In the patriarch's yard, a few well-fed old men walked around the yard, the second uncle, the fourth uncle ran in the grove on the side at this time, the stomach is not better than the young, the meat is not occupied for a long time, and if you eat too much, you will have diarrhea in the upper abdomen, but it is good to vomit and vomit, and it will be no problem to eat next time.

The third master pointed at the two old men and laughed, laughing at them for not eating meat, but as soon as he finished speaking, his stomach also rumbled, which also provoked the second master and the merciless ridicule of the fourth master.

It's strange to say, among this group of masters, the old patriarch and the fifth master are all right, it stands to reason that the old patriarch's body is not as good as the second and fourth masters, after all, the old patriarch is the oldest.

But the old patriarch is fine, as for the fifth master, it is understandable that he is not fifty this year, he just looks like an old man.

Li Chaosheng walked over, and he smelled the smell of farmhouse fertilizer from a long distance.

When they got closer, the three old men were still a little embarrassed, after all, the clan elders were dignified, and Li Chaosheng didn't talk to them, after all, it was very embarrassing to open his mouth, but came directly to the old patriarch.

"Uncle, are you okay?"

Li Jinli smiled at this time: "Haha~ What's the matter with me, the second, third, and fourth usually look very strong, but it's far from me, okay, don't talk about this, what are you looking for us in Chaosheng?" ”

"Uncle, that's the case, didn't I tell you last time? I want to settle down in our town, and I have land, so I asked my uncle to help me with my staff, and I want to buy some land. ”

"Buy land!"

Hearing this, Li Jinli's eyes widened, land, this is something that Chinese farmers never forget, this is the root of China, and the development of Chinese civilization is inseparable from the Chinese people's dedication to land.

If you don't have land, you're a wanderer, but if you have land, then you have roots.

The old patriarch was very satisfied with Li Chaosheng's words, and felt that this kid had something to do, and he wanted to buy land as soon as he had money, instead of spending time on wine, this was not a loser, and coupled with his past performances, the patriarch looked at him more and more pleasing to the eye.

And the second uncle, the third uncle, and the fourth uncle here didn't smell good when they heard this, so they grabbed the leaves and wiped them, and came over with their pants and said, "It's good to buy land, we support this matter." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled politely, and at the same time moved his body to distance himself from the three of them, you are in such a hurry, the leaves are very slippery, if you are not careful, cough cough...... Don't dare to think about it.

Li Jinli thought for a moment at this time and said, "Our total of this matter is total. ”

As he spoke, the old man drew a circle on the ground with his cane.

"This is our Tanggou Town, backed by the Qinling Mountains, with many mountain ranges, and there are Black Mountain and Fox Ridge near us, and we are in the middle of these two mountains."

"Therefore, we don't have much fertile land here, but it is occupied by three major families, the first is the Wang family, Wang Laocai is their master, the Wang family actually came to Tanggou Town with our Li family, and at first they also went hand in hand, and then somehow, our family's land became less and less, and their family's land became more and more, and in the end, our Li family became a tenant farmer."

"In addition to the Wang family is the Fang family, the Fang family has been coming to our Tanggou Town for a long time, at the beginning their family was doing business, but the transaction was lost, so they came to Tanggou Town to become a landlord, and their family received a lot of land at a low price back then, but their family Ding is not prosperous, and now there are only a dozen people in the family, living in the town."

"In the end, it's the Qian family, the Qian family is later, come to us and it's only three or four years, it is said that the family used to be an official, but then offended the nine thousand years old, and then they came here, they bought some land from the Wang family when they came, but they were pitted by the Wang family, and all they bought were inferior fields backed by the mountains, what they planted did not grow, and the grass grew, they hated the Wang family to death."

The old patriarch said and said with a smile: "By the way, a few days ago, someone from the Qian family came to me to sell the inferior land in their hands, saying that it could be cheaper, I really laughed at me, the wheat in that land is not alive, the millet is not grown, the millet is not produced, the land is hard, there are many stones in the ground, and it is high, the high slope does not gather water, what is the drought, one acre of land can produce less than 100 catties of grain, except for paying taxes, there is nothing left, our Li family bought it back, and did not cry to death?" ”

"It's just their Qian family, they haven't farmed before, so they will buy those fields, if you want to say that Wang Laocai's old boy is really bad."

The old patriarch scolded, but Li Chaosheng listened to it with relish, the ancient fields were divided into three types: upper, middle and lower, the superior fields, the land was fertile, and if you planted well, you could get more than 300 catties of grain a year.

Medium field, the land is average, the terrain is not as good as the superior field, but the year is good, and one acre of land can have a harvest of more than 200 catties, and even close to 300 catties.

Inferior fields, that is, this kind of hillside land, or saline-alkali land, or sandy land, or all kinds of defective land, the natural environment is very bad, resulting in the main crops, wheat, millet, millet is not growing, a hundred catties of grain in a good year, maybe there is no harvest, all of them die of drought and flood.

Therefore, the inferior land is the most worthless land, but the Chinese have an excellent good quality since ancient times, that is, people die not wasteland, although the yield of this inferior field is low, but the hardworking and simple old farmers are still willing to plant, even if there is an extra ration is good, after all, every ration can save lives.

"Therefore, if we want to buy land, we can only buy it from Wang Laocai and the Fang family, the land of both of them is medium, high-grade land, and there are few low-grade fields, after all, the low-grade fields were sold to the Qian family back then."

The old patriarch made a summary at this time, if you want to buy land, you must buy Wang Laocai, or the land of the Fang family, the land of the Qian family cannot be bought, the reason is also very simple, the Qian family was pitted, bought a batch of inferior fields, and now it is all abandoned there, there is no way, the grain for farming is not enough to pay taxes.

In fact, it stands to reason that the Ming Dynasty did not pay heavy taxes, and in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang collected taxes on farmers across the country, and one acre of land was only 5%-10%, which was very humane, except for Jiangnan, except for Jiangnan, when Zhang Shicheng offended Zhu Yuanzhang, so their tax was a punitive 20%.

However, that was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and now the tax is surprisingly high, Liaodong, the gold-swallowing cave, is increasing every year, and the scholars and doctors collude with officials and businessmen, desperately trying not to pay taxes, the peasants can only continue to exploit, and the taxes are also increasing.

However, ironically, this year should be the lowest tax year for farmers, because Wei Zhongxian is still in power, and although this great eunuch who has been scolded by countless people is very scummy, he is still okay with the people.

Because he was born in the people, he knows the Tao here, how much money is in the mud legs, and it is thankless to squeeze them.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian risked the world's disapproval and began to collect business taxes, which made the scholar crazy, because Wei Zhongxian received the money from himself.

This paid off, so the big guy began to frantically hit Wei Zhongxian, until Chongzhen came to power, they finally let out a bad breath, and at the same time canceled the business tax again, and they could not pay the tax again, happy.

In fact, if Chongzhen didn't kill Wei Zhongxian in a hurry and used Wei Zhongxian to balance the situation, maybe the Ming Dynasty would last for a few decades, but there was no if, Wei Zhongxian was dead, and the collar around the neck of the Donglin Party was gone, and they could continue to suck the blood of the Ming Dynasty openly until it was drained...... Destroy the country.