Chapter 223: Enclosure Movement

Coaxing a child? He doesn't know how to scare children at all, he's very good at it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Yao Su hugged Hui'er, sandwiched a piece of horseshoe cake for her, and fed her a small piece with chopsticks, as if a father was feeding his daughter, and his movements were very skillful.

"Master Yao really knows how to watch children, how many children are there at home?" Zhao Wenjie asked jealously.

"It's very easy to look after children, as long as you treat them sincerely, you can take care of them. Isn't it that Lord Zhao doesn't like children? Yao Su asked rhetorically, he asked Hui'er to eat by herself, and began to help Yang Er peel the eggs again.

"Yes, I like kids the most." He hurriedly denied it, grabbed a xiaolongbao with his chopsticks, and put it into the bowl of Feng An, which was closest to him.

Feng An gave him a blank look and returned the xiaolongbao to him.

"I don't like to eat xiaolongbao." Feng An replied expressionlessly.

"So what do you like to eat? Uncle clip to you. Zhao Wenjie also learned from Yao Su to take an egg and peel it, and said flatteringly, "Uncle will peel the egg for you." ”

"Eat without sleeping, you talk too much!" Feng An replied, silently drinking the porridge in the bowl.

When Zhao Wenjie heard this, he didn't know whether to peel the egg in his hand.

"Hahaha......" Zhuge Qiqi almost laughed on the side, and gave a thumbs up to Feng'an from afar.

"Okay, let's have a good meal, the carriage of the yamen will arrive later." Shumin took the egg from Zhao's hand, peeled it and put it into Zhao's bowl.

Zhao felt a little comforted, no matter what happened to the children, the child's mother just took him to heart.

The carriage of the Yamen stopped at the Zuifeng Building early, and there were two carriages, each of which was equipped with four guards of the Yamen. Knowing that it was the carriage where Mrs. Qin and the county magistrate went to the test field, it attracted the attention of the people in the city early in the morning.

As soon as Shumin came out, the crowd immediately became commotionous, and everyone scrambled to see the demeanor of the county order and Mrs. Qin.

Fortunately, the officials were prepared, and immediately stepped forward to surround the city wall with their hands open to prevent those people from blindly approaching.

"Mrs. Qin, Mrs. Qin!" I don't know who took the lead, everyone was higher and higher, shouting at Shumin.

Shu Min never thought that there would be such a big battle, it was simply compared to the stars in the previous life. In her previous life, the perpetual motion machine was a world-renowned project, and she often held some memorial receptions, and she was indispensable to attend this kind of occasion as a design director at that time.

She politely waved at everyone and smiled.

Unexpectedly, she waved her hand like this, and everyone's voice was even higher.

"You get into the carriage first." Afraid that the scene would get out of control, Jeongmin hurriedly said to Shumin.

Shumin nodded, and the officials on the side immediately helped her carry the children into the car, and when it was Hui'er's turn, Hui'er's eyes lit up, because she saw a black horse.

"Mother, horse!" Her eyes were dark and bright, and she was very happy.

"Hui'er likes horses, can your uncle take you on a horse?" Zhao Wenjie thought that the opportunity had come, so he quickly picked up Hui'er and put it on Heifeng.

"Mother...... Wow......" Maybe he was moving too fast and too fast, and Hui'er was frightened and cried.

"Come, my mother will take you back to the carriage." With a blank look at Zhao, Shumin reached out to hug Hui'er.

"You've got a sprained foot, so I'll do it." Yao Su on the side pulled Shumin for a moment, and said to Hui'er, "Don't cry, come and uncle to carry you back to the carriage." ”

Hui'er immediately stopped crying, obediently threw herself into his arms, and was carried back to the carriage by him and handed it to Liu'er.

"Take your time, what are you in a hurry!" Shu Min said angrily to Zhao Wenjie, turned around and got into the carriage.

Zhao Wenjie was also annoyed, it was very easy to see Yao Su getting along with the children, why didn't he do anything to please him when he came here? !

"It's a matter of character." As if to see what he was thinking, Yao Su gloated as he passed by him.

"Master Yao, are you riding a car or a horse?" There are two carriages, one for Zhengmin and Master Su, one for Shumin and the children, Huang Zhutou rides a horse, and Zhao Wenjie pulls out the black wind, so he is naturally also riding.

"We also ride horses." As he was talking, the little guy in the drunken wind building led two more horses out, in order not to reveal his identity, his night lion stayed in the capital, although these two horses are good, but they are far worse than Heifeng.

Xu knew that he was the most handsome, and Hei Feng snorted excitedly and walked at the front of the team with his head held high.

"High, your trick is really high." Zhuge Qiqi and Yao Su rode horses and walked behind Zhao Wenjie, seeing that Zhao Wenjie had eaten a morning of deflated, Zhuge Qiqi was in a good mood and said to Yao Su.

"Hmph, that's just the beginning!" Yao Su is confident, does the surnamed Zhao think that he will coax a woman and everything will be fine?

"Don't you all like Uncle Zhao?" In the carriage, Shumin was surrounded by children and suddenly asked.

The children were silent for a long time before Feng An said, "He bullied my uncle and took you away, he is a bad person, we hate him." ”

The children nodded in unison.

Shu Min sighed when he heard this, touched Feng An's head, and didn't say anything.

The children's senses are the most direct, and it is also a fact that Zhao Wenjie tortured Chunquan and forcibly took himself away. The causal cycle, the cause you planted, you can do it yourself, I can't seem to help you. Shumin thought helplessly.

More and more people gathered in the streets, and although some people did not stop the carriages and horses from moving forward, it took a long time to get out of the city gates.

I thought that it would be sparsely populated when I got out of the city gate, but I didn't expect that the dense crowd of villagers who came from other places, and their team had unconsciously lined up from Keziling to Linjiang Town.

I don't know who shouted, "The county commander and Mrs. Qin are out of the city." The crowd on both sides stood up in unison, and the noisy voices immediately quieted down, and their eyes were fixed on Shumin and his party.

"Alas...... I really didn't expect so many people to come. Jeongmin said with a sigh.

"This is natural, hearsay is better than seeing it with your own eyes, after visiting the experimental field, adults may wish to open it for a few more days, so that the villagers who come here can see with their own eyes the rice seedlings that sprout in February, which is much more convincing than adults grinding their mouths." Master Su said with a smile.

"Everything is done according to what the master says." Jeongmin laughed.

It's not that no villagers want to come forward to ask, but Zhao Wenjie, who was walking in front, was dressed too gorgeously, his aura was too powerful, and he was in an extremely unhappy mood early in the morning, with a gloomy expression on his face, and his cold eyes calmed everyone present, which invisibly solved a lot of trouble for Shumin and them.

The road that was originally two hours was almost three hours away today. There were officers and soldiers in Keziling, except for the squires and tyrants who received the invitation written by the county magistrate and the township officials, the rest of the people were stopped on the periphery of Keziling.

"Shh......h It's finally here. Shu Min let out a long breath, although he was sitting in the carriage, he felt a pair of simple and simple eyes outside along the way, and Shu Min only felt a lot of pressure.

"My lord, Mrs. Qin, you are here." Zhengshun led Zhengjian and several villagers who helped to plant it to greet everyone in the pine forest.

"Well, the squires have arranged it?" Jeongmin asked.

"It's all arranged in the rest area outside the rice field, waiting for the adults." Zhengjian rushed to answer.

"Then let's hurry over, it's not too early." There was a delay of an hour, and it was already early afternoon.

The rest area was a makeshift shed, with a stove on the side, and some tea was boiled, and the squires naturally wanted to participate, but their clothes were obviously better than those of the ones who sat again, and most of them were brocade. The squires claimed that their status was more noble than that of Lizheng, and they surrounded the city in a circle and whispered, while the Lizheng people were also whispering in groups.

From a distance, there is a clear distinction between rich and poor. But there were much more obviously poor than the squires.

"These are the largest landlords in Linjiang County, and they own nearly one-third of the fertile land in Linjiang County." Seeing that Shumin was a little confused, Master Su whispered in her ear, "The promotion of two crops of rice, convincing these people is the key." ”

"If they can plant two crops, they can also get twice as much grain, so why not?" Shumin was puzzled.

"Look." Master Su smiled silently.

There are not many squires and tyrants who control one-third of the fertile land in Linjiang County, only seven or eight people, so they only circle around, each testing each other's minds, and planning to hug together.

"Listening to the tone of the master, it seems that these people are not very much in favor of the two crops of rice, but what is the reason?" Shu Min thought for a while, "It stands to reason that they should be happy, after all, there is so much land in their hands, and the grain they sell is not a small amount." ”

"It's not that they don't approve of it, but they don't want to take this risk, and the imperial court has a clear rule that those who have more than 30 acres of land per capita in their families must pay an extra layer of grain than ordinary families. Their fields are rented to peasants with few fields for cultivation, and they are afraid that the peasants will have enough grain to eat, so they will no longer rent the land, and their land will not be rented, but the grain tax will be paid in full according to the number of acres, and they will lose more than they gain. Yao Su on the side hit the nail on the head to help Shumin solve his doubts.

"I see, nothing is perfect! But what does it mean to pay taxes according to the number of acres of land, shouldn't you pay less taxes the more land in your family? In this way, we can encourage everyone to open up wasteland and farm? Shumin asked suspiciously.

"Do you know how the previous dynasty perished?" Yao Su asked, and Shu Min shook his head.

"The land system of the previous dynasty is as you said, in the end, as the gap between the rich and the poor widened, the land was gradually occupied by the gentry and local tyrants, and the people lost their fields, and had no choice but to endure cruel leases and rent land from the landlords. It is said that at the most severe time, there were 19 points. The people worked hard for a year, but they were still hungry and hungry, and finally had to rebel and overthrow the rule of the previous dynasty, and the whole country fell into chaos, until the emergence of the four major families, which gradually calmed down the chaos and established the Kingdom of the Apocalypse, and everyone gradually settled down. ”

After a pause, Yao Su continued, "In order to prevent similar things from happening in the future, the First Ancestor Emperor formulated such a field tax system, which on the one hand gave the people basic protection, and on the other hand, prevented similar things from happening. After all, although there are many fields, if they are not good at management, the squire landlord will also face the crisis of bankruptcy. ”

"So, it's a pretty good system!" Shumin smiled, thinking of the famous British enclosure movement, which directly led to the demise of European feudal society and the rise of new capitalism.

But here, it seems that this is not the case, the enclosure movement led to the fall of a dynasty, but the germ of capitalism is nowhere to be found. (To be continued.) )