Zhen Fei rises up in the Red Chamber

Zhen Fei has no time to care about his father's mood right now, he is busy, and since he heard that his mother unified his flower planting, he immediately started to toss about it, although it is already late autumn , it is not a good season for planting, but this does not prevent him from breaking the ground. It is already a lot of work to sort out the flower beds first, although he does not need to do anything by himself (he just wants to do it, and he doesn’t have to do it himself). If people dare to let him do it, this is the little ancestor of the family, if it bumps into each other, it will be a big deal.).

The maids, mothers-in-law, and even the servants in the room are all too busy. This one moves the plants, the other helps loosen the soil, and some of them need to sprinkle things into the soil according to their uncle's instructions. It's not a good thing either, it's all plant ash, even egg shells, tree leaves, things they don't understand very well, even if they have fields at home, or a few servants who come from farmers, they don't like it. I understand, why do they do this, they never knew about this kind of flower, but they still need so many steps, starting from loosening the soil, they are so particular about it, some even whispered to their ears, saying that they are playing with those literati and refined scholars to plant flowers The tone of the house is different from that of ordinary people.

Zhen Fei didn't bother to pay attention to what they said, but according to what he learned from some agricultural technicians when he was in his hometown, he slowly wanted to transform his first A small experimental field.At this moment, his heart is very warm, and of course he doesn't know it at all. The flower selling business he imagined is basically impossible to take shape. No matter how good he grows, he is probably destined to give gifts. While looking at the tidied land, he was crooked, dreaming of getting a large flower garden by himself in the future, and then sitting and collecting money.

On the other hand, Master Zhen doesn't have time to be sad right now, let alone worry about the reunion of friends who haven't arrived yet, because something happened to him too.It's still a troublesome matter. The manager of a mountain forest in the Zhen family came and reported bad news. A mountain leopard came near their forest. It had nothing to do with the Zhen family, but it happened because of the mountain. Leopards have caused a sharp reduction in the number of semi-free-range prey in the Zhenjia Mountain Forest, and even affected the amount of firewood, charcoal and other items produced in other forests. .

Master Zhen was contacting several other people from the nearby land and forest owners, preparing to jointly offer a reward, and organizing manpower to prepare the cheetah, while he was thinking about how to deal with the steward, and by the way, he called Zhen Fei over and asked him to follow along and learn some things. , This kind of thing is not often encountered, it is a rare teaching material, and it also helps my son know how to manage things in this family.

"Why do you want to set off this steward? Didn't he attract the mountain leopard?"

Zhen Fei didn't understand, what the beast had anything to do with the steward, why should the steward be punished? Isn't this implicating the innocent?But the problem is that Zhen Fei thinks that he knows his father well, and he doesn't seem like someone who would implicate innocent people.So there must be something wrong here.

"Son, you don't understand. I have already asked many people about the mountain leopard. This mountain leopard has been living on the cliff behind our mountain forest for almost two months, but the manager didn't Today, I just talked about this matter, and you should know what it means. It means that in the past, the manager did not pay attention to things. I am afraid that when patrolling the mountain, he did not go to the back mountain. The free-range wild game here has not been checked in detail for a month. Otherwise, such a big beast would come and go on our land, and it would only take ten days and a half a month to find it. Isn't this the manager? fault?"

Master Zhen didn't say anything, Zhen Fei really didn't think about it, let him say this, isn't that the way it is, he doesn't really understand everything, because he used to prepare special forces, so he often trained in the mountains and forests , It is very clear that as long as there are some experienced mountain people, they can judge whether there are any beasts nearby just from the footprints and the reactions of wild animals, let alone those who rely on the mountains to support their families. It's a mountain patrol, and you can tell a thing or two from the broken branches of the trees.If you say that, the steward is really at fault for dereliction of duty. Since he has dereliction of duty, it is okay to punish him one or two times.

"Father, how do you punish me? This matter can be big or small. Has our family suffered a lot?"

Zhen Fei asked very seriously. He didn't understand these things about housekeepers, so he studied them very hard. He knew in his heart that the more he learned, the better he would be able to survive in this world in the future. Ability, as long as you learn it, is always useful.

Seeing his son like this, Master Zhen is also very happy. People like them are most afraid of the prodigal sons who are uneducated and incompetent. As long as the children are willing to learn, as long as they know how to manage the house, then no matter how poor their skills are, at least they will Nor will there be no food in the future.

"This is also the place where the father is in trouble. The manager has neglected his duty and should be punished, but he is also an old man who has been in our family for more than ten years. He has never had anything wrong, and this time it is also considered a mistake. It's justifiable, because the eldest son of his family broke his leg on the mountain a while ago, and he took care of his son so much that he neglected his errands."

Master Zhen frowned, deliberately letting go of the manager, but thinking about it, he could not do so, sighed, and said in a dull voice:

"Son, don't think that our family seems to have a certain status in this city, but no matter how status we have, we must follow the rules and do things, and we can't change the rules at will. We all demand rent reduction, but we can’t do it, let them delay until the next year at most, even willing to spend more money on disaster relief, and can’t make a move on the rent, all of this has a reason.”

Seeing that his son listened seriously, Mr. Zhen was willing to take advantage of today to talk more, such as the matter of land rent. Generally speaking, for people like them, it is an unspoken rule. The entire Suzhou literati and landlord class, that is It is a uniform [-]% rent, which is just the right number, in line with their golden mean, neither appearing mean nor too loose.Why did such a figure be set? what?Those who saw it laughed angrily. Those tenants saw that the owner was so talkative, they either concealed the report or defaulted on it. In the end, those lands almost became unharvested land. There was no harvest. What are you doing?What do you want tenants for?Buy land for tenants?This is the kind of thing that makes these scholars feel that such a good person can't do it casually, and if he does it too much, he will be regarded as a fool.

It is especially unlucky that there is an old scholar here. The land of his family is connected with the forest, because at that time, the medicinal materials are very valuable, and those tenants are digging medicinal materials in the old scholar's forest and selling them. Money, according to the rules, since this mountain forest belongs to an old scholar, then everything on this mountain belongs to him. The tenants are not qualified to dig and sell it for money. Even if they use it themselves, it is not allowed. Even if you secretly pick it up, if you use it yourself, it’s justified, and it’s an emergency, but if you pick it up and sell it for money, it’s a bit too much.

But this old scholar was originally a sympathetic character. He thought that the tenants and farmers were poor people. Anyway, he didn't think about selling those medicinal materials. Quan Dang didn't know, who knew that just this once, the tenants became more courageous, and later, they didn't even plant the land properly, and the land was abandoned, and all the medicinal materials were dug up and sold for money. They dug up the old scholar's good forest and basically destroyed nearly half of it, even some bark that could be sold for money, and finally nearly half of the tree died.What's more, when the rent is collected at the end of the year, the wasteland can't be used to plant it directly. He still fooled him in such a way to eat in the mountains, forests and fields. In a fit of anger, the old scholar directly took the fields and forests back, and didn’t want these tenants anymore. If the matter came to this point, it should have ended. If these tenants had learned a lesson, they would know that they were wrong Well, excuse me, maybe this matter will be over, but I don’t want to, I don’t know who was instigated by someone, these people actually think it’s old scholars who don’t give them a way out, and they actually come to make trouble, that’s great , the old scholar was so angry that he passed out and had a stroke. This matter immediately became a big deal.

The old scholar is a man of fame anyway, he is a scholar, and his family is also a wealthy family. Seeing this incident, his son stopped doing it, and while suing these tenants to the Yamen, he organized people to buy them directly. Slaves, I plan to plant all the mountains, forests and fields with servants in the future, and I will no longer use these tenants, nor will I hire people from this village.He even said that if there was any trouble again, he would sell the land directly and leave. Anyway, he would not use a single person in the village.

As a result, needless to say, this matter was originally for those tenants, and the farmers didn't take advantage of it, so those who should be shut down and accompanied by matching, those people regret it now, but regret is useful?Even the errands were gone, and the land could no longer be planted. In the end, the county magistrate came forward to appease the old scholar, and dispersed these tenants, and distributed them to surrounding villages, so that they would not be hungry. Death, the people in this village will not lose their jobs, but these tenants have a bad reputation because of this incident. Even if they are assigned to other villages, it is very difficult to rent and grow land, and they are self-inflicted.Even carrying a large amount of debt, don't forget that the medicinal materials they sold earlier belonged to the old scholars, and they were stealing.At this moment, the owner is pursuing it, can you not spit it out?

To put it bluntly, if the county magistrate hadn't adjusted it for a few days, the old scholar's illness would have improved again. This one theft alone was enough for these tenants to eat in prison for a long time. I don't know this one What will happen to the family?

That's it, like that, there are a lot of things that the big households do not get rewarded for being good people, which makes the big households in the city and outside the city a little vigilant about doing good deeds, and always follow the rules. The words are extremely tight. Even in a catastrophic year, these people have never waived their rent. This is not because they are cold-blooded, but because they are afraid that once they start, they will not be able to stop the car in the future. Donate rice, donate clothes, provide seeds and farm tools for free, and allow tenants to pay back the rent owed in three or four years.If you really want to calculate it, this expense is actually nearly double that of the rent-free house.

Hearing what Master Zhen said, Zhen Fei opened his mouth wide and his eyes were round and round. He was extremely cute. Of course, what he was thinking was not cute at all, because what he suddenly thought of at this moment was, He used to be a poor person, a poor and lower-middle peasant, a type of person who actively supported the fight against the landlord, and a loyal audience of the white-haired girl, but now he suddenly became the same class as Huang Shiren?No reduction or exemption of rent in catastrophic years, this definitely belongs to the vicious exploiting class, but how did he find out that this landlord class is actually not easy after hearing what his father said?If so, wouldn't it mean that what Huang Shiren did was right?

Maybe, Zhen Fei tried hard to recall that classic opera, and thought about it with his current status as the son of a landlord. Sure enough, it is only natural to pay back the debt. No fault, if there is a real fault, I can only say that the pressure is a bit tight, but the problem is from the landlord's point of view, if you can't pay it back, why do you borrow money? , you just want to renege on the debt?Is there a representative of the typical grandson who wants to be a debtor and a debt collector?

Zhen Fei jerked his body violently. Thinking of this, he suddenly realized that the three views had been subverted, isn't it?But you want Zhen Fei to say that what his father said is wrong?He really couldn't say that against his conscience, because even he, when he looked at it from his father's point of view, felt that there was a reason for doing this.

Sure enough, landlords and tenants belong to the inherently hostile camp, and they always have irreconcilable class contradictions.