"Rent land? Grow vegetables?"

"What is this?"

Hu Yun was in a daze, his little face full of confusion.

But Gu Tianya smiled and flicked his forehead, and asked seductively: "Isn't it okay to rent land? Who stipulates that if people want to farm land, they must open up wasteland themselves?"

"You stipulated it..."

The little guy almost blurted out, and then started to count the various rules in detail with his fingers. And because he had a deep study of the rules of the Land of Clouds, he couldn't hold back the conversation once he opened it. He kept talking: "Since my disciple came here,

After arriving here, I will first read through all the laws you issued. For example, one of your laws states that if people want to farm, they can open up wasteland on their own. The Land of Clouds has five states, and there are needs everywhere.

The taxes you have set for reclaimed land are very low. For every acre and a half of land reclaimed, the common people only need to pay three-thirds of the land, and the rest belongs to themselves. Their ancestors have farmed for generations to support their families. So, Master, this is what you have stipulated.

, if ordinary people want to farm, they have to open up wasteland themselves..."

"Really?"

Gu Tianya smiled and suddenly asked meaningfully: "If you read the decree just now carefully, do people really have to open up wasteland themselves if they want to farm land?"

Hu Yun was confused and couldn't help but recall the decree he had just recited. Unfortunately, no matter how he recalled it, he never found anything unusual in the decree.

The little guy's face turned red from anxiety.

Fortunately, Li Jiancheng couldn't stand it anymore, and suddenly reminded him: "When your master formulated certain laws, he deliberately avoided strict words, such as 'if the people want to farm, they can open up wasteland themselves'."

The word 'can' is worth pondering. According to common sense, laws and regulations must be strict, so the word 'must' should be used instead of the word 'can' you just recited. Little guy, now you can figure it out.

Is there a loophole?"

Can!

must!

These are two completely different words.

Hu Yun was stunned for a long time, then suddenly shouted "Wow", and said with a face full of surprise: "The law says it is possible, but it does not say it is necessary. This means that people who want to farm do not necessarily have to do it.

Instead of opening up wasteland themselves, we allow them to obtain land through any other means, such as renting as the master just said..."

Gu Tianya laughed and said in a leisurely tone: "When I first formulated the law, I had laid a lot of foreshadowing in advance. For example, people are not prohibited from renting land. This is one of the hidden rules, but why should I make this rule?

What about the rules? Little one, you might as well try to guess, treat it as my teacher’s first test for you, I hope you can guess the exact answer.”

"Why should we make this rule?"

Hu Yun fell into deep thought.

After a long time, the little guy seemed to have some enlightenment. He subconsciously raised his head, his eyes flashing with enlightenment, and said: "Master's Land of Dark Clouds is very big, and people keep migrating here. Every time

When the common people come over, they will basically choose to open up wasteland, and after the people open up wasteland, they will pay taxes according to the stipulation of three-and-a-half acres of land..."

"This tax is not high at all for the common people, because the three-cent field tax can be regarded as the lightest tax in the world, but for you, Master, the amount of land harvested is extremely huge."

"For every acre and a half of wasteland that the people open up, they will hand over three-thirds of their land to you. However, we Han people are the most willing to do hard work. No family will be satisfied with the amount of only one and a half acres of wasteland, so as long as they return

As long as they have the strength to move, they will not stop clearing land and farming."

"A family of seven is counted as one household in the official system of the Tang Dynasty. Let's take this family as an example. How much land will they cultivate after coming to Youzhou? Ten acres? One hundred acres?

Disciple thinks that it is much more than that. This family will have to cultivate at least several hundred acres..."

"Disciple will choose a compromise figure for the time being, which is calculated based on one family reclaiming 500 acres of land. Then how much land will they hand over to the master?"

Since the little guy has just become a disciple and has not yet learned mathematical equations from Gu Tianya, he can only use the most primitive method to calculate bit by bit by increasing numbers.

I saw the little guy starting to calculate with his fingers, and Luo Li said in a long voice: "One and a half acres of land will be paid three acres, fifteen acres will be three acres, one hundred and fifty acres will be thirty acres, four hundred and fifty

An acre is ninety acres, if it’s 500 acres, if it’s 500 acres…”

Seeing that he was obviously holding back, Gu Tianya smiled and taught him: "You have already calculated the amount of 450 acres to be handed over, so why not calculate the last 50 acres separately?"

Unexpectedly, Hu Yun looked at him pitifully and said with a helpless expression: "My disciple just took out the last fifty acres to calculate, but I can't figure out how much should be turned in at the moment."

This is a flaw of the ancients. There are no mathematical formulas in this era.

Gu Tianya laughed loudly and continued to remind him: "You just calculated that 150 acres need to be handed over to 30 acres, so will the ratio of 50 acres to 150 acres count?"

Hu Yun was startled at first, then his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed subconsciously: "Yes, yes, I can compare one hundred and fifty acres with fifty acres. 150 acres requires 30 acres to be turned over, so 50 acres will be paid

Isn’t it just 10 acres? In this way, the share of the entire 500 acres of land to be handed over is calculated... The first 450 acres need to be handed over to 90 acres, and the next 50 acres need to be handed over to 10 acres, which adds up to a total of 100 acres.

mu of land, each family needs to hand over 100 acres of land to you."

Gu Tianya laughed again and said with some helplessness: "Actually, one and a half acres of land can be counted as 15 points of land, and the share turned in by the people is 3 points of land. This ratio is originally 5 to 1. Even if the total becomes larger, the proportion will not change."

It won’t be changed, but look at the calculation method you just used. It’s a lot of verbose words, but in fact you only need to remember to pick one out of five, and then it’s not difficult to calculate even a large number of acres.”

Hu Yun's eyes were full of longing and he murmured: "Is this Master's knowledge? It's really an eye-opener for my disciple."

Gu Tianya laughed out loud, and encouraged him warmly: "The quantity has been calculated. Let's continue the topic you just wanted to talk about."

…

The little guy quickly looked solemn and said crisply: "One family reclaims 500 acres and needs to hand over 100 acres to the master. This is just one family, but what about ten families? What about hundreds of families? What about thousands of families?

As the land of Youyun continues to develop, more and more people will definitely come, and with their continuous influx, more and more land will be reclaimed, which means that the land owned by Master will become more and more important.

More and more..."

"but!"

The young man suddenly straightened his tone, looked at Gu Tianya and said, "Master, you can't plant so much land by yourself."

Gu Tianya nodded in approval and continued to encourage him: "Not only can I not be able to cultivate so much land by myself, Master, but I can't cultivate it even if I include several of your master wives, and even include all the retainers and servants of the entire Gu family.

We also can’t plant so much land.”

"So these lands cannot be wasted. We must find people to cultivate them."

The little guy followed the interface closely, his voice gradually became more confident, and said: "And this is why Master deliberately left a foreshadowing when he formulated the decree. At that time, you had already thought of taking these lands

It’s rented out to the people.”

Gu Tianya laughed loudly, stretched out his hand and sighed that the little guy was brainless, and said jokingly: "Listen to you, I have been blabbering for a long time, and finally you have analyzed the problem clearly. Okay, let me do the rest."

Let’s talk, teaching disciples is a step-by-step process. I don’t expect you to catch up with a few other people overnight. Now listen carefully, I will teach you how to develop your group..."

Hu Yun quickly waited solemnly.

Gu Tianya coughed lightly, cleared his mind and spoke slowly, "In your group, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the wasteland in Youyun Prefectures requires hard work to be cultivated into fertile land, so your group simply cannot

It is impossible to mobilize people to open up wasteland like other groups."

"The inability to open up wasteland is not a problem, because you now know that land can be leased. It is difficult to reclaim wasteland into fertile land, but it is not difficult to rent a mature fertile land for planting. Especially since I have given you a special plan, I am not going to let it happen

Your group will plant crops instead of vegetables, which will save more effort than growing crops."

"Growing vegetables is different from growing grain. Growing vegetables does not require as much hard work as farming. In addition, there are cattle for hire in the division's official office, which further ensures that the people in your group can grow vegetables."

"Perhaps you are wondering, why do you have to grow vegetables in a group as a teacher? My dear disciple, I tell you, this is a good way to get rich. Everyone wants food, so the people come here

After Youzhou, the first thing to cultivate the land was to plant food. Because there is an old saying from ancient times that if you have food at home, you will not panic. However, many people have overlooked a problem. Vegetables are also indispensable food."

"Not long ago, there was a statistics from the official office of the Master. As of the beginning of this month, the number of people who had arrived in the land of Youyun had reached 6,400. Since they all came from famine, their families were larger than those of the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

The number of people per household is less than seven, which is about five people per household, but even so, the number of people is close to 35,000."

"These more than 35,000 people have reclaimed nearly 300,000 acres of wasteland in just three or four months. And with the arrival of spring next year, there will be an explosive wave of land reclamation after the ice and snow melt.

How much fertile land is there? I estimate it would be at least a million acres."

"Millions of acres?"

The little guy's mouth was crooked and his eyes were squinting, and he was obviously stunned by this number.

Several other people in the room also looked confused. Even Ma Sanbao, who had just returned from digging for snow, was staggering.

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Chapter completed!