Chapter 25: Divide the Land to Be a Small Landlord
Regarding Lin Wanwan's behavior of wearing beautiful men's Hufu and going to the ground, the tribesmen thought she was joking.
A little lady who was raised by a noble family doesn’t know what farming is. She’s just here for fun, right? That stupid boy Lin Mengbo really followed her around and farmed something that he had never heard of.
No one knows whether sweet potatoes can be eaten or how to eat them.
Whenever something new appears, it is always difficult for people to accept it.
It's just that no one said the joke, they all kept it in their hearts. Because through passed down from person to person, the clan members have already heard about Lin Wanwan's plan to set up a clan school, which is something that the whole clan will benefit from.
As long as Lin Wanwan is willing to stay in this remote village, teach children to read and count, and bring the seeds of reading to their village, she can do whatever she wants, and they all have no objection.
From this day on, building houses and farming began at the same time.
Lin Wanwan also learned many farming skills through field operations. Combining theory with practice, her farming technology has made great progress.
Now Lin Wanwan travels back and forth between Wanghai Town and Linjiazhuang every day, and the first road to be built is the road leading to the entrance of the village.
From then on, the first carriage came into the village. Not only could the children play with the horses, but they could also get beans or fruits to eat every day. They were very happy.
During these days, Patriarch Lin also took time out to help Lin Wanwan manage the business of a female agricultural household (due to the dual influence of his money-making ability and Patriarch Lin's relationship with the indigenous people).
Because she is a farmer, Lin Wanwan was also allocated 20 acres of Yongye land and 10 acres of land outside the village.
Under the Land Equalization Order in the early Tang Dynasty, middle men and young men over the age of 18 were each assigned 80 acres of land and 20 acres of Yongye land.
Old men who are disabled will receive forty acres of land, and widows and concubines will receive thirty acres of land. If such people are heads of households, each person will receive twenty acres of permanent land and thirty acres of land.
Miscellaneous households receive land as common people. For industrial and commercial households, official households receive half of the land as common people. Taoist priests and monks receive thirty acres of land, and nuns and nuns receive twenty acres of land. In addition, ordinary women, tribesmen, and slaves are not exempted from this.
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But in practice, there is a difference between Kuanxiang and Narrow Township. Kuanxiang, which is vast and sparsely populated, can get a full amount of land, but Wanghai, where Lin Wanwan is located, belongs to Narrow Township, so naturally it is impossible to get so much land.
Patriarch Lin took Lin Wanwan to see the Yongye field she was assigned. It was semi-barren land and belonged to the saline-alkali plains retreating from the sea.
With the level of cultivation in the Tang Dynasty, the saline-alkali land with such a high salt content makes the soil compacted, which is not conducive to the absorption of nutrients by crops and growth. In severe cases, it can cause physiological drought in plants, making it impossible to produce crops.
Therefore, this Yongye field is basically useless. Because of this, it was Lin Wanwan's turn.
But Lin Wanwan is quite satisfied. She has a thousand years of civilization behind her to support her. What is such a little difficulty? When she gets back, she will check the information carefully and ask agricultural professionals for advice!
Chief Lin looked at the vast expanse of saline-alkali wasteland and said sadly: "Actually, if you start a fisherman's household, our clan will join in and pay the taxes for you every year.
But the farmer you are choosing now can’t grow anything on this saline-alkali land, so he can only make some profit by dividing the land into ten acres. But the annual rent paid is not small, and the clan can’t help. Nothing can be grown.
, you are just sitting back and getting nothing."
Lin Wanwan said with great confidence: "Uncle Patriarch, don't worry, Master has taught me a lot of agricultural knowledge. Others can't grow it, but I can."
Patriarch Lin's mouth twitched slightly as he looked at the confident noble daughter Lin Wanwan. As for her mysterious confidence in the farmland, Patriarch Lin said he could not understand.
This little girl, farming is as good as studying!
Hey, forget it, once she suffers the pain of not getting any results, she will understand. This is because she was raised too well by the old god-like master, and she has not experienced any beatings from society. Fortunately, she also has the confidence to act recklessly.
After a while, just let her be.
Lin Wanwan really has nothing to worry about. Even if she talks on paper and is not good at farming, she can still sneak into modern times. What should she be afraid of?
And she could easily buy countless peppercorns in exchange for money. In the Tang Dynasty, she was invincible.
In the early Tang Dynasty, the official administration was relatively clear, and the land tax was not heavy, with a tax of forty to one. The "rent" paid by farmers to the court every year for their allocated fields was two stones of millet, which converted to about 200 kilograms of millet.
Although Lin Wanwan did not receive the full share of the land, she still had to pay the "rent" in full. To Lin Wanwan, this amount of millet was nothing but drizzle.
As for Yong, it means corvée, which is the compulsory service of the people to the country. If you calculate it, it will be twenty days per year. If there is a leap month, two days will be added.
Because Lin Wanwan is a female householder, she does not have to do hard labor and can be converted into money. She must pay three feet of silk or three feet and seven inches of cloth every day for twenty days. There is a proper term for this in history: "
"Succumb to mediocrity". For Lin Wanwan, who can travel through time and space, this is a trivial matter.
There is another rule, which is that women in each family should hand over part of the cloth weaved. Some of the fields allocated by the state must be planted with mulberry and hemp, because every year they have to pay 20 feet of silk and 30 liang of cotton, or 20 feet and 5 feet of cloth and 3 pounds of hemp.
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If you don’t grow it, you have to buy it. For farmers, spending money to buy it is a heavy burden, so of course they have to grow it themselves. But for Lin Wanwan, this is not a problem.
She doesn't like hemp, she wants to grow cotton here!
In the early Tang Dynasty, cotton was not yet mainstream, and cotton and silk were currently affordable only to the nobility. Cotton planting technology had not yet been widely promoted. But Lin Wanwan knew that cotton would be the trend in the future.
Nowadays, the quilts of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty are not stuffed with cotton, but made of kudzu, stuffed with reed catkins, catkins, and thatch. Only those who have slept with them will understand.
The nobles of the Tang Dynasty slept on bedding made of silk and satin and stuffed with silk cotton.
Lin Wanwan brought a cicada silk quilt from modern times as a mattress and covered it with a light and soft wool blanket, and she was able to get away with it.
But Lin Wanwan could use cicada silk quilts, but her tribe couldn't afford it! So she wanted to grow cotton to improve everyone's lives.
Cotton is usually planted in March or April of the Gregorian calendar. Now that the season has passed, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. We have to wait until next year, so there is no rush.
Lin Wanwan returned to Zhuangzi after looking at her Yongye fields and Kou subdivision fields. She is also a landlord, and her life is getting more and more promising!
Lin Wanwan was obsessed with life in the Tang Dynasty and could not extricate herself.
If she had to rely on farming to survive, it would certainly not be a happy thing. But now, farming is just an extra pastime she comes up with during the days when she is lying around counting money, which is very interesting!
Thinking about the future, it will be more interesting to bring the people together to eat, clothe, and make a fortune!
It felt like playing a real-person game of farming. She wanted to create her own Peach Blossom Spring!