Because they played late on the fifteenth day, they both went to bed late the next day.
When they got up, there was a lot of excitement outside. They were not in a hurry to go back to the village. A group of friends went out in several groups to visit Yongzhou City and bought some not-so-expensive but valuable items.
Another messy thing.
In the afternoon, the sun was no longer so strong and it looked cooler, so everyone left the guest room and left.
Yin You and Liu Huan didn't want to go back to the capital immediately. They were already out anyway, so they could spend two more days.
The servants of the Yin family did not urge Yin He, but the servants of the Liu family could not help but urge Liu Huan.
However, Liu Huan turned a deaf ear. He quietly told his friends: "Anyway, a beating is inevitable when we return. In this case, it is natural to play hard enough. It is also good to be beaten two days later."
Bai Shan and others were convinced, so they took the two of them back to Zhuangzi. They also turned over to help Liu Huan and persuaded the servants of the Liu family, "Since you are here, be at ease. When you go back, you can push all these things to
Liu Huan has it on his body."
Servants of the Liu family:…………
When they arrived at the Bai family's village, Liu Huan and Yin or followed them and ran to the orchard before it got dark to pick some fruits. Then they walked half a circle around the village and said, "Your village is not that big."
Bai Shandao: "It's good to be able to buy this Zhuangzi between Beijing and Yongzhou. My grandmother has been waiting for this opportunity for a long time. The land between these two cities is usually robbed when it comes out. Anyway, it's not
Worried about selling."
Liu Huandao: "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, which is not far from here. Doesn't your family have any land there?"
"Yes, most of my family's farmland is still in Longzhou," said Bai Shan, "but Longzhou is still a bit far from the capital. This village mainly grows fruits and vegetables and the melons and beans we usually eat, which can be sent to the capital in season.
But we also grow food, but that’s the next best thing.”
Yin You nodded and couldn't help but ask: "What do you mainly grow in Manbao's farm? Is it also fruits and vegetables?"
Bai Shan: "...with a thousand acres of farmland, how can we mainly grow this, naturally grown food?"
Bai Shan told them the main plan. Liu Huan was not very interested in it, but Yin You listened with interest.
Bai Shandao: "Liu Gui went to Longzhou to get wheat seeds. He should have gone back by now and will be back in two days at most. The Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, so everyone can start farming."
Farming is simple to say, but it is not easy. Naturally, it is not just something they say can be done.
The next day was seventeen, and Lao Zhou got up before dawn. After waking up his eldest son, he changed into work clothes and took his daughters-in-law and grandchildren to Pucun to visit.
Mr. Zhuang actually changed his clothes and wanted to go with him.
Manbao and the others, who originally wanted to stay in bed as an excuse to study and practice calligraphy, could only get up from the bed, quietly change their clothes and go there together.
Mrs. Liu and the others didn't want to go, and decided to take care of the housekeeping for them in Zhuangzi.
When they arrived in Pucun, Manbao and the others were basically speechless, because each family had already decided on the number of acres of land to be rented, and even the land had been divided.
The imperial court's job fields are planned in a very square way, with one acre being an acre. This way, every time an official needs to be replaced, it will be much easier to redistribute the job fields. Just count the pieces. Where do you get so much manpower and material resources?
Measure again?
Of course, this is very fast, but the disadvantages are also visible to the naked eye. Job fields are easily usurped, and some job fields disappear after being cultivated. This is because some high-ranking officials will appear after being assigned job fields.
With money, he bought the private fields distributed in or around the job fields, and then planted them. As a result, his family had more and more private fields and fewer and fewer job fields.
After a few years or more than ten years, officials were sent to other places, or they became official, or the job fields were not divided for other reasons. When the Ministry of Household Affairs came to take back the job fields, they found that most of the job fields had shrunk or simply disappeared.
At this time, the Ministry of Household Affairs has two options. One is to keep the sand out of its eyes, spend the next few years and hold accountable a large number of Ministry of Household officials to get these jobs back, and then involve more problems.
Many things;
Another option is to turn a blind eye and report that due to various natural and man-made disasters, job fields have been destroyed and new job fields need to be re-selected.
The innocent and romantic Man Bao and Bai Shan sat on the chairs brought out by the village, sealing the tenancy contract and listening to the villagers talk about why they moved here more than ten years ago.
It was because their land was next to a large piece of employment land. Later, that large piece of employment land became the private land of Mr. Cui. Then their land was redeemed by the court and used as employment land, and the Yamen bought it.
After their land was used as farmland, they were not willing to let them rent it.
An old man whispered: "The village chief said that the officials did not allow us to plant crops 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 pointed out that the war started because the land annexation was serious and the farmers could not survive until they rebelled.
This is the second generation of this dynasty. Some people have already occupied a large amount of land. If they continue, won't they be blatantly occupying the land of good people?
Bai Shan frowned.
Yin You and Liu Huan obviously had not read those books and did not understand the sympathies between the three of them. They only felt shocked.
Yin You said: "Isn't this against the law? Liu Huan, your grandfather doesn't care about it?"
His grandfather was the Minister of Household Affairs.
Liu Huan blushed and asked, "The surname is Cui? Is it Cui?"
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 government and the public. Not to mention the distant ones, Liu Huan, who is sitting in front of him, has a cousin who married the Cui family's daughter.
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Wei Zhi, Lord Wei in the court, has his eldest daughter-in-law who is also from the Cui family, as well as the wife of Senior Brother Yang, Han Shangshu and Chen Guogong's family all have a daughter-in-law from the Cui family. This is still the young and middle-aged generation, and more
Forget about the older generation.
The intertwined relationships between the families are even more difficult to explain. Yin You's grandmother and a sister-in-law from her natal family were also descended from the Cui family.
Therefore, even if Yin or himself met someone from the Cui family, he would have to call them cousins or uncles based on their relationship.
It can be said that the Cui family truly connected the entire court through their in-laws.
Yin Yue did not memorize the clan history because of his frailty, but he had read it, and with six sisters in the family, it was difficult for him to know the relationships in the capital.
Not to mention Bai Shan, he has memorized the entire clan chronicle and the Bai family's genealogy.
By the way, the Bai family is also related to the Cui family.
Thinking of this, Bai Shan himself was shocked.
When Man Bao heard about it, he was amazed and said, "The Cui family is even more powerful than the Ma family in our town."