Chapter 57: Accelerate the sprint to the Lingtai realm (recommendations requested on Monday)
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She was so excited in her heart, but her expression looked like she was crying with joy and she said: "Fourth uncle, you treat me so well."
"Our family, Li Ci, is still very well-behaved. If you work hard, your fourth uncle will have other rewards." Wang Shouzhe smiled and rubbed her head and said, "For example, those delicious dried fish."
Huh! Even if I, Wang Lizi, am a girl, girls still have dignity. Don’t think that you can bribe them with some dried fish...
But when the words came to his lips, his eyes shone brightly, and he said with excitement: "Fourth uncle, fourth uncle, how much can you reward me?"
"It's up to you to handle the Haizhen snacks I brought back from this trip." Wang Shouzhe said generously.
"Woooooo~ Fourth uncle, you are so good to me." Wang Lizi was so excited that tears fell down. She looked at Wang Shouzhe with tears in her eyes, feeling that she should never murmur and slander fourth uncle in her heart, let alone hit her.
His face was filled with flowers. Where could you find such a good fourth uncle?
"Well, Fourth Uncle believes that you can handle it well. We must distribute it fairly to everyone." Wang Shouzhe added, "Every person under the age of twenty in our family should have one share of these snacks. You have learned arithmetic and accounting in Chapter 9, right?"
Remember whoever receives it must sign on the account book."
equally distributed!
She also had to hand-deliver precious snacks door to door. How cruel and cruel this was!
Fourth uncle, you bully others too much, I will fight with you...
It's a pity that after Wang Shouzhe finished his instructions, he disappeared in front of her.
The girl with a few books was left alone, messy in the wind.
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Wang Shouzhe returned to his courtyard and did not deal with anything, but took a short rest. This time, running back and forth to the Hundred Island Guard, he was a little tired both physically and mentally.
Fortunately, the danger has passed. As long as ancestor Longyan can recover, the Ping An Wang family will have a real foothold.
A night of silence.
The next day, Wang Shouzhe met with his aunt Gongsun Hui. The accounts that should be reported should be reported, and the accounts that should be put into the treasury should be put into the treasury. In short, for such a large family, the accounts cannot be messed up, otherwise all kinds of bad problems will occur.
With all these surprising things and gains, Gongsun Hui was also frightened while doing the accounting. Why did Shouzhe bring unexpected surprises every time he came back from a trip?
"Auntie, I deserve the first one." Wang Shouzhe said with a smile, "In terms of resources, I plan to give myself a little more luxury. The monthly supply of spiritual food will be twice as much as before. Xiao Pei Yuan Dan will be increased from 1 piece per month.
Upgrading to 3 pills per month, I still need 1 Yuan-Pui Dan every month, and a spiritual stone for the time being."
As a result, Wang Shouzhe's use of resources has reached an extremely extravagant and exaggerated level. The amount of spiritual rice alone is fifteen kilograms per month, and the spiritual fish and spiritual flesh are fifteen kilograms each.
Including the consumption of elixirs, excluding spiritual stones, the cultivation resources will reach eight to nine hundred gold in one year.
Under normal circumstances, after he was promoted to the seventh level of the Qi Refining Realm, his one-year cultivation resource budget was only more than two hundred dry gold at most. Now it is equivalent to four times the amount! Four or five times the resources will not make Wang Shouzhe's cultivation speed faster.
Reach four or five times.
There is a principle of diminishing marginal effects here. At most, it can be more than twice as fast as before. With the help of spiritual stones, it can only be faster at most, but it will definitely not be three times as fast as before.
Ordinary Xuanwu families, even if they cultivate a first-order legitimate son, even if they are aiming for the Lingtai realm, they will never be so luxurious.
Such a request made even Gongsun Hui widen his eyes and be a little surprised: "Logically speaking, with your merits Shouzhe, there is nothing wrong with applying for so many cultivation resources. It's just that I'm afraid that the clan elders who are used to being frugal will be a little bit embarrassed.
Opinion. But it doesn’t matter, with Longyan Ancestor supporting you behind your back, no one will gossip."
A family is a family for everyone. It is not owned by Wang Shouzhe, the patriarch. The other family elders can naturally express their opinions.
However, Wang Shouzhe doesn't care. With his ability, this family will gradually enter the stage of transformation. Besides, if the contribution system is implemented, in terms of contribution, Longyan ancestor will definitely be the first, and he will be second.
He even believes that his future contribution will be even greater than that of Longyan Ancestor.
Taking up so many resources is not because he has a bad heart, but because he really doesn't want to have the opportunity to attack the spiritual platform until he is middle-aged. The most important thing is that this fantasy world is too dangerous. With his current level of cultivation running around, sooner or later something will happen.
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Therefore, it is safer to stay within the family and speed up the cultivation to the Lingtai realm so that you can have some ability to protect yourself.
After the matter was agreed upon, Wang Shouzhe asked again: "Madam, how is the insect plague going?"
Ten days after he left Changning Guard, he was already lagging behind in terms of intelligence. The situation at Baidao Guard was different. There were very few fields opened up. Perhaps because of the isolated geographical environment, there was no disaster there.
However, food shortage is inevitable in the future, and even the Hundred Island Guards will be affected by the food shortage.
"The situation is very bad." Gongsun Hui said with a serious expression. "Except for a limited number of families, the rest of the families have experienced a decrease in grain production. But the most severely affected are the farmers within the sphere of influence of each family in each city and town. They have
The ability to resist disasters is too poor, and production is generally reduced by about 70%."
Wang Shouzhe frowned slightly: "Although if the production is reduced by 70%, the losses will be heavy, but with the addition of new grains, it will not be difficult for the farmers to persist until the next season's rice matures. It is not worse than the tenant farmers."
"Shou Zhe, you don't know something." Gongsun Hui explained, "First of all, let me tell you about tenant farmers. A tenant farmer's family usually has one to six or seven people. Let's take the average tenant farmer as a household of three and a husband and wife as a labor force. They should
It can cultivate 20 acres of land. The total value of rice and wheat in a normal year is about 600 coppers. Among them, insecticide powder requires about 40 coppers, and the amortization of cattle, farm tools, and grain seeds is about 20 coppers. The family's own fertile land uses acres of land.
4 tax system, that is, 1 tax for each town and county, and 20 acres of fertile land requires a tax of 80 coppers. This leaves about 460 coppers, which needs to be divided with the owner's family. This means that this tenant farmer can get a benefit of 138 coppers."
"A three-member tenant farmer family only needs one dry gold per year. After excluding daily expenses, there will be nothing left." Wang Shouzhe touched his nose and was a little surprised. He had calculated the income from the fields before, but
He did not carefully calculate the income of the tenant farmers.
"The reason why tenant farmers are more risk-resistant is because after all, they are supported by the Xuanwu family." Gongsun Hui said, "In order to stabilize the tenant farmers' operations, the owners will have a minimum guarantee for the tenant farmers. Even if there is no harvest, there will still be 60 coppers. The income will allow them to farm with peace of mind."
Of course, these earnings do not refer to pure dry gold. Rather, they refer to the combined book value of the distributed materials and dry gold.
"In addition, tenant farmers usually raise a small amount of chickens, ducks, geese, etc., and grow fruits, vegetables, etc. in front of and behind the house. These will be supplied to our family, and the net income in a year can be twenty or thirty coppers." Gongsun. Hui patiently explained, "During slack times, we will also organize tenant farmers to carry out reclamation, river dredging, building houses, strengthening river embankments, etc., which will cost about 20 coppers. Therefore, an average household of three tenant farmers A family can earn 1,890 coppers a year, and even in a disaster year it can exceed 100 coppers."
Wang Shouzhe nodded secretly after hearing this. In this way, the life of the tenant farmers was relatively stable. After all, they were protected by their masters. Even if they tightened their belts in bad years, they could survive. If they encountered good years and lived more frugally, they could still survive. Save a lot of copper.
"But the owner-farmers are different." Gongsun Hui said, "Like the tenant farmer family just now, the owner-farmers who own 20 acres of land, if their output is reduced by 70% this season, they will only earn 90 tons of copper this season, and rent cattle for one season. 10 coppers need to be removed from the seeds, and 20 coppers need to be invested in the pest control powder. The tax is 5 tax system, and 1 tax each for the family town, county, and state. Now is the time to collect the summer tax. Twenty acres of land need to pay a tax of 50 coppers. .How many more do they have left?”
As mentioned before, the local Xuanwu family has the responsibility of keeping the people safe and guarding the land. If there are bandits and ferocious beasts, the family must clean up and deal with the vicious incidents. At the same time, they must assist the local garrison in collecting taxes. Therefore, the family must also pay taxes on fertile land within their sphere of influence. Take 1 tax.
However, the Wang family's current sphere of influence is very small. In addition to the approximately 600 households of tenant farmers on its own farm, the sphere of influence is only about a thousand households. The total number of fertile farmland under its jurisdiction is far less than 20,000 acres, and the amount of farmland collected every year is The tax money received totaled a hundred and dozens of gold, and there was still a lot of consumption, which can only be said to be better than nothing.
"So, those self-cultivators basically have no harvest this season?" Wang Shouzhe frowned slightly, "In this case, do we still need to collect taxes?"
"Taxation is the foundation of the country. Towns, guards, counties, and countries are all supported by taxation. And field tax is the largest tax. Without this tax, it is difficult for institutions at all levels to maintain." Gongsun Hui explained, "This summer harvest , the national tax in Longzuo County may be exempted. But after all, there will still be some homesteader families who are not well-run and will encounter great difficulties. At this time, some Xuanwu families will often start to annex land. "
"For example, the Zhao family and the Liu family suffered a lot from the disaster and losses this time. Their eyes seem to be red. There are various signs that they want to take advantage of the chaos to annex some land." Gongsun Hui sneered and said, "A jackal is a jackal, even if it is covered with clothes. After all, the skin of a noble family cannot escape its insatiable nature."