Compared with Tamase's treatment, Li Ke's disposal was not so good.

During the chat with Tamase, Li Xiao learned that although the emperor exempted Wu Wangke from the death penalty, he did not spare him. The title was reduced to a nobleman, and he was not immediately freed. Today, he is still in Chang'an City, living in a Taoist temple, which is actually under residential surveillance.

Tamase is asking for help, hoping to take Wu Wangke out of Beijing to live with her.

"Now that the princess wants her brother to live safely for the rest of her life, the best thing to do is to persuade her brother to become a monk like a princess. Be a born Taoist, devote yourself to cultivating the Tao, and don't ask about the world, maybe you can enjoy the rest of your life in peace. Although Li Xiao had never been in contact with Li Ke, the world spoke very well of him, and Tamase liked this brother so much, so he helped come up with an idea.

"If you want to be a monk, you must no longer be nostalgic for worldly power and reputation, otherwise it will not be too late to regret it."

Leaving the mountain villa in Yuse, when Li Xiao returned home, the small Lijiazhuang was still lively, and many men gathered inside and outside the village.

These people are the parents and brothers of the students of Zhuangdong Academy, and they spontaneously came to help Li Jiazhuang work. The ploughing is imminent, the planning and renovation of Lijiazhuang has not yet been completed, the academy is only basically completed, and the public toilets, bathrooms and Yicang in the village are still under construction.

Everyone thanked Li Xiao for accepting their children to study, and there was nothing to thank, so they spontaneously came over to help with the work.

Li Xiao didn't want to make everyone cheaper, but everyone was enthusiastic, and finally agreed to let them stay, but he took care of three meals a day and gave everyone food for wages.

At present, it is the time when the green and yellow are not harvested, and many families actually have no rations, so they all begin to look for wild vegetables in the field at this time, and eat wild vegetable paste on the side, otherwise, they will not be able to wait for the summer grain to enter the warehouse. Li Xiao gave everyone food and wages, although it was not much, but it was also very good.

Everyone excused themselves several times, and finally accepted it happily.

"There are a lot of people coming, and the progress is fast, according to Saburo's plan, it's almost the same. The dilapidated houses at the head of the village have been demolished, and everything that should be leveled has been leveled. The newly built village road is very neat, and the village wall has been erected, all square. ”

As Da Biao, who supervises the Xinzhuang project, he doesn't even go to the street these days, and earnestly serves as the supervisor given to him by Li Xiao.

With this fierce and tall Dabiao supervisor, although it is a group of farmers working, there are Li Xiao's drawings, and the final result is still very good.

The original messy and dilapidated thatched houses and mud houses were demolished, and the neat village road was re-planned, the village road was not only straight and smooth, but also tamped, and the drainage canal was repaired on the roadside, and street trees were planted, which could become a green shade road in the future.

At the east and west ends of the original low-lying and uneven village, a brand-new small courtyard has also been built, and Lanxi Academy, public toilets, public baths, and Yicang in the year of disaster protection, as well as pavilions for enjoying cool rest.

These things are planned in a unified manner and are very neat, because they are made of local materials and ask the villagers to work, but it does not cost much.

Looking at the changes of Zhuangzi day by day, not only Li Xiao was happy, but the villagers were amazed.

In the past, Zhuangzi was simple and old, even dirty, but now, it is almost a fight with Lanxi Street.

The village not only built a new village wall surrounded by four sides, there are four village gates for villagers to enter and exit, although the tall village wall is relatively thin earthen wall, but the effect of anti-theft is still obvious.

In this era, villages everywhere, with a little history, will have village walls, and the village gates will be closed at night, and villagers will be sent to patrol the night in turn to prevent robbers and thieves. Even in times of turmoil, these village walls can play a great role in resisting the outcasts and bandits.

A village wall is a symbol of the strength of a village. In a village with a village wall, ordinary thieves will even bypass it, too lazy to gnaw on such hard bones.

Outside the village wall, there is also a repaired canal, this canal used to exist, but it has fallen into disrepair for a long time, and the siltation has been deep, and it is Li Xiao who organized people to clean him up and dig deep and wide, and connect it to the Lanxi River, so that a pool of clear water bypasses the village, and even dug a ditch to introduce water into the village.

A large pond was built in the village to facilitate the villagers to wash their clothes and vegetables.

With this pool of living water, the village has also become beautiful.

"Now look, it's worth it." Da Biao said with a smile.

Doctor Zhao originally opposed Li Xiao's generosity, thinking that it was a ruined behavior, spending money to build this and that, and giving benefits to the villagers in vain, but now it seems that it is indeed very good.

"How can this money be spent in vain?" Li Xiao said with relief.

The cost was not much, but the farmers came to work and received money and grain from the Li family to go home, which also greatly alleviated their famine this winter and spring, and they could eat the summer grain harvest with peace of mind this year.

Everyone has a good life, and they will never forget the good of the Li family.

As a landlord, the Li family still cares more about the popularity, and this amount of money is really not much for the Li family. The Li family now has a steady stream of money in just one medicine and wine business, and the village has been repaired, not only is it clean and tidy, but there is also a large vacant land around the Li family's compound, and the Li family's courtyard can also be easily expanded in the future.

The foundation of a landlord is to have a good reputation in his hometown.

Such as the way of the bully Zhang in the past, it will not last long.

The landlord has to become a village sage and a popular person, so that the family can last for a long time, not to say that he is a bully that everyone is afraid of.

In the past, even Dr. Zhao didn't understand why Li Xiao always wanted to do things that seemed to be loss-making, and felt that he had invested too much, but now they also think it makes sense.

The Li family's life is getting more and more prosperous, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, so the vision can't be limited to a small place in Lijiazhuang, so the eyelids are too shallow and the pattern is too small.

The Li family will have to go out sooner or later.

"That's right, Ayya. I went to see the princess just now, and now we are all divided into princesses' fiefdoms by the imperial court, and there are 800 households in Lanxi that are princesses, including our Zhuangzi. I have just proposed to the princess that we should manage her fiefdom on behalf of the princess and collect a fixed tax on behalf of the princess, and the princess will give us 20% of the tax every year as a reward. ”

To put things simply, Dr. Zhao nodded after hearing this, "Taking care of the food for the princess, the rent of two percent is a lot, but things are not so easy, and the two percent rent is not so easy to get, so we have to manage it well, otherwise, if the output is insufficient, not only will we not be able to get the two percent rent, but I am afraid that we will have to advance some of it." ”

After all, the princess's food tax is fixed, and even if it is reduced, it will only be reduced in the event of a great famine.

No one who farms the land can guarantee the output.

Datang's food seals have real seals and false seals, the false seals are empty names, and the real seals are real eaters.

As the emperor's sister, Tamase was specially sealed to 800 households, all of which were true seals. And it is not as good as ordinary relatives, all of her 800 households are really sealed, and they do not need to be divided into three, one of which belongs to the state. The emperor specially decreed that all the 800 households of the princess would go to the princess.

Generally, the food seal, each household is above three dings and seven dings, and the closure of Tamase is basically above three dings.

The Tang Dynasty has been established for so long, and there are not many people who have won the real seal of meritorious heroes, and even fewer have more than 500 households. For example, the founding prime minister Pei Lian, who was Li Yuan's old buddy, was only 1,500 households before and after, and Prime Minister Xiao Yu only had 600 households.

Wei Chi Jingde, the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, the four ministers of Zhenguan, are only one person with 1,300 households.

Other famous generals such as Qin Shubao and Cheng Yanjin are only 700 households, Li Yaoshi, Duan Zhixuan and others are only 400, and Li Zihe, Ma Sanbao and other generals are only 300.

More heroes are even only falsely sealed.

According to the system, the emperor's sisters are the eldest princesses, and they all regard them as a product. Tang system, one product of food and ten thousand households, but that is all virtual, the real seal is real.

The 800 households in Tamase are all very special among the royal princesses.

If it weren't for Tamase's special situation now, there would definitely be many people who would be willing to manage the fiefdom for the princess, after all, under the banner of the princess, there are still a lot of fiefdoms to manage, not to mention that the princess will give management rewards.

Even taking the opportunity, there can be a lot of room for operation, such as lending money to the feudal households, renting cattle and horses, renting farm tools, and so on.

The feudal household handed over the rent that should have been handed over to the court to the princess, and because the princess had a special purpose, she was all handed over to the princess.

Datang rent Yong modulated, and each Ding paid 2 stones of rent per year; The tune is produced with the local area, and the silk (or silk, silk) is paid every year two zhang, three taels of cotton, and where silk cotton is not produced, then Nabu is two zhang and five feet, and three catties of hemp; Fan Ding served 20 days a year, and if he did not serve, he received a servant, 3 feet a day.

This rent adjustment is based on the system of equalizing land, and theoretically all the people will grant land on a flat land basis according to 100 acres per ding.

In this way, if you get a hundred acres of land, it is almost the same to pay these rents, and the taxes are not high. But in fact, Juntian does not have much land, especially in a narrow area like Guanzhong, where there is little land and many people. The resulting fields may be as little as twenty or thirty acres, or even less.

In this way, the land is not allocated, but the rent is still a lot, and the burden on the people will inevitably become heavier. Moreover, as closed households, they not only have to pay rent, but also have to pay the freight themselves, which is another burden.

The princess has 800 closed households, with an average of more than 3 dings per household, that is, at least about 3,000 dings.

The annual rent of millet alone is 6,000 stones, and there is also a large amount of silk and cloth, and the income of this fiefdom is extremely high.

Li Xiao helped manage the fiefdom, which was actually a fixed contract, and he had to pay so much to the princess every year. And the princess took out 20% to Li Xiao as a reward, which is actually very high.

However, because there is a lot of land in Lanxi Mountain, the people basically have not been able to get the land truthfully, so the tax burden is heavier, and it is difficult to complete the tax payment.

If Li Xiao's management is not in place and he can't collect so much rent and tax, not only will he not be able to earn benefits, but he will have to make up for it, besides, even if it is managed, it is not a matter of one sentence, Li Xiao himself will have to pay a lot of manpower and energy, and he will also have to spend costs.