Because Fifteen played late, they both went to bed late the next day.
When they got up, it was bustling outside again, and they were not in a hurry to go back to Zhuangzi. A group of friends called their friends and divided up several times to go shopping in Yongzhou City, and bought some not too expensive but Another mess.
In the afternoon, the sun was not so strong, and it looked cooler, so everyone checked out the guest room and left.
Yin He and Liu Huan didn't want to go back to the capital right away, they had already come out anyway, so let's play for two more days.
The servants of the Yin family did not urge Yin He, but the servants of the Liu family couldn't help urging Liu Huan.
But Liu Huan turned a deaf ear to it, and he quietly said to his friends: "Anyway, a beating is inevitable after returning home. In this case, it is natural to play enough. It is good to be beaten two days later."
Bai Shan and the others thought so deeply, so they took the two of them back to Zhuangzi, and turned over to help Liu Huan persuade the servants of Liu's family, "If you come, you will be safe, and when you go back, you will push all these things to the end. It's on Liu Huan."
A servant of the Liu family: ...
When they arrived at Zhuangzi of the Bai family, Liu Huan and Yin Or followed them to the orchard to pick some fruits before it was dark, and then walked half a circle around Zhuangzi and said, "Your Zhuangzi is not very big."
Bai Shandao: "It's not bad to be able to buy this Zhuangzi between the capital city and Yongzhou. My grandmother waited for a long time for this opportunity. The land between these two cities is usually snatched up as soon as it comes out. I'm worried about selling it."
Liu Huan said: "My family has Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing."
Bai Shan smiled and said: "I know, my family can't compare with yours in this aspect."
Yin Yu said: "Your ancestral home is Longzhou, and Longzhou is not very far from here. Does your family have no land there?"
"Yes, most of my family's property is still in Longzhou," Bai Shan said, "However, Longzhou is still a bit far from the capital. This village mainly grows fruits and vegetables and the usual melons and beans, which can be sent to the capital in season. But food is also planted, which is a secondary priority.”
Yin Yu nodded, and couldn't help asking: "Then what does Manbao's job field mainly grow? Is it also fruits and vegetables?"
Bai Shan: "... a thousand mu of occupational land, how can we mainly plant this, natural food."
Bai Shan told them the main plan. Liu Huan was not very interested in this, but Yin Ju listened with great interest.
Bai Shandao: "Liu Gui went to Longzhou to pick up wheat seeds, and he should have gone back now, and will send them back in two days at most. It happens that the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, and everyone can start farming."
Farming the land is easy to say, but it is not easy. Of course, they can't plant it as soon as they say it can be planted.
The next day was the 17th, and Lao Zhou got up before dawn. After waking up his eldest son, he changed into working clothes and took a few daughters-in-law and grandchildren to visit Pu Village.
Mr. Zhuang actually changed his clothes and wanted to go with him.
Man Bao, who originally wanted to stay in bed as an excuse to read and practice calligraphy, could only get up from the bed, changed their clothes silently, and went together.
Mrs. Liu and the others didn't want to go, and decided to take care of the housework for them in Zhuangzi.
When they arrived in Pu Village, Manbao and the others basically had nothing to say, because each family had already determined the number of acres of land to be rented, and even divided the land.
The imperial court’s job fields are planned very squarely, one acre is one acre, so that whenever an official needs to be replaced, it will be much easier to redistribute the job fields, just count the pieces, and where do you get so much manpower and material resources to return to you Measure again
Of course, this is very fast, but the disadvantages are also visible to the naked eye. Job fields are easily robbed, and some job fields disappear after being planted, because some high-ranking officials will appear after they are assigned to job fields. Qian bought the private fields distributed in or around the job fields, and then planted them. His family's private fields became more and more, and the job fields became less and less.
After a few years or more than ten years, the officials were released, or retired, or the job field was not divided for other reasons. When the Ministry of Finance came to take it back, they found that the job field had shrunk by more than half or disappeared.
At this time, the household department has two paths to go. One is not to rub the sand in the eyes, and spend the next few years and the cost of holding a large number of household department officials to find these jobs, and then involve more. many things;
The other is to turn a blind eye and report that due to various natural and man-made disasters, the job field has been destroyed, and a new job field needs to be re-selected.
The naive and romantic Man Bao and Bai Shan sat on the chairs moved out of the village, while stamping and confirming the lease contract, they listened to the villagers talking about why they moved here more than ten years ago.
It is because their land is next to a large piece of land, which later became the private land of a master Cui, and then their land was bought by the imperial court as a land, and the yamen bought it. After their land is used as a job field, they are not willing to let them rent it out.
An old man whispered: "The village chief said that the officials didn't let us plant because they were afraid that we would cause trouble there, so they moved us here."
Man Bao and Bai Shan Bai Erlang looked at each other, and finally understood why some books directly stated that the war started because of serious land annexation and farmers rebelled after they couldn't survive.
This is the second generation of this dynasty. Someone has already occupied a large number of jobs. If it goes on, isn't it going to blatantly occupy the land of good people
Bai Shan frowned.
Yin He and Liu Huan obviously haven't read those books, and they don't understand the three of them's hearts, they just feel shocked.
Yin Yu said: "This is against the law, Liu Huan, did your grandfather not care?"
His grandfather was the Minister of the Household Department.
Liu Huan blushed and asked, "My surname is Cui? Could it be the Cui family?"
Yin or stopped talking, the Cui family is a famous family, the most important thing is that his family's in-laws are all over the court, let alone Liu Huan sitting in front of him, he has an uncle who married Cui's daughter .
Master Wei Zhiwei in the court, his eldest daughter-in-law is also from the Cui family, and Yang Xuexiong's wife, Han Shangshu and Chen Guogong's family all have a daughter-in-law from the Cui family. Not to mention the older generation.
The intertwined relationship between each family is even more difficult to explain. Yin Ju's grandmother, a sister-in-law of her natal family also came from the Cui family.
Therefore, even Yin or himself, when he saw the Cui family, he had to call him cousin or uncle in terms of relationship.
It can be said that the Cui family really connected the entire court by relying on in-laws.
Yin Or didn't memorize the clan chronicles because of his frailty, but he had read them. In addition, there were six older sisters in the family, so it was difficult for him to know these relationships in the capital.
Not to mention Bai Shan, he is the one who memorized the entire clan annals and Bai's genealogy.
By the way, Mrs. Bai is also related to Mrs. Cui.
Thinking of this, Bai Shan himself was stunned.
Man Bao was amazed when he heard about it, and said, "The Cui family is even more powerful than Master Ma's family in our town."