Peasant women, mountain springs, and a little field!

Life is enough!

Early in the morning, pushing open the lakeside window of the study and looking at the scenery outside the house, Shi Yiwen couldn't help but sigh.

This idyllic life was indeed very pleasant, and just as he was enjoying the comfort of the early morning, someone knocked softly on the door.

Then Liu Yu, who bowed his waist and entered the house, arched his hand.

"The slave has seen the young master."

"It's Liu Yu, sit."

Shi Yiwen said politely, but Liu Yu did not sit down, and Shi Yiwen did not force this.

"Young master, this is the account book in the village, our Shitaizhuang has a total of 7786.3 acres of land, of which 2714.6 acres are on the river......"

When Liu Yu reported the numbers, Shi Yiwen didn't care, these things were all dead, and in addition to these dead things, there were also some living things, such as Liu Yu in front of him, which was one of them.

"In addition to the 103 tenants, there are 34 official slaves and 117 people......"

Official slave, although he already knew that there were official slaves in the village yesterday, Shi Yiwen's brows still jumped.

"Young master, the slave goes with the village, since the emperor rewarded the village to you, then from now on, you will be the master of the slaves and maids."

Liu Yu, who bowed down, looked very calm, as an official slave, he didn't seem to have much reaction to the change of master, after all, he was just a slave.

"Young master, this is the account book, please take a look."

Looking at Liu Yu who was holding the account book in both hands, Shi Yiwen smiled.

"You take care of the account books first, it's better to use the new than to be familiar, you are familiar with the things in the Zhuangzi, I want to know, how are the people in our Zhuangzi doing?"

How's your life going?

As the owner of the bank, of course, Shi Yiwen needs to care!

Walking out of the house, being in the Zhuangzi, looking at the faint smoke rising in the Zhuangzi, Shi Yiwen couldn't help but revel in it.

From now on, this Zhuangzi will be surnamed Shi!

Because it was the time of the meal, Shi Yiwen specially paid attention to the breakfast of the tenants, most of them were millet porridge, although it was porridge, it was very thick, and most of them were ruddy, which made him a little relieved.

At least Zhuangzi is not a group of hungry people with yellow faces and thin muscles, but if you think about it, every family rents dozens of acres of land, and it should be no problem to eat.

All morning, Shi Yiwen walked around the Zhuangzi, and basically had some understanding of the situation in the Zhuangzi.

"It seems that the life of the tenants in the village, although it is not as good as that of Jiangnan, should be able to eat well."

Liu Yu, who had been talking to Shi Yiwen all the time, heard this, his face changed suddenly, he was over fifty years old, and he had also seen a few eunuchs in charge of the village, so he hurriedly said.

"Young master, in fact, I can eat enough in the past few months, after all, the crops in the field have just been harvested, and when the sorghum millet is about to come down next year, I can eat a thick meal in a day, which is considered a good day."

Belch!

What's going on?

Looking at Liu Yu in surprise, Shi Yiwen's face was full of puzzlement.

"The young master doesn't know, our north is not as good as the south of the Yangtze River, the boundary of the south of the Yangtze River is two crops in one season, but the north is not, about seventy or eighty percent of the crops can only be harvested in one season a year, just like us, in addition to the more than 2,000 acres of land near the river can be planted with another season of wheat after harvesting sorghum, the other thousands of acres of land have to be abandoned in winter."

"Abandonment?"

With his eyes wide open, Shi Yiwen asked.

"Why abandon the wasteland?"

"Because you have to rely on water to plant wheat, if you don't have water, you can plant it and grow it is a deflated seed, you can't hit it, just cost seeds, and it is a white seed when you plant it, and it is also near the river, and you can lead to water to water the ground, so that you can harvest two seasons, but the yield of wheat is not as good as sorghum and millet, and one acre of land is one hundred and twenty or thirty catties, and each tenant in the village is only twenty acres of water, and the top is three thousand catties of wheat, and more than half of it must be handed over to the village, and the rest of the grain, a family of five or six people, will eat until the autumn grain comes down, In order to eat more food, they all went into the city to sell wheat and exchange it for millet and sorghum......"

Days in Zhuangzi...... It's really not good!

Looking at Shi Tongzhi's frowning appearance, Liu Yu's heart was still hanging there, lest he increase the rent. For the tenants of Huangzhuang, the most worrying thing is that the rent will be increased after the head of the new village takes office, and now the owner has changed, which is also the same reason. He is an official slave in the village, but he is also a tenant farmer in the village, and this grain must not be paid more.

"According to you, life in Zhuangzi is very tight!"

"Hey, the Zhuang family is almost like this, they are busy all year round, and they can be half full, which is God's grace."

"So, more than 5,000 acres of land in Zhuangzi have been idle?"

The answer is yes.

After knowing the answer from Liu Yu, Shi Yiwen's heart was all about what Liu Yu said, except for the sentence that he was half full after a year of busy work, I am afraid that it is thousands of acres of idle land.

That's more than 5,000 acres of land.

Thinking about the more than 5,000 acres of land, Shi Yiwen walked to the yard and saw Xiao Lian, Kou Yun, and Xiao Huan who were busy washing cabbage.

"Little mercy, what is this for?"

Looking at the piles of cabbage stacked in the yard, Shi Yiwen asked puzzled.

"Young master, you are all from Jiangnan, the winter of Beizhili is not as good as Jiangnan, there is nothing to grow in the cold and frozen ground, if you want to eat vegetables, that is, in autumn, take advantage of the vegetables to pickle more, our family has dozens of people, and there are no thousands of catties of pickles, so it can last."

Ignoring the words of the middle-aged servant woman, Shi Yiwen said with wide eyes in surprise.

"What? Just eat pickles in winter? ”

For Shi Yiwen, who is from the 21st century and has long been accustomed to back-to-season vegetables, he is naturally not used to this kind of day.

Xiao Lian, who was washing the dishes, looked up at the young master and smiled.

"There are also radish, sister-in-law Yun, Jiangnan is the same, in winter, it is almost pickles, and the origami in the cellar is always rotten."

Seeing the young master standing there without saying a word, Kou Yun only thought that he was thinking about what to eat in winter.

"If the young master wants to eat fresh this winter, you can also use cow dung to put it in a wooden box and put it into the cellar, plant cabbage so that there is no wind, and the seedlings and leaves are tender and yellow, crisp and beautiful, called yellow sprouts, the mansion thinks it is a good product, young master, look back at how big our cellar is, and you can also plant some ...... when the time comes."

"So, what about the cabbage?"

Looking at the busy maids and servants in the courtyard, Shi Yiwen asked tentatively.

"Chinese cabbage?"

In the confusion of everyone, Shi Yiwen picked up the "woad cabbage" on the ground, these cabbages looked really weird, pale cyan white stems and white leaves, and the color looked like cabbage, but the appearance was a bit like the black cabbage of later generations.

Could this be the cabbage of the Ming Dynasty?

Don't have cabbage yet? （1）

Suddenly, Shi Yiwen's breathing became a little short, and there was only one thought left in his mind - to get rich!

Get rich!

In the next two days, Shi Yiwen deliberately painted a sub-painting, and even asked people to go to the capital to ask, after making sure that no one had heard of Chinese cabbage, Shi Yiwen deliberately took out a Chinese cabbage from the supermarket in the space, personally went to the kitchen to fry a mutton Chinese cabbage, and then invited Wu Cai and Liu Yu to eat.

"Oh, how can the old slave be able to cook...... the young master actually cooks"

Without waiting for Liu Yu to finish speaking, Shi Yiwen waved his hand and said,

"Steward Liu, I don't have so many rules in this house, don't use the method of dealing with the master to deal with me, I invite you to dinner today, what you eat is not vegetables, but wealth!"

Hearing Shi Yiwen say this, let alone Liu Yu, even Wu Cai was dumbfounded.

"Childe, what does this mean?"

"Cabbage man...... 100 Cai! ”

Looking at the two with a smile, Shi Yiwen said,

"I thought about what our family planted on the remaining 5,000 acres of land, just plant this!"

(1) According to the "History of Chinese Agriculture" "The Evolution and Development of Cabbage in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", the cabbage was domesticated in the Han Dynasty, but the cabbage cultivated before the Ming Dynasty was not balled, and the big white was successfully cultivated in the Hangjiahu area in the 15th and 16th centuries, until the Kangxi period was successfully cultivated in Anxiao County, Hebei (Xushui), and became a tribute.