"It's hard......!"

Just two words.

But these two words come from the heart of Wang Laohan!

Listening to everyone's ears, it has a heavy weight!

There are seven people in a family, and the real labor force is Wang Xin's father and son and his two daughters-in-law.

The grandson and granddaughter are both young, and they can't do much work in the fields, but they have to greet each other with their mouths.

This is a granary of the state of Wu.

It's all Ueda!

The yield per mu is more than 50 catties more than that of Ning Guo, but this family has worked hard for a year, but they can only eat their stomachs!

If there is a surplus, I think the two brothers should also go out of their families.

Looking at this dilapidated thatched hut, Wang Laohan obviously did not lie.

This is the real status quo of the peasants in Wuguo, so the peasants in Ningguo will be no different from them.

It's hard to even be hungry!

At this moment, Li Chenan truly realized the backwardness of this world.

He really felt the weight on his shoulders.

And Wu Qin was also stunned at the moment.

As the only princess of Wu Kingdom, she has never been short of use in the palace.

When she was six years old, she went to Wu Cheng's fiefdom, and thought that she had seen the suffering of the people, but when she heard this old man Wang say this, she knew that her knowledge was too shallow!

The officials in the court all said that the state of Wu had a prosperous appearance under the rule of his father.

If this is the prosperous age...... Then such a prosperous era is the prosperous age of a very small number of people!

For the largest number of farmers in the world, such a prosperous era has nothing to do with them.

They are all the children of the emperor, why are their lives so miserable?

Wu Qin is talented.

At this time, she had a difficult doubt in her heart-

On such rainy days, farmers still have to brave the rain to work in the fields for the sake of their crops.

On a rainy day like this, the merchants and magnates in Kyoto are probably sitting in a teahouse or by a lake.

They drank tea, listened to the music, looked at the misty scenery, and maybe they could even chant a poem......

The peasants who have paid the most have lived the hardest days!

The businessmen and magnates who enjoyed Kyoto did nothing, but they lived the most comfortable days!

Why is this happening?

Wu Qin couldn't figure it out.

Qiu Balou also frowned slightly at this moment.

He has some understanding of the people's suffering, but he also did not go to the masses like Li Chen'an, so he only knows the surface but does not know the root.

Now he understands how hard life is at the bottom of society.

This is something that the emperor will never see, and will never know!

I'm afraid even local officials don't know about it...... Or they understand, but in order to whitewash the peace, for their own political achievements, they will be presented to the memora of flowers.

As a result, there was peace in the DPRK and China.

The officials all thought that the world was rich and the four seas were peaceful!

In the midst of singing praises, the emperor didn't know why, he really thought that he was the true son of heaven!

He looked at Li Chen'an, the future emperor of the Ning Kingdom who had walked into the masses, he had seen the suffering in the world with his own eyes, what thoughts would he have in his heart at this moment?

Li Chenan's face was very calm.

Wang Laohan didn't say anything about those taxes, but he didn't think it was much better than Zhiningguo.

In Li Chen'an's view, the reason for the poverty of the peasants is also the extremely low productivity.

For thousands of years, there has been no great progress in this farming technique.

There is still a huge space in farming, breeding, fertilization and field management, irrigation of water conservancy, and even the improvement of agricultural tools, but it is limited by the science and technology of this world, and all this has not yet developed.

Of course, there are many more reasons.

For example, grain merchants have the right to price grain.

For example, the lazy government of local officials, they do not have the idea of open source, and most of them adopt the simplest apportionment!

And the object of apportionment must be the most honest peasant!

They have no culture, and they have no place to speak.

They can only bear it in silence.

As long as there is such a broken thatched hut to live in peace, as long as they can still be satisfied, they will guard their own one-third of an acre of land, facing the loess and working with their backs to the sky.

They, as a last resort, will not rebel!

And the ruling class just grasped this point for them.

"Uncle Wang, what is the price of grain today?"

"The price of food is uncertain, like last year,"

"Last year, the annual harvest was excellent, and the yield per mu of rice was around 250 catties, which is 20 buckets."

"If it is according to the price of previous years, the purchase price of a bucket of rice and grain merchants is 27 yuan."

"My family's 30 acres of land, 7,500 catties of rice is 600 buckets, all of them are sold, and you can get silver...... Sixteen taels, excluding the roughly three taels and five coins required for various taxes, can leave twelve taels and five coins......"

"However, last year's bumper harvest and grain prices plummeted, and the purchase price of grain merchants fell to 22 ......."

"Last year, I overcharged more than ten buckets, but I only sold more than thirteen taels of silver...... However, the taxes paid did not change, and the remaining silver was only nine taels and five cents...... Except for buying seeds or something......"

"If you calculate this account carefully, it will be a year of hard work."

Wang Xin grinned again and shook his head, and sighed again: "It's difficult......!" ”

"I don't understand, I obviously overcharged more than ten buckets, but the price of grain has become so cheap, and life is even more difficult."

"I thought I could earn a few more copper plates, and I wanted to send the dog to a private school to know a few words, but I can't put it down again, I can only look at this year."

Li Chenan nodded silently.

He looked at the darkening sky, looked at the heavier and heavier rain, and sighed:

"It's not easy!"

"Of course, it is the best ...... for Wang Mang to be sent to study"

Before he could finish speaking, a woman wearing a hat came running out of the rain.

When the woman came into the courtyard, she was startled.

She cautiously walked under the eaves and looked at Wang Xin, not knowing where these guests came from, nor how to entertain them this evening.

"Xiaomei, go and kill those two chickens."

The woman named Xiaomei's eyes suddenly widened: "Dad, I'm laying eggs!" ”

Wang Xin raised his neck, "What kind of egg did Daddy lay?" I told you to go and kill those two chickens! ”

Xiaomei swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and immediately disliked these so-called guests.

She also thought about raising enough thirty eggs to send to the third master, and asked the third master to put the dog eggs into the private school.

That's sixteen eggs, just two chickens...... Isn't this matter of reading in vain again?

At this moment, Li Chenan waved his hand:

"But don't, it's not easy to have two egg-laying chickens."

"The people who stay with me will bring food, and we will eat together when the time comes, I am just interested, I happened to meet you, uncle, and I want to talk to you."

"I know your plight better now, but I can't help you much."

"I took the name of the dog, and this is fate...... If water, take ...... Take ten taels of silver. ”

Zhongli Ruoshui took out a silver ingot from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Li Chen'an.

Li Chenan turned around and stuffed it into Wang Xin's hand, "Wang Mang, you must go to study!" ”

"It's not that I can have a big future in the future, I can be literate, I can use my brain, I can have more knowledge, even if it is farming, I think I can grow better."

Wang Xin was taken aback, and hurriedly pushed back:

"Childe, no!"

"Keep it!"

Li Chenan held Wang Laohan's rough hands and said earnestly:

"To hear your words is not something that this silver can buy."

"I can't help you with anything else, because I'll be leaving tomorrow, but I hope your days will get better and better."

"Wang Mang's future...... It can be better, too! ”