People in Datang, start with a golden hoe

Chapter 5 005: Those who sell shit are not ordinary people
The sun was high in the sky and there were not a single cloud in the sky.There is no water around the dry fields, and the steaming heat makes every trace of it warm.

"Yeah, there's still a little bit left, and it's done!" Cai Xiaolan leaned on a golden hoe, looking back at the ground she had turned all the way, full of achievements.And she only needs to complete the four acres of land to complete the new task:
March in Yangchun is most suitable for spring plowing.Iron plows with oxen are plowed by oxen, while iron plows without oxen are plowed by people.Not only did the Cui family not have an iron plow, but they did not even have a man to carry a hoe, so the road to spring plowing was difficult.Unfortunate!Why do you look down on women?Within four days, four acres of land had been dug up, and the villagers could see that a woman could hold up half the sky.

Reward: 100 coins, silver-plated copper pot

Paddy field: 1/1; Dry field: 2/3
"Snapped"!
The last hoe fell, and there was a knocking sound in the soil, "Another big money!"

At this moment, Cai Xiaolan finally understood why Kong Yiji had to place nine big coins on the table.It feels so good to have money.

The mission is completed and the reward has been placed in the package.

Half a meter in front of him, in the first grid of the column wrapped by the light curtain, the number of Kaiyuan Tongbao has reached 350, of which 15 are golden hoes, and the task reward is another 100.

"What is this copper pot?" Cai Xiaolan looked around, but there was no one there.The speed of turning the ground is the slowest in their family.

Liujiazhuang, where they settled down, is only ten miles away from Yangzhou City, which belongs to the suburbs.Most of the households are well-off, and there are not a few who have iron plows.Even if you don't have one, you can borrow it from neighbors and relatives, and the land digging has already been completed.

Find the silver-plated copper pot from the package:
Caster, thick and durable, used for cooking, can slightly increase the sweet flavor of food.Because it is plated with a layer of silver, it can have a purifying effect.

Cai Xiaolan operated the light curtain and took out the items.I saw a huge container hit the ground, and a large piece of the newly turned ground was sunk.The whole body is black, the mouth of the pot on the top is as high as the knee, and the diameter is a little longer than the arm.The inside of the pot is reddish.

"This is too big!" Cai Xiaolan touched the animal ears on both sides and tried to pick it up, but she couldn't do it no matter how hard she tried.I have only seen a pot of this size in the cafeteria before.If one pot of porridge is cooked, wouldn’t it be enough to feed dozens of people?

"Not practical!" Master Cai curled his lips.The wall of the pot is thick, so the heat conduction efficiency is probably poor.The capacity is too large for a family of four to use.However, it is a gift from the system and cannot be thrown away.

She wandered around the field ridge for a long time before she came up with a good idea. First, she rolled the silver-plated copper pot with muddy water in the ground, and then put soil in it, pretending that it had just been dug out of the ground. "Hey, this is just like it! I didn't expect that I, a master of archeology, would travel to ancient times and really take the ancient exam!"

The silver-plated copper pot covered with mud was returned to her package.At this moment, she noticed that Cui Lu, who went to discuss the price of fertilizer and water, had not returned yet.

Cai Xiaoniang squatted on the field ridge and waited for a while.People in this era do not have the habit of eating at noon.Cui Lushi must be in trouble.

She followed the intersection to find a house selling fertilizer and water, and sure enough, she found Cui Lu with a sad face outside the gate of the courtyard.

"Agu, what's going on? Are they bullying you?" After more than a month of friendship, Cai Xiaolan had already regarded her as a relative.

"I asked three or four family members, and the fat and water are all 100 yuan a cart, but just now I asked, but they charged 150 yuan, which is obviously a bully!" Cui Lushi hates people for discriminatory treatment.

When Cai Xiaolan heard that 100 yuan was charged for a cart of fertilizer and water, her first reaction was that it was very expensive.I didn’t expect to make money just by collecting excrement from door to door.

"Agu, don't be angry, I'll go and tell him!" Cai Xiaolan knew the reason as soon as she heard this.In rural areas, it is normal for prices to be different due to family ties.If you are not convinced by the price of 150 yuan per car, just negotiate with others to bargain.

Wanting to understand the whole story, she knocked on the door of the courtyard.Before the door opened, a little girl's muttering sounded inside.

"My mother-in-law said 150 yuan, you cry again——"

"Ah, sister, are you here?" The little girl immediately changed her tune when she saw clearly that the person knocking on the door was not the woman just now, but a slender and frail young sister.

"Girl, what's your name? I'm looking for your grandma!"

"Liu Erya!" After the little girl answered, she turned her head and ran inside, shouting all the way, "Aniang, someone is looking for you!"

After a while, a woman in her thirties came in.The heart is wide and the body is fat, and the clothes on his body are clean and white, without any stains.

"Girl is here..."

"Buy fertilizer and water!"

"Oh!" Xu Yinlian paused, feeling very surprised that there was no such person in the village.

"I'm new to Liujiazhuang!" Cai Xiaoniang saluted.

"I see, you are the newly moved wife of the Cui family, right? But I called you wrong, you should be called little lady!"

Cai Xiaolan's eyes flashed. Although the small village is closed, the internal information flow is very fast.Only three or five days after moving here, someone figured out the relationship between the characters in the family.

"Your family bought a total of four acres of land and three acres of dry land. The owner of the village Liu Laosan bought it. Last year, Liu Laosan just bought fertilizer, water, and flowers for composting. Once every two years is enough. And the one mu of paddy field is Liu Genming’s family in the east of the village composted in the year before last, and they really need to do it again this year. However, the fertilizer and water for paddy fields are more expensive than those for dry fields. But we need [-] yuan for a cart of paddy field fertilizer and water. One cart is enough for ten mu of land. , I’ll charge you twenty dollars!”

Cai Xiaoniang only reported her background, Xu Yinlian boasted and elaborated for a while.With that calm look, she knew that the word "counter-offer" should be avoided.

"Excuse me……"

"The main raw material for fertilizer and water in paddy fields is the retting pulp of grass roots, wood roots, etc. If you want to prepare it at home, you won't be able to keep up."

"I want to ask, what time is it now?" Since Cai Xiaolan regained consciousness, she tried to memorize it from the side many times, and asked Cui's mother and others about the time she lived in, but she didn't find a good chance.Just based on people's attire, guess about Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties.

Xu Yinlian glanced at Cai Xiaoniang in surprise, "I underestimated the young lady. She has been in Zhenguan for three years now!"

If you ask ordinary people in the village about Cai Xiaolan, you may not be able to give a clear answer.In Datang, those who can do business are not ordinary people. They must at least be able to talk to the people in Zicheng.

"Thank you, this is twenty dollars!" Cai Xiaolan thought thoughtfully. It turned out to be the Tang Dynasty, and it was still the heyday of Zhenguan.

"Young lady, this is your first time here. I'll give you a favor and charge you fifteen yuan!"

In Xu Yinlian's eyes, anyone who can focus on the age of the dynasty is not a fool.Giving smart people a little face will always do more good than harm.

……

"It turns out to be Tang, no wonder, no wonder -" Cai Xiaolan came out of the yard and kept mumbling.

"How about it?"

It was only after Cui Lushi asked her that she came back to her senses.

"Auntie, 150 Wen is the price of ten acres of land, and I have already given you the money!"

On the way home, Cai Xiaolan muttered something in a voice that no one could hear: "In the third year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, under the rule of Zuyong, the common people had an average of [-] acres of land per family, of which [-] acres were industrial fields. Why did my husband's family only have four acres? "

"According to the productivity of the Tang Dynasty, the dry land produced about 21 buckets of corn per mu. The price of corn in the Tang Dynasty was 9 yuan a bucket, and the tax was 40 yuan. For 1 mu of land, the one-time income was about 100 yuan, which is 18000 guan. Two acquaintances, one Ding earns 18 guan a year. The monthly income is 36 renminbi. With this level of income, the original parents gave 100 renminbi?"

"What kind of world is this!" Cai Xiaoniang didn't understand.She thought that everyone in this dynasty was poor.The father gave 100 yuan and ended the father-daughter relationship.Unexpectedly, it was just her family.

She also understood why land prices were so high. It was entirely because the government was trying to restrict sales.In the third year of Zhenguan, it was the time of political clarity.

"Damn it, three acres of dry land yields 63 bushels, one acre of paddy fields yields 27 bushels, and the total is only 90 bushels. A strong man's ration is 6 bushels a month, and he eats 72 bushels a year. Cui Boyan doesn't do anything, either. It consumes enough energy to count as half a strong man. Cui Lushi, Dong Ping, and I can’t eat more than one strong man together, otherwise there won’t be enough food!”

After a mental calculation, Cai Xiaolan discovered a terrifying fact: the output in the field was not enough for their family to eat.What's more, you have to pay taxes.

Being able to settle this account is entirely the result of Cai Xiaolan's serious study in class.In the elective course of the history of the Tang Dynasty, the old professor led everyone to search for information and calculate some specific data of the early Tang Dynasty.

"Auntie!"

Cai Xiaolan yelled to stop Cui Lushi who was walking in front.

"What about our family's one hundred acres of land?"

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