Father's love is like a mountain

Chapter 19: Children's Research
"Hey, why did the intimacy of these children suddenly increase by one point or two? Well, except for Xiao Wu and Xiao Lan who have already reached the critical point of 49 points. Well, there is also Xiaoying, the little white-eyed wolf. Not only did it not increase, but it dropped. a little."

Xia Yongchu routinely looked at the system panel, a little surprised.

"I didn't expect to have such a windfall by engaging in social practice activities. I just wanted to polish their minds, and by the way, it was also a backhand."

"After all, I have decided to kill that venerable within these three months. If the action fails and I am backlashed, someone will take the children away and fly away, at least leave me a little flesh and blood."

Xia Yongchu's hand moved back and forth slowly, stroking Duoduo's neck hair.

Duoduo closed his eyes comfortably, lazily motionless.

I don't know whether cats are more enjoyable, or people who play cats are more enjoyable.

"If the children can increase their intimacy by one or two points every day, how good would it be? Then the intimacy will break through 90 soon. In that case, I can buy and buy in the mall at will. It is estimated that it will be completed within ten years." Jin Dan is gone."

"Speaking of which, why did the intimacy suddenly increase? Even if Li Hao, an old man, sneaked to deliver food to the children as I expected, the children should only thank him. How could he increase intimacy for me?"

"Inexplicable, inexplicable. Taking care of children is really a profound knowledge."

Xia Yongchu shook his head, and continued to think about his plan to deal with His Majesty.

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Several young masters and girls from the Xia Mansion traveled around the county towns in the past ten days, and went to "research" on the farm belonging to the Xia Mansion - this word was invented by Mr. Xia.

As for the content of the research, it is just to check the accounts, chat with the villagers, take a walk in the fields, and stay at the villagers' homes to understand the living conditions of the villagers; Concealing the top and the bottom, enriching one's own pockets, did you bully men and women...

Certainly not to let them handle specific affairs, but to let them have a general understanding of these.

But these general understandings have already greatly touched the well-clothed young masters and girls in the Xia Mansion.

What they have seen before, the poorest living conditions are only servants of the Xia Mansion.

However, the life of the servants of the Xia Mansion is already like a paradise for many farmers.

How many people, sharpened their heads, wanted to send their children to Xia Mansion, even if they sold themselves into slavery?

Although the state of Chu does not allow slaves to exist, it does not allow selling contracts, and it does not allow signing long-term contracts exceeding 10 years.

But the rich and powerful have plenty of ways to avoid it.

These days, there are quite a few boys and girls who think they look decent, about the same age as Xia Qiwen, secretly looking for them, kowtow to beg them, begging to be taken to Xia Mansion as slaves.

All they ask for is a full mouthful of food and old clothes that can keep them warm.

Hearing and witnessing these things shocked the children of Xia Mansion from the root of the Three Views.

On this day, the small team left Huafeng County, ready to go to the next destination.

When the sun was rising, everyone was already sweating profusely, and the young master Xia Qilie was even more exhausted, but he was still sensible, his face was pale and he still gritted his teeth.

Still Li Hao couldn't stand it, and asked the team to stop and rest.

Xia Qixiong looked away from the jade pendant on Xia Qilie's waist, drank a few sips of water, hesitated for a while, came to Li Hao, saluted and said, "Guard Li."

Li Hao slowly opened his eyes, seeming a bit old-fashioned.

In fact, he is less than 50 years old this year, but in this era, a 40-year-old man can call himself old.

So in everyone's eyes, he is definitely an old man.

Although he was born in Xia Mansion, his living conditions were not bad since he was a child, and he doesn't look old now.

"Brother Xiong, why are you looking for this old slave?"

"Guard Li," Xia Qixiong said with a very respectful attitude, "I just want to ask how that Tao Zhuangtou will be dealt with."

When the other children heard the word "Tao Zhuangtou", they also pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.

Xia Qilan even went straight to Li Hao and squatted down in front of Li Hao, holding her chin with both hands, almost holding a big melon.

Even Xia Qizhi, who looked like a little lady, pretended to be indifferent and moved closer quietly.

"That guy," Li Hao thought for a while, "in front of the farmer, beat him hard, and then removed him. But the farm we passed by before, the farm in Sanshui County, was not taken down by us. Is it done? Let someone surnamed Tao go to Sanshui County to temporarily act as the head of the village for a year to see the effect."

"It's just a smoke? And go to another farm to be the head of the house?" Xia Qixiong was stunned.

He never expected such a result.

The other children also expressed their puzzlement.

In the simple concept of the children, this person should be killed.

Even Xia Qilan and Xia Qizhi said privately, "This person should be severely punished."

This Tao Zhuangtou is the head of the farm they "investigated" in the past few days.

It manages more than a hundred village households—or in other words, the "tenant farmers" who cultivate the land of the Xia Mansion.

These Zhuangmin have a certain personal relationship with Xiafu.

They don't have land, they are just farming for the Xia Mansion, so they don't have to pay taxes themselves, and it is the Xia Mansion who pays the tax to the government.

And by attaching to the Xia Mansion, they can also be exempted from some corvee and military service.Even most of them do not exist in the official account books and belong to hidden households.

In return for them, the Xia Mansion would give them a barely enough ration every year.

Of course, children cannot fully understand these complicated things.

But at least they know that these villagers are all subordinate to Xiafu.

And Zhuangtou is the person elected by the Xia Mansion to manage the people in the village.

As soon as the team came to this farm, some villagers came to complain, saying that Tao Zhuangtou had bullied men and women and enriched his own pockets.

It was not the first time for the children to encounter this kind of thing. They arranged it in an orderly manner, listened to the statements of both parties, and then sent people to other villagers to collect circumstantial evidence.

It's not the government handling the case, and there is no need for such strict procedures and evidence. In short, everyone knows what to do.

After several days of investigation, it was finally confirmed that Tao Zhuangtou's charges were true.

Tao Zhuangtou occupied at least three women from good families. This is well documented and the sufferer can be found.

In addition, Zhuangmin was bullied and beaten many times, and two of them died shortly after being beaten.

As for enriching one's own pockets, there are also things, but in the eyes of the children, Tao Zhuang has embezzled property and so on in the past few years, which are worth more than 200 taels of silver, which is really nothing.

For their children, the monthly allowance for boys is 4 taels, and for girls it is 5 taels.

Usually during the New Year and festivals, you can often get a reward of ten taels or eight taels of silver.

In their opinion, 200 taels of silver is not much.

But before they made a final decision on Tao Zhuangtou, they set off for the next stop according to the plan.

But the children are still worried, eager to know what kind of treatment Tao will get.

However, what Li Hao said disappointed them greatly.

(End of this chapter)