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"Threshing machine, I think it's very good. I don't need to rub the corn in the future." Brother Xiao likes this thing very much. He used to rub the corn with calluses on his hands, and then his wrist hurts.

With this thing, it is much more convenient.

"Well, it's convenient for everyone in the future. If anyone wants to use this thing, a thousand catties of corn will be used for two catties for our family." Tie Qing knows the truth of "dou Mien is better than rice enmity", and he bought this thing with money. Yes, and the machines are all consumables. It is very conscientious to pay two catties for the machine for one thousand catties of corn.

It is impossible not to use it for nothing!

"It's a good deal. If you don't give grains, you can give them some miscellaneous grains, but the miscellaneous grains cost five catties, and there is also a cart of fodder for the livestock at home." Xiao Geer added a bargaining chip: "I saw that thing. , is to be pulled by animals, people eat, and animals also have to eat grass.”

"Okay, listen to Fu Lang." Tie Qing nodded: "What else?"

"Look at how much you can rub every day. Can this thing spin continuously?"

"Not too clear yet." Tie Qing said: "Ask tomorrow, if there is anything to pay attention to, we will start work after it is safe."

"Yeah." Brother Xiao nodded.

The couple discussed it and fell asleep.

Unexpectedly, the next day, there was frost, a layer of clear frost on the ground, and the weather was also cold. When I went out to take a breath, my breath came out.

"It's so cold this early in the morning!" Tie Qing entered the study, and saw Shopkeeper Tian was up, standing at the window and looking out at the apricot tree that had fallen leaves: "Are you up?"

"Well, wake up." Shopkeeper Tian said, "It's autumn, you seem to be almost ready here."

Under the windows of the houses in the yard, there are many wooden boxes.

There is also a house dedicated to storing coal at the back.

"Yeah, isn't it going to be winter? You have to prepare in advance, after all, you still have a child at home." Now that Tie Qing mentioned his brother, he was very excited.

Because the weather is cold and there is frost, breakfast is big steamed stuffed buns stuffed with mutton and onions, haggis soup, and small pickles.

Tie Qing sighed and drank the haggis soup: "Are you going back today?"

"Go back, there are a lot of things at my place." Shopkeeper Tian said: "I still have to answer the master's house."

"Oh, drink the soup, if you want to put pepper, there is it." Tie Qing pointed to the box of pepper.

Shopkeeper Tian added a lot of pepper: "The food in your house is really good, no wonder those long-term workers are getting fat."

"You're all skinny, but you're still fat? How long has it been since you cleaned up Qiu!" Tie Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The two chatted for a while, Tie Qing sent shopkeeper Tian away, and then went to the old village chief Wei's house, talking to Wei Daliang: "I'm going to buy grain."

"Let's not talk about food, what are you planning for this autumn's hard labor?" Wei Daliang said, "Is it still a redemption?"

"Yes, it's still a redemption, the whole family does it, and so does my father-in-law." Tie Qing said: "The whole family's labor is redeemed, which is convenient and easy."

"That's true, but this year it should be repairing the border city, but there is no explanation yet." Wei Daliang said: "I plan to go to the county town tomorrow to ask what it means."

"I'll go tomorrow too. I'll go with you. My father-in-law shouldn't go. It's so cold." Tie Qing knew that if he didn't go, he would have to go with Mr. Xiao. The weather is getting colder, and the elder brother left early, at this time, it's better for him to go out.

"Success!" Wei Daliang thought to himself, it would be better if Tie Qing went, it would be much better than going alone with Xiao Lichang.

After all, Tie Qing has a lot of face!

In the past few years, their village has been a village that pays taxes and food, and works as a labor force. In the four nearby villages and one town, they are very respectable.

After their village has a general, they will have more face.

It's just that the new county magistrate doesn't know how to deal with him. This is his first contact with the county magistrate, and his father used to go there.

With Tie Qing following, at least he gained some confidence.

They went to the town that afternoon and found the head of the village. The three discussed it, and the head of the village called the heads of the other three villages and went to the county together.

He didn't go directly to the magistrate, but went to Xuzhou first.

Tie Qing gave him a fat roe deer just a few days ago.

In addition, they can be regarded as real relatives, did Xuzhou's eldest son marry Xiao Hui?

"Is it because of military service? This year's military service may be later." Xuzhou asked someone to pour hot water for them: "I heard that the border is not peaceful, and it is also possible that this labor service is for other purposes, not to repair the city. .”

"Regardless of repairing or not, what kind of work I do, I have to buy labor here." Tie Qing said: "My old man is not in good health, and my long-term workers still have a lot of work to do. I can't do it either, brother-in-law. At home, I can't leave home."

"Okay, this is fine." Anyway, he bought labor every year, and Xu Zhou was used to it: "Then why are you here?"

"I'm here to exchange some money." Tie Qing took out the banknotes and said, "I'm going to collect some grain. The grain shop in my family needs to have some stock, right?"

"That's true!" Xu Zhou talked to the head of the small village again: "Since the labor service cannot be confirmed, we should pay the tax and food first. Now that the border is tight, our tax and food will be directly allocated to the Northeast Camp as a ration. .”

Only then did everyone know that the imperial court had already sent supplies to the Northeast Camp, but for winter, for next year's supplies, and to resist the nomadic invasion outside the pass, there were many things and they were very busy.

"Then pay taxes first."

Everyone agreed on this matter, and everyone knew that Tie Qing's family had a thresher.

Tie Qing said, it can be used, but it can’t be used for nothing. One thousand catties of corn sticks, two catties of corn particles, one cart of fodder, the kind to feed livestock.

If you give miscellaneous grains, you have to give five catties.

Not much to say, it just means that his machine also comes from money, and it has to be pulled by animals, just like a mill.

So if you don’t use it for nothing, everyone can understand it.

But Tie Qing also said: "The widowed elderly are free, and there is no need to give anything."

In their village, there is a widowed old family whose surname is Che. This surname is rare. The only boy in the family did not come back after going to the battlefield. It was more than ten years ago. Both of them are in their fifties now. , there is a house, a carriage, a large yard, and [-] acres of land, but they are too old to plant the land. The people in the village, your family will help, and the village will send people to take care of them in turn. One or two, these two elders are considered unprecedented.

There are no other relatives, and there is no place for adoption.

But the old couple also said that the village will take good care of them. When they are old, the village will send them a gift. After the burial, the land of the family will belong to the village. The house and car will be priced and donated to the village.

For a family like Lao Che's, can he ask for food and fodder?

Not only can't I have it, but I have to help get the corn, and then send it back when it's done. The service is perfect.

The county government collects autumn grain and pays taxes, but the labor labor has not been clearly stated this year, but after Tie Qing returned, he stayed at home to buy grain on the ground.

Their family's corn was the first to thresh, and then calculated how much grain to pay for taxes, set aside to pay taxes, and the rest went into their own granary.

The grain depot has been cleared out, and the only thing left is to purchase grain and put it into storage.

The Tie family was the first to use their own threshing machine, the second family was the old Xiao family, then Xiao Lao Liu's family, Xiao Lao Ba's family, Lao Qiao's family, and Lao Xu's family....

Tie Qing was beating corn grains at home, when news came from the Northeast Camp, the messenger sent a lot of cattle and sheep, and said that the war over there was fine.

"The battle is okay?" Tie Qing frowned: "What kind of method is this?"

"Actually, there's nothing good about it. Those things come and go like the wind, and there is no fixed place. When fighting, they really retreat at the touch of a button. I feel very timid." Messenger bar clicked his mouth, and he He thought the food at Tie’s family was really good, so he came to send a letter, and he had braised pork chops to eat: “At first, everyone was flustered because the first battle didn’t go well. When the troops went out, 5000 people came back with more than 1000 soldiers. Not to mention the loss of soldiers, less than 1000 of the more than 500 people were good, and the rest were wounded soldiers. Even the leaders were slaughtered, which is irritating. The general died, and when the general came back, it was better. Everyone was not so flustered, but the general said that we were all in the same group no matter what. Come on, so during this period of time, the general led people to patrol outside. Once he found the traces of those horse bandits, he would send troops to crusade, and every time he was in the posture of a large army. But they dare not attack, they have no siege equipment."

The people on the grassland, not to mention the horse bandits, even the general big tribes, don't have a few ladders to attack the city, because there are few trees on the grassland, and there are even fewer people who can make ladders. Isn't this what they are good at?

A group of mobile horse bandits didn't even have a base, let alone the ability to challenge the defenders.

Strangely, they did not leave.

"There should be some reason." Tie Qing didn't care too much about this: "It seems that the pass will not be repaired this year."

"I won't fix it, let's talk about it next autumn." The messenger said, "I've already talked to County Magistrate Lu Yi about this."

"Oh, that's good." Tie Qing received the messenger, and everyone can feel relieved when someone comes back with a message, especially since the messenger is very eloquent, so the family members are also relieved. Imagine that the enemy is just riding fast, It's good to look helpless in the face of the tall pass city walls.

Just don't go out to fight, safety first.

What's more, the opponent has 1 horses, and I have 30 on my side. Even if the logistics and the old, weak, sick and disabled are removed, there are at least 20 people.

Twenty to one, if they lose, those boys should probably commit suicide.

With the news from the messenger, Tie Qing and the others felt relieved, but Xiao Wei didn't come back, but he wrote back, telling everyone what to do, don't worry, there is no big problem with him.

At the same time, the Tie Qing family's purchase of grain has also become rumored, but before purchasing grain, they have to pay taxes and grain.

More than 100 machines in the Tie family are used in turn, at least after the corn is threshed, and the taxes and grains are paid.

In Lao Che's house, a widowed and lonely old man's house, Tie Qing went there in person. After threshing the corn cobs from the house, they packed them in sacks and sent them back, including the corn husks.

They didn't dare to ask for anything, and it was not easy for the two old people. They don't work very much now, and they plan to rent out the land at home next year.

The leased house is actually food, not money, enough for the old couple to eat, and some chickens, ducks, geese and dogs, and their lives are ordinary.

This time it only took a few days, and everyone went to pay taxes and grains in a carriage. Tie Qing took the taxes and grains of his own family, Lao Zhang Ganzi’s family, Xiao Lao Liu, and Xiao Lao Ba’s family to pay once alone. Because they have a lot of food in this batch.

The next day is the tax and food that other people in the village go to pay together.

After the taxes and grains of their county were collected, labor labor was collected directly, that is, at this time of autumn, everyone has nothing to do. The goal of labor labor is to transport this batch of tax grains to the Northeast Camp. This is a light job. Ah, it was just to drive a carriage to deliver food, Tie Qing didn't go, their family's labor was bought back, so they didn't need to send anyone, not to mention their connection with the Northeast Camp has never been broken.

This group of people only went for a few days, and then came back, and the labor was like this, and the rest of the time was just to cultivate the official road, and it was fine. People who heard it said that they sent food to the camp. The camp also ate dead flour pancakes and beef soup.

The food in the camp was good, there were meat and vegetables, they stayed overnight after eating, and the next day after eating big meat buns and mutton soup, they came back with a carriage, thinking that the food delivery this time was quite good.

After coming back, it was time to pay the autumn tax. This time, Tie Qing's family was busy.

"I've inquired about the purchase price outside, three or four Wen a catty." Tie Qing was at the village head's house in Old Wei, and all the old men in the village came at this moment. After all, it was a matter of selling grain, so he was in front The big guy said to his face: "As for me, I will give you a standard price, five yuan per catty, but only for our village. My grain shop is not big, so I don't need so much grain, so I only buy it from our village. That's all right."

He wants to buy less and work harder.

"The price is good!"

"That's nothing to say!"

A group of people have already inquired about the price of grain. Ordinary ones are three Wen a catty, and the good ones are only four Wen a catty. Almost everyone in their village knows how much grain is, and even if there is a little difference, it will not be too big. Big, it’s impossible for a family to produce [-] catties of grain with [-] acres of land, that’s impossible, okay?

At this time, there is no good way. The way to select good seeds is to pick them manually, and use large and full corn particles as seeds.

The first-class grain is actually the dried grain after the beginning of spring. At that time, grain was expensive, and corn noodles are only ten yuan a catty now, but after the beginning of spring, it can rise to twenty yuan!

So the Tie family's food collection activities started in a hurry, Tie Qing took Lin Feng out and became him a temporary accountant.