After the wheat harvest, a summer rain finally came.
Thunder and lightning were followed by torrential rain. Fortunately, the summer rain came and went quickly. The cracks in the long-drought earth were like open mouths. As soon as the rain stopped, all the rainwater was swallowed up.
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"Plant some corn and sweet potatoes while the rain comes."
Zhu Yihai was walking in the fields, bringing with him a group of concubines and princes. He had a royal estate on the outskirts of the city with a lot of land. Zhu Yihai specially selected a piece of land as royal private land. He had one-third of an acre, and gave it to
Several concubines and princes also left one or two pieces of land each.
He divided his one-third-acre land into several plots. Winter wheat had just been harvested on one side, and potatoes and spring wheat would be planted later in the year on the other side, but they were already growing well.
After the summer wheat harvest, he plans to plant corn and sweet potatoes.
This piece of private land is not big, but Zhu Yihai often comes over to observe and even take action. He usually leaves it to the boss to manage. The land next to the imperial village is the land of the royal martial arts hall. There are many pieces of land that were the official property of the feudal lord.
, now allocated to Jiangwu Hall.
The land is basically planted by the teachers and students of the Jiangwu Hall. In addition to the training classes, there are also special labor classes, and the students take turns to manage it. During the wheat harvest, all the teachers and students went to the fields to harvest the wheat together.
The school land of Jiangwu Hall is not even rented out by tenants, nor is it owned by officials, but by the school. It grows grains and vegetables, and also raises pigs and chickens. The income is provided to the teachers and students of the school, and they are also paid a small amount of silver per mu.
You can even save some food and store it in the school warehouse. The pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks you raise can often improve your life.
Zhu Yihai's private land was only visited occasionally. When sowing and harvesting, he brought a group of people from the palace to participate.
"Sweet potato vines are great for raising pigs, and we can also raise some chickens, ducks and geese."
Zhu Yihai changed into short clothes, wore a straw hat, and held a hoe in his hand. He looked a bit like a farmer, but the concubines could not do that. Although they had made some preparations in advance, they tried to change into more convenient clothes.
Even though she is wearing a skirt, she still looks like she is here for a sightseeing outing.
The two sisters, the eldest princess and the fifth princess, even came to ride horses. However, the two princes and brothers, King Qin and King Han, used their skills to lead the horses for the sisters and taught them how to ride horses. They had a lot of fun. As for the other princes and princesses
, he is too young. How can a little guy of one or two years old know anything? He only knows how to have fun and get excited, and the concubines and palace maids are wandering around. If he accidentally fails to notice, this one will grab a piece of grass, that one will grab a piece of dirt, and even directly
Just put it in my mouth.
And those Mongolian women rarely left the palace, so they were always riding horses.
It was originally a lively scene, but suddenly a fight broke out over there.
"His Majesty."
When Zhu Yihai heard Liu Chao's shouts, he looked up and saw that the group of Mongolian women in the palace were really fighting, and it quickly turned into a group fight.
But Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry. He was still talking to the boss about planting a certain amount of sweet potatoes and a certain amount of corn. He even talked about leaving a certain amount of land to plant some vegetables and fruits, and discussed what to plant.
The old leader is very experienced and is also an old farmer in the Imperial Village. He is a little older and manages the emperor's private land here. He is usually very relaxed and the treatment is quite good. He is paid by the emperor and he manages it very carefully.
The treatment was better than that of his own ten acres of land, and the harvest was guaranteed despite droughts and floods. Of course he was careful.
"The weather is getting hotter and there are more pests. Generally, it is difficult to grow leafy vegetables. If you plant a small amount, it's okay. You can plant some cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, onions, eggplants, bitter gourds, and some peppers.
You can also plant some soybeans. The most cost-effective is corn, which is easy to manage, harvest and store. Soybeans are also good. Potatoes and sweet potatoes have a good yield, but they are not easy to store. They are mainly used to feed pigs and chickens, which is good. In particular, the sweet potato vine has a high yield.
, good for raising pigs.”
Prices have now slowly stabilized.
However, prices in the capital are definitely higher than in other places. Basically, prices in the capital are the most expensive, followed by those big ports, provincial capitals, then large industrial and commercial towns, prefectures, and then counties and villages. Prices in rural areas are cheaper. This is also based on supply and demand.
It comes from relationships.
The larger the city, the greater the demand, and the less it can supply itself locally, so the cost of transporting it from other places will undoubtedly increase a lot.
Rice and wheat are under comprehensive control and management by the imperial court, and the prices are not entirely market prices. Now after the harvest, the price of white rice and wheat is one tael per shi, and the rice sold by the common people is 30% off, which is 7 qian per shi. According to the rice yield rate, transportation and storage
After conversion, the unified purchase price of rice is actually quite high, especially this year, which is a good year.
And the price of rice in the capital has been stable at one tael or one stone. There is no doubt that the people in the capital have actually received great benefits.
The prices of other grains are based on rice and wheat. For example, rice costs one tael and one stone, which refers to white rice, and the more expensive glutinous rice, which is also glutinous rice. In the past, it was needed by the palace, bureaucrats, etc., and glutinous rice is also divided into several prices.
The grade is divided into new and old rice, and new and high-grade rice, which is about one or two coins per stone.
There are medium white rice and low white rice in the white rice, and the price ranges from nine yuan and one stone to nine yuan and one stone.
There will also be brown rice, 90% of which is brown rice per stone in Tokyo.
The prices of other grains such as millet, soybeans, sorghum, and corn are also much lower than white rice.
Based on the stable food prices, the prices of various other commodities have also been relatively stable. For example, the price of high-quality pork is about 30 yuan per catty, and the price of fish is 20 yuan.
Fifty-four eggs are worth one denarius, and forty-five duck eggs are worth one denarius.
Beef and mutton cost 40 to 50 yuan per catty.
The prices of other cotton, cloth, raw silk, and silk have also stabilized and are not particularly expensive.
Now that foreign trade in the southeast is booming again, many workshops in Susong, Hangzhou, Ningxiao and other places have gathered a large number of industrial workers. The income of those female textile workers has even exceeded the income of day laborers in the city.
Day laborers generally only earn 30 to 50 cents a day, but those female textile workers can even earn 100 cents a day.
In the past, Jiangnan was mainly home-based textiles. Women weaved at home, mainly using cotton and linen grown at home, or silk raised by them, and processed and sold by themselves. But now, a large number of processing of supplied materials has begun to occur.
Even many professional textile factories have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, and many weavers have begun to be recruited into the factory to concentrate on weaving, and even set up assembly lines. The various processes are separated, which greatly improves efficiency and output. Naturally, the wages of skilled workers are extremely high.
Big improvement.
It is generally possible to earn up to a hundred dollars a day, and even many skilled spinners can earn more.
In traditional agriculture, long-term labor, food and accommodation are included, and only a few taels of silver a year are earned. Although it has improved a bit in recent years, it is often not as much as one tael a month.
During the most strenuous wheat harvest season, wheat farmers or day laborers rush to harvest and plant crops, and they can only earn two taels or less than silver in a month.
A pound of pork costs 30 cents, a pound of vegetables costs 35 cents, a pound of fruit costs 120 cents, cotton clothes cost 300 to 400 cents, and cotton winter clothes cost 600 to 700 cents.
Generally speaking, when there are no disasters and the weather is good, a farmer with ten acres of land can save a few taels of money in addition to food and clothing throughout the year.
As for semi-owning farmers, they may barely be able to make enough food and clothing.
As for the tenant farmers, even if the weather is good, they still have to have their wives spin textiles to support the family, and they still have to eat vegetables and vegetables with coarse grains, and they can barely survive just two meals a day.
Those who have no land, not only do not cultivate their own land, but do not even have access to land as tenants, are the worst off. They can work part-time during the busy farming season, but many times they are unemployed and their livelihood is precarious. In the event of famine, these people will be the worst offenders.
Become a bandit first.
However, the worst stage of the war has mostly passed now. The Shao Tian Dynasty controls most of the country and has gradually stabilized. Especially after the great prosperity of industry, commerce and maritime trade, it has driven the industrial, commercial and handicraft economy.
Nowadays, many landless people have been allocated fields through policies, or have been given land as sharecroppers. Many landless people have entered workshops and become industrial workers. Their income is even higher than that of farmers.
In some families, some young members go out to serve as soldiers or work to supplement the family income.
It turns out that the Ming Dynasty had a serious land annexation, and most of the land was in the hands of a very small number of people. The vassal kings, relatives, senior officials, squires, and powerful people moved millions of acres, hundreds of thousands of acres, and tens of thousands of acres.
Very much.
On the other hand, there are many ordinary people who don't even have three to five acres of land.
Due to famine, war and other reasons, industry and commerce were not prosperous, which further led to market chaos, world turmoil, and many abnormal prices. Now they have slowly stabilized.
Everyone can go about their business with peace of mind.
"Your Majesty, don't you care?"
Empress Zhang came over with a big belly and said to the emperor helplessly.
Zhu Yihai smiled and helped her over, "Be careful, it's cool under the shade of the tree. Sit down."
"Your Majesty is still laughing. Look at them. Fortunately, they don't have swords, guns, bows and arrows, otherwise they would be facing each other with swords and arrows."
Zhu Yihai helped Queen Zhang sit down, then raised her head and glanced over there. She was still fighting, and it had indeed escalated.
"Tell me, how did the fight start?"
"Anu from Heshuote and Xiao Yu'er from Horqin got into a quarrel for some unknown reason, and then started pushing and shoving. As a result, those from Horqin came to help Xiao Yu'er, and then those from Weilat also came to help.
Once there were more people on both sides, it became impossible to persuade him.
Then those from Chahar and three tribes from Outer Khalkha also joined, and now they form two groups, the east and the west, who are at war with each other."
When Zhu Yihai heard what the queen said, he immediately realized something was going on.
Anu's surname was Borjigit, and Xiao Yu'er who was fighting with her was also surnamed Borjigit. One of them was from the Mosi Weilat and Shuote tribe, and the other was from the Monan Horqin tribe.
Upon closer inspection, Heshuote was actually derived from Horqin before.
Genghis Khan, the Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, enfeoffed his second brother Hesar in the vast land of Hulunbuir Prairie in the Ergun River and Hailar River Basin, and the Xing'an Mountains, and became one of the "host kings". Horqin Liuzasak, and
Zhalaite, Dulbert, Golros, Alukorqin, Sizi tribe, Maoming'an, Wulat, Alxa, Qinghai Heshuote are all descendants of him.
During the Hongxi period of the Ming Dynasty, Horqin was conquered by the Oirat and fled to the Nenjiang River. In order to distinguish himself from Alukorqin of the same race, he named himself Nenjiang Horqin, also known as Nenhorqin.
By this time, although Heshuote and Nenhorqin were both surnamed Borzigit, and they were both important branches of the Jin family, they were considered feuds, with one living in the west of Moshe and the other in Liaodong.