Chapter 1855

When Xue Cheng entered a period of steady development, another big island state in the state of Lu, Xiuyan state, dozens of miles outside the city, was a vast plain. Su Heng was looking around with a trace of emotion. Xiuyan state was also 80% plain, more than 10% lakes, rivers and mountains.

At this moment, Xiuyan mansion, the state capital, is experiencing a drought.

A large number of people in rural areas and towns are all sad in the face of the weather that has been dripping water for more than three months.

Generally speaking, this should not be. The location of the state of Lu is subtropical. It is three crops a year. If you drop seeds on one mu of land, you can harvest more than 200 kg of wheat without taking care of it. At least 600 kg per mu a year. The climate is similar to that of the state of Qi.

As long as a family of four has ten mu of land, it is at least a harvest of more than 6000 kg. An adult man eats two kg three times a day, and only eats more than 700 kg, 6000 kg? A family of five can easily afford it. After all, in feudal times, how many people ate twice a day? How many won't be full, just half full?

According to the surface data, even if there is no harvest in a season of drought, it can survive.

However, the fact is not so simple. Just like the state of Qi, as long as it is settled, one person will send ten mu of land. In the future, you can reclaim wasteland. If you reclaim new land, it will be yours, with a maximum of 50 mu per person. In theory, a family of four farmers in the state of Qi can have an upper limit of 200 mu per day.

But in the state of Lu, after countless years of land annexation, there are not a few landless families. It is said that the four members of a family have no land and all hope to work in the city to support themselves. At present, in the plain farmland, the tenant farmers who have no land at home to help the large, medium and small landlords are the most important group among the people.

The harvest of these tenants is basically thirty-seven cents a year. The tenants take three and the landlords take seven. Some are even more demanding, reaching twenty-eight. You work hard on the farmland for a season and only get twenty percent when the harvest comes. The landlords who do nothing get eighty percent.

If there are only more than 200 kilograms of grain per mu of land in a season, you can leave up to 60 kilograms, less than 40 kilograms. In a year, one mu of land is more than 100 kilograms.

Of course, this is a drama that sows seeds and doesn't take care of them. In fact, many tenant farmers are intensive cultivation, and the yield per mu can be doubled, more than 200 kilograms a year.

However, in terms of national tax and agricultural tax, the landlords will also throw you on the head. Coupled with the mess of heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, a tenant family, even if it is intensive cultivation of one mu of land, will finally fall into the hands of less than 100 kg.

Four or five people went to battle together, rented ten acres of land from the landlord, and the total harvest was seven or eight hundred kilograms.

Seven or eight hundred catties. An adult man eats two catties of three tons a day. It is calculated that the ration for a year is distributed to four or five people??

If there is no famine, we can still endure one or the other. In case of drought and flood, even if there is only one season, even if the tenant families can't starve to death, they will be dying of hunger.

Su Heng arrived in Xiuyan Prefecture, where the state capital is located. He felt that even if the drought here had not broken out to the most serious degree, there had not been a hungry death or selling children and women, but many families had a certain sense of despair, and even many had plans to escape from the famine. Anyway, more than 80% of the people in this area, They are just tenant farmers or landless craftsmen.

After feeling the general situation of Xiuyan Prefecture in a hurry, Su Heng's sight soon fell on a group of young people dressed in coarse linen beside a narrowed river.

"Mohism, there are many Mohists active here. It seems that even if I don't do it, I may not be able to deal with this disaster year."

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Su Heng was deeply impressed by the Mohist School and had a high degree of favor. The group of Mohists more than ten miles away, more than 30 people in greater Vietnam, are doing something related to the drought.

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The capital of Xiuyan Prefecture is located in a very advantageous geographical location. It is not only located in the center of Xiuyan Island, but also a broad plain in all directions. More than 200 miles away in the north, there is an inland lake with a large area.

The whole Xiuyan prefecture has about 160000 square kilometers, and the freshwater lake in the North has more than 3000 square kilometers, which is the size of three Hong Kong and the top freshwater lakes in China.

In Shandong, it is called Wangyue lake. There are rivers extending from Wangyue lake to all sides. Among them, Xiang River passes through Xiuyan mansion from north to south.

Huge inland lakes and inland waterways breed Xiuyan plain, and there are few disasters.

At the moment, one of the branch lines of the Xiang River and a manually built water system, more than 30 Mohists walked and looked. The first middle-aged man looked more and more gloomy. The man was a 100 collar Mohist worker in Xiuyan Prefecture of the state of Lu.

In the Mohist system, the principal and Deputy hundred leaders, the principal and Deputy five hundred leaders, the principal and Deputy thousand peasant orders, the principal and Deputy ten thousand peasant orders, and the principal and Deputy Mo Nong orders are gradually rising at the first level. Under the hundred leaders, there are no ten or fifty leaders called and classes. After all, the Mohists who gather together in the Mohist school are themselves like-minded idealists. There is no need to distinguish between the principal and Deputy hundred leaders. Who is on the side of truth, Or more prestige, ordinary Mo farmers, Mo Xia, Mo merchants and so on.

The main territory of Mohism is in the two empires of Shang and Tang Dynasties. The two empires are the most populous countries, such as the state of Lu... The highest position in a country is basically qiannongling.

Xiuyan mansion can have a hundred leaders here, which is basically the supreme leader of Mohism in the state capital.

As the middle-aged hundred leaders walked, they said, "the branch of Lishui in front of us was built by our ink workers in the Mohist family, so that the river of Wangyue River can cover more farmland to avoid drought. After Lishui was built, we also encourage people to dig canals to divert water. Why have all the previous canals been sealed?"

The branch of Lishui built by the Mohists is also hundreds of miles long. If more canals are built along the way, at least ten million mu of farmland can be irrigated in this drought, which is far from making this drought so serious.

He remembered that before the last time he repaired Lishui and the group of ink workers left, he watched groups of people, including small landlords in some villages, digging canals to divert water.

This time I heard from a distance that Xiuyan mansion had been dripping water for several months. He came to have a look. As a result, all the previously built canals were sealed?

With his words, a Mo Nong, who was born in Xiuyan Prefecture and had never left, smiled bitterly, "Zhao bailing, you don't know. Those canals have been repaired to half. After you left Xiuyan Prefecture, the gentry and noble families here have ordered to abandon the canals."

"Even in recent years, the land of the self-employed peasants or small landlords on both sides of Lishui have been merged one after another, and they have not belonged to their original owners for a long time."

In this era, for thousands of years in the past, the integrity of normal gentry and nobles is not worth the slightest trust. This is the basic operation.

Most of the gentry and noble families are eager for all kinds of natural disasters.

Zhao bailing was furious. "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Mo Nong was embarrassed. "Zhao Bai led you away. There are other important things. You can't stay here all the time."

"In order to avoid wasting your time, our local Mo farmers want to try their best to develop more advanced farming methods, habits, etc., or cultivate improved varieties, hoping to help the local civilians..."

Zhao bailing was speechless. The last time he left Xiuyan state with those Mo farmers, he went to other places to build water conservancy.

In the Shang and Tang empires, there were a large number of island countries in the sea, and there were too many places to build water conservancy.