Allure of a Country Maiden

"Girl, I really don't have that much money. Let me think about it this way. I'll ask a doctor to come over and check it out for you. How about you pay as much money as you used?" The coachman was extremely regretful at this moment. If he had known better, he wouldn't have earned that money. Fifty taels of silver! Now that the carriage is ruined, we have to pay one hundred taels in compensation, which is a drag on the whole family.

Sure enough, you really can’t be too greedy as a human being. Be greedy for small things and lose big things!

After hearing this, Fang Wanping glanced at his clothes with a dark face and disgust. The black cotton clothes had been washed and turned white. Although there were no patches, she could tell at a glance that he was poor, but being poor was his business, not her own. What's the matter? Therefore, this money must be compensated: "If you pay for the doctor's money, you must also pay for the one hundred taels!"

"What?" The more you talk, the more you pay! This is the rhythm of losing everything!

The old coachman was a little anxious: "Girl, even if I sell myself, I don't have that much money to compensate you!"

"That's your business, what does it have to do with me? Okay, you go back to the city to find my parents and ask them to send a carriage to pick me up! I'll give you three days to collect the money, and then you can get the money Just return the Garden Hotel to me!"

What else did the old coachman want to say? His carriage caused her injury. He thought it was appropriate to compensate her for her medical expenses, but why did she have to pay a hundred taels!

This girl is still Tongzhi’s daughter! How can you steal your own money? !

Fang Wanping didn't want to talk to him anymore, so she said, "Say one more thing. I don't know if my injury will get worse if it drags on. You will have to pay more money by then!"

After hearing this, the old coachman shut up decisively and did not dare to say any more. These officials are not good. It is difficult to catch the wolf, and the future life will be peaceful! Who knew that catching the wolf would lead to a tiger coming over!

He turned around silently and drove away in his broken carriage.

Xiaoling said worriedly: "Miss, will he abscond in fear of crime and run away?"

The corner of Fang Wanping's mouth twitched: "Fleeing in fear of crime is not used in this way. If you don't understand, don't use it indiscriminately! Just run away? Humph, I'm sorry he wouldn't dare!"

The coachman has been discussing the issue of compensation, and he has not made any excuses to shirk responsibility. It is obvious that he is easy to bully, and Fang Wanping believes that he will not run away on his own.

Besides, it is not cost-effective to leave one's hometown in order not to lose money.

Xiaoling nodded, she also felt that the coachman was not that kind of person.

"Help me sit on the stone under the tree over there." Fang Wanping pointed to a banyan tree on the side of the road and said.

It was noon now, and the sun was at its strongest in the day. Although it was already early autumn, Fang Wanping got tanned as soon as she was exposed to the sun, so she did not dare to stay in the sun for too long.

"Miss, can you walk on your feet?"

"It hurt a lot when I fell at first, but now it doesn't hurt so much. I can only walk on one foot and the other foot is just a little bruised."

After hearing this, Xiaoling went over to help her, but she felt sorry for the driver and was deceived out of a hundred taels.

…

Xiaoer and his carriage walked for a while and then arrived at a town.

There is a low-lying area in this town that is prone to floods, which seriously threatens people's lives. Even rice is difficult to cultivate and harvest.

Xiao'er said that it is best to build a mulberry fish pond in a low-lying area, so Jingrui specifically asked the Yamen's catchers to find out such a place.

And this happened to be the village where a newly promoted head catcher lived, so he brought them here today.

Several people got off the carriage, and the head catcher took them to a flat field. In the early autumn, the field was covered with a vague green with a hint of yellow at first glance.

"This year's rainy season is not long, so the crops are growing pretty well this season," the catcher explained.

The terrain here is too low, and most of the rainwater from the sky flows here, so the paddy fields here are full of water all year round.

The rainy season is not long this year, and the river embankments are not broken. The crops here are not damaged by the floods. It can be said to be a good harvest year. However, not every year is so lucky. There are few good harvest years and many failed harvest years.

"In these paddy fields, the water is not deep enough for raising fish, and the yields for growing grains are not high. Even if fertilizer is put into the fields, the fertilizer will be washed away by the water, which is a headache for the villagers."

Xiaoer nodded to express her understanding. Even if you are growing rice, rice does not require much water for a period of time.

Especially during the harvest season, it is best for the fields to be dry and the surface of the fields to be stepped on is hard, so that it is easier for people to harvest.

"This is a very suitable place for building mulberry fish ponds. The low-lying land can be dug deep into fish ponds to raise freshwater fish. The soil is piled around the fish ponds to form a pond foundation. In this way, flooding can be reduced during the flood season and the people can rely on selling fish. Compare yourself with selling mulberry silk to earn money, killing two birds with one stone."

"I wonder if the villagers are willing to sell these paddy fields?" Zhu Yan looked at the catcher.

The catcher shook his head after hearing this: "It's hard to say, because even if the yield of this field is not good, at least there is hope every year. If the field is sold and all the money is used up, what will he use to support himself in the future? "

So generally speaking, families with land will not sell their land unless absolutely necessary!

Because having fields and land means there is hope.

Zhu Yan could understand that no villager would sell their land unless there were special circumstances, but if the villagers didn't sell it, even if it was suitable to build a mulberry fish pond, it would be of no use to her!

Xiao'er listened to Zhu Yan's words and said: "Why do you have to buy fields! You can rent people's fields and pay them the rent or grain per acre! Or you can directly provide them with the technology of mulberry fish ponds, Then sign a cooperation document, and then you can purchase the fish and silk they raised!"

Shengping County is already preparing to trial the distribution of farmland to each household. In the next ten, twenty, thirty years or even further in the future, the whole country may implement the distribution of farmland to each household. Buying land? Who knows if it will be bought back by the imperial court at a low price one day.

Grain production is now higher in many places, and grain prices are decreasing every year. In a few years, food will gradually become the least valuable food besides vegetables. After all, vegetables have a short growth period, which cannot be compared together.

Food is not valuable, you can’t eat it all, and you can’t make much money from selling it. There won’t even be as many people buying it as before. After all, many people with one or two acres of land can grow enough food for their entire family, so there is no need to buy it anymore. purchase.

In this case, those landowners who used to make a lot of money by selling grain every year will naturally not be willing to farm anymore. Without money to earn, they have so many fields in their hands, and they have so much grain in their hands every year. They either endure the heartache and sell it at a low price, or they rot. How could they be happy in their hands!

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