When Xuecheng entered a period of steady development, another large island in Lu State was located, dozens of miles outside Xiuyanzhou Prefecture, and a vast plain. Su Heng was looking at the left and right with a hint of emotion. Xiuyanzhou is also 80% plains, 10% lakes and rivers, and mountains.

At this moment, a drought was happening in Xiuyan Prefecture, Zhoucheng.

A large number of people in rural and towns all show sadness in the face of the weather that has not yet fallen for more than three months.

Common sense, this is not true. The location of Lu is considered a subtropical area. Three ripenings a year, and one acre of seeds can be harvested if it is not taken care of. It can be harvested with more than 200 kilograms of wheat per acre, and at least 600 kilograms per acre per acre. This climate is similar to that of Qi.

As long as a family of four has ten acres of land, it will be at least 6,000 kilograms of harvest. An adult man eats three meals a day, and only eats more than 700 kilograms or 6,000 kilograms? A family of five can easily afford it. After all, in the feudal era, how many people had two meals a day? How many people didn’t eat enough, but were just half full?

According to the surface data, even if the drought particles do not harvest in a season, they can survive.

But the fact is not that simple. Just like if you settle in Qi State, you will give ten acres of land to one person. In the future, you can reclaim land. If you reclaim new land, it will be yours. The maximum limit for a single person is 50 acres. In theory, the farmers in Qi State can have a family of four with a family of four.

But in Lu, after countless years of land annexation, there are many families who have lost land. Just say that the family of four has no land, and they all rely on working in the city to support themselves. They are all busy. In the current plain farmland, tenant farmers who have no land at home to help large, medium and small landlords cultivate farming are the most important group among the people.

These tenants, if they cultivate for a year, the harvest is basically 30% or 7% of the tenants. The tenants get three, and the landlord get seven. The more demanding one is 28. If you work hard to manipulate the farmland for a season, you will only get 20% when you get harvest, and the landlord who does nothing will get 80%.

If you only have more than 200 kilograms of grain per acre of land in a season, you can leave at most 60 kilograms, and the smallest is about 40 kilograms. A year, acre of land will look like more than 100 kilograms.

Of course, this is a few dramas of sowing seeds and not taking care of them. In fact, many tenant farmers work hard, and their yield per mu can double, more than 200 kilograms a year.

However, in terms of national taxation and agricultural taxation, landlords will also throw them over to you. In addition, the messy and heavy taxes will make a tenant farmer family, even if they cultivate a mu of land, will eventually fall into less than a hundred kilograms.

Four or five people joined forces and rented ten acres of landlords to the landlords, with a total harvest of seven or eight hundred kilograms.

Seven or eight hundred kilograms, an adult man eats two kilograms per day, and the food for one year is divided into four or five people.

If there is no famine, you can still endure it and hold it. Once drought and floods occur, even if there is only one season, even if the tenant farmers cannot starve to death, they will be hungry.

Su Heng traveled thousands of miles to Xiuyan Prefecture, where the prefecture was located, and he felt that even though the drought here had not yet exploded to the worst, and had not yet starved to death or sold children, many families had a certain sense of despair, and even many had plans to escape from famine. Anyway, more than 80% of the people in this area were just tenant farmers or landless handicraftsmen.

After scrambling to sense the general situation in Xiuyanzhou, Su Heng's gaze quickly fell on a narrower river, a group of young men in coarse linen clothes.

"The Mo family is actually active here. It seems that even if I don't take action, this disaster year may not be unable to deal with it."

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Su Heng was deeply impressed by the Mohist school and had a high likelihood. The group of Mohists more than ten miles away, more than 30 people from Dayue, what he was doing at this moment was also related to drought.

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The location of Xiuyan Prefecture Prefecture is quite superior in geographical location. It is not only located in the center of Xiuyan Island, but also in all directions with vast plains. More than 200 miles away in the north, there is also an inland lake with a large area.

The entire Xiuyan Prefecture has about 160,000 square kilometers, and the Tamsui Lake in the north is more than 3,000 square kilometers, which is comparable to the three sizes of Hong Kong and the top Chinese in the Wuling Earth.

In Shandong, it is called Wangyue Lake. There are rivers that extend to all directions, including Xianghe, which passes from Xiuyanfu City from north to south.

The huge inland lakes and inland waterways have rarely seen famines.

At this moment, one of the branches of Xianghe River was built manually, and more than 30 Mo people walked and looked at it. The middle-aged man was the leader, and his face became more gloomy the more he looked. The man was the Mo Nong Bailing of the Mo family in Xiuyan Prefecture, Lu State.

The Mohist system, the chief and deputy leader, the chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief and deputy chief, there is no need to distinguish between them. Whoever stands on the side of the truth or has a greater prestige, or ordinary mom farmers, mos merchants, etc., will listen to anyone.

The main territory of the Mohist family was in the two major empires of Shang and Tang dynasties, which were the most populous, and a small country like Lu... In a country, the highest position was basically Qiannong Ling.

If there is a leader here in Xiuyan Prefecture, it is basically the supreme leader of the Mohist family in this prefecture.

As the middle-aged Bailing walked, he spoke, "The Lishui branch in front of us was built by the Mohist comrades in the Moh family. In order to allow the water of the Wangyue River to cover more farmland to avoid drought. After the Lishui was built, we also encourage the people to dig canals to divert water. Why were all the ditches in the past sealed?"

The Lishui branch built by the Mohist family is also hundreds of miles long. If there are more canals along the way, at least tens of millions of acres of farmland can be irrigated during this drought, which will far from threatening this drought.

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

This time, I heard from a distance that Xiuyan Mansion had not yet dripped water for several months, so he came to take a look. As a result, all the canals built before were sealed?

With his words, a Mo Nong, who was born in Xiuyan Mansion and had never left, smiled bitterly and said, "Zhao Bailing, you don't know that halfway through those canals, after you left Xiuyan Prefecture, the gentry and prominent family here have ordered the abandonment of the canals."

"Even, the fields of self-cultivated farmers or small landlords on both sides of Lishui have been merged in recent years, and they are no longer their original owners."

In this era, over the past thousands of years, the moral integrity of normal gentry and nobles was not worthy of any trust. These are all basic operations.

Most gentry and prominent families are eager for various natural disasters.

Zhao Bailing was furious, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Mo Nong said with a look of embarrassment, "Zhao Bai led you to leave, there are other important things, and you can't keep trapped here all the time."

"In order to avoid wasting your time by a hundred leaders, our local mo farmers are thinking of trying to develop more advanced farming methods, habits, etc., or cultivating good varieties, hoping to help the local civilians more..."

Zhao Bailing was silent. The last time he left Xiuyanzhou with the group of Mo'an, he went to other places to repair water conservancy.

The two empires of Shang and Tang dynasties had a large number of island countries in the ocean, and there were too many places that needed to build water conservancy.
Chapter completed!