Tang's dining table

Running Chang'an is running the military's home base.

Don't look at these old guys, one is a prince or the other is a prince. Each of them has either thousands or hundreds of households. However, they only have the power to collect taxes and have no power to actually manage.

Even the power to collect taxes is not actually in their hands. It is given to local officials after they receive the money.

The most unreliable thing in the world is money passing through the hands of others, just like Yongye Field, Koufen Field, and Guan Field in Yunchu, all in the damn Taibai Mountain. How much you can receive in a year depends on what the local officials want. Even if you eat meat, you still want to drink soup.

When you want to eat meat, Yongye, Koufen, and Guantian in Yunchu will lose all their harvest, and sometimes they will have to pay it back.

When he wants to drink soup, Yunchu can get some grain, linen, and some local products. For example, last year when the world was ripe, Yunchu got three loads of shriveled wheat and six pieces of linen that were not even good rags. , of course, there are also two dried rabbits and three pheasants.

When he got these things, Yun Chu almost cried. This was a big advantage he had taken in Datang.

The situation in the nobles' fiefdoms will not be any better than that in Yunchu. The nobles are prohibited from exploiting the people. This is what Emperor Taizong said in advance before rewarding the meritorious officials with land and population.

Unless he can be so powerful that, like Changsun Wuji, he not only has the title of Duke of Zhao, but also has a part-time job as the governor of Zhaozhou. Only in this way can he allocate the output of the fief to himself and become very wealthy.

Apart from him, even a prince, after becoming a vassal, has to accept the control of the prime minister, Chang Shi and others appointed by the imperial court, not to mention the local officials, who will treat him as a thief. Be on guard.

Not to mention the rest of the nobles. If there is a disaster in the fiefdom, they have the obligation to rescue the people in the fiefdom. As for other things, they can really be ignored.

The fields near Chang'an are different. They were all the heroes who followed Gaozu and Emperor Taizong to conquer the world in their early years. They obtained the fields because of their military exploits or other achievements.

These fields are basically managed by their wives themselves, and all the harvest belongs to them except taxes. Therefore, what is here is the real thing.

In the Tang Dynasty, land was the source of wealth. Regardless of whether the land was high or low, as long as she could buy good land, she was a woman who knew how to live.

Yunchu believed that this view was wrong, but as soon as he said it, he was refuted by Yu Xiurong and Cui. They stubbornly believed that the land was the most important. If there was an order in which the family's property needed to be divested, hundreds of acres of land in Qujiang would , will be the last property to be divested.

As for the Jinchangfang cafeteria, which is making a lot of money every day, it is wealth that should be exchanged or given up before the family is ruined.

The production of alcohol, quilts, and down jackets are planned as indivisible wealth by these two women. If the Yun family is unlucky, they will have to rely on these hundreds of acres of land to make a comeback with these two secret recipes.

Soldiers have no permanent momentum, and water has no permanent shape. This is what is said in the art of war books, but in the eyes of Yu Xiurong and Cui, the fields are eternal.

This is not only the view of Cui and Yu Xiurong, but also the view of Quan Changan.

Yunchu didn't understand this very much. The current output of one acre of land in Guanzhong of the Tang Dynasty was less than two hundred catties in a good year. This was still the output of paddy fields. Even if the output of one mu of land was three hundred catties, according to Chang'an The price of grain at this time was eight cents per dou, and three hundred kilograms counted as thirty dou, which amounted to two hundred and forty cents a year. Including the income from planting a crop of millet or buckwheat after the wheat harvest, not counting labor. One acre of land can earn up to 400 yuan a year.

What's even more terrible is that the price of paddy fields near Chang'an is eleven thousand dollars per mu, which is eleven thousand dollars. It takes nearly thirty years of no food or drink to get back the money to buy the land. This is basically the life course of most of the Tang people.

Go without food or drink all your life, just to get an acre of land?

"That's not how the account is settled!" After receiving the betrothal gift from the Yun family, Yu Xiurong, who had long been open to Yun Chu, had already placed herself in the position of the mistress of the Yun family, and took it for granted.

Yun Chu wanted to raise his hand and slap the stubborn Yu Xiurong, but found that this little woman had a firm face. Even after being beaten, she still insisted that the Yun family should take the route of annexing the land.

Just when they were in a stalemate, Yun Chu suddenly remembered that the house he bought a long time ago... The loan was for twenty years, and he had to pay back about 4,000 per month, and his monthly salary was only 7,000 or 8,000... With Tang Ren The situation of buying land is so similar.

At this point, a group of wise men in the government said that he had made a good purchase and would definitely make money.

It's strange. The land near Chang'an can be sold by listing it in the same school district as the house he bought before.

If Yun Chu were to put his family's land in Qujiang up for sale now, at a price of eleven yuan per acre, within a day, a luxurious buyer would come to the door and give him cash!

And if he gets the cash, he will definitely be ridiculed by the entire Chang'an people as a prodigal, a scum who ruined the family business.

Since I was once able to do such irrational things in a world with advanced technology and transparent information. It is very wrong to expect Yu Xiurong and Cui, the two natives of the Tang Dynasty, to transcend the times.

Houses and land are actually the same. The Chinese love these two things to death and have loved them for thousands of years.

It's hard to buy good things with money, so Yunchu accepted his fate.

The family has too much money, so much that even the Xiangji Kitchen of Daci'en Temple is not willing to accept it.

It would be a good idea to use part of the Yun family's money to buy land and push up the land prices near Chang'an. At least, not so many people are willing to sell their land.

After all, in a world with few investment channels, the higher the price of land, the fewer people will sell their land.

It is also a good thing to put all your money in the land.

"Did you just want to slap me?" Yu Xiurong stared at Yun Chu with a pair of big shining eyes. It was obvious that she was still angry. "

"That's nonsense. The Yun family hasn't had the habit of beating their wives since they were eight generations old."

"Yes, then beat my sister to death?" Naha interjected while peeling roasted chestnuts.

"If you dare to run to Pingkangfang again, instead of beating you with a bamboo stick next time, you will use a stick to beat your legs."

"I came to see the dancers that Sister Gongsun bought to see if their legs are longer than mine. Why do you hit me?"

Seeing that Naha was really angry, Yu Xiurong quickly hugged Naha and comforted her: "Pingkangfang is indeed not a good place. If you want to see Sister Gongsun in the future, I will invite her to my home, and we will watch the dancer she bought at home. That’s fine, but I don’t dare to go to Pingkangfang to show my face anymore.”

"Why can't you go? It's so lively there."

"Well -" Yunchu growled in a low voice, then walked out of the house with his fists clenched. Naha was already old and he really couldn't hit her anymore.

At this time, it was time for Yu Xiurong to show that she was like a mother-in-law. As a girl grew up, there were many things that Yun Chu, the elder brother, could not say.

Mrs. Cui quickly followed and said to Yun Chu: "Miss Naha is very smart. You don't need to be so angry. When she is older, she will understand."

Yun Chu looked at Ms. Cui angrily and said, "You said this three years ago and you are still saying it now. When will she grow up?"

Mrs. Cui covered her mouth and smiled: "If Miss Naha really grows up, Mr. Lang may be even more reluctant to leave her."

When it comes to Naha's marriage, Yun Chu feels very uncomfortable. He must choose this sister carefully. She must have a rich family, a high status person, a talented person, and a docile temperament. After being beaten by Naha, she still died. Only if you like Naha life and death!

Otherwise, a brother-in-law who is not like this will easily die young.

Seeing a group of round women wearing green and white spots and corset skirts rolling past his eyes, he said to Cui: "I said two years ago that as long as they find the one they love, they can leave home and live. , why, no one has left in the past two years?

After two years, they should have saved a lot of money, right? "

Mrs. Cui pinched her double chin and said, "Only a fool goes out."

As he spoke, he gave Yun Chu a flirtatious look and said, "The husbands there are not as reliable as our husbands, so why go out?"

Yun Chu shuddered and said, "You have become immoral now. If you want to harm people, go find someone else. Don't disgust me."

Mrs. Cui said with a smile: "In the past three years, I feel that I am really alive. Even the sins I suffered before now feel that I deserve it. Without those sins, how could it be my turn to live the free life I have now?" Good times.”

Yun Chu lamented and asked Fei Jiu to bring the bay-red horse, and planned to go to Guangfufang to exchange copper pancakes for two meat buns. Today, Naha, Yu Xiurong, and Cui were very angry.

Fei Jiu's pockmarked face, which originally looked like some lines, has now turned into a flat cake spread with sesame seeds.

"You didn't plan on getting married or anything?"

Fei Jiu shook his head firmly and said, "I don't want to!"

"Don't you plan to have a son and a half daughter to continue the family line?"

Fei Jiu continued to shake his head resolutely and said: "I had children before, worthy of my ancestors, but I won't have any anymore.

Besides, among the fat ladies in our yard, which one do you think is the one who can give birth to a son? "

"I think they are much younger than the 30-year-old women outside now. It won't be a problem to have a baby, right?"

"They are the food and drinks in our family. They are raised hard. If they were not at home, God knows how old they would be. They are all old enough to be grandmothers. Don't harm me, sir. If you really want a woman , when I was a little kid, I went to Pingkangfang and all the problems were solved. Not only was she young and good-looking, but she also didn’t dislike my messy face."

Yunchu sighed and said, "This is all my fault. The money I gave you is too much."

"Even if you don't pay, you can get a little reward from Miss Naha from time to time, and you will have all the money you need."

Yun Chu laughed in anger, but this way of communicating was not bad. It could at least reduce the guilt he felt when he was a big landlord and a big bully who exploited the people.

Why do I hate the land so much?

What really happened to my family was that before liberation, my grandfather drove six mules and a group of people to and from Hanzhong to work as a groom. Sometimes he might also work part-time as a bandit. The money he had saved over more than ten years of hard work was used by my grandmother to buy land. It is said that there was a large The box was filled with soft gold and silver, and the year my grandma bought the land was 1949... Later, my dad was admitted to Weinan Normal University with the second-to-last score. My grandpa used a mule to carry a large sack of grain to Weinan to collect grain. I squandered it and paid my dad’s tuition. I was a college student in the 1950s... just because my family was a fucking landowner, or a big landowner. After graduation, in order to avoid suffering, I went to Xinjiang... Then in Gansu, I didn't get a wife until I was almost 40 years old. Then, I was supposed to be a super The second generation of the rich can only make a living by selling literature.