The Li family has quite a lot of land.

According to the land grant system in the Tang Dynasty, a strong man was granted eighty acres of land, an elderly man was granted half of the land, and if the head of the household was a widowed woman, the land grant was thirty acres.

But fields are fields, and they are divided into Yongye fields and Fenkou fields. The Fenkou fields will be recovered by the government after your death. Yongye fields are where you can freely buy and sell, and decide what to plant.

Lao Li's family has 120 acres of Yongye land, all of which is in the hands of the old man, the head of the household. No matter how difficult it is, the land has never been sold. The land is divided into 160 acres, which belongs to the old man, father, mother, and uncle.

Fenkou Field can only grow food.

Food must be taxed.

A man must pay two stones a year and pay two feet of cloth. He must pay it when he reaches fifteen years old. After forty years, he does not have to pay it. It may become shorter in the future, but the emperor has not reduced it.

There are four people in the family to pay, and yes, Li Qi also has taxes to pay.

The Dingkou tax is a poll tax.

Then there is the land tax, which depends on how many acres of land your family has. It is also called a tax. It is not much, but it is still a big expense.

There is also a household tax, which is not based on population, but on households. Household division has advantages. You can be allocated a piece of homestead land, build a house, and buy more fields.

But it was obviously not time for Lao Li's family to divide their households.

Lao Li's family cultivated part of their own land and rented part of it to the government. The government would ask people who had committed misdemeanors or were exiled from other places to cultivate this kind of land.

Although it seems like there are many fields, the yield is small!

An acre of good-quality farmland can only produce more than three hundred kilograms of grain, which is a little more than two shi, and a better one can only produce three shi. However, it is a prime field, a fertile field, and it must be cultivated intensively.

Compost farming was formed during the Song Dynasty and was relatively complete during the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, feces and urine could be sold for money, and there were public toilets on the streets.

There was no such thing in the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, there is so much grain, but after drying, the grain will become lighter, and seeds must be left. After all, there was no seedling cultivation in the Tang Dynasty, and the seeds were scattered directly, which could easily be eaten by birds and beasts.

There are also all kinds of weeds that need to be cleaned manually, so after paying taxes on grains and saving seeds, we really can’t leave too much for food rations.

The rice must be pounded to make rations, and there will be a lot of bran. The so-called wife of chaff is a wife who does not pound the rice carefully, resulting in a lot of bran when eating. However, it is generally used to show self-effacement.

Bran is also useful and can be used to feed horses, cattle, sheep...

There is a cow in Lao Li's family, but it is not here at the farm. It is usually rented by tenants. There is a horse here, but the old man is reluctant to let it do farm work. The food is more expensive than Li Dandao, because it can make money, and the inn has

He would be borrowed from time to time, and the county magistrate would sometimes send a servant to borrow a horse to support the occasion, although it was a little old and could no longer go on the battlefield.

There are two other sheep, but they are not here either. This is the city. They have to go outside the city to the farmhouses where they work and rest. Li Dandao usually takes on this responsibility and takes Yaya with him.

sister.

The Li family has books and heirlooms. The whole family's property is worth less than these books if sold. It can be considered a farming and reading family.

An Analects of Confucius.

It is said that half of the Analects governs the world, which shows the importance of the Analects.

There is also the Spring and Autumn Period and the Book of Songs, but the Spring and Autumn Period is not complete, and the Book of Songs is not complete either.

The old man planned to buy a book a year, but unfortunately the plan did not work out. He spent several years living hand to mouth and budgeting carefully.

But at least Li Fudou became a scholar, and the old man arranged for him to study in Simenguan.

"The Chen family next door has been unable to uncover the truth and has started to pawn his wife's jewelry. There are only two pieces of silverware in total." Mrs. Li Qi sighed.

The old man said: "I will send some rice to their house in the evening. Well... Chen Zaichong and I were in the same team back then. It's a pity. Well... I came back, but he didn't come back. The couple lost their youngest son again...

…It’s really pitiful. It’s almost peaceful now. I’ll help them out and help them tide over the difficulties.”

Li Fucheng nodded: "I'm going to the pharmacy tomorrow to buy some medicinal materials..."

The old man said: "Your medicine has been widely distributed, but it has no effect. I can't even cure my cough...ah!" The old man spat out another mouthful of phlegm.

Li Fucheng touched his nose in embarrassment.

The old man leaned on his stick and turned to the room. He heard the sound of rummaging, and then the sound of the cabinet door closing.

When I came out, I took out a small scale and a package of things wrapped in silk.

Open Juan, you will find jade bracelets, gold rings, jade rings, and cat's eye stones, all pulled from dead people and enemies. These were the old man's trophies back then.

When I bought a shop before, I took out several of the treasures and sold them for more than thirty taels!

If he hadn't been thinking about his second son's studies, the family's property would no longer be available before Li Dandao came of age, and it would all have to be replaced by property. Now the old man regrets that he spent money on that shop.

He took out some broken silver and cut off a corner of a silverbait with scissors.

Weigh it with a small scale, squint your eyes, move the weight, and see the number clearly.

"One, two or three denarii!"

Nowadays, silver is expensive, and Kaiyuan Tongbao has not yet been released. It is not that one tael of silver is between 800 and 1,000 yuan.

The five-baht coins used now were minted during the Sui Dynasty. Money in the new dynasty is being minted, but the circulation is still small. There is also a lot of private money, which is not heavy at all. Some even use iron coins instead of copper coins... called

There are small coins, and there are also larger copper coins, called big coins, which are heavier.

The shape and quality of copper coins are not very uniform, so now one tael of silver can sometimes be worth as much as 3,000 wen. Of course, it must be good silver.

Bad silver is made with tin or white copper added, and the quality is not right at all. Some bad silver can only be used to make three hundred coins with one tael of silver.

Of course the old man has real money here.

"Don't buy some herbs that can be picked outside the city. Day by day, I'm counting your little family fortune. Hey, I haven't even made a good coffin yet! The thin-skinned coffin will be chewed open by wild dogs~

Become a lonely ghost."

Li Fucheng said quickly: "How dare you, son? Some of the medicinal materials in the shop are infested with insects and some are moldy... They really need to be replaced... Although the business is poor, the people who come and go are all neighbors. If they eat it, it will ruin our family."

Reputation... isn’t my brother studying right now?”

Li Dan said: "Dad, I will go to the medicine shop with you!"

"If you don't go to study, why would you follow me to the pharmacy?"

"I dreamed about a god. He gave me a prescription that can cure grandpa's cough."

When the old man Li Baojing heard this, he was furious: "Li Fucheng, if you want to poison me to death, don't ask me to do it!" With a bang, the table shook so hard that the teapot on it was knocked out of water.

Li Dan thought to himself: "The old man has deep inner strength! He will definitely know martial arts!"

"How dare my son!" Li Fucheng called Tian Qu: "How can any other father put such a crime on his son? Unfilial piety is a serious crime, let alone an unforgivable crime."

Li Dandao said quickly: "If you can't eat it, you can't kill it by eating it."

The old man said to Li Dan gently: "Study well and learn the classics from your uncle. When your uncle passes the exam next year, he will send you to study at Simen Hall. Don't follow your father's example of eating people who can't die and curing them."

He has half a book on bullshit medical skills that are not good at treating diseases, but I learned more from the captain on the battlefield."

Li Fucheng was extremely aggrieved: "My neighbors all come to me to get medicine... and they don't say it can't be cured..."

The old man went to the battlefield and took life and death. He saw a lot of blood and had many problems with his body, but the most uncomfortable thing was this old phlegm.

Li Dandao planned to come up with some prescriptions for reducing phlegm. The old man was so angry that it was probably caused by heat poison. The phlegm was caused by dampness. It might be caused by wind and heat entering the lungs.

Get some licorice, mint, Fritillaria, loquat leaves, platycodon, boil water and drink it to see if it can resolve the problem. After all, Li Dandao can only see so much from half a bucket of water.
Chapter completed!