Ge Jiuniang looked at Mrs. Zhao's carriage with a little dazed eyes.

Two Tiger Wing cavalrymen rode their horses behind the carriage, hooves rattling. The night was like a huge piece of purple iris silk hanging in the air, and the curtain was inlaid with glittering stars, Ge Jiuniang tried to keep her eyes open, watching Madame Zhao's carriage and horse gradually drive away. This line of carriages and horses is like an immortal who suddenly appeared, as if he came on the river of stars, and then disappeared without a trace in the starlight. Ge Jiuniang felt that since she learned the news that Dai Wuma was in Kansai, life had become extremely unreal, and the sudden changes were even a little dizzying.

"Jiuniang, has Mrs. Zhao left?" A timid voice asked.

"Well, left." Ge Jiuniang turned around and said softly. When Mrs. Zhao came to visit, the second elder of the family was more sincere and fearful than her, and the biggest official they had ever seen was Baozheng, so they were trembling from beginning to end. When Dai Wuma broke into Kansai, because he was bullied by a big family, the old man in the family had to swallow his anger. After Luoyang was annexed to the Xia Kingdom, the Dai family was ranked on the list of the first batch of land grants. Sixty acres of land to the household. Every year, 30% of the annual income is paid to the military government, and in addition, no more land rent is paid, which is an ironclad rule, and it has not changed for more than 100 years since the founding of the dynasty. Since then, the Dai family has lived a much better life.

After nightfall, Ge Jiuniang went to the grass shed to milk a goat's milk again. She has become very skilled in gesturing with the milk of ewes. With a slight pinch of the fingers, the milk gushes out like a sweet spring, the goat's milk in the bucket is exceptionally white, and the shed is filled with a milky fragrance. Dai Wuma served in the Anxi Military Division, and the head of the camp where the 25 breeding sheep Dai Wuma was located entrusted to Luoyang Mansion to send them, saying that the Dai family's labor was not enough, and the field could be given more grass to raise sheep. The Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry also sent an official to give advice on planting grass, raising sheep, making cheese, spinning thread, and so on.

The breeding sheep have given birth to lambs, and now there are five lambs in the weaning period, and the excess milk of the ewes is enough for the four members of the Dai family to have a bowl every day, and a small amount of leftover goat milk can also make some cheese. Fresh goat's milk, Ge Jiuniang first served two bowls to the second elder. For the people of Kanto Village, every summer is the most difficult, the season of green and yellow, even boiled porridge in white water can not be enough, and now there is milk to drink, how can the family not be grateful.

"The imperial court is virtuous." Dai Laohan trembled and held the bowl, muttering the official words he heard from nowhere.

"It's still Jiu Niang's ability." The old woman praised that she saw the suffering of this daughter-in-law.

Ge Jiuniang finished cleaning up the housework and returned to the east wing, where the two children were still fiddling with a few playthings brought by Mrs. Zhao. The children were ignorant, and they didn't know why the family had undergone earth-shaking changes, eating meat, drinking milk, and wearing new clothes, and they were not so excited to receive these toys. However, they are all things like monkeys climbing trees, nine rings, fairy sticks, etc., which are very rare even for adults, let alone children. Ge Jiuniang looked at it with her hand for a while, raised the wick on the oil lamp a little higher, and then sat cross-legged on the kang, watching the children play and spin thread. The wool is also sheared from their own sheep.

The night gradually deepened, and Ge Jiuniang's window showed a dim light, and finally went out suddenly, sinking into a sweet dream.

In another farmer's yard not far from here, Lu Zhan extinguished one of the two cores of the oil lamp.

The second brother wrote to say that it was necessary to take refuge in the Dai family as soon as possible. A military household in Kansai can only recruit a maximum of 20 shade households, and if there are more, it will not work. In the future, taxes and errands will be in the hands of military households. I thought about it for a long time, the second brother was right, although the Dai family is just a woman supporting the door, but the five horse brothers are famous outside, I think the Dai family is about to develop, the government has been lifting, and today there are big officials' carriages parked at the door of their homes...... Dad, do you see this? ”

Lu Zhan's tone was hesitant, and he looked at his father, the five brothers were not separated, and the family had a lot of labor, and the family background was considered middle and upper in the village. The Dai family is thin, and only a daughter-in-law guards the old and young to support the door, but the people in the village are kind, and the Lu family has taken care of them in recent years, and the relationship between the two families is not bad in the village. I just heard the second brother Lu Yang say in his heart, the shadow household picks the military household, and the military household also picks the shadow household. Because military households have the duty to protect and restrain the shade households, a sergeant like the Dai family, who has been on expeditions all year round, in order to avoid trouble, will not agree to take in the shade except for extremely honest and reliable acquaintances. If he doesn't take him in, he can only take refuge in those sergeants who are separated from the Luoyang camp, and the situation will be much more difficult than that of the Dai family.

"That's it!" Lu Laohan patted, "Take refuge in the Dai family, and the villagers are easy to talk to,"

None of the four sons objected, but the four of them looked at me and I looked at you, and they neither retreated nor spoke.

Lu Laohan looked at these sons and said in a sullen voice, "What else is going on?" ”

Several sons exchanged glances, and finally the eldest son Lu Zhan said: "Dad, yesterday I went to the county, Mr. Tuo read the list of the imperial court's grant of land, and the list text is the same as the second brother wrote to the family, and it is also the ......same as the rumors in the village" He hesitated for a moment, looked at his father's black face like the bottom of the pot, and said boldly, "The rules set by the imperial court are that the land is granted according to the household, not according to the ding, if the family is not separated, our family of six men will only be granted 60 acres of land." Also, in order to prevent false separation, the land granted to each household should be at least twenty miles apart, this, this ......"

"Huh? Stiff wings? Want to break up? Old Man Lu bluffed his face and said with a loud voice.

The old man was very dignified at home, and his sons looked at each other, and after waiting for a long time, no one dared to open this mouth first.

The three brothers looked at the eldest brother, but Lu Zhan lowered his head and did not speak again to persuade him.

He had the courage to mention the matter of splitting up the family just now, and he had already done his duty. The Luoyang Prefecture promulgated the primogeniture system together with the Law on Granting Fields. According to the land grant law, if the Lu family does not divide the family, they can only receive 60 acres of land. According to the primogeniture inheritance law, even if several brothers have been nesting at home, after Uncle Lu returns to heaven, the sixty acres of land can only be inherited by the eldest son Lu Zhan. Kanto has always had a lot of people and little land, and it is difficult to say whether there will be land at that time. If you can't do it, you can only go to the factory to work as an apprentice like the second brother Lu Heng. Everyone understands this in their hearts, but Lu Zhan can't wear it too well, and if he wears it, it will seem that he is too impersonal. Lu Zhan didn't speak, and the three brothers behind him were also like mirrors in their hearts, they didn't separate now, they would wait to drink the northwest wind in the future.

The Lu family has more than a dozen people, has more than 100 acres of land, and rents more than 100 acres. If such a family is not separated, maybe in a few decades, it will be able to breed a clan such as Lujia Village, however, granting land is a hurdle that cannot be overcome for the Lu family.

If the Lu family is divided, according to a household of 60 acres of land, it will receive nearly 200 acres of land for nothing, but if the family is not separated, the old five strong six men, and the seven or eight grandchildren who will become adults one after another, there will only be 60 acres of land in total, according to the law of the imperial court, the Lu family will be forced to sell more than 60 acres of land to the imperial court, although the price is fair, but for the Zhuang family, selling the field, this is the root of life. However, for Kanto Shoto, as long as life can go on, the parents are still there, and the son is separated, which is the most taboo topic that cannot be touched. But what if you don't split up?

The atmosphere in the house became awkward and heavy, and after a long silence, the fourth Lu Yan couldn't hold back, and said in a muffled voice: "Dad, the land of that big family has been bought by the imperial court to grant land, and if you don't divide the family, you can't even rent the land." Our family of seventeen people has only 60 acres of land, and the food we grow is not enough to eat, so we will starve to death in vain. ”

"What the fourth brother said is, Dad."

"If we don't split up, our Lu family will really be defeated."

"No one can stop the imperial court's law of granting land."

"A powerful person like the king and the big official in the neighboring village can only honestly sell the field and take the money to the city to start a workshop."

Several sons also attached themselves, and the face of the head of the family, Uncle Lu, became darker and darker.

"Enough!" Uncle Lu roared violently, glaring at these unfilial sons.

"Daddy." Lu Zhan and Lu Yan looked at their father in awe, but their eyes did not back down.

Uncle Lu's lips trembled, but he couldn't speak, he suddenly stood up, reached out and grabbed a stoneware bowl on the kang.

With a "snap", the pottery bowl fell to pieces on the ground.

"Now that your wings are stiff!" The roar shook the window paper, "Then split up!" ”

A few crows perched on the dead branches were frightened, fluttering and flying up to the sky and circling, and crowed a few times unwillingly.

In many villages of the Song Kingdom, the Haoqiang and clans were even more authoritative than the imperial court. Therefore, since the Qin and Han dynasties, the imperial court has always focused on suppressing the wealthy families, and even did not hesitate to kill. In order to ensure the control of the sergeants over the countryside, with reference to the Tui En Decree of the Han Dynasty, the method of dividing the family into Ding and granting land according to the household was used to dismantle the big family from the very basics, and the second son who had no hope of inheriting the family business was forced out to set up another door by using the primogeniture inheritance method, instead of living together to form a clan power. The law of granting land and the law of primogeniture inheritance were the most important two-step decrees of the Xia Kingdom. Despite the great backlash from the people, the five governments also issued strict orders to the Luoyang government to implement the two decrees.

The squires wrote against it, and the Luoyang Mansion appeased them with kind words. If you dare to resist by force, Luoyang Mansion will not hesitate to use group training to solve the problem. After coming and going, everyone saw the situation clearly, lost the field, scattered the clan, it is better than losing their lives, full of ambushes, not to mention, the imperial court will also compensate a large amount of silver, a large area of land in Luoyang City and suburbs are classified as the autonomy of the Chamber of Commerce, as long as the rich gentry have money, they can buy industries in Luoyang and open workshops. Under the strict orders of the imperial court, the major guilds of the intertwined kingdoms also had to make no concessions, ensuring that new workshops and merchants would not be excluded from entering the market, and the guilds only required that every goods from now on must be marked with the marks of workshops and merchants, and each guild also donated a sum of money to investigate counterfeit goods.

The sound of the crow "Owl-Owl-Owl-Eagle-" was heard far and wide in the night sky.....