In normal years, the Huang family can harvest three stones on average. In some bad dry fields, you can harvest two stones. If you plant some millet, peas, soybeans, sorghum, you can always harvest thousands of stones of grain in two seasons a year. With the current yield per mu, wheat can only harvest less than 500 stones, and miscellaneous grains can not be collected. Calculate the harvest of 1,000 stones. However, the yellow list is exempt, but the white list depends on the strength and connections of each family. Huang Yucheng's connections are ordinary, and he has been forced to pay a lot of white list taxes in the past two years. Just calculate it casually, the harvest of farming is very limited, but it is not enough to spend!

The harvest of those who helped He Yusheng farm was obviously different.

The fact is also in front of Huang Yucheng. He Yusheng's fields are very good. The wheat poles exude a green luster. Because they are about to harvest, they are also a little yellow. The wheat ears are heavy and full. Many wheat poles in the fields are half bent, and the shaft is bent by the heavy wheat ears. &≠≠≠, ±.←∷.p;

"The land of Yusheng..." The old merchant whom Huang Yucheng found judged: "A mu of at least four stones, and it may be more than five stones near the paddy field."

There were a sound of exclamation around, and many farmers who still farmed on their own eyes were a little red.

Shanxi and Datong have very few rated land acres and not many populations. The annual tax amount is 2.8 million shi, which is the highest in the northern provinces. Moreover, this is just a yellow list, and there are local taxes waiting for it, which is the so-called heavy taxes. If you just pay the yellow list, the burden is not very heavy. Together with the white list, everyone will have a hard time living.

Whether you see a doctor, buy cotton, or change iron, you always need food. Except for paying taxes, few people trade with cash or copper coins. Ninety percent of private transactions use food. Whether it is serious food or miscellaneous food, whether it is eaten by yourself, used for exchange, or paying imperial grain and national taxes, food is the most reassuring thing. With it, you will feel at ease. Without it, you may be a family that will be destroyed.

For the merchants in front of you, it is better to be honest than to talk nonsense!

In Heyusheng's land, water conservancy projects are good, and even dry fields can guarantee the lowest water use. In addition to water use, there are many differences in details.

The facts are right in front of him. Huang Yucheng also spent hundreds of taels of silver to build a water truck to divert water and drill several wells, and watered as much as possible. However, the weather was too bad, and some wells were not drilled deep. When the water level was the lowest in spring, the water was limited. The best harvest of his land was only two stones more, and the fields with more water were still watered. The dry fields with difficulty in diverting water were only about one and a half stones.

There are some dry fields that have no water diversion projects at all, and the average yield per mu is definitely less than one stone. Recently, there have been many people who have escaped from northern Shaanxi. According to them, the worst yield per mu is there, even the seed grain cannot be collected.

In the second year of Tianqi, the most serious disasters were encountered throughout the north, including Liaodong, and it was not until the Chongzhen period that it reached a new peak.

Compared with the Chongzhen period, the level of tax increase at this time was not very high, the local governments had a strong control, the court also attached great importance to the nine borders, and the center still had financial resources. It should have been to continuously allocate grain to the northwest, stabilizing the overall situation, and there was no major refugee tide or civil unrest.

Huang Yucheng sat on the field trunk, looking depressed.

He is a very stubborn person, but he doesn't think so. He just wondered in his heart. He was just a little confused. He was just concentrating on water and carefully taking care of the fields. Why couldn't he plant this land?

A group of tenants and village households surrounded him, and everyone was a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

Huang Yucheng's cousin, scholar Huang Yu'an, also came from the village. Huang Yucheng looked like he was so angry that he was not angry. It was hot, and he didn't wear a hat or a towel. He just tied his hair with a strap. He wore a bamboo robe with green robe with oil that was so contaminated with oil that he couldn't see the color. When he saw that his shoes were still lying on his feet, he just walked over with kicks and treads.

"Brother, what are you going to do?" Huang Yu'an said with a smile: "Do you want to sell the land?"

Huang Yucheng turned his head and said, "If I don't sell it, I can't plant it if I don't believe it!"

"Qi." Huang Yu'an said: "What are you doing with this? After selling the land, you have money. You can go to the Chamber of Commerce to buy individual stocks and get the money every year. It's not as easy as farming. Besides, you can't sell it now, and rent it to He Yusheng all."

After the spring of the second year of the Tianqi period, He Yusheng rarely bought land in Datong and even the entire northern Shanxi, but instead he was Li Yuchun's suggestion: rent land.

Food is the top priority, and you don’t care too much. You can use the method of renting the whole piece to control more acres in your hands. This method is small and it is not very jealous. Zhang Han also agreed after considering it. Recently, many land owners have rented all the land. Anyway, the land bones are still there, which means renting farm skins. There is no need to worry about this kind of rent for a long time. The land skins were sublease many times and were eventually forced to betrayed by the unruly people.

"Hmph." Huang Yucheng snorted and said, "It's better to sell it directly if you want to rent it. If I still don't believe it, I won't be able to do it."

Huang Yu'an looked dissatisfied. Huang Yucheng felt angry and put on the airs of his elder brother and said, "You do some serious things all day long. You can't eat hungry every day. You can also make some seal carving and calligraphy to serve as famous scholars. These elegant things will be discussed when you win the juren!"

Huang Yu'an smiled and said, "Brother said it well, but I don't plan to serve the country and the people. I am narrow-minded and have never had any great ambitions to help the country and the people. What are you talking about when you pass the imperial examination? Is it just for a meal? That would be too small to see the saint's sayings and waste my time. Besides, my family's life is not like that, and I have not borrowed it from my brother, why bother to say these ugly words?"

Huang Yu'an really wanted to borrow some food to help Huang Yucheng. It was the last time that Huang Yu'an had only a few dozen acres of land, and he rented it to He Yusheng. The harvest was not small. However, the famine over the years has been quite large, and the family was not able to handle food at this time. However, after hearing Huang Yucheng's words, Huang Yu'an naturally had no time to speak.

At this time, the people around suddenly started to make a fuss. The two brothers of the Huang family ignored the lawsuit for a while. Later, they saw that the people around were huddling behind them. Huang Yu'an stood up first, and Huang Yucheng also stood up.

"It's Kong Zhizhi." Huang Yu'an looked over and saw a group of horse riders surrounded by the people. The people among them were Kong Minxing, who was famous within 200 miles of Lizhuang.

Zhang Han's father-in-law Chang Jinyou is also famous, but it is obvious that Kong Minxing, an agricultural expert, is more popular with the people.

If it were in the past, Huang Yucheng would have turned around and left. Today he was a little confused and stood in the field and did not leave for a while.

"Everyone stay away." Kong Minxing's escort got off the horse and led the horse away, blocking the enthusiastic crowd while walking: "Mr. Kong has always spoken in public, and there is no secret. Just do things as he told me. You think he is really a god, and you will get a harvest as soon as you stand in your field... Stop this kind of dream of Qingqiu."

There are really many people who have this idea. These days, many gods worshipped by the people, and scholars are regarded as star kings descending to the earth. Of course, the more successful scholars are, the more they are confirmed. It is definitely the star kings in the world who descend to the earth. Masters like Kong Minxing are the best at land. However, many merchants present hope that he can go around his own land, and he will probably have a good weather and a big harvest next year.

Kong Minxing had a kind smile on his face. For a while, he had been running back and forth among the fields and caring about almost nothing else. He Yusheng's main force went north and Zhang Han had no news or meeting. He didn't care much about these. When he returned to Lizhuang, Kong Minxing was like a disciple who had never seen a woman for a long time. He suddenly threw himself into the fields. After he settled his wife and children, he kept running around the manors everywhere. He Yusheng directly and indirectly controlled the land of 150,000 to 60,000 mu, which was enough for Kong Minxing to work hard for a while.

"It's a pity for this place."

The crowd gradually dispersed, which also enabled Kong Minxing to patrol the situation everywhere with the help of his escort.

Unlike the layman's blind viewing, Kong Minxing looked at specific things, whether the water diversion project is reasonable, whether the irrigation efficiency is qualified, the distance between ridges, pests and diseases, whether the seeds of each plot are different, and whether good varieties can be selected and bred, in addition, the use of fertilizers, pest control operations, etc.

In front of Kong Minxing, these plots made by Topaz have been done well in water diversion and irrigation, but it is a pity that the details are not good.

"Students dare to ask Mr. Kong, it's a pity?" Huang Yucheng thought about it again and again, but he pressed his face and bowed to Kong Minxing and spoke.

"Our farming in the north has always been worse than that in the south. In the past, it was not as good as in Jiangnan, and now it is not as good as in Huguang. Further south, it is not as good as in Guangdong and even Annan. The climate and water sources are great reasons, and the planting methods are also great reasons. The water in the land in front of us is almost the same, but it is obviously not done well in the process of deep cultivation, fertilization, and breeding of good varieties. Judging from the heights of these wheat, some of them are good, and more are ordinary, with different plots, different fertility, and different seedlings. The final result is of course unsatisfactory. I used to say that the harvest of grain in the south is because people are willing to carry water and work hard. I have never said that even if they plant them, they are more skillful..."

Speaking of farming, Kong Minxing is indeed a very expert. In just a few words, he impressed everyone present.

Huang Yucheng laughed with kindness, and the meaning was obvious. Although Huang Xiucai had a stubborn temper, he still left Mr. Kong too far away from his actual skills.

Huang Yucheng's face turned red. After a while, he made up his mind and said to Kong Min: "Old sir, I want to follow my side and follow the teachings at any time."

Kong Minxing was a little surprised and said, "You must know that walking with me will naturally help you with things."

Huang Yucheng said: "If there is a call, all the young people will obey orders."

Kong Minxing hesitated for a moment and said, "I have heard that the Inspector is impeaching Lord Zhang recently. Do you know?"

Huang Yucheng looked disdainful and said, "Wangsheng once invited friends from the school to write a letter. All the husbands were afraid of it. They inspected the impeachment of all matters. It seems that there are only a few things that can be taken seriously. Most of the other things are stolen or framed and slandered. I have a person like Lord Zhang in Datong, so how can an outsider easily frame it?"
Chapter completed!