Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 39 The Lord
"Yeah, it's delicious. I didn't expect the sixth brother's cooking skills to be so good. I admire..." A man who looked like a scholar was eating nonsense on the stove, and he didn't see the scholar's gentleness at all. It's Shangguanyi.

It is said that Shangguanyi was invited by Xiaoyue to be a rescuer. After Xu Qing was taken aback, he was bought by one of Xu Qing's fried eggs, and then fell into a few dishes of cucumber scrambled eggs, egg drop soup, and fried vegetables. I was beaten into submission by a plate of fried rice with eggs.

Afterwards, everyone in Xu's house, except Liu San who went out to castrate pigs, tasted Xu Qing's craftsmanship, Xu Qing and Xun Xue'er were a little busy.Although Xiaoyue and the others were addicted to Xu Qing's cooking at that time, after wiping their mouths after eating, they refused to let Xu Qing enter the kitchen again, saying that they only need to tell her how to cook in the future, and Xu Qing has nothing else to do. .

At this time, the chaos in Hebei was finally cleared up. Li Shimin's class teacher returned to the imperial court, rewarded meritorious deeds, and sent a letter of imperial decree to all parts of the country, one of which was sent directly to Luonan. There is only one name in the imperial decree for a craftsman of people and horses, and it is naturally Xu Qing.

A few days later, in Xuzhuang, Xu Qing burned incense to set up a case, cleaned and bathed, and waited in front of the gate with a group of family members. Shangguanyi was also pulled over to support the scene.After a while, the sound of suona, gongs and drums in the distance changed from small to loud, and a team of hundreds of people arrived in front of the Xu Mansion. , was pressed down again by the adults.

"The imperial decree has arrived! Xiaoqi Wei Zhenwei Xiaowei Front Ya General Xu Qing received the decree!" The eunuch sang loudly.

"Minister Xu Qing accepts the order!"

"The edict said: Colonel Xu Qing, who was heroic in the Battle of Hebei, made outstanding achievements repeatedly, and presented horseshoes and fried rice. His contributions are indispensable. He is specially named a male in Luonan County, with three hundred households in Shishi City, and bestowed on Yongye. 500 mu of land, plus guerrilla generals, riding captains, granting land according to grades, and the Ministry of Industry will approve materials for craftsmen to build houses. This is it!"

The imperial decree was written in a simple and clear manner, but Xu Qing was still in a daze for a while, how could he be knighted!After the feudal title, everyone is counted as a vassal. He is a nobleman among the nobles. No matter how big the official is, he is only a hero among the people. However, if he is granted a noble title, he is regarded as a prince. Although the feudal system has been abolished for nearly a thousand years, this kind of fiefdom It feels so cool to say what is what.

"Master Xu accepts the order?" the eunuch reminded with a smile.

"Thank you Long En..." Xu Qing excitedly accepted the imperial decree, and the eunuch said again: "Your Majesty still has an oral order..." Xu Qing was about to kneel down again after hearing this, and the eunuch gave him a hand: " There is no need to kneel this time, His Majesty told our family to say it secretly."

"Grandpa Xu take a step to speak..." The eunuch pulled Xu Qing away a little, and said in Xu Qing's ear: "Your Majesty ordered that Master Xu go to Beijing to face the saint after he recovers from his injuries." Xu Qing listened in his heart Slightly surprised, this thing is exquisite, after the injury is healed, go to Beijing to face the saint, when will the injury be considered healed?It's not the wound that has the final say, but the emperor.If you go early, you are not injured, and you lied to deceive the emperor. Although Xu Qing doesn't know how the emperor knew that he was injured, if you go late, it is a serious crime of negligence and disrespect. Who can figure out the time, of course, only the eunuch in front of him is the most serious. Reliable.

Xu Qing took out an ingot of gold from his pocket, quietly handed it to the eunuch, and asked, "I don't know if my father-in-law can teach me." The eunuch took the things calmly and said, "Master Xu is a wonderful person, let me tell you, two The month is exactly right."

The eunuch didn't delay after finishing speaking, and left with some guards. Xu Qing was also smiling, except for Shangguanyi's envious and jealous expression.At this moment, everyone also stood up. It turned out that there was only one supervisor left in the team, and it seemed that he was the leader of the group. He came over and asked Xu Qing to say goodbye: "Master Xu, come down!" Officials are in charge of publicity, and they are the nine-rank supervisor of the Ministry of Industry."

"Oh? Construction supervisor? Is it the house builder?" Xu Qing said.

"Uh, uh, not all, our group has twenty craftsmen who will build your house... What do you think it will look like?" Guan Xuan was slightly depressed, he was also at the level of the director of the Central Committee. As for people, Xu Qing mentioned a house builder.

"I don't know how to build a house. You have the final say, um... But, I want to talk to you about the bedroom and kitchen, and where is this house built? Isn't Xuzhuang too small?" Xu Qing wanted to let go Yes, but recalling the situation last winter, he wanted to build something like a kang to improve the structure of the stove.

"My lord, among the people here are representatives of your tenants in Shishiyi. They are also here waiting to discuss matters with you. You can first see what land you can build a house on, and then discuss with you The officer said."

Xu Qing carefully looked at the group of people present, and it is not difficult to see that they are divided into three parts, a group of craftsmen, a group of peasants, similar to Mr. Zheng, and a group of men and women, standing in one place without knowing what to do of.After listening to Guan Xuan's words, Xu Qing walked over to the farmer.

Seeing Xu Qing approaching, the group of peasants quickly knelt down and kowtowed.Xu Qing said something polite, and the group of peasants stood up, first looked at each other, then pushed each other, and finally an old man came out and said to Xu Qing: "Your Majesty, your land is all in Hongshan. There are [-] households in the village, and nearly [-] mu of land, and this time I came here to discuss the matter of renting with the Lord."

"Hiss~" Xu Qing took a breath in surprise, 15 mu of land!Almost ten square kilometers!The living area of ​​the population of a small town in later generations is almost that large.Xu Qing was stunned for a moment: "It's the same for renters. Every two stones, you can get half of the color. Each family...every household also raises two pigs, or one sheep, or [-] chickens." Xu Qing Qing thought it was useless to have so many pigs, so she had to raise some others.

"Thank you master, thank you master, we will pay the food this season!" The old man said excitedly. He is from the vicinity of Xuzhuang, and naturally he has heard about the benefits of Xuzhuang renting houses and raising pigs.

"Old man Zheng, come here..." Xu Qing shouted to the people in the village, and they also huddled aside and discussed happily.

"Hey, Master Xu, no, sir, what are your orders?" Old Uncle Zheng came to Xu Qing.

"Uncle Zheng, you will be responsible for the rent in Hongshan Township in the future. You can collect it every year and calculate it. You can count two taels of silver every month. Liu San in my family is with you, and Hongshan Township There is also a representative selected, and every year a different person is required.”

"Master..." Old Uncle Zheng knelt down to thank him gratefully. Since then, he has truly escaped poverty and became rich. He always says that he is the housekeeper of Xu Qing's family, and that Xu Qing also wants to call him "Old Man". Never been this straight.The so-called third-rank officials in front of the prime minister's door, is there nothing more than this?

Xu Qing walked up to the group of unknown people again, and saw clearly that there were more than a dozen pretty girls and five boys, all twelve or thirteen years old.Qi Qi bowed down to Xu Qing and said hello to the master. It turned out that he was a domestic slave sent by the emperor.

(End of this chapter)