Shen Chenai's Different Life in Ancient Times

It stands to reason that people like Luo Ding and the others who join the army and serve the country should be paid for food, but during a war, it is already very good for the logistics side to ensure a sufficient supply of food and grass. Things like money have always been the prerogative of generals , Logistics has no right to manage.

Therefore, low-level miscellaneous soldiers like Luo Ding are generally good enough to manage their food and housing. They have never seen such things as food and pay. In the words of the generals, it is a time of war. Let's go.

After the founding of the Dagan Empire, needless to say about the soldiers who died in battle, those who survived must be paid, otherwise riots would really happen.

But the treasury of the newly established Dagan Empire was empty at that time, and the whole country was so poor that there was only one name left. Later, I don’t know who gave the emperor a note, saying that the land could be used for payment, that is, for the soldiers who voluntarily disarmed and returned to the fields. According to their ranks, different numbers of fields are allocated to these people during their time in the army for them to cultivate. In order to show their rewards, they can also be given some tax relief.

In this way, not only can a large number of fertile fields that have been abandoned due to the war find owners, so that those fields can quickly resume production, but also solve the problem of most of the arrears in the army.

As soon as such a policy was put forward, it was immediately praised by the emperor and courtiers. Based on this policy, the imperial court quickly formulated a set of implementation plans.

Luo Ding joined the army when he was 13 years old, and he was already 21 years old when he retired. Eight years in the army was quite a long time, but the rank was not high. Fortunately, his hometown has always been sparsely populated, with only grass but no crops. There are beaches everywhere, so the officials in charge of allocating land to them are extraordinarily generous. With Luo Ding's conditions, everyone can be allocated [-] mu of land.

It sounds like a lot, but in fact, most of the land is saline-alkali land, which is not suitable for the growth of crops at all. Among the [-] mu of land allocated by Luo Ding, only four or five mu of it can be cultivated normally. The remaining ones are all abandoned fields that can only grow grass.

After distributing all these abandoned fields, the local officials in charge of the people's livelihood felt very comfortable. Although the imperial court gave them a three-year tax exemption policy and a five-year tax reduction policy in order to show their preferential treatment for these veterans, these policies will always come to an end. At that time, no matter what those fields can grow, as long as it is a field, there must be tax revenue, so that the expenditure of their yamen can be greatly increased.

After Luo Ding returned home, penniless, he lived with the tiger in the dilapidated cave dwelling for more than a month. In the 'good fields', after all the arable land was harvested for grain, Luo Ding looked at the remaining barren beaches and had a very bold idea.

He thought of the pasture seeds left by his master, and thought that since they are all grass, there is no reason for wild grass to grow, but pasture can’t. Those abandoned fields are also deserted, so it’s better to try planting pasture. If it can grow, and when there is less forage in winter, you can try to buy the pasture to those who have a lot of cattle and sheep. This way, it can be regarded as a harvest anyway, and it is much better than nothing.

This seemingly naive idea at the beginning opened the door to wealth for Luo Ding. The yield of the pasture he planted was much greater than Luo Ding expected, and in Liangzhou, where the drought and low temperature In an environment with little rain, this magical pasture can be harvested twice a year, and the yield per mu exceeds 5000 catties.

Back then, Luo Ding made more money selling fodder than the grain he grew. According to those who bought his pasture to feed the animals, the animals loved the pasture he grew. After his grazing, those animals not only fattened up quickly, but also had good coat color, and they seemed to be much more energetic than other people's animals.

Of course, the supply of this kind of forage is in short supply. In the second year, Luoding's seeds had just been sown in the field, and there were already many people who came to order forage.

With such a large number of customers, Luo Ding quickly realized that it is impossible for him to earn all the money, otherwise it would be too eye-catching, so he quickly contacted those former colleagues who disarmed and returned to the fields with him, and told them He understands that he gives away the seeds and technology for free, but a quarter of the pasture that is planted must belong to him.

Valuable things can be grown in the barren beach. Naturally, no one can refuse such a good thing, so an interest group of more than [-] people centered on Luo Ding was formed immediately. Add up to seven or eight hundred acres of abandoned land, thanks to Luo Ding's mind last year and left some more seeds, otherwise it would not be enough.

When the grass that had been planted was growing, Luo Ding was not only a little dazed looking at the pasture, he was thinking of his master who had left long ago, such good seeds, such good pasture, if it wasn't for the master, he would never meet again. At that time, we came to the era of turbulence and turmoil, and people still had to live. Presumably, with his old man's ability, he would be able to make an extraordinary career.

Sending the seeds of pasture grass to others for cultivation, Luo Ding is not afraid of these seeds being passed on, because if you want this kind of forage grass to have a high yield, you must soak it in a special solution. After the seeds that have not been soaked in this solution are planted , although it will grow normally, but it will only grow grass but will not bloom. After the grass dies, only a few seeds will be left, and those seeds will not germinate even if they are planted.

Luo Ding didn't know that this phenomenon is a method often used by modern seed companies in order to ensure the uniqueness of their own company's seeds, and the method of mixing this solution was taught to him by the old horseman before his death. Yes, in today's world there will be no second person to know.

The seven or eight hundred mu of forage grassland has brought very rich benefits to everyone including Luo Ding. In the next year or two, Luo Ding expanded his manpower and increased the area of ​​the original grassland by at least one year. times, after the pockets gradually bulged, Luo Ding faced the big grass field but had a new idea.

He wants others to buy grass from me, and then go back to feed the animals to make money, so why can't I just use my own grass to make money for the animals? Luo Ding has learned it before, he is sure that he can feed the animals well, and It is definitely cheaper for him to feed livestock than others, and for the same price, he must earn more than others.

So after a period of observation, Luo Ding set his goal on domestic pigs. Originally, cattle and sheep are very good choices, but there are too many people raising them in Liangzhou. Good money.

Pigs are different. Each household only has one or two more pigs, and they are raised for consumption at home during the Chinese New Year.And cut pigs are not picky about food, they are easy to fatten, and the price of pork is cheaper than that of cattle and sheep. If the common people can accept it, such things will sell quickly.

When Luo Ding was building a house two years ago, he built a pig shed not far from his home. At that time, it was just a trial run, and there were only a dozen pigs in it. Later, the business boomed, and Luo Ding not only added With a lot of investment, he will also develop those who follow him.

Luo Ding thought it was too much trouble negotiating with pig dealers every day, so he bought a big shop in Fengcheng by himself, and went to kill the pigs himself, and now even the sales process became Luo Ding's own, so he It is only in Fengcheng that there is such a nickname as Luo Tuhu.

Luo Ding has developed well in Fengcheng, and there are quite a few people who are jealous, but Luo Ding is not a vegetarian either. From the boss, the shopkeeper to the clerks, most of them have been soldiers.Not to mention the strong physique, there are quite a few people who were born and bred in Fengcheng, so if you really want to make connections, it's not bad.

Seeing that those people are obviously not profitable, if they are wicked, they will send a message to Luo Ding's hometown in Luojia Village, saying that Luo Ding in their village has developed, and you should go and seek refuge.

Some people from the village followed the letter to find them. Luo Ding warmly received them, and said that he would find a job to do. He is short of manpower here, and those who don’t want to leave home are fine. They take the forage and go back to raise pigs. Luo Ding, the fat pig, bought all of them, as much as he wanted.

Only when his brother and sister-in-law came to find him, Luo Ding's face was not very good-looking, but he didn't treat them particularly harshly, and the conditions he gave were still the same as other villagers, but this kind of equal treatment, But it annoyed the couple and caused Luo Ding a lot of trouble.