After seeing Xi, Chen **zhi was about to go to Wuyi Lane to visit Xie An, Chen Shang sent someone to invite Chen **zhi to review the mansion and said that it was from his hometown Chenjiawu, Chen **zhi and Ran Sheng hurriedly returned to Gu's mansion and saw the eldest son of the sixth uncle Chen Man, Chen Chang, who came to Jiankang with Chen Chang, who was responsible for Chenjiawu's cargo and breeding trade, Cheng's household, Chengcang, as well as Jing Nu and six Chen's tribes, six tenants of Chen's manor, Chen's team had more than ten ox carts, bringing two thousand catties of high-grade Gexian tea, four thousand catties of dried fish from the Mingsheng Lake Fish Farm, five hundred pieces of various farm tools, Five hundred horses of fine hemp from Chen's manor——

Although Chen **zhi was indifferent to the North Building, he was still very cordial when he saw Chen Chang now, and said: "The fifth brother has worked hard. ”

Chen Chang pointed to the cart of goods in the courtyard and said to Chen Shang and Chen **zhi: "The third brother and the sixteenth brother are all produced by our Chenjiawu, whether it is iron or woven hemp, the first and sixteenth brother of Qian Tang said in his letter back to home that I will discuss with my father and the fourth uncle, and simply transport these farm tools, refined hemp, and dried fish to Beijing, so that the goods produced by Qian Tang Chen's manor can be marketed, you see, I brought all the warehouses and prepared to find reliable agents in Jiankang." ”

Chen Shang and Chen ** were very happy, and while reading the family letter brought by Chen Chang, they listened to Chen Chang talk about Chen Jiawu, and Ran Sheng talked with Jing Nu.

Patriarch Chen Xian, sister-in-law Ding Youwei, as well as Zong Zhi and Run'er, all wrote to Chen ** to read carefully, how happy is the safety of relatives and the prosperity of the family!

Gu Kaizhi heard that someone from Chen Jiawu also came to meet Chen Chang, so Chen **zhi sent fifty catties of high-grade Gexian tea to Gu Kaizhi, Gu Kaizhi tasted Chen **zhi's tea, and praised Chen **zhi's tea on weekdays, and then got fifty catties of good tea, and said happily: "Ah Tong also likes this way of drinking tea, and now even my uncle no longer adds onions, ginger, orange peel and other things when cooking tea. ”

Chen ** said: "I still have twenty horses of fine hemp, one hundred catties of dried fish from Mingsheng Lake to give to your mansion, and fifty pieces of iron farming tools to send to Gu's Manor for trial." ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "I don't care about these, I call the steward and the pawn to buy all these items in your Chen Jiawu." ”

Chen ** Zhidao: "This time the items are not sold, only sent——"

Chen Chang was overjoyed to hear that Gu was going to buy all these items, but he couldn't help but be anxious when he heard that the sixteenth brother refused to sell them but wanted to give them away, but he couldn't help but be anxious, but he didn't want to open his mouth and think to himself: "This sixteenth brother really doesn't know the hard work of farming, mulberry and hemp, and learned from that scholar, Kuangda, these dozen truckloads of goods are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, so why should they be sent out!" ”

Just listen to Chen's ** way: "Send fifty pieces of iron farming tools to Gu's Manor for trial, if you think that my Chen's dock iron tools can be supplied in large quantities after they are durable, it will not be sent there." ”

Gu Kaizhi laughed and said: "I didn't expect Zizhong or Liangjia to let the steward and the pawn go to discuss you and me to drink tea." ”

Chen ** Zhidao: "Some of my simple tea arts have already been stolen by you to go to Changkang three idiots, and now I want to add tea idiots - I still have to go to Wuyi Lane to meet An Shi Gongfang, but I hurried back when I heard that my fifth brother was coming." ”

Chen ** ordered the servants to prepare twenty horses of fine hemp, fifty catties of Gexian tea and one hundred catties of dried fish, which were sent to Xie Fu, and prepared another cent of fine hemp, tea, dried fish and farm tools to be sent to Zhang Mansion——

Chen Chang and his father Chen Man were generally short-sighted, and when they saw Chen **'s wanton gift-giving, they were a little anxious and said to Chen Shang: "Third brother, look at the sixteenth brother, this-"

Chen Shang said with a smile: "Sixteenth brother, this is to make a name for the items produced by my Chen manor, and nothing else, in terms of iron farm tools, if the manors of the Gu family and the Zhang family of Wu County use the farm tools produced by the Chen family, then my Chen Jiawu's calcining and smelting shop will be in short supply, and the same is true for refined hemp and tea." ”

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Chen Chang nodded, but looking at the truckload of goods sent out, he still felt distressed, Chen Chang had not yet adapted to the new status of the Chen family, and regarded the previous family land as a total of only forty hectares, when the need for baht must be compared to the current Qian Tang Chen's land has nearly two hundred hectares, and also has the entire Mingsheng Lake, the Chen family is ** labor to reclaim the lakeside farmland, within three years, the Qian Tang Chen's field will be sharply expanded to more than five hundred hectares, ranking first among the eight surnames of Qian Tang, of course, with the four surnames of Wu County, Gu, 6, Zhu, There is still a huge gap between a wealthy family like Zhang, who owns thousands of hectares of fertile land, and the emerging Qian Tang and Chen clans, which cannot catch up without thirty or fifty years of operation.

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At dusk, Chen **zhi went to Wuyi Lane to visit Xie An, and asked Xie An for advice on the strategy of land breaking, and it was no accident that the Eastern Jin Dynasty was able to defeat the powerful Fu Qin in the Battle of Weishui, which had a lot to do with the national policy implemented after Xie An took power, Xie An re-established the Beifu Army when he was in power, carried out a large-scale land break, and reformed the tax system, enhanced the national strength of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and made the Eastern Jin Dynasty have manpower and material resources to fight against Fu Qin, but Chen **zhi knew that Xie An did not solve the contradiction of the land annexation of the Hao family, Xie An was too tolerant and paid attention to the so-called moral politics like Wang Dao, and the so-called "Shishuo Xinyu" contains" When Xie Gong was killed, how close to Nantang Xia, Zhufang, or wanted to search for a while, Xie Gong did not allow Yun, "If you don't allow this generation, why is it Kyoto!" ’”

The soldiers and servants fled because of the annexation of the wealthy clan and the heavy servitude, Xie An couldn't solve this problem, but he was tolerant of those fleeing households and refused to search for them, so what did it help! The intricate contradictions within the Eastern Jin Dynasty were temporarily suppressed because of the pressure of the Qin army, and once the threat from the north weakened, Jiangdong's own contradictions would be highlighted, which was also an important reason why Sun En and Lu Xun could respond to the rebellion, and Sun En's rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the Jiangzuo gate valve, and the gate valve lost the ability to control the government, the imperial power was strengthened, the gate valve politics ended, and the Jiupin Zhongzheng system was replaced by the imperial examination system, which seems to be the inevitable historical exhibition, facing the Chen ** in the period of great historical turning point It is inevitable that Qian Tang Chen is now a second-class scholar, and 6 refused to let 6 Wei Rui marry Chen **zhi because of the family, Chen **zhi is trying to change this situation, but if Sun En's big strategy and destruction are used to shake the status of the gate valve, this is what Chen **zhi does not want to see-

In front of the Xie Mansion in Wuyi Lane, waiting for the government servant to go in to report, Chen ** thought: "I am not in power, Huan Wen is thinking so much now, it is tantamount to worrying about the sky, what I have to do now is to try my best to improve the status of the family, increase the family's financial resources, marry Wei Rui, my mother was still worried about my marriage when she was dying." ”

Xie Xuan greeted him and said with a smile: "If Zizhong doesn't come, my third uncle will send someone to invite it." ”

Chen ** Zhidao: "I have long wanted to come to ask An Shigong for teaching the younger, and tell me what An Shigong thinks about this soil break?" ”

Xie Xuan and Chen **zhi walked side by side to the hall of Xie Mansion and said: "Of course, my third uncle is in favor of the soil break, but he thinks that the modified shade clothing and food customization system is a bit inappropriate, which is compared with the shade household system in the Taixing period, and the shade guests occupied by the officials have doubled, and they are easy to be jealous of the Shu clan. ”

Chen **zhi nodded and said: "This is also a last resort concession for the implementation of the land break, otherwise there will be no way to appease the family." ”

Xie Xuan said: "I also said the same to my third uncle, and my third uncle said that there should also be a strategy to appease the Shu family. ”

Chen ** said: "Xie An is worthy of being the most politically wise person in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, his vision is not only limited to the interests of the wealthy families, but also has a clear understanding of the contradictions between the scholars. ”

Chen **zhi met Xie An's sixth brother Xie Shi this time, Xie Shi is now the secretary, Cheng Lang, the sixth official, carefully looked at Chen **zhi and smiled, the people of Xie Mansion always smiled a little when they saw Chen **zhi.

Chen **'s servants sent twenty horses of fine hemp, fifty catties of high-grade Gexian tea and one hundred catties of dried fish to Xie An said with a smile: "I heard that ** is good at tea art, and today you can taste Qian Tang famous tea." ”

Xie Daoyun learned of Chen **zhi's arrival, hurriedly changed into men's clothes to see Chen **zhi cooking tea in the side room, so he came over to help arrange the cup and divide the tea, and said in a low voice: "Zi is here to promote Gexian tea again——"

Chen **zhi smiled and said: "I am trying to borrow Uncle Ling's name." ”

There is a sketch in "The World Says New Words", which is very wonderful, Xie An has a fellow villager who was dismissed, and later saw Xie An, Xie An asked him to return to capital, this fellow villager said: "Lingnan withered, only brought 50,000 pu kui fans, but they couldn't sell it." Xie An took a medium-sized pu kui fan, and held the fan at the Qing Talk gathering, shaking it gently, building a good demeanor, and emulating the 50,000 pu kui fans of the villagers, and the price increased several times in ten days——

Xie Daoyun said: "I have learned Zizhong's tea cooking method, but I have never shown it to my uncle after returning to the capital, so as not to take away Zizhong's new interest." ”

Chen **zhi smiled: "Thank you." “

Xie An, Xie Wan, and Xie Shi tasted Gexian tea carefully, and it was really fragrant and eternal.

Xie An said: "Serving is like drinking tea, drinking this wonderful tea is not only talking about mundane things, but also elegant." ”

Chen **zhi told Xie An and Xie Wan about these things, Xie An had already learned from Xie Daoyun and Xie Xuan, to Huan Wen to Chen **zhi as the left supervisor of the soil cut division, it is really good to employ people, Chen **zhi is the first generation of Jiangzuo, the prestige is good, and the Nandu Shi clan does not need to say that Langya Wang Shao, the late Wang Xizhi and Taiyuan Wang Tanzhi are very appreciative, Chen ** Zhi Xi is a friend of Mo Zhi, Jiang Zuo Shi clan in the Gu family, The relationship between Zhang's and Chen's ** is close, as for the beginning of 6, Xie An thinks that it is rigid and easy to fold, 6 Na, and greatly appreciates the marriage between Chen ** and the 6 family, and Huan Wen does not let the gentle and rigorous 6 Na preside over the soil break, but let 6 Shi enter the main soil break division, which is very interesting.

Xie An instructed Chen **zhi, Xie Daoyun, and Xie Xuan on the matter of land breaking, and Xie An proposed that the hidden households cleared out by the Sanwu Shishu should not serve the imperial court in the first year, and only be used for the construction of water conservancy, drought and flood prevention in the county-