Lin Zhentian saw that Lin Wanwan had said this, so of course he stayed to eat hot pot together. So much meat, just looking at it, made him drool. In fact, he came here just to wait with Kunlun.
People get together for a meal.
Ever since he started working with Lin Wanwan, his life has become visibly better.
After Lin Zhentian took charge of the bank account for Lin Wanwan, he also received winter "work clothes" like Kunlun and the others. The best clothes he has ever worn in his life were the "work clothes" given to him by Lin Wanwan.
Lin Wanwan built several brick dormitories on the wasteland on the edge of her Yongye field and took in many homeless mountain people and farmers who had lost their land and homes. These people were considered her villagers and helped her farm the land.
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Most of the time, they were under the supervision of Lin Zhentian. Due to the language barrier, Kunlun would occasionally visit on behalf of Lin Wanwan.
In the winter fields, there is nothing much that others can sow, but for Lin Wanwan, there are still many things that can be sown.
Needless to say, weed (Chinese cabbage) is being grown by everyone. Lin Wanwan also bought seedlings of winter wheat, radishes, leeks, peas, etc., and of course high-yielding potatoes, which are a must-have for time travellers.
Not only did she let the villagers grow her own fields, but she also gave the vegetables to her clan members so that everyone could follow suit. After the harvest, she would just give her an equal amount of mature vegetables, which was an interest-free loan.
Because Lujiazhuang and Dafengzhuang belonged to the same district as Linjiazhuang, they were both under the control of Patriarch Lin. Lin Wanwan also gave Patriarch Lin a bunch of seedlings and asked him to handle them.
Patriarch Lin is willing to win over the people in his group, but they don't know how to look down on him.
What farmers fear most is change. No matter how much you plant what you are used to, you will always get a harvest. If you suddenly change crops, you have no way of predicting what the result will be.
Everyone is too poor and cannot afford to make a little effort.
Of course they also want to get rich, but they just want to get rich without risk, and they don't dare to take any risks. Because if there is a deviation from expectations, they may starve, freeze, or even die. But in this world,
There is no such thing as chasing you to feed you. If so, it won't be their turn.
On the other hand, Xiao Chong would go to the countryside to inspect Lin Wanwan's fields when he had time. Every time he found something good, he would not miss it.
Lin Wanwan did not dare to provide him with too much, otherwise it would be difficult to explain. In fact, even now, Lin Wanwan already felt that Xiao Chong was suspicious of her. But since the other party had tacitly agreed not to ask anything, she naturally pretended to be dumbfounded.
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In the Tang Dynasty, even high-ranking officials were mostly paid very low wages, but as subsidies, they had their own job fields and publicly funded guards (most of which were counted as labor for the local people).
As the magistrate of Luang County, Xiao Chong's rank is from the sixth grade. He receives a monthly salary (which is various daily necessities, the total value will not exceed 2.5 yuan), and receives a salary after the autumn harvest every year.
That is the salary, which mainly consists of millet, grain or other grains, and is 95 shi per year.
In addition, there are 500 acres of professional land.
With so much farmland, it is certainly impossible to cultivate it all by oneself. Therefore, the county magistrate is actually a landlord, renting out his farmland and then collecting rent. There are regulations in the Tang Dynasty that the rent collected from farmland cannot exceed six pou per mu per year.
millet.
But Xiao Chong was different. As a direct descendant of the Xiao family, when he came to take office, the Xiao family asked him to bring enough people. Not to mention staff, guards, servants, and doctors, he even brought along the villagers who relied on the Xiao family to farm.
Come a lot.
Because the previous county magistrate was so evil, all the tenants in the field were separated from their wives and children. When the new county magistrate came, many people did not dare to rent, for fear of meeting an official who would also strip skin and draw blood.
In disguise, it cleared the way for Xiao Chong to take over.
In the end, half of Xiao Chong's farmland was leased to mountain people and landless farmers who had surrendered from the mountains, and the other half was farmed by his own villagers. Naturally, it could be used as a test field as he wished.
What Lin Wanwan sold most to Xiao Chong was potatoes, because potatoes were high-yielding, and the others were only sold for a token amount.
Now the gentry in Xiaoxi Town have all heard of the name of Lin Wanwan, the Hou Taolin family, and the legend that the rice yield of fifteen shi per acre has been spread throughout the country. However, most of the gentry don't believe it at all, thinking that this is Xiao Chong's fraud for political achievements.
No matter how bold a person is, how rich the land will be! The man at the top of the Tang Dynasty killed his brother and forced his father. He was in the wrong position and was punished by a locust plague. For the sake of public opinion, it is not necessary to create some "auspicious things" to set an example.
The gentry had seen so many dirty things like this that stupid and ignorant commoners would believe it to be true.
The gentry in Luan County also know that Xiao Chong's farm has planted many seeds bought from Lin Wanwan. Now everyone has their eyes wide open, waiting to see the results (joke).
How many vegetables can be grown in winter? It's just a waste of effort. If you plant these two cold-resistant seeds, cabbage and radish, you won't be able to produce a stone per acre. What else can be produced? I'm afraid in the end, Xiao's family will still have to fill the gap.
False prosperity.
For Xiao Chong, the local gentry had more than enough respect but not enough fear.
But a young boy in his early twenties was recommended to the position based on his family's strength. Even if he was a member of the Xiao family, so what. They looked at Xiao Chong with cold eyes as he toyed with high-yielding rice seeds and sweet potatoes, and did not cooperate.
Fortunately, Xiao Chong never thought of giving high-yielding seeds to them. There were not many in the first place, so of course the farmers were given priority.
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After the first snowfall, the weather became colder day by day. In Datang, winter was far more difficult than summer because ordinary people did not have enough to keep out the cold.
The poet Du Fu once wrote, "The quilt has been as cold as iron for many years, and the arrogant son has been lying in bed and is cracked. There is no drying place for the leakage at the bedside, and the rain has not stopped at the feet."
What does this mean? It means that the clothes and quilts are as cold as iron, and the house leaks. You can imagine how miserable it is. The great poet Du Fu was also a nobleman after all, and he was so poor. You can imagine how miserable the other common people were.
Got it.
Although the Zhenguan years under Li Shimin's rule are not as miserable as the Tang Xuanzong's military brutality in the late Kaiyuan period, they are not much better.
Not to mention the severe drought in Guanzhong this year, the floods have just passed, and the harvest is terrible, which depends entirely on transportation support from various places. Under such difficult circumstances, Li Shimin also appointed Li Jing, Li Shiji, Chai Shao, Li Daozong and others as marching generals in August to send troops to conquer the East.
Turks.
As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses are moved, food and grass go first. The war involves not only force, but also national power, which consumes huge amounts of money and food. Under the butterfly effect, Linjiazhuang's fishery tax this autumn has been 20% more than last year.
If it weren't for Lin Wanwan's low-price rice subsidy this year, their winter in Linjiazhuang would have been very difficult.
Li Shimin's military power to suppress the world needed the support of the people of the Tang Dynasty to tighten their belts collectively. Those rich and powerful families still lived extravagantly, and only ordinary people had to bear this kind of pressure.
Society is so unfair and has been so since ancient times.