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Chapter 214: Grain at Protected Price

The dog head and several partners were running happily on the road, each of whom took a few pieces of paper in his hand and fought with each other.

He Daocheng was herding cattle on the side of the road. When he saw the dog's head, he said, "Don't make such a fuss, be careful to meet jackals, tigers and leopards again!"

Doghead laughed: "Dad, don't scare us. The little tiger has already gone to the zoo in Fancheng. I'll go see it during the New Year!"

He Daocheng smiled and called a few people over, took out a few pieces of candy in his pocket, and distributed them to several people. He asked Dogtou and said, "What are you doing? Recently, the school has been on vacation, why don't you help your parents go to the fields to do farm work? Now in the wheat harvest season, how much work is needed!"

The dog head ate candy and said with a smile: "My dad has many children in his family, so he has stopped working long ago, right? We have joined the harvester club, and there are also threshing farms together. Several families have done the wheat together, and the wheat has been harvested long ago! My dad is still doing business now, and my mother works in the village club."

He Daocheng nodded: "It turns out that your family has also joined. I thought your father would cherish money and not join this club."

Dogtou said, "Although my dad loves money, he can figure it out clearly. How much does it cost to buy a harvester together? I save time and go out to do some business and make a lot of money. Besides, there are too many harvesters now, and many nearby villages have bought them."

With the arrival of field business, the society in Xiangzhou, Suizhou and Dengzhou has developed leapfroggingly, and new agricultural tools have been promoted faster than other places. The railway has been opened, and the iron supervision has arrived in a moment. Various iron farm tools are widely used. Since last year, harvesters have become popular, not only used to harvest wheat, but also used to harvest grain millet, and the crops in dry fields have been significantly expanded. Now, rice is only planted in places with particularly good water conservancy conditions, and there are several famous varieties, such as Guanghua Jun Liuguquan and Zaoyang fragrant rice.

When purchasing large items such as harvesters and threshing machines, they are mostly in the situation of a society. Several families buy one together and use it together during harvesting. Moreover, several families are harvested in the shortest time. They will rent them out for free and charge rents of varying amounts. There are also wealthy families in addition to the field laborer who buy a whole set of farm tools independently, either plant a lot of land, rent them out for the outside world, or charge fees to help people cut wheat and thresh the farm.

He Daocheng is old and no longer participates in the heavy work of his family. Even the village chief has stepped down and is not as informed as before. He usually herd cattle and sheep for his son. When there are major events in the village, he participated in the discussion as the elder and became leisurely.

He Daocheng nodded repeatedly after listening to Dogtou talking about the recent village. He worked hard all his life, but he didn't expect that he could still enjoy his happiness when he was old. After living this kind of life, his personality gradually became peaceful and his people became kind.

After listening to the dog head's speech, He Daocheng asked, "You guys are not going to school, what are you doing?"

The dog raised his head and said, "The yamen and the people in the school told us that we students should go to the nearby villages to investigate the people's conditions. Now the people in the village are thriving, not working hard, how much food, whether they produce enough food, or what money they can earn, must be asked clearly. If you ask well, you must remember it on the paper and give it to the evaluation. If you do well, you will hear that there will be rewards, and it will be beneficial to go to school in the future."

This is not only a social practice, but also a training for students. It will be of great help to work in the future. In the past, most of those who studied hard were studying the books of sages. Only a few people would take the initiative to contact society, and a few people would study around the world. Now, providing a certain amount of funds for field management and utilizing the power of students in the school to conduct social census is a good start.

This is an era of great change in academic style. One of them is the academic style that attaches great importance to social practice and seeks truth from facts. Zhang Zai was still young and did not pass the Jinshi, and of course he did not practice his Jingtian in Hengqu. In the first year of Lu Dafang Huangyou in Lantian, he was a Jinshi in the first year of the official career. He had just entered the official career for several years, and his brothers had not yet signed a village agreement. In the second year, Zhou Dunyi had just made his mark, Wang Anshi was still the magistrate of Shuzhou, and Sima Guang went to Bingzhou to serve as the magistrate of Han Qi, who replaced Wang Yaochen as the head coach of Hedong. Zheng Jian, who Du Zhongxiao was familiar with, died a few years ago in his position as the governor of Hedong. Of course, Xia Shu also died last year. Du Zhongxiao was unable to enter the capital as a foreign official and did not see him for the last time.

Du Zhongxiao was in Jingxi, and agriculture was divided into two types of business methods: land business and local ordinary model. The railway management system was established in Changping. There were also two ways of official large-scale business and local business. What will happen in the future? Du Zhongxiao was neither interested nor able to establish a set of theories for this era. That was the business of the literati of this era. What Du Zhongxiao could do was to set the system and record the changes in the official and the people. This is a treasure house, who will discover it, God knows.

After chatting with Dogtou for a while, He Daocheng asked, "By the way, you will be studying for three years next year. I heard that you have always had a good exam and must have come out of school now. Where are you going in the future? Have your father and mother settled?"

Gou Tou said, "Mom said, I am still young now and I don't rush to do things. Recently, Yingtianwu has built another school in the town, and I have studied more deeply, but I have to pass the exam before I can get into it. What they mean is that I will get into it, study for another two or three years, and when I get older, I will decide what I will learn and do in the future. I think it is actually good to go to the Iron Supervisory Commission to do things in the future."

He Daocheng said, "Don't go, don't go. Some of our people who come here to study there will never come back after their studies. Since it is a new school, there will inevitably be new places to go. If you are older, you will be older. In my opinion, in a few years, there will be fewer and fewer people working in several yamen. I am afraid that most of them will have to take exams to get in and pay money and food. If you go to the yamen, aren't it as good as an iron supervisor?"

How can the dog head understand this? Young people always want to go out and try it out. At this time, there is no dream. What is the meaning of life? In the past few years, the professionalism has increased. Invisible rules that some public officials used to be tacitly understood were all taken to the public. In the past, although they had to take exams as officials, most of them only had to learn words and book calculations, but now they have more exams. The finances are abundant, the number of public officials who have arranged money and grain has increased. Many things are indeed different from before. There is only one thing, and the public officials who have been admitted to this kind of public officials also have the requirements of avoiding them. Generally, they require work in the next county a hundred miles away, which is somewhat inconvenient.

Several companions urged to leave, and Dogtou remembered something and told He Daocheng: "Dad He, the teacher in the school called He Ji in order to give him a name, which means auspicious words. If you call him a name in the future, now you are old, it's not easy to call him a nickname again."

He Daocheng nodded repeatedly and asked again: "Since you have a name, have you picked up your words?"

He Ji said: "No. The gentleman said he is still young now and he will only be able to get the words of the teacher when he gets the entrance exam."

While talking, He Ji and a few companions were having sex and running towards the village. He Daocheng sat on the ground, watching the backs of several people leaving, and smiled on his face. This is the quiet and peaceful rural life he imagined. Life is getting better day by day, with light taxes and low taxes, and there is hope.

In the Yingtianwuya, Du Zhongxiao, Zhang Fengzhi and Su Shunqin sat together, looking at the recent summer grain books and some summary, discussing the income of the yamen this season. Now the countryside collects mainly grain from the fields, and the money has been replaced with silk cloth and various specialties, and no longer collects cash. The difference between the fifth-class households is in the labor service, which is manifested in the labor service of daily labor, which is done less and paid more, and is paid more. Other harsh donations, miscellaneous taxes, buying and levying, etc. have all been cancelled. The source of money in prefectures and counties is in industry and commerce. In addition to taxes, there are also some official factory companies.

Putting down the account, Du Zhongxiao said: "I recently heard that in addition to paying taxes, rural households still have some surplus grain in their hands. The so-called low grain hurts farmers. In the past two years, the surrounding prefectures and counties have been in good weather and water conservancy, and the price of grain has been suppressed. Now, each bucket of wheat on the market is less than 30 cents, and only more than 50 cents of japonica rice is more than 50 cents. This is still the price derived from Changping's money, which is much lower than in previous years. In the north road, each bucket of wheat is sixty cents, and there is

The food sold by the gateway makes a lot of money. This is not possible. Once the grain price is low, there will be fewer people who grow grain next year. Changping Company has stabilized prices, and the main focus is on the grain price. Now that I have just collected wheat, I have discussed with the Transportation Department and decided to use 50 cents per bucket of wheat, 90 cents per bucket of japonica rice and baiting. Several large prefectures and counties have built granary storage silos in recent years and are under the jurisdiction of Changping Company. The collected grain will be stored in it first, and will be sold wherever it is affected by the disaster."

Zhang Yingzhi said: "This is the best. It is not only a slight grain that can hurt the energy, but also a slight farm. So far, there are still many public fields in the field that have been collected, and hundreds of thousands of stagnants of wheat are collected. There is no good price, so what should I do? With Changpingshou's support to collect grain, I am not afraid of a slight farmer. "

This is the lowest protection price of grain, which has been found in all dynasties, and the Changping Store was passed down from this system. Of course, poor management, insufficient funds, and unenforceable systems are common. Now Changping has shopping malls, savings stations, and issuing paper money. It is necessary to do a good job of stabilizing grain prices. At least, it is necessary to ensure that the difference in grain prices in the prefectures and counties in the road is not too big, so that grain sales become a small profit.

The field business also has its own warehouse to store some of the grain. According to the principle of new and new, part of the grain is replaced every year. The old grain is sold at a low price to make wine and enter the new grain into the warehouse. However, most of the grain collected is still sold in the market, except for the forwarding department's recommendations, the transfer department has been in a bumper harvest for two consecutive years. The transfer department does not adjust the grain, and the selling price is low, so the field business is also in a dilemma.

Changping Company should normally collect grains for three years and store them for one year, so as to stabilize the price of grain. That is, the grains stored for three years can be sold at critical moments, so that the food prices on the market can be stabilized, and most people can afford them, without famine. This number is not large, just to stabilize the price of grain, and it does not need to feed everyone. After Du Zhongxiao was well-funded, he accumulated according to Changping's warehouses and was able to feed everyone under a large-scale extinction. The grain merchants in society are basically extinct. Those who are still selling grains are either selling local specialties, or red beans, mung beans and other miscellaneous grain crops.

There is a farm business and the warehouse is full. This year, it will be purchased at a protective price and must be sold to other places. Fortunately, with money, it is not too difficult to transport it to the north. Especially on Shaanxi Road and Jingdong Road, the grain prices are relatively high.
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