I’m Not Really A Study God

When Xuecheng entered a period of steady development, several dozen li outside the city of Xiuyanzhou, the state where another big island in the Lu Kingdom was located, was a vast plain. Su Heng was looking towards the left and right with a trace of emotion. Yanzhou is a state with 80% plains, 10% lakes and rivers, plus mountains.

At this moment, Xiuyan Mansion in Zhoucheng City is undergoing a drought.

A large number of people in rural areas, towns and villages, facing the weather that has not fallen for more than three months, all face sorrow.

Generally speaking, this should not be the case. The country of Lu is located in a subtropical zone. It has three crops a year, and one acre leaves the seeds. If you don’t care, you can harvest more than 200 kilograms of wheat. At least six hundred catties per acre per year, the climate is similar to Qi State.

As long as a family of four has ten acres of land, it is at least six thousand catties or more. An adult man eats three meals a day and eats two catties, and he only eats 700 catties, 6000 catties? A family of five can easily afford it. After all, in the feudal era, how many people had two meals a day? How many will not be full, just eat half full?

According to the surface data, even if there is no harvest in a season of severe drought, it can survive.

However, the facts are not that simple. Just like Qi State, as long as you settle down, one person will send ten acres of land. In the future, you can reclaim wasteland. If you reclaim new land, it is yours. The maximum limit is 50 acres per person. In theory, Qi State farmers, a family of four can have an upper limit of 200 mu per day.

But in Lu, after countless years of land mergers, there are not a few families who have lost land. They say that a family of four does not have a share of land, and they all rely on working in the city to support themselves. In the farmland of the plains, tenant farmers who have no land to help large, medium and small landlords cultivate are the most important group among the people.

These tenant farmers, who cultivated for a year, the harvest is basically 37 cents, tenant farmers take three, landlords take seven, and some are more demanding, reaching 28. You have worked hard for a season of farmland, and it’s only when you harvest. Landlords who do nothing get 80%.

If there are only more than 200 catties of grain in one mu of land in one season, you will leave at most 60 catties, and the less 40 catties. In one year, one mu of land is more than one hundred catties.

Of course, this is a math drama where the seeds are planted and not taken care of. In fact, many tenant farmers are intensively farming, and the yield per mu can be doubled to more than 200 catties a year.

But in terms of national taxation and agricultural taxation, landlords will also fall on you. Coupled with the mess of excessive taxes, a family of tenant farmers, even if it is intensively farming an acre of land, will eventually fall into the hands of less than 100 jin.

Four or five people joined the battle, renting ten acres of land from the landlord, and the total harvest was seven or eight hundred jin.

Seven to eight hundred catties, an adult man eats two catties a day for three tons, one year’s ration, this one person’s ration is divided among four or five people? ?

If there is no famine year, you can still endure it for a long time, top one. Once there is a drought or flood, even if it only occurs for one season, even if the tenant farmer family can’t starve to death, it will be dying of hunger. .

Su Heng traveled thousands of miles to Xiuyan Prefecture, where the state capital is located, and felt that even if the drought here hasn’t reached its worst level, no one has starved to death or sold children or girls. At this point, many families already have a certain sense of despair, and many even have plans to escape from famine. Anyway, more than 80% of the people in this area are just tenant farmers or landless handicraftsmen.

I hurriedly sensed the general situation of Xiuyanzhou. Su Heng’s sight quickly fell on a group of young people in coarse linen beside a narrowing river.

“The Mohist school, there are many Mohist schools active here. It seems that even if I don’t take action, this year of disaster may not be impossible to deal with.”

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Su Heng is deeply impressed by the Mohist school and has a high degree of affection. The group of Mohists more than ten miles away, more than 30 people in Da Yue, are doing things that are related to the drought.

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Xiuyan state capital is located, the geographical position is quite superior, not only in the center of Xiuyan Island, all directions are full of broad plains. More than two hundred miles away in the north, there is a large inland lake.

The entire Xiuyan Prefecture is about 160,000 square kilometers, and the freshwater lake in the north is more than 3,000 square kilometers, which is the size of three Hong Kong and the top freshwater lakes in China. .

In Shandong, it is called Wangyue Lake, and there are rivers extending from Wangyue Lake to all sides. Among them, the Xianghe River runs from north to south, all the way from Xiuyan Mansion City.

The huge inland lakes and inland waterways, and the rock-fixing plains bred by them, rarely have famines.

At this moment, one of the branches of the Xianghe River, a Water Element that was constructed artificially, was walked and watched by more than 30 people. The first middle-aged man, the more gloomy he looked, the man was The Mo family was in the Mo Nong Bailing in Yanzhou of Lu State.

The Mohist system, with one hundred leaders and deputy chiefs, five hundred chiefs and deputy chiefs, chief and deputy Qiannong orders, chief and deputy Wannong orders, and master and deputy Mohist orders, that is, the level 1 is gradually increasing. The elders and the fifty-member elders are called the harmony class. After all, the Mohists who gather together are like-minded idealists. Under a hundred leaders, there is no need to distinguish between who is on the side of the truth or the prestige. Big, ordinary Mo Nong, Mo Xia, Mo Shang, etc., just listen to whoever.

Mo patriarch is the site of the two great empires in Shang Tang, Two Great Empires is the most populous, a small country such as Lu State… Within a country, the highest position is basically the Qiannong Order. .

Here in Xiuyan Mansion, there can be a Zhengbailing, and it is basically the highest leader of the Mo family in this state mansion.

Middle-aged Bailing walked, he opened the mouth and said, “The Lishui branch in front of him was built by fellow ink workers in our Mo family, in order to make the river water of Wangyue River , To cover more farmland to avoid drought. After the completion of Lishui, we also encourage civilians to dig ditches to divert water. Why are all the ditches in the past blocked?”

The Lishui branch built by the Mo family, There are also hundreds of miles long. If more canals are built along the way, at least tens of millions of acres of farmland can be irrigated during this drought, which is far from making the threat of this drought so serious.

He remembered that before leaving Lishui and the group of ink workers last time, they watched groups of people, including some small landlords in the countryside, digging ditches to divert water.

This time, when he heard that Xiuyan Mansion had been dripping for several months in the distance, he came to have a look. As a result, all the aqueducts built before were sealed?

Following his words, a Mo Nong who was born in Xiuyan Mansion and has never left said with a bitter smile, “Zhao Bailing, you don’t know anything about it. Those canals are half repaired. After you left Xiuyan Prefecture, the gentry and prominent families here have already ordered the abandonment of the aqueduct.”

“Even in the past few years, the fields of self-cultivating farmers or small landlords on both sides of Lishui have been merged. , It’s not their previous owner anymore.”

In this era, for thousands of years, the integrity of normal gentry and aristocrats does not deserve the slightest trust at all. These are all basic operations.

Most of the gentry and prominent families, that is anxious for various natural disasters.

Zhao Bailing was furious, “Why didn’t you say it earlier?”

Monon was embarrassed when he opened his mouth, “Zhao Bailing leads you to leave. There are other important things. I can’t keep you stuck here all the time.”

“In order to prevent Bailing you from wasting time, our local Monong wants to study more advanced farming methods, habits, etc., or cultivate Good breed, I hope to help the local civilians more…”

Zhao Bailing was speechless. The last time he left Xiuyan Prefecture with the group of Monong, he went to other places to repair water conservancy.

The Shang and Tang empires, with a large number of island nations in the ocean, needed too many places to build water conservancy.