Like a bodhisattva in the temple! Everyone laughed.

These people are all people around Li Ze, and they are naturally completely different from people who don't know Li Ze outside. They know Li Ze, in addition to awe, they also know that Li Xiang is no different from ordinary people most of the time, and has the same joys, sorrows, and sorrows of ordinary people.

Seeing that the three women were working together to stack the wheat bundles on the flatbed truck, Li Ze waved his hand, and several guards walked over, and the wheat bales were stacked in an instant.

"Why don't you see a big animal?" Li Zedong looked around, but did not see cattle or mules or other animals.

"I have a cow at home, but the cows are expensive! An ox is worth ten denarii dollars, and we don't work on it except for the necessary ploughing of the fields, and we ourselves can do it! Ba Ye said.

Li Ze blinked his eyes, and only after a while did he react.

"Someone pulled back?"

"It's not heavy, the old man pulls in front, they push next to the back, a few back and forth, and they all pull back." Ba Ye said with a smile.

Li Ze nodded: "Master Ba, it's late today, can I go to your house to disturb a meal?" Well, there are a lot of people in this one, so of course we will pay you money. ”

"Lang Jun said that, you helped me harvest so much wheat, what does I care about a meal, it's just that the countryside is simple, there is nothing to eat, I'm afraid it won't suit Lang Jun's appetite." Ba Ye hurriedly said.

"I don't pick this person, I also eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I also like coarse tea and light rice." Li Ze stood up and said to Chen Wenliang: "Arrange it and help Ba Ye transport all the wheat back." ”

A typical farmhouse yard occupies a wide area, with a half-height wall made of adobe bricks, and it is a thatched house with one main and two compartments, and the house is also made of adobe bricks, which is very simple, but it is better than spacious.

As soon as I entered the yard, I saw a large group of chickens and ducks gathered in front of the chicken coop, and when I saw my wife, they all cooed, and in the shed next to the chicken coop, several pigs also put their two front hooves on the short wall, and kept screaming.

Ba Ye's wife went into the house and scooped a scoop of selected deflated wheat grains, and threw them on the ground, and the chickens and ducks immediately stopped calling, and they ate all of them in an instant, and then they lined up quietly and drilled into a small hole.

The two daughters-in-law walked to the pigsty, sat down on the small wooden mound, each with a kitchen knife, and in a blink of an eye, they chopped a basket of vegetables and poured it into the pig trough.

"One more dog, and you're all done." Standing in the courtyard, looking at such a breath of life, Li Ze said to Ba Ye with a smile.

"We're pretty good here now, but we don't need to raise dogs, which cost a lot of food. That's enough to raise one person. Ba Ye said with a smile.

"Grandpa, I think your life is okay, don't you even can't afford to raise a dog?" Li Ze asked.

"Compared with the past, life is indeed much better, but I still owe a lot of money!" Ba Ye shook his head again and again and said: "This house, the land, and this cow are all owed money!" Although it is said that it will be paid off in ten years, the old man still wants to pay it back a little more every year, pay it off early, and be light without an account. The old man didn't want to leave the account to his children and grandchildren. ”

Li Ze nodded, he really wanted to tell the old man in front of him that he didn't want interest money, although it was slow, but he also knew that Ba Ye's idea was the most simple idea of the vast majority of ordinary people.

Don't want to owe money.

This is completely different from many big businessmen nowadays, those guys, who are trying to get a loan from the bank!

Of course, the common people repay this kind of money without interest in advance, which is naturally beneficial to the imperial court, and the sooner the funds are returned, the more things can be done.

"Kill two chickens, then two ducks. Then take out the two trotters. Glancing at Li Ze and his entourage, the master instructed the two daughters-in-law, although they were a little distressed, but the Lang Jun gave a stack of silver dollars before, which was a full five, so he should do his best to entertain this Lang Jun and his party. These things are home-made, and they are not worth a silver dollar.

"No, no, no!" Li Ze waved his hand again and again, and said, "Grandpa, I won't tell you, we people are used to eating big fish and meat, and we are trying to clear our stomachs and eat some vegetarian side dishes." ”

"What's so embarrassing?" Ba Ye could see that the Lang Jun in front of him was deliberately saving him money.

"We really want to eat a side dish meal, which can be regarded as a change of flavor." Li Ze smiled and said: "These chickens and ducks are laying eggs, what a pity to slaughter." ”

"Then cook the two pig's trotters, Lang Jun, if you refuse again, I will have no face." Ba Ye said resolutely.

"Okay, then two trotters!" Looking at the other party's sincere face, Li Ze nodded.

A few dolls moved some small wooden benches and put them in the yard, it was cool outside, but it was stuffy inside. Ba Ye made a bunch of hay that I didn't know what it was, lit it and put it in a corner of the yard, a faint smell spread in the yard, and some of the rampant mosquitoes immediately decreased a lot.

"Now these chickens and ducks can lay about 50 eggs every day, and every day there are vendors who come to collect them, and when the farm is busy, they are all sold to the vendors, and when I am not busy, I go to the market to sell them myself, and every five eggs can be sold for an extra penny!" Ba Ye understood that the noble Lang Jun in front of him was really interested in these short little things in the family, so he also picked up these rural anecdotes, and sure enough, Li Ze was extremely fascinated by what he heard.

"There are also a few pigs in the house, one of which is an old sow, last year I was lucky, the old sow gave birth to twelve piglets in one go, in order to wait for it, the family did not sleep! I hope there will be such luck this year. A little piglet can be sold for 500 wen now! ”

"How much money does Master Ba owe now?" Li Ze asked.

"I owe a lot!" Ba Ye raised his fingers: "This house was built, it cost twenty silver dollars, seventy acres of land are watered, five silver dollars per acre, that is, three hundred and fifty silver dollars, a cow is worth ten silver dollars, and there are other miscellaneous things, there are dozens of silver dollars." ”

In this way, there are more than 400 silver dollars, that is, more than 400 taels of silver, which is indeed a huge amount of money for ordinary people.

"How much did you pay back last year?"

Ba Ye suddenly smiled: "Lang Jun, I returned a full hundred silver dollars last year!" Last year's bumper harvest, the government sold us a good wheat seed, each mu of land was fully harvested 500 catties, 5 cents per catty, which earned more than 100 silver dollars, and other miscellaneous things added up, there are also dozens of silver dollars, our family also spent not much, this year I heard that the price of wheat is going to rise, then we will earn more. I estimate that it will not take me five years to pay off all the debts. ”

This year, because of the war, the price of food will rise accordingly, and for these farmers, they can indeed earn more.

"What about the annual taxes paid to the government?"

"The current government is better, much less than in the past." Ba Ye said: "Seventy acres of land, each acre of land is 500 Wen, and then there are people, each person is also 500 Wen a year, our family, every year to hand over to the government, that is, about forty silver dollars." ”

"So what do you think is more or less?" Li Ze asked with a smile.

Ba Ye also laughed: "We little people, naturally think that the less the better." But you can't be unpopular, and it's already very good. After paying these forty silver dollars, the government will no longer ask us to collect other fees, which is very different from the past, in the past, there were always a lot of sudden increases in taxes, if you don't pay, you will be arrested! Besides, the current government still gives us water canals, reservoirs, roads, and wages for a day's work. I heard that it was Li Xiangye who exempted us from servitude, this is a good official! ”

In the past, conscription was a sharp blade hanging over the head for the common people, but Li Ze was directly exempted from conscription and purchased by the government at the expense of the government, which is indeed a complete change for the present.

"Then what do you think, what else is the government that is not doing well and needs to be improved?" Li Ze asked.

"It's done well, don't change it." Ba Ye said again and again: "Just like this, we think it's very good." ”

Li Ze laughed. Looking at the three dolls in the yard, he asked, "Why don't the three children go to school?" ”

"I was supposed to go to school." Ba Ye said: "If there is a school in the town, you don't need money, you can't go to school, the governor will come to ask, if there are children in the family who don't go to school, you have to raise taxes!" But it's not the autumn harvest, the schools in the town put the dolls back to help with the autumn harvest, although it can't help much, but it's also great to be able to help take care of the family. ”

"If you read well, you will be able to make more money in the future." Li Ze said with a smile.

"Scholars are noble, I don't expect my family to have a real reader, who can read and break words and settle accounts, which is very good." Ba Ye smiled.

As he spoke, the meal was ready.

Chop the fresh sparse vegetables and mix them with the noodles, and the steamed wheat rice is really another flavor, the pork hind leg is cooked, cut into thin slices, and placed in a large bowl, crystal clear, and then accompanied by pickles and vegetable soup, Li Ze, who was tired for most of the day, had a great appetite, and he actually ate three bowls in a row before touching his stomach and stopped.

Gaomi County Commander is rushing here in a hurry, after getting the news, his heart suddenly went up and down, as an official, the most afraid is the boss micro service private visit, if those people below talk nonsense, if he can't do his hard work in the past few years, it will all come to naught.

When I finally arrived at Ba Ye's house, I happened to see Li Ze and his party say goodbye and leave. This county magistrate is acquainted, seeing his respectful appearance in front of Li Ze, he doesn't care, this must be a nobleman, and he is a much older nobleman than the county order, because between conversations, this Langjun calls the county commander by his name.

"Well done!" Before getting into the carriage, Li Ze said a word to the county magistrate with a smile, and immediately made the county magistrate feel comfortable, looked back at the house of the county, and decided that after sending Li Xiang away, he must come back and ask the master what he said, and then repay the old man well.

The county order is very clear, this grandfather has said good things, but it is more effective than the assessment of the officials.