No one knows what the saint and Jia Yu talked about in the imperial study, and after Jia Yu left, the saint summoned Zhang Xiang and several other ministers headed by him. But like a stone thrown into a pool, nothing happened except to cause some ripples. When Jia Yu began to return to the Hanlin Academy, he was still edited by the Hanlin Academy. Jia Yu didn't have much of an opinion on this.

The days passed, the year passed, and it was time to sum up the income each year. On this day, when the head of the family checked the accounts, he suddenly found that the income of his grange was much less than usual, and there were no natural and man-made disasters in this year, could it be that the head of the village was fooling them?

Soon the head of the village was brought, and the head of the house did not speak, but took the tea and tasted it slowly. The head of the village, who was kneeling on the ground, was sweating profusely under the low pressure, and the head of the village naturally knew that the harvest of the grange was not as good as in previous years, and he hoped that the main family could be fooled, but he still knew that he was still found.

"Tell me, what is the Grange's harvest so much worse than in previous years?" asked the head of the house in an emotionless tone.

"The head of the family, I heard that there is an additional farm near the Grange, and the rent is lower than ours, so many villagers who work in the Grange are attracted to it. "Zhuang Tou can only tell the truth.

"Oh, is there such a thing?" said the head of the house.

"It's true, the little ones don't dare to lie. Zhuang nodded hurriedly.

"You did well in previous years, and I'll let you go this year, but if you do it again next year... The head of the house didn't say what would happen, but Zhuang Tou still shivered and kowtowed gratefully, he knew that he was fine.

I thought that the master would be very dissatisfied after hearing it and then put his seat down, but I knew that the master just warned him and told him to do a good job tomorrow. In fact, the Grange is not very important to the major families, for whom the Grange is just to ensure the supply of vegetables in the house, not the main source of income. If you want to talk about income, an ordinary shop can cover a year's income of the Grange in a month, not to mention the gray income in the officialdom.

"The head of the family, the little one will definitely do a good job, and next year's harvest will definitely be the same as in previous years. Zhuang Tou wiped a cold sweat, was very grateful to the main family, and vowed to promise that next year's income would definitely go back.

The head of the house didn't say anything and let the head of the village go back.

It's a pity that the promise of the head of the village is destined to be unfulfilled. If it were usual, he might be able to find people with a little tongue, but this time he turned over fiercely. At the beginning of spring, people have not yet come, and there are more people in their grange than before, and I remember that the head of the village has gray hair, so I can only make the decision to reduce the rent by half, and no one wants to stay. Yicheng! Still can't keep people. After doing it, it was reduced to 30%, and only then did some people stay.

Zhuang Tou breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he reacted quickly, otherwise everyone would have gone away, and the land in the grange would only grow grass. It was hard to stabilize the person, but what should I do if I lost the rent? The head of the village could only report to the master's family.

After the head of the house listened, he first let the head of the village beat ten boards, although the head of the village was to retain talents to reduce the rent, but in any case, the head of the village did not ask the owner to make his own opinion, this is a fact that cannot be changed. And then he sent someone to see what was going on, and why was everyone willing to work for him?

Soon, the man he sent returned.

"The head of the family, there is an additional farm near our farm, the area is very large, but the rent is very low, so not only the farmers of the main family, but also the villagers of several nearby farms have been attracted. ”

"Oh, how low?" asked the head of the house, curiously.

"Come home, two. The man sent replied.

"Twenty percent rent, is this crazy!" the head of the house immediately raised his voice.

Twenty percent of the rent, no wonder where did the people go, the twenty percent rent and the sixty percent he collected in the Zhuangzi were less than half.

"Who is this who is so ignorant of the rules?" asked the head of the house angrily. Although the major families did not stand on paper, they tacitly set the rent at more than fifty percent. This new farm has broken everyone's rules, aren't you afraid that the major families will unite to deal with him?

"Home to the Lord, it's the Royal Farmstead. The man sent replied.

The head of the family immediately quieted down, if the new lord didn't understand the rules, the head of the house might still join forces with other heads of the family to pressure him to return to fifty percent of the rent, but the royal family head could not do anything. Not only was he powerless, but he also had to worry about the deep meaning of the saint's doing.

The same thing happened in many places, and for a while the heads of the major families were shocked, and they all guessed the purpose of the saint and lowered the rent, otherwise there would be no one to plant the land in the grange.

The major families don't dare to do anything, today's saint is a ninety-five venerable with a lot of aura, not the feeling that Emperor Wen Kangdi gives anyone like a spring breeze, if the current saint provokes him, he doesn't know what will happen, so they all shrank their tails. The income of the Grange is not very much, and it is useless to get along with the saint for this little money.

This is Jia Yu