While they were chatting and joking, two people dressed as government servants appeared at the door.
"Excuse me, fellow countryman, where does Bai Lizheng's family live?"
Bai Yunxi walked over quickly, looked at the two guards, and quickly opened the door.
"Are these two officials here to survey the land?"
The two nodded,
"The day before yesterday, Bai Lizheng of Liushuwan went to the county government to report that someone wanted to open up wasteland and needed to survey the land. We made an appointment to come over today."
"That's a coincidence. Our family is going to open up wasteland. Please come in and sit for a while. I'll ask the children to call Li Zheng over."
Bai Yunxi said, turned around and ordered Xiaosi, "Go and call your lobbyist, tell him that the government officials are here."
After that, he ordered Du to make two bowls of sugar water, and took the opportunity to ask about some farm policies.
After a while, Xiao Wu and Bai Yunsong came over together. They exchanged a few words and then went to Dongshan Mountain together.
I watched the two government officials carrying tools on their backs and holding measuring ropes and rulers in their hands. Except for the angle of the turn, which required a ruler to measure the rope, the rest were measured with their feet.
Taking one step is a step, taking two feet is a step.
Baiyunxi saw this method of measurement for the first time, and thought it was quite novel. He watched them walking in a straight line and recording, and then turning and recording again. Although he didn't know how to measure, he heard that the land measured by this method was very accurate.
Less than half an hour later, the measurement results of Dongshan Mountain came out, which was almost as she expected. They had measured exactly eighteen acres of land.
After taking notes, the group of people turned to the western hillside and looked at the wasteland that had been opened up. They looked at the scene in front of them in surprise.
"Is this the wasteland you created?" It looked quite standard. This was the first time they saw such a wasteland.
"Yes, this was opened a while ago." Baiyunxi nodded, without hiding anything, and directly said that these are terraced fields, which can facilitate irrigation.
Listening to Baiyunxi's introduction, the Yamen servant said in a serious tone.
"You have opened so much wasteland, can you plant it all? I will say something ugly up front. If your wasteland has no harvest in three years, you will have to pay taxes according to regulations."
Bai Yunsong listened to the yamen servant's tone and frowned at his cousin. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Bai Yunxi.
"My lord, please rest assured. Since we have worked hard to open up wasteland, we must be able to plant. My lord has also seen that our family's life is not easy, so we want to open up more wasteland to grow food and harvest more food. How can we be willing to waste it?"
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"And we have a large family, so we have more than 20 acres of land."
Listening to Baiyunxi's assurance, the government officer glanced at the family members following her. They were all boys and they really needed the fields to support themselves.
After walking up the wasteland, when he saw the reservoir on the edge, the government officer stopped and said, "Did you dig it later, or did it already exist."
Baiyunxi has been following the government office. When he heard the inquiry, he explained directly,
"There is no water on the slopes, so for the convenience of irrigation, we specially dug a reservoir."
Listening to Bai Yunxi's narration, the government officials nodded. Anyway, the words had already been explained, and they only needed to know the stakes.
According to the measurement method just now, the two people took the tools and walked around the wasteland, recorded the data, and then squatted on the ground to measure.
After a while, one of the government officials raised his head and said, "Seeing how well you have opened up the wasteland, I will not count the reservoir for you. By the way, I will also add that piece of land to you, for a total of ten acres."