A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 252 The Decent of Nobles

Taking the land deed of 32 mu of vegetable land in Qinglongfang given by Yang Gongren, he went to Wannian County to exchange the title.

Even Wannian County Magistrate came to accompany him in person.

Speaking of which, this county magistrate is also surnamed Yang, and also belongs to Hongnong Yang's family, but he is not from Guanwangfang.

"Yang Zuan, a male from Chang'an County, whose name is Xuqing."

Yang Zuan said that he had been the judicial secretary of Shuofang County in the Sui Dynasty, so Wu Huaiyu, who was about to go to Shuofang to be the governor of Yanzhou, humbly asked about Shuofang's situation.

Yang Zhuan is a good person with extraordinary conversation. During the Daye period, he was admitted as a Jinshi. His grandfather and father were both officials and governors. However, he was later dismissed because of Yang Xuangan's rebellion case and moved to Puzhou. Physician, Chang'an Ling and other staff.

He was dismissed because of a case before, but now Zhenguan Xinchao has been reinstated as Wannian county magistrate.

Although Yang Zuan came from a famous family, he has both talent and experience.

However, he is full of emotions about the current ten thousand year county magistrate of the fifth grade.

"Three lives are unlucky, and the magistrate is attached to Guo; three lives are evil, and the provincial capital of Guo is attached; the evil is full, and the capital of Guo is attached, and I am also full of evil," Yang Zuan laughed at himself. That is also a fifth-rank official, but Chang'an is the capital, and the third-rank is everywhere, and the fifth-rank is as numerous as dogs.

Not to mention that there are many relatives of the emperor, if you are not careful, you will offend a certain dignitary. This lawsuit will be more complicated and involve a lot.

It is very easy to offend the authority.

A little county magistrate, anyone can overwhelm him.

If it is placed in a local area, although the county magistrate is a seventh-rank, he is also a hundred-li lord, but in the capital, there are too many little daughter-in-laws who are angry.

"I'm envious that Erlang wants to rule Yanzhou."

"Yanzhou Yamen is still in Lingzhou City," Huaiyu said with a smile.

"That's just a good way to show off. In fact, if it's possible, I'd rather go to Yanzhou with Erlang."

After some chatting, Yang Zhuan took the initiative to bring up the matter.

"If Erlang wants to buy some more land in the south of the city, a certain person can help,"

There are ghost workshops in the south of the city, half of which belong to Wannian County.

Many of the land in the fangs are owned by the dignitaries of the capital, but there are also many in the hands of the government and the common people. As the county magistrate of Wannian, he was the magistrate of Chang'an before, of course Yang Zuan knew this very well.

As long as Wu Huaiyu wants to buy land, he can help with the operation, which is very convenient.

"It's just that the land price in this city is much more expensive than that outside the city, but it's still very cost-effective to grow vegetables, trees and flowers if you take care of it properly,"

Huaiyu was a little moved when he heard that.

The land in Chang'an City, even if it is a ghost workshop in the south of the city, is a good choice for growing vegetables. After all, there are so many people in Chang'an, growing vegetables is easy to sell, and the cash value is high.

Some powerful families even plant flowers directly, and the demand for flowers in the capital is not small.

Of course, it is also possible to plant medicinal materials, fruit trees, and even economic forests such as elm and mulberry. Even if the population of Chang'an increases in the future, it will be very good to expand the district and build houses.

In short, the fields in these urban squares in the south of the city have great potential for appreciation.

"In terms of price, it is about one gold per mu. Some good squares may be more expensive near water canals. If the land is large, it will be more expensive."

"However, most of them only want gold."

Yang Zuan's words did not dispel Huaiyu's thoughts.

"Brother Yang, please help me arrange it. I'll ask my family to send someone to look at the land and buy it."

"Okay." Yang Zuan was also very happy, this matter is just a matter of little effort to him, but it is also a personal favor.

Take the exchanged land deed and go to the craftsman's office, register and report, and then wait for the payment, then you can go back and wait for them to arrange a time for the artisans to build the family temple. Materials and labor are all covered, just pay for it. Don't worry about anything.

It was a great deal of money, but for the honor of the nobility it could not be spared, and there was no place to spare it.

If you are asked to build a family temple, if you don’t build it, you will be impeached. If the family temple is built, if the sacrifices are not in place, you will be impeached.

On the carriage back home, Huaiyu made some calculations in her mind, and found that the recent expenses were quite a lot.

The third child was engaged to a girl with five surnames. Although the bride price has not yet been given, it has already given [-] Guan to Wang Xueshi's Winery, which is equivalent to accompanying the family's wealth, not counting some expenses such as banquets.

Now I want to build a family temple, and I need another two to three thousand coins.

Before I got married, I borrowed two thousand coins from Qin Qiong and the others.

Fortunately, Qianjintang, Changshengtang, Baoyutang, Meiyutang, Bingyutang, etc. are all very rich now, and Wei Zheng was cheated a thousand times before.

However, Yang Gongren gave dozens of mu of land in Chang'an City casually like Yang Gongren, and Duan Lun and the others gave maidservants and concubines. It is still far away, and they still have to continue to make money.

Here, Yang Zuan has already agreed to give him about 200 mu of land in the south of Chang'an City. This will cost at least [-] taels of gold, and [-] guan for copper.

Lao Cheng has booked [-] houses of slaves, and he has to start looking for buyers quickly, otherwise, when the two or three thousand slaves enter the customs, Wu Huaiyu will not be able to afford it if he can't sell them.

Back home, Huaiyu hurried to find Fan Xuanfu.

"Is there any land to buy in the south of the city?"

Fan Xuanfu became energetic when he heard it, "True or not?"

"Nan Wannian County Magistrate Yang Zuan of Chang'an County told me personally, of course there is no fake, but the price may be a bit expensive, cheap ones cost one gold and one mu, expensive ones may be two or three gold."

"purchase."

Fan Xuanfu is a woman who wholeheartedly wants to be a landlady. She is as obsessed with buying land as the women of later generations are buying bags.

Although she has more than 3000 mu of land under her name, she is not too much at all.

"The family has no money." Huaiyu told the truth, the money owed to Qin Qiong for marrying his wife has not yet been repaid, and he borrowed money from the warrior Xun to get Huailiang engaged, and now he has to find the warrior Xun and warrior Leng for the money to build the family temple Brother borrowed.

"I have it." Fan Xuanfu was not polite, "Don't you know all about my dowry?"

"That's your dowry."

"Isn't mine the husband's? Buy as soon as you have land. There will definitely be less and less land in Chang'an City in the future. Let's buy more now, as much as we have."

"A hundred mu of land is at least [-] yuan?"

"Buy, the land doesn't grow legs. It's different from livestock. The wealth and hair don't count. The livestock will suffer from diseases and disasters. This land doesn't grow legs. Even if there are droughts, floods and frost locusts, they will still be there in the coming year."

"I heard that the landlords only want gold."

"What's the big deal, can't we get gold? At most, it's just a little more money."

Fan Xuanfu has even imagined buying three to five hundred acres of land in the south of Chang'an City, where some of the land will be planted with vegetables, some with flowers, and some with herbs.

"Buy it now, the land deed is done, and as soon as the spring plowing begins, we will plant auspicious corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes in the field. How novel it will be then, are you afraid that Chang'an Xun Qi Shimin won't come to buy it?

In winter, we can build more greenhouses and continue to grow fruits and vegetables. "

"Didn't my husband and my sister-in-law book a lot of slaves from Lu Guogong, and we will be able to use a lot of slaves for our newly purchased land?"

Huaiyu scratched her nose lightly, "One square in the south of the city is only five hundred acres in size, so let's buy less."

"Then buy [-] acres, it should not exceed [-] yuan."

"My lady, you don't have so much money in your dowry,"

"Borrow it from me, Aye, he is rich, and he is as rich as oil,"

Hey, this girl is really my father's caring little cotton padded jacket, she's going to lose her temper as soon as she gets married.

"Don't worry about this matter, my husband. I will arrange it. If you have the opportunity, you have to buy a land. Buying a land is the most stable,"

It's not easy to be an aristocrat either. To maintain the luxury and decency of an aristocrat, the expenses are too high. It's not enough to rely on a little salary and write epitaphs and inscriptions like Wei Zheng's.

It has to be a butler lady like Fan Xuanfu who can rake in money.

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After a few days of absence, Su Dingfang actually lost a lot of weight.

Recently, he ran to various yamen every day. Today he came to Huaiyu and told him the good news. Finally, he was almost done.

"The officers, soldiers, war horses, pack horses, iron armor, ordnance, food and grass of the two thousand soldiers and horses of our Yanzhou, I have finally run away,"

He handed Huaiyu a piece of paper, "This was given to us by Yang Shidao, the supervisor of military weapons. We were supposed to ask Weiwei Temple to get the military weapons, but the approval was never approved. In the end, Concubine Yang came forward to ask the saint for an order, and directly obtained the military weapons. The prison has specially dialed for us."

There were [-] town soldiers and [-] state soldiers in Yanzhou, plus [-] soil regiments. Yang Shidao pulled out [-] sets of armor for them, including [-] iron armors, [-] leather armors, and a matching rate of [-]%.

One thousand and six shirts,

There are [-] long spears, [-] cowhide badges, and [-] cavalry regiment badges.

Eight hundred pairs of crossbows and eighty thousand arrows.There are 12 pairs of bows and [-] arrows, including [-] armor-piercing arrows and [-] raw arrows.

Four thousand horizontal knives, eight hundred big knives, and eight hundred big sticks...

The equipment is pretty good. Although there are 100 soldiers, 600 are united soldiers. The equipment must be worse. The equipment is quite luxurious, although the armor is not 2000%. There are also one thousand and forty, and the state and town soldiers can reach [-]% of the armor rate, not to mention that there are more than [-] leather armors, enough for all [-] men and horses to wear armor.

"Where's the horse?"

"Our prefecture has [-] cavalry and [-] foot soldiers. Taipu Temple provides two horses for each of us as a rule, giving us [-] horses, not counting the horses prepared by the cavalry.

As for the pack horses, these should also be prepared by the selected government soldiers. Six packs for ten people, plus one for the wounded soldier, a group of seven packs in total.

In fact, the government soldiers also had to prepare their own horizontal knives and bows. Only spears, crossbows, and armor were provided by the court and stored in the arsenal at ordinary times.

This time, the imperial court gave them Yanzhou soldiers with bows, crossbows, knives and arrows, which were also used as supplementary reserves.

"The imperial court will also transfer [-] civilian husbands, and allocate a group of horse-drawn carriages, horse mules, etc., to transport grain, grass, salt and sauce with them."

Su Dingfang ran to various yamen every day, and his legs were almost worn out. Fortunately, Zhang Chengde, Liu Xu, Niu Jianwu, Wei Siren and other colleagues who were going to be transferred to Yanzhou helped share the burden. Otherwise, they would not be able to run after the fifteenth day of the first month. over.

"It's just two thousand soldiers, it's almost life-threatening." Su Lie sighed, the soldiers and horses hadn't moved, the food and grass had gone first, all kinds of preparations were really complicated.

Compared with his previous command of troops under Dou Jiande and Liu Heita, the biggest difference is that now there are more procedures and more formal.

"When shall we leave?"

"We have to let everyone finish the Chinese New Year. After the Lantern Festival, I guess it will be February before the official departure."

"How long will it take?"

"We have to get used to it. Besides, we are not in a hurry now, and there is no battle on the front line. We are rushing to drink the northwest wind or eat sand in the wind and snow?"

"Our main task is to regain Yanzhou, and then harass and destroy the false beams. The spring plowing has not started yet, so there is no rush."

State affairs, in the sacrificial and military.

Sending out troops to fight is subject to the unified arrangements of the higher authorities. Although Wu Huaiyu has already obtained the fish talisman for leading the army from Du Ruhui, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, he still has to wait for the order of the Ministry of War on the day of departure.

Without an order, Wu Huaiyu could not mobilize any of the two battalions of soldiers and horses that had assembled in the camp on the north bank of the Weihe River, and dared not mobilize them.

Su Lie was in a hurry. He took the initiative to come to Beijing this time to seek an official position. He was eager to prove himself on the battlefield. Wu Huaiyu was not in a hurry. Going to Shuofang this time probably wasn't a matter of one or two wars. It was a long-term exhaustion and exhaustion. , It's useless to be anxious.

"When will Erlang go to the barracks to inspect the brothers?"

"I won't go to the barracks until I receive the dispatch order." Huaiyu was very cautious. This is the capital Chang'an, and two thousand soldiers are still soldiers.

(End of this chapter)