Rebirth of Okuki Kofuro

Father Liang was a man of courage. After he made his decision, he quickly counted his family's money.

On the premise of not affecting the grain collection in the second half of this year and the wine making in the winery, and leaving enough for the family's normal expenses and emergency money next year, the family can spend 300 taels of silver.

When he didn't calculate carefully before, Liang's father thought that the family had 1000 taels of silver, but he didn't expect that there was actually so much. In addition to being close to 300 taels, he could also use a thick stack of silver notes.

Anyone who runs a business understands the truth that keeping money at home will not increase. The more Father Liang thought about it, the more he felt that what his son said made sense. It was time for the family to add another income.

With so much money in hand, besides buying the small hillside that his son mentioned, Father Liang thought about buying some fertile land.

It takes several years to start earning money by buying barren hills to plant fruit trees. If you have good land, you can grow food in the second year, which is faster and more profitable than barren hills.

After hearing what his father said, Liang Kangsheng thought for a while, and said, "To buy a barren mountain, you need to prepare about 500 to 700 taels. Planning to buy a field with [-] taels of silver?"

"If you want to buy high-quality paddy fields, you can buy seventy acres, not to mention other inferior fields, hundreds of acres, dad, unless a big landlord is willing to sell the fields, otherwise you can only buy them in pieces, and Not to mention whether it is easy to take care of, it takes a lot of effort just to buy it."

However, he didn't say it directly, and added another sentence: "There are many benefits to buying a field. We don't need to hire another person. We only need to rent out the fields and directly collect the rent in autumn. If there are suitable fields, we can consider it." purchase."

Father Liang nodded, he had already thought about this before making this decision, and he had also thought about his son's worries, and he had a way to deal with it: "Kang Sheng, do you know that the area near our house is obviously flat land, why is there no one here?" farming?"

"Near our house?" Liang Kangsheng thought for a while, and found that the area near his house was really like what his father said. Except for a small hillside opposite, the other places were quite flat, and there was a small river ditch running through the middle of the flat ground to the north. However, there is also water to irrigate the field, and tidying up is a good plowing field.

"It started when your father and I were young. At that time, there was a master Juren in our area. Standing on the hillside, all the fields he could see as far as he could see belonged to the master Juren."

Upon hearing this, Liang Kangsheng asked curiously, "Father, are they really all for Juren, or is it because someone put their fields on Juren for tax exemption?"

There is a rule in this court that as long as you have a reputation, the land under your name can be exempted from tax, so once a family member becomes a scholar, all relatives and friends will hang up the land.

"I was still young at the time, so I didn't know. Some of them should be attached to others, and some of them were obtained by means. I still remember that Master Juren wanted our family to move the winery. Your grandfather and great-grandfather were not happy, because Our family’s wine cellar cannot be moved, and Master Juren joined forces with the magistrate at the time to put pressure on our family.”

"Your great-grandpa couldn't bear the pressure, and was about to let go and move out, when the magistrate Dongchuang, who was in the same rank as Mr. Juren, was sued to the capital."

"The county magistrate was dismissed, and the master Juren was also found out about various problems. The trees fell and the monkeys scattered. Because they couldn't tell whether the fertile land in their family was bought by formal means or by robbery or affiliated with them, they all returned to the court in the end."

"The imperial court intends to sell these fields, but those who are able to buy them find it unlucky, and those who don't think it's unlucky have no money to buy. In the end, only those fields on the edge were bought by people from the surrounding villages one after another, and the middle ones were left like this."

"No matter how good the fields are, they will go to waste if no one cultivates them. These fertile fields are full of weeds, and they look more and more barren. Now the imperial court still sells them at the price of high-quality fertile fields, and no one is willing to buy them."

Liang Kangsheng thought about it: "Father, you mean we bought this piece?"

Although it was overgrown with weeds and abandoned, after all, it used to be a high-quality fertile field. A fire burned the weeds and shrubs, and then people led the oxen to plow the field deeply several times to destroy the grass roots and tree roots. If the compacted soil is broken, even if rice and wheat cannot be planted in the coming year, the soybeans planted in the fertile field will become a good fertile field within two years.

Father Liang nodded: "Well, our family has never bought any land, so maybe this land has always been left to us."

After learning about the origin of this field, Liang Kangsheng felt that there should be no problem: "I think it's okay, but the price has to be discussed with the government. It has been deserted for so many years, and it is impossible to still be the same as before, and still be the price of a high-quality field."

The father and son discussed it well, and instead of taking the money to go to the county seat to do errands immediately, they went back to their houses to discuss with their other half.

Qu Yi naturally had no objection, he had the same thought as Liang Kangsheng, in the last life the Liang family had nothing but an empty house, nothing could be worse than that.

The Zhuang family also has no objection. It is a good thing to add property to the family. She has no reason to object, but she is a little worried about suddenly spending such a large sum of money.

"We keep this money at home. With our family's population, we can't do business if we want to go out. It's better to buy a field. In the future, the winery will use the grain grown in our own field to make wine, and we don't need to collect so much outside money. Yes." Father Liang saw that his wife did not mean to object, so he said a few more words to reassure her.

"Well, Mr. Gong, you and Kang Sheng can make up your mind." Mrs. Zhuang always listened to Father Liang's orders on important matters in the family.

Taking the money from the family, Father Liang and Liang Kangsheng got into the carriage and went to the county government office. They asked the housekeeper to explain that they wanted to buy the nearby field.

Since buying barren hills is cheaper than buying fields, Liang Kangsheng and Liang's father agreed to buy the fields first, and then talk about buying the mountains after the price of the land was negotiated.

The steward who was in charge of the house took out the booklet that recorded the conditions of the county's fields, flipped through it and fiddled with the abacus: "This field has nearly 150 mu, and one mu of land is worth eight taels. , you bought a lot, I will wipe out the change of one yuan for you, and I will give you 210 taels."

One thousand and two hundred taels was exactly the amount Father Liang and Liang Kangsheng brought with them when they went out this time. However, they not only bought fields, but also mountains.

Liang Kangsheng cupped his hands unhurriedly: "My lord, these fields have been abandoned for decades, so how can we still count them at the price of high-quality good fields?"

Seeing that the steward stared and seemed dissatisfied with his rebuttal, he smiled and continued: "The imperial court has a rule that unowned farmland that has been abandoned for more than 30 years can be classified as wasteland, and this field will be abandoned for 30 years in one or two years. years."

High-quality fertile land costs [-] taels to [-] mu, and wasteland depends on the land conditions. Basically, [-] taels to [-] mu, the price difference is four times.

The officer in charge frowned. He didn't expect Liang Kangsheng to speak out the rules of the court. Seeing that the other party was dressed as a scholar, not the usual mud legs who came to handle the land deeds, he swallowed the reprimand: "Then What do you mean?"

"Our father and son also sincerely want to buy this field. Seeing the field has been desolate and uncomfortable, why not lower the price for your convenience?" Liang Kangsheng said, and naturally stuffed a purse into the hands of the steward.

The steward didn't expect that Liang Kangsheng would give him money, unlike some scholars who have read too many books and their brains are numb, they don't care about these small tricks.

As the saying goes, it's easy for the king of hell to see little ghosts, so Liang Kangsheng doesn't need to be angry with an officer, he just uses a little trick to make things easier for himself.

The officer in charge put his hand under the table silently and turned it upside down, his dissatisfaction was suddenly replaced by joy: "This price was set by the adults in front, and I can't change it as a mere officer, so I'll go and ask you about it." Whether it can be reduced or not depends entirely on Master Pan."

Liang Kangsheng cupped his hands: "Thank you."

After getting the money from Liang’s family, he naturally had to do things for them. After a while, the steward came back and told Liang Kangsheng and them that Mr. Pan considered that these fields had been abandoned for a long time, so they bought them all at once, and directly changed the price to Four taels per mu, it only costs 600 taels of silver.

Father Liang was very happy. He thought it might cost five taels of silver per mu, but he didn't expect it to be lower. He hurriedly stabilized his face and thanked him: "Thank you, my lord. Our father and son also want to buy part of the barren hills connected to this field." , Sir, please help me to see, how should the barren hill be counted?"

The officer in charge had an impression of that area. He had also seen the barren hill that Father Liang was talking about. He wondered what the father and son barren hills were for.Too much money to burn?

But he didn't mind if someone wanted to buy the mountain. Anyway, he didn't spend his family's money, and he could still charge a hard fee after the deed.

After fiddling with the abacus, the steward deliberately lowered the price a little: "There is no way to farm in the barren hills, and I can also make the decision here. I will directly count nine silver coins for you. How much do you plan to buy?"

Father Liang was also satisfied with the price, which was lower than they had expected: "For details, please send someone back with me to measure it, and I will see how much I can buy."

"Success." Recently, it wasn't the time when there was a lot of housework, so he immediately ordered two people to come out and let them go to Liangshan with Father Liang.

Liang Kangsheng stayed in the county government office and worked with the stewards to handle the land deed. The land deed for 150 mu of land took a lot of work, so you can feel at ease if you do it early.

It cost 600 taels of silver to buy [-] mu of land at one time. Father Liang had a big appetite and directly measured [-] mu of barren hills.

The 630 mu of barren hills should be paid 670 taels, but during the measurement process, Liang’s father stuffed the two guards with hard-earned money, and they finally calculated a total of 600 mu, which happened to be [-] taels.

After a hard day, the Liang family bought 200 mu of high-grade farmland and 150 mu of barren hills for [-] taels of silver, and exchanged a thick stack of bank notes for a thick stack of land deeds. satisfy.

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