Poor family mother and son

Chapter 327 About Job Field
Gan Lai fried poached eggs with five yolks for each of them. This thing is not easy to carry and is easy to break, so it is better to eat them all.

Chu Yuan especially liked to see Gan Lai bowing left and right, holding a spatula in each hand, and frying eggs in two pans at the same time.

Zheng Xiaorou steamed the more than 100 catties of pancakes and more than 50 catties of stewed pork belly that he brought. The pancakes were broken into two pieces, and the meat was chopped into pieces. Each person had a plate-sized pancake rolled meat and a fried egg.

With the hot chopped green onion soup, Hu'er Hei yo will be full.

Zheng Xiaorou took small bites of the "Roujiamo", eating delicately, but her expression was very satisfied. What she was satisfied with was not the taste, but the way everyone ate: "Well, it's so good!"

Bai Jiaxing "hululu" finished a big mouthful of soup, raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's so good?"

Zheng Xiaorou smiled: "Brothers are so easy to support!"

Bai Jiaxing glanced around, and suddenly felt that these rough guys, even counting willingness to come, were like a group of big dogs earning food, eating what they had, and not being picky at all.

What Zheng Xiaorou really wants to say is: It's great to marry Bai Jiaxing.

Married to a real and sincere man, met a large group of brothers who were also real and sincere, and had a carefree Chu Qing, and lived a solid life.

There is no intrigue, no conspiracy, no family property, no disputes between the sons and daughters, life is worry-free, happy, and comfortable.

The most important thing is Xiaobao, who should be treated like an underage brother-in-law.

But this child sometimes looks like a little dandy in Kyoto, sometimes like a snotty doll in a mountain village, and sometimes like his father who is a minister of the Ministry of Industry.

There are those who are not stingy, those who arouse people's pity, and those who conspire to kill.

Whenever people want to teach him, they often feel a little intimidated, but this child just yells "Sister-in-law" one after another, quite respectful.

Xiao Bao cut the pancake in half, ate half by himself, and stuffed the other half into Gan Lai's hand: "Eat more!"

Gan Lai didn't appreciate it at all: "If you can't eat it, just say you can't eat it. It's like saving it for me!"

Xiao Bao also sliced ​​his own fried egg, and put the half of the three yolks in front of Gan Lai: "Well, I can't eat it, help me."

Xiao Sining and the brothers couldn't help laughing: "Gan Lai, he called you a bastard!"

Gan Lai hadn't eaten the fried eggs yet, now he looked at the five egg yolks on his plate, plus the three that Xiao Bao handed over...he picked up the shovel and beat them.

"Beard! You have minced meat hanging from your beard!" Xiao Bao laughed and ran away, not forgetting to tease Gan Lai.

Chu Yuan stomped his feet, this must be Xiaobao, if it were Xiao Sining, he might beat him to death!

After eating and drinking, everyone got up and went on the road.

Don't look at the boats and cars coming and going at the ferry, the hustle and bustle of people, and the lively appearance, you just think how prosperous the Youzhou Prefecture adjacent to Kyoto is.

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Leaving the ferry, there are people wearing patched clothes everywhere, as well as thatched huts, wooden houses, and even a brick house is rare.

Along the way, Xiaobao even saw many people fetching water from the river, and walking a long way to get water to their homes.

"Is there no well in their village?" Xiaobao asked.

I remember that when he and his mother first arrived in Wukeshu Village, there were three wells in the village.

Even when he was very young in Kushui Town, there was a well in his backyard.

"Digging a well doesn't cost money?" Bai Jiaxing said.

Xiaobao: "A well is only ten taels of silver. A village only drills one well. Everyone contributes together. It's not much money, right?"

Bai Jiaxing: "It's not my own land. If the well is dug, it belongs to others. Who would pay their own money to dig a well for others? Besides, it's not a matter of whether they let it or not!"

Xiaobao: "It's not your own land? What should I say?"

Bai Jiaxing: "These are all working fields, and the people are all tenant farmers. If the master doesn't dig a well, they have to carry water."

It's better not to explain it like this.Xiaobao was very dissatisfied: "Can't you explain it more clearly!"

Bai Jiaxing turned his eyes to his daughter-in-law for help.

It's not that he doesn't want to explain clearly, it's that he doesn't understand much.

Zheng Xiaorou immediately understood, and said to Xiaobao: "Originally, not all tenant farmers here, but the people's land cannot withstand the encroachment and exploitation by officials, and gradually they became tenant farmers.

Breaking apart and calculating carefully, it is really hard to be an ordinary person.You see, the royal estates are not counted, nor are the fiefdoms of princes and nobles. Just how much land is rewarded to these princes and nobles every year?

If the land in the capital is not enough, the land in the suburbs of Beijing will be divided, and then the land in Ji County will be divided; if it is not enough, the land near Ji County will be divided;

Then there are Guanzhuang and Zhitian. Guanzhuang is the "burden of public land" for the government to collect rent. However, no one in Guantian itself pays the second tax in autumn and summer, so the second tax will be added to the tenant farmers, increasing the amount of land rent. This is "Double tax collection".

Let’s talk about job fields. The foreign officials we announced all have job fields, which are rented by tenants and the officials enjoy the benefits.

This is one of the salaries, and the general employment land is not very good land, so there is not much harvest;

What should I do if the harvest is not high?If you are bold, just exchange land with the common people, and if you don’t exchange, you will be punished to death;

Regardless of whether it is an official village or a job field, this is the land that the officials are responsible for. Today it takes up a little bit of the common people, and tomorrow it will squeeze a little bit more, and it will be expanded when the spring is sown and the autumn harvest is plowed.

Anyway, it was the princes and nobles who squeezed out the officials and the people, and if the officials couldn't get them back, they just squeezed out the people, as long as they didn't suffer any losses.

There are many officials in Kyoto, and many officials did not return their jobs after they came to Beijing, but opened up relationships to confuse the land;
There are also some Beijing officials who casually give a relative in the family a casual job as an external official, and even if they don't do any work, they take up a lot of jobs. "

Zheng Xiaorou thought of her father, who used such means to occupy land back then, but after entering Beijing, he didn't dare to go too far for the sake of future, and returned his job land.

Zheng Xiaorou stopped to drink water, moistened her throat, and then brought the topic back to Xiaobao's original question: "Furthermore, common people's land is counted by mu, and official's land is counted by hectare, even the most remote The county magistrates in the small counties all have seven hectares of land.

The people slowly lost their land in this way, and they were unable to fight against the officials.How to fight?When the people sue the officials, they will hit [-] boards first. Do you think that the official can let you succeed?

Within fifty boards, you must die.

The common people's land was exploited, and then encountered drought, pests, etc., and sold the land when they couldn't survive.

They have all become tenants, how can they have money to dig wells?Besides, you occupy my land, and I pay you to dig a well?What are you thinking! "

After getting along with these rough guys for a long time, Zheng Xiaorou's speech has also become more straightforward, and she should never express her dissatisfaction implicitly.

As expected of a son of an official family, I have explained the way here clearly, but it seems that everyone's attention is not on the matter of the common people's land being exploited, but——

"That's not right, why haven't I heard that the boss has a job?" Gan Lai was the first to respond.

"That's right, our boss is a fifth-rank official. Sister-in-law, how many jobs does a fifth-rank official have?" Chu Yuan immediately thought of this question.

"Then our boss still has three ranks and five ranks, shouldn't he have three jobs?" Xiao Sining calculated more clearly.

(End of this chapter)