If you want to go crazy, you're crazy to the end, thank you for the reward with the knife in hand! Chapter 9, it's twenty-eight thousand today, I'll continue to code words!

Hearing that Zhang Chao had returned to Bashang, Zhao Siniang rushed to thank him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The grain accumulated by her family, Zhang Chao said a word, and Bashang Liquor directly purchased all of it, completely at the market price, and did not ask the Zhao family to give half a profit. Although at this price, the Zhao family is still losing pants, but at least there is a small pair of pants left.

The grain that was collected at the price of four or five hundred yuan of dou rice can only be cleared at the price of fifty yuan of dou rice. Shipped at one-tenth of the purchase price, and lost ninety percent as soon as it entered and exited. And this does not include the usury that the Zhao family has to pay in order to raise money for these grain purchases.

If it is the loss of capital occupation for more than half a year, the Zhao family is really a huge loss.

But at least now Zhang Chao has bought their family's grain, so that they can get back a little bit of capital, although this money is not much, but they can finally repay the funds borrowed before to turn around, and get back their family's mortgaged farmland. It's just that in this way, the Zhao family's savings for many years have been wasted.

"Borrowing the Zhang family's 3,000 yuan, we can't take it out for the time being, and it will take a few months."

After not seeing each other for a while, Zhao Siniang lost a lot of weight, and her chin was sharp.

"It's okay, after all, I said that I would lend you interest-free for half a year." Zhang Chao smiled, "Actually, don't worry too much, even if it's half a year, you don't have to rush to pay it back, and I won't charge you interest, you can wait until it's okay and it's not too late." ”

Zhao Siniang insisted and said, "We will not regret the contract in black and white." If we still can't pay it back when it expires, then the Zhang family can collect the land we mortgaged to pay off the debt. ”

Cui Yingying heard that Zhao Siniang was coming, and specially asked Hongxian to come over and invite her to drink tea and chat. This woman, after getting Zhang Chao's assurance that she didn't mean that to Zhao Siniang last time, became enthusiastic about Zhao Siniang, and often sent people to send some things to Zhao Siniang, even the perfume that was popular in the circle of celebrities and ladies in Chang'an, and also sent a few bottles to Zhao Siniang.

At noon, the food in the courtyard of the Zhang family was fragrant.

Zhang Chao set up several tables in the courtyard and invited the gentleman of the academy, the steward of the workshop, and Lizheng Village to eat together.

The meals continued the consistent style of the Zhang family, with more meat and less vegetables.

However, although Zhang Chao requires more meat and less vegetarian food for every meal, when it comes to really eating, his chopsticks are basically sandwiched with many vegetarian dishes. Especially today there are a few wild vegetables on the table.

Stir-fry in hot oil, put some spicy sauce made of dogwood, and then put some garlic, and there are wild vegetables picked in the field and are still verdant and verdant when served, and the taste is also excellent.

Even the village is right, and they all think that the wild vegetables of the Zhang family are delicious.

In the past, wild vegetables were also a common dish on the table of farmers, but after eating for decades, everyone has long been disgusted with wild vegetables, feeling that wild vegetables have no taste, and eating them scrapes their intestines. But today, the wild vegetables of the Zhang family taste fresh and delicious.

Zhang Chao likes fish, but he doesn't specialize in eating big fish and meat, because he is very particular about eating a balanced diet, and he is not one of those outbreaks. Look at those wealthy families, there are fewer such big fat people, because they will pay attention to health, which is the same as the people of later generations.

When I didn't have anything to eat, I thought about eating big fish and meat every day. But when the conditions are good, and I want to live a long and healthy life, I have to eat light, or even only vegetarian.

"You're welcome, this Tang monk meat, Dongpo elbow and boiled fish are all eaten with them."

Daddy sat there and greeted everyone warmly. He is quite satisfied with his current life, everything is fine, as long as Zhang Chao no longer thinks about getting into trouble, it will be fine.

With the greeting of Zhang Chao's father and son, everyone was not polite.

Although in the past six months, along with the Zhang family, there has been a lot of light, the family has a lot more income, and occasionally two catties of meat can be cut, but after decades, facing a table of chicken, duck and fish, everyone's appetite is still very good.

After dinner, Zhang Chao sat in a room with floor heating and discussed things with everyone.

As a representative of the county and township, Li Zheng asked Zhang Chao to raise some money, which is also a common practice in the county. Every year after the New Year, this period is the time when there is no success, and many lonely and widowed families still have a very difficult life, and they have to be relieved by the government. But the government has no money, and it usually relies on the rent collected by the public office and the loan of the public party to collect interest.

Therefore, this expenditure will inevitably have to be spread out again in the end. The county magistrate of Ningmin County is very sympathetic to the people, so naturally this money has to be persuaded to donate to the rich households.

Zhang Chao smiled helplessly, which seems to have become the standard for judging a good official and a bad official in these years. Good officials, when they want to apportion, they will look for rich and big households. If you are a bad official, you will find ordinary people.

In fact, last winter and during the Chinese New Year, the Zhang family also took out a lot of money, grain, cloth, and charcoal to give to those orphans and widows in the township. But personal behavior belongs to personal behavior, and official behavior belongs to official. The county opened his mouth, Zhang Chao couldn't refuse, otherwise he would be unkind to the rich.

"After the winter, the roads thawed, many roads became muddy roads, and bridges were destroyed in many places. As usual, counties and townships have to pay for grain and recruit people to repair roads and bridges. ”

"How much should be paid, Li Zheng will directly say the number in a while, and find the account room to get the money!" Zhang Chao is quite bold, anyway, this can't be avoided, and there is not much money and food, so he is too lazy to say it.

Li asked for money from Zhang's family as scheduled, and Zhang Chao also generously gave a lot more, which made Li Zheng very face-saving. Ouch, even if Zhang Saburo becomes a university scholar, he respects me very much.

"San Lang, this is about to start spring, and I have to remind you of something."

Li Zheng reminded Zhang Chao to remember to plant trees after the beginning of spring.

Planting trees is the task of the imperial court.

There are also incidental requirements for the court to grant land, such as you have to pay rent, pay silk or hemp for grain, and serve 20 days of free labor.

In addition, in order to ensure that you can pay silk and hemp to the imperial court, the imperial court has a special rule that after granting the land, Yongye Field must be planted with at least fifty mulberry trees per mu.

In the past, before the Tang Dynasty, the land of Juntian was also divided into Yongye Field and Kou Field, of which the Koufentian was also called Lutian, and it was to be returned after death. The Yongye field can be passed on to the descendants, and the open field is planted with grain, and the Yongye field has to be planted with trees.

Plant mulberry trees, jujube trees, and elm trees, and you have to plant a lot anyway.

It is not allowed to plant trees in the open field, nor is it allowed to plant less and not to plant, otherwise, the court has the right to take back your field at any time.

After the new land was granted, the imperial court gave three years to finish planting trees.

The Zhang family and his son were granted a lot of land last year, so they had to plant trees in the prescribed amount this year.

"San Lang, according to the imperial court Juntian order, the Yongye field was granted, and more than 50 mulberries were planted per mu, and more than 10 elm and jujube were planted in three years. If the land is not suitable, let the suitable trees be filled. ”

Zhang Chao's father and son were actually granted one hundred acres of land, each of which included twenty acres of Yongye land. Fortunately, their lord Yongye Tian and official Yongye Tian did not need to be forced to plant trees.

But even so, the Zhang family's 40 acres of Ding Yongye land also need to be planted with trees. There are fifty mulberry trees per acre, and ten elm and jujube trees each.

Do the math, the Zhang family has to plant two mulberry trees, 400 elm trees and jujube trees.

This is the minimum limit, if the number of crops is less than within three years, this Yongye field will have to be taken away.

In total, 5,000 trees were planted, which is indeed a lot.

It is said that many ordinary people do not have much land in the first place, and the amount of land granted is insufficient, and they have to take out some fields to grow mulberry and hemp, and the grain yield per mu is low, which is indeed very hard.

But Zhang Chao doesn't care, he didn't rely on that little grain to eat, the Zhang family now has thousands of acres of land in their hands, and it is really nothing to take out forty acres to plant mulberry elm jujube trees.

Besides, even if the imperial court did not have an order for such a tree, he still planned to plant a large number of trees this spring.

However, he only wants to plant on the slope of the bathing ditch, but he will not plant mulberry trees like the imperial court, and only 70 trees are planted per acre, which is too inefficient.

The mulberry trees grown in this way are the kind of tall mulberry trees, and it is extremely difficult to pick mulberry leaves. Zhang Chao is going to build that kind of dense and low mulberry orchard, and it is not too difficult to build this kind of mulberry orchard, just remember to prune the branches.

Let the mulberry tree never grow tall, send new branches every year, prune every year, and be relatively low every year. At a certain age, old trees can be dug up and new ones planted.

Zhang Chao does not plan to plant elm and jujube trees, he wants to plant mare's milk grapes and pears, which are used to pick fruits, which can not only sell fresh fruits, but also sell dried fruits, and make wine.

Economic trees are only planted with Camellia oleifera, tung oil, and tea trees.

You still have to plant some tea trees by yourself, even if it is not as good as the tea in the south, you can fry some green tea by yourself, or make some black tea, which is better than tea brick foam.

Now the more troublesome thing is whether Zhang Chao can buy so many saplings.

"Mulberry seedlings are bought, and there are many large nurseries near Chang'an, with a large number of mulberry seedlings. However, there are relatively few other saplings, especially this grape, pear, camellia, tung oil, tea and other trees, it is estimated that there are very few. ”

Faced with this problem, Zhang Chao had to rely on himself.

"Then we will build a few nurseries by ourselves and sow seedlings by ourselves."

This Datang, you have to do everything yourself.

Lizheng Village is right, and no one objects to Zhang Chao's want to build a nursery. I just think that Zhang Sanlang is really wealthy, and in order to drink some loose tea leaves, he can grow a tea garden by himself.

"I have to buy some rice seeds, carefully screen them, and wait until the valley rains to soak the seeds, and this year's newly opened 1,000 acres of terraced fields in the ditch will be planted with rice."

"Can we really grow rice here?" Li Zheng and the others have never seen anyone grow rice on Bashang. However, Li Zheng has seen people in Weinan, and it is quite good.

"Absolutely." Zhang Chao said with a smile, he spent so much effort, one winter, invited countless people to come over to repair the dam and dig the mountain, and finally built thousands of acres of terraced fields, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build many cylinder cars, and dug so many ponds on the slopes, not just to plant rice.

"Don't worry, planting rice is actually simple, selecting seeds, soaking seeds, and then making a seedling field to raise seedlings, and when the seedlings are almost long, then the seedlings will be pulled out and transplanted into the rice field."

"Do you want to make a special seedling field?"

"Of course, and this field has to be done very carefully." (To be continued.) )