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   Gu Jingyun asked, "Then how many open fields, how many Yongye fields can a household get here, and how much tax does a household have to pay?"

  The open air is the land allocated by the imperial court to the common people for cultivation. It must be returned to the imperial court after death or relocation. It cannot be bought, sold or transferred. However, the Yongye field belongs to one's own property, which can be passed on to future generations and can also be bought and sold freely.

Although the imperial court stipulated that each household can get 20 acres of open air, in fact, this number cannot be unified in various places. For example, in places with less land and more people, it is not bad that one household can get 4 or 5 acres. Domineering landlords and faint-hearted officials, those exposed fields will be transferred to the names of landlords and officials in the name of wasteland, and the people can only allocate some wasteland for wasteland reclamation.

   In a land with few people and few people, officials can allocate more than 20 acres of open fields when they are still sympathetic to the people.

   And there are so many mountains and forests here, even the wasteland can't be reclaimed, let alone open fields. Gu Jingyun can think of this, but Zhao Ning may not know, so he hopes that the old man will teach him this student in person.

   Although Zhao Ning came from a family of small landlords in the countryside, he couldn't even tell the five grains, let alone the farming of these fields.

He was fascinated by it for a while. He never knew how the common people could suffer like this. Nearly two-thirds of the people in this village didn't even have a set of clothes. , when one goes out, the other stays at home naked.

   Zhao Ning felt a dull pain in his heart, which made him feel sour.

  Gu Jingyun has figured out the situation of the entire village. Although the people in the village farm, they have two sources of income. The second is hunting.

It is a pity that it is far from the market, and it is difficult for them to sell the prey in time, so most of them are sold after drying. Very few, so everyone's life is not easy.

   And the mountains and forests are dangerous, why was it difficult for their village to marry a daughter-in-law before?

   Not only because of poverty, but also because of their high mortality rate due to hunting, few daughters from outside are willing to marry them.

  Gu Jingyun's eyes swept across this humble farmyard, his eyes paused at a place in the yard, "Is that rabbit skin? Why don't you make it?"

The old village chief smiled with a toothless mouth: "That's a craft, we don't know it, we'll just deal with it in a simple way, so that it won't be too hard, just take it to the market and replace it with a pound of coarse grains. Not bad."

An intact rabbit skin is worth between six and twenty pennies depending on its coat color, while a simple tanned rabbit skin is worth between fifteen and thirty-five pennies, and a tanned rabbit skin is worth between fifteen and thirty five cents. It is made into soft, ready-to-use rabbit skins, and its value is about one hundred cents.

  If the rabbit fur is pure in color, such as pure white or pure black, it is worth far more than a hundred pennies.

   That was the price that Gu Jingyun learned about when he was in Qiongzhou. At that time, he helped Bai Yitang and Baolu make rabbit skins, and Bai Yitang specially explained the market price to him when he gave him the money.

  The more economically developed the place, the more expensive this kind of thing is. Not everyone can afford rabbit skins.

   And no matter how poor this place is, the value of a thoroughly tanned rabbit skin will not be less than fifty cents.

  Gu Jingyun glanced at Zhao Ning, who had his head lowered, nodded slightly to the village chief, got up and said, "Thank you, old man, for clearing up your doubts."

The old village chief looked at him with cloudy eyes, and said with a smile: "It's just some ordinary things, and anyone who asks the son can know. I don't know how long the sons will stay here. Vegetables are still available."

   I just hope that they can leave quickly when they are full, so as not to harm the village.

   Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "It's getting late, we will rest here tonight and leave early tomorrow morning. We have been trapped for a long time, and there are not many vegetables left. The elderly are willing to help, and we are naturally grateful."

Shortly after leaving, Erlin and a few guards came to the village chief to buy vegetables, and looking at the two copper plates that were stuffed into his hand, the old village chief blushed, "It's just a few baskets of vegetables, how can it be worth the price. "

The guards carried the dishes and left, while Er Lin bitterly stopped the old village chief who pushed and refused, and said, "Don't make Xiao embarrassed, this is what the master ordered. gone back."

  The old village chief did not force the money back.

   At this time, Gu Jingyun was sitting cross-legged in the car and asked Zhao Ning, who was kneeling at the bottom, "Do you have a good plan for this dilemma?"

   "No improvement unless you migrate."

   "It's hard to leave the homeland, let alone where can we accept so many people at the same time and give them enough open fields and Yongye fields?"

  Zhao Ning was silent, and then said after a while, "Perhaps it's a way to go to business. It's close to the official road, and the traffic is quite convenient. Selling goods from the south to the north, and selling goods from the north to the south, it is a way out."

  Gu Jingyun shook his head, "Let's not talk about the cost, do you think the people who still insist on staying after moving out in the nearby villages will be flexible enough to do business?"

   "What does the gentleman think it should be?"

Gu Jingyun looked at the mountain forest outside and said, "I rely on water to drink water, and I rely on mountains to eat mountains. If I am here to watch and they are close to the official road, I have many ways to help them get rid of poverty, but I am not a parent here. I can help them. Just give them a technique."

   Zhao Ning's eyes widened, "What technique?"

"The old village chief said that the men in the village can hunt, and every household has a lot of animal fur, among which rabbit fur is the most." Gu Jingyun pointed at the fur collar on his collar and said, "A rabbit sweater is sewn on a piece of clothing. The collar will cost you at least one tael of silver, and if the coat color and craftsmanship are good, it is common to spend four or five taels. I want to teach them to tannery furs, so that they can earn at least 20 cents more for a piece of tanned fur, and ten more If it is 200 wen, one hundred pieces will have 2,000 wen. And coarse grains with shells are about 6 wen per pound.”

Zhao Ning converted the money into coarse grains. Just now, the village chief said that wild animals such as hares and pheasants are the most common in the mountains. They rarely catch big game, but these are common. Every household can get seven or eight hares a day for a long time. , I can harvest one or two after two or three days, so...

   Zhao Ning said with bright eyes: "Master, if the tanned fur can really be sold for such a high price, then the villagers will be able to eat and clothe themselves with this income alone."

  Thinking of what Mr. said before, he quickly asked, "If Mr. is a parental official, what else can I teach them besides this?"

   Gu Jingyun smiled and said, "If I were a parental official, I wouldn't hand over the recipe to them so simply and rudely."

   Zhao Ning was stunned and puzzled.

"Since I am a parent official, I am the parent official of the entire county. I seek political harmony in my position. Naturally, it is impossible to benefit only one village. I will find a way to open a school to teach the villagers who come to learn the skill of nitrification, and teach them to identify medicinal herbs. I even teach them to bake medicinal materials, and I will help them contact merchants, so as not to hurt people due to low prices when these things increase." Gu Jingyun smiled lightly: "But these are all trails, and the people's root lies in food, which is surrounded by mountains and has no Where the land can be cultivated should be repaid, but in other places where there is land, we must pay attention to farming and mulberry, and at least ensure that a county can be self-sufficient in food.”

   Zhao Ning tilted his head and thought, "Sir, scholars, peasants, businessmen, and businessmen are inferior, but I often see that merchants are rich and farmers are poor. If we focus on business and agriculture, wouldn't we be able to live a lot of people?"

"It is often said that the emphasis on commerce will make the people neglect agriculture, and the land will be desolate and the world will be in chaos, but I think that even if the commerce is heavy, very few people can give up the land and venture bravely, and it will not have a big impact on farming. Don't everyone lack land for farming? If people are allocated to do business, then everyone can get more land."

"Business can communicate with each other and strengthen a country, but it is still about food. People regard food as their heaven. People in the world often use gold as hard currency, but they don't know that food is above everything." Gu Jingyun took out a blank paper, drew many large and small circles on it, and then connected them with lines, saying: "These circles are the ability to produce grain, and the line is the quotient. The thicker the line, the more developed the quotient. The circles are connected so that the larger circles supplement the smaller ones, and then other things are taken from the smaller circles for payment. Without these lines, the circles would be isolated, without communication, but like a pool of stagnant water. But if there is not enough food , what's the use of these lines that are too thick?"

"Nowadays, we think that there are very few people who have the courage to leave their fields and go into business, but if they focus on business and become a culture, when the life of businessmen is better than that of farmers, how many people do you think will have the courage to do so? Take that step?"

"It's easy to give up the land to start a business, but it's difficult to go from a business to a farmer. Big businessmen often buy a lot of land and then lease it back to the farmer, but there are only so many fields in the world, and they buy a lot of fields, which means that there are a lot of People are losing their fields. Coupled with the annexation of the gentry and the rich, after years, the land in the world will be in the hands of these gentry and big businessmen. At that time, most of the people in the world will depend on them to live. Do you think they Will it be the opposite?"

   Zhao Ning's heart thumped.

Gu Jingyun smiled lightly and said, "The book says that the monarch's power is granted by God, and every time the court changes, the gods cannot see that the monarch is incompetent or the traitor is in power and change the world, but in my opinion, it is just that those in power cannot meet the needs of most people in the world. It makes them hopeless, and this is the beginning of a new beginning."

   Zhao Ning said dryly: "First, sir, the guards are outside."

   So are you really not afraid that they will sue the imperial court when you say these words?

  Li Baolu lifted the curtain and put her head in to comfort her: "Don't worry, you can say whatever you want, I will take all the outsiders away."

Hearing this, Gu Jingyun laughed out loud, looked at Zhao Ning happily and said, "The emperor understands this truth the most, I tell you this because I want you to understand what kind of world you live in, and in such a world you want to serve You, do something for your family, for your descendants, even for the world, for the common people."