Time flew by, and I stepped into October in a flash.

The second day of October.

The people of the north began to prepare for the autumn harvest.

Although the State of Qi implemented the apportionment of the land into the mu throughout the territory as early as before the summer harvest, and exempted many harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people still had no spare money in their hands.

In addition to paying taxes, the surplus of the summer harvest must be kept for the winter and as seeds for the coming year.

In ancient times, farming seeds was also a lot of money.

An acre of land often requires one or two buckets of seeds.

Part of the grain harvested in the autumn should be used as reserve grain to be eaten before the summer harvest, and the other part should be disposable money.

After all, the north is not as good as the south, according to the per capita 20 acres of land, even if the rotation method is mastered, the autumn harvest is only a crop of soybeans or sorghum, at most three or four stones.

According to today's food prices, it is only a lot of money when converted into one stone.

After deducting the cost of seeds and grain reserves for the coming year, as well as the loss of agricultural tools, two pieces of money can finally fall into the hands of the people.

Note that the above is still a good weather situation throughout the year.

In the event of a natural disaster, let alone two surplus money, it would be good to be able to ensure that there is something to eat.

This is still the income of the people under the rule of the Qi State, after the implementation of apportionment into mu and light taxation.

It can be imagined how miserable the people in Shandong, Hebei and other places under Zhao Song lived before this.

Zhao Song is rich, and Tokyo City is prosperous, but these have nothing to do with the poor people at the bottom.

With the power of a country and a city, how can it not be prosperous?

[The old and young people will be in the south in the harvest year, and the southerners will not eat themselves in the harvest year. 】

This is not what Han Zhen said, but from Wang Anshi's poem "Hebei People".

With the autumn harvest approaching, it is not the local officials who are the busiest, but the inspectorate.

At this time of the year, it is a good time for the officials of the Inspectorate to rush for performance.

If an inspector wants to be promoted, he must arrest corrupt officials, and there is no other way.

As soon as this provision was issued, it was doomed to put the Inspectorate in opposition to other officials, and there was no possibility of reconciliation.

This colleague, borrow your head!

Because of this, the civil and military officials secretly gave the officials of the Inspectorate a nickname.

Mad dog!

Catch whoever bites.

Everyone knew that the Inspectorate was a sword in the hands of the officials to check and balance them, but no one dared to hold a grudge.

Fear is one thing, and on the other hand, the officials are indeed compensating them in other ways.

In addition to the salary, the year-end dividend can also make them live a good life.

Chen Fu is a farmer in the ancient shop of Xicao in Zhending Prefecture.

Because it borders Ulju in the Kingdom of Jin, this place has been plagued by war, so there are not many people, only less than 100 households.

Although there are few people, the farmers do not have a few acres of land.

What about the earth?

They were all taken away by Xicheng.

The full name of the Xicheng Office is the Chengxi Kuotian Office, which was set up by the great eunuch Yang Jian, and specially confiscated the land without the land deed.

It sounds reasonable, but in fact, Hebei has been plagued by war and the flooding of the Yellow River, and many people's land is transferred from place to place, or for the purpose of reclaiming wasteland.

At first, when Yang Jian was there, the food was not so ugly, and the recovered land continued to be cultivated by the people, and the income was fifty-five points with the people, which was equivalent to turning a large number of people into tenants, but they could still get fifty percent of it, barely starving to death.

Later, when Li Yan came to power and took over the Xicheng Office, he began to collect wealth unscrupulously, not only the people, but also the fields of many large and small landlords were confiscated.

And the Xicheng Institute is just one of the institutions used by Zhao Ji of Song Huizong to collect money, and there are more than a dozen institutions like this.

For example, the Creation Bureau, the Ying Feng Bureau, the People's Ship Bureau, and the Xingxing Bureau......

Zhu Mian should be in charge of the bureau, and the gold and silver gang and the flower and stone gang should be collected in the south.

Tong Guan was in charge of the Bureau, which mainly produced handicrafts such as teeth, horns, rhinos, jade, gold, silver, bamboo, rattan, painting, carving, weaving and embroidery, and all kinds of materials needed were directly distributed to local households and forced to supply them.

Ying Fengju is actually okay, the main victims are the landlords, rich businessmen, gentry and gatekeepers, and other institutions are the people at the bottom.

After Han Zhen entered the city of Tokyo, Wu Min, Zhao Ding, He Li and others immediately jointly signed a letter requesting the abolition of these institutions.

With a wave of his hand, Han Zhen abolished all of them and returned all the assets such as fields to the original people.

Chen Fu's family of five got 30 acres of land.

Although half of the crops in the fields were burned due to the attack of the Jin people during the summer harvest, His Majesty also exempted the summer tax of Zhending Mansion, and only half of the autumn tax was collected.

Chen Fu carried a large bag of silage on his back and walked along the loess path towards the military camp not far away.

The army moved in two months, and at that time, while the farm was slack, he also went to help for a few days, earning a hundred and ten clerks.

It's a pity that the barracks were repaired too quickly, otherwise they would have been able to have a fat year just by working.

Fortunately, the military masters in the barracks are kind-hearted, and the surrounding people can use silage to rent cattle and donkeys to plow the fields, rent a day, only need a bucket of silage, and the cattle and donkey feed people are responsible for themselves.

Cattle and donkey feed is easy to get, it is nothing more than cutting more grass, and it must be cost-effective to calculate.

As he was walking, there was the sound of wheels behind him.

When I turned my head to look, I found that it was Ma Liu from the east shop next door.

Ma Liu drove the donkey cart with a basket of vegetables on it, and asked, "Daifuku, go to the barracks to rent a cow?" ”

"yes."

Chen Fu nodded.

Ma Liu beckoned: "Throw the hay on the cart, and I'll help you take a ride." ”

"Thank you, Sixth Brother."

Hearing this, Chen Fuxi walked over with a smile, put the silage on his back on the donkey cart, and followed the donkey cart himself.

Looking at the vegetables on the donkey cart, Chen Fu said enviously: "Sixth brother, you send a lot of vegetables to the military camp every day, I'm afraid you won't make less money?" ”

"I just make some hard-earned money and barely make ends meet."

Speaking of this, a hint of vigilance flashed in Ma Liu's eyes, and he was completely unenthusiastic.

Ma Liu's family was also having a hard time, but he was bold and active, and after learning that the military camp had moved, he took the initiative to ask if he wanted green vegetables.

After receiving an affirmative answer, he gritted his teeth, sold his family's land, bought a donkey cart to collect vegetables around, and then transported them to the barracks to earn the difference.

Although I don't earn much per pound of vegetables, I can't hold up the large amount, and I need it every day.

In a month, you can make seven or eight dollars.

Chen Fu pouted: "The sixth brother didn't have a word of truth in his mouth, I saw my sister-in-law in the market a while ago, and I bought a roe deer leg, and I must have made a lot of money." ”

was exposed in public, Ma Liu's face was a little embarrassed, and he laughed: "It's a little more than farming, that ruined girl, Lao Tzu will hammer her when he goes back." ”

Since the army moved in, many people with active brains around have made a lot of money by relying on the military camp.

After all, there are more than 30,000 people, and they all need money to eat, drink, and Lazar.

Chen Fu sighed: "It's a pity that I have a stupid brain and no capital." ”

Ma Liu said: "What is this, the people who really got rich were the tofu factory and the pig breeders. These Qiu Ba are really rich, and every three days, they have to eat twenty or thirty pigs. ”

"How much do you get for so many pigs!"

Chen Fu took a cool breath, his face full of shock.

Ma Liu's face was full of admiration: "But although these Qiu Ba eat well, they are really fatal to fight." It is said that the Jin people are fierce, but the crying father who was beaten by the Qingzhou Army a few months ago is said to have cut off the heads of people who have been piled up into a mountain. ”

Chen Fu said: "I heard that being a soldier can earn 500 wen a month, and there is a reward for cutting off a head and four times, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"Really, there is a hunter in our shop who has been recruited, and when Xiu Mu came back a while ago, he said that he could eat three dry meals a day."

"Alas, my body is too weak, otherwise I would have gone to apply."

"Listen to my brother's advice, this soldier is not suitable if he can, after all, the sword has no eyes on the battlefield. Now that the official family is benevolent and righteous, they have divided the land for us, and they have been exempted from many miscellaneous taxes, and they can also fill their stomachs with farming. Ma Liu persuaded bitterly.

"That's just as well."

Chen Fu nodded and said with a smile: "My family still owed more than a dozen debts to Zhang Yuanwai's family before, but after the government came, they were directly exempted, and Zhang Yuanwai didn't dare to let go of a fart." ”

"Today's officials are thinking about us, and the good days are still ahead."

Ma Tou smiled, his eyes full of yearning for the future.

As he spoke, at the end of the loess path, a military village appeared.

On the wall, groups of soldiers dressed in armor kept patrolling back and forth.

On the cement-poured fort, you can faintly see a swaying figure.

A murderous aura came to the face.

Although he had been here several times, Chen Fu still felt a fluster.

"Master Jun, I'm here to deliver food."

"I ...... I'm here to rent cattle. ”

All the way to the gate of the barracks, the two said tremblingly.

"Let's go in."

After carefully examining the ox cart, the soldier guarding the gate waved his hand.

Hearing this, the two drove the donkey cart into the military village.

Da-da-da-da!

At this moment, a hurried sound of horses' hooves came from afar.

Chen Fu turned his head to look and saw three Xuanjia cavalry galloping on horseback, and on both sides of the helmets of these cavalrymen were two bird feathers.

"Urgent, Shuozhou urgent!"

Approaching the military village, one of the cavalrymen led by him held up a token and shouted at the same time.

"Release!"

Seeing the token, the soldier guarding the door changed his expression slightly, and immediately greeted him.

Thundered!

The three cavalrymen rolled up puffs of smoke and dust and rushed straight into the military wall.

Seeing this scene, Chen Fu looked worried: "Could it be that there is another war?" ”

"Who knows."

Ma Liu shook his head and advised, "Don't be nosy. ”

"Hmm."

Chen Fu nodded and walked towards the cowshed.

……

Inside the tent.

Han Shizhong sat on the main seat, listening to the report of the soldiers of the scout battalion.

"Yudu Shuai, Shuozhou found a large number of Jin cavalry, numbering no less than three thousand, and went straight to Daizhou."

"Probe, report!"

Han Shizhong's face remained unchanged and he commanded.

"Order!"

The soldiers of the scout camp replied in a loud voice.

Yu Jun sneered: "The Jin people are addicted to looting, the summer harvest comes once, and the autumn harvest comes again, really when my Yuzhou army is a soft persimmon!" ”

"Du Shuai, the last general is invited to fight!"

Xiao Wu said loudly.

Han Shizhong looked at Yutu, thought for a moment, and then said: "Give you five hundred light horsemen, plus three thousand foot soldiers, each carrying four firearms, go into battle lightly, be sure to arrive at Wutai Mountain three days ago, ambush the Jin soldiers!" ”

"The last general commands!"

Xiao Wu's eyes lit up and he replied loudly.

"Yu Jun!"

"The end will be."

"You lead two thousand heavily armored foot soldiers, follow behind, and gallop to help at any time."

Han Shizhong is not a reckless man, and he has made two plans.

Even if Xiao Wu can't stop the Jin cavalry, there is still the heavy armor battalion of the Yu army.

(End of chapter)