Chapter 21: The Grange
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"Three meals a day is a standard configuration, we can't always make people work but want to starve to death to work, our Guo family doesn't have such rules. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info besides, do we lack these money? In the resentful eyes of Hu Laohan, Guo Shan talked eloquently.
The courtyard of the courtyard was repaired for a while, not only the paint that had accumulated on the wall was repainted, but even many ornaments in the hall were replaced according to Guo Shan's intentions.
In fact, it is impossible to say that it can be changed, because there were not many furniture calligraphy and paintings in the house earlier.
In the past three days, Guo Shan was not only busy with the furniture and decoration of the house, but also began to interfere in the accounts and other aspects of the house. It stands to reason that if you interfere, you should have given some instructions, but Hu Laohan was really wronged by the 'blind command' of the Shaodong family.
Slaves are granted one day off every seven days? If there is a dispatch from the Lord's family on a day off, will he be paid double the wages? If a child is injured while working, the master is responsible for healing.
Where can you find such a stupid master's house?
Hu Laohan felt that his young owner was very stupid and nonsense. Haven't you seen that the maids and servants in the mansion are almost laughing lately?
"Young owner, this is not in accordance with the rules." Hu Laohan protested solemnly.
Guo Shan smiled and didn't care, and continued to use the brush to write and draw against the writing on the table.
Hu Laohan knows that he can't be persuaded anymore, what can he do? Come by the nonsense, who will make him the master?
"What about the fields?" Hu Laohan took out another account book and began to speak.
Guo Shan waved his hand: "In the future, the way of collecting rent must be changed, and the danger of growing grain cannot be handed over to tenant farmers." ”
"What do you say?" Old man Hu was puzzled, and he knew in his heart that something bad must have happened.
Sure enough, Guo Shan waved his pen, casually threw away the brush and took the account book in Hu Laohan's hand, and said: "Well, the number of buckets of rent collected every year is too fixed, which is not a good thing." The amount of rent collected should be varied according to the weather and the harvest of the cultivated fields. For example, drought, insect plague, these natural factors caused by disasters should not be borne by tenant farmers. If the tenant farmers are gone, who will give you back the land? In addition, some tenant farmers whose families could not afford to buy ploughing cattle and whose fields were laborious and inefficient, and whose harvest was significantly smaller than those who had ploughing cattle, not only did they have to harvest less, but they also had to find ways to help. ”
Hu Laohan's beard was pouted, as a responsible housekeeper, he would not allow his young owner to mess around like this no matter what. Before Guo Shan could speak, he continued: "In this way, tomorrow you go to the bull market to buy some bullocks." The number of these cattle was bought according to the number of tenants who had no cattle. They can be rented to tenants who have no cattle to make their work more efficient, and tenants who wish to buy them can also pay a sum of money, which can be calculated at a quarter of the price of the bullock. After handing over this money, you can take the bullock directly, but in the next three years, you will have to pay back the money you lack to buy the bullock. Well, it's called installment payment. ”
Guo Shan held the water and took a sip of it proudly.
Hu Laohan really wanted to spit a mouthful of phlegm into the bowl of the young owner's house, turned around and raised his sleeves to the sky and shouted sadly: "The old owner, the old slave is incompetent, the old slave is ashamed, the old slave is ashamed." ”
Guo Shan's look is called vomiting blood, and looking at the sad and angry appearance of this old man Hu, he looks like a heinous villain.
Oh my God, all the policies I have introduced are good. Mandatang is looking for someone to see, which landlord loves tenant farmers more than himself? Besides, everything I do is for the good of this family. Although the government will lose a lot of money in the short term, as long as you help the tenants to increase their production, the tenants will become rich, and won't you, the slave owner, also become rich?
Hu Laohan doesn't understand Guo Shan's hard work, not only does the two of them have a generation gap in age, but there is a gap of more than a thousand years between the two people's ideas.
Guo Shandu was tired of explaining, and couldn't resist Hu Laohan's sad howl.
The people in the house heard it, and the only one who dared to come to Guo Shan when Hu Laohan was howling was Tang Juan.
"Huber, what's going on?" The little girl was still a little afraid, too, Hu Laohan howled the dozen or so jagged yellow teeth and didn't know if they were poisonous, and the sticky saliva made people dare not compliment.
"Is Xiao Wan coming to me? How? Is there another problem that can't be solved? Guo Shanru was pardoned, and half-pushed and half-shoved Tang Juan out of the house.
The sky is blue, the wind is soft, and Guo Shan, who got rid of Hu Laohan's entanglement, feels that life is simply beautiful.
"Brother, what's going on?" After being pushed out by Guo Shan, he could still hear Hu Laohan's ghost crying wolf, Tang Juan couldn't imagine what happened to the old man so that he cried so earth-shatteringly.
"Little things, little things." Guo Shan snorted, grabbed Tang Xuan's shoulders and began to ask: "Didn't you go to find Su Su and Sister Ning?" Why did you come back so soon? ”
When Tang Juan heard this, he said with a bitter face: "Originally, I went to play with Sister Su Su, but when I arrived, I learned that Sister Su Su was taken away by Jingzhao Mansion." ”
Guo Shan was shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask, "Jingzhao Mansion?" How could the Jingzhao Mansion take Miss Su Su away? ”
The first thing he thought of was whether it was a blow from that 'prince', and Guo Shan, who was sweeping pornography or something, didn't think about it at all.
The Manchu Dynasty is civil and military, which of the world's scholars have not run into the hook bar? Besides, how can the imperial court have the consciousness of sweeping pornography?
"In the morning, people from the teaching workshop have closed Changchun Pavilion on the grounds that 'the origin check is not true'. Only at noon, the messenger of the Jingzhao Mansion came to Sister Su Su, saying that someone had accused her of buying a lover and sent her to the Mansion for questioning.
"Really went?" Guo Shan asked.
"I really went." Tang Juan was not without frustration: "Sister Ning said that there have been no newcomers in Changchun Pavilion, and it will not be a big deal if you really investigate." Brother, I think this is a bit mysterious. ”
Can it not be mysterious?
At the beginning, Guo Shan was forced to almost sleep on the street, and was almost arrested by Jin Wuwei who patrolled the night, and there was the shadow of the 'prince' in the insider. Later, Yibin Lou would rather not want Wang Susu to have a relationship with Wang Susu, and he could see the ability of the young man in Hufu from beginning to end. It's not a prince, and he doesn't have such a lot of energy. Since they are really princes, what do you use to fight with others?
Touching Tang Juan's head, Guo Shan didn't plan to let Tang Juan see so many shady scenes at a young age: "Things may be a little troublesome, but since Miss Su Su has no handle, why be afraid of the government?" Xiaowan, let's go, go with my brother to see our crops. ”
If you say crops, that's crops.
All the endless fields along the Baqiao River belong to Guo Shan, of which the fertile land accounts for a quarter.
Don't underestimate this quarter, because the country has not been unified for many years, and now most of the land is wasteland or inferior land that has just been reclaimed, and in the situation where the royal family of the scholar clan occupies the vast majority of the fertile land, it is almost impossible for the people to have good land in their hands. Therefore, it is really good that Guo Shanneng has so many fertile fields in this era.
But, will Guo Shan be satisfied?
The carriage was on the road, and the peasants on the road occasionally raised their heads to look at the luxurious carriage that was approaching. The warm wind blew into the open carriage window lattice, sending the busy scene of the peasants on Qianmo into Guo Shan's eyes.
The air is very fresh, and a few scholars by the Bahe River on the side of the field are not happily chanting and composing poems? The green mountains and green waters, the sky is sunny and the wind is soft, but the farmers and women do not have time to immerse themselves in such a beautiful picture.
They think about how many buckets of rice they will have to give to the master's family this year, and how much tax they will have to pay in the family. Think about it again, the children in the family are tall and need to buy some new clothes, when will the daughter's dowry be gathered? It must not be without, and it must not be less, otherwise the husband's family will show her daughter's face
The carriage stopped and stopped beside Qianmo.
The black Kunlun Nu on horseback stood left and right, and the maid helped Guo Shan out of the carriage, and Tang Juan followed and got out.
When I got out of the carriage, I could feel the drunkenness of the warm breeze even more. But how could Guo Shan be embarrassed to be intoxicated? Even when he saw the tenants sweating like rain on the farms, he felt that riding in the carriage was a burden and a great sense of guilt.
These are their tenants?
The farmer and peasant woman who had no one to take care of the children at home brought a group of children to the fields, and the older ones could still bring water to their fathers and mothers. Rolling in the Bahe River or in the fields, it doesn't matter if your clothes will be torn, and how much trouble it will bring to your parents.
"If there is no cattle at home, people will fill it. But how can a man be equal to an ox? Guo Shan was a little excited, watching the scene of the only man in the family dragging the plow like an ox in front barefoot, and the woman in the back with all her strength to help, Guo Shan felt that this was a shame for the country and his own sin.
Tang Juan could feel Guo Shan's excitement, she also knew that her brother had nothing to do with the 'reform' at home, and Hu Laohan had made a big fuss a few times.
She was originally from a rich and noble family, even if it was bad later, Guo Shan was responsible for it, so she had compassion, but she didn't understand what the word 'responsibility' was in her little head, and it was extremely irresponsible to say it: "Brother, let's help them?" ”
How can it help? The maid next to her has long been accustomed to this situation, and in her opinion, the tenants under her own master are much happier than the tenants of other families. Well, if this news spreads, I really don't know what will make this group of tenants beautiful.
The maid thought so, but didn't dare to say so. In her opinion, it is a great thing to meet such a stupid master, at least she will not be troubled when she is on an errand, and she will earn enough money.
"Help, of course?" Guo Shan waved his hand, he came here today and suddenly felt that he should do something in this world. What must be done, and if not, what is the point of coming into this world?
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