After going home and eating, Tang Shijin thought about it again and said to Yan Baiwei: "Let's go to the county town tomorrow."
"Well," Yan Baiwei said, "What are you going to do?"
Tang Shijin said: "I want to buy this mountain before spring... I asked Brother Shen and he said that I can buy it as waste land. When I buy it, dig a pond and build a new house on top of your house.
Then I’ll hide up there and peek at you!”
Yan Baiwei laughed twice and said: "If you plan to build a new house, demolish my house. It will be bad if you go up. Look at my place. The flowing water on the left is called Qinglong, and the flowing water on the right is called Qinglong.
The main road is for the white tiger, which brings abundant wealth and good fortune. It is backed by a mountain, faces the sun and is sheltered from the wind, so the feng shui is excellent. Moreover, it would be too high to go up, and walking would be tiring."
He paused: "And I borrowed that house from Li Zheng at the time. It was an empty house without an owner. I didn't have the land title, so I simply demolished it and built a big one. Then I can live in your room. Your room
Feng shui is actually pretty good.”
"Okay." Tang Shijin thought for a while: "Do you think I should build a courtyard or a courtyard?"
"Do you like a courtyard?" Yan Baiwei said, "This location is not suitable for building a courtyard. Why not build a garden with pavilions and pavilions according to the mountain terrain? Then I will help you find someone."
"Okay!" Tang Shijin said: "When the time comes, you can help me look at the sketches. I think the garden created by a knowledgeable person like you should be quite elegant. Although I am just a layman who loves money.
But I also want to be arty!"
Yan Baiwei laughed repeatedly and said: "Okay."
He took out his ink pen and drew randomly on the paper: "If you want to dig a pond, just dig it here, and build the house here." He circled it.
Tang Shijin said: "Don't make it so small. I want to make the garden bigger. Brother Lei, eldest brother and you, we all have separate yards... What flowers do you like? I like to eat peaches. When the time comes, my yard will be full of flowers."
Plant peach trees!”
Yan Baiwei smiled and wanted to say something. He thought that Tao Chengqi was the eldest brother now, so it would not be rude for him to live with him.
He said, "If you ask me to say that, it's really a big building. Why don't we start from here?" He made a stroke: "Build it from here."
Tang Shijin said: "I also want to buy some farmland. If the house is built here, then we will buy one or two hundred acres of land behind here."
"Buy land?" Yan Baiwei said: "If you want to buy land, you have to buy it from others. I'm afraid it will cost you more money... By the way, don't you still want to build a wine shop? I think you could just use this vacant land.
If we buy them together, this area is very empty, and it is easy to do anything, and if we buy them together as wasteland, it shouldn't cost much."
Tang Shijin asked: "What's it like on the other side?"
Yan Baiwei said: "It's just an open space, and there are only a few bamboos! It would be great if there was a map. I'll tell you in detail."
The two were discussing with great interest. Tao Chengqi lay on the bed with her legs crossed, closing her eyes and listening. Although Brother Lei was itchy and distracted from time to time, he still tried to concentrate and concentrate on studying.
After breakfast the next day, they drove the carriage to the county seat.
Tang Shijin always felt that Yan Baiwei did not look like someone who would do things like bribery, and his style was clearly wrong, so before entering, she warned her: "You are just a scarecrow, don't talk too much, otherwise people will think too much and may
A lot of things happen for no reason."
Yan Baiwei said helplessly: "I know."
When buying land, one usually goes to the county magistrate or the county registrar. Shen Zhi went directly to the registrar. Tang Shijin gave him fifty taels of silver in advance and asked him to give it to the registrar. Shen Zhi went in and confessed.
When the two of them went in again, the chief clerk was very friendly and didn't talk nonsense. He took out the map of Zhulin Village, circled the mountain, and said: "Well, it's almost two hundred acres, and this area needs to be added. ?Well, this area is about twenty acres, I'll ask someone to take you to measure it."
Yan Baiwei thanked her, and then the chief clerk called two officials and asked them to take her to go through the formalities.
The land was still purchased under Brother Lei's name, because later we discussed adding an additional piece to cover dozens of acres, so in the end we paid a total of 218 acres of land. This is also a small way for lower-level officials to handle affairs. Numbers The closer it is to zero, the more true it appears.
Moreover, there are procedures in place before the measurement and procedures after the measurement. There is also a way in between.
But in short, after paying the deed tax of three hundred and twenty-seven taels and nearly eleven taels of silver, the deed tax of the Daqing Dynasty was thirty tax 1, which is one-thirtieth. After completing the formalities, the people from the Yamen followed them back to measure land.
Unexpectedly, Hello, Me, Everyone, Hello came out and bumped into Guo Xiancheng head-on.
Guo Xiancheng said pleasantly: "What are you busy with?"
Shen Zhi cupped his hands and said, "Mr. Guo is busy? I'll bring my friends over to buy a piece of land."
Guo Xian Cheng stretched out his hand to take the official deed. Of course, the official did not dare not give it, so he could only hand it over.
Then Guo Xiancheng kept looking at it, as if there was something interesting about it.
Shen Zhi winked at Tang Shijin.
You know, if the land deed has not yet been stamped, it is called a white deed, which is completely useless. You have to wait until the measurement is completed and the government stamps it and approves it, which is called a red deed. This is the real land deed.
So he wants to manipulate them, but they have no way to do it. This is an obvious mistake.
After all, Tang Shijin was from a lower class background. He was used to seeing this kind of people, so he felt very calm. He took a step forward and said with a smile: "My lord, you have dropped something."
She bent down to pick it up, and then gave him a small gold ingot worth five taels.
These five taels of gold are equivalent to fifty taels of silver. Guo Xian Cheng hid his smile in his sleeves and said, "Miss Tang has a sharp eye, thank you very much! Then I won't delay you."
He returned the deed to Li Dian.
This is so much money, but Guo Xiancheng is really arrogant in his work.
After leaving the county government office, Shen Zhi made an apologetic gesture to them and said: "Then I won't accompany you, brothers, thank you for your hard work!"
Both of them smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir."
So they returned home, informed He Lizheng, and then went to measure the land together.
Anyway, what she bought was the entire small mountain, and the two officials walked along the side of the mountain to measure it.
The measurement method of this era was 6 feet per step, and 240 steps per acre. This small hill may not look like much, but it actually measured six and a half hectares. Including the additional flat land that was purchased later, it was four and a half hectares in size. It was about ten acres, but when the official records came back, it was recorded as 218 acres, and it was all wasteland.
The wasteland is tax-free for the first three years, and even if the subsequent tax is very low, it is really cheap, even if it costs extra for Guo Xiancheng, it is still cheap.
Tang Shijin quietly stuffed Li Dian with two twenty-tael silver notes. When he returned to the Yamen and completed the formalities, Tang Shijin stuffed two more golden melon seeds with him: "Thank you for running over, I'm a girl. It’s convenient for you to entertain two people, so this money can be considered as treating them to drinks.”
A golden melon seed was worth three taels of silver, while an ordinary table was only worth two taels of silver. The two officials were very satisfied and thanked them profusely.
After leaving the county government office, Tang Shijincai said: "Okay! The next step is to find someone to build a garden!"
Yan Baiwei smiled and said, "I'll help you find it. I'll make a map first, and we'll discuss it later."