Good Life in Qin Dynasty

After the autumn harvest, Steward Li Zhong hurried to pay the tax with the grain he received. The legal system of the Qin State is not just for fun. It doesn’t matter if you pay the tax and grain one day later. ?But in Qin State, it is definitely a felony!

How much tax and food will be charged depends on how late you are!

Therefore, as soon as the grain was harvested, Steward Li Zhong quickly organized people to deliver the grain to the government. After paying the tax and grain, he had to write off several dead masters in Lijiazhuang.

If there are fewer people, they will naturally not pay their taxes next year.

But this year's one still has to be handed in, this is ancient times!

Li Jiyang directs people to build a kang at home. Others have it, but the main house does not have it. The main house burns charcoal pots every year!

"Master, is this good?" Little Lolita watched people build a kang in the main house, and Li Jiyang directed it very lively.

"What's wrong? Winter is coming, you can't let me and the children suffer from the cold?" You all have a heated kang, but I don't. Is it a loss?

Little Lolita watched helplessly as the big wooden bed was carried out and replaced with a small square brick bed.

After the heated kang was fired, a thick mat made of reeds was spread, and a thin layer of kang mattress was spread on the mat, and then Li Jiyang climbed up to feel it: "It's really comfortable!"

The hot kang makes people want to leave it in the increasingly cold late autumn!

"Build another room for the young master!" Li Jiyang's kang was finished, and it was the child's turn: "Let Nanny Lan bring the young master to my room first."

When Nanny Lan moved over, she went to Li Jiyang and whispered, "Master, don't move back after we move here."

"Why?" Li Jiyang looked at her in surprise: "But it's not good over there?"

The child was there when he was a child, and he stayed there for three or four months. He suddenly changed places and was not ready to move back. What happened?

"Young master, everyone respects the east..." Nanny Lan glanced at Li Jiyang, and found that the young master didn't understand, so she simply explained: "The head of the family lives on the inner side of the east..."

In the past, there was no way, the young master was still young, and the place where he lived should not be moved, but now it can't be done, the young master has gathered people's hearts and power, the young master has to rely on the young master to raise him, and nurse Lan can't let the young master despise the young master.

Giving up the place is only the first step, the second step is to let the growing young master cling to the young master and cultivate the relationship between uncle and nephew.

At the very least, when the young master gets married and has children, he won't neglect the young master.

Li Jiyang understood that it was Nannie Lan who tried to move out and refused to move in so as not to separate the uncle and nephew.

"Okay." Li Jiyang didn't make things difficult for her, it doesn't matter what's on the inside of things, as long as there is a place to live, and it doesn't freeze this winter, that's fine.

The child moved to the west inner side, and there were a lot of things, such as diapers, which were all moved in in boxes. It turned out that Nan Lan made so many diaper changes for the child without knowing it.

Li Jiyang felt that Nanny Lan was still very dedicated....

It is a small kang, which can dry out the occupants in a day. After finishing it, Li Jiyang lay on the east inner side, on the warm little kang. There is no air conditioner here, let alone electricity!

In winter, he can only rely on the heated kang.

Although the space and system are good inside, it is impossible for him to stay inside forever and not come out!

And the time difference with the outside is also a problem...

Ugh!

I slept on the heated kang all night, and I felt a little thirsty when I woke up in the morning. At this time, I can’t make more fires, because although the weather is cold, and it’s not snowing yet, this place can’t hold snow. There is a limit to coldness, and the air is dry.

When I got up the next day, the house still needed to be repaired. After all, the heated kang was built. In addition to laying the heated kang, some things had to be added.

Because after the autumn harvest, it will be winter, and he doesn’t plan to remove the gauze on the windows and doors, but he needs to add a layer of white cloth curtains, the kind that transmits light; while the door curtains need to be thicker. , Keep out the wind!

It's just that the room will be very dark at that time, so order more "climb".

While Li Jiyang was busy, Li Zhong's housekeeper in Xianyang City happened to have finished paying taxes and food, and he couldn't go home that day, so he found a place to live outside Xianyang City.

But the next day was the day when the king was enthroned, there was a lot of traffic, and there was a temporary martial law, so they were trapped in place, but three days later...

They came back only six days after leaving Lijiazhuang, and they were all very depressed.

"What's the matter?" Why did they come back one by one and stretch their faces?

"Young master, the lord ascended the throne four days ago...the notification I received today is that the lord...is dead." Butler Li Zhong almost burst into tears.

It's nothing more than frequent funerals in Lijiazhuang. How come the state of Qin, which hasn't had a state funeral for a long time, also frequently dies its lord?Once death is so close, in spring and summer, the old lord passed away, and after the autumn harvest, after paying taxes and food, the new lord passed away!

What are you talking about!

Li Jiyang was not surprised: "Understood, let's hang up the funeral cloths put away at home!"

The original national filial piety has not been finished yet, and here comes another one. Others’ houses have two layers of funeral cloth, but theirs has three layers, because there is still family filial piety.

The land of Qinchuan was once again covered with mourning cloths, and the people of Qin State were also extremely depressed. It is understandable why the former ruler was so good and died as soon as he said he died, because the old ruler is more than 70 years old, and the life of seventy is rare since ancient times!

But even though the new king is old, why did he pass away after only three days in office?

The one who ascends the throne again will be the son-in-law of the new king, Mr. Chu, the three kings have been rotating too diligently, right?

Fortunately, the new king died after the autumn harvest, and son Chu ascended the throne three days later. The first thing after ascending the throne was his father's funeral.

In this era, death is life.

The kings even began to build their own mausoleums from the very beginning of their ascension to the throne, but the last king had only ascended the throne for three days, and the mausoleum hadn't been surveyed yet, so he passed away!

So I don't know how long this stopped.

During the suspension period, the filial piety in the middle school cannot be withdrawn!

Similarly, because of the frequent deaths of the rulers of the Qin Kingdom, there have been some rumors: a foreign star descended on the Qin Kingdom, and as a result, the Qin Kingdom almost lost its ruler for an entire year, but this time, two people passed away consecutively!

Is it a foreign star that specializes in restraining the country's lord?

The rulers of many countries have sought alchemists to solve their doubts: alien stars can help them strengthen their countries, but if it is at the cost of their own lives, they can't!

The lord who is most afraid of death has already issued an order to recall the people he sent out. Although the alien star is good, life is better!

A country, as long as it has power, has gold, can bend down, and recruits talents, then it will be no problem to govern the country and strengthen the country!

The most important premise is to save your life!

These people actually know how old these two kings are?It's no big deal to die, the key is that it's too close to the time when the alien star came into the world!

They would rather not have the help of a foreign star, and they don't want Xiao Ming'er to have anything!

Who can say clearly about this kind of thing?

Even the alchemists didn't dare, because they haven't found the alien star yet, and they dare not pat their chests and say that the alien star cannot defeat the king's life!

In case of a gram, who of them can afford this responsibility?

As a result, there was a change in the noisy search for alien stars outside.

Li Jiyang didn't know about this yet. He was counting what was left after his family paid the taxes this year: grain. Counting all kinds of grain, there could be more than 800 shi of grain.

In fact, the harvest can be about a thousand stones, but the tax and grain have been paid.

The weight unit "stone" in this period is roughly converted to about 120 catties in later generations. That is to say, the grain income of Lijiazhuang can be about [-] catties.

People in Zhuangzi have to eat enough every day. As an expensive food, it is impossible for everyone to eat meat to their fullness. It can only serve as a supplementary food, mainly food.

That is to say, people in Zhuangzi eat at least one stone of grain every day, which is about 120 catties.

360 five days a year requires 360 catties, which is [-] five stones if converted into the grain unit "stone" of this era!

In addition, there are domestic animals, which also need to be fed with some grain and grass.

You can't just feed the grass, this is not free-range farming, you have to mix the hay with the boiled grain to feed the animals, so that the animals can eat enough.

This also consumes at least half of the food.

Fortunately, there was still a lot of grain from last year. Li Jiyang decided to eat the new grain for himself and feed the old grain to the livestock! After removing all these, the family will still be rich with two hundred shi of grain, which can be sold for money.

In addition to food, there are also cloth made by women at home, which are all good things. The cloth made of mulberry hemp is thick and soft.

There are also silk fabrics woven from silk, but they are rare, and such things are expensive, and they have always been important items used to exchange money or buy salt.

At this time, there was also cotton, but it was kapok, which was rare, and it had just been stuffed with kapok to keep out the cold. It was the earliest "cotton coat".

In fact, in this era, people still mainly use fur to keep out the cold.

Even a poor family can have two or three sheepskin clothes to keep out the cold.

In addition to these, there are poultry and livestock that have grown up at home.

"Young master, do you want to sell some food and living things?" Steward Li Zhong watched Li Jiyang flip through the bamboo slips for a long time, and asked him in a low voice before he could speak.

Usually at this time, sell some things, exchange for some money, buy some salt, and save the rest.

"If you don't sell them, keep them at home!" Li Jiyang didn't plan to sell them, and there were many fruits in his space. Although he couldn't get them out for the time being, he had enough.

And with so many people outside, he has more confidence in his heart because he has more food at home.

As for money?

To be honest, the Li family doesn't say they are very rich and spend a lot of money, but they are definitely not short of money.

In addition to the box of golden pancakes in his space, there are other things unique to this period: cloth coins, knife coins, won coins and a small amount of ant nose coins.

Among them, there are more yuan coins, because they are the coins in circulation in the Qin and Wei countries, and the ant nose coins are the least, because they are the currency in circulation in the Chu country. Cloth coins are the most special, and Li Jiyang is always afraid of their depreciation. He always wanted to let him spend the cloth coins first.

But in this period, cloth coins were valued very much. The reason is that cloth coins are easy to mint and carry, and are very popular among merchants.