In the early morning of Zengtou City, the people got up early, and the vision was full of gold, and the man in gray-yellow linen clothes leaned over the wheat field, in harmony with the golden wheat. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Between the shaking of the ears of wheat, bundles of wheat were cut off, and the man got up again, sweating profusely, but smiling extremely happily. The common people of China for thousands of years have been waiting for this moment all year round, and everything in life revolves around this acre and three points of land.

Happiness is as simple as watching the sunny weather and harvesting the golden wheat fields.

Han Shizhong followed behind Li Gang and said: "Governor Li, the wheat here in Hebei is so good, we can't grow wheat like this in our hometown, we can only grow millet and sorghum and the like." Or the wheat noodles in Hebei are sweet. ”

Li Gang smiled and said: "Millet and wheat are not as delicious as rice, and the rice cooked with rice from Changzhou is really delicious, and it is more fragrant than wheat noodles." ”

"Rice is delicious, but I don't carry hunger, I ate rice a few times when I was in Bianliang, and I felt empty after eating for an hour or two." Han Shizhong answered, of course, it is also Han Shizhong's personal feeling that rice may be easier to digest than pasta. For a Northwest man like Han Shizhong, if he can eat one or two catties of noodles at an open meal, there will still be such a person in the Northwest in the future.

"Haha... I don't feel this way, maybe General Han is too good to eat. Li Gang said with a smile, naturally knowing that his meal was too far from that of these soldiers.

When Han Shizhong heard this, he was a little embarrassed, and hurriedly said: "Governor Li, where can I eat, you ask my brothers, there is more than I can eat, Brother Luda eats two catties of noodles at a meal, and he has to eat two catties of meat, and he can drink a few bowls of wine." ”

When Li Gang heard this, he smiled and waved his hand again and again, where can this kind of thing be compared like this.

At this time, he saw Zeng Lane rushing over with someone from a distance, Li Gang smiled, slowed down his pace, and frowned and did not wait for Zeng Lane to come.

Zeng Yan stepped forward, with a smile on his face, as if he was not angry at all about his son's beating last night, and only said: "Li Xianggong is early." ”

Li Gang responded with a slight arch of his hand, but he didn't speak first.

"Li Xianggong is really diligent, he took someone on an errand so early, but he has to go to the ground to measure?" Zeng Lang asked with a smile again. is that this title has gone up a notch, from Li Zhifu to Li Xianggong.

"Well, this time I came to measure the fields, Yunzhou, Qizhou, Dizhou, the poor facts are heavy, and the only way to do it is to speed up and work hard." Li Gang saw that he had made such a smiling face, and he was also a lot more polite.

"Why does Li Xianggong have to work so hard, the old man has a land deed in his house, and he will come out with the land deed accounting, which is much easier than this land measurement, I think Xianggong hasn't eaten yet, why don't you go to the old village to eat some snacks?" Zeng Lane is still trying to prevaricate this matter after all.

"There is no need to eat, the fire in the camp will be sent later, but I don't know how many acres of land the Zeng family has?" Li Gang is shrewd, and he is extremely sensitive to things on errands.

This sentence stopped Zeng Rong, Zeng Rong hesitated for a moment, and replied: "Xianggong, the old man has not calculated the number of acres of land in his family recently, and there is no base number in his heart. The old man is grateful. ”

Zeng Lang said so, but Li Gang also knew in his heart that if he really wanted to go to Zeng's house to calculate, where could he calculate an actual number, but he also said: "That's fine, I will go to Zeng's mansion to calculate the title deed first, and it will also save the official a lot of errands." ”

Zeng Lane was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed down to invite, and Li Gang naturally led everyone to Zeng's house.

Zeng has his own means, and he has to prevaricate this matter by all means. When you arrive at Zeng's house, you have more or less the title deed to move, and how many title deeds you have moved out can be counted, that is, Zeng Lane can control it.

The title deed will naturally not be falsified, one acre is one acre, one acre will not become eight points, and one acre becomes eight points, which is the loss of the Zeng family. Only those who want to change the title deed to more miles, no one will count the title deed to less. The title deed was also a means for the Zeng family to control the tenants, and it was also the only guarantee for land ownership. Among the same clan, if you want to convince the people, you must be clear.

The Zeng family's mansion suddenly came in with the No. 100 soldiers, but it was the Zeng family who had prepared the meal early, and bowls of noodle soup were sent to the hands of the soldiers. There are still a lot of small servants waiting beside him, and they will add them immediately after eating.

For thousands of years of China's economy and prosperity, many people thought that the prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty was brought about by commerce, but in fact, the long-term stability and economic and cultural development of ancient China were completely brought about by agriculture. No matter how advanced the era of commerce is, the driving force for development actually comes from agriculture.

It is not false at all to be full of warm thoughts, only when you are full, people have the energy to think about culture, and spend energy to produce things other than agriculture, there will be commerce. Agriculture is the foundation and cornerstone, commerce is just the lubricant of society, and the essence of commerce in ancient times is only to promote the exchange of surplus products produced by the people who have enough to eat.

Why in ancient times, for a long time, Europe, Central Asia, North Asia, America and Africa were always poor. This is the gap in the level of agriculture. Including the population retention of China in peacetime, it is also because of the high development of agriculture, until later generations, the rich land in Africa is not able to grow food, and the Chinese will immediately plant a bumper harvest, which is the agricultural talent in the national genes.

Li Gang wiped a handful of noodle soup from the corner of his mouth, and said to Zeng Rong: "Please also move out the title deed, and the government should calculate it as soon as possible and pay the difference to the Jingluo Mansion." ”

"Li Xianggong will move later, and the old man will move." After laughing, he went down to prepare the title deed.

Several large wooden boxes were moved up, and a wooden box was opened, and the inside was neatly stacked, all of which were written in black and white paper one by one, and there were bright red fingerprints.

"Li Xianggong, the Zeng family's title deeds are all here." Zeng Rong took out a stack from the wooden box and handed it to Li Gang to check.

Li Gang took a stack of land deeds, nodded and walked forward, put the stack of land deeds in his hand back into the box, and said, "Thank you Taigong Zeng for cooperating with the errand of this house." ”

Zeng Lang was polite and was about to speak.

Hearing only a "snap", Li Gang covered the opened box again, and shouted: "Come on, move these land deeds out, and make a register according to the fields on the land deeds." ”

More than a dozen soldiers left with the box in front of them, Zeng Rong's face changed, and he already felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked: "Li Xianggong, the acres of land on the land deed are correct with the field, and there is no need to re-measure." ”

"Where can I believe in this mansion, where will there be a fake in black and white, the acres on the title deed naturally do not need to be re-measured, and the acres that are not on the title deed need to be measured, and the owner needs to be found, if no one claims it, it will be confiscated to the Jingluo Mansion, and it will be used as an official field in the future."

Li Gang is really smart, and this kind of means has almost reduced his workload by half, and it is obviously the experience he learned in the process of running errands.

In this way, he also forced Zeng into a corner, and the title deed was only moved to less than half, and if he moved out at this time, he would send the old bottom to the door. But if you don't move up, it's even more of a dilemma, where will anyone claim the land that is not in these boxes of land deeds, that is, as Li Gang said, it will be filled with official land.

This move is only to force the Zeng family, but it is not to force the people, just because the people are renting the sky to plant anyway, and renting the Zeng family is still renting official land, and it is the same rent for the people.

After Li Gang said a word, he turned around and left, and dozens of wooden sticks were carried on the shoulders of many officials of the Cangzhou prefect's yamen.

Zeng Rong frowned, his face trembled a few times, and he watched Li Gang shouting five and six to go out of the house, and he didn't know what to think in his heart, but the anger on this face also showed a lot.

At this time, Li Gang, who had already walked a little farther, suddenly turned around and said: "Thank you Taigong Zeng, after the comparison is completed, you must return a lot of money." ”

"Father, this kid is really arrogant, not as ... Zeng Tu naturally understood the state of affairs, and the young Jianghu man was already vicious.

Zeng Lang didn't say a word, shook the sleeve twice, pinched the corners of the sleeve in his hand, slowly turned around, and walked towards the hall.

Zeng Tu followed behind, and when he saw that his father was silent, he said anxiously: "Dad, call the history teacher, hide in the dark and shoot this yellow-mouthed child with an arrow." ”

Zeng Tu's words were already more straightforward than the first sentence.

Zeng took a bite and said: "Call the account room and the housekeeper at home to come over and calculate how many silver taels are needed if you want to pay the field tax." ”

Zeng Tu was even more anxious when he heard this, thinking that his father really wanted to make up for the field tax, and said busily: "Father, no matter how much, it is an astronomical amount, most of the family's harvest over the years has been bought land, how can I get so much money, don't you have to sell the field to make up for it?" ”

Zeng Lang was naturally weighing in his heart, and it was difficult to turn back after some things were done, so he had to make this trade-off in interests, and said in an unkind tone: "You called them here, do you think killing people is so simple?" Let's forget about it. ”

"Father, killing people is not enough, my son has killed a few people over the years, which man in the rivers and lakes doesn't know the majesty of the five tigers of my Zeng family, so why kill another one? The son heard that Zheng Zhi was not in Cangzhou, let alone Yunzhou, and he was afraid that he would do anything at this time. "Zeng Tu has already thought of going astray, that is, he wants to solve the problem by killing people.

Zeng Rong listened to these words in his heart, but he didn't bother to say it, and he had his own plans in his heart, so he only said: "You go and call the housekeeper and the tent room, call your younger brothers, and Teacher Shi and Teacher Su." At this time, it is necessary to take a long-term view. ”

When Zeng Tu heard it at this time, he could accept it, at least he didn't just call the account room to settle the accounts, but called several younger brothers and Shi Wengong here, and there were a few younger brothers, Zeng Tu probably knew that these people would support his ideas. It took the Zeng family dozens or hundreds of years to accumulate this family business, how can it be handed over.

Li Gang acted too officially, and he had already forced the Zeng family into a corner. But Li Gang also knew in his heart that otherwise, how to deal with Zheng Zhi and how to face the future war.