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Chapter 170 Autumn Harvest
Chapter 170 Autumn Harvest
In the golden autumn and October, when the grain is ripe, it is the happiest day for the people of Ming Dynasty. The people are very simple, and they know that life is food, and there is a good life when there is food.
The people picked up the sickle, rolled up their sleeves, and rushed into the field, harvesting wheat and sorghum. Everyone was busy as if fighting a war. Shaanxi has a lot of wheat, and the wheat harvest is most afraid of rainy days. Since ancient times, there is a farmer Word: An inch of wheat is not afraid of an inch of water, but an inch of wheat is afraid of an inch of water.
What it means is that when the wheat just germinates and grows, it is not afraid of water, and it will grow better with more water, but it is afraid of heavy rain when the wheat grows up. Once the rain soaks, the wheat will be gone.
Therefore, harvesting wheat is a war, and we pay attention to quick battles and quick decisions. Find a sunny day to harvest wheat. After the wheat is harvested, it is pulled back, directly dried, and sealed into the granary.
If the wheat is exposed to rain during this period, it will be very bad. In this way, the wheat will germinate and rot, which will greatly affect the taste, and good wheat will become inferior food.
Therefore, harvesting wheat is a war, and it is also a time for capable men to earn money, because at this time, some capable men will form workers who help others harvest wheat, known as Mai Ke.
These mikes are very capable and experienced old peasants. They carry a sickle with them. Whenever a landlord’s house recruits someone, they will go there to help harvest the wheat. They will work for a few days and take care of their food. Ten catties of wheat as wages.
That's right, the local Mai Ke in Lantian does not charge wages, or in the real peasant class, not many people can use money, and everyone prefers to use grain to barter.
There is no salt at home, so I bring two catties of wheat to exchange for some. If the family wants to eat meat, I bring some wheat to exchange. And as the years get worse and worse, even men and wives start to collect grain as a dowry up.
As for silver, the common people can’t see it at all. It is something that landlords and rich people can afford.
Since the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng reformed and implemented a whip method, which combined the land tax, corvee and other taxes of various counties and counties, and collected silver taels uniformly.
The original intention of this policy is good, that is, the land tax is calculated by mu, which makes it more difficult for officials to corrupt ink, and can also commercialize corvee labor, the so-called Latin men, and increase the freedom of the population.
That is to say, if the showdown comes to your corvee, go to the north to build the Great Wall, and you don't want to go, you can pay the officials, and the officials will pay someone to go on your behalf.
This whip method was not bad when Zhang Juzheng was alive, and it brought positive meaning to the common people, but at the end of Ming Dynasty, the whip method completely became a razor to shave the common people.
Why is this so?Because the smart officials and the emperor came up with a new tax collection method called Jiapai.
What is the increase in taxation is to increase the tax collection items in addition to the whipping method. The more typical one is the Liao pay sent by Emperor Chongzhen, and then it works from top to bottom. In order to exploit the people, the local officials increase outside of Liaoxiang, chicken pay, duck pay , Cattle pay, stove pay, etc. are added.
What is chicken pay? It means that your family raises chickens, and you charge ten yuan for a chicken. You raise ducks, fifteen yuan for a duck, and fifty yuan for a cow. You even build a stove at home. Ten Wen.
And this money is not the tax of the imperial court, it is collected into the pocket of the magistrate.
In addition to paying taxes, ordinary people hardly use silver, so when it comes time to collect taxes, ordinary people have to exchange grain with merchants for silver, and at this time the silver will be coaxed by merchants collectively. In other words, at this time, a catty of rice costs eight pennies, and businessmen can still take the opportunity to exploit the people, resulting in the so-called "silver is expensive and grain is cheap."
It is precisely because of this that the former benevolent government has become a whip for the disabled in the mouths of the people in the later period.
Moreover, the common people have not finished exchanging silver from the merchants, and the county lord has to exploit the silver. The method of this method is called fire loss.
Everyone should know this, that is, there are impurities in the silver, and the government needs to refine it again to remove the impurities. Therefore, the imperial court stipulates that one tael of silver will be collected, and the county government will charge one tael. The extra tael is the so-called fire consumption. In fact, most of the money went into the county magistrate's pocket.
In this way, the county magistrate is earning a lot of money, and the common people are peeling off layer after layer, which is miserable.
Therefore, after Li Chaosheng returned to Tanggou Town, he found several groups of foreign merchants on the road, and set up a grain exchange point outside the road of Tanggou Town, which said that grain is exchanged for silver, and no one deceives anyone.
At this moment, Li Chaosheng looked at the small stall beside the road with his hands behind his back and asked, "What is this for?"
At this time, Li Chaolong, who was accompanying Li Chaosheng to inspect, said: "The leader is exchanging food for money."
Grain for silver?
Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Chaolong and said, "Now that food is so expensive, there are still people who exchange food for silver?"
After hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "After the autumn harvest, the tax officials will go to the countryside, and the common people will have to pay taxes in silver."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaolong and said, "Is it possible to pay taxes with grain?"
"No."
"What if you don't pay?"
Hearing this, Li Chaolong said with a bitter face: "The county magistrate will arrest the tax resisters and put them in shackles to show the public. He will steal grain worth twice the silver taels from the tax resisters' homes to pay taxes, and the county government will help sell them."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes. This county magistrate is really vicious. Li Chaosheng turned around thinking about it and came to the booth.
At this time, a young man said with a smile: "Brother, do you want to change money?"
Seeing this, Li Chaosheng sized up the young man and said, "Where are you from?"
The little guy smiled and said, "Tai'an Grain Shop, we are a big business and never lie to people when we do business."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the young man and said, "How do you change it?"
Hearing this, the young man said: "One load of grain is one tael or two silver."
Li Chaosheng was stunned and said, "That's not right. A few days ago, the food in Lantian City was one tael or five dollars a load of food? Isn't it more expensive now?"
Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Li Chaolong, and Li Chaolong replied at this time: "I inquired about it yesterday, Lantian was hit by disasters, and grain prices skyrocketed. Now it's already [-] yuan a load of grain."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the young man and said, "Look, you sell it for one tael and eight dollars, and you charge one or two taels. That's a shortfall of six taels of silver."
Hearing this, the little guy laughed and said, "Brother, you are joking. The new grain we harvest in the countryside has a lot of moisture, so it is naturally cheaper, and we come to the countryside. You can let us earn a little bit, you say yes, but The price of our Taian Grain Shop is still the most fair, you can go to the nearby towns to inquire, and if you have more than one or two yuan, you can come to me."
"Shunzi, what's the point of talking to them? If you like to change, if you don't like to change, don't block the young master from doing business with me."
What Li Chaosheng was talking to the boy at this time, the young master who was sitting on a chair drinking tea behind him shouted at Li Chaosheng without raising his eyes, with an extremely arrogant attitude.
What a status I am, I think highly of you when I come here to do business with you mud-legged bastards. How come there are so many nonsense, which makes my young master unhappy.
At this moment Li Chaosheng frowned and looked at the young master, "Who is this grandson?"
"Hey, you country bumpkin dare to curse!"
As soon as the young master raised his eyelids, the young man hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Okay, young master, please calm down, and this big brother, my young master has a bad temper, please bear with me."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng was silent for a while and smiled: "It's okay, let's go. By the way, boy, you are a nice person. I advise you to close the stall. You can't get a single grain in Tanggou Town."
After saying this, Li Chaosheng turned around and left with Li Chaolong. Seeing Li Chaosheng walking away, the young master was furious. He threatened me with something, but the little boy Shunzi said earnestly: "Master, this is no better than at home. Don't be impulsive and offend local snakes, our business is not easy to do."
After hearing this, the young master snorted disdainfully. Shunzi looked helpless when he saw this, but he was helpless.
Li Chaosheng left, and immediately said to Li Chaolong: "Brother, how much money does Tanggou Town have to pay this year?"
Li Chaolong rubbed his head and said: "About one thousand five taels of silver, the most important one is Wang Laocai, and Fang's family, they are big landlords, and they have paid a lot of money in the past few years. Of course, you also have more than 1000 yuan in your hand, leader. Mu of land, each mu of land should pay about half taels, about 500 taels of silver."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "Brother, let's take out 2000 taels of silver and tell the village that we will come here to exchange grain this year. We will exchange it at the market price, and we will receive one tael for a load of rice. "
Li Chaosheng was talking, and after hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "The leader is too tall, and the new grain has moisture, even if it is based on the market price of [-] yuan, it is a fair price, otherwise others will take us as a fool."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "I've been wronged, how could it be the one who collects grain? Haha, you just listen to me and collect it for one or two dollars. By the way, let's not be a Tanggou Town, the nearby towns also send Someone go, give me the silver, we have about 8 taels of silver in our hands, keep [-] as a spare, and give me the rest in exchange for food."
After hearing this, Li Chaolong looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Head, why do I feel that you are playing big chess again?"
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "Hide the wealth from the people, don't hold it back."
Li Chaosheng smiled and was in a good mood. Li Chaolong went back and arranged for someone to do this, while Li Chaosheng himself went to the field to watch the farmers harvest.
"Captain."
"Captain."
Li Chaosheng came to the field, and the people who saw Li Chaosheng, whether they were men or women, all called the head of the group. They were actually Li Chaosheng's tenants. Logically speaking, they should be called Li Chaosheng's owner, but they were all members of the same clan. , It's too natural to call it that way, so the big guy thinks it's better to be called the regiment leader like a soldier, so everyone calls it the regiment leader.
Li Chaosheng was not dissatisfied with this title, and he readily accepted it. After all, high and low are considered honorific titles.
When I came to the field, it was almost noon, and the tenant farmers in my field were still working hard. The corn fell a lot, but the modern cultivated varieties were really good, except for the slightly shrunken cobs, they were okay.
What pleased Li Chaosheng the most was the potatoes. The potato seeds he bought this time were really good. The big potatoes grew really gratifying. A hailstorm had the least impact on the potatoes. After seeing it, Li Chaosheng felt I am very happy. As a modern person, I saw the big potatoes all over the place and laughed from the bottom of my heart.
These potatoes can live many people. It was the first time for these farmers to see big potatoes. A farmer came over and said to Li Chaosheng: "Leader, look at the yam eggs in our field are almost as big as my fist."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "This shows that this land is very suitable for growing potatoes. Wait until next year, and next year we will plant more high-yielding sweet potatoes on this land."
After hearing this, the farmer's mouth cracked: "It can still produce high yields, what kind of fairy seed is that?"
Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "That is a fairy seed that has been raised for many generations, haha..."
Li Chaosheng was very happy holding the big potatoes. The potatoes grown in his own field looked good.
The high yields of corn, potatoes, and the two new crops brought happy smiles to everyone's faces. What is the dream of farmers, isn't it high-yield land?
Li Chaosheng stood on the ground, and he didn't know who happily sang a folk song, and the field was shrouded in a happy atmosphere for a while.
At noon, with a shout, the peasant women picked up the food to the field, and the farmers put down their hoes for a short while, and came to the field. The food was good today, and it was specially ordered by Li Chaosheng. The white noodles were cooked to improve the food for the big guys. There were also a few pieces of fatty pork floating on the white noodles.
Li Chaosheng also got a bowl. At this time, Li Chaosheng squatted on the ground and ate noodles like a big guy. Just after eating here, a group of greedy children ran over and saluted Li Chaosheng together: "Hello, principal!" .”
Li Chaosheng smiled when he saw them. Aren't these the students of his Li Family Primary School?How did they come here.
At this time, I saw Li Chaowen coming from behind. Li Chaosheng looked at him, and Li Chaowen said: "Most of these children are tenant farmers, and their parents are hardworking. It's okay for them not to come and see, and they can also help with the work."
Li Chaowen pointed at them, and sure enough, a group of children sowed it, and some of the grain that had been left out in the field was picked up. During the autumn harvest, there must be some grain that was left in the field, and there was a lot of it.
Bai Juyi once described this scene in detail: there is a poor woman next to her with her baby, holding the fringe in her right hand and hanging a basket in her left hand. Fill your stomach.
I have to say that Bai Juyi is worthy of being a great poet. With just a few words, the picture has a sense of it. At this time, a group of children are scattered, and the peasant women are full, and they also go to the field to pick up food, but it is a pity that their feet are all bound. With small feet, walking is very unsteady, so it doesn't go far.
This feudal dross is still poisoning the common people, and deforming the common people's aesthetics. Li Chaosheng once suggested that the village should not bind girls' feet, but they were politely rejected by the tribe. How can a woman with big feet get married these days? Married out will also be laughed at.
Although Li Chaosheng got a soft nail, but Li Chaosheng didn't care, he took his time and didn't rush, just like the security army, no one wanted to shave short hair, but now the security army's short hair rate has exceeded 60.00%, and it is still keep rising.
What kind of body, hair and skin are affected by the parents? When Li Chaosheng asked everyone to wear short hair, only Li Chaomeng and Li Chaolong responded to him, and Mr. Li Jinli took the lead in protesting, but now it is logical. Short hair rate will reach [-]%.
People have a herd mentality, and at the same time, human genes are engraved with the genetic code of respecting the superior, and they will love the superior. As long as Li Chaosheng is firm in his attitude, and then he marries a woman with big feet in the future, his senior officials will also If you follow the trend and marry some women with big feet, then this trend will change.
Li Chaosheng thought about it, and watched the children pick up the leftover grains left on the ground little by little, and then prepared to throw them into the grain piles of the adults. Take it away, and I will reward you as the principal."
After hearing this, the children cheered, and the adults also thanked the owner for a while. After Li Chaosheng said this, he thought that the adults would deliberately miss a little more for the children to pick up after hearing this. After all, if you pick it up, you will earn it yourself. Arrived.
But Li Chaosheng was wrong. Li Chaosheng found that the adults slowed down after hearing this, and actually harvested more seriously, while the children's harvest began to decrease, and even picked up one or two missed corn cobs in half a day.
Li Chaosheng was very curious about this, and Li Chaowen smiled at the side at this time: "This is the so-called heart-to-heart comparison. The principal treats the tenants sincerely, and the tenants are willing to work harder to repay the principal. It is really wonderful."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "It's better to be the same family as the folks in the village."
Li Chaosheng was talking, at this time Li Chaolong came running, followed Li Chaolong and said: "The town has been notified, and everyone agrees to come to our place to exchange food. On the way I came, I saw the person from the Tai'an grain shop. It was very leisurely." , not a single grain was received.”
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed, then pointed to the remaining two bowls of noodles and said to Li Chaolong: "You and Chaowen each have a bowl, and I will give you all the meat."
After Li Chaolong heard this, he was not polite at all, and started to eat voraciously. Li Chaowen was a little confused: "There is lunch in the school."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng asked, "Where are there white noodles and meat?"
Hearing this, Li Chaowen shook his head, and Li Chaosheng said, "Eat, I'll reward you. I'm not here these days, and you are the only one working in the school."
After hearing this, Li Chaowen said: "No hurry, the principal is polite, since that's the case, I will not be disrespectful."
After speaking, Li Chaowen also began to eat noodles with big mouthfuls, served with fatty meat, it was delicious, noodles with fatty meat, the best in the world, let alone Li Chaowen, Li Chaolong didn't often eat this kind of food, even the rich landlord It's beyond the limit for everyone to eat this white noodles with fatty meat.
Don't think that Lao Cai, the landlords in the late Ming Dynasty, lived a life of delicacies. In fact, they probably lived a better life than ordinary people and could eat a little more.
Li Chaosheng's land here is full of joy, the tenant farmers have reached a very friendly relationship with Li Chaosheng, and they are happy and happy, but on the other land, Wang Laocai's face is blackened.
Pieces of wheat fell down, and the ears of wheat were broken, resulting in a large-scale reduction in production. At this time, the housekeeper came over to Wang Laocai and said, "Master, this year's wheat production has decreased by more than [-]%, especially in lowlands, and the loss is even more serious."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai didn't pass out. The wheat fields have reduced their production by [-]%, and the tenant farmers can talk about it, but what should the government do? The government collects taxes according to the years of good harvest. According to the output when the year was good ten years ago, the government tax can take at least [-]% of the total output, and the remaining [-]% will be shared with the tenant farmers. I no longer plant my own land.
But what to do if there are too many points, I can't make it through, Wang Laocai almost fainted, but fortunately the housekeeper added: "This year's sorghum production is not bad, and we can keep [-]% of it.
After hearing this, Wang Laocai finally recovered, grinned and said, "Okay, okay, sorghum is better."
Wang Laocai thought about it, and the housekeeper said at this time: "But master, this year's harvest is so bad, what should we do with the food of the tenant farmers, it is not enough for their family to live, the tenant farmers will definitely cause trouble if they don't have enough to eat, and master, your family If there is a large amount of grain stored, if the tenant farmers are hungry, they might grab the grain.”
After hearing this, Wang Laocai looked at the butler and said, "No way, they dare to rob food, and robbing food is a rebellion!"
The housekeeper said quietly at this time: "Master, you know the second king of Baishui."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai shivered. Others don't know, but now who doesn't know Baishui Wang Er, who was the first to raise the anti-flag. It is said that there is a lot of trouble in Weinan, Tongchuan and other places, and the county magistrates are all killed There are seven or eight of them, and they repelled several attacks from the guards, but they are the first bandits.
And this Wang Er is said to be a tenant farmer who rebelled when he couldn't survive, and the first tenant rebellion was to kill his own landlord.
There is a saying that landlords eat tenants in good years, and tenants eat landlords in bad years. This is not a joke. Feng Xiaogang made a blockbuster "1942" which depicts the great famine in Henan. In it, Zhang Guoli's family was a rich man from ten miles and eight villages. As for the watchtowers, but the disaster year has come, the hungry tenant farmers really have nothing to eat, so they think of the landlord's house, the landlord's house must have surplus food.
Then they will rush into the landlord's house. If you give them food, they will eat your food every day. If you don't give it, they will rob it. At this time, the law is a joke. They are almost starving to death. Who will tell you the law? , who will talk to you about morality and trouble?
Between life and death there is great terror, and his name is hunger.
Wang Laocai is a smart man and he knows this truth, so he broke out in a cold sweat at this time, and seeing that the hardworking tenant farmers in the field were no longer docile cattle and sheep, but tigers that would eat people, Wang Laocai was afraid.
"This, how can this be good?"
After hearing this, the housekeeper said with a smile: "I ran into Li Chaolong on the road just now."
Wang Laocai frowned when he heard this and said, "What does this matter have to do with Lao Li's family?"
At this moment, the butler laughed and said, "Li Chaolong said that his family is going to collect grain, and the price is not low, one or two or eight dollars."
"Twenty-eight dollars!"
Hearing this, Wang Laocai jumped up, good guy, this has caught up with the market price, and our new grain is heavier than the heavy grain in the market, this is profitable.
After hearing this, Wang Laocai looked at the housekeeper and said, "You mean to sell the grain to Li Chaolong."
"Yes, and it will be sold with great fanfare, so that everyone in Tanggou Town can see that we have given all the grain to Li Chaolong, and when we get the money, we have to pay taxes and save it, and the tenant farmers will also Knowing that Lao Li's family has food, when the time comes and you're hungry, you won't eat the master, but Li Chaolong and the others!"
After hearing this, Wang Laocai's eyes lit up. It made sense. At this moment, the butler sighed and said, "Actually, master, if I were you, I would even sell the land to Lao Li's family."
"Sell the land? You can't sell the land!"
At this moment, Wang Laocai said with his eyes wide open. After hearing this, the housekeeper said, "Master, what do you think of this year?"
"It's getting worse."
Wang Laocai sighed, and the butler said at this time: "The situation is getting worse and worse, and I don't know what God has done. It's either a drought or a flood. Our family hasn't made much money these years. If it wasn't for the master, you are running the house Youdao, maybe it will be defeated."
"In recent years, the royal court has become more and more popular, and the appetite of our county lord is getting bigger and bigger, and various taxes are constantly increasing. I heard that the lord recently invented a new tax, called the fertile land tax, which means that we Pour manure on the ground and you have to pay taxes."
"Why do you have to collect taxes for pouring manure into the ground!!"
Wang Laocai's eyes widened, and the housekeeper nodded and said, "Isn't this normal? Raising chickens and ducks is taxed, but why not collect tax for pouring manure, as long as the county magistrate is willing, maybe you have to pay tax."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai sighed dejectedly and said, "You won't let people live, but you can't sell the land, absolutely can't sell the land."
Landlords and rich people have a paranoid love for land, just like modern people value real estate, and they all think it is an irreparable business. Seeing that Wang Laocai refused to sell the land, the housekeeper was silent for a moment and said: "Master, this land can't be sold." Let's talk about it later, but the situation is unpredictable now, and it may be even worse in the coming year."
After hearing this, Wang Laocai said, "Then you can't sell the land."
The butler was a little helpless, he was really a stubborn guy, there was no other way but the butler didn't persuade him, only Wang Laocai who had suffered a loss could know how powerful he was.
The fields were being harvested. At noon, the wheat guests and tenants in Wang Laocai's field ate sorghum noodles and steamed buns, which made their voices choked up, but everyone ate it with great enjoyment.
Eat and drink enough, and the harvest continues.
After three days of harvesting, the grain harvest in Tanggou Town was finished. At this time, Li Chaosheng was called to the field to watch the farmers weigh them. Soon Li Chaosheng got the data he wanted.
This year's corn disaster has greatly affected the harvest. One mu of land only harvested [-] catties. This figure shocked the onlookers all of a sudden, and their eyes widened: "My God, [-] catties!"
"This, this is unbelievable, this is an inferior field."
A group of villagers stared at them with surprise in their eyes. The corn yield was too high, and the news quickly reached Wang Laocai's ears. Wang Laocai was also shocked when he heard this. One hundred catties, this is much better than the four hundred catties of wheat per mu of my own land. Of course, this year's wheat will cause disasters, and at most two hundred catties of wheat per mu of land will be harvested.
Wang Laocai immediately sent the housekeeper to inquire about the corn, and soon the news came out. The corn is ripe once a year, and it is said that the yield per mu can reach [-] catties.
Wang Laocai frowned when he heard this. This corn is ripe once a year, and his own wheat can be planted twice a year. He can't afford to plant this new corn. Once the grain fails, and maybe this corn is suitable for low-grade fields .
Thinking of Wang Laocai, he gave up his plan to grow corn, followed by potatoes. When the potatoes were on the scale, everyone was speechless in shock. The yield of potatoes per mu had reached [-] catties. It's almost like a fairy tale.
Four thousand kilograms of potatoes is a routine operation in the modern world. There is no fuss about two thousand kilograms of potatoes per mu of land. The highest record yield of potatoes per mu almost broke ten thousand kilograms.
But this four thousand catties was unprecedented in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone stared wide-eyed, looking at the big potato, feeling indescribable, and they all looked at Li Chaosheng as if they were looking at God.
The yield per mu is [-] catties, and one mu of land is worth ten mu of top-grade fields.
This news was passed on to Wang Laocai almost quickly, and Wang Laocai also got the potatoes. At this time, he squeezed, smelled it, took a piece with his hands, and said: "Why are these potatoes full of water?" Ah, although this kind of thing has a high yield, it must be difficult to store, and it may rot in a month or two, so what's the use of this, it's a sensationalist."
Wang Laocai looked at the potatoes and said that they are unreliable, and there is no use in storing them for a long time. After planting them for two or three months, they are still hungry.
Therefore, Wang Laocai is not interested in potatoes. He is still interested in wheat, which has been grown by his ancestors for generations. Don't worry.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't agree, Li Chaosheng is very happy, the potato harvest is bumper, with an average yield of 40 catties per mu of land, and 1 catties of potatoes are given to Li Chaosheng for [-] mu of land, which is enough for [-] people to save and eat. forty days.
This is really a treasure, and potatoes can be used as both rice and vegetables. This is really a delicacy that you can't get tired of eating. Li Chaosheng thought about inviting the whole family to have a potato feast that night.
Potato feast, the word is all potatoes, occasionally interspersed with a few corns, there are many ways to eat potatoes, baked potatoes, steamed potatoes, the most favorite of the big guys is potato stew.
The stewed potato cubes were soft and sandy, and they tasted full of fragrance. With the meat cubes, everyone ate it with great joy and said it was delicious.
Steamed potatoes, this one is also scrambled for by everyone. After the potatoes are steamed, peel off the skin, put a layer of salt on it, take a bite, it is delicious, and it is much more delicious than Wowotou.
Roasted potatoes, let alone, are very fragrant, and everyone eats it very enjoyable. At this time, Li Chaolong smiled and said: "Head, this potato is really precious, or we will plant all the potatoes in the field in the future." Bar."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng shook his head and said, "No, although these potatoes are good, they have two disadvantages. First, they are difficult to store. Under our primitive conditions, they usually rot within two to three months. Everyone will starve to death in three months. The second potato absorbs the nutrients of the land. If it is planted continuously for several years, the land will be useless. Therefore, the land where potatoes are planted in the next year will be replaced by corn, and some corn will be reserved for planting. Potatoes will do."
Li Chaosheng said while eating baked potatoes, after hearing this, Li Chaolong nodded and said: "So that's the case, but it's enough, we can let the big guys eat potatoes first, and then we can eat enough food to live in."
Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "That makes sense, by the way, what happened to Wang Laocai?"
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In the golden autumn and October, when the grain is ripe, it is the happiest day for the people of Ming Dynasty. The people are very simple, and they know that life is food, and there is a good life when there is food.
The people picked up the sickle, rolled up their sleeves, and rushed into the field, harvesting wheat and sorghum. Everyone was busy as if fighting a war. Shaanxi has a lot of wheat, and the wheat harvest is most afraid of rainy days. Since ancient times, there is a farmer Word: An inch of wheat is not afraid of an inch of water, but an inch of wheat is afraid of an inch of water.
What it means is that when the wheat just germinates and grows, it is not afraid of water, and it will grow better with more water, but it is afraid of heavy rain when the wheat grows up. Once the rain soaks, the wheat will be gone.
Therefore, harvesting wheat is a war, and we pay attention to quick battles and quick decisions. Find a sunny day to harvest wheat. After the wheat is harvested, it is pulled back, directly dried, and sealed into the granary.
If the wheat is exposed to rain during this period, it will be very bad. In this way, the wheat will germinate and rot, which will greatly affect the taste, and good wheat will become inferior food.
Therefore, harvesting wheat is a war, and it is also a time for capable men to earn money, because at this time, some capable men will form workers who help others harvest wheat, known as Mai Ke.
These mikes are very capable and experienced old peasants. They carry a sickle with them. Whenever a landlord’s house recruits someone, they will go there to help harvest the wheat. They will work for a few days and take care of their food. Ten catties of wheat as wages.
That's right, the local Mai Ke in Lantian does not charge wages, or in the real peasant class, not many people can use money, and everyone prefers to use grain to barter.
There is no salt at home, so I bring two catties of wheat to exchange for some. If the family wants to eat meat, I bring some wheat to exchange. And as the years get worse and worse, even men and wives start to collect grain as a dowry up.
As for silver, the common people can’t see it at all. It is something that landlords and rich people can afford.
Since the Wanli period, Zhang Juzheng reformed and implemented a whip method, which combined the land tax, corvee and other taxes of various counties and counties, and collected silver taels uniformly.
The original intention of this policy is good, that is, the land tax is calculated by mu, which makes it more difficult for officials to corrupt ink, and can also commercialize corvee labor, the so-called Latin men, and increase the freedom of the population.
That is to say, if the showdown comes to your corvee, go to the north to build the Great Wall, and you don't want to go, you can pay the officials, and the officials will pay someone to go on your behalf.
This whip method was not bad when Zhang Juzheng was alive, and it brought positive meaning to the common people, but at the end of Ming Dynasty, the whip method completely became a razor to shave the common people.
Why is this so?Because the smart officials and the emperor came up with a new tax collection method called Jiapai.
What is the increase in taxation is to increase the tax collection items in addition to the whipping method. The more typical one is the Liao pay sent by Emperor Chongzhen, and then it works from top to bottom. In order to exploit the people, the local officials increase outside of Liaoxiang, chicken pay, duck pay , Cattle pay, stove pay, etc. are added.
What is chicken pay? It means that your family raises chickens, and you charge ten yuan for a chicken. You raise ducks, fifteen yuan for a duck, and fifty yuan for a cow. You even build a stove at home. Ten Wen.
And this money is not the tax of the imperial court, it is collected into the pocket of the magistrate.
In addition to paying taxes, ordinary people hardly use silver, so when it comes time to collect taxes, ordinary people have to exchange grain with merchants for silver, and at this time the silver will be coaxed by merchants collectively. In other words, at this time, a catty of rice costs eight pennies, and businessmen can still take the opportunity to exploit the people, resulting in the so-called "silver is expensive and grain is cheap."
It is precisely because of this that the former benevolent government has become a whip for the disabled in the mouths of the people in the later period.
Moreover, the common people have not finished exchanging silver from the merchants, and the county lord has to exploit the silver. The method of this method is called fire loss.
Everyone should know this, that is, there are impurities in the silver, and the government needs to refine it again to remove the impurities. Therefore, the imperial court stipulates that one tael of silver will be collected, and the county government will charge one tael. The extra tael is the so-called fire consumption. In fact, most of the money went into the county magistrate's pocket.
In this way, the county magistrate is earning a lot of money, and the common people are peeling off layer after layer, which is miserable.
Therefore, after Li Chaosheng returned to Tanggou Town, he found several groups of foreign merchants on the road, and set up a grain exchange point outside the road of Tanggou Town, which said that grain is exchanged for silver, and no one deceives anyone.
At this moment, Li Chaosheng looked at the small stall beside the road with his hands behind his back and asked, "What is this for?"
At this time, Li Chaolong, who was accompanying Li Chaosheng to inspect, said: "The leader is exchanging food for money."
Grain for silver?
Li Chaosheng was stunned for a moment, looked at Li Chaolong and said, "Now that food is so expensive, there are still people who exchange food for silver?"
After hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "After the autumn harvest, the tax officials will go to the countryside, and the common people will have to pay taxes in silver."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaolong and said, "Is it possible to pay taxes with grain?"
"No."
"What if you don't pay?"
Hearing this, Li Chaolong said with a bitter face: "The county magistrate will arrest the tax resisters and put them in shackles to show the public. He will steal grain worth twice the silver taels from the tax resisters' homes to pay taxes, and the county government will help sell them."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes. This county magistrate is really vicious. Li Chaosheng turned around thinking about it and came to the booth.
At this time, a young man said with a smile: "Brother, do you want to change money?"
Seeing this, Li Chaosheng sized up the young man and said, "Where are you from?"
The little guy smiled and said, "Tai'an Grain Shop, we are a big business and never lie to people when we do business."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the young man and said, "How do you change it?"
Hearing this, the young man said: "One load of grain is one tael or two silver."
Li Chaosheng was stunned and said, "That's not right. A few days ago, the food in Lantian City was one tael or five dollars a load of food? Isn't it more expensive now?"
Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Li Chaolong, and Li Chaolong replied at this time: "I inquired about it yesterday, Lantian was hit by disasters, and grain prices skyrocketed. Now it's already [-] yuan a load of grain."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at the young man and said, "Look, you sell it for one tael and eight dollars, and you charge one or two taels. That's a shortfall of six taels of silver."
Hearing this, the little guy laughed and said, "Brother, you are joking. The new grain we harvest in the countryside has a lot of moisture, so it is naturally cheaper, and we come to the countryside. You can let us earn a little bit, you say yes, but The price of our Taian Grain Shop is still the most fair, you can go to the nearby towns to inquire, and if you have more than one or two yuan, you can come to me."
"Shunzi, what's the point of talking to them? If you like to change, if you don't like to change, don't block the young master from doing business with me."
What Li Chaosheng was talking to the boy at this time, the young master who was sitting on a chair drinking tea behind him shouted at Li Chaosheng without raising his eyes, with an extremely arrogant attitude.
What a status I am, I think highly of you when I come here to do business with you mud-legged bastards. How come there are so many nonsense, which makes my young master unhappy.
At this moment Li Chaosheng frowned and looked at the young master, "Who is this grandson?"
"Hey, you country bumpkin dare to curse!"
As soon as the young master raised his eyelids, the young man hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Okay, young master, please calm down, and this big brother, my young master has a bad temper, please bear with me."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng was silent for a while and smiled: "It's okay, let's go. By the way, boy, you are a nice person. I advise you to close the stall. You can't get a single grain in Tanggou Town."
After saying this, Li Chaosheng turned around and left with Li Chaolong. Seeing Li Chaosheng walking away, the young master was furious. He threatened me with something, but the little boy Shunzi said earnestly: "Master, this is no better than at home. Don't be impulsive and offend local snakes, our business is not easy to do."
After hearing this, the young master snorted disdainfully. Shunzi looked helpless when he saw this, but he was helpless.
Li Chaosheng left, and immediately said to Li Chaolong: "Brother, how much money does Tanggou Town have to pay this year?"
Li Chaolong rubbed his head and said: "About one thousand five taels of silver, the most important one is Wang Laocai, and Fang's family, they are big landlords, and they have paid a lot of money in the past few years. Of course, you also have more than 1000 yuan in your hand, leader. Mu of land, each mu of land should pay about half taels, about 500 taels of silver."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "Brother, let's take out 2000 taels of silver and tell the village that we will come here to exchange grain this year. We will exchange it at the market price, and we will receive one tael for a load of rice. "
Li Chaosheng was talking, and after hearing this, Li Chaolong said: "The leader is too tall, and the new grain has moisture, even if it is based on the market price of [-] yuan, it is a fair price, otherwise others will take us as a fool."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "I've been wronged, how could it be the one who collects grain? Haha, you just listen to me and collect it for one or two dollars. By the way, let's not be a Tanggou Town, the nearby towns also send Someone go, give me the silver, we have about 8 taels of silver in our hands, keep [-] as a spare, and give me the rest in exchange for food."
After hearing this, Li Chaolong looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Head, why do I feel that you are playing big chess again?"
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "Hide the wealth from the people, don't hold it back."
Li Chaosheng smiled and was in a good mood. Li Chaolong went back and arranged for someone to do this, while Li Chaosheng himself went to the field to watch the farmers harvest.
"Captain."
"Captain."
Li Chaosheng came to the field, and the people who saw Li Chaosheng, whether they were men or women, all called the head of the group. They were actually Li Chaosheng's tenants. Logically speaking, they should be called Li Chaosheng's owner, but they were all members of the same clan. , It's too natural to call it that way, so the big guy thinks it's better to be called the regiment leader like a soldier, so everyone calls it the regiment leader.
Li Chaosheng was not dissatisfied with this title, and he readily accepted it. After all, high and low are considered honorific titles.
When I came to the field, it was almost noon, and the tenant farmers in my field were still working hard. The corn fell a lot, but the modern cultivated varieties were really good, except for the slightly shrunken cobs, they were okay.
What pleased Li Chaosheng the most was the potatoes. The potato seeds he bought this time were really good. The big potatoes grew really gratifying. A hailstorm had the least impact on the potatoes. After seeing it, Li Chaosheng felt I am very happy. As a modern person, I saw the big potatoes all over the place and laughed from the bottom of my heart.
These potatoes can live many people. It was the first time for these farmers to see big potatoes. A farmer came over and said to Li Chaosheng: "Leader, look at the yam eggs in our field are almost as big as my fist."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "This shows that this land is very suitable for growing potatoes. Wait until next year, and next year we will plant more high-yielding sweet potatoes on this land."
After hearing this, the farmer's mouth cracked: "It can still produce high yields, what kind of fairy seed is that?"
Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "That is a fairy seed that has been raised for many generations, haha..."
Li Chaosheng was very happy holding the big potatoes. The potatoes grown in his own field looked good.
The high yields of corn, potatoes, and the two new crops brought happy smiles to everyone's faces. What is the dream of farmers, isn't it high-yield land?
Li Chaosheng stood on the ground, and he didn't know who happily sang a folk song, and the field was shrouded in a happy atmosphere for a while.
At noon, with a shout, the peasant women picked up the food to the field, and the farmers put down their hoes for a short while, and came to the field. The food was good today, and it was specially ordered by Li Chaosheng. The white noodles were cooked to improve the food for the big guys. There were also a few pieces of fatty pork floating on the white noodles.
Li Chaosheng also got a bowl. At this time, Li Chaosheng squatted on the ground and ate noodles like a big guy. Just after eating here, a group of greedy children ran over and saluted Li Chaosheng together: "Hello, principal!" .”
Li Chaosheng smiled when he saw them. Aren't these the students of his Li Family Primary School?How did they come here.
At this time, I saw Li Chaowen coming from behind. Li Chaosheng looked at him, and Li Chaowen said: "Most of these children are tenant farmers, and their parents are hardworking. It's okay for them not to come and see, and they can also help with the work."
Li Chaowen pointed at them, and sure enough, a group of children sowed it, and some of the grain that had been left out in the field was picked up. During the autumn harvest, there must be some grain that was left in the field, and there was a lot of it.
Bai Juyi once described this scene in detail: there is a poor woman next to her with her baby, holding the fringe in her right hand and hanging a basket in her left hand. Fill your stomach.
I have to say that Bai Juyi is worthy of being a great poet. With just a few words, the picture has a sense of it. At this time, a group of children are scattered, and the peasant women are full, and they also go to the field to pick up food, but it is a pity that their feet are all bound. With small feet, walking is very unsteady, so it doesn't go far.
This feudal dross is still poisoning the common people, and deforming the common people's aesthetics. Li Chaosheng once suggested that the village should not bind girls' feet, but they were politely rejected by the tribe. How can a woman with big feet get married these days? Married out will also be laughed at.
Although Li Chaosheng got a soft nail, but Li Chaosheng didn't care, he took his time and didn't rush, just like the security army, no one wanted to shave short hair, but now the security army's short hair rate has exceeded 60.00%, and it is still keep rising.
What kind of body, hair and skin are affected by the parents? When Li Chaosheng asked everyone to wear short hair, only Li Chaomeng and Li Chaolong responded to him, and Mr. Li Jinli took the lead in protesting, but now it is logical. Short hair rate will reach [-]%.
People have a herd mentality, and at the same time, human genes are engraved with the genetic code of respecting the superior, and they will love the superior. As long as Li Chaosheng is firm in his attitude, and then he marries a woman with big feet in the future, his senior officials will also If you follow the trend and marry some women with big feet, then this trend will change.
Li Chaosheng thought about it, and watched the children pick up the leftover grains left on the ground little by little, and then prepared to throw them into the grain piles of the adults. Take it away, and I will reward you as the principal."
After hearing this, the children cheered, and the adults also thanked the owner for a while. After Li Chaosheng said this, he thought that the adults would deliberately miss a little more for the children to pick up after hearing this. After all, if you pick it up, you will earn it yourself. Arrived.
But Li Chaosheng was wrong. Li Chaosheng found that the adults slowed down after hearing this, and actually harvested more seriously, while the children's harvest began to decrease, and even picked up one or two missed corn cobs in half a day.
Li Chaosheng was very curious about this, and Li Chaowen smiled at the side at this time: "This is the so-called heart-to-heart comparison. The principal treats the tenants sincerely, and the tenants are willing to work harder to repay the principal. It is really wonderful."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "It's better to be the same family as the folks in the village."
Li Chaosheng was talking, at this time Li Chaolong came running, followed Li Chaolong and said: "The town has been notified, and everyone agrees to come to our place to exchange food. On the way I came, I saw the person from the Tai'an grain shop. It was very leisurely." , not a single grain was received.”
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng laughed, then pointed to the remaining two bowls of noodles and said to Li Chaolong: "You and Chaowen each have a bowl, and I will give you all the meat."
After Li Chaolong heard this, he was not polite at all, and started to eat voraciously. Li Chaowen was a little confused: "There is lunch in the school."
After hearing this, Li Chaosheng asked, "Where are there white noodles and meat?"
Hearing this, Li Chaowen shook his head, and Li Chaosheng said, "Eat, I'll reward you. I'm not here these days, and you are the only one working in the school."
After hearing this, Li Chaowen said: "No hurry, the principal is polite, since that's the case, I will not be disrespectful."
After speaking, Li Chaowen also began to eat noodles with big mouthfuls, served with fatty meat, it was delicious, noodles with fatty meat, the best in the world, let alone Li Chaowen, Li Chaolong didn't often eat this kind of food, even the rich landlord It's beyond the limit for everyone to eat this white noodles with fatty meat.
Don't think that Lao Cai, the landlords in the late Ming Dynasty, lived a life of delicacies. In fact, they probably lived a better life than ordinary people and could eat a little more.
Li Chaosheng's land here is full of joy, the tenant farmers have reached a very friendly relationship with Li Chaosheng, and they are happy and happy, but on the other land, Wang Laocai's face is blackened.
Pieces of wheat fell down, and the ears of wheat were broken, resulting in a large-scale reduction in production. At this time, the housekeeper came over to Wang Laocai and said, "Master, this year's wheat production has decreased by more than [-]%, especially in lowlands, and the loss is even more serious."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai didn't pass out. The wheat fields have reduced their production by [-]%, and the tenant farmers can talk about it, but what should the government do? The government collects taxes according to the years of good harvest. According to the output when the year was good ten years ago, the government tax can take at least [-]% of the total output, and the remaining [-]% will be shared with the tenant farmers. I no longer plant my own land.
But what to do if there are too many points, I can't make it through, Wang Laocai almost fainted, but fortunately the housekeeper added: "This year's sorghum production is not bad, and we can keep [-]% of it.
After hearing this, Wang Laocai finally recovered, grinned and said, "Okay, okay, sorghum is better."
Wang Laocai thought about it, and the housekeeper said at this time: "But master, this year's harvest is so bad, what should we do with the food of the tenant farmers, it is not enough for their family to live, the tenant farmers will definitely cause trouble if they don't have enough to eat, and master, your family If there is a large amount of grain stored, if the tenant farmers are hungry, they might grab the grain.”
After hearing this, Wang Laocai looked at the butler and said, "No way, they dare to rob food, and robbing food is a rebellion!"
The housekeeper said quietly at this time: "Master, you know the second king of Baishui."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai shivered. Others don't know, but now who doesn't know Baishui Wang Er, who was the first to raise the anti-flag. It is said that there is a lot of trouble in Weinan, Tongchuan and other places, and the county magistrates are all killed There are seven or eight of them, and they repelled several attacks from the guards, but they are the first bandits.
And this Wang Er is said to be a tenant farmer who rebelled when he couldn't survive, and the first tenant rebellion was to kill his own landlord.
There is a saying that landlords eat tenants in good years, and tenants eat landlords in bad years. This is not a joke. Feng Xiaogang made a blockbuster "1942" which depicts the great famine in Henan. In it, Zhang Guoli's family was a rich man from ten miles and eight villages. As for the watchtowers, but the disaster year has come, the hungry tenant farmers really have nothing to eat, so they think of the landlord's house, the landlord's house must have surplus food.
Then they will rush into the landlord's house. If you give them food, they will eat your food every day. If you don't give it, they will rob it. At this time, the law is a joke. They are almost starving to death. Who will tell you the law? , who will talk to you about morality and trouble?
Between life and death there is great terror, and his name is hunger.
Wang Laocai is a smart man and he knows this truth, so he broke out in a cold sweat at this time, and seeing that the hardworking tenant farmers in the field were no longer docile cattle and sheep, but tigers that would eat people, Wang Laocai was afraid.
"This, how can this be good?"
After hearing this, the housekeeper said with a smile: "I ran into Li Chaolong on the road just now."
Wang Laocai frowned when he heard this and said, "What does this matter have to do with Lao Li's family?"
At this moment, the butler laughed and said, "Li Chaolong said that his family is going to collect grain, and the price is not low, one or two or eight dollars."
"Twenty-eight dollars!"
Hearing this, Wang Laocai jumped up, good guy, this has caught up with the market price, and our new grain is heavier than the heavy grain in the market, this is profitable.
After hearing this, Wang Laocai looked at the housekeeper and said, "You mean to sell the grain to Li Chaolong."
"Yes, and it will be sold with great fanfare, so that everyone in Tanggou Town can see that we have given all the grain to Li Chaolong, and when we get the money, we have to pay taxes and save it, and the tenant farmers will also Knowing that Lao Li's family has food, when the time comes and you're hungry, you won't eat the master, but Li Chaolong and the others!"
After hearing this, Wang Laocai's eyes lit up. It made sense. At this moment, the butler sighed and said, "Actually, master, if I were you, I would even sell the land to Lao Li's family."
"Sell the land? You can't sell the land!"
At this moment, Wang Laocai said with his eyes wide open. After hearing this, the housekeeper said, "Master, what do you think of this year?"
"It's getting worse."
Wang Laocai sighed, and the butler said at this time: "The situation is getting worse and worse, and I don't know what God has done. It's either a drought or a flood. Our family hasn't made much money these years. If it wasn't for the master, you are running the house Youdao, maybe it will be defeated."
"In recent years, the royal court has become more and more popular, and the appetite of our county lord is getting bigger and bigger, and various taxes are constantly increasing. I heard that the lord recently invented a new tax, called the fertile land tax, which means that we Pour manure on the ground and you have to pay taxes."
"Why do you have to collect taxes for pouring manure into the ground!!"
Wang Laocai's eyes widened, and the housekeeper nodded and said, "Isn't this normal? Raising chickens and ducks is taxed, but why not collect tax for pouring manure, as long as the county magistrate is willing, maybe you have to pay tax."
Hearing this, Wang Laocai sighed dejectedly and said, "You won't let people live, but you can't sell the land, absolutely can't sell the land."
Landlords and rich people have a paranoid love for land, just like modern people value real estate, and they all think it is an irreparable business. Seeing that Wang Laocai refused to sell the land, the housekeeper was silent for a moment and said: "Master, this land can't be sold." Let's talk about it later, but the situation is unpredictable now, and it may be even worse in the coming year."
After hearing this, Wang Laocai said, "Then you can't sell the land."
The butler was a little helpless, he was really a stubborn guy, there was no other way but the butler didn't persuade him, only Wang Laocai who had suffered a loss could know how powerful he was.
The fields were being harvested. At noon, the wheat guests and tenants in Wang Laocai's field ate sorghum noodles and steamed buns, which made their voices choked up, but everyone ate it with great enjoyment.
Eat and drink enough, and the harvest continues.
After three days of harvesting, the grain harvest in Tanggou Town was finished. At this time, Li Chaosheng was called to the field to watch the farmers weigh them. Soon Li Chaosheng got the data he wanted.
This year's corn disaster has greatly affected the harvest. One mu of land only harvested [-] catties. This figure shocked the onlookers all of a sudden, and their eyes widened: "My God, [-] catties!"
"This, this is unbelievable, this is an inferior field."
A group of villagers stared at them with surprise in their eyes. The corn yield was too high, and the news quickly reached Wang Laocai's ears. Wang Laocai was also shocked when he heard this. One hundred catties, this is much better than the four hundred catties of wheat per mu of my own land. Of course, this year's wheat will cause disasters, and at most two hundred catties of wheat per mu of land will be harvested.
Wang Laocai immediately sent the housekeeper to inquire about the corn, and soon the news came out. The corn is ripe once a year, and it is said that the yield per mu can reach [-] catties.
Wang Laocai frowned when he heard this. This corn is ripe once a year, and his own wheat can be planted twice a year. He can't afford to plant this new corn. Once the grain fails, and maybe this corn is suitable for low-grade fields .
Thinking of Wang Laocai, he gave up his plan to grow corn, followed by potatoes. When the potatoes were on the scale, everyone was speechless in shock. The yield of potatoes per mu had reached [-] catties. It's almost like a fairy tale.
Four thousand kilograms of potatoes is a routine operation in the modern world. There is no fuss about two thousand kilograms of potatoes per mu of land. The highest record yield of potatoes per mu almost broke ten thousand kilograms.
But this four thousand catties was unprecedented in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone stared wide-eyed, looking at the big potato, feeling indescribable, and they all looked at Li Chaosheng as if they were looking at God.
The yield per mu is [-] catties, and one mu of land is worth ten mu of top-grade fields.
This news was passed on to Wang Laocai almost quickly, and Wang Laocai also got the potatoes. At this time, he squeezed, smelled it, took a piece with his hands, and said: "Why are these potatoes full of water?" Ah, although this kind of thing has a high yield, it must be difficult to store, and it may rot in a month or two, so what's the use of this, it's a sensationalist."
Wang Laocai looked at the potatoes and said that they are unreliable, and there is no use in storing them for a long time. After planting them for two or three months, they are still hungry.
Therefore, Wang Laocai is not interested in potatoes. He is still interested in wheat, which has been grown by his ancestors for generations. Don't worry.
But it doesn't matter if he doesn't agree, Li Chaosheng is very happy, the potato harvest is bumper, with an average yield of 40 catties per mu of land, and 1 catties of potatoes are given to Li Chaosheng for [-] mu of land, which is enough for [-] people to save and eat. forty days.
This is really a treasure, and potatoes can be used as both rice and vegetables. This is really a delicacy that you can't get tired of eating. Li Chaosheng thought about inviting the whole family to have a potato feast that night.
Potato feast, the word is all potatoes, occasionally interspersed with a few corns, there are many ways to eat potatoes, baked potatoes, steamed potatoes, the most favorite of the big guys is potato stew.
The stewed potato cubes were soft and sandy, and they tasted full of fragrance. With the meat cubes, everyone ate it with great joy and said it was delicious.
Steamed potatoes, this one is also scrambled for by everyone. After the potatoes are steamed, peel off the skin, put a layer of salt on it, take a bite, it is delicious, and it is much more delicious than Wowotou.
Roasted potatoes, let alone, are very fragrant, and everyone eats it very enjoyable. At this time, Li Chaolong smiled and said: "Head, this potato is really precious, or we will plant all the potatoes in the field in the future." Bar."
Hearing this, Li Chaosheng shook his head and said, "No, although these potatoes are good, they have two disadvantages. First, they are difficult to store. Under our primitive conditions, they usually rot within two to three months. Everyone will starve to death in three months. The second potato absorbs the nutrients of the land. If it is planted continuously for several years, the land will be useless. Therefore, the land where potatoes are planted in the next year will be replaced by corn, and some corn will be reserved for planting. Potatoes will do."
Li Chaosheng said while eating baked potatoes, after hearing this, Li Chaolong nodded and said: "So that's the case, but it's enough, we can let the big guys eat potatoes first, and then we can eat enough food to live in."
Li Chaosheng nodded and said, "That makes sense, by the way, what happened to Wang Laocai?"
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(End of this chapter)
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