Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 166
(Second!)
The next day, the tenants under Zhuangzi sent 22 people to Zhuangzi to be servants, but what Li You didn't understand was that none of these servants smiled, as if mourning.

Of course, Li You didn't care about these people, he thought that these people had been oppressed too much before, so if they were not happy, they would be unhappy, as long as they came, it would be fine.

So when these people came, Zhuangzi's cleaning and service were improved, Li You took Li Mingda directly, and Li Zhi started to play in Zhuangzi.

Although Zhuangzi is not big, there are still many places to play, especially the endless lavender field, which really has a different kind of beauty.

However, he walked far away, and then came to someone else's farmland. He never thought that Li You would know the difficulties of the Tang people here, and even made Li You feel a feeling of dire straits.

"Hi old man!"

Li You came to the farmland. At this time, because he happened to see an old man with his family working in the farmland, Li You walked over on a whim.

Seeing Li You and the others, the old man hurriedly brought his family to kneel down for Li You and the others.

Although kneeling in the Tang Dynasty was not very serious, the common people still had some subconscious inferiority complex when they saw the nobles.

How could Li You make the other party kneel down? He quickly took two steps and said with a smile: "Old man, you don't have to do this. I just came to see if your wheat field is growing well, and if you can have a good harvest this year."

Seeing Li You's amiability, the old man let go of the grievances in his heart, bowed and smiled, "Thanks to you, my family's wheat is growing very well this year, and I think I can have a full year's worth of food this year."

"Huh?" Li You walked to the edge of the field, looked at the wheat in the field and asked, "Old man, the growth is very good, how can I have enough food for a year? I want to ask, how much grain can be produced per mu in this field?" ?”

The old man nodded with a smile: "The nobleman looks like someone who doesn't know anything about the farmland. One mu of this field can produce six buckets of grain!"

"Six buckets?" Li You didn't quite know how much the six buckets were.

Xue Rengui on the side quickly said: "Wulang, one bucket is equal to ten liters, one liter is about 1.5 kilograms, and six buckets is 180 catties, which is less than two hundred catties."

"What. The growth is so good that it doesn't cost more than two hundred catties per mu?" Li You was a little surprised, because in modern times he was the only one who could produce a thousand catties of rice per mu at most, but now, the best land , the growth is still so good, but it can only produce six buckets of food?

You know, our current one mu of land is about 666.6666667 square meters. Of course, this number will vary from dynasty to dynasty, but it will not have a large degree of deviation. I will not go to the Tang Dynasty figures. Hehe, the value is about 600 Bar. 600 square meters of land real estate 180 catties of grain.

Nowadays, the woven bags used to hold grain in rural areas are generally 600-[-] catties, [-]-[-] catties, which means that [-] square meters of land can guarantee stable production of two bags of grain, and this is already the prosperous age of Zhenguan.

And these two bags of grain are still obtained by strong men and laborers who have been working in the fields for many years and intensively.

More importantly, in view of the weak productivity in ancient times, floods, droughts, and locusts would be terrible, and the fields would be barren in minutes, and it would not be uncommon to harvest half a bag of grain per mu.Half a bag of grain is 50 catties, and 100 catties are harvested twice a year.

How much land ordinary peasant households could have in the Tang Dynasty is unknown.According to today's rural land distribution policy, one person generally has one to two mu of land.There are not only men who work in the fields, but men must also have wives. With wives, there will naturally be children, plus the elderly.

Assuming that a family of four has 8 mu of land, two crops a year can produce 800 catties.Although the production was small at that time, the appetite of the people at that time was not necessarily small.A person has to consume three or four catties of grain to eat three meals a day, so the whole family spends 12 catties of grain a day.800 catties of grain for the whole year, my dear, I'll eat it in two months! ! !There are twelve months in a year, and you can only eat for two months. What about the remaining ten months?

This time Li You frowned. He had no experience with farming before, and he knew that it was the Zhenguan period, so he thought that farmers with land lived very comfortably. He wanted to come here today to hear the joy of farmers. , But if you look at it now and listen to it again, how can this farmer feel a little bit of joy.

Working hard every day, just to not starve to death, what kind of prosperity is this? Li You shook his head slightly.

At this moment, the old man came over and said, "My lord, it's already noon, and the old man is going to take the child back for dinner. Let's take my leave first!"

"Wait a minute!" Li You beckoned, and let Xiao Baoer from behind come over, then took out a handful of toffee from Xiao Baoer's pocket and handed it to the old man, saying: "This is a candy, for the children to eat.!"

"This!" The old man was a little happy. Although he said he didn't dare, he finally accepted it with gratitude.

Seeing the old man's family walk away, Li You looked at Xue Rengui and asked, "How much grain will our tenants give us a year?"

"I heard from Cui's family that they have to pay twice a year, one time with two buckets.!"

"Two fights..." Li You sighed and said: "The two fights have been handed over to us, what else do they have?" Li You said to Xue Rengui: "We will go back now. After we go back, you will take Zhuangzi down. Let me invite all the tenants to come to the village, and let the second brother Luo go to Chang'an City to buy some mutton, chicken, duck and fish, oh yes, and bring some soap and scented soap."

"Understood!" Xue Rengui smiled and nodded, because he knew that his own Wulang was about to show kindness again, but this kindness moved Xue Rengui.

But Li You's kindness caused his farmers to start a meeting again.

"What. Does the king of Qi know our details? Is he trying to catch us all by tricking us into Zhuangzi?" The irritable third child shouted again.

Hearing the shout of the third child, the others all looked at Liu Dageng.

At this time, Liu Dageng scratched his bald head again and said: "It should be impossible, we haven't exposed it, so how did King Qi know our details?"

"Father, why don't we run away!" Liu Yuning looked at his father.

"Escape...?" Liu Dageng sighed: "If there are enough people, we can escape, but now there are 22 people of our own in the village, how can we escape, we escape and leave them behind, are we still human? ?”

"Then we'll fight him. In the afternoon, we'll bring a good guy, enter the manor and start killing all those bastards, and we'll go back to be bandits again!"

When the third child said this, the others were all filled with righteous indignation.

"That's right, let's fight!"

"Boss, if we don't fight, we won't survive."

"Fight it, boss!"

"Boss, don't hesitate!"

Hearing those voices full of righteous indignation in Liu Dageng's ears, his eyes became fierce again, as if Liu Dageng had once again become a bandit king who murdered and robbed from that ordinary mountain village.

(End of this chapter)