Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 144
Entering the end of the month, the weather gets cooler and cooler.

Early in the morning, Lu Quan took the mule cart to the town to deliver food.

Lu Yange wanted to follow, but Lu Quan refused.

Lu Quan had paid the imperial rations, and the sun was shining, so he lined up and moved inch by inch.

It's okay to meet a talkative bad guy, but if you meet that kind of tricky guy, it doesn't mean that your food is not dry or your food is not full enough.

If you're lucky, you'll be done with just a few bucks on the scale.

If you are unlucky, you will be asked to pull it back, dry the ashes again, clean it up and send it back.

Lu Quan himself has experienced the ups and downs, so he doesn't want his wife and children to suffer too.

Fortunately, Xiaoxinzhuang paid the imperial grain this time on behalf of shopkeeper Li, and it only needs to be paid once, and there is no need to separate each household.

This will save a lot of manpower and time.

Lu Quan, Zhang San, Li Sixi, Ma Boss...

A total of ten strong men came to Xiaoxinzhuang this time, pulled by mule carts and pushed by small carts, pushing nearly [-] catties of grain to the town to hand over the public grain.

The six thousand catties is almost equivalent to a small half of the grain they collected.

Fortunately, this year's food was not grown by themselves, but handed in for shopkeeper Li.

This year's harvest is good, and every acre of land can have a harvest of about 330 to 350 yuan. After deducting the cost of [-] catties to shopkeeper Li, each family can earn an extra [-] to [-] catties per mu of land.

Originally, the extra thirty to fifty catties was given to Lu Quan by shopkeeper Li.Because Lu Quan has to collect the food, he just needs to give the big guys hard money.

But Lu Quan has a lot of fields this year, so there is no shortage of food.

They are willing to share with the big guys, so naturally they don't care about the food.

Besides, with these grains, life will be easier for everyone.They can't eat dry food at home, seeing that everyone has nothing to eat.

In addition, shopkeeper Li also gave everyone the hard-earned money for harvesting and drying twenty catties of rice grains per mu.

It is equivalent to this mu of land, and their family can leave dozens of catties of rice grains, and go to the town to exchange for coarse grains and brown rice when they return home. The family can also eat a few full meals.

Regardless of the fact that shopkeeper Li only gave out twenty catties of hard-earned money for an acre of land, this twenty catties is something that you can't even think about on weekdays.

It only takes two or three days for an acre of land to receive threshing and then dry it in the sun. In two or three days, they can get [-] catties of rice grains. This is a big advantage for them.

Also, they don't have to pay taxes.

The court tax was heavy. Originally it was [-] and the tax was one, but later it became ten and the tax was one. In the past two years, due to severe drought and flood, the tax could not be paid. This year, one mu of land has to pay [-] catties of grain.

The common people are miserable, but they have to pay the imperial rations.

Lu Yange did the calculations, but in fact, farming doesn't make money.

When one mu of land is well harvested, it can harvest [-] catties, and about [-] to [-] catties of seeds will go down.

This era is not like modern times, where a pound of high-quality rice seeds can be cultivated for an acre of land.Rice in this era is planted very thickly, just like modern wheat, only when the seeds are sown thickly can there be a harvest.

Rice seeds cannot be saved, and there is only one consequence of saving, which is reduced income.

Seeds and taxes will go to half of the harvest, and the other half does not belong entirely to oneself.

In addition to the land tax, there is also the poll tax, as well as hard labor, plus various harvesting tools, labor and so on.

Those who really grow food are actually the ones who have no food to eat.

But Lu Quan's algorithm is different from Lu Xingge's.

They feel that as long as there is land, a little hard work is nothing.

Even with one mu of land, after deducting all the agricultural capital, there is only fifty catties left over a year, and they feel that this is a profit.

Fifty catties of paddy hulls can yield about 25 catties of rice, one catty of polished white rice can be exchanged for two and a half catties of brown rice, and one and a half catties of old rice can be exchanged.

A family can have three to five acres of land. As long as there is food and wild vegetables, and the belt is tightened, at least half a year can be spent.

If the poor have no more land, they can only drink the northwest wind and wait to die.

The food was delivered to the town, and the number of people who handed over the emperor's food this time was not as many as Lu Quan imagined.

It is probably because the grain harvest in their Xiaoxinzhuang was early, and the grain in most villages has not yet come down.Even if some villages have harvested grain, most of it has not been dried well.

Because of the small number of people, the yamen servants who collect food are stricter than in the past.

The grain is first poured into a container called Dendrobium, which has a small mouth and a large bottom, and 1 bucket is 10 liters.Beside the Dendrobium, stood a poor man with a round waist and thick arms, who was in charge of kicking the tip of the bucket. A bucket of grain was full. You are not allowed to pick up the food yet.

Lu Quan trembled with distress as he watched the grains on the Dendrobium being kicked and scattered on the ground.

However, I can only endure the heartache, and I have to quickly fill up the bucket on the sidelines, and I have to stand out.

This is the old calendar, and it is also a rule.The food sown is the profit of the messengers.

When you meet someone who is shameless and skinless, one kick is not a big deal, but if you kick them twice, a few catties of food will be gone.

You can say no, and you have to hold back if you have grievances.

There were not many people paying food, but the Lu family had paid a lot of food for shopkeeper Li this time, plus the queue, it was already past noon when it was their turn.

Busy going into the town early in the morning, a few men didn't even have food at noon, and luckily everyone had planted the land before and paid the royal grain, so they had prepared for it, and everyone took out pancakes from home, and there was no water. They just swallowed dryly, chewing a piece each, barely filling their stomachs.

After tossing and tossing until the second half of the day, I reluctantly handed over the imperial rations, and there was still some left in the bag.

The remaining [-] catties of rice grains were prepared by Lu Quan. In fact, he prepared nearly [-] catties of rice grains extra, just to prevent other situations from happening when the emperor's grain was delivered.Now because of the sharp kick, there is only a hundred catties left.

This is already their luck. If they are unlucky, the food will not be enough by then, and they will have to make up for it tomorrow.

Lu Quan took the mule cart and the big guy to the street and heaved a sigh of relief. After the food was paid, he felt at ease.

From now on, this land will belong to him, Lu Quan and the big guys. They will harvest as much as they plant, and after paying the royal rations, the rest will be their own.

It can't be said that you have a full belly, at least with this place, everyone can go without starvation for several months.Work harder, open up more wasteland, catch more fish, and save more money, and life will slowly pass.

After paying the imperial rations, everyone felt a lot more at ease.

They were all discussing, first go to the town to buy some things that the family needs before going back.

The food is harvested, the imperial food is handed over, and then buy some necessary things for the family, and everyone will live in Xiaoxinzhuang in peace, and never show their heads again.

Who knows what the Red Tassel Army is calling for, and they don't know what to do when the time comes, so it's safer to stay at home.

If it doesn't work, run away, anyway, they have a boat, go to the wild lake to wander, and it's not impossible to come back after the Hongying army has left.

Although they were worried about the arrival of the Hongying Army, because there was food, everyone was not so desperate after all.

Buy salt, buy flint, buy seeds...

At sunset, the people of Xiaoxinzhuang hurried back again. They had just left the town when several large boats landed at the gate.

The Red Army is here!
(End of this chapter)