In a restaurant with a beautiful environment.

The overall layout is like a jungle, and you can feel the atmosphere of a jungle picnic indoors. It seems to be specially prepared for dignitaries.

An artificial pool was even dug to pretend to be a natural lake, and the tables were placed in the clearing in the forest, where you can still feel the sunshine, because this is the highest floor of a high-rise building and can be regarded as a hanging garden.

Julfale was soaking in a pile of high-end beef, taking one bite after another, enjoying the meal. This kind of finely fried steak was much more delicious than the fried pork chops outside. Her entire dragon was buried in the pile of steaks.

Here, I ate from here to there, and from here to there, until my belly was round and round, and I was lying on the pile of steaks, burping non-stop.

She had never eaten such good food. She had always eaten killer frogs in hell, with very little salt. Now she suddenly tasted the delicacies of the colorful world of human beings. She couldn't hold back at all, and the meat was already stuck from her stomach to her throat.

However, the dragon's digestive ability is really terrible. She has eaten food that is about half of her body weight. However, the food is quickly digested and converted into energy, which is dispersed throughout the body and becomes her growth

of nourishment.

This kind of energy and appetite is actually not normal for a young dragon, but well...

Just be healthy.

On the other side, although there was also a piece of fried high-quality steak beside his mouth, Vicino was staring at a piece of burning wood, concentrating on it, as if he was doing something very important.

He was observing the difference between the flames he created with magic and the flames produced by combustion phenomena. What role did magic play in it?

He is trying to add magic power to the normal combustion phenomenon to see what kind of reaction there will be. He is immersed in his own little world and has almost no reaction to the outside world. He even forgets that his mother is not around.

According to his usual habits, he would definitely cry loudly in fear after realizing that his mother was missing, and then his sister and mother would run over.

I can't help it, he is my younger brother after all.

While the two little dragons were doing their own thing, Livia and Kara faced each other, and the atmosphere was not very friendly.

Kara looked calm, but Livia was nervous.

The reason for her nervousness was simple: she couldn't beat Kara.

Normally speaking, a maid with level 9 life skills will definitely not be able to defeat a level 8 combat skill.

However, Kara could not be described as normal. If Livia really took action, her hope of survival would be slim.

Moreover, in her impression, this wet nurse was very... cruel.

Although the King of Monsters and his family are not good people in the traditional sense, from Livia's point of view, Kara undoubtedly gave her a considerable shadow in her childhood.

She has not liked this wet nurse since she was a child, and the wet nurse doesn't like her very much either, because Livia knows that this wet nurse has always been hostile to her biological mother.

This family relationship is indeed quite chaotic, but that's the truth.

"What are you doing here?" Livia asked first.

"...I'm here to take a look at you, and by the way, let you take a look at your younger brothers and sisters." Kara said, looking at the two little dragons in the distance.

The children didn't notice the gaze at all. The young dragons were not distracted yet. Although they were smarter than human babies, they were essentially the same as human babies. It was difficult for them to be distracted. Once they noticed something, they would

You will ignore things around you.

"..." Livia didn't expect this answer. At the same time, she realized something and looked at the two little dragon cubs. One was brighter. Although it couldn't move, it still insisted on stuffing it into its mouth.

The other one was covered in ashes, lying on the ground trying to inject magic into the fire, but always failed, but still persevered and continued to think of a solution, scratching its head and head like a primary school student solving equations.

"Your... child? And, father's?" Livia turned her head, her tone unbelievable.

"That's right." Kara nodded, her eyes rarely losing their original indifference. Although it couldn't be said to be very tender, at least it didn't look like she was rejecting others. She said, "After having them,

I think there have been some changes, so I would like to take this opportunity to come and see you."

This conversation made Livia feel uncomfortable.

"Okay, don't put on that expression and let's talk about business. We should wait until father comes to talk about this kind of thing." She said in a stiff tone.

"...Okay, but I actually have nothing serious to do here. It's probably just these, tell me about your business." Kara didn't say much, just said to Livia.

She had actually expected such an attitude, after all, the relationship was not very good.

"I don't have anything to do here, but... I want to ask about your father. What has he been doing recently?" Livia changed the topic, her tone was still calm, but her attitude was a little urgent, and she could even say

He asked impatiently, but he pretended to be very nonchalant.

"What to do? The standard laws of the empire, as well as land matters, this is his direction in the next few years." Kara did not hide it, in fact, there was no need to hide it.

Livia is trustworthy, and she is also an important part of the King of Monsters' arrangement. There is no need to hide it from her.

"Regulating laws... land matters? I shouldn't be able to help with this, but what exactly does he want to do? If I know, maybe I can give him some ideas." Livia continued.

Of course, Kara did not hide anything, and truthfully told the truth about the problems Lu En faced and the decisions he made.

However, the more she listened, the more serious Livia's expression became.

As the de facto ruler of the Star Maple Kingdom, she was aware of many of the problems her father faced, but she did not expect that there was such a deep meaning in them.

But when I think about it carefully, I find that what my father envisioned is correct, and there is every reason to pay attention to it.

In the agriculture of the Star Maple Kingdom that Livia knew, when calculating taxes, farmers' fields would be divided into four categories, and different taxes would be levied on each category.

In each rural household that is an independent unit, the land owned by the farmer will be divided into the following four parts.

The first part is the production of food to feed the laboring family and the workers living in the farmer's home. In a narrow sense, this is the food area of ​​the farmer's family, called food land, and a minimum agricultural tax is levied.

The second part is the feed supplied to the livestock working for farmers, which is called the feed area. Different levels of tax are levied according to the number of livestock. If there are too many livestock, the highest level of agricultural tax may even be charged.

The third part includes homesteads, roads, ponds, etc. and the part of the farming area that provides seeds. It can be called the operating area because it serves all operations and no tax is charged on this part.

Finally, the fourth part is the production of unprocessed or processed grain and other crops that are sold by farmers in the market. This is the commercial planting area of ​​farmers. In each individual farmer, the land is divided into the above four parts. Specifically,

How to divide it depends on the type of crops grown. For example, those who grow cash crops will be classified as commercial planting area, and those who grow staple food will be levied a food area tax.

However, there is an upper limit on the staple food area, which is the number of people in the farmer's family multiplied by two acres. That is, for every person in the family, there are two more acres of food tax area. Staple food planting area exceeding this area will also be counted as the fourth part.

Commercial planting area, because the uneaten food will definitely be sold.

At the same time, Livia also knows that the income of a farmer depends on the commercial cultivation part of its land. Therefore, the larger the area, the higher the relative value of the products produced on it, and the greater the demand that the farmer household owner will put to the market.

, therefore, the more non-agricultural labor a country can maintain within the scope of its own market, the greater the significance of agriculture to the country's taxation and culture, and the net income of the household head itself and the funds he uses for agricultural expenditures and agricultural improvements will also be

The more.

In other words, the more important farmers are, the higher their status will be.

But now, Livia suddenly noticed another thing in the conversation that she had ignored, which was something in her father's concept.

That is: the degree of importance to the country, to all people and society.

It is true that it is important to divide the market area of ​​agriculture from the entire economy.

However, the meaningful part of the domestic market is definitely not just the total income of producers.

Although this part determines the producer's wealth, in the final analysis it only represents his monetary income.

However, the ownership of money is in no way determined by the wealth of the producer.

Needless to say, wealthy farmers need not say much.

Those middle-class farmers, that is, farmers who get enough products for their own consumption from their own land and engage in natural economy, enjoy a prosperous life, but they have no money, but they have enough food and clothing, they have livestock, and they do not need to pay land rent.

, because they are all homesteaders, their lives are better than most people.

But the other group, the semi-bankrupt farmers who only get a small part of the grain they need from the land and must rely on accidental "external water" to get another part of small quantity and poor quality grain, cannot enjoy a prosperous life, but they can't enjoy a prosperous life.

There is money, because they do not have enough land to grow staple food, so they have to plant all the land they have, including the rented part, into cash crops to fill their stomachs.

It can be seen from this that any conclusion about the significance of the peasant economy and its income to the market will not be of any value if it is only based on the calculation of monetary income.

She immediately recalled this year's agricultural economic report from her mind, which clearly recorded:

Families with more than 50 acres of land and less than 100 acres of land receive an annual monetary income of more than 150 star maple silver coins. This is the average calculated by the statistics department.

Families with more than ten acres of land and less than thirty acres of land earn 191 star maple silver coins every year. Farmers with more land than farmers have an unusual increase.

As for the third part, families cultivating less than ten acres of land only receive 30 Xingfeng silver coins. In other words, the increase in total monetary income from business operations is not proportional to the sown area.

Moreover, all these operating expenses are very small compared with the main expenses used by farmers to maintain their labor force. Therefore, this phenomenon can be understood in this way, that is: the economic benefits that farmers obtain from each mu of land when operating agriculture increase with the scale of operations.

shrink and decrease.

What will happen?

Livia is a very smart person, otherwise she would not have been able to thrive in the empire, and even got a girlfriend back home. She almost immediately realized what this would bring.

The scale of operation of the poor peasants is very small, and agriculture alone cannot meet all the needs of the family. In order not to starve to death, these lower-class households have no choice but to take their labor power to the market and sell it so that they can get a certain amount of money, so that they can earn a certain amount of money.

To a certain extent, it offsets the reduction in demand caused by the reduction in business scale.

In other words, farmers have moved into the city.

Become a worker.

As for the Star Maple Empire, where did its progress and income come from over the years?

From chambers of commerce and workshops! From expanding industry and commerce! (If you don’t remember this, go back and read it)

Poor farmers play the role of providing a large number of laborers who go out to make a living. This can be clearly seen from the fact that agricultural operations cannot provide them with the products necessary to maintain their own lives!

It's a pity that the Star Maple Kingdom is completely unaware of this, not even Livia. The statistics department doesn't even have accurate information on the number of laborers who go out to make a living, so that Livia can't even come up with an exact number now.

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To be continued...