Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19 The Young Master and the Master
Early in the morning, Xu Qing recalled the way of Taijiquan. He played Taijiquan slowly and gracefully in the yard. Xu Qi let the chicks out to feed, and Xiaoyue and Xiaoru were busy cooking. Liu San took the donkey and the sheep out for a walk, to eat some grass, and everything seemed calm and leisurely.

Since Liu San came to Xu Qing's house, he smiled brightly every day. Now he has all the chores in Xu Qing's house, not many, such as herding sheep, carrying water, and guarding Xu Qing's gate when he is free. Looking at the field outside, thinking about when he can plant three acres.Xu Qing gave him three renminbi a month. Although it was not much, it would take several years to save up to buy a piece of land, but people always have a pursuit.

After breakfast, Liu San had nothing to do, and sat on the threshold to doze off as usual.

"Hey, hey, wake up..." It turned out to be Housekeeper Zhao, who went to Xu Qing's house for a "walk" according to Hu Fu's instructions.

"Who is it?" Liu San stretched his waist.

The upper beam is not upright and the lower beam is crooked, and the servants are lazy during the day, so the master's laziness can be imagined. Butler Zhao looked at it and shook his head and asked, "Is your master at home?"

"Hey, why, you are not from Zhuangzi, why are you looking for my master?"

"Call out your master, and say that the Hu family is here..." Butler Zhao held his head high.

"No..." Liu San said without showing weakness.

"You..." Butler Zhao was not angry at all. Usually in the village and at home, except for the gentlemen who didn't give him face, they always flattered him. "I have an urgent matter with your master, you can't afford to delay anything else!"

"Well, you wait..." Liu San still put the matter first, ran in, and then ran out immediately, looked at Butler Zhao vigilantly, and closed the door with a "bang". Splits.

Housekeeper Zhao waited patiently for a while, and the door opened again, only to see a young boy walking out lazily, feeling puzzled for a while.

"Hmph, I saw your master, why did you invite the young master out, I want to discuss it with you..."

"Your Excellency has gone out, I have the final say here..." Xu Qing interrupted without waiting for Butler Zhao to finish speaking. He heard Liu San say that this person was not kind.

"Okay, okay... I have seen it today. There are still people in Luonan who don't give face to the Hu family..."

"It's nothing, I'll just go in," Xu Qing made a gesture and walked back immediately.

"Hey, come back and tell your lord that Xu Zhuang's tenants will come to my Hu family to do meritorious work tomorrow..." Butler Zhao said arrogantly.

"Why?" Xu Qing turned around and said.

"You... I belong to the Hu family. Why do I have to ask? Your family still has a little money. The adults in the family have traveled all over the world to earn this property. Don't offend people in the officialdom... "Steward Zhao took a deep breath, thought about the energy of the Hu family, and couldn't help feeling confident.

"Official? The magistrate of Luonan County doesn't believe Hu..." Xu Qing finally got a little clue, and he was thought to be bullying at will by a lost businessman.

Butler Zhao was at a loss for words for a while, the county magistrate was really a mountain to them, the Hu family was really a mountain, the biggest official in his family was Li Zheng, who was in charge of the taxes and labors all around.Butler Zhao regained his breath, and smiled instead of anger: "Hmph, that's good, today you offend the Hu family, don't ruin your family..." Butler Zhao left with a harsh word.

At noon, the men who were digging the pond came back, they called Xu Qing out, and they said something about Housekeeper Zhao, the Hu family, etc. Obviously they were also afraid that the Hu family would trip them up.

Since ancient times, the people have not fought with officials. Although the Hu family has only a small Lizheng, and there are two officials who are a little bigger than sesame seeds, it is a piece of sky in the eyes of the people.

When they heard that Xu Qing was actually an official, they all expressed shock. They only knew that there was a master here. They didn't know why. Trembling, the eyes looked at Xu Qing obviously differently.

Xu Qing comforted them and asked them to continue digging the pond, but he thought in his heart that Luonan was originally a simple country, but now it seems that there are poisonous insects.

After all, Xu Zhuang's farmers didn't go to Hu's house, and housekeeper Zhao didn't come again, but a ridiculous conspiracy was taking place in Hu's house. The reason why it was ridiculous was that they still treated Xu Qing as a businessman.They discussed that in the spring of next year, after the spring service, they would distribute more "housebreaking service" to Xu's family.

As the name suggests, housebreaking is hard labor that can directly bankrupt a family. There are many kinds of such hard labor, such as delivering food.Assuming that the higher-ups want to send ten shi of grain to the border, there must be no ten shi from the warehouse, and the grain is still impure, including straw or even sand, and then there is loss on the road, plus layers of overt and covert exploitation. , up to 8 shi when it reaches the border warehouse, and the rest must be subsidized by yourself.

If you don’t subsidize it yourself, you will be greedy for military food in Mexico. If you subsidize it yourself, ordinary middle-class families will go bankrupt and sell their fields and land.If it is delivered late, the military plane will be delayed, and the head will be killed for distribution. Therefore, the folks call this type of service and family service, but it is rare, and it is usually distributed to wealthy families.

Needless to say, this plan is still very lethal to ordinary businessmen who have settled down, but Xu Qing, he is an eighth-rank official, not only exempted himself, but also exempted many family members. The tenants of Xuzhuang came with the fields. Those who go to Xu's house can be exempted if they want to say, but it's just a matter of sidelines.The Hu family's plan has not yet started to be implemented, but it has been unintentionally ruined, so it is ridiculous.

The construction of the pond went smoothly. Counting the time for digging the well, the work was completed in 20 days.The weather is also cold at this time, the most important thing for each family is not to make money, but to prepare food and firewood for the winter, and to repair the house before it snows, so as not to be crushed by the snow and hurt people.

At this time, Xu Qing is thinking of making money in every possible way, because now he really doesn't have much money, and he can use it for a year.How to do a little business?Travel through the six artifacts, green vegetables, spirits, toilet water, gunpowder, potatoes and horseshoes, which can be used from making money to making meritorious deeds to becoming kings.

But it's too difficult. It costs too much to build a greenhouse, the cost of spirits is high, and toilet water is also very difficult. Moreover, there is no market for him now. He doesn't know the legendary generals who drink alcohol. It is useless to create him. .Gunpowder can’t be made, and it will be kept as a backup in the future. If the emperor is offended, he will be bombarded. The potatoes are still in America, and the horseshoes are not needed now. Xu Qing bitterly denied these one by one.

While Xu Qing was thinking hard, Xu Qi ran over bouncingly, covered Xu Qing's eyes, "Chu sixth brother, eat..." Then he fed a jujube-sized thing into Xu Qing's mouth, Xu Qing once Biting, saliva flowed, it was so sour, so sour that the nerves in the mouth were disturbed, and the endocrine disorder was so sour that Xu Qing almost threw Xu Qi away.Seeing that Xu Qing almost peed sour, Xu Qi gloated and giggled.

hawthorn?Xu Qing came back to his senses, that's right, there are candied haws!There was no rock sugar in the Tang Dynasty?Then use maltose!Anyway, it's almost winter, and when the weather gets cold, the sugar can freeze.

"Hahaha, okay, candied haws..." Xu Qing hugged Xu Qi and kissed her: "Hahahaha... candied haws!" Xu Qing looked at this little girl, getting more and more cute, what a treat Beauty blank.

Xu Qi was frightened to death, and struggled away, shouting while running with a panicked face:
"The sixth day is crazy, come quickly, you are as small as Xiaoyue, the sixth day is crazy!"

(End of this chapter)