Whether the shoes fit or not, only you know, whether the life is good or not, and only your own family knows, and similarly, only those who have lived in Xujiazhuang can understand what kind of place Xujiazhuang is.

When the faint sunlight of the early morning passed through the foothills of the reckless mountain and shone into the gate of the gate in front of the village, an ethereal bell of Chang'an City rang from a distant place, and the whole Zhuangzi seemed to wake up from a dream, and gradually regained its vitality.

The chaifu with the flat burden walked slowly on the path between the villages, the farmers on bicycles rushed to their fields in the back mountain, and from time to time there were some children with pigtails on the back of their heads, holding shortbreads in their hands, and children with satchels on their bodies, jumping towards the academy behind the mountain.

The scale of Xujiazhuang has more than tripled in the past two years, and the number of people in the village has increased from 1,000 to more than 2,700 now.

This year is another bumper harvest year, today is the first day of November, and it is the day to pay the field tax, and the door to door gets up early, carrying bags of grain from the house, and spontaneously queues up in front of the owner's house to pay the grain.

Today's county order of Nanshan County did not come, he has rarely come to Xujiazhuang again to pay taxes in the past two years, the entire Nanshan County seven villages, the population of Xujiazhuang is the least, but every time the field tax is the most, and even sometimes, a Xujiazhuang pays more than twice the field tax than other households, so the Nanshan County county order is the most assured of the seven Zhuangzi under the rule of this Xujiazhuang, so today the field tax, only sent a county and two officials to come.

The cart of the yamen pulling grain was across the gate of the owner's mansion. Xu Yang, the owner of Xujiazhuang, is the Marquis of Zhengerpin County. There are 1,000 households in the village that do not need to be audited by the government. Directly sent to the granary of the Xu family, the remaining 1,700 households are the field taxes that the yamen needs to collect......

Xu Yang got up early in the morning today, and after a year of spring planting and autumn harvest, today is the day to collect the village tax, as the owner of the village, he should be present for inspection.

"Husband, hot water is ready. You can go to the bath, and the concubine will take Steward Liu to the front yard to entertain those villagers. When Xu Yang was still half asleep and half awake, Liu Mengli had already dressed up and took Liu Qi to the front yard to entertain the villagers in the village.

Xu Yang smacked his mouth, got up and sat at the head of the bed and was stunned for a while, when he was older, he was not as sleepy as when he was young, and once he woke up, it was difficult to fall asleep again, rubbed his forehead, and looked at the bright sky outside the window. Xu Yang slowly sat down from the bed and shouted outside the screen, "Someone." Wait for the county lord to change his clothes. ”……

In the past two years, the army of the Tang Dynasty has been fighting to the west, Li Ji sent envoys from more than 80 city-states from the distant Rhine, the envoys of these small countries finally arrived in Chang'an after a long journey, in the face of such a prosperous Tang society, those uncivilized barbarian envoys were shocked by the bright and rich civilization of the Han people, and in the face of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they all showed their surrender to Li Er, which naturally attracted Li Erlongyan Dayue, and ordered the construction of the towering Khan Road between Chang'an and the West, Let the people of those city-states in the West also have a glimpse of the holy face.

Since then, the cultures of the East and the West have been infiltrating and influencing each other.

The influence of the East on the West does not need to be described too much, whether it is life and production or military politics, the advanced civilization of the Tang Dynasty has had a huge influence on the western city-states, but when it comes to the influence of the West on the East, most of it is also reflected in the culture, the patterns carved on the stone in the West, the texture embroidered on the clothes, has become a very popular pattern style in Chang'an, and the harp used by Westerners when playing music has become a popular musical instrument played in the imperial palace and some high-end places. Today, the most popular style of clothing in Chang'an is to embroider some of the most popular patterns in the distant West from the traditional Hanfu.

Xu Yang is wearing such a green shirt and rolling stone carved robe today, the blue sleeves are embroidered with regular patterns, which looks like a different kind of beauty, this shirt was bought by Liu Mengli for Xu Yang at the Chang'an auction, it is said that it was sewn by a tailor who came to Datang from the far west, and the price is naturally very expensive, and it cost a hundred taels of silver......

Wearing such luxurious clothes, Xu Yang passed through more than a dozen Langfangs, and went from the backyard of the village to the front yard, and found that in the front yard, Jin Shengman was watering the flowers with Jingshi and Guanghua.

"Husband." Jin Shengman saw Xu Yang and bowed, although he was over forty years old, Jin Shengman was well maintained, and his figure was not out of shape because he gave birth to two children, looking at her face, fair and familiar, she still looked like she was twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

"Daddy." Seeing Xu Yang, the two children next to Jin Shengman also came up kindly, and the younger Guanghua pulled the corner of Xu Yang's clothes and asked: "Daddy, it's time for the Chang'an Bicycle Race in two days, you promised Hua'er to take Hua'er, just now my mother said that if Hua'er messes around again, Daddy won't take Hua'er to go, you always say that the gentleman is true to his word, you won't take Hua'er to go~"

Looking at Guanghua's pitiful eyes, Xu Yang laughed, touched his head caress and said, "Daddy will take you there, and then our whole family will go to the racetrack to watch the annual bicycle race." ”

"Great~" Xu Guanghua shouted excitedly, pulled Xu Jingshi and said: "Sister Jingshi, you still lied to me that my father didn't take me there, you see, my father personally said that our whole family will go~"

Xu Yang turned his head to look at Jingshi. The fourteen-year-old cardamom is in her prime, and her daughter is full of a budding vitality, and her originally immature face has now gradually faded away from her youthful childishness.

I saw Xu Jingshi smile slightly: "My sister just advised you not to be naughty and make your mother angry, otherwise she wouldn't lie to you." ”

After listening to Jingshi's words, Xu Yang smiled slightly and said: "Okay, okay, today is a big day to collect land tax, so I won't grind my mouth here, if you have nothing to do, you can also go to the village with the county to visit the villagers in our village............

"This is the grain tax paid by our family, a total of sixteen stones, plus a basket of twenty eggs, these eggs are just laid by the pheasant, and they are kept for the owner to make up for his body." I saw an old man smiling and putting a sack of grain on the weighing pan, and at the same time handed a basket of eggs to the next person.

"Uncle Zhang, you don't have to be so polite, it stands to reason that you just need to pay enough food." Liu Qi persuaded with a smile.

"Oh, the owner of the village can take us to live a good life, and it is the old man's intention to give some small gifts, but don't refuse." The somewhat thin old man said hurriedly.

"Okay, thank you so much, Uncle Zhang, the eldest and youngest grandmothers are distributing snacks over there, you go over there to get some, and you can add some snacks to your grandson when you go home" (to be continued............