However, Gao Pragmatic sighed a little earlier, because after Zhang Jin introduced the manor itself, he began to introduce the attached ground of this annex - there is not much farmland around here, and even if there is, it is mainly mountainous, and the serious land is less than 100 acres.

But!

When Zhang Jin took out the map and showed it to Gao Shishi, he almost blinded Gao Gongzi's eyes: there are almost hundreds of acres of mountains and forests around this courtyard, all of which belong to the Cherry Spring Courtyard!

Hundreds! In ancient times, one hectare of land was equivalent to fifty acres, and hundreds of hectares were equivalent to more than three million square meters, that is, thirty square kilometers!

Gao pragmatic opened his mouth, and his heart was a little wooden: I ...... Just suddenly became a big landlord? Although there are not many fields, but the mountains are also the land, the Ming Dynasty people don't know how to use the mountains, I will!

He suddenly became a little excited, stared at the map carefully, and after a while, his eyes became brighter and brighter-it was very likely that part of the Mentougou Coal Mine that would shine in the future was in his own mountain forest!

Some of it doesn't matter, and some of it is enough! If you can't do it anymore, you will be done if you buy the nearby mountains in the future, because what is worth this year is the best fertile land, and the broken mountains that can't grow food are not worth a few dollars.

This is going to be sent!

Gao Pragmatic secretly made up his mind in his heart: although according to the plan, when he is developed in the future, he will definitely promote the reform of salt affairs, and the income of the Zhang family's salt industry may be greatly reduced at that time, but for today's uncle's posterior gift, I must also guide the Zhang family to a better path. It must not only be beneficial to the country, but also ensure that the Zhang family does not fall. Well, it's a virtue to be grateful......

Because Gao Pragmatic got such a big benefit from the Zhang family, he immediately pulled the Zhang family from the "salt merchant who harms the country" to the side of the "national capitalist who is worth guiding and saving".

Gao Shishi's heart was beating wildly, but he still tried his best to stabilize his mind and asked, "General Liu, have they all been settled?" ”

Zhang Jin sometimes felt that he couldn't keep up with the speed of this young master's thinking, and he was stunned for a moment before replying: "Arranged in the VIP room on the second floor, it is estimated that they are all tired, and they should be resting at this time." ”

Gao pragmatic nodded, he couldn't hold back his joy, and immediately ordered: "Very good, very good, you leave the map, go and arrange the guards' accommodation first, and then call Tingqin Yueyue, Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang to my study, I will go to the study and wait for them to have something to order." ”

Zhang Jin listened and hesitated.

"How?" Gao pragmatic asked, "But what else must be said now?" ”

Zhang Jin smiled slightly bitterly: "Fang Cai is actually just a general introduction, according to the plan, you should have introduced the managers of the upper, middle, and lower courtyards of the other courtyard, as well as the income and expenditure accounts of the other courtyards." ”

"Upper, middle and lower courtyards?" Gao Shishi asked rhetorically, suddenly came to his senses, looked at the third floor of the annex that now belonged to him, and asked, "This uncle gave it to me, can I rename it?" ”

Zhang Jin said: "That's nature. The title deed or something, the lord let the small one bring it, and I was planning to hand it over to you when I introduced the income and expenditure accounts of the annex. ”

Gao pragmatic smiled: "That's not in a hurry, I'll change the name of this courtyard first...... Later, this courtyard was renamed 'Sanshenyuan', and the upper, middle, and lower courtyards you just mentioned were changed to 'Shensiyuan', 'Shenyanyuan', and 'Shenxingyuan' respectively. ”

Zhang Jin's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly praised: "This name is good, it is much more elegant than the cherry orchard, and Xie Ge didn't know what to think at the beginning, so he took such a cheesy name as the cherry orchard." ”

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said, "You have misunderstood this. Xie Ge Lao had already achieved fame at that time, and the name of a mere courtyard could be arbitrary. I am different, a child with a hanging bun, and no merit, so I named this place after prudence, prudence, and prudence, in order to remind myself day and night, and to spur me, in fact, it is to take the meaning of the Confucian sage's 'three provinces and my body'. ”

Zhang Jinxin said: If you become famous, you don't need to "save my body three times a day"?

But Zhang Jin naturally didn't dare to criticize the old and important ministers of the old cabinet, so he had to laugh dryly: "Young Master Cousin is reasonable, but the little one still thinks that this name is very good." ”

Gao Pragmatic pretended to be in his heart, and didn't want to talk about this kind of thing, so he changed the topic back with a smile: "You just said that you want to introduce me to the matter of financial income and expenditure...... Isn't it said that this courtyard has a total of about 100 acres of land, although I don't do farming, but I want to come to just 100 acres of land, and it is always impossible to supply such a large manor. ”

Zhang Jin said with a smile: "The little one knows that the young master will have this misunderstanding. ”

"Misunderstanding?" Gao was surprised: "Why, can this hundred acres of land really supply such a large manor?" ”

"A hundred acres of land can't be supplied naturally." Zhang Jin explained with a smile: "But Young Master, the term 100 acres of land is just a record in the field book, in fact, under the name of this 'Sanshen Garden', just in terms of fields, there are 437 acres of upper fields, 782 acres of middle fields, and 966 acres of lower fields. ”

Gao was stunned for a moment.

He calculated in his heart that there were about 300 hectares of land under the name of Sanshen Garden, that is, 15,000 acres, and the upper, middle and lower fields here were about 2,200 acres...... Hey, it doesn't seem like this ratio is very exaggerated?

"But why is there only a hundred acres of land in the field book?" Gao pragmatic couldn't help but ask.

Zhang Jin smiled a little embarrassedly, and said, "This...... Well, when the lord bought here, the price was calculated according to the actual number of fields, but you may also know that our Daming fields ...... There are a lot of them that are not registered. ”

Gao Pragmatic suddenly understood: Isn't this fucking Yintian?

Gao Shishi actually knows a little bit about Yintian, but because he is young, no one talks to him about this stubble carefully, so he is not particularly familiar with it.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has a yellow book system, which uniformly registers and registers the population, land and resources of various places as a proof of paying taxes. However, after the local tyrants and landlords colluded with the officials, many officials falsified on this, and one of the relatively simple methods was to make the yellow book out of inferior paper, so that the yellow book disappeared for no reason due to the damage of the paper in the process of preservation.

The yellow book belongs to the original file, and you don't have this field on the original file, so the actual owner of this field naturally does not have to pay taxes for this land, does this need to be explained?

In fact, this land came from a more magical background earlier - the great eunuch Wang Zhi in the Chenghua period! Who is Wang Zhi, and his power at that time may be less than the later nine thousand years old. With his ability, he took down the land to make some moves, and only 100 acres of the original 2,200 acres of land were implemented in the Yellow Book...... Isn't that weird?

In addition, some officials simply falsified the Yellow Book at the beginning of the Yellow Register, registering the landlords as poor and the poor as landlords, with the result that the responsibility for paying taxes fell on the poor people, causing a large number of poor people to flee.

After the poor people fled, the officials were not afraid, and copied last year's yellow book again and sent it to make up the number, but after several decades, the content was exactly the same, and there was even such an outrageous thing as the county's population was centenarians.

The reason why those officials dared to do this may be mainly because after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, no emperor seriously verified the authenticity of the contents of the Yellow Book, nor did he send people to seriously investigate the actual situation of the population, fields, and resources in various places, so he exploited loopholes for lawless officials and landlords.

In fact, there are many ways to exploit loopholes, but Gao Pragmatic doesn't know.

But now there is an embarrassing thing: Gao Pragmatic has a plan to remeasure the fields to be implemented in the future, but he never expected that now there are more than 2,000 acres of hidden land under his name!