Chapter 51 Yu Dynasty
The next day, there were still snowflakes in the sky, and the originally yellow world was covered with white overnight.
Huo Junyao still rested as usual, and after getting up and washing, she went to check the situation in the greenhouse.
As soon as I left the room, I saw Forget Xia, Red Sleeves was directing people to clear the snow on the roof of the greenhouse.
"Miss, this snow has fallen overnight, in the middle of the night, a lot of snow has accumulated on the roof of the greenhouse, forget the summer with people, and will clean it up every once in a while, for fear that the snow will crush the greenhouse."
Listening to Xiaochan's words, Huo Junyao looked at both sides of the greenhouse, and sure enough, there was a lot of snow piled down from the roof of the greenhouse.
The cloth shoes on the feet of the people such as Forget Xia and Red Sleeves were cleared by the snow, and the skirts were also a lot wet.
"The big guys have worked hard, stop for a while and come to me."
Everyone stopped what they were doing and gathered around under the leadership of Forgotten Xia and Red Sleeves.
Seeing them like this, Huo Junyao felt a little moved in her heart, what a good person, they didn't explain it themselves, they could do these things spontaneously, especially if they started to do it in the middle of the night.
"It's cold, isn't it?"
Her voice was very gentle, although she didn't say anything concerned, but Forget Xia and the others could feel that Miss was distressed.
"At first, it was a little, but it didn't get cold when the event started."
As soon as Forget Xia spoke, the people behind him also smiled and nodded.
"Nonsense, look at your shoes and skirts are soaked."
"In this way, you all go back first to find a pair of dry shoes and a dress, and Miss will take everyone to soak in warm soup today."
There are seven or eight warm soup rooms behind her yard, and the two on the bottom are the largest, although the water temperature is also a little lower than above, but it is also quite good.
"Miss, this is not in accordance with the rules."
The warm soup red sleeves have been soaked, and it is still only soaked when she and Xiaochan followed their own young lady, which can already be regarded as a gift.
Now that so many people are going to soak, she is still a little worried that if Her Royal Highness the eldest princess knows about it, she will blame the young lady.
"The hot spring villa belongs to the lord of your family, and what she said is the rule, let you do whatever you want."
I don't know when the eldest princess of Ningyang also came, and when she heard the words of the red sleeves, she didn't know the potential meaning of the red sleeves.
I feel a little dissatisfied, what's the matter, this palace is such a mean person?
"I heard it, hurry back to find a change of clothes, don't catch a cold, the young lady has to count on your help."
Everyone hurriedly thanked and retreated.
After a while, a group of more than 20 people followed Huo Junyao to the warm soup room at the back.
She first tried the warm soup pool in the bottom room, and felt that the water temperature was too low.
This hot soup room, divided into four floors, a total of eight rooms, is a triangular distribution with a narrow top and a wide bottom.
There is only one room on the top floor, and the water temperature is the most comfortable, it belongs to the place where the master is qualified to go, and the few times Huo Junyao went to the front were on the top floor.
On the next floor, there are two rooms, and the water temperature is quite good, but the pools are not very large, and each pool can only accommodate three or five people.
On the next floor, there are three houses, although the water temperature is a few degrees lower, but it is not bad, and the pool is big enough, how can a pool accommodate eight or nine people, there is still plenty of room.
As for the last floor, it is the layer where she has just tested the water temperature, and there are only two rooms at most, but the face is relatively large, and the pool is also large, just like those big bathhouses in the previous life, those two pools can be used by forty or fifty people.
But even if the water temperature is a little cooler.
"Forget the summer like this, red sleeves, the three of you are on the second floor, and the others are on the third floor."
At her command, all the subordinates saluted and thanked her.
They are all from poor families, and they are all daughters who are not treated well by their families, and when they are young, they are afraid that they will boil some hot water to wash, and they will be disgusted to use more firewood, and they have enjoyed warm soup there in this life.
Not to mention, Wen Tang is in the realm of the capital, which can only be enjoyed by those rich and powerful nobles.
Today's young lady reward, they are all so excited.
"Go ahead, don't worry, I'll give you half an hour, it should be enough, right?"
Half an hour was an hour, and she thought that should be enough.
Everyone nodded their heads.
It wasn't until Red Sleeves and Forget Xia and Mama Xi and others brought a group of subordinates up that Huo Junyao turned around.
"Daughter, it's still snowing, why don't we go to Huangzhuang today?"
Hearing this, Huo Junyao thought about it and shook her head; "Let's see if the snow will stop later, didn't my mother arrange my five hundred food estates to the Huangzhuang, I always need someone to manage it, and the matter of distributing land."
"And my daughter doesn't know how much land there is on the imperial village."
"It's not simple, you don't know that my mother knows, go to the house, my mother has already asked the kitchen to prepare breakfast, let's talk while eating."
The two returned to the house, and Xiaochan went to the back kitchen to greet breakfast.
"What is Huangzhuang, Yaoyao knows, right?"
"Yes."
Huangzhuang, as the name suggests, is the royal manor outside, and it is similar to the Zhuangzi in the homes of some gentry and noble ministers.
It's just that in comparison, there are more royal people, and of course, the royal family owns more land, otherwise how can it be said that the royal family is the largest landlord in a dynasty.
"When the Yu Dynasty was founded, there were more than 500 imperial villages in our royal family, and each imperial village covered an area of tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres."
"At that time, our Yu Dynasty had just experienced war, and many people in the world died during the war, and there was once a situation where there were many people in the land and no one planted."
The Yu Dynasty was founded for 20 years, and Emperor Taishang reigned for 17 years.
It's now the third year of Zhaowu.
Before the founding of the Yu Dynasty, there was a period of war on this land that lasted for nearly ten years.
According to the census of the founding of the Yu Dynasty, when the Yu Dynasty was established, the population of the whole country was two-thirds less than that of the previous dynasty, and it is conceivable how many people died in those chaotic ten years.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that there are few people in the land.
Later, during the reign of the emperor, he vigorously encouraged the people to take a variety of places, maintained and reduced a lot of taxes, the taxes were very high in the previous dynasty, and in the last years, they were so high that the people could not live, otherwise there would be no uprisings in various places.
In the Yu Dynasty, the first tax standard designated by Emperor Taishang was to follow the policy of thirty taxes and one tax during the Kyushu Empire.
That is, thirty catties of grain are handed over to one catty, which is the edict of the Emperor Taishang to assure the people of the world, this is the absolute red line of the Yu Dynasty's taxation.
This helped him quickly stabilize the people's hearts, and then he came to a series of tax cuts, so far the tax of the Yu Dynasty is thirty-five taxes one.
In the tenth year of Emperor Taishang's efforts to govern the Yu Dynasty, although there will still be some wars, the people have also gained a lot of stability, and the population development rate has also soared.
The original young children have also grown up, and the situation of no one in the land has been greatly alleviated.