Chapter 33 Rest and Rest (I)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 33 Rest and Rest (I)

7th year of BC

First month

The day of the day

The moon land

The ice and snow gradually melt, and spring plowing will begin in a few days. Wangjiazhuang needs to supplement new farming tools for each agricultural reclamation area in advance, and the slaves are busy.

The maids set off fires in the Wang family manor, and the maids made fires early to cook, prepared various delicious dishes, waiting for the head and others to come back to worship their ancestors.

On the day of the New Year, the head of the Wang family will take his clan members to the ancestral tomb to worship his ancestors. After returning, he will attend family banquets. All family members will enhance their feelings at the banquet, toast and present gifts to the elders and the head of the family. In the few days after the family banquet, they will also go around the streets to visit relatives and friends. When these are over, they will also hold a social day sacrifice, and use high-quality wine, vegetables and meat to entertain the gods, praying that the gods can bring good harvests to everyone this year. During the social day, everyone must fast, not eat meat and drink, wear new clothes, and take a bath every day to keep them clean.

In the Yuheng Agricultural Reclamation Area of ​​Luoyueyuan, dozens of tenant farmers were waving their hoes to dig out the clay pots buried deep in the ground last year, and stored some spring wheat. They buried the spring wheat in the clay pot every winter, and dug it out again in the spring of the next year. By observing the amount of spring wheat in the clay pot, they can judge the harvest this year.

At the same time, they will prepare some wine and food that they are reluctant to eat, and wait until the day of the society to worship the gods and pray for the smooth flow of spring and autumn harvest.

This is Liaodong. Spring wheat is planted only once a year, and spring is planted and autumn is harvested. Therefore, there is only a social day on the first lunar month. Unlike the Central Plains, there are spring and summer harvests and autumn harvests, which lead to the two social days of spring and autumn harvests.

Just as these tenants sighed and shook their heads when they looked at the spring wheat in the pottery jar...

"Wow—"

A carriage came, and a young man got out of the carriage. He saw a long sword hanging around his waist, and several strong men in full armor followed him.

When the tenants saw this man, they knelt down and said humbly: "I have met the Lord."

"Get up, everyone."

The person who came was the king of the Wang family, Wang Tairan. He had just returned from sacrificing his ancestors and was going to go directly to the village to prepare for a family banquet, but he had a sudden idea and wanted to go to Luoyueyuan to see the situation of the tenant farmers and serfs.

"Thank you, Lord."

The tenants stood up one after another, but did not dare to run around, so they were already waiting for Wang Tairan's orders.

"Everyone is busy with their own affairs." Wang Tairan's voice was very soft. He felt a little reluctant when he watched the tenants wearing zipper clothes and wearing tattered beast clothes on his face.

"Thank you, Lord." The tenants thanked each other again, and then they were all busy with their own affairs.

Wang Tairan was also walking in the fields and thinking in his heart.

"My brother was too harsh on tenants and serfs, and he trained too many personal soldiers and serf soldiers. He always liked to go to war. The food that was not much was sold to Xuxiang for iron ore forged iron weapons, so that these farmers lived so miserable."

"This unhealthy development model, the business model maintained by plunder, is destined to be unable to last long. During the time of our ancestor Wang Kang, there were not many farmers in our Wang family, and they could easily manage them with whips. However, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms suddenly added six or seven thousand farmers to the Wang family. How could it be possible to continue to rely on whips to whip? Where did our Wang family have so many slaves to manage it? It's time to change all this..."

The tenant farmers could wear hemp clothes and then put on a layer of animal clothes to spend the winter, while the serfs were even worse. Even the hemp clothes were tattered, and everyone took turns to wear them. Whoever was about to freeze to death would wear them for a while. It was even worse than the natives of the ravine who had no salt in the mountains and forests.

"Zhou Ming, what is the general situation of the farmers' escape from the Yuheng area you manage last year?" Wang Tairan asked Zhou Ming, the son-in-law of the Wang family beside him.

"Well..." Zhou Ming was quite handsome, taller than Wang Tairan, and also wearing gorgeous clothes. After thinking for a while, Wang Tairan replied respectfully: "The tenant farmers are slightly better, no one fled to famine, but five people fled to death. The situation of serfs is not optimistic. Thirty-seven people fled to death, ninety-five people fled to death, and three others committed suicide, and..."

"And what?" Wang Tairan helped a field to kneel down to him and continued to ask Zhou Ming.

"And we found that the serfs seemed to have secretly organized a rebellious organization called "Hongyandao". We have arrested two members of the organization, but these two members committed suicide after being arrested. We were unable to obtain more information." Zhou Ming frowned. He was very worried about the rebellious organization in his jurisdiction. He was very afraid that Tianxuan's incident would happen to Yuheng, so he kept instructing the slaves to search for relevant personnel of the organization, but there was not much progress.

"We must pay attention to this matter and continue to investigate, but do not punish the law seriously, and we must not be blamed and criticized. Just observe secretly. We cannot force the serfs to the opposite side like our ancestors, treat the people with kindness, and the people will be at peace with themselves." Wang Tairan's concept of governance of the territory was obviously different from his brother. He already had the idea of ​​reform in his mind, replacing the past harsh treatment of the people.

After saying that, Wang Tairan heard the wailing sound again. He looked along the wailing sound and saw that a few servants were forcibly dragging a serf girl not far away. The serf girl was struggling violently, and a few serfs knelt on the ground and kept begging.

Seeing this scene, Wang Tairan already understood what was going on.

During the reign of the ancestor Taihao, the treatment of personal soldiers was greatly improved. Those who made meritorious service would reward wives, concubines and money, rather than just rewarding money during the reign of the ancestor Wang Kang.

This serf girl was basically to be forcibly dragged away and given to a personal soldier who made military achievements in the battle of the Nuolan River Valley.

He could not stop this matter. The reward he had already agreed to was impossible to fail to fulfill, otherwise the loyalty of his personal soldiers to the Wang family would be greatly reduced. Therefore, he could only frown and sigh: "If you need to be rewarded, continue to do the same as the ancestors. However, in the future, those who have made new contributions can no longer forcefully select women from serfs, only reward money and silk, and let them find their wives and concubines by themselves."

"What the head of the family said is." Zhou Ming flattered him. He had never been valued by Wang Chong. His wife Wang Roujing had no good face to him. Now he has gone to sea for several years without any news. Based on his understanding of his wife Wang Roujing, he is probably already with Wang Taiyang overseas at this moment...

Zhou Ming had long been mentally prepared for some things that might happen. After all, since he married into the Wang family, he had already felt that there was a lot of something wrong with his wife and Wang Taiyang. It was just that his wife might be because of the Wang family's mixed eyes, so he did not dare to go to that point openly.

Now those two are overseas. If they are not dead, they will definitely...

For this reason, Zhou Ming has been trying to please the two brothers Wang Taihao and Wang Tairan, and conscientiously implement everything they ordered. Whether it is strict serfs or kindness to treat serfs, as long as it is the order of the brothers of the family, he has never done his best to try his best to preserve his position in the Wang family by pleading the family.

This also makes Zhou Ming famous as Wang Chong, the second wife, in fact, he has always been the head of the family in his heart. He will support whoever is the head of the Wang family.
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