Madam, She Has a Tender Heart

When Xiaobao was brought in, Xiaobao still remembered his grandfather who took him to ride a big horse, and happily reached out to him: "Ride a horse.

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Ma Mingwen was amused and said, "Horses can't run in this mountain. Next time, take Xiaobao outside for a ride."

The group of people entered the village and walked around.

Halfway up the mountain, looking at the terraces below, Ma Mingwen and Pei Nian stared closely at the terraces, but did not move their feet.

Su Qingyu thought they would say something, but they didn't.

During lunch, Zhongzhai leader and his two assistants ran over in fear and accompanied him to eat together.

Ma Mingwen said something about the defense of the village. He said that the gate of Baijia Village was well built and the trenches were well dug, but there were still some shortcomings.

Su Qingyu and Master Zhong immediately took out their notebooks and wrote them down immediately.

Sure enough, professional people still need to do the work that comes here.

Professionals will know where there are loopholes once they take a look.

Zhongzhai Leader nodded while remembering.

Su Qingyu took a look at his notebook and saw, well... there were circles, crosses, and dots, and she didn't know what he was writing down.

After so long, Xiu'er has learned many words, but he is still the same.

The leader of Zhongzhai knew what Su Qingyao meant at a glance, and glared at her. How old was he? He couldn't learn as well as young people. What was there to say?

Besides, he just needs to remember and understand.

The small notebook closed with a snap.

After the meal, the group of people didn't stay too long and headed towards the market town.

Along the way, they saw that many villages had built terraces. The terraces were crowded with people, and everyone was busy with spring plowing. Pei Nian and Ma Mingwen felt their hearts surging.

When they arrived at the market town and looked down from the mountainside, Su Qingyu and Zhongzhai leader were very excited, but Pei Ma and Manager Li had no reaction at all.

Also, people who came from the imperial capital, this market town in the mountains is nothing more than child's play in their eyes.

After looking at the market town, there are two rows of two-story buildings lined up, a wide and straight street in front of the door, and then looking at inns, restaurants and other houses with unknown purposes, everything is there.

There is also a market town gate and a place for defense. The planning and design looks like a small town.

"You did a good job." Pei Nian praised her approvingly.

Manager Li also looked at her and said yes secretly.

Asked her: "You all come from different villages to trade with each other. You can go home after selling. Why is the inn so big?"

"You've seen it along the way. It's not a close journey. Baijia Village is quite close to here. If other villages come here and arrive here before dawn in the morning, I'm afraid they will have to go back in the dark at night. This is a big mountain There are a lot of wild animals here, wouldn’t it be nice to sleep there for one night and come back the next day? I don’t plan to charge a lot of money anyway.”

Pei Nian nodded: "This is good. It is convenient for the villagers to travel and rest."

"Then what are the houses next to your inn used for?" Manager Li asked again.

"It's a bathroom." You probably don't understand when I say sauna.

"Bathroom?" The group of people all looked at her.

Build a bathroom in the market town? never heard of that.

"Yes. Think about it, after climbing several mountains to get here, you are sweating profusely, your body smells sour, and no one is paying attention to the goods you sell, right?"

"If there was a place where you could take a hot bath, and someone would rub your back and wash your hair, you wouldn't have to do anything but just lie down and wait on you, and it wouldn't cost two or three coppers, wouldn't you be willing to go in? ?”

"Of course I'm happy to do that!" Xiaodouzi jumped up immediately.

Pei Nian, Ma Mingwen and others nodded after hearing this. This bathroom is very thoughtful.

"Sister-in-law, what you said has made me itchy all over now. Why is no one serving you now?"

Su Qingyao smiled: "It hasn't opened yet. It won't open until we are busy with spring plowing. And I still have to discuss the store matters with my godfather and Mr. Pei."

"Then you can discuss it and I'll walk around by myself."

Manager Li was very knowledgeable and looked around under the leadership of Master Zhongzhai.

Pei Nian and Ma Mingwen followed Su Qingyu to the shop she had left for them. There were no stools, so everyone sat on the floor.

"I just want to discuss with my godfather and Mr. Pei how to collect money in this shop. I have reserved a shop for a village. Should I charge transaction fees from them in the future, or how to calculate it?"

In the Shuo Dynasty, there were many warlords all over the country. Whoever conquered the territory almost belonged to him.

Now the central government basically has no ability to control local governments.

These twenty-eight villages were snatched back from the bandits with Ma Mingwen's help in fighting them off. Twenty-eight villages jointly voted for him, which meant that this mountain was his territory.

But as a person in charge, this territory falls under Pei Nian's jurisdiction.

These two are big bosses in front of her, and she is very satisfied to be able to make some small money with them.

We still need to hear their thoughts on this matter.

Before Pei Nian and Ma Mingwen came, they had indeed thought about how to get some money from the mountains.

But when they entered the village, saw the terraced fields, and saw everyone busy with spring plowing, and imagined the scene of the autumn harvest, with warehouses full of grain, they were filled with excitement.

Some ideas have changed.

Money and other things are not as attractive as food.

"Qing Lao, have you ever estimated how much grain a village can harvest this year?"

Su Qingyu shook her head: "I can't estimate it. This terraced field has just been opened, so I don't know how fertile it is, and its yield per mu is far from comparable to that of fields."

"In addition, it is a mountainous area after all. Will it be harmed by wild animals? Will it cause other disasters due to water and soil problems? For example, if we plant this year, can we plant again the next year? Do we need to cultivate the land? Don’t know yet.”

Seeing the two of them sinking, he added: "But I asked Manager Li to find some grain seeds suitable for planting in mountainous areas. If they are more refined, we should be able to harvest some grain."

Pei Nian nodded after listening: "According to what I learned before, in my farm, the yield of the upper-grade fields is more than 400 acres, and the yield of the lower-grade fields is about 200 to 300 kilograms. This mountainous area is probably very good if it has half of the lower-grade fields. ”

So few?

A farm farmed so intensively has so little grain?

Su Qingyu said: "It turns out that the grain they grow on the gentle slope in the village can weigh about one to two hundred kilograms per acre."

"Well, that's pretty good."

Finally, the two discussed it.

Ma Mingwen wants 10% of the food in the 28 villages as military rations, and will leave a team to help Su Qingyu maintain public security.

Pei Nian also wants 10% of the grain as local tax.

The Shuo Dynasty never collected taxes from the mountain people, not even a small tax. Because they had no land and had demographic difficulties, they had not even collected a small tax.

Now that Pei Nian wants to collect land taxes, will the mountain people react?

In the past, everyone hid in the mountains and relied on the mountains to eat and be self-sufficient. But now that the terraced fields have been opened, do I have to pay land tax?

Pei Nian glanced at her.

He said slowly: "Explain to the village owners that the fields opened in the village can be allocated to each household according to the village's household register and Dingkou. If you receive an acre of land, you will have to pay 10% of the land tax and 10% of the military rations. If you don’t pay it, you can not receive the land or cultivate it.”

Su Qingyu nodded.

The mountain people do not have mountain deeds in their hands, so there is nothing wrong with opening the mountain land to grow grain and pay land tax.

If you buy a mountain deed from the government, you still have to pay local taxes, and you also have to pay the money to purchase the mountain deed.

That's fine, if you don't pay, you won't farm, and you will continue to do what you did before.