Datang romantic little landlord

Li Wangyou was puzzled, walked out of the study and asked, "Is there a visitor at this late hour? Who is it?"

Li Heng replied: "Master Liu of the county government."

Liu Xiao, the head of the county government?

Li Wangyou knew this person in his memory, and this person had a good relationship with Li Zhou before his death.After Li Zhou was dismissed by Li Er, the others avoided fear, only Liu Xiao still often communicated with the Li family, and he was regarded as a gentleman.

But it's already time to light the lamps, why did Liu Xiao come to visit suddenly?Could it be related to being expelled from the clan?

Li Wangyou didn't dare to delay, and asked Li Heng to lead the way with a lantern in front, and walked quickly to the main room in the front yard.

The middle-aged man with a long white beard sitting in the main room is none other than Liu Xiao, the head of the Hu County Government Office.

Li Wangyou stepped forward and bowed: "I have seen Mr. Liu, and Wangyou is far away from welcoming you. Forgive me."

With a serious face, Liu Xiao gestured for him to sit down and talk: "Xiao Lang, you caused a big disaster today!"

012 I owe this debt

Li Wangyou was taken aback by Liu Xiao's words, not quite understanding what he meant.

Seeing Li Wangyou's puzzled expression, Liu Xiao patiently explained: "You fell out with the Li clan today? Did they expel your family from the genealogy?"

"There is such a thing." Li Wangyou replied honestly.

"Hey, Xiao Lang, you are so confused!" Liu Xiao glared at him angrily, "How can you agree with them removing your family tree?"

"Master Liu, it's not that I want to leave the clan, it's that they have gone too far! They wantonly humiliated my lord, and as a child, how can I sit idly by?" Li Wangyou didn't think it was a big deal.

"Xiao Lang, do you know that after you are expelled from the clan, you are no longer a member of the royal family?" Liu Xiao shook his head and sighed.

"Is... what's wrong with this?" Li Wangyou was puzzled, he didn't value the name of Li Tang's clan relative.

"Confused! If you are not a member of the royal family, you need to serve corvee, you know?"

Li Wangyou was immediately stunned by Liu Xiao's words, corvee?

He had never thought about this before, and after a little thought, he suddenly realized, Nima, it really is so!

The taxation in the early Tang Dynasty was rent-yong-adjustment, which was a tax and service system that combined land rent, body-yong, and household adjustments on the basis of the equal-field system.

Every year, 2 stones of millet are transported to the country for rent; 2 feet of silk and 3 taels of cotton are transported for adjustment; 20 days of service are called regular service, and those who do not serve 3 feet of silk every day are called mediocrity.

Li Wangyou was originally exempt from corvee because of his clan status, but after he was expelled from the clan, he became an ordinary household and needed to serve corvee.

If you don't serve, you need Naju to offset it.

Before Li Wangyou finished digesting the bad news, Liu Xiao went on to say: "There is also the public money borrowed by your lord, which was originally for the sake of the royal family, and you still have a hundred acres of fertile land in your family as a pledge. , so Yang Mingfu did not rush you to pay back the money. However, after learning that you were expelled from the clan and that the [-] acres of fertile land would also be transferred to the Li clan, Yang Mingfu ordered that the servants come to your house tomorrow to collect the money owed. cleared the debt."

The Yang Ming Mansion that Liu Xiao talked about was Yang Zuan, the county magistrate of Hu County, and Ming Mansion was the Tang Dynasty's respectful name for the county magistrate.

"You want me to pay back the money tomorrow? How can there be money in the house?" Li Wangyou curled his lips.

Now that he is poor and white, Li Heng said that the remaining money in the mansion is only seven or eight guan, and even the food expenses of the servants in the mansion are almost not enough.Asking myself to pay back the money, isn't this a dream?

"Xiao Lang forgot about the servants in the mansion?"

"Slave?" Li Wangyou was stunned, then stood up abruptly: "Master Liu, what does Yang Mingfu mean to take my slaves from the Li family to pay off the debt?"

There are still 23 slaves and maidservants in the Li Mansion. The slaves and maidservants are private property, but in fact this is not a small fortune.

Datang slaves do not have household registration, have no personal freedom and any rights, are regarded as livestock and assets, and their legal status is far lower than that of farmers, and the status of slaves will be passed on from generation to generation.

Datang's servants can be bought and sold at will. A stunning maidservant can be bought for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, and old and sick ones can be bought for two or three pennies.

On average, these servants in Li's mansion are worth about forty to fifty thousand yuan each, and the servants in the mansion can almost pay off a debt of about one million yuan.

So after learning that Li Wangyou was expelled from the clan, Yang Ming's mansion was in a hurry to get angry, and was going to have the servants come to the door tomorrow, to forcibly take away the slaves of Li's mansion and resell them to pay off the debt.

Only then did Li Wangyou realize that if this was the case, everyone including the old housekeeper Li Heng and the little maid Pei Lan would be taken away by the county government and sold again.

He broke out in a cold sweat suddenly.

Before, I had taken it for granted that Li Heng would go to do the naturalization test for Su Zhangqing. If there were not too many things today, Su Changqing might also become a maid of the Li family and would be sold together.

Li Wangyou's head was in a mess for a while, and he didn't know what to say.

He thanked Liu Xiao who came over overnight to tell him about it, and hurried back to the inner room.

In the study in the inner room, Su Changqing was looking at the books on the bookshelf under the dim oil lamp, when he saw Li Wangyou walking in distraught, he asked him what happened.

Li Wangyou sat down dejectedly, and told the whole story about the county government chief's visit just now.

"Changqing, what should I do now?" Li Wangyou couldn't imagine the scene where the little girl Peilan was taken away and sold again.

If she meets a master who is not as good as a pig or a dog, I'm afraid the little girl will live a life worse than death!In Datang, slaves and maidservants did not have the slightest human rights.

Such a cute little girl, how could he push her into the fire pit with his own hands?

Li Wangyou felt that he was like Yang Bailao now, and felt sad that he wanted to use Xi'er to pay off the debt.

There are also other slaves in the mansion, Li Wangyou feels disgust and resistance to treating people as commodities from the bottom of his heart, even if he needs to pay back the money, he never thought of using these slaves to pay off the debt.

Li Wangyou is not a moral guard, he will enjoy the service of slaves with peace of mind, and even YY bought a stunning Persian slave girl to warm his bed when he first crossed.

But he was very contradictory, selling these poor people as commodities with his own hands, Li Wangyou couldn't do it, let alone use it to pay off debts.

"This..." Su Changqing was also at a loss for the predicament Li Wangyou was facing now.Even though she is smart and proficient in business operations, she is not a fairy, she can't make money, and she doesn't know how to face the current situation in Datang.

The two were silent, and in the study room, the light crackling sound of the oil lamp bursting out from time to time could be heard quietly.

After a long time, Li Wangyou snapped a few cases: "This debt is owed by me alone, and I will not pay any of the servants in the house! I will release them all overnight!"

Let go, that is, let go.

Datang allowed the return of private slaves and maidservants as good.After the owner of the servant girl gave the handwriting, he could remove the attached book and release the slave girl as a benefactor.

After Li Zhou's death, Li Wangyou is now the head of the Li family.As long as he writes down the release document, these former servants of the Li family will be freed from slavery and become good people again.

"Wangyou, have you thought about it? It's easy for you to let the slaves go, but tomorrow the county government will come to get these slaves, and you will be in trouble." Su Changqing asked, staring into Li Wangyou's eyes.

"Changqing, I've made up my mind. I, Li Wangyou, will bear the debt myself!" Li Wangyou said decisively, but Su Changqing was taken aback.

"As long as you make a decision, I will support you." Su Changqing's beautiful eyes flashed a gleam, and it was only at this moment that she realized that Li Wangyou was such a man.

Li Wangyou nodded, sat back in front of the desks, and began to write the exemption documents.Su Changqing helped him grind, but from time to time he raised his eyes to peep at this young man who was serious about writing.

Under the flickering light of the oil lamp, Li Wangyou's side face was as beautiful as a sculpture, which made Su Changqing blush slightly.