Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 904 Prince [[-]]

It was June, the mountains were green and the leaves were turning red.However, the strong sunlight fell on the earth, and it was hot.Around noon, the heat wave rolled even more, the air seemed to be melted, and there were layers of 'ripples', like microwaves on the surface of the water.

Pieces of early rice sway with plump ears from time to time, like undulating golden oceans.

It is already late summer, and it is the season of early rice harvest.

In the golden sea of ​​rice, the rice stalks are so heavy that the rice stalks are bent. When a gust of wind blows, a kind of joy of harvest is rippling in the undulating waves of rice.

Another bumper year.On the field, many farmers are bending over and moving step by step in the field.

This is a farm twenty miles outside of Jinling City. It is the busy farming season, and the weather is still hot. Now it is only about [-] o'clock, and the sun's rays have become venomous. Most of the people in the field are wearing only a single piece of clothing. The man still showed his strong and dark back, and he was about to bend down to harvest the rice with full ears.

Busy farming is always the busiest time for farmers. These days, the common people get up early before dawn, have breakfast, and step into the field under the first ray of sunshine.Even though they have just arrived at Sishi, they have been busy in the fields for a long time.

Set your sights on the land near the country road.An old man and his two sons finally cut a paddy field and beat his sore back. The old man straightened up and greeted his two sons: "Dashan, Dahai, you also come up to rest."

Dashan is a stout young man in his twenties, with an honest appearance, and he smiled honestly after hearing his father's yell.Dahai was only twelve or thirteen years old, and his childishness was still on his face. When he heard what his father said, he happily agreed: "Hey, dad, I'll come right away."

Da Shan glared at the younger brother, and replied to the old man: "Father, you just rest, the third child and I are not tired."

An adult in his twenties, and even experienced the hard times back then, how could he not know how to solve problems for his family?He doesn't know how to worry like the third child who has lived a good life since he was a child.

The eldest grandson and the youngest son, the lifeblood of the old man.

Old man Liu glanced at his youngest son, he hesitated for a moment, but he also knew that his son was not good enough.In particular, Liu Dahai didn't have the talent to study, and his body was not strong. A few years ago, there was a boy scout in the town, and this kid pretended to be sick and refused to go. He was not a motivated person.Graduating from this school is also the fate of returning home to farm.You can't just worry about it now.

"That's fine, that's fine." Hearing his son's reply, Old Man Liu finally agreed. He took down the basket from the ox cart tied to the ground, and now he took out the water jug ​​inside and poured himself a bowl of cold water.He took out another bun from the basket and ate it with his head down.

Liu Dahai glanced at his second brother unhappily, holding a sickle, and looked at his father who had stopped speaking, and had to return to the field dejectedly.He didn't want to do farm work because all this was seen by his classmate Luo Hao.

The latter is the richest household in their village, and their family has less than [-] acres of land. Therefore, Master Luo Hao only stands in the fields and supervises the laborers, but he will never do it himself. This seems to be a disgraceful behavior.

Liu Dahai felt like his face was on fire. Although he knew that Luo Hao couldn't see him, he always felt that there was a gaze on him from there.

Two quarters of an hour later, Liu Dashan and Liu Dahai returned to the field from the field.The two brothers picked up the water that their father had already poured and gulped it down. Then they rinsed their palms with water, grabbed the meat buns, and ate hungrily.

Today's life is easier, and you can see a lot of meat on weekdays, and you won't be reluctant to part with it during the busy farming season.

Although the Liu family can only be regarded as an upper-middle class family in the village, this is because the eldest Liu Dajiang joined the army in his early years, and because he is a member of the army, he was assigned more land.But sixty or seventy mu of land, and all of them are high-quality fertile fields, if it was placed in the old Zhao Song Dynasty, it would be like a small landlord.

Jiangnan has less land and more people. During the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the same [-] mu of land might have been a rich peasant in Qilu, but it was considered a small landlord in Jiangnan.

Lu Qi's agricultural tax is far lower than Zhao Song's, and farmers' income will increase, so naturally it will not be sad.So, old man Liu is very satisfied with his current life.Sitting on the ground, looking at the golden rice, the deep wrinkles carved on his face by the years can't hide his joy, so the joy should not be too strong.

Liu Dashan is a sunken person. He suffered hardships when he was a child, and he is content with his current life.Among the father and son, only Liu Dahai is different!
It's like the post-[-]s generation in the later generations who have never suffered, at least they have not been hungry since they were young. The mentality of the pair of farmers towards food is completely different from that of their father and brother.After wolfing down two big meat buns, he drank a bowl of water.After calming down, Liu Dahai looked at half of the rice fields, and the color in his eyes was full of disgust.

Daqi swallowed the world, the people became rich, and the prices of goods gradually increased.Clothes, supplies, and drinks are all increasing in price, but food is not.Whether it is the most basic food, or salt, or meat, eggs.

The reason is simple, Nanyang food is pouring into China every year.

You know, in the later generations of Southeast Asian countries, they are all grain exporters.That is the world's largest grain producing and exporting area for (Country).

Now South Vietnam has been turned into Jiaozhou by Emperor Lu, and even Champa was destroyed, but other countries are still there.Whether it is Fang La, Chai Jin, Li Jun, Zhong Xiang, Wang Qing, etc., all of them take inexhaustible grain as their largest export product, and boatloads of grain flood into the Central Plains like a sea.

Therefore, Lu Qi's domestic food prices have always maintained a relatively low level.

For meat and eggs, people raise chickens, ducks, and pigs in their homes.The number of cattle and sheep farmers is increasing day by day.Therefore, the supply of meat and eggs is also increasing every year.Especially in areas near the sea, seafood and whale meat hit the market, and areas close to northern Xinjiang are filled with cattle and sheep on the grasslands. How can the price be greatly increased under such circumstances?
In terms of eating, the price of sugar in popular foods is still maintained at a relatively high level.The others are high-end ingredients, which are of no reference value.

Compared with the rise in the price of cloth and silk, in Jiangnan and Jiangbei, whether it is cost-effective to grow food has been speculated by many newspapers.

Amid such voices, the fields planted with mulberry trees and cotton are increasing.The amount of grain and rice flowing into the Central Plains every year can only increase every year.

Later generations, the British economist Jevons described it this way in 1865: "The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltic Sea are our forest areas, Australia is our pastures, and Peru is our silver mines. South Africa and Australia are our gold mines, India and China our tea plantations, the East Indies our sugar cane, coffee, spice plantations, and the American South our cotton plantations.”

This is the grand plan of the British Empire.Although the current Lu Qi is still far away, there are already signs of that.Because of the relationship of "interests", the current Lu Qi can only develop towards this continent.

The huge benefits of mulberry cotton are far better than those of food crops. The planting area of ​​the former is increasing irresistibly, while the planting area of ​​the latter is decreasing. This is all due to interests.

If food is reduced, subsidies can only be introduced from the outside.Just like in the official history, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan, which was known as "Suhu is cooked, and the world is full", was often suffering from food shortages in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. An Zhisu." Isn't that the reason that the land in the south of the Yangtze River is used to grow mulberry cotton, a cash crop?

However, in Lu Qi now, even the "lands of Jiang, Chu, Lu, and An" are planting cotton, soybeans, mulberry and other cash crops on a large scale.

Only Nanyang can make up for it, and that is the best source of material.

Now Lu Qi can say: Nanyang is my granary, Nanyang is my forest farm, Nanyang is also my sugar cane and spice plantation; Japan is my silver mine and gold mine, and India is my cotton planting industry.

But that's all, and it's a far cry from Great Britain in its heyday.The pastures, tea, etc. still have to rely on local production in Zhongyuan.Even the main source of sugar, represented by sugarcane, and cotton, remained indigenous.

Therefore, even a conscientious person like Old Man Liu had his family's seventy acres of land divided into several shares.Some plant alfalfa in rotation, some plant mulberry trees, some plant cotton, and finally, those who plant rice.

"Father, rest for a while, I'll go to the ground first." Liu Dashan said.

"No, together, together. Tell Xiaosan to rest for a while." Old man Liu looked at his younger son lovingly and said.

But no matter how unwilling Liu Dahai is to work, he can't watch his father and brother go to the ground and rest by himself. "No, dad, I'll go to the field with you."

But the palms of his hands holding the sickle were burning hot, and his back felt hot when the sun was shining on it.Liu Dahai had too much reluctance in his heart, but he couldn't say a word.

When he was about to bend down to cut the rice, Liu Dahai's eyes glanced casually, and he saw thirty or twenty sturdy men in black clothes riding tall horses and holding a carriage coming from the country road in Tiantou. It looks very simple, but being surrounded by dozens of big men means that the identity of the people on the carriage is not simple, at least compared to their village, no, far more dignified than the big landlords in their town.

What kind of person is this, such a person would actually come to the fields?Liu Dahai couldn't help staring at the carriage curiously, but inadvertently saw two familiar figures - one was the mayor of the town, whom he had met more than once, and the other was Luo Hao's father.

The two people who used to be very good and powerful in the past are now following the carriage like servants.Liu Dahai just quietly watched them walk past his field, and he saw that the big men around the car seemed to be more bullish than the mayor and Luo Hao's father.

At this time, Liu Dahai felt as if a hurricane had blown in his heart, setting off monstrous waves.This kind of life, he can't even think about the prestige, if he can become the person in the carriage... Liu Dahai shuddered suddenly.He didn't dare to think about it anymore, he didn't even dare to think about that kind of status, he just wanted to have the majesty of a big man in black clothes, and that was fine.

But why did he become a big man in black clothes next to the nobleman?Is he capable of literature or martial arts?Is the heart one more tricky than the dry, or is the wisdom three points better than Zhuge?

No.Liu Dahai has nothing.

At this moment, he is really like the good-for-nothing of the future generations. After seeing the success of the big man, all he can do is to masturbate in his heart.

"Cheap grain hurts the peasants, and cheap grain hurts the peasants. Although the people in the countryside can have enough food and clothing, live comfortably, and live decently, but mulberry and cotton invade the fields of rice and wheat, and the people plant more mulberry and cotton for profit. This is not a good thing." A voice that seemed childish was speaking.

"It seems that the fifth brother has already made up his mind."

"Haha, third brother is joking. How could father's test be so simple? I can only say that I will do my best."

"Hey, the fifth brother has always had excellent grades and has been awarded by his father many times. His brains are much stronger than your second brother. What's the point of reminding your third brother today? In the future, the brother will be rewarded..."

The window curtains of the car were blown by the wind, and there was a faint sound of falling.

(End of this chapter)