Datang Happy Landlord

Chapter 401;
Chapter [-]: Just give me a title of Broken Marquis?
Li Yu looked at General Qin in a daze, and quickly called out twice;
"Uncle, uncle, you old man still don't believe in children, I can try farming on the spot..."

Qin Qiong, who came back to his senses, waved his hand;
"No need, the old man is very clear about what you are doing. The old man believes what you said. Just go out in the future. You must not tell others that you worked hard to build this new plowshare in order to improve your title. of.

You have to tell others that in order to serve the king faithfully, to solve His Majesty's worries and problems, for His Majesty's eternal prosperity, and for His Majesty's people to no longer go hungry, you have worked hard to create this sharp weapon. have you understood? "

How could Li Yu not understand these official words, he knew better than anyone else in his heart, so he quickly agreed;
"It's uncle, my child will remember it, and if anyone asks again in the future, I will say what my uncle taught me."

Qin Qiong walked back and forth in the study room twice before stopping to look at Li Yu;

"When did you build it? Why didn't you tell your majesty earlier, and tell your majesty earlier, and you can make your majesty happy sooner. If you say it too late, your majesty will suspect that you want to hide your secrets and don't want to give it to your majesty. "

"Back to my uncle, it was only made the day before I came to Chang'an City, and it has only been four or five days now, and the boy has also written a letter, and I want to ask my uncle to hand it to His Majesty.

I just want to dedicate this new plow to the imperial court, to His Majesty, how can I keep it private? Besides, the letter from the boy was sealed and signed in my room three days ago. I will call it when I get back. The man took it and gave it to his uncle. "

Excitedly, Qin Qiong walked around the room several times, muttering as she walked;

"Well, that's good. With letters as evidence, everything can be explained clearly. When it was first built, after the trial farming, I immediately thought of His Majesty and the court, so nothing happened.

After you go back in a while, ask someone to bring it over quickly. Tomorrow I will go to the palace and personally report the good news to His Majesty, so that His Majesty can enjoy it too. There are too many troubles recently, and His Majesty must be very melancholy. "

Li Yu saw that Qin Damen God finally stopped again, and hurried up to ask;
"Uncle, for your contribution this time, you can give me a better title. After all, this is not a trivial matter. Your Majesty has clear rewards and punishments. He will definitely give me a suitable title! Right, uncle?"

Qin Qiong looked at Li Yu strangely;

"All your credits add up, even if you don't have Xinli, you are at least worth a second-rank county prince. If you were replaced by those generals with military merits who did your things, you would be a first-rank prince directly. .

But you are too young and have no military achievements, so His Majesty has been holding down your title and not letting go.

The new plow you built this time is even more creditable. There are horseshoe boots in the front to solve the problem of replacing the horses, and half of the baijiu in the back to solve the crisis of the imperial court's money.

In addition to the credit this time, it is said that there is no problem in making you a duke equal to the old man, but you have not yet become an official, you have no official position, and you are too young, the old man reckons it is still not enough.

Your Majesty... Maybe you will continue to suppress your title and not let go, but you don't have to worry, no matter how much your Majesty suppresses it, the credit will be placed in a fair manner.
If you don't get promoted this time, it will be difficult to stop the mouths of the world, so at least you can be promoted by one level, and there should be no hindrance to getting a third-rank Marquis. "

Li Yu was very disappointed when he heard that, he pulled an old donkey's face, and said unwillingly;
"Uncle, Your Majesty is too stingy, so why don't you give me a marquis for such a great contribution?"

Mrs. Qin stood up with a smile on her face;

"You bastard, you are really dissatisfied. How many generals have been fighting for ten years, and they were injured all over the body, but they still failed to become a magistrate, and you are still picky and unhappy.

As for the county marquis of the third rank, I don’t know how many people have died with envy. How noble is that, you little bastard, isn’t it good to be a marquis at such a young age? "

Qin Qiong beside her also nodded heavily;
"Your aunt is right. You have become Lord Marquis at such a young age. No matter in the previous court or in our court, you are No. 1. No matter where you go, you have enough status as a third-rank Lord Marquis." , you are incomparably honorable, even the eldest brother will be happy for you even if he is alive."

Li Yu said reluctantly;
"Okay, the county marquis is the county marquis. Your majesty can seal whatever you want. I will report to uncle and aunt. It is getting late, and the child is leaving. Please allow uncle and aunt."

"allow."

"Thank you, Uncle, Auntie, please leave my child."

Li Yu left the study shaking his head, and Madam Qin's voice came from behind him;

"Look, husband, this is not as good as he thought, and he is not happy. This child is really serious. If something goes wrong in the future, it will be fine. Can you bear it..."

"Madam, don't worry, Yu'er is very strong, so Madam doesn't need to worry too much."

Li Yu came out of the study and came outside the courtyard to find that Yingxiang and a few first-class maids were talking quietly outside the courtyard. When everyone saw the noble county uncle come out, they all saluted and greeted him, Li Yu said calmly;

"You can go in now, Yingxiang, let's go back."

"Yes, sir."

Along the way, Li Yu was thinking about something on his mind and didn't speak, Ying Xiang also quietly followed behind, suddenly, Li Yu stopped and turned around, Ying Xiang bumped into Li Yu's arms;
"The servant deserves to die, please forgive me."

"You are not wrong, what is the crime, and there will be no outsiders here. Let me ask you, if I want to accept a few small families from your Han family to be my servants of Li's second room, will you, Aye, and the others agree?" Agree?"

Yingxiang felt that happiness came too suddenly, and she couldn't believe it;

"My lord, is what you said true?"

Li Yu nodded and said seriously;

"It's absolutely true, I think Li's servants are not enough, so if I want to fill in some, I'll ask you first and see the situation before I say it. I'm afraid that if I say it presumptuously, the farmers will not agree, and I will lose my face. Shelved."

Yingxiang couldn't be happier, so she quickly bowed down to thank her;

"Thank you for taking care of Mr. Lang, the servant will definitely serve Mr. Lang for the rest of his life."

"Don't worry..."

Ying Xiang, who never rushes to talk, is really anxious this time. Aye and the others have been thinking about it for many years and finally it will come true. This time the gentleman is like this again. Ying Xiang couldn't help but interrupted Li Yu's words;

"How can you be like this, Mr. Lang...you said just now that you want to admit four families from our Han family. This... how can this not count?"

Li Yu looked at Yingxiang and said strangely;

"Why doesn't it count? Of course what I said counts. I just want you to take it easy. I have something I want to ask you, but I didn't say that we won't be allowed in."

Yingxiang felt relieved when she heard the affirmative words, and said happily;

"Forgive me, my lord. This servant is too impatient. If you have any questions, just ask. The servant knows everything and can talk endlessly."

"Well, Yingxiang, if your family is taken in by me as servants, then you will have no land and no household registration as a good citizen. The imperial court will take your land away. Why are you so sure that you, Aye, can agree?"

Yingxiang replied suddenly:
"Lang Jun, what are you talking about? Generally speaking, the land is the lifeblood of the people, and no one is willing to throw it away, but have you ever thought about it, sir?

No matter how much land there is, it depends on the weather. When the weather is good, it’s better. If you’re tired, you can have enough food. But what about famine years?
When there is no harvest, people will starve to death. That’s not a joke. Many people in our family used to hear from my Aye that when he was young, he encountered a severe drought that lasted for two years, and half of them died of starvation at once. tribe.

The old people went to the mountains by themselves and died by themselves. They couldn’t even afford coffins. The adults only ate two or three bites of food a day. It’s fine if they don’t starve to death. They save food to feed the children. Sir, have you ever thought about that kind of food? The horror of the day? "

How could Li Yu think of this, and after hearing what Yingxiang said, he simply described it in his mind, and felt that it was terrible, and he couldn't afford to skip a meal, how could he eat a few mouthfuls of food a day?

"I haven't experienced this before, so I don't want to talk about it, but I also know that if there is nothing to eat, people will starve to death."

Yingxiang said very seriously;
"Lang Jun, you can't feel it. No matter how serious the disaster is, you can't feel it. Let alone you, even the hundreds of servants in our village can't feel it. They can have enough food at any time. How can they Do you know what it's like to be hungry?"

Li Yu said triumphantly;
"That's right, when there is a disaster year, our mansion will open a granary to release grain. Haven't you seen the big granary at the back? It's almost half the size of those other small villages. How can we let the servants starve to death?"

"Yes, sir, it is precisely because I follow the mansion that I will never be afraid of not being full, let alone starve to death, that's why I, Aye, agree.

Do you still remember, when I was very young, I fled with my whole family, and when I came to the vicinity of Lantian, I met old Alang on the road, and I, Aye, and his brothers were going to sell themselves as slaves.

Old Alang only smiled and said yes, and gave me the money for selling himself to Aye and the others, but the strange thing is that he didn't mention the slaves for a long time.

Afterwards, we followed Alang, and when we came back, we shared a house in Zhuangzi and gave us several carts of grain. I, a five-foot-tall man, cried happily when we saw so much grain, and knelt down for old Alang on the spot. .

From the day we met A Lang to the present, our family has never been hungry once, let alone starved to death. However, we have received the money from selling ourselves, and we still live in the house allocated by the mansion, and we eat food like slaves. A Lang just didn't talk about being a slave.

After living slowly for a few months, I, Aye, and the others discovered that compared with the servants in the village, they are like being called a flower. There are no patches.

The people in our family are very hungry, but look at the children in the family, all of them are very strong, they are all lean meat, and they have to eat four or five mustaches for a meal. to compare.

At that time, even with the food that Alang gave, I, Aye, and the others were still reluctant to eat more. Aren't they all hungry?
As a result, looking at the food of those servants, the corn porridge is thick and lumpy. At that time, I, Aye, also said that the children of those families did not know the value of food, and they wasted food like this.

He also said that you were the ones who suffered in disaster years, and ended up having a fight with that family. They didn’t know me, Aye, who was a foreigner, so they baptized me, Aye, a few words:
We have been eating like this since we were young, and if you want to take care of it, we are not afraid of any disasters. The grain in our big granary is full, and we can eat enough without farming for three years.

I, Aye, am still not convinced. I feel that the family is boasting nonsense. How can they still have enough to eat without farming for three years?

Until one time, I, Aye, and the other four brothers felt that eating and not working was as uneasy as being an uncle, so I went to Qiantou Mansion to find Alang, and said that I would arrange some labor and help Alang. repay.

Later, Alang arranged for me, Aye, and the four brothers to go to the granary compound at the back to help the craftsmen who repaired the courtyard wall.

I, Aye, and the others looked at the rows of houses full of food, and they were stunned with fright. Only then did they believe what the person who quarreled with him said was not bragging. They really ate like that since they were young. They didn’t tell nonsense.

I, Aye, said that even the group of big vicious dogs in the granary compound had servants to cook for them, so my third uncle always talked about how the refugees in the disaster years lived in the granary compound. Not as good as those dogs here.

I, Aye, didn’t have the mind to work that day, so I couldn’t bear it. Thinking about how many people starved to death on the road when our family was fleeing, if the dogs’ food could be allocated to our family, those people wouldn’t starve to death up. "

Li Yu said embarrassingly;
"The reason they are tall is because their ancestors were all big men in the Northwest, so they are tall, but they are really strong because they are eaten. Anyway, they can't eat enough for us Li. Besides, you don't want to eat your own family. Fan, what kind of statement is that?"

"Yes, sir, you are right, so many refugees who survived want to find a place to rely on that will never starve to death. Only those who have experienced catastrophe and can't eat enough to know the horror of starving to death. In this place, if people are hungry enough, they dare to eat mud and dirt!
The problem is that someone needs you. At the beginning, I, Aye, and the others found two or three big families. First, they thought that we were not strong enough to starve to death, and they didn’t have too much food, so they confiscated us.

Later, we walked all the way to beg for food, reached Lantian, and then met Alang, and survived. If we hadn’t met Alang, we would have been reincarnated by now. "

Li Yu saw Yingxiang's vivid and vivid words, and he even thought it was interesting, so he sat on the wooden bench in the corridor and chatted with Yingxiang;
"Just now you said that your third uncle always sighed that the life of refugees is not as good as that of dogs, and that there are special people who cook for dogs. In fact, he also misunderstood. If there are two dogs for one dog, just eat some leftovers. Who even cooks for them?

But our dogs are different. First of all, they are raised to guard the granary, but they have to eat enough to have the strength to bite people.

Besides, there are a large group of ferocious guys, whose leftovers are not enough for them to eat, so a few pots are specially made for them, because there are too many, so special people are needed to cook for the dogs. "

Ying Xiang defended herself with her neck crossed;
"Speaking of it, it's still better for dogs to eat than humans. What do you want to say, sir?"

Li Yu felt that on the topic of dogs eating and refugees having nothing to eat, he and Yingxiang couldn't understand what to say, so he changed the topic without raising an argument;

"You, Aye, said that the family servants wear good clothes, but our house is all made of coarse cloth. Except for the servants in the house who can wear good clothes, the other households are all made of the same coarse cloth. It's not like you don't know, everyone's hair is the same."

"The same? It's not the same now! When our family first came here, it was even more different. Sir, it would be nice if we foreign disaster victims and refugees could have something to wear.

Mend it if it is torn and continue to wear it. They are all patches and patches. How can it be compared with those of Li’s domestic servants?

The refugees from outside were not willing to throw them away. Some of them were new, so they were torn in one or two places, and they could be worn out after sewing and mending, and they were much better than their own.

Who is willing to throw it away? If you don't believe me, go and see the refugees from outside. The disaster victims will know. The servants will not lie. Every family has a pile of clothes that their children don't want. Who is willing to throw them away? "

Li Yu asked a little strangely;

"Huh? Why, didn't the mansion announce it to you? That's right! I just remembered when you said that, the farmers don't just wear patched clothes, but none of the children in the family wear patches. What's the matter?" Things, don't all the villages have the same food and clothing?"

"My lord, you haven't worried about these things, how can you know the details, the children of the family can get whatever they want,
When the government announces it, go and take it back according to the head. We poor people from outside can only have enough to eat. How dare we think about those who are out of tune, and we don’t have our share?

These years have been like this, like the clothes I wear, I can't wear them because they are too small, so I gave them to my sister, who has always been the envy of the neighbors.

My sister will give it to my three uncles' homes when she doesn't wear it. Whoever has a girl can wear it in turn. The clothes made by the house for us maids are several sets in each season.

I don't need to wear too much, and now that my sister is almost as old as me, I always give her some clothes,

So it is said that my sister is a blessed girl who has been wearing unpatched clothes since she was a child, or of the best material, and now she wears the new clothes I gave her. How can she not be envied by the farmers? "

Li Yu sighed heavily;
"You are not my servants of Mrs. Li, so Aye won't announce it to you, right?"

"It's like this, but no one complained about A Lang. This is a rule that can't be broken. Besides, when A Lang came back from saving people, he also gave money to sell himself, and arranged another house for him. How can you continue to be greedy when you give food, is that still a human being?"

"Sell money? You seem to have mentioned it just now, what's going on?"

"Returning to Mr. Lang, when Aye and the others asked Alang for help, they said they sold themselves as servants and begged Alang to save their family, so Aye asked me, Aye, how much money he wanted to sell, and then he gave it as much, and then Just brought us back.

He didn't give a lot of money, and he didn't pay back the price. He gave as much as he wanted, and he also gave a few carts of grain.

A few more yards were built, and our four families settled down. Otherwise, how many meals can we eat with the money from selling ourselves?How many months? "

Li Yu widened his eyes and asked in surprise;

"The more than 1000 victims of the disaster were all given money for selling themselves? That's a lot of money, right?"

"This servant doesn't know either. When I, Aye, and my aunt were talking, I heard it a few times, saying that it was Wang Jiusheng from Xiaowangzhuang that sold the most expensive one.

He is an idiot who doesn't know how to count, and he asked for ten carts of grain. I, Aye, said that after Lao Alang arranged for their family of more than a dozen people, he built a thatched house with two courtyards.

After everything was arranged, they first pulled two carts of food to send to them. The family who sent them had explained that it was delivered by A Lang.

Wang Jiusheng's family couldn't understand it and thought it was selling their own money. Looking at the two large carts of grain, they were happy to calculate that they could eat enough for a year, so they forgot the ten carts of grain.

As a result, on the third day, the servants of the mansion took ten carts of grain and asked them where to put them, but they scared the whole family!
They didn't expect that they actually gave ten carts. My mother even joked that they hadn't seen the world, so they could ask for some money. In the end, they got several rooms full of food.

Anyway, that's all, and the slaves don't know much about it. After all, there are five Zhuangzi, how can the slaves have time to inquire one by one!
However, listening to what I, Aye, and the older generation said, I also understand a little bit. Some of them are money for money, some of them are grain, some are grain and silk, and there are all kinds of things. If you want to know, those responsible All the stewards have records, and you can find out when you look back. "

"Oh, I want to investigate. I can explain it when I go back. I don't need to investigate now. By the way, Yingxiang, you said that you, Aye, and the others were waiting for the mansion to be arranged as servants. Why didn't they do it, and they went to the household registration and divided the court. field? Do you know this?"

"Returning to Mr. Lang, this servant knew about it. Alang said it later, but he never mentioned it again.

Later, the new imperial court wanted to distribute land to everyone, but I, Aye, did not dare to take it. Aye was worried that if we took the land from the new imperial court, the mansion would no longer care about us. up!

The steward who came down from the mansion told me, Aye, that they used the status of servants to take over the imperial court’s fields first. When the mansion felt that the time was right, they would give the court money to buy these lands. Shi's.

He also promised that no matter whether we have land or not, we will be Li's servants, and we will never be asked to eat less rations, let alone starve to death.
This is because the stewards of the mansion went down to personally promise each family, and everyone agreed to accept the land of the new dynasty. As a result, no one has mentioned the matter of arranging rations and cloth for us foreign refugees and disaster victims?
It wasn't until this year that Mr. Lang gave some money subsidies to each household and took back the fields after he became the master of the family this year. Everyone was discussing it. It is estimated that it will be officially included in Li's household register, and many people are happy. Terrible! "

Li Yu rubbed his forehead with his hand and suddenly realized;

"It's only after you said this that I understand that everyone thought that the mansion was going to take back the land for the land exchange, so it's no wonder no one objected?

If it is said to be taken back, it will be taken back. I said, farmers' land is the lifeline, how can it be taken back so easily, there is such a reason in it! "

"That's right, sir, the land subsidy you distributed to the farmers is really unnecessary. After all, those lands were arranged by the county magistrate in the mansion at the beginning, and only the names are recorded in the hands of the farmers. It is called planting. Not bad for a few years.

And Mr. Lang, you said how much food each family will give in the future. Many families don't take it seriously at all, but what you said, you will all be the masters of these Zhuangzi in the future!
This sentence makes the farmers the happiest. Perhaps for them, it is important to be the same as the children of the family in the future. After all, the children of the family will receive this and that for a while, and have everything for food, clothing and housing. Wait, who is not jealous?
They are all thinking about handing over the land, and the next step is to fulfill the original ones, and they will feel at ease when they are included in Li's domestic servant household registration book, so what they all think is that in the future, they can also follow the rules of family birth and receive food and labor. Get the cloth.

A while ago when the fields were harvested, many people went to inquire about those acquaintances, how many times a year they received grain, how much corn, how much white rice, and how many pieces of cloth could be distributed per head. Some of them even asked carefully. Several families are afraid that in the future the stewards of the mansion will be greedy for their future food and cloth! "

Li Yu muttered to himself;

"I'm building new houses for everyone, plus I'm taking back the farmers' fields this year. Doesn't it mean that things that Aye didn't include are going on step by step?"

"That's right, sir, how did you realize that the house that Li's servants lived in is the best, and I've never heard of the house leaking, how can the refugees from outside not envy?

Now that Mr. Lang is in charge, he directly divides everyone into the same red brick and large tiled house. This kind of distribution method is the same as that of family and children. Of course, everyone is treated as domestic servants, and everyone feels that it is finally fair.

Coupled with the harvesting of everyone's fields and unified farming in the future, isn't this exactly the same as those servants?

Now there is only one last thing to do, and that is to work with the servants to receive corn rations per head every year, and cloth per head every season.

After receiving the cloth, all households will be able to wear unpatched clothes like the servants. As long as they receive the same things as the servants, the households will be able to feel at ease.

If it is exactly the same as those servants, Mr. Lang can continue to delay not entering everyone in the servant book, and there will not be many people complaining. "

"Complain?"

"That's right, sir, how can you not complain in your heart? When Alang sold himself for money, he promised everyone that he would be the servant of the Li family in the future. All the matters of eating, drinking and messing will be resolved by the Li family. Being hungry will never happen again.

This is what Alang promised himself when he brought the refugees back. The problem is that it has never been fulfilled after all these years!
Refugees, disaster victims, and householders have never been treated fairly, and have always been treated differently from those on the household registration books of domestic servants!

The farmers have never received the cloth once, and they are still patch after patch. Sir, if you imagine it from a fair standpoint, can you not complain? "

Li Yu was speechless when asked, this is indeed a matter, Aye gave him the money for selling himself, maybe after promise, he will be a servant and give birth to a child, but he didn't give him a new cloth.

He also used his family's name to get a batch of fields, and asked the farmers to plant them by themselves. To put it bluntly, it is almost tantamount to self-destruction, and no one will be happy if it is put on it?

Li Yu, who was stunned, changed the subject again and asked awkwardly;

"Then don't you think that after becoming a domestic servant, you will lose your freedom?"

Yingxiang answered without thinking;

"Freedom? Of course there is. Don't the children of those families go wherever they want when they have no work to do?

No one told them not to let them run around. A while ago, when there were no new houses being built in Zhuangzi, my third uncle went to Luoyang City with a group of family children and played for five or six days before returning. Isn’t that very free? "

Li Yu kept rubbing his temples. He couldn't communicate with Yingxiang more. He thought in his heart that he would go back to the Zhuangzi and ask the adults in person. After all, Yingxiang was only 17 years old, and she was still a child. The words can't be accurate.

But Li Yu suddenly remembered something, raised his head and asked again;

"Yingxiang, I remember that you have a younger brother who has registered with my Li family, so you won't be able to be an official in the future. Have you ever thought about it?"

After hearing what Li Yu said, Ying Xiang couldn't help but chuckle;
"My good sir, stop making trouble. How can there be a saying that the sons of ordinary people become officials? I have never heard of it since ancient times. It is said that children from poor families can go to official careers?

Besides, those aristocratic families, and the lords of the high-ranking families are still waiting in line. There are still many lords who have no place to arrange. How can it be the turn of the poor and common people? Many of my sons are unable to become officials!
You also said that poor people from village households want to become officials. Isn’t that a big joke? It’s the first time I’ve heard that a child from a poor family wants to be an official. It’s really fresh, hehe...

Let's go, sir, let's go back to our yard, it's almost midnight..."

"Oh"

Li Yu accompanied Yingxiang back to her yard like a wooden man, without saying a word along the way...

(End of this chapter)