Chapter 5: Really Poor

After saying this, they slowly left in the silence of the villagers.

By the time Uncle Wang and the others came to their senses, they had already gone a long way.

Yang Xue didn't know if they would believe it, whether they would do it in the future, she knew that it was very difficult for people to do something they had never done before, and it required a lot of pay, not to mention that it was closely related to their future life survival.

But she told everything she knew, and she felt that she had a clear conscience.

Uncle Wang, they are also in a half-believing situation now, and I don't know whether to believe it, or to say that they have never heard of it.

They all have their own thoughts in their hearts, some people scoff at what Yang Xue said about the method of manure, some people have doubts, and some people may remember it in their hearts, but who can know.

After all, it takes a lot of courage to try something new, and it also requires the ability to accept failure, let alone something as big as the land on which they depend for their livelihood.

So, a group of people watched Li Bokang and their carriage leave.

This time, before they left, in the room where they lived, Yang Xue gave Uncle Wang and his family some grain, which was white rice, about two catties.

In addition, Yang Xue also gave Liuliu twenty copper plates.

Originally, they were going to buy the silver money, but after thinking about it, Yang Xue still decided to leave some grain, sometimes the grain is more important than the silver money, but there are still some copper plates.

Here, Li Bokang believed her, but he didn't know how it knew these methods, so he asked her: "Xue'er, how do you know such methods?" ”

Of course, Yang Xue couldn't tell him that she knew about it in her previous life, but fortunately, Li Bokang knew about her past, so she decided to tell him that she knew it when she lived alone in the past.

So, she told him: "I tried it when I lived alone before, and there was no fat to use at that time, so I thought of some methods, and in the end these were not bad, so I found out." ”

Later, she added: "Our family also uses these methods now, but it is just because there are more livestock later, and they are rarely used." ”

Li Bokang was a little embarrassed when he heard this, because he hadn't paid much attention to these things in recent years.

In fact, Yang Xue herself has not taken care of it in recent years, since the family has Uncle Laifu and their family, she has handed over a lot of things to them, and she has rarely taken care of it.

County Lieutenant Zhao sat on the wheel outside the carriage, and also heard the words inside their carriage, he was a little curious, thinking that it seemed that they were not a rich family before.

They didn't meet the village at night, they just camped out, and the next day they arrived at the next village.

It was too far away from those villages, and the road was not good, so they had to talk for so long to the next village.

Seeing these roads, Yang Xue thought of the official road when they first came to Miyang, the official road is like that, no wonder this Miyang is so poor.

Therefore, for Li Bokang wanting to make achievements and change the status quo of Miyang, her first reaction was what people used to say in her previous life: If you want to get rich, you must first build roads.

It's really too bad on this road, so there is nothing to think about coming to this misty, it is inconvenient to enter and exit, and no one wants to develop.

It's just that she has buried these things in her heart for the time being, and now is not the time to say it, how can people talk about road construction if they can't eat enough.

The village they had visited this time seemed to be in a better situation than the Lianshan Col they had visited before, but it was still very poor.

This time, they saw that it was still early, so they didn't plan to stay, and they were going to take a look at it themselves, and then ask the people in the village before rushing to the next village.

They took a general look, although the houses in this village also have wooden and straw huts, but they are not as many as the previous ones, and there are about ten.

Most of the houses are made of mud, but the roofs are almost made of thatch, and none of them have tiled roofs.

It wasn't early in the morning, and it wasn't noon, and there were a lot of people in the fields or on the road.

The people of the village were equally curious about them, and many were watching them at the door or on the side of the road.

Finally, they found a man on the road, and after a few words, they asked the man to take them to the chief of their village.

When I came to the village chief's house, the village chief may have also heard the news and was about to go out.

Li Bokang first exchanged a few words with the village chief, or as a traveling student.

In the end, Li Bokang persuaded the village chief and asked the village chief to tell them about the situation in the village.

At noon, the village chief left them for a meal, and when they left, they also left some copper plates for the village chief's house, and there were only about a dozen.

After eating, they continued on to the next village.

Luckily this time, they arrived at the next village before dark, and the situation in this village was similar to the previous one.

They also stayed overnight, only this time they didn't leave any food, so they left ten copper plates.

After that, they spent another seven or eight days to go around the remaining villages and towns in Miyang, and they even caught up with two large gatherings.

After the transfer, Miyang made Li Bokang and Yang Xue feel even worse, they were really poor!

After they returned to the county, Li Bokang began to think of ways to prepare how to change the status quo of Miyang.

Of course, he didn't expect to change anytime soon, and he also knew that change didn't happen overnight and would take enough time.

But to change, in addition to time, it takes methods, it also takes steps, and these are the things he needs to do now.

It was the end of October since they returned to the county, and the county's land tax had almost been collected.

Li Bokang looked at it, but he didn't receive much, not as much as their family's previous one-third of the year's harvest.

Looking at this year's tax situation, he felt that his head hurt a little.

After returning to the backyard, he said to Yang Xue: "It's really too poor here, and the annual field tax and grain are less than one-third of what our family has in a year." ”

"However, fortunately, this place is too poor and remote, so the people above don't pay so much attention, otherwise I don't know how many times a year just to pay taxes."

Thinking of this, Li Bokang felt a little relaxed and worried, and the ten people in the place he managed should not be happy.

Yang Xue listened quietly to him telling her this, she knew that he was under too much pressure, and she also knew that this Miyang was too poor.

He talks to her every day and spits out the bitterness in his heart, and he feels more relaxed.

And she also likes to hear him tell her about this, she doesn't have much to do at home every day, and she also wants to help him, so that she is not so tired, not so stressed.

Therefore, every time Li Bokang told her, she would listen carefully to him, and then keep the important things in mind, maybe she would be able to think of a suitable way to help him in the future.

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