The Han Tribe had implemented a tiered taxation system, with the tax standard directly tied to the number and ages of children a family had. Put simply, this taxation system was meant to encourage people to have and raise more children, increasing the tribe's population as quickly as possible.
After all, in this era, population was the primary productive force. Even if the Han Tribe had steam engines, someone still had to operate them, right? Moreover, the shortage of people could not possibly meet the demand for domestic industrial products. The sooner this problem was solved, the better. Luo Chong had exhausted his wits trying to increase the Han Tribe's population.
Iron Anvil and Guan Tao walked along chatting. Once they passed through the stretches of bamboo buildings, they immediately saw the glistening Small River in the distance, along with the fields along its banks.
This time, Guan Tao was the one explaining the situation to Iron Anvil. Pointing at the fertile land along the riverbank, he said,
"Prefect, we can grow three crops a year here. In early spring, we plant a crop of corn. After harvesting the corn in summer, we plant a crop of beans. Once the beans are harvested at the end of summer, we plant corn again. By rotating them three times like this, the corn and beans can both yield a good harvest."
Iron Anvil secretly nodded. Bamboo Island's main crops were corn and soybeans, and their cultivation history was probably very long—so long that its exact origins could no longer be traced. Their method of rotating corn and soybeans also happened to coincide with that of the Han Tribe. When the Han Tribe had introduced soybeans, Luo Chong had explicitly said that soybeans could increase the fertility of the soil, so rotating soybeans