Chapter 21: The Royal Farm

Zhang Shengye talked to Sun Xiangfu for a long time all the way, which allowed him to know the general idea of the system of the Pastoral Supervision Office, to put it bluntly, the ultimate boss of the Pastoral Supervision Office is actually the queen, the queen is in charge of all the palaces, prisons, offices, bureaus, and the chief executive of the department has the right to directly appoint and dismiss the chief executive, without going through the ministry, so this series of officials does not belong to the courtiers.

Moreover, according to the use of the entire harem, the queen will divide the output of each government every year, even, down to the month, daily, the need for grain, rice, meat, livestock, and livestock feed, as well as flowers, plants, wood, etc., apportionment, and the chief official who can complete the queen's requisition order according to the requirements, even if it is qualified, as for the excess part of the output, it can be freely distributed by the chief officials of the government in name to distribute benefits to subordinate officials, servants, villagers, etc., but in fact, each government needs to leave some reserves for temporary dispatch in the palace.

After the queen's eldest grandson Wuwu ascended to the throne, she quickly controlled the rights of the various yayas, so the Guanglu Siqing set up by the imperial court to help her manage these affairs was considered a decoration, and even directly made the position of Guanglu Siqing vacant, which led to the situation of the royal industry and the eldest grandson and queen.

For example, this time the emperor held a big banquet and needed too many fish goods, and the purchase list in the palace was directly issued by the queen, and the queen couldn't solve it, of course she would go to her husband to complain, which led to the situation where Li Shimin complained about Qin Qiong, otherwise, these things would be solved by Guanglu Siqing, who belonged to the courtiers.

The ability of the officials of the various government offices is strong and weak, the queen's temporary requisition order has come down, you can provide it, it is a credit, can not provide, although it is not a fault, but it is very bad, do not want to make meritorious service, you just need to deliver the goods according to the rules, if you want to make meritorious service, you will pay more attention to production, more reserves, and overcomplete the task, output is one of the important conditions for the royal internal assessment of the ability of officials.

Moreover, in this era, especially in the agricultural and animal husbandry industry, officials have great autonomy, such as Sun Xiangfu, he can recruit at will, and even dismiss his subordinate officials, as long as they are within the specified number of people.

Needless to say, a county order can levy and issue a levy within its own jurisdiction, without giving money, and the people can't help but go.

Sun Xiangfu is now an official, and he also has this right, he can requisition one hundred and twenty strong men within his jurisdiction to serve the headquarters, as long as he is expropriated, the tax in the family's house will be reduced according to the amount of service of this person, and the villagers of Xingfu Village are still in the tax holiday, so the villagers of Xingfu Village need to be paid.

Of course, in addition to the existing public servants in the Yashang, Sun Xiangfu can only recruit servants in Xingfu Village at present, because Datang now only has farmers, no fishermen, except for the newly included Xingfu Village, which belongs to Sun Xiangfu's vocational field, and other places under the jurisdiction of the Fisheries Department, the population household registration is actually supervised by other pastors.

Knowing that Empress Changsun did not cancel the tax holiday of Happy Village, Sun Xiangfu finally felt a little better in his heart, at least until the end of next year, all the output of Happy Village belongs to the villagers, and sending things to the palace is filial piety, and it doesn't matter if you don't send it.

All the officials of the Animal Husbandry Supervision Office are not paid, but they give a lot of job land, like Sun Xiangfu, the officials under the seven products have 2,000 acres, forest, animal husbandry, fishing is not counted, it can be said that all the output of the Happy Village, he can justifiably take half of it, and the villagers of the Happy Village, from today onwards, will also be automatically upgraded to the royal village, after completing the payment task of the Animal Supervision Bureau, they will be able to eat the big pot of rice with peace of mind, anyway, the royal family will not starve to death of their own households.

Signed on the household registration book counted by the four people, Sun Xiangfu immediately summoned the villagers to the public house for a meeting, everyone already knows that Happy Village was included in Huangzhuang, Sun Xiangfu became an official, and all the villagers were excited, the village became Huangzhuang, and there was an official in charge, and he was not afraid of being bullied in the future, but everyone did not know whether there would be changes in production and life in the future, so they all expressed their questions to Sun Xiangfu.

"First of all, I want to congratulate you on becoming the farmers of the Huangzhuang, in the future, you can be regarded as people who eat the emperor's grain, and you will no longer worry about starving to death.

The queen did not revoke the tax holiday in our village, that is to say, before the end of next year, the village does not need to respond to the palace levy order, after that, the completion of the palace levy task, the balance, is our own, we only need to be the same as before, peace of mind, to ensure that you can eat and drink enough, but also according to the head of the money. Sun Xiangfu explained to everyone with a smile on his face.

"How can this work, this Zhang scribe said yesterday, in the future, half of the land in our village will be your professional field, you will become an official, you must use a lot, you should take the big head, as for us, as a royal farmer, it is enough to eat and drink." As soon as Wang Fu's words came out, many villagers who were grateful for Sun Xiangfu's life's life began to echo, and even Sun Dali, who had made great efforts in the entire development process of the village, also thought so.

Seeing that everyone expressed their attitudes like this, Sun Xiangfu was a little moved in his heart, the folk customs of this period are so simple, if you are good to him, he will be good to you, so Sun Xiangfu raised his hand and signaled everyone to be quiet.

"What everyone said makes sense, but don't forget how our happy village has developed from a state where everyone couldn't eat enough two months ago to this state now, because everyone is united, united, and paid their labor together, we are a collective, if the two classes of oppressed and oppressed are formed, then after a long time, this collective will not exist, which will make the development momentum of the village stagnate, or even regress, I don't want to see such a thing happen.

But what you said is also reasonable, half of the land in Happy Village is now my vocational field, and its output is my official income, without it, I have no income and can't live, so I decided to bundle the output of Vocational Land and the output of Happy Village, and after the tax holiday has passed, I will work with everyone to complete the task of requisition in the palace, and I will take half of the surplus, and the rest will be divided equally by everyone, what do you think? ”

Hearing Sun Xiangfu say this, although everyone still felt that he had suffered a loss, they all accepted it, after all, it was still a question whether the happy village after being crossed out in half could cope with the requisition in the palace.

After that, Sun Xiangfu talked a lot to the villagers about the future development, and told everyone to pay attention to safety when producing, strictly follow the plan formulated by themselves, and make autumn and winter clothes as soon as possible.

"Lord Supervisor, I suggest that you immediately recruit servants from the villagers to supplement the Fisheries Division."

Sun Xiangfu was about to dismiss the meeting, and one of the four scribes, a person named Xiong Tingzhong, bowed to Sun Xiangfu's side.

"Why?"

"The original establishment of Xingfu Village was 50 households, just 4,000 acres of Yongye field, and now half of the field is assigned to you to do the field, the farmer's field will be insufficient, so the agricultural department will showdown new fields for them to plant, as far as the humble knows, the agricultural department belongs to the village, each household has to cultivate almost 120 acres of land, if they assign these villagers another 4,000 acres of tasks, then the villagers will not have the spare energy to operate the existing industry of the happy village."

Xiong Tingzhong said this, Sun Xiangfu suddenly realized, and Sun Xiangfu estimated that there will be a snatch of manpower and resources within the Animal Supervision Bureau, after all, everyone wants to make their political achievements look better, as far as the existing labor force in Happy Village, Sun Xiangfu himself feels that it is not enough, not to mention the increase, it seems that although the farmers of the royal farm are full, the usual amount of labor should be very large, far from being as good as imagined, one hundred and twenty acres of land, with a maximum of two or three laborers per family now, not crawling in the fields all day long, It is basically impossible to complete the task.

"In this way, I will requisition them as servants of my fisheries department, and the other divisions will not be able to increase them, and they will not be able to be requisitioned, right?" Sun Xiangfu said after figuring out the joint.

"Exactly. One person per household is sufficient. Xiong Tingzhong replied.

"So, you can draft the paperwork! Count all the men in the village, and I don't miss their wages anyway. Sun Xiangfu looked at Xiong Tingzhong with some appreciation.

"Lord Supervisor is kind."

Xiong Tingzhong took the lead, and the four scribes slapped Sun Xiangfu at the same time. They will have to rely on Sun Xiangfu's salary to eat in the future, and when Sun Xiangfu's income is high, their income will be high.

After arranging the affairs of Happy Village, Sun Xiangfu took his younger brothers and sisters and the four major scribes and a few accompanying servants to return to Chang'an by boat, before leaving, he handed over the temporary management of Happy Village to Sun Dali, and asked him to go to Qin Mansion every three days to report the situation of those crops he had poured, how to fiddle with those crops these days, Sun Xiangfu actually taught him most of them.

The Yiguo Mansion is very large, Qin Qiong specially asked Fu Bo to divide a set of independent courtyards for Sun Xiangfu's family to live temporarily, it is said that Sun Xiangfu's surplus money is enough to buy a house in the city, but he still decided to live in Qin Mansion first, just because it is safer here, and by the way, he can also follow Qin Qiong to learn some of the ways of being an official in this period.