Jiangjun Shan, Zhuangzi's old master, was not sent to the North to raise money for overseas business, but was sent to serve in the North by the emperor.
The family felt vaguely that there was no hope of returning, so they sold the village. More than a dozen servants in the village also stayed.
The original Zhuangtou is naturally there too.
Huo Xi found this personnel structure a bit tricky.
Unlike the village in Tangquan Town, the remaining three households of village servants were all of little labor value and were abandoned by their old owners.
As long as you win over people, they will be yours. In the future, you can buy a few houses and fill them in, and then send managers there, so you don't have to worry about the disloyalty of the old people.
But in this Zhuangzi, all the people have stayed. More than a dozen families are twisted into a ball. They regard themselves as the masters openly, but secretly they are twisted into a rope and do not obey orders. You can't always keep an eye on it. It is a bit troublesome to manage such a Zhuangzi.
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Ji Laozhuang seemed to know what Huo Xi was worried about, and comforted him: "The owner of that village is called Wu Dongsheng. He is a capable man. His original master didn't have much property, so he relied on this village to make a living. There are dozens of people in the family, and the wedding ceremony
Marriage and marriage all depend on the output of this village. It can be seen that Wu Dongsheng manages the village well."
Huo Xi nodded while listening.
A farm with 352 acres has to support a large family of dozens of people and more than a dozen households of farm servants. Based on the current yield per mu, excluding what the tenants take, a farm can't be determined for a year.
It can produce one thousand taels of silver.
Being able to feed so many people shows that the head of the village is conscientious and upright, or at least not greedy.
When they arrived at Zhuangzi, Wudongsheng Wen Xun, the head of the village, took more than a dozen servants of the village to greet him at the gate of the village.
They secretly looked at Huo Xi's family, and Huo Xi's family also looked at these dozen households of farm servants. From now on, these people are their own servants.
Huo Erhuai and Yang passed through Zhuangzi in Tangquan Town once. This time they were faced with more than a dozen households and dozens of village servants, and they were able to calmly call them master and wife.
When the servants of more than a dozen households saw that the new master was neither an official nor a rich man, he looked quite ordinary, with only a family of servants following him, and no servants or girls, they suddenly had different thoughts.
There is an old saying that "the three-rank officials in front of the prime minister's door", for the servants of the village, they are also servants for others. The higher the status of the master, the straighter the waist will naturally be.
Who doesn’t want to find a master with a backer, connections and connections?
Huo Xi looked at everyone's eyes and remained silent. She and Huo Erhuai Yang walked towards the main courtyard.
Wu Dongsheng was a little surprised when he saw Ji Laozhuang accompanying him, and hurriedly came over to greet him. Huo Xi glanced at him, didn't care, and walked in front.
Ji Laozhuang pulled U Dongsheng to follow Huo Xi. Facing U Dongsheng's question, he whispered: "Your new master is a friend of my master."
Udon Sheng was stunned.
He didn't know who the master of Ji Laozhuang was, but he just felt that his status should be higher than that of the old master.
From previous conversations with Ji Laozhuang, we could tell that Ji Laozhuang had no respect for his master's official position. It only meant one thing: his master's status was higher than his old master's.
Now, Ji Laozhuang said that this new master is friends with his master?
Udonsheng calmed down his emotions. His family consisted of more than ten or twenty people, and his children and relatives were all from this place. It was impossible for him to follow his old master to the north.
Moreover, this Zhuangzi has been running it for more than ten years, and what it is today is the result of his painstaking efforts. He would not be willing to hand it over to others.
My family sold themselves into servants because they were oppressed in their hometown, so they sought refuge with an official. Is this new master a commoner?
Wu Dongsheng remained calm and led others into the main courtyard.
There were about a dozen households of servants, dozens of people older, standing in the small courtyard in front of the hall.
Huo Xi read out the deeds of all the village servants one by one to Huo Erhuai and Yang, asking them to identify and compare them.
The servants of the village watched the new master holding their body deeds in a thick stack, their thoughts flowing.
After Huo Xi finished reading, she said to a group of village servants with different expressions: "Your master couldn't take you away, so he sold you to my family together with Zhuangzi. My family is kind-hearted. Seeing that each of your families has children and daughters."
, you are both old and weak, and I cannot bear to sell you a second time. But if there is a better way out and you don’t want to stay, I can just take the money to redeem your body deed, and my family will never stop you."
Whispering began gradually below.
Huo Xi glanced at Huo Erhuai and Yang, and saw that they were hesitant to speak, so she shook her head at them.
Yang glanced at the servants below and pursed her lips. Didn't she work in the village in the past? Why didn't she want to stay as soon as she came? Could she have treated them harshly? She looked worried.
"Leave the heads of each family and let the others go back. After we go back and discuss it, if you don't want to stay, just use the money to redeem the deed."
The small courtyard was completely cleared. Only about a dozen heads of each family and the owner of the village, Udon Sheng, were left.
Huo Xi called them all into the hall for questioning.
With Ji Lao Village here, everyone did not dare to hide anything and reported the output of the fields and Zhuangzi one by one. Huo Xi looked at Ji Lao Village from time to time, and he nodded to Huo Xi from time to time. Huo Xi knew that the data should be correct.
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Although the soil quality of Zhuangzi in Jiangjun Mountain is not as good as that of Tangquan Town, it is located in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no shortage of water, and the yield per mu is not too far apart. The fertile land can produce about four shi, and the middle field can also produce three shi and five buckets.
Coupled with the chickens, ducks, and other outputs that Zhuangzi raised, Zhuangzi produced quite a lot in a year.
Zhuangzi's dozen or so servants could not finish the 350 acres of farmland, so they rented a lot of land to villagers from nearby villages for farming.
After listening to Wu Dongsheng's report on Zhuangzi's situation, Huo Xi glanced at Huo Erhuai, and Huo Erhuai said to Wu Dongsheng: "We have a general understanding of Zhuangzi's situation. Let's go down first, Wu Zhuangtou, and go back to make statistics.
Those who want to stay and those who want to leave, please come early to report, so that my family can arrange manpower, the autumn harvest will be coming soon, and we don’t want to delay the work in the fields."
"Yes. Let's go and do the statistics, little one."
After Wu Dongsheng retired, Ji Laozhuang said: "The output of Zhuangzi just mentioned by Wuzhuang Master is roughly the same as our Zhuangzi. He is a capable man and has managed Zhuangzi well in these years. His original master
I trust him very much, and he has quite a lot of prestige among the farm servants. I also know the more than ten households of farm servants. Most of them regard this place as their home, and there is nowhere to go. The family has to spend a lot of money on it.
, it’s not easy either.”
Huo Erhuai sighed: "I think there are a few people who don't want to stay. Let them go. We won't treat those who want to stay harshly, and my family won't force them if they don't want to stay."
"That's exactly what I'm saying. A melon that's forced is not sweet." Ji Laozhuang said.
Yang remained silent, so Huo Xi asked her: "Mom, which village do you want to stay in? I will have the main courtyard repaired then, and you can live in the village to have your baby."
Sorry, it's even late. Basho suffered from heat stroke. He lay down all day and sat at the table. The world was spinning. When he was lying on the pillow, he had to change his posture. The world was spinning and his hands were shaking. I want to use the leave note.
I don’t know how to use it. There are only two updates in the past two days~