Lingquan, a peasant girl: the bully in the whole family is just me

Chapter 41 Lucky Star
Li Zheng thought to himself: Those few in your family can't even plant land, okay?

But on the mouth: "Brother Yao, you can say anything, now you are my big brother."

Yao Xiangbei smiled smugly, enjoying the feeling of being sought after, and said: "I don't have anything to say, I just want to see what my son-in-law says?"

Li Zheng got up immediately, and went with Yao Xiangbei to find Yan Yuanhao at home, "Mr. Yan, what do you say?"

I don't know why, but I knew that the other party was just a door-to-door son-in-law bought by Yao's family, but seeing his demeanor, I couldn't help but use honorifics.

Yan Yuanhao raised his eyes to look at him, Lizheng was several years older than Yao Xiangbei, he was already a grandfather, and he was very prestigious in the village on weekdays, but he couldn't help it against the Yao family's four tyrants.

Now looking at the Yao family's son-in-law, there is an indescribable awe. Although the appearance is young, but the lucky star of the Yao family?
Do you want to kowtow?

The gods are above, the people of Tangjia Village think that the one who can surpass human power is the god, so what's the point of kowtow?It's time to make a sacrifice.

Fortunately, Yan Yuanhao didn't know what Lizheng was thinking, otherwise he would have nothing to say.

"Does Uncle Tang have the drawings of the village?" Yan Yuanhao asked.

What are drawings?Lizheng has nothing.

He knew that there were 89 families in the village with more than 75 people, [-] of which were members of the Tang clan, and the family tree had at most three generations, so there were no drawings.

Yan Yuanhao looked at Yao Lan, he wanted to ask Kanyu map, Yao Lan said it was a map, but there was no map of any kind.

Li Zheng didn't understand, but Yao Xiangbei was more literate in the village. Did the Yao family want them to pay in paper money? "What's the relationship between irrigation and blueprints? Don't you already have everything? Just dig a ditch along Yan's house and go to the village."

Yan Yuanhao shook his head with a sullen face, "So, if there are roads in the way, most of the villages cannot be irrigated."

Li Zheng didn't expect Yan Yuanhao to know that there is a road without leaving home, just like the road in front of Yao's house. There are many people walking in these places, so there will be roads. People in the village probably won't have any opinions after getting through it.

Yao Lan said: "Lizheng, my husband doesn't mean that."

Li Zheng asked, "What does that mean?"

Yao Lan said, "The ground that can be irrigated by a water truck is also limited. It is impossible to irrigate the entire village with just such a thing."

Li Zheng felt the same way.

Wu Ben and the others were nervous. If there were too many people in the division, and their land could not be poured, then they would not be willing.

"Our village originally stood along the river, and now there are nearly [-] mu of fertile land, more than [-] mu of quasi-fertile land that has been reclaimed for less than ten years, and more than [-] mu of dry land, right?"

"Yes." The village was wasteland when he came, and every piece of land was reclaimed by them.

The imperial court gave preferential treatment to land reclamation. No tax was collected for the first ten years, and half of the tax was collected for the next ten years. After 20 years, taxes must be paid according to regulations.

Compared with paying taxes every year, it sounds good, but if the wasteland is not carefully cultivated for more than five years, the land will become fertile and the production capacity will be extremely thin. Only a few dozen acres of land will be able to feed a family people.

Of course, there is a lot of wasteland and the land is cheap. Most villagers reclaim land near the river first. Dry land is only reclaimed by people who have a large family and no money to continue to buy land.

If the life is stable, the number of people in each household will increase, and the output in the field will be a little more, but the household will have a lot of mouths.

Now more than half of the land in the village has been there for 20 years, and they have started to pay taxes one after another. The new king of Nanchu has to charge an extra [-]% of the tax according to the usual practice. It's terribly frustrating.

He was not from this place originally, so he knew that when he fled from the famine, sometimes, a natural disaster can take all the people in a village, and it would be a lie to say that there is no rush.

Yao Lan explained: "My family's water truck is a small water truck, and it must be able to irrigate only a few hundred acres of land. If the entire village is irrigated, a larger water truck or more water trucks will be needed. Waterwheel."

Li Zheng felt the same way, if it really needed such a big thing to irrigate all the land in the village, unless the gods came down to earth.

"This waterwheel...about how much money can it be made?" Li was thinking, since one can't do it, then he can only make a few more.

Yao Lan stretched out two fingers, "Two taels of silver." She wasted two of them, but actually spent five taels of silver.

Li Zheng was thinking about how many people would need to chip in for two taels of silver. No one in the village had ever hunted wild boars or sold vegetable recipes.

Yan Yuanhao seemed to see the worry in Lizheng's heart, and said: "This is the first time I made this thing. It is made of high-quality wood, and it cost a little more money. If it is used by the villagers, you can cut some by yourself on the mountain. Bamboo is simpler and cheaper to make."

Knowing the principle, Yan Yuanhao had already figured out how to replace it with bamboo and wood would be more convenient.

Lizheng said pleasantly: "If you use bamboo, there are many on the mountain, and it is much lighter. Even if you change it once a year, you should be able to handle it. I just don't know how much work it will take. Can I make it by myself?"

"It can be done."

Yan Yuanhao continued: "It's just that the waterwheel can only be fixed in one place, and the fields in the village are also different. How to dig ditches and how to run waterways, you still have to have a plan in your heart. If you hurt your peace, good things will turn out to be good." Bad things, if planned well, will truly benefit the village."

It is impossible to become Li Zheng of Tangjia Village by self-appointment, and he still has the ability to be convinced by everyone.

"Don't worry, leave this matter to me, and everyone in the village will remember the good of the Yao family." Lizheng is not a person who doesn't know what is good or bad. If the villagers want to balance their interests, they must first have interests to balance.

Yan Yuanhao nodded slightly, "That's very good, this matter should be done sooner rather than later. You can find some people to build water wheels earlier."

Li Zheng secretly sighed: As expected of a lucky star, the way he speaks is a bit fairy-like. The Yao family really found a good son-in-law, which will not only benefit the Yao family, but also benefit the entire Tang family village.

Whether or not to prepare three sacrifices to burn incense, Li Zheng was very torn.

So in the next day, people kept coming to the river to see what the waterwheel is, and it can pour water into the ground without any effort. When they see the real use, they can't wait for Lizheng to be able to do it right away. implement.

It cannot be implemented immediately, everything must be planned.

I think there were no waterwheels back then, and many people would fight over the water in the pond. It is uncertain when it will rain this year, but it can’t cause disputes. It can be used all year.

(End of this chapter)