Chapter 7 Mid-Autumn Festival

Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives.

In the blink of an eye, it was the Mid-Autumn Festival, although this couplet of ancient famous sentences was written in Chongyang, but now who knows, their fate is in the hands of Xu Qing, even if it becomes a famous sentence of the Qingming Festival, it is only a matter of raising a hand.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and was designated as a national festival in the Tang Dynasty, and it was necessary to have a special Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which was generally played for 3 days. Since then, it has evolved into an important folk festival over the years. Of course, when it comes to the vacations of the ancients, most of them refer to the vacations of ancient officials, and other people, such as agriculture and industry, no one gave him a holiday, at most they had a good meal.

Of course, Xu Qing can be regarded as an official, after all, he eats imperial grain, although he is just a gatekeeper, isn't Guan Erye also a gatekeeper when he becomes a god?

Listening to Zhang Zhong's talk, a head is more than 100 yuan, and a stone of corn. And Xu Qing can have three hundred dollars and two stones of rice this time, and there is also a servant, Zhang Zhong said that because Xu Qing is almost a middle-aged man, Boxing is a big county, and he can still grant dozens of acres of land at that time, or the tax-free kind.

Xu Qing counts the days with his fingers every day, why can't he pay the reward? Always talk about the best 30 acres of land and a cow, it's best to send a little girl, don't send a big aunt.

Thirty acres of land, Xu Qing can't plant, he can only rent it to others to plant, he can harvest three or four stones of grain a year, and if he is ruthless, he can even more.

Xu Qingmeizizi's fantasy of the future life of the landlord, when the time comes, she will marry a landlord's wife and accept an aunt's wife, and she is very beautiful. Then give birth to two fat boys and make him popsicles to eat......

I also have to build a big house, plant a few peach trees, plant flowers in the backyard, dig a big pond, fence it with a wall, and close the door to the landlord's wife......

It's just that Xu Qing's great landlord cause is probably going to fail, because in the early Tang Dynasty, the land was vast and sparsely populated, every household had land, and no one rented other people's fields, but the government soldiers were away all the year round, and the family's fields could not be planted by themselves, so they could only let others help plant them. In this way, the land rent collected is very small, except for those lords, lords, and officials, who are natural tenants, and they are distributed to others as tenants along with the land.

Moreover, the use of homestead land by farmers in the Tang Dynasty was also restricted, and every three people occupied a maximum of one mu, which could not be exceeded.

In the Tang Dynasty, the land belonged to the state, that is, the emperor, and the state granted land to the peasants, and the peasants paid tenants to the emperor, and the whole world was the emperor's tenants. Each male in a year has to pay rent of two stones, two zhang of silk, and three taels of cotton.

In the Tang Dynasty, the number of people in a family was the greater the number of people in the family, the more land was allocated, and in the Tang Dynasty, there was a time limit for granting land, and a male peasant was given land from the state when he was 16 or 18 years old.

There are hundreds of acres in counties with more land, and dozens of acres with less land. Of course, the land is not necessarily arable land, there is also forest land, and even no grass grows, in short, the cultivated land is about thirty or forty acres per man.

At the age of sixty, the land must be returned to the state, and the right to use it for more than forty years is enjoyed; In the Tang Dynasty, the fields cultivated by farmers were divided into two categories, one could be inherited, called Yongye Field, which was equivalent to the self-reserved land of later generations; the other type cannot be inherited, which is called the mouth division field, which is equivalent to the responsibility field;

After being obscene for half an hour, Xu Qing stopped, remembering that he still had two pieces of horseshoe silver and two pieces of gold, closed the doors and windows, and quietly took them out.

Even in his previous life, Xu Qing had never seen such a large piece of gold, Xu Qing checked it, about four taels, that is more than two hundred grams, and in modern times, there are sixty or seventy thousand. Xu Qing stroked two pieces of gold, and his eyes were full of small stars.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, gold and silver were not yet currency, and there were cloth, five-baht coins, and so on in the market. Later, there was a common currency is "Kaiyuan Tongbao", Kaiyuan Tongbao is not the Kaiyuan of Tang Xuanzong, as early as the fourth year of Wude, for the abolition of Sui money, it was opened to cast square hole round money "Kaiyuan Tongbao", replacing the five baht left in the society.

After seeing enough of Jin Shanshan, Xu Qing felt that he would go out for a walk. Xu Qing has been in the Tang Dynasty for almost two months, and he doesn't know many people, on the one hand, because he is not very sociable and afraid of losses, on the other hand, more importantly, he still only sees Datang as a movie in his heart, and he is just an audience.

Xu Qing only knew Zhang Zhong and Wang Er, Wang Er was only half an acquaintance, Zhang Zhong lived far away, and it would take a day to walk over, and he knew the way, so he could only go to the county seat.

There is a street in the county, but there are only some inns and inns, as well as grain stores, cloth stores, hardware stores, and some vegetable sellers in the morning, and a street can be seen directly to the end......

When I arrived at the county seat, I saw that there were many more people than usual, and there was a little prosperity.

After all, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, many people who have extra money at home are willing to come out for a walk, and there are many snacks sold on the street, preserves, pastries, dumplings, buns and so on......

Well? Bun? Xu Qing felt that something was wrong.

The Tang Dynasty actually had buns? Xu Qing suspected that there was something wrong with his eyes, did he meet a traverser, and hurriedly took a closer look at the stall owner, but seeing that the stall owner was an ordinary man, nothing strange, Xu Qing's heart turned and stepped forward to test it:

"What's your phone number?"

"Huh?" The stall owner is inexplicable.

Doesn't this person have a mobile phone, Shan Da, and asked again

"Ahem, the devil is getting more and more arrogant now...... You say yes, right? "No one knows about this thing, at least when you hear the word devil, you should always react.

"This guest officer, are you going wrong, here...... I don't see a doctor here." The stall owner gestured to the side and motioned to him where to go to the pharmacy.

"Eh, something is wrong, here are two steamed buns..."Xu Qing was disappointed, thinking that someone might have invented steamed buns in advance, and took the steamed buns and gave two pennies, Xu Qing was still unwilling to say: "You really don't know about mobile phones?" However, this time, the stall owner simply ignored it.

Looking at the people coming and going on the street, Xu Qing took a bite of the bun and planned to taste the Tang Dynasty bun, but he almost had a mouth cramp, it was a steamed cake, wrapped in a little bit of bean paste, which was okay, the key was that it was particularly sour, and there was a trace of indescribable smell in the sourness, so I really didn't know it.

Xu Qing was not hungry, he couldn't eat after taking a bite, and when he saw a few beggars, he handed them to eat, but a few beggars were grateful, which made Xu Qing's face blush slightly.

In the past, there were so many stalls on the cold streets, pedestrians were playing one by one, a little bit of fireworks, mixed with the joy of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and finally Xu Qing had a feeling of being in the world, infected by this atmosphere, watching the people coming and going on the street, laughing and laughing, and the grains in my heart were mixed, and I was drunk, lost, and melancholy.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Yellow River was still relatively clear, the middle and lower reaches could still be navigated, from Chang'an issued an edict downstream, three or five days to reach Shandong, and then three days to Boxing, counting the days, the reward order issued from Chang'an is also about to arrive.