Chapter 15 Let's talk about rent

About four o'clock in the later generations, the two maidservants brought dinner, a pot of millet porridge, a few baked cakes, a plate of boiled old vegetable leaves, and a bowl of boiled radish. It's not that Xu Qi looked disgusted when he saw it, but Xu Qing was even more so, the two of them didn't have a hard time on the road, and they didn't have to worry about fish or meat every day. The two maidservants saw that the faces of the masters were wrong, and hurriedly asked for guilt, when the time was too hasty, and the family didn't have much money or something.

Xu Qing didn't care, he reluctantly tried the taste, it was not bad, and Xu Qi also tried it. She was originally a child from a poor family, and it took a few days to get along with Xu Qing, and now she still has a very good appetite for eating the food of a small family, eating two large bowls of porridge, two baked cakes, and Xu Qing are on par with each other. Xu Qing didn't ask someone in the family to sit and eat with him as soon as he met like in the novel. It's not that he has forgotten the modern morality of later generations, but in this hierarchical feudal society, he rashly does this, which makes people uncomfortable and even frightened.

In the east wing, Xiao Ru was holding the silk cloth like a baby, while Xiao Yue looked indifferent, her hands propped up on the table, looking out the window.

Xiao Ru: "Sister Yue, the new master seems to be quite kind?"

Satsuki: "Hmm......"

Xiaoru: "I don't know if it's pretended, that young lady is not bad......"

Satsuki: "Hmm......"

Xiaoru: "Sister, do you say that the master likes us?"

Satsuki: "Huh?"

Xiaoru: "No, no, no, I'm not talking about the ...... I like"

Xiao Yue smiled lightly: "Silly sister, if you come, you will be safe, don't think so much, our lives are in his hands." Xiao Yue said indifferently, as if she had experienced something very unusual.

Xiao Ru was stunned for an "oh", and then held the silk cloth and gestured on herself.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Little Moon girl, little moon girl......" A vicissitudes of life voice shouted outside the door.

"Sister, Uncle Zheng is here, are they here to see the master......" Usually the two sisters are closed, and they only go out to sell vegetables and firewood, this Uncle Zheng is a person in Zhuangzi, and he is a good person.

"I'll go and inform the master first, you tell Uncle Zheng behind the door and let him wait......" Xiaoyue ordered.

Xiaoyue is slightly older than Xiaoru, and her ability and insight are also greater than Xiaoru, so Xiaoru usually listens to Xiaoyue.

Xu Qing listened to Xiaoyue's words, tidied up her clothes, let Xu Qi play alone, and came out with her.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw that my clothes were ragged, my hair was unkempt, and I was obviously tired from a day's work, but now I should have no work in the field, and I don't know what to do.

Seven Zhuang Han, one of them with slightly white hair, is Uncle Zheng, as soon as he saw Xu Qing come out, he knelt down under his leadership, bowed his head and bowed, three in a row, Xu Qing didn't have time to help.

However, Xu Qing still walked quickly and helped him for a while. Kneeling rituals still exist in modern times, but they are not easily seen, unless they are desperate to ask for help, and they also pay tribute to the great grace. In some places in the countryside to help mourners, there will be direct relatives of the deceased who kneel down one by one to thank them, and the recipient will help them from a distance as a return gift.

The seven Zhuang men got up and gave up their hands again, and Xu Qing hurriedly said not to be polite. Zheng Laohan coughed, glanced back at his partner, and said to Xu Qing after getting the encouragement from his eyes:

"Master, the old man's name is Zheng Shishi, and we are all farmers in the Zhuangzi, and the children in the family all rely on those acres of thin fields to live...... "The old man paused, glanced at Xu Qing, and Xu Qing motioned for him to continue

"The court gave you our land, and in the future, we can only rely on renting the master's land to plan."

"Today, the men of our families are here to ask about the rent law of these lands, you can see ......" The old man looked at Xu Qing with blank eyes.

Xu Qing had already thought about it along the way, and the imperial court stipulated that one ding (over twenty-one years old) should pay two stones of grain, about one hundred and twenty catties, and one family

About two to three dings, 30 acres of cultivated land, good fields and good years, the yield per mu is about nearly 300 catties.

However, a land like Xuzhuang is about 200 catties. So when it comes to the calculation, it's about one of ten taxes. However, every ding still has to pay two zhang of silk and three taels of cotton, plus all kinds of regular service, miscellaneous labor, and miscellaneous taxes are also repaid to the officials, and the burden on the peasants is relatively high. Most of the peasants' income comes from the land, and the tax is about one-fifth or even one-quarter when converted, and a year's fatigue is food and clothing, but this is still a clear and clear world.

Xu Qing planned carefully, seven households in Xuzhuang, two stones of grain per ding, he fifteen to eighteen stones, barely enough for a few people in his family to eat. However, there is not much surplus grain, how can the landlord's family have no surplus grain? Hum......

"The imperial court is two stone grains per ding, two zhang silk, three taels ......of cotton, three taels of cotton" Everyone heard him say that the imperial court tax, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, anyway, it has been collected like this for so many years, and they are afraid of raising taxes, but the seven Zhuang Han immediately raised their hearts again.

"However, my difference, every two stones remain the same, I don't want silk and cotton, but every family should follow my method and help me raise two pigs......"

"What? The two pigs ......, "The Zhuang Han were about to intercede, and when they heard your rent method, they immediately calculated it in their hearts." Without silk and cotton, it is worth more than 600 catties of good grain, and how much grain is only fed to the two pigs, 500 catties? And the pig eats some chaff at most, wild vegetables or something, the good grain saved can be eaten at home, the child is growing up, and the seven men are also in charge, and the comparison between the left and right is clear.

"Okay, two pigs are two pigs...... everyone nodded firmly.

"Hehe, since you have no opinion, I will go to the city in a few days, buy a cow for everyone to do coolies, as long as you are fed for ......free" Xu Qing nodded, pork can be exchanged for money, the landlord is not short of grain, he is short of money, and through the improvement of pig raising methods in later generations, the quality of pork is better, and the cheap market is large.

"Huh?! Borrowing cattle without money? Zheng Laohan frothed excitedly.

"That's good, the farm work can be done on time......"

"Okay, I don't have to pull the plow with the whole family anymore......"

"The new master is a great good man...... The rent was reduced and the cow was returned! ”

"The amount, and half of the rent, can be replaced by money, miscellaneous grains, and other things." Xu Qing said seriously. "Don't call me master in the future, my name is Xu Qing, and my nickname is Chu Liu...... So call me young master......"

"Young master is a good ......" under the leadership of Uncle Zheng, everyone shouted with interest, and then everyone said goodbye together.

Xiao Yue's face was full of doubts when she was like this:

"Old ...... Young master, you are exempt from the tune (cotton and silk) The slave knows that you are kind-hearted, but ...... But what do you want pigs for, it's cheap meat, and no one with a little status in Chang'an City will eat it......" Xiaoru said.

"Cheap meat, that's what they won't raise, and they won't make it, if I come, pork won't be worse than mutton......" Xu Qing explained confidently.

In ancient times, the value of pigs was not found for a long time, pigs are easy to grow, cheap and easy to obtain, and the whole body is usable, which is a very good meat for the common people.

But Xu Qing came to Datang and never ate pork once, because he knew that the current pigs grew up eating shi, yes, they eat shi. The pigs are kept next to the toilet, and the people pull them down and the pigs dispose of them, and of course the pigs will eat other things.

A pig is more than one or two or eight dollars, and two hundred catties of chaff is only four dollars of silver, and for Xu Qing, he doesn't even want the chaff, which is quite profitable, which not only reduces taxes for the people in the Zhuangzi, but also makes money is the most important thing, the knowledge from later generations makes Xu Qing ruthless and can't be a bully landlord, at most corrupt and corrupt, Xu Qing thought.