As a well-known figure in the Southern Dynasties, Liu Zhongli was captured by Li Tai and was notorious among the people in the Eastern Han Dynasty. However, he was still treated with a certain degree of courtesy after entering the Western Wei Dynasty.
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After all, Liu Zhongli has been famous for a long time, Wang Sengbian, Chen Baxian, etc. are all his juniors, and even He Basheng was defeated when fighting with him, so he is quite famous in Guanzhong.
At that time, Yu Wentai did not directly use Liu Zhongli, but Yuwen Hu called him into his command, and later relied on Liu Zhongli when he was in Hedong. Liu Min had complained to Li Tai before that when Liu Zhongli was in Hedong Township
There are many people who rely on Yu Wenhu's reputation to achieve dominance and prosperity.
However, in Liu Zhongli’s account, there is a different version. According to his own account, when he was recruited by Yu Wenhu and served in Hedong, he was hated and slandered by the villagers in order to promote government decrees and suppress local lawless powerful people.
After that, he did not settle down in his hometown, but returned to Guanzhong with Yuwen Hu.
Based on Li Tai's understanding of the urine properties of both parties, he felt that what both parties said was probably true, and at the same time, they must have their own water content, which was not the whole truth. However, he was too lazy to pursue the matter, but he was interested in why Liu Zhongli settled down.
Xihe County is more curious.
After following Yu Wenhu back to Guanzhong, Liu Zhongli was appointed governor of Fuzhou shortly after it was established from Fucheng County, and Fuzhou happened to border Xihe County and was located to the south of Xihe County. According to his words, during his tenure
At that time, the local scholars who governed the country felt that he had done great work, so they gave him a property in Xihe County when he left office. And because he liked the folk customs and atmosphere of northern Shaanxi, he chose to settle in Xihe County.
As a newly arrived big rat, Li Tai certainly understood what Liu Zhongli had not mentioned in his words. As Fang Bo, the governor of a place, it was too easy to get some property for himself.
After Liu Zhongli entered Guanzhong at the end of last year, he took the initiative to resign from the post of governor of Fuzhou, which was quite sensible. Later, he was probably worried that he would be retaliated by the villagers if he returned to his hometown in Hedong without his backer.
, so he simply settled in Xihe County.
After listening to Liu Zhongli's self-report, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that times have changed, and a fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken!
But if Liu Zhongli could be more effective when rescuing Jiankang's crisis and prevent Hou Jing's rebellion from expanding and rotting away, then he would be a well-deserved hero of King Qin and the number one general of the Southern Liang Dynasty. Why is he now in such embarrassment that he has almost no place to stand.
Therefore, people always feel that they will not get any immediate punishment for doing evil, so they repeatedly lower their moral standards, but the accumulated evil consequences will eventually come in some form.
Li Tai originally wanted to find a farm to take a look at the specific operations. Now that he met an acquaintance like Liu Zhongli, he suggested going to his home to take a look.
After Liu Zhongli heard this, his face suddenly turned pale. Especially when he saw the heavily armed guards around Li Tai, he was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He was probably worried that Duke Tang still refused to let him go and wanted to
In this way, his whole family was beheaded.
Seeing his frightened look, Li Tai said with a smile: "Marquis Liu has lived in the country for several years, and he must have heard about my deeds. But if you obey the law, you don't have to worry about being harmed by the government for no reason. The Liang family's national achievements have already been done.
, Is there any old grudge between Liu Hou and I that cannot be resolved?"
"Sin, thank you so much, little people, and thank you Mr. Tang for your benevolence and grace!"
After Liu Zhongli heard this, his expression changed several times, and soon he became excited again. He kowtowed and said with a choked tone, then stood up and led the way towards his home.
Liu Zhongli's manor is located not far to the southwest of the county. Transportation by land and water is very convenient, and the environment is quiet and livable. It can be seen that he was careful when selecting it.
The entire manor building, including cultivated land, mulberry fields, etc., covers an area of about ten hectares. The scale is not too large, but the land is mostly flat and fertile irrigated land, plus dozens of mulberry trees that grow well in the Piyuan.
, with such a good farming and weaving foundation, it is no problem to feed one or two hundred people.
Because there were soldiers who came here first to patrol and guard, when Tang Gongyi arrived here, Liu Zhongli and his family were already standing in front of the village to greet them. There were more than thirty men and women in the house, in addition to Liu Zhongli's wife, children, brothers and other relatives.
In addition, there are more than twenty soldiers and men, and the number of family members is almost the same as when Li Taichu entered Guanzhong.
Therefore, in ancient times, especially in the Middle Ages, when some people were said to have fallen into poverty and left their hometowns, it was not true that they were completely destitute. It was extremely difficult for a truly impoverished family to even obtain a registered permanent residence and become a self-cultivated farmer, let alone a successful career.
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A more reliable way to achieve class crossing is to rely on youth, strength and courage to join a powerful family and become a slave. If you get to the level of Liu Taozhi in the Northern Qi Dynasty, you can be called an absolute winner in life.
Li Tai was not very interested in the population of the Liu family, and kept asking Liu Zhongli about the details of the management of the manor along the way.
Liu Zhongli did not dare to conceal this, and introduced in detail: "Thanks to Tang Gong's water conservancy and farming, there are many fertile fields on both sides of the Kuli River. If you work hard and work hard at one year old, you can harvest more than two stones per acre of millet, and three stones per acre of bean sprouts. The Han family
Owning nearly nine hectares of land, after deducting grain and food for people and animals, we can still make a profit of more than 700 jin at the end of the year. We accumulate 200 jin of grain to prepare for shortages, and the rest can be lost to officials. The salt can be as short as 200 jin, or as long as 100 jin.
If you put ten kilograms into the market and sell them, you can make a profit of more than a hundred stones..."
The main crops grown in northern Shaanxi are millet, sorghum and various beans. Liu Zhongli's family has a population of more than 30 and raises several cattle and horses. The annual food consumption of his family is estimated to be thousands of kilo, after deducting crop seeds and other consumption,
Nine hectares of land can still yield a profit of 700 shi per year. Such a harvest is very good. Basically, after three years of farming, you can have two years of savings.
Ancient books say that after three years of farming, there will be enough food for one year. With the development of the times, farming technology and per-acre yield are also improving. In addition, Liu Zhongli’s family is not an ordinary farmer.
With rent adjustment, such a harvest can be considered a relatively normal level.
Salt yin is divided into long yin and short yin, which are distinguished by the distance of transportation and sales. The farther the salt can be transported, the higher the price and profit will be. Otherwise, the price and profit will be lower. But not everyone will pick up the salt and sell it after getting the salt yin.
, like Liu Zhongli's family, it is not enough to make a hundred pounds of salt, so it is better to sell it directly to those big salt merchants, which is also a source of income.
But the Liu family's manor was obviously not just for farming. As far as Li Tai could see, it covered more than ten hectares. In addition to the nearly nine hectares of cultivated land, there were also several hectares of mulberry fields and orchards.
The commodity economy in the Southern Dynasties was relatively developed, and many dignitaries did not shy away from talking about business, and even personally ran estates and merchants. Therefore, Liu Zhongli introduced his family business in a very orderly manner.
"With three years of mulberry, one year old can harvest thirty kilograms of leaves and fifty kilograms of harvest. The number of mulberry plants planted varies between twenty and twenty. The mulberries can be used as food and the leaves are used to feed silkworms. One mu of mulberry can produce five cocoons.
Ten kilograms, more than twenty kilograms of silk..."
Liu Zhongli answered Tang Gong's question in great detail, but he didn't know that his detailed explanation had touched upon Tang Gong's blind spot in knowledge.
Although Li Tai also endured hard times, he really couldn't be as familiar with all the output and data in the manor as Liu Zhongli. Converting it according to the data he could understand, it was one acre of mulberry trees and silkworms.
The amount of silk produced is about twenty pieces per year.
Of course, the actual conversion is definitely not that simple, especially since each process consumes a lot of time and manpower, so it cannot be equated to twenty bolts of silk from one acre of mulberry.
Even when the government collects household transfers, there are options such as silk, cotton, cloth, and linen for people to choose from. This is because many households with equal land simply do not have enough labor and time to weave cotton and linen into silk cloth.
Only semi-finished products can be turned over as household adjustment.
Although Liu Zhongli's family also had a large number of slaves, they did not plant all the mulberry fields with mulberry trees because they were too busy raising silkworms and weaving. If they just sold semi-finished products such as silk and hemp, the profit would not be as good as planting other crops.
Crops with higher economic attributes. Among them, Liu Zhongli highlighted his tea garden.
"The common people used to live in Xiangmiang. Because they had a disease of drinking tea, they thought that they would distance themselves from this tea after leaving their hometown. However, they did not expect that many people in Beizhou were also fond of this tea. Therefore, they had asked someone to find a few good tea trees in Hanzhong.
, transplanted in this manor, although time and space were lost, the tea leaves had a short sweetness and a long bitter taste, but there were very few local varieties, and there was a lot of profit from harvesting and selling them on the market!"
Liu Zhongli introduced Li Tai to the tea garden, pointing to the dozens of tea trees with different growth conditions in the garden. Although he resigned at the end of last year, the manor was not just a temporary operation, because it had already achieved quite a lot.
That's why I settled here after resigning.
After Li Tai heard this, he couldn't help but pointed at Liu Zhongli and said with a smile: "Why should you praise Tao Zhu when you praise a virtuous man? Liu Hou is also very capable in governing affairs! Not long after the tea drinking trend spread in this town, Liu Hou has already
Investigate and benefit from it."
Although the practice of drinking tea has a long history, it did not flourish until the Sui and Tang Dynasties. As an important foreign trade commodity, tea was not established until the Song and Ming dynasties. When Li Tai was building the Shifo Temple, he had
I deliberately used religious rituals to promote the custom of drinking tea among Jihu people, and it has achieved some results in a few years.
When he was in Shannan, he had already started planting and improving tea varieties, and was also promoting it as an important commodity to Guanzhong and other regions, not only for the sake of pure profit, but also in the hope of strengthening regional ties.
exchange of cultural customs and eating habits.
Unexpectedly, in Xihe County, Liu Zhongli also sensed this trend without any guidance, and has already launched localized operations for the purpose of profit. It must be said that this business sense is also very sensitive.