After meeting Xi Chao, Chen Caozhi was preparing to visit Xie An in Wuyi Lane. Chen Shang sent someone to ask Chen Caozhi to review the house, saying that someone from his hometown Chenjiawu had come. Chen Caozhi and Ran Sheng hurried back
When I arrived at the Gu Mansion, I met Chen Chang, the eldest son of his sixth uncle Chen Man. Accompanying Chen Chang to Jiankang were Cheng Cang, the Yinhu of the Cheng family who was in charge of Chenjiawu's commodity trade, Jing Nu, six Chen family members, and six Chen family members.
Tenants of Chen's manor, Chen's fleet has more than ten ox carts, bringing two thousand kilograms of top-grade Ge Xian tea, four thousand kilograms of dried fish from the Mingsheng Lake fish farm, five hundred pieces of various farm tools, and five hundred pieces of Chen
The sesame produced in his manor——
Although Chen Caozhi had a distant relationship with the Beilou group, he was still extremely cordial when he saw Chen Chang. He saluted and said, "Thank you for your hard work, fifth brother."
Chen Chang pointed to the carts of goods in the courtyard and said to Chen Shang and Chen Caozhi: "Three brothers and sixteen brothers, these are all produced by our Chenjiawu. Whether they are ironware or weaving linen, they are all made by Qian Tang."
1. The last time my sixteenth brother wrote at home, he told me to send tea to the capital. I discussed with my father and my fourth uncle that we should simply transport these farm tools, sesame, and dried fish to the capital together. In this way, the Chen family of Qiantang
The items produced in the manor can be sold. You see, I have brought all the warehouses and am ready to find a reliable agent in Jiankang."
Chen Shang and Chen Cao were both very happy. While reading the letters from home brought by Chen Chang, and listening to Chen Chang talk about Chenjiawu, Ran Sheng and Jing Nu went to the side to talk.
The patriarch Chen Xian, his sister-in-law Ding Youwei, as well as Zongzhi and Run'er all received letters. Chen Caozhi read them carefully. How happy he is that his relatives are safe and his family is prosperous!
Gu Kaizhi heard that someone from Chenjiawu came and also came to meet Chen Chang. Chen Caozhi gave Gu Kaizhi fifty kilograms of high-grade Ge Xian tea. Gu Kaizhi tasted Chen Caozhi's tea and praised it full of praise. He often learned from Chen Caozhi.
Tea Art, who had fifty pounds of good tea at this time, was overjoyed and said: "A Tong also likes this way of drinking tea. Now even my uncle doesn't add onions, ginger, orange peels and other things when making tea. It's so heavy."
The method of drinking tea will become popular in Jiangzuo."
Chen Cao said: "I still have twenty pieces of fine hemp, a hundred pounds of dried fish from Mingsheng Lake to give to your mansion, and fifty iron farm tools to give to Gu's manor for trial use."
Gu Kaizhi said: "I don't care about these. I'll ask the steward and Dianji to come and buy all these items from your Chenjiawu."
Chen Cao said: "The items this time are not for sale, only given away——"
Chen Chang heard that Gu wanted to buy all these items and was very happy. However, he heard that his sixteenth brother refused to sell but wanted to give them away. He couldn't help but became very anxious, but he couldn't say that he would not give them away. He thought: "
This sixteenth brother really doesn’t know the hardships of farming, and he is imitating that famous scholar. These dozen carts of goods are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, why should they all be given away!"
Just listen to what Chen Cao said: "Send fifty pieces of iron farm tools to Gu's Manor for trial use. If you think that our Chenjiawu iron tools are durable and can be supplied in large quantities in the future, then I won't give them away."
Gu Kaizhi laughed and said: "I didn't expect Zizhong to be a good official. Haha, let the steward Dianji discuss this matter. You and I can have tea."
Chen Cao said: "You have already secretly learned some of my simple tea skills. Now the three idiots of Changkang will be joined by the tea idiots - I have to go to Wuyi Lane to see Mr. An Shi. I just heard about my fifth brother.
I just hurried back when I arrived."
Chen Cao ordered his servants to prepare twenty pieces of fine sesame, fifty kilograms of Ge Xian tea and one hundred kilograms of dried fish, which were given to the Xie Mansion. He also prepared another quantity of sesame, tea leaves, dried fish and farm tools for the Xie Mansion.
Zhang Mansion sent——
Chen Chang, like his father Chen Man, was short-sighted. When he saw Chen Caozhi giving gifts freely, he became a little anxious and said to Chen Shang: "Third brother, look at this sixteenth brother-"
Chen Shang said with a smile: "Sixteenth Brother, this is to make the items produced by our Chen family's manor famous. Let alone other things, as far as iron farm tools are concerned, if the manors of the Gu family and Zhang family in Wu County use agricultural tools produced by Chen family,
If so, then my smelting shop in Chenjiawu will be in short supply, and the same will be true for sesame and tea."
Chen Chang nodded, but he still felt distressed when he saw the goods being sent out one by one. Chen Chang had not yet adapted to the new status of the Chen family, and he still thought that when the family's land holdings totaled only forty hectares, they had to pay for every penny.
Now the Qiantang Chen family's land is nearly 200 hectares, and they also own the entire Mingsheng Lake. The Chen family is hiring labor to open up farmland near the lake. In less than three years, the Qiantang Chen family's land will expand sharply to 500 hectares.
The above, ranked first among the eight surnames of Qiantang. Of course, compared with the four surnames of Wujun, Gu, Lu, Zhu, and Zhang, who owned thousands of hectares of fertile land, the emerging Qiantang and Chen family were still far behind.
Big, if you don't have three or fifty years of operation, you can't catch up with it.
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At dusk, Chen Caozhi went to Wuyi Lane to visit Xie An and asked Xie An for advice on how to destroy the land. It was no accident that the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the powerful Fu Qin in the Feishui Battle. This was very much in line with the national policy implemented by Xie An after he came to power.
Relations, when Xie An came to power, he reorganized the Beifu Army, carried out a large-scale civil war, and reformed the tax system, which enhanced the national power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and gave the Eastern Jin Dynasty the manpower and material resources to fight against Fu Qin. However, Chen Caozhi knew that Xie An
Xie An did not resolve the conflict over the land annexation of the powerful clans. Xie An, like Wang Dao, was too tolerant and focused on so-called virtuous governance. "Shishuo Xinyu" records that "when Xie Gong, the soldiers died in battle, and they often rushed to Nantang, went down to the boats, or
I wanted to search for a while, but Xie Gong refused, saying, 'If we don't allow this person to be left alone, how can we be in Kyoto!'"
——The servants of military households fled because of the annexation of powerful families and heavy taxes and servitude. Xie An could not solve this problem. He only tolerated those fleeing civilian households and refused to hunt them down. This did not help matters! The intricate conflicts within the Eastern Jin Dynasty were caused by the army of Fu and Qin.
Once the threat from the north weakens, Jiangdong's own contradictions will become more prominent. This is an important reason why Sun En and Lu Xun were able to respond to the rebellion. Sun En's rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the Jiangzuo clan, and the clan has since lost its ability to control the government.
Ability, imperial power has been strengthened, clan politics has ended, and the nine-rank Zhongzheng system has been replaced by the imperial examination system. This seems to be the inevitable development of history. Chen Caozhi, who is facing a great turning point in history, is inevitably at a loss. The Qiantang Chen family is now inferior.
Among the gentry, Lu Shi refused to let Lu Weirui marry Chen Caozhi because of his family status. Chen Caozhi was trying to change this situation, but if Sun En's kind of great turmoil and destruction were to shake the status of the gentry, this would
This is what Chen Caozhi doesn’t want to see——
While standing in front of the Xie Mansion in Wuyi Lane, waiting for the government officials to come in and report, Chen Caozhi thought to himself: "I am not the ruling Huan Wen. Thinking so much now is tantamount to unfounded worries. What I have to do now is to try my best to improve the status of the family.
Strengthen the family's financial resources and marry Wei Rui into the family. My mother was still thinking about my marriage when she passed away."
Xie Xuan came out and said with a smile: "If Zizhong doesn't come, my third uncle will send someone to invite him."
Chen Cao said: "I have long wanted to come to An Shigong for advice. Youdu tell me, what is An Shigong's opinion on this earth destruction?"
Xie Xuan and Chen Caozhi walked side by side to the hall of Xie Mansion and said: "Of course my third uncle supports Tuduan, but he thinks that the modified guest system of clothing, food and clothing is somewhat inappropriate. This is compared with the system of households in the Taixing period.
, the number of Yinke occupied by Pinguan has doubled, making it easy for the common people to envy them."
Chen Caozhi nodded and said: "This is also a concession that is necessary to implement Tujuan. Otherwise, it will not be possible to appease the wealthy families."
Xie Xuandao: "That's what I told my third uncle. My third uncle said that there should be measures to appease the poor families of the common people."
Chen Caozhi said in his heart: "Xie An is indeed the most politically intelligent person in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His vision is not limited to the interests of the nobles and wealthy families, but also has a clear understanding of the contradictions between the common people. His moral governance after taking office and his tolerance seem to be also
It is a last resort, and some conflicts cannot be resolved by him."
Chen Caozhi met Xie An's sixth brother Xie Shi this time. Xie Shi was now Secretary Chenglang and a sixth-grade official. He looked at Chen Caozhi carefully and smiled slightly. People in the Xie family always smiled a little when they saw Chen Caozhi.
An unspoken taste.
Chen Cao ordered his servants to bring twenty pieces of fine sesame, fifty kilograms of top-grade Ge Xian tea and one hundred kilograms of dried fish. Xie An smiled and said, "I heard that Cao is good at tea art. Today I can taste Qian Tang's famous tea."
When Xie Daoyun learned of Chen Caozhi's arrival, he hurriedly changed into men's clothes and came to see Chen Caozhi. Seeing Chen Caozhi making tea in a side room, he came over to help arrange the cups and distribute the tea, and whispered: "Zi Zhong is here to promote Gexian tea -"
Chen Caozhi smiled and said, "I just want to borrow my uncle's name."
There is a wonderful essay in "Shishuo Xinyu". A fellow villager from Xie An met Xie An after he was dismissed from office.
"I can't sell it." Xie An then took a medium-sized palmetto fan and waved it gently at gatherings. His graceful demeanor attracted the Jiankang scholars to admire and imitate him. The 50,000 palmetto fans from that countryman were sold out in ten days.
The price increased several times——
Xie Daoyun said: "I have learned Zizhong's tea-making method, but I did not show it to my uncle after returning to the capital, so as not to take away Zizhong's new interest."
Chen Caozhi smiled and said, "Thank you very much."
Xie An, Xie Wan, and Xie Shi tasted the Ge Xian tea carefully. As expected, the fragrance was refreshing and lasting, leaving the lips and teeth fragrant.
Xie An said: "Taking powder is like drinking tea. After drinking this wonderful tea, you can talk about common things and appear elegant."
Chen Caozhi then told Xie An and Xie Wan about Tuduan. Xie An had already known these things from Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan, and Huan Wen was very impressed with Chen Caozhi as the left supervisor of Tuduan.
Wonderful, Chen Caozhi is the most popular among the descendants of Jiangzuo, and has good relations with the gentry in the north and south. Among the gentry in the south, not to mention the Xie family, Wang Shao of Langya, the late Wang Xizhi, and Wang Tan of Taiyuan
He admired Chen Caozhi very much, and Xi Chao was a close friend of Chen Caozhi. Among the Jiangzuo gentry, the Gu family, Zhang family and Chen Caozhi had a close relationship. As for Lu Shi, Xie An thought he was strong but easy to break.
Lu Na also admired Chen Caozhi very much. The marriage between Chen Caozhi and the Lu family was very promising. However, Huan Wen did not let the gentle and rigorous Lu Na take charge of Tu Duan, but let Lu Shi take charge of Tu Duan. The mystery is worth pondering.
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Xie An approached Chen Caozhi, Xie Daoyun, and Xie Xuan about the matter of soil destruction. Xie An proposed that the hermit households cleared out by Sanwu scholars would not have to serve the court in the first year, but would only be used for water conservancy construction and drought prevention in the county.
