A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 208
Originally thought that Fan Xuanfu, the daughter of the state government, was not used to living in the countryside, but unexpectedly she got along with the women in the village in a short period of time, and she got along very well with her sister-in-law, aunt, and grandma.

"Everyone likes you very much."

At night, under the starry sky, the green tent is quite spacious, because there are so many people, the cave dwelling at home can’t fit in, so I brought a tent when I came here, and the weather is not too cold, so living in a tent and regenerating a stove is a unique experience fun.

"Sweet mouth, lots of courtesy." Fan Xuanfu said with a smile, he greeted everyone he met, and presented a carefully prepared small gift when he came up. Once he sold a few feet of floral cloth and one or two small jewelry, he would naturally win a lot of praise.

"Erlang, guess how much land I received today?"

Fan Xuanfu stretched out his palm excitedly, "There are more than 500 mu of land, and there are villagers from Longqiaobao, as well as villagers from several other villages in Dongli."

"The price you gave is so high, [-]% higher than the market price. Now that everyone is in difficulty, they are naturally willing to sell it."

The Wu family had 300 mu of land before, and Lao Wu also took over [-] mu of land before, and there are nearly [-] mu of land near Longqiao, not counting the brothers' land on the three plateaus of Bailu and Fengyuan. Hundreds of acres of land.

This time Fan Xuanfu offered a very high price for land requisition, and many villagers who were forced to make ends meet also reluctantly sold some of their land.

"Our family is now the biggest landlord of Jackie Chan Castle." She said proudly.

"If you don't buy land, our family is also the largest landowner in Longqiao Castle. My father used to have the most land when he had [-] mu of land."

Although the sale of land in the early Tang Dynasty was restricted and the land price was not high, no matter whether it was an aristocratic official, a powerful landlord, or an ordinary person, after they had money, they would immediately think of buying land and land, just like the later generations after 2000. Everyone is equally motivated to buy a house.

Nothing is as direct and reliable as buying land.

"It's a pity that in order to get the land, the promised land is still leased to them for planting. The rent is not high. If we can take back all the land and plant it ourselves, let's go to my hometown and buy some Wuximan. A strong man only needs about [-] yuan. Slaves farm the land, and the income is all their own. The land is connected into pieces, and the cost of farming can be diluted. Zhuangzi can also raise pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks, which can make a lot of income..."

Compared with simple land lease, the income of manor economy is much higher. Only small landlords or rich peasants like to rent out their land tenants, which is more convenient.

For big landlords or nobles, they are more willing to build manors, hold slaves, hire people to plant collectively, and even repair canals, dig wells, etc., and do some farming at the same time, which can greatly increase economic benefits, but this kind of manor The investment in the early stage of the economy is relatively high. First, there must be a large contiguous piece of land. In fact, the initial investment in slavery, raising large animals, and even digging wells and repairing canals is relatively large.

Of course, the income is also higher.

"Erlang, I want to tidy up our [-] mu of land here, and exchange the land with the villagers as much as possible."

"It's not easy to change the land. No one is willing to change the land easily. Usually, there are many quarrels because of the land competition."

"I won't let them change for nothing, give them money, or give them more land," Fan Xuanfu said. It is more convenient to change the land together, whether it is farming or diverting water to irrigate the land, and you can even dig your own wells to prepare for drought.

"Are you still bothering to take care of this?" Huaiyu asked with a smile. The two of them were lying in the green tent, feeling the atmosphere of the wedding night a bit in advance. Tangren's bridal chamber wedding night is actually held at dusk at this time After the ceremony, instead of being sent to the bridal chamber, a blue tent was set up in the courtyard, and they spent the night in the tent.

"I will always take care of the family affairs in the future. Erlang will concentrate on the big things, and let me take care of the house and farm." Fan Xuanfu has already entered the role of the head of the house in advance.

Buying fields, exchanging land, leasing, buying slaves, hiring people, even buying cattle and horses, building houses, raising pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, etc., she was planning there, her eyes were full of happiness.

It's a pity that her arithmetic is not very good and she always makes mistakes.

"I'll go and call Runniang, she's doing a good job."

"Let's chat more."

It's not too late at this time, and Huaiyu likes the two of them alone. Of course, it is impossible for Fan Xuanfu to sleep with him tonight. He is not married yet. This is not suitable for etiquette, so let's talk together now Will day.

After a while, Fan Xuanfu will sleep with her three good sisters, as well as their sword maids.

Fan Xuanfu had [-] mu of land in his dowry, and he originally had two Zhuangzi with [-] mu of land under his name, but now he bought another [-] mu of land and became a landowner.

"Xu Erganzi's mother is very pitiful. I heard that she used to be a very strong and capable woman, but now she is silent. I heard that she jumped into the river three times and hanged herself twice."

"It's about the same for any woman who has been spoiled by Turkic wolf cubs,"

Xu Erganzi's mother was very unfortunate. Not only was she ruined, but she was also rumored to have been ruined by seven or eight Turkic thieves. Even Aunt Xu, who was usually hot and capable, could hardly get out of that shadow.

Xu Erlen's younger sisters take turns guarding their mother every day.

Like Aunt Xu, unfortunately, she fell into the hands of the Turks and was ruined. There are still many in the village, and even a few women have disappeared.

It was this time that Tang frightened Xieli, and finally Xieli released many people who had been taken captive when he withdrew, otherwise more people would only be reduced to slaves on the grassland.

"As long as people are still there, this hurdle can always be overcome." Huaiyu can only sigh in this way. Although at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the social atmosphere did not pay as much attention to chastity as in the Song and Ming Dynasties, but even if this matter spreads to women in later generations, it is still difficult. It's hard to bear.

After this Turkic invasion, dozens of people died in Longqiaobao, and even the whole village was reshuffled. The original fifty military households belonged to self-cultivating rich peasants in the village, and even the families of the officers were small landlords. Many times, young and strong men died in the households of the imperial army.
The pillars of the couch.

The village was destroyed, the man who headed the house died or was disabled, some young women died or were ruined, the house was destroyed, money and food were robbed,
Green and yellow do not answer.

Many people borrowed money to bury their family members, or borrowed money to renovate cave dwellings. Many people more or less borrowed money, borrowed food and owed debts, and many people more or less sold their land.

The land in the village began to be concentrated in the hands of a few people. Many villagers who had [-] or [-] mu of land in their hands had become landless households. servant.

The Wu family is the one that acquired the most land, and also the one that borrowed the most food and money, and the interest was not low, but the villagers still had to call their Wu family benevolent and kind.

Other people's family borrows spring to return, borrows one lot and returns three, and even small fights come out of big fights to enter such things, the Wu family borrows one and returns two, and the amount of fighting is fair.

If the other family didn't have land or other mortgages and couldn't borrow money and food, the Wu family would borrow some for the sake of the folks.

It was also buying land, and others took the opportunity to lower the price, and Ba had to ask for money to take over the land, but the land the Wu family took was a little higher than the normal market price.

What's more, the Wu family confiscated the land and handed over the land to the original owner for lease, and the rent was not high.

Such a family is indeed a great kind person.

"Erlang, let's buy some slaves,"

Not all the recovered land was to be rented and planted by the original owner, and some of the land was even sold to the Wu family. Fan Xuanfu planned to find a way to exchange these lands together, so that Zhuangzi could raise slaves and collectively cultivate them. Do some farming.

"If you raise more cattle and horses on the plowing land, you can not only cultivate the land for your own family, but also rent out the plowing land to the tenants when the farming is busy. You can also pull carts and drive goods when you are free. The animals can also pair up and breed to make money."

Huaiyu admired it very much. It is the same at any time. After mastering the means of production, you can make money and make money by yourself, and continue to increase in value. Barely enough food and clothing, but in case of famine, war, disease, etc., it may be looted.

Buying a young and strong slave requires about [-] mu of land a year's income. Buying cattle and horses is equivalent to the output of a lot of land. Not to mention the cost of keeping slaves and raising livestock, but the income is not low.

Some landlords lease tenants to farm cattle, and they have to pay [-]% more for the annual rent, which is called cattle rent.

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It's getting late.

After all, Huaiyu was kicked out of the green tent by the sisters of the Fan family, and the sword maids of the Fan family took turns guarding outside the tent with their horses on their backs.

Fortunately, Huaiyu was not lonely when she returned to her tent.

Orchid Irina accompanied.

It's a very good experience to use the ground as a bed.

In the early morning, although he was still reluctant to part with Longqiaobao, and also reluctant to part with the two sisters who had just met, but he still had to go back because of his duties.

Back in Chang'an, Lao Wu still misses Longqiaobao. He was very happy to return to Sanyuan this time, but he was also very sad to see everyone's life is difficult.

Wu Huaiyu was already a little numb. When he was in Longyou, he had already seen many people who were persecuted by the war.

As the wedding day draws near, we still have to be on duty.

Early in the morning.

Li Shimin awarded Pei Ju, the prime minister who was nearly eighty years old, as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. This is the fifth Wude prime minister who was kicked out after Yang Gongren, Yuwen Shiji, Chen Shuda, and Pei Ji.

Pei Ju was almost eighty years old, yet he did not resign and become an official after being dismissed, but still accepted the post of Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

After he was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, he directly made a suggestion that for the common people who were tyrannized and trampled during the Turkic invasion, each household would be given a piece of silk.

Li Shimin on the throne didn't seem very satisfied with Pei Ju, and refuted him in public, thinking that households have different sizes and should not be based on households, and silk should be given according to the size of the population.

Although it was a trivial matter, Wu Huaiyu felt that Li Shimin was expressing his dissatisfaction with Pei Ju's ignorance.

Li Shimin glanced over the group of officials, and suddenly mentioned that when Li Tang was first established, the Supreme Emperor wanted to strengthen the clan to rule the world, so the distant cousins ​​of the same great-grandfather and great-grandfather as the Supreme Emperor, as well as the descendants of brothers, regardless of age, are considered to be children They are all named kings, and now there are dozens or hundreds of these clan kings.

"Is it beneficial to the world to enshrine the eldest son?" The emperor suddenly raised such a question and asked all the officials in the palace.

Originally, I thought that this morning, I would go through a formality early, and it would be over soon, but who would have thought that the emperor would suddenly raise such a question.

Everyone couldn't help cheering up, this question was unusual.

The right servant shoots Feng Deyi out of the class to play the right.

"Your Majesty, in all dynasties, only the sons and brothers of the emperor can be crowned kings. If the other clansmen did not have great meritorious service, they would not be crowned kings.

The Supreme Emperor treated his relatives and relatives kindly and kindly, and enfeoffed the clan arbitrarily. Since the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties, there have never been so many.

The noble titles conferred are high, and more labor servants are bestowed on them. I am afraid that this cannot show the integrity of the world. "

Li Shimin replied slowly.

"Of course!"

Wu Huaiyu was listening to the monarch and his ministers singing together in the palace, and it was obvious that he had come prepared. It seemed that after Li Shimin rewarded the monarch and his ministers, he was still dissatisfied with the clan and wanted to start fighting.

The emperor glanced back and forth in the palace, "I manage the world for the emperor, and I am the common people, how can I help the common people to support my clan?"

"You servant shot, how do you think you should adjust it?"

Li Shimin asked Feng Deyi again.

Feng Deyi was not sloppy at this time, and replied directly, "I ask your majesty to descend to the clan and county kings to be county princes, only those who have made great achievements will not surrender."

"Since the great cause, among the clan members who have worked hard, only Hejian Wang Xiaogong, Huai'an Wang Shentong, and Rencheng Wang Daozongye, Xiangyi Wang Shenfu, Yi'an Wang Xiaochang, and Changle Wang Youliang all have military merits. The six kings of this clan retain the title of county king. The county kings are all reduced to county princes, the county kings are lowered to nobles, and adults are demoted to three ranks.

Those who are underage and have no merit will have their titles withdrawn. "

Li Shimin came directly to be ruthless.

"From now on, the brothers and princes of the emperor can be named princes, crown princes, and county kings. The sons of princes, the heirs will be the heirs, and the sons will be the county princes. The heir to the king, the duke of the country!"

(End of this chapter)