so that the water in the ditch flows slightly, which is conducive to the growth of the aquarium. After digging a ditch to release water, you can dig a lot of snails from nearby rivers and lakes and put them into it, and then put shrimp seedlings or broodstock. Shrimp manure can fertilize the field, one or two months later, it is the season of rice planting, in addition to the place where the shrimp ditch is located, the rest can try to plant rice. ”

She paused, looked at the green wheat fields near and far, and asked Guo Xiancheng inquiringly: "Although the rice planted in the shrimp field is not as high as this winter wheat, it is better than nothing, right?" ”

Guo Xiu twisted his two thick eyebrows, and while listening to Yao Huan's explanation, he quickly analyzed and digested this plan that sounded very novel, and the combination of mulberry, rice, and shrimp sounded very novel.

Guo Xiu used to be an official in the southern counties, and he was also very familiar with rice cultivation.

He quickly understood that what Yao Huan said was not a whimsical idea.

It's better than nothing, it's just wonderful!

This young and vigorous deputy county magistrate, since he is in the steady progress of his career, it is one thing to be diligent in the fields, and at the same time, he is also sensitive to the movements of the court in Bianjing City, which is more than ten miles away.

The officials explained the new policy, and the reformers regained power.

Although Wang Xianggong's original persuasion contained the mulberry law, although it was not as widely known as the new laws such as Qingmiao, Shiyi, and Baojia, the matter of planting mulberry and raising silkworms itself, no matter how the tongues of the old and new factions were turned, was beneficial to the country and the people.

If you quote the words of the prince back then, will it be unpopular with the officials?

What's more, under this mulberry tree, rice and shrimp are still being produced.

Guo Xiu praised sincerely: "Yao Niangzi has a good idea. ”

Yao Huan didn't waste time and continued to talk about the conditions: "It's just that this kind of French style is still just talking on paper after all, and I don't know how the actual combat is." The financial resources of the women are weak, and the money rewarded by the officials is barely enough to hire people to camp the fields and carry the mulberry to contribute. Mulberry seedlings and rice farming cattle farming tools also cost a lot of silver. The county will see if it is possible to lend money to me from the county to purchase the above-mentioned items according to the precedent of the national dynasty, and when the autumn harvest comes, I will return it at a discount of more than ten or two. This year's autumn tax will be exempted. ”

Guo Xiu was stunned for a moment, then grinned, and asked Wang Coulter sideways: "You said first, the lady is a cook in the city?" Hehe, it does settle accounts. ”

Yao Huan said in his heart, I didn't mention agricultural insurance, I already took into account the limitations of the times.

In our later generations, pigs, chickens, fish, and shrimp were all covered with agricultural insurance, or insurance subsidized by the Ministry of Finance. To tell the truth, being a farmer in a thousand years is much better than in this life.

Now I'm just asking the court for a loan. This happened not unheard of in the time of Emperor Zhenzong. Wang Anshi's Qingmiao method is even more like this, but it has changed its flavor when it comes to actual operation, from voluntary loans to forced loans.

The annual interest rate of the loans of the commercial banks in later generations is only a little more than 10 percent, and I ask you about the loans of the Great Song Dynasty, and the interest rate will be 20 percent in half a year, which is very reasonable.

Yao Huan muttered in her heart, Guo Xiu, who was opposite her, obviously didn't think that this little lady was unreasonable.

Guo Xiu only teased her business negotiation ability to a limited extent, muttered for a moment, and said in a positive tone: "What the lady said, the official knows." In this way, the lady should not be in a hurry to follow me to the public office to make a deed, and report to the magistrate first when I go back. ”

added another sentence: "In your pond, there are still big shrimps, don't you, when you come to the public office tomorrow, bring them to the county to taste." ”

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Yao Huan sat on the mule cart and was in a good mood.

I have seen and talked about it with my own eyes today, this Guo Xiancheng should be a typical civil official who wants to do something practical and pave the way for himself with serious political achievements.

Go back and give him some coffee beans that he roasted himself. This field is full of trouble, and it needs coffee to refresh you.

Wang Coulter was also very happy. He is more familiar with the people and things in the county than Yao Huan, and he is more sure of the exemption of the first year of the public land lease.

It was the beginning of Shen, and the spring sun was shining. After driving through the green wheat fields, I saw a large grassy slope with a slight undulation, and nameless wildflowers spread all over the sunny side, colorful and dazzling.

"Lady, let's stop here for a while and pick some flowers, rouge loves flowers."

Yao Huan showed a smile of "you are free, you are free". Anyway, this time I went to the countryside, in addition to talking about the project, I just ate the dog food that your husband and wife sprinkled.

She rolled up the simple felt curtain of the mule cart and greeted the spring breeze, breathing in the scent of earth and flowers, enjoying the taste of this best season of the year.

Suddenly, however, she saw a man tumbling down the grassy slope, almost rolling towards their mule cart.

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