The nobles and relatives are powerful and powerful, but many common people have no place to stand.

What is even more astonishing is that up to now, under the feet of the emperor like Chang'an and in the capital, there are still a large number of people who would rather be tenants of the nobles and powerful, and be attached to them, than be willing to be registered as registered households, or even have twenty or thirty acres of land.

I don’t want to take any of the land granted to me,

The reason is also very simple. Once you become a good citizen by naturalization, you will also become a subject, and the burden will be heavier.

Therefore, everyone would rather be a fugitive and a tenant than a good citizen.

Before the temple land was cleared, there were a large number of tenants from the original temple. Buqu were lucky enough to be assigned a lot of land and became the main tenants, or they were granted permanent tenure rights and became customers. Regardless of whether they were allocated fields or permanent tenants, the land was divided.

quite a few,

These people make Old Man Zheng envious, but it can only be said that they are lucky enough to catch up with them.

"We are now hoping that after the Wu Xiang Gong's family takes over this place, it will be like the Wujia Fort in Xiangji Temple. The rent can be lowered, and we can even make more money by raising pigs and chickens. Our family

If the girl and boy can still be favored by the Wu family, go to their workshop to work or learn something, and they will have a job in the future."

Li Shimin took Cheng Qian and went to chat with some villagers.

It's basically the same as what Old Man Zheng said. There are more than 300 households in the upper and lower villages. It is true that they were all refugees from other places in the past, so they have all kinds of surnames. The surnames of King Zheng, Liu, Yang, Wang and Zhang are all there, and everyone has almost the same surname.

In my heart, I am willing to guard this little Jiangnan of Fanchuan and this Toad Beach, because as long as you work hard here, you can always fill your stomach. This is a fertile land with guaranteed harvests despite droughts and floods, and your efforts will always be rewarded.

In your free time, you can also go to Zhongnan Mountain to carry wood, burn charcoal and other things to make money.

Border immigrants and the like, whoever wants to go there can go, anyway, they don't want to suffer this or that.

Just live a good life here, raise your eldest children, then build a few houses, find wives for your sons and marry off your daughters, and this life will be over.

Seeing that it was noon, Old Man Zheng greeted Wu Huaiyu and the others warmly and invited them to have a light meal in his thatched hut. Old Man Zheng fled from Jingyang, and his wife starved to death, and his parents and a baby also starved to death.

, and later sold a girl in exchange for some millet, allowing him and a son to survive.

After arriving in Fanchuan, he built a simple shack and worked for the landlord. He was honest and diligent and established himself here. Later, he brought back a refugee woman whose husband had died with two buckets of millet. The woman's in-laws took

After paying two buckets of rice, he asked him to take the woman away. A boy was left behind, but the girl asked the woman to take him with him.

Old Man Zheng didn't mind it either, and he happily took the woman and the little girl back to his thatched hut. With his hard work, he later became a tenant of the landlord's family. When he arrived in the rice fields, he used the owner's tools for farming tools, horses, and even rations from the beginning.

He could only share a very small amount of food. Later, he slowly started to take care of various things and his share gradually increased.

He and the woman later gave birth to two more children, a son and a daughter. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed. He is old and has raised four children. His small thatched shed has also become a five-story house with a yard.

There is a thatched hut and even one of his own cattle.

A few years ago, I married the eldest son, and last year I proposed marriage to the second son. The girls the woman brought are all older. The old man is trying to find a good family for her. If you want to find a better family, you have to

A decent dowry will do,

Therefore, Old Man Zheng now hopes that his new owner, Mr. Wu’s family, can continue to let him farm the original land. He even wants to rent more land, and hopes that the land rent can be reduced, or that he can seize some land from the Wu family.

It’s just a little piglet. Just like Wujiabao, you don’t need to pay the piglet, but use the dung in the pig pen as payment...

"The price of grain is getting lower and lower. This summer, the price of rice is 20 to 30 yuan, which has never happened in these years. The grain collected has to be paid for rent, and rations have to be reserved. There are not many left. The price of grain is so low. Alas, it cannot be exchanged.

It’s difficult to make money and spend money. I thought, why not plant an acre or two of sweet potatoes and raise a few more pigs. I heard that when the Wu family’s piglets are grown, they will buy them back, and the price is not bad. After a year, the price is better than

It’s much better to grow land and sell grain.”

Li Shimin smiled and accepted Old Man Zheng's warm invitation.

Shangcun, where Old Han Zheng's family is located, is very close to Zhuangzi. There are more than 100 households in the whole village, with hundreds of people. The whole village is quite simple, with mostly thatched huts and simple back kilns.

The villagers' clothes are basically patched, and they are basically barefoot in summer. Children are more likely to have bare buttocks. The sanitary conditions in the village are not very good.

Wu Huaiyu and Li Shimin were very calm, but Cheng Qian was not used to the dirty and chaotic village.

The old man invited me to dinner, but he didn’t actually treat me specially. I had porridge cooked in the morning, with a lot of sweet potatoes added, not much millet, mostly sweet potatoes, and some corn steamed in the morning.

Old Man Zheng asked his woman to cook two dishes, which were actually boiled vegetables. A few vegetables were simply picked and cooked in one pot. Finally, they were sprinkled with salt. They were very authentic, and of course there were no dipping sauces.

"There's nothing we can entertain at home, so we'll just make do with it," the old man said with a smile.

The old man has a large family, four children, a husband and wife, plus his married daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, a total of nine people.

It was a very simple meal, but they ate it quickly.

Li Shimin picked up a corn cob and gnawed it. It was very dry and rough. Cheng Qian also picked up a corn and ate a few bites, but he choked and found it difficult to swallow.

Huaiyu scooped up some soup from the sweet potato porridge and handed it to him. Chengqian quickly took a few sips and then swallowed the rough steamed bun.

"Why is this corn steamed bun different from what I ate before?" Cheng Qian asked Huai Yu.

"This bun is filled with crushed corn leaves and corn cobs."

"Ah, what are you adding these for?"

Li Shimin glanced at his son helplessly, "The steamed buns with bean noodles or glutinous rice flour are not what the poor usually eat. Those with added sugar and dried red dates are even more snacks for the nobles. Ordinary people's steamed buns will be added
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