Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 236 The Ordinary Road ([-])

six years later

Jianchu first year
Busan
epiphyllum town

a small farm outside the town
"Quack--"

"Cuckoo cuckoo-"

"What—"

Many chickens, ducks and sheep kept calling. Three sheep were kept on the grass, dozens of chickens were kept free to move around in the farm, and dozens of ducks were kept free in the rice fields to catch bugs in the rice fields.

Because under the rule of the royal family, the per capita farmland per person is two or three times that of the Central Plains. The land is too much and too big, so they can't live in small villages like the Central Plains. Instead, each family has a Small farms, where production activities are carried out within the farm.

This is mainly due to the different ruling thinking of the royal family and the Central Plains court.

The rulers of the Central Plains hoped to support more people within the limited land, so that more people would pay poll tax to the imperial court.

The idea of ​​the Wang family is to raise fewer people on limited land, so that more rations can be saved and sold to the Central Plains to make money. With more money and food, they can speed up the reclamation of overseas areas.

Therefore, if a person needs at least twenty acres of land to avoid starvation, and at the same time his energy can only cultivate fifty acres of land at most.

The idea of ​​the Central Plains court is to allocate [-] acres of land to everyone. In this way, with the same amount of land, more people can be fed, and with more people, more people will pay taxes.

The Wang family's idea is to allocate [-] acres of land to everyone, and use every farmer's energy to the limit. Under the condition that the total amount of land remains the same, fewer people means less rations consumed , there will be more surplus grain to continue to open up wasteland, make wine, and sell money.

And if there are too many people, it will be more troublesome to manage. It doesn't matter if the per capita resource is large, but it will be even more difficult to manage if the per capita resource is small.

When the amount of resources per capita is sufficient, even if the Wang family sucks the marrow, the people can hardly starve to death. If the amount of resources per capita is too small, even if the court just slightly increases the tax rate to deal with foreign enemies, a large number of people will starve to death. The world is mourning, and rebels are everywhere.

Therefore, although the exploitation of the people under the royal family's rule was actually more severe than that of the imperial court, and basically never implemented benevolent government, in fact, the people under the rule of the royal family lived more nourishingly than the people in the Central Plains.

In the Central Plains, although the imperial court often carried out benevolent policies such as recuperating and recuperating, the living standards of the people were not as good as those of the Wang family who had been beaten to the bone.

When the people had one hundred catties of grain, even if ninety catties were taken away by the royal family, they could barely survive. When the people had only ten catties of grain, even if the Central Plains court only took five catties, it would lead to famine everywhere.

The royal family, which has never disdained to implement benevolent government to the people, yet the people under its rule enjoy a happy life; the Central Plains, which often implements benevolent government to the people, but the people under its rule are always poor.

The reason for this difference in thinking is mainly because the Wang family has pointed out the [exploration concept] since the time of their ancestor Wang Kang, thinking that there are plenty of overseas land and resources, so there is no need to be so stingy, which will only delay yourself The speed of making money, has been opening up wasteland, and using overseas unlimited resources to support more people, while the principle of centralization can only be involuntary on the land of ancestors (Eighteen Provinces of Han Dynasty), and on the land of ancestors (Eighteen Provinces of Han Dynasty) ) whoosh to do more with limited resources.

Regarding how to expand the population, the Wang family increased the population by increasing the total amount of resources, which meant making the cake bigger, while the Central Plains tried to divide the cake more carefully and reasonably, so as to feed more people with limited resources. Many people.

If you want to develop a world, whether you rely on involution or expansion is a matter of opinion.

And in this small farm, the Meilin family lived.

Mei Lin is Mei Shan's daughter. She originally lived with Mei Shan in Chang'e City. After she became an adult at the age of 20, she was sent by the Wang family to Busan City to continue to open up wasteland.

He also married a male pioneer in Busan and gave birth to them. The two of them together owned [-] mu of land.

She gave birth to four daughters. The eldest daughter was left on the farm because she was the heir to her farmland. The second daughter was also left on the farm because she was the heir to her husband's farmland. The third daughter just turned 20 a few days ago. According to the law of the royal family, the "Wasteland Reclamation Act" stipulates: those who have reached the age of 20 and are not the heirs of the farmland are not allowed to continue living in their original residences. They must go to new overseas areas to open up wasteland, or go to the city to become a handicraft worker (beat workers).

Therefore, after the annual autumn harvest, the Royal Fleet will clear the population from city to city, relocate those people who have reached the age of 20 and are not heirs to the farmland to continue to open up wasteland, and always maintain [-] acres of land per capita to prevent five Ten mu of land passed down from generation to generation leads to a decrease in per capita field mu.

For example, if 25 mu of land is distributed to two descendants, the per capita becomes [-] mu, and then the two descendants are distributed to four descendants, leaving only [-] mu per capita. same mass famine.

In this case, if the total grain output remains the same, the people will consume more rations due to the increase in population, and the remaining grain will naturally be less. Doesn’t that mean that the Wang family earns less money?Therefore, the Wang family absolutely does not allow such a thing to happen!

Therefore, when this autumn comes, her third daughter can only be separated from her, and go to unknown overseas lands to continue to open up wasteland.

As for her fourth daughter, because she is not yet 20 years old, she can also stay in this farm to continue her life.

Relying on the sale of some surplus food, Merlin saved some money, and then used the money to buy some hens. After raising these hens, she could not bear to eat the eggs laid by the hens, but sold them to [Egg Buyer] ], so that she could continue to save more money, and then she used more money to buy a few more sheep, sheared the sheep during the slack season, and then sold the wool to the [Wool Buyer], which added a considerable amount of income .

Most of the hunting teams followed the Wang family to the Waren Islands to continue hunting, and continued to develop the industry of bounty hunters.

However, some hunting teams chose to stay in the Sanhan area. They changed their careers and stopped capturing slaves. Instead, they opened small handicraft workshops or some businesses, most of them a combination of both.

For example, the most famous Taoyuan hunting team in Busan City, instead of going to the Japanese Islands with the royal fleet, they changed their name to [Taoyuan Guild], and opened a wool textile workshop in Busan City, with [Taoyuan Guild] every day Members of the group went to various farms in Busan City to buy wool, and then brought the wool back to the wool textile workshop operated by the [Taoyuan Guild] for weaving.

Over time, these people are also called "Wool Buyers" or "Taoyuan Buyers"

They not only bought wool, but also bought eggs, chicken feathers, duck feathers, duck eggs and other agricultural products, and then brought them back to the [Taoyuan Grocery Store] in the city for unified sales. This [Taoyuan Grocery Store] was naturally also run by the [Taoyuan Guild].

The Taoyuan hunting team put all the money they earned from hunting for nearly 200 years into the production of handicraft workshops. They also want to live a life that can earn a lot of money without licking blood.

The emergence of these guilds can be said to be timely rain for the people under the rule of the Wang family. They are busy farming every day, and they have no time to go all the way to the city to sell their agricultural products. Now some people are willing to "go to the countryside" to purchase their products. Produce, that's fantastic.

Even if this is actually going to be cut by scissors, so what?

Even if the people of the Central Plains wanted to be cut like this, they would have no chance!
(End of this chapter)