After being dressed as a scumbag, I was dismissed? !

"Father, the tax on Second Novels this year is the same as last year. You prepare them in advance, and put the rest in the east room after drying." Second Aunt Guan was sitting in the yard, holding a cob in each hand, rubbing each other, the corn on the cob The grains fell down one after another.

This is because they dried the corn cobs enough to rub them off, and the rubbed corn kernels had to be dried again, and the moisture was almost gone before they could be put into sacks for storage.

The vast majority of their villages grow corn, and the yield per mu is not bad. Generally, it ranges from [-] catties to [-] catties, and when it is particularly good, it can exceed [-] catties.

The land tax in Zhao State is to collect grain by mu after the autumn harvest every year.In all parts of the north, the harvest of medium-sized fields is roughly [-] catties per mu, and the government tax is [-] catties. There is no upper limit. To save trouble, the government will go to several villages every year to measure the yield of several mu of land in batches, and then take a suitable The number of catties to collect.

However, the general yamen servants will charge more, about three hundred catties per mu of land. If they are careless, they will have to pay half of the grain to pay taxes, and the rest will naturally not be enough to feed the whole family for a year.

After the tax is paid every year, there will be grain merchants to collect and sell grain. Many people will sell the good grain in their hands and replace it with unpalatable millet, and at the same time keep a part of the money.

Only those who have a lot of food in the family will leave some good food and eat it with millet. This is what Aunt Guan’s family does. Except for Guan Yang, the four of them usually go to the field, and they are very concerned about the work in the field. , the harvested grain is also the best in the village, and every year, apart from selling it, some of it will be specially kept.

Uncle Guan's family is very diligent, and Guan Yang also goes home to help when he is busy with farming. He is skilled in harvesting grain, and he is not lazy at first glance.

On the contrary, Gu Beizhi was much inferior compared to him. He was slow when he broke the stick, and now he was even more clumsy when rubbing the corn kernels, and his palms were blistered. It's just a little more with Erbao.

In the end, Guan Zhou couldn't stand it anymore, and drove him to the kitchen to make herbal tea, took his place and quickly rubbed the corn kernels, and within a short while, he rubbed Gu Beizhi's amount for an hour.

Although it is late autumn, every household has to go to the fields to work, and rushing to harvest is very tiring, and it is very easy to get angry. People who have the conditions will go to Barefoot Doctor to buy a few packs of herbal tea that is prepared to clear away heat and heat, and cook a big pot every day. Drink as water.

Gu Beizhi looked at the pot of brown tea soup with a strange taste in front of him. To be honest, he really wanted to pour it down. The herbal tea sold in later generations tastes good and is acceptable. Why is it so unpalatable here? Diluted Chinese medicine is the same.

He carefully recalled the kind of canned herbal tea sold in later generations, which seemed to be quite simple. Thanks to his excellent memory, he still remembered most of the recipes of the herbal tea. He thought about finding a chance to mix the herbal tea of ​​later generations , it is estimated that many people will like it.

While carefully recalling the recipe of herbal tea in my mind, I carefully boiled the bitter and smelly brown tea soup. As for really throwing it away, what did I think?Guan Zhou bought this and cooked it for everyone to drink, just because he was afraid that everyone would get angry.

After a while, Gu Beizhi poured the boiled herbal tea into bowls, thought for a while, found sugar from Guan Zhou's pannier, and put some in everyone's bowls, not too much, and it wouldn't completely suppress it. The bitter smell of tea, but there will be a hint of sweetness after drinking.

"Xiao Zhou, Second Uncle and Second Aunt are here for tea." Gu Beizhi greeted.

The family here is busy and harmonious, like parents with four children and a son-in-law, but Guan Qiao's family over there is quite different.

Guan's father and Guan's mother are lazy people, the harvest in the field is less than two-thirds of that of others, and Guan Qiao is a young master who doesn't work at all, only the couple work half day and rest half day with.

Everyone else’s house has been collected, but his house has only collected half of it. It’s still tiring and flustered, scolding Guan Zhou for being unfilial while working, not knowing how to go home to help, white-eyed wolf... and so on.

But they didn't dare to scold loudly, for fear of being overheard mocking the two of them for being heartless. Moreover, Guan Zhou had never been home to work since he married into the Gu family. Do not meet.

The last time I went to see Guan Zhou during the Mid-Autumn Festival, I didn't get any benefit, and was laughed at by the villagers for a long time. For a long time, the whole family lived in peace.

The father and the mother are naturally concerned about their precious son. They are busy washing and cooking for the son every day, and they are forced to go to the field. Otherwise, the field will be full of weeds, and there will be no food when the harvest comes.

How to pay land tax without food?Make it up with silver?Guan Mu would rather go down to the fields and pull weeds than spend money.

After being busy for more than half a month, the family's land was collected, and Gu Beizhi also had a new idea. His family should hire two long-term workers.

In the past half a month, he deeply realized that farming is not easy, but harvesting is not easy.Seeing that all the young and old are on the battlefield, they have been busy for nearly ten days. Next year, they will add five acres of land newly bought by their family. It is estimated that this time will increase.

Gu Beizhi thought to himself, instead of letting him do something he is not good at, it is better to hire two people who are good at it, and he just needs to work hard to make money.

It's not that he's squeamish and doesn't want to do these things, but that he's really not good at it, and compared to his current job, it's not cost-effective to farm land for him, not to mention twice as hard.

Gu Beizhi and Guan Zhou had already talked to Second Aunt Guan about renovating the house. They just waited for work to start, and their family would move to Uncle Guan's house for a while.

Taking advantage of the fact that everyone was in the village and the people who went out to do small labor hadn't left yet, Gu Beizhi hurried to the old village head's house and told him about his plan to renovate the house.

"Uncle, I pay sixty Wen a day here, but I don't care about food, I have to trouble everyone to go home for dinner, please uncle help me find someone, the more people there are, the sooner the work can start, the better." Gu Beizhi said I said something about my intention.

This is a great thing. Everyone usually goes to work in the town or far away in the county. Not to mention tired, it costs about [-] yuan a day. There is work at the door of the house, and [-] yuan a day is guaranteed in the village. Many people are willing to come.

The old village chief immediately laughed, "Okay, I'll find someone for you right now, don't worry, there won't be a single one who cheats and cheats."

"Then I'm going to trouble you, old uncle. You can just ask everyone to go to my house to find me. It's best to find someone with experience. I will have to go to work in the town after that. My family is supported by my second uncle's family. There is an experienced one." Better."

Gu Beizhi also brought a knife of pork with him this time. It is the fat and thin kind that farmers like most, and Guan Zhou went to Brother Shi's house to pick it out.

The old village chief took the meat, "There is a mason in our village, just before Fengchun went to the town, let him take over your work, don't worry, he has worked for many wealthy families in the town. "

Gu Beizhi thought for a long time before he remembered who the old village chief said was Wang Fengchun. He was the first person in their village who married a widow as a flat wife and later helped him to become a righteous person.

According to his seniority, he still has to call Wang Fengchun Uncle, but he has no contact with Wang Fengchun and doesn't know him well, "Okay."

Wang Fengchun came to Gu's house early the next morning, explaining that he had taken over the job. Wang Fengchun was not tall, and he did heavy work all year round. He had strong limbs, yellow and black skin, but bright and deep eyes.

"Gu Xiucai, I heard from the village chief that you want to renovate it?" Wang Fengchun is a neat person, and he didn't have much courtesy with Gu Bei.

Gu Beizhi took out the drawings that he had drawn for a long time. Although he was not sure that the drawings were correct, it did not prevent him from clarifying the plan of this renovation with Wang Fengchun, and he handed the drawings to Wang Fengchun.

"Uncle Fengchun, for my renovation this time, first of all, the courtyard wall must be raised. In addition, sharp objects must be placed on it... I also need to build a bathroom. You can see if it can be done. "

Gu Bei knew that there were quite a lot of things to be changed. Wang Fengchun was familiar with other places, so he was not worried. Only this 'bathroom', he found it a little troublesome, "Do you want to build the toilet inside the house?"

"Well, use a pottery pipe under the toilet to connect to the original toilet, so that as long as the water is flushed, the toilet will be clean." Gu Beizhi really can't stand the toilet, but he is also not used to things like urine buckets , even after half a year, still not used to it.So I wanted to build a 'modern' bathroom.

He even thought of a shower for bathing. Homemade showers were popular in the rural areas of Huaguo in the [-]th century. They used metal buckets connected to plastic hoses and plastic shower heads. Gu Beizhi had already thought of substitutes for these. It's a pity that winter is about to enter, and it is estimated that it will not be used this year, so it is not drawn on the picture.

Wang Fengchun did not directly refute his novel idea, but seriously considered his possibility. He has been doing masonry work all year round, and knows both tile and pottery makers. There is no problem in firing pottery pipes. It is not impossible to burn it and then connect it again.

"Then the floor of your house needs to be paved with stone slabs, and the length of the pottery pipes should not be too long, or water will accumulate." Wang Fengchun was experienced, and he asked Gu Beizhi for a pen, and directly edited it on the drawing.

They discussed for a long time, and they were still discussing after lunch, and the final result was finalized when it was getting dark. Wang Fengchun left the drawings to Gu Beizhi.

"I'll recruit workers first when I go back. We'll start after five or six recruits. We have to buy materials first, and we have to order pottery pipes. It's best to start work tomorrow afternoon, otherwise we won't be able to finish this month."

"As soon as possible, the important thing is that the quality must be guaranteed." Gu Beizhi was not in a hurry, and he said the salary again, "I don't know that the village chief told you about the salary. My family doesn't care about food. Sixty Wen per person, you are the foreman, and your salary is one hundred Wen a day, there is no special requirement, as long as you don’t be lazy.”

Wang Fengchun thought about it, but he didn't refuse. This was about the same as his wages in the town. Originally, he only took the job because it was convenient for him in the same village, and he didn't want to make money. For the salary, he will naturally pay more attention to this order, "Okay, then I will come to you after I have recruited someone."

"Yeah." Gu Beizhi sent Wang Fengchun away, turned his head, and met a pair of dazed eyes, "Xiaozhou?"

"Huh?" Guan Zhou came back to his senses, "Our family recruits workers for sixty yuan a day?"

"Well, it was originally paid fifty yuan a day for small workers, but I don't want you to be too tired to cook, so why not add ten yuan to let the workers go home to eat." Gu Beizhi patted his head, and then held him hand to explain to him.

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