Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 7 Mid-Autumn Festival

To be a stranger in a foreign country alone, think of love every time during the festive season.

In a blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although this couplet of famous lines from ancient times was written about Chongyang, who knows now, their fate is in Xu Qing's hands, and even if it becomes a famous line for Qingming Festival, it is only a matter of raising one's hand.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and was designated as a national festival in the Tang Dynasty. There is a special Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, usually for three days.Since then, it has evolved into an important folk festival in the long years.Of course, when it comes to the vacations of the ancients, it mostly refers to the vacations of ancient officials. Others, such as agriculture, industry, commerce and the three industries, are not given vacations, and at most they have a good meal.

Of course Xu Qing can be regarded as an official, after all, he eats the imperial food, although he is only a janitor, isn't Guan Erye also a janitor when he becomes a god?

According to Zhang Zhong, a head costs more than 100 yuan, and a stone of corn.And Xu Qing can have three hundred dollars and two stones of rice this time, as well as a servant. Zhang Zhong said that because Xu Qing is almost a middle-aged man, and Boxing is a big county, he can still grant dozens of mu of land at that time, and it is still tax-free. kind of.

Xu Qing counts the days with his fingers every day, why hasn't the reward order come down yet?Always talking about the best [-] acres of land and a cow, it would be best to give a little girl, but don't give it to an aunt.

Xu Qing doesn't know how to plant [-] acres of land, so he can only rent it out to others. He can harvest three or four shi of grain a year, and even more if he is cruel to return to Hu Hansan.

Xu Qing fondly fantasizes about the life of a landlord in the future, and when the time comes, she will marry a landlord's wife and take in a concubine, which will be very beautiful.Then give birth to two fat boys and make popsicles for him...

I also want to build a big house, plant a few peach trees, plant flowers in the backyard, dig a big pond, surround it with a wall, and close the door so that I can have a good time with the landlady...

It’s just that Xu Qing’s great career as a landlord may be in vain, because in the early Tang Dynasty, the land was vast and sparsely populated, and every household had fields, and no one cared about renting other people’s fields, but the government soldiers were away all the year round, and the fields at home could not be planted by themselves. help plant.The land rent collected in this way is very small, except for those Jue Tian, ​​Xun Tian, ​​and Guan Tian are natural tenants, and they are distributed to others as tenants along with the land.

Moreover, the use of homestead by farmers in the Tang Dynasty was also restricted, with a maximum of one mu for every three people, which could not exceed the standard.

In the Tang Dynasty, the land belonged to the state, that is, the emperor. The state granted land to farmers, and the farmers paid rent to the emperor. All the people in the world were tenants of the emperor.Every male in a year has to pay rent two stones, two feet of silk, and three taels of cotton.

In the Tang Dynasty, land was awarded according to household registration. The larger the number of people in a family, the more land was allocated. In the Tang Dynasty, land was granted for a limited number of years. to land.

Counties with a lot of land have hundreds of mu, and counties with less land have tens of mu.Of course, a lot of land is not necessarily all cultivated land, there are also woodlands, and even barren land. In short, the cultivated land is about [-] to [-] mu per man.

At the age of 60, the land must be returned to the country, and they only enjoy the right to use it for more than 40 years; in the Tang Dynasty, the land cultivated by farmers was divided into two types, one can be inherited, called Yongye Field, which is equivalent to the private plot of later generations; The first type cannot be inherited, called the Koufen field, which is equivalent to the responsibility field;
After lusting for half an hour, Xu Qing stopped, remembering that he still had two pieces of horseshoe silver and two pieces of gold, closed the doors and windows, and quietly took them out.

Even in his previous life, Xu Qing had never seen such a large piece of gold. Xu Qing weighed it, and it looked like four taels. It was more than 200 grams, and there are sixty to seventy thousand in modern times.Xu Qing caressed the two pieces of gold, his eyes were full of little stars.

In the early Tang Dynasty, gold and silver were not currency, and there were still cloth, five baht coins, etc. on the market.Later, the common currency was "Kaiyuan Tongbao". The Kaiyuan of Kaiyuan Tongbao was not the Kaiyuan of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. As early as the fourth year of Wude, in order to abolish Sui money, the square hole round coin "Kaiyuan Tongbao" was cast to replace the relics in society. five baht.

Having seen enough of the glittering gold, Xu Qing felt like going out for a walk.Xu Qing has been in the Tang Dynasty for almost two months, and he doesn't know many people. On the one hand, it is because he is not very good at communication, and he is afraid of losing money. On the other hand, more importantly, he still only regards Tang Dynasty as a movie in his heart. , and he is just a spectator.

Xu Qing only knew Zhang Zhong and Wang Er, and Wang Er was only a half acquaintance. Zhang Zhong lived far away, and it would take a day to walk there, but he knew the way, so he could only go shopping in the county.

There is a street in the county town, but there are only some inns and hotels, as well as grain stores, cloth stores, hardware stores, and some vendors selling vegetables in the morning, and the end of the street can be seen directly...

When I arrived at the county seat, I saw that there were many more people than usual, and there was a little bit of prosperity.

After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and many families with spare money are willing to go out for a stroll. There are many snacks on the street, candied fruit, pastries, dumplings, steamed buns and so on...

Ok?steamed stuffed bun?Xu Qing felt something was wrong.

Tang Dynasty actually had buns?Xu Qing suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, whether he had encountered a traverser, so he hurriedly checked the stall owner carefully, but seeing that the stall owner was an ordinary man, there was nothing unusual, Xu Qing turned around and went forward to test:
"What's your phone number?"

"Huh?" The stall owner was puzzled.

Doesn’t this person have a mobile phone? It’s a mountainous area, he asked again

"Ahem, devils are becoming more and more arrogant now...you think so?" No one would not know about this, at least when they heard the word devil, they should have a reaction.

"Guest officer, did you go the wrong way, here...there is no doctor here." The stall owner pointed to the side, indicating how to get to the pharmacy.

"Uh, something's wrong, here are two steamed buns..." Xu Qing was disappointed, thinking that someone might have invented steamed stuffed buns in advance, and took the steamed stuffed buns and gave him a couple of pennies, Xu Qing was still unwilling to say: "You really don't know about mobile phones?" But this time the stall owner just ignored it.

Seeing people coming and going on the street, Xu Qing took a bite of the steamed stuffed bun, intending to try the steamed stuffed bun from the Tang Dynasty, but he almost had mouth cramps. It was just a steamed cake with a little bit of bean paste wrapped in it, which was okay, the key is It's so sour, and there is a trace of indescribable smell in the acid, I really don't know if I taste it.

Xu Qing was not hungry at first, so he couldn't eat after one bite. When he saw a few beggars, he gave them some food. The beggars were grateful, and Xu Qing blushed slightly.

There are so many stalls on the cold street in the past, pedestrians and families are having fun, a bit of fireworks, mixed with the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xu Qing finally has the feeling of being in the world, infected by this atmosphere, looking at the street People come and go, laughing and laughing, my heart is mixed, I am intoxicated again, lost, and melancholy.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River was still relatively clear, and the middle and lower reaches were still navigable. An edict issued from Chang'an went down the river, and it took three to five days to reach Shandong, and three days to reach Boxing. Counting the days, the edict issued from Chang'an The reward order is coming soon.

(End of this chapter)