Black Widow became the richest man by farming

Chapter 276 Too Fragrant! (seven more)
Lord Lu looked at her with clear eyes and said, "To be honest, these meats are still fragrant from domestic pork. They are fat but not greasy. Wild pork is too woody to chew. It's a waste of fire!" He said, "What can't be on the table, if you can eat enough, you must eat meat. If you want to grow tall and strong, you have to eat meat, eat more meat, and eat pork."

"You really want to eat braised pork." Mrs. Lu's crisp voice came from outside.

Ye Sanniang stood up with her two sons when she heard the sound, and looked towards the door.

Master Lu also stood up, looking at his wife who opened the curtain and came in.

"The women have met Mrs. Lu." Ye Sanniang blessed her body and saluted.

"Boy, pay my respects to Mrs. Lu." The two brothers Ye Yanxing saluted together.

"Ah! Sanniang is here." Mrs. Lu looked at her enthusiastically and said, looking at Ye Yanxing and the two brothers, "Good boy! Get up, get up." She said with a hearty smile, "Let's sit down and talk." She sat down with a smile Mr. Lu sat on the official hat chair on the lower right, looked at the little baby in her arms and said, "What's going on? Whose family's child."

"I picked it up in the baby tower. At that time, my whole body turned purple from the cold. The little baby is alive. She came back alive and has no fever today." Ye Sanniang gently lifted the baby in her arms and said.

"Uh..." Mrs. Lu pursed her lips and said, "Third Mother, if you are looking for the parents of the child, I advise you to say goodbye, and let them die in the end."

Everyone advised her not to look for the child's parents. It can be seen that the phenomenon of abandoning babies is very common, but it is not normal at all.

Ye Sanniang shook her head slightly when she heard the words, "You and Mr. Lu are really not in the same family, and you don't want to enter the same family."

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Lu looked at her with confusion and said.

"Master Lu also persuaded women in the same way at first." Ye Sanniang said, looking at her warmly with dark jade-like eyes.

"Then what is the magistrate asking me to discuss?" Mrs. Lu looked at the table and said to herself.

"This abandoned baby is not an exception. To prevent this kind of incident from happening again, I need the help of my wife." Lord Lu cupped his hands at her.

"Me?" Mrs. Lu's eyes fluttered slightly when she heard the words, "This needs to be saved for a while."

"Madam also knows about Layman Dongpo's Children's Rescue Society." Ye Sanniang said, looking at her in surprise.

"I read it from the book." Mrs. Lu looked at her lightly with starry eyes and said, "It was an extremely common phenomenon in the Song Dynasty not to give birth to a child, and not to raise a child after giving birth, drowning or throwing away the baby. All of these happened when the families were extremely poor, or because of wars, plagues, and famines, and the people were struggling to make ends meet."

"Don't talk about it in the late Song Dynasty? How could it be a common phenomenon!" Master Lu said in surprise.

"The heavy tax burden in the Song Dynasty was one of the reasons for the phenomenon of widespread infanticide and the practice of infanticide in the Song Dynasty." Mrs. Lu looked at him with compassion and said, "Dongpo Lay said in "A Song with Zhu Ezhou" : Jinghu North Road, a villain in the fields of Yue’e. For example, he only raised two men and one woman, and they were often killed when they passed. It is especially taboo to adopt daughters, because folk girls are often widowers. When they are newborn, they are always soaked in cold water, and their parents can’t bear it. Close your eyes and put your hands on the basin of water, and babble for a long time before you die. There was a man named Shi Kui from Shenshan Township who killed two sons in a row. In the middle of last year's summer, his wife gave birth to four sons. The poison of Chu was unbearable. Death, retribution is like this, but a fool does not know how to create a disease."

"It's too cruel." Ye Yanxing said angrily, "How can you be willing to kill your own flesh and blood. It's not a chaotic world, and human life is like an ant, and it's at stake."

"So it's retribution, it deserves it." Ye Luoxing said relievedly.

Mrs. Lu looked at the brothers tenderly and continued, "Dongpo Layman was demoted to Huangzhou: Huangzhou small people, poor people don't have many children, and newborns are easy to soak and kill."

Taking a deep breath to calm her emotions, Mrs. Lu continued, "Zhu Xi's father, Zhu Song, was an official in Fujian: I heard that people in Fujian don't like having many sons, and killing is a common practice... Although there are laws, they can't win. There are also Wang Dechen, Song Shenzong , Zhezong’s prime minister Zhang Dun and other ministers have records.” Then he said, “From their mouths, I learned that drowning infants was quite common in the southeastern region of the Song Dynasty.”

"Why?" Lord Lu said in surprise.

Ye Sanniang was shocked by Mrs. Lu's familiarity with history books.

Ye Yanxing and his brothers stared at Madam Lu even more exaggeratedly.

After Mrs. Lu's words, is this still the prosperous and brilliant Song Dynasty in their eyes?
Are ordinary people so miserable?
"Why else? Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger." Mrs. Lu said angrily, "The government of the Song Dynasty not only inherited the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of previous dynasties, but also added many new laws to collect people. Fu inheritance is the most important in the southeast. Cai Xiang's "Duanming Ji" Volume 69 mentioned that the households in southern Fujian are transported to the body every year. Dingmi seven buckets and five liters. "Chunxi Sanshan Zhi" Volume [-] contains, Sanshan area: Xian At the beginning of the Ping Dynasty, the summer tax and body money totaled more than [-]. In the fourth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, the imperial edict released the body money, and the Du Xia tax was [-]. The body money was as high as three times the summer tax There are too many." He said with an ugly face, "The head taxes of all colors in the Song Dynasty were full of tricks and heavy. Fan Chengda said: Chuzhou Dingqian is too heavy, so there is a tendency not to raise children." "Cargo" contains: Huzhou Dingjuan is the heaviest, and it will not be lifted until the child is born. Zhao Shanliao's "Self-Police Chapter Jiren" says: Zhejiang people lose their bodies Dingqianjuan at the age of one, and the people will discard it when they have children, and kill them when they grow up. Jiangnandong In Taiping Prefecture on the other side of the road, people have to pay extra money for their children, and the age is millions, and the people are too poor to be defeated by officials, so all their children are drowned. It can be said that the cruel head tax squeeze of the Song Dynasty was an important reason for the people's infertility."

"Didn't the government care about it at the time?" Mr. Lu looked at her with dark eyes and said.

"At that time, some scholar-officials severely reprimanded: the custom of not raising children in the southeast hurts human reason, and asked the government to strictly prohibit it." Madam Lu squeezed her fists, calmed down and said, "The government has indeed taken various measures to try to It has been stopped, but the custom of not raising children has not improved, and the ban has not stopped, and even intensified in some places." He closed his eyes and said, "On the one hand, the Song Dynasty government legislated to stop this custom, and on the other hand, it promoted it with heavy taxes. It is a custom that even the emperors of the Song Dynasty recognized: the people are worth money for their lives, and they will not give birth to children. But the emperor of the Song Dynasty will never cancel the person tax and save children, that is impossible."

In Ye Sanniang's ears, it's a poll tax, it's so delicious, I can't bear to pay it!

Ye Sanniang stared at Mrs. Lu with admiration, so amazing!
"That's not right!" Mr. Lu scratched his head and said, "In the Song Dynasty, people had heavy taxes, and they didn't have children. But now our farmland tax is very low, and most of the north is tax-free."

　At six o'clock in the evening, ask for a monthly ticket, ask for collection

　　
　
(End of this chapter)