Liang happily counted his fingers: "Our family originally had 130 acres of land, these are our own, can be bought and sold, the lord and Da Lang divided 200 acres of Yongye field, of which 160 acres are the mouth of the field to be returned to the imperial court after death, 40 acres is the Yongye field that can be passed on to descendants but cannot be sold, and Da Lang's military merits are divided into 600 acres of Yongye field." In this way, our family has 170 acres of our own field, 640 acres of Yongye field, and 160 acres of mouth field. That's 970 acres of land! Hehehe"

Zuo Gui glared and said, "What kind of fun?" This is almost 1,000 acres of land, and a person can grow up to 5 acres, which requires 200 tenants, and now that every household has divided the land and has its own land to plant, where can I find so many people to rent it? Now it is a tax of five acres of land, and we need two hundred acres of land for almost 1,000 acres of land, and now only 130 acres of land are cultivated, and there are still 70 acres of land that no one rents. ”

Liang was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Yes, what can I do about this?" ”

Hou Pu and Fennel glanced at each other, they were both happy, Hou Pu said: "The second elder doesn't have to worry about the tax problem, this time there is also a decree issued at the same time as the Juntian Order, called the 'Rent and Yong Adjustment' Order, that is, whoever divides the land will be taxed according to the head of the Ding man, and no longer see how many acres of land there are." ”

"No more taxes on land?" Father Zuo Gui and Liang both asked in surprise.

"yes." Hou Pu's eyebrows fluttered and he said, "The rent is that each Ding man pays three stones of rice every year; The tune is that Ding Nan pays about two zhang of silk cloth every year; Yong is Ding Nan should serve 20 days of labor every year, if he does not go to serve forced labor, he can be folded into silk cloth about six zhang or so instead. The silk cloth is four zhang for one horse, so calculated, the Yonghe tune to be paid is only two horses, worth two buckets of rice, so the total tax to be paid by each man every year is about thirty-two buckets. We only have to pay taxes for two men, which is sixty-four buckets. Now one acre of land grain is 12 buckets of rice, so the nearly 1,000 acres of land owned by our family only need to pay less than six acres of harvest. ”

Zuo Gui's father's surprised eyes were about to fall: "Is this true?" ”

Fennel said: "Dad, what are you doing with this coaxing?" Of course it's true, the court's rent and yong orders have come down, and Hou Pu and they saw it, so they came to tell the second elder. ”

Zuo Gui's father shook his white beard and pinched his fingers and calculated: "Counting our private 170 acres of land, we only pay six acres of tax, and if all the remaining fields are rented out to collect rent and turned into rice, there will be almost a thousand buckets!" After deducting the rations of our family of five and Aunt Li, there are about 840 buckets. Even according to the price of grain before the famine, 360 wen per mu, can you make a net profit of 300 yuan? ”

Fennel nodded excitedly: "Yes, this is not counting the eight hundred acres of newly divided land!" If you rent it all out, you can make thousands of dollars a year! ”

Hou Pu said: "I'm afraid I won't be able to earn so much!" ”

"Why?"

"Every family has land to plant, where can I find someone to plant a new piece of land? This is one of them, even if we find someone to plant, if our family can produce grain on almost 1,000 acres of land, and other people's fields can also produce it, and if there is more grain, the price of grain will definitely drop, and it will not be worth so much money. ”

Zuo Gui's father was a little depressed: "That's right, when I was a child, it was still the Sui Dynasty, and the price of grain was only twenty or thirty wen a bucket." If it is reduced to this price, then more than 1,000 acres of land can earn a maximum of 100 yuan, maybe not so much. If more than half of the fields are not rented, it would be good to earn at most twenty or thirty yuan a year. ”

Fennel elbowed her husband Houpu and whispered, "What are you talking nonsense!" Do you have to spoil the fun? ”

"No," Hou Pu said, "I just said, hehe, the price of food will not drop so low all at once, you can make as much as you want." ”

Liang was already very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Uncle is right, at least we don't have to eat rice with wild vegetables, and there is nothing to earn more or less." Besides, now that the war is in chaos, who knows when there will be war again? So the grain is stored first. It's better not to sell it, and our family is not in a hurry to use money. ”

Zuo Gui glared and said: "The key is not this, now the key is where to find so many people to farm?" ”

Fennel said: "When our family was in famine, we gave porridge and saved so many people's lives, and those people should come to help us if they knew how to repay their kindness." ”

"What do you help?" Zuo Gui's father sighed, "It's too common to cross the river and tear down the bridge, planting other people's fields and wasting their own land, who wants to do this kind of thing?" ”

Hou Pu said the wrong thing before, which affected his father-in-law's mood, and he wanted to make up for it, so he said: "Uncle Yue, don't worry too much, now all the abandoned land in Hezhou has been sown, and now it has emerged, you just need to find someone to hoe the grass and irrigate, and harvest it in the autumn." At least 30 percent less farm work has been lost. Besides, in this division of land, a considerable part of the peasant households have surplus labor, and the surplus manpower is rented from the tenants' fields to plant. ”

"Really?" This news immediately made Zuo Gui's father happy, "Can you find someone to rent our land?" ”

"Absolutely!" Hou Pu patted his chest, "This matter is on me, in two days I will start the granting of land to ordinary people, I will pay attention to those who have a large population and not enough land, it really can't work, I will find someone to come to the door and say." ”

Liang said: "Since the land tax has been reduced so much, otherwise, our rent will be less, so that more people may be able to rent land." ”

Zuo Gui nodded, twisted his white beard and muttered: "This is okay, when we used to pay a tax on five acres of land and one acre, the rent was half a cent, and we paid the tax again, and the grain in hand was only thirty percent." Now almost 1,000 acres of land, only pay six acres of tax, this tax is almost negligible, half of the grain can be obtained, virtually more than the original two percent of the grain, if changed to four or six points, tenants six of us four, that is, equivalent to the overcharged two percent of the grain to half of the divide, we can also collect one percent more grain. Tenants, we benefit on both sides! ”

Hou Puxi said: "If this is the case, then it will be easier to do, we have to take the first step to announce the news, so that when I register tomorrow, I will post a notice on the wall outside the yamen, and post it in the name of Guizhitang, rent the land tenants, and collect the rent in forty percent." It is estimated that those who have received the favor of Guizhitang during the famine and know how to repay the Entu, as well as those who have migrated to have few fields but have enough people or even surplus, will come to rent our fields. ”

Father Zuo Gui and the Liang family both nodded frequently, and Father Zuo Gui said: "Don't ask for more, we will be happy if we can rent out half of the land." ”

"Yes, yes," Liang also said happily, "I won't have to worry about running out of white rice in the future!" Giggles"

The next day, a yamen scribe came to inform Zuo Gui's father to go to the yamen to register for the grant, Zuo Gui was very happy, and brought his wife Liang to the yamen department together. Hou Pu was already waiting there and helped to go through the registration procedures for granting land together, and sure enough, as Hou Pu said, the Zuo family was allocated a total of 800 acres of land, and all of them were patches of high-quality fertile land. A scribe led him out of the city to investigate and confirm the delivery. These fields are all zoned next to the Zuo family's original self-owned fertile land.

After registering, Mrs. Qu, Zhu Medicine Cabinet, Dr. Ni, Shopkeeper Yu and others all got the news one after another and came to the door to celebrate. But the Sang family never came.

The Sang family had no way to celebrate, and Sang's mother learned at the yamen that day that they had the last share of their business, and a Ding man could only get twenty acres of inferior fields, and the edema disease occurred again on the spot, and he lay down when he got home. One lay down for three days. Fortunately, Zuo Shaoyang's medicine worked, and after taking it for a few days, it began to slowly reduce the swelling.

Seeing that the illness was getting better, Sang Mu couldn't bear to worry about the fields, so she called the Sang Wazi and them to the bed, and asked in a calm tone as much as possible: "How much land has our family divided?" ”

"Fifteen acres, or rely on the sky to eat, the inferior Wangtian......" Sang Wazi said with a bitter face.

"What?" Sang Mu's eyes widened again, the swelling on her face had not completely subsided, her eyes were small, and after staring round, they were like mung beans, "Didn't you say that Hou Qiangu said that she could divide thirty acres?" How do you talk like a fart?! ”

"Hou Qiangu also said at the time, this is just an estimate, how much can be divided, it depends on the remaining situation of the final division of the field, anyway, how many points we have in the last wave. The previous division is over, and there is only so much left for us. ”

"Is the front one full? The princess next door also divided a hundred acres with a male man? Sang Mu was so angry that she gasped.

"It's not. I inquired, because the officials and people with military merits gave a particularly large amount of land, accounting for more than half of the land, and they were the first batch to grant land, according to the standards promulgated by the imperial court, in full, so that only a small part of the land remained. The second batch of military households granted only 60 acres of land were allocated to each ding, and only 60% of the standard promulgated by the imperial court was distributed. The third group of ordinary people only had 30 acres per ding, and the last of us, who were in business, only had 10 acres per man. Dad's old ding is only five acres. ”

Sang Mu covered her heart and panted like pulling a bellows, and the little mung bean's eyes were dripping.

Sang Xiaomei whispered anxiously: "Mother, don't worry about this, no matter what, there are fifteen acres of land, plus the income of the tea shop, it is enough for our family to ......."

"Get out of the way!" Sang Mu scolded, gasped for a few breaths, and asked Sang Wazi: "Where is the Zuo family?" How much land did they divide? ”

Sang Wazi Nuo said: "I heard that there are a lot of ......."

"How much?"

"It seems to have 800 acres."

"What?" Sang Mu hissed, "They run a pharmacy and are also in business, why do they share so much?" ”

"I don't know, but Zuo Gongzi has military merits and is a 'model for supporting the army' canonized by the general. The proclamation said that according to the decree of the imperial court, those with military merits and officials were the first batch to grant land, according to the imperial court's 100 acres per male. Moreover, the people canonized by the general can also divide the field separately, so there are so many. ”

(To be continued)