Chapter 17: The Book of Agriculture [I]

"Quick, quick, don't keep your uncles waiting......"

Zhang Wang took Zhang Han's hand and hurried towards the gate.

Zhang Jie, the seventh uncle, is seventy-two years old this year, and he is the oldest and most respected elder of the Zhang family in Wuxian County. He came to visit with the three elders, and Zhang Wang did not dare to slack off. She rushed to the front to greet her, and at the same time ordered someone to inform Zhang Zhao.

In the Zhang family of Wuxian County, these are heavyweights. Suddenly, when I came to visit, there must be something important, and it must be difficult to deal with. In other words, it is difficult for Zhang Wang to agree. But if she doesn't agree, how can these people give up, and they will inevitably find Zhang Zhao's head. Then it's better to let Zhang Zhao deal with it from the beginning.

Besides, several of them are elders, and no head of the family avoids them, but let their daughter-in-law receive them.

"Hey, I heard the magpie cry early in the morning, it turned out to be Uncle Seventh and you came, how can you afford it?! You always say hello and let the juniors go to your place, isn't it......"

Zhang Wang's title came with his son, which was the practice at that time. She took Zhang Han to greet a few people one by one, and then warmly greeted them inside.

Zhang Jieren is very thin, his thinning hair is all white, and a few pieces of old man's body grow on his face, which is quite scary. But he behaved very kindly, and cordially pulled Zhang Han and talked to Zhang Wang's family.

"What can afford it, what can't be done, it's all a family......"

"It's okay, we're just here to see ,......"

As the group spoke, they arrived at the main room, Zhang Zhao just hurried from the backyard, saw everyone, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and saluted everyone.

"Uncle Seven, why did you come in person, it should be your nephew who came to visit you, how dare you ,...... to do it?"

Although Zhang Zhao is the patriarch, he is orderly and orderly, and when he sees the elders, he also has to salute. The rest of the people were all the same generation as Zhang Zhao, and they knew that they had borrowed the light of the seventh uncle today, but they were a little cramped, and they all stood sideways, refusing to accept his courtesy.

"Yuan Hui, I heard that the harvest at home has been good in the past two years......

With this as the beginning, Zhang Jie opened the conversation.

"It's okay, it's all blessed by the ancestors, God takes care of it, the wind and rain are smooth, and everyone's life is good. Seventh uncle, second brother, fifth brother, and Changshun, don't sit still, taste this cake......"

In the past few years, the food of the Zhang family has become famous. These people are full of hearts, and their ambitions are not here, but they are not affectionate, and they have only tasted two pieces. As soon as I ate it, I felt that my name was well deserved, and I couldn't help but eat a few more pieces. Zhang Zhao smiled and gossiped with a few people, and the atmosphere was warm and enthusiastic. A plate was approaching, and Zhang Wang's family ordered someone to send another plate to everyone, but Zhang Jie was almost there, so he opened the chatterbox.

"......, Yuanhui, you are a capable person. After becoming a family, not only the family business is prosperous, but the clansmen are also a lot of light, and everyone is very grateful for your affection......"

Zhang Jie is old, a little instigated, talking and talking, he actually recounted the past events after Zhang Zhao became the family, and it was still 20 years ago.

"Where, where, Uncle Seven, you have won the award, this is all as it should be, the family ......"

"Yes, it's all a family, the family doesn't speak two words, your second brother is a straight person, if some words are too serious, the sixth brother, don't take it to heart......"

Zhang Lao Er obviously couldn't stand Zhang Jie's instigation, and then Zhang Zhao's words were clear.

Here's the thing.

From the seventh year of Yanxi, the Zhang family experimented with the farming techniques on the book of heaven. When it was found to be effective, it was promoted. However, Zhang Zhao told him to keep it secret, and Zhang Wang's family only used the land at home and used the slave's farm, so that they popularized the application of the techniques and agricultural tools in the agricultural book.

You can't hold the fire in the paper. They are all families of the villagers, the fields are adjacent, and many Zhang clansmen are still helping out in the Zhang family. Small-scale experiments can still be kept secret, and once they are popularized, things will not be hidden.

The Zhang family's fields were originally subject to the substitution method, and the requirements for animal power and agricultural tools were higher, and the yield and harvest were much higher than those of the fields that were tenanted out. After popularizing the agricultural technology in the book of heaven, the crops in the fields planted by themselves have increased dramatically, and the crops produced have also increased a lot, often doubling the harvest in other people's fields.

Seeing that the Zhang family had a bumper harvest for two consecutive years, the Zhang clan looked hot and moved their minds.

"......, sixth child, it's not going to be a good day,......"

It can be seen that Zhang Lao Er has been prepared. According to him, the harvest in the field is not good, it is simply no grass and no grain; The children in the family can eat, and they can eat almost a bucket of rice for a meal; The children's clothes are broken so quickly, and they are all almost bare-bottomed......

But no, in order to show that this day is sad, the clothes of these people who came are all patched.

This is not all nonsense, Zhang Wu has a few difficult days. However, at the beginning of the year, a windfall was made from the victims, and it was the time for Zhang Wu to be relaxed. If you do that, it's fake. Moreover, the families of people who are having a difficult life will definitely not include Zhang Laoer.

Zhang Zhao glanced at Zhang Lao Er inadvertently, and happened to be facing Zhang Lao Er's peeping eyes.

The two eyes were paired, Zhang Zhao's eyes were very calm, but Zhang Lao'er trembled in his heart, unconsciously avoided the other party's eyes, and ran away from the train in his mouth.

"This doesn't make much sense, but everyone is a family, and a family doesn't talk about two families......

As soon as the words came out, Zhang Lao Er knew that he had said something wrong, and tried his best to go back.

"......, they are all real relatives within the five suits, can you give you some advice......

The meaning of the words is one - can you realize communism in advance, popularize your new technology, and let everyone live a good life. Zhang Lao Er tried his best to say the righteousness of his words, as if he was completely selfless, and he did not have the 800 acres of fertile land at home.

Zhang Han sat behind Zhang Zhao, and the audience recounted so far, so sad that they were so unhappy - knowing that it doesn't make sense, don't say it, the pink eye of feelings, which does not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, has deep historical origins, not only after the reform and opening up......

'The Zhang family is good enough for the clansmen, you are all elders, you should be clear. The whole Han Kingdom inquired, who rents land is not the rent of five or five, as far as the Zhang family sees it as the same clan, and only collects forty percent of the rent......

Zhang Wang was also full of displeasure. It is necessary to take care of the clan, but the words cannot be said so. She was very uncomfortable with this. However, the people who came were all elders, and there was no place for her to speak. She is not in a hurry, he has seen a lot of Zhang Zhao's methods, if the seventh uncle speaks, Zhang Zhao will still leave a little affection, Zhang Lao Er messed up the rules, it is self-inflicted. She sneered in her heart, bowed her head and said nothing, waiting to see Zhang Lao's second joke.

Supposedly, this is a difficult task.

Don't say yes, right? Several elders came together, indicating that it was not one person or two people who moved their minds, but many people in the clan, and it was not good not to agree; But if he agreed, Zhang Zhao also had a dilemma. Moreover, there are fifteen in the first year of junior high school......

However, Zhang Zhao knew it in his heart, and he had been prepared for this. When he first reaped the harvest, he had expected this situation and had already made a decision in his heart.

This must be agreed.

To put it bluntly, Zhang Zhao is the patriarch, so he has to protect the interests of the clansmen, and he should lead everyone to live a good life. He eats meat, and he also has to leave bowls of soup for his people to drink, and eating alone will not work. Otherwise, the hearts of the people will be scattered, and the team will not be easy to lead.

And, it's good for both parties.

The Zhang family has a lot of land. Half of them are cultivated by the Zhang family's own slaves, using the advanced method of substitution, and the yield of small mu per mu is generally two ~ three stones; The other half is given to the tenants to cultivate, and they have all the methods, and the yield of small mu per mu is generally one ~ two stones.

In this way, it is much more cost-effective to use slaves to farm their own land. Just let him have something to eat, and the rest is all for the Zhang family. And the tenants had to keep half of it—and that's what the landlords thought—and the output was much lower.

In other words, the landlord himself planted the land and reaped more.

However, it is impossible to take back the land and grow it yourself. Not to mention that there are many people from the Zhang clan among the tenants, many ordinary tenants have been passed down from generation to generation, and they have been tenants with the Zhang family for several generations, how can they drive people away.

At this time, agriculture was the primary industry, and if the peasants were left without land, they would probably no longer be able to find a job to make ends meet. This is equivalent to cutting off the life of other people's families, if you really want to do something like that, no one will agree, it's strange if you don't work hard!

Therefore, it is also beneficial for the Zhang family to popularize advanced technology and increase the yield per mu of their tenants' fields.

However, if things have to be done this way, the process cannot be like this.

PS: Today's third shift, there is another shift in the middle of the night.