Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 222

Daye first year, March [-]th.

Yang Ming received the decree, temporarily in the Yuzhou area, exempting slaves, slaves, trilogy from granting land and taxation, for a period of two years, returning the land to rent out, and paying taxes to supply Luoyang.

It's still because the old man is thoughtful. The returned land will not be granted to the land, but leased. If you grant the land to the people, it will be difficult to come back. In this way, the family can feel at ease and let them believe that this Policies are indeed only temporary.

If it is leased, each family can rent it by themselves, spend their own money, rent their own land, and rent out acres of land. Instead of paying the money and handing over the land, each family will give the land to you to plant first, and then pay taxes at the end of the year.

In the imperial decree, Yang Ming was not mentioned at all. After reading the whole article, it seems that Yang Guang himself meant it.

Yang Ming breathed a sigh of relief, after all, he was his own father, and he still protected him in major matters.

Yang Su and the others looked somewhat ugly after reading the imperial decree.

Hongnong Yang's hometown, Hongnong County, is also in Yuzhou. In other words, Yang Su's servants and maidservants will be temporarily confiscated.

Don't look at his slaves and maidservants, they all follow in the capital, but the fields under his name are all in their hometown, Hongnong County.

Hongnong County is a special place. Although it is also Yang Jian's hometown, the royal family only occupies [-]% of the land here, [-]% is in the hands of Yang Su, and the remaining [-]% is owned by ordinary people.

The place with the most royal acres is in Feng Yi County, because that's where Yang Jian was born.

After Yang Jian founded the country, he recognized Hongnong Yang as his ancestor, but in fact the real Hongnong Yang family did not accept Yang Jian very much, but was forced to recognize Yang Jian on the surface, but did not recognize him in his heart.

Yang Ming himself didn't know whether his old Yang family was Hongnong Yang or not. Anyway, the genealogy records of Zongzheng Temple were linked to Hongnong Yang.

The Yang family of Hongnong is the number one family member of the Guanlong Group. The family is very large, with direct and collateral lines plus various distant branches. The amount of acres of land owned in private is an extremely terrifying figure.

But this is still not much. In fact, the Qinghe Cui clan owns the most land in the Great Sui Dynasty.

Yang Guang's imperial decree undoubtedly slashed the income of Yang Su's hometown for the next two years, but Yang Su really couldn't say anything. If you oppose it, wouldn't you be a thief?
Fortunately, it's only been two years, and it's only in Yuzhou.

Yang Da, the deputy supervisor of the construction, was watching a joke from the sidelines, hey, I'm fine, my slaves are all in Guanzhong.

"Your Majesty is innocent," Yang Ming said to the crowd:
"Since this is the case, according to His Majesty's will, the Yuzhou area, prefectures, prefectures, and county officials will temporarily take over the land granted by the slaves and maidservants of the family under the rule. As for how to rent the collected land, we will wait until King Qi arrives to make arrangements. .”

Yang Hao still had three days at most before he could arrive in Luoyang. At that time, he had to arrange the lease of the fields, and the time was tight, because it was already the time for planting.

But Yang Ming couldn't exceed his authority to take care of this matter, even though Yang Hao was his elder brother, he had to wait until he came.

"But now, we can start to borrow food. This matter will be handled by the palace chief Shi Yuanwendu and Li Baiyao. Do you have any opinions?"

Those who knew Yang Ming, such as Yang Su, could of course see that Yang Ming was worried about others, so he asked his officials in the palace to do it himself.

Those who didn't understand Yang Ming thought he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to make some money.

Everyone, look at me, I look at you,
Who has an opinion?Of course not, unanimously.

Yang Ming nodded, and assigned some people to Yuan Wendu and Li Baiyao respectively, and the two of them went to various places to discuss the loan of grain with those big grain merchants, but in the end, they had to wait for Yang Hao to come before they could issue an IOU .

Trouble.
Now the food supplied to Luoyang is stored in the Heyang Warehouse in the north of Luoyang, which already has 20 shi. As for the meat, it is very scarce. It is very difficult to supply the meat that Yang Su said at the beginning.

The three major meats of the Sui Dynasty, sheep, cattle, and pigs, the first two are mainly eaten by rich people, and the latter pork is for civilian husbands.

But the supply of pork is not enough, because there is no large-scale pig breeding in the Sui Dynasty. There is a folk saying that eating pork will close the blood, weaken the muscles and bones, and strengthen the spirit, so even the common people don't like to eat it.

Beef is not something that can be eaten casually. There is an express law in the Sui Dynasty that beef cannot be eaten, but in fact, in Daxing, the capital, there are many butcher shops selling beef.

When you buy, you can't say you buy beef, but buy good meat.

As for mutton, it is even more outrageous, it is called precious meat, and it is even forbidden to eat, but mutton is actually the staple food of Sui meat, and the reason why it is banned is because the emperor's surname is Yang.

Regardless of whether it is prohibited or not, everyone still wants to eat meat, so if you change the title, you can sell it. As long as no one reports it, the higher authorities will not investigate it. Even if you are investigated, it will continue after the limelight passes.

In addition, there is also chicken, but chicken is not easy to supply, because in ancient times, chickens were raised for a year before they were slaughtered.

So, how to solve Yang Su's one meat diet in ten days?
The answer is meatloaf.

Mix all kinds of minced meat into pasta to make cakes. This is considered a meat meal. It is impossible to eat pure meat, and the nobles don’t have enough to eat.

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, the problem of drinking water in Luoyang does not exist, because there are Luoshui and Yishui, and the Guxian Reservoir and Luhun Reservoir, which are the main sources of drinking water for the people of Luoyang in later generations, are located in Luoshui and Yishui. water.

Liu Su, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, went to Yuzhang County at the beginning of the year, the governor of Miyagi Timber, and it is almost April now.

The first batch of aniseed materials had already arrived, a total of [-] pieces. Yang Ming made a special trip to Luoyang to have a look at the construction site.

A pillar, as thick as four people's arms, required a thousand peasants to drag it in turn, and it took two months to transport it to Luoyang.

During this period, there should be no major damage, otherwise it will not be able to be the pillar of the palace.

The palace city and city walls were the first to be built, and the best carpenters, bricklayers, metalworkers, and stoneworkers were all building the palace.

The walls of the Outer Guocheng are pure rammed earth walls, only the walls of Miyagi City are made of inner rammed earth, covered with bricks inside and outside.

Because the slope of the outer city is relatively large, it is easy to accumulate water if it is covered with bricks, which will accelerate the festering of the city wall, but the wall of the palace city is straight.

The bricks fired in the Sui Dynasty are not very good, the appearance is not good-looking, and the texture is not too hard, but it is already the highest technology at present. Because the bricks fired in the Tai Sui Dynasty are made of wood, not carbon, the temperature in the kiln rises. Not coming.

On the construction site in Luoyang, the fire was in full swing, and the soldiers of the military government took turns to patrol, and anyone who was found to be lazy would be whipped.

On this day, Qi Wang Yang Hao arrived in Luoyang.

The battle was not small, with more than 3000 people and hundreds of carriages.

Yang Ming naturally wanted to lead all the officials to welcome him. According to the order of succession, Yang Hao was ahead of him.
Yuzhou Mu's mansion is in the former Yuzhou governor's mansion. During Kaihuang's reign, there were three Yuzhou governors, all of whom were excellent.

One is Li Mu, who used to be one of the three grand masters.

One is Yu Yi, the son of Yu Jin, one of the Eight Pillar Kingdoms of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

One is Huangfu Ji, the grandson of Wei Xiaokuan.

Three people, all dead.

After the first year of Renshou, no one served as governor of Yuzhou again.

Yang Hao was in the mansion, discussing matters with Yang Ming and other officials. After he heard about the leased acres, he frowned and pondered for a long time before nodding:
"Since it's the father's intention, I will definitely do it here. Brother Ming can just borrow it, and I will issue a bill here. As for the lease, you don't have to worry about it. I will do it."

It's over. Yang Ming knows what kind of shit his second child is. He is in charge of renting, and he will definitely make money. There is a lot of room for manipulation.

But this matter did fall within Yang Hao's scope of authority, and it was not easy for Yang Ming to intervene because he didn't want to break up with Yang Hao.

The two brothers have been separated for several years, and Yang Ming actually doesn't know what the way they are now.

It's like in Yang Hao's eyes, the younger brother is not as close as before.

Discussing the business, within an hour, Yang Hao clapped his hands, called up a group of Wu Sheng musicians, and then raised his glass and chatted with Yang Ming about some romantic affairs.

There are a lot of musicians in Yang Su's house, and he likes it, but he never does it on serious occasions.

Let's talk about business, why did you bring a group of prostitutes here?
But other officials enjoyed it, and their eyes lingered on those prostitutes. Of course, there were also honest men, but not many.

In front of so many people, it was hard for Yang Ming to say anything, and he stayed alone until the third game in the evening.

"Second brother, don't show it in front of so many people in the future. It's not good to spread the word." Yang Ming kindly advised him.

While Yang Hao was drinking, he called a beauty and said with a smile:

"Brother Ming is worrying too much. I just invited some musicians to help out. It's not hurtful. Look at those people, they are also happy to see them here."

After finishing speaking, Yang Hao winked at Yang Ming, and said with a smile, "How do you like the beauties I gave Brother Ming?"

Yang Ming said honestly: "Give away one, and the remaining four haven't tasted yet."

"Sent it out? Which one?" Yang Hao frowned suddenly.

Yang Ming said, "It seems to be Yin Fuzi."

"Sigh..." Yang Hao slapped his thigh, and complained in a tone of voice: "I have chosen everything from thousands of people. If I knew you would give it away, I might as well keep it for myself."

Can you think of something serious?Yang Ming said: "The matter of the second brother in the south of the Yangtze River is often rumored in the capital, so be careful to spread it to the ears of the emperor."

Yang Hao was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to caress the beauty beside him, and said with a smile:

"Who doesn't have eyes, dares to sue me behind my back? As long as the eldest brother doesn't tell you, no one dares to tell."

Are you warning me?With my father's psychic eyes and ears, I'm afraid you already knew about your crap.

Yang Ming saw that he was still so dissolute in front of him, so he directly said to the extremely charming beauty:

"Go down."

Hearing this, the woman hurriedly put away her form, straightened her messy dress, and was about to leave, but was held back by Yang Hao,
Yang Hao looked directly at Yang Ming and said, "This is my person. She can only leave if I let her go."

Yang Ming looked at the other party in disbelief, with a look of surprise on his face. He never thought that in just a few years, the relationship between his second child and himself would have reached such a level?
"I want to talk to you about business. You left a prostitute here, how do you talk about it?" Yang Ming asked with a gloomy expression.

"it is good!"

Yang Hao slapped fiercely for a long time, and flung his arm violently. Under the pain, the prostitute hurriedly backed away with a look of panic.

"Then let's talk about business today, brothers."

(End of this chapter)