Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 73
However, Gao Wushi was a bit early with emotion, because after Zhang Jin introduced the manor itself, he began to introduce the attached land of this other courtyard - there are not many farmlands around here, and even if there are, they are mainly mountainous land, which is a serious and good field. Less than a hundred acres.

but!

When Zhang Jin took out the map and showed it to Gao Wushi, he almost blinded Mr. Gao's eyes: There are almost a hundred hectares of mountains and forests around this courtyard, all of which belong to Cherry Springs courtyard!
Hundreds of acres!In ancient times, one hectare was equivalent to fifty acres, and hundreds of hectares were equivalent to more than 300 million square meters, or thirty square kilometers!

Gao Wushi opened his mouth, feeling a little numb in his heart: I... just suddenly became a big landlord?Although there are not many fields, mountains are also land. People in the Ming Dynasty didn't know how to use mountains, but I would!

He suddenly became a little excited, and stared at the map carefully. After a while, his eyes became brighter and brighter—a part of the Mentougou Coal Mine, which will shine in the future, is likely to be part of his own mountain forest!

Part of it doesn't matter, part is enough!If it doesn't work, it will be over if we buy the nearby mountain land in the future. The good farmland is valuable these days, and the broken mountain land that can't grow food is not worth a lot of money.

This is going to be released!
Gao Yushi secretly made up his mind: Although according to the plan, when he develops in the future, he will definitely promote the reform of the salt industry. At that time, the income of the Zhang family's salt industry may be greatly reduced, but it is aimed at today's uncle. After the gift, I must also guide the Zhang family to a better path.It must not only be beneficial to the country, but also ensure that the Zhang family will not fall.Well, it is a virtue to know kindness...

Because Gao Yushi got such a huge benefit from the Zhang family, he immediately pulled the Zhang family from the "salt merchant who harmed the country" to the "national capitalist worth guiding and saving".

Gao Wushi's heart was beating wildly, but he still tried his best to calm down, and asked, "Have General Liu settled down?"

Sometimes Zhang Jin felt that he couldn't keep up with the jumping speed of this young master's thinking, and he was taken aback for a moment before replying: "It's arranged in the VIP room on the second floor, I guess they are all tired, and they should be resting at this time. "

Gao Wushi nodded, almost unable to hold back his joy, and immediately ordered: "Very good, very good, you leave the map, first go and arrange the residences of the guards, and then listen to the piano and appreciate the moon, Gao Mo and Gao Xiaozhuang told me to go to my study, and I will go to the study and wait for them to order something."

After hearing this, Zhang Jin hesitated for a moment.

"What?" Gao Wushi asked, "But what else has to be said now?"

Zhang Jin smiled wryly: "Actually, it was just a rough introduction. According to the plan, I should have introduced to you, Young Master Biao, the management of the upper, middle and lower courts of the other courtyard, as well as the money and silk income and expenditure accounts of the other courtyard."

"The upper, middle and lower courts?" Gao Wushi asked back, suddenly realized, looked at the third floor of the other court that now belonged to him, and asked: "The uncle of the other court gave it to me, I can take it again." name?"

Zhang Jin said: "That's natural. The master brought the land deed and so on, and I'm planning to hand it over to you when I introduce the income and expenditure accounts of the other courtyard."

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "Don't worry about that, I'll change the name of this other courtyard first... From now on, this other courtyard will be called 'San Shen Yuan'. Changed to 'Shensiyuan', 'Shenyanyuan' and 'Shenxingyuan'."

Zhang Jin's eyes lit up, and he quickly praised: "This name is good. It is more elegant than Cherry Orchard. Mr. Xie Ge didn't know what he thought at the beginning, and he took such a vulgar name as Cherry Orchard."

Gao Wushi shook his head, and said: "You misunderstood this. Mr. Xie Ge had already achieved fame at that time, so you can choose a name for a mere courtyard. But I am different. I have no fame, so I put Here, the name of prudent thinking, prudent speech, and prudent action is to remind oneself day and night, thinking of it as a spur, in fact, it is the meaning of the sage Confucius' "I examine myself three times a day."

Zhang Jin thought to himself: Does it mean that you don't need to "examine yourself three times a day" if you become famous?

But naturally, Zhang Jin did not dare to criticize the old and important ministers of the old court, so he could only laugh dryly: "Master Biao is right, but I still think this name is very good."

Gao Yushi pretended to be busy and didn't want to chat about such matters, so he changed the topic back with a smile: "Just now you said that you wanted to introduce me to the income and expenditure of money... Didn't it mean that the total of this other courtyard is only about a hundred mu? Even though I don’t do farming, I can’t supply such a large manor with just a hundred acres of land. Let’s talk about it, how much money do I have to fill in every year?”

Zhang Jin said with a smile: "You know that Young Master Biao will have this misunderstanding."

"Misunderstanding?" Gao Wushi asked in surprise, "Why, can this hundred mu of land really supply such a large manor?"

"Hundred acres of land can't be supplied naturally." Zhang Jin explained with a smile: "But Master Biao, the term "hundred acres of land" is just a record in the field book. The upper field is 430 and seven acres, the middle field is 780 and two acres, and the lower field is 960 and six acres."

Gao Wushi was stunned for a moment.

He calculated in his mind that under the name of Sanshen Garden, there are about 2000 hectares of land, that is, [-] mu. There are three types of fields here, about [-] and [-] mu... Well, it seems that this ratio is not very good. Exaggerated look?

"But why is there only a hundred acres of land in the field book?" Gao Wushi couldn't help asking.

Zhang Jin smiled awkwardly, and said falteringly: "This...uh, when the master bought this place, the price was calculated according to the actual number of fields, but you may also know, Master Biao, that our Daming's fields... this, There are many that are not on the register."

Gao Wushi suddenly understood: Isn't this fucking Yin Tian?
Gao Yushi actually knew a little about Yintian, but because he was young, no one told him about it in detail, so he was not very familiar with it.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty had a yellow book system, which uniformly registered and compiled the population, fields and resources of various places as evidence for paying taxes.However, after the rich landlords colluded with officials, many officials falsified on this. One of the simpler methods was to use inferior paper to make yellow books, which caused the yellow books to disappear for no reason due to paper damage during preservation.

The yellow book belongs to the original file. Your original file doesn’t have this field anymore. Naturally, the actual owner of this field doesn’t have to pay taxes for this land. Do you need to explain this?
In fact, the origin of this piece of land was quite mysterious earlier—the great eunuch Wang Zhi got it here during the Chenghua period!No matter who Wang Zhi was, his power at that time was probably only a little bit worse than that of the nine thousand years later.With his ability, he won the land and moved a little bit. The original 2000 two hundred acres of land was put into the yellow book and only one hundred acres remained...is it strange?

You must know that there are more ways to falsify the yellow book. In addition, some officials simply falsified the yellow book registration at the beginning, registering the rich and landlords as poor, and registering the poor as landlords. As a result, the taxation responsibility falls on the poor, causing A large number of poor people fled.

After the poor fled, the officials were not afraid. They copied last year's yellow book again and sent it up to make up the numbers. As a result, after decades, the content was exactly the same.

The reason why those officials dared to do this may be mainly because after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, no emperor seriously checked the authenticity of the contents of the yellow book, nor did he send people to seriously investigate the actual situation of the population, fields, and resources in various places, so he gave unscrupulous officials and landlords Take advantage of the loophole.

In fact, there are many ways to take advantage of the loopholes, but the high-level pragmatism doesn't know it.

But an embarrassing thing happened right now: Gao Wushi had a plan to re-measure the land in the future, but he never expected that there would be more than 2000 mu of hidden land under his name now!

(End of this chapter)