Two comparisons

Author: Beicheng 2,000

Two comparisons

"It's strange to ask me to tell those natives. They have to fight with us when they meet. If they lose, they will be completely courageous."

"That's not their problem, it's their place like this. The defeated natives are often killed. We just let them reform for ten years, which is considered kind."

"Speaking of this, these natives have good learning abilities, which are comparable to those of us Han people."

"It's really fast to learn Mandarin, and so are Chinese characters. Some banners are quite similar to ours. Maybe they are really tribes that migrated thousands of years ago."

"Maybe, come! Have a drink first!"

"Cheers!"

Ruan Jin's home, the sixth household in Lane 5, 3rd Street, Hubenfang, Xijing City, is very lively at the front yard of the four-point courtyard.

Zhang Huangyan, Ruan Jin and the other seventeen sat in front of the large table pieced together with four tables, and the dishes on the table were rich.

Fried mashed potatoes, fried sweet potato chips, sour cabbage, sour bamboo shoots, wind chicken, steamed grass carp, garlic sprouts and bacon, cold beef, chili beef, shredded goose noodles soup, three fresh soup, minced pepper mutton...

A total of twelve dishes were eaten on the table, and there were two large pots of rice wine on the table. It looked at least seven or eight kilograms.

The ingredients and alcohol costs of these dishes cost more than 200 yuan.

Although he said that he asked Zhang Huangyan to pay the bill, he was only allowed to make jokes. When he actually paid the bill, he would pay it himself. Even if Zhang Huangyan insisted on giving it to him, he would be stopped.

"If you put such a table of food in the Ming Dynasty, it will probably cost seven or eight hundred cents..."

While eating, a younger team was talking.

He joined the army last year, so his official rank is a bit low. As a team leader, his salary is 100 taels per year.

Such a high salary was something he had never dared to imagine, and Qi State could be said to have given him this opportunity.

"Shangxing, don't worry. Now that we have come to Qi State, no one will starve to death."

"Yes, Xiao Qin team is right, please relax."

"You kid, mother-in-law, according to me, you can find a woman to give birth to ten or eight children here, which is worthy of your parents' spirit in heaven!"

The team is only twenty years old, named Qin Shangxing, and is from Qingzhou, Shandong.

His family originally came from Xiaoyou's parents, with a total of five brothers, and he was six.

However, when Huaibei was famine, his two brothers were starved to death. Later, Xu Hongru's White Lotus Sect rebellion broke out in Shandong, causing his other brother to die unfortunately.

His parents finally pulled him up, but in the 14th year of the Apocalypse, Shandong had a severe drought, and rice prices rose sharply. His father worked as a boatman day and night to make money, but he became ill and unfortunately died of illness.

In the twenty years of Apocalypse, his mother also died because she missed her dead husband and children, and she became sick.

At this point, Qin Shangxing became a lonely man.

As the drought remains unabated, he simply sold the fields to the government and came to Qi on a boat with food coupons.

It happened that the Qi State recruited troops in the 21st year of the Apocalypse, so he joined the army and took twenty acres of land to join the army. Now he handed over the land to a neighbor next door to farm.

The twenty acres of land in the army, and the one acre of land distributed this year, are 21 acres, and can produce 27 or 8 stones of rice and wheat every year.

Once these rice and wheat are sold, 50% of them are Qin Shangxing’s rent and 40% of them are the output of neighbors.

Since tractors are used to farm outside Xijing City, farming is much easier than before. Even if there is only 40% of the food, some people are rushing to rent the seeds.

With the output of more than 20 stones of rice and wheat, Qin Shangxing could earn eleven or two taels of silver every year.

Even if he did not become a team leader, his life would be quite comfortable, not to mention that he has been promoted to become a team leader, with a salary of 100 taels per year.

Qin Shangxing was very satisfied with his current life and his concern for his comrades was also rewarded with a smile.

Looking at his appearance, Zhang Huangyan took a sip of rice wine, not knowing what he felt.

Except for the officials who came to Qi, most of the officials were idealists and were not short of gold and silver, the people were basically helpless and left their hometowns.

Who among the people who came to Qi, before they arrived at Qi, wasn’t they white without a silver body?

Now that Qi State has come, as long as the people who have been in a stable position for more than three years, even if they have thirty taels of silver, they can grit their teeth and take it out.

It is precisely because of this that the people of Qi regard "issuing their original origin" as the heaviest punishment of Qi.

"Tu tuk--"

"Can Mr. Ruan be at home?"

While everyone was comforting Qin Shangxing, a knock suddenly sounded at the door.

Hearing the knock on the door, Ruan’s father and mother who were eating in the backyard also walked out, and Ruan Jin quickly got up and opened the door.

It is dusk now, and there is still some time before the curfew. Ruan Jin doesn't know who came back from home to look for someone.

He came to the door and opened the door. At the door were three neighbors wearing gray clothes from the ninth-rank official.

They didn't expect Ruan Jin to go home, so they were stunned when they saw Ruan Jin. Then they followed Ruan Jin to see many people wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, which seemed to have just returned to Beijing, one of them, after Zhang Huangyan and others.

The official came to his senses and spoke:

"Ruan Dalang, you are just a coincidence that we came to inform the people of the Xijing City of happiness."

"What kind of happy event?" Ruan Jin only drank half a pound of rice wine, and his mind was still clear, so he asked curiously.

Not only him, even Zhang Huangyan and others in the house couldn't help but turn their heads to see when they heard good news.

In front of everyone, the ninth-rank chief official smiled:

"Early this morning, the Chief Secretary's Office issued an order to reclaim a lot of land this year, so each citizen of Qi will be given another acre of new land."

"When I come this time, I will ask your family to change the land to three acres of land with your neighbor."

The ninth-rank chief told a good news, which made Ruan Jin smile:

"I've released three acres of land again! Good thing! Good thing!"

"Come on, come in and have a drink."

Ruan Jin happily invited three officials, but the three waved their hands quickly after hearing this:

"Forget it, I still need to go door to door to inform the news, so I can't disturb you."

"This is the land deed after your family changed the land. These three acres of land deeds must be collected."

As he said that, the chief officer took out a stack of thick land deeds from his arms, found three new land deeds and handed them to Ruan Jin.

Seeing this, Ruan Jin smiled from ear to ear, and the three officials left after informing the news and went to the neighboring house next to Ruan Jin to inform him of the good news.

Ruan Jin held the three acres of land and smiled like a cracked watermelon, but everyone in the yard was not much better at this moment.

People who have entered nationality laughed and drank three big cups.

Zhang Huangyan, who did not understand the rules of Qi's land, asked curiously: "If you change the land once a year, wouldn't it waste a lot of manpower?"

"Hey..." Ruan Jin mocked Zhang Huangyan for not understanding. After handing Tian Qi to the second elder who was smiling from ear to ear, he sat beside him and explained to him:

"This land deed, each family has a "wooden mold seal". These seals are placed in the yamen of each yard. If you want to change the land, you only need to burn your own land deed and then the yamen of the yamen of the yamen.

Just stamp the official.”

"This process is not tedious. As for how to recognize the fields privately, it's all discussed."

"Although his family has changed three acres of land for my family, his family can also get other new fields when changing the land."

"This house-to-door change of fields sounds troublesome, but if you leave the most troublesome step of recognizing fields to the farmers themselves, it will be no more troublesome."

"You dislike the trouble of changing fields. That's because you don't know the difficulties of poor people."

"If he divided his three acres of mature land and he was given two acres of land at the same time, he would get one acre of land in vain, would he say he would be happy?"

After all, Zhang Huangyan was from a family of officials and gentry, and he didn't understand how much wealth a mu of land could bring to farmers.

Change the fields, return the fields, plant new fields...

This sounds very troublesome, but for the five or six acres of newly-cooked land of every household, who would dislike the troubles?

Zhang Huangyan thought it was troublesome, so Ruan Jin laughed at him for not knowing the suffering of the farmers.

As he said this, Zhang Huangyan also reflected on his thoughts.

However, as he was reflecting, some neighbors singing sounded around him.

"The sun rises eastward and the King of Qi, and drives the country to settle the country, wars and chaos in the world are pacified, and the people are hungry and suffering and are feeding..."

The song Zhang Huangyan was very familiar with it. It was an unknown person from the folk who imitated the "Qi Feng Tai Kang Le" compiled by the "Book of Songs". The meaning of the lyrics of the lyrics describe the actions of King Qi to create peace and well for the people.

This song is not good, it is very saliva, but it is precisely because it is saliva enough that it gradually evolved into a folk song.

There are many such "slobbery fu", which are spontaneously performed and sung by the people. After being recorded, they were compiled into "Qifeng" after being selected.

"Qifeng" has rich content, including war and love, oppression and resistance, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and banquets, praise and satirizing the king, and other songs.

"Taikangle" is the most expressing the gratitude of the people of Qi to the King of Qi Zhu Youjian. Singing this folk song on the day of the land is probably the only time when the people of Qi can boldly convey their gratitude.

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"The people sing and be healthy, the barn is wide and there are enough food, the soldiers guard the land and sing, and the officials govern the country..."
To be continued...