"Yikes! The mongrel who entered the mother, the scene of Anling repairing the canal, and he was the one who stole tin from the stove in the iron rod temple. Now that the crotch has been cut, isn't it still a plague animal that picks up ashes! ”

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it again. Or think of a way, don't gamble on the curse, curse the beast to death, Lao Tzu stabs him every day......"

At the mouth of the embankment in Changhe County, looking condescendingly at the entire field, the croppers with dark skin and smooth tendons are squatting there with sad faces.

"What do you think? There is not much that can be done. The person is from the Texas Mansion, the official document of the imperial court, you still dare to resist the decree? The emperor kills your head! ”

"Ri Niang's turtle grandson, this white cloth has been cut a lot, cotton is only given 700 Wen for one stone, and it is also said that the consistency of the capital is 700 Wen, Lao Tzu is an ancestor of his mother, who has always been 700 Wen? Isn't that shameless? I can't see the cowardice of Anling County, oh, people say that if they want to collect it like this, you will give it, you are not eating? ”

"Say what, say what? Let's do it now. ”

"What to do? Be a grandma! I'm gone! Let the pestilence go to his daughter-in-law and ask for cotton. Lao Tzu ran to the dock to sell elbows, Lao Tzu didn't do anything! ”

"Brother, don't you say it, the elbow is quite easy to sell in Jiqu. It's just that the elbow is not easy to get, and they all eat Cangzhou pigs, and the price is not cheap. ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't sell grilled elbows, it's always okay to sell grilled chicken!"

"Okay, okay, why not? Let's also get a name, let's just say it's 'Texas Grilled Chicken', which will definitely sell at a good price and earn 10,000 yuan a year! ”

"Get out! While going, he was smiling with me......"

"Hahahaha......"

The farmer guarded the embankment, and there he was poor and happy, and for a while he was silly happy, and then fell silent. In fact, the grain tax and bean tax are all good to say, and they can afford to eat. Although they are like croppers, the fields in the family are two or three thousand acres, and when they are put together, they are also the scale of one or two thousand acres.

Because of Cangzhou cotton, several dozen or hundreds of companies formed a temporary business to collect seeds in Cangzhou, and then invited people to come over to guide the planting of cotton, and then sold the cotton back to Cangzhou, one in and one out, and the income in one year was worth the past 15 or 6 years.

It's just that I never thought that after Cangzhou cotton became famous, the government was not stupid, staring at the cotton and harvesting half of it first.

If you have three stone cotton per acre of thin land, you have to remove one and a half stones. The average price of a stone of cotton is about half and a half, and there are times when it is high, but the quality of cotton is not good, it cannot be sold at a high price, and Cangzhou is mostly unwanted.

According to the calculation of one stone and two guans, one acre handed over to the government is three guan, and if there are brothers and gangsters, all 1,800 mu of land is planted with cotton, which is 3,000 guan. However, even if you go to half, there are still two or three thousand yuan left, and after deducting the seed money, labor money, and farm tool money, you can probably earn half, and there is always a profit of one thousand yuan.

Even if there are five or six brothers, it is enough for the whole family.

It's just that in the past few years, life has suddenly been difficult, and the outside and inner government have come to redeem it, the price is very low, and the forced apportionment has made life difficult. What's more, not only do you have to pay tribute to cotton according to the purchase price of the imperial court, but you also have to buy farm tools from the shops designated by the government, and you can know whether the farm tools are good or bad.

In recent years, most of the farm tools have been made of Wuhan goods, because they are durable, at least one and a half years old, and if they are bad, they are missing. But Shicheng's goods are a lot worse, brittle and terrible, once the farm is busy, the iron material alone is enough to fight a pair of pig-killing knives.

One in and one out, it is equivalent to fully tightening the belt and doing nothing.

Such a market, is not Hebei Dezhou, such as Xiangzhou, Zhaozhou, Xingzhou, Zhaozhou and other places, probably so, the imperial court from Hebei a year of cotton money, is enough to maintain the cost of the Anbei Protectorate, and there is also a surplus in Liaodong to build two or three rammed earth city walls in the county seat.

There are policies and countermeasures, and the counties of Hebei are not without a way, but they have to take a little risk. Originally, cotton was harvested during the day, but it was changed to cotton harvesting overnight, and the cotton was harvested and transported to the estuary overnight. Then they were "smuggled" to Denglai, and when they arrived in Denglai, there were larger smuggling ships that directly hung the banners of "imperial merchants" and then went south to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Even if the price is calculated according to one and a half stones, "smuggling" is basically a net profit, and compared with selling to the imperial court, it is simply heaven and earth.

The government also has powerful cool officials, who estimate the yield of cotton fields during the day and then check it the next day. The big farmers were not ambiguous, they burned the cotton fields overnight, and the next day they said, "The silk is not available, woo hoo lament", and then plant a crop of wheat to pull it down.

There's not even a single hair in the field, and you're a fart? Back then, I mixed some grain, put it in the county office, turned around and left.

The cool officials are not simple, some of the cool officials were originally big farmers, or familiar with each other, what little tricks there are, I dare not say that I know it well, and I know how much.

So you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, you harvest cotton at night, I come to harvest cotton at night; You "smuggle" at the mouth of the canal, and I go to the sea to "intercept smuggling".

The battle of wits and courage can be called a big show.

In recent years, the reason why the Yamen of the King James Tax Collection Department has not gone south for a long time is that the entire Yamen has been busy going north.

After all, the difficulty is much less, and the horizontal and vertical mud legs are easier to deal with, isn't it? Moreover, Hebei is adjacent to "China", and if there is any movement, the Yulin Army can be dispatched to suppress it at any time.

confronted the imperial court, and those who were tough, naturally there were also those who confessed. The tricks of recognition are also quite diverse, some are naturally to be cool officials, and some are even more unexpected, directly wielding a knife from the palace, finding a way to trust the relationship, and running to the palace to serve the emperor. Of course, it is impossible to serve the emperor at an age, because it comes from the local government, and the internal government often relies on such figures.

It really made many fellow villagers who wielded knives from the palace make a fortune, and they have changed from bitter haha to eating imperial food.

Among them, the more famous ones are mostly concentrated in a few counties in Texas, and the reason for this is because when the canal was renovated, the people in several counties opened their eyes.

Seeing that the way is here, naturally someone has an idea, and the imperial court is "employing people", so there is really a powerful role.

Especially in Ande County, which is close to the big river, there was a person who stole tin ash in the Iron Rods Temple in the old years, and originally farmed with his old buddies, but then gritted his teeth, feeling that this day could not go on like this, and got out the money he had saved by planting cotton for several years, and gave himself a knife to the crotch of his pants.

With the identity of the "head snake", and the fact that they are all "their own people" with empty crotches, the government in the scene is also keeping an eye on the business progress, so it "stands out". Let this kind of person step on the shoulders of the old brother, it can be regarded as climbing up.

Up to now, he has actually become the ambassador of the Texas procurement of the Inner Government Bureau, and when it comes to power, he is not lost to the county orders of the counties in the Texas Prefecture, and the cash that has been handed over, even if the Texas Thorn Shi jumps out, he will only have envy, jealousy and hatred.

At any other time, such people would naturally be praised and envied, courageous, ambitious, and career-worthy. Just because he stepped on the top of his brothers, he was secretly arranged and secretly hated, he stole tin ash in the Iron Cane Temple in the old years, and the good thing took "stealing tin" to take a homonym, saying that it was "stealing his daughter-in-law".

Tin ash stolen out to use a rake, so he used "picking ashes" as a metaphor, so that the singers made up a story, now Hebei does not dare to say that it is a household name, but the lively territory, but also more of an ethical meat joke, will use "pick up ashes".

When it was time to plant cotton in another year, the fields without wheat were all reserved for planting cotton, but the "ambassador of picking ashes" was on the side, which gave Texas farmers a headache.

What makes the croppers even more disgusting is that this "ambassador for picking up ashes" also mixed up with the excuse of "persuading farmers to teach cotton", and walked around the ground in Texas in a grand manner, just to see where there were no wheat seedlings in the fields.

Didn't get out of the wheat sprouts instructions? It means that I plan to grow cotton. So I wrote it down, in such and such a county, where there are cotton fields.

Speaking of which, this kind of execution is really impressive. It's just that the croppers in Texas can't wait to bite their front teeth to pieces.