Another day, as planned, Li Mengxi still led his team to farm fields. When his younger brother Xiao Zhuan saw that Li Mengxi was going out, he insisted on following him.

Li Mengxi thought for a while, it didn't matter if he went out to play for a few days, so he took the small bricks and prepared them to go to the fields.

Before setting off, he entrusted Guan Yu to find craftsmen who could find well holes and know how to dig wells, and keep them for later use.

Furthermore, regarding the problem that well water in some deserted villages may be contaminated, Li Mengxi’s idea was to disinfect. You need to use quicklime for disinfection, but quicklime is not available. Fortunately, activated carbon was developed during papermaking, and the same is true for disinfection with activated carbon.

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So before setting off, Li Mengxi brought a large bag of boiled charcoal blocks and took them away with him.

On this day, just like the previous day, Li Mengxi still led the team to find a place to farm in the suburbs of Julu City. Soon after, the team arrived at a deserted village. With yesterday's experience, everything became familiar this time.

When they arrived, they first inspected the general situation of the village and took inventory of important houses and water sources. The village was dilapidated and the houses were mostly destroyed. After walking around, they found three or four houses that were barely habitable. Li Mengxi thought, this can probably save some money.

Next tent.

Last winter, when there was not enough shelter, I thought of a way to save housing costs, which was to use elevated wooden beds to accommodate more people in a limited house.

For ordinary accommodation, the floor area of ​​a house is nine square meters. Even if the beds are crowded with people, only nine people can live there.

However, if a raised wooden bed is used, two people can sleep on top of it, or even three people can sleep in a three-story bed frame. Then a house that can originally accommodate nine people can accommodate up to twenty-seven people.

The wooden frame bed consumes wood and is slightly complicated to make, but the cost of the bed is much lower than that of a house.

The large-scale use of wooden beds can easily reduce the cost of housing by several times, making it easier to live in a house.

Li Mengxi clearly knew that wooden beds were useful. He went into several rooms that could accommodate people and looked at the area of ​​each room, wondering how many bed frames could be accommodated.

At the same time, Li Mengxi was thinking that when wood becomes available, bed frames will have to be made in large quantities. The hundreds of thousands of people who are working in the field, and the tens of thousands who are not working in the field, will need at least hundreds of thousands of beds. But now, there is not even a single bed frame.

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There are houses and wells. The living conditions in this village are better than those in the previous village.

Li Mengxi came to the well, took a look into the dark well in the middle of winter, and then brought up a jar of water. When the water came up, there were broken rotten leaves floating in the water. Li Mengxi looked up and saw a huge old locust tree.

The trunk of the tree was right above the well, and all the leaves must have fallen into the well.

Since there might be a problem with the water quality, Li Mengxi dropped the sack of activated carbon on a stone, tied it with a rope, and threw the sack down with a thud.

Because there are stones hanging down, the bag will sink as soon as it is dropped in. Because of this ingenious method, the light charcoal and sacks can easily sink into the well, and can also disinfect the deep well water. This method is still

I came up with it while processing paper pulp.

Li Mengxi was pulling the rope by the well, controlling the ups and downs of the sack. He was thinking about how much activated carbon would be needed to purify all the water in the well. One bag would probably not be enough, but...

Ten bags and twenty bags are definitely enough, so the charcoal belt is missing.

While Li Mengxi was guarding the well to purify the water, the soldiers outside were carrying measuring sticks and measuring acres of land. After a while, the land was measured.

The village has more than 1,500 acres of land.

If two hundred people are divided into one acre, it can be divided into seven people, leaving one person.

This is another troublesome point. Yesterday, when farming, there were eight acres more. Eight acres of land could still be used as public land. But today, seven people divided it up, leaving more than one hundred acres. It would definitely be too much to use these more than one hundred acres as public land.

It was a waste, but if it were distributed to others, it would be dozens of acres less than others. This put Li Mengxi in a dilemma. He did not worry about the scarcity, but the inequality.

In desperation, Li Mengxi could only send people to walk around the village to see if there was any land in the nearby villages. If there was, he could collect some.

Several cavalrymen went to look for land on horseback. At this time, because the fields were far apart, Li Mengxi suddenly realized a problem.

Although there are two hundred acres of land per capita, if someone's land is divided here and outside the village, wouldn't it mean that you have to walk many miles more to do a job? The best fields are, firstly, flat and with good soil quality, and secondly, they should be

It's close to the village and convenient for work.

If it is a fair calculation, the distribution of acres should not be divided into large areas, but should be evenly distributed, so that everyone who works in the field has both near and far land.

In this practice, Li Mengxi discovered the problems of farming and came up with countermeasures.

After a while, the cavalry came back to report that the nearby village was not far away, more than a mile, and the acres of land to be replenished had been measured, but there were people in that village.

As soon as Li Mengxi heard that there was someone in the village, he knew that the problem was coming again.

Leaving the field troops behind and ordering them to stay where they were, Li Mengxi led a group of soldiers toward the next populated village.

After a while, Li Mengxi arrived at an unknown village. At the entrance of the village, soldiers in armor and stomach were chatting with a few common people in ragged clothes.

Hearing the sound of horse hooves, the soldier looked back, pointed and said, "Here comes our man in charge."

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When Li Mengxi arrived at the unknown village, he was taken to his house by the villagers to receive him. Li Mengxi was observing the villagers, and the villagers were also observing Li Mengxi.

Li Mengxi saw that there were not many villagers in this group, only eight or nine people. They were all men, and most of them were older.

Judging from the experience of the previous two rounds of farming, an ordinary natural village has only one or two thousand acres of land. If one person is divided into two hundred acres, the land will be divided among the ten or so people in the village.

However, Li Mengxi didn't want the villagers to protect their hometown and the same village to control the land of the same village. There would be hidden dangers in this. Li Mengxi frowned and thought about it.

At the same time, the villagers surrounding the house also looked at Li Mengxi. The one-year-old man headed by them looked at Li Mengxi's young face and age, and then looked out to see the big flag with the word "Liu" in the hand of the soldier at the door.

The old man's dim eyes suddenly became energetic, and he asked, "Hey, young general, are you the men of Duke Xuande?"

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Li Mengxi, who was thinking, looked up at the old man with surprise in his eyes, "I'm just waiting, what's wrong?"

As soon as Li Mengxi admitted that he was under Liu Xuande's command, the old man became much more enthusiastic and immediately got up and said he would cook a meal to entertain Li Mengxi and others.

Li Mengxi stopped them quickly and looked at the shabby appearance of these villagers. How much food could they have? Besides, even if they cooked porridge, Li Mengxi would still think it was dirty. He didn't want to eat outside.

Stopping the old man, Li Mengxi curiously asked how the old man knew his identity.

The old man said that last winter, a doctor passed by the village, treated the villagers and left some medicine. The military doctor also carried a flag, and he said he was under Liu Xuande's command.

Li Mengxi understood immediately that this was his first preparation, and Li Mengxi smiled.

Li Mengxi asked the old man with a smile, "Old man, your body and bones are still strong, but can you still plant enough to break the ground?"

The old man opened his toothless mouth, chuckled, and patted his rugged chest with his hand, looking very unyielding and saying, "It's done, it's done! I can still do it for a few years."

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Li Mengxi scanned the old man from top to bottom. He saw that although the old man was old, he was still in good spirits and seemed to still have some ability to work. He nodded, and Li Mengxi asked again, "Old man, the land in this village is all

who?"

The old man paused for a moment and said, "What land are you talking about? There are a lot of land owned by big families, and there are miscellaneous others."

Li Mengxi understood clearly that, as expected, most of the land in the world was in the hands of powerful landlords.

Li Mengxi asked again, "What about old man, what about the powerful landlords? I see there are not many people left in your village. Where are the others?"

As soon as he asked, the old man sighed and his eyes immediately became desolate, "Where can I go? The big family fled first, and the small ones followed. If they can't escape, there will be another military disaster. The Yellow Turbans will come, and the officers and soldiers will come again. They will die."

, Missing, missing, there are more than 300 people in this village, and we are the only ones left... Sigh."

This is not bad, Li Mengxi thought, the other villages have all been wiped out and there are no survivors.

After asking, I found out that there are indeed only so many people left in this village.

Li Mengxi curiously asked the old man and other villagers, "Old man, how much land do you each have?"

When asked about the land, the old man babbled and counted, "I own one acre of land in the west of the village, three-thirds of it in the east of the village, and one and a half in the east. This makes up a total of one and a half acres of land in my village."

Li Mengxi asked, "Is this little land enough to eat?"

The old man shook his head, "How can that be possible? We also rented several acres of land from others."

Li Mengxi asked others again, and found that the situation of the villagers nearby was similar. Most of them were low-income people with little land. The one in the best situation had only twenty-three acres of land.

The situation was clear. Li Mengxi gathered his thoughts and said solemnly to the old man and other villagers, "Old man, there are a few others. We are under Liu Xuande's command. Our army is ready to establish a foothold in Julu. According to the

Our army's new policy is to take all the land in Julu into a public domain and distribute it equally among the people.

In other words, take all the fields and divide them equally among the people. I don’t know how many people there are. What do you think of this strategy?"

The question was a little more complicated. The old man had confusion in his eyes, and other villagers looked at each other and started whispering.

Li Mengxi was not anxious and allowed the old man to think.

After a while, the old man probably came to his senses. He looked at Li Mengxi and asked, "Do you mean that all the land will become public property? Will the land be divided according to people?"

"Yes!" Li Mengxi smiled, "That's it."

Immediately afterwards, Li Mengxi asked again, "Old man, how much land was there in your village and how many people were there?"

The old man thought for a while and replied, "There are more than 300 people and more than 1,700 acres of land."

Li Mengxi smiled and asked, "That's what the New Deal is like. After the land is returned to the public, the land will be divided equally per person. So, old man, do you think you can calculate how many acres of land you deserve?"

The old man then began to think about it. After a while, he finally understood. He said, "One head is... more than six acres of land." After saying that, the old man stared at Li Mengxi uncertainly and asked cautiously, "Say, these six acres of land are...

Give me all the land? How much is the land price?"

Li Mengxi said with a smile, "The land price is not charged. The land belongs to the public. It is not sold, only divided. Just pay some taxes every year."

As if he knew what the old man was thinking, Li Mengxi went on to say, "The land rent is one for every fifteen years, and it may be reduced after the disaster year passes."

The land belonging to the old man is less than two acres, but if the land is divided equally, the old man will have more land.

After the calculation was clear, the old man beamed with joy, giggled, and smiled from ear to ear.

In the house, other villagers were also cooing. It was obvious that the policy of equal land distribution was a huge benefit to the people who had little land.

Li Mengxi reminded the old man at the right time, "Old man, you may have made a miscalculation."
To be continued...