The 800 households in Yuse are truly sealed, with about 3,000 dens.

The annual rent is 6,000 stones of millet, 6,000 feet of silk and 9,000 taels of cotton, which is not counted as the twenty days of service every year.

Li Xiao has 200% advantage, that is, 1,200 stones of millet, 1,200 feet of silk, and 1,800 taels of cotton. If this benefit can be obtained, it will be extremely high.

The mountain slopes of Lanxi are not as harvested as Shiwu per acre, which is higher than the annual output of the Li family's thousand acres of land.

If you help others manage the fiefdom, you will earn more than 1,000 acres of land in your own year. Of course, you can do such a transaction.

But Dr. Zhao’s concerns are not unreasonable. In principle, they can collect so much rent and tax in a year, but in fact, the people in Lanxi are not in equal amounts of land, so the rent and adjustment burden is high, which is often delayed next year and owed last year again next year.

If the collection is insufficient, Li Xiao has to advance the payment himself, which is also very unprofitable.

"In case of famine, we have our own practices to reduce and exempt rent and tax according to the imperial system. In general, I have also considered it. We have many Lanxi Mountains and few lands, and the fields are relatively barren, especially lacking water conservancy, and the yield per mu is small. If we can increase the yield per mu of some land, then the land of the sealed households has not increased, but the income can be greatly improved, and the ability to pay rent and pay taxes can also be improved."

"But how easy is this?" Mr. Zhao said.

That's it, but it's difficult to do it.

These days, the fields have been planted and harvested in a wide range of land and harvested in a thin area. Lanxi has many mountains, land and slopes, so it has even thinner harvested in a thin area. How to increase production?

"It is man-made. I have been thinking for a long time and I feel that there are several aspects that can increase the yield per mu. First, deep cultivation, second, optimize the fine grain seeds, third, ensure water conservancy and irrigation, and fourth, increase weight and yield. If you can improve from these four aspects, increasing the yield per mu is not a problem. Then, not to mention that one mu is only one stone, I think it is not a problem to collect two or three stones a mu."

In later generations, one acre of land could be harvested for seven or eight hundred kilograms or even thousands of kilograms. Although this era could not do it, it was after all, without pesticides and fertilizers, and there was no irrigation, so it was up to the heavens to make a living.

However, it only takes more than one acre to collect a hundred kilograms.

The key is technology and philosophy.

For example, it is important to optimize and breed good seeds for grain seeds. For example, improving farming tools, using cattle and horses and other animal powers, and deepening the land, can also increase yields. It can even be two in three years, or one in a year, and it is more likely to plant two crops a year to increase yields.

Nowadays, many people are poor, short of cattle and horses, and even manpower to cultivate the land, making it difficult to cultivate the land, and the harvest will be reduced.

In addition, although the ancients began to know that manure could fertilize the land as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the fertilization of the land was still at a relatively simple stage.

In fact, not only can humans and animals be fed with feces, but there are also many things that can fertilize the fields, such as pond mud, wood ash, and even bean cakes. It would be even more amazing if a biogas tank could be built.

Another water conservancy facility also greatly limits grain production, and it is not enough to rely on the weather to make a living. You have to build canals, ponds, reservoirs, water trucks, etc.

In general, Li Xiao was able to come up with many measures to increase production.

"What Sanlang said is very laborious and material. Where can ordinary farmers have this money?"

Who doesn’t know how to use cattle and horses to practise, and who doesn’t know how to use good iron ploughing tools, but it costs money and is not cheap. Why is the imperial court prohibited the slaughter of oxen privately? Isn’t it because oxen is precious? Most people cannot afford oxen. In the Northern Dynasty, when the equal-field system began, even oxen could be divided into equal-field.

"This requires us to play a role. Don't we have money now? If you don't have money, it's useless. We can take out the money in our hands and buy cows and ploughing tools. Cows can be raised together with the merchants. We put the cows there to raise them. They raise cattle for us. We borrow cattle for free and they plow the land. The cattle are still ours. When the cows grow up, they can sell them for money and make profits. This will not lose money and make a lot of money."

Li Xiao smiled and settled the score with Dr. Zhao.

The same is true for tillage tools. The Li family can make tillage tools. If they make more, the cost will be low. You can even ask craftsmen to buy materials for large quantities, and then rent them to farmers. This is the same as buying tractor harvesters in later generations. Although the cost is not low, helping other farmers to harvest can also make a lot of money, which is quite cost-effective in the long run.

People get free cattle rights for Li’s family to raise cattle, and rent better farming tools with lower rent, which greatly reduces costs and increases land output, which is also cost-effective.

"This is how we can operate the canal and build water trucks. We pay for the repair and then collect the water supply based on how much money per mu per year, so that we can get the convenience of each of our own."

Li Xiao told the story.

According to his idea, the Li family had money, so they could buy cattle and plowing tools to repair water conservancy, and then recover costs and make money through breeding and renting. The people could obtain convenience at a lower cost and increase grain output.

After a walk around, the people's harvest will increase, and then the rent payment ability will be improved, and Li Xiao can guarantee that he will receive the remuneration given by the princess.

"I have a big idea." Mr. Zhao exclaimed.

"But it's not easy to do it in detail."

"There is nothing difficult in the world, I'm afraid of those who are interested." Li Xiao smiled. If it was so easy, who would give Li Xiao 20% of the benefits? Princess Yuse actually only offered the conditions according to the usual situation and the conditions that ordinary people can't get 20% of the actual amount.

"You have a good idea and a big heart. If you can really succeed, that's really good. You can make money and help everyone."

“It’s the Belt and Road Initiative.”

With mysterious space, Li Xiao is confident that he can improve the quality of grain seeds. If there is good grain seeds, then there is no problem with the level of optimal cultivation.

As for buying cows and horses, I now have the cash cow with medicinal wine, and the cash cow with perfume can be added immediately. Li Xiao is not worried about buying cows and horses to make plowing tools and repair water conservancy money. These are all investments.

This kind of big investment can only be borne by rich landlords like Li Xiao, but the high investment will also bring great returns.

With the relationship between Cheng and Xue families, Li Xiao has both money and a way, so naturally he doesn’t have to worry about not being able to buy a cow or a horse.

In addition, he believed that he could improve the tiller tools a lot. At least he was a person from later generations. Even if he was not good at this, as long as he gave a heavy reward, some craftsmen would definitely be able to make some improvements.

The way Li Xiao told Mr. Zhao was actually to break the past small farming model, which was a farming model for large farms.

It is impossible for ordinary people to increase investment and increase output, but Li Xiao can have this ability.

The ten thousand acres of land in Tamase happened to be used for experimentation.

"If you really want to do it, you have to buy cattle to build agricultural tools and repair water conservancy. It's not long before spring farming." Mr. Zhao was also a little moved.
Chapter completed!