At the end of the busy autumn harvest, the entire Zhaojiazhuang is drying the newly harvested rice, and then it is time to pay taxes. At this time, the tax was that one acre of land needed to pay one bucket of field tax, and Zhao Yuan's family had a total of eight acres of land, and all of them had to pay eight buckets of grain.

Each bucket of rice is almost 30 catties, that is, Zhao Yuan needs to pay 240 catties of grain land tax. Of course, there is not only a land tax, but also a variety of other taxes every year, such as Ding Qian, conscription, chieftain money, Yicang tax, agricultural tool tax and so on.

The rice and wheat planted by Zhao Yuan's family have harvested more than 800 catties of rice and more than 1,200 catties of wheat, but the taxes that need to be paid are almost 300 catties of rice and 500 catties of wheat.

This year, Zhao Yuan made a fortune selling wild mushrooms, but he didn't have to sell grain for money to buy some daily necessities.

After a few more busy days, after paying various taxes, Zhaojiazhuang finally calmed down.

Huang Qiming had already done the land deed of the land in Xiaheba, and Zhao Yuan went to the town to get the land deed back before the autumn harvest, but he had been busy with the autumn harvest and didn't take care of the land, and now that the autumn harvest is over, it's time to start cleaning up the land.

Early in the morning, Zhao Yuan came to Uncle Zhao Chuanyi's house with a piece of pork and a three-foot cloth, and Uncle Zhao's family had just finished breakfast when Zhao Yuan arrived.

"Atom, what are you?" Uncle Zhao saw Zhao Yuan coming to the door with a gift, and asked suspiciously.

"Uncle, uncle, Brother Ren, Brother Yun, our autumn harvest in Zhaojiazhuang has ended, everyone is basically idle now, I bought a piece of land in Xiaheba, I want to ask Uncle to discuss with the uncles in the village, can you go to Xiaheba to help me clean up the plot." Zhao Yuan put the meat and cloth on the table next to him and said directly.

"When did you buy the land, and there is no good land in Xiaheba?" Uncle Zhao said after thinking about it.

"It's that some time ago, I didn't make some money selling mushrooms, so I bought the piece of Xiahe Dam, and I could grow some food after a few years, and when the land was planted, it was also a good land." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Atom, how much did you spend on that land?" The eldest aunt on the side asked.

"It cost a lot of money, but it's a lot of land, a whole ten hectares."

"You, why don't you discuss it with us elders, it's not like no one has made up their minds about that piece of land there, but it's full of stones, how to plant it." Uncle Zhao sighed.

"So I'm going to find you, uncle, and ask the people in the village to help me, and of course I'll pay everyone." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"You're going to open up all that land?"

"As much as I can, I can open as many as I can, and I want to build a few houses there, and I need manpower."

"Then this project is not small, so let's call everyone in the village in a while, and you can tell everyone about your plans." Uncle Zhao thought for a while and said.

"Okay, then I'm sorry for you."

"You, if there is anything to discuss with us, I know you are very assertive, as far as the matter of wild mushrooms is concerned, our entire Zhaojiazhuang will follow you to benefit, but after all, we are much older than you."

"Got it, uncle, I know it in my heart."

"That's okay, you can come to the drying field later, and I'll let everyone go there."

"Okay, I'll go first."

After Zhao Yuan left, the eldest aunt glanced at Uncle Zhao and his two sons and said: "This atom is terrible now, the whole ten hectares of land, I bought it when I said I bought it, and I didn't hear any wind before." ”

"Yes, I can see it, our Zhaojiazhuang, the most promising one is this Zhao Yuan, Qiuren, Qiuyun, you two learn from others, Zhao Yuan is much younger than you, you see." Uncle Zhao pointed to his two sons and said.

"Dad, I didn't think that the atom was any different from the people in the village before, why did the big pillar go, after the atom got better, it was like a different person." Uncle Zhao's eldest son, Zhao Qiuren, said.

"Yes, Dad, Big Brother is right, I also think the atom is very different." The second son, Zhao Qiuyun, also nodded.

"Don't think about it, think about helping more atoms, you will go to the village and inform everyone to gather in the drying field." Uncle Zhao shook his head and said.

"Hmm."

……

Zhao Yuan came out of Uncle Zhao's house and went home directly.

"Brother Yuan, have you told Uncle Zhao?" Meng Ying, who had finished cleaning up the housework, saw Zhao Yuan coming back and asked.

"Okay, everyone will go to the drying field in a while, and we will go too." Zhao Yuan said with a smile.

"Uncle, are we going to go down the river dam?" Outside the house, Zhao Luo watched the black tiger grazing, walked into the house and asked.

"yes, we're going to the lower dam." Zhao Yuan touched Luoluo's forehead and said.

"Are you going to take the black tiger with you?" Luoluo asked.

"If you want to take it, not only the black tiger, but also the two pigs at home will also be rushed over, we will stay there for a while, almost until the New Year."

"Brother Yuan, a lot of things in that house have to be moved over."

"Well, we'll start cleaning up when we get back from the drying field."

"Okay, let's go to the drying field, Luoluo will go together."

When Zhao Yuan and the three of them came to the drying field, the people in the village also came over one after another, and everyone was asking Uncle Zhao about what to say, and they thought that they were going to send conscripts again.

When everyone arrived, Uncle Zhao stood in front of the drying field and said, "Call everyone over today, not because there is forced labor, but because the atom has something to tell everyone, atom, you come to the front." ”

"It turned out that it wasn't a conscription, which scared me." Zhao Tieniu said loudly.

"Okay, uncle." Zhao Yuan nodded, walked to the front of the drying field and said, "Uncle, second uncle, third uncle, and elders, today I asked the uncle to call everyone, there is something that needs help from the big guy." ”

"Atom, if you need our help, just say it."

"Yes, atom, what do you want to help with, in a word."

"Thank you, thank you uncles, then I'll be straight to the point." Zhao Yuan looked at everyone's appearance without saying a word, and said movingly.

"Say it."

"That's the case, some time ago I bought a piece of wasteland, that is, the one under the river dam, I need everyone's help to clean it up, the land is relatively large, so it would be better if your uncles could call people from other villages to help together, I will pay everyone's wages, according to the regular labor one hundred and twenty copper dollars a day, and the half labor one hundred copper dollars a day to pay the wages, including food, but the place to live depends on everyone to build a shed temporarily." Zhao Yuan said loudly.

"Okay, the atom still pays for the work, and now there is no work at home, which is good."

"Yes, my mother-in-law stayed at home to feed the pigs and bring her grandchildren, and I went with the two boys, and it was three hundred and sixty copper coins a day."

……

As soon as Zhao Yuan's words were finished, there was a quarrel below, and everyone knew that it was a good thing for Zhao Yuan to come to everyone.

"Okay, if you don't have any opinions, let's go home and pack up the things you want to bring, bedding, hoes, sickles, pots, dishes and chopsticks, etc., and go over together in the afternoon." Uncle Zhao looked at the boiling villagers and said loudly.

"No opinion, you have to go, atom, how big is your land?"

"It's ten acres in total, and I hope to be able to clean it out in two months and build a few houses there." Zhao Yuan heard someone ask and replied loudly.

"No problem, as soon as the news of your matter gets out, many people from several nearby villages will definitely come."

"Then thank you, uncles."