Chapter 257: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
"Ah Lang, the ground has been drawn."
Early in the morning, Lao Qian came over with the account book to report the good news. The increased viscount Yongye Tian and the official Yongye Tian have all been demarcated, and the efficiency of the imperial court yamen is very fast, and it is estimated that Li Xiao is now more popular and favored.
1,500 acres of land have been added, but Guanzhong is no more than other places, and it has always been narrow and crowded. The 1,500 acres of land are divided into multiple plots, and they are basically spread all over Lantian, Shangzhou, and Qizhou in western Beijing, and some of the land is divided into Shannan Road.
And it's basically at the foot of the Qinling Mountains.
Although it is not said that it is all mountainous, it is far inferior to the fields on the Weihe Plain.
"It's good to be able to draw down the real number of land, and I want to give you a piece of land on the plain."
Although the old money is unfortunately not a piece, it is still quite satisfying. The land was divided into several pieces, each of which was about 100 acres.
"Old money, you can arrange a steward to take over those lands. To whom the land was rented before, the tenants will continue to rent to them, and the amount of rent shall be the same as on our side. Li Xiao is not very interested in this kind of fragmented land, it is too fragmented and scattered to be directly managed, so it is better to continue to rent it to tenants. Chang'an is a narrow land and has many people, so if you have land, you are not afraid that you will not be able to rent it.
"Ah Lang, don't we just grow it ourselves? It's good to grow corn and peppers, and it's good to grow vegetable moss. ”
If you rent corn and peppers, now they are cash crops, and the amount of corn is now small, and the Li family has extra seeds to grow by themselves, and they can sell seeds when they are planted, even if it is impossible to sell them by grain, but it is definitely more cost-effective than planting ordinary wheat and millet. Chili peppers are also becoming more and more popular, and they can be sold when they are fresh, dried, and ground to sell.
"Forget it, whatever you plant, we still have some land in Lantian. After the summer harvest, this god looks good, it has already rained a few times, and the land that was taken for everyone to plant before has also been handed back to each family. We also have 2,000 acres of land in hand, which is enough to grow corn and peppers. ”
Compared with the Qian steward who always stared at the scattered thousands of acres of land, Li Xiao was more interested in Baekje's land. After all, although the land in Guanzhong belongs to him, it has always been tenanted. Li Xiao, the landlord, is not easy to take back. People don't have to listen to him for what they don't plant and how they plant. Even if he listens to him, he can only get a part of the rent.
Baekje took more land, and built manors in patches of them, and managed intensive farming. Planting directly with slaves or hired laborers is undoubtedly more promising.
South of Chang'an City, Qujiang.
There is a hibiscus garden on the bank of the Qujiang River.
Although it is not the season for hibiscus to bloom, the gardens here are also good.
Today, there is a polo match in Qujiang.
There are four polo teams against each other, namely the Polo Team of the Twelve Guards of the Southern Ya against the North Ya Yulin Army Polo Team, and the Guanlong Noble Children Polo Team against the Shandong Upstart Polo Team.
The people of the Tang Dynasty liked to play polo, and the people also loved to watch polo, and even the women of Chang'an liked to play polo.
Polo is a sport loved by the whole people and is also highly valued by the military.
Watching a polo, by the way, you can also bet on guessing the winner and guessing the winner, which is also a very refreshing thing.
"My Guan Long's children will win, and the old man bets that the Guanlong children will win." Zhongshu Shilang and Jiangxia County King Li Daozong rubbed one eye and said, this eye is a bit old, and it is still the root that fell from a royal banquet at the beginning of Zhenguan.
That time, just because his sitting rank was above Wei Chigong, the big black charcoal ended up flipping the table and beating people, and almost blinded him in one eye with one punch.
Decades have passed in a blink of an eye, and the young generals in the clan have now become respected representatives of the clan.
After the eldest grandson Wuji retreated, he became the leader of the Guanlong nobles.
"Xiangrui, you are also our Guan Long's disciple, don't you bet to play?" Li Daozong smiled and said to Li Xiaodao, who he had summoned.
The eldest grandson Wuji called Li Xiao a disciple of Guan Long, and now Li Daozong also said that he was his own person, but Li Xiao really didn't have this kind of consciousness all along. At that time, the Guanlong group was actually composed of two groups, one was the generals of Wuchuan Town, and the other was the heroes of the Guanlong clan, who united together to establish the Western Wei Dynasty with Guanzhong as the foundation, and finally unified the north and then unified the world.
The Lanxi Li family used to be just a small landlord, and they weren't even Haoqiang, but after all, they were from Guanzhong, and the small landlords were also Xiaohaoqiang, and now Li Xiao has become a nobleman, so he is naturally regarded by them as their own.
Polo is an intense sport, excellent ornamentation, fight is also very fast, the moon staff is waving, riding a horse rushing, often hit the head to break the blood, but the Tang people do not feel bloody, on the contrary, they like this kind of brave game very much.
While watching polo, shouting and cheering, while buying a few bets on your favorite polo team.
The four teams are very powerful, and they can be called elite gatherings, especially in this competition, the Southern Ya Guards against the Northern Ya Forbidden Army, and the Guanlong children against the Shandong children.
The players are basically the sons of the nobles, and they are all in the army, any player, it is also an officer above the ninth grade, and even six or seven grades. They play, not purely professionally.
It's really hard for Li Xiao to guess who can win.
In the end, Li Xiao bought the Guanlong team and the forbidden army to win.
Li Daozong laughed and said that Li Xiao was too slippery. Today's forbidden army, because Cheng Yanjin, Xue Rengui, Su Lie and other Shandong generals are under the command, so the officers of the forbidden army are also mostly Shandong children, which is a change from the old practice of Su Wei and Long's children in the past.
Li Xiao bought the Guanlong team to win here, and then bought the forbidden army to win over there, which is equivalent to betting on both sides.
In the past few years, Guan Longjiangmen seems to be a little green and yellow, although the eldest grandson Wuji has high prestige, but this is a civil servant, he has not really fought for a few days, and he does not have half of his old son and grandson Sheng's majesty of killing two birds with one stone.
Fortunately, before the eldest grandson Wuji stepped down, he also summoned Li Daozong and Xue Wanche back, which can be regarded as retaining some blood for Guan Long Jiangmen.
Otherwise, they could only watch the increasingly arrogant arrogance of the Shandong military leaders.
Although Li Xiao is a disciple of Guanzhong who refuses to join the army, after all, he is his own son, and it is not easy to produce a self-made true nobleman in these years, Li Daozong and they all love this young seedling.
Taifu Li Ji came late, he came with the emperor. And the emperor also invited Sun Wuji, the chief teacher, to come with him today, in addition to Yu Zhining and Han Ming, who are also at home.