In the northernmost part of Zhangjia Zhuangzi, a house facing north and facing south, this should have been a very important building in the village, which can be seen from the surrounding blue brick walls and the remnants of buildings that have not completely collapsed, but now this important building has collapsed most of it, and in some places it is even completely buried in the snow.

But now that the snow has stopped, all the men of Zhangjia Zhuangzi have rushed here, while clearing the snow on the collapsed building, while carefully looking for something in the rubble, occasionally there will be one or two bursts of howling, because this is the ancestral hall of Zhangjia Zhuangzi, and the ancestral tablets are all enshrined here.

When Zhou Chong and the others came to the Zhang ancestral hall to find Zhang Kuang, he was carrying wooden beams with the men in the village, clearing the collapsed roof out of the coffin, revealing the stacks of grain piled up underneath. And Zhang Guo didn't have the slightest Sven of a scholar at this time, his face was gray and muddy, and the clothes on his body couldn't distinguish the color, so he couldn't believe that he was actually a scholar.

"Brother Fang Shi, isn't this an ancestral hall, how can there be food?" Zhou Zhong asked a little strangely. Zhang Kuang was also very happy to see the three of them coming, grabbed a handful of snow and wiped his face, and then pulled Zhou Zhong and them to chat outside the yard, after all, there was really no place to talk in the yard.

"Ha Lu Ha ~, in fact, this is not only the ancestral hall in the Zhuangzi, but also the Chang Ping in the Zhuangzi, every time the grain is harvested, every household in the Zhuangzi must hand over a part of the grain according to the person, and then store it in the strongest ancestral hall, if it is a year of famine. The whole Zhuangzi relied on these grains to save their lives. If there is no famine. At the end of the year, it will be replaced with rice and meat and distributed to the people in Zhuangzi, so that everyone can have a good year, but this ancestral hall is too old, and Zhuangzi has not been able to organize people to repair it, so this heavy snow fell and collapsed the house at once. Zhang Guo opened his mouth to explain, and shook his head helplessly when he said that the ancestral hall was originally the tallest and strongest building in Zhuangzi. It's a pity that with the passage of time, this ancestral hall is also very dilapidated, and it will definitely have to be rebuilt next year.

Zhou Zhong and they all nodded after listening to Zhang Jing's explanation, the ancestral hall in front of them is not only the spiritual belief place of Zhangjia Zhuangzi, but also the place where they store life-saving food, no wonder when they went in just now, they saw many people crying while digging, and the ancestral hall has fallen, and it will definitely be rebuilt next year, and the burden on them will be heavier.

Zhang Kuang is also surnamed Zhang. The people in Zhang's Zhuangzi are also surnamed Zhang, but they are just the same clan. But he is not of the same clan, the reason why Zhang Kuang came to help is just to fulfill his responsibility as the master's family, after all, the ancestral hall has fallen, for the people in Zhuangzi, it is tantamount to the sky falling, so as the master's family can not be ignored no matter what, otherwise he will be scolded by people pointing at the backbone. As a scholarly family, the Zhang family naturally will not lose their reputation, and even Zhang Guo himself went down to help, which is not only because he sympathizes with the people in Zhuangzi, but also for the family to earn reputation.

Friends visited, Zhang Guo naturally can no longer accompany the people in the Zhuangzi to work, at the moment he and a Zhuangzi respected old man said hello, then with Zhou Zhong and they walked to the Zhangjia courtyard, just arrived at the gate of the courtyard, I saw someone driving two fat pigs over, when I saw Zhang Jing, immediately shouted: "Young master, where are these two fat pigs?" ”

"Rush to the ancestral hall, let the fifth master find someone to slaughter, today I will invite the people in the village to eat meat!" Zhang Guo also responded loudly.

"Okay~" The person who came agreed, and drove the two fat pigs to the ancestral hall.

Watching the people drive the fat pigs away, Zhou Chong, Zheng Jing, and Li Zheng all looked at Zhang Guo with strange faces, after all, Zhang Guo did too much, and he worked personally and killed pigs and meat for the villagers, which is like what a landlord's family should do?

Zhang Guo also saw the strangeness in Zhou Chong's eyes, and smiled helplessly at the moment, pointing at Zhou Chong and saying: "It's not all caused by you, now there is a shortage of people in Taiwan, even if hundreds of thousands of disaster victims are relocated, there is still a great shortage of people, so the people in your governor's palace said that if you are willing to move to Taiwan, you can get the same land as those disaster victims, as a result, now the poor families in many coastal areas are moved, our Zhang family has so much land, if all the tenants below go to Taiwan, who will give us the land." , so you can only use this method to invite people's hearts. ”

Hearing Zhang Jing's helpless explanation, Zheng Jing and Zhou Zhong both laughed, but Li Zheng asked a little puzzled: "Brother Fangshi, Wenda is also doing this for the sake of those poor people, but since you don't want the tenant farmers below to lose, why don't you reduce the rent, isn't it more affordable than spending effort like you to earn fame?" ”

Hearing Li Zheng's words, Zhou Zhong and Zheng Jing also stopped laughing, and looked at Li Zheng with some surprise, because they didn't think of this question just now, but now it was brought up by the youngest Li Zheng, which really made them feel a little embarrassed.

However, when Zhang Kuang heard Li Zheng's question, he smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Berao, we naturally know that lowering the land rent can attract those tenants to stay, but unfortunately we don't dare!" ”

"Why not?" Li Zheng asked, his family mainly lives on business, although he also has some fields, but after all, there are not many, and the family does not attach much importance to them, so he doesn't know much about fields.

"Shrike, Brother Fang Shi's family really doesn't dare to reduce the land rent, after all, they are not the only ones who rent out the land, you calculate how many big landlords like Brother Fang Shi are in our Songjiang Mansion alone, if he is the first to reduce the land rent, then what about the other big landlords? Even to put it mildly, if Brother Fang's family dares to reduce the rent, it is likely to offend other landlords, and even if others don't trouble their families, I am afraid that they will be isolated by others, which is not a good thing for a family! Zhou Zhong quickly figured out the joints and immediately opened his mouth to explain for Zhang Jing.

"Brother Wenda really deserves to be the governor of the people, and he said the key point at once, but in my opinion, the land rent will definitely be reduced in the future, after all, with the development of Taiwan, it will definitely attract more and more people to settle down, and these people will also be those tenants or displaced people who have no land, without these people, as landlords, we can't recruit enough tenants, so we can only reduce the land rent to compete for the remaining tenants, but now everyone is waiting for the first bird." Zhang Guo has a very clear understanding of the situation in front of him, and he is also extremely confident in his own judgment.

Zheng Jing and Li Zheng nodded thoughtfully when they heard Zhang Kuang's words, and Zhou Zhong also glanced at Zhang Kuang with great approval, although Zhang Kuang is still young now, and I don't know if he can become a good official, but just this insight is enough to be a qualified strategist.

At that moment, the four of them entered the courtyard of the Zhang family, because the weather was cold, so Zhang Kuang did not invite them into the living room, but came directly to the warm pavilion next to the living room.

"Wenda, I saw that you seemed to want to speak just now, do you have anything to say?" After sitting down, Zhang Guan took a sip of tea and asked.

When Zhou Zhong heard Zhang Jing's words, he sighed and said: "Brother Fangshi, if you believe me, then hurry up and find a way to change the current situation of the Zhang family, for example, you can take advantage of the fact that the land price has not fallen, sell part of the land as soon as possible, collect some funds and invest in other industries, and the remaining land also needs to change the current planting structure, such as planting mulberry trees in the fields and hiring others to raise silkworms and weave silk, after all, with the development of sea trade, the silk industry will definitely flourish." ”

"This ...... Why is that? Zhang Kuang was puzzled when he heard Zhou Chong's words, although he felt that it would be difficult to recruit tenants in the future, but he only felt that it was a little difficult, and he did not think that he would not be able to recruit tenants in the future. Zheng Jing and Li Zheng next to him were also puzzled, and they didn't know what Lu Dao Zhouzhong's words meant?

Seeing that they didn't even understand Zhang Kuang's words, Zhou Zhong sighed and said: "Brother Fang Shi, I heard Berao say before that you and Brother Minglun have seen those victims who migrated to Taiwan from the Central Plains, and you must all remember the tragic situation of those disaster victims. ”

Zhou Zhong said this and looked at Zhang Jing and Zheng Jing, but both of them sighed and nodded, and then saw Zhou Chong and then said: "The biggest dilemma of my Ming Dynasty now is actually land annexation, a large amount of land is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and most of the remaining people can only rent other people's land, but over the years, I have been plagued by disasters and man-made disasters, and every time there is a famine, these people who have no land will be the first victims......"

As soon as Zhou Chong's words came to this, he was interrupted by Li Zheng: "Wenda, haven't you already offered two high-yield crops to North Korea, I heard that that sweet potatoes can yield thousands of catties per mu, and the yield of corn is also hundreds of catties, such a high-yield crop, can't it alleviate the famine?" ”

"Shrike, you also said that the two high-yield crops of sweet potato and corn can only alleviate land annexation, but cannot fundamentally solve this problem, and with the high yield of crops, it will only allow more land to be concentrated, so these two crops can only delay the outbreak of land annexation at most, and if you want to completely solve this problem, you need to take another way!" Zhou Zhong said here with a resolute face, he didn't have much confidence in solving the problem of annexation in the Ming Dynasty before, but after knowing his true identity, he began to really think about this problem, and Taiwanese immigration was just his first step. (To be continued......)