No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

In the early morning, the crisp bell rang on time, and the salesmen went around the streets to inform everyone about the harvest. When people heard the bell, they knew that today's transaction had begun.

Li Erlang is young and strong, and his injury is getting better day by day after anti-inflammation. When I changed the dressing today, I saw that there was no blood seeping out of the gauze, and the wound had scabbed.

Li Sanlang applied medicine to Li Erlang: "The doctor told me that gauze should not be wrapped after the wound has scabbed. Keep the wound dry and remember not to get wet."

Looking carefully at the injuries on Li Erlang's legs now, we can see how dangerous it was to stop the wild boar with his body.

A long wound extends from the ankle to the knee socket. If the wild boar exerts more force, or if Li Erlang does not avoid it, the wild boar's tusks may pierce the calf. If the wound reaches deep into the calf, The large blood vessels in his body, without a cup of tea, Li Erlang might have died due to the bleeding. At that time, it would be difficult for the Daluo God to come and save him.

It was difficult to stop the bleeding from such a long wound. After the doctor treated the pus and blood, he sewed up the entire wound with catgut to stop the bleeding. Unfortunately, the doctor's skills were mediocre, the scar was too long and the catgut was too thick, so Li Erlang's leg looked like a thick and long centipede.

The dark red blood scab was coated with dark brown medicine, which looked very hideous and terrifying.

Even if the wound heals in the future, it is impossible for such a long wound not to leave scars.

"How many fruits are there in our fields that have not yet been picked?" Li Erlang sat with his legs bent, waiting for the ointment to dry before going to the ground.

Li Sanlang put away the ointment, thought about it, and estimated: "My eldest brother and my father had picked most of the fruits the day before they left, and they have not yet finished sorting them at home. There are still about two to three thousand kilograms of dates on the tree. The hawthorns are less, and there are still almost a thousand catties.”

"The salesman will only stay for ten days. During this period, the fruits are still ripening. Waiting for us to deliver the last batch of goods, the two kinds of fruits can be sold for seven or eight thousand catties." Li Erlang was calculating the profit. If you receive a pound of dates and two pounds of hawthorn, make it into preserves or take it to the south, the price will increase several times or even more than ten times..." Li Erlang thought about it and went to the village earlier to find Manager Zhang to collect the goods. Just fine.

"I'll be there to deliver the goods later."

"The doctor said you can't go too far yet."

Li Erlang put on a smile to please his younger brother: "I'll take the trolley."

The fruits picked in advance were piled high in the cane basket. Li Aweng and Li Sanlang worked together to lift the cane basket onto the cart. Li Erlang, leaning on a cane, silently sat on the cart.

Li Aniang couldn't help but wonder and cursed: "How can you not be honest even if you are injured? Your body weighing a hundred kilograms is pressed on the cart. How can it be harder for Saburo to pull it?"

"Auntie, I want to ask the manager Zhang who receives the goods some questions. Why are you so dishonest?"

In the end, Li Sanlang gave some advice and said that he could pull it off, so Li Aniang let Li Erlang go out.

Some people in the fields are using oxen to pull plows, preparing to plow the land deeply before planting wheat, and dig out shallow furrows to make final preparations for planting wheat.

Nowadays, the world is getting more and more difficult. When Li Aweng was young, men who joined the army were exempted from corvee service, grain tax and silk tax. After Li Auntie was born, almost every household had men who joined the army, so the court gradually exempted them from corvee service, grain tax and silk tax. The privileges of the soldiers.

I heard from Li Aweng that people who served as soldiers in the past could each be allocated 400 acres of Yongye Field. What is Yongye Field? It is land that can be cultivated for generations and will not be taken back by the government. It can be passed on to future generations. Sun, it has only been twenty years, but now, not to mention, the land allocated to the head has become one hundred acres of land, and only twenty acres of the one hundred acres of land are permanent fields.

Such a comparison is simply a world of difference.

Not only were they allocated less land, but various taxes and taxes were gradually added to the soldiers. When they were taxed and served the same way, the soldiers were treated no differently from ordinary people.

The officials could no longer find any free land to allocate to the soldiers.

When a man reaches the age of twenty, he must be forcibly recruited into the military. When there is no war, he can farm at home when there is no war. When he is called, he returns to the military camp for training. Generally, he rotates three times every two years. There are also twenty days of corvée, two stones of corn and Two pieces of white silk. After the tax reform, they worked harder than before. Gradually, most people were unwilling to serve as soldiers, and many deserters gradually appeared in the barracks.

Most of them, because their families were poor, secretly sold their fields to survive the temporary hardship and satisfy their temporary abundance. The family has no farmland, so they go to the landlord's house to rent land for farming in their free time. After excluding the taxes to the country and the landlord's taxes, there is not much food left. The family struggles to make ends meet, and gradually falls into an endless cycle. At this time , seeing no hope, they escaped from the barracks, took their families and occupied the mountain as kings, becoming mountain bandits.

The world is not what it used to be. Wherever there are mountains, there are bandits.

Li Erlang and his family also sold land. These lands were not allowed to be bought or sold, but the sky was high and the emperor was far away. Dynasties changed and officials were replaced one after another. In the end, the government could not match the local power and could only turn a blind eye. . Over the years, only a very small part of such vast fields actually belong to individual farmers. They rent the fields that once belonged to them, pay two taxes, and support a large family.

It really corresponds to the poem: There is no idle land in the world, and farmers are still starving to death.

In the northwest, after mid-October, the temperature will drop unexpectedly. The weather will be changeable by then, with ice and snow often mixed with freezing rain, and people will not be able to stay outdoors for long. It won't be long before the salesman's collection of goods comes to an end, and they are already carefully choosing their return route.

It is already late September, and the salesmen have to leave the Northwest before mid-October. If they encounter a severe drop in temperature or a freezing rain when they go out of the mountains, they will be trapped in the mountains. The roads will be slippery by then, and the goods will be very difficult to carry. It is difficult to transport. Once trapped in the mountains, you are likely to encounter bandits.

Li Sanlang slowly walked to the village pulling the cart. Several convoys of different sellers gathered together in a huge formation. They don't arrive on the same day, and they usually negotiate to combine the teams and choose to go out on the same day.

Several guys saw someone coming to sell goods and quickly stepped forward to help. "Ah Weng of the Li family, Sanlang of the Li family, you guys are so fast. The amount of fruit produced by other families is not as high as yours. Every day, there are hundreds or even thousands of kilograms of fruit!"

Li Aweng smiled and said: "It's my son and grandson. They pick all the ripe fruits before going out. The remaining ones that are not yet ripe on the trees pick some every day."

The clerk saw Li Erlang coming down from the back of the cart: "Hey, isn't this Li Jia Erlang? Why haven't I seen you in the past few days? Is it because you were injured?"

Li Erlang slowly stepped forward on crutches: "I accidentally got hit by a wild boar a few days ago." Every year, these guys would follow the steward to their place to reap the rewards. After going back and forth, they and Li Erlang became familiar with each other.

When the guys heard that Li Erlang was injured because of a wild boar, they were all shocked, "This beast is so ferocious that it can hurt people?"

"I was careless." Li Erlang didn't explain too much. The guys didn't care and were busy putting the fruits in the basket into bags. Thinking of the purpose of coming out this time, Li Erlang asked: "I want to ask Manager Zhang about something. , I wonder if Manager Zhang is here?"

"Uncle Zhang? He's inside." They rented a large courtyard room in the village.

Li Erlang walked to the door of the courtyard and looked in. He saw many sacks piled up in the courtyard. A middle-aged man was sitting at the table counting the accounts. There was a box at hand. Li Erlang knew that there was money in it. After the guys weigh the weight, they will usher people in to get money.

When the steward heard the noise, he thought someone was coming to get money for the goods, but when he looked up, he saw Li Erlang. He put down the brush in his hand and said with a friendly smile: "Why is Erlang injured?"

Li Erlang sheepishly explained that Manager Zhang asked someone to set up a chair for him to sit down.

"It's true that you were reckless. That wild boar weighs three to four hundred pounds. If you hadn't dodged in time, you might have been injured more seriously."

"Yes..." Li Erlang sat down and didn't waste any time. He got straight to the point: "Manager Zhang, I want to ask you something this time. I don't know if it's possible. I know that my boss started as a grain store and set up a caravan to collect goods from all over the place. Make them and sell them to Chang'an or the south." He clenched his fists and bowed: "I want to ask my boss for a business through you. Now the only thing I can use to ask my boss to cooperate is land. This year I went to the county government to make an account and divide the money. If I get one hundred acres of land, Sanlang will also be credited next year. If there is no difference, he will continue to study, and then I will have two hundred acres of land in my hands."

Manager Zhang knew what Li Erlang was going to do and smiled: "What does Erlang want to plant?"

"I heard that spices are valuable, but in the south where my boss is located, although the fields are mostly fertile farmland, they are not as concentrated and vast as those in the north. Rice and millet are mainly grown, and the yield is higher than in the northwest. It would be a pity to use it to grow spices. The mentality of the gentry It’s old and they don’t want to use the grain fields to grow spices, so I want to ask the owner to grow garlic like ours.”

Manager Zhang smiled: "Li Erlang, you are right. Hu Suan is only forty coins here, but in Chang'an, he can sell it for a hundred coins, let alone other spices. You said those who have money and land How could the powerful noble family give up this way of making money?"

Seeing Li Erlang's silence, Manager Zhang said warmly: "It is true that there are few garlic growers in the south, but not many in the north. Do you know why? Let's put it this way. Nowadays, the collusion between government and businessmen is becoming more and more serious. Hu merchants have long been in contact with the local government. The powerful are closely involved, not to mention that seeds are rare, if you don’t have garlic at a lower price than theirs, you will definitely not be able to defeat their offensive, and even if there is, they won’t let you do this business.”

The steward stroked his beard: "I know, Erlang, that you want to use the power of your employer to fight against Hu Shang, but the power of your employer is not in the north. Therefore, Erlang, I can answer your request now for my employer. We cannot agree."

Li Erlang didn't have high hopes before he came, so naturally he wasn't too disappointed. Sometimes doing something is better than doing nothing.

Seeing that Li Erlang didn't look disappointed, Manager Zhang felt a little approving in his heart: "Nowadays, the world is getting more and more chaotic. The sudden increase in the price of silk was too sudden. The water inside is too deep..."

"Can the steward tell me more about whether it's the south and what happened?"

Although Manager Zhang has not returned to the south for a long time, he still received much more news than the farmers living in one place.

He sighed: "There will be no more mulberries in the south."

Li Erlang was shocked and could not recover for a long time.

"Erlang?" Li Sanlang stood at the courtyard gate and bowed to Manager Zhang: "Manager Zhang, I'm here to collect the money."

Li Erlang turned around and saw that the weighing had been completed outside. Li Sanlang and Li Aweng came in to get the money for the goods. Li Sanlang walked to Li Erlang and saw sweat on his brother's forehead. He quietly asked: Second brother, what's the matter? "

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Li Erlang said and made an extremely solemn bow to Manager Zhang: "Thank you very much, Manager Zhang, for informing me."

Manager Zhang waved his hand, and after reading the clerk's report, he quickly paid them the money for the goods: "I'm telling you this because your family has never been lazy or slippery in doing things for so many years, and you know how to avoid disasters and protect yourself, and you have extraordinary abilities. thing."

Li Sanlang helped Li Erlang out, and quietly glanced at Manager Zhang before going out.

The waiter saw the Li family walking away and said in confusion: "Now the news here is so blocked, the location is remote and close to the outside world, but it won't be long before news can arrive even if there is no Sang in the south."

Manager Zhang scolded: "You think you didn't hear the news because the location was remote? Did you just say it casually when your boss specifically ordered not to spread this matter? That was an official order to take the matter seriously in the south. The south is a land of grain production, and This is a place where powerful noble families are entrenched, and if the news breaks out, the north will also be in chaos."

The guy didn't know the twists and turns inside, and muttered: "Then why did you tell them?"

Manager Zhang looked at the young man with disgust in his eyes, and said, "We have been here to collect goods for the past few days, and you haven't found anything?"

Manager Zhang did not continue to explain, but looked at the courtyard door, constantly worried about the current situation: I wonder if the news Changan gave to the boss is true, maybe the boss can take advantage of this opportunity to reach a higher level!

Seeing that the waiter was still looking stupid, Manager Zhang felt very angry: "Nowadays, food is being collected everywhere, even us. A few days ago, we received an urgent letter from our employer, ordering us to be on the road. We can harvest as much grain as we can. How many grain sellers have we met along the way? Have you ever asked them? Do you think he doesn't know that the price of grain here is one penny more than in the county?"

Manager Zhang clasped his hands behind his back with a serious look on his face: "Do you really think that Li Sanlang's book was read in vain?"

The figure pulling the cart outside the door went away until he was no longer visible. Manager Zhang sat down again to handle the accounts: "If the boss really got involved in the spices, you and I don't have to worry about the receipt of the goods anymore!"

It is absolutely impossible to grow spices in the south.

"I heard that Sanlang Li will take the county examination next year. Why don't I make them owe their boss a favor now..."

Passers-by walked in a hurry, it was another day of hard work.

On the way back, Li Aweng pulled an empty cart with Li Erlang sitting on it. Li Sanlang leaned against the cart and walked: "Second brother, what did Manager Zhang say to you?"

"Sanlang, you are right about the south."

The south is rich and is a place where grain and silk are concentrated. As long as the south is not in chaos, the entire country can settle down again within a few years. However, as long as there is turmoil in the south, the entire country will face chaos that will shake its foundation.

"What's the reason?" Li Sanlang asked. If the south intends to destroy the market and drive up prices, the officials can put it down even if they use the army, and they can also make some improvements. This should not be the current situation: the price of rice and silk have increased. It has been rising like crazy, but the officials have taken no action, neither controlling nor saying anything.

"There will be no more trouble in the south."

Li Sanlang stopped in shock and stared wide-eyed.

Without mulberry, you cannot raise silkworms. Without silkworms, there will be no silk. Without silk, the price of silk in the market will be unstable. If the price of silk increases, the prices of other things will also increase.

Something big is going to happen.