The scorching sun is like fire, and the scorching sun is about to bake people.

There is no rain after summer, which is good news for summer harvest. You will not encounter plum rain. You can also dry the wheat you harvested.

But looking at the year, there will be another severe drought in the second half of the year, which is bad news for planting in autumn.

Cao Ziren tied the wheat straw and stood in bunches in the field. The wife, two daughters and one son beside him were also carefully searching for the fields, not letting go of the falling wheat grains or the scattered wheat straw.

Not to mention wheat grains, the wheat straw stalks at this time also have a great effect. The fat field is only basic and can also be used as feed and firewood. In the past, the straw dried in the grass and straw were sold to Pizhou City for sale. A bunch of straw can be sold for one cent silver. Now it has risen to two cents. If sold to Xin'an Village, they are willing to pay two cents and five cents.

Cao Ziren tied the last bunch of wheat straw and breathed a sigh of relief. Although the sun was hot and his whole body was stuffy and uncomfortable, he was very happy. He started to harvest in mid-May. After several days of fatigue, his twenty-five acres of winter wheat were finally harvested.

But looking at the bare wheat fields, Cao Ziren sighed again. After a year of hard work, the wheat harvest was only about fifteen s.

However, it rained heavily in March, and his wheat fields were flooded a lot. After the water receded, some wheat fields were not harvested, and the remaining average harvest was only six or seven dou. In this way, the 25 acres of land had only a total income of fifteen stones, which may support the harvest until next summer?

Thinking of this, Cao Ziren sighed again, "The farmers are suffering. If they eat according to their appetite, it is basic to eat one liter of rice and flour a day for one person. For a family of five, you can eat 14 or 5 shi for a year's food rations.

But how can you eat and drink like this? The wheat field needs to be kept, and all kinds of expenses are spent. If you place it in other places, you have to pay grain as a job. The tax and fire cost several buckets per acre.

Now, the summer tax and autumn grain are still levied. The farmers don’t have the money to buy the grain to the prefecture city to sell. However, there are guilds in the city, so how can they be sold at will? They have to buy it in the grain store.

Cao Ziren heard that the prices of grain stores in Pizhou City are now sold at one stone, two 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

Originally, this was a good thing for farmers, but it was just a sale price. After the purchase price was negotiated by each grain store, the wheat was only nine cents per stone and rice was one tael and two cents per stone. The farmers cursed it. They were really a group of unlucky businessmen.

So after all the calculations, not only did the farmers work hard for a year but also had to pay for it, but the more people who were abandoned and fled in various places.

The local area does not require food to be served, but there are bandits, such as the crazy Jiaoshan bandits, Tongshan bandits, etc., who not only rob food but also kill people. Fortunately, they were wiped out by Yang Xianggong.

After this place is under the jurisdiction of Xianggong Yang, there is no need to pay taxes, grains and silver, and it is replaced by nitrate soil. Every winter and spring, the nitrile soil is everywhere, as thick as snow and frost. At most, it is more tiring when collecting it. In this regard, Cao Ziren and others all call Yang Xianggong Rende.

But thinking about next year, Cao Ziren felt sad again. It seems that after a few days of full meals, he would have to eat dry food when he was busy, eat thin food when he was free, and eat braised vegetables when he was not satisfied.

At noon, all the fields were cleaned up, and the wife took the children back, dried and grinded wheat, and the rest of the work was theirs. Therefore, women in this era were hard, and they were busy all year round. Women were used as men, and they had to endure torture in bed at night.

When Cao Ziren saw her wife go back happily, it seemed that it didn't matter to her that it was a little tired, as long as there was a harvest in the fields.

Cao Ziren was moved. After harvesting the wheat, he transported some and sold it for money, it seemed that it was necessary to buy a new dress for the wife. After years of being with her, she had no decent clothes.

Although this woman is clumsy and can't even do needlework well, she is not as clever as her brother-in-law Xu Zhenniang, who sews clothes for Xin'anzhuang, earns more than one or two silver dollars a month.

However, when I first married her, I was attracted by her honesty and honesty, especially her big breasts and big butts, I was so happy to give birth to her. In the years since I got married, I have given birth to three children for him, all of them are very strong. Thinking of this, Cao Ziren was satisfied again.

Cao Ziren took off his hat and fanned the wind and walked around the field at will. This area was a wheat field. Basically, the wheat was packed, and bundles of golden wheat straw stood among the fields.

Cao Ziren talked to some nearby villagers, and everyone's words were filled with joy of harvest. At the same time, they were also worried that if the drought continued next year, if the wheat was planted in autumn and winter, it was hard to say how many stones could be harvested next year.

At the same time, everyone also cursed the city grain merchants in unscrupulously. The wheat is sold for two or three cents per stone, and the purchase price is only nine or two cents. Will everyone live?

Like Cao Ziren, many villagers here are clumsy and can't make any money. However, they have to spend money on oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and all kinds of expenses. They just take grain to sell them in Pizhou, and everyone thinks it's too much of a loss.

When sighing, some villagers also said mysteriously that the hometowns would not be afraid, because they heard that Yang Xianggong would open a grain store in Xin'anzhuang in June. The purchase price of grain harvests in summer and autumn is no less than one tael. When the green and yellow food is not accepted, the price of grain is no more than two taels.

I heard that this policy is only aimed at the people under his rule. Although Luoshan Villa is an affiliated village, they can enjoy this treatment.

However, when the grain is sold, each household will have a certain limit and must be purchased with a waist brand.

At the same time, the price of the grain store purchase has also come, with one tael of silver per stone.

All the villagers praised Yang Xianggong's kindness. Although the purchase price of Xin'anzhuang Grain Store is not high, there is no harm without comparison. The grain store purchased it with eight cents of silver, which is benevolence and righteousness.

Moreover, if the price of green and yellow food is not more than two taels, this is even more kind and righteous. You should know that at that time, the price of grain often rose to four or five taels per stone, and in the past few years, it was even ten or twenty taels. I don’t know how many people sell their children and daughters, or even starve to death.

Two taels of silver, everyone gritted their teeth and could still bear it.

The wrinkles on Cao Ziren's face also stretched a lot, and he felt relieved. It seemed that after Mr. Yang came, everyone's life would be much better.

Especially here, there are no more bandits and thieves. Not only can we save public expenses in the village, but we can also farm outside with confidence. Even women and children can walk boldly on the road, which was unimaginable before.

Now Xianggong Yang also sets up a grain store, and I am afraid that even in the disaster year, people will not starve to death.

Compared to his younger brother Cao Zigui, Cao Ziren is much dull and not good at speaking, but he has a feeling in his heart that it is very good under the rule of Xianggong Yang.

All kinds of feelings formed a sense of belonging, so not long ago, when Yang Xianggong defeated the thief and rebelled the thieves, there was another sensation in various places. The news came to Luoshan Villa, and Cao Ziren and others had a sense of pride of honor, just like they had won a battle.

However, although I was relieved of my great concerns. When talking about farming after autumn, the villagers sighed again, worried about food next year. Some villagers even pointed to Shoushan Villa a few miles west, saying that it was better for those villagers who directly affiliated with the villages. They had fixed daily rations and monthly wages, which was really a job that guaranteed income for drought and flood.

When talking about this, the villagers were also envious. This village has been fixed. I heard that Yang Xianggong was designated as Xin'an Township. He said that the area is 300 square kilometers, with a total of 14 affiliated villages and fifteen directly affiliated villages.

Then, the fields cultivated by the villagers of the affiliated villages will be allocated to them for some wasteland, and will not interfere with their production and life, and only pay fixed nitroso soil every year.

The direct subsidiaries take care of everything, but they provide food, wages, clothes, bedding, etc.

All the villagers heard that the village directly under the village, if there are five people, the food rations for only one year is 14 shi. The young and strong still have five cents a month, and there are some women and children, and each household has more than ten taels of wages every year.

When they entered the village, men, women, young and old had two winter clothes, and thin winter quilts, etc. If they counted as three taels of silver for each quilt, fifteen directly under the villages would cost 10,000 people. Yang Xianggong would have to spend 30,000 taels of silver on this item.

I heard that they often eat meat, but thinking about themselves is really enviable.

Looking at the village over there, the villagers were curious about it, and some were confused. Looking at the situation of those directly affiliated villages, it was very similar to some of the rich manors in Jiangnan that everyone heard of, but the treatment was so generous but unheard of.

Although Mr. Yang is very good at making money, he only seized tens of thousands of taels of silver by fighting the thieves, but in the current year, I am not afraid of not having any gains and spending nothing. Look at myself, I still have to work hard all year round and still have no money to make ends meet.

Some villagers refuted that their subordinate farms are incomparable to those directly affiliated farms.

In terms of water conservancy, only the Luo family’s fields in this village have ponds, ditches, and canals. However, because the ditches are not built with stones, they are often silted and destroyed. Not to mention those of the others named Liu, and Cao.

But local areas are light rain and flooding, heavy rain and heavy flooding, no rain and drought, and no water conservancy, how to grow crops? But it is not easy to build water conservancy. If you use stone to build a pond, it will cost at least a few hundred taels of silver. If you use stone to build a pond, it will cost more than a thousand taels of silver. If you use stone to build a pond, it will cost more than a thousand taels of silver.

Ponds and canals need to be repaired frequently, especially ponds often have silt, which requires leakage and silt cleaning. How can small households afford the huge amount of money?

Therefore, the people of Luoshan Villa basically rely on the weather to make a living, or buy water. For example, the drought last year was drought and the river water was very shallow a few miles away. The villagers went to the Luo people's pond to buy water and water wheat. A load of water costs fifty cents.

On the other hand, Shoushan Villa opposite has been renovating land and developing water conservancy recently. They built ditches along the Neibaima River, surrounded by fields, all made of stone, and gates. They built multiple ponds and dug multiple ditches. They heard that they all needed stone.

Although the cost is amazing, some villagers heard from Shoushan Villa that the amount of silver invested by water conservancy in the village will not be less than 2,300 taels of silver, but the effect will definitely be good. In the future, the 6,000 acres of land in their village can be effectively irrigated and drained to ensure the planting and harvest of crops.

As expected, I am afraid that within a few years, other people's fields can be used as land. The yield per mu is one stone or even more than one stone. I will definitely not lose money and make a lot of money.

The villager said proudly: "Grandpa Yang is smart. If you don't even think of him, then you are the one who is the General Manager Lian."

Cao Ziren and others were shocked. On the opposite side, Zhuangzi invested 2,000 taels of silver just by building water conservancy?

How much does the fifteen direct dealers have to invest? I’m afraid I’ll have to pay 30,000 to 40,000 taels of silver.

Cao Ziren and others could not imagine this number, so they felt that there were many, many, many.

The villager said mysteriously: "I heard that Mr. Yang has another kind of fertilizer that can increase the yield of the fields. It is certain that the crops of others will grow well. How can they look like our fields? One acre of six or seven dou?"

The villagers were more interested. What kind of fertilizer is this, which is better than farm fertilizer? The villagers just smiled and said nothing. In fact, he didn't know much, but one day he heard a casual whisper from the villager who was directly under the village, and he remembered it in his heart.

Everyone was talking about it, and some envied the life of the villager directly, hoping to become a part of the inner circle in the future.

After I heard that after Mr. Yang classified this area as Xin'an Township, he planned to continue to expand north and west in the future and set up a few more towns, he still had a good chance.

Some people remain silent. They envied the villagers of the direct village for food and clothing, but they also knew that the management of the directly affiliated villages was relatively strict and their every move was like a military force. They were used to their current life, but could not withstand that kind of constraints.

But what to do next year? If such a severe drought continues.

Some people said that they were going to the quarry before the autumn sowing, and the road construction team worked in a short-term worker. Some people were preparing to raise more pigs and grow vegetables, some were preparing more mixed grains, soybeans and taros, and some were preparing to collect more nitro soil, which was mostly based on the supply and demand of the directly affiliated village residents.

Cao Ziren was also hesitant when he listened to everyone's discussion. According to what he thought, he had a family or wanted to farm in his own village. His younger brother wanted to rent his 15 acres of land for him to plant, and he was also moved.

When I think of my younger brother Cao Zigui, Cao Ziren is also envious. My younger brother is now working in the road work team. I heard that he plans to open a quarry by himself in the future, and he is extremely proud of his words. My younger sister-in-law Xu Zhenniang sews her at home, and now she earns more than one or two silver dollars a month. Judging from her tone, she plans to build a sewing workshop by herself in the future.

The couple worked enthusiastically, even in summer harvest, they asked people to harvest wheat in the fields, and they would not plant it in the second half of the year.

"It's better to plant it." Cao Ziren thought about it and decided this way, because he didn't know what to do except farming.

However, I have to agree with my brother in advance that if the drought is not harvested, I cannot ask for it. Moreover, he has prepared a variety of drought-resistant grains, as well as a variety of beans, which are easy to sell in Xin'anzhuang.

"It's still comfortable for the villager to be directly under the village." But looking at Shoushan Villa opposite, Cao Ziren couldn't help but think so.

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At this time, the Shoushan Villa, which Luoshan Villa’s people are talking about, is in a busy state.

This village is five miles away from Luoshan Villa, located at the foot of the mountain to the north of Erlang Mountain, and two miles north of it is the Nei Baima River. It is a typical Xin'an Village ruled Baojiazhuang. It has 100 households and a population of about 500.

After several battles with bandits and absorbing many refugees, Yang He decided to set up a Baojia, with ten households as the academy, one of the academy heads, and one of the ten academy heads as the protection, one of the protection chiefs and two of the deputy guards. In order not to attract attention, the bailout was called the village, and the guardian was called the owner of the manor.

Therefore, this village is called Shoushan Villa outside, but the name of the account booked by Yanghe is: Shoushan Bao (Jiubao), Xin'an Township, with one hundred households and five hundred mouths.

Shoushan Villa has a relatively suitable geographical population, but some villages cannot be so perfect. The principle of household registration is based on ten households. Each household must not be less than six households, and more than fifteen households. The insurance is based on ten households, and no less than six households, and more than fifteen households.

Then Yang He also established a guaranteed party, that is, townships, and the division principle is based on ten guarantees, and must not be less than six guarantees and more than fifteen guarantees.

In the future, there will be county-level units, with the principle of division based on ten townships, and no less than six townships or more than fifteen townships.

In this way, the basic population is guaranteed to be one hundred households, five hundred people, one thousand households in the township, five thousand people, and ten thousand households in the county, and fifty thousand people.

Of course, these are all directly affiliated villages, affiliated villages, and foreign merchant populations.

The entire people directly under Zhuang were all soldiers, called the village soldiers, and they were usually farmed and integrated with the soldiers and civilians.

However, unless the war is mobilized, the township soldiers will only farm, train and maintain local public order.

This is the case with Shoushan Villa at this time. The whole village has 500 men, women, young and old, and has devoted itself to the intense cultivation and water conservancy construction.

This village was established at the end of March. Before the autumn sowing, 6,000 acres of land must be reclaimed, and the corresponding water conservancy must be well built. Then they will have a lot of things to do in the future.

Generally, if the standard farm is under Yanghe, there will be five or six thousand acres of land, a livestock farm, a vegetable garden, and a workshop. They will also have to build the roadbed to the main trunk. Which farm will be built first, and the gravel road will be built first to which farm will be built first.

After setting up the village, the people of Shoushan Villa were busy all the time. Although some oxen and mules and donkeys were distributed in the village to cultivate, a large part of it depends on manpower.

The water conservancy team helped to repair some water conservancy, but a large part of it was done by Zhuangmin himself.
Chapter completed!