Chastity Layman

"Father, Qin is digging the foundation of our family. Let's just watch it like this? If this continues, there will be no one in our family."

Lang Son, down town.

In a large courtyard, Yang Jiyuan and his son were talking. This house was originally a separate courtyard of the Yang family in the lower city, but now it has become Yang Jiyuan's new home.

Three days ago, her granddaughter Chongniang got married in this courtyard. The granddaughter dresses in hairpins and tinsel, ten miles of red makeup, thousands of people send her to marry, and hundreds of families add makeup. The team of sending off the wedding deliberately goes out of the south gate first, then bypasses the surrounding Twelve Forts, and then enters the dock from the north gate and sends it to the upper city. The old house of the Yang family, which is now the Lang Son County Government Office.

The Yang family spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on this wedding, and it was very grand and grand, and the scene really overwhelmed the concubine ceremony of Qin Langna Anong in Zhennan Pass.

Everyone praised the Yang family for being able to catch up with the Qin family, their status has risen to a higher level, and their wealth is like cooking oil over a fire, but only the Yang family knows the taste inside.

Half of Lang Son City was sent out with six Wubao and 10,000 mu of land.

The granddaughter married Qin Lang as a concubine and added another three thousand taels of gold.

In addition to organizing this banquet, the Yang family took out real money all the time, and all the proceeds from the ten years were spent.

What was exchanged was only temporary peace.

But Qin Lang didn't stop, he accepted his beloved Chong Niang, and asked Qin Yong and others to take concubines from the Yang family to marry a wife, and then there was another Qin-Yang marriage, from the Yang family in Langshan, he married thousands of girl.

According to tradition, every family has to prepare a thick dowry.

I thought that was all there was, but who knew that those Wumin families whose daughters were promised to the Qin family's subordinates all started to move their families to the Yang family's castle territory, and were about to leave the Yang family.

This is the root of the Yang family.

The Yang family has only a few hundred people, plus more than a thousand slaves. The remaining 20,000 people, including Han and barbarians, are all people who are attached to the Yang family in troubled times and seek stability.

Especially during the chaos in south of the Five Ridges at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Yang family took the opportunity to annex many villages, recruited many refugees, and led them to build docks, open up wasteland, open mines and do business.

In the past, the Yang family was indeed the strongest in Lang Son, so everyone was willing to attach themselves to the Yang family. Even if they had to pay rent for the Yang family, everyone was willing to accept it. There is no difference in itself whether the family pays rent or pays taxes to the court. Whoever has a lighter burden will be willing to work with whom.

But now, Qin Lang is like a dragon crossing the river, shattering the prestige accumulated by several generations of the Yang family.

What's more, as Qin Lang entrusted knight lords, divided territories, promulgated new policies and new taxes, etc., those dock residents discovered many attractive places.

For example, in the territory of the Qin family's vassals, the tenancy law implemented is very novel.

Originally, when they rented the Yang family’s land, they would hand over half of the land’s output to the Yang family, not only regular grain, but also half of the miscellaneous grains that were inter-planted or rotated. Water canals, waterwheels or cattle, etc., have to be paid separately.

Even the harvested straw in the field must be given half to the Yang family.

In short, as long as it is renting something produced in the Yang family's land, they will have to pay half of it.

But now the Qin family's territory has proposed a 25% rent reduction. 25% of the rented land will be given directly to the tenants to ensure the basic income of the tenants, and then the remaining 75% will be divided between the tenants and the landlord. . In this way, the Yang family originally collected 50% of the rent, but now it has become 30% and 7.5%, not even 40%.

In particular, the Qin family also proposed that only the staple grains in the field will be divided, such as some miscellaneous grains in the rotation, and no rent will be collected. More importantly, the Qin family will only collect rent on a quarterly basis. You can plant a piece of land for one season or two seasons. , or even plant some miscellaneous grains in between, the Qin family doesn't care, they only collect rent based on your staple grain for one season.

The paddy fields can at least collect two shimao grains for one season, and the Qin family only collects one season, and also implements a 25% rent reduction, which means that the Qin family collects very little rent. If the tenants are divided in half, the landlord will only get seven and a half buckets.

A lot of land here can be planted for two seasons, which means that the actual rent is less than 20% of the total income.

In addition, the Qin family also agreed that in case of drought, flood, and frost, the tenants must be guaranteed first, that is, the tenants should keep five buckets per mu, and the rest will be divided. If there is nothing left, the landlord will not divide. If the guarantee is not enough, the land tax will be exempted.

The land tax is also entirely borne by the landlord.

At the same time, in order to ensure the interests of these tenants, it is also proposed that the land be rented every five years, and the lease contract should be signed. After the lease is signed, no one can regret the contract at will.

In addition to these benefits, planting the land of the Qin family and the Qin family's vassals does not need to do free labor, and there is no need to go to the landlord's house to take turns doing errands.

For the tenants and dockers, these conditions are really attractive.

Compared with the 50% rent of the Yang family, this rent is more than 10% less. Not to mention that the Yang family used to pay the rent for several seasons you planted, so the difference is even bigger. No harvest, no straw.

After all the calculations, the difference is more than half.

It can also guarantee a lease period of five years and protect the tenancy right.

You don't need to serve to do bad work.

In the past, everyone had a good impression of the Yang family. They believed that the Yang family protected everyone and provided everyone with something to rely on in this troubled world. As for the barbarians in the remote, poor and weak barbarian villages, their life is not bad.

After all, there are many barbarians in poor villages who are so poor that they live by selling their children.

Sell ​​it at the age of eight or nine, and you can't even wait, but what should you do if you need the money urgently?

The child is still in the stomach, and it is also sold. Selling directly to the belly, that is, selling it in front of the human trafficker. When the child is born and raised until it is about one year old, the human trafficker will come to pick up the child. Regardless of the gender, the price should be agreed first, and you can even pay in advance. half of the money.

Of course, some savages are poor and waiting for money, and their children are sold out, and they are not pregnant yet, what should they do? They also have a way, first borrow the neighbor's child and sell it, and then return it to the neighbor after their own child is born.

This kind of borrowing and selling is also very popular among barbarians. This kind of borrowing and selling has to include the loss caused by the age difference with the neighbor's children, which is equivalent to paying interest on this part of the difference.

If it doesn't work, then there is another way, stealing and robbing.

I have no children to sell, so I go to other villages to steal children and sell them.

In many poor and small villages, selling people has long been a habit, and robbing people is also a habit, so the biggest conflict between tribes is robbing people and stealing people. Sometimes it goes too far, and a war will break out between the two tribes. One family, maybe all of them will become slaves of each other.

The Yang family used to be quite strong, and he was the only one who could beat others. No one dared to provoke the Yang family. The Yang family's Wuminwu soldiers were also fierce, and no one else could beat them, so it was still a quiet place in a troubled world.

But there is no harm without comparison.

Compared with those savages selling children around them, their lives are indeed happy and stable, but now compared with the situation of the Qin family's territory, they find that the conditions of the Yang family are actually not that good.

The tenant rent is high, not to mention the many errands, and there are often apportionments. For example, if the Yang family wants to pay tribute to Jiaozhou or the court, the tribute will eventually be shared among everyone.

No matter whether it is building a city, building a road, or even building a canal, they are directly conscripted to do things for free, and as a result, they have to pay for the water they want to build in the canal.

In the past, everyone came here like this, and I didn't think it was too much.

But compared with the current conditions of the Qin family, everyone is not calm.

It just so happens that many daughters of Wumin have fallen in love with members of the Qin family. The two parties have married and married their daughters as dowries. After getting in touch with each other more, they will become more aware of the rules of the Qin family.

Many people thought about it carefully, why not just follow their daughter to the Qin family?

This situation has become more and more serious. The Wumin who married their daughters basically have to leave now. Many of the Wumin who were originally in the six Wubao assigned to the Qin family originally wanted to move out of the Yang family, but Now many people are unwilling to move.

"Although Qin Lang got 10,000 mu of land from my Yang family, he still has so many people himself. How many people are enough for this land? Those people all ran to join the Qin family. What do they live on? Don't worry, when the tenants are not available. Tian, ​​of course I have to come back." Yang Jiyuan said with a gloomy face.

"Father, you don't know. Now the Qin family is doing a lot of reclamation and transformation. The wasteland, slopes, mountains, and even depressions and beaches that we didn't like before, are now organizing people to measure and plan, saying that it can be done." To transform these lands into arable land, their plan is that they are responsible for planning, and then organize people to be responsible for collective reclamation and transformation, and then divide the land.”

"It is said that they can transform a lot of fields. As long as those who are willing to participate in the transformation, each household can get ten to twenty acres of Yongye Field after participating in the transformation, and the remaining fields can be signed for lease. The Qin family In addition to planning to grow rice, we also want to grow sugar cane, cotton, mulberry leaves, hemp, etc., and even promise to buy them as a package, and even pay 10 to 20% in advance for everyone to buy seeds, farm tools, etc. "

"Aren't you saying that this surname Qin is a bad rule? How can he do such a thing? If he does this, all the people in the dock want to go to their side, and they all go to help him cultivate river beaches, repair terraces and build canals. How many people are there? Would you like to farm our fields again?"

The most terrible thing is that the Yang family is not just a landlord. It is precisely because the Yang family has 200,000 mu of land, thirteen Wubao, and more than 20,000 Wu people that they can become Lang Son. A tyrant.

Talent is the most important thing, there are people who have dock soldiers, tenants, and workshop workers. Without these dock people, what would the Yang family have with hundreds of people and more than a thousand slaves?

Qin Lang is really digging the foundation of the Yang family.

"I'm going to talk to Qin Lang, I can't mess around." Yang Jiyuan sighed, but he also knew that the Yang family now has less and less bargaining chips, and if they really talk to Qin Lang, they may not talk to him.