After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 15 The Villagers Have Been Too Hard

"This trivial matter makes you stumped?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face sank, "Lujia Village is just a small village, and you are the parents of the local magistrate, so the magistrate still can't figure out a village?"

"Your Majesty, this is to let the minister destroy the rules handed down from ancient times to the present." Lu Weidao.

"Today we want you to break this broken rule. If you can't think of a way to come, let's change a county magistrate, and you can go home and farm." Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly.

"Your Majesty, I have paid attention." Lu Wei touched the sweat on his forehead, and a flash of light suddenly flashed in his head, "I think this can be done..."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, feeling that this method was not bad, and he praised it lightly.

Lu Wei, a local official in a county near Yingtianfu, is still a bit realistic.

After all, it was the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there were not many officials who were arrogant.

This method can be used in a village, but it can't be used to deal with aristocratic clansmen.After the county magistrate left, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head. Dealing with aristocratic clansmen was a thousand-year-old problem, and it was not something he could think of as a magistrate.

Even Liu Bowen couldn't think of it, and they didn't even see it.

It is up to Mr. Qin to answer!
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The next afternoon.

Qin Yu walked out of the room and saw yesterday's 'Village Chief Huang' again.Different from the solemn and solemn yesterday, Village Chief Huang looked cheerful today, as if he was in a very good mood.

"Mr. Qin, are you feeling better today?" asked Zhu Yuanzhang when he met him.

"It feels so much better than yesterday." Qin Yu said, "Although it is true that the injury is not minor when falling off the cliff, it is better to be young and strong. Since I woke up, I feel that my body has changed a day, and now I am afraid I can move freely. already."

After speaking, he stretched his arms and legs.

"This is the best way." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Don't you want to stay to teach, let's take you to the village now?"

"Okay." Qin Yu said.

Although he is not afraid to exercise vigorously yet, it is completely fine to walk around.

The two quickly left halfway up the mountain, first walking an extremely steep mountain road, and Zhu Yuanzhang helped him from time to time.After passing through a dense forest, I came to an open mountain ridge.

Standing on the mountain beam, Qin Yu could clearly see the houses below.

"Our Lujia Village is really poor." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to a field of crops in front of him and said, "You see, the villagers have already planted crops on such high mountain ridges, and it takes several hours to go up and down the mountain."

"Well." Qin Yu nodded, the higher the position of the crops, the poorer the place.

"However, even though the villagers worked so hard, they still didn't have much harvest. One mu of land in the village can take up to three buckets of grain." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

fight?The village still uses buckets as a unit of measurement! ?Qin Yu was speechless for a while.However, because it was known in advance that Lujia Village was backward in cognition, it was now accustomed to it.

The brain quickly calculated: One mu of land is 13 square meters, and a bucket is about [-] pounds.

More than 600 square meters of cultivated land can only harvest more than 40 catties of grain! ?
This is not even a low yield, it can only be regarded as... no yield.Just planting a piece of farmland of dozens of square meters outside the mountain is more than the harvest of one mu of land in the village.

Soil is the biggest reason for low food production.

Looking carefully at the crop field, I saw that sorghum was planted in the crop field.

Most of the dead and yellowed seedlings in the field can be picked up and used as firewood, but the green weeds grow taller than the crops themselves.On the leaves of a few vigorous sorghum trees, traces of being gnawed by pest birds can be seen everywhere.

The scarecrow standing in the middle of the ground doesn't seem to have much effect.

The crops are surrounded by a dense forest, and there are many footprints left by wild animals on the ground.

The land is extremely barren and not suitable for cultivation, there is no means of weeding, coupled with drought and little rain to irrigate pests, birds and wild animals... It is an optimistic estimate that one mu of land can harvest more than 40 catties of grain.

"Village Huang, is sorghum the main crop in your village?" Qin Yu asked.

"Yes." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Ninety percent of the time, some common vegetables are grown only in the vegetable fields near the villagers' homes. Sorghum likes warmth and light, and has a certain degree of drought tolerance. It is planted in mountainous areas with little rain. The most suitable one."

He was born as a farmer and was very familiar with the characteristics of various crops.

The harvest of sorghum is not good. Why don't you plant other cash crops?Such as Chinese herbal medicines, red heart kiwi fruit, alpine grapes, etc.?Qin Yu wanted to blurt out this question.

However, he quickly reacted, asking such a question is purely a prank.It's a bit like asking children in poor mountainous areas why they don't eat minced meat. Only those brick houses who have never left the office can ask.

The reason for not planting cash crops in the village must be due to the inconvenience of transportation. If the transportation is convenient, I am afraid that they have already planted them and have to remind themselves?In addition, cash crops cannot be eaten as food, and if they are grown, they cannot be sold, and they can only rot in the ground.In the past, there were still people who stuttered when growing sorghum, but if they rashly planted cash crops, I'm afraid they won't even have the last bite to eat.

Therefore, the first thing Lujiacun has to solve is to eat enough food.

Among the meals that Qingqian gave him, there were only wild vegetables and a few grains of rice.And it was only yesterday afternoon and noon today that he had meals delivered to him, and he never came in the morning, so Qin Yu guessed that they might only eat two meals a day.

Obviously, the food and clothing problem in Lujia Village has reached the point where it has to be solved immediately.

"Uncle Huang, what is the annual per capita ration in your village?" Qin Yu asked.

"The sorghum in the village can only be planted once a year." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "and one mu of land can only produce three buckets of grain, so the average annual ration of the villagers is less than [-] catties."

Less than thirty pounds! ?

If converted into money, their average annual income is less than 100 yuan!

Qin Yu was shocked by this terrible number.Outside the mountain, the beggars earn more from begging in a day than they earn in a year. I really don't know how they survive.

A thought suddenly poured into his mind, making his heart extremely heavy: Lujia Village, it is very likely that people have starved to death!
"Although the annual rations of the villagers are very small, they still have to take out some to go to the nearby market to exchange for rice. People can't always eat sorghum noodles to live, so rice is a rare commodity in our Lujia Village. In order to subsidize the family, the villagers also go to the mountains to hunt and chop firewood during the slack season. Usually, they eat a small handful of sorghum noodles mixed with more than half of wild vegetables.”

Hearing that they can go hunting in the mountains, some people who usually only rely on intuition to imagine will ask again, is it not delicious to let the villagers eat game every day?Not only delicious but also rich in protein.

However, only people like Qin Yu who have been to the mountains know how difficult it is to hunt in the mountains. Most of the time, the hunters return empty-handed, and it is very rare that they can hit their prey.

Even if they hit the prey in rare cases, they will be reluctant to eat it, because the prey must be sold at the market for money in exchange for some necessities such as salt and soap.

So for hunters, being able to hit the prey does not mean that they can eat it in the mouth.

"Lujia Village is really too poor!"

"The villagers have had a hard time!"

Qin Yu couldn't help but sigh again.

(End of this chapter)