Chapter 201: After the second generation ancestor of the eunuch party killed all the male members of the Xu family, Ma Cheng looked at the female relatives who were crying in front of him and asked with a smile: "That female relatives of Xu Wenjue and Xu Jiujue?"

Ma Cheng is now like a devil. The female relative of Xu's family dares to answer him, so when he sees Ma Cheng stepping forward, they all retreating.

Seeing no one talking, Ma Cheng pointed at a person who looked like a housekeeper in his family and asked, "Who are you?"

The middle-aged man was the housekeeper of the Duke of Wei’s Mansion. Seeing Ma Cheng ask him, he quickly stepped forward and said tremblingly: “Little... the villain is Chen Qi, he is the housekeeper!”

Ma Cheng nodded, frightened to see the old guy, and comforted him, "Don't worry, you are not a member of the Xu family, naturally you will not kill you, but you have been rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor to be my slave!"

Hearing that he didn't have to die, Chen Qi quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank Ma Cheng for his grace.

"Okay, get up and tell me who these female relatives in the Xu family are and what identities they all are!"

After receiving Ma Cheng's promise, Chen Qi quickly stood up and began to identify the female relatives of the Xu family. Needless to say, Deng, who was sitting on the ground, was the old lady of the Xu family. The other middle-aged women were Xu Hongji's little wife and the mothers of the young men who were killed by Ma Cheng.

A few young women behind Deng, the current wife of the Duke of Wei, Liu, is Xu Wenjue's wife and Liu Zuochang, the legitimate daughter of Anyuan Hou. Another young woman in her twenties is Xu Jiujue's wife Zhao.

In addition to these adult women, there are also several underage girls. A twelve-year-old girl led by Xu Jiujue is Xu's daughter. The other girls are Xu Hongji's illegitimate daughters, but their status is much lower.

After hearing Chen Qi's words, Ma Cheng pointed to two 14 or 15-year-old girls and said, "You two will be Gu Yong's concubines in the future!"

Gu Yong was overjoyed when he heard this. Such a wealthy girl was well-educated. Although she was born in a illegitimate family, she was not the only one who could be missed by Qiu Ba. If the Xu family had not made a big mistake and were searched, it would not be his turn even if Gu Yong was reincarnated ten times.

When Gu Yong heard Ma Cheng say this, he was happy and quickly knelt down and thanked him: "I thank you for the military officer!"

Ma Cheng patted Gu Yong on the shoulder and said, "You guy has been with me for more than a year, but you haven't given you any rewards yet. This time I'll give you two beauties, but you have to be careful and don't overwork!"

Ma Cheng's words caused a burst of laughter. When Ma Cheng saw his personal soldiers, he was full of envy and knew that these guys were basically not married. At the same time, being a soldier in the Ming Dynasty was not a good job and his income was not high. If he had no child brides or something, he would basically not be able to marry a wife until he was old.

Seeing this, Ma Cheng thought about it and asked Gu Yong: "Gu Yong, how many of my personal soldiers are without wives?"

Gu Yong is the captain of Ma Cheng's personal soldiers in the actual sense. He thought for a while and said, "Mr. Military Gate, there are a total of 1,000 people in the Admiral Town Biao, and there are about 700 or 800 people without a wife!"

Ma Cheng didn't expect that most of his personal soldiers were bachelors. Since this way, why not find a wife for them? This way, he could not only calm their hearts but also bribe them.

Ma Cheng thought for a while and said, "Since this is the case, I will do my best. This time, all the female relatives of the twenty-five honorary officials will be sold as slaves. I will buy them down and be your wife. What do you think?"

Of course, there are not many female relatives in the twenty-five families, but the emperor's imperial edict was to kill the nine clans, so

Tens of thousands of people will be involved. After all, these twenty-five families have lived in Nanjing for more than 200 years and have many relatives at home. It is easy to select a thousand young and beautiful women from these relatives.

Ma Cheng's personal soldiers heard Ma Cheng's words and cheered. In order to buy these guys while the iron is hot, Ma Cheng gave each of them a property and 100 taels of silver. Of course, this was also paid by twenty-five nobles.

Looking at these ecstatic Qiu Ba, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Everyone will give your birth date to Gu Yong, and then Gu Yong will assign your wife!"

After Ma Cheng said that, Gu Yong became a celebrity. The eight generals of Qiu were surrounded and shouted: "Gu Yong, I am your cousin, leave me a young and beautiful person!"

"Gu Yong, I am your second uncle, I will leave me a good butt and can give birth to me!"

Ma Cheng looked at the quarrels of soldiers, pulled Deng, who was sitting on the ground, and said to Chen Qi beside him: "Old Chen, go find a secluded house for me. I want to check the body of this old bastard!"

Chen Qi didn't know what Ma Cheng wanted to do, but he didn't expect that Ma Cheng was not old and had such a heavy taste. Deng's family was already forty-five years old. In the Ming Dynasty, he was completely an elderly woman. Ma Cheng actually liked this kind of thing. It seems that the news that the Ma family and son were all changed should not be fake.

Chen Qi didn't dare to bring it out after thinking so, so he nodded and said, "I know, I know! Please come in and ask me!"

Ma Cheng turned his head to look at Xu Wenjue and Xu Jiujue's wife, and said to Chen Qi: "Go and bring Liu and Zhao with you. By the way, there is Xu Jiujue's eldest daughter!"

You should know that Xu Jiujue's daughter is twelve years old this year. She is a minor in the Ming Dynasty and later generations. Ma Cheng can even do it. She is really a beast.

Chen Qi cursed Ma Cheng in his heart that he was not a good person, and he actually wanted to play with his grandparents and grandchildren. However, Chen Qi was also a slave. He dared to say anything, but he had no choice but to follow Ma Cheng's instructions and found several servants to carry these women into the house.

Half an hour later, Ma Cheng walked out of the room with satisfaction, and the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were indeed satisfied. Ma Cheng went out and saw Chen Qi standing respectfully at the door waiting. Ma Cheng stepped forward and patted Chen Qi on the shoulder and said, "Yes, Chen Qi, how many years have you been the butler for the Xu family?"

After hearing what Ma Cheng said, Chen Qi quickly bowed and replied: "The villain has been selling himself in the Xu family since he was 18 years old, and it has been thirty years now!"

"So you are very familiar with the Xu family's industry!"

"Yes, the villains in and outside the Xu family are very clear about the industry. They have always been the villains!"

After hearing Chen Qi's words, Ma Cheng nodded repeatedly. This time, the emperor rewarded the entire Duke of Wei's Mansion to him in order to reward Ma Cheng. Naturally, all the industries of Duke of Wei belong to Ma Cheng. With Ma Cheng's personality of having to lick his fingers after he was shit, he naturally had to ask his own industries clearly.

"Okay, Chen Qi, from today on you will be my housekeeper. Now you will explain my industry in detail!"

Chen Qi was prepared for a long time. He had just found the Xu Mansion's property list when Ma Cheng entered the house to humiliate Deng. Now he heard Ma Cheng ask about it and quickly took it out of his arms. Then he carefully said: "Master, Xu Mansion has twenty-six real estate in the city, two other courtyards in Suzhou, three in Hangzhou, one in Yangzhou, one in Beidu, Guangzhou and Chengdu. There are three houses with five inches in five places! In addition to these properties, there are also fertile fields, a total of 16,000 acres of high-quality fertile fields.

Wait for 60,000 mu of land and 8,000 mu of mulberry fields!”

Chen Qi explained all the industries of the Duke of Wei State in detail, and it took an hour to go this time, which was longer than Ma Cheng's time to harm the three generations of ancestors and grandchildren. After hearing this, Ma Cheng deeply felt the words of later generations, which was really shocking! Unexpectedly, the Duke of Wei State had so many industries, just grain, and more than 70,000 stones of rice were harvested every year. There was no need to mention all kinds of other mixed grains.

You should know that the Duke of Wei is a hereditary duke, and their whole family does not pay taxes. According to the court's regulations, in addition to the regular tax, there are three major wages to pay. Liao pays one qian and two cents of silver per mu, each acre of silver per mu, and four cents of silver per mu, and four cents of silver per mu. In this way, if the three major wages are paid truthfully according to the court's rules, two qian and four cents of silver per mu, each acre of silver will be paid.

The productivity in the Ming Dynasty was very backward. The yield per mu of good paddy fields in Jiangnan was about one stone. According to the price of grain in Chongzhen in the third year of Chongzhen, one-ninth of the annual harvest was paid for taxes. You should know that this was just an additional levy, not the court's regular taxes, plus the unreasonable charges, as well as various levies of local officials, fire consumption, etc., two-thirds of the income must be handed over to the government.

Of course, these are all the money that the self-cultivated farmers have to pay. If you have a Juren or Jinshi in your family, it would be awesome. Not only does it not have to pay the money, but there are also many local self-cultivated farmers who come to pay the government to pay the landlords. After all, the tax paid to the government is much less than the land rent paid to the landlords.

According to the 80,000 mu of fertile land in the Duke of Wei, he had to pay less taxes every year. A small landlord like Duke of Wei is nothing in Jiangnan. Not to mention the Xu family, a big landlord with 200,000 mu of land in Songjiang Prefecture, even Qian Qianyi's family also had more than 100,000 mu of fertile land. It is conceivable how much tax is lost every year due to this situation.

After hearing Chen Qi's words, Ma Cheng did not listen carefully, but instead considered in his mind how many landlords in Jiangnan who did not pay taxes. Land annexation in the late Ming Dynasty was serious. If he wanted to really create a new dynasty, land annexation was a problem that must be solved.

Thinking of the headache, Ma Cheng waved his hand to interrupt Chen Qi, and then said, "Okay, leave the notebook and talk about it when I have time. Now you send someone to my governor's house to pick up several wives!"

Chen Qi nodded quickly, thought for a while and asked again: "Master, that Deng, Liu and others..."

The three generations of Deng's grandchildren have been occupied by Ma Cheng, and their identities have become a problem. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of such concubines is very low, and life and death are all in the mind of the head of the family. Fortunately, although Ma Cheng is not a human being, he is not a ruthless person. The women he has played with don’t want outsiders to get involved, so Ma Cheng thought for a while and said to Chen Qi: "They are arranged by the concubine. What should you do if you ask the eldest lady!"

After hearing Ma Cheng say that, Chen Qi bowed and retreated. Ma Cheng stood up and cursed at the inner room, "Have you cried enough, come out and put on the clothes for the master!"

When a few poor people in the house heard Ma Cheng say this, they quickly stopped crying. The young Liu and Zhao came out to dress Ma Cheng.

Liu is Xu Wenjue's wife, Zhao is Xu Jiujue's wife. Zhao feels sorry for her daughter's broken girl and asks in a low voice: "Master, Hui Niang is still young, can she sleep with me at night?"
Chapter completed!