I Was Called a Poor Widow, But I Relied on My Supernatural Powers To Fight Back In Ancient Times

Bai Yunxi's face darkened when she saw the fourth child sulking.

"Fourth brother, shut up. Do you still know that you are a brother? If you want to be a brother, you have to act like one. Don't let your brother see the joke."

You bastard, you still want to fish in troubled waters like before, but there is no way.

"Although we have nothing now, as long as we work hard, we will never die of hunger. Mom has already thought about it. From tomorrow on, we will open up wasteland in the back mountains together."

There were laws in the Song Dynasty. As long as it was an ownerless wasteland, whoever cleared it would own it. Opening up wasteland was a great achievement.

Therefore, after registration, you can be exempted from paying land tax for three years. ♢

Even so, families with extra money would rather spend money to buy fertile land than go to the trouble of clearing wasteland.

Because the wasteland is barren and labor-intensive, the yield has not yet increased. The output value of one acre of land is not enough to feed one person.

Even if the land tax is exempted for three years, no one is willing to do it.

Sure enough, when they heard about land reclamation, the sons were stunned.

"Mom, the wasteland is not so easy to grow. Besides, the current wasteland is not close to a water source, and it is overgrown with weeds and cannot grow food at all."

Bai Anyan frowned and was the first to disagree.

"My son feels that if he has the time to open up wasteland, he might as well rent a few acres of good land as a tenant. Even if it is harder work, after paying the rent, there will still be some left over."

"Mom, my second brother is right. Opening up wasteland is tiring and hard work. In the end, there is no harvest. It is purely thankless."

This time Bai Anyi didn't cause trouble and just agreed directly. I don't know if he was overthinking it, but he felt that her mother was different since she kowtowed.

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‘I must let my mother put down the idea of ​​opening up wasteland. I am confused, but they are awake. ’

Bai Yunxi looked at the expressions of resistance from one or two of them, and her face darkened.

"In order to treat your father, our farmland has been sold. Now we only have two acres of dry land left. We can grow some beans, sweet potatoes and the like. It's just a supplement. If we want to rely on it to fill our stomachs, it's better to just dream about it." Faster."

Since Baiyunxi was determined to open up wasteland, Baiyunxi did not give a few cheap sons a chance to intervene.

"As the second brother said, you can lease the land. This is indeed a way, but as far as I know, one acre of land requires 50% rent. After a year of hard work, the harvest is less than half."

"Compared with land reclamation, the income from renting is just a little more than what you see before you, but the land you plant is not yours after all. As a farmer, what does it mean if you don't have land in your hands? Do you have to be a tenant all your life?"

"But mother, the wasteland is full of weeds. It's difficult to clean up, and it may not be profitable. If you work hard for a year and harvest nothing, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"

Bai Anyi said, stretched out his arm and touched Bai Laoer,

"Second brother, what do you think?"

"Ahem~, mother, what the fourth brother said makes sense. The risk of opening up wasteland is too great. What we need most now is food. If we rent the land as tenants, we can borrow food from the landlord. Although we will pay half a percent interest when we pay it back, we can do it now. Make sure the whole family doesn’t go hungry.”

Bai Yunxi saw the second child's anxious forehead sweating, and knew that the method she thought of was the safest.

But she didn't want to accept it. This family had lived too comfortably before and had no sense of urgency at all.

"You also said that there is interest on borrowing grain, so you do the math. Now is the summer season. If we want to rent, we have to wait until after the autumn harvest. The paddy fields need to be cultivated in winter. Only by transplanting rice seedlings next year can we have a good harvest. The harvest will not be until the end of June. ”