After Zhang Chunhua had his last meal at Lanchi Palace, he returned the talisman, resigned from his post as Dachangqiu Zhanshi, and left the palace. In the future, even if he would still raise his own bees in Shanglin Garden, he would come here. time will be much less.
"Ah, Chunhua left." After eating and drinking, Si Niang lay on the window sill and watched Zhang Chunhua leave from a distance, saying with some regret.
"After all, it's time to leave. It's inevitable. Let's calculate the income from growing our own peanuts." Liu Tong first spoke in a nostalgic tone, but then he cheered up. It's not like he couldn't see it. Besides, earning living expenses is more important.
"After a rough calculation, one acre of peanuts can earn 300 cash. Of course, this is after excluding the cost of hiring people." Liu Tong said excitedly, "We have cultivated a total of 210,000 acres. You can earn roughly 60 million yuan, which is really a good business.”
"Wait, this isn't right. Why can I only earn three hundred cents per acre?" Si Niang was stunned. There is a big problem here. I can grow wheat and harvest four cents. The official price is one hundred and fifty. Wen, I have to earn 600 Wen from one acre of land. Why do I lose money growing peanuts?
"Because we hired people to do the planting." Liu Tong just looked lazy, but she still had a good mind. It was like they only produced seeds and land, and left the rest to the people to deal with. They could make a profit from one acre of land. Reading three hundred articles is already pretty good.
"It feels a little strange. It's better to grow food." Si Niang said rather unhappy, "Obviously, you can earn a stable income of 600 yuan from one acre of land."
Chen Xi is conferring farmland. Not to mention the way of conferring farmland by those crazy people abroad. Those groups are all wild fields. The land is conferred on a per capita basis, up to 500 acres per person, and the worst is 50 acres per person. But in the local area, Chen Xi is Farming is done on a household-by-household basis.
In fact, this is a means to force local divisions to prevent the continuous growth of large households in the local area. It stops land annexation and leases it from the state. Although this step is not completely achieved, it becomes more difficult to sell the land. After the land is granted to each household, I want to The most correct way to get more land is to separate the family after adulthood. This is Chen Xi's main method to prevent the birth of big families.
Don't look at the words that they are still brothers after the separation. In fact, as long as the families are separated, even if they are really brothers, they will inevitably live their own lives in the end. This is not because of disunity, but because A more realistic human nature.
After all, there is a method called human nature versus morality, which in turn derives from human nature versus capital. The core of Chen Xi's land granting is based on household units. This method will continuously force the population to exceed five, that is, a family with two or three children. Separate the family quickly after the children reach adulthood.
Because if families are not separated, the pressure on their food production will cause them to find new ways out, work, do business, etc. These are all means that can slow down land annexation.
In addition, when Chen Xi divided the land, he granted land based on the total number of village-level units after the village merging. There was definitely an overflow in the early days, but as time went by, it would appear that continued household division would not be as good as in the early years. It is generally guaranteed that one household has fifty acres.
At this time, there are only two choices. One is to form a new village-level unit, and the other is to serve as soldiers, or recruit veterans with their own land to become their villagers to relieve their land pressure. In fact, these inconspicuous means are all Chen Xi's means to curb land annexation, improve the status of the military, and force the population to develop towards industry and commerce.
It's just that not all of these methods have been demonstrated yet. The people still enjoy high yields of grain, with an output of 600 yuan per acre. Even if the land needs to be left fallow, only half of the total is produced in a year. For the standard parents of three children these days For a family of five, there is actually a stable living output of 15,000 yuan.
This output is indeed a bit low, but Chen Xi has adjusted the prices of just-necessary items to ensure that there is no problem with food and clothing. Moreover, the biggest advantage of the agricultural population is that the cost of eating for myself is very low, so low that it is basically No need to speak.
Therefore, the people can still live very well at present. After one year, no matter what, they will have at least some money left. However, in five years, when the next generation grows up to be young, people with three children will find that they A little beyond our means.
At this time, Chen Xi's state-owned industry and commerce has entered an era of explosive growth. There is nothing to say about this, because the core point of industry and commerce is that enough wealthy people must enter the industry to promote the development of these things.
The simplest one is the Song Dynasty. Due to land annexation, many people in the Song Dynasty went bankrupt and could only enter industry and commerce. However, the civil servants of the Song Dynasty could not engage in foreign wars, and they were better than others in development, so a large number of people poured into industry and commerce. Then came the prosperity of the Song Dynasty.
Chen Xi is actually waiting for this time. Of course, for now, the effect will not be seen in the short term. After all, most people still tend to keep the land and farm. Of course, one thing must be admitted is that such farming is completely Tian started to sit at the door and drink home-brewed sweet wine. The leisurely life of sitting there for a whole day was mainly due to the fact that there was no pressure at all, and there was no job.
The core of Chen Xi's second five-year plan is not to find some work locally for these people who have nothing to do after farming, so that they can get used to working and subsidizing their jobs, and then gradually bring their children and grandchildren with them. Go in, and then improve the industry and commerce of the Han Dynasty.
This is actually more equivalent to a change in thinking mode, and changes in thinking are sometimes more puzzling than changes in productivity. The latter may produce huge changes with a flash of inspiration, but the changes in thinking are Change, most of the time, takes one generation.
It is impossible for Chen Xi to suddenly let people who have been farming suddenly come to work in commercial workshops. This is unrealistic and there is no reason. People who can live a good life will definitely not give up their own life circle to open up a new circle.
The so-called chicken soup of breaking through the comfort zone is gone. As long as they are not adventurous adventurers, for most normal people, if they can live happily in the comfort zone, why bother to get scars on themselves? Tired, isn't this just looking for trouble?
Realistically speaking, if there is no pressure in life, there will not be many people who are looking for hardship. The meaning of enduring hardship is for future comfort, or for future glory. If enduring hardship is for the sake of suffering more in the future, I'm sorry. That's trolling, not a normal person.
Chen Xi knows almost all of these things. Even if he does not study these things professionally, Chen Xi knows that people can live a good life, so why should they struggle?
If everyone's wishes can be easily realized, then society will not enter the ultimate development, but will stagnate. From the overall level of society, if we want to move forward, the general public must have a goal to strive for. , a goal that can be achieved and worth continuing to strive for. Only in this way can there be positive output at the social level.
After all, without counting all the messy things brought about by financial data, realistically speaking, output at the social level is labor per unit time. If everyone stops working, or everyone loses motivation to struggle, then what follows It goes without saying.
This is actually the difference between the so-called materialist view of history and the heroic view of history. From the perspective of society as a whole, the former is reliable, but from the perspective of nodes, the individual is very, very important. All the people before were a little more important.
However, if Chen Xi doesn't talk about this kind of thing, it will be difficult for others to get a glimpse of the whole picture. These simple things are permeated throughout history. To pull them out requires more than just wisdom, but a kind of vision. , it’s a pity that talking about this in this era is nonsense.
Of course, this is meaningless to Liu Tong. Liu Tong's attitude is just to make some money. Even Chen Xi himself did not expect peanuts to be so profitable these days. Originally, Chen Xi thought that peanuts could not be profitable if they were only grown. How much does it cost?
Because the labor cost of this thing is much higher than that of growing wheat, and Liu Tong needs to hire people. Chen Xi will not let the free labor he recruited be used by Liu Tong anyway, so Liu Tong can only hire labor by himself. Doing this costs money.
However, what shocked Chen Xi was that this thing could still earn three hundred cash from the last acre of land, not counting oil extraction.
For Liu Tong now, if he extracts oil, there are no supporting facilities for the upstream and downstream industries. If he just does it this way, it is a bit exaggerated to say that he will lose money, but it is true that he will not make much money.
But even if he couldn't make the money from oil extraction, Liu Tong could still make three hundred cash per acre by selling raw materials and selling peanuts, a classic snack to restaurants and the like.
Therefore, Liu Tong was in a very good mood after harvesting the peanuts. He quickly calculated how many Huangzhuangs he still had. It seemed that there were many in the thirteen states. They would all plant peanuts next year. This seemed very profitable, even if the price would increase due to large-scale shipments. There has been a decline.
But Liu Tong thought that if he could earn 150 yuan from one acre of land, then add up his royal estate, which would be hundreds of thousands of hectares, tens of millions of acres of land. As expected, my father was really not good at that time. I can do it, I can do it too!
Even the management of Huangzhuang is expensive. At worst, it will be diluted, and another 50 cents will be allocated per acre. If this continues, it will cost one billion a year. In an instant, Liu Tong's eyes glowed with gold. Chen Zichuan was really He is a good person. As expected, you still have to learn from this kind of person.
Liu Tong is a landowner, and there are many manors left over from his ancestors. Although many of them are just gardens and other things, it doesn't matter, one billion dollars, even his father would dig it out while he was still alive!
