Every Red Mansion dungeon must play the ending of Long Aotian

If paying taxes is a major event for Xing Xiuyan, then for Cheng and Xing's wife, buying property for the family is a major event.

When the Zhen family had an accident at the beginning of the year, everyone was worried about the Supreme Emperor, fearing that the Supreme Emperor would pardon the Zhen family and dare not buy the property that originally belonged to the Zhen family. This is taboo.

Now that the Xing family is rich, Xing's wife had already made up her mind to do so, so as soon as the Ministry of Household Affairs released the news, she went to the yamen of the Ministry of Household Affairs and directly bought three houses of different sizes and locations.

Coincidentally, the most respectable of the three new houses of the Xing family is the five-entry mansion of the Lai family, and it also has a back garden that is half the size of the Grand View Garden. The one I passed - the location is good, the floor area is large, and naturally the asking price is high. This one alone cost the Xing family a full 10 taels of silver.

After the ransacking of the house, the house was empty when it came to the Xing family, but all the valuable furniture and decorations were removed, nothing was left of the red sandalwood tables and chairs, and the height of huanghuali. The flowers and Taihu stones in the garden have not been dug up, otherwise the project would be even bigger.

In this regard, Xing's wife is much better than most of the noble ladies in Beijing.

She contacted Fang's family directly, bought a lot of camphor wood and green sandalwood from Jiangnan, and shipped them back to the capital to repair the house and make furniture.

Camphor wood is insect-proof, although green sandalwood is also sandalwood, but compared with red sandalwood, the price of the two is even more expensive.Zuo Jiangnan produces rice paper, and green sandalwood veneer is one of the main raw materials of rice paper. Zuo Jiangnan's rice paper is famous all over the world, which directly leads to the high quality and low price of green sandalwood.

In Xing’s wife’s opinion, furniture needs to be painted anyway. Whether it’s red sandalwood, huanghuali or camphor wood, green sandalwood, no matter how beautiful the wood’s texture is, it won’t be visible after painting.That being the case, why must red sandalwood and huanghuali be used?Not as good as camphor wood and green sandalwood, practical and affordable.

While busy buying property for the family, Mrs. Xing did not forget her daughter.

Together with the 10 taels of silver handed in by Xing Xiuyan, Xing's wife left 4 taels, and she also exchanged the other [-] taels for two houses, one large and one small, plus a Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing. The house that my family lived in before was bigger, and the two houses were in good locations, and most of the furniture was newly made camphor and green sandalwood furniture.

This is the dowry she prepared for her daughter. Girls from other families save up for dowry. Now that the time is right, it is natural to buy a generous portion for her daughter.

Cheng was also busy buying a dowry house and land for his daughter.

No way, Jia Min's dowry and private house were all given to the Jia family. Although Lin Daiyu landed, the Lin family saved a dowry for Lin Daiyu every year. The gold and jade jewelry, clothing materials, calligraphy and paintings, ginseng ganoderma and other medicinal materials will definitely not miss Lin Daiyu. of.But after Jia Min's dowry and private house were handed over, Lin Daiyu's dowry house and Zhuangzi would be reduced. How could Cheng remain indifferent?

Not to mention that Xing Xiuyan is also the adoptive daughter of the Lin family, and she is planning to marry Lin Daiyu as a dowry, so how could Xing Xiuyan be missing?

Now Lin Daiyu and Xing Xiuyan are both busy.

Because the small Zhuangzi that the family bought for them has come into their own hands, and they are going to start managing their own Zhuangzi independently.

Of course, in this respect, only Lin Daiyu is a novice, and Xing Xiuyan will be in a hurry, entirely because there are two Zhuangzi newly handed over to her, one prepared by her family and the other prepared by the Lin family.

If Jia Min's dowry had not been returned to Jia's family, then Lin Daiyu's dowry would definitely be more than Xing Xiuyan's. Now that Jia Min's dowry is returned to Jia's mother, Lin Daiyu's dowry is not as good as Xing Xiuyan's.

Lin Daiyu herself didn't care.

The procedures of the farm sold by the government are naturally clean, but the embarrassing thing is that the people on the farm have tenants, but the stewards are slaves left by the previous family, which has some bad habits.It takes a lot of effort to clean up these slaves.

Then Lin Ruhai discovered that Lin Daiyu was somewhat Taoist. When dealing with these matters, she was completely smooth and silent, and she took care of Zhuangzi in an orderly manner while understating it.In this regard, even though Xing Xiuyan had more experience than Lin Daiyu in the first year outside, his handling was a bit thunderous.

It is difficult to distinguish between the two methods of handling things, and the effects are also different, but because she is a woman, in the eyes of the world, it is inevitable to distinguish between the superior and the inferior.

There is no way, whoever asks women in this world to be gentle and virtuous.Lin Daiyu's behavior would be no problem in any scholar-bureaucrat family, but Xing Xiuyan's behavior may be disgusted by some people.

This affects her rating on the marriage market.

Although he knew that these two years were not suitable for finding marriage for the two children, it didn't mean that Lin Ruhai didn't care.He had already started thinking about it, but he never said it.

Xing Xiuyan didn't know that Lin Ruhai took everything in his eyes and kept it in his heart, let alone that he was worried about her future.For Xing Xiuyan, it is a good thing that she has Zhuangzi on hand and she has something to do.

As soon as Zhuangzi got it, she reported back to Lin Ruhai and the Cheng couple, and then followed her mother, wife Xing, to inspect her two dowry Zhuangzi.

The dowry that the Lin family gave her was nothing more than Zhuang Zi. Obviously, the Cheng family had already cleaned it up before.But the dowry Zhuang Zi prepared by her mother for her will not work. That manager is a bit hateful.

Not only did they buy properties and save tenants privately, they even treated the Xing family's mother and daughter as fools, even when Xing Xiuyan found out, they didn't know how to repent, and instead plotted in private.

Xing Xiuyan is not a soft persimmon, and she doesn't care if the scumbag is bullying their mother and daughter as women.After verifying the account books, a string of money was distributed to each of the tenants on the Zhuangzi, their heads were identified, and they also found out that there were some illegal things behind these slaves who bullied men and women and occupied people's land.Xing Xiuyan called the local county magistrate over on the grounds that the number of acres was wrong and needed to be re-measured, and spread all the evidence in front of the other party, and then threw these slaves and their family members into prison for direct crimes or enjoyment. The victims would ask about the situation, or let them go home, or use other money to set up female households for them.The properties of these Diao slaves were also handed over to the county government as criminal evidence.

She would rather spend another sum of money to buy back the privately owned fields of these people than keep these cancerous tumors.

After taking care of these slaves, Xing Xiuyan led people to patrol the fields again.

This Zhuangzi is a bit out of the way, but it is a prosperous place in Gyeonggi after all, and the security is quite good.However, after Xing Xiuyan investigated the local chronicles, she discovered that her Zhuangzi was originally a swamp hundreds of years ago, and it was cultivated into fertile land only after the population gradually increased.Although the geographical environment has been greatly different from that of hundreds of years ago after people's intensive cultivation, it is a fact that Zhuangzi is located in a low-lying area, and it is also plagued by waterlogging every year.

In fact, not only her Zhuangzi, but also several counties nearby.

Xing Xiuyan consulted the local annals of several nearby counties, then drove a car and visited several counties under the guard of his servants, and then drew a stack of maps.

More precisely, a complete set of spatially distributed drawings, both general and topographic.

Not only that, she also did many other tasks, such as measuring the flow rate, water volume and vegetation distribution of nearby rivers and streams.

Based on these data, she estimated the approximate amount of water flowing through the land each year, and then calculated the manpower and material resources required for the scale of the artificial lake for water storage as one of the basic water conservancy facilities.

When Xing Xiuyan spoke to her mother, Xing's wife immediately frowned.

Without him, the cost would be too great.More importantly, if it's something like building a river embankment, you can apply for state subsidies, but if it's building an artificial lake, let alone an artificial lake, it's just a pond, and you can only throw money into it.

Xing's wife even said: "Girl, you have always been successful, and I don't say anything about you. But this matter can't be done! When your second aunt and third aunt got married, how much dowry did you have? What about you? This Zhuangzi alone is eight One hundred acres! This is to subsidize you deliberately for the sake of your title! Let me tell you, after you get married, I don’t care if you use your private house to buy land and dig artificial lakes to store water, but not now. ! Absolutely not!"

Xing Xiuyan had to change her plan—abandoning the original artificial lake plan and renovating the pond, which is about thirteen acres and one foot three deep.Work begins after the rice harvest.

Yao Yuanfang, the new head of the farm, heard the news and hurriedly begged to see Xing's wife.

Mrs. Xing shook her head again and again, and said, "This is her dowry Zhuang Zi, I don't care."

Yao Yuanfang could only look back for Xing Xiuyan.

Xing Xiuyan looked at him and said, "Yao Zhuangtou, tell me, how much is the rice field's annual output worth? How much is the tax?"

Yao Yuan said conveniently: "Girl, you are a county lord of the sixth rank at the time, so you don't have to pay taxes."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Yes, I don't have to pay taxes. But look at the clothes I wear, which one is from Zhuangzi? In fact, it's not just me, other families are the same. We need the money brought by Zhuangzi more than the money brought by Zhuangzi. food."

Yao Yuanfang said: "But..."

Xing Xiuyan said: "Rice is delicate and requires a lot of manpower, but the final profit is not enough. So I plan to grow lotus roots and bring out some aquatic products such as loaches and crabs."

Carp are raised in rice fields, and the output is quite high, but from the perspective of feeding the hunger, the output of rice is not as good as that of sweet potatoes.From the perspective of gold and preciousness, this village produces white rice, not rouge rice and green japonica rice.Therefore, from an economic point of view, rice cultivation in open paddy fields is really not as expensive as lotus root and the like.

Hearing what Xing Xiuyan said, Yao Yuanfang could only say: "The girl has said so, and the villain has nothing to say. It's just that planting lotus roots requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Moreover, lotus roots also have seven holes and nine holes. That is I don't know which kind the girl wants to plant?"

The famous Zepan lotus root is Jiukong lotus root, also known as Qingshui lotus root, which requires a lot of manpower and material resources.In contrast, the seven-hole lotus root requires less manpower, but it can't save much.

As long as it is fresh lotus root, whether it is nine-hole lotus root or seven-hole lotus root, it is suitable for soup.It's just that Jiukong lotus root is more tender, so it is more popular.

However, the seven-hole lotus root has a lot of starch, so if you want to wash the lotus root powder, you must use the seven-hole lotus root.

Xing Xiuyan said: "The nine-hole lotus root is fresh and tender, so it should be the first choice. You can plant it in the same way as the clear water lotus root."

Seeing that Xing Xiuyan knew Qingshui lotus root, Yao Yuanfang stopped talking.

Although the princess of the county is not an expert, she is also transparent, so she is not easy to be fooled.

He said: "Since the girl said so, the villain will be bold. Open a few acres of land on the other side of the hillside to grow beans and sesame."

"There is also cotton. The lotus root in clear water does not need to lean against the pond. Later, ask a doctor to look at it, open a well, and spread a pond beside the well to grow lotus root."

Bean cake, cottonseed cake and sesame paste are the main fertilizers for Qingshui lotus root.