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At this time, Goryeo mainly cultivated wheat. It was not until the middle of the Qing Dynasty that Koreans introduced rice. Now that the wheat has been harvested, the fields are full of wheat stubble. On the flat land in the center of each village, countless farmers are grinding wheat, and some have already
The ground wheat was carried into the cart by the farmer and prepared to be transported home.
All the farmers looked beaming. Some were holding wheat in their hands and smiling sillyly.
"It looks like this year's harvest is very good?" Li Gang passed by a village and couldn't help but smile.
"It's more than good, it's simply great! This year's grain output is almost twice that of previous years!" said the county magistrate of Yanchuan County, Korea, who accompanied Li Gang.
"Twice? So much? How is it possible?" Li Gang was taken aback, with an expression of disbelief in his eyes.
He also knew that the status of farmers in Goryeo was now very high, and many people who were good at growing grain had become model workers, and their deeds had begun to be promoted across the country. But even so, it was impossible to double the grain output as before?
This is too incredible?
So Li Gang turned his head and looked at the magistrate of Yanchuan County with some suspicion.
"Master Li, I'm not lying to you, you can ask the farmers here!" said the magistrate of Yanchuan County.
"Okay!" Li Gang nodded, and immediately walked towards several farmers and asked about this year's harvest. According to those farmers, this year's harvest is indeed far greater than before, and the harvest of most families is close to or exceeds previous harvests.
Twice, some families even tripled.
Li Gang frowned. He was still very suspicious in his heart. He felt that the villagers here might have been threatened by the Yanchuan County Magistrate, or had been bribed by the Yanchuan County Magistrate to deliberately say such things in front of him, the Minister of Military Aircraft Department! At the moment
He left the village in silence and headed towards the next village. After arriving here, he did not reveal his identity, but immediately began to ask about the harvest here. As a result, the harvest here was the same as the previous village.
Well, far more than in previous years.
Li Gang did not believe in evil, so he visited more than a dozen villages to investigate the crop harvests in each village. Finally, many farmers took him home to see their harvest this year. Seeing the golden grain, Li Gang finally believed it.
"Is it because the weather this year is better than in previous years?" They were resting in a small town in the evening. Li Gang had already eaten and was sitting in the yard, asking sleepily.
"Master Li, the climate this year is no different from previous years. It is basically still the same." The Yanchuan County Magistrate shook his head.
"Is your harvest in Yanchuan County the only one good? What about other places?" Li Gang asked again.
"As far as I know, throughout Korea, this year's harvest is far better than in previous years. Almost all farmers have achieved a bumper harvest." Leader of Yanchuan County.
Li Gang was very surprised. In fact, there were signs of a bumper grain harvest in Korea last year, but it was not as obvious as this year. This year's grain output was twice that of previous years. It is really incredible. You must know that the land is still that land.
, farmers or those farmers
, why did grain production suddenly increase so much? Although many agricultural model workers were established this year, and the planting experience of many model workers has also begun to spread, but after all, the time is too short, and the scope of the dissemination of those excellent planting experiences is very limited, and it is impossible to spread the entire
Goryeo's agriculture advanced by leaps and bounds.
"I can't figure it out! I really can't figure it out!" Li Gang shook his head.
At this time, the owner of the house who entertained their group walked into the room. He also heard the conversation between Li Gang and the Yanchuan County Magistrate. He grinned and said: "Two adults, in fact, the main thing is that the land belongs to us.
Yes, so I am very excited to work! I have endless energy in my body and work hard from dawn to dusk. Naturally, this year’s harvest is far greater than in previous years!”
Li Gang shook his head, feeling that it was still unbelievable. The land, personnel, and planting methods had not changed, so the harvest could not have increased so much!
Everyone had gone to bed, but Li Gang was still thinking about this issue and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
In fact, if you carefully study many phenomena in later generations, you will definitely be able to easily figure out that the current problem is all due to the system. It is like the Chinese countryside in later generations suddenly changed from rural communes to household responsibility, but the land is still the same.
, the farmers are still the same group of farmers, and the planting technology is still the same as before, but suddenly the harvest has been greatly improved! Before the household responsibility system, the vast majority of people in China did not have enough to eat.
In that difficult era, many people starved to death. Some people said that millions of people starved to death, and some even said that tens of millions of people starved to death. Until now, there is no definite conclusion. However, the implementation of household responsibility system
After that, it only took one year to solve the problem of farmers having enough food to eat. In the second and third years, farmers had surplus grain. After a few years, farmers began to have enough energy to do some sideline businesses. Many farmers started working on the land.
liberated from.
The changes in Goryeo are now the same as those in rural China in later generations. Because of the change in the system, agricultural productivity suddenly developed by leaps and bounds, and agricultural harvests doubled. It can be expected that if this system continues to be implemented, agriculture will
The problem will be completely solved, and a large number of people will be freed from agriculture and join industry or commerce.
Speaking of which, the agricultural yield per mu of Goryeo today is far inferior to that of later generations. In later generations, the wheat yield per mu could reach six to seven hundred catties, and even as high as one hundred catties, but now it is only one or two hundred catties. But and
The difference in later generations is that the per capita land area in this era was much larger than that in later generations. In later generations, the total population of North and South Korea exceeded 70 million, while the current Goryeo has only 5 million.
Population. As for the Northeast, the population is even smaller. There are only more than one million now, but in future generations there will be 100 million people! Therefore, the current per capita land area is more than ten times that of later generations. If the Northeast is developed, then the Northeast
The per capita land area will be dozens of times or even more than that of later generations. He felt vaguely that it was because of the system, but he was not sure. He still looked incredulous.
All the way south from Yanchuan, all the towns and villages we passed were full of harvest scenes, and the farmers were extremely excited. In addition to transporting wheat back to the granary, many farmers had already begun to prepare to plant autumn grain. Just this
At that time, there were no crops such as rice and tomatoes of later generations. Now we can only grow some sorghum, autumn buckwheat, or some cabbage, radish, etc. for winter consumption.
"Although the harvest of the common people far exceeds that of previous years, the grain that the government receives may not be more than before! In the past, the agricultural tax in Goryeo was more than 30%, but now the governor only collects 10%! I think this year's grain tax is at most the same as in previous years.
!" Among Li Gang and his group, there was a young man who was less than twenty years old. This young man looked somewhat similar to Li Gang, and he curled his lips at this moment.
This man is Li Gang's nephew, his name is Wang Shan. He originally lived in his hometown in the Central Plains, but was later taken to Korea by Li Gang, and now he also does some official business with Li Gang.
After hearing what his nephew said, Li Gang shook his head and said: "You are wrong, it is absolutely not like this! This year's agricultural tax revenue in Goryeo will be far higher than before! You forgot, whether it was the Song Dynasty or the previous
In Korea, there are many people who don’t pay agricultural taxes!”
"This..." Wang Shan was stunned for a moment, and then quickly reacted.
In the Song Dynasty and the former Goryeo, ordinary poor farmers certainly had to pay taxes, but if a person gained fame, he did not need to pay taxes! In ordinary landlord families, because the family was rich, the children and daughters received good
Education, so some of the daughters-in-law can often pass the scholar examination, or even pass the examination. Once they pass the examination to be a scholar, the agricultural tax is half of that of ordinary people, and if they pass the examination, all agricultural taxes are exempted.
During the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, more than half of the land was in the hands of landlords and scholar-bureaucrats. A large part of them did not pay taxes, and the government naturally received very limited agricultural taxes. Therefore, both in the Song Dynasty and in the previous Goryeo Dynasty,
It is difficult to support a large number of troops. The Song Dynasty also
Better, the commerce is relatively developed, so there is commercial tax as a supplement. As for the former Goryeo, commerce is also very backward, so it is difficult for them to support a population of 5 million and a force of 100,000. In the end, it would be impossible if they did not face a war to destroy the country.
There are more than 200,000 troops.
"Such a large amount of food can support hundreds of thousands of troops fighting all year round! In addition, our Liangshan soldiers are all brave, and they are not inferior to those brave women! Given time, this world will belong to the governor sooner or later!" Wang Shan said with a young man's heart,
said with a smile.
Li Gang nodded, deeply agreeing with this. If you only have soldiers, you may not be able to conquer the world. Now that Goryeo is governed so well and agriculture is so developed, it is impossible to conquer the world.
In addition to farmers in the fields, they could also see many officials along the way. In this harvest season, many officials went to the countryside to inspect the autumn harvest and help farmers deal with some field disputes. This was not the case in the past.
Korea has never happened before.
A few days later, Li Gang and his party arrived in Pyongyang, which is also one of the important cities in Goryeo. The population here is large, the commerce is also very developed, and the sounds of hawking are everywhere.
Li Gang and others were walking quietly on the street. At this moment, a burst of noise suddenly came from the distance. It seemed that countless people were cheering for something!
"What's going on? Let's go over and have a look!" Li Gang said curiously.
At that moment, Li Gang strode forward, and a group of servants hurriedly followed him forward. After walking for about two miles, they saw a huge stage in an open space in front of them. More than ten young people were performing on the stage. Below
There were many young people, middle-aged and elderly people watching the show, and the cheers just now were made by them.
Li Gang couldn't help but stop and watch for a while, but gradually his expression began to change. The content of the opera above turned out to be that the governor led the young people to defeat the King of Goryeo, and at the same time, countless Confucian disciples were knocked to the ground! The entire drama
The opera is actually full of so-called "everyone is equal", so-called "no exploitation" and other content that Li Gang can't stand.
"How could this be possible?" Li Gang was furious in his heart.
At that moment, he was about to rush towards the stage, but the servants next to him hurriedly grabbed him. All the servants were covered in sweat.
"What are you going to do? The people above are performing some treacherous things. I want to stop them, can't I?" Li Gang asked through gritted teeth.