"Exempted, exempted for one year." Man Bao said: "At that time, there were people in our county who did not want to apply for tax exemption. It was County Magistrate Fu who worked hard, so that he could ride on the tail of Yizhou to be exempted from tax. Otherwise, our village would definitely be in trouble.
sad."
The farmer patted his thigh and said, "Oh, you are so lucky. You have met a good man. Our county is exempt from taxation. Last year, we also added two new donations. It was said that the floods destroyed the roads and water conservancy.
Spend money to rest, and all the money and food spent are distributed to us, otherwise my family will not be unable to afford those two bags of millet."
Man Bao is no longer a child of six or seven years old. She knows more things now and thinks more. Although she still firmly remembers the increase in the city entrance fee by Magistrate Fu, she also thinks about what her husband said.
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To evaluate a person, you can't just remember one thing he did. You have to list the things he should do, and then list the things he did. Only then can you know how that person is.
Magistrate Fu has been in Luojiang County for many years, but he has only been to Qili Village twice. He usually never goes to Qili Village to teach Nong Sang;
In six years, he only increased his donation once;
Every year, labor was sent to repair water conservancy and roads, and the county government was also built;
Collect city gate fees;
Petitions were made to exempt them from taxes;
In summary, there are only a few things, but because of his mother, Manbao likes Taoism very much. He has also studied Laozi and Zhuangzi in the past two years, and gradually realized that sometimes, not doing it is a kind of right thing.
Of course, she prefers the current Magistrate Yang.
Because every year he would go to Qili Village to teach farmers and mulberry trees, not only Qili Village, but all the villages in Luojiang County;
Almost every year, he would use part of the money from the county government to buy grain seeds, farm tools or cattle and distribute them to each household or district to help the poor and the weak;
When every family wants to have a new child or property, Li Zheng will be more attentive than before. Sometimes, instead of the villagers looking for it, Li Zheng himself will go to the door to check the records and then report it to the superiors;
Yang Heshu will also issue service orders, but he will advance the matter, and will go into service within ten days after the busy farming season. He will not be like Magistrate Fu, who will be early one year and late the next. Either he is biting the tail of the busy farming season, or it is just right.
When the weather is at its coldest;
Yang Heshu did not charge city gate fees, and also restricted the helpers in the county, not allowing them to cause trouble to the small vendors in the city;
It will also help merchants in the city contact merchants outside to expand their business...
So not only did Li Erlang, who didn't reveal his true identity at first glance, ask her, but even when ordinary people asked her how the two county magistrates were, she couldn't say that Magistrate Fu was not good, she could only say that she liked Magistrate Yang better.
However, Li Erlang diverted his attention and focused on asking about the farmer's donation and why their county was affected by the disaster two years ago.
But the farmer doesn't know what's going on in the entire county. All he can say is the disaster situation in his village and several nearby villages.
But this was enough for Li Erlang to deduce the situation in their county.
Bai Shanbao also sat up. His grandmother and husband both said that if he became an official in the future, he would need to understand these things.
Moreover, he also wanted to see how others became officials and what the people would say about them.
Li Erlang asked about farming, "I wonder how the harvest was last year. How many stones can one acre have?"
"I haven't counted that, but there are three and a half bags of good wheat per acre, and nearly three and a half bags of bad wheat. The harvest is pretty good."
Li Erlang frowned, remembering something, and turned to ask Bai Shanbao: "You are from Luojiang County, do you know how the harvest in Luojiang County is?"
Bai Shanbao thought for a while and said: "Only the county government knows the county's data. However, when our small village's wheat yield was weighed last autumn, it was five dan, and the rice yield was much worse, only about three dan."
Li Erlang looked at him suspiciously, "How can the wheat harvest be so high?"
The yield of rice per mu is normal, but for wheat, it usually only yields about three shi, or even if some fields are fertile, it can even yield four shi.
Bai Shanbao smiled and said: "We use new wheat seeds, so the harvest is higher than other fields."
Originally, the wheat seeds used by the small farm and Lao Zhou's family were the best batches. After each harvest, the strongest and best wheat seeds were selected and reserved as wheat seeds.
I don’t know if they have adapted to the environment of this era, and the excellent properties of wheat seeds have begun to be slowly brought out, or if they have adjusted, but anyway, the harvests in the past two years have been pretty good.
And the yield per mu is higher than that of the old Zhou family.
Every year during the harvest, the story of the reincarnation of the treasure-filled fairy becomes more widely circulated.
Because the villagers unanimously believed that Manbao and the others did not care much about the work in the fields, and their annual harvest was actually higher than them.
What could be the reason?
They knew that the land in Daling was not very fertile, so the harvest could only be achieved through the blessing of gods.
The villagers think so, but Bai Shanbao doesn't think so. Regarding the work on the farm, they just don't work in the fields, but they make all the decisions.
Only they themselves know how many people they have to hire for retting every year, how much fertilizer they spread every year, and how much manpower they have to hire to carry water from the canals every year...
He felt that this high harvest was deserved and not due to the blessing of gods.
However, although the villagers listened to them, they still believed that they were blessed by gods.
Now that he was talking about farming, he couldn't help but ask the farmer a few more questions, "Do you only plant spring wheat? Can you catch the rain when the ear is heading?"
"God never negotiates like that. There will always be a difference of a few days or ten days, but it's not a big problem."
"The problem is still big," Bai Shanbao said: "If the rain can catch up with the earing time, not only will the wheat grains be full, but the wheat ears will also be longer."
"But we can't just let God rain, can we?"
Bai Shanbao: “That’s why we need to water.”
Li Erlang couldn't help but look at Bai Shanbao.
The farmer groaned and said, "How can we water so much land? Moreover, when the wheat is filling, the grass in the field is luxuriant. If we don't weed the field now, there will be no harvest."
Man Bao said: "In the final analysis, it is still a matter of manpower. We cannot cultivate intensively. It would be better if we had more cows at home."
"There are a few more cows. In our village, there is only one cow among dozens of households." The farmer glanced at the clothes Man Bao and the others were wearing. They looked very ordinary, but when he glanced at the horses tied outside, the farmer realized
He smiled and said: "The young master and the young lady are rich and powerful, how can they know the hardships we have outside."
"I know, my family is also very poor."
The farmer didn’t believe it. “Can a poor person afford to study? He’s still a girl.”
"That's because our husband is good and I don't need money to study. And what's wrong with the girl? In our family, I studied first, and then my nieces and nephews went to study." Man Bao said: "Since there is no manpower for a while, there is no animal power.
If it’s not enough, then you can replace it with new wheat seeds.”