After Becoming a Taoist

   Chapter 2 Eat the undead, this will definitely eat the undead

  The Li family has fields, and there are quite a few.

  According to the land granting system in Tang Dynasty, strong men grant 80 mu of land, old people grant 50 mu of land, and if the head of the household is a widowed woman, it is 30 mu.

   But fields are fields, among which are Yongye fields, and Koufen fields. After you die, the government will recycle them. Yongye fields can be freely bought and sold, and you can decide what to plant.

   Lao Li's family has 120 mu of Yongye Field, all of which are in the hands of the head of the household. No matter how difficult it is, he has never sold the land. There are 160 mu of subdivided land. It is the sub-contract of the old man, father, mother and uncle.

  The sub-field can only grow grain.

   Food is taxed.

  The male is paid two stone a year, and the payment is 20 feet. When he is fifteen years old, he will pay it. After forty years, he will not need to pay. It may become shorter in the future, but the emperor has not reduced it yet.

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

  Take tax is a poll tax.

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

   There is also household tax, which is not based on population, but households. It is beneficial to divide households. You can get a piece of homestead, you can build a house, and you can buy more fields.

   But the old Li family obviously did not have the time to split up.

  Old Li's family grows part of their fields by themselves, and rents part of the fields to the government to grow them.

   Although it seems that there are many fields, but the output is small!

  Only one mu of high-quality fields can produce more than 300 catties of grain, which is a little more than two shi, and a little better three shi, but it is a top field, a fertile field, and it needs to be cultivated carefully.

  Compost farming was recorded in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It was relatively complete in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, excrement and urine could be sold for money, and there were public toilets on the streets, but the specific scientific research was in the 1950s.

  In the Tang Dynasty, there were already records of sludge composting and composting of herbivores such as cattle, horses and sheep, but it was not widely promoted. Most of them were composted with sludge, and there was no special fermentation tank.

Moreover, it is said that there is so much grain, but the grain will be lighter after drying, and the seeds must be kept, and a lot of grain must be kept. After all, there was no seedling cultivation in the Tang Dynasty. There are also various weeds that need to be cleaned manually, so the food is removed from the tax payment, and the seeds are removed. I really can’t leave too much for rations.

  It is also necessary to pound rice when left behind to make rations. There are many brans. The so-called wife of glutinous bran is the wife who eats bran and pharyngeal vegetables together, which means sharing weal and woe.

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

The old Li family has a cow, but it is not here in the farm. Usually the tenant rents it, but there is a horse here, but the old man is reluctant to let it do farm work and eat more expensive than Li Dandao because it can make money. He will be borrowed from time to time, and the magistrates will sometimes send yamen to borrow horses to support the scene, although it is a little old and can no longer be used on the battlefield.

There are also two sheep, not here either. This is the city. They have to go outside the city, on the field side, in the farmhouse used for work and rest. Usually, Li Dandao takes this responsibility and takes Yaya small sister.

  The Li family has books and family heirlooms. Even if the family property is sold, these books are not worth much.

   An Analects.

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

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

  The old man planned to buy a book a year, but unfortunately he didn't plan to succeed. For a few years, he was struggling to live and planning carefully.

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

   "The Chen family next door can't open the pot anymore. He started pawning his wife's jewelry. There are no two silverware in total." Li Qishi sighed.

The old man said: "Wait for the evening, send Shengmi to their house, ahem..., Chen Zaichong and I were in the same team back then, it's a pity, ahem... I came back, he didn't come back, the couple lost their youngest son again... It's really pitiful, it's almost peaceful now, help them out and let them get through the hard times."

  Li Fucheng nodded: "Tomorrow I'm going to the medicine store to buy some medicinal materials..."

  The old man said: "You have spread this medicine, but I don't see any use. My cough can't be cured... Ha!" The old man spit out another mouthful of old phlegm.

   Li Fucheng touched his nose in embarrassment.

   The old man leaned on his cane, turned around and went into the room. He heard a rummaging sound, and then another sound of closing the cabinet door.

When    came out, he took a small scale and something wrapped in silk.

  Open the silk, jade bracelets, gold rings, ivory wrench fingers, and other good things, all pulled from dead people and enemies. These are the trophies of the old man.

   is said to have robbed the mansion of a certain Xianbei noble.

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

  If it wasn't for the fact that he was studying for his second son, the family could not have more property before Li Dandao was an adult, and all of it had to be replaced by farmland. Now the old man regrets that shop, and feels that he has spent a lot of money.

   took out some broken silver, and cut off a corner of a silver fish with scissors.

   He took a small scale, squinted his eyes, and moved the scale to see the number.

   "One, two or three coins!"

   Now that silver is expensive, and Kaiyuan Tongbao has not yet come out, it is not that a tael of silver is between 800 and 1,000 yuan.

   Now we use five baht coins, which were minted during the Sui Dynasty. The coins of the new dynasty are being minted, but the circulation is still small. In addition, there is a lot of private money, which is not heavy at all, and some even use iron money instead of copper money... It is called small money, and there are relatively large copper coins, called big money, which are more important.

  The shape and quality of copper coins are not very uniform, so now one tael of silver can sometimes be worth three thousand yuan, of course, the premise is good silver.

  Inferior silver is the addition of tin, or white copper and the like, and the quality is not right at all. Some inferior silver can only be used for one tael of silver for three hundred pennies.

  The old man here is naturally real money.

"Don't buy some herbs that can be picked outside the city. Every day, you will be calculating your father's wealth. Ahem~ I haven't made a good coffin! The thin-skinned coffin was bitten by a wild dog~ Become a lonely ghost."

Li Fucheng hurriedly said: "How dare my son, some of the medicinal materials in the shop are infested with worms, some of them are moldy... They really need to be replaced... Although the business is poor, the people who come and go are the neighbors. If they eat badly, they will ruin our family's reputation. "Isn't my brother studying right now?"

  Li Dan said, "Father, I'll go to the medicine store with you!"

   "Why do you follow me to the medicine store instead of studying?"

   "I dreamed of an immortal. He passed on my recipe, which can cure grandpa's cough."

  The old man Li Baojing was furious when he heard this: "Li Fucheng, if you want to poison Laozi, don't ask Wa'er to do it!" With a slap, the table was shaken, and the teapot above was knocked out of water.

  Li Dan said in his heart: "Old man has deep inner strength! He will definitely know martial arts!"

   "How dare my son!" Li Fucheng called out to Tian Qu: "How could other fathers put such a crime on his son's head? Unfilial piety is a serious sin, let alone an unforgivable sin."

  Li Dandao quickly said: "If you can't eat a dead person, this must be something you can't eat."

The old man said to Li Dan gently: "Study well, learn the scriptures and justice from your uncle, and when your uncle passes the exam next year, I will send you to study at the Simen Academy. He doesn't have a bad medical skill, and his half of the scriptures have not learned much from Laozi on the battlefield from the captain."

   Li Fucheng was extremely aggrieved: "Everyone in the neighborhood came to me to get medicine... I didn't say it couldn't be cured..."

  The old man went to the battlefield, he was killed, he saw a lot of blood, and there were many problems on his body, but the most uncomfortable thing was this old phlegm.

  Li Dandao intends to develop some recipes for resolving phlegm. The old man is so angry, it must be poisonous from heat, phlegm is the evil of dampness, and the evil of wind-heat and dampness enters the lungs.

   Get some licorice, mint, fritillary, loquat leaves, platycodon, boil water and see if it dissolves.

  This is that the sugar in the cough syrup is gone, and licorice is used instead. Anyway, licorice can also relieve cough. It is quite a universal medicine.

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   (end of this chapter)