Thinking of the peaceful days in the past, everyone sighed. In the past, bitterness was bitterness, but everyone had the bottom in their hearts, and the bitter days could always be endured.

And now, it seems that there are more opportunities.

A military household can get 100 mu of land south of the Yangtze River, 120 mu of land in Lianghuai, Jinghu, and Sichuan, or 150 mu of land in the north.

You can also go to the gold mountains and silver mountains on the mainland of Mingzhou to dig for gold and silver, and during this time, many large trading houses have obtained mining permits and are recruiting people -- the travel expenses are fully covered by the trading houses, and the gold and silver dug up in Mingzhou are divided with the trading houses, keeping 30% for themselves, and 70% for the commercial banks (the commercial banks have to take out some of them to pay mining taxes).

You can also go to the king of fortune to be a soldier, go to conquer Tianzhu, and immediately get a lot of money to settle in, and everyone is a noble person after taking Tianzhu.

Even if it is the worst, it seems better to be a tenant in the north than in the south of the Yangtze River. There are few people in the north, it is difficult to recruit tenants, the land rent is naturally cheap, and a tenant can rent more land.

But these ways out are undoubtedly accompanied by risks, except for going to the north to be a tenant and a little more stable, the other ways are all fighting for wealth and wealth!

When everyone sighed, several men with long knives walked over, all of them were military households in the village, all of them with blue faces. There is no way not to be Tie Qing, several of them have already received military orders and are going to be Tuntian soldiers! The tenants in the village can still tighten their belts and endure hardship, but they, the soldiers, are not even qualified to endure hardship!

They have already taken 100 acres of good water to water the land, which is their "selling money"! Their lives, they have been sold to Chen Shengren in this life. Now dare not to be a Tuntian soldier. Caught affirming military law engaged in ...... Deserters are naturally beheaded! And the 100 acres of land in the family will also be confiscated, and the good life that the family and himself have just lived will come to an end.

What else is there to say now? I can only grit my teeth and go to be a Tuntian soldier. I don't know if I will come back?

If I knew that this would be the end, I shouldn't have been greedy for a while.

Seeing these iron-faced soldiers. The people in Pingba subconsciously shrank their heads, these soldiers have all seen blood on the battlefield, and what they have on their belts is the big horizontal knife used in the army!

The leader of several military households is Li Sanfa, who is the ploppy Li. His face is the most ugly, he is from a bastard, this kind of person is the most unpopular in the army, and belongs to the rat that spoiled a pot of soup. As soon as the above requisition order was given this time, he was immediately ordered to be a general and directly sent to the Northwest Hetao as a Tuntian soldier! I heard that the place was still in the hands of the Mongols. When you go there to Tuntian, you have to go to war with the Mongols, which clearly shows that you have to go and have no return!

Splashy Li was naturally unwilling to die outside, so he asked his family to scrape together some money to bribe Shangguan. As a result, when he met a viscount who admitted his death, he was directly sent to the righteous instructor and sentenced to 30 lashes in public. Splashing Li still has to be a good man, gritting his teeth and boiling the punishment, he is stunned and silent! However, after the fight, he lay in bed for 10 days, and only walked on the ground the day before yesterday. Immediately, he went back to his hometown with a few soldiers who were also sent to the bitter cold land to get money - this time it was a 10,000-mile expedition, and he didn't know when he would be able to return, so he had to bring more money and goods in case of emergency!

And this possessions. Naturally, it can only be scraped from the tenants.

Poppy Li and a few equally unlucky soldiers stopped, and his eyes swept through the crowd to find that several of his tenants were there. At the moment, he snorted coldly: "Where are they all?" Okay, I'm just going to talk to the big guys about the rent and the deposit. ”

"Deposit? How can there be a deposit? Liu Laosan, the tenant of Pi Li, heard the deposit. Immediately he screamed.

Tenants rent land from others, just as they rent from later generations. A deposit is also required. Generally speaking, it is a one-year rent. The rent in Linhai County has always been very high, and the best paddy fields have to pay one and a half stones of grain a year, which is almost more than sixty percent of the harvest (the harvest of the irrigated land in the south of the Yangtze River is high, and it is good to harvest one and a half stones on the general dry land). If you want to deposit a one-year rent, it is a one-and-a-half stone of grain for one acre of paddy field, and you have to pay another one-and-a-half-stone rent. It's a real killing!

"Liu Laosan, you rented my field, have you given a deposit?" Splash Li glared, "Your family rented me twelve acres of land, all of which are good paddy fields, and you should pay eighteen stone rent and eighteen stone deposit, a total of thirty-six stone millet...... It has to be dried to remove the water, and the millet can be given to the rice row! ”

"Thirty-six stones!?" Liu Laosan's wrinkled face was suddenly full of grievances and grief. "Li Daguan, do you still let people live? Although this year's harvest is good, twelve acres of land can't harvest thirty-six stone millet a year! ”

Splashy Li snorted: "Then it's better to quit, and get out of the house after handing over the eighteen stone grains!" Lao Tzu is just recruiting new tenants, and now you know what the market is, so good Tian doesn't have to worry about finding a home at all. ”

What he said was firm, but in fact he was not bluffing, the next family really already has it. It's Lai's toad's family, and Lai's toad brothers have a father in his fifties who is as strong as a cow. Lai Toad worked as a soldier outside, two brothers and a father planted the 100 acres of paddy fields at home, and borrowed a low-interest (10% annual interest) loan from Tiandaozhuang, bought farming cattle, farm tools, seeds, and built irrigation canals and wells, and also bought a lot of manure (well, this was a fertilizer that could be bought and sold in the Song Dynasty) as fertilizer, and also bought some piglets, chickens, and hired a long-term worker.

Over the past year, Lai Toad's family has managed the land quite well, not only repaying the loan, marrying a daughter-in-law for Lai Toad, but also having nearly 200 yuan in savings. Therefore, this year, the plan is to become bigger, and it is impossible to buy a field, so I want to rent a field of Pi Pi Li -- the field of Po Pi Li is just connected to the field of Lai Toad, and if we can operate it together, we can reduce a lot of costs. As for the deposit of 150 stone millet (almost 110 stone white rice, the market price in Linhai County is about 220 yuan), it is not a problem for Lai Toad's family. It's a big deal to borrow some money from Tiandaozhuang in the county.

"Li Daguan, are you trying to force Liu Laosan's family to death?" Fang Sixiu couldn't stand it anymore. This kind of thing was rare in the former Song Dynasty, and the Yimen Fang family had never done such a thing.

Of course, there was no room for rich peasants to survive in the Southern Song Dynasty. If there is no official body, just one and buy can kill all the rich peasants. And with an official body, who will go to farming?

Today, however, there is no such thing as "buying and buying" at all, and there is no miscellaneous faction outside of Tian Fu -- the bad rules of the miscellaneous faction are not entirely due to corruption, but are the inevitable result of the financial arrangements of the central and local governments. The central government's financial power is too large, and the local financial power is taken away, and the local officials have no salary, so they naturally have to live by squeezing the peasants below. That's how this miscellaneous pie came about.

And there is such a thing as a gentry card in the Ming Dynasty, and the rich peasants can also spend some money to donate a gentry card when they become bigger, so that they are the same as the original scholars, and they are not afraid of the oppression of the local government.

Therefore, the rich peasants, a class that did not exist in the Southern Song Dynasty, grew up rapidly after the Ming Dynasty seized Jiangnan.

As an aside, the so-called "kulaks" belonged to the rural bourgeoisie, according to the theory of Marxism-Leninism in later generations. The farmers who ran family farms in Western Europe were the so-called kulaks, and they were capitalists who treated land and agriculture as a business. They are the main force of agricultural production and the basis of the capitalization of the countryside. Therefore, in order to capitalize the countryside, it is necessary to support the kulaks, not to eliminate them and divide the land equally. The equal division of land is only the demand of a part of the poor peasants at the bottom, and satisfying their demands has nothing to do with the development of capitalism......

Seeing that Popi Li and several military landlords didn't speak, Fang Sixiu suddenly had confidence, and continued: "If you do this, you really want to kill people, aren't you afraid that the peasants in a village will make trouble?" When the time comes, they will carry the corpse to complain, and the judge in the state will have to take your head to be angry! ”

Splashy Li sneered: "You are a big man, when have you been in a hurry, and you are still using the official master to oppress people?" Now it is the Ming Dynasty Sage, a certain family is a dignified military household, and is about to go to the Tuntian for the Son of Heaven, and now ask for some deposits, but also to buy some clothes and armor, so as not to spoil the Son of Heaven's major affairs. Even if someone can't think about it, it has nothing to do with a certain family, and they are not afraid to sue a certain family in the state...... Nowadays, the people who talk about things in the state are all nobles who have come up from military merits, and there is no such poor and sour incitement. ”

A soldier said: "It's not that there is no way out, a family sends a Ding man to join the army, and there will be 150 acres of land in the north." If you are afraid of death and dare not join the army, do you still have the courage to commit suicide? Joining the army is not a certain death, even if you donate your life for the saint, the pension is enough for an old snack for ten or eight years. ”

Fang Sixiu stiffened his neck and said, "Go to the Northland?" Not to mention the bitter cold, it is those Mongolian Tatars, nine deaths and one life! I don't know if I will come back in this life! This kind of wealth and wealth, which can be lost at any time, is also found in previous dynasties, and it is happier to go up the mountain and into the sea (referring to being a thief and a pirate) than to fight for a life with a tartar. ”

Not really! Several military households also regretted it in their hearts, they knew that this would be the case, so they honestly became tenants and bastards, bitter and bitter, but life can always be lived. Now, I really don't know if I will have the life to return to my hometown.

Splashing Li was still holding on, snorted, and said to Liu Laosan: "Liu Laosan, Linhaijiang has no cover!" If you want to jump, hurry up! If you don't jump...... Get out after paying the rent! The twelve acres of land leased to you, Lao Tzu took it back! ”

Hearing his words, Liu Lao and the three of them just shook, sat on the ground with their buttocks, and muttered: "There is no way to live, there is no way to live......" (to be continued......