Chapter 187: Haoqiang

Luo Jizu is now Lizheng in Nanshan, so he also has some positions at hand, and he appointed his father as the village leader. Then he gave the six brothers of the Luo family two acres of homestead land in Nanshan Village, which is not a violation, after all, now that Luo Cheng and his brothers have set up separate households, each of them can also receive a homestead according to the regulations.

It's just that the regulations are regulations, and the facts are the facts, just like stipulating that men are given 100 acres of land in Chengding, and half of the land is awarded to middle-aged men, but in fact, Nanshan Village does not have so much land to be awarded.

But since there is a convenient position, it must be simpler in this regard.

The six brothers' houses and gardens are all together, lined up, one person has two acres of land, so that there is a garden behind the front house, and one acre of house and one acre of vegetable garden is just right.

After dividing the land of the house, the eldest brother and the second brother couldn't wait to start planning, preparing to start digging the foot of the wall and asking someone to burn the tiles and cut down the trees after the year.

The Luo family's old house has rammed earth walls and bark thatched roofs, and it has to be renovated every year, but such houses always leak on rainy days.

Therefore, everyone is ready to build a new house directly, although the cost of building a tile is much higher, but now the Luo family is also an official eunuch, and the landlord is strong, and this money is also willing to pay.

Luo Cheng is not very keen on building a new house, he is not in a hurry to get married now anyway, so he is too lazy to care after the homestead is demarcated, he discussed with his brothers to renovate the old house next year, mainly to replace the thatched bark of the roof with a tile roof.

The rammed earth wall was re-pasted with some yellow mud, and then a well was dug in the courtyard.

Not only the Luo family is planning to build a new house, but several of his brothers-in-law's family are also planning to build a new house, the eldest brother-in-law Zhou Dewei, the second brother-in-law Wang Ziming, the third brother-in-law Zhao Gui, and the fourth brother-in-law Zhou Xin, are now all working in the yamen, all of them have official ranks and official positions, and they also have a lot of rewards in their hands, and they are all relatively wealthy, so they want to start a new house first.

They also bought some land before, and now that they have dispersed officials, the township specially made an exception for them to average out some land, and now everyone is also a person with more than 100 acres of land.

Build a house and buy a field, buy a horse, buy a mule, buy a cow, and everyone spends the reward very happily, according to them, don't you have to be like this when you have money?

The second thing he did after his ancestor was the chief was to take advantage of his position again to fill the field for the Luo family. Originally, the Luo family only had 60 acres of land, but later Luo Cheng captured the blue-faced ghost and divided it into 20 acres, and then Luo Cheng bought a lot of land.

But the government gave the Luo family a total of eighty acres.

But the Luo family has five Ding and two middle schools, and if the average land order is 500 mu per Ding and 50 mu per middle man, the Luo family can be divided into 600 mu. As a result, Luo Jizu fully implemented this policy this time and allocated another 520 acres of land to the Luo family.

Anyway, although the Luo family still has more than 1,000 acres of land, everyone has official ranks and official positions, and it is no longer within the limit of 100 acres.

This kind of thing is actually a bit of a power for personal gain, but it's not too much. After all, after Nanshanli copied the Wang family, the largest landlord, last year, the officials had a lot of land, and it was also said that it was in the past.

It's just that Luo Ji's ancestor gave 520 acres to the Luo family, and then divided 20 acres to each family in the same village such as Luo Sanshu in the Luocheng County barracks, so it is not particularly prominent.

Luo Cheng felt that this was a bit too much, but the eldest brother said that they had done the same before.

One sentence blocked Luo Cheng, and I felt that this was the same reason. If you don't make it convenient for yourself to be an official, then who is so enthusiastic about being an official, after all, there is no money here, and it all depends on the money of the public party in the yamen to give some benefits.

The eldest brother divided the household before, and his father gave him 100 acres of land, and now he immediately got another 80 acres for himself through the power in his hands.

Daddy simply gave him another twenty acres, so he now has two hundred acres of land.

Although the new house is still in the plan, but the 200 acres of land has been divided, the step-ancestor and the Chengzong brothers, they have to go to the field a few times every day, although it is still winter, the field is barren, but the brothers look at the land, but they can always smile from ear to ear.

In addition to Luo Cheng, the Luo family now has 200 acres of land in each person's name, but Luo Cheng has a total of 800 acres of Yongye field and 200 acres of job field, which can be regarded as the identity of the largest landowner in Nanshan.

Originally, he said that the family's land was divided equally, but his father said that most of the family's money and land were earned by Luo Cheng, so he left him more.

Luo Cheng's 1,000 acres of land are basically the land owned by Uncle Wang, and these fields are relatively fertile, but now they are all cheaper Luo Cheng.

He built a few houses on the edge of the field, which became his grange estate, where twenty-five slaves belonging to his name were housed.

Luo Cheng doesn't have that much love for the field, unlike his father and brother.

A thousand acres or a hundred acres, he really didn't think it made much difference, anyway, he wouldn't go to farming himself. However, after learning a little about the tax system of the Sui Dynasty, Luo Cheng still had a lot of emotion.

Because he has an official status, he is not a household, whether he has 100 acres of land or 1,000 acres of land, he doesn't have to pay any rent, ordinary people, according to the rent of Dingna, one ding a year of land rent will get two stones, but Luo Cheng has 1,000 acres of land, and he doesn't have to pay a stone rent.

All he has to pay is Yicang grain, which he has to pay regardless of whether he is an official or not, two liters per mu, 20 stone for 1,000 mu of land, and another 5 stone for a superior household.

Twenty-five stone righteous warehouse grain, this is all he needs to pay.

I have to say, it's really a privileged class.

It's too unfair, but as the part of the people who enjoy the benefits, Luo Cheng feels that this feeling is actually quite good.

1,000 acres of land, of which 800 acres are his own Yongye fields, and 200 acres are career fields. Yongye fields were all cultivated by his own slaves, and he could collect at least 800 stone a year for one stone per mu, and he could collect at least 800 stone a year for the land of his duties, and he could collect 6 liters per mu and 24 stone for 200 mu.

After all, he owns these fields, and he can harvest at least 800 stone of grain a year, which is quite a lot. But if it is converted into money, in fact, the harvest of thousands of acres of land is not worth a few dollars.

Nowadays, one stone of grain is only a hundred dollars, and eight hundred stones of grain can only be sold for hundreds of dollars.

Of course, the fields produce every year, and even if there are droughts and floods, there can be some harvests, but this is very stable.

The key is that the grain production in this era is too low.

The yield per mu is actually more than one stone, which is relatively good, if you can produce two stones, it is basically wheat or rice planted. However, growing wheat and rice requires more water.

If you have time, maybe you can study it well and improve the level of cultivation, but the land is still in the stage of extensive cultivation in rotation and fallow to restore soil strength, and one person cultivates dozens of acres of land. You must know that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the people at that time already knew how to cultivate intensively, and one acre of paddy field could produce three or four stone grains.

Even if it is three stones per acre, it is two or three times more than now.

If you double it casually, you can increase the income of your family's land by more than 100 yuan, which is very considerable.