Perhaps because the output was generally very low, the taxes of the imperial court were not high, and the area on the field book was much smaller than the actual land area, Zhang Chun paid the taxes easily. It's just that Zhang Chun is different from Zhang Yang's family, Zhang Chun did not exchange the remaining food for silver to enjoy, but used it to improve the lives of adults and children in Zhangjialing.

This made Zhang Yangshi very envious. What surprised Zhang Yang was the motivation of these young men in his son-in-law's family. They seem to have an inexhaustible strength, and they don't stop for a moment. In addition to work, a large group of little ones also run around the earthen fence every morning. Now, the boys are building the fence out of fired bricks. Originally, it was just a dirt fence, but now it is as high as the city wall of the county seat. In addition to the small points of the city gate hole, there is no heavy city gate, and the city wall battlements and design holes are readily available.

Zhang Yang can only lament that there are too few people on his side. Keeping the land depends on these young men and daughters-in-law who have excess energy.

Another feature of the Zhang family's compound is that women are not allowed to shave their eyebrows. These women are workers, and their strength is not small at all. After Zhang Yang's family compound went to the Zhang family compound several times, he learned that the Zhang family compound really ate three meals and was full. And on both sides of the entire Yunlong River, even if it is a rich family, it is only two meals a day. Only a few old ladies and gentlemen eat a little supper.

The people in the Zhang family's compound eat better than the old lady. There was a long row of big tables for eating in the Zhang family's compound, and all the people, including Zhang Chun and Lizhen, as well as the female gentleman Yuan Fang, sat down with everyone to eat, and took their own bowls to cook and add vegetables. There was enough vegetable oil and water in several huge clay pots. There are more than 100 people, adults and children, and they are actually busy but not chaotic.

The soil enclosure is very clean, and all the leftovers are picked up to the pig farm outside the south gate.

The public toilets are flushed with water every day, and there is not much smell.

There are also smelly places, and the big manure pit outside the south gate is a little smelly, because all the sewage and manure, including cow dung and pig manure, are here. But it stinks here, but you can look at the piles of fermenting farmhouse manure. made Zhang Yang's eyes hot.

There are more than 10 pigs in the pig farm, Zhang Chun's ideal is to let everyone ensure that there is meat to eat every day, more than 10 is definitely not enough, so the pig farm is very large, ready to increase the number of space in the herd.

After the rice harvest, Zhang Chun did not buy any grain except for paying taxes, but the soybeans and cotton in the dry land of Niutou Mountain were exchanged for two buffaloes and some silver in addition to his own use. There is not much silver, barely enough for the children's pen, ink and paper. As for the clothes worn, women in this era can't spin and weave, can't do needlework, then they are not considered women. In this way, there are as many as six buffaloes in Zhangjialing. And two cows had calves.

The pools of the west gate are now connected, somewhat like a moat. The earthen kiln that was originally on the west side was demolished. On the one hand, the west side is digging and burning bricks, which will continue to destroy the small amount of rice fields. In addition, the two masters seem to have some experience in burning porcelain, and directly build a new kiln near the south gate in the east, which can now burn gray porcelain. This directly led to the replacement of the dishes in the earthen fence.

Zhang Fenglan sent a team of mules and horses to carry porcelain every month. These porcelains are slightly more expensive than pottery, and they are not considered high-end goods, so the common people can afford to use them, and the kiln mouth has directly become Zhang Chun's biggest source of income. However, Zhang Chun still limited the production of porcelain, and he did not like to dig Niutou Mountain in a mess. It's okay to make porcelain, let's do it at the high-end.

After the kiln mouth was rebuilt, it was not green bricks that were burned, but red bricks. It's smaller than green bricks, but it's much harder. Zhang Yang's year is also a bumper year, the family population is small, and he uses his son-in-law's free labor. So this year, there is much more silver harvested in the fields than in son-in-law.

In order to find a man for the women in the family as soon as possible, he also looked at the prosperous appearance of his son-in-law, and directly paid money to buy red bricks at the mouth of the kiln to rebuild the house on Jinjiling.

So the first to live in a red brick house was Zhang Chun's mother-in-law.

Building a house is still a free labor force for his son-in-law, Zhang Chun said, he paid money to buy red bricks, and building a house is considered a help. Because the two masters at the kiln mouth are going to give two dividends, it is not good not to collect cash.

After the red brick and tile houses on Jinji Ridge are built, they are as beautiful as a palace, and then look at the blue brick and wood structure houses in the earthen enclosure at the foot of the mountain. Zhang Yang's heart was much more comfortable. Zhang Yang was very proud to invite the matchmaker to visit the mountain. One winter, the women on Jinji Ridge all had men. The population has doubled. Zhang Yang's family was happy to run to the Zhang family's compound and hugged Lizhi and ravaged #. Happy events always come in pairs. This winter, Zhang Yang's was pregnant with a child, and then she disappeared in front of Lizhi very unjustly.

After the beginning of winter, there is significantly less rain and snow than in previous years.

Zhang Chun began to repair the canal in Niutou Mountain. This was built by the Zhang family in the early years, and it directly quoted the water of the South River. Because it's completely on the territory of your own home, it's well maintained. The volume of water in the renovated canal has doubled compared to before. The ponds on the west and east walls were cleared of silt and deepened again. After digging up the east and west ponds, I realized that the original earth fence was just built on the dark veins of Niutou Mountain, which was hidden underground. The east and west ponds were dug for more than two meters to reach the bluestone rock formation. The layers of bluestone are very neat.

Zhang Chun simply let the bluestone be excavated in the east and west ponds, and in addition to building the slope bank of the pond, he directly paved the "street" in the earthen enclosure. Until the first snow fell. Only then did the water be released to fill the pond, pass through the rice field ditch at the north gate, and flow into Beiguang Lake. This allowed the earth weighs to maintain its cyan hue.

Zhang Chun did not build a house first, and the firing of red bricks stopped after the Zhang family's house in Jinjiling was built. The reason is simple. All the wood used to burn the bricks has been cut down a lot of trees in Niutou Mountain. Zhang Chun didn't want to cut any more. It is still possible to burn a small amount of porcelain with the support of the trees of Niutou Mountain, but it is certainly not possible to burn bricks on a large scale.

However, the completion of the construction of the city wall ensured the safety of the Zhang family, and Zhang Chun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Outside the east and west walls, the inner side of the moat was turned into a vegetable patch, and a lot of radishes and cabbage were planted. This guarantees that there is food to eat at the children's small table.

Zhang Chun began to prepare for a group wedding in Zhangjialing. Because after more than half a year, the men and women in Zhangjialing have taken a fancy to each other, and some of them who are pregnant with children have found their own men, no way, these women are actually suffering because of their appearance. Even Zhang Xiuqing fell in love with a ** in his forties with a small child. They are ready to end the collective life.

Zhang Chun has decided to make the entire Tuweizi a righteous school, so everyone who gets married has to move out of the Tuweizi. Zhang Xiuqing found a hillside on the edge of the Nanhe River and wanted to gather these more than 20 families together, so that safety was also guaranteed. The newly built village is called Nanzhang Village.

Zhang Chun gave each household 20 acres of land. In addition to the homestead, each household was given two acres of vegetable land. However, because they did not have any assets and production materials, they needed Zhang Chun to ration them. So he signed a contract with Zhang Chun, and within three years, the land rent was eighty percent, and all the land endowments, daily necessities, grain, farm tools, and cattle were all produced by Zhang Chun. After three years, Zhang Chun was no longer responsible for this, but only collected 50% of the rent, and the house he built belonged to them. After five years, only 30% of the rent was collected. However, whether it is farmland or homestead, the ownership of the land of the vegetable land will be Zhang Chun, and each family only has the right to cultivate, which cannot be transferred or sold, and the ownership relationship is not allowed to be changed at will. If the population and labor force increase, they can apply to Zhang Chun for a redistribution of land, but it is not said how to redistribute it.

The twenty-odd households didn't ask, because they were now very satisfied with having the land they could control, and they also believed that Zhang Chun would think about it. This is a kind of blind trust, which makes Zhang Chun himself a little crying and laughing.

After these fifty or sixty people were divided, there was only a group of women and children left in the Zhang family's compound, and it was very difficult to cultivate nearly 3,000 acres of land. Fortunately, after a few months of eating, drinking, and exercising, both the women and the children began to get stronger. It can be compared to the average strong laborer. After the busy farming, you can barely get by.

Soon the Spring Festival will come. Zhang Fenglan, who had already gone to Hankou to take over the business, was surprised when she returned to her parents' home. But in a year, the Zhang family actually built a small city, although there are no buildings in the city, but how much money does it cost.

Zhang Chun smiled: "I didn't spend any money, I worked my own."

Zhang Fenglan scolded with a smile: "How much silver does nearly 4,000 acres of fertile land produce in a year? Where is your silver? Where's your food? ”

Zhang Chun smirked and didn't speak. This year, Zhang Chun was still very poor, and his family's silver was less than twenty taels. You must know that Zhang Fenglan and the imperial court alone gave three hundred taels of silver, and Zhang Chun snatched more than three thousand taels of property from his family after he sold it. In addition to the silver earned from the kiln, the silver from selling grain was no less than a thousand taels. It really cost a lot of money. However, Zhang Chun felt that the flowers were worth it. Zhangjiabao now has a solid foundation in all aspects, especially the physical and mental outlook of all people. This is what Zhang Chun is most proud of.

Zhang Fenglan and Zhang Yang's family spent a lively Spring Festival in Zhangjiabao in advance on the 28th day of the lunar month. Zhang Fenglan celebrated the festival with so many tenants for the first time, these people have no past humility except respect, and they are neither humble nor arrogant in their treatment of people and things, not at all like subordinates, but like equal friends. However, it can be seen that these people really support and love this eldest nephew. This is something Zhang Fenglan did not expect.

Zhang Yang's envy of the atmosphere in Zhangjiabao was very envious, although she was also very good to her sisters, but there was always a gap between their masters and slaves.

Seeing Zhang Chun running among the crowd with Lizhi on his back, rolling together with adults and children, Zhang Yangshi and Zheng Fenglan felt that this was probably the unique charm of this child.

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