The world changes, people's hearts advance and retreat, and the working people of each era always shine with the most dazzling wisdom and give full play to their wisdom.

At this time it was the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and I don't know how many years it was.

The river in front of you is not wide, and the water flow is not urgent, but don't be deceived by the calm river, this river called 'Zhu River' has a depth that swallows no life, and it is difficult to measure its depth with bamboo poles, so there are more ferries on both sides of the coast, and boaters are arranged to assist travelers to cross the river.

Yao Yun is a boat man, known as 'Du Niang'.

Originally, Yao Yunke was not a mother at all, because before the crossing, he was a strong man with a height of eight feet and a waist circumference, or fat. It's a pity that twelve years ago, one day, Yao Yun kept up with the trend of crossing and crossed into the mother's womb so coldly and became a fertilized egg.

then developed into a baby girl, and then became a glorious Western Zhou countryman. Her mother died of illness when she was a year old, and her father died two years earlier, and now Yao Yun is alone, inheriting her father's job and a very useful baronship, standing on the shore every day waiting for the traveler to appear.

Of course, in this life, she is not called Yao Yun, she is called Yun Yao, and her surname has not changed. In the Zhou Dynasty, the male name was the name, the female name was the surname, Yao Nai was one of the eight surnames in ancient times, and it can be said that the nobles of the Central Plains all had eight surnames. Since Yun Yao can inherit her father's title, her father is naturally a nobleman, he is surnamed Yao, Zhu, Mingle, Zi'an, and then continue to trace back to Yun Yao's grandfather's generation, as a glorious Western Zhou Dynasty, by the way, he also inherited the title of baron, it is necessary to understand his family, after all, the title comes from the inheritance of blood, as a nobleman, if you can't figure out how the ancestors started, it would be too rude.

However, this baronial title really has nothing to do with Yun Yao's grandfather, it was her father Zhu Le who saved the prince of Lu when he was young, so he got 15 miles of land on the north bank of the Zhu River and established a mining estate, and since then he has taken Zhu River as his clan.

The pheasants in the mountains crow, ringing on time every day like an alarm clock, Yun Yao got up in a daze, put on a linen coat, stepped on straw sandals, took water from the jug to rinse his mouth, and used crushed wicker as a toothbrush to clean his mouth. After the cool water has been left for a night, it has become clear, stimulating the mouth and making people more and more awake.

Then pat your cheeks with your moist palms to clear the corners of your eyes. The reflection of the shaking water surface shows a white face that defies common sense, although the water is not quiet, but the woman in the reflection is delicate, but it is the beauty of seeing the Xi Shi Huansha, not only the beauty, but also the temperament shows the strength and health of the working people. Her skin is naturally white and does not tan, it is not that she does not like to work.

The spring is cold, and in February of the summer calendar, Yun Yao began a new day as a ferrywoman.

First of all, she had to clean the house after a day's cleaning, because this is not only her home, but also her workplace, and it is the ferry station.

After the Western Zhou Dynasty, ten miles and one house, you have to prepare cooking. In other words, Yunyao is not only a ferry girl, but also a hotel proprietor. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were many rules, basically there was no such thing as personal privacy, everyone was just a screw under Zhou Tianzi, and there were strict rules for weddings and funerals. After Yun Niang is twenty years old, if she doesn't get married, someone will naturally punish her.

Men do not marry in their thirties, and women do not marry in their twenties, and commit crimes.

Therefore, the work has to be done, and if the inspection is not qualified, the consequences are very serious.

Check the thatch of the roof first to see if it is neat, if it is not neat, you need to go to the person in charge to ask for thatch, everyone has their own place in this era, and advocate public before private, even farming must first plant public land and then plant private land.

There are three rooms in the house, one is where Yun Yao lives, which is sitting west and facing east, the middle one is for distinguished guests, and the one facing east and west is for slaves.

In the era when blood is respected and precious, people with status will not stay in the same room with people without status at all.

Take your own reed broom and clean it briefly, after all, there can't be any dust in the place that will be cleaned every day. After a simple cleaning, it is time to start cooking, taking out millet from a private clay pot, or millet, and then taking out wood from a private pyre to prepare for a fire.

Because it is a house, a place to receive guests, and a state agency, the state will prepare millet and firewood, but these are all bookkeepers, and someone will register at the end of each year, so it is also necessary to distinguish between public and private.

Lu is only the lowest level of the post station, only to provide guests with the simplest food, only millet, so except for millet, the other ingredients are Yunyao private. There are aged bacon passed down to her by her father, and there are also dried fish that she catches, and the natural staple food is also millet, and there are no vegetables and fruits, both of which are too luxurious.

Some people may want to say that it is so underdeveloped, and the field is not full of wild vegetables? It is a pity that the Zhou Dynasty was the era of rapid development of agricultural civilization, and there was no wild land here in Yunyao, only an undeveloped mountain, but there were mountain people guarding it, which belonged to public property, and whoever dared to move it was a crime.

That's why the pheasants in the mountains crow so happily, if it were Borderlands, it would have become a wild man's meal.

Cut some dried fish, bland and tasteless, all the ingredients in Yunyao, there is only ancestral salted meat, only the big festival will eat, the boring diet structure is undoubtedly the biggest torture for the previous life fat, and the landlord has no surplus grain at home.

Fifteen miles seems to be a lot, but in fact, in terms of productivity in these years, it is barely enough for Yun Yao, a baron, to keep his title. Because fifteen miles of land is not just their own, according to the well field system of the Zhou Dynasty, all land is nominally owned by Zhou Tianzi, and nobles at all levels are only managed on their behalf, and they all have to pay taxes.

The baron's tax rate is three-quarters. The Ida system divides the field into tic-tac-toe, that is, nine pieces. In the middle is the public land, that is, the tax for the nobles, now Yun Yao has twenty public land, the tax rate is three-quarters, that is to say, the harvest of fifteen public fields is to be handed over to the monarch of Lu State, if you don't pay, the title will be confiscated, and the remaining five public fields of grain belong to Yun Yao himself.

Some people may ask, isn't there still eight private fields in one well field? What about the grain on top? Of course, it is the arable land farmers, that is, the savages, they can only plow the land, eight pieces of private land for a family to eat for a year, it is difficult for them to have other food sources, and they still do heavy physical work, and at the same time, basically there are five or six people in the family, on average, one person depends on more than one piece of private land a year.

Yun Yao doesn't have to do anything, he can take five plots of public land to harvest, this is the gap between the nobles and the savages. Moreover, the public fields are basically high-quality fields with more production, while the private fields are medium-grade fields with less production.

Just crossed, Yun Yao also thought about making a big career, but when he came, he realized that the environment of the Western Zhou Dynasty was really not something that ordinary people could turn upside down. The class is strict, the savage has been chained to the land all his life, and Zhou Li's division of labor is deep in all aspects, and no one will listen to her nonsense.

So for twelve years, even two years after his father's death, Yun Yao still did his job step by step.