Taking the title deed of the thirty-two acres of vegetable land in Qinglongfang given by Yang Gongren, I went to Wannian County to exchange the title for the title. The Wannian County government office was very polite to the Shouyang Marquis and handled special matters.
Even Wannian County Magistrate came to accompany him in person.
It turns out that the county magistrate's surname is also Yang, and he is also from the Hongnong Yang family, but he is not from Guanwangfang.
"Yang Zuan, a man from Chang'an County, whose name is Xu Qing."
Yang Zuan said that he had served as a judicial clerk in Shuofang County during the Sui Dynasty, so Wu Huaiyu, who was about to go to Shuofang to be the governor of Yanzhou, humbly asked for some information about Shuofang.
Yang Zuan was a good man and had extraordinary conversation. He passed the Jinshi examination during the Daye period. His ancestors and father both served as governors. However, they were later dismissed due to Yang Xuangan's rebellion and moved to Puzhou. Later, they went to Li Yuan and were awarded the title of imperial censor.
Doctor, Chang'an Order and other positions.
He was previously dismissed from office because of a case, but now he has been reinstated as the magistrate of Wannian County under the new Zhenguan Dynasty.
Although Yang Zuan comes from a famous family, he has both talent and experience.
However, he was filled with emotions regarding the current fifth-level post of Wannian County Magistrate.
"Three lives of misfortune, the county magistrate attached to Guo; three lives of evildoers, attached to the provincial capital of Guo; full of evil, attached to the capital of Guo, I am full of evil," Yang Zhuan laughed at himself, it is difficult to be an official in the capital, and even more difficult to be a county magistrate in the capital, although the county magistrate of the capital
That is also a full fifth-rank official, but Chang'an is the capital, with third-rank officials everywhere, and fifth-rank officials as numerous as dogs.
Not to mention that there are many relatives of the emperor, and if you are not careful, you will offend a powerful person from a certain family. This legal dispute will be more complicated and involves a wide range of things.
It is very easy to offend the powerful.
As a small county magistrate, anyone can take over.
If you put it in the local area, even if the county magistrate is seventh grade, he is also a Bailihou. But in the capital, there are too many irritated little daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law.
"I envy Erlang for wanting to take charge of Yanzhou."
"Yanzhou Yamen is still in Lingzhou City," Huaiyu said with a smile.
"That's just a good time to show off your talents. In fact, if possible, I would rather follow Erlang to Yanzhou."
After some small talk, Yang Zhuan took the initiative to mention something.
"If Erlang wants to buy more land in the south of the city, I can help."
There are ghost shops in the south of the city, half of which are under the jurisdiction of Wannian County.
Many squares of land are owned by the dignitaries of the capital, but many are still in the hands of the government and the people. As the magistrate of Wannian County, and before that, he was the magistrate of Chang'an County, Yang Zuan certainly knew this very well.
As long as Wu Huaiyu wants to buy land, he can help with the operation, which is very convenient.
"It's just that the land price in this city is much more expensive than outside the city, but growing vegetables, trees and flowers, and taking care of it properly, is still very cost-effective,"
Huaiyu was a little moved after hearing this.
The land in Chang'an City, even if it is in Guifang in the south of the city, is a good choice for growing vegetables. After all, there are so many people in Chang'an, so growing vegetables will not worry about selling, and the realizable value will be high.
Some wealthy families even plant flowers directly, and the demand for flowers in the capital is not small.
Of course, you can also grow medicinal materials, you can also grow fruit trees, or even economic forests such as elm and mulberry trees. Even if the population of Chang'an increases in the future, it will be good to expand the area and build houses.
In short, the fields in the Chengzhongfang area in the south of the city have great potential for appreciation.
"In terms of price, it's probably one gold per acre. Some good areas and those near water canals may be more expensive. If the land is large, it will also be more expensive."
"But most of them only want gold."
Yang Zuan's words did not dispel Huaiyu's thoughts.
"Then please, Brother Yang, please help make arrangements. I'll ask my family to send someone to look at the land and buy it."
"Okay." Yang Zuan was also very happy. This matter was just a piece of cake for him, but it was also a personal matter.
I took the exchanged land deed and went to the craftsman's office to register and report, and then waited for the payment. Then I could go back and wait for them to arrange a time for the craftsman to build the family temple. The materials and labor were all included, so just pay.
Don't worry about anything.
This is a large amount of money, but for the honor of the nobility, this money cannot be saved and there is no way to save it.
If you don't build a family temple, you will be impeached. If you build a family temple and fail to perform the four seasons of sacrifices, you will be impeached.
On the carriage back, Huaiyu did some calculations in his mind and found that his recent expenses were really quite large.
The third child is engaged to a girl with the fifth surname. Although the betrothal gift has not yet been given, he has already given Wang Xueshi the wine shop to withdraw shares of 1,200 yuan, which is equivalent to the wealth of the family, not counting banquets and other expenses.
Now we need to build a family temple, and we need another two to three thousand guan.
Before I got married, I lent Qin Qiong and the others two thousand guan.
Fortunately, Qianjintang, Changshengtang, Baoyutang, Meiyutang, Bingyutang, etc. are all quite expensive now, and they even cheated Wei Zheng by a thousand coins before.
However, Yang Gongren gave away dozens of acres of land in Chang'an City so casually, and Duan Lun and others gave away maids and concubines. They were still far apart, and they had to continue to make money.
Yang Zuan has already agreed to give him about 200 acres of land in the south of Chang'an City. This will cost him at least 200 taels of gold and 1,600 guan of copper.
Lao Cheng had reserved five hundred slaves for his house, and he had to start looking for a buyer quickly, otherwise when the two or three thousand slaves entered the customs, Wu Huaiyu would not be able to afford the compensation if he was unable to sell them.
After returning home, Huaiyu hurriedly went to find Fan Xuanfu.
"Is there land available for purchase in the south of the city?"
Fan Xuanfu perked up as soon as he heard this, "True or false?"
"Yang Zhuan, the male Wannian County Magistrate of Chang'an County, told me personally. Of course there is no lie. It is just that the price may be a bit expensive. The cheap ones cost one gold per acre, and the expensive ones may cost two or three gold."
"purchase."
Fan Xuanfu was a woman who wanted to be a landlady. She was as persistent in buying land as the women of later generations were in buying bags. She couldn't bear to buy land, her eyes would light up and she would lose her mind when she heard about it.
Although she has more than 3,000 acres of land to her name, she doesn't have too much.
"The family has no money." Huaiyu told the truth. He still hasn't repaid the money he owed Qin Qiong to his wife. He also borrowed money from the warrior Xun to get engaged to Huai Liang. Now he still has to get the money to build the family temple from the warrior Xun.
Borrow from brother.
"I have it," Fan Xuanfu was not polite, "Don't you know all about my dowry?"
"That's your dowry."
"What's mine belongs to your husband. Buy it while you have the land. There will definitely be less and less land in Chang'an City in the future. Let's buy more now, as much as we have."
"A hundred acres of land costs at least 800 guan?"
"Buy it, but the land won't grow legs. It's different from livestock. It doesn't matter if you have a lot of money but only hair. The livestock will still get sick and have disasters. The land won't grow legs. Even if there are droughts, floods and frost locusts, they will still be there next year."
"I heard that the landowners only want gold."
"How big of a deal is it, and we can't get it in exchange for gold? It's just a matter of spending a little more money and silk."
Fan Xuanfu has even imagined buying three to five hundred acres of land in Zhufang in the south of Chang'an City, and then growing part of it vegetables, flowers and medicinal herbs.
"Hurry up and buy it now. After the land deed is completed, as soon as the spring plowing begins, we will plant auspicious corns, potatoes and sweet potatoes on the ground. How novel it will be then. Are you afraid that Chang'an Xun and Qi Shimin won't come to buy it?
When winter comes, we can build more greenhouses and continue growing fruits and vegetables."
"Didn't my husband and my sister-in-law reserve a lot of slaves from Lu Guogong? Then we can use a lot of slaves on the newly purchased land."
Huaiyu gently scraped her nose and said, "A square in the south of the city is only 500 acres, so we'd better buy less."
"Then buying 500 acres should cost no more than 5,000 guan."
"Madam, you don't have that much money in your dowry,"
"Ask me, Aye, to borrow money. He is rich. He is extremely rich."
Hey, this girl is really my father's caring little cotton-padded jacket. She will be exposed as soon as she gets married.
"Husband, please don't worry about this. I will arrange it. If you have the opportunity, you must buy land and buy land. Buying land and buying land is the most stable thing."
It's not easy to be a nobleman. To maintain the luxury and dignity of a nobleman, the expenses are too high. It's not enough to just rely on a small salary and write epitaphs and inscriptions like Wei Zheng did, and it would be exhausting to death.
There needs to be a housekeeper like Fan Xuanfu who can rake money.
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After not seeing each other for a few days, Su Dingfang actually lost a lot of weight.
Lately, he has been running from office to office every day. Today he came to Huaiyu to tell him the good news, and he was finally done running.
"We have two thousand officers, soldiers, horses, pack horses, iron armor, ordnance, and food and grass in Yanzhou. I finally ran away,"
He handed Huaiyu a piece of paper, "This was given to us by Yang Shidao, the ordnance supervisor. We were originally supposed to go to Weiwei Temple to get the ordnance, but the result was that it was never approved. In the end, Yang Prince Consort came forward to request the saint's order and directly received the ordnance from him.
The supervisor specially allocated it to us."
Yanzhou's 1,000 town soldiers and 1,000 state soldiers, plus 2,000 native regiments, Yang Shidao gave them 2,400 pieces of armor, including 1,040 iron armors and 1,360 leather armors, with a rate of 60%.
One thousand and six shirts,
There are four thousand spears, eight hundred cowhide tokens, and one thousand six hundred cavalry regiment tokens.
There are 800 crossbows and 80,000 arrows. 4,000 bows and 120,000 arrows, including 16,000 armor-piercing arrows and 8,000 sharp arrows.
Four thousand horizontal knives, eight hundred broad swords, and eight hundred sticks...
This equipment is quite good. Although there are four thousand soldiers, there are two thousand united native soldiers. The equipment must be worse. It is only two thousand town soldiers and the main force of the state soldiers. The equipment is quite luxurious. Although the armor is not 100%,
However, there are still 1,040 state and town soldiers who can achieve a 50% iron armor rate, not to mention more than 1,600 leather armors, enough for all 2,000 men and horses to be armored.
"Where's the horse?"
"Our state army consists of 800 cavalry and 1,200 infantry. As usual, Taipu Temple gives us two horses for each cavalry and 1,600 horses. This does not include the horses prepared by the cavalry.
As for the pack horses, these must be prepared by the selected government soldiers themselves, with six packs for ten men, plus one to carry the wounded soldiers, for a total of seven pack horses. The soldiers can bring them themselves or pay for them.
In fact, the imperial soldiers had to prepare their own swords, bows and arrows. Only spears, crossbows and armor were provided by the imperial court and were usually stored in the arsenal.
This time, the Yanzhou soldiers were given bows, crossbows, swords and arrows by the imperial court as a supplementary reserve.
"The imperial court will also mobilize eight hundred civilians and a group of carriages, horses, mules, etc. to transport grain and grass, and salt and sauce to accompany them."
Su Dingfang ran to various yamen every day, and his legs were almost thin. Fortunately, there were Zhang Chengde, Liu Xu, Niu Jianwu, Wei Siren and other colleagues who were transferred to Yanzhou to help share the burden. Otherwise, he would not be able to run after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
over.
"It's just a matter of deploying two thousand troops, but they can't even run with half their lives." Su Lie sighed. The troops and horses have not moved, and the food and fodder have gone first. All kinds of preparations are really complicated.
Compared to when he was commanding troops under Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai, the biggest difference is that now there are more procedures and they are more formal.
"When shall we set off?"
"We have to let everyone finish celebrating the New Year. After the Lantern Festival, I don't think we can officially start our journey until February."
"Will it take so long?"
"You have to get used to it. Besides, we are not in a hurry now and there is no battle on the front line. Are we rushing to drink the northwest wind or eat the sand in the wind and snow?"
"Our main task is to regain Yanzhou, and then raid and destroy Puppet Liang. The spring plowing has not started yet, so there is no rush."
The important affairs of the country lie in sacrifice and military affairs.
Sending out troops to fight is all subject to unified arrangements from above. Although Wu Huaiyu has now obtained the fish charm to lead the troops from Du Ruhui, Minister of the Ministry of War, he still has to wait for the order from the Ministry of War on the day of departure.
Without orders, Wu Huaiyu could not mobilize any of the two battalions of soldiers and horses that had been assembled in the camp on the north bank of the Wei River, and he did not dare to mobilize them.
Su Lie was very anxious. He took the initiative to come to Beijing to seek an official position this time and was very eager to prove himself on the battlefield. Wu Huaiyu was not in a hurry. This trip to Shuofang was probably not a matter of one or two battles. It was a long-term and tiring confrontation.
, there’s no point in being anxious.
"When will Erlang go to the military camp to inspect the brothers?"
"I will not go to the military camp until I receive the order to move out." Huaiyu was very cautious. This is Chang'an, the capital city, and two thousand soldiers are also soldiers.
