Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 751 Teach a man to fish

Ding tax, also known as "head tax", was levied on adult men between the ages of 16 and 60. Each person had to pay 100 copper coins per year.

Household tax is a tax levied on households according to their rank and household registration. Generally, each household pays 150 to 350 copper coins per year.

Field tax is the tax silver that land owners need to pay. Every year, they pay a corresponding proportion of tax grain according to the output of the land. Tax grain can also be replaced by tax silver.

If you buy or sell land, you need to pay a certain amount of tax to obtain a "land deed". However, this is only paid after the sale and purchase occurs, and is included in the miscellaneous taxes.

There are many sub-items under miscellaneous taxes, including tea tax, salt tax, wine tax, iron tax, and other special ones, as well as ordinary commercial taxes.

In addition to different tax rates, the collection is also very flexible and the time is not fixed. Moreover, new patterns and new varieties will emerge from time to time.

Miscellaneous taxes will have different tax rates depending on the location, and different places will also have different categories of items.

Many corrupt officials, many of whom committed corruption and abuse of power, arbitrarily added categories of goods and levied more taxes in the local area according to their own preferences, enriching themselves and making the people suffer.

However, Xichang Prefecture, as the poorest area in the Dasheng Dynasty, the imperial court, in order to encourage people's livelihood, set tax rates on many miscellaneous taxes much lower than other places.

It was similar to the tax havens in some places in the previous life. This was the reason why Hualei gave Peng Dong's liquor a discount.

Hualei carefully popularized some tax blind spots to the people below and told them about some local tax benefits. If they encountered something they were not familiar with, Rong Jin would help them fill in the gaps.

After these words, the people sitting below learned a lot of knowledge and were very grateful to Hualei. They also had more ideas and confidence in the establishment of the litchi processing workshop.

By the time Hualei left Changliang Prefecture, the first lychee processing workshop in Xichang Prefecture, similar to the "joint venture" in his previous life, had been established.

Moreover, they have been thinking about which barren slopes are suitable for planting litchi trees and they can buy the land first.

When the litchis are ripe, how to transport them? By mule or by boat? If by boat, it is impossible to reach every place. If by mule, the long journey seems a bit difficult.

Should we consider a combination of mules and boats? Should we buy boats first or mules first? How should we buy them? They found that they had more and more things to consider and do.

Seeing that they began to have their own ideas and thoughts, and were learning to solve problems, Hua Lei felt that even if she left Xichang Prefecture in the future, this lychee processing workshop should not have any survival problems.

The next day, Hua Lei and Rong Jin took a few people to check out the construction of the academy, because the local rich gentry donated the most silver.

Therefore, the academies built were relatively large, with not only the enlightenment stage, but also teaching buildings suitable for students and scholars, separated by walls.

After a careful inspection, Hualei was very satisfied with the academy's excellent construction. So, she rushed to the next state capital.

In the next half month, Hua Lei checked all the academies in the remaining states before hurriedly returning to the government office.

It is now the end of June. Because we are going to plant late rice, we need to raise rice seedlings again. This way, we can plant rice seedlings in mid-July and harvest in mid-November.

Because we have sedge compost, and Xichang does not need to keep warm in winter, there are still plenty of wheat straw and rice straw, which are very good for composting with sedge. Therefore, there is more than enough fertilizer this year.

This year, the ponds have sufficient reserves because there have been several heavy rainstorms before.

However, Hualei took into consideration that the next few months would be the hottest and most water-scarce period of the year in Xichang Prefecture.

Subsequent hybrid rice, corn, and sorghum will all require a lot of water for irrigation, and water shortages may occur. In order to alleviate this problem, late rice and flower buds are prepared to be planted in dry land.

In the past, when Xichang Prefecture planted dryland rice, they usually planted the seeds directly without the step of raising seedlings.

However, direct seeding has a very low yield. In order to increase the yield, Hualei decided to adopt the method of raising seedlings in dryland planting this year.

Growing seedlings in dry land not only saves water, but also saves labor. Moreover, compared with growing seedlings in paddy fields, growing seedlings in dry land also has many advantages.

Generally, the plant height of seedlings grown in dry land is about half a finger shorter than that of seedlings grown in water. This relatively short plant height is beneficial to the seedlings' resistance to lodging to a certain extent.

At the same time, each seedling will generally have one or two more tillers, which lays a good foundation for the subsequent growth and tillering of rice.

More tillers mean more effective ears, and they will turn green faster and mature earlier, making it easier to increase yield and quantity.

Choose a high, flat, sunny field with convenient irrigation to make a seedbed, and apply enough base fertilizer. This will ensure that the seedbed has sufficient sunlight and promote the root growth of the seedlings.

The seedbed is made into a trench-style, about half a meter wide, and the surface is made into a turtle back shape. This shape is conducive to drainage and ventilation, avoiding water accumulation and excessive humidity in the seedbed, which affects the growth of seedlings.

Before raising seedlings, dry the rice seeds in the sun for a few days, then soak them in clean water for twelve hours until white sprouts appear on the rice seeds.

Water the seedbed thoroughly, then sow the seeds evenly, flatten the soil after sowing, and cover it with a layer of fine and fertile sand and soil.

After the seedlings emerge, the soil on the seedbed should be kept moist and light fertilizer should be applied. When the late rice seedlings are grown, the early rice is almost mature.

So, they began to harvest, thresh and dry the rice. The vacated fields were plowed and exposed to the sun before being planted with late rice. So, the donkeys raised by the government were pulled out to start plowing the land.

There are more donkeys this year, so even though people rented a lot of donkeys to take home because of the mud cannon throwing competition at the beginning of the year, there are still more than enough donkeys in the government office.

Deeply plow the field, expose it to the sun, sprinkle it with rotted fertilizer, and then till the field again. When the rice seedlings have four leaves, they can be transplanted.

In the evening of the day before transplanting, the seedbed needs to be watered thoroughly with clean water to facilitate the transplanting and preserve the root system of the seedlings. Then the rice can only be planted in the most primitive way, with the face facing the loess and the back facing the sky.

The weather in July is very hot, with the ground temperature sometimes exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. In order to prevent the planted rice from wilting and burning.

Generally, the rice is planted in the morning and evening, avoiding the noon time. During the hottest hours of the day, people do not rest but start threshing the early rice under the shade of trees.

With the addition of threshers, the speed of rice threshing has increased a lot this year. Moreover, Hualei also made some windmills used in Mobei, and the speed of winnowing rice has become even faster.

After the rice is screened clean, it is placed on the drying yard to be turned over and dried. After about half a month, the rice will be completely dry.