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Gu Jingyun then asked: "Then I don't know how much open land and permanent land each household can get, and how much tax each household has to pay?"

The open air is the land that the imperial court distributes to the people for cultivation. It must be returned to the imperial court after death or relocation. It cannot be bought, sold or transferred. However, Yongye Tian belongs to its own property, which can be passed on to future generations and can also be bought and sold freely.

Although the imperial court has stipulated that each adult can get 20 acres of open air, in fact, this number cannot be unified in various places. Domineering landlords and stupid officials, I am afraid that those open fields will be transferred to the landlords and officials in the name of wasteland, and the people can only be allocated a small amount of wasteland for reclamation.

However, in lands with a lot of land and few lands, when the officials are still sympathetic to the people, they will be able to allocate an extra 20 mu of open fields.

And there are so many mountains and forests here that there is not even a wasteland for reclamation, let alone open fields. Gu Jingyun can think of this, but Zhao Ning may not know it, so he hopes that the old man will personally teach him this student.

Although Zhao Ning was born in a family of small landlords in the countryside, he couldn't even distinguish the five grains, let alone the farming work in the fields.

He was fascinated by it for a while, he never knew that the common people could suffer like this. Nearly two-thirds of the people in this village don’t even have a set of clothes for themselves, and everyone wears the same clothes together. Therefore, when one person goes out, the other person will stay at home naked.

Zhao Ning felt a dull pain in his heart, and he was sore and sore.

Gu Jingyun has figured out the situation of the whole village. Although the people in the village are farming, there are two sources of income. The second is hunting.

It's a pity that this place is far away from the market, and it is difficult for them to sell their prey in time, so most of them are dried and sold in a unified manner. However, because of the poverty here, even meat and grain obtained by bartering Very few, so everyone's life is not easy.

Moreover, the mountains and forests are dangerous. Why was it difficult for their village to marry a wife before?

Not only because of poverty, but also because of their high mortality rate due to hunting, few girls from outside are willing to marry to them.

Gu Jingyun's eyes swept across this simple farmyard, and his eyes paused for a moment in the yard, "Is that rabbit skin? Why don't you nitrate it?"

The old village chief grinned toothlessly and said, "That's a craft. We don't know it. We only do some simple processing so that it won't be too hard. If you take it to the market, you can exchange it for a catty of coarse grains. Not bad."

A good rabbit skin can be worth between six and twenty cash depending on its coat color, while a simple tanned rabbit skin is worth between fifteen and thirty-five cash, and a tanned rabbit skin is worth between fifteen and thirty-five cash. The soft, ready-to-use rabbit skin is worth around a hundred cash.

If the rabbit fur is pure in color, such as pure white or pure black, the value will be far more than a hundred coins.

That was the price that Gu Jingyun learned about when he was in Qiongzhou, when he helped Bai Yitang and Baolu nitrate the rabbit skin, and the market price that Bai Yitang explained to him when he gave him the money.

The more economically developed the place, the more expensive these things are, and not everyone can afford rabbit fur.

And no matter how poor it is here, the price of a thoroughly tanned rabbit skin will not be less than 50 Wen.

Gu Jingyun glanced at Zhao Ning, who was hanging his head down, nodded slightly to the village chief, stood up and said, "Thank you, old man, for clarifying the doubts."

The old village head looked at him with cloudy eyes, and said with a smile: "It's just some common things. Anyone can know if you ask me. I don't know how long you will stay here. Although many people in our village can't get it out, some Vegetables are still available."

I just hope they leave as soon as they are full, so as not to harm the village.

Gu Jingyun smiled and said: "It's getting late. Let's rest here tonight and leave early tomorrow morning. We have been trapped for a long time, and there are not many vegetables left. The old man is willing to help, and we are naturally grateful."

Not long after he left, he asked Erlin and a few guards to come to the village head to buy vegetables. Seeing the two copper coins stuffed into his hands, the old village head blushed, "It's just a few baskets of vegetables, so it's not worth the price. "

The guards carried the dishes and left, but Erlin tried hard to stop the old village chief who refused, saying: "Don't make things difficult for the little one, this is the master's order, if you keep refusing to pick it up, the little one will be ashamed gone back."

The old village chief didn't force the money back.

At this time, Gu Jingyun was sitting cross-legged in the car, and asked Zhao Ning, who was kneeling at the head, "Do you have a good plan for this dilemma?"

"Unless it is relocated, there will be no improvement."

"It's hard to leave the homeland, not to mention where can accommodate so many people at the same time, and give them enough exposed fields and permanent fields?"

Zhao Ning was silent, and then said after a while: "Maybe going to business is the way. This is close to the official road, and the traffic is quite convenient. The goods from the south are sold to the north, and the goods from the north are sold to the south. At least it is a way out."

Gu Jingyun shook his head, "Leaving aside the cost, do you think the people who insist on staying after moving out of the nearby villages are the ones who are flexible enough to do business?"

"What do you think sir?"

Gu Jingyun looked at the mountains and forests outside and said: "You rely on the water to eat water, and you rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. If I watch here, and they are close to the official road, I have many ways to help them out of poverty, but I am not the parent official here. I can help them. It’s just a technique for them.”

Zhao Ning's eyes widened, "What technology?"

"The old village chief said that all the men in the village can hunt, and every household has a lot of animal fur, among which rabbit fur is the most." Gu Jingyun nodded the fur collar on his collar and said: "A rabbit sweater is sewn on a piece of clothing. Collars cost at least one tael of silver. If the color of the fur and the craftsmanship are good, it is common to pay four or five taels more. I want to teach them how to tan fur, so that they can earn at least 20 yuan more for each tanned fur. It is two hundred wen, and one hundred sheets are worth two thousand wen. And the coarse grains with shells are about six wen per catty."

Zhao Ning converted the money into coarse grains in his heart. Just now the village chief said that there are the most wild animals such as hares and pheasants in the mountains. They rarely catch big prey, but these are common. Every household can get seven or eight hares a day. , at least one or two can be harvested every two or three days, so...

Zhao Ning said with piercing eyes: "Master, if the tanned fur can be sold for such a high price, then the villagers will be able to eat and clothe themselves with this income alone."

Thinking of what the husband said before, he hurriedly asked, "If the husband is a parent officer, what else can I teach them besides this?"

Gu Jingyun smiled and said, "If I were the parent's official, I wouldn't hand over the prescription to them so simply and rudely."

Zhao Ning was taken aback, puzzled.

"Since I am the parent officer, I am the parent officer of the entire county. Naturally, I cannot only benefit one village if I seek peace in my position. I will find a way to open a school to teach the villagers who come to learn how to make nitrate and how to identify herbs. They even teach them how to bake medicinal materials, and help them contact merchants, so that the price of these things will not hurt the people when they multiply.” Gu Jingyun said with a smile: “But these are trails, and the root of the people lies in food. These are surrounded by mountains. Where the land can be planted is fine, but in other places where there is land to cultivate, we must pay attention to farming and mulberry, at least to ensure that the grain of a county can be self-sufficient.”

Zhao Ning turned his head to think for a while and said: "Sir, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and merchants are inferior, but I often see merchants who are rich and farmers poor. If you emphasize business as much as you emphasize agriculture, wouldn't you be able to live a lot of people?"

"It is often said that emphasizing commerce will make people despise agriculture, and the land will be deserted at that time, causing chaos in the world, but I think that even if emphasizing commerce, few people will give up the land and venture bravely, and it will not cause a big impact on farming. Now Isn’t everyone short of land to cultivate? If people are divided to do business, then everyone can get more land.”

"Business can communicate with each other, and it can also strengthen the country, but the root is food. Food is the most important thing for the people. The world often uses gold as hard currency, but they don't know that food is above everything else." Gu Jingyun took out a white card. paper, drew many large and small circles on it, and then connected them with lines, saying: "These circles are the ability to produce grain, and the line is the business. The thicker the line, the more developed the business. They can These circles are connected so that the larger circle supplements the smaller circle, and then other things are taken from the smaller circle as a reward. Without these lines, these circles are all isolated, without communication, but like a pool of stagnant water. But if food is not plentiful , what is the use of these thick lines?"

"Nowadays we feel that there are very few people who have the courage to leave the fields and go into business, but if they focus on business blindly and form a trend, how many people do you think will have the courage when the life of a businessman is better than that of a farmer? Take that step?"

"It's easy to give up land to do business, but it's hard to turn business into agriculture. Big businessmen often buy a lot of land and then lease it to farmers. But there are only so many fields in the world. If they buy a lot of land, it means they have a lot of land. People are losing their fields. Coupled with the annexation of the gentry and powerful families, after a few years, all the land in the world will be in the hands of these gentry and powerful families and big businessmen. By then, most of the people in the world will have to depend on them to live. Do you think they Will it be reversed?"

Zhao Ning's heart was pounding.

Gu Jingyun said with a slight smile: "It is said in the book that the monarchy is granted by God, and every time the court changes, God sees that the monarch is weak or the treacherous ministers are in power and changes the world. But in my opinion, it is just that the people in power cannot meet the needs of most people in the world. It makes them hopeless, and this is the beginning of a new day."

Zhao Ning said dryly, "First, sir, the guards are outside."

So are you really not afraid of them suing you when you say these words?

Li Baolu opened the curtain and stuck her head in to comfort her, "Don't worry, you can say whatever you want, I'll take away all the outsiders."

Gu Jingyun laughed loudly when he heard the words, looked at Zhao Ning happily and said: "The emperor understands this truth best. I tell you this because I want you to understand what kind of world you live in. In this world, what do you want to do for yourself?" You, for your family, for your descendants, and even for the world, what to do for the common people."