Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 415 Back to Jingzhou

On the boat back to the city, Wu Meiniang was very restless, and Sun Xiangfu knew what kind of mood this little girl was having, because she was afraid of being scolded after returning, and refused to go back.

After all, she is still a child, no matter how smart she is, she is still a bit careless when doing things.

"Uncle Sun, can we not go back to Jingzhou!"

"Why? Don't you miss your parents and sister?"

"However, it's really boring in Jingzhou! Especially the master, who teaches those books every day, and even plays hands if he doesn't learn, but Mei'er has already learned all of them. It's just that the brothers and sisters don't know it. They You're so stupid, you always make me suffer along with you, hey!"

Wu Meiniang wasn't even interested in playing with the binoculars on the table anymore, she lay down in front of the desk with her hands on her face, looking like a little adult, worrying and sighing.

What she said made Sun Xiangfu know that the way the samurai educated his children must not be very clever. Even, due to his busy schedule, he didn't care about the children's education at all, and he didn't even know about his monstrous daughter. , at such a young age, he has so many ideas of his own, and he is surprisingly courageous.

Another characteristic of children is that they have no patience for boring things. For a person like Wu Meiniang who can memorize the Thousand Characters and the Analects at the age of six, you still ask her to memorize these things repeatedly every day. It's not crazy.

"It's not that they are too stupid, it's that you are too smart. People, the smarter you are, the more troubles you will have. You, you have to learn to put yourself in another place and be content. At least, you sneak out for a while, and you are better than your brothers and sisters." We played for a few more days, didn't we?"

Historically, this girl was dissatisfied, and finally sat at the top position. Of course, it is impossible now. Gaozong Li Zhi was not born because of the butterfly effect, and Prince Li Chengqian will not go into history. Sun Xiangfu has no ability to predict her old road and her future. However, Sun Xiangfu feels that it is very important to teach her these principles, and she will always be happy when she is content!

Wu Meiniang still didn't understand the true meaning of contentment and happiness, she pouted and said, "It would be great if I could play outside with Uncle Sun all the time."

Sun Xiangfu touched her head and said, "Uncle is not playing, he is doing business. When uncle's business is done, the people in the entire Shannan Road area will be rich and they will live a good life. Uncle will Will be very happy."

"Then Meier will help Uncle Sun to make them live a better life. Uncle Sun will take Meier to play around." Wu Meiniang seemed to have made a big decision and proposed her own terms of exchange.

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Okay!"

With his approval, Wu Meiniang had a gleam in her eyes, and she quickly answered, "Then we'll make a deal, but before that, Uncle Sun will help Mei'er pass this hurdle."

All right!This girl really has a lot of ghosts, and it turns out that she has multiple purposes, but Sun Xiangfu happily promised her that if she could establish a positive belief in her heart since she was a child, or a goal, with her talent, she should be able to serve her well. This country does many good things.

"Don't worry! Uncle Sun will handle this matter."

The official boat, which needs to be rowed by oars, sails against the current in the Yangtze River at a very slow speed. Sun Xiangfu took the opportunity to write down some ideas for the development of Shannan Road on board, but he didn't notice that the little girl Wu Meiniang had found a new wife My hobby is reading manuscripts written by Sun Xiangfu.

Not to mention, with her level of intelligence, it is not difficult to understand the vernacular written by Sun Xiangfu. Although limited by imagination and social knowledge, many parts are still unclear, but she already knows the overall content. Probably, when the ship arrived at Jingzhou Wharf two days later, no matter whether the content was fully understood, she actually memorized all the contents of those manuscripts.

Samurai Xun personally went to the pier to greet Sun Xiangfu. Of course, he didn't give Wu Meiniang, who was timidly following him, any good looks. If the guard who brought her before found out that the situation was wrong and confessed everything to Samurai Xun, otherwise, he would have been able to kill Sun Xiangfu. This father is anxious to death.

In the governor's mansion of Jingzhou, Wu Yuanqing, who saw Sun Xiangfu, his eyes were spitting fire, was still shut up in the Buddhist hall for introspection. After knowing the reason why Wu Meiniang ran away from home, the warrior Xun punished him bitterly, so when Wu Meiniang came back When she arrived at the mansion, the pair of glazed checkers returned to her hand.

Sun Xiangfu saw that her posture of reaching out to pick up the checkers board was a bit weird, so he looked at her and found that the clothes on her stomach were bulging, and immediately thought of his pair of binoculars, but he didn't tear her through. This is the second time for the little girl to steal from her. One day, she will return her money with interest.

"It's clear that I'm going to work hard, so please rest in the mansion for the time being. The old man will resettle the Miao people first, and I will come back later to discuss business with you."

"Mr. Ying, let's go! I can't sleep well on the boat for the past few days, so I will catch up on sleep in your residence for now."

"That's it, Zhengming will invite you."

He just welcomed Sun Xiangfu back to the mansion politely, and the samurai Xun went to work immediately. After all, the emperor asked him to do the main job of the Shannan Road chief executive, which was to relocate people, not only to relocate those ethnic minorities from the valleys After coming out, some people have to be moved to Guanzhong to make up for the shortage of labor there, and it must be done before next year's spring plowing. The work pressure is not too big!Now it is twenty-eight years old, and before the spring plowing begins, the warrior Xun can still move a group of people to Guanzhong for the last time.

I don't know if it's because of returning to his hometown. When Sun Xiangfu was in Jingzhou, he always slept very deeply. He closed his eyes for hours without dreaming. After waking up, he felt refreshed.

"The governor is awake, this is the information sent over the past few days."

Since Sun Xiangfu came out to handle errands, he would not leave Wuyinger's intelligence team with him. When he first arrived in Jingzhou, he dispersed them. It has been almost a month now. Jingzhou's various aspects, especially several Some news about Da's family was checked by the intelligence team.

Sun Xiangfu looked at the sky outside and knew that he had slept all afternoon. After washing up, he drank the hot tea that Zhang Ke brought over and read the information while drinking.

The imperial reorganization inspection team has arrived at the border of Shannan Road. However, it has not successfully implemented the official salary system and the citizen household registration system reform for the local government like Luoyang in Guanzhong. Please come to each house for tea.

Of course, this matter was expected by Sun Xiangfu early in the morning. He mainly looked at some data collected by the intelligence team after field inspections. These data and the official data provided by the warriors are very different The gap, such as the number of Dingkou on the general household registration book of the Dudu Mansion, etc., is quite different from the actual one.

For more than ten years since Li Tang established the country, in the land of Jingxiang, when there are floods every summer and autumn, some villages disappear. Because of the floods, the imperial court will supplement the local fields, but the fields directly fall into the land. In the hands of these local tyrants.

However, the local people have never received any rescue or compensation. Some capable people have indeed become water bandits, and many more have been beaten into hidden households by these tyrants, and they have become thieves for them. Serfs who farm and produce, because when the common people have no food to eat, they basically have no choice.

Of course, whether they become water bandits or serfs, their fields will undoubtedly fall into the hands of these tyrants. Therefore, the actual number of people in Jingzhou is at least [-]% more than those on the list. These people are A black serf who was hidden by local tyrants.

And the land actually controlled by the local tyrants is at least [-]% to [-]% more than the land registered by the government. They don't need to pay taxes at all to plant these fields, and no one is going to check them. The amount of millions of mu is just one season. They can escape hundreds of thousands of shi of grain.

Why are local tyrants rich?Planting fields at the lowest cost without paying taxes, can this not be rich?
"The methods of these companies are really quite typical. Zhang Ke, let someone quickly send a message to Jin Langzhong of the restructuring team. If those companies want land, you can sell all the original official land to them at a lower price. , not only the official land, but all the Shannan Road areas have been reclaimed, but there are still registered fields. The imperial court can register them and give them away for free, but they have to agree to one condition of the imperial court, which is to reform the new system Fully implemented, the black households and serfs hidden under their doors must be brought to the government to register and register, and receive the household registration of second-class citizens of the imperial court, and they must be explained to them that the imperial court can give them some benefits, but any Han people are prohibited from being slaves. Servants, if they oppose the imperial court's major policies, they will be regarded as rebellious."

"promise."

"In addition, tell Jin Langzhong that the governor is the imperial envoy appointed by His Majesty to handle the affairs of Shannan Road, and even Ying Guogong is cooperating with my work now, so he doesn't have to worry about being responsible for the crime, and everything is done according to the governor's orders."

"promise."

After Zhang Ke received the order to go to work, Sun Xiangfu began to think again, how should he respond if these local tycoons agreed to his conditions, or refused to agree to his conditions.

If you make a fuss about the fields, Sun Xiangfu has many ways to kill them. Relying on agricultural output alone, without commercial blessings, can at most allow them to obtain simple food and clothing. Moreover, there is no shortage of fields in the Tang Dynasty now, and there are even many It is the field, rather than returning the farmland in vain, it is better to offer it as a condition and exchange some favorable conditions.

Sun Xiangfu proposed to use the land to exchange manpower with these tyrants. In fact, he did not pay any actual losses, because these fields were originally in the hands of these local tyrants, and those common people, once they obtained citizenship, would no longer be It is these tyrants who can control it, because they will find that there are many jobs that they can do and can make money, and they will not need to continue to be exploited by those tyrants.

(End of this chapter)