Chapter 990: idea

   "I think the weather has been good these two days, so the corn that has been broken should be exposed as soon as possible. Starting this year, the Ministry of Household can collect some of the corn after collecting taxes. If the weather is not good, I'm afraid that the yamen will drop it again next year."

Since the promotion of corn, the area of ​​corn planting in various places has increased. At the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Household issued a regulation. From now on, the tax can be paid with corn, but it is two pounds of corn for one kilogram of rice or wheat, which can deduct up to 30% of the tax. .

In other words, everyone pays taxes in the future, and can pay 30% of the tax on corn.

It is not that high-yield crops have never appeared before, but none of them can compare with rice and wheat. In addition to the problem of preservation, it is the problem of paying taxes.

Farmers farmed the land, and taxation accounted for a large part. The imperial court only received rice and wheat, so you had to grow the two, and the yields of these two were low, and the yields did not increase. After paying taxes, everyone could only eat gruel Wild vegetables continue to farm again and again on an empty stomach. If they encounter a disaster year, they are completely resigned to fate.

The court now agrees to pay taxes on corn, which has opened up the situation. Corn can be planted in the east, west, north and south, and it is easy to store. Although two catties of corn are worth one catty of rice or wheat, it can’t bear it. It is a good plant and has high yield. Some places that are not yet suitable for growing high-yield rice are simply good news.

The tenants were also very happy, thinking that they could pay 30% of the tax with corn and leave more rice, they were also very happy, and they all bowed to the north to express their gratitude to the emperor.

Ma Xiang was at the back of the team and couldn't get a word in. When Mu Yangling finished understanding about the Grange and the sun went down, Ma Xiang had a chance to stand in front of Mu Yangling.

But Mu Yangling didn't ask him anything, but pointed at Xiaoting and said, "I heard that you have some experience with the development of Grange. If you have anything, you can tell Xiaoting."

One sentence sent him away. Ma Xiang's face was a little pale, but he didn't dare to speak as he did in the morning.

Mu Yangling brought people back to the other courtyard.

Xiaoting smiled kindly at Ma Xiang and pulled him to talk.

Xiao Ting has been trained in the past few years, and his character has become a lot calmer, and he is no longer the same as before. In addition, he made mistakes in the past, so that he lost his job in front of the prince, and instead picked up Xiaolou. be cautious.

So he went to ask Ma Xiang, even if Ma Xiang was several years older than him, he was still out of words.

Pulled up Ma Xiang's two brothers and two tenant farmers, and went down with two pots of wine, and he got what he wanted to know.

Xiaoting returned to the other courtyard and replied, "Ma Dafu sold his son on a death deed, and Yaren sold him to a merchant in Guangzhou City as his servant. At sea, two ships of fruit were sunk, plus the casualties, the losses were heavy, he and many of his servants were demobilized and sold, which happened to be sold to the local landlord in Qiongzhou."

"Fruits in Qiongzhou sell very well. The landowner planted fruit on a large area of ​​land. He was assigned to work as a laborer in the orchard. The monthly salary was only two or three hundred cents a month. In five or six years, he still didn’t save a penny, but he had a lot of experience in planting fruit trees, and he would take care of the fruit trees they planted in their orchards. Qiongzhou is a place of extreme evil, and all dynasties and dynasties have been a place for exiles. A year ago The local natives and the exiled prisoners clashed and hit their manor. Coincidentally, the only son of their owner happened to come to the manor to play. He saved the man by chance, so he asked for freedom, and his owner returned it to him. A lot of money." Xiao Ting smiled when he said this, "He probably took the money to go out, but he lost a lot. He returned home with the last bit of money left, and it was considered a return home. Mother, he will propose two villages. The first fruit trees should be the idea of ​​selling fruit."

"When he was drunk, he revealed that in the past, the manor's steward had driven these inferior servants to open mountains and plant fruit trees. In the name of the owner, the owner even deducted the manor's fruit seedlings and other things, but the income was his own. When I saw him, I was very envious, so I doubted…”

Mu Yangling chuckled: "He's smart, but unfortunately he's too impatient. Ten or eight years later, we won't be in Guangzhou City anymore, and he'll be able to speak his mind in the farmhouse. Maybe it's true."

Xiaoting lowered his head.

"Ma Zhuangtou and Tian Zhuangtou are too honest and stupid. I didn't think about it carefully. If you pass on the word, say that Zhuangtou wants to be recruited again and will be selected from the tenants. If you are interested, you can sign up with Manager Wang. If Zhuangtou still wants to be a Zhuangtou, he can also apply, and from now on, Zhuangtou will be elected every three years, and all the farms in the palace will do this, including my dowry Zhuangzi."

In this way, such deceit can be avoided in the future. Their villages are everywhere, and there are inevitably places in the mansion that cannot be supervised. Corrupting the income of the farms is a trivial matter, and they are only afraid of harming the tenant farmers. .

Xiaoting hurriedly wrote down the incident and asked, "What should Ma Xiang do?"

"His family is a tenant farmer in the palace, but in fact we don't have much binding force on him. The big deal is that he doesn't plant our land. Besides, we don't have any evidence yet, but it's just an inference based on his drunken remarks."

Xiaoting frowned, "Then we just let him go?"

Mu Yangling smiled and said, "Didn't he say that he is good at planting fruit trees? Guangdong is often hot, and it is indeed suitable to grow fruits, lychees, longan, and bananas. These are quite expensive, and we have three mountains that we can open now. If only one is opened, let him lead someone to open up the remaining two hills to plant fruit trees."

"Ma Xiang has a bad mind, we should also use such a person?"

"There are too many people with bad minds. As long as you can control him, you can use his talents. It just so happens that Ma Xiang has skills that I can use, and the palace is also betting on him. That's the case, it's better to drive people out. It's better to give him a chance." The key is that they have absolute rights, if they use it well, they will naturally win-win, but if they don't use it well, if the other party has something in their hearts, the palace can kill him by raising his finger, so why bother with him now? Is he sincere?

The kiosk can only be.

Growing fruit is indeed a good way to make money. Now there are more and more high-yielding crops, and there are fewer ways to preserve and eat them. People's lives will only get better and better. In a few years, people who can afford fruit There will be more people, the demand will increase, and their farm business will be good.

And after the fruit is planted, the next step to study is how to transport it. After all, things like fruits and vegetables have a short storage time. If the transportation speed cannot be accelerated, the fruit will really fall into the hands.

But three small hills add up to no more than 40 to 50 acres. Even if it can’t be transported far, it can be consumed in just one place in Guangzhou City, so there is no need to worry.
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