A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.

The head of the family, Li Xiaojin, was named the founder of the country, or he really sealed a hundred households, and the Li Mansion of Shengyefang was happy. Zhao Wan, who was promoted to the monarch of Lantian County, was happy and announced that everyone in the palace would be rewarded with a month's monthly money as a bonus.

The housekeeper Lao Qian also had to order that he specially bought a pig and two sheep to be slaughtered, and celebrated with a meal and meat.

The whole house was overjoyed.

Just after the summer harvest, although there was a lot of losses due to the drought, the money housekeeper looked at the more than 1,000 acres of land added to the account, and his eyes lit up with excitement.

The baron was promoted to the viscount and added 300 acres of Yongye Field, and the Yongye Field, which was a five-grade official, was also added to 500 acres.

800 acres of Yongye Field, 500 acres of Yongye Land for official positions, plus 1,000 acres of land specially rewarded by the emperor, and then 1,200 acres of land before the Li family, and now on the account book of the money steward, the Li family's field has reached 3,500 acres.

The Li family's fields are all over Lanxi, Lantian, Tongzhou and other places.

In addition, Li Xiao also has 600 acres of land that can collect rent, and 100 households of Zhenfeng Shiyi.

The little money and grain lost due to the great drought is really not worth mentioning compared to this. Not to mention, the Li family still has a few cash cows now, and there is a steady stream of income.

Wine shops, medicine wine shops, crude medicine shops, medical halls, restaurants, as well as newly put into production perfume, soap, soap shops, and noodle workshops, if you add the Li family's sales of peppers, cucumbers, watermelons and other crops this year, the speed of making money is no better than that of some places in the past century.

Compared with the current situation of good word-of-mouth sales of medicinal liquor, the new workshops of perfume, soap and dried noodles are now producing low, so they simply take the high-end market route, with low output but high profits.

"The brewery may be temporarily suspended for a while recently." Li Xiao said to Steward Qian that although Datang does not have a monopoly system for wine, it will restrict winemaking in the event of a disaster or famine. This year, there was a severe drought in the south of Guanzhong, and the grain production was seriously reduced, so the imperial court has issued an order to prohibit private brewing.

It was forbidden for the common people to make wine in disaster years, and only some of the workshops of the imperial court were allowed to make wine.

Although the Li family's winery is said to be a steaming winery, and the sake lees are purchased to steam wine, the people have banned winemaking, and the sake lees are naturally a greatly reduced source. And the sake lees in the official workshop, with the rise in food prices, are now also rising. When there is a shortage of food and less food, sake lees are also edible food.

"Stoppage?" Steward Qian felt that he had a toothache, and now that the business of the medicine and wine shop was so good, if the steaming wine shop was suspended, the loss would be too great. Nowadays, the Li family's medicinal liquor has formed a one-stop industrial chain, with a steaming wine workshop, a crude medicine shop, a medicinal wine shop, and even a perfume shop.

Now the Li family's biggest and most profitable industry is this, and the suspension of production is really a huge loss.

"There is no way to stop work, settle the wages of the workers in the workshop, and give an extra month's salary as a bonus, explain the situation to everyone, and when the situation improves, our workshop will resume production, and then please come back to continue working."

Steward Qian frowned and sighed.

As soon as the steaming liquor factory stopped, the booming medicinal liquor business had to stop, the perfume workshop also stopped, and even the medicinal herb business with the crude medicine shop would be affected.

"Money steward, how much silk is in the family's account now?" Li Xiao asked.

The money housekeeper knew the family's economic situation well, and hurriedly said, "There is a lot of money in the account, and there are also some in the workshops and shops, if you withdraw all the money, it is estimated that there will be more than three million dollars." ”

More than three million, that is, three thousand yuan. To put it mildly, this is a lot of money, of course, for ordinary people. For those high-ranking officials and wealthy families, it is nothing. The house that the eldest grandson Wuji gave Li Xiao was worth at least five million dollars.

"Three million, a little less, but it's okay, you coordinate with the workshops, and hurry up to gather the money these days, I'll be useful."

When the money housekeeper heard this, he couldn't help asking, "I don't know what Ah Lang wants so much money for?" ”

"Buy land."

When Lao Qian heard this, he couldn't help but get excited. It's good to buy land, you won't lose money when you buy land, especially in the current disaster year, many people have failed or even lost their harvest, so they can only sell land at a low price to save their lives. At this time, it is definitely a good time to buy land, not to mention the cheap price, there is still a chance to buy good land.

Although the Tang Dynasty takes the uniform field system as the foundation of the field, the uniform field system does not mean that the land cannot be bought and sold. According to the system, middle-aged men over 18 years old and Ding men are granted 100 acres of land, of which 80 acres are divided into fields and 20 acres are Yongye fields.

Forty acres of land for old men and disabled people, and thirty acres for widows and concubines; If these people are the heads of households, each of them will receive 20 acres of Yongye land and 30 acres of land.

Miscellaneous households receive land like the people. The industrial and commercial households, and the official households, received half of the land of the people. Taoist priests and monks gave 30 acres of land, and nuns and female crowns gave 20 acres of land. In addition, ordinary women, tribesmen, and slaves and maids were not allowed to farm.

It is not allowed to buy and sell the land in the mouth, and the land will be returned after death, and the land will be returned by the government after death. But Yongye Tian is a world field and can be bought and sold.

Under normal circumstances, people will not sell land, which is the foundation of life. But in times of disaster and hunger, there is no way to survive.

In a place like Guanzhong, where the land is narrow and there are many people, as long as the people are willing to move to a wide township with few people, such as the frontier land, then the imperial court also allows the people to freely sell their land and divide the land, which is also to encourage the people to immigrate to the frontier and enrich the border land.

But if they are not desperate, who wants to leave their homeland.

The fields in Guanzhong are expensive for a few or even a dozen per mu, and the cheap ones are also hundreds of dollars per acre. The fertile fields on the Guanzhong Plain are the fields that the aristocratic officials compete to buy, but they are also very rare under normal circumstances.

"It's good to buy land, it's a rare opportunity, you can buy more land." Steward Qian said again and again.

However, he didn't know that Li Xiao was planning to go to Baekje to buy land, otherwise, it is estimated that he would not be so happy.

Baekje, that's a foreign country, an overseas land. No matter how cheap the land is, the old money will definitely not want to buy it.

Zhao Wan, the newly sealed monarch of Lantian County, also supports the purchase of land, she believes that now that Li Xiao is developed, then the first thing to do is to buy back the land that was occupied and bought when the Li family was in trouble.

"Wan Niang, those lands are already people's property now, they also spent money to buy them, and they have land deeds in hand, this thing is not easy to handle, you can only blame the Zhang family back then, it has nothing to do with them." Li Xiao said while holding his wife, who was getting plump and plump.

"This time I'm going to go to Baekje to buy land and land, where land is cheap now. It is estimated that the plain watered land that can be planted with rice for double crops is only one or two thousand yuan per mu, and if it is worse, it can even be bought for three or five hundred yuan. It's a great deal to get it now. Three thousand yuan is enough to buy two or three thousand acres of the best field over there. ”