The Gongshi was the lowest title in the Qin and Han dynasties. Before the Han Dynasty, the title had to be given military merits to receive titles. However, there were too many people who followed Liu Bang to conquer the world, and even more so, so during the reign of Emperor Hui, six hundred stones and five major officials were used as the boundary between the official title system, and the distinction between officials and civil titles began to form.
Wei Xiang took out three carrots and placed them in front of Chen Yue. Before Chen Yue could eat them, he took out the stick again.
"If you don't want to, I have nothing to say." Wei Xiang looked at Chen Yue sinisterly and said, "I can only take you to Yangzhou, and my identity will not change. When you arrive in Yangzhou, I will give you a hundred acres of wasteland to farm. Hehe. If you accept them now and drive them away after I leave, I will also find a way to get you to Yangzhou. Believe me, I am still a friend in Chang'an, and there should be no problem sending your family to Yangzhou. Unless you act as a lowly person and go to the Zhang family to be a servant, I will definitely do it."
Yangzhou is a good place! Chen Yue was happy at first, but when he thought about it carefully, he couldn't be happy.
Before the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou was an unknown place, but with the rise of maritime trade, and the construction of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou during the Sui Dynasty, especially after Emperor Yang Guang of Sui failed to conquer Goguryeo, he waited for the Yangzhou palace for a long time and became the capital. In addition, the court officials and nobles moved countless houses to Yangzhou, so Yangzhou flourished.
It was not until the Tang Dynasty that there were many poets. The poets wrote about the beauty of Yangzhou, just like Li Bai's "An old friend bids the Yellow Crane Tower west and fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March". Li Bai did not write about the prosperity and beauty of Yangzhou, but let more people know about Yangzhou. "With and Crane Riding to Yangzhou" came from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yin Yun's novel of the Liang Kingdom of the Southern Dynasties, "Yin Yun Novels·Wu Shu Ren" was written in Yangzhou, not down to Yangzhou. Modern people read it as down to Yangzhou.
The most famous one is Du Mu's "Three Songs of Yangzhou", "Emperor Yang's Lei Tang land is hidden in old buildings. Who sings the water tune, the bright moon fills Yangzhou. The horses should be idle, and thousands of gold like to travel old. The noise is drunk, and the purple fur is half taken off. The autumn wind blows in the firefly garden, the spring grass fights the cock platform. The golden veils carry the carvings, and the phoenix rings pick up the green. The Shu boat is red and the brocade is heavy, and the water is sunken. There are beautiful appearances everywhere, but the Huai Wang Nai returns. The streets are hung with thousands of steps and willows, and the clouds reflect two cities. The sky is beautiful, and the wind is cool and the wind is clear. The slender waist is long sleeves, and the jade pendant is mixed with tassels. The dragging axis is strong, and the luxury is not named. It is a crime of debauchery, so why not be the imperial capital."
But at this time, Yangzhou should be a desolate place, but also far away from the political center, mainly away from Liu Bingyi, and has no thighs to hold. Not to mention that it will take five or six years to gain something after land reclamation, but just staying away from Liu Bingyi will cause great losses.
You have been wandering around others for more than half a year. After two or three years, Liu Bingyi ascended the throne. Who will remember you after a long time? Not to mention whether you have made any contributions or others can’t see your talents. How can you use you? From Yangzhou to Chang'an, you have to travel for thousands of miles. If you change horses or people, you will have to run for more than ten days. If you don’t say that the road is not easy to walk.
Thinking of this, Chen Yue shook his head quickly and said dissatisfiedly: "Isn't this? Isn't there any choice?"
Chen Yue was still thinking that if he became Shangguan in the future, he could go to Yangzhou to develop. After all, it would be a land of Jiangnan. In a few hundred years, he would be a land of fish and rice. If he went first, he might be able to own tens of thousands of acres of land.
But what Chen Yue didn't know was that Yangzhou was not Yangzhou in later generations, and they had no relationship. The Yangzhou Governor's headquarters in the Western Han Dynasty had six counties: Jiujiang County, Lu'an State, Lujiang County, Danyang County, Kuaiji County, and Yuzhang County. Jiujiang County was about the area of ​​Hefei today. As the name suggests, Lujiang County was in Anqing area, Danyang County was in Nanjing, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Tongling, Xuancheng, Guichi, Huangshan. Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County were large and boundless. Yuzhang County was equivalent to the current Jiangxi Province, but there was no Wuyuan in the northeast corner. The scope of Kuaiji County was even more "exaggerated", including the current Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Shanghai City, and southern Jiangsu Province.
"Actually, you can go to Yangzhou with me, with your ability." Wei Xiang thought for a while and said, "I haven't seen your ability yet, but as you said, you should be an expert in farming. It is also very useful to go to Yangzhou. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and a lot of good land is waiting for farming experts like you to farm and farming."
Thinking about the public security issues in the Western Han Dynasty, especially after the Sanpu, Chang'an, the public security of each county was very worrying. He was a weak little person, so Chen Yue refused decisively.
Chen Yue turned around and looked at the children outside, dressed a little thin and a little tattered, and turned around and asked Wei Xiang: "How do you need me to treat them? Do they really have no relatives in the world? Do they have separate household registration or under my household registration? Do I have to take care of their birth, old age, sickness, death, and injuries in the future? Do I have to bear the consequences when I encounter natural disasters, man-made disasters, illness, death, or injury? Do you have to take care of the consequences? You have to take the land to open up?"
Chen Yue asked a series of questions in a row. Wei Xiang's face turned dark when he heard it. He wanted to interrupt Chen Yue for a while, but before he could speak, Chen Yue finished asking.
Wei Xiang said angrily: "Can you ask one by one?"
Chen Yue said indifferently: "I asked one by one, I'm afraid I will forget it, hehe."
"I just seek survival for them." Wei Xiang explained helplessly, "There are lonely people everywhere, and I can only choose a good family to support them in the local area. There are many good family in Chiyang County, but you only have new farming and you can only see that you are truly harmonious with people. Only by following you can they eat by working, and not become a humble servant. After all, their fathers, grandparents, brothers and elders have donated their bodies to my Han Empire."
It was said that, but Chen Yue was not willing to refuse. At this time, he was worried that no one would be available, so Wei Xiang sent him. He was going downstairs and someone came to take a staircase and someone gave him a pillow. The origin of these people was innocent, and they were all descendants of the Han soldiers, so they should be able to use it.
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Chen Yue pretended to be embarrassed and said, "Since the county master has said that they are descendants of my great Han heroes and martyrs, and there are county masters who plead for them, I should not refuse it no matter how much I say it. If they want to enter my family, I should treat them as brothers and sisters. I will never treat them harshly. Everyone works together and has a dormitory. However, isn't there too little land in three hectares?"
"Haha." Wei Xiang laughed like a traitor succeeded. He didn't hide his teeth when laughing, which made people feel the urge to throw a piece of lurking into his mouth. After a while, Wei Xiang stopped laughing and said, "Tell me, tell me what you want, and I can do everything I can or can do it for you. If I can't do it, I can't do it, and I can't do it."
Chen Yue grabbed his head, lowered his head and thought for a while and said, "To support them twelve people, now three or five hectares of land, but it is not enough to wait until they get married and have children in the future. So, everyone must have two hectares of land."
"One person, two hectares, two people, four hectares..." Wei Xiang calculated while waving his fingers there.
Chen Yue opened his mouth and said, "Twenty-four hectares of land."
Then, he said to himself in confusion: "Didn't everyone say that they can recite Jiujiu Songs? Why does it take a long time to calculate such a simple one?"
"What?" Wei Xiang looked up and then said, "Shu Zi, I will govern the Book of Changes, not count the classics."
"Yi?" Chen Yue asked with interest, "Is it the "Yi Jing" that tells fortunes and fortunes, or the "Yi Jing" that practices muscles and bones in the world?"
"Sir..." Wei Xiang wanted to find something to beat Chen Yue, but when he saw him, he almost ran out of the door, and said angrily, "Don't run away, I won't beat you."
After Chen Yue came back, he said: "Since the time when the Book of Changes was written, it has been hailed as the leader of all classics. After learning it, you can know the rise and fall of the world and ask about the disasters of the world. Why do you think that she is just a book for fortune telling and fortune-telling?"
"Haha!" Chen Yue was embarrassed to continue discussing Yi's affairs with him, so he had to say, "Then I'll say twenty-four hectares, no, according to the county magistrate, twenty-four hectares."
"No." Wei Xiang refused firmly and then expressed his thoughts, "Six acres are enough."
"Six hectares are too few, so you can still get twenty hectares."
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The two of them argued with each other and finally decided on ten hectares of land. Among the twelve people, nine men and three women, one man and one hectares after adulthood, and the remaining hectares after a woman became adulthood were divided into three dowries.
When bargaining, the lion had to open his mouth wide, either increasing countless or reducing countless. Chen Yue's original plan was seven or eight hectares, but he only opened his mouth twenty-four hectares, and then slowly lowered it to achieve a mutual balance, and the result seemed very good.
If you want land, of course you also need food.
After more than ten or twenty years of foreign war between Emperor Wu of Han, the population decreased and had not yet returned to the highest level of the Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, there was still a lot of barren land, but the grain could not be added casually like land. No matter what Chen Yue said, it must be purchased.
There is no other way. The only thing Wei Xiang can do in terms of grain is to sell some of the grain in the county warehouse to Chen Yue at a low price, and the time is only valid today, and he will not be the magistrate of Chiyang County tomorrow.
If you don’t take advantage of it, you will be stupid. Chen Yue not only wants to buy food, but also asks Wei Xiang to say hello to the municipal officials in charge of the city management. He wants to buy cows, but the price is cheap.
Buying cattle in the Western Han Dynasty is not like later generations. You can buy as much as you want, as long as you have enough money. There are regulations in the Western Han Dynasty that when there are not enough cattle, you can buy more cattle, and each cattle will be registered. Officials may check it at any time. If there are no cattle, you will have fines or other punishments.
Chen Yue tried to persuade him, and finally won four bulls and two cows for a price of three taels of silver.
Because when Chen Yue came to Chiyang, he brought a few big money, but he didn't bring any silver. In the end, Wei Xiang was guaranteed. He first took everyone to lead the cow and the grain back to Dazhuang. After arriving at Datianzhuang, Chen Yue took the silver and sent it back to Wei Xiang.
Chen Yue didn't dare to wait until he went back to get the money and then buy it. If someone suddenly regretted it, it would not be cost-effective.
Chapter completed!