Chapter 81: Marriage Proposal
After entering Yong'an, Yang Xiuqing was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, and the Yong'an map hanging on the wall was pondered and studied as soon as he was free. There were all kinds of small strips pasted on the map, and all kinds of marks were circled and crossed on them, and only he could understand them. For many days, this huge Yong'an defense net was tinkered with by him here, strengthened a little there, and finally almost perfected. Only now can he finally take a breath, no, today he is taking the time to receive the Luo family brothers and sisters in the lobby.
"Sister Ling is so beautiful, it is a blessing for my family's hill, and I also think they are very compatible. But have you ever shown the two of them to Mr.? Is it appropriate? "Yang Xiuqing is very happy, Luo Xuan's let his sister marry Yang Xiaoshan shows an attitude, he is willing to follow the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom all the way to the end, and he is in my faction, otherwise why doesn't he find other kings, and he has to choose his own righteous son as his brother-in-law? This Luo outline is still very familiar.
"I've seen it, and my husband said it was very suitable, and he also said that my sister was the noble person of Xiaoshan's life." Luo Xuan is not stupid, he had already prepared these procedures before he came, just waiting for Yang Xiuqing to nod, and the matter of these two people was completed.
"In this way, the two of them are really a match made in heaven. This dare is good, I have asked people to find Yang Xiaoshan, he is now a marquis of Tongtian, and he can marry a wife. The kingdom of heaven finally settled down, and the king of heaven also said that he could do some happy events to make everyone happy. Yang Xiuqing also wanted to use Yang Xiaoshan's family business to completely control the only naval army of the Kingdom of Heaven in his own hands.
"Report to the East King, Yang Xiaoshan is here and is waiting outside." An attendant came in from outside to report.
"Okay, you bring him in." Yang Xiuqing instructed the attendant, and he turned his face to the Luo family brothers and sisters and said happily, "The two of you will go to the side room to rest for a while, and wait for my good news." ”
Luo Meiying shyly followed Luo Outline to the side room, and was very happy in her heart. She didn't dare to say a word throughout the whole process, in this era, the major marriage events are the communication between the parents of both parties, and if they both nod and agree, the marriage is basically decided. If a big girl interjects in it, it will seem that she can't wait to get married, which makes people laugh. Fortunately, Dongwang, who looked very serious, seemed to be very satisfied with this family business, so he sent Yang Xiaoshan to confirm.
"Father-in-law, you called me?" Yang Xiaoshan stepped forward to salute.
"How's it going to summon the villagers?" Although Yang Xiuqing wanted to ask about marriage, as soon as he opened his mouth, he said that he seemed to be the king of the East and spoke impetuously and had no level, so he still had to find a topic to talk about.
Yang Xiaoshan reported to Yang Xiuqing about the arrangement of the villagers of Mojia Village.
"You've done a good job, but don't make a big deal about the rent collection, especially in Yong'an City." Yang Xiuqing said in a low voice.
"Why? Isn't this a great thing, the villagers have benefited, and our heavenly kingdom has also been enriched with military rations. Yang Xiaoshan said with a puzzled expression.
"Xiaoshan, you don't know anything. The king of heaven was very stubborn in the field system, and according to his requirements, all the fields under heaven were divided into nine classes according to the amount of their production. Whoever divides the land according to the population, whether it is a man or a woman. Count the number of their families, the number of people is more, and the number of people is less. Each household kept enough food rations, and the rest went to the holy treasury. This is true, but in practice it is very difficult. For example, the purpose of dividing the fields into nine grades is to average the quality of the fields allocated to each family, but the grain yield of the land changes with the climate and fertility, and it is impossible to achieve an absolute average, which adds a lot of trouble, and finally makes everyone dissatisfied. When Yang Xiuqing thought of this, her head hurt very much. Hong Xiuquan can delegate all military power to him, but he is very insistent on these systems, he does not listen to any objections, and must distribute all the land in the world absolutely and equally according to quality and quantity, so as to achieve the ideal of "keeping warm everywhere and uneven everywhere" in his mind.
Yang Xiuqing knew that Hong Xiuquan was not wrong in the general righteousness, but as the executor of the policy, he could not implement it, because it was too difficult to operate according to what Hong Xiuquan said, and it was impossible to guarantee the absolute average, so he could only continue to collect rent and get military rations in secret, and only got a little farmland near Yong'an to deal with the king according to Hong Xiuquan's operation.
"And let each household keep enough rations, and the rest go to the holy treasury, I am afraid that the final result is that the field can only receive rations, and there is no excess grain for the holy treasury, and the situation is even worse, and even the rations cannot be received, and in the end they have to ask us for food." Yang Xiaoshan, as a person who came from his previous life, knew too well that these systems would only reduce the enthusiasm of the peasants, and people would become more and more lazy, and in the end, everyone would live a mixed life, and no one would want to work.
"Xiaoshan, how do you know? It's smart, it's true, no one wants to plant such a field. Yang Xiuqing looked at Yang Xiaoshan in surprise, he could have guessed such an ending in advance, but he only came to such a conclusion after several experiments.
"I guessed too. By the way, let's let those big families in the city pledge the silver of the kingdom of heaven, can we be more tactful? Yang Xiaoshan felt that he was still low-key and couldn't behave too much, so he quickly changed the topic.
"We can't be polite to those big households, we don't harass the people, and if we are polite to the big households, our military spending will not be enough. Xiaoshan, you don't care about this, I know that Qin Rigang's approach is a bit rough, but he also brought tens of thousands of taels of silver to the Kingdom of Heaven, and with this silver, we can gain a foothold in Yong'an. Yang Xiuqing waved her hand, disagreeing with Yang Xiaoshan's opinion.
"I'm not saying that I won't accept it, for those who fully cooperate with the Qing Demon, we will confiscate their family property, which is true, but for those who are forced to cooperate and those who do not cooperate, are we improving our practices a little. As long as they pledge money, we will give them an IOU to write and pay it back later, or give them a certificate of merit for their contribution to the kingdom of heaven. In this way, at least we will not push those big families directly to the side of the Qing court emotionally, but let them stand on our side. Yang Xiaoshan has been thinking about this matter for the past few days, since he wants to win the hearts of the people, then the hearts of these centrist bigwigs must also be fought for.
"That's very reasonable, good, I'll let my men discuss it again. It is right for us to rob the rich and help the poor, but we must also treat the rich differently. Yang Xiuqing was very smart, as soon as he listened to Yang Xiaoshan's suggestion, he knew the meaning behind it, and praised it again and again.
The two of you discussed the business sentence by sentence, and Yang Xiuqing almost forgot about the Luo outline. Luo Xuan, who was in a hurry, went around in the next room, and finally he couldn't do it anymore, so he took out his ability to pretend to be a bird.
Yang Xiuqing came back to his senses from his official business, and there were no birds in the house, he knew that Luo Xuan was in a hurry, so he sent himself a code reminder. He jumped away from the topic, showed a rare smile, and quipped: "Xiaoshan, Luo Xuan is looking for me today, let me do something with you, a good thing." ”
"What's good?" Yang Xiaoshan hadn't reacted yet.
"Marry his sister Luo Meiying." Yang Xiuqing finally revealed the reason for looking for Xiaoshan this time.
"Father-in-law, this is absolutely unacceptable!" Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly shook his hand and said, he didn't expect Yang Xiuqing to suddenly mention his marriage.
At the same time, Luo Meiying in the next room heard Yang Xiaoshan's answer, she never expected it to be this answer, and screamed out with a sad and angry "Ah", all kinds of feelings came to her heart, and she ran out with tears streaming down her face.