Zheng Haizhu said in his heart: Chongming County ordered this old fox!

Previously, as soon as she received the imperial court's order as a reward, she asked her nephew Shoukuan to come to Chongming to buy land. Huang Zunsu said hello to Suzhou Mansion in advance, and Suzhou Prefecture handed it over, Chongming County seemed to take special care of it, and recommended Zheng Shoukuan to the southern boundary of the island, saying that it was a deserted and ownerless sand field, and the South Island was located at the junction of the river and the sea, and it was convenient to boil salt.

After going to the island today, Zheng Haizhu got the land deed from the county Cheng, and deliberately had an extra eye to confirm that the "field bottom" and "field surface" were under his name.

The sale of the ownership and use rights of the land separately was a common phenomenon in the late Ming Dynasty. In the north, the ownership is called "Tian Gu", the right to use is called "Tian Pi", and in the area of Susong in Nanzhili, it is called "Tian Di" and "Tian Mian" respectively.

When Zheng Haizhu bought Chongming's land, Huang Zunsu told her in advance that she must indicate in the contract that "the bottom of the field and the surface of the field are signed by Zheng Haizhu", and the geometry of the autumn grain was written and sent by Zheng Haizhu. Because of Zheng Haizhu's fateful status, she could only be dismissed from the "forced labor" on her land, and Tian Fu still had to be paid. Specifying the specific taxes to be paid means that the property rights of these thousands of acres of land and the right to recruit tenants to cultivate have been handed over to Zheng Haizhu without embarrassment.

Unexpectedly, it seems that when it comes to buying land in Chongming, although he has not been deceived in terms of economic interests, he is clearly used by the county order as a tool to maintain stability.

Zheng Haizhu said with three points of humility and five points of helplessness: "Grandma Tang, the younger generation seems to have understood, you and I have been tricked." I took the liberty to ask, but Grandma went to Suzhou Mansion to hand over the case to the veterans because of the fruitless lawsuit in Chongming? ”

Grandma Tang nodded and said: "Yes, I have been to Suzhou in the lunar month, and I have not seen any movement, and I went again after the beginning of spring, and I was still shouting grievances to the children at the gate of Suzhou Mansion yesterday." ”

This old lady has been in a lawsuit for decades, and she is far more brained and quick to react than ordinary people.

She quickly snorted and sneered: "Mrs. Zheng, I have a few words with you, old woman, and I want to understand, it must be the county order that sees that I will not forgive, lest if the imperial history asks and Suzhou really investigates, he and the thousands of households who invaded the land will not have good fruit to eat, so they will simply transfer the land to you." ”

Zheng Haizhu sighed: "Yes, mother-in-law, after you are Zhongliang, the house will still provide the ranking of the loyal duke, no matter how you say it, you have an identity, they don't dare to intimidate and suppress you like a farmer's white body, so they will lead the flames of land competition to me." What's more, if Suzhou or even Ying Tianfu asked, they would even think about the rhetoric, but I, Mrs. Anyuan, was flying and domineering, relying on her meritorious service to the Ming Dynasty, so she secretly played tricks, half bought, half grabbed the land to occupy the sergeants' original land. ”

When she said this, she turned her head sideways and sighed with Wu Bangde: "No wonder these fields are so cheap, I thought that Chongming County respected me as the pillar of the country, cough!" In fact, it's a pit buried for us! ”

Grandma Tang listened to her self-deprecation very frankly, and her good impression of this woman increased a little.

After inquiring about the price code on the land deed, Grandma Tang shook her head and said, "Of course, this price is too low. Mrs. Zheng, Mr. Wu, this place is near the sea, and it can be falsely reported as a salt stove field. Originally, in order to encourage the people on the island to boil salt, the imperial court had rules, and in Chongming, if the stove field where the salt was boiled collapsed underwater, the stove household could get 28 acres of tidal flat land as compensation. As soon as this order came out, many heroes in Chongming changed their methods to falsely report their own sand fields as stove fields. If you collude with the county to allocate a few hundred acres of sand fields and then make a fool of the reasons for flooding and collapse, you will be able to get dozens of additional tidal flats without much trouble. How can it be sold cheaply for no reason. ”

Zheng Haizhu knows, isn't this just a fraud on financial subsidies? Sure enough, the ancient and modern times are almost the same, because the greed of human nature is more ancient and unchanging.

Seeing that Zheng Haizhu was always standing, respecting the elders, Grandma Tang also looked like a student who respectfully asked Mr. for advice, and she was a little embarrassed for a while.

"Mrs. Zheng, the old woman has a temper just now, you can bear more. Those big and small foxes in the county, speaking three points and seven points hidden, said that you have a backstage from south to north, and led me crookedly, I also thought that you were their gang, and they used your life to suppress this land invasion case. Alas, I do get old and get confused easily. ”

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly gave another salute, but when he spoke again, he no longer talked about some comforting words, but said bluntly: "Grandma, the cause and effect of the incident, the younger generation is clear, and I also sympathize with those descendants of military families who are originally from Chongming. But the younger generation can't accompany you to question the county order, let alone accompany you to Suzhou to fight a lawsuit. This land has already been in my name, so I can't hand it over again, otherwise, it will be tantamount to telling the whole county that I, Zheng Haizhu, either have a bad brain or a bad life. These Liao tenants of mine will definitely be bullied by thousands of households and county officials in the future. Grandma, they're also miserable, aren't they? ”

When Grandma Tang heard this, her face was serious, but she was not stunned, she even turned her head and looked at the Liao people in the twilight, watching them enter the thatched huts like sheep returning home.

When her retracted gaze fell on the face of the girl Hua Er, Hua Er said a little nervously: "Mother-in-law, why don't you ask the descendants of the sergeants to farm with us?" They eat more, we eat less, and if they come from the Ming Dynasty near North Korea, they should say the same as us. ”

(I'm sorry, I'm too busy today, busy for my own livelihood and that of others.) It's just a little bit more)

(End of chapter)