my wonderful zoo

Chapter 13 Anonymous
"Okay, since this is newly cultivated land, you should report it early and don't hide it. I believe that County Magistrate Wang will not be stingy in rewarding you."

In the Song Dynasty, in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of local officials, land reclamation was included in the performance assessment as a basis for promotion and rewards.Therefore, as long as the Chen family is willing to report these new fields, Zheng Jian cannot find fault here.

However, Zheng Jian's behavior still caused losses to Chen Jiazhuang in the final analysis. After all, for Chen Jiazhuang, if he reported late for one year, he would be able to pay less tax for one year.

Chen Lu wiped the sweat on his head, nodded and bowed in invitation: "After all this time, you must be tired. I have prepared some wine at home, and I also invite you officials to show your face, go and eat some food and wine to warm yourself up. "

The situation is stronger than the people, and you still have to hang out in the land of Dongguan. Even if the jackals come, you still have to have wine and food.

"Then we won't be polite." Zheng Jian didn't refuse, which made Chen Lu heave a sigh of relief.

Chen Lu believed that treating these people well and giving them some silver would be enough to settle the matter, just like he used to entertain the gentlemen who came down from above.

It's a pity that he kept things simple.

Zheng Jian brought people to Chen Lu's house. Ten large round tables had been set up in the yard, and everyone sat down to eat. In order to enhance the atmosphere, Chen Lu also found some middle-aged people from the clan to accompany him for drinks.

"Exceptor Chen, don't you have any women in the Chen family? Why are all the men serving food?" Zheng Jian drank a few glasses of wine and spoke much louder.

If I dare to let a woman from the clan come to drink with me, Chen Xun will hang me up and beat me tomorrow.

Chen Lu only dared to think about this in his heart, but did not dare to say it out loud.

"What's so good about an ignorant village woman? Her rough hands and feet get in the way. If you're interested, I'll invite you to Songyage tomorrow. The girl there has thin skin, tender flesh, and a delicate figure. I guarantee your satisfaction." Chen Lu smiled. Filling the wine glass for Zheng Jian: "Try again, this is Jiannanchun brewed by our Chenjiazhuang."

Zheng Jian was not angry when he was rejected, he cheerfully drank the fine wine in his glass.Jiannanchun has become famous in recent years. It is sweet and mellow in the mouth, not astringent at all, and has a light fruity aroma. Due to the high price, Zheng Jian is not lucky enough to drink it often.

Thinking that after renovating Chenjiazhuang, he would be able to drink this fine wine every day from now on, Zheng Jian's heart grew warmer.

"The wine is good and the food is plentiful. But without the beauty to accompany us, we lose some interest."

"The clan leader is very taboo on this aspect, and a certain family dare not offend him. The chief will take care of it. Tomorrow! Tomorrow, a certain family will promise to set up a table at Songyage to apologize to the chief." Chen Lu saw Zheng Jian's persistence and only said Chen Xun can be used as a shield.

In this era, clan law (family law) is greater than national law, and larger clans will have lynchings, so it is reasonable for Chen Lu to say this.

Zheng Jian did not accept Chen Lu's promise, but instead started eating and drinking.

After a while, when everyone saw that everyone had almost eaten, he spoke again: "Chenjiazhuang has a high spirit and a straight waist, and looks down on us subordinates. Then we will keep things official. Now we will start checking Chenjiazhuang's household registration." Then he stood up, looked at Chen Lu condescendingly, and said in a contemptuous tone: "Let's start at Chen Lu's house."

In Zheng Jian's world view, if the Chen family wants to be rich, they will definitely hide many refugees from the north, and then exploit these refugees ruthlessly so that they can accumulate family wealth.

Seeing that Chenjiazhuang cares so much about the refugees, most of the villages around Chenjiazhuang also think so.

"The Yan family shovel, you can only talk about business after you have eaten and drank enough." Chen Lu cursed in his heart. Just as he was about to take out the silver coins he had prepared in his sleeve, he could only stuff it back and said with an ugly face: "I should Yes, our Chenjiazhuang will definitely cooperate."

According to regulations, the lower-level subordinates in the Song Dynasty must conduct an inventory of the population under their jurisdiction every one and a half months to increase the number of goods and reduce the number of people in the household registration, because these people are subject to the "Ding tax", and they will be punished if they make mistakes.

The person in charge of Chenjiazhuang is Chen Lu, and there is also a hand-picker in the yamen named Chen Fu. Therefore, in the past, the household registration checks have always turned a blind eye.

There are indeed many people in Chenjiazhuang who do not have household registration, but these people are not exploited as Zheng Jian thought, but they live a normal and happy life.

As a latecomer, Chen Xun knows that extreme exploitation is actually a relatively inefficient way of extracting "surplus value". Only by making the plate bigger can everyone have enough to eat.Therefore, Chen Xun chose a relatively mild method of extraction, which is "incentive".Zheng Jian led people to conduct verifications one by one. All those who had been verified were taken to the drying yard for centralized surveillance. There were more and more people in the drying yard, and there were fewer and fewer unverified names on the household registration list.

As there were only a few names on the household registration book, and more than half of the houses in Chenjiazhuang had not been verified, Chen Lu became more and more panicked.He finally felt that these people were here to eat what Naka wanted. He must be in doom today, but he just didn't know if Chen Xun would rescue him from prison.

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Chenjiazhuang South Campus.

Nearly a hundred young men aged between sixteen and twenty gathered in a classroom.

"We can't wait any longer. We will be here soon. Hundreds of us are all hiding. We will definitely not be able to escape." said a young man wearing a navy guard uniform with short hair.

Orphans in Chenjiazhuang, even if they have already joined the work, will return to Chenjiazhuang regularly for training, and do psychological counseling and loyalty education by the way.

This young man wearing a Triton uniform came back for rotation training.

"If we really do it, wouldn't we break with the government?" A young man in a student uniform said hesitantly.

"Let's wait a little longer, the carrier pigeon is very fast." Another person said.

It was clear that most of the people in this room disagreed with the Triton guy's suggestion.

"You cowards, let me get ready first. It's so frustrating to be here with you!" After saying that, he turned and walked out. Following him, there were more than a dozen young men in various uniforms and several boat students. Young man in uniform.

There is a big gap between the courage of the young men who have entered various positions and the students who are still studying in the school, and most of the students are indeed more timid.

The Triton guy quickly came to the private port of Chenjiazhuang, where more than a dozen small and medium-sized boats were moored, and a large group of people gathered on the pier, including not only the staff on the pier and the boat, but also the names of the villages who came to hide from the village.

"How is the situation?" A middle-aged man stepped forward and asked.

"Those people are still checking. There are too many houses in the village, and it will definitely be impossible to get through." The Haiwei guy replied.

"What should I do? After a few good days, these wolves came to find fault again." An old woman was already whimpering and crying.

"I plan to pretend to be a pirate and rob Chenjiazhuang. Is anyone going to follow me?" the Haiwei boy yelled.

"Why are you trying to rob Chenjiazhuang?" Some people don't understand. This change is too sudden.

"Are you going to snatch those gentlemen?" Someone was thinking quickly.

"They're all armed."

"In the event of a battle, it will inevitably cause casualties, and the matter will become a big mess."

"Then what else can be done?"

Everyone was talking and all confused.

(End of this chapter)