Dad, we are so stable, should we do something?

Chapter 146 Farming

"Don't worry about this, Dad. There will be people who want our cloth, and we have already found a market for it." Tian Xing'er said confidently.

"Okay, then Dad, I'll be waiting for your good news."

Although Magistrate Tian also had his doubts, he still believed in his daughter's ability.

In addition, he also has to find a way to solve the problem of farming. On the one hand, he has to recruit people, but now if his daughter can make this business successful, there should be no problem of no one coming to their capital city.

Another thing is that we now need to strengthen policies to encourage people to open up more wasteland for farming, and give more benefits to people who have newly moved into their capital.

Not long after, Prefect Tian posted his reform decree, and today the city gate was bustling again.

"Does this new order really say that reclaimed land will be tax-free for three years, and the tax will be reduced by half for the next three years?" Many people did not believe it, as the policy was so favorable, so they asked the yamen runner who was reading the notice nearby.

"This is real, more real than gold. Don't worry, sir. When has our prefect ever cheated the people?"

At first, Prefect Tian thought that the people would certainly be as active and enthusiastic as they were in the previous times. Unexpectedly, after this notice was posted for a short time, there were many people discussing it, but it seemed that not many people responded positively.

"What is going on? Come on, sir, let's go and take a look. This is really strange." When Magistrate Tian first became a county magistrate, he did not have a sir. Since he became a magistrate, he has a lot of things to deal with, and he needs people to come up with ideas together.

The eldest son Tian Yuyu had already selected talents for his father and was waiting for his father to be appointed as the prefect. The legal advisor was Liu Yushu, a scholar. He was not without talent, but he had never achieved success because he had offended someone. He was a talent that Tian Yuyu discovered when he was in the capital.

Later, the musket incident gave Tian Yuyu the opportunity to get close to General Li Yun, and the two sides discussed cooperation and won the position of prefect for his father. Jia Dazuo was currently assigned to make muskets for the military camp, and the wages were very high.

However, Jia Dazuo's lifelong ambition was to make the best fireworks, so he did not accept any recruitment. He just waited for them to have their muskets made and taught them the production process, and then he would have to wait another one or two years or half a year before he could leave. This is another story.

As for Liu Yushu, he also agreed to Tian Yuyu's request at about the same time and came to help his father.

In order to understand what the people think, Magistrate Tian dressed in plain clothes and went to the surrounding areas of the city to ask. However, this time he asked Liu Yushu to go because he was worried that he might be too subjective.

"Father-in-law, can I have a glass of water? We have been walking for a whole day and we have run out of water." This time they pretended to be outsiders who wanted to come to the capital.

"Okay, follow me." The old man took them to the well at the entrance of the village, where many brave men were sitting and chatting.

"Hey, you are from other places, it seems you haven't seen it before." One of the old men asked.

"Yes, we heard that you give tax breaks to outsiders, tax exemption for farming, and provide subsidies for housing and food. We wanted to come here to see if it's true. If it's true, we're ready to settle down here."

"This has spread to other places. You got the news really quickly. We only knew about it a few days ago."

"Well, I just happened to be doing business nearby, and I heard about it, so I came to ask, is it true, can we really get the land and the house?"

"How would I know? You outsiders have different tastes from us locals."

"Then can local people also open up land tax-free? Are you also planning to open up new land? I've seen a lot of wasteland on your way here, all overgrown with grass."

"It's a lot, but I don't have the extra energy to do it. I might as well sign up to work in the city, where the wages are high and the crops can be sold for a lot of money.

Even if we can sell it, if everyone grows it, the price of grain will be cheap, and we won't make any money. It's better to be happy now, to have enough food and avoid natural disasters. "

"If we plant more land, we can store more food, so we won't have to panic when natural disasters come."

"That's true, but we have enough food now. The main problem is that it's difficult to open up the land. There are not many young and strong people in the family. Everyone wants to go to the capital to earn more money. Doing this kind of farm work, I don't know when I can make money."

"That's right. My son has gone to work as a farmhand. He has food and lodging provided. I heard that when the land is grown there, he can bring back some food every ten days. I don't want him to come back to farm. I will farm the land with my daughter-in-law. Now we have a lot of food."

"That's right, Old Li, you are a far-sighted old man. I'm going to prepare. When the next batch of cloth workshops are recruiting, I will let my son sign up. He must be in the first batch."

When Magistrate Tian heard this, he realized that his own daughter was trying to snatch him away from someone. What should he do?

He immediately stepped forward and interrupted, "That's not right, father-in-law. The cloth shop can't recruit people from all over the city, right? Most people still can't get in, right?

Wouldn't that make farming better? We could also get more harvests and sell them for money."

"Oh, do you think we don't want to? It's because we don't have good farm tools and a few cows. If you can get the county magistrate to send a few cows to each of our villages, we will definitely want to open up the land."

When Prefect Tian heard this, he thought it was good now. The old man had solved his problem directly, so his trip was not in vain.

"So it's a cow. These are easy to handle. I'll go talk to the prefect."

"Hey, sir, you're really good at bragging, haha." Several old men thought these outsiders were really funny, but they just listened for fun.

After drinking the water, Magistrate Tian went to several villages to ask and found that most people also wanted to plant crops, but some families only had the elderly, the weak, women and children left. The land reclamation project was so huge that it must be very difficult for them.

But if we had cows, it would indeed solve a lot of problems.

When Tian Xing'er was kidnapped, they sent back a lot of farm tools, but most of them were weapons, which his son had sent to the military camp. It was not easy to get farm tools now, but they had to be purchased from all over the place.

And the most important thing is the cow. We also want to buy cows for the entire city. This is too difficult, but it might be possible if we could send one to each village.

On the way back, Magistrate Tian asked about the cows, "Master, what do you think we should do with these cows? I can't afford to buy so many."

"Why don't you buy it together with the people?"

"What does this mean?"

"That is, we ask each village to contribute some money together, and our government will lend them half of the money interest-free, and they will contribute the other half themselves. The more money they can contribute, the more money we can lend them. The villages will have to pay back the money within three years, and they can apply for an extension if they have difficulties.

But this cow will only be given to the village that has reclaimed the wasteland. Each village must claim a portion of the wasteland. A minimum number of claims can be set for each household. If there are difficulties, that's another matter. "'

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