Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 304 Ginger is still old and spicy

Qing Ji, Fan Li and Sun Wu then left Jinling City and followed the official road all the way to the fields in the outskirts.

At this time, it is the season of rice harvest.

The farmers are all dragging their families, wearing short jackets and harvesting rice in the fields.

For the harvested rice, if conditions permit, oxen will be used to pull stone mills to grind out the millet.

If there are no cattle, they can only beat handfuls of rice with manpower, trying to knock down all the full-grained grains.

Who knows dishes on the menu, A Journey!
Farmers attach great importance to every grain of millet.

"Your Majesty, this is another harvest year!"

On the carriage, Fan Li looked around, saw the farmers who were harvesting rice in full swing, and bowed to Qing Ji.

"good."

Qingji nodded slightly.

The weather is favorable and the grain is plentiful.

A good harvest in the field is not only beneficial to the farmers, but also beneficial to the country.

From ancient times to the present, China has been an agricultural society, so naturally it attaches great importance to agriculture.

"My lord, I wonder if you have found a problem?"

At this moment, Sun Wu, who was driving the car himself, turned around and asked.

"Master, what's the problem?"

"Let's see, my lord. These harvest farmers include old and weak women and children, but young and middle-aged people are rare..."

After being reminded by Sun Wu, Qingji also noticed it.

On the fields, there are old men with gray temples, children at the head of the head, or peasant women in plain clothes, but there are very few real young and middle-aged laborers!

what happened?

Qingji frowned, and said, "There is no war in my country of Wu. The government has reduced the standing army, and the survival of the fittest. It stands to reason that there should be a lot of healthy young people among the people. Why is this so?"

Fan Li and Sun Wu didn't know how to answer Qing Ji's question.

Qingji immediately asked Sun Wu to stop the carriage, and went to a field ridge on his own.

There, there was a very old man with a gray beard who was resting.

"Old man."

All three of Qingji bowed to the old man.

The old man felt overwhelmed immediately, and hurriedly got up to return the greeting: "Gentleman, the old man is polite."

Qing Ji, Fan Li and Sun Wu all wore luxurious clothes and bronze swords on their waists. They looked extraordinary, and they could be seen as nobles at a glance.

So the old man dare not neglect.

"You don't have to be polite, old man, please sit down."

"I don't know what the three gentlemen are doing here?"

"Dare to ask the old man, how is the harvest in the field this year?"

"Returning to the gentleman, the field has a bumper harvest this year, and it is a bumper harvest year."

The old man's face was full of smiles, and he said: "Your Majesty invented the Quyuanli, and the government rented cattle to allow us and other farmers to reclaim wasteland and grow more rice."

"Thanks to God's blessing this year, the weather is smooth and there are no droughts or floods, so the harvest in the field is very impressive."

"good."

Qingji's series of national policies on people's livelihood are naturally beneficial to farmers.

The development of Quyuanli has greatly promoted the productivity of farmers in Wu State.

In addition, under Qingji's order, the government in various parts of the state of Wu will rent cattle from farmers to help them reclaim wasteland and cultivate more rice.

It is worth mentioning that during Qingji's reign, the state of Wu always encouraged farmers to reclaim wasteland.

On a piece of wasteland, after five years of reclamation, the ownership of this piece of wasteland belongs to the farmer.

Of course, the premise is that the wasteland cannot be abandoned, otherwise the country has the right to take back that piece of land!
"Old man, since the harvest in the field is so impressive, why don't you see the young and middle-aged people at home come to harvest the rice? Where is your son?"

Qingji glanced at it, and saw three childish teenagers and a middle-aged peasant woman harvesting rice profusely in a nearby field.

Only the father of the three teenagers and the husband of the peasant woman were missing!
According to Qingji's original national policy of reorganizing households and Qimin, a family cannot have two male young and middle-aged laborers.

That is to say, after the son has grown up, if there is an elderly person in a family, only one son can be left as the main labor force to inherit the father's family business.

The rest of the sons will be separated separately to start a family and start a business.

This allowed Wu Guo to increase the number of households for a while, and also brought a lot of additional fiscal revenue.

Because human beings are inherently lazy.

Several adult sons have the mentality of "suffering too much but not all", and there must be some lazy people among them.

Because of this huge family business, after a hundred years from his father, it is still unknown how much he will get.

That being the case, why did I have to work so hard that my brother might take advantage of it for nothing in the end?

It is precisely because of this kind of human nature that Qingji proposed to "organize households and all people", so that young and middle-aged people can get married as soon as possible, and then divide the land.

It is impossible for them not to pay attention to their one-acre three-point land.

Because all the harvest income in the field, except for the part of the land tax that is turned over to the national treasury, the rest is your own!

Undoubtedly, Wu Guo's policy of organizing households to equalize the people further stimulated the enthusiasm of farmers for production.

At this time, the reason why Qingji asked where the old man's son was was because no matter what.

Even if the old man's son died in battle or died of illness, there would always be an heir.

No matter how bad it is, the uncle and brother will adopt one for him!
"Gentleman, to tell you the truth, my son who doesn't live up to expectations is selling fish."

"Fish dealer?"

"good."

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "It's not just my son, many young people in the village are selling fish, or reselling grain, rice, cloth and other things."

"Isn't that a pain for you?"

"It's really hard."

The old man shook his head and said, "These young people are getting more and more outrageous! All of them are so ambitious, their eyes are high and their hands are low. They have been in business for so long, but their income is meager, and they can't support a family."

"Old man, since that's the case, why don't you persuade them to return to work in the field?"

At this time, Fan Li, who was sitting on the side, asked puzzledly.

"Why didn't the old man persuade me?"

The old man sighed and said: "However, they are determined to do business, and want to be like those wealthy merchants, with a lot of money and surrounded by beautiful wives and concubines."

"But I don't want to. Others have such abilities, do they have such abilities?"

Sure enough, ginger is still old and spicy!
Qingji glanced at the old man appreciatively.

He also finally understood why there were so few young and middle-aged men working in the fields in this village.

The world is bustling for profit, and the world is bustling for profit!

Everyone in the world has the heart to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

When young farmers see how much money they make from doing business, why do they have to guard their family's one-acre three-point land, and the annual harvest is only enough to feed a large family?

However, the state of Wu has long been divided into agriculture, industry and commerce, and the four peoples are divided into industries.

(End of this chapter)