Fishing can't be caught - one is not skilled, the other is impatient - Pei Gai was so angry that he flipped the fishing rod, stood up and patted his buttocks, and planned to flash people. ◢ Sui ◢ Dream ◢ Xiao ◢ Lā Luther hurriedly served the prepared hot soup, and let Pei Gai drink two sips to moisten his throat. Pei Gai squinted at Luther, and saw that the guy was not afraid of the cold, and actually took off half of his clothes, revealing an arm embroidered with flowers...... The ancient Wu people "cut off their hair and tattoos", and I can't imagine that there are still people who maintain this custom today, but it is the first time I have seen it. Pei Cai couldn't help but look at it twice, and then joked with a little malice: "Ribbon fish? ”

Luther smiled awkwardly: "It's Jiaola......"

Pei Gai couldn't help laughing, his eyes swept away, and he finally saw something good - there was a large bamboo forest in the distance. He couldn't help licking his lips: "There are bamboos, but are there bamboo shoots?" "Luther hurriedly said that there is—" the northerners...... The Central Plains family is not good at this thing, and they think it is tasteless, does the lord like it? So I ordered some to be dug up, and to cook and drink with my lord in the evening. ”

Pei Gai said in a loud voice - "Although bamboo shoots are tasteless, they can absorb the most flavor, and they are cooked with meat, which is wonderful." With that, he put his hands behind his back and began to walk along the shore of the lake.

Luther hurriedly beckoned his servants to follow the ox-cart, and he himself followed closely behind Pegai. Pei Gai casually asked him, "How much rice can you harvest this autumn?" In order to show his ability in front of his master, Luther hurriedly reported to Pei Gaiyu the data that had been calculated a long time ago: "The inheritance given by the lord has a total of 41 hectares of 306 acres of paddy fields along the lake, 22 acres and 9 acres of dry fields, 80 percent of rice, 20 percent of vegetables, melons and fruits, and if the annual harvest is calculated according to the autumn, it should be able to harvest more than 17,000 grains......

"Was last year a good year or a bad year?"

"Last year, there was a great drought in Jiangdong, and many places failed to harvest, and this place is near the lake, and it is still a good year."

Pei Gaixin said that it is possible to harvest more than three hundred pounds of one acre of land in a good year, three hundred catties, or no threshed grain, this yield is a bit miserable...... Oh yes, it's a small year...... After thinking about it, it's not right, that Hu (stone) and Jin are also smaller than the measurement in the previous life!

So he asked, "How much rent can be collected?" ”

Luther replied: "If the official tax is used, it is more than 4,000 yuan...... Of course that's not possible. In the past, the landlords generally collected two or three percent in addition to the tax, and if the total income was fifty percent, the harvest year would be eight thousand five hundred hundred......" Seeing Pei Gai's frowning slightly, he hurriedly added: "In fact, if you collect six to seventy percent, those mud legs will not starve to death, but you can get 12,000, or even 13,400." Although Danhu is an official family, it is not forbidden for the people to use it, if you collect some vegetables, wild rice, fish and shrimp, geese and geese, dogs and pigs, etc., in addition to the lord and the East China Sea Palace, you can also get one or two thousand yuan if you sell them in Jurong or Jianye Market. ”

Pei Gai couldn't help but sigh softly - it's really difficult to farm! If the Great Druid is here, it may be ten times that, then why should I bother?

He didn't want to stay in Jiangdong all the time, get involved in the political disputes of the court, or chant all day long - besides, if you want to engage in literature and art, you have to have that talent and ability to do it, I think when I first learned poetry from Wang Zan, he was already completely desperate for his spirituality in literature and art - Pei Wenyue has lofty ambitions, he wants to leap into the horse Heluo, suppress Hulu, restore the Central Plains, and stabilize the situation in the world again. However, he tried to test Director Wang several times with words, and also tried to talk to Wang Dun, Wang Han, Zhou Yi and others, but the result was that there was no essay on martial arts, those who could fight and those who could not fight, and all the topics of the Northern Expedition were all taken care of him. It can be seen that if you want to rely on this ticket of overseas Chinese to restore your homeland, it is tantamount to a fool's dream - of course, the southern natives are even more unreliable - if you want to cross the border and fight north, you have to rely on yourself.

It's a pity that he has no fists and no courage, although he has observed a few battles in the Shile army, but he is still a half-layman for fighting. Fortunately, he always has more than 2,000 years of historical accumulation and edification than others, and in his previous life, he was also a little interested in military affairs, and often "talked about soldiers on paper"; even if he was not familiar with the things of the battle formation, he also understood that if he wanted to win a war, he must first have a strong army, and if he wanted to have a strong army, he must first ensure that there is enough money and food, and if there is no food, there must be no soldiers, and if there are no soldiers, he will inevitably not win. Because of this, he deliberately went to Danhu to inspect his own property, wanting to estimate how many soldiers I can raise after this autumn's harvest? How long can it last?

When he first came, he was quite happy, and when he saw that he could not see the end at all, and the fields were full of farmers working hard, he happily decided that this was the starting point of his career, and that it was the first pot of gold he earned. However, the level of agriculture in these years was too poor, and the requirements for the quantity (rather than quality) of staple food were too high for the large-headed soldiers, who were generally short of oil and water, and the harvest alone could not feed many strong soldiers......

This must also be built on the premise of levying heavy taxes and squeezing their own tenants to death!

- My Northern Expedition wanted to restore order and save the people as much as possible, but before I could write the eight characters, I starved a few families in the south to death, or forced dozens of families to rebel, what is this called?!

Luther sighed when he heard Pei Gai, and understood that the master's family was afraid that the rent was less, and immediately asked tentatively: "Or, if it is still a good year, it will be levied to seventy and a half?" I really can't do it any more. Although he was certainly not hungry, he was afraid that if he forced the other tenants into a hurry, he would make trouble, and it would be more troublesome to suppress them.

Pei Cai pondered for a long time, and finally shook his head: "Fifty percent is enough in a good year, and forty percent in a normal year, if it is an apologetic year...... Alas, we'll talk about it then. ”

"The Lord is benevolent!" When Luther heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he made a lot of noise. The main family has less grain to collect, which means that it is convenient for him to get up and down and squeeze one more from it. And as long as he goes down and spreads the news, saying that the main family originally planned to levy seventy percent, and it was all his own repeated pleadings to subtract one and a half percent, do those mud-legged people dare not listen to their own words? Even if you want them to sacrifice their wives and daughters to stay with them, they shouldn't be embarrassed.

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Pei Gai stayed by the Danhu Lake for six days, and specially sent people to Maoshan in the west of the county to inquire if there was a Taoist priest named Ge Hong, but the result was nothing. The only thing he got was to eat a few meals of bamboo shoots - he was good at this in his previous life, but in the north, even if the logistics are convenient, it is not often possible to get fresh bamboo shoots in the south of the Yangtze River. Seeing that Danhu was no longer useful, he left Luther's house, drove an ox cart, and set off to return to Jianye.

Originally, he was deceived from the Shile army to get a carriage, but it is a pity that the horses in the north are not used to the climate in the south of the Yangtze River, so they died of illness soon after arriving in Jianye, and the remaining one, he asked Pei Shi to come, and rode all day long on the streets of Jianye, but he gained a lot of envious eyes. But it's also about riding in the city, this out of the city to Jurong, dozens of miles away, if there is a mistake, how good is it for this lonely horse to fall ill again, so it can only be like other nobles, driving an ox cart.

The ox cart is not necessarily slower than the horse-drawn cart if it is to run—though it has no strength, and is generally reluctant to let it run—and it requires two horses, but only one oxen. But the most important thing is that as long as the ox cart does not run, it is relatively stable than the horse-drawn cart, which is convenient for those nobles who are not diligent in all four bodies, including Pei Gai, to take a longer road.

Speaking of which, this ox cart was also borrowed by him from Wang Jiaqiang, and it was somewhat old, so when he was close to Jianye, he had an accident, and the axle was broken, and it took half a day to repair it. It was delayed for more than an hour, and before I entered the south fence gate, it was already dark.

The central avenue of Jianye, out of the bus gate of the south of the old Dongwu Palace-now only called the South Gate-goes straight down the Qinhuai River, and sets up the Nanjin Bridge and the Great Navigation Gate on the river, and continues to the south is the famous Changganli, and then the terrain gradually rises, and the place name Nantang - the bamboo fence gate of Nanguo is located on the north side of Nantang.

Nantang is a rich area, but it is both outside the city and close to the city, so it can be seen that those who are rich are rich, and those who are expensive are not necessarily - the real nobles either live in the city or build villas far away from the city. The noble districts of Jianye are all in the city, one is the Zhuwang Garden Villa near Qingxi in the east - Pei Gai also lives there - the other is the Dongwu Wuyi Camp near the Danyang County Town in the southeast - now known as Wuyi Lane - several Langya Wang clans, as well as those surnamed Yu and Xie surnamed Gu surnamed Zhou, all live there.

Pei should be thinking about it, I definitely won't be able to go home tonight, should I just find a rich family to stay with Nantang, or run two more steps, and wait until I enter the city and then go to Wang Dao's mansion to disturb for a night? Suddenly, I saw a few fires flashing in front of me, and then "Hulala" rushed over more than a dozen people, all masked, carrying a big burden on their backs, a torch in one hand, and a sharp blade in the other-

Damn, who would have thought that you would run into robbers on the edge of the city!

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Besides, these robbers, taking advantage of the night to rob several rich families in Nantang in a row, carried large bags and ran away, planning to wait a little farther away from the city, turn around and go east. But before he could meet him, he ran into an ox cart, and immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Get out of the way, stop blocking the road!" ”

This ox cart looks ornate, but it is obvious that it is a seat, not a carry, and it may not have much possessions; And the road is narrow, if you want to hijack the car to load the looted goods, it is not easy to turn around, so ah-count if you are lucky, hurry up and get out of the way, don't block the way for Lao Tzu to escape.

But then I saw the "hulala" ground, and seven or eight big men flashed out from behind the ox cart, all of them also holding sharp blades, and they could be seen clearly by the light of the fire, they were all military weapons, not ordinary people's private blades. These robbers were dumbfounded at the time - we have been in a bad year, and we have bumped into some nobles?

One of them hid behind the people in the escort car, and from behind the ox cart carriage, he warned in a low voice: "The lord is precious, and it is not appropriate to commit thieves, so let's avoid it......

This guy is Pei Gai's housekeeper Pei Ren, this time he went to Danhu, and he also accompanied him, the main purpose was to help Pei Gai check the accounts - the tricks that the countrymen may play in the accounts, Pei Gai is not familiar with it, and he must find a discerning help to take a look. The people in front of them were all the guards of the East China Sea Palace, who had fought with Sima Rui, the king of Langya, so naturally they would not be afraid of these dozen robbers, but Pei Ren was powerless, not only that, his eyes were more poisonous, and he also saw a lot of wrongs.

First of all, it is obvious that the weapons in the hands of the robbers are no worse than their own, and I am afraid that they are not simple country thieves.

Secondly, in recent years, a large number of people and scholars from the Central Plains have crossed to the south, and there have been more than 100,000 people in and around the city of Jianye alone, and the management is chaotic, the public order is poor, and there are often thieves infested, which is a very common phenomenon. The problem is that it is not far from the South Fence Gate, but the South Fence Gate is guarded by guards, and they dare to go to Nantang in groups to rob it, it is not that they are too fat, they must have a backer.

The security of the rich area has always been relatively good, even if there is no noble family in Nantang, as long as you are willing to take out some money to bribe the guards of the South Fence Gate, the guards will definitely pay attention to management and help prevent theft. But are there soldiers behind these robbers? Why didn't we see that?

Therefore, he hurriedly warned Pei Gai and asked his master to take shelter from the side of the road for the time being.

But Pei Gai opened the carriage door and took a look, but did not order the driver to avoid it, but smiled, and pointed at a robber first: "You are so bold that you dare to roar and loot in front of the city, are you not afraid of the king's law?" And if you want people to avoid the way, won't you say the word 'please'? What a shameful rudeness! ”

The robber snorted coldly, and flashed the blade in his hand: "Quickly retreat, Rao Er will not die-now that I am outnumbered, do you really think that I dare not kill someone?!" ”

Pei Gai pursed his lips: "If you don't have the courage to bandits, you only dare to rob the people outside the city, how much wealth can you get?" Stretching out his hand and pointing into the distance: "I can help you and others to open the south fence gate, not far from the entrance, it is Wuyi Lane, the king and Xie Zhujia are there, the gold and silver seas, the silk is full of warehouses, do you dare to rob it?" ”

The robber couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and said in his heart, who is this man, and what does he mean by this?

Pei Gai said with a smile: "Gu Zhiru and the others don't dare to rob the noble family in the city - it's still a little ashamed, knowing that if you cover your face, you won't forget your ancestors!" ”

When the other party heard this, his body couldn't help but shake slightly. Later, Pei Ren was very puzzled when he heard this--he had also read the book for a few days--is this how the term "counting and forgetting ancestors" is used? What's wrong with the lord, is he forcibly calming, so he doesn't choose what to say?

Seeing that Pei Gai didn't mean to give in easily, and said something very peculiar, those robbers were a little overwhelmed. At first, the man had to carry the knife upside down and arch his hand: "Listen to your accent, you are also from the Central Plains, you know that it is not easy to go south to avoid disaster, and we have no choice but to rob you, please raise your hand and let me wait." ”

Pei Gai shook his head: "It's too perfunctory, it's not a courtesy." ”..

The other party was stunned when he heard this, and then he had to grit his teeth and lower his head a little more: "Dare to ask the nobles to give in." ”

Pei Gai couldn't help laughing, and then he reached out and patted the driver in front of him, so that the ox cart was slightly deviated to the side of the road, and then waved his hand again, ordering the guards to retreat and make way for the robbers. The robbers were still with their blades in their hands, and their eyes were fixed on Pei Gai and the guards, and they lined up and passed by the car with great vigilance. The leader fell at the end, and after waiting for the ox cart, he turned back and arched his hand again: "Thanksgiving-don't you dare to ask the noble person's name?" ”

Pei Gai stiffened his neck: "I am a 'pastor'!" ”