On the market today, the price of a pound of sugar is much more expensive than salt. Even maltose, also known as maltose, costs thirty or fifty cents.

The cane sugar on the market only costs one hundred and eighty cents.

For example, Taiwan’s sugar exported overseas costs six silver yuan per stone and one silver cent per kilogram.

In other words, Ming Dynasty has increased prices inland, and the market price can only be comparable to the export price, and domestic sales are not as good as export sales.

Even at such a low price, it is still a luxury product for ordinary people.

There are only a few silver coins that cannot be removed from these ten barrels of sugar water, so they are extremely precious.

Everyone started the hard harvesting work again, and the sugar water they just drank in their stomachs seemed to give them great strength.

In the evening, even if they were reluctant, they could only go back.

At this time, the villagers realized that the lights were on in the ancestral hall, and some villagers were guarding the temple with knives.

Zhu Yixi coming here like this is the most distinguished guest for Liuli Village.

Even though most of the villagers live in thatched houses, the ancestral hall is a brick structure with left and right side rooms, which is simple but practical.

The rankings of each level are arranged in order, without any overstep.

After looking around for a week, Zhu Yixi sat down. Looking at the two trembling old men in front of him, he couldn't bear it: "Sit down, old man."

"Hey——" The two of them were respectful unconsciously.

"The hundreds of families in your village are united, which is rare in Fangshan County."

"This is the strength of our clan's rules. Anyone who messes around will be in a pig cage."

The clan elder suddenly became proud at this time.

As long as the questions and answers they asked about Zhu Yixi did not involve interests, they would naturally tell everything they knew.

Only then did the emperor have a preliminary impression of Shuntian Prefecture, or the rural economy of Hebei Province.

In many people's minds, the North is poor and the South is rich.

The reason why the south is stronger than the north is because it has two crops a year and the land is fertile.

But in reality? The taxes in the south are several times that in the north, which to some extent has evened the gap.

Therefore, the root cause of the gap between rich and poor lies in the different diversification of rural cash crops in the two places.

For example, apart from the staple food of the north and the south, the only economic crops for the people in the north are fruits and only a few types of wood.

What about the south? In addition to growing rice, you can also raise silkworms and reel silk, grow cotton, sugar cane, tea, sesame, etc.

It can be said that flowers can be grown in some nooks and crannies and in barren mountainous areas, providing a variety of income and strong ability to withstand risks.

Once the food harvest in northern rural areas fails, they can only rebel or wait to die, such as northern Shaanxi.

In the south, you can sell cotton to buy food, or you can make raw silk yourself. If a county or a prefecture suffers a disaster, it will definitely not affect a single province, so disaster relief can be done calmly.

This is the role of a developed commodity economy.

Now that new crops have become popular for more than ten years, many people are planting sweet potatoes in poor lands and sloping fields to prepare for emergencies.

But contrary to the emperor's expectation, the people only used sweet potatoes as a life-saving food for famines or to feed livestock, with no other ideas.

Or maybe there is a new method in a corner, but it has not become popular.

Hearing this, Zhu Yixi hated that iron could not make steel:

"Sweet potatoes can be used to make wine, which is cheap and quench thirst; sweet potatoes can be made into sweet potato flour, which is good for cooking, and can also be made into soy sauce and even sugar."

"These methods are all ways to make a fortune."

These words made the village chief and clan elders stunned. They could not even imagine that sweet potatoes could have such effects. It was really an eye-opener.

With the yield of sweet potatoes, it is definitely profitable to use them to make wine.

The emperor also asked about the situation of the cattle, the number of livestock, and the prices of farm tools.

This made him feel more at ease.

Over the years, with the introduction of grassland, the price of farm cattle has gradually stabilized. A calf only costs eight yuan, while a strong cow only costs twenty yuan.

Compared with the early years of Shaowu, the price is only half.

In order to encourage the raising of cattle, the imperial court did not even levy taxes on their sales.

Cattle have been reduced, and livestock such as donkeys and horses have also been reduced, which is a great supplement to manpower.

As for agricultural tools, when pig iron production continues to rise and pig iron prices fall, their prices are also falling, which to some extent helps agricultural production.

Although most people are reluctant to use iron tools, there are still some people who can afford it.

One thing worth noting is that the continuous development of ZTE machines has continuously reduced the price of cloth. Many farmers would rather buy cloth than work hard to weave cloth.

Finally, looking at the clan elder's tobacco pouch, Zhu Yixi guessed that tobacco leaves might have begun to be grown in the countryside.

When we left Liuli Village, it was already a hollow sky above the moon.

While walking among the weeds, the emperor had many thoughts: "Sweet potatoes and tobacco leaves alone are not enough. Soybeans and sugar beets must be added to increase risk resistance."

Sugar beets are like sugar cane in the south. They can adapt to the northern climate and can be refined into sugar. This is an important economic crop.

Clenching his fists, he felt as if he never stopped, and couldn't help but laugh: "Sure enough, the more women and power there are, the more serious and thoughtful things become."

Of course, stabilizing the countryside and increasing the ability of farmers to resist risks means that the country is stable and the power of themselves and their descendants can exist for a long time.
Chapter completed!