"This little thing stumped you?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face sank, "Lujia Village is just a small village, and you are the parent official of the local county order, and the county order can't handle a village?" ”

"Your Majesty, this is to let the ministers destroy the rules of the county system that have been handed down from ancient times to the present." Lu Weidao.

"We just want you to break this broken rule today, if you can't think of a way, we'll change the county order, and you can go home and farm yourself." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly.

"Your Majesty, the minister has paid attention." Lu Wei touched the sweat on his forehead, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his head, "The minister thinks it's okay to ...... like this"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded after hearing this, felt that this method was not bad, and praised it lightly.

Lu Wei, the magistrate of the county near Yingtianfu, is still a bit of a real level.

After all, it was the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there were not many officials who were indiscriminate.

This method is okay in a village, but it can't be used to deal with the family gate valve. After the county order left, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, dealing with the family gate valve is a thousand-year-old problem, and it is not something he can come up with with a county order.

Even Liu Bowen couldn't think of it, they didn't even see it.

It is up to Mr. Qin to answer!

……

The next afternoon.

Qin Yu walked out of the door and saw yesterday's 'Village Chief Huang' again. Unlike yesterday's majestic and solemn, Village Chief Huang looked happy today, as if he was in a very good mood.

"Mr. Qin, are you feeling better today?" When they met, Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"It feels so much better than yesterday." Qin Yu said, "Although it is true that the injury from falling off the cliff is not light, but it is better to be young and strong, since I woke up, I feel that my body has changed day by day, and now I am afraid that I can move casually." ”

After speaking, he stretched his arms and legs.

"It's for the best." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Aren't you going to stay and teach, let's take you to the village now?" ”

"Okay." Qin Yu said.

Although he doesn't dare to do strenuous exercise yet, it's perfectly fine to walk around.

The two quickly left halfway up the mountain, first walking an extremely steep mountain road, and Zhu Yuanzhang also supported him from time to time. After that, we walk through a dense forest and come to an open mountain beam.

Standing on the mountain beam, Qin Yu could already clearly see the houses below.

"Our Lujia Village is really poor." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to a field of crops in front of him and said, "You see that the villagers have already planted crops on such a high mountain beam, and it will take several hours to go up and down the mountain." ”

"Hmm." Qin Yu nodded, the higher the location of the crop land, the poorer the place.

"However, even if the villagers work so hard, there is still not much harvest, and there are at most three buckets of grain per acre of land in the village." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Fight? This village still uses buckets as a unit of measurement!? Qin Yu was speechless for a while. However, because I already knew in advance that Lujiacun was backward, I was now used to it.

The brain quickly calculated: one acre of land is 606 square meters, and a bucket is about 13 catties.

More than 600 square meters of cultivated land can only make more than 40 catties of grain!?

This is not even a low yield, it can only be regarded as a ...... There is no yield. Planting a random crop plot of dozens of square meters outside the mountain is more than the harvest of one acre of land in the village.

Soil is the biggest reason for low grain yields.

Looking carefully at the crop field, I saw that the crop field was planted with sorghum.

Most of the dead and yellowed seedlings in the field were ready to be picked up for firewood, and the weeds were verdant and greener than the crops themselves. On the leaves of a few vigorous sorghum trees, there are traces of gnawing and pecking by pests and birds.

The scarecrow in the middle of the ground doesn't seem to have much effect.

The crop field is surrounded by a dense forest, and there are many footprints left by wild beasts on the ground.

The land is extremely barren and unsuitable for cultivation, there is no means of weeding, coupled with drought and little rain to irrigate pests, birds, and wild animals...... One acre of land can harvest more than 40 catties of grain, which is already an optimistic estimate.

"Village Chief Huang, is the main crop in your village sorghum?" Qin Yu asked.

"Yes." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Nine out of nine, only in the vegetable fields near the villagers' homes, some common vegetables are grown." Sorghum likes temperature, light, has a certain drought tolerance, and is most suitable for planting in mountainous areas with little rain. ”

He was born as a farmer and was very familiar with the characteristics of various crops.

The harvest of sorghum is not good, so why don't you grow other cash crops? For example, Chinese herbal medicines, red heart kiwifruit, alpine grapes or something? Qin Yu originally wanted to blurt out this question.

But he soon reacted that asking such a question was purely for the sake of drawing. It's a bit like asking children in poor mountainous areas why they don't eat minced meat, and only those brick families who have never stepped out of the office can ask.

The village does not grow cash crops, it must be because the transportation is not convenient, if the transportation is convenient, I am afraid that they would have planted it a long time ago and still use their own reminders? In addition, cash crops cannot be eaten as food, and they cannot be sold after planting, so they can only rot in the ground. In the past, they could still stutter when they planted sorghum, but if they planted cash crops, I am afraid they will not even have the last bite to eat.

Therefore, the first thing Lujia Village has to solve is the problem of having enough to eat.

Among the meals that Qing Qian gave him, there were only wild vegetables and a few grains of rice. Moreover, he had only been brought food yesterday afternoon and at noon today, and he had not been here in the morning, so Qin Yu guessed that they might only eat two meals a day.

Obviously, the problem of food and clothing in Lujia Village has reached the point where it has to be solved immediately.

"Uncle Huang, what is the annual per capita ration in your village?" Qin Yu asked.

"The village can only grow one crop of sorghum a year." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "And one mu of land can only make three buckets of grain, so the average annual ration of the villagers is less than 30 catties." ”

Less than thirty pounds!?

If you convert it into money, then their average annual income is less than 100 yuan!

Qin Yu was shocked by this terrifying number. Outside the mountains, beggars earn more in a day than they earn in a year, and I don't know how they survive.

A thought suddenly rushed into his mind, making his heart extremely heavy: Lujia Village, it is likely that people have starved to death!

"Although the villagers' annual food rations are very small, they still have to take some out of the rice to exchange for rice in the nearby market, and people can't always eat sorghum noodles to get by, so rice is a rarity in our Lujia Village. In order to subsidize their families, the villagers will also go to the mountains to hunt and cut firewood during their slack time. I usually eat a small handful of sorghum noodles mixed with a large half of wild vegetables. ”

Hearing that they can go up to the mountains to hunt, some people who usually stay at home and only imagine intuitively are afraid to ask again, isn't it fragrant to let the villagers eat game every day? Not only is it delicious, but it is also rich in protein.

However, only people like Qin Yu who have been to the mountains know how difficult it is to go up the mountain to hunt, most of the time the hunters return empty-handed, and the cases where they can catch the prey are very rare.

Even in the rare case of hitting the prey, they will be reluctant to eat it, because the prey has to be sold in the market for money, in exchange for some salt, soap and other necessities.

Therefore, for hunters, being able to hit the prey does not mean that they can eat it in their mouths.

"Lujia Village is really too poor!"

"The villagers are having a hard time!"

Qin Yu couldn't help but sigh again.