Chapter 102 Specialized Agricultural Management

He Xi's shallow knowledge has actually been worried.

Although there is no cost for the resettlement of 600,000 people in Beijing, in fact, these people have been absorbed by the Beijing City Project under construction and the supporting factories in various places, and the entire Beijing City Project has about 400,000 people.

After all, 600,000 people can't all be men. If you add the factory workers, there are about 500,000 people working under He Xi's baton.

Although the market price is very low, on average, the labor cost per person is about one or two. This cost is not only the salary of each person, but also the money that the trading company makes on this person.

That is, in the past two months, He Xi has put two or three million taels in the Beijing market.

The takeaway scallion pancakes in Beijing have also changed from four big copper coins to one copper coin.

If you don't say it, He Xi used Beiping's military rations to stabilize grain prices, and even if grain prices did not move, they would have risen even faster.

He Xi felt that the money on the market urgently needed a direction to flow.

He Xi almost thought about it a lot, thought about it, or agriculture.

When the people have money, the officials have money, and the businessmen have money, they will do one thing, that is, to buy land and land. The north is vast and sparsely populated, and it is not possible to buy land back and no one will take care of it.

He Xi feels that livestock that provides agricultural efficiency and new agricultural tools that provide agricultural efficiency are a good direction.

Needless to say, there are livestock, there are them on the Yan King's side. And King Yan also wants to support him. He Xi felt that it would be much better to replace direct support with the purchase of livestock. In the folk cattle are more expensive than horses, although it is said that the cattle on the grassland have not been domesticated and do not know how to plow. But no matter what, it's all cattle, Yanwang has millions of livestock here, not to mention more, hundreds of thousands of cattle come over, and it's nearly a million taels of silver.

And the production of farm tools is simple. Their respective military weapons and even engineering equipment are produced, and the production of these agricultural tools is even more like eating and drinking, not to mention, because the production of ordnance is maintained, and the production capacity in this area is extremely large.

It is possible to beat the price of farm tools very cheaply.

It's not easy to use.

There is no other reason, if it is just manpower, there is a limit to the efficiency brought by agricultural tools. And there is a limit to the scope of manpower that can be exploited. Many times, it causes such a situation, that is, the people think about it, although this thing is very convenient to use, but the land at home is so big, it takes more effort.

The strength of the peasants is worthless.

As a result, these farming tools cannot be sold at all. No matter how cheap the farm tools are, they are not as good as the strength of the peasants, and they do not want money.

But now, Yang Shiqi reminded him.

Because of Beijing, not to mention far away, it is estimated that no one in the entire Hebei region will be willing to become tenants.

Without him, it's not cost-effective. As mentioned earlier, it is easy to reclaim wasteland, which is the attitude that Zhu Yuanzhang has always adhered to. Support land reclamation. Secondly, the remuneration is not cost-effective.

There is a limit to the amount of land one can take care of. The family went into battle together, and they could only take care of about thirty acres. The yield per mu in the north is only more than two stones, so that more than 30 acres are only more than 70 stones. The tax is only about two stones, but the cost of service and other expenses is not small. Add it up to 10 stone of grain. The landlord collects rent, not much to say, five or five points. At the end of a year, it is a harvest of thirty stones. Five mouthfuls a year, three stones a year, this is very little. That's fifteen stones.

This is still a bumper harvest, but the risk of farming is more uncertain.

It's like this flood, no harvest at all? What to do?

A minimum of two men in a family is required.

And in Beijing, even if you earn less, the two men together can earn more than a dozen taels of silver tickets a year, because He Xi fixed the price of grain. One or two silver bills can be exchanged for three stones of grain, that is, in terms of the balance, two people in Beijing City far earn more than digging in the soil.

What's more important is freedom.

Being a tenant does not mean that there is nothing else to do except farming. Otherwise, why would the relationship between the landlord and the tenant be called a personal dependency relationship? And in the city of Beijing, it is the city, and I dare not say that there are no dirty things. However, all parties did not dare to make too much trouble, and without him, the yamen would be on the road a few streets away. I got one, but I went to sue.

Even if someone above can settle it, it will cost money.

Therefore, in terms of the relationship between the upper and lower levels, the city of Beijing is better than the countryside. After all, in the countryside, sometimes people die, and people are destroyed. In the city of Beijing, it is difficult to cover up the unnatural death of a person.

These are what He Xi and Yang Shiqi can see. But the following deduction is different.

Yang Shiqi felt that the next thing was that the land was barren and everyone stopped farming. There is a shortage of food supply, and in He Xi's view, it is something else.

That is the question He Xi asked Yang Shiqi.

Yang Shiqi felt that He Xi's thoughts were very meaningful, but he didn't know where to start, and said, "Please make it clear to your lordship." ”

He Xi said: "I have always mentioned productivity, and you know what productivity is, so in agriculture, it is to enable everyone to cultivate more land and produce more food as soon as possible." That's what it takes. I didn't like the tenant model before, because the tenant model didn't really relate to the efficiency of food production. The landlord just collects rent, and does not care about how the tenants are growing? If the tenants grow well and produce more grain, the landlord may increase the rent. It is better to oppress the tenants so that they only have one breath and do not die. In this case, how can it be possible to provide food production efficiency. ”

"It's different now. There is no shortage of land in Hebei, but there is a shortage of people, and it is impossible for the landlord to cultivate the land himself. Therefore, now is a good time for many yeoman farmers to develop, and if these farm tools can be purchased by the people, it will also be of great benefit to the military industry. Not to mention, it is only after getting feedback that better farming tools can be developed. In the future, when the people can cultivate dozens or hundreds of acres by themselves, will there still be a problem with grain in the north? ”

He Xi couldn't help but think of the mechanized large-scale production farms in later generations, the endless farms, which could be controlled by a few people. Now it is natural that it can't be done to this point, but He Xi attaches great importance to the reform of farm tools, plus a few livestock, and it is not impossible for a family to cultivate a hundred acres, or even a little more.

Yang Shiqi said: "My lord, you haven't done farm work, have you? How is this possible? ”

He Xi said: "How is it impossible? But it's just not intensive farming? For example, horse farming, you haven't seen it. And most importantly, these farmers are yeoman farmers and good families. ”

Yang Shiqi's heart moved, and he suddenly remembered more.

If it is said that in the future, the countryside of Daming is such a family farm based on 100 acres, even if it only produces one stone of grain per mu, it is 100 stone a year, not to mention, it is their own land, no need to pay rent, and there are dozens of stone of grain left over every year, it is a very solid family.

And the three words of Liangjiazi made Yang Shiqi have infinite reverie.

The majesty of the Han and Tang dynasties is based on these three words, the good families of the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty all brought their own weapons to serve in the army, and it is with such a source of soldiers that the army of the Han and Tang dynasties is so powerful.

What made Yang Shiqi fall into deep thought was that these three words brought about political changes.

The imperial court and scholars ruled the world together, because of the landlord economic model, the reason why the scholars and doctors were strong was the problem of land ownership, even if Zhu Yuanzhang equalized the world, so that there were few landlords in the world of more than 200 hectares.

The problem is that everyone can see that this model is not sustainable.

Because despite the increase in population and involution, the upper strata are constantly pursuing profits, and sooner or later they will take back the land from the yeoman farmers, turn the yeoman farmers into tenants, and turn the land into the foundation of their families for generations, and the people will be their serfs.

But that's no longer the case.

If there are not enough people to be exploited. The family farm model had to be maintained. Because the land is sovereign, even if you get the land, it is useless, because there is no one to cultivate the land. So what will such a situation look like when it is reflected in politics?

Yang Shiqi couldn't figure it out for a while.