Dongjiazhuang, strictly speaking, should be called Dongjia Manor, it is centered on Dongjia Manor, building villages on the east and west sides, forming a strip of one point and two lines, which belong to the scope of Dongjiazhuang.

In order to distinguish, people call the east side of the village Dongzhuang, the west side is called Xizhuang, and the middle is still called the manor.

In addition to the manor, the East and West Erzhuang are all tenants of the Dong family, that is, people who live by renting the Dong family's land, so the Dong family is their big owner. After the implementation of the armor protection system, the head of the Dong family was designated by the government as the chief of the security here, and he had another identity.

The Dong family has lived here for several generations, and the development of the family is also due to here, although there are several side branches in the middle, but they have either moved or declined, and when Dong Jun became the head of the family and the chief of the family, it was not as good as before.

Seeing that the family was gradually withering, Dong Jun was unwilling to decline, and he ambitiously married several wives and concubines in an attempt to revive the family. However, there is always a disconnect between ideas and reality, although Dong Jun and these wives and concubines worked hard, they only blossomed and did not bear fruit, a large number of daughters were born, and none of them had sons.

Without a son, Dong Jun was not only ambitious, but also in danger of losing his family, and he began to panic.

Taking medicine and acupuncture doesn't count, Dong Jun even went to burn incense and worship the Buddha, trying to pray for descendants in this way.

Fortunately, with the blessing of God, Dong Jun was finally achieved, and at the age of forty-three, he finally had a son named Dong Cheng.

Dong grew up, but he can also be hearted, at the age of sixteen, he was admitted to Xiucai, and at the age of nineteen, he was promoted to a person, and the journey was smooth, as long as he was admitted to the Jinshi in the next step, he could wait for the candidate and mix with an official position.

It's just that he didn't wait for him to participate in the follow-up scientific expedition, and by chance, he was favored by the prefect of Yingtianfu, who liked his people and loved his talents, so he received a copy from his subordinates, and as for the scientific expedition, it was also explained in advance and was not affected.

Dong Cheng helped the prefect draft documents and manage the archives at first, everything was neither good nor bad, but one day, he and the prefect met inadvertently, and the lady took a fancy to him again.

Miss took a fancy to it, the prefect was willing, Dong Cheng was also satisfied, this family business was naturally natural, but unexpectedly, when the prefect proposed to recruit Dong Cheng as a son-in-law, Dong Cheng, who was an only son, hesitated.

The prefect was forced and the Dong family was tough, and the two sides were at a stalemate.

Later, because of the crying of the prefect's young lady, the prefect finally came up with a compromise method, that is, to let the Dong family move to Nanjing Mansion, so that the two families could not only form a good relationship between Qin and Jin, but also be close to each other, making it easier to move around.

The Dong family manor is an ancestral business, although the Dong family is unwilling to give up, but for the sake of their son, they still decided to relocate.

Although the relocation is a major event, it is difficult to talk about the people of the Dong family, after all, they are numerous and powerful, and they can be completed by finding more cars and horses.

Everything is easy to do, but there is more money and less money, but the nearly 100 tenants under their names are a headache.

The Dong family has relied on them for many years to survive, and now that they are leaving, they naturally can't give up in their hearts, and they are even worried that they will starve and be displaced in the future.

I don't know what the buyer is thinking, and I don't know what the other party is buying the land for? All the Dong family can do is to make demands at the time of the sale, and make it a necessary condition to ensure that the tenants have land to plant, otherwise the sale will not be negotiated.

said so, the Dong family also knew that as soon as they slapped their butts and left, the other party would be helpless if they didn't implement the agreement, but all they could do was like this, and those things would be left to fate.

A small condition, seemingly inconspicuous, actually has a big effect, even the Dong family did not expect that there would be such a big side effect. Half a year has passed, and most of the Dong family has moved away, but the house and land still cannot be sold.

Don't underestimate this condition, it is related to the fate of nearly 100 people, and no one dares to take it over easily. There is a lot of land, which naturally needs to be cultivated, and the conditions of the Dong family are reasonable, why is no one taking over? In fact, the problem still lies with the Dong family.

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In ancient times, tenants rented land from landlords, not only to pay a certain amount of taxes to the government, but also to pay rent to the landlords, and even to pay some miscellaneous taxes.

Since the late Tang Dynasty, the government generally implemented the two tax laws, the two tax laws are based on the original land tax and household tax, and the new tax law is formulated to unify various taxes.

The essence of the two taxation laws is to "measure the amount of revenue to control the revenue," which means that the scale of fiscal revenue should be drawn up according to the average expenditure level of previous years, in other words, how much money the government wants to spend will be levied on the peasants.

In the Song Dynasty, the two tax laws have evolved, especially Wang Anshi's reform of the law, the implementation of the Fangtian tax law, the conscription law, although it was opposed by the gentry and large landlords and the old-fashioned bureaucrats, it was soon abolished, but it also had a lot of impact on the tax system, after that, all kinds of tax collection items followed, dizzying, therefore, the Song Dynasty tax was heavier than the previous generation, it is a common knowledge.

Under normal circumstances, most of the agricultural taxes levied by the state are the standard of 30 taxes and one tax, but this is only one tax, as the so-called "one tax is light, two taxes are heavy, and three taxes are a bottomless pit!" "On the surface, it is difficult to hide the fact that the burden on the peasants is increasing day by day.

The second tax is the ground rent; There is nothing wrong with renting the landlord's land and paying the rent, but the amount of payment has been different since ancient times. However, in the Song Dynasty, three or seven openings had become a clear text, four or six openings were normal, and even individual unscrupulous landlords had reached five or five openings.

The three taxes are the seed tax, the agricultural tool tax, the poll tax and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Of course, the imperial relatives, dignitaries and nobles, landlords and rich peasants do not have this tax, so it is basically paid by the peasants, and more importantly, you don't know when the government will change the entry to make a tax.

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The tenants of the Dong family were happy compared to the other common people of the Great Song Dynasty. The Dong family has no way to pay the taxes that the government has made, except for trying their best to maneuver, they basically pay the original amount, but in the article of rent collection, the decision is up to them, they only collect the lowest three or seven according to the time, so the tenants' lives are relatively much more relaxed, which also leads to their dependence on the Dong family and their dedication.

In order to protect them, the Dong family will add that sentence when negotiating with the buyer that the rent collection shall not exceed the standard of 37.

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Gao Feng rushed to the Dong family manor with Li Qikun, and Li Qikun was talking about the changes and developments of the Dong family along the way, and Gao Feng was also very interesting to hear.

The Dong family may be just an example, but it is undoubtedly a successful example of marriage changing the fate of the family. I don't know how far the Dong family will be able to go in the future, but now that they have stepped out of the manor, they will definitely have more development opportunities than they do now.

The two of them walked and talked, and unconsciously, a manor in the distance came into view, and Gao Feng knew that it was the Dong family manor.