Gan Lai fried five yolks of poached eggs for everyone. These were difficult to carry and easily broken, so it was better to eat them all.

Chu Yuan especially liked to see Gan Lai holding a shovel in each hand and using two pots to fry eggs at the same time. Not only did he not help, he even yelled: "The one on the left is going to be mushy, hurry up and flip it over!"

Zheng Xiaorou steamed the more than 100 kilograms of flatbread and the more than 50 kilograms of stewed pork belly that she had brought. She broke the flatbread into two pieces, chopped the meat and put it in. Each person had a plate-sized flatbread to roll the meat and a fried pork belly.

Egg.

Just drink the hot green onion soup and feel full.

Zheng Xiaorou took small bites of the "rougamo" and ate it very gracefully, but her expression was very satisfied. She was satisfied not with the taste, but with everyone's appearance: "Well, it's really good!"

Baijiaxing "Hululu" drank a big mouthful of soup, raised his eyebrows and asked: "What's so good?"

Zheng Xiaorou smiled: "Brothers are so easy to support!"

Bai Jiaxing glanced around and suddenly felt that he, a bunch of rough guys, including Gan Lai, were just like a group of big dogs who were just trying to earn food, and they just ate what they had without being picky at all.

What Zheng Xiaorou really wants to say is: It's great to marry Bai Jiaxing.

Married to a real and sincere man, met a large group of brothers who are equally real and sincere, and even had Chu Qing, who was informal, and lived a solid life.

There are no intrigues, no plots, no family property, no disputes between concubines and concubines. Life is worry-free, happy and comfortable.

The most important thing is that there is Xiaobao, who should be treated like his underage brother-in-law.

But sometimes this child looks like a little dandy from Kyoto, sometimes like a snot-nosed kid from a mountain village, and sometimes like his father who is the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

There are those who are generous and generous, those who are pitiful, and those who conspire to murder.

Whenever people want to teach him, they often feel intimidated, but this child just calls him "sister-in-law" one after another, showing great respect.

Xiaobao cut the big cake in half, ate half of it himself, and stuffed the other half into Gan Lai's hand: "Eat more!"

Gan Lai didn't appreciate it at all: "If you can't eat it, just say you can't eat it, as if you were saving it for me!"

Xiaobao also cut open his own fried eggs and put the three egg yolk halves in front of Gan Lai: "Well, I can't eat it, please help me."

Xiao Sining and his brothers couldn't stop laughing: "Gan Lai, he called you a bastard!"

Gan Lai hadn't eaten the omelette yet. Now he looked at the five egg yolks on his plate, plus the three that Xiaobao handed over... He picked up the shovel and beat them.

"Beard! There's minced meat hanging on your beard!" Xiaobao laughed and ran away, not forgetting to tease Gan Lai.

Chu Yuan stamped his foot, this must be Xiao Bao, if it were Xiao Sining, I wouldn't have beaten him to death!

After eating and drinking, everyone got up and started on their way.

Don't look at the ferry boats and cars coming and going, the bustle of people, and the bustle, you would think that Youzhou Prefecture, which is adjacent to Kyoto, is very prosperous.

No!

After leaving the ferry, there were people everywhere wearing patched clothes, thatched houses, wooden houses, and even brick houses were rare.

Along the way, Xiaobao even saw many people fetching water from the river and walking a long way to get it to their homes.

"Is there no well in their village?" Xiaobao asked.

I remember that when he and his mother first arrived in Wushu Village, there were three wells in the village.

Even when he was very young, there was a well in his backyard in Kushui Town.

"Why don't you spend money to dig a well?" Baijiaxing said.

Xiaobao: "A well only costs ten taels of silver. There is only one well in a village. If everyone pays for it together, it won't be much money, right?"

Baijiaxing: "It's not your own land. The well you built belongs to someone else. Who would use your own money to build a well for others? Besides, it's up to you whether they will let you or not!"

Xiaobao: "It's not your own land? How do you say it?"

Baijiaxing: "This is all farmland, and the people are all tenant farmers. If the owner doesn't dig a well, he has to carry water."

This explanation is worse than no explanation. Xiaobao was very dissatisfied: "Can't you explain it more clearly!"

Baijiaxing turned to his wife for help.

It's not that he doesn't want to explain it clearly, it's that he doesn't understand much.

Zheng Xiaorou understood immediately and said to Xiaobao: "Originally, not everyone here belonged to tenant farmers, but the common people's land could not withstand the encroachment and exploitation by officials, so they gradually became tenant farmers.

If you break down the details, it is really hard to be a common people. You see, the royal estates are not included, nor are the fiefs of the princes and nobles. Just how much land is given to these princes and nobles every year?

If the land in Kyoto is not enough, the land in the suburbs of the capital will be divided, and then the land in Ji County will be divided; if there is not enough, the land near Ji County will be divided.

Then there are Guanzhuang and Zhitian. Guanzhuang is the "public land endowment" used by the government to collect rent, but no one in the Guantian itself pays the autumn and summer taxes, so the two taxes will be added to the tenant farmers, increasing the amount of land rent. This is

"Double tax collection".

Let’s talk about job fields. All foreign officials in Daxuan have job fields, which are rented by tenants and the officials enjoy the profits.

This is one of the items of salary. Generally, the farmland is not very good, so there won’t be much harvest;

What to do if the harvest is not high? If you are bold, just exchange land with the common people directly. If you don't change, you will be punished with death; if you are timid, you can make up for it from the rent: it doesn't matter whether your prosperity is good or not, the rent is rising every year.

Regardless of whether it is official land or farmland, this is the land that the officials are responsible for. Today they occupy a little bit of the land for the common people, and tomorrow they squeeze in a little bit more for sowing in the spring, and then expanding it when the land is plowed for the autumn harvest.

Anyway, it was the princes and nobles who occupied the officials and the people. If the officials could not take it back, they would just continue to occupy the people. Anyway, it would be fine if they did not suffer any losses.

There are many officials in Kyoto, and many officials do not return their land after entering the capital, but instead build up relationships and acquire land;

There are also some officials in the capital who casually assign a relative to a family member as a foreign official, which takes up a lot of job land even if they don’t do any work.”

Zheng Xiaorou thought of her father, who used such methods to occupy land back then. However, after entering Beijing, he did not dare to go too far for the sake of his future and returned the land to his job.

Zheng Xiaorou stopped to drink water, moistened her throat, and then brought the topic back to Xiaobao's original question: "Furthermore, the common people's land is calculated in acres, while the official's land is calculated in hectares. Even the most remote areas

Every magistrate in a small county has seven hectares of farmland.

The common people are slowly losing their land, and they have no ability to fight against the officials. How to fight? If the people sue the officials, they will have to fight fifty times first. Do you think the officials can let you succeed?

Within fifty cents, you will definitely be killed.

The common people's land was exploited, and if there was a drought, insect infestation, etc., they would sell their land if they could no longer survive. Over time, the common people's land was lost and they became tenant farmers.

They have all become tenants, so how can they still have the money to dig a well? Besides, you occupy my land and I pay to dig a well for you? What are you thinking!"

After spending a long time with these rough guys, Zheng Xiaorou has become more direct in her speech, and she is not subtle when expressing her dissatisfaction.

As expected of a daughter of an official family, her words clearly explained the secrets here, but it seemed that everyone's attention was not on the people's land being exploited, but on -

"That's not right, why haven't you heard that the boss has a job?" Gan Lai was the first to react.

"Yes, our boss is a fifth-rank official. Hey, sister-in-law, how many hectares of land does a fifth-rank official have?" Chu Yuan immediately thought of this question.
Chapter completed!