On April 29th, Chenjiawu recruited twelve shady households including blacksmiths, weavers, potters, brewers, tea farmers, papermakers, medicine farmers, fishermen, fruit farmers, carpenters, and merchants.
There are also eight shady households on the fourth floor of the southeast, northwest and northwest. A total of 20 households have injected the Qiantang Chen family registration. These 20 shady households left their original land to their married nephews, wives, children and some simple things.
The living utensils came to Chenjiawu and took shelter under the Chen family. They relied on their own craftsmanship to make a stable life. The Chen family will reward these households with varying amounts of money and silk at the end of the year based on their abilities and performance.
The daily expenses are all borne by Chen, so as long as you become Chen's shadow, your future life will be guaranteed. All you need is to show your skills and do your duty.
The Chen family of Qiantang was not considered wealthy, and their family land was only a few hectares. The newly allocated twelve hectares of family land this time had not yet seen harvests. Now there were twelve more shady households. Houses had to be built for them to live in, and they needed to be equipped with corresponding farm tools.
, these all need to be borne by the Chen family, and Chen Manton, who is responsible for managing the family property, feels that he is stretched——
The old patriarch Chen Xian took the lead in donating 20 taels of gold for family expenses. Chen Mo's heir Zhou in the east building also donated 20 taels of gold. Even Chen Man, who has always been stingy, was unprecedentedly generous and donated 100,000 yuan.
It is equivalent to sixteen taels of gold. Although Chen Man is very careful, he is not blind. He knows that the prosperity of the family is just around the corner, so this amount of money should be paid, and the Chu family's gift also includes three hectares for each of the four floors, and the remaining eight hectares.
As the family farmland, the Chen family was registered as a scholar in just one month. The Chen Man family in Beilou added five hectares of fertile land. Five hectares is 500 acres. Before, the Chen Man family had only four hectares of land in total. Now it has nearly ten acres.
Not long ago, the family's property was shared on the fourth floor. When Chen Man thought of this, he was laughing in his sleep——
Chen's fourth floor is considered the richest in the West Building, so he can't donate less. Chen Caozhi went to ask Xiao Chan for money. Xiao Chan thought about it for a long time and said, "Xiao Langjun, can we also donate twenty taels of gold in the West Building?"
Chen Caozhi laughed and said: "Sister Xiaochan is stingy. The land in the West Building exceeds the sum of the other three buildings. If you only donate twenty taels of gold, you will be laughed at by Uncle Six."
Ding You on the side smiled and said: "Xiaochan is not stingy. She helps Xiaolang take care of the house. With Xiaochan here, I feel relaxed."
Xiaochan blushed and said: "Then - donate twenty-five taels."
Chen Caozhi knew that a lot of money had been spent on his mother's funeral last year, and that her mother only buried her with a small amount of money. If she had a thick burial, the family would be empty. Her mother always thought about her children and grandchildren, so she asked: "This is what happens in our west building."
Have you counted the money?"
Xiao Chan said: "I still have money, but apart from the untouchable money, there is not much else. Donating twenty-five taels is already a bit difficult."
Chen Caozhi asked curiously: "Why don't I know what money cannot be touched?"
Xiao Chan said: "There are five kilograms of gold. This is what the old mistress has accumulated little by little over the years. She said it will be reserved for the young man to marry his wife. Other expenses cannot be used. Only Aunt Ying and I know about this -
I told my wife about this when she came back."
With tears in her beautiful eyes, Ding Youwei called out in a low voice: "Auntie--" She felt deeply guilty that she could not serve her until she grew old.
Although her mother is no longer here, maternal love will always remain in her heart, just as the light of the sun, moon and stars will shine forever. Chen Caozhi was silent for a while and said: "The clan needs to build a house for the shade house, and the west building should contribute. If my mother
I will definitely do this when I am alive. Let’s donate two kilograms of gold, thirty-two taels. Now the Chen family in the West Building has five more hectares of fertile land, which can increase their income a lot every year. Then we can make up for the five kilograms of gold.
Already."
Although Xiao Chan was reluctant, Xiao Langjun said so, so she naturally did not dare to disobey him.
Ding Youwei said: "I will also donate four taels of gold. This is my dowry money."
Chen Cao said: "My sister-in-law belongs to my Chen family in the west building, so why make another donation!"
Ding Youwei said: "Then put it all together, and the Chen family in the west building will donate thirty-six taels in total. Anyway, I can't use the gold for other purposes."
Chen Cao said: "Sister-in-law is so kind."
Ding You smiled slightly and said, "Isn't my sister-in-law from the Chen family in Xilou? What can I say?"
In this way, a total of nearly one hundred taels of gold, worth about 600,000 yuan, was collected on the fourth floor, as well as more than 300,000 yuan accumulated in the family property, totaling nearly one million yuan. Chen Caozhi negotiated with the elders of the clan and drew up a six-month plan.
The long-term plan of 2016 is to expand Chenjiawu into Qiantang, or even the first-class large manor in Wu County. The manor extends to the south bank of Qiantang River in the north, and to the shore of Mingsheng Lake in the northwest. In the southeast, Jiuyaoshan and Yushan will be built.
The entire Huangshan Mountain is included in it. The scale of the manor is so large that it is naturally impossible to erect walls to isolate it. Just set up wooden gates at the entrance of the road. In addition to growing rice, hemp, wheat, and millet, the manor must also develop blacksmithing, farming, and farming.
In addition to the silkworm, weaving, pottery making, wine making, fish farming, tea making, paper making, medicine growing, and fruit growing industries, except for the internal use of the manor, the rest is transported out of the manor by the family named Cheng for goods breeding trade.
For the greater good——
Of course, these cannot be achieved overnight, and the current financial resources of the Qiantang Chen family are not enough to fully implement it, but as long as they follow the plan step by step, these are all achievable. The Chen family members are full of confidence, and a family has grown from a commoner.
The changes in the gentry are huge, almost reborn, not to mention that a far-sighted person like Chen Caozhi is planning it. In just a few months, the family has a completely new look.
Holding a book of poems and reading endlessly, because next year will be the year when the county magistrate visits talented people once every three years. The children of the Chen family can participate as nobles next year like the children of Quan, Zhu, Gu, Fan, Du, Ding and Dai.
In September, there was an elegant gathering at Qi Yun Mountain, but except for Chen Shangpo, the young disciples Chen was waiting for were well versed in Confucianism. The rest, Chen Mo and Chen Tan, only knew Mao's poems and the Analects of Confucius, which were lower than Zongzhi and Run'er. Zongzhi and Run'er
Under the guidance of my mother and uncle Chou, I have begun to study "Laozi" and "Zhuangzi" written by Wang Bi——
As for Chen Man's two sons, Chen Su and Chen Hui, they have barely read the Analects of Confucius. Moreover, Chen Su and Chen Hui are over 20 years old, married and have children. It would be very difficult for them to continue studying.
Chen Man deeply regretted it. He should not have thought that there was no way out from studying.
Chen Xian comforted him and said: "Sixth brother, it is impossible for all the sons of a family to enter the official career. Take the Xie family of Chen County as an example.
Nephew, my nephew takes care of the family's property, which is very important and is the foundation of the Chen family."
Chen Man nodded in agreement, that was the only way. Besides, his two sons didn't like studying very much, and preferred to manage land. He thought it would be good to be a rich man in the manor, and a farmer.
Since May, there has been a lot of construction work in the Chenjiawu area, and everything has been carried out in an orderly manner. Except for the necessary craftsmen, the rest of the handyman work has been undertaken by the tenants of the Chen family on their own initiative. Influenced by Chen Caozhi's mother, the Chen family has always been relatively lenient to the tenants, and most of them
People still know how to be grateful. After the Chen family became a scholar, they acquired forty hectares of land and needed to recruit forty households of tenant farmers. After the Lu family and the Chu family were defeated, many refugees and tenants who were originally attached to the Lu family and Chu family gathered together.
When they came to the Chen family, there were still many homesteaders, some of whom were on the verge of bankruptcy, so they sold their land to the Chen family and became Chen's farmhands themselves——
What's more funny is that because Chen couldn't afford so much money to buy the land of these farmers, these farmers left Chen in debt first. They just wanted to be protected by Chen and be able to farm and make a living in peace. This happened.
A strange phenomenon occurred. The Qiantang Chen family annexed more than ten hectares of land in a short period of time, but owed more than one million yuan to the farmhands. It can be said that they were heavily in debt.
Chen Man wanted to follow the practice of other noble clans and take in homeless people without reporting them to the government. In this way, the Chen family could save a lot of tax expenses, but Chen Caozhi firmly stopped him. He could take in homeless people, but he had to register with the county and pay taxes.
Chen Caozhi also suggested that Ding and Liu Jiabao gradually register the hidden households in the manor, because Chen Caozhi vaguely remembered that in the next two years, Da Sima
Huan Wenhui presided over the implementation of a major civil war. All states and counties under the control of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had to conduct household registration checks. Strict laws prohibited people from leaving their secluded households. The expatriates were forced to return to their hometowns. Many high-ranking families were forced to hand over tens of thousands of secluded households.
Households, and there were not a few lower-class nobles who had their homes confiscated. This is the famous Huan Wen, Geng, and Xu Tujuan in history——
What makes Chen Caozhi slightly confused is that this year is the fourth year of Shengping, and he is aged in Gengshen. There are still fifty years before the next Gengxu year. Huan Wen is already nearly fifty, how can he live another fifty years to preside over the Gengxu Congress?
According to the historical process, Liu Yu took over the power fifty years later and was about to force Emperor Jin to abdicate. Therefore, Chen Caozhi guessed that Gengxu should refer to a certain day of the month, not the year.
On June 18, Zongzhi's birthday, Chen Caozhi also drew a portrait of Zongzhi. It was the way Zongzhi looked when he was writing and writing. It was dignified and cute. He also drew a portrait of Cao Zhi written by Wang Xizhi that Xie Daoyun borrowed from Cao'e Temple.
The post on the E stele was given to Zongzhi, who loved Wang Xizhi's regular script the most.
At the end of July, officials, ancestral halls, and genealogy officials arrived in Qiantang. The head of the family named Chu, the sixth-grade prime minister Chu Jian, was demoted to a commoner, the Chu family was expelled from the scholar register, and the twenty hectares of official land originally granted were taken back.
, Yinhu were scattered in all directions, and the refugees who were originally attached to the Chu family were absorbed by other noble families in the Qiantang Dynasty. Most of the Chu family's land was lost in an instant. Although the Chu family was resentful, they now had no official or position, and they had become a common people.
There is no way he is qualified to fight against the Chen family. He can only swallow his hatred and swallow his voice.
Originally, at the beginning of this year, Chen Mo and Chen Tan were going to Wu County to study under Xu Zao's family, but Chen Cao's mother died of illness, so they were delayed. Now that family affairs have been decided, and the nine-month mourning period has passed, Chen Mo,
Chen Tan then went to Xu's Thatched Cottage under Lion Mountain in Wu County to study hard for next year's Qiyun Mountain Elegant Collection.
According to news from Wu County, Lu Na had been summoned by the imperial court to go to Jiankang to take up the prestigious post of Zuo Min Shangshu, and Lu Weirui's seventeenth birthday on the eighth day of August was approaching.