The driving man said to himself and left the mulberry carpenter in the same place.He survived in the countryside, and had long been accustomed to the narrowness of the villagers, and had also seen more small bellys among the poor.In the face of the wolf-like tax collector's official difference, the farmers only have the share of sorrow and pleading.In order to fill the stomach, everyone is trying to work.

In the past, the rent was 50%, and the loss had to be lost when the rent was paid.In order to make money, the dog's legs make tricks such as "dry valley", "wet valley", "big fight" and "small fight".In short, only the poor can't think of it, and they can't do it.If the harvest of the desert year is not good, the landlord even has to bring people to block the door, afraid that the feline will run away and run away and kill people alive.

The year is not good, the farmers sell their children and sell their children are good, and it is common to hang and die.The rich oppress the poor, and the poor and the poor fight.Everyone seemed to be with a skinny wolf dog, staring at the blood-red eyes in search of a chance to survive.There are too many tragedies in the countryside, and countless.

Now some people want to pay taxes, and it is not reassuring to pay them.The mulberry carpenter shook his head, and he could not understand it, but he felt right.“This world is different than it was before.”

It was almost dark, and the mulberry carpenter walked around the village head and went back.He now has several children, and only his wife takes care of him.He lived in the dormitory of the construction site, and as soon as he entered the house, he saw that dinner was ready, and there were two or three small dishes on the table, and there was a smell of sourness.

“What is this?”The mulberry carpenter asked, staring at a dish he had never seen before.

The mulberry carpenter's wife steamed the steamed bread on the table and said, "This is what I learned from the cafeteria master Fu, and said what kind of vinegary potato silk."Oh, and now this vinegar is expensive, I can't bear it.You taste it, but it's cool."

“Oh, that’s the potato.”The mulberry carpenter heard about this new thing, "When we were in Fushun, we heard that there was all this in the test field, and I heard that if an acre of land was served, it could produce thousands of pounds."It is said that this thing can be eaten as staple food, and it will not be acidic in the stomach if you eat too much, which is better than sweet potatoes."

After many potato cultivation and expansion, Li Shuwei used the Ministry of Agriculture to promote the cultivation of potatoes officially ushered in a large-scale harvest period.The entire Liaonan Four Guards planted 500,000 mu in the first half of the year, most of which were planted in Lushun and Jinzhou.Because there can be two seasons.

However, potatoes have higher requirements for soil fertility.At present, only farmers are fat, a piece of land can not be continuously cultivated.It is necessary to plant corn and other crops in rotation to increase production and restore ground strength.But even so, even in the case of seed potato degradation, an acre of land is easy to grow three or four hundred kilograms of potatoes.

This production shocked farmers from all over Liaonan.

As a native South American crop, potatoes feed the stomachs of white Europeans.Before the large-scale potato cultivation, Europe was free to go hungry, and the days of the bottom farmers were extremely miserable.It was the presence of potatoes on the tables of the whites that allowed their population to grow rapidly and advance their civilization.

The Chinese rely on intensive cultivation to grow rice and wheat to thrive.However, it is still necessary to supplement potatoes as a staple food.Its starch content is high and its nutritional value is huge.This time of war and chaos will be a powerful food supplement – Europeans are used to eating mash, and the Han people eat it as a dish.Eating food is not the best way.

At present, in addition to the seeding, the "Revolutionary Army" has begun to make potatoes like wheat into flour.After making flour, the application range is very wide.Transport and preservation are also easier and can feed more people.A small amount of fresh potatoes is listed as a fresh dish, so that the people understand the benefits of potatoes.

Don't expect enough chips, not so much oil.

The vinegar potato silk is indeed good, and the mulberry carpenter's dinner is very happy.He asked for the price of potatoes and found that it was more expensive than ordinary vegetables."I've heard people read the newspaper, saying that this potato can be eaten."If it is compared to rice noodles, potatoes are much cheaper.

The mulberry carpenter's wife packed the dishes and said, "This thing seems to be made into powder, and can make noodles."I heard the cook in the cafeteria say that the people in the nearby Guards had begun to eat this potato flour, and they said it was very delicious.The handsome man is really capable, this thing can be planted so much in an acre, and our people will never lack food again."

Food, food!

For many people, having enough food is the greatest happiness.This is a staggering amount of food production.The mulberry carpenter casually said that he was chatting with people on the road today, and said that the handsome man did not collect food taxes for two years was true.The people in the farm suddenly had more food on hand, and they were a little dreamy afraid when they were happy.

"Some people are still thinking about giving food to the handsome man."

"Someone's asking how to buy land."

"It is a pity that the commander said that the land of the "Revolutionary Army" is not sold.

"A lot of people can't think about it, and if they have food, they want their own land."

After dinner, it was dark.The mulberry carpenter's wife lit the oil lamp in front of the earth, and talked to the mulberry carpenter while holding the sole of the shoe.When they were asleep, the dog suddenly came from outside.After a while, I heard someone shouting outside, “San carpenter, is it at home?”I'm old Li, I want to talk to you about something."

The mulberry carpenter was strange, and went out in his clothes to open the door.Outside the door came a thin old man, very young.He brought people into the main house and sat down, and asked, “Old Li, what happened to you in the middle of the night?”

Old Li head is a person from a nearby farmhouse, a large family of more than a dozen, seven or eight laborers, and a child, and a child, full of grandchildren.He is over 60 years old and has a hard time living this age.Around the ten miles and eight townships, they must be honored to call him "old grandfather".

When the old Li head sat down, he asked, “San Carpenter, I heard that you know the handsome man?”

The mulberry carpenter was startled when he listened, and in the past he would boast that he and Zhou Qingfeng knew each other in Fushun, but now he did not dare.When he says this again, others do not laugh at him for bragging, or feel that he is not aware of it.The family likes to chew the root of the tongue behind the back - who is the handsome man?Do you deserve to know?

The mulberry carpenter waved his hand and did not dare to say that he knew Zhou Qingfeng.But the old Li head seems to believe that he has a deep background, "you mulberry carpenter several children have a good interest, the eldest son is still a senior officer in the Guard."Not long ago he came to see you, and the guards with him were very strong, and the villagers could see it.Your little girl is still a high school graduate, I heard that the head of the minister made a concubine room . . .

"The secretary, the secretary, is the secretary of the Minister of Education Yin.This is a job, not a concubine.My family's girl is small and inconspicuous, why is the minister's look at, and I am also a father.

But since people can look at my house, that's something that's impossible."The mulberry carpenter is now pursuing a low-key and low-key.It is a good thing that his children have a good time, but he does not dare to talk nonsense outside, so as not to make a big trend.

Find a maid or something for the traversal, directly say that the influence is not good, so the Ministry of Administration said that it is to train the secretary for the leader.Sanshuer has barely got a high diploma, looks clear, and his age is not large, so he was selected.But this seems to the outside world, that is to be a concubines for the leader.

The mulberry carpenter stressed "secretary", but his heart is still very happy, after all, this is a minister-level official.Even being a concubine room is not a disgrace to the house.But the old Li head did not understand what "secretary" is not "secretary", he only felt that the mulberry carpenter has the ability, the news is certainly well-informed, so I continued to ask: "I want to ask, the boss really do not want us to pay this year's food tax?" 」

“That’s for sure.”The mulberry carpenter said firmly, "Last year hundreds of thousands of people fled to this Liaonan, the commander said let everyone cultivate the wilderness, two years without paying taxes."This year is the first year, and next year there is no need to pay.At best, it is to pay for the cattle, food, seeds, and agricultural tools that were owed before.And only half of it will be paid, and the remaining half will be paid next year, without interest.”

“Is that enough food really for us?”The old man asked, "This has never happened."

"Those farm technicians later did not say, if you feel more food, you can sell it to the big man."The people who sent down the grain to collect the grain are at the various water processing points, and you send the grain to the threshing threshing, and you can sell the grain along the way.The price is public, a hundred kilograms of shelled wheat, the purchase price is one or two corners.The price is fair.”

Agricultural production collapsed in the late Ming Dynasty, and the land was deserted in large quantities.The food outside the gate needs to be received, the price of food is high, and it is not moving on three or four silver and one stone, and even seven or eight two when it is expensive.But now the "revolutionary army" to develop Liaonan, this year's grain harvest, food prices immediately fell.The purchase price of the dollar or two is not high, but it is not low.

Especially now, due to the popularity of a large number of human and animal agricultural machinery, the labor intensity of the land has been greatly reduced, and the area per capita can be cultivated has also increased several times.The average labor force can easily serve 20 acres or even 30 acres of land.According to the current yield, this is almost 20 yuan of income.The loan is worth at least $10.

This is silver!

For ordinary farmers, the family is often no silver, can have a few copper plates to buy some oil and salt is good.Everything else is on its own.For example, cloth has to spin its own woven fabric.If the family is poor, the women have no clothes to go out - Du Fu's "Stone" has a sentence: "There is a grand mother did not go, there is no skirt in and out", this is not a joke.

At present, we are engaged in collective farms and gather the strength of hundreds of farmers to carry out production labor.This year, even the average income of a family of three is at least ten yuan.For the poor, this money is really hot, do not know how to spend?

The collective farm where the old Li head is located has been harvested and the excess food has been sold a lot.His family of ten, to get rid of the old and the weak or at once to earn seventy or eighty silver dollars.This is a huge amount of money, and immediately from the extreme poverty into the rich stage.His distress was, “This money is given by a great man, but we have been poor all our lives, and we don’t know what to spend.”