AD 182, summer.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, disasters occurred frequently in the Central Plains. Xuzhou cut off water, causing a severe drought in Yuzhou. An earthquake occurred in Yanzhou, and the disease spread along the north bank of the Yellow River to Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili.

The royal family suppressed aristocratic families in the Central Plains, and a large number of officials from the aristocratic families were replaced. Local taxes were strictly scrutinized. The people hoped that the aristocratic families would restore the old system. When the aristocratic families were powerless, famine loomed in the Central Plains.

After the field tax was paid, the warehouses were full of millet, and the miscellaneous taxes were implemented and people went into exile.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the field tax of 1 in 30 taxes was supposed to allow the people to have a wealthy surplus. However, the miscellaneous taxes in the late Han Dynasty were quite scary, especially in Liu Hong's case, where the head tax had been increased to more than 200 yuan.

As for the slaves, retainers, serfs, and Qubu's head tax doubled, it was even harder for people to sell themselves to find a market.

Oral tax, labor service, allowance, military tax, etc. The aristocratic family and the royal family share profits. Originally, among these taxes, the aristocratic family would exempt or register less taxes through certain means, which is called tax evasion.

Through these means, the aristocratic family can reduce the burden on the people in the countryside and reduce its own expenses, thus achieving a balance.

But when the royal family and the eunuch group start to 'hunt' the Central Plains, whether it is because of the weakness of the aristocratic family or intentional inaction, when the aristocratic family loses its original 'function', when the aristocratic family starts to abide by the law, what awaits the people will undoubtedly be hell.

Just like entering the countdown to the troubled times of the late Han Dynasty, Liu Cang's eyes gradually became familiar with all kinds of things in the world.

Zhuojun is far away from the central government and is not under the control of Liu Hong and the eunuchs for the time being. However, it has not been greatly affected yet.

The Dongshan Mountain near Lousang Village has been surrounded by Liu Cang's weeds. With the care of the two villages, Liu Cang is now considered a well-known 'rich' family in the local area.

"Uncle Three Roe Deer, led the men to pick up all the golden pheasants, and sold them while the merchants in the village were still there."

In the middle of the east mountain, the 20-meter-high waterfall is not only beautiful but also majestic. Liu Cang, bare-chested and carrying his halberd, stepped out of the pool with heavy breaths and shouted to Liu Sanzhao who was guarding nearby.

Already over 1.7 meters tall, sixteen-year-old Liu Cang has a bronze complexion and a more muscular body.

The momentum of the waterfall water increases the resistance, and the depth of the pool exceeds two meters. Now Liu Cang will use his extraordinary lung capacity to dive into the water to practice his halberd.

This kind of exercise allows him to complete more efficient exercises in a shorter time, but because he is worried that he will be injured or lose strength and be in danger, when Liu Cang performs this kind of exercise, there will always be one or two people on the shore to guard him.

"Okay, who should I sell it to? The Lu family or those weirdos from the Li family." Liu Sanzhi responded, but before he finished speaking, a giant shadow roared out beside him and ran straight towards Liu Cang.

"Woof~boom!" A dog barked, accompanied by a huge splash of water. A rather large brown-gray giant dog splashed in the water, held its head high, and swam beside Liu Cang with a groan.

Dongshan Dog ‘Hero’ is a male dog that Liu Cang once obtained from the Huns. In two years, it has grown into a large dog that can easily overwhelm an adult.

Now the shoulder height of 'Haohan' has grown to nearly one meter.

Liu Cang taught it since childhood so that it would not attack people easily, but would rush forward, push and bite in the next three directions.

Pushing aside the cheerful man, Liu Cang walked out of the pool and took the clothes handed to him by Liu Sanzhao.

"Selling the Lu family, at least they are using the name of Lu Zhi. There are not many Romans in total. They just have rare looks and no wealth." Liu Cang didn't wipe off the water stains on his body and directly put on his blue clothes.

"Puff puff puff~" The hero followed Liu Cang to dig out of the pool, shook the water stains on his body, was kicked by Liu Cang, and happily went into the forest.

Because it is Liu Cang's spiritual beast, its IQ is far higher than that of its kind. It can also identify villagers who often live in the mountains, and usually does not attack villagers who live in the mountains.

"Okay, sir, it's actually okay to keep those golden pheasants. You just have to watch them more strictly. Hehe, although the Li family's wife is a bit scary, tsk tsk, she's good at raising children just by looking at them."

Avoiding the hero, Liu Sanzhi made a curving gesture in front of his chest, clicked his tongue, looked at Liu Cang with a strange smile, and turned around for a moment to leave.

The Li clan is a self-proclaimed clan of a group of Romans who settled in Han Dynasty. At first, Liu Cang was quite surprised to meet them in Zhuoxian County.

Foreign exchanges were already very prosperous during the Han Dynasty, and these Romans should have been prisoners brought back by the Han army during their campaign in the Western Regions.

After returning to the Han Dynasty, they were thrown to Longxi. They integrated into the Han Dynasty for many years. They did not like farming and raising livestock. They usually traveled to the Western Regions to do business. Occasionally, a few people would travel in the Han region.

Liu Sanzhen is a member of the Liu clan in Lousang Village, and now Liu Cang has officially been 'promoted' to become a young master in Lousang and Dongcun.

The reason is that Cai Yong brought very practical benefits to the two villages.

Ever since he went to Huangfu Song for a trip to the autumn wind in his early years and returned to Lousang, Liu Cang began to tidy up Dongshan and raise livestock.

In terms of financial investment, through Jian Yong, Liu Cang exchanged a hundred catties of gold for ten yak calves from the Huns. It must be said that they were really cheap.

Nowadays, the price of calves in the Han region is about 4,000 yuan. Although yaks have certain geographical limitations, the upper limit of the physical gain of beef can reach 200, and the gain probability is medium. There is no difference between cattle and yaks.

As for these yaks, as long as they are not led south of Jizhou, it will save a lot of effort if they are left to graze in the mountains.

Ten calves were obtained, and thanks to the help of Jian Yong, a good brother of the Xiongnu, the deal could be completed.

Later, Liu Cang ran out of money, but Cai Yong was also pardoned from exile by Liu Hong. Without saying anything, Liu Cang went directly to Zhang Fei's father to borrow money.

In normal times, Zhang Mo would never have lent it to Liu Cang, because nowadays, besides farming, everything has to pass the tax first, especially for breeding, if anything is not right, it will be lost.

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But with Cai Yong, everything is different. Taxes aside, and with the support of two villages, as long as there are no natural or man-made disasters, the profit is almost guaranteed.

I got money from Zhang Fei's father. I didn't dare to buy large animals randomly. I bought four pack horses and four draft horses each, for a total of 48,000 yuan.

Counting the two draft horses brought back from Huangfu Song earlier, there were ten horses. Because the spiritual essence produced by the draft horses and the draft horses could be used on the war horses, Liu Cang gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money.

Calves, foals, and later piglets and lambs are relatively cheap, with six piglets costing 1,300 yuan and ten lambs costing 2,000 yuan.

Originally, Liu Cang wanted to raise some more dogs. Meat dogs were cheap and only cost 200 dollars per adult. However, those ordinary small and medium-sized dogs were not ferocious beasts, and the spiritual essence they produced could not be used on giant dogs.

As for the hounds and fighting dogs played by the upper class of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they easily cost more than ten or two hundred thousand dollars. Liu Cang simply put his mind to it and waited a few years before thinking of other ways to deal with it.

The horses are led by the war horse Neighing Wind, and they usually stroll in the pastures on the mountainside.

The yak "long hair" restrains the calves, the goat "strategist" restrains the lambs, and the village sends out dolls to herd the cows and sheep, and they are raised in the mountains.

The canopy is too lazy to make, so the piglets are raised directly in captivity. Although the canopy can restrain the piglets if they are spread out, it is easy for people to misunderstand that they eat randomly, and it is easy to attract criticism when selling.

The tortoise "Ban Zhuan" has been lying in the pit for thousands of years, and it takes half a day to call out.

The Dongshan dog ‘Haohan’ and his daughter-in-law ‘Daya’, as well as the eagle eagle ‘Jinzi’, are still the pets of Master Liu.

Compared to these guys who don’t have many younger brothers, ‘Fighting Chicken’ is probably the one who works the most hard.

If the village had not arranged labor for Liu Cang, the fighting chicken would still be wilting today.

Compared with those larger livestock, raising chickens is Liu Cang's current main source of income and the source of meat and eggs for his own consumption.

The behavior pattern of chickens is relatively loose. They are free-range chickens. If they are raised too many, fighting chickens cannot stand up to them, and it is difficult to restrain them when they run all over the mountains and break their legs.

Now Liu Cang always has twenty free "day laborers" under his command. Their main task is to take care of the chickens and poultry running all over the mountains.
Chapter completed!