Chapter 58 Wang Mei, The Unremarkable Head of Household_1
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The worst affected by this locust disaster were naturally those low-ranking Profound Martial clans who had no means to combat the disaster.
Like the Zhao and Liu Clans.
A rough calculation would illustrate just how much they lost. Using the previous examples, a 70% crop failure on twenty acres of land would only yield 90 Copper Coins profit. The tenant farmer would take away 30 Copper Coins as a baseline, then 40 Copper Coins would go to taxes, 10 Copper Coins for oxen, farming tools, and seed amortization, and 20 Copper Coins for insecticide powder. Just these expenses alone left the Zhao and Liu Clans not just without any grain harvest for the season, but they had to spend 10 Copper Coins for every twenty acres of land.
For the Liu Clan, their various farming estates totaled over ten thousand acres of fertile land. Therefore, not only did they not make a single shilling, they had to pay out 50 Qian Gold.