A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 186 Bad Boys
In the early morning, Huaiyu rode Yezhaobai, followed by two dogs, and was heading to the south of the city with his entourage. As soon as he left the house, he ran into his neighbor Wei Zheng who was going to work in Shangshu Province.

"Wei Zuocheng, good morning."

Wei Zheng actually snorted, turned a blind eye, and turned to the other side.

"Why is this person so rude?" Chen Sheng felt that Wei Zheng was baffled. He was an official in the same dynasty and lived next to him.

"Don't pay attention to him." Huaiyu smiled. This Wei Zheng is really annoying. This person has impeached Huaiyu three times. He made great contributions when he was still in Longyou. Li Shimin wants to make him the founder of the county and give him the title of guerrilla general. , Wei Zheng jumped out to object, saying that the reward was too much.

Later Huaiyu returned to Beijing, and Wei Zheng impeached Huaiyu twice.

On the night of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne, Duan Lun presented fireworks to Li Shimin. Wei Zheng impeached Duan Lun and Huaiyu, which caused Huaiyu to be removed from the post of young supervisor.

The most exaggerated thing is that Huaiyu moved to Yongxingfang and became Wei Zheng's neighbor. I don't know if this guy is envious of Huaiyu's luxurious house. The treasury was turbulent and empty, and Wu Huaiyu didn't know how to be an example of diligence and thrift, and was extravagant and wasteful.

It is said that Huaiyu's family kills chickens and sheep every day and eats meat every day. Even the family dog ​​eats bones with meat, saying that this is cannibalism.

Anyway, it rose to a very high altitude.

Although Li Shimin ignored him in the end, let alone deal with Huaiyu, Ma Zhou vented his anger on Huaiyu's behalf and impeached Wei Zheng as Shangshu Zuocheng. Wine is also sold privately.

Li Shimin immediately punished Wei Zheng, and had all the brewers in Wei Zheng's family confiscated, as well as Wei Zheng's self-brewed wine, and fined him another twenty catties of copper.

Since then, Wei Zheng didn't even say hello when he saw Huaiyu.

Yesterday Ma Zhou proposed marriage and engagement, the Wu family held a banquet and invited guests and relatives, Lao Wu also invited Wei Zheng, but Wei Zheng didn't come at all.Later, the Liu family sent some meat to the Wei family, and Wei Zheng returned it as it was.

Anyway, it means never to associate with the Wu family.

It doesn't matter to Huaiyu, although Wei Zheng is now Shangshu Zuocheng, but this person is not Li Shimin's real confidant, but a stickler. Being stared at by him will not affect Huaiyu, maybe it is a good thing.

I took Chen Sheng and so on to the Xinchangfang Pear Garden in the south of the city, where not only is the old tradition of making autumn pear paste and pear nectar, but now it is also making pear wine.

He wasn't afraid that Wei Zheng would impeach him for making wine again, since his pear wine didn't need grain anyway, when the wine was ready, he would give Wei Zheng a bottle, to make the old man mad.

"Have your sister-in-law and the others gone to Longyou?"

"Well, it's already on the way, and I have to thank Erlang for the arrangement."

Chen Xing originally hoped that his wife, children, parents and brothers would go there, but now Chen Sheng and the others were released by Li Jing's family, but Chen Sheng came to his brother-in-law Huaiyu to find an errand, so naturally his wife and children would not go to Longyou again.After much deliberation, Chen Xing's parents were unwilling to leave Chang'an in the end.

They even miss their errands in the Li Family Manor a little bit, and suddenly they are free, but they are a little at a loss.

At the end of Runniang's request, Huaiyu arranged their husband, wife and daughter to watch the pear orchard in Xinchangfang in the south of the city, and took care of the production of autumn pear paste, wine making, beekeeping and honey collection, and by the way, also managed the [-] acres of land in Qujiang stand up.

"The Forbidden Army is recruiting new people, do you want to join?" Huaiyu asked.

Chen Sheng smiled, "I was originally a slave of the Li family, and now it's good to be exempted, but after all, my status is there, and the government soldiers are not qualified to be appointed, how can I be an imperial army."

"This time is different, but a rare opportunity."

It turned out that after Li Shimin reached the Weiqiao alliance with Jieli, he felt aggrieved all the time, so now he began to personally train the soldiers to practice archery in the Xiande Hall of the Eastern Palace. The emperor's professor not only learns archery from the emperor, but also competes in the assessment after learning, and there are rewards for good archery.

This matter is very out of the ordinary, after all, under normal circumstances, the emperor in the palace is only surrounded by Qianniu Beishen and Beishen Zuofu. It is a guard of honor with a wooden class knife and sword.

Now there are hundreds of soldiers shooting arrows and spears outside Xiande Hall every day, if one or two people with ulterior motives get mixed in, wouldn't it be a big deal.

Wei Zheng opposed the most fiercely, admonishing him as soon as he came to court.

The governor of Hanzhou, Feng Tongren, falsely claimed that something was wrong, and rode a stage horse back to the court to remonstrate. Li Shimin couldn't hear it at all. Not only did he not stop training and testing the soldiers outside the Xiande Hall, he even expanded the Forbidden Army at the North Gate.

The old base of the Beimen Forbidden Army is naturally Li Yuan's emperor Yuancong with 3 troops, and the fifth division is on duty, and about 6000 people maintain the division.

In name, it belongs to the left and right Tunwei, but in fact it is directly under the emperor.

After the fourth day of June, Li Shimin made some adjustments to the Forbidden Army at the North Gate. He also selected brave young men named Baiqi to accompany them to form Baiqi.

And not long ago, the Thousand Riders Battalion was established.

Now Li Shimin plans to make a comprehensive adjustment of the system, expand the number of Baiqi to 2000, and expand the number of Qianqi Battalion from [-] to [-]. Yinghe, the left and right Shenji battalion, and the left and right Baiqi battalion are still collectively referred to as the Eighth Battalion of the Forbidden Army.

Flying Cavalry, Qianqi, and Shenji still have the original 3 horses, each of which is unified by [-]. However, the expansion of the Baiqi Battalion this time is not directly selected from the Yuan Dynasty's imperial army, nor is it from the former Liuhu of the Qin Palace. Picking from the army, the emperor actually wants to pick a brave young man from the Tibetan household.

What is Fanhu?
It's not a barbarian, the Fanhu belongs to the government slaves and was exempted once.

Datang will confiscate some criminals and their family members into the government to serve as slaves, and put them into low status. These people are called official households, not officials, but government slaves.

Some of them perform well and can be exempted once, that is, they can get part of their freedom and become Tibetans.Fan households still belong to the government slaves, but they are not as dead as the official households. They can even get their own household registration, marry wives and have children, etc. They need to undertake certain craftsmen for the government every year, or raise horse breeds Land and other tasks, when the land is allocated, a small part can be allocated.

If these people can perform well in the future and have a chance to be exempted again, then they will become truly free citizens.

This time Li Shimin wants to expand the number of hundred riders, and the plan is to increase the number to two thousand, but he has to select brave young men from the Tibetan households, which is very special.

Wu Huaiyu reckoned that the reason for doing this was that many of these youths from aboriginal households were originally military officials or generals, but they lost their officials due to crimes, or those who opposed the Li family in the previous dynasty, or the local separatist forces at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Secondly, these people are already slaves, even official slaves or royal slaves. Their status is already the most humble. Li Shimin gave them a chance, and they would naturally be more grateful.

Just like Fan Xing, Qian Jiulong, Ma Sanbao, etc. were also Li Yuan's slaves back then, but in the founding war of Li and Tang, they also fought their lives, and finally they were appointed generals.

"Then I don't meet the qualifications either. I'm a good citizen now, even if I'm still a cheap person, I'm still a private slave of the Yongkang government, not a foreigner."

"But you have the ability to be brave. Your Majesty will expand the Baiqi. This time, he will mainly pick out brave young men from the barbarians. I will recommend you as a guarantee. Your ability is completely sufficient.

And if Baiqi can't get in, you can still go to test Qianqi and Feiqi. "

Chen Sheng didn't seem to have much interest in being a soldier or an official. He was greatly influenced by Li Erlang, "It's good to follow Erlang now."

"By the way, with the expansion of Qianqi, Baiqi, Shenji, and Feiqi, wouldn't Erlang, the envoy of Qianqi, also be promoted? Congratulations!"

"The Qianqi Battalion is indeed going to be expanded, but after the official expansion, it is naturally impossible for me to be an envoy of the Qianqi Battalion, because I don't have enough qualifications."

Huaiyu is very calm about this, no matter whether he is Qianqiying or Wanqiying, as he is so young, he doesn't insist on that.

"I suggest you to try the recruitment of Baiqi. You are not young anymore. You have to think about your wives and children. This time the Turkic invasion, the famine in Chang'an, how many people pawned their wives and sold their children, in the final analysis, it is because the status is too low what?
If you become an imperial guard, are you afraid that your wife and children will suffer from cold and starvation?
If you become an official like your elder brother, you don't have to worry about poverty and hunger. You used to follow Li Erlang, and your whole family is also slaves of the Yongkang government. In fact, you don't have to worry about eating, drinking, clothing, etc. But now you set up your own family, these are things to consider. "

Chen Sheng, his parents, wife, and younger sisters are now servants of Wu Huaiyu's family, and they also have rations and wages, but his words did make Chen Sheng listen to him a bit.

"I'll think about it again."

"Well, the opportunity is rare, don't miss it."

Huaiyu and the others went around the Xinchangfang Pear Garden. Runniang's parents used to work as stewards at Li's Village, and they were relatively young, only in their early forties. It turned out that this pear orchard was taken care of by an old couple. Now that they are old, they go back to Qin Qiong Zhuangzi to take care of them.

The pear wine brewing workshop has already been set up. Brewing pear wine is actually not complicated. The main thing is to break the pears and remove the seeds, and then smash some of them to let them ferment naturally. It takes a long time and is fermented at a suitable temperature in autumn.

Huaiyu walked around and found that they were very efficient and the garden was tidy. The old courtyard was also repaired, two dogs were raised, and a donkey was fed. Not only bees were kept in the pear orchard, but also A lot of chicken.

Raising chickens and laying eggs under the forest can not only supply the Wu family, but also sell them in the market regularly. The [-]-acre pear orchard is very profitable, but it is a bit out of the way. Apart from the bald donkeys in the nearby Qinglong Temple, there is no companion. , at night, it is the same as the wilderness in the suburbs.

"Here are wolves and foxes."

"Wolf? Weasel?"

"It's not a weasel, it's a real wolf."

The dozens of workshops to the south of Daxingshan Temple and Xuandu Temple in Chang'an are all farmland vegetable gardens, or Taoist temples.

Coupled with the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were actually wolves here, and there were more foxes, weasels, and wild cats.

Chen Sheng's parents specially raised two dogs and several cats to guard against thieves and wolves. Both wolves and weasels would come to steal chickens and eat them.

Qinglong Temple occupies a large area in Xinchangfang. There are thousands of cherry trees in the temple. Every year when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, many Chang'an people will come to "outing". Of course, this pear orchard is also beautiful when the thousand trees are in bloom.

But right now, there are no brilliant cherry blossoms and pear blossoms here, and there are no Changan people who come to enjoy the flowers and picnics. There are only large farmland and vegetable fields in the empty square area.

These lands were not spoiled by the Turks. Millet, millet, buckwheat, sorghum, and soybeans were ripe for harvest, and winter wheat was already being sown in some fields.

"The [-] acres of land in Qujiang, Erlang had ordered crops to be planted before, er, so he arranged to plant winter wheat. By next May, the wheat will be harvested. Those [-] acres are good land. If you come from Taipusi Buy more horse manure to make fertilizer, one mu of land can produce three stones of wheat, and twenty mu of land is sixty stones of wheat.” Speaking of the land, Lao Chen was very excited, this land is very good, and it is not rented out. It was he who planted it with the slaves of the Wu family.

That piece of land was originally rewarded by Li Shimin to Wu Huaiyu to build a house so that he could manage affairs in Qujiang Shenjifang, but now he rarely goes to Qujiang.

After getting the Yongxingfang mansion, Huaiyu had no plans to build a house in Qujiang for the time being, so he simply asked Lao Chen to plant the [-] acres of land with winter wheat.

"The zhike monk from Qinglong Temple has been to the pear garden several times and wants to buy this pear garden."

"Tell them, high and low do not sell!"

Huaiyu doesn't have a good impression of the monks in Datang today, especially those in Chang'an. He doesn't know if these monks are good at recitation, but these people are good at lending usury.

(End of this chapter)