"Lamb skewers, haven't you eaten them, try them!"

Li Chaosheng handed two skewers of grilled mutton to Li Chaogu, Li Chaogu just took a bite, and an exaggerated expression appeared on his face: "Brother Chaosheng, your mutton skewers are too delicious." ”

"Uncle Chaosheng!"

Li Chaosheng just said this, at this time Li Dezong also ran over, and called Li Chaosheng very respectfully uncle, Li Chaosheng smiled and handed Dezong two skewers of mutton.

There were lamb skewers grilled here, and after a while, Li Jinli and all the clan elders came, followed by the clansmen who had worked hard with Li Chaosheng last night, and the big guys called together and ate lamb skewers together.

This delicacy captured all the tribesmen at once, they had never eaten such delicious meat, mainly because they had never eaten such delicious seasonings, cumin, pepper noodles, refined salt, chili noodles, these were all condiments they had never seen before.

In fact, there are all kinds of spices that are comparable to gold in this era, and these spices were once called soft gold.

The purpose of inviting them to eat is different, Yan Chixia This belongs to the clear stammer, you want to learn things from others, can't you offer good wine and meat?

The patriarch and the clan elders are secretly stammering, don't underestimate these old men who can't eat, in this era the clan manages the place, they are equivalent to authority, as long as they get their support, they can get the support of the entire Tanggou Town, this is called the old people of the clan to order the people, you must know that the general people in the entire Tanggou Town are the descendants of these clan elders, distant relatives.

With the support of the old man, who dares to rebel, you must know that filial piety is still very important in this era.

In the end, it is these brothers who were born and died with themselves, invite them to eat, firstly to express their gratitude for risking their lives to help themselves yesterday, and secondly, to show the clansmen, as long as you help me Li Chaosheng to fight hard, I will reward you, this is called meritorious reward, the means of the superior.

A thousand skewers of mutton, plus a rabbit is not enough for these people to eat, we now people generally eat barbecue, eat twenty or thirty skewers of mutton skewers can eat half full, but in this era people have no oil and water in their stomachs, a person ate fifty or sixty skewers of mutton skewers and did not eat enough, and finally the fat rabbit was also baked, and the leftover cakes from yesterday were also hot, and the big guys ate them.

After eating enough wine and food, Li Chaosheng found Li Chaolong.

"Cousin, I'm afraid I have to learn something from Yan Daochang these days, so I won't be able to come forward, but we just bought 400 acres of inferior land from the Qian family, and this field can't be so wasted."

Li Chaolong heard this and looked at Li Chaosheng and said: "Chaosheng, I'm afraid this is difficult, it's summer now, the sowing season has passed, and you can't grow anything." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "It's okay, it's not too late, I have a way to grow food, you can bring someone to do me a favor now, that is, give me the weeds of these 400 acres of land, plow the land for me, loosen the soil, I want to get some seeds back, we want a variety of food this year, I am afraid that we will suffer a disaster here next year." ”

"Disaster?"

Hearing this, Li Chaolong's eyes widened: "No, now the food is like this, and it will be a disaster in the coming year, and if it is a disaster again, it will really starve to death." ”

Li Chaolong said worriedly, Li Chaosheng didn't speak, but sighed in his heart, next year's disaster is a certainty, because the history books say that next year, that is, 1628, the first year of Chongzhen, the Shaanxi disaster, the peasant uprising broke out, and the horn of the end of the Ming Dynasty was sounded.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng did not dare to delay, and it was necessary to stock up on grain as soon as possible, because only enough grain could cope with the next crisis, and perhaps he could turn the crisis into an opportunity and collect a group of victims.

Li Chaosheng thought about it and said to Li Chaolong: "Cousin, our clan will give Wang Laocai how much grain will be given to one acre of land?" ”

When Li Chaolong heard this, he said: "One acre of land gives sixty catties of grain. ”

"Is so little enough to eat?"

Li Chaosheng frowned, Li Chaolong said: "What can I do if I don't have enough to eat, I pay the tax, and the last acre of land will fall so much, I can't help it when I'm hungry, let's eat some wild vegetables, and if we're hungry, grass roots and bark can also be eaten." ”

Li Chaolong said and calculated the account for Li Chaosheng, the most fertile land in our Lantian field, the high-grade field collects about 300 catties of grain a year, the landlord is sixty percent, and we are forty percent, and then each pays their own taxes, and finally the people can leave about 60 catties in their hands, and a tenant can help the landlord plant ten acres of land, that is, 600 catties of grain.

On average, a family of five has less than two catties of rations a day, saving some food, only eating two meals a day, plus wild vegetables or something, and the family will not starve to death.

However, this is a good time for the year, and it is the case that the imperial court does not increase the number of liao, if the imperial court increases salaries, or catches up with the disaster year, the grain production will be reduced, and one mu of land will not be able to produce 300 catties of grain.

Then the people will be hungry, if the grain in the hands of the people in the end is not even 30 catties per acre, the family may starve to death, it can be said that the peasants of this era have no ability to resist risks at all.

And even if the wind and rain are smooth, the big guy can only make a fuss and not be hungry, or less hungry, but who dares to say that he dares to eat, who dares to say that our family eats food for one meal, not mixed with wild vegetables, it is impossible.

In fact, the wild vegetables are all good, and there are those who eat grass roots.

Li Chaosheng listened to Li Chaolong's narration, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it was not easy for the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people at the end of the Ming Dynasty could not see oil and water all year round, and people did not have oil and water to eat, so they ate a lot. (A normal bowl of rice is between 250g-450g, and a pound is about two to three bowls of rice.) ）

The first is that they are engaged in heavy agricultural work, and the second is that they do not eat meat, and people who have no oil in their stomachs are easy to get hungry and panic.

Listening to Li Chaolong's words, Li Chaosheng said: "In this way, cousin, we have 400 acres of land, all of which are rented to the clansmen to plant, you can help me take a word out, our land is inferior land, we will not share it with the clansmen in proportion, let's directly set a share, one mu of land will give the big guy a hundred catties of grain, and we will pay the taxes of the imperial court." ”

"Ah, a hundred catties of pure grain?!"

Listening to Li Chaosheng's words, Li Chaolong's eyes widened, this is grain, one hundred catties of pure grain, forty catties more than the landlord's old fortune, these forty catties are life-saving!

However, as soon as Li Chaolong finished speaking, he shook his head the next moment and said: "No, no, I can understand if you want to take care of the clansmen, but you are originally a low-grade field, and one acre of land can produce more than 100 catties of grain in a good year, and you have given it to the clansmen, and you still help pay taxes, don't you want to pay for death?" No, no, I don't agree with this, I don't have a clansman like you. ”