A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 116 Immortal Fairy Wushuang
Go to summer to find millet, Bailu to cut the valley.

It's a pity that the millet in Weizhou can't be harvested this year. The raiders corrupted Longyou, and most of the crops in Weizhou were cut off by the Turks to feed the horses.

After the beginning of autumn with blue sky and white clouds, the maturity of autumn has been vividly reflected. The green fields in the fields have gradually become colorful, and the crops have gradually matured.

But now, apart from some millets in the mountains, some millets are still surviving, and the good crops in the river valleys have all been destroyed.

"Erlang's heart is too soft."

Lu Huairang saw Wu Huaiyu camping under Longxi City, still cooking porridge here to help the people, and couldn't help saying.

"They are all the people of my Tang Dynasty, how can you bear it?"

"Hey, they are all damned Turkic wolf cubs." Princess Wanchun cursed a few times, looking at the common people queuing up to get porridge, but her eyes were rolling, "You really want to take all these people to Zhang County? "

"Although the weather is still hot now, it will be cold soon. What will the people who have no fixed shelter and no food and clothing do? The salt industry in Zhang County was not harassed by the Turks and Qiang people, and the situation is not the same now. Okay, let's just bring some people over there, and the recovery of salt production will also require manpower, and the victims can also get paid for chopping firewood, picking brine, boiling salt, transporting salt, etc., at least they can survive this winter, right?"

Lu Huairang said: "It's very troublesome to bring so many people, do you really want to take the trouble?"

"You can't just ignore death, can you?"

"That's a matter for the local yamen," Lu Huairang said. He forgot that he was not only the staff officer of the camp and march, but also the Sima of the Qinzhou Governor's Mansion. He was the local official.

"Actually, if you want to help these people, there are other ways. Didn't you just get a new field? Pick some strong victims and let them go to your village to farm." Lu Huairang was talking about honorable and powerful people According to the usual operation, whenever there is a famine, they will take the opportunity to do this, turning the households of the imperial court into tenants of their own, and let them escape from the household.

Lu Huairang's proposal is very tempting. Huaiyu now has more and more land and is becoming a landlord. One hundred acres of land in Bailu Township, Sanyuan. Before the inspection and medical affairs were rewarded with one hundred acres of permanent land, and after the First World War in Weizhou, Chai Shao and rewarded him with one hundred acres of land,
In addition, there are still 420 acres of Yongye land for officials and honored officials, so he now has [-] acres of land under his name, of which [-] acres are Yongye, and [-] acres are divided into mouths.

This is not counting the hundreds of acres of land.

Longyou has newly added [-] mu of land, all in Qin and Wei prefectures.

If the newly acquired land is leased out, the income is not as good as growing it by yourself, but Huaiyu definitely has no time to plant it, and there is no manpower now.

The crown prince rewarded him with two servants, and Lu Huairang picked out a pair of Liaoren brothers for him. It is said that they were formerly captives from Yizhou.

Once you have a field, you have to cultivate it. It is the most cost-effective to start a farm by yourself, recruit a buddy or raise a slave to cultivate it. Slaves can be paired with slaves to give birth to slaves, which can continue to increase in value, and then raise cattle and horses. The land is produced every year, which is the most stable. of income.

Of course, buying slaves is not cheap. Basically, in the capital, the price of a strong slave is about [-] mu of land a year, which is about [-] to [-] millet.

Longyou's slaves are cheaper.

But in comparison, the nobles and tyrants prefer to poach the corners of the imperial court, lend money and then pay off their debts when they are not paid, or take advantage of the famine and war to lure those Ding Liangmin, who are registered as registered households, to abandon their registration and flee their households to become their slaves. Trilogy, tenants.

For thousands of years, this kind of thing has been going on. Even if the court expressly prohibits it, there are countermeasures under the policy. The nobles and powerful people will never give up poaching the corners of the court.

Even if Lu Huairang was the emperor's son-in-law, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this kind of behavior.

This time he took advantage of the battle in Longyou to secretly buy a lot of land at a low price, and he is still recruiting refugees. This guy never sees people when he is fighting, but he is very skilled in doing these things.

He likes Huaiyu very much, so he didn't hide this matter from Huaiyu, and even suggested to him to do it together.

Huaiyu didn't reprimand Lu Huairang. After all, the Wu family had done this kind of thing before. He had acquired a hundred acres of land in Bailuyuan before. Zhao Cheng's family wanted to join Wu Huaiyu. Huaiyu wanted to hire his family at first, but Lao Wu went straight to Zhao Cheng. He paid false debts, and then made Zhao Cheng's family slaves of the Wu family, and changed their surnames to Wu.

"Let's talk about this later." Huaiyu looked at the victims who lined up to eat porridge. Although the porridge was only so thin that people could be seen, it was still life-saving for these hungry people.

People in this state of starving to death are actually at the mercy of others. Lu Huai let such dignitaries take advantage of the opportunity, and the common people have no room to resist, and even have to thank them, because such opportunities are not available to everyone. , If you don’t get it, your family may starve to death.

"If you think this is not good, then you can buy Turkic captives and go back to be manor slaves. It's just that if you buy those Turkic captives to graze livestock, or even arrange for iron forging, it may be okay, but if you want to grow crops, it's not them. Director."

This time Chai Shao captured a large number of slaves. Several battles added up to seven or eight thousand Turkic prisoners. Originally, many Dangxiang and Tuyuhun slaves were captured, but because they professed their ministers and begged for peace, Chai Shao finally released them all.

Among the Turkic captives in Longyou, the leaders and nobles will be sent to Chang'an. They will be used as bargaining chips in the future, or they will be exchanged directly with the Turkic people. The Turkic people also have a large number of Tang people, including civilians and soldiers captured during the war. official.

For example, in the Battle of Taigu last year, Shi Wenyanbo, the Minister of Zhongshu and the commander of Bingzhou Road, was captured. The envoy was so bold that he planned to assassinate Xieli, and he became a prisoner when the incident happened, and accompanied Wen Shilang to herd the sheep.

Huaiyu has no plans to buy Turkic captives as slaves. Although he also knows that with his friend Lu Huairang, he can definitely buy some strong slaves at a relatively good price and take advantage of the court. Think about it or forget it.

I don't have that idea right now.

In the evening, stay outside the city.

Lu Huairang also specially prepared some lamb barbecues and invited a group of officers. After sitting there for a while, Huaiyu excused himself to be tired and left.

Now he dislikes Lu Huairang more and more.

He prefers to spend more time with Fan Xuanfu. Although he can't research how many ways Kunzi can be written, it's good for the two of them to chat in the tent alone.

Long night.

Huaiyu ate two sheep treasures just now, it will be a bit hot and dry, looking at the jade-faced young man Fan Xuanfu, he can't help but feel a little distracted, wanting to play tricks, but the white tiger doesn't cooperate.

What's more, when Huaiyu wrestled with her, he couldn't beat her, and she easily fell over his shoulder.

Again, another vajra arm.

Dissatisfied, he went up again, but was directly trampled under his feet.

"Impressed,"

"Sister Fu, let's sit down and chat."

"Hmph, don't call me so disgusting, just call me aunt."

Huaiyu frowned. He didn't like the way the people of Tang called them. It was okay to call men Alang, Xiaolang, and Dalang, but it was unbearable to call a beautiful woman as beautiful as a flower and jade as Da Niang Xiao Niang.

"In the future, I'll just call you Xuan Talisman."

"You should call me Xiaozi, there is no one who calls me by my first name." Fan Xuanfu let go of Huaiyu, walked to the side and sat down.

"Oh, I didn't know you had small prints, what are small prints?"

"My name is Immortal Fairy, and my title is as real as the sea."

Xuanfu, Immortal Fairy, this name and characters are really special, but what does the name Zhenruhai mean?
"Dharma-nature is really like the sea, where are the treasures of immeasurable merit?" Huaiyu asked.

"Returning to the ten directions, the dharma nature is really like the sea." Fan Xuanfu said.

Huaiyu is a student of Taoism, but Buddhism and Taoism are interlinked, and he also knows some Buddhism. This is obviously the meaning of Buddhism. The last of all Bodhisattvas.

The names and characters are generally chosen by the elders, while the numbers are mostly chosen by themselves.

The Zhenruhai number Fan Xuanfu took may represent her previous state of mind, Huaiyu said: "I'll give you a number, how about Wuliangshou?"

Fan Xuanfu readily accepted, "Wuliangshou, very good, I like it."

(End of this chapter)