Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, matching with the military merits, the Qin State implemented the system of "Ming Zun and Humble Rank and Rank, each with a difference in the name of the field, and the concubines and concubines with the order of the family", which is called the "Mingtian House" system, that is, according to different titles, occupy different land, houses, and slaves.

Among them, Heifu, as the 7th level of "public doctor", can occupy 9 hectares of land and 9 houses.

1 house is 30 steps square, one step in Qin is about 1.3 meters, and the nine houses are more than 10,000 square meters of homestead, nearly 30 acres of Qin, far more than the "five-acre house" of ordinary people.

It takes at least a year and a half to build such a large house from scratch, but fortunately, what Anlu County lacks the most recently is an empty house.

After the fall of Yunman, all these immovable properties were confiscated and returned to the public, the main mansion in the county was requisitioned by the government, and a manor on the outskirts of the city was just the size of Heifu's standard.

So, their family occupied the magpie's nest and moved in......

Standing in the eastern suburbs of the county in the midst of a plastered field, the manor can be seen in the distance with its towering yellow and black outlines, yellow walls and black roof tiles.

"This field is going to be exchanged for my family's field."

He has passed his thirties, has grown a long beard, and is wearing the official uniform of a Tian Zuo official, although he still looks so kind, and his speech and demeanor are already a little official.

He and Heifu shared a car as they passed through the rice fields, where the rice had just bloomed, and he pointed to the vast paddy fields and said that the rice in the fields had just set ears and that there were still more than a month to go before the harvest.

Legally, Zhen and Heifu have separated, but as long as the tax is paid in two parts, whether the two brothers live together will not be investigated.

The field in front of him also belongs to the Yun family, according to the famous field house system, the 900 acres of land that Heifu can own, the heart is 300 acres, if you add the Dukedom title obtained by the Heifu Gang, there are as many as 13 hectares, a proper big landlord.

"However, this year's harvest in the field still has to go to the government and the county warehouse, and it will be officially assigned to my family from January next year."

In the same way, their family's field in the sunset can also be used until next year, in addition to rice and corn, Heifu is also confiscating a hundred acres of sugarcane!

However, Heifu didn't care too much anymore, because in the half a year he went to Jiangling City, he asked people to look for sugarcane planted in various palaces and gardens of the Chu royal family. The hard work paid off, and he really found a few acres of relatively sweet black-skinned sugarcane, which was specially used for Chu Wang's kitchen juice extraction, which was better than the varieties he planted.

Heifu plans to wait until next year to ask someone to help transplant it, plant this cash crop on a large scale near the house, and then ask his aunt's son, who can make caramel to set up a brown sugar workshop nearby, which may become the main source of income for the family in the future......

Seeing that the family business is getting bigger and bigger, but there are more places to use the money, it is not enough to expect a reward from Yulu.

Turn down from the official road, walk along the path next to the field that can accommodate a car to walk for half a mile, and arrive at the village. This is a three-hall courtyard, in Heifu's opinion, compared to the mansion of the county guard and the county lieutenant, what is it? Even the Zhang Mansion in Yangwu County, Weidi, is twice as big as this!

But in the eyes of his mother, sister-in-law, and nieces and nephews who rarely leave the sunset, it is already a "mansion"!

Heifu had come to see a circle before, so he took his family into the courtyard gate of the Wangshan style, and the first thing that caught his eye was a four-storey watchtower, the roof of which was a sentry pavilion with a drum built into it, which was used to call the police.

"It's a warning to thieves."

He smiled and said, "But I think that within this radius of a hundred miles, I am afraid that no thief will dare to invade the mansion of the county lieutenant." ”

Further ahead, there is the second gate, and the second gate also has two three-story corner towers on the opposite side, which can be seen from afar, and can also shoot arrows and open crossbows from them.

Heifu couldn't help but look at these buildings, Yun Man did build his manor like a city fortress, fortunately Lixian designed to lure it that day, otherwise the government would have to pay a lot of casualties if it attacked the manors.

After entering the second gate, you will arrive at a longitudinal main courtyard, the front is a hall that is open to the south, and after everyone enters, they find that the windows inside are open, empty, and very bright.

"This is a place for entertaining guests or drinking and feasting, and the bronze lampstands, couches, and desks placed in it have all been confiscated by the government, and you have to go to the workshop to order a batch of ......."

Heifu's mother took her grandchildren and walked in the hall, they walked very carefully, lest they would trample the smooth floor, and stretched out her hand to caress the thick pillars painted with good red paint, which lifted up the tall house, and then subconsciously wiped them with their sleeves, as if they were afraid of getting dirty.

Mother couldn't help sighing: "Such a big and high house, I don't want to live in it, I haven't even entered it......"

Heifu couldn't help but laugh and said: "Mother, in the future, you will live here permanently, and when I feast as a guest, I will invite you to sit in the middle of the hall as a birthday star!" ”

Mother hurriedly waved her hand, still a little cringe, but she couldn't believe that this place was really going to be her "home". The second son has soared in recent years, and it has far exceeded the speed they can accept, and now they only feel that this is a dream and will wake up at any time.

The main hall was built on the east and west sides, and behind the hall was the backyard, which began with a spacious patio, planted with trees, pavilions, and a small pond.

"There's fish in there!"

Hefu's nieces and nephews were pleasantly surprised to run to the pond and look at the fish and turtles swimming inside, which was very interesting. This is a garden for sightseeing, separated from the garden by a wall, is a few small courtyards for people to live in, this is the owner's residence, basically everyone can get a small courtyard, and there are a lot of vacant ......

In addition to the front and rear courtyards where the master feasted and dwelled, there were many ancillary buildings on both sides and behind this courtyard, such as the kitchen, barnhouse, and well built on the east side, which was very tall and large enough to store grain for a thousand stones!

To the west, there are mulberry forests, orchards and vegetable gardens. There are nearly 100 mulberry plants, and it is conceivable that silkworms can be raised in the spring to achieve self-sufficiency. There are also dozens of orchards, including pears, jujubes, plums and other common fruit trees in Nanjun, which will ripen in a few months......

Heifu asked his nephews and nieces to come over and told them the story of "swallowing dates", and the two children laughed heartily after listening to it, and then Heifu asked them, do you like this new home?

"I like it!"

The answer is of course yes, the house itself alone is much more interesting than the countryside where they lived before, not to mention that the black man assured them that after coming here, they can stay away from dirty work such as collecting dung.

The two children were very happy, but they didn't know that Heifu had already arranged for them to be enlightened and literate masters, and the carefree and playful days were short......

On the other side, Heifu's mother and sister-in-law stood at the other end of the orchard, looking at the neatly laid and ditched vegetable gardens and talking in a low voice, until then they lost the strangeness of wandering around other people's houses, and began to think about what to plant here.

"July is a good time to plant winter flowers." The mother squatted down and touched the moist, fertile dirt and smiled.

After a summer, the humus is fermented in the soil, and the newly turned land takes on a fat black color, giving off a good smell of earth.

In addition to the winter sunflower, plant onion leeks, cover with empty soil, and then thickly cover the melon vine straw, before and after winter, the shallots and leeks that grow are not to mention how fragrant. Then bring a bag of hailstone (radish) seeds from the house in the sunset, sprinkle them in the ground, step on them with your feet, and fertilize them carefully, and after a few rains, the hailstones will grow into two-petaled cotyledons, and in late autumn, the three sons and grandchildren will have green skin and red hearts, and the water and sweet hail will be eaten......

Thinking so, they even can't wait to loosen the soil and sow seeds here, and plant the open space near their homes with green vegetables, so that the chicken and pigsty are lively, which is the instinct of the rural women who can't stop it.

Heifu was a little helpless: "Mother has suffered too much in the past, after coming here, just enjoy the blessings, whatever you want to eat, you can buy it directly from the county city, and the sister-in-law doesn't have to get up early to be greedy for black rice, just let the servants do it." ”

He smiled and said, "Heifu, you just let your mother toss, if not, they will be uncomfortable." ”

Heifu had no choice but to let the two children play in the orchard, let his mother and sister-in-law continue to discuss the matter of growing vegetables, raising chickens and pigs, and he himself walked to the back of the manor in peace.

Behind the backyard, where the kitchen and granary were connected, there were some low buildings, and in addition to the stables and cattle pens, there were some dimly lit earthen huts, which were now empty, and were for the slaves and maids of the manor.

"I know that Heifu doesn't like to use subordinate concubines."

In the past few years, I have been a small official, and I have gained knowledge, and when I went in and out of the mansion of Tian Qifu and Cangqifu in the county, I also secretly observed the business methods of their family, and I remembered them in my heart, so I said: "But this manor is too big, our family can not take care of it, daily cleaning, cattle and horses, silkworms, and rice, there are less than twenty or thirty people, and it is really not good, in my opinion, it is enough to buy more than a dozen subordinate concubines from the market." ”

It makes sense from the bottom of his heart, Heifu nodded, with the temperament of his brother, mother, and sister-in-law, he will definitely treat those subordinate concubines well, observe them for a few years, restore the personal freedom of those who behave well, and then let them stay if they want to stay, and leave if they want to go, it can be regarded as saving them.

In addition to the purchased subordinate concubines, according to the Mingtian house system, Heifu can also have nine "concubines" assigned by the government, that is, nine servants, so that this large courtyard can be filled.

He said sincerely: "In addition to the subordinate concubines, there are several people who want to come to this manor to do things......

Heifu frowned, although the Qin State does not advocate raising food guests, but the local tyrants, such as the widow Qing family in Ba County, the Yun family and the Li family in Anlu, also often have people to attach to, and the high-level dependents are called "guests", who are scribes and warriors with some skills, helping you take care of the family and run the manor. The low-level ones are called "vains", but they are actually slaves.

Fortunately in Nanjun, in the newly conquered Wei and Yanzhao and other places, and even in the Bashu region, the rooms of the wealthy are hundreds of buildings, the fields are full of fields, and there are thousands of slaves and maids, and it is common to have thousands of plans.

Heifu was more cautious, knowing that the King of Qin and the government didn't like this, so he shook his head and said, "I don't want to accept guests and vain ...... for the time being."

"Not a guest, not a vain."

Seeing that Heifu had misunderstood, he hurriedly said: "It's just some of your old people, I hope to hire them and give them a chance to repay their kindness......"

"Repay the favor?"

Heifu was a little dazed, looked at him like this, and said with a smile: "My brother, you don't even remember the kindness you once sent!" Let's go, just let me go to the stables and see. ”

As they spoke, they had arrived at the cattle and horses stable at the back of the courtyard, where an old man with gray hair was directing the old black men who had come to help move the things on the oxen and carriage carts, and then put the cattle and horses into the stable one by one.

Seeing the Heifu brothers coming, the old man hurriedly came over and said, "The villain has seen the county lieutenant!" Thank you to the county lieutenant for saving the little girl back then! ”

Hefu looked at it, and he was really an acquaintance!

It was the father of the woman "Kite" who was rescued in the blind mountain when he was the pavilion chief, the foal!