Chapter 3 Rectify assets and acquire potatoes
Chujiazhuang,
Up and down 100 households.
Zhuangzi is relatively ordinary, and he is the head of the family, that is, these people are all tenant farmers of his family, and they live a hard life but still survive.
After walking around, Chu Feng asked, "Uncle Li, where have all the people in this village gone?" β
"Hui Gongzi, Da Chen Xinli, all kinds of waste to be rebuilt, more than half of the men have been conscripted to build palaces, and the rest of the old and weak women are also in the fields for spring ploughing."
Lieber explained.
βοΌοΌοΌ , this March day of conscription? Chu Feng was stupid, and the thief was speechless: "It's worthy of him Yuan Highway, and only this fool can do such a stupid thing." β
Lieber: "......"
The corners of his mouth twitched, filial son!
Childe, why don't we go back and take medicine?
These three sentences of yours are inseparable from your father, filial piety is too much, and the grave grass will be three feet high sooner or later!
"Let's go, take me to the fields."
"Childe, your status is noble, Shimoda humiliated your identity, and the head of the family knows that he will definitely blame the old slave." Li Bo looked embarrassed.
"Lead the way!" Chu Feng glared.
Li Bo did not dare to disobey.
"Oh yes, how many acres of land are there in our village?" Chu Feng raised his eyebrows and asked curiously.
"About 23,000 acres, including 7,000 acres in the upper field, 10,000 acres in the middle field, and 6,000 acres in the lower field.
"Little Mu"
Li Bo explained proudly.
Chu Feng grinned, tsk, this proper little landlord, arrogant. But when he thought of such a good day, he was immediately forced by Yuan Shugou to get into trouble.
Chu Feng: "Yuan Shu deserves to die!" β
Lieber: "............"
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After a while, between the farmlands.
At a glance, there are few strong men, and almost all of them are old and weak women and children farming.
I saw the old man turning the earth there with an ancient earth-turning utensils.
The woman crushed the soil with a hoe in the back, and the yellow-mouthed child began to sow the seeds.
This is the most important part of the process before planting, which improves the soil, eliminates pests and diseases, removes weeds, and in short, maximizes income.
Chu Feng raised his eyebrows, and immediately reprimanded: "Uncle Li, aren't there cattle ploughing on the village?" How much intensive arable land can be planted by one household in this way? Don't you know that? β
"The son is angry, there were a few ploughing cattle on the village, but they were all requisitioned, so the people could only use farm tools to plough the fields, which was really a last resort."
Lieber's heart is bitter,
What can he say, the key to Yuan Shu's requisition!
"Is Yuan Shu this bullshit again?" Chu Feng was speechless.
However, the people don't fight with the officials, he is the first to fight.
stepped forward and looked at the tenant farmers who were facing the loess with their backs to the sky, Chu Feng sighed in his heart, the people were bitter in troubled times, and the people under Yuan Shu's rule in troubled times were even more bitter.
Just as I was about to speak, two more choices appeared in front of me.
"1. Choose to squeeze the people, increase the tenant rent to seventy percent, and reward a diagram of the Quyuan plow."
"2. Choose to think about the people, reduce the tenant rent to 30%, and reward 500 catties of high-quality potatoes."
Chu Feng's eyes lit up, although the curved plow is good, but the principle of this thing is simple, using the inclined plane to reduce the force area, because the plow at this time is pushed flat.
After that, I should be able to study it myself.
But this potato is a high-yielding crop.
In later generations, there was an average of 3,000 catties per mu, and it was not difficult to change to the current big mu, theoretically 2,000 catties, but considering a series of factors, there were still 1,000 catties in 1,000 catties.
That is, 3,000 Han catties, with a yield of 25 husks per mu?
According to the current grain production of 3 denders per acre, that is, an eightfold increase in yield?
And this thing is drought-tolerant, plant it now, it can be harvested in June, and when the time comes, it can be topdressed, and it can reproduce again, the key is to resist the coming drought.
This is the capital of his fortune.
Thinking of this, Chu Feng took a step forward: "Fellow villagers, I am Chu Feng, the owner of Chujiazhuang." Yuan Shu forcibly conscripted and forced labor on the occasion of spring ploughing, which violated the way of heaven. β
"I know very well that it is not easy for you to wait, so this year, all tenant rents will be reduced to 30%, I will accompany you to face difficulties together, and I hope that you will work hard."
When the words came out, the people in the fields were stunned.
looked at each other, and the cloudy pupils gradually became more radiant and a little more hopeful.
Thirty percent, what a luxury.
"Childe, the tenant rent can't be so low!"
Li Bo was in a hurry, and it was almost the same as giving it for nothing, which was simply a good person!
"Why not?" Chu Feng reprimanded.
At this time, these old and weak women and children came back to their senses, and an old man knelt on the ground in panic, and shouted at the same time: "Quick, big guy, thank the master's family!" β
For a while, everyone bowed their heads and knelt in thanks.
"The big guy doesn't have to be like this, from now on, the big guy can come to the village to find me at any time if he has any difficulties, and I will spare no effort to help him."
Chu Feng stepped forward and picked up the old man and said.
Lieber: "............"
What a wickedness, what a wickedness!
The son of the Yuan family, who actually messed with the people? If Yuan Shu knew about this, he wouldn't be angry to death? Childe, no, let's fall again, shall we?
After explaining this, Chu Feng left quickly.
Farming, thousands of years of experience accumulation, he believes that he must know more than these people, at least enough knowledge, it is still possible to improve some agricultural tools.
"Uncle Li, is there a blacksmith in the village? If not, get me some blacksmiths. β
Chu Feng said in a deep voice as he walked.
"The old slave will arrange for someone to find a blacksmith."
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Mansion house, in the study.
Chu Feng tried hard to recall, as for the pen in his hand, he sketched on the silk cloth, although the shape was weird, but he could easily see what it was.
For example, the copycat version of the curved plow, the improved coupling plough (a plough with two oxen and three people)
For example, the rake used to level the land is a simple thing, but at the moment you have to accumulate strength, especially food, if you want to do something.
If he remembers correctly, this year's Jianghuai drought has caused the people to eat each other, which is simply tragic in the world.
And Yuan Shu should have been defeated by Lu Bu first, and then to Cao Cao, after experiencing this great drought, the Zhong family's foundation was completely cut off, and in the end he also vomited blood and died.
And the best time for him to expand his power was during the great drought this year, when there was food, there were soldiers, and when he thought of this, he took out the potatoes, and this thing had to be sprouted first.
Then, he wrote some historical events on silk cloth, and he was afraid that he would remember them in the future.
PS: Daily history trivia, friends who don't like it can skip it.
"One husband ploughs 100 acres (small acres are about one-third of the land of later generations), and 100 acres produce 150 stones of grain. ββHanshu * Food and Goods Chronicle.
"The field is divided into upper, middle and lower fields, the upper fields can be planted every year, the medium fields are separated by one year, and the inferior fields are separated by two years. ββHanshu * Food and Goods Chronicle.
"Mention: One catty of the Han Dynasty is about half a catty for later generations, when the stone is a unit of weight, it is about 60 catties for later generations, and when it is a container unit, it is about 20,000 milliliters for later generations."
"Mention: The Han Dynasty did not have two crops of crops, unless they were opened, and some novels wrote about two seasons, mostly subjective assumptions, and the main factors limiting the two seasons,
First, the time is relatively rushed. In ancient times, there was no harvester, and it was all relied on wielding a scythe to cut, and it still needed to be processed, dried, etc., which took a long time.
Second, the fertility of the land can not keep up, can not ensure the fertility of the land, a season of the year is good land, the middle field even needs to use green manure to nourish the land. β