Chapter 160 The Cowshed Talks About the Way of Economy, Why Are the Fields of the Daimyo Mansion Abandoned a Lot of Waste?
The main reason is that the people have no money to raise cattle, and without money to raise cattle, the efficiency of farming is low, and the tax collection cannot be completed.With corn, you can easily feed cattle and horses, the agricultural production of the Daimyo Mansion will only get higher and higher, although three taels of silver is not cheap, but planting one or two acres of corn, it is still possible, the big deal is to borrow money from Quanxu's Quan's Bank, not to pay back two percent of the profit, as long as God appreciates the food, you can easily return to the capital in a year.Lu Xiangsheng looked at the cattle in the cowshed, each of them fat and strong, and those horses, tall and mighty, and divine horses."
Good cow, good horse!"
Quan Xu didn't speak, the cattle were fine, most of them were purchased from outside, but these horses, except for Erniang, who bought more than 100 horses, more were brought by Quan Xu from Shandong.The composition of these horses is complicated, there are Shandong Xiangma to rob the wealthy, there are also those related to the Ning army, there are also Shandong army, and there are even Liaodong army send.Lu Xiangsheng looked at the vibrant appearance everywhere and sighed: "If the daimyo is like this everywhere, how nice it would be!"
”"There is no such possibility!"
Quan Xu looked at Lu Xiangsheng bluntly and said, "Lord Lu, do you know how much money I invested in planting these lands?"
”"How much?""
The seeds alone cost more than half a million yuan!"
Of course, Jeon Wook is talking about money, not silver.In Lu Xiangsheng's heart, this is more than 500,000 taels of silver: "So much?
”"yes!""
Lord Lu also knows that the yield of our wheat seeds and rice seeds is not high!"
Quan Xu pointed to the wheat field in the distance and said, "Lord Lu might as well guess, how many catties can be produced in an acre of wheat field like this?"
By the way, and sweet potatoes, potatoes?
”Lu Xiangsheng tried to guess: "Three or four stones?
”"More than that!"
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Quan Xu said with a smile: "If it's just three or four stones, then I'll lose a lot, the problem of output, let's not talk about it for the time being, I will only tell Lord Lu, why the people are getting poorer and poorer the more they farm!"
”"Why?""
Because the ability of farmers to resist risks is too low, take this year as an example, after the beginning of spring, the weather is dry, it starts to rain in mid and late May, the rain is very strong in June, and in July, it begins to dry again, at that time, spring wheat is the time for jointing and pollination, and it is in need of rain, and ordinary people have no money to fight drought, so they can only let the wheat dry in the field!"
Quan Xu pointed to the pressurized water well in the distance and said: "I have money to fight the drought, so the drought has an impact on me, but it does not have much impact, although the wheat yield will be reduced, but the impact is not big." ”Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said, "Ordinary people don't even have cattle, let alone the ability to fight drought!"
”"Our Daimyo's Mansion, in fact, there are still a lot of wastelands!"
The current Daimyo Mansion is much larger than Handan in later generations.There is also almost no industrial land, no highways, no railways, and no land for construction in large and small towns.It can be said that the territory under the jurisdiction of the Daimyo Mansion is similar to that of Qinchuan in Guanzhong, which is 800 miles away, as long as all of them are developed, even if the output is low at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there is no problem in feeding seven or eight million, or even tens of millions of people.However, in one prefecture of the Daimyo, the registered population of the ten counties is 71,880 households, the population is 692,058, and the official land is 5,619,600 mu.According to such data, Quanxu's fields actually account for nearly three percent of the Daimyo's Mansion.In fact, more than two-thirds, or more than 1,400 acres of land, were occupied by the gentry and were not subject to taxes."
Let people lead the people to reclaim the wasteland?""
It's useless either!"
Quan Xu smiled bitterly: "Even if I organize the people to reclaim the wasteland, it won't be long before it will be taken away by those gentry who are more ruthless than leeches, what can I do?"
If they are bandits, it will be easy to deal with, I can take the people and get the fields back, but they are not bandits, and there are gentry with meritorious reputation, so I will offend the gentry of the entire Daimyo's mansion, how many heads do I have?
”"You are in charge, the whole family town inspection department, I will make an exception for you to compile 500 people, the sky is falling, and this mansion will give you a top!""
Lord Lu, you really can't stand it, in the end, you will still squash my head in the end!"
Lu Xiangsheng is a person with ideals, his idol is Pan Jitao, Lao Pan is comparable to Li Bing's great water conservancy, four times to govern the river, the Yellow River governance is obedient and close, so that hundreds of people in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are not affected by the flooding of the Yellow River, many water control experience is still used after hundreds of years, for the benefit of future generations.As a civil official, if you can do Lao Pan's point, you have no regrets.He asked himself that he didn't have the same powerful water control technology as Lao Pan, so he had to work hard in the development of agriculture, so that the people could fill their warehouses with grain and meat, which was also a great feat!
However, the ideal is very plump, but the reality is skinny.When he put his ideals into practice, he knew how much resistance there was, when he first came to the Daimyo's Mansion, his decree was not implemented at all, and he couldn't even get out of the Daimyo's Mansion City, there were always so many people who disobeyed the Yin and deliberately dragged him back.He finally organized the people to reclaim some wasteland, and it didn't take long for the local gentry to go to the yamen with the title deed to make trouble, and the people fought lawsuits with the gentry, and it was always the gentry who won, and they always had so many strong evidence and witnesses to prove that the reclaimed land was theirs!
After this deep blow, Lu Xiangsheng was not depressed, he felt that he had to deal with the gentry, he could not completely rely on the people, the people were too short-sighted, at the beginning, it was obviously their people, the wasteland reclaimed by themselves, was slightly frightened by the gentry, and immediately changed his words.If it weren't for his fellow countryman, the warden Lu Fengming, with the help of Lu Fengming, the head snake, Lu Xiangsheng gained the right to speak in the Daimyo Mansion step by step.At this time, Lu Xiangsheng is not like Quan Xu, once Houjin is still like in history, he broke through the Da'ankou and directly threatened the Jingshi, Lu Xiangsheng took the young and strong of the Daimyo Mansion to the north to King Qin, then Lu Xiangsheng will be promoted in half a year at most.He still wants to leave himself as an official in the Daimyo Mansion and benefit the ideal of one party."
Since you can't open up the wasteland, then how do you say to make the people rich and have food to eat?""
Unless the government takes the lead, the rich businessmen invest, and the people are organized to run big farms, no matter how much land is cultivated, they can only send food to the mouths of those insatiable bastards!"
Lu Xiangsheng was stunned: "Organize the people to run a big farm?
”"Lord Lu, haven't you noticed that my place is actually a huge farm!"
Quan Xu pointed to the surrounding land and said: "These lands are mine, there is no field under the name of the people, they only need to work with me, they don't have to worry about seeds, cattle, farm tools, fertilizer, they don't even have to worry about paying taxes, as long as they serve the crops well and complete the tasks according to the requirements, they can live a good life with plenty of food and clothing." ”Just when Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng were chatting enthusiastically in the cowshed, the other officials were already hungry.However, Lu Xiangsheng and Quan Xu sat in front of the water tank in the cowshed, not realizing that the sun was already in the west.Lu Xiangsheng didn't feel hungry at all, and so did Quan Xu."
The general gentry are strong and want to annex the land, they will not buy it at the normal market price in normal years and months like me, they will either wait for the people to have a sick person in their homes, or have other things, or wait for natural disasters or military disasters, only in this way can they buy the land at the price of cabbage, or they will take it by force!"
Quan Xu pointed around and said with a smile: "Their tricks, for me, are not afraid at all, natural disasters and man-made disasters, I have a certain ability to resist risks, if they dare to play yin, it will be simpler, they raise hundreds of thousands of family members, not necessarily able to beat my people!"
”Lu Xiangsheng suddenly realized.Quan Xu is not like ordinary people, he can be bought with a little favor, and he is also rich, not to mention that he also supports hundreds of family members around him, so he is ready to fight with the family members of the gentry?"
Nonsense, ridiculous!"
Lu Xiangsheng said with a straight face: "Lawlessness, what if the brawl kills someone?"
When you encounter something, use your brains more, Quanjiazhuang Town, give you 500 soldiers, you can let them dispatch!
”"By the way, Lord Lu, I can recommend an inspection!""
Who?""
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My doorman is all dry, he is a talent!"
Lu Xiangsheng nodded: "Hmm!
”"In addition to this method, there is another way!""
What's the solution?""
Developing a circular economy!""
Circular economy?"
Quan Xu pointed to the cattle in the cowshed and said: "So, I have raised a lot of cattle, and in the future, I plan to use corn stalks and corn cobs to feed at least twenty or thirty thousand cattle.The benefits of raising cattle are numerous, especially cow dung. ”Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "Yes, cow dung is a treasure, and farming is indispensable!"
”"Lord Lu, don't you know, in addition to containing some cellulose, this cow manure is also rich in crude protein, crude fat and trace elements, etc., which is the best pig feed!"
Cellulose?
Crude protein?
Crude fat?
Trace element?
Lu Xiangsheng can be regarded as a talented and wealthy five-car, you must know that the admission of Jinshi is very low, so he became a Jinshi, which naturally shows that his head is going to be used.However, he had never heard any of the words that came out of Quan Xu's mouth."
Cow dung, who dares to eat this pork, aren't you afraid of being poisoned?""
Actually, this cow eats grass, and the manure pulled out is also clean, it doesn't matter!""
Can you really raise pigs?""
It's nature!"
Quan Xu looked at a farmer not far away and said: "Collect the cow dung......
Lu Xiangsheng Quan Xu looked confident, and looked puzzled: "This pig really eats cow dung?"
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