Villager of Daming

Chapter 4

"I caught a big one."

"Mine is coming too."

"There will be fish to eat tomorrow!"

Children's cheers sounded from time to time, but Zhu Wentian frowned.

He recalled the records in the book that the land tax was paid normally. The tax per mu of official land was five liters, three liters and five scoops, private land was reduced by two liters, heavy leased land was eight liters, five liters and five scoops, and no official land was one dou and two liters.

Official land belongs to the yamen and the land rewarded to officials. Private land belongs to ordinary people. Heavy renting means that the local environment is good, the yield per mu is high, and the harvest will be more. No official land means that the officials are cleaned up and confiscated.

The people in the village gave the government three liters of three-in-one and five spoonfuls of grain per mu.

Generally, one person has to go out to do corvee for 30 days a year. One hectare of land will give out one husband, and those who are not as good as the hectare will be able to use other fields.

One hectare is equal to one hundred mu, and one person can grow out of one hundred mu of land, what should I do if it is not enough for one hundred mu?It's easy to handle, if others have more, count it on you, and then give you money and food.

Those who have more land but less land use tenants to fill their husbands, and the landowners donate rice and stones for their use.For those who are not tenants but count mu as their husbands, the mu's capital is two liters and five cents.

One mu of land will give you two liters of grain and five grains. If the village does not want to send people to labor, then one mu of land will also provide two liters of grain.

A little more will catch up with the tax to be paid, which is very expensive, and ordinary people are reluctant and would rather go to work.

"In the future, people in the village will not be able to serve in the military. It will waste time and be dangerous to do coolies outside."

Zhu Wentian was thinking about it, and turned his gaze to his friends.

The children are still fishing excitedly, for them, there is a kind of joy of harvest.

They never thought that fish can be caught like this, with a few knots in the hemp rope, tied with earthworms and grasshoppers and thrown into the water, the fish will bite.

In the past, fish were caught directly into the water by hand, or bamboo baskets were placed in the water. After a long time, a few fish could not be caught.

Zhu Wentian's gaze turned to the side again. There were a large number of perillas by the river, and they were ripening one after another, which was not much different from the time of harvesting rice.

He thought about it, and began to break at the root.

"Brother Hanhan, what are you doing?" The little girl was always staring at Zhu Wentian, curious when she saw him breaking grass sticks.

"Yes, hey, I want it." Zhu Wentian continued to break.

"Brother Hanhan, I'm tired, can't I cut it with a sickle?" The little girl reminded.

"Oh? Hehe, knife, sickle, hehehe..." Zhu Wentian nodded.

The little girl ran up: "I'll get it for you."

"I'll go too, I'll help Brother Hanhan." The other boy stopped fishing.

The other children found that those who caught less fish ran to get the sickle, and those who caught more were reluctant to fish.

Not long after, the team divided into two groups, fishing and cutting perilla.

Adults who have spare time find that the child is going home to get a sickle, and follow him to see the situation. When he sees the boy cutting perilla, he helps out together.

In the evening, the village harvests piles of fish and bundles of perilla.

Perilla leaves are usually used by people in the village, and they are placed under them when steaming things, and occasionally for fish.

In other respects, the local people don't know much about it, unlike in the northwest, where people grow a lot and use it to squeeze oil for food.

Zhu Wentian giggled and pulled off the bag of perilla seeds. After drying, he crushed them with something, and the seeds would fall off.

Some people in the village pack up the fish for eating tomorrow, and some pick leaves and seeds along with them.

"Hanhan, give me the stalks, and I'll make a fire." A man planned to dry the stalks and use them as firewood.

"Ah?" Zhu Wentian was stunned, he worked so hard to get the medicine, do you want to burn it?
"No, don't burn it, I want it, hey, I want it, yes!" He shook his head vigorously.

"Okay, I'll keep it for you. Can you eat these seeds?" The other party didn't want to grab something from the fool, so he took out a few seeds and threw them into his mouth to chew.

"Oil, eat oil, hehehe..." Zhu Wentian was tired of maintaining the character design.

Another person next to him answered: "I see, it's like pressing rapeseed oil. Is this oil delicious? Hanhan mistook perilla seeds for rapeseed."

"It doesn't matter if it tastes good or not, give Hanhan a squeeze, the seeds are edible, and the oil is edible."

The head of the village is here, and the villagers want to try it. If you can eat it, you will have more oil!

Perilla can be grown by throwing seeds in any place, no need to worry about it.

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Before harvesting the rice, Zhu Wentian took the children to find something to do every day.

Fish, keep fishing.

He does not need to deal with cotton, and the villagers spin and weave cloth by themselves. He has no idea how to design a better loom, so he has to find a reason.

Right now he is trying to find medicinal materials. There are Cangzhu, Pinellia, Campanulaceae, Mingdangshen, etc. in the local area.

Many things are not recorded in the current medical books, and he wants to make them himself for the villagers to use.

For some minor illnesses, the villagers do not need to go to the town or county to find medical clinics for treatment, which delays walking time and costs money.

He planned to have some time to go around the place, get medicinal materials back, and other good things that others didn't pay attention to.

"Technology is productivity, and knowledge changes destiny." Zhu Wentian muttered as he collected the thorns.

There is no local antihistamine medicine like Fangfeng. If you have rashes or skin allergies, boiled tribulus water will be effective after washing, and you can still drink it.

The little friends picked together, and accidentally pricked their fingers, put them in their mouths and sucked them, and continued to work.

Recently, they have been eating well. There are fish, and rabbits, bamboo chickens, and bamboo rats they have caught. There are bamboo forests in the area.

In addition to eating some, the bamboo rats also raised a lot, and there was no shortage of bamboo. Feed them with bamboo and harvested straw, and the fat ones would have more meat to eat.

After eating the meat, there is still a good leather left.

"Brother Hanhan, let's grow perilla next year! Perilla oil is delicious."

The little girl took the pricked finger out of her mouth, her eyes were bright.

Zhu Wentian looked at the other person, after taking supplements, his complexion became much better, and after taking it for another two months, his hair would not be so withered and yellow.

"Planting, planting a piece, hehe!" He planned to plant perilla on a large scale next year, dividing half of the land for hemp and the other half for cotton.

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations, if there are five to ten mu of land, half a mu of each of mulberry, hemp, and cotton must be planted, and for twenty mu of land, one mu of each must be planted, and so on.

Which one does not grow, then one needs to hand over a piece of cloth.

He doesn't want to plant hemp on the land alone, why?

When he plans to plant rice next year, he will interplant jute. There will be a lot of varieties, and the previous hemp field will be vacant.

As for ramie, it doesn't need to be next year, it will be planted this year, planted in autumn, and harvested next year, without any delay.

The little girl didn't know Brother Hanhan's plan, a little thing made her very happy, her smile was as bright as the sun.

When the children go back, everyone in the village sharpens their sickles and mends the broken baskets. After the rice is harvested, the children go to glean the ears of rice.

The food has been good recently, and the villagers have accumulated enough strength, and they are ready to rest after a hard work.

Zhu Wentian listened to the villagers chatting about taking a break after harvesting the rice, and laughed a few times, wondering if they would go crazy when they knew they had to work again?
With myself here, want to relax after harvesting the rice?dream!
"I still have to get some meat for everyone to replenish. Without oil and water, there will be no strength, and the staple food will be wasted. Worry about people!"

He shook his head, and walked to Li Chang's house. After dinner, he would go back to the earth temple to sleep and think about things.

(End of this chapter)