Chapter 50: Autumn Harvest

Donglin Kingdom has just experienced war and is in a state of ruin, because too many people have died, causing a large amount of land to be lost to owners overnight and turned into wasteland and borderless land.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince proposed the Junda system.

The equalization system is to distribute wasteland and land that no one has jurisdiction over to the landless poor middle peasants.

Where there are poor people in the east, a man who has reached the age of 15 is given one hectare of land, of which 20 acres are Yongye fields and 80 acres are oral fields.

Yongye fields can be inherited without paying taxes, and they can also be bought and sold, but not only have to pay taxes, but even what kind of grain is planted is a hard and fast rule, and the death must be returned to the state.

Only cereals, that is, rice, wheat, millet, soybeans, sweet potatoes, etc., can be grown in the field, mainly plant seeds and fruits.

The Lu family has a lot of land, but they are still so poor that they eat soil.

There are several main reasons, there are too many taxes, not high yields, not able to plant, land is randomly distributed, no good land can be distributed, it is difficult to produce grain, so many people will sell Yongye land in order to pay taxes.

The Lu family has four males, with a total of 80 acres of Yongye field and 320 acres of mouth field.

Because the family had a hard time, they sold 30 acres of Yongye field, and now there are only 40 acres of Yongye field, and the fields are barren wasteland or mountainous land, and only dozens of acres of sweet potatoes and soybeans are planted to maintain a living.

Some time ago, we have harvested soybeans, and now we have to harvest buds, and finally sweet potatoes, and after harvesting these crops, it is almost the autumn equinox, which is the season of planting wheat.

The old lady refused to let Lu Jiu go to the ground, because Lu Jiu had never been on the ground, but Lu Jiu always insisted, with her strength, she was definitely a good hand at planting crops.

Lu Jiu begged the old lady for a long time, and the old lady relented and let Lu Jiu break corn in the field with the children.

The old lady was still not at ease, so she called Da Lang to the side again, and told her not to let the old lady be tired, otherwise you will be careful about your skin.

The wound on Lu Jiu's head has scabbed, but it doesn't hinder her work, but it's easy to leave a scar if you're not careful, Lu Jiu applies medicine every day, and the situation is not bad, but she doesn't have points to buy medicine now.

However, Qian Qian sent her a task, as long as she participated in the autumn harvest throughout the whole process, she would get a bottle of scar removal ointment.

When Lu Jiu arrived in the field, he saw a piece of greenery at a glance, because the seeds were not good, so basically there was only one bud rice stick, and there were almost no double sticks.

The people who break corn include Lu Jiu, Zhao also has thirteen-year-old Da Lang and ten year old Erlang, Lu Sidong and the old lady use the land to row cars to transport bud rice to their homes, and the rest of Lu Dachun and Lu Sanqiu are holding sickles to cut bud rice straw, and the bud rice stalks can be used as animal feed after drying, and can also be used as firewood, as for the little ones under the age of five, they help load the car, or send water and food to the adults.

Because the bud leaves are very sharp and it is too easy to scratch the face, Lu Jiu also asked Sun to make a lot of masks from the cloth left over from the clothes.

Although Lu Jiu had never done farm work, she moved quickly, used both hands together, and it didn't take long for her to surpass Da Lang.

Da Lang couldn't see Lu Jiu, he just thought that she was lazy, and he didn't say anything, but wanted to finish his work quickly to help Lu Jiu work, plus Zhao was sitting in the shade and lazy, the mother and son almost quarreled, and they didn't notice that Lu Jiu's row of bud rice sticks had been broken off, and only bud rice straw remained.