A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 465 Second Year Summer

In the second year of Zhenguan, Xia.

In court,
Tongshisheren proclaimed the imperial edict, respecting Zhuangzi as the real person of Nanhua, Wenzi as the real person of Tongxuan, Liezi as the real person of Chongxu, and Geng Sangzi as the real person of Dongxu.

Respect "Lao Zi" as "Tao De Zhen Jing", respect "Zhuang Zi" as "Nan Hua Zhen Jing", respect "Wen Zi" as "Tongxuan Zhen Jing", respect "Lie Zi" as "Chongxu Zhen Jing", and take these four classics as the four sacred scriptures of Taoism.

The imperial examination has newly added the Daoist Examination, and the four sacred scriptures of Taoism are tested.

The Chongxuan Pavilion was added under the Honglu Temple of the imperial court to recruit Chongxuan students to study Taoism, and Taoism was set up in various states.

"The prime minister, Wu Huaiyu, is also the owner of the Chongxuan Pavilion."

Divine right granted!

The emperor respected Lao Tzu as the ancestor of the Li family of the royal family, respected the holy ancestor Taishang Xuanyuan Emperor, and also respected Zhuangzi and other four Taoist sages as the four real people, such as the four great Bodhisattvas of Buddhism.

Of course, what is even more astonishing is that the emperor elevated the Taoist scriptures of the four sages of Taoism to a very high position, pursued the four sacred scriptures of Taoism, added Taoist examinations to the imperial examinations, and set up Taoism in the court and localities.

Even as the prime minister and the owner of the Chongxuan Pavilion.

Excellent students of Taoism can be recommended to take the Taoist examination, and those who are admitted will become the Taoist officials who manage Taoist priests in the imperial court.

After destroying the third-order sect, the imperial court took action against Taoism. On the one hand, it was infinitely elevated, but on the other hand, through the establishment of Taoists, Taoists, Taoists, etc., they were completely under the control of the imperial court to serve the imperial power and the Great Tang.

Divine right to the king, it is amazing.

The Longmen Temple in Chang'an is dedicated to the statue of Emperor Taishang Xuanyuan and the four real people.

The Chongxuan Hall was set up not only in Chang'an, but also in Luoyang, each recruiting hundreds of students, setting up Dr. Chongxuan, teaching assistants, etc.

This is the new Taoist school after the newly established local medical schools.

There are twenty students from the Upper Dudu’s Mansion, fifteen from the Central Dudu’s Mansion, twelve from the Lower Dudu’s Mansion, fifteen from Shangzhou, twelve from Zhongzhou, and ten from Xiazhou.

Some people think that this is a bit too elevating the status of Taoism, but the emperor said that it is necessary, rejecting all opinions, and acting arbitrarily.

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It's getting hot.

The wheat in Guanzhong has also turned golden, and the weather is fine, and people around the country are starting to harvest the wheat.

Even the women of the Samurai family got busy.

There are a lot of fields at home. Although the family planted early spring corn this year, they also harvested a lot of wheat in summer. The main ones are fertile irrigated fields in the plains of Gyeonggi Province, and wheat planting is the most profitable.

For example, some water-deficient fields on the plateau are planted with millet, millet, buckwheat, oats, sorghum, and many potatoes this year.

"You don't look like peasant women either."

Wu Huaiyu felt that these women were more like participating in a show, and they would come here once every busy farming season, and they always enjoyed it.

Change out the silk and satin, and put on clothes made of hemp, kudzu or even cotton, take off the pearls and jade jewelry on the head, tie up the hair, and wrap it in a handkerchief.

But even so, she doesn't look like a peasant woman at all. The skin is tender and the flesh is white and moist. In other words, the commoner clothes are not necessarily cheaper than silk ones.

For example, the cotton clothes that Fan Xuanfu and the others exchanged were trafficked by Sogdian Hu merchants from Gaochang. In Gaochang City, this kind of high-grade fine white cotton cloth is also called fine white fold, and it costs two thousand and two a piece.

This is actually a cloth made of cotton, plain and unpretentious, but because of its rarity, it is much more expensive than ordinary silk in Chang'an, and it is a luxury alongside those high-end silk products such as Jinxiu.

Gaochang thin white fold, ten thousand yuan a horse.

One bolt of cotton cloth can also make two clothes.

You must know that the plain silk that is also used as money is only two hundred yuan a piece now, but it is silk, and this cotton cloth is equivalent to fifty pieces of silk, which can buy two ordinary straw horses.

It's really Moutai bottled with mineral water, low-key luxury.

The women of the Wu family all changed into cotton cloth, and they were all plain. In addition to absorbing sweat, this kind of fine white layer really doesn't have much better than silk.

Also easy to wrinkle.

After seeing the luxury of cotton cloth, Wu Huaiyu also deliberately investigated the current cotton, and found that there was basically no cotton planted in the Tang Dynasty, only a little cotton was grown in the gardens of the palace and noble homes, which was for ornamental cotton.

In some places in Lingnan and Nanzhong, there is a kind of cotton, but it is different from the cotton variety in the Western Regions in Gaochang.

The reason why Tang people don't grow cotton is simple. The output of this stuff is not high, and it has a lot of requirements on climate and other things. The most important thing is that even if this stuff can be grown, the processing is too complicated and the efficiency is very low, especially the seed removal.

The reason why Gaochang cotton cloth is so expensive is mainly because of the cost of processing.

Almost all are handmade.

Therefore, the white folded cloth in Gaochang is basically spun and transported to the Central Plains, sold to nobles, or used as tribute.

The common people in Gaochang can't afford to wear this stuff.

Wu Huaiyu is now planting some cotton in the garden, and he plans to study it carefully. He remembers that in the Song Dynasty, the cotton planting and weaving techniques in the Central Plains were advanced, and cotton cloth was not so rare.

If the Wu family researches some black technology of cotton spinning now, and the Wu family engages in cotton planting and weaving, wouldn't it be a big profit.

"Erlang, you won't just wear this purple robe and jade belt to Zhuangzi Xiashou?"

Chen Runniang said with a smile, "Although Erlang is a prime minister, you have to harvest the first sickle for the summer harvest."

Summer harvest is a very grand event, which must be taken seriously.

Not only do the whole family, young and old, have to go to the fields, the men harvest the wheat and the women glean, but they also have to prepare meat and vegetables to entertain the wheat harvesters.

We must seize the time, in case the good weather is delayed and the rain falls, when the wheat sprouts in the field or on the ears, it will be all in vain.

The Zhuangzi of the Wu family usually mainly farms slaves, and also hires some long-term workers, but when it comes to the harvest season, there is not enough manpower, so they have to hire short-term workers, especially the mikes who raided the pass in groups. They are all professional mikes.

Although these mikes are forced by life to leave their hometowns to reap wheat, but if any landlord is stingy and harsh, then next year everyone may not reap him, or they will not work so hard.

"Every village in our family is already preparing to kill pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, let's hurry up."

Wu Huaiyu actually doesn't like this kind of pretense, and he is not a small landlord, so he has to do everything by himself. The Wu family has 10,000+ mu of land, although most of them are in the border areas, and the Gyeonggi area is only a few thousand mu.

But it is also divided into more than a dozen villages, each of which is managed by the head of the village, so there is no need for them to put on a show temporarily.

But these women are very active, even a little excited.

"let's go,"

The village heads have reported before that the wheat this summer is growing well, and there should be a good harvest.

The Wu family's wheat harvest is actually not that tense, because they planted a lot of early corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and peanuts, and the summer harvest is only half of the wheat harvest. However, after the wheat harvest, they have to plant another crop of corn and soybeans as soon as possible.

Chen Runniang also prepared fine white folded cloth clothes for Huaiyu, and replaced the Futou with a larger sunshade straw hat. The whole family sat in a carriage, surrounded by servants and maidservants.

This is not going to the countryside to harvest wheat, this is going to the countryside for summer vacation.

Wu Huaiyu originally wanted to ride a horse, but Fan Xuanfufei took him to ride with him.

The carriage is quite big, but this kind of two-wheeled carriage is still quite bumpy, not as comfortable as a slow ox cart, but if you go to Sanyuan Longqiao by ox cart, you don’t know how long it will take.

Wu Huaiyu originally said that he would go to Qujiang, or even go to the wheat fields in Xinchangfang, Nancheng for a cutscene, but Fan Xuanfu and the others insisted on going to their hometown in Longqiao, Sanyuan.

It is also said that Longqiao is the place where the Wu family made their fortune and is the root.

However, Wu Huaiyu felt that they might be thinking about the newly built manor there. Perhaps for Fan Xuanfu, that place might have some special meaning, and it was the same for Chen Runniang. After all, she had slept with Huaiyu in the dilapidated cave dwelling there.

The carriage is very spacious, but it would be great if it could be replaced with a four-wheeled carriage with shock absorption. In ancient China, two-wheeled carriages have always been used, which is a pity.

"I heard that those water mills, mansion shops, car shops, beam workshops, and handicraft workshops that Sanjiejiao operated before will be sold?"

"Ah."

"Then we have to buy some. I have inquired about the shops that Sanjiejiao used to run, but they are all very profitable, whether it is Didian, Car Shop, Nianfang and Liangfang,"

The temples are indeed high-quality industries, all of which are high-quality assets.

Didian is a place with the properties of warehouse, shop, and guest house. It is not only a warehouse, but also sells goods, and even an intermediary. It also doubles as an inn for merchants, and it is very profitable.

The most important thing in mansion management is location, and then credit, monastery management, both of which are not lacking. They can seize the prime location, add their own reputation and credit, and make a lot of money.

As for the car shop, it not only rents horse mules, but also engages in freight, and sometimes even does the task of escorting goods such as darts. These days, those who can travel across states and counties for long-distance transportation must have strong strength, otherwise the scum will be swallowed by local snakes along the way.

As for milling houses and beam houses, one is for rice milling and noodle milling, and the other is for oil extraction, both of which are high-profit industries.

Taking Chang'an and Gyeonggi as examples, there are no ordinary people who can do these businesses, not relatives of the emperor, or princes and nobles, at least they must be local snakes, and then only temples can also get involved in these industries.

Just think about it for others.

This time the third-tier sect fell, and these workshop properties would all be sold. Some of the high-quality ones would be kept by the royal family as royal property, but most of them would definitely be sold.

Just like the field last time, you have to be eligible to buy it based on your official title.

"There are rules for these, and then follow the rules,"

Fan Xuanfu wanted to buy more, but Wu Huaiyu didn't really care, there were many people staring at him, and he was responsible for this, so why bother.You can buy as much as you can, and there are many ways to make money anyway.

"What about other temples, didn't they say that business and industry are not allowed? Then don't they sell these workshops in their hands now?"

Huaiyu smiled, "The imperial court gave them three years to make a move, so there is no need to make any decisions for the time being."

It was said to be three years, but in fact, they did not plan to move them again for the time being.

You can't push too hard. This time, the result of overthrowing the third-order sect is rich enough, so let's digest it slowly.

Fan Xuanfu still wanted to win more workshops, the opportunity is rare.

Last time, the land of Sanjie Temple was only subscribed for [-] mu. Although in the best part of Fanchuan, a whole piece of [-] mu of fertile land has ready-made tenants, the number is still a bit small.

Wu Huaiyu is not greedy at all, a thousand acres is already a lot.

He is more willing to pay attention to the Wu family's great pig raising business. In this regard, the Wu family still learns from the Wei family, and Wu Huaiyu only knows that the largest pig farmer in Chang'an is Jingzhao Weiss.

People's pig-raising skills are even inherited in the blood. As early as the Yellow Emperor's era, the state of Xi Wei specialized in raising pigs. He was the ancestor of Wei's family. Later in the Xia Dynasty, the great-grandson of Peng Zu helped Shao to recover the country and named his son in Weidi.
The Wei family's pig breeding is a blood talent. Wei Wangtai has received a lot of land from the emperor, and now he can slaughter [-] pigs a year, but that is enough to consume pork for two or three days in Chang'an.

Jingzhaowei's family raises pigs, which is the number one in Chang'an.

The combined pig farms in various places can produce at least [-] pigs a month.

However, the Wei family has a large number of people, and this is not a certain house, but the sum of all houses, but basically every house in the Wei family raises pigs in the manor.

Webster, the first of the six surnames in Guanzhong, is not only the largest pig farmer in Guanzhong, but also has an ancestral pigskin leather industry, such as pigskin shoes, pigskin clothes, pigskin drums, and pig hair brushes.

It is even said that domestic pigs were first tamed by the ancestors of the Wei family with wild boars.

They have a complete set of industries such as raising pigs, leather, and brushes.

The pig raising industry that can make the head of the six surnames in Guanzhong never give up just shows that it must be very profitable.

The Wu family is now entering the pig farming industry. It does not have a large amount of field marsh to graze like the Wei family, so they can only choose the half-circle and half-scattered mode, mainly in pens. Fortunately, the Wu family now has sweet potatoes and potatoes, which are good things to help raise pigs.

There is also the method of castrating small pigs. The Wu family's pigs have not yet been sold, but they are still good. Wu Huaiyu is confident that after the Wu family's pigs are on the market, the common people in Chang'an will like them.

However, the main problem of raising pigs is that they grow too slowly, and there is not a year when they cannot be out of the slaughterhouse, and too much pig food is consumed in captivity, which limits the number of pigs the Wu family can raise.

But raising pigs also has a great advantage, that is, it can produce pig manure and pig pen dung grass, which can be used to fertilize the land, the effect is very good, and the production can be increased a lot.

"Miss, I have an idea, let's cooperate with the villagers around Zhuangzi, hand over the piglets to them, set up a foster care contract, and don't need to pay for the piglets first.

They can choose how many dan pig manures they provide us a year to offset the piglet money, or sell the pigs to us after the piglets grow up to deduct the piglet money, and the rest is their income. "

Raising pigs in partnership can expand the scale.

This manure is a treasure. It has a great effect on increasing the output of the field, and the recycling of woolen pigs can also make a fortune for the Wu family to slaughter and sell meat.

The Wu family raises more sows to give birth to piglets. This little piglet is equivalent to a wealth management product, which can bring a lot of value-added. You don’t have to raise it yourself, you can also make money, and you can get more fertilizer for your own farm to increase production.

The key is that the common people can also benefit. They receive a few piglets for free and take care of them. After a year of slaughter, they can also increase their family income. This can be regarded as benefiting the people and helping the neighbors.

Plant some sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, and pull some hogweed, and you should be able to raise a few heads. If you convert this miscellaneous grain into hairy pigs, the income will definitely be higher.

Of course, the samurai can also get a lot of benefits, mutual benefit and win-win.

Fan Xuanfu's mind was full of buying temples' mansions, beam workshops, dyeing workshops, and mill houses, but he didn't expect that his husband, the dignified prime minister, would suddenly talk about raising pigs, and this kind of raising method.

(End of this chapter)