Chang’an Peasant Girl

   Chapter 241 Buying Rice

   Xiao Changyi said: "Well, it should be soon."

   Generally, the government collects tax and grain within two months after the rice is harvested. It has been more than a month now, and it is almost two months.

   Taxed grain is levied on a per mu basis. Generally, farmers pay grain, but they can also pay in silver instead of grain.

   However, paying money is more expensive than paying food.

  The grain here refers to rice, not milled rice that has been pounded. Taxes are paid in money. Although it is more expensive than grain, it is much cheaper than buying milled rice.

  The tax levied on one mu of land is half a load of grain, no matter what your harvest is, you pay half a load of grain, which is 50 catties of rice. The market price of rice is eight cents a pound, and fifty catties of rice is four hundred cents.

   If you pay the money, it is five hundred cents per acre.

   And milled rice is 20 cents per catty. Generally, 100 catties of rice can be pounded into 60 to 70 catties of polished rice, and 50 catties of rice can be pounded out of more than 30 catties of polished rice. More than 30 catties of polished rice is worth more than 600 pennies.

  An Jing and Xiao Changyi still have some money on hand, and now there is another grain hull, and the rice is pounded a lot faster, so it is impossible for An Jing and Xiao Changyi to pay the rice, but choose to pay.

   As for the rice at home, An Jing and Xiao Changyi had already thought about it, and they stayed at home to pound the rice by themselves.

  An Jing even planned to buy some rice from someone, and then pound it into rice by himself, which is much more cost-effective than buying milled rice directly.

   Thinking so, An Jing said to Xiao Changyi: "Master, let's go to Xiaolan's house to see if their rice is sold. If they do, we'll buy them all."

Because pounding rice in a stone mortar is too time-consuming and labor-intensive, only a little polished rice can be pounded in a day. In addition, there are other farm work to do every day, and it is impossible to stay at home to pound rice every day. Therefore, generally few farmers can pound all the rice at home into rice. of.

  Farmers usually divide the paddy into three parts, one part pays the tax, the other part is pounded into milled rice and sells for money, and the other part is sold directly to the rice shop at the market price of eight cents per pound.

  The rice shop employs people who specialize in pounding rice, and they do rice pounding every day.

   "Well." Xiao Changyi had no problem with buying rice.

  If they don’t buy rice and come back to pound it by themselves, then they will have to buy milled rice, because there is not much rice at home, so they can’t eat for a long time.

   Then, An Jing and Xiao Changyi went to Anjia Village to find Shi Xiaolan. Shi Xiaolan said that he originally planned to sell 100 jin to the rice shop, but now it is just right to sell it to them.

   Then, An Jing and Xiao Changyi bought 100 catties of rice with Shi Xiaolan.

An Jing originally wanted to tell Shi Xiaolan that if she was pounding rice, she could come to her house to pound the rice husks and tread hulls, which would be faster, but then she thought about it and felt that this was not good. Her house was not a rice mill, and there was always someone at her Even if she wasn't bothered about pounding rice in the yard, she was still afraid that her husband would be bothered.

   Her husband is very cold and doesn't like dealing with people at all.

   And she also prefers the two worlds with her husband, and doesn't really like that people are always messing around in her and her husband's yard.

   Therefore, An Jing did not tell Shi Xiaolan about Gu Long and Taui.

However, Jing Jing made a plan in her heart. When she has time, she will draw Gulong's picture more carefully, and let Shi Xiaolan take the picture and find someone to do it. Even if Shi Xiaolan's family can't make this Gulong, she will settle down. It is faster than using a stone mortar to pound rice when the villagers work together to make one.

   (end of this chapter)