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This pest disaster, if we talk about the ones suffering most severely, naturally it is those low-ranking Black Tortoise Clan families who have no means to resist the disaster.
For example, the Zhao Family and the Liu Family.
A rough calculation makes it clear that based on the previous example, if twenty acres of land have a seventy percent reduction in yield, there will only be 90 large copper coins in revenue. Tenant farmers will take away a guaranteed base of 30 copper coins, and then there are 40 copper coins in taxes, 10 copper coins in depreciation for plowing oxen, farming tools, and seeds, and 20 copper coins for the insecticide powder. Just these costs alone make the Zhao and Liu families not only earn nothing this season but also have to incur a deficit of 10 large copper coins per twenty acres.
