Early in the morning, Zhang Yan asked his younger sister Zhang Huiyuan to take him for a walk in the fields outside the city.
"The land in front of the second brother belongs to our family!" Zhang Huiyuan was jumping up and down with joy. Zhang Yan's return made the burden on her shoulders lighter by half, and more importantly, the psychological pressure was reduced a lot.
She also returned to her usual playful appearance.
Following Zhang Huiyuan's guidance, Zhang Yan saw a large field with a wooden sign from a distance. According to Zhang Huiyuan's gestures, he roughly estimated in his mind that the two military fields were not small at all, covering almost thirty acres.
appearance.
According to the farming output here in the Wild Sky Territory, generally speaking, it takes at least four acres of land to feed one person, so their current ration for a family of four requires the output of at least sixteen acres of land. Now the extra fourteen acres
It will make life at home much easier.
Nowadays, Wang Lanping is no longer busy spinning. Even if she is spinning, she just spends her time spinning some for home use and rarely sells it. And Zhang Huiyuan no longer takes on the work of female celebrities day and night, but only takes on some big jobs.
, subsidize some household expenses.
And now that Zhang Yan is back, the Zhang family will definitely get better and better under his management. At present, his first thought is to expand the family's source of income.
The simplest, most direct and most reliable source of increasing income is the military field in front of you.
Military merit field is a very special kind of real estate in Huangtian Domain. Its ownership is not in the hands of the local government like other fields, but in the hands of the military. However, the military has no direct management rights over the military merit field, and
It is managed by the local government. The two sides form a mutually restrictive balance.
Unless the military merit fields are given away, neither the military nor the local yamen have the right to buy or sell them. However, official grain can be grown on the unowned military merit fields. Farmers are assigned by the local yamen and paid according to the harvest, which is also very important for local farmers.
An important subsidy item.
If there is insufficient military land, the army will buy back and stockpile it near the city, or negotiate with the local government to reclaim new land.
This policy on military merit fields has been in use for hundreds of years. After continuous improvement, it has become very mature and effective. But if you study carefully, you can actually find some ways to make money behind the military merit fields. Zhang Yan is talking about these things
I heard Hua Gou talk about it when we were in Yubei Mountain. These are actually not secrets in various places. Nanyuan Kingdom has never issued any prohibitive laws on this. It seems to be a deliberate loophole.
This results in the fact that high-quality farmland such as military merit fields is often bought from military meritorious officials at high prices, and then kept in their hands, waiting for the military to spend a higher price to buy it back. It is not possible to double the income over and over again.
Strange.
The army also raised the selling price of hard goods such as demon tendons due to the soaring price of military merit fields. Not only did it raise the threshold for exchanging tendons and bones within the army, but the part that was released outside the army increased even more. And the army was in Nanyuan.
China is the largest supplier of demon tendons. If they increase their prices, the amount of demon tendons on the market will naturally increase accordingly.
So who loses in the end?
Of course, the latter part is deduced by Zhang Yan’s own analysis, not Huagou’s words. But this is also the current reality of military fields.
This is why Zhang Yan thinks that Xiao Chongwen and others came together to ask the Zhang family to sell these two military fields. Mostly they wanted to get some benefits from it.
But as long as the Zhang family does not sell it, these two pieces of military merit fields are ironclad and no one can take them away. They are properties that can be passed down.
And compared with other means to increase family income, changing the harvest in the fields is the most acceptable method and will not attract covetousness.
Zhang Yan had already figured this out clearly on the way back from Yubei Mountain.
"Second brother, what is this? Is it a wild boar? It looks so strange!" Zhang Huiyuan, who was jumping up and down, saw her brother suddenly take out four three-inch stone sculptures from his arms, and curiously took them and put them away.
Examine it in your hand.
The stone carving is more than three inches long and one inch high. The overall look is very delicate and looks like a strange animal.
It looks like a wild boar, but it also has two big ears erect, its body is thickly haired, its tail is long, and its four big teeth stick out upside down from its mouth.
"This is not a wild boar, it's called Dangkang."
"Dangkang? Second brother? What is Dangkang?"
"Haha, it's a magical...monster that can make crops in the fields harvest abundantly."
"Ah? Is there such a powerful monster? Then it is a good monster!"
"Yes, it is a good monster. We will bury its statues in the four corners of the field. This year's harvest will be greater than in previous years. But this is a secret, only we two know it, do you understand?"
"Uh-huh! Second brother, I won't tell anyone!" Zhang Huiyuan shrank her neck with a smile, tightly covering the small stone sculpture in her hand, as if she was afraid of being seen, and finally couldn't help but asked curiously: "Second brother
, is this also the skill that the magical old man taught you?" Although Zhang Huiyuan is more strong-tempered and sensible, she is still only a teenager after all. Her curiosity and the magical experience of her second brother have also convinced her of the so-called magical monsters.
No doubt.
"Haha, yes, that magical old man taught me this too. Come on, let's hide two each, okay?" Zhang Yan said and gave another stone sculpture to his sister, and then the two of them walked away separately, carefully hiding the little ones.
Stone sculptures are buried in the four corners of the field.
That is not an ordinary small stone sculpture, but a small magic weapon with Zhang Yan's spiritual energy engraved on it with a talisman. It can also be regarded as a minimalist and weakened version of the Bean Soldier, without the ability to evolve into a concrete form, but
However, it has a mild power of gain. It is also a product of the combination of Shinto and martial arts.
There are actually many similar things in Taoism. In fact, it is not complicated. The only threshold required is the cultivation level of the caster and the concentration of spiritual energy around it.
According to Zhang Yan's estimation, the four Xiaodangkang stone sculptures can be connected together to form a piece after being placed on the ground to supplement the crops in his own field. Even if the harvest is imminent, the production can be increased by at least 10% during this period. Next year, at least the whole year can be increased.
Increase production by 20%. This is equivalent to the normal harvest of at least six more acres of land, which is already a lot for the Zhang family today.
After that, Zhang Yan followed his younger sister and said hello to the farmers who happened to come over to work, and got to know each other. These farmers are the people who actually manage the Zhang family's military fields. They are all farmers with very good skills, otherwise they would not know how to do it.
He was selected by the local government to work in military fields.
On the way back, Zhang Huiyuan was still very excited about the small stone sculptures.
"Second brother, do you think that with those small stone carvings, how much more can our harvest be this year?"
"I guess an extra 10% will be fine."
"Wow! Are you so powerful?! By the way, second brother..." Zhang Huiyuan stopped abruptly and pulled Zhang Yan's clothes. "Brother, look over there, it's Xiao Chongwen and the others!