When he heard Yang Feng’s question, Zhu Youxiao put down his chopsticks, picked up a yellow handkerchief and wiped his mouth.

He was very slow, as if he was thinking about how to organize his language. After a while, he said: "Shaanxi and the mountains have always been barren, and grain production is relatively small. In the past, there was a tradition of escaping famines during the disaster year, but because of this, the land prices there have always been relatively cheap.

However, since the high-yield seeds such as potatoes and sweet potatoes brought from overseas, the situation has changed. With the large-scale promotion of crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, the gentry there began to intensify the annexation of land. In the past two years, the imperial court received less and less taxes from Shanxi and Shaanxi.

When I noticed this situation, I found that it was already difficult to return. I couldn't let those people spit out the land they had obtained, right?"

Yang Feng asked in confusion: "Even if the land annexation is serious, no matter how, those landlords have to hire people to work and farm. Since this is the case, those people always have stuttering, how could they get to the point of being full of war?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said angrily: "Yang Aiqing, do you know how much rent is in Shaanxi? It is open to 30% of the tenants. After a year of hard work, they need to hand over 70% of the rent to the landlords and gentry. They can only leave 30% of the rent. Some cruel people even need to 20% of the rent. Tell me, how can those tenants not rebel?"

"Three Seven? Two Eight? Are they crazy?"

Even though Yang Feng was used to seeing the world, he couldn't help but be stunned by these words?

How much rent did landlords collect in ancient times?

In the Ming Dynasty, the rent collected by both the south and the landlords was about 50% divided into about 50% of the rent. Of course, according to the actual situation, the fields were divided into three levels: upper, middle and lower.

Generally speaking, the average yield per mu is about two stones. In the Taiping Year, the price of one stone of grain was six cents of silver. Suppose a tenant household had five people and three laborers in their family, and rented fifteen acres of land. Based on fifteen cents of the year, the tenant household could harvest fifteen stones of grain every year, which is 1,800 kilograms of grain.

These foods are just enough for a family of five, but please remember that this is only in the peaceful times. Once natural disasters or man-made disasters occur, tenants with almost zero risk resistance will soon become victims and even starve to death.

A rent of 50 cents is a normal market, and 40 cents are already a relatively unscrupulous landlord, but now Yang Feng actually heard that someone wants 30 cents or 20 cents or 20 cents. This is simply something that has not happened since the founding of the Ming Dynasty!

Yang Feng shook his head repeatedly: "Isn't this a nonsense? How dare they? How could they be so stupid?"

"What's there to be afraid of?"

Zhu Youxiao said with anger: "Take Shaanxi as an example, before the high-yield potatoes and sweet potatoes were introduced into the northwest, the main crops in Shaanxi were wheat, wheat, peas and lentils, with a yield of only about one stone per mu.

At that time, most of the rent was 50% off, and those gentry landlords were not stupid. If they gave too little, all the tenants would starve to death and no one would work for them. But since the introduction of high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes into Shaanxi a few years ago, the yield per mu surged to sixty or seventy or even eighty or ninety. Where could those gentry sit? Soon someone tried to increase the rent to sixty percent, and then to seventy percent or even eighty percent. This quickly aroused civil unrest. With the promotion of those who are interested, the civil unrest became increasingly larger and more difficult to control, and eventually led to a major disaster."

"I understand. It turns out that this war is related to me!"

Yang Feng sighed a long sigh. Speaking of which, this refugee change really has something to do with him.

People are greedy. In the past, when the yield per mu was low, landlords could naturally accept rent of 50 cents, but after having high yields of grain seeds, it was different.

It is still an example of a family of five who rented 15 acres of land.

Originally, the land that could only produce more than 100 kilograms per mu has now reached more than 1,000 or even more than 1,000 kilograms. In this way, if the rent is still 50,000 or even tens of thousands of kilograms of grain every year, the tenant can earn 70,000 or even tens of thousands of kilograms of grain every year.

what does that mean?

There is no matter what, a family of five cannot eat. Once farmers have endless food, their first thing is to sell the food for other daily necessities.

Then the tenants who have money will seek to buy other items, such as houses and land, so that these tenants will naturally form a competitive relationship with the landlords and gentry.

Another thing is that in the past, tenants had to borrow grain from the landlords to survive once they encountered a disaster year. This also provided the landlords with the opportunity to control the tenants, which is why Yinzi money is so popular in Shaanxi.

Now, after the tenants are full and well-dressed, who will still borrow money from the landlords? This undoubtedly reduces the landlords' exploitation of the tenants. In this way, the landlords will naturally be unable to sit still.

Capital is greedy. After the landlords found that their tenants might turn over and make a decision to sing, they immediately thought of a way to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot, that is, increase the rent.

Since those mud legs are too full, then increase the rent to 60%, and 60% is still too small, then 70% or even 80%. In this way, mud legs will be honest.

But they forgot that even mud legs have a temper.

It would be fine if I had worked hard before, after all, this is how my ancestors lived through generations. But now I have finally lived a good life for two days, and you actually have to increase the rent. This is absolutely unbearable.

In the era of farming civilization, for farmers, adding rent is a bigger thing than marrying a wife. If anyone dares to add rent, it is a bad-hearted landlord who will be scolded for the rest of his life.

In modern times, the slogan of rent reduction and interest reduction was supported and approved by countless farmers as soon as it was shouted, because this is a major event that concerns the livelihood of countless farmers.

Due to the serious land annexation, there were many refugees in Shaanxi. In addition, this kind of thing happened, and the riots naturally occurred.

After understanding this truth, Yang Feng was speechless. He spent a lot of money every year to get the high-yield seeds of modern society into this time and space. He originally wanted to help Daming, the time and space, through this difficult little ice age, but never thought of avoiding natural disasters but not avoiding man-made disasters. The refugee riot in Shaanxi finally happened, and it actually happened in this strange way.

Time passed little by little, and Yang Feng did not come to his senses until the dishes on the table started to cool down.

Zhu Youxiao asked, "My dear, what do you think should be dealt with in this matter?"
Chapter completed!