He was speechless all night, and after working hard for several days, Chen Xu slept in bed, and slept until dawn. When he got up, the sun was already high.

Jiangbeiting didn't go to the county government office today, and the whole family washed and dressed neatly. After Chen Xu got up, he had breakfast and morning tea together, Chen Xu asked about Liu Bang.

Jiang Beiting also knew that Chen Xu came specifically for Liu Bang. Although he didn't know why Chen Xu was interested in an ordinary villager in Pei County, he still put off his family and servants and carefully explained his observations about Liu Bang over the past two years. Except for the fact that Liu Bang was promoted from a pavilion chief to a prison officer in the county yamen police station by Jiang Beiting, everything is no different from the historical records of his previous life, and it is even no different from the minor officials in other ordinary townships in Pei County.

Liu Bang is 39 years old this year, three years younger than Qin Shihuang. Because of his generous and loyalty, he is well-known in Fengxian County, Peixian County, and has made many idiots. He used to have a good widow, Cao, who gave birth to a eldest son, called Liu Fei. He is now five years old. He married the Lü family a few years ago. Now he has a second son born in the legitimate, called Liu Ying. However, he is only three years old. When he came to Peixian County in Jiangbeiting, Liu Bang's family was not well. His family was not poor, but he was worthy of being.

It was only enough to make a living, so the Lu family was farming at home and raising silkworms, while Liu Bang was stumbling outside almost all day long, playing money with a group of idle men with a group of idle men. He was basically a very ordinary lazy man. However, Liu Bang was not only loyal, but also quite literary. After becoming a prison officer, he also did things very seriously and appropriately. He only had close contact with a group of idle men in the county town, and had a very good relationship with Xiao He, the chief official of the county government, and Cao Shen, the prison official, and often drank and played together.

In Jiangbeiting's opinion, Liu Bang has no outstanding features and is not worthy of special attention. However, because of Chen Xu's special advice, Jiangbeiting did not dare to be careless. In the past two years, people have been arranged to investigate almost eight times of Liu Bang's ancestors clearly.

"Mr. Marquis, there is nothing surprising about this Liu Ji. He is now in the county government office. He can be recruited at any time..." Jiang Beiting said.

"Not busy, I want to communicate with him secretly. His current identity is actually a bit inconvenient. If I had known this, I wouldn't have not informed you in advance yesterday!" Chen Xu shook his head a little depressedly and interrupted Jiang Beiting's words.

Jiang Beiting sighed in his heart and bowed carefully and said, "The Marquis is forgiven for his crime. Beiting is not considerate, but the casual men in Pei County are very rude and often fight with fishermen. If the Marquis wears makeup and travels around the city, it may cause the casual men to blackmail. The consequences are somewhat unpredictable. Maybe the identity of the Marquis will be exposed early!"

"Pei County is so chaotic?" Chen Xu asked for a moment of confusion.

"Oh!" Jiang Beiting stroked his beard and began to complain: "The Marquis doesn't know that Pei County is located on the border of Qi and Chu at that time. The people are strong. Many of them are those who fled to escape disasters during the battle between the princes. Therefore, the situation in various townships is extremely complicated. When I first came to Pei County, Liu Jishang was the pavilion chief in Sishui Township. The county town was still stable. But in order to facilitate control and surveillance, I transferred him to the county prison as a prison officer. As a result, the group of idle men all

When they followed, they didn't like farming and business. They slept in some farmers' markets in the city to blackmail some villagers' money, which caused dissatisfaction among the villagers. Therefore, both sides often gathered to fight. Yesterday, hundreds of people fought on both sides, but they only pushed and insulted such noises, which could not be severely punished according to the law. At most, they would be whipped and fined. Moreover, many officials in the county government also had wine and meat dealings with these sluts, which was really difficult to manage..."

"There is such a thing, the county police station is eating shit!" Chen Xu couldn't help frowning.

"The Marquis underestimated these rascals too much. There are at least thousands of people in Pei County. Some people usually do some business to support their families, but they are not serious people in the end. As long as someone calls him to climb high, they will inevitably come. The county police station has a limited number of soldiers, and there are only a few people assigned to a township. Therefore, every time a fight is gathered, the county magistrate can only use military soldiers. The magistrate is now under the management of the Ministry of War, and the call is very unsuitable. Moreover, the fishermen are not obedient to the people, and they will provoke them from time to time..." Jiang Beiting smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Chen Xu:...

"The most important thing is that these idle men have too deep collusion with the officials in towns and counties. Once these officials are removed from their posts, these ruffians will be even more difficult to manage!" Jiang Beiting kept sighing.

This is a completely messy pond, and it is no big difference from the gangsters in later generations.

Chen Xu pondered for a long time and said, "Since that's the case, I'd better take Xiao He and Liu Ji and others to Xianyang, so that Lord Jiang will be easier to deal with!"

Jiang Beiting nodded with joy: "Yes, as long as these people leave Pei County, the group of ruffians under the headless dragon will definitely be much more docile, and I can slowly suppress them!"

"Well, I'll talk about this later. Today I will take a look around first, and then meet Liu Ji, Xiao He and others!" Chen Xu stood up and said.

"I'll make arrangements now!" Jiang Beiting also stood up quickly.

"Don't make special arrangements, just let Brother Jiang accompany me out for a walk!" Chen Xu waved his hand.

"It's good!" Jiang Beiting sent Chen Xu out of the living room and called Jiang Chuxing to give him some advice. Chen Xu took a few teenagers and guards to follow Jiang Chuxing out. Jiang Chuyue, who was dressed neatly and wearing a straw hat, also followed silently, and Chen Xu had no choice but to refuse.

Peixian County is not big, only ten miles in size, the scale is similar to that of Zhixian County, but it is much more prosperous than Zhixian County. The houses on both sides of the street look much wider. Although most of the houses are covered with bamboo and wood, most of them are covered with reeds. People carrying loads and baskets on the street are coming and going, and they look good. The villagers who set up stalls can be seen selling some rural fruits, fish, shrimps and lotus roots everywhere on the roadside.

The story of the prospective son-in-law of the county magistrate's son-in-law coming from Xianyang was well-known in the county town yesterday. Therefore, watching the son of the county magistrate ride on the street with a handsome young man, many people gathered on the side of the road to discuss. Chen Xu didn't say anything in his ears, and he first rode a horse around the city and then left the city.

A few miles outside the east gate of the city is a sparkling lake with reeds growing on the shore. In addition to a large number of farmland, there are many mulberry fields. A mulberry picking girl wearing a straw hat to pick mulberry leaves in the fields. In many places, you can also see scattered farmyards, which are filled with curtain sheds made of reeds. The curtain sheds are filled with mulberry silkworms being fed. There are also a winnowing basket and a winnowing basket of colorful silk cocoons are also placed in the sun to dry. Occasionally, you can see a weaving girl spinning silk under the pergola.

Walking along the lakeside, the rice fields are full of mulberry fields everywhere. It is not far from the East China Sea. It was originally part of the Wuyue area. Therefore, mulberry and silkworm cultivation have been around for thousands of years, and the water source is sufficient for rice cultivation. Therefore, the farmers here produce and plant them completely different from Guanzhong, and the climate is much warmer and humid.

After walking five or six miles in the sun, Chen Xu was dizzy after being sunburned, so a group of people looked for a farmer on the side of the road to rest and ask for some water to drink.

There is a farmhouse yard by the lake. The house is a bit dilapidated. Some places of the fence woven with reeds and bamboo and wood have decayed. There is also a silkworm shed in the yard. A farmer's woman is feeding mulberry leaves to silkworms, and a three or four-year-old bare-butt child is sitting among a pile of mulberry branches, picking mulberry fruits and eating juice.

Seeing a group of people carrying swords, swords, bows and crossbows dismounting in front of their homes, the peasant woman protected her three children in horror.

"Don't be afraid. We are going out for a trip. I'm a little thirsty and come to ask for some water!" Chen Xu waved his hand to stop a group of guards who were about to rush in, stood at the door of the yard and bowed and greeted him with a smile.

"Everyone...you guys, please come in!" Seeing that Chen Xu's polite appearance did not look like a bad person, the peasant woman felt relieved and invited Chen Xu and others into the yard, and then asked the two children to go to the room to fetch water.

Several guards stood at the entrance of the yard to guard the guards. Chen Xu, Jiang Chuxing and Jiang Chuyue led a few teenagers into the silkworm shed. Without the strong sunshine, they instantly felt much cooler.

After a while, the two children brought a bucket of cold water. After several of them drank it with a gourd ladle, Chen Xu looked at the silkworms on the shelf that were eating mulberry leaves like rain, and he was curious and carefully observed it.

Silkworm raising is very popular in the south, especially in the area of ​​the Su and Yue Yangzhou. The silk from later generations was basically produced in these two places.

Although Chen Xu knew how to grow mulberry trees and raise silkworms, he had never seen them, and had never seen silk weaving silk with silk defense lines. So he asked the peasant woman some things about raising silkworms and weaving silk, and the peasant woman also answered carefully and carefully.

The history of silkworm farming in China is very long. Since the Xia Dynasty, it has been raising silkworms and cocoons with purpose. However, at that time, almost all silkworms were wild silkworms, and there were several types of silkworms, including tusser silkworms, mulberry silkworms, thorn silkworms, etc. Not all silkworms eat mulberry leaves, so the quality of silkworm cocoons obtained by raising silkworms also varies greatly. By the Shang Dynasty, with the rapid development of agricultural civilization, silkworm farming began to gradually become regular. The royal family had special silkworm officials, and silkworm gods appeared to worship and worship. Silkworm farming had risen to the national level. The words "milky-old silkworms" also appeared on oracle bone inscriptions and bronzes. By the Zhou Dynasty, there was a system of "silks" and Tian

Zi and the princes had "public mulberry silkworm room". They bathed seeds in the second month of the Xia calendar, and started raising silkworms on the first day of the March. They had a certain understanding of the growth patterns of silkworms such as bathing seeds, ants, silkworm sleeping, pupate, cocoon formation, and moth transformation. The skills of silkworm raising have become mature. By the Warring States Period, silkworm raising was very popular in the south, and silk had also appeared in large quantities. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, silk had begun to be promoted from royal ministers to wealthy families, but because silk was extremely time-consuming and precious, the price was comparable to gold, and dozens of stones of grain could be exchanged for a piece of silk, even the worst-quality silk was unable to consume, so silk fabrics were still an absolute luxury.

According to the peasant woman, you can raise silkworms for two seasons a year, and you have ten acres of mulberry fields at home. If there are no pests and diseases, you can harvest more than ten kilograms of cocoons. In addition to the incubation and retention of seeds, the remaining cocoons can only be dried and killed and sold after being sold. The few pieces of silk woven must be paid for mulberry fields tax, and the remaining ones are sold to the government government, each piece of silk 300 coins, which seems to be more than ten times the price of linen, but the difficulty of breeding and textiles is more than ten times that of linen, because planting mulberry silk raising takes energy and time, and cannot farm. The food that the whole family eats needs to be purchased from the official warehouse and grain merchants, and only one can get a food and clothing.

This will also have good weather throughout the year just like farming. If you encounter diseases and pests, sometimes it will turn into tears after more than a month of hard work, and the whole family will go hungry.

Looking at the situation of the peasant woman, her three children and this family, Chen Xu also knew that the hard work of raising silkworms was not proportional to the harvest.

Those who are covered with silk and silk are not silkworms!

When prosperity occurs, the people suffer. When death occurs, the people suffer.

These lamentations from later generations are more obvious in this era.

"Where has your husband gone?" Jiang Chuyue, who had been following Chen Xu, asked.

"My husband went to the lake to fish two years ago, and the boat capsized and fell into the water... and never came back again..." The woman's eyes turned red and tears flowed down.

"Alas~~" Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh to the sky.

"This kind of thing is everywhere in the world!" Jiang Chuxing shook his head and said.

"What the second brother said is, Xu Lang doesn't need to sigh!" Jiang Chuyue really comforted her softly like a young wife.

Chen Xu glanced at Jiang Chuyue gently, then looked at the more than ten silkworm plaques and three worn-out children under the awning, took out a fifty-cost Bagua Tongbao from his pocket and handed it to the peasant woman and said, "Thank you for your water, you can keep this money, I'll disturb you, say goodbye!"

The peasant woman was holding a brand new purple coin in a daze, watching Chen Xu and others leave the yard with tears in her face, and soon disappeared between the reeds and mulberry fields.

There are so many miserable people in the world. Chen Xu alone cannot save them, nor can they be saved.

Therefore, Chen Xu would not give her hundreds or thousands of dollars to pretend to be generous.

What he needs to do is to constantly reform and change the state of living where civilians farm and silkworms are still poor. Promoting commercial reform is just a way to accelerate the circulation of goods. Commercial development drives the appreciation of agricultural products. However, this linkage will not be effective for a while. The most important thing is that it is necessary to change the government's abnormally high tax exploitation and various corvee labor for farmers, reduce agricultural taxes, abolish corvee labor, allow farmers to freely sell all their goods, and allow farmers to obtain the benefits they should have obtained.

If the private transactions of silk are relaxed, wealthy merchants are allowed to wear silk, and the strict concept of hierarchy is abolished, the price of silk will inevitably rise.

But this task has a long way to go, at least several years later. I don’t know how long it can last for families like this.

Also, if we do not change this almost primitive mulberry silkworm breeding and textile method, it is absolutely impossible to become rich by hand alone. Once the peasant woman is seriously ill, the family will go bankrupt instantly and the three children will become orphans.

It seems that the invention of the loom is on the agenda.

Chen Xu decided to return to Xianyang this time and arrange for the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences to start researching textile machines and even jacquard machines, and even publish embroidery techniques in newspapers, so that these ordinary silkworm farmers can learn more skills and increase the added value of the products to obtain higher income.

Looking at the Chinese history in later generations, only the Song Dynasty had the most relaxed rural and commercial environment. Whether it was commerce, agriculture, handicrafts and large-scale industrial and mining industries achieved unprecedented development and prosperity in the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was also the most glorious period in China's feudal era. The level of culture, economy, education and other levels reached the peak of China's development. It was thanks to the monarchs advocated by the Song Dynasty's monarchs of all dynasties that paid attention to rural commerce. Both agricultural taxes and commercial taxes were very low. This brought about unprecedented prosperity in the economic and cultural period of the Song Dynasty. Because transactions required a large amount of coins, silver began to become the mainstream currency, and even the earliest paper currency of mankind was born. Since the Song Dynasty, overseas trade began to flourish, and the Chinese people's vision began to expand to Japan, Southeast Asia and even further away India and Rome.

The taxes of the Song Dynasty were also the lowest in all dynasties. The agricultural tax was 20 yuan and the commercial tax was 50 yuan. Even if other taxes were added, it was far lower than those of other dynasties. The official history records were difficult to discuss. After all, people would refute anything. However, through historical novels, we can see the wealth of the people of the Song Dynasty. Wu Dalang, who bought sesame cakes in Water Margin, could have a two-story mansion with a small courtyard on the street, and he could also marry a beautiful wife who was too damn good. It was not just a saying. Small officials like Song Jiang were very generous in their actions. The rivers and lakes were known to be timely raining, and anyone could be saved. The era described in Water Margin was already the period when the Song Dynasty began to collapse, but the people were still rich. The reason why the country was shaky was due to the corruption of the court and the corruption of officials. In addition, the emphasis on civil and military suppression caused insufficient military power to destroy the country.

At present, the commercial tax of Daqin reached a maximum of 4 to 1, and the agricultural tax was chaotic in total almost even more than 60%. In order to support the military and construction of Daqin, the people have suffered an extremely heavy burden. The country is strong and the people are poor. The current situation is now.

At present, the Qin Dynasty has killed the most threatening Xiongnu and Donghu. Basically, external threats have been eliminated. Without the situation of foreign races such as the Song Dynasty, such as Liao, Jin, Xia, Tubo, etc., the surrounding area is already very stable. It is necessary to follow the Song Dynasty's policy of implementing light taxes and low taxes to cultivate and nourish and make the people rich, so that the country will prosper and stabilize.

Another point is that the Qin Dynasty is vast and has sufficient resources for its population. The per capita distribution resources are much larger than those of the later Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. As long as it is hardworking enough, the per capita arable land area is simply unimaginable. In a short period of time, there will never be enough distribution of farmland. Therefore, there will be no sharp contradiction between farmers and the landlord class due to the large concentration of land.

Because the land issue is the most important stimulus of peasant uprisings in history.

But this factor cannot occur in Daqin.

Heavy tax burdens and corvee labor were the main causes of the collapse of the Qin Dynasty.
Chapter completed!