Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Obviously, the chili base, which is not an ordinary farmland, is given special attention, and outsiders are not allowed to step in easily.

Li Yang gave a salute, and said: "The three of us passed by here and saw that you are picking here, so we came to take a look out of curiosity. Brother, don't worry, we just take a look, and we will never hurt these pepper seedlings."

One of the men said: "It's not that we don't let you step in. It's because the government has a strict order that idlers are not allowed to step into the chili base. Otherwise, the officials will see you and hold you accountable."

When Li Yang heard it, he suddenly realized, but he was very happy in his heart.

Because this shows that the local government attaches great importance to the cultivation of new crops, and it also shows that the local officials are serious and responsible.

At that moment, Li Yang turned his head to He Zhang and said, "This place should be under the jurisdiction of Wan County under Nanyang County?"

"Yes." He Zhang nodded.

Li Yang said: "The county magistrate of Wan County seems to be very good."

He Zhang nodded, it was obvious that Li Yang highly appreciated the magistrate of Wan County.

At this time, Li Yang also retreated to the field stalks, but he still turned his head and said to the villagers: "Brother, how many acres are there in the chili field in the pavilion?"

A villager replied: "More than a hundred acres."

In the Qin Dynasty, a hundred steps was considered an mu.

"One mu" is equivalent to about 0.2907 city mu according to the unearthed "Shang Yang Fangsheng". Then, 100 mu at that time was equivalent to 29.07 city mu in later generations.

However, about [-] acres of chili peppers were planted in later generations, which is also an extremely shocking amount.

Li Yang immediately praised: "There is such a harvest of hundreds of acres of peppers, it is gratifying to congratulate."

According to the decree of the imperial court, the common people can keep [-]% of the new crops for themselves. They have a hundred acres of peppers in their pavilions, which means they can keep an acre of peppers for themselves.

Just ask, isn't this a happy event for the villagers in Tingli?

However, as soon as this remark came out, I thought the villagers would be very happy after hearing it, but in the end they smiled wryly and did not reply.

At this moment, Li Yang and He Zhang were both stunned. Looking at each other, they both realized that the villagers seemed to be unhappy.

"Why are you guys not happy with the harvest of peppers?" Li Yang was very puzzled and asked curiously.

The villagers snorted coldly and said, "Happy? Each chili pepper is like a little finger. This hundred acres of land is not as cost-effective as growing crops."

Another villager said: "Zhang Sheng, don't bother with him, hurry up and pick it, and the county magistrate will come to harvest it. Besides, this person knows that he is the son of your family. He doesn't know about farming. "

The man named Zhang Sheng nodded, and then turned around to continue picking, obviously he didn't want to talk to Li Yang.

Li Yang was very surprised, and hurriedly said: "Brother Zhang, wait a minute."

"What else is there, son?" Zhang Sheng asked.

Li Yangdao: "You just said that growing peppers is worse than growing crops. I don't understand. Could it be that you don't know the market price of peppers?"

Zhang Shengdao: "What about the high price? It's just planting for the government. What does it have to do with us?"

Li Yang frowned at this moment, and said: "Chili peppers are incomparably precious, and the price is extremely high. The imperial court has ordered that people can keep [-]% of new crops for themselves. Although they only keep [-]% for themselves, this [-]% of peppers is incomparable. This hundred acres of chestnuts?"

Zhang Sheng laughed softly: "Young master, whoever said it, the government never told us, but we can keep [-]% for ourselves."

"Oh?"

Li Yang was taken aback, but quickly realized that the price of chili peppers must be too high, and the government wanted to recycle all the chili peppers, so they deliberately did not inform the villagers about it.

Thinking of this, Li Yang said: "To tell you the truth, I know people in the government that the common people can keep [-]% of the new crops for themselves. This is an imperial decree, and there will be no falsehood."

"Really?"

At this moment, other villagers also looked over. Obviously, they didn't know that peppers were valuable, but they didn't know that they could keep [-]% of them.

Li Yang nodded: "There is absolutely no lie."

After everyone listened to it, they all started discussing, and several villagers were pleasantly surprised: "It would be great if what this young master said is true. I heard that the price of pepper is more expensive than meat."

He Zhang on the side smiled and said: "How can meat be compared with peppers. If you keep [-]% of peppers per [-] acres, this is a big profit. And the remaining [-]% of peppers will be recycled by the government, but But it also pays for three times as much land, mu, grain and chestnuts, which should be worthy of Daqing."

"Three times the amount of land, grain and chestnuts?" Unexpectedly, after hearing He Zhang's words, the villagers frowned again, as if they were very surprised.

"Why, isn't the government giving three times the compensation of grain and chestnuts based on the number of acres of land for recycling new crops?" He Zhang wondered.

Li Yang was also puzzled, wouldn't even the local government cheat on this?

Sure enough, the villagers said: "The government recycles chili peppers based on their weight, and gives three times the amount of grain as compensation."

"what?"

This time, both Li Yang and He Zhang were shocked!

You know, when Li Yang asked the Ministry of Households to formulate a decree on the recycling of new crops, he divided the new crops into two categories. Potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes were the staple food, so in terms of weight, the government gave three times the grain recycling.That is to say, one catty of potatoes, corn, and sweet potatoes can be exchanged for three catties of grains.

Peppers, tomatoes, peanuts, etc. are classified as economic crops, and the government will give three times the grain recovery in terms of mu.It means that no matter how much these crops produce, according to one mu of land, the grains of three mu of land are used to recycle.

At this time, Li Yang finally understood why the villagers said that growing peppers was not as good as growing crops. It turned out that one catty of peppers they planted could only be exchanged for three catties of grain from the government, and he could not keep the peppers for himself.

Thinking of this, Li Yang's heart suddenly burned with anger.

Before, I praised the county magistrate of Wan County as serious and responsible, but now it seems that the county magistrate of Wan County has a dark heart, which makes people extremely angry!

He Zhang also did not expect such a situation to happen, and immediately saw the anger in Li Yang's heart, so he said softly: "Dean, do you want your subordinates to send Habayashi to bring the magistrate of Nawan County here?" ?”

Li Yang was about to nod his head, when he heard the villagers say: "Look, the county magistrate has brought people to collect peppers!"

Chapter 291 The Lawless

Li Yang looked in the direction pointed by the villagers, and saw the direction of the entrance of the village, and indeed a group of officials were coming here...

"Now there's no need to send someone to call him. This person...he came to the door by himself." He Zhang sneered.

Li Yang snorted coldly, he wanted to see with his own eyes whether the magistrate of Wan County really dared to disobey the imperial government's decree, forcefully expropriate and bully the people.If he really dares to do this, he must be punished severely, as an example to others!

Li Yang was really annoyed. He tried every means, including light corvée, land reform, and introduction of new crops, for what?Isn't it all to make the people of the world happier?

Especially on the issue of expropriation for the planting of new crops, the imperial court gave several times the compensation in order to allow the people who planted them to get greater benefits and make them more motivated and enthusiastic.As a result, the officials below were not so good, but they actually made the people who planted new crops suffer a lot, and made the growers suffer.

This is simply a big bad for my Great Qin New Deal!

"Everyone, when the officials come, you might as well ask the officials if you can keep [-]% of the peppers for yourself, and whether the remaining [-]% of the peppers will be collected at three times the amount of the field!" Li Yang turned to the villagers.

The villagers pondered for a while, and then said: "That's right, if what this little brother said is true, then we will be at a loss."

"Yes, yes, if these peppers can keep [-]% for themselves, we can all make a fortune."