Chapter 85 Green Willow Village
The manor given by Prince Yu is in Luliu Village, 70 miles away from Yujing City, and its name is also called "Luliu Village". After Hong Yi returned from the palace, he moved there overnight.
He had no property at all, so it was convenient to move. A carriage carried several large boxes, four horses, and four people, and was mobile and flexible.
The location of Luliu Village is very good. Outside the village is a big river called Bailang River. It winds thousands of miles from the south, passes through Yujing, and then enters the East China Sea.
This Bailang River runs through almost half of the water transportation in Dagan, causing all the materials and commodities in the south to be continuously transported to Yujing, and so on in various surrounding towns.
Therefore, the town of Luliu Village is also extremely prosperous. If you want to buy something, you don’t have to travel far to Yujing.
The village is deep in Luliu Village, with willows embracing everywhere, small bridges and flowing water, harbors and banks intersecting, dense springs, fertile fields, and large fish ponds and shrimps, just like a fish and rice town in the south.
“So many big houses.”
This is the emotion Xiao Mu expressed when he first saw Zhuangzi.
Indeed, there are many houses in the manor, with more than 30 rooms, all of which are beautifully covered with snow and pine trees and thick blue bricks. Even the outside is full of thick brick walls, which are three people tall, and there are caltrops on the wall to prevent people from climbing.
More importantly, there are observation decks built with stone towers in every corner of the manor, so that you can see the situation outside from a distance. You can also shoot people outside the wall with a bow and crossbow from a high place.
After seeing these observation decks, Hong Yi nodded in his heart. If anything happened, as long as he sent an archer who was good at shooting the righteousness to step onto the observation deck, even if there were hundreds of people outside, it would be difficult to attack.
These things have also been built in the yards of ordinary wealthy families to prevent famines, tenants' riots, and bandits' robbery.
The other end of the farm is a mill, a winery, an oil pressing house, and a pig, chicken and duck farm. Half of it is eaten by yourself and half is sold to increase income.
In addition, there are mulberry trees and houses for raising silkworms and weaving silk.
In addition to paddy fields, vegetable fields, and mulberry forests, there are also tea mountains and fish ponds.
This is a typical farm. In addition to salt, all foods such as firewood, rice, grain, rapeseed, tea and meat can be self-sufficient.
"The Wuwen Hou Mansion also has such a farm outside the Yujing City, with about 30 farms. One farm makes wine, raises silkworms, produces tea, etc. every year, and earns 5,000 taels. Prince Yu is the prince, and the farm should be more, about 100 more."
However, Hong Yi knew that the main source of income for the kings, princes and ministers in Yujing City was the annual income of these manors. In addition, the salary of the treasury was drizzling.
Kings, princes and ministers are not businessmen. Occasionally, those who are greedy for profit only provide convenience for merchants and invest in shares and dividends. But even this is easy to be criticized and not done by scholars and officials.
"The annual expenditure of the Marquis Wu Wen Mansion is about 100,000 taels of silver. It maintains the food and drink of seven or eight hundred people in the Marquis Mansion, and all kinds of decent things. The income of the priests of more than 30 villages has just remained equal! The surplus is not much. If it encounters a flood and famine year, it may be difficult to turn around in the Marquis Mansion. However, the Marquis Mansion has never lacked money for so many years. I am afraid that the money allocated from the Zhao family."
After Hong Yi became familiar with the manor given to him by Prince Yu Yang Gan, a thought suddenly surged in his heart.
"No wonder Hong Xuanji relies so much on Mrs. Zhao. He wants to maintain a decent and honest image, and cannot accept bribes. However, in such a large Marquis' Mansion, there are all kinds of etiquettes, sacrifices, rewards, and no money. If there is no support from the Zhao family, even if the scenery of the Marquis' Mansion is difficult."
"Yes, what is his mother? Even if she is the saint of the Supreme Taoist Taoist, she has no wealth or power. Compared with the hundreds of years of prominent family of Mrs. Zhao, it is nothing! Hong Xuanji wants to be honest in the court, not to let others catch the handle, and maintain his own decent power, and he has to rely on the Zhao family."
Hong Yi suddenly realized deeply that his father Hong Xuanji and Mrs. Zhao had a combination of money, rights and interests.
With this combination of interests, my mother had no room for her to live in.
After moving, three days later, the manor was officially handed over to Hong Yi, and various land deeds were converted into Hong Yi's name.
At the same time, Prince Yu Yang Gan also withdrew the former manager of the housekeeper, accountants, servants, and military guards of the hospital. In addition to the long-term workers who worked and tenants, they also kept the manor production, and all those who controlled the manor went out and let Hong Yi arrange it himself.
Hong Yi knew that Prince Yu was not skeptical about using people, and did not use them, and did not send anyone to monitor him. This made him look more generous and generous, making people work wholeheartedly.
In the room.
Chen Tianyang became a big butler, holding a lot of books and gradually counting the money.
Although he is an old man, he has so much property in his hand and counts it one by one. This is the first time he spends it, and he looks quite excited.
"My benefactor, the balance of silver in the warehouse in Zhuangzi is now 7,000 taels of silver. In the past, every year, when the year is good, Zhuangzi's annual income was only so much. If he didn't pay tribute to the prince, it would be enough for Zhuangzi's own expenses."
Hong Yi sat on a chair, which was made of yellow rosewood, which was a standard wood used by the home of the landlord.
"Well, although the prince gave me this farmer, the annual offerings are still given. The royal palace has a lot of expenses. Since I promised to assist him, I cannot hold him back on the money. We must manage the farmer better, and the annual offerings are more than the original ones, which is the matter."
Although Hong Yi is only sixteen years old now, at this age, he is already considered an adult at work, and being the master of his family is not a strange thing.
After defecting to Prince Yu, Hong Yi knew in his heart that he had already prospered and lost with him.
"But, how can we increase the income of the Zhuangzi? This year's year seems not very good. After so few months, there has been a spring rain. I'm afraid the harvest is not as good as in previous years." Chen Tianyang frowned.
"Is it harvest?" Hong Yi closed his eyes, and suddenly, his thoughts flashed: "Last time in the valley, I ate the peanuts and sweet potatoes of the little fox and the other two things, the taste was very good. They said it was easy to plant. I might as well go and see it. There must be seeds. People in Dagan Yujing like rare things. If these two things are planted, they should be able to buy a good price at the beginning!"
When Hong Yi suddenly thought of this, he was quite excited.
On the martial arts training ground outside the window, Shen Tiezhu, who was nine feet tall, was practicing martial arts with ten strong men!
These ten strong men all have sharp eyes and martial arts skills, so they lost to the little Marquis of Changle.
Just so happened that after the Jade Prince's Zhuang Ding and the guard guard were all withdrawn, these people could act as guards.
"Xiao Mu, prepare for the horse, let's go to Xishan."
Seeing Xiao Mu shooting arrows outside, his skills were like pearls, which made the strong men who had served as soldiers unable to speak, Hong Yi shouted.
Chapter completed!