Chapter 180: The Food Problem

In the age of technology, many women went to work in the fields just like men.

But in Datang, if women work in the fields full-time like men, the work at home will not be finished.

In order to maintain the survival of the family, from laundry to cooking, none of the tasks are easy, not to mention that the work in the fields sometimes has to be processed at home.

Even some of the work at home is not something that a woman can do.

Not to mention anything else, women don't have the strength to carry water as men, so they must carefully divide the work at home, which is who should do it.

This situation is gradually improving in Fan's Manor.

For the convenience of her own life, Fan Jingjing can be better for herself in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but Fan Jingjing does not want to use manual service.

In an agriculture-based estate, if people are removed from farming, that is, a non-agricultural population is added, the burden on food will increase, and the relative surplus will be reduced, unless Fan Jingjing does not want the people who work for her to be fed.

If you don't need people, you can only think of ways from animals or machines.

Due to the lack of blacksmiths, and the craftsmanship of blacksmiths is relatively expensive, almost all of the ideas that Fan Jingjing came up with started from wood, which was still a year's product in this era.

In terms of blacksmiths, Fan Jingjing also began to think a lot about reducing their manpower consumption and improving the craftsmanship of products.

At least in the network she has seen in the past, there are many ways to improve the ability of blacksmiths, and Fan Jingjing will discuss the feasibility with blacksmith Jiang whenever she thinks of it.

In fact, many of the methods proposed by the Internet are not feasible in reality, and Jiang Blacksmith will explain them to Fan Jingjing very well, but he will still record these ideas in his small book, maybe these ideas can promote the growth of his other crafts.

He is also a student of the literacy class today, and in order to be able to record some things that are not needed for the time being faster, he and Fan Jingjing began to learn literacy.

In the past, all the ideas of Jiang Blacksmith could only be kept in his mind, or he could make some symbols that he could understand to make records, and now he can read and write, which has a lot of practical functions for him, so his learning progress is faster than that of other students.

Fan Jingjing's various ideas often form new commodity departments, and new craftsmen will be born.

When she tries to serve herself, she naturally thinks about the people around her.

If you want to serve the people of Fan's Manor, you can't do it alone, you have to mobilize the power of the group, so you start to produce specialized production.

So the Fan family manor was short of manpower again.

In Fan Jingjing's mind, everyone can make a lot of money and do a lot of things, and let so many people serve him, his life is too luxurious.

And such an established impression is really difficult to improve, she will only let the people around her work hard to obtain more life capital.

And through the way of the group, some of the work that requires time and energy is undertaken, and the division of labor and cooperation.

The Fan Family Manor is not so much to serve Fan Jingjing, but to serve everyone, and all the production is to serve the large group of the Fan Family Manor at the beginning.

In the era of no technology, it is an efficiency integration.

There are some things, although the people next to him will help Fan Jingjing do it, and they don't need to do it themselves.

But as long as it is related to Fan Jingjing, he will study how to do it, which will be more economical.

Fan Jingjing doesn't want to spend a lot of time because of life, because she is used to eating, drinking, and having fun in life, and she doesn't have to spend too much time.

Now that she eats, Fan Jingjing doesn't have to cook it herself, it should be said that she rarely cooks it herself, and the meals she cooks are really not delicious.

In the past, I used to make some simple things, but now although there are some more complex foods, these complex foods are handed over to the people in the Fan family manor who are responsible for the work of cooks.

The people of Fan's Manor also like to eat big pot rice very much, as long as they pay a fixed amount of money, they don't need to open a gang at home, they want to eat big pot rice, as long as they sign up with the chef of Fan's Manor in advance, he will prepare your portion.

They never have much left over when they eat, but there is no one who doesn't have enough to eat.

If there is a leftover meal, they will not save it for the next meal to eat themselves, but will give it to the pigs to eat.

Of course, if it was pork, Fan Jingjing would ask them to eat all the pork beforehand, because he felt that letting the pigs eat pork seemed a bit inhumane to Du.

Or Fan Jingjing will give the pork to the dog to eat, and the dog in the Fan family manor is probably divided into two kinds, one is the dog that is raised to eat, and the other is the dog who is responsible for guarding the manor.

As for pet dogs, they don't exist.

Most of Datang's food is counted, so it will not waste food on pets.

Fan Jingjing's Fan family manor is not a manor of a rich and noble family in the final analysis, but a farm manor.

All livestock must have the value of its existence.

It's either for people to eat, or it's capable of working.

Food is the most necessary for the survival of the Tang Dynasty, not only Fan Jingjing's Fan family manor, food must be prepared carefully.

Even the emperor's court had to be cautious in appropriating food.

There is a surplus of real food, and it is estimated that it is the big landlords, but because there are many people who have left the peasants in the cities, some of the grain of these big landlords must be sold to the market, and the big landlords can exchange the grain they sell for some luxury daily necessities.

It's just that some of the big landowners who live in the countryside may not be so wealthy, and they want to exchange food for money, but they deviate from the main road.

It's just that their road has not been built, and it is very difficult to transport goods, so the average merchant is reluctant to take their road, because once the road is not good, it must take more time, and the time consumed is the time spent on manual handling, that is, the food itself is consumed, which is the cost.

Not having a good path for a businessman is often the most painful thing.

Some people will not be stingy, so he will use his own food to mobilize some people to build bridges and pave roads, build bridges and pave roads, and also have an advantage for them that the road will be a little easier, and their food can also be transported out, but some places are really too remote, and they are too far away from the city, that is, where the yamen is located, and they can only look at the population gathering area and sigh, it is too far away.

What's more, in some most places, there is no way to support the existence of too large settlements, so there are often only some small settlements, and most of the food needed by these small settlements comes from these nearby landlords, and the landlords who are farther away can't compete if they want to compete.

Freight is very expensive in Datang, even if the carriage has to be transported long distances, it must be repaired from time to time, because the road conditions are very bad, and it is very difficult for the carriage to go to the destination intact.

Not to mention that every carriage had to be equipped with one or two batches of horses, and someone had to be able to drive it.

If you're next to a canal, there's a big difference between staying away from a canal, because after the canal opened, people realized that the river was the easiest way to transport.

Therefore, although your distance is close, if the freight is higher than the grain transported by the river, your grain will not be able to sell to others.

If it is your local specialty, then there is still a chance to compete, but it almost makes no difference where the food is transported from, unless your taste is different from others, and you can win the love of people in Chang'an or other cities.

Historically, the famous products of various places were recorded, and finally the so-called tribute was formed, and there were special pipes and post stations to transport these foods to the palace.

However, if you want to send a large number of products, the price will be very high.

The royal family can do whatever it costs, but the merchant can't do it, so if these things are to be shipped and sold, then they must be worth ten times, a hundred times their original value.

You must know that in addition to the difficulty of transportation, the security on the road is also a very big problem, there are many bandit and robber dens along the way, and the government has no way to completely remove these bandit and robber dens.

As long as they don't interfere with his administrative authority, they generally don't care. Strangers, if they die in their territory, often pretend not to be seen.

The river is also changeable, the canal is artificially dug, basically relatively flat, you can sail on it, but some rivers, often have some ups and downs of the terrain, some rivers really can't erode the place, will form a waterfall, and the existence of the waterfall has a very big impact on navigation.

Only those rivers that have been flowing slowly over tens of thousands of years can be navigated.

In many places, the voyage is often a short stretch. If there is a waterfall or something in one place, it must be changed to a land route, and then a water route will be connected elsewhere.

If there are many places that need to be transferred, basically the navigation of this section of the river will not form the first choice for long-distance transportation.

If you can communicate with each other, in fact, it is very normal for the people of Datang to be well fed.

But the problem is that it is not possible to distribute it evenly, some people have money and have more land, some people have no money to produce for others, and those who have no money have no way to survive in some cases when they have no way to get more help.

Fortunately, most landlords know that they need you to help him with farming, so if you are in good health, he will find a way to keep you alive and help him with farming.

But if you are not healthy, do not have the ability to work, or if he wants to replace you, and there are already other candidates, or if you do not have the ability to do so in the future, then your life will be in the greatest danger.

That is, not having enough to eat and starving to death.

With the landlord unable to take care of his own situation, his tenant farmers starved to death, and he could not control it.

Therefore, in times of war, it is often the tenant farmers who kill the landlords, but when there is no one to save these tenant farmers, they can only buy their own way to survive, and after the mountain is king, they can only enter the world of fighting.

There is no way to guarantee human life for the time being, and farming itself cannot ensure the safety of arable land. People are no longer attached to the land. As a result, more people starved to death as a result of reduced food production.

Originally, under the control of the landlord, if he obediently farmed, he could still live to old age, when he was old, the landlord would not care about him, but if he still had children at home, at least he would be given a little food, and it was a traditional virtue to serve the elderly, and the old man could also pass on all kinds of experience to his descendants.

Fan Jingjing doesn't want to think about the problems of the times, after all, the landlord also wants to make money, just like ordinary people who hire employees also have a retirement, he doesn't need to support each other when others retire, but he has to give some pensions.

The more she thought about it, the darker her mind became, because as a result of the unequal distribution of equal income, such a thing must have happened.

I can only hope that those rich people can spend more money to buy some luxury goods, and then transfer this money to ordinary people through the power of service, if the rich people don't spend their money, ordinary people can't make money, there is no way to change their lives.

In the end, the people who farm are the happiest, because they have food to eat, and they don't have to get money.

It's just that their children don't have the funds for education.

Children can grow up on food, but education is not available for free unless they have the ability to teach.

The world's food production in Datang is just enough for each person to eat, and it is not enough to eat but not to starve.

But some people not only have enough to eat, but they are still in a state of waste, there will be some people who do not have enough to eat, and there are always people who leave the fields to do other work.

It doesn't matter if people who leave the farmland to do other jobs can in turn make the farmland more and more efficient, the problem is that in such a primitive state, most people leave the farmland to start living a luxurious life or work in a workshop, and the work in the workshop is mainly to serve these rich people.

And these workshops have nothing to do with farmland.

Fan Jingjing is now doing the most basic accumulation, except for part of his practice to obtain money, most of the workshops are related to agriculture.

The first important thing is to feed the people.

When there is an adequate supply of agricultural products, these people are transferred to the second season industry, and some people serve the third industry, so that people's lives can be infantilized.

This is the step that will lead people to develop into a high-class industry.

If the tertiary industry is developed from the very beginning, there will be a very big contradiction between the people when there is a shortage of food and there is no way to bring it from abroad.

Once the contradiction occurs, the people at the bottom begin to oppose the society, and this society will collapse.

Therefore, if rich people want to live a good and stable life, the last thing they should do is to enslave the people of the lower classes, and there is a limit to people's patience, if they can bear it, they will endure it, but once they exceed a critical value, they can only resist and resist, which will bring turmoil to this society.