Lin Changyou felt that Captain Jin and his people should clear more farmland. That way, when the household responsibility system was implemented in their village, the villagers would get larger plots of land.
In their spare time, they could plant cash crops like Sichuan peppercorns, walnuts... and persimmons.
Captain Jin nodded in agreement, but then he recalled Lin Lan saying that the communal grain quota and agricultural taxes were paid based on the amount of farmland.
'He thought Lin Changyou had overlooked a problem: more land meant a higher grain quota to hand over, and the agricultural taxes would also be greater. It might be better to maintain the status quo and let everyone clear more land after it was distributed to the individual households.'
