My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

After breakfast, the Qin and Chu families went out to look for Li Zheng.

"According to the regulations, both of you can open up wasteland on your own, and it will become your own after three years of farming. Of course, you can also directly use money to buy land.

However, apart from the military land, the rest of the cultivated farmland in our village is the private property of the old man and Sun Baihu. The other villagers only work as tenant farmers or long-term laborers. "

Having said this, Zhao Lizheng paused and told them what he had left unfinished yesterday.

It turns out that Youzhou has too few population resources. In order to resist foreign invasion, the state government issued a series of decrees to give preferential treatment to the refugees.

For example, if you settle down, borrow farm tools to open up wasteland, the income from abandoned land will not be taxed in the first year, but will be classified as private land after three years, etc.

In the past ten years, Youzhou has received many refugees one after another, and the population is extremely complex.

Coupled with the year-round war, it can be said that the people's customs are strong and everyone is a soldier.

When cultivating land outside the city, without the protection of local forces, it is easy for others to seize it. Even if you spend money to apply for a field deed, the food you grow may not be in your hands. It can be said that there are wolves everywhere.

In order to avoid working in vain, the powerless people can only become tenant farmers of wealthy families. They hand over [-]% of their grain every year like military households, leaving only [-]% to survive.

However, according to Zhao Lizheng, the Qin and Chu families have many men and are not weak in strength, so they should be able to defend their land.

Su Yunwan was more concerned: "If we want to buy land, can we hire people to farm it?"

Zhao Lizheng replied: "The problem is not big. In addition to the tenant farmers, there are also people from the field gang."

Su Yunwan didn't need to ask anymore, Zhao Lizheng went further and said: "The Tian Gang is a gang that specializes in doing part-time labor in farming. There are many good farmers among them, and the prices are fair."

Su Yunwan nodded and looked at Qin Junyi: "Then let's just buy some wasteland."

Qin Junyi is good at everything.

Chu Shao said to look at the situation first.

At this moment, a bell-like voice came from outside the courtyard door: "Old man Zhao, are the Chu family members who came yesterday here with you?"

"Here!" Zhao Lizheng immediately greeted him and brought a fierce, dark man through the door.

"This is Sun Baihu of our village." After Zhao Lizheng finished speaking, he introduced the Qin and Chu families to Sun Baihu.

"I don't care about the Qin family." Sun Baihu raised his hand and said to Chu Shao and others: "Follow me and claim the military land."

After the Chu family said goodbye to Zhao Lizheng, they followed Sun Baihu out.

Zhao Lizheng said to Qin Junyi and Su Yunwan again: "You also go to the fields with me to see which piece of land you want to buy."

So Su Yunwan and others followed him to the fields.

The area of ​​Beiling Village is not small, but due to the lack of population and the disturbance of the border areas by barbarians, only about one-third of the area is cultivated, and most of them are concentrated at the entrance of the village in the south.

Sun Baihu, who was walking at the front, pointed to a large area of ​​wasteland in the middle of the village: "Most of those fields were originally military fields, but they were later abandoned. Now your Chu family is responsible for reclaiming and planting them.

Sowing will be done in the spring next year. In my opinion, you should not go digging mountains and mines. This winter, you should tidy up the land honestly so as not to miss the farming season. "

Chu Shao's eyes flashed, and he responded directly with his fists clasped.

Sun Baihu suddenly changed his face and said with a ferocious look: "I'm going to say something ugly first, the imperial court did not exile you just to enjoy the blessings.

From now on, all your men, women, and children will work in the fields to cultivate wasteland for me. If anyone dares to be lazy, I will send you to the mines. If the mine collapses, no matter how skilled you are, you will not be able to escape. "

After the words fell, many people in the Chu family felt a chill behind them.

They had long heard about the mine collapse and knew that Sun Baihu's words were by no means alarmist.

At this time, Chu Yi stood up and said, "Master Baihu, we should do our best to complete the assigned tasks."

Sun Baihu's face turned pale, "I hope so."

Chu Yi said again: "Master Baihu, please take a step to speak."

Sun Baihu looked at him suspiciously and took a few steps aside.

Suddenly, a silver ingot was stuffed into the hand vertically beside his body.

Chu Yi was neither humble nor arrogant, and said gently: "Seeing that the cold winter is coming, once the soil in this field is frozen, it will hurt the hoe. Do you think we can pay some people to plow the land before the severe winter?" "

Sun Baihu looked at the silver in his hand, his expression struggling.

Chu Yi added another silver ingot, and now there were more Sun Baihus: "Okay, I'll call the Tian Gang for you. They charge 30 copper coins per acre for land reclamation. But your family must also participate. , otherwise it won’t look good once word gets out.”

Chu Yi smiled and said: "Don't worry, we will not cause any trouble to you. In addition, we also want to buy land and build a house, but the current thatched house is really unlivable."

Sun Baihu said indifferently: "Just go and tell Li Zheng about this, I won't care."

After the two reached an agreement, Sun Baihu took people to measure the land, and asked the rest of the people to go to his house to find someone to get tools, and they would start working in the afternoon.

According to the task of cultivating ten acres per person in the military household, the Chu family is responsible for up to a thousand acres, with the two families basically accounting for half.

If they really had to do it all by themselves, it wouldn't necessarily take them a few months to finish.

On the Qin family's side, Su Yunwan glanced at the people who were measuring the land in the distance, and said sideways: "Zi Yuan, after they finish measuring, I want to buy all the rest, as well as the place where we live and the back mountain. It just fits together.”

Qin Junyi smiled and nodded, then turned to look at Sun Baihu: "Just buy it as my wife said."

Sun Baihu was shocked by Su Yunwan's generosity. He took a deep breath and said, "Then you must be careful. Don't let the barbarians come and destroy all the crops you planted."

Qin Junyi nodded: "Thanks for the reminder."

Sun Baihu talked about the price again: "Our land outside Youzhou City is sparsely populated, and the wasteland only costs 100 taels per acre. The barren hills are about a thousand acres, so the price is 200 taels of silver. In total, let's calculate it to [-] taels." "

This money is really cheap, but according to Youzhou's policies, you can get it without paying a penny.

The farmland only needs to be cleared and cultivated for three years, and then it is all yours.

As for the top of the mountain, it is said that "under the sky, there is nothing but royal soil", but in fact it is an ownerless thing. Anyone can go up the mountain to cut down, hunt, plant, etc.

It's just that Noda without a deed is easily preempted by others and cannot receive official protection.

In the Zhou Dynasty, it was common for bandits to occupy mountains and become kings, and for aristocratic families to occupy mountaintops, but it was extremely rare to pay for them.

Su Yunwan wanted to build a paradise surrounded by mountains and rivers. Spending money would save him a lot of trouble, so he agreed to buy it.

Anyway, there are countless gold and silver treasures in her space, so she can squander them as she pleases.

If you really run out of money one day, you can find an undiscovered mine or take a day trip to the palace. By then, the emperor's private treasury will definitely have a lot more storage.

After Sun Baihu received the silver, he immediately took his own donkey cart to the city government office to complete the formalities.

But he didn't expect that for the government, this was equivalent to a windfall from heaven, but something unexpected happened.