Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 155
Zong Ze said with a smile to Sun Xin: "Now I have also seen the appearance of your Sun Family Village. You are indeed a very well-organized Zhuangzi. The owner of Sun Xinzhuang will have a fearsome future. As long as you develop well in the future, you will have a bright future."

He thought about it and wondered: "I came to the village today, and I have another purpose..."

"Zong Tong, please tell me."

Zong Ze slowly confided, and Sun Xin gradually understood. Zong Ze's attitude towards him now is not only because he recruited refugees, but also wanted Sun Xin to bear a little more tax in Dengzhou City.

There used to be many enclaves of princes and nobles around Dengzhou. These lands were not cultivated at all, but those princes and nobles would not come to clean them up, so they left them so barren.

However, although these lands are abandoned every year, taxes are allocated according to the good land. As a result, these taxes can only be allocated to other people in Dengzhou to bear.

After Zongze arrived in Dengzhou, he discovered this phenomenon, and immediately wrote to the court requesting that these unowned wasteland be erased from the tax collection books.

After a long game, the court finally let go this year. Zongze's behavior has created a great benefit for ordinary people in Dengzhou City. Many small farmers with only a few acres of land can survive for this.

It's just that the tax that the imperial court can get from Dengzhou every year is also much less, and the imperial court is also dissatisfied, so Zongze can only find additional big households everywhere for alms, hoping to fill up some vacancies so that the tax will not drop like a cliff. , and gradually decrease.

Before Zong Ze could finish his sentence, Sun Xin immediately agreed and took on the 180 shi money and food.

Today, Zong Ze came to Sun Xin's Zhuangzi for alms. He didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and he was very happy at the moment.

He excitedly promised: "Master Sun, don't worry, you just do it boldly. In the future, you won't worry that this Sun Family Village is not a rich and wealthy place in our Dengzhou."

He is more than two rounds older than Sun Xin, and Sun Xin only treats him as his own son and nephew, respecting and teaching him.

On the surface, Sun Xin nodded naturally and obediently, but in his heart, he did not change the slightest change in the development prospects of his Sun Family Village.

In the afternoon, Sun Xin set up several tables of banquets in his small courtyard, and invited Zong Ze and all the officials he brought to sit at the tables.

All the stewards of the head of the village in Sunjiazhuang came forward, several of them stared at each other, and they must serve all the visitors in the yamen well.

The scene was very lively, especially after seeing the hands of the wealthy Sun family, everyone praised Sun Xin again and again.

But Zong Ze was very sober, he just drank a glass of Sun Xinjing's Sunjiazhuang Baijiu and stopped drinking, Sun Xin and the others didn't dare to force Zong Ze's wishes.

When everyone was drinking comfortably and the sun was gradually heading towards the west, Sun Xin chased everyone to the door and smiled and asked a few dealers to carry a big red cloth umbrella over.

Zong Ze looked at the thing in front of him suspiciously.

The length and width of that umbrella is the size of an ordinary umbrella, but it is covered entirely by silk cloth, which obviously has no rainproof performance at all. There were notes one after another, and there seemed to be something written on each note. The notes were layered on top of each other, almost turning a big umbrella into a hood.

Sun Xin pointed at the umbrella with a serious face and said: "Your Excellency loves the people like a son, and as an official, he protects the safety of the people in this side like a giant umbrella. Now, in order to thank Lord Zong, our Sun Family Manor has set up a family business. The refugees pooled together money to make this umbrella for the adults, and it was named Wanmin Umbrella. Every piece of paper under the umbrella is the name of a Lumen who has settled down. People who can’t write can also draw on it. A circle and a handprint are stamped on it, although this thing is crude, but it is the heart of the common people respecting Lord Aizong."

Zong Ze was very surprised. Of course he couldn't be so stupid that he couldn't see that this was something Sun Xin used to flatter him. However, he did not refuse directly as Sun Xin thought, but showed a look of surprise to Sun Xin. Another appreciative expression.

Then he thought about it, and suddenly his face showed a moved look, and he ran forward a few steps as if he was very excited.

Looking at the umbrella carefully, he lifted up a few notes on the umbrella and flipped through it, looking at the crooked font on it, his face was full of emotion.

Zongze turned around and cupped his hands at the seemingly poor farmers who stood beside him: "This is not good, don't do it again, you are all poor farmers, and they finally settled down. How can I lose money for such a flashy thing, how can I feel at ease?"

He ordered one of his servants to leave the cost of making the Wanmin Umbrella at the Sun Family Manor, and he must not let everyone help him pay for this vanity, and then he asked his subordinates to carry the Wanmin Umbrella to everyone After a salute, sit in the sedan chair and leave.

Seeing Zong Ze leave, Sun Xin asked everyone to arrange those officials who were too drunk to go to a small courtyard with good conditions to rest.

Then he said to the leaders: "Just now, everyone is here. Regarding the resettlement of refugees, let's hold a temporary regular meeting. Members and alternate members of the supervisory committee will come, and some gentlemen from the village will come and record it."

After hearing this, the drunkenness on everyone's faces immediately disappeared. Some people quickly asked their dealers to get their notebooks, and some asked their dealers to bring out the things they wanted to say at the regular meeting. Sort out your bills and the like.

When Zong Ze was talking to everyone just now, although he was a one-week judge, everyone just pretended to listen and didn't really care much about it. But when Sun Xin said that a regular meeting will be held, everyone's attitude was different than what he had just dealt with. Zong Ze is much more serious.No one dared to ignore it.

Don't talk about the judgment of Zongtong, it's not easy to use, and now the only person who is really unambiguous in this Sun Family Village is Sun Xin!

After Zongze left for two days, a plaque was sent from Dengzhou Mansion. The words "Houze Township" were powerfully written, and Zongze's signature was written on it. Sun Xin ordered someone to hold the plaque high. It was hung on the main entrance of Sunjiazhuang, attracting many villagers to come to watch after work.

The old villager was not much better, those refugees who had just arrived at Sunjiazhuang had to come to the gate from the corner of Zhuangzi to take a look even if they walked for half a stick of incense.

Everyone was carrying hoes and leaning on poles to look at the plaque, and those who could read or not were all happily discussing it.

Although Sun Xin's Sunjiazhuang is already a huge force, but after hanging such a plaque, the newcomers feel that this Zhuangzi no longer has the feeling of a grass-roots team, and has become a powerful with a deep foundation. My expectations for the future are much stronger.

The work of recruiting refugees in Sun Family Village was finally completed. The number of farmers in the entire village reached [-], and the goal of reclamation went straight to [-] mu.

The whole Zhuangzi's machine was busy again.

(End of this chapter)