Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 187
Luo Jizu is now the Lizheng in Nanshan, so he has some positions at hand, so he appointed his father as the village principal.Then, each of the six brothers of the Luo family was allocated two acres of house land in Nanshan Village. base.

It's just that the regulations are regulations, and the facts are the facts. It's like the rule that males should be granted a hundred acres of land, and middle-aged males should be granted half of the land, but in reality Nanshan Village doesn't have so much land to grant.

But since there is a convenient position, it must be easier in this regard.

The houses and gardens of the six brothers are all together, lined up, one person has two acres of land, so that there can be a garden behind the front house, one acre of house yard and one acre of vegetable garden are just right.

After dividing the land of the house, the elder brother and the second elder brother can't wait to start planning. After the preparation, they will start digging the walls and hiring people to burn tiles and cut down trees.

The Luo family's old house has rammed earth walls and a bark thatch roof. It needs to be renovated every year, but this kind of house always leaks when it rains.

So everyone plans to build tiles directly for the new house. Although the cost of building tiles is much higher, but now the Luo family is still an official family, and the landlord is powerful, so they are willing to pay for this little money.

Luo Cheng is not very keen on building a new house. He is not in a hurry to get married anyway, so he doesn't bother to take care of the house after the land is drawn down. Instead, he discussed with his brothers to renovate the old house next year, mainly to renovate the roof. The thatched bark was replaced with a tiled roof.

The rammed earth wall was re-pasted with some yellow mud, and a well was dug in the courtyard.

Not only Luo's family is planning to build a new house, but several of his brother-in-law's family are also planning to build a new house. The eldest brother-in-law Zhou Dewei, second brother-in-law Wang Ziming, third brother-in-law Zhao Gui, and fourth brother-in-law Zhou Xin are all working in the Yamen now, and all have official ranks and As an official, he also has a lot of reward money in his hand, and they are relatively affluent, so they think about building a new house first.

They also bought some land before, and now that they have scattered officials, the village specially made an exception to share some land for them, and now each of them has more than a hundred acres of land.

Building a house to buy fields, buying horses, mules and cattle, everyone is very happy to spend the bounty money. According to them, if you have money, don’t you have to do this?

The second thing he did after his ancestor became the head of the village was to take advantage of his position again to allocate all the fields to the Luo family.Originally, the Luo family only had [-] mu of land, but after Luo Cheng captured the blue-faced ghost, he divided it into another [-] mu, and after that, Luo Cheng had to buy a lot of land.

But the government allocated to the Luo family a total of [-] mu.

But the Luo family has five middle schools and two middle schools. According to the average field order of 520 mu for each town and [-] mu for every middle man, the Luo family can be divided into [-] mu.Ever since, Luo Jizu fully implemented this policy this time, and allocated another [-] mu of land to the Luo family.

Anyway, although the Luo family still has more than a thousand acres of land, everyone has official ranks and official positions, which are no longer within the limit of one hundred acres.

This kind of thing is actually a bit of using power for personal gain, but it's not too much.After all, after Nanshanli copied the Wang family, the largest landlord, last year, the officials had a lot more land, and it was reasonable to divide it.

It's just that Luo Jizu allocated 520 acres to the Luo family, and then allocated [-] acres to each family in the same village as Uncle Luo and others in the Luocheng County barracks.

Luo Cheng thought it was a bit too much to do so, but the elder brother said that they did the same way before.

One sentence blocked Luo Cheng, and he felt that this was the reason.Being an official does not seek convenience for himself, so who is so enthusiastic about being an official? After all, the head here has no salary, and all depends on the public money in the yamen to provide some benefits.

Before the eldest brother divided the households, his father gave him [-] mu of land, and now he immediately used the power in his hand to get another [-] mu for himself.

Dad simply gave him another [-] mu, so he now has [-] mu of land.

Although the new house is still under planning, the [-] mu of land has already been divided by the father. Brothers Jizu and Chengzong have to go around the field a few times a day. Although it is still winter, the land is full of It was desolate, but the two brothers looked at this place, but they could always laugh from ear to ear.

Except for Luo Cheng, each of the Luo family owns [-] mu of land. Only Luo Cheng owns a total of [-] mu of Yongye land and [-] mu of official land. He is considered to be the largest landowner in Nanshan. identity.

Originally, he said that everyone in the family would share the land equally, but the father said that most of the money and land in the family was earned by Luo Cheng, so he left more for him.

Luo Cheng's [-] mu of land is basically the original land of Uncle Wang's family. These fields are relatively fertile, but now they are all cheaper for Luo Cheng.

He built a few houses on the edge of the field, which were regarded as his farm estate, and the 25 slaves under his name were placed there.

Luo Cheng doesn't like the fields that much, unlike his father and brothers who love the fields.

He really didn't think there was much difference between a thousand mu or a hundred mu, since he didn't know how to farm anyway.However, after learning a little about the tax system of the Sui Dynasty, Luo Cheng still felt a lot of emotion.

Because he has an official status, he does not have a registered household. No matter whether he has a hundred acres of land or a thousand acres of land, he doesn't have to pay any rent at all. The rent costs two stones, but Luocheng has a thousand mu of land, and he doesn't have to pay a single stone for rent.

The only thing he has to pay is grain for righteousness, which is paid regardless of whether he is an official or not. He has to pay two liters per mu, and he has to pay twenty shi for a thousand mu of land. In addition, as a registered household, he has to pay another five shi.

25 Shi Yi granary, this is all he needs to hand over.

I have to say, it is really a privileged class.

It's so unfair, but as a part of the people who enjoy the benefits, Luo Cheng feels that this feeling is actually quite good.

Of the 24 mu of land, [-] mu is his own permanent land, and [-] mu is his job farm.All the Yongye fields are cultivated by his slaves. He can collect at least [-] stones a year for one stone per mu. The job is to collect rent, six liters per mu, and [-] stones per [-] acres.

Calculated, he owns these fields, and he can harvest at least [-] shi of grain a year, which is quite a lot.But if converted into money, in fact, the harvest of thousands of acres of land is not worth a few dollars.

Nowadays, one stone of grain is only worth a hundred dollars, and eight hundred stones of grain can only be sold for hundreds of dollars.

Of course, the field produces output every year, even if there is a drought or flood, there will be some harvests, but this is extremely stable.

The key is that the food production in this era is too low.

The yield per mu is actually more than one stone, which is still relatively good. If it can produce two stones, it is basically wheat or rice planted.However, growing wheat and rice requires a lot of water.

If you have time, maybe you can study it carefully and improve the cultivation level. These days, the land is still in the stage of intensive cultivation of dozens of acres of land cultivated by one person.You know, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the people at that time knew how to cultivate intensively, and one mu of paddy field could produce three or four grains of grain.

Even if there are three stones per acre, it will be two or three times as much as it is now.

If you double it at will, the income from the family's farmland can increase by more than 100 yuan, which is very impressive.

(End of this chapter)