I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 534, Xiangkai's investigation report
Although Xu Wei was surprised by Niu Gui's opinion of Xiangkai.But there was no immediate comment.

After all, it has been almost a year since he left Ji County, and he doesn't understand what happened during this time.He still wants to hear what Xiang Kai said, and then investigate it himself.

So Xu Wei said to Jia Xu: "Please go and inform Master Xiangkai that I want to meet him tonight!"

Jia Xu nodded and said, "No!"

Xu Wei went back to his home first, spent some time with Zhang Ning and Xu Hao, and instructed Xu Hao to write homework for primary school.

It was not until evening that Xiang Kai came to Xu Wei's home.

Xu Wei looked at Xiang Kai and said with a smile, "Master, it's been a long time since I saw you, you still look good!"

This is really not Xu Wei being polite. When Xu Wei saw Xiangkai before, although he was like a fairy, he couldn't hide his decadence.

After becoming the speaker and having a career, he looks refreshed and energetic. Now he looks more than 10 years younger, and it can be said to be a middle-aged person if it is an exaggeration.In short, the whole person is full of vigor and energy, completely different from when Xu Wei first met him.

But Xiang Kai said with a wry smile: "I don't have any style, I've been disgusted this year, I'm afraid many people are looking forward to the old man's early death."

Then he looked at Xu Wei and said, "Have you heard what Niu Gui and the others have said about the fact that this old man wants to increase the fields and desert pastures of his followers?"

Xu Wei nodded and said: "Just now Niu Gui and the others told me that many people disagree with your opinion, thinking that doing so will affect Daqian's financial revenue, especially in the current year of catastrophe, the light has already exceeded 200 300 million yuan, by the end of the year, I'm afraid it will be close to 10 billion yuan, and this figure should be enough for the big Han Dynasty to go bankrupt [-] times."

"The imperial court is already in such a difficult situation. Grandmaster still has to divide up the official farms and pastures. Now that Niugui is in charge, he will of course have opinions on Grandmaster."

Xiang Kai said: "Niu Gui has an opinion, the old Taoist understands, but I don't know if the ruling party has the same idea?"

Xu Wei shook his head and said, "If you don't have the right to investigate, you don't have the right to speak. I don't even know about this matter, so I want to hear everyone's opinions first."

Seeing that Xu Wei did not resolutely object, Xiang Kai breathed a sigh of relief: "The burden of the people in power is too heavy, and [-] mu of land can barely support a family. There have been many locust plagues in drought years this year. The tribesmen began to sell their fields to make a living, if this kind of thing continues to develop, the nobles and nobles will appear again, and Dagan will become a big man again, so I want to increase the income of the common people!"

Hearing this, Xu Wei was very surprised. It has only been a few years since someone started selling fields, and this landlord is about to appear again!

Then he went on to say: "I'll make a calculation for the ruling party. Now a large family has 30 mu of land, but 10 mu of land is given to us with a lot of money. After all, we collect [-]% of the tax, which almost takes away the income of the people. one-third of.

Now one acre of land can harvest 3 shi of grain, but the real amount of grain in the hands of the people is only about 60 shi. According to the calculation of 100 qian for one shi of grain, the grain is only more than 6000 yuan at most, but this will deduct 300 shi Seed money of 5700 yuan, only [-] money left! "

"At the same time, the guano has been dug less and less in the past few years. Now you have to go to far places to dig it, so the price of struvite will naturally rise, and the more inland, the longer the transportation distance, the higher the price. Now The price of one stone of struvite in Bingzhou is 200 renminbi, and about 30 renminbi of struvite will be used for 6 mu of land. Adding in the cost of the livestock, there must be more than 1200 renminbi, and the real money I got is probably no more than 4500 renminbi. With this little money to feed a family of five, one person can only get 500 renminbi.

But now the monthly salary of any job in our big business will not be less than 800 yuan, the tax is too high, and now it is no longer profitable to just farm, especially this year's drought, many people lost their money, and this year it happened There are a large number of people who need to sell their fields. "

"From the data I have obtained, that is to say, the life of farmers in Liaodong area of ​​Youzhou is slightly better. Because most of them are newly reclaimed land, each household has about [-] mu of land, and the locust plague and drought have no effect. Here, life is slightly better.

That's why I have the idea of ​​letting a family have a hundred acres of land. Only with three times more land can everyone's life be better, and the ability to fight against drought and locust plagues will be stronger! "

"But these lands are all state-run farms of my camp. If they are really handed over to them, the financial revenue will be greatly reduced, and these burdens will be added to the people through taxes again!" Xu Wei said.

Daqian government-run farms are all large-scale farm-style production methods, using livestock instead of machinery, and are equipped with a large number of advanced agricultural tools such as eight-ox plows and carts. The efficiency is not much lower. A Daqian agricultural worker can probably Taking care of 100 mu of land, excluding their monthly salary, the benefits of such a farm are very considerable, especially providing a large amount of food and various cash crops. It can be said that Xu Wei has made great contributions to these farms and pastures in these years. .

But Xiangkai said disapprovingly: "Now I am working hard to develop the desert and Liaodong at the same time. Over the years, I have immigrated to the desert and Liaodong. There are more than tens of millions of people, especially this year when the Japanese country discovered Treasure Island. This year's drought was severe, and many land crops failed. A large number of people from Youzhou, Jeju and Bingzhou took boats to Wajima.

Coupled with the people who died in the war, in fact, the land in Hebei is not less but more, and every state and county has a lot of wasteland.

Don’t look at Dagan when you are in power. A large amount of land in counties and counties is state-run farms, but in fact the utilization rate of these lands is very low, that is, some farms are built in places close to water sources and flat land. These farms are large. Some of them are in Jizhou and Yanzhou, where the terrain is flat and the land is fertile, while the state-run farms in Youzhou and Liaodong, in fact, most of the land is empty, and there is not enough manpower to develop it.A lot of land that is not very profitable will be abandoned. "

"And if these lands are in the hands of the people, they will not dislike them. If they want to give these lands to the people, our income may increase instead."

"The same is true for herdsmen in the desert. 1000 mu of pasture looks like a lot, but it can only raise about 20 cattle and sheep. In recent years, due to the drag of the textile industry, the price of wool cannot be sold, and even many Merchants from all over the world no longer come to the desert to buy wool.

At the same time, because the herdsmen can go south to spend the winter, the price of mutton and beef is also slightly lower at this time of year, but if the weather is good, everyone can make some money. However, in recent years, there have been droughts and locust plagues in the desert, and most of the herdsmen They all earn a year and lose a year, and the average income is not too high. "

"As far as I know, there are already quite a few herdsmen who take their cattle and sheep to the government-run pastures to graze, and their own pastures are used as silage fodder. method, the herdsmen can barely survive.”

"That's why I came up with this idea. Instead of leaving those pastures empty, it's better to find a way to expand the pastures of each herdsman. The difference between a thousand-mu pasture and a ten-thousand-mu pasture is not very big, and one person can still take care of it." Come here, but the cattle and sheep in the hands of the herdsmen can be 10 times more, and their income can be increased immediately!"

Xu Wei asked in surprise: "Master Xiangkai, where did you get these materials?"

This needs to be more rigorous and has a formal format, which can be called an investigation report, and even Xu Wei doesn't know about it.

(End of this chapter)