"Rich families don't need to buy fertile land, there are thousands of bells in the book; There is no need to erect a tall building to live in peace, and there is a golden house in the book; Don't hate unscrupulous matchmakers when marrying a wife, there is Yan Ruyu in the book; Don't hate to go out with no one, there are many cars and horses in the book; The boy wants to fulfill his life's aspirations, and reads the ...... in front of the window diligently"

On the afternoon of the 26th day of the first month of the second year of the Great Song Dynasty, when it was almost time to eat, in the town of Baibo in Luoyang, in the big mansion of the Wujia Yimen where the clan lived, the sound of neatly reciting Emperor Zhenzong's "Encouragement of Learning" sounded again.

In the dining hall of the large dining hall of the large mansion that covers a large area of land and is very dilapidated, around the ten long wooden tables, it is crowded with samurai scholars wearing Confucian clothes and preparing for dinner. Big and small, old and young, as long as there is no high school, and they do not intend to give up the cause of the imperial examination, no matter how old they are, the family members of the mansion have their place and two meals a day.

Two meals, of course! The luxurious life of three meals a day is not a treatment that a group of hard-working scholars of the Baibo martial arts family can enjoy.

Although they only have two meals a day, their food is still very good. You can eat a full white flour pancake, and every other day there will be a pancake with fried chicken breast with lard to supplement the protein - this is an authentic Kaifeng dish, and it is also a "jinshi dish"! Wu Zhongyi, the head of the Shiranami samurai family, ate this every day when he was the 561st jinshi in high school.

Therefore, this "Kaifeng famous dish" has a sense of sacredness in the Luoyang Baibo martial arts, and has become the driving force for the martial arts students to study hard.

As long as you are a high school jinshi, you can eat cooking cakes and chicken for three meals a day! Maybe you might even add an omelette......

Well, such a jinshi must be a clean official! Anyway, Wu Haowen and Wu Haogu, the two dirty officials, will not be so poor.

In the future, the Qing officials of the Great Song Dynasty have finished reading the encouragement chapter, and they all set their eyes on Wu Chengju, who is patrolling the large dining hall with his hands behind his back.

Wu Chengju is the third in the Chengzi generation of the Baibo Wu family, and is Wu Chengchang's cousin and Wu Chengzhi's cousin. Before Wu Chengchang picked his son, he had been in charge of the mansion Fang Jia School, and now he is the head of the Baibo martial arts. He is the second person in the family after Wu Zhongyi, and he is also the successor of the patriarch.

Wu Chengju, who is nearly fifty years old, is inconspicuous in appearance, medium in height, dark and thin. The appearance is loyal and simple, and he looks a little kind, and he always has a little elegant smile on his face. For the young man of the samurai family, he is a good teacher and an elder. For the famous scholars and scholars in Luoyang City, he is undoubtedly also a person in the clear stream. For the parents of Luoyang County, he is of course a figure that cannot be offended.

The current Baibo martial arts family is the existence of one and two handsome divisions! How dare the magistrate of Luoyang offend Wu Chengju?

However, Baibo Town, Luoyang County, as well as the farmers who rented the land of the Wu family and borrowed small loans from the Wu family, all called him Wu Papi behind their backs!

Don't look at him with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, he seems to be a good person, but in terms of exploiting tenants and stealing tricks, he is definitely worthy of the name of "Wu Papi", much more ruthless than his predecessor Wu Chengchang!

The reason why this is the case is actually the two brothers Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen created evil. Before the rise of the two of them, the Bai Bo Yimen martial arts family was a big mansion that was in the middle of the road and was about to be unable to get along. Not to mention the clever grabbing, their own fields are cut out piece by piece.

But as soon as the Erwu brothers rose, the Baibo martial arts family immediately turned over. First of all, Wu Hao Gu took away a small half of the martial arts children to go to Haizhou to open a semicolon. In this way, the number of people who need to eat a big pot of rice at the Hakuba samurai family has decreased suddenly, but the land has increased a lot because of the "donation" of the Erwu brothers and Wu Chengzhi.

With fewer people and more land, life will naturally be a little better. However, Wu Chengju and a few Chengzi generations who presided over the housework with him were all poor and scared masters, and once they turned over, they didn't want to do anything else, so they wondered how to make a lot of money.

But they don't have a half-official position, but they are just the leaders of the righteous family, and at most they have backstage backers in the officialdom. Therefore, there are not too many ways to make money, and they are not very good at doing business, so they can only be a martial artist who oppresses the poor middle peasants in their hometown.

And their methods of squeezing the poor middle peasants are actually very traditional. It's nothing more than a few, the first is of course to rent land to collect rent - the Baibo martial arts family is now developed again, and of course there is less land cultivated by Ding Zhuang in the family, and there is more land that can be used for rent, almost 70,000 acres of land are rented.

Of course, renting land is nothing, and now there are more than 900 years before the era of fighting landlords!

However, just by leasing the land, Wu Chengju will not get the nickname of "Wu Papi". His methods also include colluding with officials and passing on the two taxes. Now the Baibo martial arts family is an official household, and it is also the emperor's righteous family, of course, there are certain tax exemption privileges, but it is impossible to exempt more than 100,000 acres of land. Otherwise, how can the local government in Luoyang explain? Most of the land here belongs to government households, so how can it be possible not to pay taxes?

Therefore, it is a relatively popular practice to transfer the spring and autumn taxes to the poor middle peasants. And Wu Chengju is a master in this regard. He hid part of the land of the Wujia Yimen by raising "cadres" to act as the head of the Jiajia, and arranging for the children of the Wu family to serve as county officials and township officials, or used the means of "property to tax deposit" to purchase land, so that the Wu family had a large amount of tax-free land.

By the way, the so-called cadres are agents, and the Northern Song Dynasty court allowed officials to use cadres to replace the accounts to manage the grange and family business, and if there are illegal things such as tax evasion and tax evasion, the responsibility is also the person who does it - otherwise how to deal with high-ranking officials who resist taxes? The local officials didn't dare to go to the two mansions to ask the deacons for money, right? So it's up to the people in charge to carry it. When you can't find it, everyone is a good official who abides by the law, and if you find it, it is the negligence of the operator, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty will definitely not cover it up, and you must beat the board of the operator!

And Dajiatou is the meaning of the head of the armor, and he has the responsibility of assisting the officials to collect taxes and measure the land - of course, they are all held by the rich and powerful, and it goes without saying who the butt sits on.

Of course, the poor middle peasants are not stupid, and they will not easily agree to the "suicidal" "tax removal". This requires supporting means, that is, colluding with profiteers and officials, manipulating grain prices, forcing poor and middle peasants to undertake excessive remote service showdowns, and at the same time issuing routine loans.

As long as the poor middle peasants borrowed the usury of the samurai, it was basically the fate of being stripped of their skins and bones, and they were forced to sell their land and could not be taxed with the property, and finally ended up bankrupt and became tenants of the samurai family, and continued to be exploited by the samurai......

"Let's eat quickly," Wu Chengju smiled gently, "and then review your homework after eating." This year's exam is going to be released, why do we have to have a few more Jinshi in the Baibo Martial Arts, right? ”

"Got it, Boss!"

The talents of the martial arts responded in unison, and then they started to move quickly-Wu Peel is not a thing outside, but there is no one inside the martial mansion who is not convinced. The wealth he pulled from the poor middle peasants, in addition to buying land and expanding the samurai industry, was used for the education of the children of the clan.

The current martial arts mansion Fang Jia Juku is already one of the best in Luoyang County. There is also a gentleman invited from Ikawa Academy! The current Guan and Luo Zhixue have replaced Jing Gongxinxue and have become prominent schools that can confront the positivist school of Wu Haogu.

After arranging for the children of the clan to eat, Wu Papi did not eat chicken and pancakes by himself, but went out of the dining hall to the welcome hall of the mansion.

He still has a lot of guests to meet today! There was a good priest, and two were grain merchants in Baibo Town, both of whom came to discuss big deals.

Now that the wheat harvest is imminent, thanks to God's blessing, there will be a good harvest around Luoyang this year - because there was not much rain and snow last winter, and now the wheat in the field does not grow well, and it can be harvested about two or three buckets less!

It is good to collect two or three buckets less, and it is not beneficial to the landlord to collect three or five buckets more, because the landlord takes a fixed rent, and it is a rent in kind, and those who collect more are tenants. Moreover, the over-harvesting of grain will cause grain prices to fall, which is harmful to the landlords.

Of course, it's not okay to charge too much less. If the harvest is too poor, it will be difficult to collect the land rent and interest, and the peasants will not be able to pay it, and there will be no way to do it, right? Even if it is a little more serious, it will cause trouble for "big eaters". It is a group of hungry people who break into the samurai mansion to eat white food.

So the best case scenario is to take two or three buckets less...... It is not difficult to collect rent, and the official family will not exempt Luoyang from summer tax. The summer tax is to collect money to collect silk (silk can also be used as money, and where silk is not produced, it will be discounted), and then you have to sell grain for money.

And here's another opportunity! In the past two years, because the situation in the northwest is stable, and the wheat from the Jiehe River is coming in a steady stream, the grain price in Luoyang Baibo fluctuates greatly, usually in spring and summer, and it will rise in autumn and winter.

This year, we should use the northern grain to suppress the grain price in Luoyang, and take advantage of the fact that the poor peasants want to scrape together money to repay the interest and settle the summer tax, and then put a little usury out......

When Wu Papi was making wishful thinking, others had already arrived at the welcome hall, and suddenly found that there were already guests in the welcome hall, a man with a figure and himself, a little dusty, and there were two bodyguards who grew up with guys outside the door, it seems that the person who came has an identity.

"Dare to ask this benevolent brother ......"

As soon as he spoke, the man had already turned around, looking a little familiar, and after thinking about it again, he remembered that the person who came was actually Wu Chengchang! hurriedly stepped forward and took Wu Chengchang's hand, "Seventh brother, why did you come to Baibo?" It's been a long time...... I heard that you made a fortune in Haizhou, is there such a thing? ”

Wu Chengchang laughed: "I can't talk about making a fortune, it's just tens of thousands of yuan, and it's all taken care of by our family's Xuan Shuai." But after we were taken care of by Xuan Shuai, we had to do things for Xuan Shuai. This time, I went back to Luoyang to do things for Xuan Shuai. ”

"Do things for Xuan Shuai?" Wu Papi looked at Wu Chengchang, "Seventh brother, are you an official?" ”

Wu Chengchang waved his hand and said indifferently: "One is just borrowed from the third class of Jiupin...... Third brother, why don't I get you an official too. ”

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